Chapter 502 - 225: 100 Times the Speed of Sound, A Despairing Back
Chapter 502: Chapter 225: 100 Times the Speed of Sound, A Despairing Back
On the track, Qin Wushuang’s fall was incredibly sudden.
He curled up on the track, his body convulsing violently. Incoherent whimpers escaped his lips, and his eyes were vacant, as if his soul had been ripped from its shell.
This bizarre scene made the exam proctors realize instantly that something was wrong.
"Medical team! Track seven! Intervene immediately!"
The chief proctor’s order was given.
In the next moment, the space of the entire testing area shifted, and a passageway appeared.
Several medical personnel in white coats rushed through the passageway and onto the field, skillfully lifting the semi-conscious Qin Wushuang onto a stretcher.
An accompanying doctor quickly checked his vital signs, his expression turning grim.
He reported in a low voice into his communicator: "The candidate’s heart rate is erratic, and he’s showing symptoms of hyperventilation. His mental state is extremely unstable..."
"Preliminary diagnosis is acute stress disorder. I recommend immediate intensive treatment and termination of his participation in the rest of the exam."
Soon, the official announcement echoed through the hall.
[Candidate Qin Wushuang has withdrawn from this examination due to a sudden medical issue.]
The hall erupted in an uproar.
"What the hell? He’s withdrawing from the exam just like that?"
"He was fine a moment ago. How did he suddenly end up looking like he was possessed?"
"Lin Ye didn’t even touch him. He just glanced back... Was that one look really that powerful?"
In the main seat, Zhu Mingyi frowned slightly, flipping through Qin Wushuang’s personal file in his hand.
’No family history of mental illness, and his psychological evaluation report was normal... Why would he suddenly break down?’
He couldn’t make sense of it.
Lin Ye truly hadn’t done anything from start to finish.
You couldn’t possibly say that a single glance shattered a top genius’s Dao Heart and turned him into a cripple, could you?
That was more absurd than a fairy tale.
Just as Zhu Mingyi was about to set the matter aside for the time being, a staff officer behind him suddenly spoke up hesitantly.
"Chief, regarding Qin Wushuang’s situation, I... might have a premature theory."
Zhu Mingyi glanced back at him. "Speak."
The staff officer immediately pulled up an interface on his personal terminal and respectfully handed it over.
"About a month ago, on the virtual combat platform ’Martial Arts Peak’, a mysterious, phenomenal player appeared."
"His ID was ’Goblin Soldiers’."
"This person, in an utterly inconceivable fashion, went on a continuous winning streak, ultimately breaking the entire Great Xia server’s win-streak record, which had stood for decades."
Zhu Mingyi’s eyes glinted as he listened quietly.
"In the high-profile match where he broke the record, his opponent at the time..."
The staff officer pointed a finger at the stretcher being carried away on the screen. "Was none other than this Qin Wushuang."
At these words, the surrounding generals and officials who overheard the conversation showed looks of astonishment.
"Something like that happened?"
"Do you have a recording of it?"
"Pull it up."
Zhu Mingyi’s adjutant immediately issued the command.
Soon, a high-definition video of the battle was projected onto a split-screen in front of Zhu Mingyi.
The video began with Qin Wushuang’s defiant, arrogant face. He looked at the camera and, in an extremely brazen tone, taunted his opponent, ’Goblin Soldiers’.
In the video, the fight was blindingly fast.
At the end of the battle.
That identical, instantaneous burst of power!
The scene where he struck, instantly breaking both of Qin Wushuang’s arms and slamming him into the ground.
It made everyone understand in an instant!
The case was solved!
The mysterious genius who had thrown the entire online combat platform into turmoil, the ’Goblin Soldiers’ whose true identity countless people had tried to guess...
Was Lin Ye!
In the video, Dong Dongchen’s trembling voice suddenly rang out.
"I don’t know why..."
"I have a feeling... that Qin Wushuang will regret the words he said today for the rest of his life..."
Zhu Mingyi watched the video, then glanced at the spot on the track where the stretcher had disappeared, and couldn’t help but shake his head.
"A self-fulfilling prophecy."
He casually tossed Qin Wushuang’s file aside.
This wasn’t a sudden illness at all, but a heart demon.
It was a mental breakdown caused by having his pride and dignity utterly crushed once again in reality, by the same person, in the same way.
You reap what you sow.
For a moment, no one paid any more attention to Qin Wushuang.
Any pity they had felt for his unfortunate departure from the exam completely vanished.
Instead, even Zhu Mingyi was clicking his tongue in amazement.
He had previously heard about this ranked climb that had gone viral online.
But he had been too busy at the time, and besides, it was just a genius who had appeared in an online game.
So he had only paid it slight attention.
He never expected that Lin Ye was actually that person.
He was already famous, but most of the people present just didn’t know it yet!
Just then, a sudden cry of alarm jerked everyone’s attention back to the race itself!
"Look!"
"Lin Ye... I think... he’s about to catch up to Xia Lianxue!"
At these words, everyone snapped their heads up and looked back at the massive screen in the arena!
On the screen, the cyan streak of light representing Xia Lianxue was speeding along at the very front.
Her figure had almost merged with the wind, leaving only a blurry outline, her speed having long since broken the astonishing mark of ten times the speed of sound!
And behind her, the black afterimage representing Lin Ye was closing in at a terrifying speed, visible to the naked eye!
The vast, chasm-like distance between the two was rapidly being erased!