There is no guarantee for the lottery? So what?

#288 - Chapter 288 Dog Nose

After Zhang Ke transformed, the vision from every eye on each of his tentacles flooded his mind, causing him to feel extremely dizzy every time he transformed.

It felt strange enough to have even one extra organ on his body, let alone so many eyes all at once.

So many overlapping fields of vision scrambled his entire brain.

He practiced countless times, but he just couldn't get used to this situation.

To that end, Zhang Ke had even specially customized a super-stretchable anti-dizziness headband, so it wouldn't fall off during his transformations, but the effect of this thing wasn't as great as he'd imagined.

He wasn't dizzy anymore, but the vision was still a mess, and he still couldn't find the target he wanted to see, relying only on his sense of touch to perceive things.

Moreover, his transformation just now was too large, and the super-stretchable anti-dizziness headband had disappeared into the sea somewhere.

"One-Dog, find my headband for me."

"Okay."

Gou Yigou had just finished mopping the wet floor and then manifested his dog nose.

"Heaven and earth are boundless, track for ten thousand miles!"

Sniff ~

Sniff sniff ~

It's over there!

"It's hanging on the turbine under the boat. I'll turn off the engine for you; go get it."

Although Gou Yigou's tracking ability manifested as smelling with his nose, it was actually a causal skill. Anything he had smelled before, he could find again within ten thousand miles.

When close, it showed the location; when far, it showed the direction.

"OK, I'll go get it. Your dog nose is really amazing."

An ordinary anti-dizziness headband costs 100 points, let alone his enhanced version for 102 points. He'd be losing out big time if he didn't go get it.

After Zhang Ke went out through the window, Gou Yigou asked Wen Jing, who was holding her phone and watching a game livestream in the boat:

"Teacher Wen, were those thorn gulls attracted here artificially?"

Wen Jing put down her phone and retorted:

"Why do you think so?"

"Because, although thorn gulls are inherently brutal and even like to torture other animals, they are still relatively cowardly. They will run away when they encounter creatures they can't defeat.

Even in groups, they will scatter and flee the battle after the number of their dead exceeds one-tenth, instead of attacking so frantically like this, not even caring about their own lives."

Gou Yigou continued to analyze:

"The number we've killed is already 20%, but they don't show any signs of retreating, instead becoming more and more ferocious. So, I became suspicious. If something wasn't influencing them, they wouldn't be so brave."

"Isn't that the main reason you became suspicious?"

Hearing Wen Jing's question, Gou Yigou chuckled:

"Well, actually, the main reason is that I smelled a strange smell. Although it was faint, I still smelled it."

His nose had become very sensitive since he gained his superpower. He could identify any smell normally, but precisely because of this, he was often stimulated by intense smells. So, he added a smell limiter to his nose, which could only be removed by actively taking it off or transforming.

Although he limited a lot, he could still smell more odors than a normal person. When he woke up just now, he smelled a faint stench.

So, he unlocked the limiter on his nose.

The stench was overwhelming!

A strong smell poured into his nasal cavity, making his nose tingle, so he turned the limiter back on.

But he saw that no one else smelled this smell, so Gou Yigou guessed that this smell was specifically used to attract the thorn gulls and drive them crazy.

Wen Jing took out a small metal ball from her pocket:

"Your nose is really sharp, and so is your mind.

That's right, these thorn gulls are a checkpoint in your trial. Those smells were released by me using this little ball. Since you've discovered it, then this scent ball that attracts thorn gulls is yours. It can still be used for half an hour."

Another job of the safety personnel was to create random checkpoints in the trials.

The randomness mentioned here is not the safety personnel's improvisation, but rather the random drawing of checkpoints from the checkpoint library that the team will experience before the start of the trial.

Coincidentally, Wen Jing drew this thorn gull scent ball.

In fact, this checkpoint is considered one of the most combat-intensive ones. Those hundreds of thorn gulls would be difficult for any team to deal with.

It's just that they were unlucky. Wen Jing didn't expect there to be so many thorn gulls around this area. If only one thorn gull was wandering in this area, they wouldn't even need to use any effort to pass this checkpoint easily.

"Half an hour, damn, who can withstand that?"

Gou Yigou originally thought that ten minutes was the limit, but he didn't expect it to last for half an hour. Which team is so capable!

Wen Jing said: "Luck, strength, financial resources, and brains can all pass this checkpoint."

Luck is that there are no thorn gulls around, strength is to kill all the thorn gulls, financial resources is to have strong ship defense equipment, and brains is to submerge the ship like Gou Yigou did.

"That's true. It's a good thing we have a carapace sea egg boat that can dive and saved our lives," Gou Yigou said thankfully.

If it were a normal small wooden boat like Qi Jing's, he didn't know how they would persevere. The boat would probably be torn to shreds.

"Jumping into the water is also an option, but the things on the boat wouldn't be safe," Wen Jing threw the small ball in her hand to Gou Yigou.

Seeing Wen Jing preparing to pick up her phone again, Gou Yigou asked:

"Teacher Wen, what checkpoint did Qi Jing's team draw?"

"The checkpoint they drew is even more difficult than yours."

Wen Jing suddenly laughed, not knowing what she was thinking of:

"If Qi Jing doesn't take action, Little Cen Xi will lose to me ~"

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"Teacher Cen, is it really okay for you to tell us about the random checkpoints?"

On Qi Jing's side, Cen Xi was telling them about the upcoming trials.

Cen Xi waved her hand when she heard Qi Jing's question:

"It's okay, you're going to encounter them sooner or later anyway. It doesn't matter whether I tell you or not."

Yan Cheng said:

"Then teacher, can you go easy on us?"

"Don't worry, I will go easy on you."

Hearing Cen Xi's guarantee, everyone except Qi Jing breathed a sigh of relief.

But seeing Teacher Cen Xi's confident expression, Qi Jing always felt that the 'going easy' she was talking about wasn't what they meant.

Miao Kui asked: "Teacher, when will the checkpoint that tests our abilities come?"

Knowing there's a checkpoint but not knowing when it will come is really too uncomfortable.

If this unknown checkpoint appears after tomorrow, Miao Kui won't be able to use Naberal's power.

Cen Xi held a chicken leg in her hand, took a big bite, and said:

"I don't know, I didn't arrange this checkpoint."

After saying that, she put the remaining chicken leg in her mouth and rotated it once. When she took it out again, only the bone remained, and not even a shred of meat could be seen.

They originally suspected that Teacher Cen Xi was pretending not to know, but after seeing this scene, they all felt that it seemed... quite normal that she didn't know.