Chapter 517

What happened at the headquarters?

What is it?

Seeing this, the others all asked.

During this time, quite a few things have happened at the headquarters.

If you don't make it clear, how will they know which matter Di Yun is referring to?

Of course it's that matter that caused quite a stir, right?

Di Yun's fingers flew across the keyboard as he said, "An anonymous person defeated two Supremes in succession at the Warrior level! How—how long ago was that? Have you all forgotten?"

Oh, that matter!

The other three suddenly understood.

How could we possibly forget that?

Before that incident, there had been several months with no similar news at the headquarters.

Moreover, the person who succeeded in the challenge actually chose to hide their identity, which would not have happened in the past—after all, such a glorious deed would normally make them want as many people as possible to know about it.

Speaking of that matter, after it spread we gathered together to guess that person's identity—how could we forget? Xie Jianfeng said.

Yeah, back then we had picked out several people who seemed most likely, and we originally wanted to confirm it, but then other things came up and we forgot. Jiang Ping also nodded.

That's right.

Di Yun said, "Looking back now, perhaps we don't need to confirm with those few people anymore."

Why?

Do you think they chose anonymity so they wouldn't tell us?

"Di Yun, what do you mean?" Yang Yu's mind flashed, guessing what Di Yun meant by saying that.

Exactly, Captain, I think that anonymous person might be Jiang Cheng!!!

What!

Upon hearing this, Jiang Ping and Xie Jianfeng both widened their eyes.

The person they had been painstakingly guessing turned out to be someone from their own squad?

Di Yun seemed to see the shock on their faces and explained, "Jianfeng, you just told us, didn't you, that Jiang Cheng defeated three opponents in a row in the Grand Competition, the first opponent not worth mentioning—he's only a first-level Grandmaster, and even if you took his place you could possibly beat him."

……

Xie Jianfeng laughed and cried at the same time.

The second opponent, in reality, is a third-level Force Master, and the third opponent is even more formidable—a fifth-level Spirit Master! Such a person, even if their power were compressed to a tenth-level Force Warrior or Spiritual Thought Master, could not be defeated by an ordinary person; even if not as strong as the Supremes in the system, there shouldn't be too great a difference.

"What Di Yun said is correct," Yang Yu added later, "Sun Tong has a record of defeating Supremes—I'm not sure if it's seven or eight."

That many? Jiang Ping exclaimed in surprise.

Actually, it's not that many," Yang Yu said. "No matter how you put it, Sun Tong is a fifth-level Spirit Master; his understanding of psychic weapons is far superior to that of a Spiritual Thought Master, so defeating that many Supremes isn't that difficult. Even so, he still hasn't defeated several Supremes."

Yeah, but we're not Sun Tong; we don't need to worry about whom he defeated or didn't defeat—we just need to know he actually has a record of beating several Supremes." Di Yun said, feeling excited.

Since Sun Tong can defeat Supremes, and Jiang Cheng defeated Sun Tong, can we conclude that Jiang Cheng has the potential to defeat Supremes?

Yes! Exactly!

Xie Jianfeng jumped up from his chair in excitement.

Isn't this just a simple proof?

Given A > B and B > C, then A must be > C.

So, the identity of that anonymous person they've been curious about all along—has it come out?

Not only that.

Di Yun smiled broadly: "Jiang Cheng is different from us; we've been in Hope City for a long time, so we naturally want our fame to be as great as possible, but Jiang Cheng, being a newcomer, it's better for him to stay low-key,"

so after defeating a Supreme, he chose to conceal his identity, not wanting others to know, thereby avoiding unnecessary trouble—what do you all think, does my speculation make sense?

It makes sense.

It indeed makes sense.

As expected of you.

The three all said.

After that discussion, they were at least eighty to ninety percent sure that Jiang Cheng is that anonymous person!

As for the remaining ten to twenty percent, nothing is absolute—what if Jiang Cheng hasn't challenged the Supremes yet and it's actually someone else?

Anyway, no matter what, Jiang Cheng definitely has this ability!

Hahaha.

Having received affirmation, Di Yun felt very pleased and continued, "Speaking of which, this is also Jiang Cheng exposing himself—if he hadn't participated in this Academy Grand Competition, even if we knew that person was him, we'd probably need a long time to find out."

Yeah, he's only challenged two Supremes so far, with eleven more to go; if he racks up a few more victories, even if he wanted to hide his identity he couldn't." Yang Yu nodded.

After all, with so many people at the headquarters, defeating more than half of the Supremes is no small matter—it would surely cause a sensation throughout the headquarters; by then, even if we used elimination, ruling out all impossibilities, the remaining option, no matter how implausible it seems, would be the truth.

Jiang Cheng is probably lacking Contribution Points, right? Making it into the top ten of the Grand Competition yields 100,000 Contribution Points; even you, Captain, would need two or three months to earn that much." Jiang Ping said.

Yeah, not to mention if he made the top three—that would start at 300,000 Contribution Points, with a maximum of 1,000,000!

Yang Yu licked his lips.

One million Contribution Points.

He'd need to accumulate that over two or three years!

During that period he couldn't spend any Contribution Points, otherwise the time would only get longer.

That's actually the case: theoretically, saving up one million Contribution Points would take only two or three years, but in practice even five or ten years might not be enough, and for most people it could take thirty to fifty years.

"Professor Jiang, you're probably aiming for the top ten, right?" Xie Jianfeng asked.

"That's probably it, but who wouldn't want to get into the top three, or even take first place?"

That's how it's said, but, let alone being first place, just getting into the top ten isn't an easy thing.

That's right, anyone who can make the top ten is a headquarters expert; but since Jiang Cheng managed to beat Sun Tong, it's enough to show he has that potential.

(End of chapter)