At this moment, on the Flying Base's leaderboard screen, the first ranking list for new recruits was glowing red.
A code name, "A1777," shocked everyone present.
"This newcomer's Mental Strength must be Rank S! Otherwise, how could they kill so fast!"
"They killed over five hundred Remnant Species Infected in just two hours! Are they going to wipe out all the Remnant Species Infected on this mountain?!"
"With such a high Mental Strength level, why come here for special training? Shouldn't they go straight into the Interstellar Special Forces?"
"Exactly! Although we are Rank A, everyone knows there's a wall between Rank S and Rank A! Not even one out of a hundred thousand Rank A individuals can break through to Rank S!"
"How many Rank S are there? Could it be another Noble's descendant here for gilding?"
"Tch! Aren't there plenty of Noble descendants here for gilding? If this Noble descendant is Rank S, even if they're here for gilding, I'll be convinced!"
"Don't dream! This person must have a Rank S big shot as an escort! I don't believe a Rank S elite pilot needs to come to this Flying Base for special training!"
Everyone chattered, very interested in this new recruit A1777.
According to convention, among the many ranking lists in the base, only this new recruit list upon entering the base is anonymous.
Firstly, in terms of location, this achievement was obtained before entering the base, so it wouldn't be counted as part of the training results, making it unnecessary to use real names.
Secondly, before coming to the base, it's possible to find helpers. In other words, this achievement might not necessarily be the recruit's own. For example, Meng Guanghui originally intended to help Xia Chujian kill Remnant Species Infected, but he didn't expect Xia Chujian wouldn't need his help at all.
Therefore, this ranking list for killing Remnant Species Infected uses code names, while other ranking lists use real names, making them real-name lists.
Only you know your code name. Of course, if you want to tell others, you can, but the base won't announce or confirm it, so whether anyone believes you is up to them.
One troublemaker was very dissatisfied with this record, exclaiming, "This is impossible! Even a Rank S Gene Evolver wouldn't be this fast! Because Remnant Species Infected aren't everywhere; you have to spend time looking for them. It's impossible to be this fast! There must be something wrong with the monitoring system! Or they brought a lot of powerful escorts!"
Some people even reported to the management office, requesting verification that the system was working properly.
After checking the surveillance video, the management office processed Xia Chujian's personal image and released it.
People in the hall saw a blurred figure of a new recruit, whose Gunmanship was unbelievably accurate! "This is too accurate! They really killed them alone! Look at them shooting Remnant Species Infected mountain rabbits and wolf packs; it's One Shot Kill, directly hitting the Remnant Species Infected in the mouth!"
"Judging by the way the Remnant Species Infected died instantly, they must have hit the Remnant Species Core with one shot. And not just one shot; they fired five hundred shots, each directly hitting the Remnant Species Core!"
"Yes, only by hitting the Remnant Species Core can the Remnant Species be prevented from continuing to rapidly split and reorganize! This is the only way to quickly eliminate Remnant Species Infected!"
"But that's impossible! Even the most accurate Marksman can't accurately hit the target under the interference of the Remnant Species' Mental Strength, let alone hit the Remnant Species Core!"
It's not that they didn't know the fastest way to eliminate Remnant Species was to destroy the Remnant Species Core.
But the Remnant Species Core is hidden very deep, somewhere inside the Remnant Species Infected's body.
So almost no one chooses this method of elimination.
Because by the time you spend finding the location of the Remnant Species Core, the Remnant Species Infected would have killed you several times over. How could you possibly counterattack?
So they directly use Mental Strength of a higher level to crush them.
But for this new recruit, finding the Remnant Species Core seems very easy.
As long as they shoot into the Remnant Species Infected's open mouth, they're sure to hit the Remnant Species Core!
They studied the surveillance video for a long time and finally came to a conclusion.
"This batch of Remnant Species Infected released this time is special. Their Remnant Species Core should be concentrated in the throat or stomach. That's why they can aim down the mouth and directly eliminate the Remnant Species."
"That's right, that's the most reasonable explanation."
"Also, this new recruit is particularly lucky. They encountered two relatively large nests of Remnant Species Infected within two hours, without having to search for them one by one across the mountains."
"Haha, understandable. Luck is also part of strength!"
The people in the hall felt they had found a reason, so they put it aside.
After all, this is just the first ranking list for new recruits, and it's anonymous, and they can even find helpers.
There are many more real-name ranking lists later on that are more difficult, more professional, and rely solely on oneself, where luck plays no role at all.
Those are the ranking lists that everyone is most concerned about and that most affect everyone's future military ranks and positions.
At this time, Xia Chujian had already walked out of the forest path with Meng Guanghui and arrived at an open space.
Xia Chujian looked back again and found that the path they had taken was indeed gone.
Behind them were still dense woods, with blue-purple hydrangeas blooming on the knee-high shrubs. A few foxes passed through the mountains, and it was as if the scenery had completely changed.
Meng Guanghui said, "No need to look anymore, the concealment program has already been switched."
