The Interstellar Queen of Scavengers

Chapter 1181: Chapter 1181: Backwards Instead of Forwards

Li Jiu’s comment directly pointed out the current plight of the Lanyue Star Military Academy.

Sending Ji You to compete indicates that the Lanyue Star Military Academy is facing a serious issue, which is—

No talent available.

Shen Changqing, Chu Jiaojiao, and Sheng Qingyan are certainly strong, but there are many in the First Military Academy who are stronger than them, not to mention their team includes the unstable factor of Ji You.

In short, to the First Military Academy, the Lanyue Star Military Academy is nothing to fear.

Wei Xiaoxiong and Wu Jingyue’s main focus is on finding the Rag Queen. Frankly speaking, Ji You’s performance in the energy test has already been silently excluded by the two of them.

Someone whose current maximum strength is only 8099, even with infinite potential, is a matter for the future. How could she be the Rag Queen who stirs up trouble in the online tournament?

The Rag Queen is a monster, after all.

However, Wei Xiaoxiong and Wu Jingyue didn’t dare to make a complete judgment, as there’s still one result that hasn’t come out.

Just wait.

Once the spiritual power result for Ji You comes out, the conclusion can be reached.

Wei Xiaoxiong and Wu Jingyue both told themselves to be patient, patient again.

At this moment, Ji You’s spiritual wave, moving at a speed like a snail climbing a tree, finally reached the 100-meter mark. Yes, 1 minute had passed, and it had only barely reached 100 meters.

Her spiritual wave kept surging forward, but the speed was so slow that many students watching the test started yawning.

...

Li Jiu, nodding off like a chicken pecking at rice, suddenly woke up and looked over, surprised to find that the test was still ongoing. With a bewildered face, he asked Wei Xiaoxiong beside him, ”Hero, is the test still going on? How much time has passed?”

Wei Xiaoxiong valiantly strained his eyelids and said, ”Not long, 5 minutes.”

Li Jiu jumped in surprise, ”Only 5 minutes!”

”Why does it feel so long?” Li Jiu reached up, scratching his head, and said, ”Damn! I almost thought 10 hours had passed.”

Li Jiu’s comment echoed the sentiments of the other students present, realizing for the first time that watching someone test for spiritual power was such a torturous experience - it felt like a century had passed, even though not much time had passed, and though it wasn’t their own test, it felt more exhausting than doing it themselves.

Exactly.

Exhausting.

Just watching from the side was exhausting.

Ji You’s spiritual wave never stopped, always pushing upwards, but each surge was too short. Others were moving at speeds of 100 to 200 meters, while she was at 0.2, 0.3 meters, even showing signs of regression!

For instance, after finally reaching the 500-meter mark, just as everyone was about to breathe a sigh of relief, they saw that the spiritual wave dropped down again.

After falling, it didn’t give up, continuing to strive upwards.

Climbed up, then fell again.

Fall, climb again.

...

After several cycles, everyone was exhausted from watching, and it wasn’t until then that her spiritual fluctuations finally stabilized at the 500-meter mark.

Then.

She continued to advance one more meter.

”Still climbing?”

”When will this end?”

”The ants have been racing for ten years, and she hasn’t finished testing yet.” Among the crowd, yawning, someone said, ”I’ll go get some food, watch while eating.”

”I’m going to the bathroom, let me know when the results are out.”

”Hey, Iron buddies, I’ll take a nap. Wake me up when there are results.”

...

There’s no specific time limit for testing the spiritual power threshold; as long as a person’s Spiritual World can endure, the test can continue until the final data emerges.

What constitutes the final data?

Until the spiritual wave can no longer reach a higher level.

The spiritual wave referred to here is the energy continuously surging upward on the simulation imaging, merely a simulated state for measuring the spiritual power threshold, not actually called a spiritual wave.

To be more precise, the energy is currently modeled using a fluctuation chart, for example, depicting the scene as it continuously surges upward, which is merely an instrument used to measure the strength of someone’s Spiritual World and how it operates, just a simulation.

The higher the value, the stronger a person’s spiritual power, able to sustain the surge longer.

Conversely, it indicates the opposite.

And now, Ji You’s performance seems as if it was born to slap the face of the Alliance Research Institute.

Her value isn’t high, but her endurance is!

This—

How should we put it?

Wei Xiaoxiong, Wu Jingyue, and Li Jiu, as well as the other students present, couldn’t figure out the reason for a long time. Finally, Wei Xiaoxiong had a flash of insight, seemingly grasping a hint of the pattern. Wei Xiaoxiong frowned, saying: ”This Ji You actually doesn’t have strong spiritual power; her endurance mainly comes from her constantly restraining the use of her spiritual power. The distance she hits each time is controlled within 10 centimeters, 20 centimeters... The only reason for doing so is to create an impression among the spectators that she’s enduring and powerful.”

Wu Jingyue and Li Jiu, upon hearing this, were enlightened. Li Jiu slapped his thigh, saying, ”No wonder I felt something was off; it’s just bluffing.”

Wei Xiaoxiong snorted coldly: ”I can only say there’s too much theatrics.”

Wu Jingyue rubbed his eyebrows, trying to appear less fatigued, before saying, ”What’s the point of this charade? In actual combat, would the enemy give you the chance to bluff? Without strength, you’re just a dish for others.”

Wei Xiaoxiong said: ”And a rotten dish at that, one that no one wants to touch.”

”Ahem, ahem...” Wu Jingyue’s drowsiness vanished instantly. He looked somewhat strangely at Wei Xiaoxiong, saying: ”Hero, you seem to have quite an opinion about this Ji You.”

Wei Xiaoxiong said coldly: ”I just hate clowns who lack strength but play tricks.”

In addition, Wei Xiaoxiong couldn’t explain to the two that every time he saw Ji You, he felt extremely uneasy, both mentally and physically.

Wu Jingyue suddenly said while staring at the screen: ”It’s already at 510 meters.”

Wei Xiaoxiong asked, ”How long has it been?”

Wu Jingyue glanced at the time displayed on the Light Computer and said, ”The test has been going for 21 minutes and 31 seconds.”

Wei Xiaoxiong frowned, saying: ”It looks like this clown might drag it out to 30 minutes. Everyone, be patient a little longer.”

As it turns out—

Before Wei Xiaoxiong finished speaking, Ji You, lying in the treatment cabin, suddenly began to tremble all over, her limbs started convulsing irregularly, causing both her and the treatment cabin to shake incessantly...

Hmm?

Is it?

Has the Spiritual World reached its limit?

Indeed, on the simulation imaging screen, Ji You’s spiritual wave kept attempting to surge but froze in place, unable to advance further. Everyone thought this was the final outcome, but unexpectedly—

The next second, the spiritual wave suddenly began to retreat in a straight line.

meters.

meters.

meters.

...

Seeing the final numbers, all the students were left speechless.