Chapter 407

【During the sect competition, gain the approval of at least 20 sect servant disciples (3/20)】

Looking at the pop-up new task, Lin Li raised an eyebrow slightly, his mind becoming active.

While his hands continued to write the essay furiously, his brain was also spinning rapidly regarding this task.

Gain approval?

Glancing at the task introduction, Lin Li could roughly piece together the logic.

In order to let himself take the exam properly, Du Hansi must have told everyone else present about his general situation, so that those curious about this new face wouldn't come to bother him.

This was also the source of those gazes from earlier.

They listened, but because of that, after knowing he was a 'good student' who only wanted to take the exam properly, they immediately lost interest in him, feeling he was the type of person they couldn't play with?

That must be it.

Then, the condition for completing the task was to gain the approval of at least 20 out of the 27 students in this exam room, excluding himself.

The task progress was already (3/20) at the very beginning; one of them was undoubtedly Du Hansi. After he had been crushed and tortured by Lin Li in terms of physical fitness and perversion during the sports meet, he should be completely convinced by him.

As for the other two who approved of him, Lin Li wasn't sure.

"Teacher, I can't hold it anymore, can I go to the restroom?" A student raised his hand to the invigilator at this moment, his facial features locked tight, appearing to be in great pain and enduring a lot.

The invigilator naturally agreed, and Lin Li also looked up at the classroom at this time.

At this moment, the Chinese exam had been going on for over an hour, and the people in the exam room were no longer as active. This heavy rain had ruined their exam dreams, and one by one, they chose to settle down.

The passing of notes had almost disappeared; half were sleeping face-down, and most of the rest were either playing on their phones or staring blankly at the classroom clock and spinning their pens.

After a while, the student who went to the restroom returned, his face no longer showing the previous discomfort, looking completely relieved.

Your mother.

Why does this guy smell like cigarette smoke?

What exactly did you say you couldn't hold back just now?

The sensitive-nosed Lin Li really wanted to complain.

Forget it, in this exam room, this was normal.

In this magical place, you could even see people taking the exam: several people in the first group were actually still writing their papers.

"Someone is taking the exam in the exam room"—who would believe such a magical sentence could be formed in Chinese?

But Lin Li thought about it again; that was the first group after all.

They were the top students in this exam room whose grade ranking was second only to his own grade-first ranking; it was understandable if they were writing their papers.

Perhaps the remaining two unknown people who already approved of him were among these people—the reason for approving of him being that his grades were good.

However, Lin Li also knew that it was impossible to complete this task just by revealing his ranking. Most people in this exam room wouldn't think this was anything remarkable at all, and might even think he was just a bookworm.

There were quite a few sports students in this exam room; show off his physical fitness?

Just like in the gym back then, win approval through methods like arm wrestling before or after the exam?

That should be one of the effective methods; he could try it later.

The essay was finished quickly, and after a simple check to ensure there were no omissions, Lin Li also used the excuse of going to the restroom to memorize all the information on the seating chart outside the door, then returned to his seat to match the class, name, and face one by one.

Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will win every battle. The sect competition lasted three days; using non-exam periods like lunch breaks and evening self-study to break them down one by one could be considered a clumsy method, but it was fine as a fallback.

"Buzz—buzz—"

On the podium, the invigilator's phone vibrated.

Instantly, the invigilator stood up and shouted to the classroom with a full voice: "Only half an hour left until the end of the exam."

"Teacher, I want to hand in my paper—!" The classroom instantly boiled over; everyone, as if hearing a charge signal, stood up with a rustle to hand in their papers.

The invigilator even thoughtfully added: "Wake up the classmates sleeping around you; it's time to get up."

He really is, Lin Li could cry to death.

In just a moment of distraction, Lin Li discovered that besides himself, the only ones still sitting were a few people who were still sleepy-eyed, not fully awake, and rubbing their eyes.

Holy shit, had he been 'Za Warudo'-ed just now?

Such fast movements, one by one.

The invigilator, who was organizing the answer sheets and tucking them under his armpit to leave, suddenly discovered that there was still one on Lin Li's desk.

"Student, you... aren't you handing in your paper?" The invigilator looked at Lin Li cautiously, his gaze carrying a probing inquiry.

Lin Li understood why the invigilator was looking at him with such a gaze, because as long as he didn't hand in his paper, he had to stay in the exam room with him.

If it were Xue Jian or Wang Zeyan, Lin Li might choose not to hand it in just to torture them, but he didn't know this invigilator, so there was no need.

Moreover, he still needed to align his granularity with the other students in this exam room, so Lin Li nodded:

"I'm handing it in."

After handing in the answer sheet, Lin Li walked out of the classroom with his exam paper.

There were many people on the fifth floor, many more than when Lin Li handed in his papers in other exam rooms.

It was hard to tell whether there was still half an hour left until the end of the exam or if the exam was already completely over.

"Lin Li, did you bring an umbrella?" Looking at the rain that had started falling again, Du Hansi, who had already packed up outside the door, asked Lin Li.

"I did."

