"I can’t believe Corporal Yuan is already taking the Red Zone Exam right after his first gathering mission," one of the officers with Mei Feng remarked after taking a seat in the spectator’s room.
"And to think we thought he was taking it too slow not long ago," someone else remarked.
Another then spoke up, asking, "Aren’t you all curious? Since when did he learn Void Control? As far as I am aware, he skipped boot camp and has been on missions since joining, so he doesn’t have any time to learn it—at least, he shouldn’t."
"Now that you mentioned it..."
They all turned to look at Mei Feng, who calmly replied, "He used his 20,000-meter reward a few days ago, requesting Sergeant Wu to train him, so I can only assume that he learned Void Control in that time."
"Huh? A few days ago? There’s no way anyone can learn Void Control that quickly, let alone reach the level required for this exam."
"We’ll never know what that guy is thinking."
Some time later, the participants for the Red Zone Exam started showing up at the test site, and in the blink of an eye, hundreds of people gathered.
"This is my seventh time taking this test. I have a good feeling about today!"
"According to my analysis, the difficulty of the Red Zone Exam varies, with some sessions being much easier than others. If my calculations are correct, today’s exam should be the easiest one this year!"
The soldiers chatted among themselves as they waited for the exam to begin, unaware that, because of a certain high-ranking officer, they had walked into the most difficult exam ever recorded because the examiners did not want it to look too easy.
"Good luck," Sergeant Bing said to Yuan before going to the spectator’s room—one that was different from the private room used by Mei Feng and the other officers.
"Welcome, everyone. Before we begin the evaluation, we will give you a quick run-through of how it works."
"There will be three tests in total. For the first, you’ll need to catch balls using Void Control. You don’t have to catch all of them—only eighty out of a hundred. For the second test, you must avoid attacks for ten minutes using nothing but Void Control. The final test will assess your precision. Ten people will go at a time."
Soon, the examiners began calling the participants onto the testing ground.
"One more thing, in case this is your first time taking the exam. Aside from moving your arms and body to catch the balls, all physical movement is strictly prohibited. You may only reposition yourself using Void Control, even if you need to move only a few inches."
Once the exam began, a machine positioned at the opposite end of the field started firing glowing green balls at nearly the speed of sound, launching one every three seconds.
Before each ball was fired, a red laser appeared, indicating the general direction it would travel.
Although the test started relatively easily, the firing rate increased after the first twenty balls, with one ball launched every two seconds instead of three. After forty balls, the remaining sixty were fired at one-second intervals.



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