Chapter 334: Campus Scholar System (6)

Xie Yang could not control her physiological reaction and yawned for the Nth time since this morning.

She simply laid her head down to sleep.

In any case, her persona was that of a poor student, so she would allow herself to catch up on some sleep first.

Jiang Yinian cast a complex glance at his new deskmate, who had spent the entire morning self-study session sleeping: "..."

After reviewing the series of tasks issued by the dog system after it crashed and rebooted, and weighing the difficulty coefficients, he let out a long sigh in his heart.

Last night, he logged into his online banking to check the details of that 510 Silver income; the payer was an organization called "All-Powerful Straight-A Student Is Not A Dream," and the transaction note read: Financial Aid.

Then he logged into a browser and searched for "All-Powerful Straight-A Student Is Not A Dream," discovering that this enterprise actually existed.

Although it was registered overseas and felt a bit like a scam company, he could find clear and transparent registration information.

Even if it really were a scam company, it was the other party sending him money, not him sending money to them. What was there to be afraid of?

He spent the better part of the night building up his mental resolve—deciding to spend half an hour to an hour every day completing the tasks issued by the system.

He dared not think about the 10 million reward for the Ultimate Task, but being able to steadily receive 500 Silver every day already surpassed his usual part-time job.

500 more every day meant 15,000 more in a month.

With this extra income, once he got into university next year, he could rent a two-bedroom apartment near the school and bring his grandmother over to take care of her.

It was just that this ideal plan had been overturned as soon as it was implemented.

That's right! How could there be such a good thing as a pie falling from the sky in this world?

Jiang Yinian gave a bitter smile to himself.

Forget it, better to rely on himself!

Asking for help is not as good as walking yourself; begging others is not as good as relying on yourself.

Had he not understood this principle over all these years?

He withdrew his calmed gaze, cast all illusory, delusional, and unrealistic thoughts to the back of his mind, ignored the pile of obviously impossible tasks issued by the Scholar system, and focused on his current studies.

Xie Yang slept until the first period started.

"Hello, students!"

"Hello, teacher!"

Xie Yang groggily followed along, standing up and sitting back down; she was awake, but her brain was still a bit muddled.

The first period was English class, and the English teacher was writing on the blackboard while lecturing on the text.

Xie Yang sat there with sleepy eyes, seemingly looking at the blackboard, yet seemingly lost in a daze.

The English teacher ignored her.

After the quizzes for two subjects yesterday afternoon, all the teachers in the Experimental Class had already given up hope on Xie Yang.

As long as she behaved herself and didn't lead the other students in the class astray, it would be a blessing.

Sleeping? Wasn't this the most well-behaved performance a poor student could give?

Xie "Well-behaved Poor Student" Yang finally woke up at this moment, slowly pulled her English book out from a stack of textbooks on the desk, looked up at the title on the blackboard, and flipped to the corresponding lesson.

She browsed through it silently, sighing at how high the difficulty of high school English textbooks had become; there were so many obscure and difficult words and sentence structures.

She remembered some of the simple ones, but she had long forgotten the complex and rarely used ones.

The original body was a poor student, and her brain's hippocampus simply couldn't retrieve memories related to study content.

It was nothing but eating, drinking, playing, fighting, and vying for dominance.

"..."

Her head hurt, and she wanted to sleep again.

Jiang Yinian turned his head inadvertently and discovered that his deskmate had quietly laid her head down again.

"..."

It wasn't until the bell rang for the end of class that Xie Yang woke up.

Perhaps she had made up for the sleep she missed last night, as she was energetic and didn't feel sleepy again after that.

The second period was math class, reviewing the test she had scored 51 on yesterday; well, out of 150, she scored 51, how truly wonderful!

The third period was physics class, reviewing the test she had scored 39 on yesterday, out of 100.

After school yesterday, she had fiercely crammed for these two subjects and regained a bit of the feeling of being a Scholar.

