"Why would I want to deduct 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. when I can be together twenty-four hours a day."

The starry night hangs low.

The final list of the top 30 scores in the physical test has been released. Ye Wang and Shuo Mao both tied for 1st place with a total score of 112, while Wu Lin came in 17th.

"The top thirty stay, the rest can go back to rest." Qiao Yan had his team members bring over stacks of paper products, "Now start handing out the maps for the third round of interviews."

"Huh?"

"Round three?"

"Keep it coming?!"

Interviewer seamlessly, before thirty sunny days.

"It's dark."

"Yeah, can't we continue this tomorrow?"

"What kind of interview has a night shift!"

Qiao Yan frowned slightly and was a bit embarrassed, "It is now dark, if you delay any longer, it will be dawn."

First 30: "......"

The moonlight shines on the interviewer's brow, adding a touch of seeming gentleness to the idle lethargy.

But the interviewers have seen through, these things are all illusion, the guy in front of you is a ruthless interview machine, the more you wail, the happier he is.

"Is the third round the final round," Wu Lin voiced, "and what exactly is the test?"

"That's right, ask something useful." Qiao Yan looked satisfied, "Next you will each be given a map, an emergency supply of food and water, and then you will enter the rainforest, search for and try to reach the end point of the test as indicated on the map. This is the third and final round, the first ten to reach the end point will pass the interview."

Wu Lin: "What if we never find the finish line, or get killed in the rainforest?"

Qiao Yan: "We will equip each of you with a locator communication device, so you can call for help at any time, but calling for help means abstaining. Also, we can't guarantee that we'll be able to fall out of the sky in time, so we suggest that once you're in danger, you don't waste time thinking about it, and just call for help."

First 30: "......"

The moon and shadows, the dense forests, the dampness and gloom, the muddy grass, the snakes, the rats and the ants, the wild oxen and the wild elephants ...... they would like to ask for help now.

The fifty-one eliminated candidates who had not yet had time to withdraw from the scene suddenly had the feeling of "Damn, fortunately eliminated". Other interviews require talent, but this one requires life.

Maps, rations and water were issued one by one.

There were only the last thirty people left on the training ground, and no one said a word as they all stuffed these things into their allotted backpacks with a rustling sound that was hurried and tense.

The fast ones, like Wu Lin and Ye Wang, have already packed their bags and started looking at the maps in their hands.

At a single glance, Wu Lin was impressed by the soulful, spontaneous lines on the map-if this thing could really be called a map.

"I can draw better than this with my feet." Ye Wang frowned deeply with undisguised extreme dislike.

One by one, the interviewees who started to look at the map also had a complete breakdown.

And looking for the end? But anyone without a little imagination can't see that this is a map!

However, there is no such process as "pre-war encouragement" or "loving blessing" in the interviewer's office.

The bus arrives.

Thirty people were rushed sparingly into the car by two members of the team.

On the live system, both captains looked away.

North China: "If you want to be tough, you have to be tough."

northwest : "These poor babies."

North China: "What's the rule again?"

northwest : "Where is the rule that takes the first ten to the finish line."

North China : "Taking the top ten? I doubt if we can get ten people to the finish line."

Qiao Yan : "I think you should have some confidence in the future of Animal control bureau."

North China : "I have great confidence in our unit, I am to the old Yan ...... old Yan?"

"Go on," Qiao Yan was curious, "what's wrong with me?"

"With a profound realization of your brutality," the northwest captain sighed with emotion, "you were told from above to pick a rookie, and here you are picking the Iron Warrior."

"Beastmasters are increasing every day, the level of awakening and development changes every second," Qiao Yan was the last one to walk out of the training ground and into the team car, "We're recruiting fighters."

Qiao Yan took the team car and went directly to the "Temporary Command and Emergency Response Dispatch Center" at the end of the rainforest.

The lieutenant, who went over early after a round of interviews, had stared at the giant, long name banner on the field tent for nearly ten seconds before asking the team member next to him, "Is this name assigned from above?"

"No, Lieutenant," the team member said, "it was Team Yan who started it, saying that they wanted to pass on the rigorous and pragmatic naming style of our 'Wild Awakening Bestiality Classification Risk Prevention and Control Authority'."

Vice Squad: "......"

More than a legacy, it's simply better than blue.

