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Five moments later, without any warning, a message resonated in the minds of Lin Yuan and everyone else.
"Please prepare the Eleventh Brigade for the Twentieth Regiment. The Monthly Assessment is about to begin. The instructor for this Monthly Assessment is Snow Wind. The content of this Monthly Assessment involves analyzing the evolutionary gene sequence of the Overlord Beast from the Swamp Star System, and providing a detailed description of the Overlord Beast's Silicon-Based DNA Sequence. Additionally, a thesis of no less than one hundred thousand words is required. Those who complete this basic task will receive a task completion evaluation and earn 00 Mission Points, along with a reward of 5 Advanced Points. The extended task is to analyze the specific evolutionary history of Silicon-based Life from the Swamp Star System, detailing at least ten types of Silicon-based Life from the Swamp Star System and their Silicon-Based DNA Sequences, requiring a thesis of no less than one hundred fifty thousand words. Those who complete this extended task will receive an excellent task completion evaluation and earn 000 Mission Points, with 0 Advanced Points as a reward. The task duration is three days, with an entry time into the illusion set at 1:10. A severe warning: this is an individual task; plagiarism, cheating, and mutual attacks are strictly prohibited. Any violations will result in severe penalties based on the seriousness of the offense! The countdown to enter the illusion begins now; all Target Students should prepare for entry..."
Lin Yuan barely had time to curse before he felt a tremendous pulling force. After a rapid spin, he found himself in an unfamiliar area, and at the same time, everyone from his Thirteenth Brigade appeared around him.
"Alright, everyone listen up. You can call for help directly if you encounter danger, but each call will cost you 0 Mission Points and reduce your task evaluation to some extent. However, overall, this Monthly Assessment isn't too difficult. It's a peaceful Monthly Assessment; as long as you're not too foolish, you should be able to complete it. Good luck to everyone!"
At that moment, King Luo spoke first, sounding quite relaxed. Following him, others encouraged each other with smiles, "Good luck!"
Then they dispersed, vanishing in different directions. Since this mission was an individual task, there was no need for teamwork, especially with strict regulations against plagiarism and cheating.
Once everyone had left, Lin Yuan couldn't help but let out a bitter laugh in his heart. Damn it! He would rather face a combat mission like Melee Combat; at least then he would know what to do. Being killed would be better than feeling utterly lost at this moment!
But seriously, what did it mean to analyze the evolutionary gene sequence of the Overlord Beast? What was Silicon-Based DNA? What kind of nonsense thesis was this? Wasn't this just asking for trouble? It was practically setting him up for failure!
"Calling Intelligent Brain Encyclopedia..."
"Calling Claire..."
"Entering Intelligent Brain Database..."
...
Lin Yuan's first thought was to cheat. There was no way around it; without cheating, he had no idea what to do! Unfortunately, for some unknown reason, his Intelligent Brain Encyclopedia was completely locked down, and he couldn't access the Intelligent Brain Database that Claire had left him. Even his own Mechanical Assembly database was entirely sealed off. At that moment, he remembered that the instructor for this Monthly Assessment was an intelligent program—probably even more advanced than Claire—so he could forget about trying any tricks.
"Damn it!"
Lin Yuan felt utterly hopeless now; he could already see negative evaluations piling up like a blanket—it was almost inevitable. To make matters worse, time in this illusion flowed at 1:10; that meant three days in the real world translated to thirty days here! This kind of torment was comparable to the Ten Tortures of the Qing Dynasty!
After feeling frustrated for a while, Lin Yuan gradually regained his composure. After all, this wasn't a life-or-death situation. So what if he received a bad review? It wouldn't cost him his life. At worst, he could do without the title of Elite Mechanical Warrior; being a Mercenary wasn't so bad either.
With this thought in mind, Lin Yuan felt optimistic again and began to carefully observe his surroundings. During this mission, he had learned that he was on a planet suitable for Silicon-based Life within the Swamp Star System—home to those damned Fat Three.
However, the mission data did not include specific details about the entire planet, so everything needed to be explored and discovered. Otherwise, with thirty days to spare, there would be nowhere to spend time!
"Forget about the mission; I want to hunt down the Three Chubby Ones' kin! After all, this is just an illusion!" With that thought, Lin Yuan found his target again and became excited. He expanded the maximum search range of his Auditory Radar to a diameter of eighty kilometers while switching to his Third Combat Form, taking on the mode of a drone and soaring into the sky.
