After pulling Jing Liuli into his team,
Tiandao took her to Caroline, who was still conducting a large amount of data analysis.
At this moment, Caroline was fully focused on the tactical tablet.
Her emerald pupils flowed with a cascade of data streams, and visible white smoke even rose from her head, truly achieving physical brain overload.
Seeing this, Tiandao immediately raised his hand and flicked Caroline's forehead.
"Tiandao?"
Caroline looked up belatedly, completely unaware that a small red mark had appeared on her forehead.
"Stop calculating, Caroline. That guy's Star Energy Value alone is more than thirty times ours. Even if you calculate until tomorrow, our chances of winning will still be zero."
"But..."
"No 'buts.'"
Tiandao took out a candy from his pocket and put it into Caroline's mouth.
"What do you think those old geezers released this thing for? Isn't it just to give us a warning shot?"
"Everything you can think of, those old geezers have surely thought of too, so it's absolutely impossible for us to defeat that guy."
"So, relax. Our goal isn't to beat it, but to find a way to make those old geezers drop their jaws in surprise."
Hearing Tiandao's words, Caroline slowly calmed down and savored the candy in her mouth.
Meanwhile, seeing this, Jing Liuli immediately looked eagerly at Tiandao's jacket pocket at his waist with her big, bright eyes: "Ti-Tiandao, I need to replenish my sugar too."
"Huh?"
Looking at the gluttonous Liuli, Tiandao impatiently waved his hand: "Go, go, go. You, whose brain doesn't even turn once in ten days or half a month, do you need to eat sugar to replenish your brain's sugar? Go play somewhere else."
Hearing Tiandao say that, Jing Liuli immediately became unhappy.
"Who says? I'm good at thinking too, okay? Tiandao, don't underestimate me!"
"Huh?" Tiandao raised an eyebrow and asked: "What's 10 multiplied by 25?"
"Eh?"
Liuli's pupils instantly turned into mosquito-coil shapes, and her fingers gesticulated wildly in the air.
"1025, that..."
"It's 250, you dummy!"
"I-I know it's 250! You just answered too quickly!"
To prove she wasn't lying, Liuli pouted and pulled out her phone. After some fumbling, she brought up an IQ test report.
"Tiandao, I'm not a dummy! Look, this is an IQ test I paid 100 yuan for last time, it's a full..."
Tiandao snatched her phone, speechless as he looked at the incredibly rudimentary IQ test report.
"No, if you'd spend 100 yuan on this kind of test, then you truly are the ultimate dummy."
"Because only a dummy would believe in such a scam applet and actually pay for it."
"You're lying!"
Liuli, with a tearful voice, glared fiercely at Tiandao, gritting her teeth.
She didn't want to admit she was a dummy, nor did she want to admit she had been tricked.
Seeing this, Caroline, who was beside them, said with some sympathy: "Uh, Liuli, I actually took a similar test too..."
"Really?!"
Jing Liuli looked at Caroline excitedly, her expression like a drowning person grasping at a last straw.
But before she could ask Caroline about her test results,
Tiandao, who was beside them, debunked it first: "Dummy, stop fantasizing. With a shrewd person like Caroline, she's either saying that to comfort you, or she took the test but definitely didn't pay for it in the end."
"You wouldn't really think everyone is as easy to fool as you, would you?"
"Tiandao, shut up!"
Tiandao raised his hands: "Alright, alright, I won't say it, I won't say it."
Caroline glared at Tiandao, signaling him to stop talking. Didn't he see that after hearing those words, Liuli was utterly struck by lightning, her whole demeanor turning grayscale?
Tiandao turned to look at Liuli beside him, seeing that after his barrage of attacks, this fellow had transformed from her original mysterious confidence to a mysterious inferiority complex, muttering endlessly about being scammed out of 100 yuan.
This made him suddenly feel a little guilty.
Apparently, he had indeed spoken a bit too harshly. Perhaps... he should comfort her?
However, just as Tiandao was wondering whether to comfort her,
Jing Liuli, for some unknown reason, suddenly put down her beloved pillow, then 'swish swish swish' wrote on it with a marker.
Tiandao and Caroline curiously leaned in, wanting to know what she was writing.
But when Tiandao saw the words on it, his small sunglasses nearly slid off his nose.
This was because Jing Liuli had just written the large characters: [Scammer Tiandao Only Bullies People].
This made Tiandao very unhappy.
"Let me go, Caroline, let me go! She's slandering me, she's slandering me! Am I, Tiandao, the kind of person who likes to trick people?"
"Calm down, Tiandao, calm down. Why are you getting angry with a child?"
"Calm down? I can't calm down one bit today!"
Jing Liuli looked at Tiandao, who was being held by Caroline, then immediately hugged her treasured pillow and turned her head away with a 'hmph!'
As if saying that Tiandao was a big liar, and the kind of big liar who liked to bully people.
"Caroline, look! This fellow is actually still provoking me! Let me go! I must settle this with her today, or I'll write the four characters of my name, Tiandao Siming, backward!"
"Nyah nyah nyah!"
Looking at the furious Tiandao, Jing Liuli was not only unafraid but even made a face at him, acting incredibly defiant.
Meanwhile, watching Tiandao and the others, who were still in the mood for joking around despite the final assessment drawing near,
Chen Kong said enviously: "Sis, do you think Brother Tiandao and his team can pass the final assessment?"
"I don't think they take this assessment too seriously..."
Facing this question, Chen Xing's answer was very rational.
"Tiandao, who is first place, Liuli, who is third, plus Caroline, who is fourth. Just looking at their on-paper strength, they are already the strongest of the current twelve teams."
"Not to mention their Star Cores can also cooperate with each other. If even they can't pass the final assessment, then I really can't imagine who else could."
"Alright, compared to them, you should worry about yourself. After all, if you dare to hold me back later, I definitely won't let you off easily."
"U-understood."
At the same time, a similar conversation echoed from behind a one-way glass panel directly above the central arena.
"No matter how you look at it, Tiandao's team is the strongest, right?"
"But even so, I still don't see them having even a sliver of a chance of winning."
"After all, a Level 2 Earth Dragon Lizard is a famously fierce beast; its combat power is top-tier among its peers. Even Tiandao and his team would find it hard to last three minutes in front of this creature, let alone the other teams that are far inferior to Tiandao."
"Doctor, are you sure there's no problem with the arrangement for this final assessment?"
Hearing Canary's words, the Doctor showed a meaningful expression.
He looked at Tiandao below the glass and said something that took everyone by surprise.
"No, on the contrary, I think this Level 2 Earth Dragon Lizard is just right."
"Everyone just watch closely. That child Tiandao will definitely bring you quite a surprise."
"Oh, interesting." The Gryphon man stood up, walked to the one-way floor-to-ceiling window, and watched Tiandao's team, who were already walking towards the arena.
The final assessment began.
(End of this chapter)
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