Of course, there were also people who suffered from superbrain endorphin poisoning. Their mental strength indices would soar, and their courage and desire to kill would increase by leaps and bounds.
When these people saw monsters, they would often howl and rush up to fight.
Their mental strength index could instantly increase to 120%, 150%, or even higher.
Of course, having his mental strength index increase was better than having his mental strength index return to zero, but there was a limit. Usually, a person's mental strength index could not exceed 200%.
For a long time, their brain cells would be completely soaked in boiling superbrain endorphins, and humans would also turn into bloodthirsty monsters. They would not even be able to distinguish between friend and foe. They would kill on a whim until they died of exhaustion.
It was an art to maintain one's mental strength index at 180% or 190% for a long period of time without going over 200% so that they could receive additional support from their mental strength but not become overly excited and turn into a killing machine.
Mental problems accompanied superhumans throughout their lives. The higher their cultivation realms were, the more superbrain endorphins their brains secreted, and the harder it was for their minds to remain stable.
There were plenty of seniors in Dragon City who had started fighting right after they transmigrated. They had contributed greatly and were loyal to Dragon City, but they still could not escape from the mental impact and turned into all sorts of old monsters. This was the reasoning behind this.
As the cultivation system became more complete, testing one's mental strength index was naturally the most important thing for one to take the college entrance examination.
"Examinee Number 5510336 from Little River High School, Zhao Yiqun. His mental strength index has been lower than the warning line for more than 60 seconds. He has been judged to have failed. He will be expelled from the virtual reality exam hall."
"Examinee Number 5534113 of Endeavor High School, Fan Changsheng. His mental strength index has plummeted by 30% in one second. His mind is weak, and he is not suited for training. He has been judged to have failed. He will be expelled from the examination area."
[Examinee 5524213 from the High School Affiliated to the University of Technology, Li Xiaojuan. Her mental strength index fluctuated violently, and it did not show any signs of stabilizing even after three minutes. She has been judged to have failed. She will be expelled from the exam area.]
Accompanied by the cold mechanical voice, the examinees from the various ordinary high schools exited the virtual test one after another.
Their faces were all deathly pale, and many of them had tears in the corners of their eyes. Their noses were bleeding, and every muscle in their body was trembling uncontrollably.
Their minds were still immersed in the terrible nightmare, and they didn't have time to feel depressed about their failure.
There were even people who searched their bodies and found that their legs and pelvis were still there. Only then did they heave a sigh of relief, covering their faces and crying.
The path of transcendence was too terrifying. They should just obediently go back and take the exam for a junior college.
Very quickly, most of the examinees from the ordinary middle schools were eliminated.
As more deformed monsters were thrown into the examination area, some people from the key high schools in the region and the key high schools in the city could no longer handle it.
"Wow!"
There was an examinee from Ninth High School who usually looked quite strong and fierce in school. Just then, he had been running madly in the virtual battlefield and lasted for more than ten minutes before he was surrounded by eight monsters that looked like giant toads.
These giant toads spat out stinking acid that corroded his body bit by bit.
The examinee's mental strength index plummeted, and the nightmarish scene finally caused the examinee's mental strength index to plummet. He was judged to have failed.
"The mental strength test this year is indeed a little difficult." A few teachers from the key high schools in the district and even the city shook their heads with solemn expressions.
"If you can't even handle such a small scene, how are you going to conquer the Other World?" The leader of Tiger Forest Region, the teacher from Construction High snorted coldly.
Indeed, even though many examinees were dumbstruck or ran for their lives.
However, there was no lack of people with strong willpower who stepped forward bravely and drew their swords to fight.
Most of the examinees from the key high schools in the district and city were shouting and shouting as they charged forward. They appeared to be brave, but there was no order to it. They were just using a moment of courage to hide their panic.
When they were "killed" by the monsters a few times and experienced the feeling of their bodies disappearing inch by inch into the monsters' mouths while the monsters smiled at them, they became a little hesitant to move forward.
Their mental strength index was like a broken boat in a raging sea. It fluctuated between high and low, and it swayed violently.
As for the examinees from Construction High, most of them were calm. They knew how to search for weapons in the ruins and used all sorts of tactics to fight against the monsters.
Even if they were killed by the monsters, they could endure the pain. Before they died, they could launch a counterattack and drag the monsters to hell with them.
Once they were "reborn" in the virtual battlefield, they could instantly forget the pain from a moment ago and continue fighting without batting an eyelid.
Most of their mental strength indexes fluctuated between 80% to 120%, and they rarely went beyond the safe range. Sometimes, they crossed the line, but they could quickly adjust themselves through breathing and meditation.
