Monster Paradise - Chapter 165

Chapter 165

The 50 boxes of weed crystals that were placed by Lin Huang next to the production line as well as a couple of boxes on the product line were taken away by Lin Huang and the other six people . Lin Huang got the most while the girl in ponytail got the second most . Lin Huang finally got her name from the rest . Her name was Xia Yu .

Recalling that Xia Yu wanted to sell a single weed crystal for 100 Life Crystals, Lin Huang thought it was completely ridiculous . One Life Crystal was sufficient to purchase two to three silver-level pieces of equipment . Even if she was the only one who possessed the weed crystal, nobody would buy it from her for 100 Life Crystals unless it was a recruitment assessment for Copper Hunters . However, it was only the second round of assessment and even if they passed through the second round, the possibility of them passing the following rounds were still an unknown .

Moreover, there were seven of them who possessed the weed crystal and people would definitely compare prices . Therefore, they could not sell the crystal weeds at a high price and could only probably sell each for one for two Life Crystals . However, Lin Huang was satisfied with what he got . He had earned himself some Life Crystals and nobody knew he was the one behind the massacre .

The head examiner, Zhuo Lin was surprised when more than 5,000 of the participants showed up at the Hunter Association with a weed crystal in their hands . Soon, he heard about the massacre in Heisen Castle from some of the participants . He then reported to the management and got them to follow up with the incident .

48 hours had passed, the head examiner Zhuo Lin looked at the 5,600 people and started to speak .

"Aside from the tip that I gave in the second round of assessment, the rest of the information was fake . That includes the 5,000 black crystals that had inscriptions on it from yours truly . It was to prevent all of you from cheating . I believe a few of you had figured out the true purpose of this mission . "

"The first one would your ability to manage information . An outstanding hunter should have the ability to differentiate if a piece of information was real or fake instead of blindly believing in whatever people said, even if the person was your head examiner . "

"The second would be your ability to retrieve information . There are many ways to retrieve information . The Heart Network and Hunter Forum would be the mainstream platform many used to obtain information . However, there are times where a hunter would need to rely on other ways to obtain certain information . In this assessment, there are only two people who retrieved the correct information . They are Lin Huang and Xia Yu while the rest of you failed . "

"Third was the ability to work together . I chose a mission that was impossible to be done alone, it was not meant to get you killed but instead, for you to obtain the item by working together . However, due to this incident, the goal was not achieved . "

"However, luck is considered to play a part in all of this . Therefore, all of you who managed to obtain a black crystal will pass the assessment…"

Many who were worried were relieved when they heard that . Many of them thought that the result of the assessment would be invalid due to the incident .

"However, it’s too early for all of you to relax . This is only the second round of assessment, nobody knew how many of you would pass the following rounds . " Zhuo Lin smirked .

What he said was like splashing cold water on those who were excited . Since the second round of assessment was already so difficult, many of them began to worry if they could handle the following rounds .

"I would like to inform you on behalf of the head examiner of the third round of assessment that all of you must gather at the Hunter Association at 8 a . m . tomorrow . Someone will bring all of you to the assessment point . Don’t be late, you would be disqualified if you are late . " After informing them about the third assessment, Zhuo Lin then knocked on the table with his walking stick, "Alright, that’s all I have . You can leave now . "

The 5,600 participants then left the Hunter Association . After they left, the head examiner of the first round of assessment, Xu Jinpeng appeared again .

"I thought you would only pass the two kids who retrieved the correct information . " Xu Jinpeng laughed .

"I gave them 48 hours but these two kids managed to retrieve the information within two hours . They are really something . However, that doesn’t mean that the rest could not retrieve the information within 48 hours . " Zhuo Lin laughed as he explained .

"However, if the incident didn’t happen, the passing rate would be close to zero . It’s too risky that you set the mission like this . " Xu Jinpeng shook his head, he disagreed with the way Zhuo Lin carried out the assessment .

"Lao Xu, it seems like you don’t know me at all . " Zhuo Lin laughed, "This assessment would end once the participant walked out of the black market . It’s not important if they managed to find the weed . Did you really believe what I said about working together? I was once a spy, I had never worked with anyone on any missions . "

"You sly fox, you are always lying . " Xu Jinpeng did not expect he was cheated by Zhuo Lin .

"Alright, let’s talk business . What’s the situation now at Heisen Castle?" Zhuo Lin asked . Xu Jinpeng was the one who was responsible for following up on the incident . Xu Jinpeng frowned, "We can’t track who did this . All of the surveillance cameras were destroyed, it was a clean cut job and the culprit can't be determined . There could be one, two or three people who did this . It could also be done by a powerful Imperial Censor who owned many summoning monsters . "

"There were three possible scenarios that killed the staff . They were either sliced by a blade, burnt by flames or they probably committed suicide . "

"We could only speculate that the person have mastered the sword, the fire element, and even some illusion or mind control skills . "

"Could it be done by one of the participants? The time that the incident happened seems to match the hunter assessment that's going on . This is skeptical . " Zhuo Lin suggested .

"You’re thinking too much . Looking at the trails, the murdered killed all the silver-level humans in one hit . Even one of the gold-level rank-3 guards was killed in one hit . This means the murdered was at least gold-level rank-3 . None of the participants is silver-level, how could they manage to do that? Even if any of them is an Imperial Censor, the most powerful summoning monster they could summon would be a silver-level rank-3 . Both of us are gold-level rank-3, why would we be afraid of a silver-level rank-3 monster?" Xu Jinpeng shook his head and smiled .

"If I encounter a double mutated monster, I would be afraid . " Zhuo Lin was silent before he responded .

"A double mutated monster? Do you think these bronze-level kids could manage to control a monster like that?" Xu Jinpeng insisted that Zhuo Lin was thinking too much .

"Alright . You didn’t see how clean cut the murder scene was . The murderer must be someone who some terrifying combat skills . Even I couldn’t do that . "

"I must be thinking too much then…" Zhuo Lin shook his head and left the thought behind .

…

Lin Huang did not hear the conversation between Zhuo Lin and Xu Jinpeng . If he heard them conversing, he would be concerned because Zhuo Lin’s estimation was very close to what exactly happened . Once the second round of assessment ended, Lin Huang thought that the difficulty of assessment was much harder than he could ever have imagined . He thought the assessment would just inspect their abilities and they would be given a pass . He did not expect there to be unpredictable traps everywhere .

Almost all of the head examiners set the assessment contents according to their own personalities, which made the assessment unpredictable . Nobody could tell how ridiculous the head examiner could be .

"Hopefully the head examiners of the following assessments would not be too eccentric . If they were the same as the head examiner in the second assessment who even lied to us, the passing rate would be rather worrying…" Lin Huang said worriedly .