13 Mink Street

Karen originally thought that he would become a target.

He is already ready, once someone around him rushes towards him, he will put Richard down to have a real bite with the other party!

Therefore, Karen was still slightly surprised when other people around turned their eyes back.

But he soon became relieved that Richard, a "burden", had instead become a symbol of his own strength in this special environment.

The man who directly knocked Leon out of the test may not know Leon and his identity, or he may know but he doesn't care, but the first reason why he chose Leon as his target is that Leon is already in The last node is only supported by one breath, he understands that he only needs to push, and Leon will be pushed out of the competitor sequence.

However, he didn't dare to attack Karen, because he didn't think that other people around him would join forces with him to attack Karen, because the final quota was 5 instead of 1, and whoever decided to attack would inevitably face a challenge from Karen. counterattack.

No one would naively think that Karen would continue to cling to the oil bottle foolishly after encountering such a situation. The choice of normal people is to throw away the oil bottle at that time and kill the guy who wants to mess with him. !

Under the premise of mutual competition, no one will choose the strongest one to do it. The rational optimal solution is often untenable emotionally.

The man was lying on the ground, as if he was panting.

Karen dragged Richard and continued to move forward, stepping in front of the man, but the man didn't move.

The others are also advancing, but they all subconsciously distance themselves from each other.

This time is the most likely opportunity for cooperation. If this opportunity is lost, it will be almost impossible to unite to deal with anyone.

Karen surpassed everyone, walked in the first row, and then continued to march steadily upward.

Karen lowered his head and looked at Richard. The skin on Richard's body was 80% frozen. Now Richard was more like an ice lump, but his consciousness was still there, and he was still clenching his teeth.

In fact, at this height, even if he didn't come up by himself, this kind of toughness is pretty good.

This shows that Richard's talent is actually very high, but this guy has a loose personality, and he actually failed his talent a bit.

But this is also normal, his family background is here, this kind of family background gave him a high starting point, but also deprived him of the perseverance to gain from bottom to top.

The altitude has risen again, and the degree of soul freezing has reached a new height.

At this time, Richard's consciousness finally showed a tendency to slacken, which meant that if he went further up, he might be "exited" from the test directly.

Karen simply stopped, turned around, faced down the mountain, and sat down.

Richard leaned on Karen's arm, making a weak and intermittent voice:

"Kar... Lun... I'm... really... a... trash..."

"Well, you are."

"You are so...so...helping me...but I...you still can't mention..."

"Okay, stop talking about known nonsense."

"I'm so...so hurt...injured...by you...being brought up by you like this...I'm so...so tormented..."

"Hypocritical."

"Be...friend...be...brother...I...don't want...to be...a burden..."

"Shut up, as long as you can last."

At this time, the first figure appeared below, and he came up, it was the man from the Knights.

Then, he stopped.

He looked at Karen, who was sitting on it, and Richard, who was sitting next to Karen.

He knew that the reason why Karen stopped was that the companion beside him couldn't keep going upwards.

But Karen didn't dare to go up after sitting there like this.

Because according to the rules, if you want to ensure the top five, not only you are the top five when you are still in the test, but also to ensure that after you leave the test, the people who continue to test will not exceed the coordinate height you left behind.

He witnessed Karen dragging that person here forcibly, and he must ensure that he can enter the top five, and there are not many competitors left on the field. The best way to ensure it is to get rid of a few of them here. competitor.

The most embarrassing thing is that the further you go up, the narrower the road is. In this position, it is almost impossible to safely go around Karen's place. Moreover, every step of movement will consume the little energy he has left. He also doesn't want to waste lateral movement.

Looking at the person in front of him, he stopped and didn't move.

Karen smiled, he didn't know if his face could convey the smile accurately now, but he raised his right arm and waved it behind him, beckoning him to go up by himself.

The young man froze for a moment, he hesitated, because no one could guarantee him that Karen would not choose to sneak attack.

But looking at the back, Karen, and the snow-capped mountains behind Karen, he finally chose to take a step.

When he reached Karen's side, the young man stopped and said:

"My... my name... my name is Bart... Bart Cousins... the third... knight order... alternate... eagle... knight..."

