I Have Infinite Skill Points-Chapter 570 This Is a Two-Way Assessment

Early the next morning, as a series of urgent whistles sounded, the examinees woke up one after another.

"Assemble! You only have ten seconds. Anyone who fails to assemble within ten seconds will be immediately disqualified. Seven seconds! Six seconds..."

A ten-second assembly might be impossible even for ordinary soldiers, including the most elite, but for Star Martial Warriors, it wasn’t particularly difficult. When camping in tents, no one would bother changing into pajamas to sleep soundly. Essentially, they just woke up, threw on a jacket, and were ready.

With the speed of Star Martial Warriors, almost the instant the examiner finished speaking, the open space before him was already packed with students.

"Time’s up. Those who failed to reach the assembly site are all eliminated."

Wang Lan looked around and saw only a few examinees, mostly girls, who had failed to arrive in time.

"Welcome, students from top Star Martial Academies around the world, to the selection examination site of the International Security Council, under the United Nations Affiliated Star Martial Institution.

I’m the chief examiner for this session, Colonel Layne. Originally, I had planned to give you a welcome gift last night. Unfortunately, my gift wasn’t ready, and you already took care of it. I regret that, and I imagine you must feel quite disappointed as well."

Hearing this, the examinees couldn’t help but smile. A gift? If they had really managed to deliver a barrage of firepower as a "gift," who knows how many of us would have been eliminated? We’d also have been thoroughly humiliated by their tactics.

"I think you must be very grateful to the extraordinary-perception Star Martial Warrior who warned you yesterday. Without him, who knows how many of you would have been eliminated last night.

So, I congratulate you all on receiving your entry tickets to the International Security Council’s selection examination. However, a friendly reminder: our pass rate is based on a quota. No matter how many rounds you pass, no matter how many are left in the end, the number of recruits will only be less, never more.

So, to the person who gave the warning last night: if you hadn’t alerted the others, allowing most examinees to be directly eliminated, you might have already passed the exam by now.

Alright, enough idle chatter. Now, everyone, come over here and receive your wristbands. Your first round of the examination is about to begin."

The examinees lined up to receive their wristbands at another location. The wristband resembled an electronic watch. When activated, it displayed an arrow, much like a mouse cursor, on a grid background, and nothing else. Their initial assessment was that the wristband was a positioning device.

"I believe many examinees did their homework before coming here. Unfortunately, the content of our exams is never similar or repetitive. However, attentive examinees should have noticed a pattern; our exam arrangements are all very simple..."

I don’t believe you for a second!

"The rules are very simple!" the examiner said with an enigmatic smile. "The arrow on your wristbands indicates your current position. Once the examination begins, a checkpoint will appear on your wristband. Your task is simply to go to that checkpoint and use your wristband to check in.

The examination duration is twenty-four hours. Within this time, you must check in at all the designated checkpoints."

"Report!"

"Speak!"

"How many checkpoints are there in total?"

"I don’t know! As long as a red dot appears on your watch, you continue to check in. Also, during the check-in process, damaging the checkpoint machines is forbidden. Whether intentional or accidental, damaging a machine will result in immediate disqualification."

"Report! What dangers will we encounter during the check-in process? I refuse to believe the examination content is this simple."

"Perhaps I should just escort you to the finish line and declare you passed right now?"

"Alright, if there are no more questions, the examination begins now!"

The moment the examiner finished speaking, everyone looked down at their wristbands. Indeed, a red dot had appeared on each one. Wang Lan glanced at Jiang Xinyu’s wristband. Her red dot pointed in a different direction. Clearly, this was an individual assessment, and everyone’s first checkpoint was unique.

"What are you all waiting for? Didn’t you hear me say the check-in has begun?"

The examinees scattered in an instant, each heading toward their respective checkpoints. Among them, about a dozen Star Martial Warriors took to the skies in a blink, but not even a second passed before their wristbands flashed a message: "Exam Over. GG."

"I protest!" an examinee who had just been declared disqualified roared in rage. "You never warned us that flying wasn’t allowed! You can’t just declare us failed like that!"

"The ultimate right to interpret the rules rests with us."

Indeed, many other examinees had also considered flying to save time but ultimately chose to run instead.

"Everyone, pay attention. For this first round, you can only rely on yourselves."

"Understood," Xu Xiangwen and Xie Sisi both responded in unison. Wang Lan’s comment was directed at those two. As for Jiang Xinyu, with her Star Sea Realm strength, it was virtually impossible for her to fail the examination.

After Wang Lan finished speaking, with a WHOOSH, he shot into the sky, tracing elegant arcs before vanishing into the heavens.

"I protest!" Immediately, another outburst of rage came from an examinee who had just been disqualified.

"What do you have to protest about?"

"Why can he fly when we can’t? This is blatant cheating! Is it just because he’s an examinee from Jade Country?"

"Who told you that you were disqualified for flying, idiot?" the examiner bellowed through a megaphone, practically in the protester’s ear. "You were disqualified because you were locked onto by optical sights, you imbecile!"

