Chapter 173 - 124: Xia Shuran’s Top-Tier Talent

Chapter 173: Chapter 124: Xia Shuran’s Top-Tier Talent

Gu Qing immediately got up and followed.

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「In the office.」

Gu Qing and Steward Tian sat at the tea table, their gazes fixed on the projection screen in front of them.

On the screen, the comprehensive test had already begun.

The six test takers started from the forest entrance.

They plunged headfirst into the woods.

Making a beeline for the high platform.

Xia Shuran’s pace was fast, second among the six test takers, only behind the Extraordinary Contactor whose Biological Level was as high as Tier Five.

She wasn’t left too far behind, consistently maintaining a distance of a few dozen meters. She had a good chance of overtaking the other.

But unfortunately, she couldn’t manage to pull ahead, even by the time she charged onto the high platform.

It just goes to show the difference in Physical Strength between Tier Four and Tier Five. If the former doesn’t have any special abilities, it’s normal not to be able to outrun the latter.

When the two reached the high platform, they quickly started fighting for first place.

Xia Shuran’s Level was one tier lower than her opponent, and her Physical Strength couldn’t compare.

But with the help of her Ancient Martial Arts, Martial Soul, and Dragon Spear, she completely dominated the fight. Wielding the Dragon Spear, she poked her opponent until they were running all over the place, clutching their rear end.

In less than a minute, she successfully defeated her stronger opponent, knocking them to the ground in a brilliant display.

Then, with ease, she successfully took first place in the recruitment test.

After watching Xia Shuran’s performance, Steward Tian took a sip of tea and said with a placid expression:

"Normally, an Extraordinary Awakened should be the one to take first place in the recruitment test."

"For someone like you, an Extraordinary Contactor, to crush the competition and take first place is actually quite incredible."

"You’re an anomaly."

Without waiting for Gu Qing to respond, Steward Tian picked up his phone from the table and notified the test site staff to bring Xia Shuran to his office.

「A few minutes later.」

A staff member brought Xia Shuran to the office.

She was very timid when she came in.

But when she saw that Gu Qing was also there, she visibly relaxed.

What followed was a conversation between Steward Tian and Xia Shuran.

Gu Qing listened from the side, feeling the conversation was pretty pointless.

It was just Steward Tian, in his capacity as a leader, giving a brief self-introduction and then making a lot of grand promises, saying how much he thought of Xia Shuran.

Fortunately, Steward Tian wasn’t a man who liked to ramble.

He spoke for less than ten minutes before letting Xia Shuran go, asking Jiang Wanqiao from the personnel department to take her to handle the onboarding paperwork.

Gu Qing, having nothing else to do in the office, left with Xia Shuran.

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「In the personnel department office.」

Jiang Wanqiao very patiently handled the onboarding process for Xia Shuran.

The procedure was the same as when she had handled Gu Qing’s.

First, she helped Xia Shuran apply for a leave of absence from school, sending the relevant documents directly to the email inboxes of the Hai City University leadership in the form of a notice from a higher authority.

Then, in the same manner, she notified the public security department in Xia Shuran’s hometown to strictly conceal all personal information about her and her family, and to arrange for dedicated security personnel to secretly protect them.

Next, she had Xia Shuran fill out various forms, which were then bound and sealed.

The final step was to register a brand-new Yeshuo account for Xia Shuran.

Once the Yeshuo account was registered, Xia Shuran logged in as instructed.

The first step was to choose a username for her account.

"Senior, what’s your username on Yeshuo?"

Xia Shuran asked, turning her head to look at Gu Qing beside her.

She wanted to pick a matching username with Gu Qing.

Gu Qing was scrolling through the Yeshuo forums and replied casually, "My name is a bit abstract. It’s ’I Don’t Eat Beef.’"

’I Don’t Eat Beef?’

’But Senior clearly eats beef. He ate a ton of it last time we had hotpot together.’

’Why would he pick that name?’

Xia Shuran didn’t know the meme behind "I Don’t Eat Beef," so she couldn’t make heads or tails of it.

But she didn’t dwell on it too much, just assuming Gu Qing couldn’t be bothered to think of a name and picked something random that rolled off the tongue.

"Since you’re ’I Don’t Eat Beef,’ Senior, I’ll be ’I Don’t Eat Cilantro’ then."

Xia Shuran smiled at Gu Qing, then immediately named her Yeshuo account—I Don’t Eat Cilantro.

Not long after, Jiang Wanqiao, having finally finished Xia Shuran’s onboarding process, walked up to Gu Qing and said:

"Gu Qing, Shuran is an Extraordinary Awakened with a lot of potential."

"You’ve referred such a top-tier genius to the Night Court. According to the rules, you’ve earned an extremely generous recruitment reward."

"The recruitment reward has been sent to your Yeshuo account. You can check it now."

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Hearing this, Gu Qing’s eyes lit up.

He quickly exited the Yeshuo forums and clicked on the system notification to check his reward.

The reward was very generous.

It was a D-Level Extraordinary Resources reward.

Gu Qing felt a surge of excitement.

’I only got an E-Level Extraordinary Resources reward for solo-killing a Tier Nine Fox Woman.’

’I can’t believe I got an even more High-Level D-Level Extraordinary Resources reward just for referring my newly Awakened junior to the Night Court.’

It had to be said, Extraordinary Awakened were just that precious.

After calming his excitement slightly,

Gu Qing looked at Xia Shuran beside him and said, "Shuran, let’s split the reward I got for referring you to the Night Court fifty-fifty."

Xia Shuran shook her head. "No way. That’s your recruitment reward, Senior. I can’t take it."

Gu Qing tried to persuade her a few more times, saying he wouldn’t have gotten the reward without her.

But no matter how he tried, she refused.

Seeing this, Gu Qing didn’t insist, ’I’ll just have to look out for my junior a little more in the future.’

"Come on, I’ll take you to the warehouse for a look around. It’ll blow your mind."

Gu Qing said to Xia Shuran with a smile.

The moment he finished speaking, Jiang Wanqiao, who was standing in front of him, spoke up:

"You can go to the warehouse later. The two of you need to report to the Awakened Squad now. The instructor is already waiting for you."

"Alright, we’ll report there first then."

Gu Qing had no objections.

He and his junior, Xia Shuran, immediately followed Jiang Wanqiao to report to the Awakened Squad.

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