Chapter 335: Campus Scholar System (7)

Xie Yang was stuffed from the food at the Canteen.

The enthusiastic auntie serving the food gave her way too much; it would be a pity to dump it, and every grain is hard-earned, so after eating it all, she was choked up to her throat.

After leaving the Canteen, she took a stroll around the campus to digest and familiarized herself with the various functional buildings before returning to the classroom.

Thinking that her deskmate should be back from eating too, shouldn't she take advantage of the lunch break to have him explain problems and grind Tasks?

As it turned out, he was not there.

It wasn't until the preparatory bell for the first class of the afternoon rang that she saw him hurry into the classroom with sweat on his forehead.

"Nian-shen, did you eat lunch?" Du Huaiyao seemed to know what Jiang Yinian had gone to do, and asked as he passed by, "If you haven't, I have biscuits here."

"I ate."

Jiang Yinian went around the back of Xie Yang's chair and sat down in his own, his breathing still labored.

Xie Yang raised an eyebrow, a bit curious about what he had gone to do at noon.

However, the subject teacher had already arrived with lesson plans to start the class.

This period was Biology; the first half of the class was for completing a specialized test paper, and the second half was for peer grading and review.

Xie Yang pinched the paper, looked at it for a few seconds, and gave up.

It was all knowledge points that required rote memorization, and they were all fill-in-the-blank questions.

If it were multiple-choice, she could still guess a few based on vague memories, but fill-in-the-blank... emmm, forget it.

She would cram when she got home tonight.

Seeing that Xie Yang hadn't even picked up her pen, it was clear she couldn't do a single question; the Biology teacher, even with mental preparation, couldn't help but pinch the bridge of their nose in a headache.

Jiang Yinian heard the daily Task about tutoring his "poor-student deskmate" in Biology ring in his ears, and tilted his head to look at Xie Yang, who was simply lying down to sleep because she was suffering from a carb-coma after eating too much at noon: "..."

Waking up from a nap, she heard the bell for the end of class right on time.

Xie Yang rubbed her numb arm and looked up, meeting the Biology teacher's gloomy gaze, and couldn't help but feel a bit guilty.

She really didn't do it on purpose; it was purely physiological drowsiness from eating too much lunch.

The Biology teacher sighed silently, carried the lesson plans back to the office, and couldn't help but complain: "The new transfer student really doesn't give me any face at all; she slept for the entire class and only woke up when the bell rang."

"You should be glad she was just sleeping and not causing trouble in your class."

The English teacher grading papers nearby teased, then sighed with emotion:

"Actually, I feel Xie Yang is much better behaved than I imagined. Although she has ear studs and dyed hair, haven't you noticed she's quite polite? She took the initiative to greet me when I went downstairs at noon, I haven't heard her swear once, and she hasn't been late or left early. Her poor grades are a fatal flaw, otherwise her family wouldn't have spent so much money just to send her to First High School."

Mentioning the Shiyan Lou worth 20 million that the richest man Xie donated to the school, all the teachers present expressed: as long as Xie Yang keeps being quiet and minding her own business sleeping without causing trouble, they are satisfied.

Xie Yang, who had gone to the restroom and washed her face, felt her ears burning; who was scolding her?

"Buzz—"

The phone vibrated a few times.

Xie Yang took it out and glanced at it; it was the group of lackeys from International High School @-ing her:

【@Sister Yang, we aren't used to it now that you're gone!】

【@Sister Yang, we miss you! Come back soon—】

【@Sister Yang, we aren't in the same place for class, but we can still hang out after school, right? Want to go to A-Xin's clubhouse tonight? The weekend is still so far away, can't wait!】

【@Sister Yang, my clubhouse is your home base; not just tonight, come whenever you want, just put it on my tab.】

Xie Yang: "..."

These guys haven't even grown their hair out yet, but they've learned the social niceties of their elders quite well.

