Chapter 1360

Finished!!!

After hearing the specific "exam question" for the second round of selection, Leon suddenly felt a slight chill on his back, and cold sweat was almost coming down.

For him, who had memories of another world and knew what a world without anomalies looked like, this question was no longer a matter of whether it was a freebie or not; it was a matter of taking a mouthful of ink and spraying it onto the paper, and he could spit out a perfect score.

However, if he performed too well...

Looking at Director Cancer's thick and oily lips, and slightly imagining... the approximate texture, Leon couldn't help but feel his scalp tingle.

I don't want that kind of thing!!!!

"Alright, you should all be about ready, right?"

Under Leon's terrified gaze, Director Cancer habitually licked his oily, glistening full lips, then chuckled with his big belly protruding:

"I announce, the second round of the Cancer Palace secret art selection begins now. Specifically..."

After glancing at the tense Leon, Director Cancer blinked his eye sockets strangely, then raised his hand to greet:

"Leon, let's start with you!"

"Uh..."

Upon hearing Director Cancer's words, Leon, who hadn't made any psychological preparations, felt his heart skip a beat, then hurriedly shook his head:

"Lord Cancer, I'm not ready yet. Can you put me further back?"

"......"

Looking at Leon, whose expression looked somewhat "timid", Director Cancer couldn't help but frown, lowering his expectations for him by two points.

If anomalies are monstrosities born from the desires of the human heart, then the Twelve Palace secret arts, which aim to drive, change, and even destroy anomalies, are existences that transcend the heart and desires.

If one cannot perfectly control one's heart and will, and if reason is eroded by the fragility and hesitation belonging to the human heart, the risk of becoming extreme or even losing control will soar, and one might even eventually walk the crazy path of Director Aquarius.

What a pity.

Judging from his past resume, Leon's compatibility with the Cancer Secret Arts should be very high, but judging from his current performance, his inner heart is far from strong enough, at the very least far from matching his talent.

"Alright, then you wait a bit longer."

After shaking his head slightly in his heart, Director Cancer, who had already kicked Leon out of his choices, agreed to his request with a chuckle and turned to beckon to another cleaner.

"Then let's start with you."

"Okay!"

The cleaner chosen by Director Cancer responded, then walked over quickly. As he passed by Leon, he even glanced at him, who was "retreating before the battle", intentionally or unintentionally, with a slight look of contempt in his eyes.

However, at this moment, Leon had no mind to care how others viewed him. His two eyes were fixed tightly on the crystal 【Cognitive Projection Ball】, hoping to gain some "reverse cheating" tips from others' exam processes.

He indeed has talent, but seems to lack the heart of the strong; I'm afraid he's not fit for great use...

Seeing Leon's increasingly tense expression, Director Cancer, who had been paying attention to him, gave up completely, withdrew his attention, and instructed the cleaner who came up for the exam to close his eyes, relax his defenses on the consciousness level, and accept the observation and analysis from the crystal ball.

"Hmm... not bad."

Looking at the 【Cognitive Projection Ball】, which had stabilized quite a bit after flickering twice and performed slightly brighter than an oil lamp, Director Cancer couldn't help but smile and praise in a gentle voice:

"Congratulations, you have met the requirements for learning the Cancer Secret Arts, and your cognitive stability is also very high, with good discrimination ability... Let me see." After reaching out to support the blue-green mottled 【Cognitive Projection Ball】 and turning it, he opened his hollow eye sockets and "looked" strangely for a while before Director Cancer commented:

"Apart from the specific brightness, the purer the color of the light emitted after the 【Cognitive Projection Ball】 is activated, the closer it is to pure white, which proves that your cognition is clearer and more specific. The ranking is roughly white, yellow, red, brown, green, blue, black."

"And judging from the color of your 【Cognitive Projection Ball】, your overall cognition of the boundary between anomalous and non-anomalous is not bad, but you are somewhat vague in terms of order and emotion, so the color is not pure enough. You can pay more attention to this later."

"I will remember it, thank you for your guidance, Lord Cancer."

The cleaner who passed the assessment bowed respectfully and went down with a look of joy, while Director Cancer turned his gaze to Leon and asked with a chuckle:

"How about it? Are you ready?"

"......"

Not at all...

Upon hearing Director Cancer's inquiry, Leon couldn't help but return an somewhat awkward expression.

According to his plan, he was going to watch others' exams, collect information about the 【Cognitive Projection Ball】, and see if he could trigger 【Materialism】 to increase his resistance to this thing.

Unfortunately, the evaluation criteria given by Director Cancer were strange. He listened carefully from beginning to end, and apart from knowing the color grading, he still hadn't mastered enough information to trigger 【Materialism】.

"Then you come last."

After shaking his head with slight displeasure, the disappointed Director Cancer turned around calmly and beckoned to another cleaner.

"The brightness is not bad, but the blue-black is still too low, and there are flaws in the cognition of the ocean... You are a resident of the Thousand Sails Sea Kingdom, right? The real ocean after stripping away anomalies is actually not what you are familiar with. You can familiarize yourself more with this aspect; it will be good for you."

"Green, pity the brightness is not enough; the discrimination ability is not up to standard."

"Hmm? The color is very bright! Several times stronger than the previous person, but blue-black won't do; you have big problems with your cognition of order and religion."

"Too black, pass!"

"......"

Soon, the remaining cleaners were tested one after another, leaving only Leon and Mei Li. After looking at the tense Leon, the female cleaner walked over voluntarily and placed her hand on the 【Cognitive Projection Ball】.

The light shone brightly!

A dazzling light, yellow-tinged red, exploded instantly like a raging fire. The moment it touched the crystal ball, the female cleaner's small palm was completely submerged by the incomparably scorching light. The people in the room were dazzled to the point of turning their heads in unison, as if they were looking directly at the sun, unable to even open their eyes for a time.

"Good! Good! Good indeed!!!"

Looking at the crystal ball that was as scorching to the eyes as the sun, Director Cancer, the only one who could open his eyes, couldn't help but widen his hollow eye sockets and shouted "good" three times. That kind face was illuminated as if it were feverish, filled with irrepressible ecstasy.

"Impeccable! Impeccable!"

After excitedly repeating the evaluation twice, Director Cancer clapped his hands and laughed:

"The brightness I stimulated during my selection was less than half of yours, and the color was even a little bit of red in the brown, yet I was called a genius once in a thousand years by the previous Lord Cancer."

"And you! You actually managed to touch the threshold of yellow faintly on top of crimson! Hahaha! I can assert now that the next Director Cancer is none other than you!"

(End of chapter)