"Then let's go to the cafeteria together, can you give me a ride? My umbrella is in the classroom, but my class definitely isn't allowed in right now, and I don't want to wait." Du Hansi said hopefully.

"Of course you can." Lin Li agreed very readily.

In fact, even if Du Hansi hadn't approached Lin Li, Lin Li would have approached him. Regarding the local customs of this exam room, as an outsider, he really needed to consult a local.

"Damn it, why is it raining!" Wang Ze from next door also came out after packing his things, his gaze then locking onto Lin Li and Du Hansi.

"Hansi, did you bring an umbrella?"

"Didn't bring one."

"Lin Li, did you bring an umbrella?"

"Didn't bring one."

Wang Ze: "..."

To be honest, if Lin Li didn't have an umbrella in his hand when he shook his head, Wang Ze would have found it more convincing.

"What's that in your hand?"

"A sun umbrella, not a rain umbrella."

"You motherf—!!"

Seeing Wang Ze's gaze fixed on him, Lin Li shrugged lazily: "My umbrella isn't big, it can only hold two people, and Hansi has already made a reservation."

Wang Ze was a bit surprised and puzzled upon hearing this: "Isn't that just right? Hansi and I make two people, not too many and not too few!"

After saying this, Wang Ze ran over happily, snatched the umbrella from Lin Li's hand, then hooked his arm around Du Hansi's shoulder and walked toward the stairs, waving back at Lin Li as he walked: "Lin Li, thanks!"

Lin Li sneered.

In today's society, there are some unscrupulous vendors on the streets selling human organs under the guise of selling cherries. Lin Li had personally experienced it once: that time, he met a cherry seller and went up to taste one. When he tasted the eighteenth one, the stall owner lowered his voice and asked in Lin Li's ear, "Do you want a face?"

Even if Lin Li was a beast, he wouldn't dare to buy human organs, so he naturally didn't dare to take it that time.

But now, an even more shameless one had appeared.

Ding Sihan, grant me strength!

"Ahhhhhhh—" Aiming at Wang Ze's butt, Lin Li started with a battle cry and went up with a Ding Sihan flying kick.

In the end, Lin Li was 'left-right-man', three people making do with one umbrella, slowly walking toward the cafeteria.

Actually, Lin Li wanted Du Hansi to be in the middle, with himself and Wang Ze on the left and right, but Du Hansi refused to budge, saying, "I'd rather walk in the rain the whole way than be in the middle of you two."

Lin Li and Wang Ze felt hurt by this.

On the way.

Lin Li's gaze turned to Du Hansi, weighing his words: "Hansi, does no one cheat in this last exam room?"

Du Hansi was stunned for a moment: "Cheat? Cheating is wrong, how can one cheat?"

"You're right." Lin Li blinked upon hearing this.

Quite principled.

"Then you guys do other things, doesn't this invigilator care?" Lin Li asked again.

"Old Guo? He has always been the invigilator for our exam room. Invigilators in other exam rooms rotate, but we basically don't change.

We just play on our phones and chat, we don't drink or fight, what's there to care about?" Du Hansi clearly knew this invigilator and explained with a smile.

"Your local customs are quite simple and honest." Lin Li's evaluation was mixed.

Du Hansi smiled; he understood why Lin Li asked this, so he smiled and explained:

"Lin Li, our last exam room is just like this."

"Actually, it's mainly because we're too lazy to cheat; it's meaningless. Don't we know what kind of stuff we are? Besides, cheating is boring—"

"Last monthly exam, I originally brought my phone thinking about whether to cheat once to see a better exam room, but as soon as I clicked on the question-searching software, the opening ad popped me to a website.

I couldn't help myself and watched 408 chapters, and I even fucking paid for a membership just to avoid ads. Thinking about it, I regret it a bit; if I had known, I would have just watched a few ads to redeem a temporary membership. Sigh."

Du Hansi felt a little regretful.

"Besides, cheating is also very slow; the efficiency is too low."

"Lin Li, just wait and see during tomorrow's English exam; our exam room can achieve the feat of 'the listening section hasn't even started playing yet, and everyone has already finished their papers'."

Du Hansi was a bit proud at this moment.

Lin Li: "(；o_o)?"

That efficiency was a bit too high.

Even for Lin Li, he couldn't beat that speed even if he tried his best.

Although Wang Ze wasn't in the bottom-ranked exam room, as a version-child sports student, he had a rich resume and also had the right to speak:

"Lin Li, to put it bluntly, you're a bit like 'why don't they eat tree bark'. Our school is actually considered good, a compulsory public school; you have no idea how exaggerated the last exam room is."

"I once saw the guy next to me also looking at his phone, so I asked him if he was checking the answers, and he said he was ordering lunch and even asked if I wanted a portion."

Lin Li: "Did you want it?"

Wang Ze: "I did."

Lin Li gave a thumbs up.

"We've seen many cases of good students like you accidentally entering the last exam room; after all, as long as you miss an exam, you'll basically come here."

"Everyone is quite nice, Lin Li, you don't have to worry, we have no malice toward you." Du Hansi smiled and comforted Lin Li, "And we won't ask you good students to help us cheat."