She replied uniformly:

【Sister needs to study hard now, you guys should focus too, skip fewer classes and stay up late less.】

As soon as her message was sent, the group went silent for a few seconds, followed by a string of "...", as uniform as if they were paying tribute to her.

Xie Yang didn't have time to dawdle with them because class had started.

Even though it was a self-study period, the students were all writing their homework furiously, and here she was holding her phone—was this appropriate?

But when she spread out her workbook, she: "..."

Don't blame her! Really, don't blame her!

Not to mention the hundreds of lifetimes spent bound by the Saint System doing Saint Tasks, just looking at the recent planes, she had transmigrated as a poor student who got rich as a tycoon, an Educated Youth sent to the countryside in the sixties, a beach volleyball player delayed by a dating variety show, or a corporate slave who got rich by chopping trees in a Disaster Game... in short, none of them were related to campus life.

Having transmigrated through so many planes, it wasn't that she had gained nothing—at least she had learned a lot of miscellaneous skills, but the knowledge learned in the ivory tower had basically been returned to the teachers!

Xie Yang sighed while flipping through the textbook.

While cramming, she waited for her deskmate to find her to grind the Task.

To cooperate with him, she hadn't written a single word in her workbook or on the test paper.

Du Huaiyao turned around to borrow a compass from Jiang Yinian, and seeing Xie Yang flipping through the math book page by page like she was reading a novel, he specifically stared at the textbook in her hand for a few seconds to confirm it was a math book and not a novel wrapped in a math book cover, and he: "..."

He couldn't help but ask: "New classmate, what are you doing?"

Xie Yang looked up at him suspiciously.

That look seemed to be asking: Are you mentally challenged? Didn't you see I'm reading?

Du Huaiyao: "..."

Sorry to bother you!

He silently took the compass handed over by Nian-shen and turned his head back.

Jiang Yinian tilted his head, his gaze falling on the blank workbook under Xie Yang's elbow, then looked at the math book she was holding and flipping through like a novel; did she not know how to do a single question, so she was looking for answers in the book?

But didn't she know that for high school science problems, it was almost impossible to find direct answers in the textbook?

【Host, isn't this just perfect! If you teach her, you can show your classmate camaraderie, complete the Task, earn Financial Aid, and avoid electric shock punishment—killing multiple birds with one stone!】

The Scholar System saw him delaying the Task and was even more anxious than him, sparing no effort to brainwash him.

Jiang Yinian ignored it.

Based on his years of tutoring experience and observation, his desk-mate, this academic failure, didn't just have a poor foundation—she had no foundation at all.

If he really had to tutor her, he would likely have to start from middle school concepts.

If he only tutored her according to the Task requirements, could he be sure she would understand?

If she couldn't understand and he couldn't teach her, he wouldn't get the Financial Aid, and she would still be completely clueless; wouldn't that just be a waste of both their time?

Of course, she might have plenty of time to waste, but he did not.

He also didn't want his tutoring career to suffer a Waterloo because of a desk-mate who slept in class, stared blankly after class, and left her test papers blank; after weighing the pros and cons, he quite decisively gave up on the Task.

As for the electric shock punishment mentioned by the Scholar System, he didn't think much of it; wasn't it just a few seconds? He could grit his teeth and get through it.

Until—

That night at 10:30, after he finished tutoring a ninth-grade student in math and physics, rode his bike home, showered, and sat at his desk drying his hair to prepare for his own study tasks, he suddenly experienced the power of the electric shock.

His body felt as if it had been pierced by a pulse of electricity, his muscles spasmed uncontrollably, and the sudden onset of pain forced him to clench his teeth and endure it.

The duration far exceeded the three seconds he had counted in his head.

Scholar System: 【Forgot to mention, 3 seconds is for a single item; the Host gave up all Tasks, 10 daily Tasks plus 5 extra Tasks adds up to a total of... 45 seconds.】

"..."

Damn it!

Even with his good upbringing, he couldn't help but let out a curse at this moment.