Ren Zhong Era, Day 91, 7:27 AM.
He was standing in the washroom of the VIP suite at Alson Hotel in Liao Yuan County, holding a warm face towel in his hand.
Slowly putting down the face towel, he splashed some cold water onto his face.
The icy touch sent chills as he tilted his head back to look at his face covered in water droplets in the mirror.
After a long time, his pounding heart gradually cooled down.
Only when all the dust settled could he jump out from being an insider.
He also "saw" what the live broadcast audience saw.
He and the people of Starfire Town made it.
Faced with the dual crushing force of technology and resources from the Mengdu Group, these tens of thousands of people survived a terrifying beast tide capable of destroying the county, and there were survivors.
This was a miracle.
Even though he died in battle, Starfire Town did not lose.
He and the people of Starfire Town proved that humans can conquer nature.
Getting up and returning to the study, Ren Zhong flipped open a paper notebook and began summarizing the gains and losses of the last encounter and planning a rough action plan for this time.
The first time they faced the Legion Beast, he and the Starfire Town’s performance was already perfect, with little to fault.
Despite almost no intelligence support, having to respond impromptu, the adequate preparation in advance and the unity of the ’荒人’ still played a crucial role, worthy of praise.
The only issue lay in the gap of absolute strength.
The ultimate focal point of this gap was the Sutured Giant Beast, the pseudo-Level Seven Ruined Beast.
According to the explanation provided by the Mengdu Group and his own collected intelligence, this giant beast’s expertise lay in its massive size and the concentration and integration of the core components from numerous Ruined Beast carcasses to form an ultra-high total Energy Level.
The Legion Beast within it played a central role similar to that of the human Mechanical Warrior.
The Sutured Giant Beast was akin to the Legion Beast’s "Exoskeleton Armor," but the armor’s strength was limited by the quality of the Ruined Beast carcasses, not particularly tough.
This time, the hacker and the Information Flow Shield Master took more than two days and finally deciphered the encrypted code used by the Mengdu Group to remotely control the Legion Beast.
Utilizing this code, they could infiltrate the Legion Beast to a certain extent, steal information from within its Crystal Core, and write compressed data packets.
According to the time-line convergence characteristic, if this time as well they faced the same Legion Beast at the same time, the initial encryption code set by Mengdu Group should be exactly the same.
So, if they could subtly lurk in right as the Legion Beast appeared, using the information flow transmitted by the Mengdu Group to write data into the artificially controlled Crystal Core of the Legion Beast, plant a Trojan, and continue writing information into the composite Crystal Core of the Sutured Giant Beast during its formation, what then?
Then, at the instant the Sutured Giant Beast completes its formation, suddenly increase the intervention intensity and launch a control takeover; even if they couldn’t seize the Legion Beast, there would still be a chance to seize the Sutured Giant Beast indirectly controlled by the Mengdu Group through the Legion Beast.
Then, the war would end.
Furthermore, this time, there might not even be a war.
Because this time, he would demonstrate his "true" value to Purple Crystal Mining.
After breakfast, Ren Zhong rode a solo floating Flying Device straight to Liao Yuan Science College.
It was time to obtain the Level Six Mining Engineer certificate again and advance to a Third Level Citizen.
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"Mr. Ren, won’t you reconsider? Although you are indeed very smart, you have studied for such a short time, there’s no need to be so rushed."
The beautiful academic assistant stared at Ren Zhong with bewildered eyes, making one last effort.
The college did not want to lose this prodigious student, so it was hard to refuse his unwarranted request.
But the college leaders were worried; what if he messed up the exam with this rashness?
On the one hand, it would lower the qualifying rate.
On the other, it wouldn’t look good if it got out; people would say, your Liao Yuan Science College couldn’t even teach a genius to pass, the problem lies with the college, not the genius.
Ren Zhong smiled while looking at the woman.
Last time, when he took the Level Six Mining Engineer completion certificate exam for the first time, this woman said the exact same words.
At that time, his answer was: I have made up my mind, let the college leaders rest assured.
In the end, he indeed passed with just a barely passing grade smoothly.
The college leaders regularly found it astonishing but also a bit regretful.
Even considering the study duration, he was still the "top scorer," but this barely passing "top scorer" was hard to promote, flawed.
However, this time Ren Zhong changed his strategy.
First, to showcase his talents.
Second, that passing standard last time was indeed a Waterloo in his life. Barely passing was really a disgrace.
He smiled slightly and said, "Actually, the level of one’s knowledge mastery and the length of study time are not absolutely related. Perhaps all of you think seven days is too short, but I have something to say."
"What?"
"Seize every moment; I don’t want to wait another day. I believe if I can do it today, there’s no point waiting for tomorrow. Please convey to the college leaders, if I don’t achieve full marks today, tomorrow I’ll go to the principal’s door to apologize with a humble heart!"
Academic Assistant: "Huh?"