Saying this, he pointed to the optical sights that had emerged from the ground around the base.

"If this were a battlefield, you’d all be corpses by now! How could you possibly still be here protesting?"

The dozen or so eliminated examinees looked at the surrounding optical sights and sighed collectively. They had been targeted without even realizing it; eliminated thus, they had nothing to say in their defense.

The red dot on the wristband didn’t seem far, but it was actually tens of kilometers away. With each unit of distance closer to the red dot, the coordinates on the wristband would update.

Along the way, Wang Lan mostly brute-forced his path. Of course, this assessment had rules. Even when charging ahead, he couldn’t disregard them, such as the necessity of evading optical locks.

Regardless of Wang Lan’s strength, being locked onto meant an immediate GG. Fortunately, Wang Lan’s innate spiritual sense had been developed, giving him a strong premonition whenever he was about to be targeted.

Ten minutes later, Wang Lan successfully reached the first checkpoint: a golden desert, in the middle of which stood an isolated phone booth.

The examiner really wasn’t lying; the environment and climate of this area are indeed very strange. Just forty kilometers away, it was barren hills and a stone forest, but here, only ten kilometers further, it was a golden desert. The rolling sand dunes made it seem as if one had arrived at the Gobi Desert outside Dunhuang.

Wang Lan descended from the sky and walked step by step towards the checkpoint. Suddenly, from beneath the desert floor, densely packed artillery emplacements emerged. The instant these emplacements appeared, they locked onto Wang Lan in less than 0.1 seconds.

RAT-TAT-TAT—

Bullets rained down on Wang Lan at a rate of dozens per second. His figure instantly seemed to explode, transforming into fluttering butterflies. When Wang Lan’s figure reappeared, he was already beside the phone booth.

Having lost their target, the artillery emplacements sank back into the desert and disappeared. The objective of this test was also very clear: to assess assault capabilities within a hundred meters. With the sound of a successful check-in, Wang Lan perfectly completed this part of the assessment.

"The data for the first successful check-in has arrived."

"What? He completed the first check-in in ten minutes?" a Lieutenant General asked in surprise at the examination command center.

"Affirmative. Shall I transmit his file?"

"Yes." 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

"Wang Lan... Damn, it’s him?" Seeing Wang Lan’s file, the Lieutenant General chief examiner shot up from his seat as if pricked by a needle. The look on his face as he reviewed Wang Lan’s file showed more reverence than shock.

Indeed, Wang Lan was an existence whom even Level Seven agents of the International Security Council had to revere. His combat record was simply too glorious. Although he was only active in Jade Country, he had saved not just Jade Country but the entire world, and more than once.

Jade Country’s Major General, a Titled Strongman of Jade Country, one of Jade Country’s top combat forces. Even among the Level Nine agents of the International Security Council, there were fewer than twenty who could confidently defeat Wang Lan.

Moreover, these twenty individuals weren’t solely part of the International Security Council; they were merely affiliated with it by name. How did such a formidable figure end up in this university student selection? And the higher-ups didn’t even give any prior notice.

As the Lieutenant General chief examiner cried out in surprise, many other examiners also began to look up Wang Lan’s file. Soon, a series of sharp intakes of breath could be heard.

"Chief Examiner, isn’t this disrupting the balance?"

"Why not just call Wang Lan back and pass him directly?"

"No. Since he is participating in the assessment as an examinee, regardless of his actual status, here he has only one identity: examinee. We must treat him like any other."

"Understood, sir. But is it necessary to file his performance data?"

"Is there a problem with that?"

"Of course there is. Besides testing the examinees, this assessment also aims to evaluate the practical combat effectiveness of our weapon systems. However, if Wang Lan is used as the standard for testing, none of the weapons developed by the military factories of various nations would be deemed qualified.

This isn’t providing them with suggestions for improvement; it’s plunging them into despair."

"The decisive battle between humans and the Demon Clan will ultimately rely on technological power. If their weapons can only clear out the Demon Clan’s rank-and-file soldiers, then humanity’s future is doomed.

If they can’t even handle humanity’s own powerhouses, how can they possibly deal with the powerhouses of the Demon Clan? Wang Lan’s data must not only be filed and preserved, but it must also be relayed back. Tell them this: Tell them that, to date, all their weapons are utter trash."

"Yes, sir."

"Huh? Another examinee has completed the check-in, just three minutes slower than Wang Lan."

"Oh? Let me guess; it must be Wang Lan’s girlfriend, Jiang Xinyu, right?"

"No, it’s an examinee from God’s Country called... Yulia."

"Where did this person pop up from?"

After Wang Lan completed one check-in, he immediately headed for the next point. As he landed, the ground suddenly split open, and a slender, three-meter-tall humanoid robot rose from within.

"Examinee, only by defeating me can you access the check-in device within my body."

Wang Lan looked up at the robot, a smile playing on his lips.

Black technology, huh? This is getting interesting. I didn’t expect this to be a two-way assessment.