"As expected of one of the three super high schools. The students are all prodigies. They have superbrains and virtual training systems at home and school for them to use. They've also been practicing mind techniques since they were young, which is why they can control the secretion of superbrain endorphins and refine their minds to the point that they're as tough as steel. No matter how terrifying and strange the situation is, they can face it calmly and handle it calmly."
The teachers from the other schools might not like Construction High's students' arrogance, but they had to admit that no one could shake their position as the overlord of Tiger Forest Region.
At that moment, a teacher from Small River High School suddenly gasped and cast a surprised look at Demon Yan. "Mr. Yan, isn't Meng Chao's data a little strange?"
The teachers from the other high schools were slightly stunned. They tapped on the screen to check Ninth High School's detailed data.
They noticed that Meng Chao's mental strength index fluctuated between 95% to 105% the entire time. In fact, there was a long period of time where it remained at 100%. It was as if his numbers had been welded together.
This number had already surpassed most of the students from Construction High School.
He was about the same as the prodigies who were born in cultivation families and had seven or eight Heaven Realm elites in their families. They grew up eating monster brains.
"This number …"
The main invigilator thought about it and projected Meng Chao's test on the screen.
Everything that happened on the screen caused all the teachers to be taken aback.
…
'That's it?'
In the virtual world, Meng Chao looked a little dumbfounded when he saw the deformed monsters that popped out of the bloody fog.
'Didn't they say that the mental strength test is super terrifying and that there will be a lot of disgusting monsters that will scare the examinees so much that they pee their pants?
'Why are they all so normal? In fact, they're all … pretty monsters. Can these common monsters scare people?'
Meng Chao thought about it and realized that he was thinking about the wrong thing again.
During the later stage of the Monster War, the monsters evolved and mutated as if they had exploded. In just a few short years, countless deformed and mutated monsters appeared.
In the memories from his previous life, he had seen monsters that were ten times uglier, monstrous, and disgusting.
In fact, when he awakened to Basic Harvesting Skill and Basic Gun Technique, he had killed and dissected these monsters countless times.
His fear came from the unknown. Since he had once placed monsters that were ten times more disgusting than him on the dissection table and harvested them carefully, he understood the use of each organ and the cause of their deformed appearances.
So what was there to be afraid of?
'Since I'm already here, I might as well practice.'
Meng Chao scratched his head. Under the watchful gazes of the deformed monsters, he calmly searched the area. Soon, he found a saber and a submachine gun in the ruins.
'I knew it. This is just a small test. It's the same as a computer game. I'll definitely pick up items.
'Come. No matter how monstrous the monsters are, they're just meat on the chopping board. A few days ago, I asked Demon Yan to teach me saber techniques, and I came up with a few advanced variations of the One Hundred Saber Techniques. I can use you to practice my saber!'
Meng Chao held a gun in his left hand and a saber in his right. He hummed a tune and pounced on the monsters with a smile.
'Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Regardless of whether they were giant praying mantises or mutated toads, the amalgamations of lizards and wolves, the bastards of spiders and crocodiles, whether they could spit acid or explode their organs, they were all moving luncheon meat in his eyes.
He swung a gun in his left hand and a saber in his right. With his exquisite control over the monsters' physiological structures, he attacked their fatal spots. Soon, a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood piled up in front of him, and he was the king sitting on the throne of bones!
The first wave of monsters was soon cleared.
The test had to be fair. All the examinees had to face the same number of monsters and respawn time. The other examinees were still struggling while surrounded by monsters, but Meng Chao had nothing to do.
'I'm so bored. I can't hand in my test ahead of time. What should I do now?'
He squatted down on a pile of monster carcasses and yawned. His gaze inadvertently landed on the wounds left behind by the saber.
He suddenly noticed that the monsters' muscles, blood vessels, shells, organs, and other contents were all very real!
'By the way, I heard that the monster research center scans many of the monsters' molecules layer by layer and cuts them into hundreds of thousands of pieces to gather the most detailed data.
'The mental strength test must have used the data from the monster research center. The internal structures of the virtual monsters are the same as the real monsters.'
When he thought of this, Meng Chao's fingers heated up. As he stared at the monster carcasses, his gaze turned incredibly dark.
He searched through the ruins and found a few blades and a broken dagger.
Then, he casually removed a few of the monsters' sharp bone spikes and added a few pieces of monster shells to create a simple harvesting tool.
Then, he separated the monster carcasses one by one, cut open their stomachs, and cut them into pieces to practice Basic Harvesting Skill, especially the Seven Dissection Methods Performed in Reverse.
'Soon, the war will become more intense. Humans will have to face even more unknown monsters, and these monsters will have treasures that will allow humans to reach the limits of their evolution,' Meng Chao thought.
'Harvesting is definitely a golden support course. I have to work hard to push Basic Harvesting Skill to Perfect Level before I go to university!'
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