Qiao Yan The route of the vehicle was a straight cut through from the point outside the rainforest closest to the command headquarters, completely bypassing the assessment area. By the time the thirty interviewees were sent deeper into the rainforest, the interviewer in the field tent had already made coffee.

"Captain, they're in place." The team member in charge of surveillance in front of the device reported.

Qiao Yan handed the first cup of coffee he had poured to his lieutenant, and was mercilessly refused. Unimpressed, he retrieved it and drank it himself, "Activate the drones."

Deep in the rainforest, the moonlight was dim.

The moist, sticky air clings to every inch of your body, weaving a suffocating web with the lush foliage around you. This is the kingdom of nature, but also the hunting ground for intruders, and the strangling plants everywhere seem to signal to the intruders the price they will pay.

It was the first time for many of the thirty people to come to the rainforest, and the first time they came was the difficult night traveling mode. Before they could take a few steps, some of them stepped into the thick mud without seeing clearly, their feet came out, but their shoes didn't, and the last string of their heart broke.

"Shit, I'm done!" The shoe-thrower took off the shoe on his other foot and threw it into the distance in a fit of rage, then pressed the communicator on the shoulder strap of his backpack and yelled, "Do you hear me, I'm not going to play with you guys-"

The communication was efficient, for in ten seconds or so, the drone hovered over them from a distance.

"Twenty-six, please wait where you are and we will pick you up as soon as possible."

The third round of numbering is based on physical test scores.

The voice on the other side of the drone is not Qiao Yan, a businesslike tone that doesn't sound as hateful as Qiao Yan.

"Abstain #26 --" the drone's voice suddenly intensified dramatically, as if it were trying to penetrate the atmosphere to echo through the universe, "Repeat again, Abstain #26, 29 remaining in the third round of interviews --"

Crowd of Interviewees: "......"

Why does it suddenly feel like getting the Battle Royale script!

Only a few minutes into the rainforest, the thirty people have not dispersed at all, and at this moment are still gathered in a pile, you look at me, I look at you, and their hearts are changing either subtly or fiercely.

"I also kind of don't want to do it," the same physical test ranked after an interviewer, extremely tired face is full of depression, "there is such an interview, this is not clearly torturing people!"

"That's it!"

"If I want to have this ability I still need to take the exam for what section officer ah, I will be the Thunderbolt Police, okay."

Several couldn't help but agree.

But more interviewees are still silent. Spare no effort to get here, eighty difficulties have come over, just this last one, eliminated are still not willing, let alone actively give up.

Shuo Mao, who tied with Ye Wang for first place in the physical test and took advantage of the first letter of his name to be ranked No. 1, took out his cell phone, turned on the compass, corresponded to the map, confirmed the direction, and took the lead in leaving the queue.

Seeing him like this, the rest who still wanted to continue to participate in the examination also hurriedly took out their own cell phones and quickly followed on their feet.

The map issued was sparsely drawn, but the direction of the end point was clearly marked. Thanks to modern technology, there is no need to search the sky for the North Star.

In the live broadcast system, the picture had changed from a training ground to a rainforest. What the interviewees didn't know was that the assessment area was almost covered in hidden surveillance, and even if they were completely spread out, the assessment surveillance wouldn't miss anyone.

Interviewer Yen, who said, "We can't guarantee that we'll be able to fall from the sky in time," was actually able to get the helicopters on standby to any trouble spot in the test area within three minutes, in addition to dozens of other team members hiding in the rainforest, who would be able to provide assistance even faster.

"Old Yan is also taking great pains." Looking at the multi-view live screen, northwest Captain finally stopped worrying about the well-being of the waifs.

Safety is the foundation, there's nothing to it, and the North China captain was curious: "Yan, you're just going to let them go all the way to the finish line like this?"

On the screen, twenty-nine interviewees, with a cell phone in each hand, held up at full level, moved carefully and conscientiously in the direction of the compass. Because of the difficult road, they traveled cautiously and slowly, like an army of zombies in the dismal picture effect of the night-vision surveillance.

" Qiao Yan ?" The North China captain, who didn't wait for a response, shouted in confusion.

"What's the rush," Qiao Yan's slow voice finally sounded over the comms, "wait a little longer, there's a surprise."

Ten minutes later.

"Huh?"

"What the hell?"

