Just Discharged From the Military and Got Tied Down by A Cold Beauty
Chapter 204: Get to the Top in Three Seconds

Chapter 204: Chapter 204: Get to the Top in Three Seconds

Under the gaze of everyone present, Lu Xiao entered the talent testing machine.

Inside was a very narrow space, and when the hatch of the talent machine closed, a row of small lights lit up and even soothing music began to play.

"They’ve made it quite user-friendly," Lu Xiao muttered to himself.

After all, not everyone who is a Heavenly Man is immune to claustrophobia...

The lights and music could slightly alleviate the symptoms.

Next, Lu Xiao felt a weak current passing through his body, a tingling sensation.

It must be starting the test.

At the same time, the display outside the talent machine also began to show numbers.

The value soared, directly to 500.

The people present didn’t find this surprising, given that Lu Xiao had just demonstrated his strength, which was at the Inner Strength level of a Heavenly Man Second Rank.

Since he was at the Second Rank of Heavenly Man, it naturally started from 500.

But the next second, everyone’s eyes went round with shock.

The second jump of the value shot straight to four digits.

Seeing 1200 on the panel, even Liuli Hong couldn’t help but swallow hard.

to 2000 is the exceptional Talent Value interval for the Second Stage of Heavenly Man.

Since the inception of this talent machine, this was a value many Heavenly Men could only dream of reaching.

Then looking at Lu Xiao, he reached it in just one second.

"Beep..." The next second, the display jumped again, to 1700.

"Beep!" The third second, the value changed again, to 2000.

"Holy shit!" The higher-ups of the Seventeenth Bureau couldn’t hold back, all buzzing in their heads from the shock.

Three seconds! Three seconds to reach the maximum Talent Value for the Second Stage of Heavenly Man.

"Team Leader Luli, this..." Goo Yuexing turned to Liuli Hong.

Liuli Hong spread his hands: "Don’t ask me, I have no idea, it’s preposterous, I’ve never seen anything like it."

"Team Leader Luli, I was thinking... could I trouble you with something?" After thinking for a few seconds, Goo Yuexing spoke again.

"You want me to protect Lu Xiao?" Liuli Hong had apparently guessed Goo Yuexing’s intention.

"Yes."

Goo Yuexing was very clear that Lu Xiao was no longer just a matter of importance for the Seventeenth Bureau, it was about the Bureau’s future.

With Lu Xiao’s talent, his advancement to the Third Stage of Heavenly Man was a sure thing.

What worried Goo Yuexing most was the possibility of Lu Xiao being killed before he reached the Third Stage.

Even if they kept it a secret, Lu Xiao’s talent would eventually be obtained by those foreign organizations dealing with Mutations. When that happened, they would most likely go mad and send assassins after Lu Xiao.

"But Lu Xiao comes from the Goo Clan; he should technically join the Xuanwu Group," noted Liuli Hong.

"I’m the leader of the Azure Dragon Group, that wouldn’t be appropriate," Liuli Hong remarked, smacking his lips.

Goo Yuexing rolled his eyes; what hogwash about being inappropriate.

Just say you want to poach Lu Xiao to the Azure Dragon Group, why beat around the bush.

"What if Lu Xiao joined the Azure Dragon Group?" Goo Yuexing asked.

A gleam of excitement flashed in Liuli Hong’s eyes: "I’d even be his personal bodyguard."

"Done."

...

Lu Xiao’s Talent Value did not exceed 2000, instead, the machine kept dinging crazily at the number 2000 for a whole minute, as if the talent machine was about to break from it.

After all, the setting of the talent machine was like this.

For the Second Stage of Heavenly Man, the highest value was two thousand.

Only when the Inner Strength reached the Third Stage of Heavenly Man would the value break through two thousand.

Click...

The talent machine opened, and Lu Xiao came out as if escaping for his life, then clutching his head, he began to shake it repetitively.

"Holy crap, what kind of ghost device is this, why was it dinging non-stop, my head is killing me," Lu Xiao complained as soon as he emerged.

Of course, everyone else was rolling their eyes.

Enough already, Lu Xiao; when will you stop showing off.

"Tsk, 2000, not bad," Lu Xiao glanced back at the value and then nodded with satisfaction.

"Well then, let’s proceed to the second test," the person in charge of the testing announced, somewhat unable to stand Lu Xiao’s braggart behavior, and declared the start of the next item.

"The second test, the upper limit."

"According to the Seventeenth Bureau’s research on Heavenly Men over the years, we’ve summarized some experiences."

"In general, the meridian expansion of the human body is positively correlated with the realm one can eventually achieve."

"Thus, to test the upper limit, gentlemen, you can roughly understand this as testing meridian expansion," explained the tester.

After that, the tester looked at Lu Xiao again: "A high Talent Value doesn’t necessarily mean high meridian expansion, so if the test results aren’t as expected, I hope everyone can maintain a calm mind."

"Let’s follow the same order as before for the testing, please proceed one by one."