A Guide to Surviving the Mysterious Dungeon and the Twelve Talismans

Chapter 161 Something's Wrong, Tianheng Division Expands Recruitment by 10,000

The next morning, Zhou An led a few people to the Tianheng Division headquarters in the outer city.

Today is Tianheng Company's annual recruitment assessment, which is being held at Tianheng Company's headquarters.

Almost every team that is short of manpower will send someone over.

Putting aside everything else, just in their Zone 1 area, all five groups sent people.

However, Zhou An, as the group leader, came in person, while the other groups only sent their members.

The headquarters of Tianheng Division is very large and grand, located in the central urban area of ​​the entire outer city.

When Zhou An entered the Tianheng Division headquarters, it was bustling with noise.

Wang Hai and Li San knew that Zhou An was a newcomer, so they took him directly to the viewing area.

This is on the second floor, and there is a large glass wall in front of it.

Standing in front of the glass, you can see the assessment area below.

Each group member has one spot per year.

During the recruitment assessment, you can select those who did not pass the assessment but were still considered.

This spot can be used to directly recruit them.

Of course, it's not like we can just hire anyone.

There are three stages in the assessment. Only those who pass the first two stages are eligible to be recruited using the available positions.

To be honest, those with high potential have already been reserved.

Just like Liu Yu before, even though she had been recruited by Yan Ling, she still needed to come here for the assessment.

This is the procedure.

As for Zhou An, he was truly an exceptional case among exceptional cases.

The assessment began soon.

The first test is a series of physical measurements.

The second test is an ability test.

The third test is the potential test.

The first challenge involves three-dimensional attributes; at least one attribute must exceed 90 points.

What does this mean?

An ordinary person has about 10 attribute points, and needs 90 points, which means they need nine times the strength of an ordinary person.

The second stage is an ability test.

This stage is arguably the most important.

Whether they are martial artists, superhumans, enhanced humans, or modified humans.

Go straight to the arena to fight.

There were high-level experts acting as referees, as well as high-level healers and doctors waiting on the sidelines.

In battle, life and death are irrelevant; one can kill without hesitation.

A high-level expert will assess the situation and, if the opponent is certain to die from being hit, will immediately intervene to stop them and then declare victory.

For over a hundred years, whenever the Tianheng Division recruited new members, the number of deaths in the second stage was zero.

The number of applicants this year is very high, exceeding 100,000.

Almost everyone who is recommended to register is confident in themselves.

Nine out of ten people can pass the first stage.

In the second stage, after the battle, about a thousand people will remain.

As for the third level, it is actually the simplest.

Go into a small, dark room and wear it for ten minutes.

Whether it passed or not, I don't know how it was judged.

Anyway, Zhou An didn't know, and it couldn't be found online.

Finally, a rating from S to F will be given.

Only those with a rating of D or higher will be recruited; the higher the rating, the greater the potential.

We'll recruit as many people as there are who pass the test.

However, to be honest, those with high scores are usually chosen by the most capable team leaders or group leaders.

A team leader like Zhou An would probably only be able to pick and choose what others don't want.

However, Zhou An didn't care; he just wanted to gather everyone together.

"Team leader, are we recruiting eight new people today?" Wang Hai asked, leaning closer to Zhou An.

"Mm." Zhou An nodded.

"We have a lot of vacancies, so we just hope that more people will pass this time," Li San said softly.

"Hmm? Is there going to be a shortage of staff?" Zhou An asked curiously.

"Yes, under normal circumstances, two to three hundred people can join Tianheng Division each year."

"Two or three hundred people seem like a lot, but when they are distributed among various brigades and departments, the number becomes pitifully small."

“Group Three, for example, is almost never full. They can only recruit one new person from the second round each year,” Li San said.

"Is that so? Then why can't we choose first? Why do we have to wait until everyone else has chosen before we can choose?" Zhou An frowned.

"There's a reason for this; it's based on the proportion of cases we complete each year."

“Take our District 1 brigade for example. This year, our case completion rate ranks 28th. We have to wait until the top 27 brigades have finished their selections before we can make our own,” Wang Hai said.

"How many battalions does our Tianheng Division in the outer city have in total?" Zhou An asked without changing his expression.

"Thirty brigades."

Well, their District 1 team is actually third from the bottom.

"If that's the case, with only two or three hundred people each year, won't we eventually be unable to recruit anyone at all?" Zhou An frowned.

"That's right, so they gave us a fixed number of spots to choose from."

"Of course, the number of people recruited cannot exceed the configuration. Each group, excluding the group leader, has a total of twenty people."

"Hopefully it will be our turn," Wang Hai shook his head.

"This is really troublesome," Zhou An sighed.

In fact, Yanling's father is the director of the Tianheng Division in the outer city. Whenever Yanling speaks, he can always choose first.

However, Yanling didn't have that much face. With his performance ranking third from the bottom, he didn't have the face to forcefully ask for people.

"By the way, the second level involves combat. How do those healing-type ability users fight against others?" Zhou An asked curiously.

"Healing-type ability users are not needed. Once their abilities are confirmed, they can be recruited directly into Tianheng Si."

“If you can find someone outside with healing abilities, as long as their identity and background are not problematic, you can directly bring them into Tianheng Division,” Li San explained.

"Understood." Zhou An nodded.

"By the way, didn't you say there were 100,000 people who signed up? Looking around, there are probably only 10,000 at most," Zhou An said, scanning the crowd below.

"There are 100,000 people. This is just one of the assessment sites. There are a total of ten assessment sites, each with about 10,000 people."

Zhou An nodded upon hearing this.

Time passed by, minute by minute.

There are ten assessment venues, and each assessment venue has one hundred assessment points.

The speed is astonishing.

The first round of assessments was completed in just one morning.

Then came the battle in the second stage.

But before the battle could begin, a notification was issued.

This time, they're launching a massive expansion of recruitment.

The second round recruits the top 10,000 people.

Once the second stage is completed, all of them will be recruited into the Tianheng Division.

The third test is still required, but it will not be used as a basis for recruitment.

"Holy crap, what big thing is going to happen? In previous years, they only recruited two or three hundred people, but now they're expanding to ten thousand?"

"I remember that the entire Tianheng Division in the outer city only has about ten thousand people, right?"

Wang Hai and Li San were both utterly horrified.

Some of the Tianheng Division staff around also sensed that something big was about to happen, and immediately called their superiors to inquire.

Zhou An was no exception; he immediately took out his phone and dialed Yan Ling's number.

"Zhou An? Why are you calling me? I remember today is the Tianheng Division's assessment, right? Are you at the Tianheng Division headquarters right now?" Yan Ling's voice came through.

Upon hearing this, Zhou An wondered if the Word Spirit was unaware of the expansion of recruitment.

"Captain Yan, has something major changed? This time, Tianheng Division is directly recruiting 10,000 new people..." Zhou An explained.

"What? Ten thousand more students will be admitted? I haven't heard anything about that."

"Wait, let me make a call and ask. I'll get back to you later." Yan Ling immediately hung up the phone.

As Zhou An listened to the other people around him making phone calls, it seemed that, like him, their superiors had not received the news either.

It is obvious that this expansion of recruitment is entirely temporary, with orders issued directly from headquarters by higher-ups.

Looking at the applicants below who had also received the notification, they were all incredibly excited.

The intensity of the battles that followed increased by an order of magnitude.