Retired for A Hundred Years: Re-Employment for the Apocalypse Bigshot!-Chapter 401 - 396: Preliminary Round (Part 4)

Lin Yuanyang’s expression changed slightly, and he immediately nodded.

Ji Ning originally thought Black Bear’s people would at least wait until after the finals to act, but didn’t expect them to start tracking now.

It seems the security in those targeted areas needs to be improved.

Ji Ning’s pupils gradually deepened. A superpower user located over 200 meters away from them suddenly felt dizzy and fell directly to the ground.

Immediately, two plainclothes agents from the Security Bureau, who were on alert nearby, quickly approached the superpower user and took him away.

"Make way, this person suddenly fainted, we’re taking him to the hospital."

At the same time, feeling somewhat regretful, thinking there wouldn’t be time to curry favor with the big shot from Beijing.

***

Near Anhe Stadium, there’s a comprehensive shopping mall.

The fourth, fifth, and sixth floors are all dining venues.

Principal Zhang looked at various restaurants on his phone, waved his hand, and directly led them into a fast-food restaurant with a 30 per person standard meal.

Seeing the children’s faces fall, Principal Zhang said with a smile, "Do your best in the afternoon competition. If you successfully advance, tonight we’ll have a lavish meal, eat as much as you want!"

"Really? Don’t be tricking us again..."

"Don’t worry! I’ll call your teacher’s spouse for wallet support right now."

Everyone: ...

The fast-food restaurant wasn’t crowded, and the group booked half of the venue as soon as they arrived.

Principal Zhang and Wang Li went ahead to order food.

The two teachers maintaining order listened seriously to the students reviewing the morning competition.

They didn’t just review their own competition status but also noted other schools’ competition data.

When did this happen?

The two teachers internally checked themselves.

Humbly asked the students about the meaning of the data curves on the screen.

Then heard a shocking piece of news.

"These are the various data parameters of the Second Middle School’s participating students. It’s speculated their average physical level is at A8, spiritual power at A6, which is 1 level higher than our average. They also have one superpower student with strength at Fourth Rank level."

"What? Fourth Rank?"

Principal Zhang and Wang Li, walking over, just heard the last sentence.

Their initially happy faces due to advancing instantly turned into worry.

Principal Zhang rubbed his thinning hair and mumbled quietly, "Xu Qinghai, that old fox, still has the face to say I’m pretending to be weak when eating the strong. He’s just as sneaky..."

Wang Li gave him a sidelong glance, thinking it useless to curse Xu Qinghai at this point, better to ask whether these kids can win. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

The 5 to 3 match uses a point system, each school pairs for projects competition, winners earn 3 points, losers earn 1 point, and draws earn 2 points.

This matching system won’t let the same school compete with different schools in the same project, ensuring fairness, but also makes schools face the same participant, coincidentally drawing different projects to compete.

This has some element of personal luck.

Finally, schools are ranked according to points, taking the top two to compete with advancing schools from other cities. Ultimately, achieving top three results in the regional match allows entrance to the Hua Continent finals.

So, for Anhe Middle School to advance in the afternoon competition, they must win at least three matches.

Excluding the opponent’s morning project matches, the range of their afternoon competition projects is still large.

And each school’s superpower students will surely have one match, but their highest superpower level is Third Rank.

Wang Li looked at Lin Yuanyang, "Do we have a good chance to advance?"

Lin Yuanyang looked at the data analysis on the screen and said objectively, "Based on each project type, I input our participating personnel and compare with other schools, various conclusions can be drawn. But on average, our probability of advancing is about 53.4%."

Wang Li secretly breathed a sigh of relief; as long as it’s over half, they still have a chance to advance.

But Lin Yuanyang didn’t mention that data can only provide reference, not represent everything, since the competitors are human, and humans have a high degree of variability.

Anhe Middle School teachers finished their meal with heavy hearts, but bringing back students who seemed completely unconcerned about the afternoon competition to the stadium.

There’s still some time before the afternoon competition; many school students start training after meals, but their own kids directly lay down on chairs to nap after eating.

Even Lin Yuanyang, who kept analyzing data, closed his Smart Brain to rest his eyes.

Wang Li and the teachers were anxious but didn’t dare disturb them; they had to lower their voices and look towards the training area’s participating students while handling familiar teachers from other schools from time to time.

"Director Wang, your school is impressive. Where did you find this Smart Brain genius?" a teacher glanced at Anhe Middle School students resting, lowered their voice to ask.

Wang Li smiled, humbly saying, "Oh... At first, I didn’t know this kid had such good Smart Brain skills."

"Don’t be modest. We’re old friends. Spill it, what other good seedlings do you have?"

Wang Li pretended to lightly pound her, "You first tell me your ace."

The two had known each other for years, so their conversation was casual.

Naturally, aware of each other’s often-mentioned outstanding students, but this time Anhe Middle School played unpredictably, besides Wu Muzhe, she hadn’t heard of other students, thus came to probe.

"Director Wang, you’re rather sly this time, keeping secrets tightly for a surprising stun?"

Wang Li felt a little embarrassed by her friend’s jest, lowered her voice saying, "Honestly, this list is decided by Principal Zhang. I didn’t know their training conditions before."

"Didn’t know? Still things Director Wang is unaware at Anhe Middle School?" Her friend completely disbelieved, assuming Wang Li deliberately concealed for school’s advancement.

Wang Li: ...

These days, telling the truth doesn’t earn trust.

The little episode between the two teachers didn’t affect anyone, but Wang Li knew her friend was offended.

...

PM in the afternoon.

The qualifying rounds resume.

The five schools advancing in the morning are Anhe Middle School, Anhe Second Middle School, Yu Hua Middle School, Houde Middle School, and Mingyu Middle School.

On both sides, large school names appeared on the big screens, then changed to match lists.

The dense ten lines, sorted by time and AB group match sessions.

Each match also has corresponding participating student lists.

Fortunately, in these matches, one of Anhe Middle School’s superpower students, Wang Hao, isn’t listed.

But unfortunately, Bai Xiaotang became the less fortunate participant, having her in consecutive match projects.

Ji Ning looked at Bai Xiaotang’s crestfallen face, patted her shoulder, "Good luck!"

Regular student competitions don’t allow the use of any superpower healing methods, so Bai Xiaotang really has to rely on her physical quality and perseverance in these matches.

Lin Yuanyang, seeing there’s time, quickly gave her a pre-match analysis.

"Sister Xiaotang, don’t feel any psychological pressure. The first match is a relay rescue competition; I suggest you appropriately conserve energy, slowing down a bit is fine, let Ma Weiwei and Yan Song seize the time, our advantage is significant. Before the second match starts, you still have about 10 minutes to rest. Relax spiritually, then give your all; you’ll have an absolute advantage in the second match!"