Retired for A Hundred Years: Re-Employment for the Apocalypse Bigshot!-Chapter 460 - 455: Grand Finals (Part 1)

After Anhe Middle School submitted the enrollment form, they discovered that all twelve schools had exactly 12 participants for this project.

This shows how popular the game competition is among students.

During previous training sessions, Ji Ning hadn’t participated in some sessions due to conflicts with those noble family forces, such as this game area. Although she had heard Huang Ying’s introduction, today was her first time seeing it.

She couldn’t help but become intrigued.

The sizable game room neatly arranged 200 game cabins.

From the outside, the game cabins resemble semi-transparent eggs, over 3 meters tall, with an internal space of 2 square meters, and the floor equipped with a specific treadmill to allow students to move from multiple angles inside.

Participants need to wear specific helmets, thin sensing suits, and sensors on their limbs outside the cabin.

These are devices to enhance the gamer’s five senses and increase the game’s realism.

They also record game competition data and various data of the human body during movement.

Full of technology.

The students entered the game cabins uniformly, their faces eager to try.

As the eggshells closed, the competition officially began.

The scene inside the game cabin instantly transformed into a holographic game scene. Outside, the teachers could see the students’ real state inside the game cabin, but the students were already immersed in the holographic game.

The training camp leader knew Ji Ning had never been here, so he specially introduced her to this virtual-reality combined game training area.

He took Ji Ning to a vacant observation room next door; there were dozens of such rooms distributed around the game area.

Three walls of the observation room had large screens installed, which, when turned on, displayed a flat game map.

And on the map, there were small dots of different colors.

Each color dot represented a student from a school.

The leader operated the screen with a remote control, switching various viewing perspectives for Ji Ning.

"Teacher Ji, this large screen can view the game footage of every student participating in the competition. These footages can switch between different perspectives; it can be a specific student’s first-person view or a third-party spectating view. This perspective also includes flat and 3D views, allowing you to switch perspectives to observe the student’s competition based on your needs."

A hint of interest flashed in Ji Ning’s eyes. She took the remote and selected a small color dot representing a student from Anhe Middle School, switching to his perspective.

This perspective was precisely Wang Hao’s view.

Wang Hao’s voice and the surrounding environment came through the screen.

"Everyone, report your coordinates. I’m currently at [Longitude 108°3’, Latitude 211°40’]."

"I’m not far from your five o’clock direction, I’ll be there soon."

"Huh? How do you look at this map? I’m still not quite sure."

"Look at the smart map on you. E represents East Longitude, W represents West Longitude, N represents North Latitude, S represents South Latitude. We should all be in the same area now. Just look at the map and head toward Wang Hao’s direction."

The one who couldn’t read the map was Bai Xiaotang, and the one explaining the most was Lin Yuanyang.

They were currently in the pitch-black Pollution Zone.

The game they were playing was the Deserted Island mode, a faction war in "Chaotic World Fire."

Ji Ning glanced at the training camp leader, speaking lightly, "You sure know how to promote the game."

The leader smiled awkwardly, "This is quite different from mobile games; it really trains students’ physical qualities and spiritual power focus. The game cabin’s original purpose was to let children exercise their bodies while immersively gaming..."

Ji Ning gave him a glance and continued watching the screen.

The leader, anxious, promptly invited, "You can also experience this game cabin now, join their competition."

A hint of interest appeared on Ji Ning’s face, "How do I join?"

"Because each school has 12 participants, the difficulty level of the competition increases as well. Hence, some NPCs in the game scene are played by our teachers. If you join, we can open an NPC account for you. Of course, teachers from other schools can also enter the game as NPCs to increase the task difficulty for the students..."

"Alright, open an NPC account for me."

Under the leader’s invitation, Ji Ning entered one of the game cabins, putting on the helmet and a series of sensing devices.

As the "eggshell" closed, the scene before Ji Ning suddenly changed. She felt as though she was in a real Pollution Zone environment.

The environment here was rendered realistically, but there were still some differences compared to a real Pollution Zone.

Ji Ning looked around and even lowered her head to check her NPC appearance.

This humanoid hand looked a bit familiar, didn’t it?

Quite like the first time she played the Deserted Island mode, encountering that mutated "Big Horse Monkey" near the central camp.

A thick-blooded, high-attack big boss.

But, frustratingly, she didn’t have the two-three meter height of that game boss.

All she could see were white walls, the outlines of surrounding houses barely visible in the dim light.

But Ji Ning’s NPC vision was exceptionally clear.

Apart from day-like clear vision, she also saw the skill prompts always displayed next to her.

Only by placing her hand in front of her and making gestures as instructed could she cast skills.

It looked a bit silly.

Ji Ning decided not to use these skills for the time being.

She walked a few more steps to the side, entering a small two-story villa.

There was minimal furniture inside. She skillfully went to places where equipment was hidden and took all the equipment that the students were supposed to collect, leaving none behind.

Watching her from the observation room, Huang Ying and the training camp leader’s expressions were indescribable.

Talk about increasing difficulty—this was genuinely raising the difficulty, not even leaving a single piece of equipment behind. Was this meant to ruthlessly bully the newbies?

As one of the five big bosses, Ji Ning, after looting all the equipment in the residential area, strolled out with these pieces of equipment.

Huang Ying glanced at the leader, "Is her activity range this extensive?"

The leader swallowed, speaking with difficulty, "To increase game difficulty, we didn’t set an activity range for artificial NPCs."

In other words, if Ji Ning enjoyed walking around, she could roam the entire game map.

Yet, teachers playing NPCs had a mutual understanding not to go that far, typically attacking students only when approached or actively attacking.

Who would have guessed Ji Ning would not follow the script, looting equipment right away and wearing them all?

Furthermore, she left her base and headed straight for the student faction areas.

Now that’s a max-level boss roaming the map, casually slaughtering newbie villages.

Everyone thought the students from the neighboring factions in the central area would be terribly bullied by Ji Ning. Unexpectedly, she just strolled around each faction’s perimeter, dropped a few pilfered weapons, and moved on without anyone noticing.

Traveling from afar just to deliver weapons to these newbie village students?

Such a benevolent big boss is rare even in gaming circles.

The training camp leader, amidst such a surprising turn of events, was completely baffled.

Only Huang Ying could see Ji Ning’s intentions.

"She thinks these students are too slow and wants them to hurry up and get to her."

Training camp leader & spectator teachers: ...

In Anhe Middle School’s faction, the trio of Li Mu, Yan Song, and Yao Meng, out collecting equipment and resources, were surprised to discover a pile of excellent weapons and equipment a mere 200 meters from their camp.

This was unimaginable during the previous training period, almost like a big giveaway during the competition.

Did the S-Class mission include elite monsters instead of fragile little ones?

Did the organizers, in their generosity, send them a batch of high-quality equipment?

"Quick, quick... bring it back immediately. You guys go check nearby as well, see if there’s more good equipment."

Similarly surprised by the "big giveaway," students gathered near each faction, determined to search every patch of turf for hidden treasures.

"It seems the S-Class mission is challenging. We need to be better prepared."