Chapter 45

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Protagonist:

Chen Yi

Can you sleep in the exam venue?

For this question, even great educators cannot give an accurate answer. But one thing is certain: exam discipline allows candidates to freely allocate their time.

Three invigilators stood together whispering for 20 seconds, then returned to their respective posts, continuing what they were doing, acting as if they had not discovered Chen Yi.

The latter slept even more soundly. He wore a powerful vibration watch on his wrist, already set with the time; even if he truly could not wake up, to get the exam paper, the invigilating teachers would have to shout him awake.

Precisely because of these double safeguards, Chen Yi, who completed in 20 minutes what others took an hour to answer, slept as soundly as a baby—the Gaokao venue was absolutely the safest and most ideal place to sleep; as long as no rules were broken, not only would no one disturb him, but someone would actively maintain a quiet environment, striking down any wild horse daring to make noise.

Just as the scroll time ended, at the most drowsy moment, Chen Yi got the most sufficient sleep. The Energy Recovery Potion played its maximum role at this moment.

The 90 minutes passed quickly.

The chief invigilator clapped his hands hard, deliberately standing beside Chen Yi and shouting: "Classmates, time is up. Everyone place your papers in the upper left corner of the desk; teachers will come to collect them..."

He was about to repeat it when the wooden desktop began to thump.

All students and teachers simultaneously felt a familiar sensation—every morning, don't we all wake up to similar alarm bells?

Looking again, Chen Yi's movements were even more practiced: first he turned off the vibration watch under his head, then took a big gulp of water, rubbed his eyes hard again, and poured a little water into his hands to wash his face.

Washing his face!

He was washing his face!

He was washing his face in the Gaokao venue!

The chief invigilator curled his fingers and scratched hard along the wall from top to bottom.

This was precisely the best performance of "going crazy."

Of course, if Timothy saw a Level 3 Energy Recovery Potion being used to wash one's face, he would probably make the same gesture.

The deputy invigilator bared his teeth and came to Chen Yi's side, shouting in a low voice: "Submit Exam Paper One."

He thought he would see a pristine exam paper or a half-finished product ravaged beyond recognition, but instead the other said nothing, only glanced at the name and answer sheet, and tossed it to him.

He actually finished it all?

The invigilator had no time to look closely, only sized Chen Yi up and down, saying: "Answer seriously later, don't sleep again."

Chen Yi hehed and smiled, still saying nothing.

Han Jie blinked her eyes, quite confused by his behavior.

Wang Dong, as expected, revealed a gloating expression. He himself had used 80 minutes to answer the paper and always felt the time was tight, so he could never imagine Chen Yi finishing Paper One in 20 minutes. Normal students in such an important exam would wish to check eight or ten times; with 90 minutes to answer, who would sleep for 70?

Or rather, which normal student sleeps during the Gaokao?

Paper Two was passed out from the first person in each row in turn.

This paper contained only the essay.

Chen Yi, as usual, ignored everyone and opened it to read on his own.

Just the Level 3 Scroll made the entire Gaokao lose its difficulty for him; the only item certain to lose points was the essay—the difficulty of getting full marks was too high, and the Intelligence Scroll's effect was too small.

In response, Chen Yi's method was to tear open a Level 3 Listening Scroll.

Compared to the Intelligence Scroll, the Listening Scroll's effect largely depended on the classmates in the classroom. If there were no experts in the entire venue, listening to others' thoughts would lose its meaning.

In Chen Yi's impression, Han Jie's Chinese grades had always been excellent. So he didn't think much of it; after the scroll took effect, the first person he turned to was Han Jie.

At this moment, most people had already entered the thinking process. However, the words Chen Yi heard were "How is he?"

What a strange analysis method. Chen Yi thought to himself, then listened intently again.

Han Jie's thoughts were indeed in a mess for a while; only after about two or three minutes did she turn to thinking about the essay.

Chen Yi waited patiently for a moment, and after receiving two or three words, he turned to other classmates again.

Listening to all sides brings clarity. While absorbing other classmates' results, Chen Yi was also thinking himself.

The chief invigilator watched him with extreme worry, occasionally walking around beside him, fearing he would fall asleep while thinking.

However, this one hour was Chen Yi's most normal hour in two days. He used up all 60 minutes, filling every corner of the exam paper...

It was during the exam that Chen Yi's Listening Technique heard the voice in the ear of the student to the front right.

Obviously another answer buyer. But he didn't know if this person was a high-end client like Luo Xiaoshan or a fish that slipped through the net of a street-side shop.

Chen Yi didn't take it to heart, and scanned his article once more,

The bell would soon ring, also representing the successful end of the morning Chinese exam.

Chen Yi walked out of the classroom side by side with Han Jie, and they smiled at each other.

Afternoon.

Student Chen Yi was moved outside the campus while asleep.

And the first thing he did upon sitting in the exam venue was to continue sleeping.

Because the time between the two exams was too short, the time to recover the energy consumed by the Level 3 Scroll was obviously not enough; frantically taking Energy Recovery Potions could not completely solve the problem—fatigued spirit would reduce the scroll's effect, which Chen Yi could not allow.

So the best choice was to sleep well before doing the questions, even if it meant wasting an hour and a half of answering time.

The invigilating teacher for the math venue had changed; the new chief invigilator was thin, with a face shape wide on top and narrow on bottom, like a plump plastic surgery seahorse.

He nodded smilingly in the classroom, explaining the precautions to everyone.

However, after 1 hour and 20 minutes, his fingers also curled up.

Having been an invigilator for many years, students sleeping was nothing strange. He had seen bored-sleeping types, helpless-sleeping types, drowsy-passive-sleeping types, waiting-for-answers-sleeping types, heatstroke-fainting-sleeping types, wrong-medicine-half-sleeping types—but he had never seen a student set an alarm to sleep in the exam venue. And after waking up, actually washing face and rinsing mouth, then actively answering the paper...

As for...

As for...!

The teacher was furious like a seahorse trying to shoot out its tail.

The whole classroom of students stared dumbfounded, at a loss.

Chen Yi looked at no one, paid attention to no one, took a deep breath, grabbed his pen, and proceeded straight from the first question.

While he was fiddling with the water bottle, he had already torn open a Level 3 Intelligence Scroll, to deal with the math problems — precisely apt.

The rustling sound of writing was so clear in the silent classroom.

Everyone suddenly understood, and one after another threw themselves back into the exam.

Only the three examiners remained, staring at each other with wide eyes, not knowing what to think.

Before the exam even ended, Jiangning Sleep God's reputation had already spread out of the campus, throughout the surrounding areas...

Jiangning's local forum even pinned a conspicuous red headline: "Rumor has it a Sleep God has appeared in the College Entrance Examination, said to have once been a Mock Exam Top Scorer!"

That last sentence was obviously set up to attract eyeballs.

As for Chen Yi, he cared nothing for these matters; the moment the math exam ended, he rushed to the entrance of the teacher's office where He Tao was. He utilized the remaining few minutes of the Scroll's blessing time to carefully consider the He Family and headphones issue, feeling there was much to be done.

He Tao left the exam hall alone.

Chen Yi didn't look at him, but instead carefully observed the other people in the same exam hall, noted down two he recognized, then turned and left.

The parents waiting anxiously in the car were no different from the other people outside.

"Math 145 points is definitely there." Chen Yi said a sentence, then added: "Go to Uncle's house, have something to do."

That was that, and he fell fast asleep just like that.