Chapter 545 The Second Even
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Over a dozen arrows were released almost simultaneously, creating a spectacle scene.
A second later, these arrows attached themselves to the 500-meter target without a single one of them missing, and half of these arrows managed to hit the red.
However, these participants didn’t have any time to look at the results and immediately began preparing for the second shot.
Three minutes passed in a flash, and the instructor blew the whistle, signaling the end of the first event.
The instructors then went to look at the targets and tallied the points.
A few minutes later, the results were in.
"Look! As expected, Jenny got first place with three perfect shots at the 500-meter target!"
"There are 6 people at second place, huh. Not bad."
"What’s Me— Feng’s position in the ranking?" Yuan asked Wang Ming, as he wasn’t able to see the scoreboard with his divine sense.
"Feng? Let me see... She’s ranked 15 out of 20. She got three hits on the 500-meter, but none of them had hit the red." Wang Ming answered his question despite thinking that it was a weird question.
After all, can’t he see the scores himself?
A few minutes later, the instructor gathered the participants in another location where the second event would take place, and there was a lot of tall grass in that place.
"For the second event, you will be shooting moving targets at around 100 meters. Do you see this tall field of grass? There are machines hidden inside that will be throwing apples into the air every single, and you will receive 1 point for every apple you hit in a time limit of 1 minute."
"These machines will also throw small red marbles into the air, and if you hit these targets, you will receive 3 points instead."
"There will be no practice for this event."
Once the instructor explained the rules of the event, she called one of the participants onto the stage and gave her a minute to mentally prepare herself.
The whistle was blown a minute later, and the participant immediately raised her bow, shooting arrows at the apples that were being tossed into the air by the machines hidden within the grass.
It was unknown how many machines were hidden in the grass, but the apples would always be tossed at a different location.
And there would be a small marble the size of a pebble being thrown into the air after every few apples.
Although they were hard to hit, it wasn’t impossible, and the participant managed to hit one of them during her minute-long session that exploded into tiny red fragments.
"31 points!" The instructor announced at the end of her session.
Once that participant left the stage, another one entered the stage.
"28 points!" The instructor announced a minute later.
"34 points!"
"33 points!"
"29 points!"
"51 points!"
"As expected of Xiao Mi, who is renowned for her fast shooting. Although she isn’t good at long-range shooting, she’s probably the best when it comes to rapid-firing with the bow, and her accuracy is very good as well."
The spectators commented as they watched the participants shoot apples and marbles.
A dozen names later, it was finally Meixiu’s turn to enter the stage.
Once she was on the stage, Meixiu took a minute to calm and clear her mind.
The moment the whistle was blown, she raised her bow and started shooting arrows every second, surprising the crowd.
"Wow! Looks like Xiao Mi isn’t the only one who’s good a rapid-fire! Who’s that participant?! I don’t recognize that person! And what is with the mask?"
"You don’t know? That’s Player Yuan’s caretaker, Feng."
"What? Really? No wonder... I guess it does require some skills to be Player Yuan’s caretaker."
Although the spectators were surprised at first, once they learned that Meixiu was Yuan’s caretaker, they were no longer as surprised.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Meixiu kept shooting her bow almost every second until the whistle was blown.
"60 points!"
The instructor announced.
"Wow, that’s even better than Xiao Mi. How many marbles did she hit? I counted 7."
"Yeah, she’d hit 7."
The second event finished half an hour later, and Meixiu had achieved first place, boosting her total rank to number 7.
"Wow, your caretaker is very talented. Where did you find someone like her?" Wang Ming asked Yuan.
"Who knows..." Yuan responded with a smile behind his mask.
Sometime later, the instructors gathered the participants again at the third location, which was a large but weirdly made platform, and it sort of resembled a treadmill.
"This is the movable platform. Watch."
The instructor pressed a button, and the stage immediately started moving one way like a treadmill.
"You will need to shoot your targets while standing on this platform. Moreover, your targets will be moving as well."
The instructor pointed to the field about 150 meters away, and there were human-figured targets moving left and right in a rhythmic manner.
"There are two targets, one at 150 meters and the other at 300 meters. You get 2 points if you hit the 150-meter target, 3 points if you hit the 300-meter, and like the first event, you will get double points if you hit the red."
"You will get 5 shots in total for this event with 1 minute for each shot, and the timer will not begin until the whistle blows."
Once again, every participant got a minute to mentally prepare themselves, and once the event began, the treadmill-like stage started moving, and it would gradually move faster after each shot.
When the treadmill stage reached a desirable speed, the instructor blew the whistle, signaling the beginning of the event.
The participant did not immediately shoot and took a moment to familiarize herself with the stage.
Half a minute later, she drew her bow and aimed it at the 300-meter target.
Whoosh!
The arrow flew straight at the target, hitting it square in the chest, but it missed the red by an inch.
Five minutes later, the instructor blew the whistle and said, "17 points!"