Chapter 8

Boom!

As the liquid exploded, Sun Yiming almost fled in panic.

“Use fire shields and retreat from the maple iron forest first,” Liu Can shouted loudly.

“What’s the situation with the other two mechs?” Wan Feng asked him.

“They’ve been equipped with flying saw blades and can be used normally, but the frequency hasn’t been adjusted to the optimal level.”

After receiving a affirmative answer, Wan Feng directly entered the cockpit, and the remaining two mechs started up simultaneously.

Zhou Lu Hai pressed the communication key, looking at the analysis report on the screen: “She’s not setting fire.”

Wan Feng pondered, “She’s pinpoint blasting.”

“What kind of potion is this, and how can it have such great power?” Another student in the other mech asked.

“I don’t know,” Zhou Lu Hai’s face darkened, “We don’t have any apothecaries among us.”

After years of development, apothecaries were just seen as logistic workers cooperating with medical warehouses to prepare potions to restore the body.

Who would have expected to see such a scene today?

“What’s the status of the mechs?”

“I’ve checked them; all three are equipped with cannons.” Wan Feng’s expression was slightly grave, “But the ammunition is limited, and the quantity provided was originally intended for the subsequent exams.”

Ji Fu uses potion explosions, and they can also use the same method.

But that means they will consume their ammunition stock, and they will be passive in the second round of exams.

“Most of the materials we found just now were used to make flying saw blades. It’s not enough time to find more materials to make ammunition.” Liu Can held down the light brain and communicated with the three mech operators while looking up at the drone.

His face darkened: “With the drone interference, it’s not easy for the mech operators to Team Zhou, we need to take down this drone.”

As for whether taking down the drone would cause Ji Fu and the others to fail, it was not within his consideration.

“Damn it!” Liu Can was still able to communicate with them while Sun Yiming, not far from him, was in a dire situation.

Even the clothes he was wearing had been blown to shreds, his face was blackened by the smoke, and he even lost the fire shield Liu Can gave him.

Ji Fu’s drone seemed to have eyes and specifically aimed at where he was, throwing bottles, which left him covered in soot and fuming with anger but helpless.

He pressed the communication button and shouted loudly, “Team Zhou, quickly order to shoot down the drones! This crazy woman is coming for me, she wants to kill me!”

Just as he finished speaking, two more bottles came flying towards him.

Sun Yiming was stunned, he couldn’t even curse in time, he could only crawl away using both hands and feet.

“Team Zhou, the results are in. Their drones have released five doses in total, destroying at least seventeen trees, and it took… eight minutes.” The person in charge of the tally announced the result, which made all the members of Special Class A feel disheartened.

The flying saw blades they tested just now took five minutes and only cut down three trees.

At this rate, not only would they fail to clear the maple iron trees here, but it was also questionable whether they could pass the first round of exams.

Zhou Lu Hai almost immediately made a decision: “Mechs, prepare to clear the drones within the range of our vision. Keep the cannons and directly use the flying saw blades.”

The flying saw blades, which took nearly forty minutes to make, couldn’t be wasted.

If they could clear Ji Fu’s drones, they still had a chance of winning.

“Also, make use of the remaining time to gather materials and produce as much ammunition as possible.”

If the rear could replenish ammunition, then they could directly use the ammunition in the mechs.

Everyone responded in unison, ready to follow his instructions.

However, before they could take action, all three mechs simultaneously issued an alarm.

“Alarm! Alarm! Multiple unidentified flying objects detected.”

Wan Feng paused, quickly operating the screen to enlarge the front view, and to his shock, he saw seven drones rising into the air in an instant.

“…How many?” Upon hearing this number, Liu Can was stunned: “Seven!?”

In other words, within the forty minutes they spent making and installing the flying saw blades, Ji Fu and her F-class roommate managed to make eight drones together?

All the members of Special Class A were shocked by this number.

The mechanical engineer who accompanied them was even more complex in his feelings. Drones weren’t that difficult to make, and almost all mechanical engineers could make them.

…But making eight drones in forty minutes was still too exaggerated.

This sudden turn of events left everyone in a daze, not knowing how to react.

What’s even more astonishing was that after these seven drones took off, they simultaneously changed course.

They could only see the drones quickly dispersing in the air, then flying at extremely fast speeds towards seven different directions.

Although their flying speed wasn’t fast, they kept dropping liquid to the ground.

Watching the previously dark mountains almost instantly engulfed in towering flames, with explosions hovering over everyone’s heads, left them all stunned.

Everyone was stunned.

Not just them, even all the invigilating teachers in the exam room of K437 fell silent.

Every exam at the Interstellar Academy had invigilators, and due to the special nature of K437, there were quite a few invigilators.

Seeing the scene on K437, the mech teacher of Special Class A turned back numbly and asked Du Ming, “Is this what your apothecaries teach every day?”

“Apothecary studies aren’t about saving lives. They train some of the best doctors in the galaxy, don’t they?”

