Chapter 44

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Protagonist:

Chen Yi

When the College Entrance Examination truly arrives, no matter how many worries there are, they will all be thrown far behind by it.

For countless students, this is their first time truly coming into contact with fate, their first time truly coming into contact with a major event, their first time truly facing the world.

This is a world whose complexity far exceeds tarot cards, constellations, and blood types.

No one waits on a fixed track for guesses; facing an exam that may determine their entire lives, countless people are nervous, their faces pale.

But there are always some people who still arrive at campus with ruddy faces, amiable smiles, and lively muscles, as if on a spring outing.

The starting line of life has been unfair since the tadpole era; if you mutate a second time into a toad, don't fantasize about comparing skin texture with a frog; if you are inadvertently born into a laboratory, don't fantasize about days without torture; when looking up at a swan, you had best make sure it has already eaten its fill.

Chen Yi arrived at campus with the posture of a carefree spring outing; Chen Congyu and Fang Manyi watched him walk into the depths of the green trees before returning to the car with heavy hearts — parents' hearts are all the same. At this moment, everyone is wishing their children well, while simultaneously considering: if the worst case happens, what methods are there, what people can salvage hope.

Today's Jiangning Middle School is far quieter than usual. Despite there being more students from other schools observing it.

Chen Yi's gaze was also observing within the crowd; as he followed the flow of people to Area A of the Teaching Building, a figure finally appeared in his field of vision.

He Tao!

This young man with the signature 3-7 side part is the biological nephew of Jiangning Mayor He Fuhan; he came to Jiangning to register residence two years ago, has always kept a low profile at school, only fooling around in a small circle, so few people paid him any mind. However, in Chen Yi's impression, He Tao's grades were not good; every time he struggled on the 400-500 point line.

If it is truly as Luo Xiaoshan said, then He Tao probably couldn't avoid making some preparations; but with He Fuhan's identity, whether he would use this move is not certain. After all, people like Liang Yu had long since arranged their work and didn't need to take the field personally; months ago, Chen Yi's grades fundamentally would not have affected the final school choice.

Chen Yi quickened his pace by two steps, then fell in behind He Tao, seriously observing his movements.

Suddenly, He Tao's hand pressed against his ear, revealing an expression of intent listening.

Chen Yi widened his eyes, brushed past him, and simultaneously shouted loudly "Wait for me," then pretentiously hurried forward running.

He Tao was like a startled old rabbit, first leaping a large step to the side, then raising his head to search for the person.

Where could he be found.

Chen Yi had long since turned into the building, simultaneously deciding in his heart: as expected, it is the era of universal high technology; He Tao probably also couldn't resist the temptation. Thinking about it, it's understandable. Although he is He Fuhan's biological nephew, if he relied entirely on connections, the schools and majors he could go to probably wouldn't have too many choices.

If his ambitions are grand, then striving for 600 points or even higher is the only way to have the initiative in the College Entrance Examination.

If it were oneself, without Magic Scrolls, what decision would one make?

Chen Yi couldn't help but space out thinking; he walked all the way to the entrance of the exam hall before being roused by the proctor teacher.

"Oh, I'll go to the restroom first." He said, quickly turning a corner, reaching a place with few people, then taking out a Level 3 Intelligence Scroll from his pen case and tearing it open with a snap.

Two scrolls were strapped each to his knee lining and under his waist belt; unless someone touched him directly, they absolutely would not be discovered. Of course, such concealed corners are useless for hiding cheat sheets.

Waiting for the Intelligence Scroll's effect to appear, Chen Yi then drank a full 1.25 liters of Energy Recovery Scroll — facts prove that no matter how expensive the water, drinking too much makes one nauseous; no matter how rare the thing, suddenly getting a lot of it always yields unexpected results, just like a whole cart of shark fin would rot, a whole house of beauties would go wild, a whole bag of virgin boy urine would turn sour.

The proctor teacher scanned Chen Yi with suspicious eyes and a tool that was both round and long, back and forth; after a long while he said: "Go in."

Chen Yi smiled faintly, found his seat according to the number on his Admission Ticket, then looked around and truly saw an acquaintance.

Wang Dong and Han Jie, one left one right, happened to sandwich him in the middle; another familiar-looking same-school student sat in the front right of the classroom.

Jiangning divides exam centers by district; Jiangning Middle School has many students, plus it serves as its own exam center, so they were all assigned to Area A with newer environment and equipment; as for the unlucky visiting students, they could only struggle in the old building.

Chen Yi laughed heartily and greeted Han Jie, didn't say much more, and on his own placed the cup filled with Energy Recovery Potion on the tabletop.

Wang Dong looked at him with a sidelong glance and a frown, but didn't speak. If placed in the past, he might have deliberately provoked trouble, disturbing Chen Yi's mood. But with the lesson of the Mock Exam beforehand, he consciously placed himself in a lower position, instead worrying that Chen Yi would disturb his own mood.

Chen Yi fundamentally didn't look at him a second time.

The strong's confidence lies in constantly improving oneself, not in striking down opponents one by one. Doing that would only exhaust oneself.

"Exam begins in 5 minutes, everyone put away all items unrelated to the exam." There are 3 proctor teachers; the chief examiner stands on the Lecture Platform, the other two stand respectively at the side and rear of the classroom. According to the 1:10 proctor density, theoretically the students have no chance to cheat whatsoever.

However, advanced equipment like headphones is not included in this.

The papers were quickly distributed to everyone's seats. The chief examiner loudly said again: "What is being distributed to you now is Exam Paper One; each person has 90 minutes to answer; after it ends, hand back Exam Paper One, then we will distribute Exam Paper Two to everyone, on which are the essay topics..."

Chen Yi glanced at his watch; it had been 10 minutes since he used the Level 3 Intelligence Scroll, so he completely ignored the examiner's nonsense and directly began answering questions.

He must complete 90 minutes' worth of questions within 20 minutes.

Not to mention past accumulation, the Intelligence Scroll's nearly 20% boost has an extremely large promoting effect for students with above-average grades. As long as he makes good use of this time, then using other scrolls is just icing on the cake.

Even without using other scrolls, Chen Yi is confident of getting into Jiangning University. But for the sake of choosing a major, he needs his grades to maintain the Mock Exam standard, which is quite difficult.

The rustling sound of writing made people look sideways. Mass educators are like jackal pack leaders; they have never liked nonconformist behavior; the chief examiner said with dissatisfaction in his tone: "This student, fill in your Admission Ticket and other information first, answering the paper later is not late; otherwise when it's time to hand in papers..."

Using precious scroll time to fill in identity information, Chen Yi curled his lip, didn't even raise his head.

The examiner took a deep breath, turned and went to another row; out of sight, out of mind; he couldn't very well confiscate a student's exam paper over this.

Han Jie glanced at Chen Yi, but besides wishing him smooth sailing, she couldn't help with anything. The exam time is neither too loose nor too tight, but precisely calculated, with no room for waste.

Everyone is exerting full effort, concentrating their spirit on solving problems.

However, 20 minutes later, another incident affecting the exam hall occurred.

Chen Yi, having just completed Exam Paper One, hurriedly filled in his name and other information, then actually lay his whole body on the paper, emitting light snoring sounds.

Without a doubt, he really fell asleep.

The chief examiner, over 40 years old, suddenly recalled a word his daughter often used: going crazy!

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