Just as she was about to pick up her pen to make corrections, the Main System suddenly spoke:

【Host, I have just connected to the Sub-system's task network. It has crashed and rebooted, and has already issued new main tasks and daily tasks to Jiang Yinian. If you improve too much, Host, it will be difficult to cooperate with Jiang Yinian in grinding tasks.】

Xie Yang asked it what the tasks were.

The Main System scanned the pile of tasks, which were filled with "poor student classmate" all over the screen, and showed them to her.

Xie Yang: "..."

After a long while, she asked faintly: With such simple tasks, it only gives a few dozen or a hundred? And an extra reward of 10 million for getting into a 985 university? The Scholar system seems very wealthy!

Main System: 【...】

It felt like the Host was being sarcastic, but it had no evidence.

Xie Yang was just casually making a snide remark.

She was not short of money in this plane.

Given that Lao Xie was willing to spend 20 million just to transfer schools, if she got into a 985, he would probably be overjoyed.

Never mind rewarding her 10 million, he might even be willing to give 100 million.

Fine then, everything for the sake of the task!

Xie Yang put down her pen and stopped making corrections, leaving them for Jiang Yinian to grind his tasks.

However, she waited and waited, until the end of the fourth period, but she never waited for Jiang Yinian to explain problems to her or teach her how to make corrections; feeling puzzled, she asked the Main System: Why hasn't he started grinding tasks yet?

The Main System was also puzzled: 【I don't know.】

【Wait a bit longer; perhaps he intends to teach you during the lunch break or study hall.】

Xie Yang thought that made sense; all four morning classes had teachers reviewing papers or exercises, and the ten-minute breaks were too rushed, but there were two study hall periods in the afternoon, so she would wait.

She went to eat lunch first.

She was hungry.

The First High School Canteen was the very traditional kind where one queued at a window to choose dishes, not a buffet style, and the variety of dishes available was not large; counting meat and vegetables together, there were only about a dozen at most.

However, having experienced so many lifetimes, what good things had Xie Yang not eaten? Not to mention that a sumptuous dinner was waiting for her at home, so this lunch just needed to keep her full; she wasn't that picky.

Yesterday, Comrade Lao Xie said he wanted to buy an apartment near the school and hire a housekeeper so she would have a place to eat and take a lunch break, but she had refused.

Now that she thought about it, it was fortunate she had refused.

What if Jiang Yinian looked for her during the lunch break to grind a Task? How could she, an "NPC," cooperate if she wasn't in the classroom?

Before queuing, she went to a self-service machine to check the meal card she had received when registering yesterday and found there was 5,000 yuan on it; she guessed Song Shu had topped it up when he helped her with the transfer procedures.

Judging by the meal costs at the First High School Canteen, she probably wouldn't even finish this 5,000 yuan in a whole semester.

"Student, what dishes would you like?"

It was her turn.

The canteen auntie held a tray in one hand and a serving spoon in the other, asking her with a beaming smile.

Perhaps seeing her alternative attire, which was clearly different from the First High School students, and that she wasn't wearing a First High School uniform, she assumed she was some teacher's daughter; her attitude was very enthusiastic, and her hand didn't shake while serving, giving her two full scoops of vegetables and one scoop of rice.

She even enthusiastically directed her to the free soup area on the left: "This bucket was just replaced; today is winter melon and Dried Shrimp soup. The winter melon is at the bottom, so scoop from the bottom."

"... Thank you."

"No need to thank me, no need to thank me; come to Auntie's window again next time, Auntie will give you a bit more."

"..."

Other students from different classes queuing behind Xie Yang didn't know Xie Yang, but they knew the canteen auntie; seeing that the auntie was so easygoing today and that her hand hadn't shaken, they seized the opportunity to ask for the most expensive braised pork: "Auntie, give me a portion of braised pork."

They watched as the canteen auntie scooped up a spoonful of braised pork and skillfully shook it, so that by the time it was placed on the tray, only half a spoonful remained.

"..."

Prediction error!

The auntie was still the same auntie!