Extraordinary Player

Chapter 31: Rename: Fruit Cutter

The Transcended Gamers in middle school, high school, and university were all still students. For them, the Parapsychology Association created a unique organization to manage all of them with a centralized system. They also decided to open up a new road for them to further studies.

The concept behind it was similar to students on sports scholarships and arts scholarships.

This meant that the extremely talented Transcended Gamers in middle school and high school could use this method to enter some of the National Key Universities in the country. They did not need to bother themselves with their academic results anymore.

The members of society such as employees of companies would be taken in by the organizations working under the Parapsychology Association. They would usually not be taken into the Parapsychology Association itself.

And all Transcended Gamers would be examined through a series of extremely complicated checks. Even the middle school students were not exempted.

When Qin Guan thought about it carefully, he understood the reason behind their actions—to prevent risks.

The students’ thought processes were rather simple compared to those of the adults. While the number of Transcended Gamers was still small, they were not rare. The Parapsychology Association was an organization whose members were carefully chosen. Since they could get plenty of suitable people from universities to work for them, there was no need for them to search for members from among adults.

After all, adults who had already joined the workforce had rather complicated pasts, so they would have to do a background check, which would be very troublesome. If some outlaw joined the organization by chance, they might cause very serious trouble.

While he did not know the reason behind it, Qin Guan could sense that the Parapsychology Association was very careful when it came to taking in new members. It could even be said that they were so meticulous that they were overcautious.

Middle school students and high school students were too young, and the background of working adults was too complicated, which was why the main target of the Parapsychology Association was university students.

University’s still provided the same function as in the original education system—they prepared children for society. This helped the Parapsychology Association choose talented people as well as divide them into their own people and those to be sent to the organizations working under them.

Organizations affiliated to Psychology Association brought Qin Guan a great shock when he first learned about them—they were clubs.

Among them were sports clubs and esports clubs.

Based on what Du Wei said, the Parapsychology Association originally had nothing to do with these clubs. One of them took care of matters related to the supernatural, and the other gathered adults to play soccer or teenagers addicted to enjoy online games. No matter how he looked at it, they could never deal with the same type of things.

However, once the mobile AI systems appeared, the two organizations became connected.

Based on the current trend, the people with greater talents in gaming were able to clear the trials easier and obtain the status of a Transcended Gamer.

In fact, it could be said that the trials were games that provided a very unique form of immersive experience. Athletes, martial artists, and especially professional gamers had a natural advantage in this area.

And where was the place where the greatest number of people with a talent in gaming gathered?

Where else but esports clubs?

Thus, since the Transcended Gamers appeared, a great change had happened within sports and esports clubs.

The teenagers addicted to online games who had set their sights on becoming professional gamers had found that they were incredibly talented in the trials provided by the system, and they all immersed themselves in the training to become Transcended Gamers.

Because of it, the management in the esports clubs was thrown into chaos. Their players no longer had any desire to train, so how were they supposed to fight in the professional tournaments?

Since these Transcended Gamers who gathered in one spot belonged to the group of people who were exceptionally talented, the Parapsychology Association had to take over and manage them.

Hence, the Parapsychology Association forcefully took over thes esports clubs, turning them into their affiliated organizations. The Transcended Gamers in the esports clubs continued staying in their place and shone there…

Of course, many conflicts had to have happened during this process, but based on the results, the Parapsychology Association had truly great power. The clubs had simply been unable to fight back.

Once Qin Guan finished listening to Du Wei’s explanation, he only had three words to say to them, “You’re awesome.”

The matter sounded like complete nonsense the first time he heard it, but when he thought about it, it made inexplicable sense. No one knew exactly what went wrong with the world for this sort of thing to happen.

Because of it, the big esports and sports clubs became an important force of the Parapsychology Association in bringing over Transcended Gamers from the society. This was how the task of controlling all Transcended Gamers in the country was accomplished.

In regards to this, Qin Guan could only say, “Awesome strategy. I’m impressed.”

