A Top Scholar in Everything-Chapter 62: Foreign Race and Detection

The escort ship of the Legendary Ship Ika Erza was much larger than ordinary civilian steamships.

Inside, it’s all metallic passages and floors, significantly different from the dark and old iron shell outside, giving off a strong post-modern sci-fi vibe.

Even if two Jedi Knights suddenly jumped out here waving glow sticks and shouting "waka waka," Baiyu wouldn’t feel out of place.

"Steamships are generally powered by Magic Energy, with a thermal energy conversion lighting system."

As if noticing Baiyu’s confusion.

Qiong Jiu explained while walking alongside.

Jiang Gan led most of the classmates at the front.

Baiyu and Qiong Jiu were at the back of the group, finally having a chance to ask the question that had been plaguing Baiyu’s mind: "Old Qiong, why are all military devices steam engines, without a trace of electric equipment?"

Baiyu had always been puzzled.

The technology in this world is not inferior to that of the Blue Star in a previous life, perhaps even more so with the augmentation of Magic Energy.

Electricity is very common at the grassroots level.

However, in any official buildings, there is no trace of electricity, with everything powered by thermal energy.

Qiong Jiu didn’t answer immediately but instead asked, "The last time there was an Extraordinary event in your neighborhood, which gave rise to a Simulation Realm, you should know what that entails, right?"

An Extraordinary event is no trivial matter.

Perhaps initially, Qiong Jiu wasn’t aware.

But with so many days passed, she ought to know that the neighborhood where the Extraordinary event occurred was Baiyu’s neighborhood.

"Within the spread range of the Simulation Realm, virtually all appliances fail..." Baiyu instantly understood.

"The cost of popularizing a thermal energy system is very high, it’s far from being as convenient and quick as electric energy, but the drawback of electric energy is that it can’t resist the Simulation Realm, with essentially all electronic components failing within it."

Few people pay attention to these small anomalies.

Because from birth, civilians use electricity, while government and military use thermal steam engines.

People find it natural.

But since it’s mentioned, Qiong Jiu also opened up: "The steam engine power system can effectively avoid the erosion of the Simulation Realm and is also more suitable for configuring Magic Power Machinery.

Of course.

I hear there’s an even higher-level reason behind this, but we can’t know about those aspects."

Baiyu nodded.

As the two talked, they finally arrived at the location of the last assessment.

The main hall of the Legendary Ship Ika Erza.

This place is almost as large as two football fields joined together.

It has countless levers, buttons, and mechanical consoles, some levers rusted, exuding a sense of ancient desolation.

Staff in black clothes were busy coming and going.

Dong Chunsheng stood in the center.

Around him were some familiar faces to Baiyu.

Pang Fei, Allen, as well as Zhao, the consultant from the Anomaly Bureau General Office and the Martial Arts School Alliance seen last time.

These four are basically the representative figures of the Linjiang upper echelon.

"Allen, you don’t look well; have you picked out the style of your urn yet?" Pang Fei, just as usual, greeted the Law Enforcement Captain of the Church with close familiarity.

Allen’s face was stern and didn’t respond.

But his complexion was indeed as bad as Pang Fei had said!

His eye sockets were sunken, with dark circles like thick smoky makeup, wrinkles deeply etched around his eyes and forehead, making him seem years older in just a few days.

Students from over a dozen other schools also arrived.

They basically stood arranged by school.

The total number of students passing the first round of Magic Energy assessments was about two hundred, with Linjiang First Middle School accounting for over thirty.

Other schools had even fewer.

Although, the top students were more numerous and stronger than those from First Middle School.

Observing the situation, Baiyu roughly understood what Jiang Gan meant by different teaching philosophies.

Other students should be concentrating on nurturing top students, seed students.

While Linjiang First Middle School fairly distributed school resources, like Magic Elixir materials, and time in the laboratory.

In this way.

Most students naturally couldn’t compare to those nurtured with all the school’s resources.

Dong Chunsheng gave a brief speech and then stated that the next assessment would be taken over by Ika Erza, and they would only act as judges.

