Extraordinary Player

Chapter 16: How Did I Become Collateral Damage Even When I’m Doing Nothing?

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

“Investigation form? … What are they cooking up now?”

Qin Guan did not quite believe his eyes. The supervisors had actually gathered them for a class meeting because they wanted to investigate everyone’s progress?

Qin Guan honestly wrote down ‘Medium Mode, platform 99’ before he began filling up the other information, including how much time he spent, the average number of times he failed per platform, and other things.

It was rather difficult to calculate the number of times he failed. Qin Guan thought about it and decided that he should just fake it. After all, they had no way of investigating it…

The university had each student’s biography and files. They also had records of their physical examination. The supervisors could be said to know every single student, so there was no need for them to fill up their other personal information.

While Qin Guan filled up the form, he pondered, ‘Why did they distribute this questionnaire?’

Clearly, the university wanted to know all the students’ progress, but what would they do once they knew it? Were they going to compile the data of all the students who had cleared the trial and obtained unique bodies for themselves, or were they going to report it to the higher-ups?

‘Hmm… that’s a high possibility.’

Qin Guan occasionally looked up and saw multiple heads looking down as their owners scribbled furiously. He suddenly had a thought. ‘How many of us in the Chinese Language course managed to complete Medium Mode?’

While he might not be able to see everyone’s forms, he had a special ability.

Qin Guan focused his attention and swept his gaze past the girls in the front row. Their UIs popped up above their heads.

Lvl 1, lvl 1, lvl 1, lvl 2…

Qin Guan discovered something. There were only two situations now. The people were either simple level 1 players, or were people who had completed Medium Mode and reached level 2. However, there was a number behind their level, which was fifteen.

Qin Guan remembered that Su Xiaoyu also had a fifteen on her dialog box.

‘What does this fifteen mean? Why do all the lvl 2 players have a fifteen behind their levels? Could it represent fighting power? Heh… how can that be possible?

‘If it’s really fighting power, then my current fighting power should only be five… What a noob I am…

‘But it doesn’t make sense if it’s fighting power. How can the ones who started as athletes and students have the same fighting power?’

Qin Guan observed around twenty people and found himself to be rather dizzy. His mind felt tired, and he found it difficult to continue remaining focused.

‘Looks like I can’t use this ability as I please. But I don’t quite understand. Why do I have limitations placed on me when I just look at dialog boxes?’

Qin Guan stopped observing others. However, after checking out around twenty people, he found that there were only around three or four who had reached level 2.

Of course, he could not gauge the number of people who reached level 2 in the whole world just by observing around twenty people. However, he was in a National Key University, and this place gathered together youngsters who had a relatively high intellect. That was why Qin Guan believed that there was currently less than 20% of the world’s population who had completed the trial and reached level 2.

This trial was much more difficult for normal people than Qin Guan thought.

He soon finished filling up the form and passed it to the front. It was then handed to the supervisor.

The man flipped through them and divided them into a few piles before he passed them to the girls in the first row. He then whispered to them a little, probably telling how to sort them out.

Then, the supervisor went to the podium and said sternly, “There must be quite a few of you in this class who have completed the trial. I, too, know that many of you do nothing but train every day. Today, we’re having this meeting so I can tell you some things.

“First, I must stress this: you must still go to your classes. You should show some consideration to your old lecturers’ emotions. Students who have completed the trial, do not be too pleased with yourself. After all, the higher-ups have yet to give us any instructions.

“However… those who have not completed Medium Mode, you should work hard. I cannot quite explain this, but as long as you know what I am saying, it’ll be enough…”

The supervisor babbled about a lot of things on the podium. With Qin Guan’s intellect, he instantly knew what he meant.

The higher-ups had yet to decide upon what they should do with the discs and people who had cleared Medium Mode and obtained unique bodies. They were still debating over this matter.

However, based on the supervisor motivating everyone to clear Medium Mode as soon as possible, he could guess that the current trend leaned towards motivation and support. In fact, this investigation might just be them trying to figure out their situation so that it would be easier for them to manage this group of people in the future.

Aside from this, the supervisor also repeatedly mentioned that they should continue going to class and obeying the law. It was clear that he was worried that some students would have a drastic change in their mindsets and start something the consequences of which could not be controlled.

After all, the students who completed Medium Mode could gain superiority over professional athletes in terms of their physical attributes. If they did not control their hearts, it would be easy for them to walk on the path of causing harm to the society…

Once he stressed on the various matters, the supervisor received the forms that had been sorted by the girls in the first row.

“The sixteen of you who have already cleared Medium Mode, please come with me to my office.”

All the people looked around the room and, with envy on their faces, watched the students who stood up to follow the supervisor out of the room.

Clearly, these people were going to be treated specially, but no one knew how special that treatment was going to get.

Xiao Qiang kept watching Qin Guan, only to find that he really did not intend to get up.

“Brother-in-law, you really didn’t clear the trial? I can’t believe it…” Xiao Qiang whispered.

Qin Guan was speechless. “I really didn’t. If I lied to you, I’ll walk like a dog. Happy?”

“Oh…” Xiao Qiang stood up, feeling incredibly sorry for Qin Guan. Then, he walked out with the supervisor.

Qin Guan was dumbfounded.

He focused his attention on Xiao Qiang’s sleazy back, and he found that there was a clear lvl 2 on the dialog box above his head.

Qin Guan cursed softly under his breath and flipped the bird at the rascal in his heart.

‘Even that noob cleared the trial, and I’m still stuck at platform 99…’

The other students walked out of the classroom after that and returned home.

It could be seen that plenty of them felt rather dejected, walking with defeated expressions.

After all, it had been three days since the trial started. If everyone had been filled with excitement at the start, then right then, most of them were left with frustration.

The first batch of genii had cleared Medium Mode on the day itself, and the second batch of people did so on the second and third day one after another. The further they progressed after that, the greater the distance between them and the normal folk would become.

Some people did not even clear Novice and Easy Mode, and it could only be guessed how defeated they had to be feeling.

Only around a dozen people had cleared Medium Mode in the class. This ratio was much lower than what Qin Guan had expected.

As for whether there would be others who would clear the stage in the future? There should be, but the numbers would be very low.

After all, the trial was different from going to school. There was no one to teach them, and everyone had to rely entirely on themselves. If they were stuck at the very start, how were they supposed to challenge the higher difficulties?

Clearly, everyone understood this as well. Some of the very competitive girls felt as if they were about to cry, and their dormmates comforted them…

‘Is this how harsh reality is?’

While Qin Guan lamented their new reality, he walked out, and he heard a girl in the front row comfort another girl. “It’s fine, don’t be sad, you never played many games to begin with, so it’s normal for you to start off slow compared to the others. Look at Qin Guan, he’s good at playing games, but he still hasn’t cleared the trial, right?”

Qin Guan was dumbfounded yet again.

‘How did I become collateral damage even though I didn’t do anything?

‘The fact that you haven’t completed the trial has nothing to do with me!’