Jiang Wangzhi glared fiercely at Pei Linchuan.
"Shut up."
Pei Linchuan pushed up his glasses, didn't speak, and just looked at her quietly.
Jiang Wangzhi turned her head away.
No matter what Pei Linchuan said, in her eyes, the person sleeping in the corner ahead was the perfect zero-score precious treasure.
She walked over briskly.
The corner was damp, and the ground was covered in dust.
That person's face was covered with a tattered jacket exuding the smell of engine oil, sleeping soundly as if nothing could wake him.
Jiang Wangzhi stretched out her foot and kicked the other person's sole.
"Hey."
"Wake up."
The person on the ground didn't respond.
Jiang Wangzhi increased her force and kicked him again.
The person finally moved.
Irritated, he pulled off the tattered jacket covering his face, revealing a messy face.
His hair looked like a bird's nest.
His eye sockets were full of dark circles.
At a glance, it was severe sleep deprivation caused by staying up late for a long time.
He squinted his eyes and looked at Jiang Wangzhi.
His voice was hoarse, carrying thick morning grogginess:
"Is the assessment over?"
Jiang Wangzhi shook her head. "No."
"Then why wake me up?"
The boy rolled his eyes, covered his face with the jacket again, and prepared to continue sleeping.
Jiang Wangzhi's eyes lit up.
Right!
This is the attitude!
Whatever military academy glory or assessment ranking, in his eyes, none of it was as important as sleeping!
This was simply the dream team tailor-made for her!
Jiang Wangzhi yanked off his jacket.
"Get up, let's form a team."
The boy frowned, his entire face written with resistance.
"Not teaming up."
"Why?"
"Teaming up means walking, fighting, and splitting the loot. Too troublesome."
The boy yawned.
"I'll just sleep here until time's up and take a bottom-rank elimination home directly. How nice is that."
Jiang Wangzhi gasped.
A kindred spirit!
Even his life plan was exactly the same as hers!
She grabbed the boy's arm, her tone enthusiastic like never before.
"Brother! Your name is Xie Zhi, right?"
Xie Zhi glanced at her sideways. "You investigated me?"
Jiang Wangzhi pointed at the three people behind her.
"Our team is currently missing one person."
"As long as you come, we definitely won't force you to fight. You can sleep however you want."
Xie Zhi was half-skeptical. "There's such a good thing?"
Zhou Ye leaned over at this moment.
He was an honest person. Seeing Xie Zhi's half-dead appearance, he kindly advised:
"Brother, come on."
"Team up with five people, and everyone can take turns keeping watch in the future. You'll be able to sleep even more soundly."
Hearing the two words "take turns", Xie Zhi...
thought about it seriously for three seconds.
"That works too."
Leaning against the wall, he slowly stood up.
Pei Linchuan not far away: "..."
Tang Li holding a heavy blade: "..."
Only Jiang Wangzhi had a gratified smile like an old mother on her face.
It's locked in.
With such celestial teammates holding her back, the day she gets expelled is just around the corner.
"Wait."
Pei Linchuan stepped forward, blocking in front of Xie Zhi.
His gaze swept across Xie Zhi's oil-stained fingers.
"Even though we're a temporary team, there will be team confrontations in the next phase."
"I need to know what you can do."
Xie Zhi gave him a lazy look.
"I know how to sleep."
Pei Linchuan frowned slightly. "Military academies don't recruit people who only know how to sleep."
"Then should I leave?"
Xie Zhi turned around, wanting to go back and lie down again.
Jiang Wangzhi panicked, grabbed Xie Zhi, and turned to roar at Pei Linchuan: "Who cares what he can do! There are only two minutes left now, if we don't gather five people, everyone will die!"
Pei Linchuan ignored Jiang Wangzhi.
He looked at Xie Zhi, his gaze very cold.
"If you don't show some real skills, I won't agree to let you enter this team."
Right at this moment, a commotion of things being slammed came from nearby.
Several freshmen were surrounding a dilapidated military information terminal, anxious and sweating profusely.
"Damn! Why won't this lousy radar connect!"
"The frequency band is wrong! Try changing to another band!"
"I changed it! Still no! The surrounding Star Beast signals can't be scanned out at all!"
A freshman was so angry he kicked the iron shell of the terminal.
The screen flickered wildly, full of garbled code.
The noise was right beside Xie Zhi.
Irritated, Xie Zhi scratched his bird's nest-like hair.
One second.
Two seconds.
He yawned and casually tossed out a sentence.
"Stop kicking."
"You plugged the interface of the third data cable into the cooling slot."
"Unplug the blue one and connect it to the signal feedback slot at the bottom."
The freshmen over there froze for a moment.
Half-doubting, they lowered their heads and did as Xie Zhi said.
Unplug the cable.
Change the slot.
Restart.
"Beep——"
The screen that was originally full of garbled code instantly cleared.
A clear green radar network popped up, densely marking the life signal sources within three kilometers around.
Several freshmen widened their eyes and cried out in ecstasy.
"Holy shit! It lit up, it lit up!"
"Amazing! It really works!"
Xie Zhi didn't even glance at them.
He turned his head and stared at Pei Linchuan.
"I find them noisy."
"Can I join the team now?"
The whole place fell silent.
Pei Linchuan pushed up his glasses, the corners of his mouth curling up into a very small arc.
"Welcome."
Tang Li gasped.
She was a mecha repairer, dealing with machinery every day.
She knew all too well what that glance just now meant.
No dismantling the machine.
No using a detector.
Just by taking a glance at the garbled code on the screen, he could accurately deduce the position where the hardware interface was plugged in incorrectly.
This was simply not a skill an ordinary student could possess!
"Since you have this ability, why didn't you fix it yourself just now?" Tang Li stared at him.
Xie Zhi looked at her as if she were an idiot.
"Because no one pays me a salary."
Tang Li choked, her anger flaring up instantly.
"How can you be like this? This is a battlefield! If the information terminal breaks, everyone will be in danger. If a mecha malfunctions, would you just watch like that?"
"Otherwise what?" Xie Zhi retorted.
"If it malfunctions, you take it apart and check the lines!" Tang Li patted the wrench at her waist.
"Violence addict." Xie Zhi sneered, "Do you even know what data flow troubleshooting is? A barbarian like you who repairs mechas by smashing things will burn out the motherboard sooner or later."
"Who are you calling a barbarian?!" Tang Li was furious.
"Whoever repairs mechas by smashing things, that's who I'm calling one."
The two of them instantly clashed head-on.