Chapter 27 (1/2)

After five minutes of running, Lu Chongyang said in a low voice, “Five minutes have passed. We’re starting eliminations.”

When the applicants heard this, they all became uptight. Five seconds passed quickly, and a girl’s wristband turned red.

“Eliminated!” Lu Chongyang used his primordial spirit power to pluck her off the track.

Everyone suddenly became anxious, and to avoid being eliminated the slowest runners began speeding up.

As he ran faster, Zhou Bai felt awful, as if he were enveloped in a layer of concrete. “This is horrible… I can’t do it anymore,” he thought.

Zhou Bai had never done such difficult exercise before, and he was one of the first few who were considering the idea of giving up, but next to him, Jing Xiu continued running steadily, with not a hint of weakness in her eyes as she thought, “There are two ways to be eliminated. One is if you use up your strength and can’t run anymore; then you get eliminated.”

“The other is that the slowest person will get eliminated every five seconds.”

“I can’t be the slowest, so I have to speed up, but doing so blindly will deplete my strength. And if I run too slowly, I might fail and get eliminated.”

Jing Xiu began strategizing. “I can’t be slow, nor too fast. I’ll run at a constant, medium speed. If I find I’m too slow, I’ll speed up accordingly. I need to preserve my strength and balance my speed…”

Jing Xiu turned her head to see what Zhou Bai was planning to do, but her eyes were met by his sloppy, out-of-shape movements that indicated he was about to give up.

She took on a strange expression and then frowned, sensing his increasing slowness. She could only say helplessly, “I’m going first. Good luck to you.”

When you’re running long distances, running at constant speed is the most efficient way. Repeatedly speeding up and slowing down only expends your energy faster, making it harder to endure through this test.

Zhou Bai kept slowing down, his steps staggering, but there was no way Jing Xiu could slow down with him.

Looking at Jing Xiu getting farther away, Zhou Bai ran slower and slower. He felt like every muscle and nerve in his body weighed a ton. He could only watch as the other applicants overtook him one after another.

Suddenly, he felt a cold gaze pass over him.

“Too slow. Eliminated.”

Zhou Bai’s heart skipped a beat as he quickly glanced at the band on his wrist. It had not turned red, and he let out a sigh of relief. He then looked to his side and saw that it was a slightly chubby boy who had been eliminated, not him.

After this moment of tension, Zhou Bai sped up again, thinking to himself, “No, I can’t be eliminated.”

As he thought about the destroyed underground base, Alice’s death, Professor Zhuang, and the auxiliary system in his body, his gaze gradually became sharp and focused. “I’m not being arrogant here… But someone who has the auxiliary system I do might be the person with the greatest chance of saving humankind in this world. I can’t be eliminated here.”

But after running for a while longer, Zhou Bai slowed down again as his body felt like it was about to disintegrate. “This isn’t working… I can’t go on!”

While Zhou Bai struggled on the edge of elimination, the applicants with the strongest willpower and fittest physiques were calm and collected at the front of the race.

And as they continuously ran, they gradually began feeling threads of Spark rush into their bodies and then eject from their bodies with the exercise.

Accompanied by the breathing of Spark, their primordial spirit power felt like it was increasing. This feeling got stronger and stronger, and it was more obvious the faster they ran. These applicants all began speeding up, their eyes beaming with excitement.

Zhou Bai looked at the applicants who had picked up speed on the track. His face expressed speechlessness. “You lunatics… You’ll die from running.”

“Hm? Something’s wrong,” Zhou Bai’s expression got serious, “Why do I feel like my primordial spirit power is increasing?” But when he glanced at his auxiliary system, he found that his primordial spirit power hadn’t increased at all.

“It didn’t increase? Never mind… Whatever… It’s difficult enough for me to even pass this meowing test. I’ll just increase it when I lie down at the end. Increasing primordial spirit power by running doesn’t suit me.”

But more and more applicants continuously sped up, all looking pleasantly surprised and exclaiming their feelings out loud.

“I feel like my primordial spirit power is still rising!”

“Sixty! 70! My primordial spirit power is rising so quickly! Is it because of my gift?”

“This sensation! I feel like my primordial spirit power is about to break through 99!”

The applicants who felt their Primordial Spirit Value rise faster ran faster, too. The temptation of actually feeling their power madly increase was too great.