The marching group of thirty people, the few walking in front suddenly realized that there seemed to be something strange in the lushly vegetated ground under their feet.

Ye Wang and Wu Lin were right behind them, and as soon as Wu Lin stepped on it, he felt something was wrong, his body responding faster than his brain.

"Look out-" He turned and tackled Ye Wang straight back.

"With a loud bang, the ground collapsed into a deep pit with a diameter of four to five meters, and several people in front of them, as well as those who were originally beside Wu Lin and Ye Wang, did not have a chance to struggle, and all of them fell in.

Ye Wang and Wu Lin escaped by getting stuck on the edge of a deep pit, half of their bodies dangling in the air.

The interviewer in front of the monitor raised his eyebrows slightly, No. 17, quite a quick response.

In the night, many of the interviewees didn't know what was going on, but they didn't dare move again when they heard the loud noise.

The pit is about three meters deep, the soil is soft, and there is a thick mat of grass underneath, so it's not a bad fall, but that's what makes it even more hateful.

"Why the fuck is there still a trap? Why the fuck is there still a fucking trap-"

Qiao Yan : "Here comes the surprise."

northwest, North China, the two captains of the heart now fluttering three words: not, is, people.

"Victims" roared, the others understood, this is already expected that they will go straight along the direction of the road, dug a hole in advance to set up an ambush.

The point is that there are many more such pits in front of us, so no one dares to act rashly for a while.

"Number 21, please wait where you are, we will retrieve you as soon as possible." The drone circled divinely over the trap again.

Someone in the pit gave up.

"Abstention number 21! Repeat that again, number 21 abstained, and there are 28 people remaining in the third round of interviews--"

The loud voice resonated through the rainforest by means of the drone, which also covered the movement in the pit.

Only those in front of the night-vision surveillance screen clearly saw a figure climbing out of the deep pit.

No. 1, Shuo Mao.

The moment he came out of the pit, the youth's palm seemed to change in some way, so fast that the surveillance screen couldn't capture it before it was back to normal.

"Bestialized Awakened." The northwest captain was not surprised at all, as far as Shuo Mao's physical qualities shown in the physical test were concerned, they were already far beyond the level of an ordinary wild awakening.

North China captain soaked a noodle as a midnight snack, end back to the desk to sit down again, looking at the live broadcast of the next meal: "Lao Yan, you dig more than this pit, right?"

The stone is sunk in the sea.

Interviewer Yan blocked the communication again.

Ten minutes later, another pit, larger and more hidden than the previous one.

Now the interviewers are under no illusions - walk the straight and narrow and wait for the pits to die.

The straight path was full of malice, and everyone could only change to another direction, meandering towards the end. In this way, there were countless paths to take, and everyone had their own choices and judgments, as the twenty or so people gradually dispersed.

The moonlight could not penetrate the dense and wide leaves, and the tracks and sounds of the interviewers were drowned out a little bit in the late-night rainforest, as if nothing had ever happened before.

Yet silence never really returns to this jungle.

"Abstention #13 ...... 27 remaining for third round interviews-"

"Abstention #19 ......"

"Abstention #24 ......"

One by one, people fell into new traps, and very few were able to get out of them on their own, with at least half of the remaining ones abandoning outright, and the other half abandoning again after going through the emotional process of anger, resignation, and so on.

The exhaustion and stress that builds up throughout the day of an interview is the root cause of a collapsing mindset, and the trap is just the final straw that breaks the camel's back.

northwest : "I don't know how many pits Old Yan actually dug, it's destroying the vegetation."

Qiao Yan : "It's all about making the best use of the land, using pits when there are pits, using water when there is water, and using the difference in terrain when there is nothing."

northwest : "That still ...... old Yan?"

North China's captain was convinced: "Don't be so sneaky all the time, just cough on the line, OK?"

Qiao Yan : "Why are you two still here, no mission tomorrow?"

northwest Captain: "We're leaving for the Qinling in the afternoon, it's early."

North China Captain: "Turn in a six thousand word report on the Director's work by the end of the day tomorrow."

Qiao Yan : "How much is written now?"

North China Captain: "Six words."

Qiao Yan : "Very good."

At zero midnight, there were only 21 interviewees left.

The picture on the live system had been subdivided into a dozen or so as the interviewers' whereabouts were dispersed, with one or a group of interviewers in each of the smaller night-vision images.