He is using this way of actively introducing himself to show respect to Karen.

"Karen Silva, a non-staff member of the Neo team of the Whip of Order Hound."

"this……"

Bart was shocked. He was not shocked that Karen was just a non-staff member of the Whip of Order. His parents were high-level officers of the Knights, but he was also an alternate knight now, and he also belonged to the non-staff reserve, similar to Karen, the more accumulated the family A family with a solid foundation is more concerned about the development of the family's children at the grassroots level. Only the upstarts will think about climbing as much as possible within a limited time.

He was shocked that Karen could speak so fluently!

what does that mean?

It means that the other party still has spare power, and it is a lot of spare power.

"Kar... Lun... I want... I want... buy you... drink... drink..."

"I don't drink alcohol, let's drink tea. Alcohol is not good for your health."

"Okay... ok... just... drink tea..."

Karen turned to look at Bart, and said, "Go up and talk less."

"Thank... thank you..."

Bart continued to take steps, walking up step by step with great difficulty. He would keep walking until he couldn't walk anymore, until his consciousness became lax and he automatically exited the test and left the formation.

On the one hand, this is the rules of the game. On the other hand, he knows in his heart that although he is ranked first, he is not the first, but the second. He believes that Karen will come up.

After Bart went up, soon, a second figure appeared, it was the boy playing with stones.

His soul state is now half ice, half stone, which makes him look like a stone man.

However, Karen understood that the boy's body was not an ordinary stone, it should be a crystal that looked like a stone, and this state also infiltrated his soul.

The boy stopped in his tracks. Obviously, he encountered the same situation as Bart.

He knew Bart was ahead of him, but he didn't know if Bart continued up or was "killed" by Karen.

"I'm curious, have you been polluted?" Karen asked.

"Yes...yes...pollution...pollution..."

"not easy."

This young man has indeed been polluted. He is a believer in order, but at the same time, he is also considered a strange demon.

Moreover, his pollution has infiltrated the soul, and he can be regarded as Dora Dorine. He has suffered more pain than Dora Dorine, but he gritted his teeth and walked on the path of faith.

"Then...that...can I...can I...go...to...?"

The boy asked Karen.

"Go up, it's okay, I won't sneak up on you."

"Oh well……"

The boy took a step forward and continued to go up, step by step. When he reached Karen's side, the boy said:

"My... name is... Wen... Ventura... you... your... soul... is very powerful..."

The teenager didn't say his surname, which probably means one thing. He doesn't have a family, but it doesn't mean he is an orphan. It's likely that no one would know his surname even if he said it, so he didn't say it at all. .

This reminded Karen that he was used to bringing his fabricated surname when exchanging surnames with others, but it was actually unnecessary.

"My name is Karen."

Ventura lifted the leg, which was half ice and half stone, and continued walking up.

After a while, the man who pulled Leon out of the test appeared here, and he also stopped. However, he didn't ask, but chose to do the same as Karen, turned around, faced down the mountain, and sat down.

Not long after, Ashley came up, and he saw the man sitting there, as well as Karen sitting a little above the man.

She stared at the man firmly and continued to walk up.

But when she walked up to the man, the man suddenly jumped up and rushed towards her.

Ashley had been prepared for a long time, and the two wrestled together.

Because the soul states of both parties are on the verge of exhaustion, the scene of fighting will not be accompanied by magic, nor will there be brilliance. In short, it is not so beautiful.

It looked like two dying wild dogs, making their final bite.

Karen, who was sitting on it, watched the scene calmly. The man didn't ask whether he could go up like Bart and Ventura did, because he tacitly agreed that Karen was guarding the gate.

So he stops under Karen, he's going to keep his own pass.

Obviously, the man's soul strength is still higher than Ashley's, and this is enough to become a real advantage at this critical point.

Ashley was pushed to the ground, her soul was constantly dissipating, but she still didn't give up, as if she was struggling for the last time, but her struggle was getting weaker and weaker.

However, at this moment, a touch of red suddenly appeared in Ashley's soul, and a red bird flew out of Ashley's body, directly hitting the man, and the man's soul was instantly ignited.

