Before he finished speaking, all the people in charge of the escort agencies, including Qi Wenhan, were already busy selecting their soldiers.
At first glance, the difficulty of the third round was much lower than the previous two rounds where lives were at stake. However, in reality, it was the exact opposite. The one hundred points were not easy to obtain. After all, the human heart was the most difficult thing to grasp. The slightest mistake could cause the one hundred points to slip through one's fingers.
Since it was a test of the human heart, if they wanted to obtain all one hundred points, they had to do their homework on the selection of soldiers. Since threats could not be used, they could only carefully select the ten most trustworthy people and reward them handsomely to ensure that nothing would go wrong.
However, before they could do so, two people had appeared beside the people in charge of each escort agency. One was a staff member of the Grand Assembly, and the other was a supervisor from the various chambers of commerce who had nothing to do with the Grand Assembly.
"To ensure fairness, before the competition officially begins, no escort agency is allowed to use threats or promises of rewards to influence the escorts under their command. They must face this test with a normal heart," the two supervisors said in unison.
Qi Wenhan was stunned when he heard that. He turned his head to look around and saw that the same two supervisors were standing beside each of the other escort agencies. It seemed that the Grand Assembly had already prepared for this.
"Alright." Qi Wenhan could only nod at the two supervisors and swallow back the reward that was on the tip of his tongue. He could only rely on his understanding of the crowd and pick out the ten most trustworthy escorts. Fortunately, he spent a lot of time with everyone and was more familiar with the escorts under his command. If it was just picking out ten from the middling soldiers, he was still relatively confident.
However, before Qi Wenhan could start selecting, the two supervisors suddenly said, "In order to truly reflect the situation of each escort agency, all the contestants in this round of the competition must be chosen at random."
"Huh? How is this random? "Qi Wenhan was instantly stunned.
"It's very simple. You'll provide us with a list of the escorts, and we'll remove all the heads, deputy heads, and relatives related to the heads. Then, we'll randomly pick ten people from the remaining escorts, "the two supervisors explained.
The Head of Escorts, Deputy Head of Escorts, and their relatives were closely related to the escort agency. They would not be tempted to participate in the competition. If they were allowed to participate in the competition, this competition that was designed to test their loyalty would be meaningless. It would not reflect the true situation of the escort agency.
After all. Usually, when there was a real escort, how many times was the escort leader personally escorting them?
Ordinary escorts were the main force of escorting the goods. Only if they could withstand the test would they be able to represent an escort agency in passing the test. Apart from them, anyone else would only make the test meaningless.
"This …" Qi Wenhan smiled bitterly. This kind of random selection method really didn't give him any chance at all, even though he had confidence in the escorts under his command. Although he was confident in the escorts under his command, there were so many people in the agency. Even their abilities were uneven.
"Young Master Qi, please give us the name list as soon as possible. Don't make things difficult for us," urged the two supervisors.
"Alright. I'll give it to you right away. " Qi Wenhan nodded helplessly. He could only fill in the names of the escorts under his command one by one in front of the two supervisors.
This was the first time in history that the so-called test of loyalty among escorts was being held. He had never encountered a competition like this before. Furthermore, the rules were so well controlled that he could not think of any loopholes to exploit. He could only follow the rules obediently.
After a while, a list of escorts was handed over to the two supervisors. Just as they had requested, the names on the list were all ordinary escorts. There was no head, deputy head, or relative.
Even Lin Yi was not on the list because he was an honorary head. No matter how you looked at it, his status could not possibly be among the ranks of ordinary escorts.
Qi Wenhan originally thought that the two of them would start randomly selecting people. However, after the two of them received the list, they took out another list from their pockets and carefully compared it one by one in front of Qi Wenhan and the others.
Seeing this scene, Qi Wenhan didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. He clearly saw that on the list of escorts that the other party had taken out, there was an annotation behind each person's name. It was obvious whether they were ordinary escorts or if they had special backgrounds such as the head escort or assistant escort.
Qi Wenhan sucked in a breath of cold air and secretly rejoiced that he had not played any tricks just now. Otherwise, he would have been exposed on the spot!
The South Continent Escort Agency Gala had always prided itself on being fair and just. Cheating during the competition had always been strictly investigated. If it was really discovered on the spot, there would be no hope of getting any points for the round. In fact, the points would be deducted, and the escort agency would be heavily punished.
After the two supervisors finished comparing the names on the list and confirmed that there were no omissions, they numbered each name. At the same time, they took out a small basket from behind their backs. The basket was filled with pre-prepared numbers. Whoever was picked would be the one. This continued until the list of ten participating escorts was complete.
At the same time, the other three escort agencies were also experiencing the same thing. In a short period of time, the 32 escort agencies had all completed the list of participants. The third round of the Escort Agency Loyalty Competition had officially begun.
Each of the 32 escort agencies sent out 10 escorts, and an entire 320 escorts formed a large circle on Devil Cold Square, whereas at the center of them was a pile of enormous treasure chests that had been prepared beforehand that were neatly piled up. The size of every single treasure chest was almost the height of a person, and even if they didn't know what was hidden within it, such a size still caused one's eyes to be extremely envious.
It wasn't just the participating escorts. Even the spectators couldn't help but raise their heads in anticipation when they saw the treasure chests. Even though Boundless Sea had already said that each of these treasure chests was priceless, no one knew exactly how priceless they were.
Under the gazes of tens of thousands of people, the five referees, led by Boundless Sea, slowly walked to the side of the treasure chests. They casually pulled out one of the treasure chests and immediately attracted everyone's attention.
"You're all very curious as to what's inside these treasure chests, right? I can tell you right now. What's inside are none other than spirit jades! "Boundless Sea announced loudly.
"Spirit jades!" Everyone's eyes lit up when they heard this. Even though all sorts of heavenly treasures were definitely priceless, even if they were of the same value, the impact of heavenly treasures couldn't compare to the impact of actual spirit jades. It made people's mouths go dry!
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