Chapter 107: Surprise Quiz

Be careful!

In the next moment, a figure lunged forward, knocking Zhang Jie to the ground, and where Zhang Jie had been standing, a black mark suddenly appeared, with a tentacle made of black fluid emerging within it.

Jie Ge!

Liu Delie suppressed his fear, gripping the alloy shield, and immediately positioned himself in front of Zhang Jie and Yu Xiaomo; his berserker attribute activated, he charged the nightmare with shield in hand, firing his shotgun at its head.

Oh~~~~

The shotgun pellets struck its body, though it was unclear if any damage was done; the nightmare let out a meaningless howl, several tentacles on its body straightened, then suddenly whipped toward Liu Delie.

Bang!

The tentacle struck the shield, Liu Delie stepped back a few steps, blocking the attack, then raising his shield he shouted and charged forward again.

On the other side, Zhang Jie finally reacted, hurriedly got to his feet, and stared blankly at the nightmare before him.

"Just now... was it Yu Xiaomo who knocked me down?"

Zhang Jie glanced at Yu Xiaomo beside him, then looked at the nightmare not far away.

Come on, whose nightmare just gets sprayed in the face like that? You think you're playing a game!

Oh right, this really is a game...

That's not right either! Nightmares aren't code‑spawned monsters you can just respawn!

Could it be because I didn't place torches around me? No, that's totally wrong!

Zhang Jie looked at the four nightmares standing stupidly before him, face darkened, just about to order them to rush and kill that nightmare, when he suddenly realized something was off.

He glanced at his own nightmares, then at the one tangled with Liu Delie, and only then did he realize the discrepancy.

Although his nightmares differed somewhat from ordinary ones, the only difference was in appearance; everything else was the same.

But this one on his face... it looked like a cheap knock‑off imitation of a nightmare, and damn, it's pitifully weak—yet it could actually trade blows with Liu Delie.

Even the lowest‑grade nightmare is a dimensional crushing blow to ordinary people who aren't players, let alone elementary school students.

If something could be killed by Liu Delie, what would you even call it a nightmare?

Zhang Jie seemed to grasp something, thought quickly, and instead of commanding his nightmares to administer a righteous beatdown, he picked up his sniper rifle and quickly directed the two.

To take down this impostor, you don't even need to use the power of a Legendary Player!

Elsewhere, in the Dream Monitoring Room, the exam supervisor, after delivering tense, stimulating notifications to the remaining elementary students inside, felt no sense of an imminent major threat.

On the screen, the status of all students was displayed, and the other exam supervisors in the monitoring room watched the students' reactions with great interest.

Exactly, this is a sudden test; any undercurrents, any involvement in schemes—all are calculations of the exam supervisors.

Of course, since the nightmare is fake, any dispatched rescue would be fake as well.

"This kid is quite interesting."

At this moment, a teacher stared at the screen showing Zhang Jie, quite curious.

"Huh? How can this kid not be scared at all?"

"Interesting."

Although most people in this world have never seen a nightmare in person, merely hearing its name is enough to provoke an overwhelming sense of fear.

But this child has none.

"Could he be relying on something?"

"Just spawn a mimic nightmare right in front of him and see how he deals with it."

"This... should work."

The Dream Builder had no choice but to obey the exam supervisor's order, directly spawning a nightmare in front of Zhang Jie.

"What's there to fear? Can a nightmare even appear directly before me?"

As Zhang Jie's words inside the monitoring faded, the nightmare instantly appeared before him; seeing his bewildered look, the teacher who had suggested this curled the corner of his mouth.

He genuinely wanted to see how Zhang Jie would resolve it.

All that could be seen was Zhang Jie being knocked down again, pausing a moment, observing briefly, then the next moment he raised his sniper rifle to begin supporting his teammates.

Yu Xiaomo, crouching low, sneaked to the nightmare's rear and directly slapped several C4 charges onto its body.

"Liu Delie! Jump off the building! Retreat first!"

With a deafening explosion, the nightmare and that well‑viewed small building were blown to smithereens.

This is the only squad among the remaining students capable of successfully killing a mimic nightmare.

Although the teachers' encouragement played a part, their performance still stands out.

After all, the mimic nightmare's strength wasn't aimed at slaughtering students; it was merely a sudden event staged to observe how these students react in crisis.

Soon after...

"All right, the top ten can basically be finalized now."

"Get the items ready; later we'll just hand them out directly."

An exam supervisor nodded while listening to the chief examiner's words, having something to say but hesitating.

"Just say what's on your mind."

That exam supervisor nodded and then spoke.

"I just want to know whether that probability‑boosting item is actually real."

"Has the official really mastered a method to boost the odds?"

The probability of becoming a player cannot be altered by external factors; this has long been an indisputable fact.

"Before the Dream Realm failed to merge with reality, of course it wasn't possible."

"But since the merger, anything is possible."

Then the chief examiner smiled at the exam supervisor; he was dispatched from above and did not withhold any inside information he could share.

"You all should know that the Dream Online "Genesis Permit" is not in our hands."

And after reality converged, this also gave us an opportunity to exploit.

Can you conveniently reveal why the officials are so urgently cultivating players?

Of course.

The Chief Examiner nodded, then continued speaking to the curious, gossip‑watching teachers.

The X-level Game World has opened, Nightmares are also gradually increasing; the officials urgently need more players to attempt to clear it, trying to let the Ultimate Player reappear in the world.

Perhaps, not long from now, you will be able to personally witness the Ultimate Player's reappearance, but for now don't think too much about it.

The Chief Examiner ended the conversation; he had said everything he could say, now it's time to get down to business.

On the other side...

"Brother Jie, do you mean we just killed a Nightmare like that?"

How does it feel so unreal?

Nonsense, something this lame definitely isn't.

Zhang Jie pointed at the sky.

I think it's a surprise test the school came up with; have you ever seen a Nightmare that could be killed by us three elementary students?

Liu Delie scratched his head.

That's also correct.

Several people waited there for a long time, and finally the Exam Supervisor's voice sounded from above.

Fellow students....

(The third update has been delivered!)