Chapter 78: The Second Test Begins
He looked at he result which said boldly. "87%" Out of the results he had expected to get he did not expect to get more than eighty percent but it appeared that he was a bit more competent than he initially thought. In the moments that followed those that failed to pass the threshold were disqualified with immediate effect.
Alto was sure that the number of people that started the comoetition were nearing the tens of thousands but surprisingly it had been thinned down to about two thousand or so. He grimaced at the thought that he could be disqualified in an instant.
The young woman in charge of the test snapped her fingers causing the room to turn a bright white. "If you’re feeling pleased with yourselves for reaching this far then you need a mental check. For your second test the hologram of three mech parts will be displayed before each one of you, you are to simply to disassemble them and identify their power coupling system and internal systems, and identify the flaws in the system. For this you will have forty five minutes."
And just like that she started the test without any warning or word of encouragement. Alto got to work immediately, not wanting to be disqualified for even the slightest slip up. The first metal part was a transmitter unit, he went through it as quickly a she could, inspecting it for flaws was easy with the help of the designer’s eye which had come to become one of his most useful tools as of recent. The second mech part he worked on was a laser guidance system, and the third was not a mech piece but a code which he had to find the flaw in. By the time they had used up the time given to them and the results came out Alto found himself to have passed, the number of people left was barely nearing a thousand.
It was here that the real test began.
The young woman that was in charge it their test sighed and said. "Follow me to your next testing ground, it’s time to get practical."
They all followed her quietly down a hall to a huge work room with many 3d printers lying around and materials on the table. A young man waited for them in the room standing by one of the 3D printers in the room and typing into his wrist comm device, on seeing the young woman he waved at her and gave a very heartwarming smile. "Hey Nix, done already? I thought I still had an hour."
Nix walked up to him and said with stark indifference. "I tried to thin them out but it seems a lot of them made it, unfortunately."
The young man chuckled. "Yes it seems, I wonder if any of them is going to surprise me."