Some people walk alone, some walk in pairs. Day and night families are clearly differentiated at this moment - those with glowing eyes are not necessarily nocturnal families, but those with eyes so tired and sleepy that they can't stand the sight of life are definitely diurnal families.

Daytime physical testing favors the daytime family, while nighttime survival racing favors the nocturnal family.

But even Wu Lin and Ye Wang were overwhelmed by the complexity of the rainforest in such poor lighting conditions. In order to avoid the traps, they were careful to keep an eye on every piece of ground they were about to step on, and when they felt something strange, whether it was a real trap or not, they decided to go around it and change the route again.

It's better to make a thousand wrong turns than to step on the wrong one.

In this way, the efficiency of traveling was extremely slow, and it had been more than four hours into the rainforest before we came to the first reference point identified by the map - a small stream.

A map of the upper north and lower south, this east-west flowing creek was drawn at the top fifth of the paper, and the end point was marked at the bottom. In other words, they had only completed one-fifth of the journey.

"This won't work." Wu Lin put away the map, panting, his hair long ago beaten through with sweat, a few locks plastered to his forehead.

Ye Wang naturally reached out to help him lift his eyes and realized that Wu Lin's eyes looked better at night than in the daytime.

"What do you want?"

"Wait for the light of day." Wu Lin said, "Dawn is early here, at most five or six hours later, when the light is bright, even if the trap is well camouflaged, it will be much easier to detect than now."

Ye Wang : "Aren't you afraid that the top ten will be out before dawn?"

"No." Wu Lin shook his head decisively, "If we are as careful as we are, even if we keep on safely rushing until dawn, we will at most advance another fifth or a quarter of the way, and will have to pay the price of more stamina than during the day, and the stamina that we recovered in these few hours will be enough to catch up with or even surpass them. On the contrary, if they pursue speed, they will necessarily have to sacrifice safety, and the great probability is that they will fall into traps before they wait for daylight."

"As soon as you're ready." Ye Wang agreed without any hesitation, and immediately began to yawn, his body muscles relaxing as he watched.

The two captains in front of the live screen: "......"

Are you switching modes a little fast here!

Qiao Yan sipped her eighth cup of coffee as her eyes fell on the surveillance footage of #2 and #17. The two were resting under a hemlock tree, surrounded by dancing grasses, leaves that always danced easily in the sunlight but were silent under the moon, like shy little girls.

These two weren't the first to start thinking about waiting until dawn, but they were the first to implement it decisively and rest in place.

Through the real-time transmission of surveillance images and sound, the interviewer God's perspective followed the whole process.

It's not easy, Qiao Yan knows, because he's the one who pushes the interviewers to their physical and mental limits. Under the limit, any possible mistake - such as missing out on the top ten due to a break - even if it's only a one-in-a-million chance, it will become a mountain in the interviewers' psyche, preventing them from making a rational decision.

Ye Wang.

Wu Lin.

Qiao Yan took the folder with the two men's information from among the materials spread out on the table and reopened it.

In the headset that is still stuck on the sound channel of Ye Wang and Wu Lin's surveillance screen, the conversation between the two men is heard again.

Qiao Yan looks down at the data and pays no more attention to the security footage.

Wu Lin : "Why do I get the feeling that you can take this test or not, just to accompany me?"

Ye Wang: "Sleep."

Wu Lin: "Ye Wang, I mean it."

Ye Wang : "It wouldn't have mattered, I can support you even if I paint."

Wu Lin: "......"

Ye Wang : "But it's best to pass the exam together. If I can be together 24 hours a day, why would I want to deduct 8am-5pm."

Qiao Yan looks up in confusion as she listens more and more. Has the standard of friendship for modern young people been raised to the point where they must "spend time together"?

In the night vision image, #2 had somehow circled #17 in his arms. 17 also leaned openly and closed his eyes comfortably. #2 lowered his head and kissed #17's hair before leaning back toward the tree trunk himself and closing his eyes.

Qiao Yan's folder came out of her hand and snapped back onto the table.

At the same time, the North China captain in the capital city fell off the swivel chair, and the northwest captain far away in Xi'an sprayed goji berries.

Friendship?

The attributes can't be said to be identical, they can be said to be irrelevant.