Du Ming: …

He chuckled awkwardly, “Haha, Ji Fu is a bit different from others!”

A bit different?

This person is simply extraordinary.

The members of Special Class A couldn’t see how those drones were made and operated.

But these teachers could see it clearly.

That F-class student named Jiang Wei was indeed good at making drones, and she brought two drones into the exam room this time.

But there were only two.

The other six were made on the spot.

And she listened to Ji Fu’s advice, removing all functions from the drones except for flying and dropping, which allowed her to make them so quickly.

But even so, these drones were purely dummy drones that were difficult to control, let alone flying in multiple directions simultaneously.

The ingenious thing about this was that Ji Fu installed a system on the main control drone.

She said it was an artificial idiot that she made when she was bored.

It was installed on the first drone and connected to her light brain.

Then she used this drone to control the other seven.

This extremely ingenious control system, she called it an artificial idiot.

And that wasn’t all. The most amazing scene in the entire exam was when she took out those two large bottles of potion from her bag and said to Jiang Wei.

“The concentration is a bit low, I’ll adjust it.”

Jiang Wei asked, “Is the power too strong?”

Ji Fu: “Too weak, what are these little flames?”

She said calmly, “Increase the dosage directly.”

After some thought, she poured the entire bottle of potion: “Forget it, pour it all.”

At that time, Jiang Wei didn’t understand what she meant by pouring it all, until the distant huge explosion sounded.

Jiang Wei was dumbfounded, she turned to look at Ji Fu.

But she saw Ji Fu rubbing her chin: “Looks like the effect is okay.”

Compared to what she had done before, this was at best just a little flame.

Jiang Wei: …

At this moment, she realized belatedly that she seemed to have found a very powerful teammate.

While they were chatting here, the members of Special Class A had gone mad.

Wan Feng drove the mech to chase the drones. After shooting down two of them, those two drones activated their self-destruct programs and threw out all the potions they were carrying.

…He almost immediately activated the highest defense system and activated the fire extinguishing mode on himself, barely escaping from the violent explosion.

But the mech he was controlling short-circuited due to overheating, and it was directly damaged after coming out.

Unfortunately, this is only a C-class mech, and the craftsmanship is also very poor. Being able to come out unscathed under such indiscriminate bombing is all thanks to his skillful operation.

Three mechs, one of which was disabled due to shooting down drones, require time for repairs.

Moreover, the explosion caused a large fire, directly cutting off the path for Special Class A students who couldn’t control mechs. With the mountains sealed off by the fire, they could only retreat to the outer perimeter to find materials.

Only two mechs remained inside.

And now, there’s only one hour left until the end of the exam.

“Team Zhou, what should we do now?” Liu Can’s voice was anxious. “Just now, Wan Die just analyzed that one of the drones seems to be equipped with an intelligent system. It can evade missiles and seems to have combat capabilities.”

Dealing with such a sophisticated system is not easy.

If they want to shoot down that drone, Zhou Lu Hai may have to go there personally.

But now, Wan Feng’s mech is temporarily unable to be repaired, and the operator of the other mech is not particularly skilled. If they focus too much on shooting down drones, they may fail the exam.

When Wan Feng chased the drones, Zhou Lu Hai controlled a mech and, using the flying saw blade that hadn’t met the requirements yet, cut down nearly twenty trees.

He had already maximized his physical fitness and operability.

The other operator, Wang Su, only cleared three maple iron trees due to lack of proficiency in operation.

But even so, it was just a drop in the bucket.

Looking at the entire mountain, under the intense explosions, there were not many maple iron trees left intact.

Continuing to consume like this, before the exam time ends, those drones will soon blow up all the remaining maple iron trees.

Zhou Lu Hai made a prompt decision: “Wang Su, come down first, hand over the mech to Wan Feng to operate, and continue to snipe the drones.”

He paused for a moment, “Take the flying saw blade from that mech and give it to me.”

There’s no time left, he could only consider controlling two flying saw blades at the same time.

B-class mechs have better speed and strength, and currently, only he can compete with the remaining drones for the remaining maple iron trees.

The moment he took over the flying saw blade, he almost controlled the mech to launch the missile.

At the same time, the scores for the first round of exams had already begun to be synchronized on the academy forum.

After the start of the exam, the scores of most people on the leaderboard were fluctuating.

Some people increased their scores by a small amount, while others increased rapidly.

When the second perfect score appeared, Ji Fu’s name slid down from the first place.

For this phenomenon, people on the forum were used to it.

[To be honest, it’s abnormal for an F-class to always be at the top of the leaderboard.]

As soon as this comment was made, Ji Fu’s score, which had fallen to third place, began to roll frantically.

At the same time, another F-class student named Jiang Wei was also rolling.

The scores of the two of them were almost jumping at geometrically increasing rates.

The frequency of their jumps shocked all the students browsing the forum.

[??? What does this mean? Have these two Fs touched some sort of power switch? Why are their scores increasing so much?]

[…This world has gone completely mad.]