Based on Du Wei’s words, once the students in the official class completed basic training, they would be delegated to the esports clubs to carry out missions. Those with exceptional results could even be directly transferred into the Parapsychology Association.

Qin Guan was unable to keep quiet and asked, [What sort of mission would we be doing? Catching ghosts?]

Du Wei ignored him…

Qin Guan felt fortunate that he asked the question in the chat group, because if he had asked that question in the man’s face, Du Wei might have hit him…

But Qin Guan was indeed puzzled. The Parapsychology Association mentioned that they conducted parapsychology investigations and dealt with the supernatural, so what exactly was their main job?

If it was truly capturing ghosts, Qin Guan would have to admit that his worldview, outlook on life, and values would be completely shattered. He could not accept it…

They definitely handled more important tasks.

…

With a savage expression on his face, Qin Guan swung his right hand.

The light reflecting off his fruit knife sliced through the pomegranate before him. Juice flew everywhere, and he felt as if he was truly in combat [1].

Qin Guan could tell that his right hand’s speed had reached its limit. In fact, it had gained indistinct afterimages.

He could not even tell how many times he cut the pomegranate. He just knew that if it was reality, the pomegranate could no longer be eaten by the time he was done with it.

It would be better if he just made it into fruit juice.

Finally, the pomegranate shone at the center, rays of light passing through the cuts on the fruit. Then, it exploded in the air.

Qin Guan’s score appeared at the center of the ground—3,007.

“Yes!”

Qin Guan nearly knelt on the ground. He had finally did it!

‘Lord knows what I went through over the past few days…’

Qin Guan felt that if he continued with this torture, he would become abnormal. When he saw the fruits in the real world, he would be unable to help himself but want to cut them…

From the initial fifty-nine points, he had made it to the hundreds, then a thousand, and finally, a little over three thousand. It was just a little over the passing mark, but Qin Guan felt as if he had exploited himself to the limit.

‘How did the pro manage to score full marks? This is practically an unsolvable mystery.’

However, Qin Guan did feel like he had learned many things.

He could not just swing his arm around in the highly-difficult hack-and-slash game. There was a high requirement on his reaction speed, footsteps, slicing motion, the way he attacked, accuracy, and on many other factors if he wanted to score high.

Qin Guan felt that if he did not intentionally imitate the movements of the pro from the battle records, he might not have even made it to 1,000 points by then.

Those movements did not just increase his accuracy and speed, but also improved his whole attack process.

It was all thanks to the training that Qin Guan had managed to hit Du Wei’s face even though there was such a huge difference in levels between them.

Upon completing 60% of the trial, Qin Guan happily opened the reward page.

It was the same as before. The system still told him that he could only receive the rewards later on. This was within his expectations, so he just needed to quietly wait until the rewards were unlocked. After all, the others hadn’t received them as well.

The rewards were there for the taking, so he would receive them sooner or later.

The reward in the bronze chest of Medium Mode was a weapon, and it was the fruit knife Qin Guan had been using.

Now, he could transform into the useless person’s body at will in the real world and summon the fruit knife.

The function to rename Map of Trials 2 was also unlocked. This time, the default name was [Fruit Cutter].

“Alright, it’s still a short and sweet name that suggests a casual game that is purely for entertainment purposes. Let’s call it Fruit Cutter then.”

Qin Guan clicked on the [Confirm] button. Then, all mentions of Map of Trials 2 in his dialog boxes changed to Fruit Cutter.

The same happened in the Transcended Gamer Forum. Jump!! and Fruit Cutter formed an interesting contrast when they were placed side by side…

Those who were ignorant might think that they had entered the wrong forum, one for casual games…

Qin Guan had his consciousness return to the real world. He transformed into the useless person with a fruit knife in his hand.

He took out an apple from the fridge and mumbled to himself while peeling it. “Think positively. When I go camping next time, I won’t need to go out of my way to bring a fruit knife anymore…”

Translator’s Note:

[1] Combat: Actually referring to sense of combat in action RPGs.