This greatly confused everyone.

How could a steamship take over?

But soon, their doubts were answered.

A little girl walked out from behind Dong Chunsheng.

The girl was like a porcelain doll, with rosy cheeks, black hair, hazel eyes, dressed in a fitting white dress, her skin snow-white and delicate.

Her eyes scanned the crowd.

For some unknown reason.

This gaze inexplicably gave a huge sense of oppression.

Even the nearby Pang Fei, Allen, and others had their eyes fixed on the girl.

The next moment, the girl moved.

She walked to the front of the team from Sunrise Middle School, snapped her fingers, and two mechanical arms immediately extended from the ground, grabbing a student.

"What are you doing!"

"Let go of Li Yue, you’ve hurt her."

"Teacher, hurry up, she’s strangling Li Yue to death."

The students from Sunrise Middle School immediately became agitated.

Several people rushed up to try to save their classmate, but they couldn’t move the mechanical arms at all.

All the teachers around ignored the situation.

Feng Yuan from Sunrise Middle School gritted his teeth, Blood Qi gathering in his hands, for the Li Yue being snatched away was his girlfriend.

Crack!

Before anyone could react.

A green light flashed in the little girl’s eyes, and Li Yue’s originally normal skin changed in an instant.

Her entire body became ulcerated, and one after another, spikes grew out from under her skin, resembling a sea urchin.

What kind of a person was this!

Her clothes were torn apart by the spikes.

Seeing the monster’s true face, everyone couldn’t help their nausea, and some girls even bent over and vomited their breakfast.

The entire "Li Yue" was now covered in a bizarre black skin with countless spots, with a bowl-sized wound in her abdomen, revealing a girl’s head inside.

Her classmates instantly recognized it.

It was Li Yue’s head!

But she had obviously been dead for some time, the flesh on her face starting to decay.

Yet the monster’s voice came from her mouth, sounding exactly like Li Yue.

And that’s how.

It managed to fool classmates who saw her day and night.

If not for the girl’s light, both its voice and appearance were indistinguishable from the former Li Yue.

And the head on this grotesque body.

At this moment turned into a completely black, eyeless, faceless figure.

"Alien race, eliminate!"

In the next moment.

The girl conjured a flame-red light in her hand, instantly enveloping the monster.

Only the crackle and hiss of burning could be heard from within the light.

Three seconds later.

The girl lowered her hand, looking disdainfully around: "Don’t vomit inside me, cleaning up is a hassle. It’s just a low-level alien of the Ghost-faced Race, how can you expect to fight for the Human Race on the battlefield with such little endurance."

Baiyu was stunned by this series of actions.

Don’t vomit inside her, is she Ika Erza?

"Everyone, keep calm."

Dong Chunsheng walked over, his face cold:

"Although you are the best batch of students from Linjiang City, there will always be some leftover aliens sneaking in, deceiving even the strictest screenings.

For example, those of the Ghost-faced Race with their strong concealment abilities!

However.

Under Lady Erza’s detection, no alien can escape!

The real Li Yue has been dead long ago, killed by the Ghost-faced Race and disguised, now we’re just cleaning out the spies among the Human Race!

If anyone has the intent to cause chaos or harbors ill intentions at this moment, I, Dong Chunsheng, won’t let them go.

Stay put."

As soon as he finished speaking.

Immediately, two students broke away and ran, their speed astonishing, beyond what Quasi-Martial Artists could possess.

But just as they leapt into the air.

Two red beams pierced their bodies, pinning them to the wall, revealing their monstrous forms.

One was of the Ghost-faced Race, and the other was an even more bizarre looking alien.

The red light spread and diffused, and the bodies of the two monsters vanished like melting snow, leaving no trace of ash amid their screams.

Dong Chunsheng coldly glanced in the direction the two were fleeing, bent down and said: "Lady Erza, please continue."

"Mm."

The little girl nodded, her gaze sweeping once more.

Soon, her attention fell onto the team from Linjiang First Middle School.

More precisely.

It fell on Baiyu.

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