The saying "the higher you stand, the farther you see" didn't quite apply to Lin Yuan because no matter how high he flew, his ultimate search radius was only forty kilometers. However, that was sufficient. All the terrain scanned by the Auditory Radar and those strange plants on the surface were stored in his Intellect. Under normal circumstances, the A180 Punisher System and Intelligent Brain Encyclopedia would automatically operate to conduct comprehensive analyses of these plants, the surface, and even the air. But currently, in this illusionary mission, those functions were disabled; Lin Yuan had to analyze everything himself to meet the requirements. However, he couldn't be bothered to analyze anything since he simply couldn't figure it out.
Even so, this did not affect his intuitive impression. From an Earthling's perspective, this planet—tentatively called Swamp Star—seemed vibrant with life. The surface plants were dense and enormous; they were not green, meaning they didn't rely on photosynthesis but had alternative means of nutrient absorption. Thus, they predominantly appeared in shades of purple, along with deep purple, blue-purple, brown, and other colors.
Moreover, these plants shared one common trait: they were extraordinarily large. In Lin Yuan's unintentional search, he discovered that trees here could easily grow to around 100 meters tall with astonishing girth. Aside from those still growing, most had circumferences exceeding zero meters. If this were Earth, they would likely be considered Ginseng Trees; however, here they were quite common—even trees with circumferences over a meter.
Yet there was something very peculiar: on Earth, trees compete and cooperate with each other; they rarely grow too close together. Even in vast primeval forests, trees maintain a certain distance from one another; otherwise, rainwater and sunlight would be hard to distribute.
But here it was strange; those trees often grew in clusters. Specifically speaking, there would be one central tree with the thickest trunk surrounded closely by a ring of other trees with very little space between them. They grew densely together like this—sometimes dozens of trees in a circle or even hundreds or thousands. From a distance, it looked like one single tree; it was simply bizarre!
As a result, these trees had mostly taken on mushroom-like shapes as they uniformly expanded outward as if arranged in a dense Hexagonal Array to fend off enemies.
Additionally, Lin Yuan noticed another point: within the area he searched, there were still many trees. However, aside from the clustered trees themselves, there was considerable distance between different groups of clustered trees—often leaving at least thirty to fifty meters of space between them—making it appear quite sparse.
In the gaps between these clustered trees, there weren't many plants; only a type of vine resembling ivy grew low to the ground—less than two centimeters tall but thick like giant nets firmly gripping the ground as if it held some deep-seated grudge against it. Lin Yuan's detection results indicated that these vines had very developed root systems that could penetrate four or five meters deep into the ground.
"This is interesting! Too bad I'm not a botanist. But these things belong to cosmic life forms too; I wonder if studying them will yield any Mission Points?"
As Lin Yuan pondered while flying along casually, he suddenly heard an extremely terrifying roar coming from afar. His Auditory Radar then detected a flying monster emerging from mid-air ahead—a creature likely hundreds of meters long—now rapidly charging toward him!
"Dammit! Is this an illusion?"
Lin Yuan cursed loudly and turned to flee. He didn't need to look back to know that the strange flying monster behind him was incredibly powerful. In his current state, with the Ghost Spear unusable and the Energy Engine only half operational, facing this flying beast would only lead to disaster.
No wonder King Luo and the others had chosen to travel on the ground; they were trying to avoid attracting the attention of such aerial predators!
Fortunately, Lin Yuan's Third Combat Form was still quite effective. Even with the Energy Engine compressed by half, he could still reach a peak speed of ten thousand kilometers per hour.
However, what terrified Lin Yuan was that despite his speed, the flying monster seemed even angrier and was closing in on him faster than before, almost as if it were slightly quicker!
In just a short time, it was rapidly reducing the distance between them.
At this moment, Lin Yuan felt utterly helpless. Who would have thought there would be such a monstrous creature in Swamp Star? He couldn't understand how Fat Three's kin managed to survive. Of course, those damned Fat Three were also quite powerful—Silicon-based Lifeforms!
Seeing the flying monster getting closer, Lin Yuan had no choice but to abandon speed and rely on agility instead. He quickly descended to a height of fifty or sixty meters above the ground, using clusters of trees for cover to disrupt the monster's pursuit.
Surprisingly, this tactic worked well. Although the flying beast was massive with a wingspan of several hundred meters, it hesitated to crash through the densely grouped trees while flying at high speed. Those clusters of trees were too formidable; even a few dozen or hundreds of them could inflict serious damage, even on an SS-level creature like it.
At that moment, Lin Yuan finally understood why these trees grew in clusters—not because they liked it, but because the animals on this planet were so reckless that everything was a matter of survival! (To be continued...)
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