Stellar Drift: When the Stars Turn to Ash

Chapter Seven: Surprising Everyone with the Hypoxic Test

"Buzz!"

With the activation of the hypoxic pressure chamber, the low-frequency vibration of the machine immediately attracted everyone's attention.

Outside the twenty hypoxic pressure chambers, twenty soldiers closely monitored the students inside.

And in the preparation area, the remaining students of Class Two, Senior Year, stared intently at the pressure chambers in the assessment area without blinking.

Time passed second by second. A minute that usually passed in the blink of an eye seemed exceptionally long at this moment.

When a minute had passed, none of the twenty hypoxic pressure chambers had lit up the surrender indicator.

Then, one minute thirty seconds, one minute forty seconds, one minute fifty seconds!

Finally, at one minute and fifty-five seconds, the pressure chamber numbered 17 lit up red first!

The soldier guarding the pressure chamber quickly pressed the stop button. About a minute later, the door of the chamber slowly opened.

A young girl with a flushed face walked out of the pressure chamber. After asking about her time, the girl immediately showed a look of disappointment.

According to the assessment standards, the qualifying time for this underwater breath-holding assessment project was three minutes.

The girl's time was obviously not enough, which meant her first assessment had failed directly.

Although it was only one project failure, it was enough to determine that the girl was not an Awakened individual.

Within a minute after the first girl pressed the light, seven more people pressed the lights one after another.

Like that girl, these seven people were also eliminated.

Finally, twelve students passed this project in the first batch.

The best performer was Zhang Xie, who stayed in the pressure chamber for four minutes and thirty-two seconds, the first in the first round of assessment.

"Second batch, enter the pressure chamber! Remember, press the light if you can't hold on!"

Like the first batch of students, Lin Ning and his classmates entered the pressure chambers with the same prompt.

Lin Ning, who was at the end of the line, unexpectedly entered pressure chamber number twenty.

The entire pressure chamber immediately became quiet. In the vacuum environment, sound could not be transmitted.

In the oxygen-free pressure chamber, waves of pressure began to squeeze Lin Ning's body from all directions.

This feeling was as if the whole person was being pressed by two steel blocks weighing hundreds of kilograms.

Making it even more difficult for the examinees who couldn't breathe in the first place.

But Lin Ning, inside the pressure chamber, didn't care about the pressure coming from all around.

Although the pressure chamber continuously applied pressure to him in the oxygen-free environment.

Lin Ning's face remained as usual.

In the oxygen-free environment, his body began to adjust itself autonomously.

This was the change that had occurred in Lin Ning's body after awakening the Wolf's Body.

The Wolf's Body, this special physique, could help Lin Ning make optimal adjustments in different extreme environments.

For example, now, in the oxygen-free environment, Lin Ning's blood and heartbeat were extremely slow, completing the full range of life functions.

At the peak of his physical ability in his previous life, Lin Ning could withstand a pressure of one ton for nearly twenty minutes.

The pressure weight now was at most fifty kilograms.

Although Lin Ning had only awakened the Wolf's Body two hours ago, with his current physical condition, passing the test was still more than enough.

Time passed second by second, and Lin Ning waited quietly.

But in the examination field, pressure chambers had begun to light up red.

"Someone can't hold on anymore. I bet it's Lin Ning!"

When he saw the pressure chamber light up, the students who had completed the first batch of assessments all turned their attention to the lit pressure chamber.

In their minds, the one who couldn't hold on was definitely Lin Ning.

In the first batch of tests, Zhang Xie, who had the best score, was even beaming, "I'm sure only that waste, Lin Ning, would give up in such a short time!"

Zhang Xie's voice drew a chorus of agreement from the surrounding students.

After all, no one wanted to be surpassed by a classmate who only knew how to sleep.

But they obviously forgot that Lin Ning, being the last in line, would only enter pressure chamber number 20.

The chamber.

Watching the female figure who finally walked out of the pressure chamber, the crowd who had been preparing to mock Lin Ning were all stunned.

They looked at each other in disbelief, staring at the familiar female classmate, "It... it wasn't Lin Ning?"

"Wow, Lin Ning wasn't the last one!"

Everyone was incredulous.

They couldn't believe that the waste they knew would be able to hold on for so long.

This result was something many people were unwilling to accept.

And Zhang Xie was the one who didn't want Lin Ning to hold on the most.

"It's okay, he just got lucky. The second one will be him!"

But Zhang Xie hadn't finished speaking when the second and third pressure chambers also lit up one after another, and two doors opened one after another, but it wasn't Lin Ning either.

Zhang Xie's judgment was abruptly interrupted.

This made him widen his eyes, "How is that possible? That guy can hold on for so long?"

As time passed, when the number of remaining pressure chambers decreased and more and more people left.

The entire assessment field, the students of Class Two, Senior Year, began to become agitated.

At this time, it had already reached four minutes, and only four people in the entire class had reached this time.

And one of them was the well-known "Sleep God" waste, Lin Ning.

Thinking that Lin Ning could hold on for so long, they were all speechless.

Could sleeping increase cardiopulmonary function?

"Brother Soldier, look carefully, is my classmate already unconscious and unable to press the light?"

Among everyone, Zhang Xie was the most anxious.

His score in the pressure chamber was four minutes and thirty-two seconds, the first in the class.

But as Lin Ning continued to stay in the pressure chamber, his sense of crisis grew.

Thinking that his score as an Awakened individual was only slightly different from the assessment score of the waste in his eyes, Zhang Xie couldn't accept it.

Therefore, he was more willing to believe that Lin Ning had fainted in the pressure chamber.

But Zhang Xie's shout only received a stern glare and a silent gesture of warning from the soldier maintaining order.

Seeing the soldier's warning, Zhang Xie didn't dare to say anything more.

Time passed second by second. When the time reached four minutes and thirty seconds, Lin Ning's pressure chamber still hadn't lit up red.

And the soldier guarding the side of the pressure chamber didn't intend to press the button.

The entire crowd gradually became silent.

Although everyone didn't want to believe it, they knew in their hearts that Lin Ning had indeed held on longer than everyone else.

Finally, someone whispered, "Four minutes forty seconds, he surpassed Zhang Xie!"

This voice caused a low murmur of surprise throughout Class Two, Senior Year.

Even Zhang Xie's face twitched, not knowing what to say.

Finally, at the five-minute mark, the supervising soldier, worried about Lin Ning's safety in the pressure chamber, pressed the stop button himself.

Lin Ning's assessment time was finally over.

Looking at the assessment time reported by the three assessors, the pupils of everyone in Class Two, Senior Year, shrank.

Such an excellent assessment score appeared on the recognized waste, how was this possible?

However, at this moment, the door of pressure chamber number 20 finally opened.

In the complex gazes of everyone, Lin Ning walked out of the pressure chamber with a clear expression and a normal complexion.

Looking at his relaxed appearance, everyone present had an idea in their hearts.

"Could it be that this Sleep God is an Awakened individual?"

Although this idea was a bit absurd and boring, unknowingly, most people in the field began to have this assumption.

And as this idea emerged.

Everyone's recognition of this idea gradually deepened.

After all, losing to an Awakened individual was better than losing to a waste.

With this thought, everyone's gaze towards Lin Ning began to change."