"Concealment program?"
"That's right. You don't actually think that the clouds, mist, and forests you saw on the mountaintop were real, do you?"
"Weren't they?"
"Of course not. Those are just three-dimensional holographic images displayed on the Electronic Curtain, none of them are real."
"Then the forest where we killed the Remnant Species Infected just now?"
"That was real, of course."
"And the Remnant Species Infected were real too."
"Yes, but once we decided to come out early, you couldn't go back. What you're seeing now is the Electronic Curtain screen."
Xia Chujian clicked her tongue and said, "Did you have to make it so mysterious?"
"Of course." Meng Guanghui suddenly became calm and said lightly, "The security level here is already at the level of a military stronghold. Do you think it needs to be so mysterious?"
Xia Chujian didn't really understand what the concept of a military stronghold-level security level was. She was just curious, "Who are you trying to defend against? I see that the other side of the mountain is a flat plain. A radar could protect it, so why bother with such a large-scale Electronic Curtain?"
Meng Guanghui said, "Radar can only defend against peeping on this planet. What if someone is spying from a high-altitude satellite?"
Xia Chujian was speechless.
That was true.
Without an Electronic Curtain, reconnaissance satellites in high orbit could see everything on the ground clearly.
Seeing that Xia Chujian was silent, Meng Guanghui continued, "You were really impressive this time, taking first place. Although you don't have Mental Strength, you're very sensitive to it, which is also your advantage. Plus, you have a helmet that defends against Mental Strength, so your advantage is still significant."
Xia Chujian smiled, thinking that Inspector Huo's program was amazing, to be so sensitive...
She said, "If this is the first test, it's a bit too easy. I'm surprised that the previous record was only three hours and two hundred Remnant Species. As long as you understand the specifics of the Remnant Species Infected, they're not too hard to kill... Give me more bullets, and I can slaughter all the Remnant Species Infected on the entire mountain for you."
Meng Guanghui's mouth twitched, and he said, "You're getting ahead of yourself. Your experience is not replicable."
"Not replicable?"
"Of course. First, the Remnant Species Core isn't always in the same location. You were just lucky this time that their Remnant Species Core happened to be in their throat or stomach. I saw that you were always shooting bullets down their throats from their mouths, which must have hit their Remnant Species Core."
Xia Chujian: "..."
Her intention was to shoot out the Remnant Species' vocal cords. Based on her previous experience, she found that doing so could kill the Remnant Species quickly and prevent them from continuing to split and reorganize.
How would she know what a Remnant Species Core was?! She rolled her eyes and said, "Is it difficult to hit the Remnant Species Core?"
"Of course, it's difficult, because the Remnant Species Core of each Remnant Species Infected is in a different location. Currently, no instrument can detect where the Remnant Species Core is in time, because once a living organism is infected by the Remnant Species, its entire Gene structure changes, and the Remnant Species Core becomes part of the infected body, making it basically undetectable."
Xia Chujian was secretly surprised.
So Remnant Species Infected had this characteristic. No wonder her previous carpet bombing method could kill Remnant Species Infected, because no matter where the Remnant Species Core was, the entire body was shattered, and naturally the Remnant Species Core was also destroyed.
So, the Remnant Species Infected from last time and this time just happened to have their Remnant Species Core in their throats or stomachs? How could it be such a coincidence? That's too incredible...
Xia Chujian looked at Meng Guanghui, planning to find an opportunity to ask Huo Yushen.
She didn't dare to ask Meng Guanghui this question, because asking it would trigger Meng Guanghui's "hundred thousand whys" follow-up questions...
Just as Xia Chujian was smiling silently, Meng Guanghui said again, "Second, even if someone could find the Remnant Species Core like you, they would have to have your kind of Gunmanship. Your Gunmanship is too amazing. I dare say that when the entire Interstellar Special Forces compete, your Gunmanship will be the undisputed first!"
Xia Chujian was very surprised at this time, "Chief, aren't you trying to flatter me to death?"
She knew that her Gunmanship was good, but to be good to the extent of being the first in the entire Interstellar Special Forces, that was nonsense.
She still had this much self-awareness.
Meng Guanghui smiled and didn't tell her about the great feat of "One Shot Kill".
Xia Chujian hadn't joined that forum yet, so she hadn't seen the grand occasion of everyone burning incense under the record-breaking post of "One Shot Kill".
In the past few months, that post had been bumped tens of thousands of times...
All the marksmen in the Interstellar Forces knew about the newcomer "One Shot Kill".
Meng Guanghui said, "Of course I have to praise you for the good things you've done. It's not to kill you with praise, but to give you confidence. So what if you're not a Gene Evolver? We have mecha, we have Ability Defense Helmets, and these two things can make up for the gap between you and a Gene Evolver!"
He was afraid that Xia Chujian would feel inferior when she saw those Rank A Gene level elite Interstellar Warship pilots.
But Xia Chujian had never even considered that question.
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