The moment the homeroom teacher said this, there was an uproar in the class.
"Damn, the school has really gone crazy!"
"Right? To hold two competitions back to back, just the reward money alone costs more than five million yuan!"
"More than five million yuan… That's probably how much all the testing equipment cost."
Zhou Hao was stunned as well. He did not understand why the school would hold another competition.
"Silence!"
The homeroom teacher looked up and pressed his palms down.
The voices quickly disappeared.
The homeroom teacher continued, "This competition is different from last time. It's a combat assessment. In other words, you won't be facing students from other classes but mutated beasts from the wilderness!"
Upon hearing this, the class fell silent.
Their eyes widened in disbelief.
Heavens.
A combat assessment competition.
And it was even against the mutated beasts in the wilderness!
They all thought that they had misheard.
Although Planet Earth was currently facing the invasion of foreign races, most high schools rarely held actual combat training. After all, high school students were all in the stage of establishing their blood essence. Only after entering university would they specialize in combat training.
Of course, it was said that some top high schools would have combat assessments.
However, the problem was that their Qu City High School was only an ordinary high school.
Not to mention top-notch, they couldn't even be considered to be one of the top high schools. Now, they wanted their students to participate in a combat assessment competition?
"Are the school leaders thinking straight?"
"That's right, are you kidding me? We aren't even martial artists, so why would we take a combat assessment?"
"Has anyone here ever killed a chicken?"
"I've never killed a chicken, but I've killed green insects."
Soon, the originally quiet classroom was drowned by a large number of voices.
There were also sounds coming from the classroom outside. It seemed like everyone was furious.
…
In the principal's office…
Principal Zheng smiled bitterly. He looked at the man who was as calm as a mountain beside him and said helplessly, "Instructor Shen, I've already done as you instructed and got the homeroom teachers to send the news. It's just that… our school has never had a combat assessment before!"
"Moreover, the students can't make any preparations within just three days. If anything happened to them, then we would have a very serious situation on our hands."
Department Director Hong, who was standing on the left side of the door, said casually, "With the instructor around, how could anything go wrong?"
The calm man, Instructor Shen, glared at Department Director Hong. The fierce-looking Department Director Hong lowered his head obediently like a child.
The elegant dean could not help but whisper, "Instructor Shen, Principal Zheng and I understand that you want to find that peerless genius, but isn't the combat assessment too risky?"
Instructor Shen took a sip of tea.
Slowly standing up, he said indifferently, "As I said, with the evidence you provided, I am still unable to confirm the strength of that peerless genius. Therefore, this combat assessment is absolutely necessary. As for safety, don't worry. With me here, they will be alright."
Boom.
An extremely strong blood essence pressure emitted from his body. Principal Zheng and the dean immediately stood up in shock.
A high-level grandmaster…
They did not expect that the Instructor Shen that Department Director Hong had invited was actually a high-level grandmaster!
Only a high-level grandmaster could produce blood essence pressure so casually!
"With Lord Shen around, we can rest assured," Principal Zheng said hurriedly.
"Yes, yes, yes. We'll do as Instructor Shen says." The dean hurriedly nodded.
With a high-level grandmaster holding down the fort, not to mention mutated beasts, even general-level demon beasts could be easily dealt with.
Instructor Shen did not care about Principal Zheng and the dean's reaction. He sat back in his seat and smiled. "If we can really confirm that the peerless genius has the strength of a high-level martial artist, I will personally stay and nurture him with special methods."
At this point, his tone changed as he looked at Department Director Hong. "If not, Little Hong, you should know what kind of punishment awaits."
Department Director Hong's expression turned slightly, and he had a bitter expression. "Instructor, given my current state, can't you just let me off the hook this one time?"
Instructor Shen smiled and said, "Well, we'll see about that."
…
While the twenty year three classes were bustling with noise…
In an abandoned warehouse in the school.
Long, thin vines-like tentacles extended in the air and waved continuously.
This was a low-level demon beast and a spy from the Demon Race. It was the Thousand Vine Flower.
Unlike the blatant green insects of the Insect Race, the Thousand Vine Flower of the Demon Race was much more secretive and extremely difficult to discover. The various intelligence it collected had already brought great destruction to humans.
"Competition, combat assessment, peerless genius…" As the beast waved its tentacles, information was being received. The Thousand Vine Flower quickly gathered its vines and then transmitted the information it had gathered in a special way.
However, the Thousand Vine Flower's transmission speed was very slow and could not compare to the green insects in this regard.
At this moment, the school leaders and Instructor Shen were still unaware of what was going on.