As Zuo Wenyao gave the order, the technicians quickly got to work.

Before long, a Points leaderboard materialized on the holographic projection in the Central hall.

This leaderboard wasn’t just visible here; it would also be synced to every cadet’s Communication Wristwatch.

This allowed everyone to check their rankings in real time, fueling their sense of urgency.

When the leaderboard appeared, Zuo Wenyao glanced up, and his normally placid expression instantly froze.

It wasn’t just him. Lü Wei and the other officers nearby also looked stunned after getting a clear look at the leaderboard’s contents.

"Is there something wrong with the data on this leaderboard? Double-check it," Zuo Wenyao said, his voice tinged with anger after snapping out of his stupor.

He hadn’t expected the military to make a mistake on something like this.

Lü Wei felt a little disgraced as well. His own first reaction upon seeing the numbers was that the data had to be wrong.

The reason was simple: from second place on down, the data was actually quite normal.

Second place had a total of 1,065 Points.

In three hours, that person had effectively killed 106 High Level Zombies.

A score like that was quite impressive and worthy of a top genius.

After all, this was the number of Zombies killed while conserving ammunition and Superpower energy.

Without those restrictions, it wouldn’t be surprising if that number was ten times higher or more.

Of course, even this wasn’t outside Zuo Wenyao’s expectations. If the top cadets from previous years were put in the same test, they would likely perform just as well.

The data for first place, however, was absurd. Utterly absurd.

13,640 Points.

This meant that in just three hours, Lin Xinghai had killed over 1,300 High Level Zombies.

Forget one of the Optimized, even a Blood Qi Realm expert probably couldn’t achieve a record like that.

That was why both Zuo Wenyao and Lü Wei’s first reaction to seeing that score was, ’The system must be broken.’

Lü Wei immediately called over Shi Wenjiang, the head of the information department, to ask what was going on.

"Reporting, sirs. I’ve repeatedly verified the data for the first-place examinee, Lin Xinghai. There are absolutely no issues," Shi Wenjiang stated with conviction.

This...

Zuo Wenyao and Lü Wei exchanged a glance, unconcealable shock in their eyes.

If the count was correct, then how could he have possibly killed so many High Level Zombies with limited ammunition and without being able to use his Superpower recklessly?

It would not only require completely overwhelming strength, but also an incredibly fast and efficient killing speed.

He’d have to be fast enough to kill with a single blow to take down that many High Level Zombies in just three short hours.

"Where’s his combat footage? Play it now." Zuo Wenyao suppressed his rampant thoughts. It was better to watch the video than to make wild guesses.

"Of course. Sirs, would you like to see his first-person perspective, the footage from his teammate’s Communication Wristwatch, or the combat video from our own surveillance cameras?" Shi Wenjiang inquired.

"Show us the surveillance footage," Zuo Wenyao said without a second thought.

Although the Communication Wristwatches had a recording function, their resolution wasn’t very high. It was good enough for confirming Points, but seeing every single movement clearly—especially from a top-tier genius—would be difficult.

"This is the longest continuous combat recording of his squad," Shi Wenjiang said as he pulled up a video.

At the start of the video, Zuo Wenyao and the others saw a horde of over 200 Zombies.

A horde of this size was definitely a rare sight in the city’s outer perimeter.

Encountering a horde of this size was an extremely troublesome situation. After all, the more Zombies there were, the longer it would take to annihilate them.

If they couldn’t wipe out the Zombies quickly and move on, the commotion from the battle would inevitably attract other hordes, trapping them in a cycle of fighting ever-increasing numbers of Zombies.

Normally, quickly annihilating 200 Zombies would require at least a hundred people. Even if the examinees were all geniuses, a group of fifty would be the minimum for a safe engagement.

After all, these examinees were constrained by their limited ammunition and Superpowers.

However, when the officers saw that Lin Xinghai’s squad only had four people, even a Divine Demon Realm expert like Zuo Wenyao, who had weathered countless storms, was taken aback.

Then he watched as the spear-wielding youth at the front of the squad saw the massive horde and, without a moment’s hesitation, charged straight at them—a group that outnumbered his own by an unknown multiple.

"What courage!" Lü Wei couldn’t help but exclaim in admiration.

Of course, that was because he had guessed this person was Lin Xinghai, the top-ranked examinee.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t be saying, "What courage!" He’d be saying, "He’s suicidal."

Just as Lin Xinghai was about to plunge into the horde, his Speed suddenly skyrocketed before their eyes. He seemed to leave an afterimage in his wake as his real body vanished into the mass of Zombies.

Instantly, countless flashes of his spear erupted. Wherever they passed, blood sprayed into the air.

Every Zombie that stood in his path, whether it was a High Level Zombie or an Ordinary Zombie, had a bloody hole punched through its head before it collapsed to the ground, dead.

"A Superpower? No, that’s also a Body Technique Martial Art, and a Profound Level one at that," Zuo Wenyao judged after watching for only a few moments.

Watching Lin Xinghai reap the lives of the Zombies at such an incredible speed, he no longer had any doubt as to how the young man had earned such a high score.

But a new question soon surfaced in his mind.

"Has he been using his Superpower to kill Zombies this whole time?" Zuo Wenyao asked Shi Wenjiang.

"No, sir. If the horde has fewer than fifty Zombies, he only uses his Body Technique to kill them."

"But as he pushed deeper, the hordes he encountered grew larger, and his use of his Superpower became more frequent. According to our statistics, he’s used his Superpower to resolve 70% of his engagements so far," Shi Wenjiang answered.

Lin Xinghai was a key person of interest for their information department, so Shi Wenjiang knew the young man’s situation like the back of his hand.

’To be able to use a Superpower for so long... Does that mean this examinee, Lin Xinghai, has mastered some kind of continuous-use Superpower with extremely low energy consumption?’

’No, that can’t be right. If it were a continuous-use Superpower, how could it produce such a burst of speed?’ Now, even a Divine Demon Realm expert like Zuo Wenyao was at a loss to understand what was happening.