As soon as Bo Ge saw the newcomer clearly, his eyelids uncontrollably began to flutter.
The figure was as tall and straight as ever, dressed in a stylish black jumpsuit with a slightly short jacket, highlighting the advantages of long legs. He wore a pair of black half-finger leather gloves, showcasing his slender and well-defined fingers.
The man had a handsome face, with his black hair neatly combed back to reveal a smooth forehead and an enviable hairline.
With sharp eyebrows and eyes, his pair of golden-red eyes seemed to almost imprint on Bo Ge’s heart. Although his youthful appearance differed greatly from the mature image projected in the news, his eyes couldn’t deceive anyone.
Bo Ge had seen this young and coldly beautiful face in the projection given by Lie Lanyang. It was how Lie Beishuang looked when he was in military school. At that time, Lie Beishuang still had bangs covering his slightly melancholic beautiful eyes.
Bo Ge had never thought that Lie Beishuang could look so handsome when he was confident.
Wait a minute. Bo Ge scratched his head. Now wasn’t the time to think about these things.
“Hmm?” Amber was the first to react. “This young man looks familiar.”
“I feel like I’ve seen him somewhere too,” Fange Zongji pondered with confusion. “Is he a celebrity?”
The orange cat in Bo Ge’s arms suddenly perked up, staring at the man with its eyes rolling. “You’re Lie, Lie, Lie…”
“I am from the Lie family,” the man responded calmly, his gaze sweeping over the teenager holding the orange cat who turned his face away.
“Oh! Right! I knew he looked a bit like the Chief!” Amber exclaimed with excitement. “I didn’t expect that I could play a dungeon with a member of the Lie family!”
The Lie family had always been the dominant force among the Beastmen, and the Beastmen had always believed in the strong. They admired strength and naturally held the Lie family in great reverence.
“The Lie family?” Fange Zongji frowned, carefully scrutinizing the man. “Being handsome doesn’t count for much. What level are you, what’s your profession, and what skills do you have?”
Unlike Beastmen, humans had never been interested in titles like the Beastman King, let alone the violent and bloody process of seizing the title. What humans found even more distasteful was that every time the Beastmen held a competition, they insisted on inviting a few humans to be judges!
Every time such an event occurred, there would be a lottery within the tribe. Those unlucky enough to be drawn would be forced to attend. Although they would receive prizes in credits, watching Beastmen fight was truly an unpleasant experience.
Although they were called judges, the rules were already set. The judges were practically useless, much like the women holding up cards in a boxing match. Their main purpose was for show.
In the early days, many humans were frightened by the scenes of Beastmen fighting. Later, the event organizers provided intelligent blur glasses. In the past dozen or so Beastman King competitions, humans wearing these glasses could be seen sitting expressionlessly in the judge’s seat, some even secretly playing with Rubik’s Cubes.
To be honest, Fange Zongji didn’t have much fondness for the Beastman King who emerged from these competitions.
“I’m level ten, no profession, no skills,” the man replied indifferently.
“What the heck?” Fange Zongji furrowed his brows. “At level ten, just barely able to do dungeons, and you’re a skill-less Beastman. Yet you’re so confident. Who gave you the courage to join our team?”
“Since you’re here, let’s just go with it,” Amber reassured Fange Zongji. “Besides, I’m here. I’m level fifty, a warrior profession, with two S-level skills and one A-level skill. I’ll lead you guys.”
“After all, it’s our first time entering a new dungeon. Let’s just treat it as an experiment,” the soft and fluffy orange cat, trying to be cute, spoke up in support of its fellow clan member.
“You guys…” Fange Zongji was disgruntled, looking at Bo Ge. “Bo Ge, do you want him? Anyone who responds to our call in the world channel will be better than him.”
After speaking, he kept winking at Bo Ge.
Bo Ge glanced at his sister, Amber, then at the orange cat, which was trying to look cute with both paws raised. He felt somewhat forced. “Minority yields to majority, let’s give it a try.”
As Bo Ge organized the team, he naturally became the captain. After pressing the “start” button, the room quickly disappeared, leaving only transparency, with blue data streams weaving around the empty space.
[Players “GuGu wings”, “Amber”, “Fange Zongji”, “Still Hungry Today”, “Mimi”, are you entering the NGC7331 planet exploration dungeon?]
Mimi?
Amber and the orange cat looked at the man strangely. Dude, you’re from the Lie family. Are you sure you want to be this cute?
“Who would choose such a tacky nickname, and ‘Mimi’ at that? I’m ‘Meow Meow’ too,” Fange Zongji said, looking disgusted.
Mimi glared at Fange Zongji. You can say my nickname sounds appetizing, but you can’t say the name I gave to the big cat isn’t nice!
“Mimi sounds quite nice,” Bo Ge argued. “It’s easy to say and cute!”
More importantly, I gave him that name!
“You’re from the same race as me. You should be on my side!” Fange Zongji covered his heart, clearly feeling hurt.
The man quietly gazed at the teenager, his eyes gentle.
“It has nothing to do with race,” Bo Ge turned his head to avoid the man’s gaze. “Mimi sounds good.”
[Player Note: The NGC7331 planet exploration dungeon is divided into three stages: Orbiting, Landing, and Patrol.
Players will simulate being members of an exploration team. Before entering the spacecraft, you can obtain the Orbiter, Surface Lander, and Patrol Probe through a knowledge quiz. The more questions you answer correctly, the better equipped you will be for subsequent exploration.
The quiz section will be conducted by one hundred teams simultaneously, with twenty questions in total, for a total score of 100 points. Teams ranking in the top ten and above the passing line can exchange points for supplies and enter the main stage.]