In the eyes of disbelief, his figure disappeared and he withdrew from the test.

Previously, when a candidate was going through the security check, the phantom of the turtle on his body was aroused, and in the name of "cheating", he was directly deprived of the exam qualification.

But Ashley also has it, but she is from that department, so the relationship with the monsters is closer, and the means of hiding are richer.

Just like what was broadcast in the exam instructions, if you find out, it's cheating, if you can't find out, that's your skill.

Ashley struggled to get up from the snow and looked at Karen.

Because there are not many parts of the face, Karen can only guess that she is smiling.

"This...is my...most...last...hand...means..."

Karen said nothing.

Ashley looked at where the man was sitting before, and then behind Karen.

In the end, she decided to go up, because in her opinion, staying here and being pushed out of the test by Karen, anyway, the coordinates left at the same height, it is better to end earlier.

However, it wasn't until she walked past Karen with great difficulty and came above Karen that she turned her head to look at Karen's back again in amazement.

"You...you...followed...I...have...did you..."

"Heh...heh...ha...cough..." Richard, who was breathing out more than breathing in, was immediately amused.

Laughing, like a decayed skeleton that is about to annihilate.

"Don't worry, don't think about it, I didn't like you."

"Why……"

"Because you're not pretty enough."

"I hate you……"

After speaking, Ashley continued to walk up.

Well, three people have already gone up, which means that including Karen and Richard, the quota for five people is already full.

But the selection is not over yet, which means there are still people going up below.

Finally, another figure appeared. She was lying on her back on the ground, using her hands and feet to paddle her body in the snow like a boat. It was the sleepy girl.

The sleepy girl's body has basically turned into a block of ice, and at this height, she has reached her limit.

she stopped

she sighed,

She spread her hands by her sides.

a long time,

She seemed to gather a little bit of strength again, and began to climb upwards.

Karen stood up slowly.

He can continue to go up, but Richard has nothing to do, so if he wants to ensure Richard's quota, he must be the gatekeeper.

The girl swiped in front of Karen, she opened her eyes, looked at Karen, and said:

"wake up……"

As soon as the words fell, the ice cubes on the girl's body began to dissipate, and her soul returned to the full appearance when she first entered the examination room!

The girl stood up, raised her finger, and pointed to Karen:

"You want to stop me?"

Karen stood in front of her and showed his attitude with actions.

This may be the last competitor, but it is also the most powerful and mysterious one. Although it cannot be ruled out, she used special means to avoid the real pressure of this test just like herself.

For example, Karen herself had experienced it, but she chose to sleep, using "sleepwalking" to create another self, and let that self bear all the consumption from the foot of the mountain to here.

So, in essence, this girl's method is similar to that of the team leader who played rock-paper-scissors with herself.

But the team leader's patient was obviously out of play, and he was no longer seen for a long time. Maybe it wasn't because of the uneven division of labor that he and himself had internal strife when he was on the mountainside.

"Kar... Lun..." Richard's faint voice said, "Only...five...people...in front of me...I don't...not count...not...cheating ...it's..."

"Are you still struggling with this?"

"Take...up...come...see...the scenery...I...satisfied...satisfied..."

Richard closed his eyes, and his figure dissipated.

He himself voluntarily opted out of the selection.

Perhaps, if there were other selection methods, he could stand beside Karen, face something together, resist something together, and help Karen, even if it was only a little, then he would feel a lot more at ease.

But under the background of the selection method this time, I became Karen's burden completely, and was picked up by Karen all the way.

This is a little too boring.

Although as long as you pass the security check, any method in the examination room is not considered cheating, including Karen's forceful way, and it is not considered cheating, and you will still get a place in the end, but Richard feels burdened by the places you get in this way .

During this process, Richard also saw the gap between himself and the truly outstanding group of people.

Most importantly, he didn't want Karen to fight this sleepy girl for himself.

When Richard disappeared,

Bishop Berne's voice sounded:

"The selection is over."

"Roar!"

With a low growl from the phantom beast Compasini, Karen opened his eyes.

At this time, there were only two people left in the examination room, because the two of them were still in the illusion when the selection was over. The others, including Bart and the three in front, couldn't stand it after going up a certain distance. After exiting the selection, a ray of light will teleport their bodies out of the examination room.