[The knowledge quiz section is about to begin. Please be prepared, players.]
“I can’t believe it,” Fange Zongji was the first to start wailing. “We have to do a knowledge quiz, and I haven’t even read the introduction to the NGC7331 planet!”
“Maybe it will be about basic knowledge of exploring new planets,” Amber took a deep breath. “I’ve seen some information about it on the Panorama Forum before, so maybe we’ll be okay.”
Bo Ge nervously pursed his lips. Could it be that we won’t even make it to the main stage?
The surroundings changed, and the five of them were enveloped in a bubble, floating in space. More and more bubbles floated up until there were enough for one hundred teams. A countdown began on the large screen in front of Bo Ge.
[Question One: What is the approximate oxygen content in the Earth’s atmosphere?]
“Oh my god, how would I know this!” Fange Zongji furrowed his brows tightly. “You’d have to search for data from a long time ago. This is too tricky!”
The orange cat opened its paws in confusion, trying to calculate.
“Let me think…” Amber crossed her arms and tried to recall.
The man’s expression remained unchanged, and it seemed the teenager already had an answer.
“Approximately 21%,” Bo Ge quickly responded.
For Bo Ge, this was a common sense question that was practically giving away points. Any question from a high school mock exam in his past life would have been harder than this!
[Congratulations to “Mimi” for the correct answer, team score 5.]
Accompanied by congratulations, the bubble containing their team lit up, displaying a clear “5” on it.
As the first bubble to light up among one hundred teams, it attracted extra attention. Many spectators cast their gazes towards this bubble and were surprised to find that the captain inside, it seemed, was the human who had recently become famous throughout the galaxy for crying so loudly after a breakup!
Danmaku quickly floated past the spectator seats.
[Flying Pig Girl: Oh my, isn’t this my little human buddy? Go for it, buddy!]
[Arotai: Humans are amazing, the first correct answer!]
[Miaosauce: Truly emerged from the shadow of heartbreak, rooting for humans, go!]
[Question Two: Why is the Earth referred to as the “Blue Planet?”]
The orange cat’s eyes lit up. “Because there’s a lot of water?”
[Please provide a specific description.]
“Because 71% of the Earth’s surface is covered by oceans, and 29% is land, so when viewed from space, Earth appears blue, hence the name ‘Blue Planet’!” Bo Ge quickly answered. This was a geography question, the simplest geography question.
[Congratulations to “GuGu wings” for answering correctly, team score 5.]
“I didn’t expect that,” Fange Zongji looked at Bo Ge with some surprise. “You’re a straight-A student.”
“No, I’m not,” Bo Ge waved his hand repeatedly. “I just happen to know a little more about Earth.”
Over a dozen questions in a row were about Earth, ranging from the obliquity to climate distribution, and even to Earth’s atmospheric layers. They were all geography questions that Bo Ge had studied and memorized before, and they posed no difficulty at all!
The orange cat looked at Bo Ge, who answered fluently, with admiration. On the spectator seats, a barrage of comments floated by.
[OnTimeEater: Humans are so amazing, they really know a lot about our ancestral planet!]
[Querobot: And his expression is so relaxed. Look, the human team has a very high score, tied for first place with the research institute’s team!]
[Moonless: The team sent by the Cosi Institute, I even saw Dr. Hubo!]
The large screen next to them showed the teams’ scores, and Gugu glanced at it out of the corner of his eye. His team seemed to be tied for first place with another team, both with perfect scores. The teams below had only missed one question, but they were still very close behind.
[Question 18: The following is an area of the planet detected by a gamma-ray spectrometer. Please provide a simple analysis.]
On a chart were various colors and several white lines. Below was a color bar, ranging from deep blue to red, marked from 0.5 to 12.4, resembling the topographical maps Bo Ge had studied before. But Gugu knew very well that this was definitely not topography.
Frowning tightly, Bo Ge tried hard to see something from it, but he really gained nothing.
Whenever he encountered a difficult problem, Bo Ge wanted to bite the end of his pen, but unfortunately, there was nothing for Gugu to bite now.
“This looks like a map of temperature distribution,” Fange Zongji strategized. “Could it be indicating temperature?”
“It definitely isn’t,” Amber pointed to the color bar. “The color legend ranges from a minimum of 0.5 to a maximum of 12.4. It doesn’t seem like it’s talking about temperature.”
“What could it be, meow?” The orange cat held its head in its paws. “This cat can’t understand it at all.”
Bo Ge looked at the screen, where the research institute’s team had already answered this question, firmly holding onto first place, surpassing Gugu’s team.
There was less than 30 seconds left to answer, but Gugu
didn’t have any clues.
Indeed, he had studied too little. Bo Ge felt a bit disappointed. If he had read more books here and checked more information, he might have known more.
Barrage comments continued to float by in the spectator seats.
[DaDaDaGreen: What is this chart? Why do they need to use a gamma-ray spectrometer to measure it? I’ve never seen it before. Only people from the research institute would know, right?]
[ZzzBombAttack: Yeah, look, only the doctoral team from the research institute answered it, and the other teams didn’t get any points.]
[Liushu: It’s a pity. Humans actually answered very well, but compared to the professionals, there’s still a gap.]
“A map of the distribution of super-hot neutron quantities on planets.”
Bo Ge heard the deep yet pleasant voice behind him.
“Red indicates high levels, blue indicates low levels. Super-hot neutrons are efficiently moderated by hydrogen atoms, so the lower the quantity of super-hot neutrons, the higher the concentration of hydrogen. The areas marked by the white lines show deep blue areas where there is subsurface water ice.”
Everyone looked at the man in surprise.
[Congratulations to “Mimi” for answering correctly, team score 5.]
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