Karen looked at the sleepy girl, and the sleepy girl was also looking at him. In her eyes, there seemed to be a kind of regret that there was no real conflict with Karen.

The Bishop of Burne is reading out the rankings.

The first place is Bart, the second place is Ventura, the third place is Ashley, the fourth place is Karen, and the fifth place... Philomena.

The ranking is actually inaccurate, because two of them were still in the illusion until the end of the illusion. In theory, they can continue to climb up, but for Bishop Bern, he only needs to select 5 places. For these 5 A ranking of places doesn't mean much at all.

"Karen, see you at the next selection."

Philomena smiled at Karen, then took out a pair of blindfolds from her pocket and put them on her face. She leaned forward again, as if she had fallen asleep again, and then started to leave in a slightly staggered manner. here.

"Karen, let's go back, hehe." Richard walked over and said.

"Um."

When Karen and Richard walked out, they saw Bart standing there waiting for him.

"Hey, drink tea!"

Bart stepped forward and thumped Karen's chest lightly.

"OK."

"That, I also want to be together." Ventura's voice came, and the boy playing with stones was a little shy.

"Don't leave me behind, we still have to go to the next round together." Ashley also walked over.

There was a group of people waiting behind Bart and Ashley. Seeing this, Bart said, "Then don't bring friends."

Ashley nodded: "I have no objection."

Everyone walked into the teleportation circle, covered by a white light, and everyone returned to the basement of the Academic Affairs Building.

When I went out, there were many friends and parents picking up people outside.

A figure also appeared there, it was Mr. Memphis.

Seeing this, Richard immediately said, "Mr. Memphis and I will report the situation to the captain and the others. Karen, let's go to dinner."

Richard remembered that Bart had said earlier that he would not bring friends this time.

He knew that Karen would definitely bring him, but he didn't want to.

Karen wanted to call Richard to stop, he would not neglect his cousin for the so-called new circle gathering, but when he saw Mr. Memphis standing there, he kept silent.

Richard walked in front of Memphis, and Memphis said, "Captain and the others are going back first, leave me here to wait for your news."

"Then let me tell you good news, Karen was selected, haha!"

Mr. Memphis nodded. He was not surprised by this result, because he and his father predicted that Richard could only be included in the list by luck.

Of course, they don't know what really happened in the illusion, and not many people know it, only Bishop Berne who presides over the illusion and the few final candidates know.

Richard said: "I found that there is a big gap between me and them. Although everyone is about the same age, alas, I really wasted a lot of time before, and my life is still too comfortable. In the future, I can't do this anymore. "

"Every selection test is just a small part of life experience. Its function is to let yourself know the direction of progress. Although you didn't get the ranking, you have already gained something, which is worthy of joy."

"Yes, you are right, Memphis, it's hard for you, you are an introverted person who is comforting me." Richard opened his hands and hugged Memphis, "Okay, but my dad probably won't be like this Comfort me, I guess when I get home, my dad will beat me up again, alas."

"Will not."

"Most definitely."

"A father can find a reason to beat his son at any time, but he will not choose when his son is lost."

"Oh, you don't understand, my dad has a brain problem."

Memphis: "..."

"Aren't you going to talk to Karen?"

"He doesn't lack the voice of congratulations now, but you need company now."

"Yes." Richard nodded, and put his hand on Memphis's shoulder, "Memphis, you are really a good friend, let's go, I'll treat you to a snack if I say anything today!"

"You'd better go home first."

"Don't go home now, I'm bored to death these days, I'm going to relax."

"I still have something to do. I can't go today. It's very important."

"Yes, that's a pity, then I'll go alone first."

"good……"

"How about this, after you finish your work, you can go to Hongye Street, which is a street of dim sum shops. You can just pick a shop that is pleasing to the eye and go in. After you are done, just report my name. Those who can sign the bill will call me young master, hehe. "

"OK……"

"By the way, remember, my name is not Richard on that street. You know, how can I use my real name when playing there? It's always inconvenient to use my real name."

"What's that called?"

"Master Eisen."