In this way, the best junior student in Cloudy Dream City could be selected.
The Third Junior College held a very grand ceremony early in the morning.
Ling Taixu, the princ.i.p.al who seldom appeared in public, showed up at the ceremony. However, throughout the ceremony, the old princ.i.p.al, who was known as the Immortal of Debauchery and lingered in scenes of drunkenness and debauchery all year round, had been keeping his eyes closed in his seat, but occasionally snored, followed by the smell of alcohol gone with the wind in the practice court...
Before the compet.i.tion, the deans of all three grades also gave impa.s.sioned speeches to motivate those students.
Then, the Midyear Compet.i.tion was separately carried out among students of the same grade.
On the first day, the knowledge exams began.
In the morning, it was the North Sea Empire"s Recent History.
A total of 410 soph.o.m.ore students took the exam together in a large room.
The seat numbers were not in sequence, and the students from 10 cla.s.ses were randomly seated.
Lin Beichen drew seat number 109.
When he found the seat 109 and sat down, he realized that Mu Xinyue was sitting on his left side and Wu Xiaofang was sitting on his right.
"Haha, Lin Beichen, what a coincidence!"
Wu Xiaofang looked at Lin Beichen with a sardonic look in his eyes.
"Who are you? Do we know each other well?" said Lin Beichen.
Wu Xiaofang froze.
Was this sc.u.m, who had borrowed money from him the day before yesterday, pretending not to know him today?
"You wait."
Wu Xiaofang said with a gloomy look, "When you become my slave, I will let you know how cruel I will be to you."
Lin Beichen directly held up his middle finger.
"F*ck you!"
"Just wait."
Soon, the exam began.
Lin Beichen infused the Mystery Energy into the white stone desk in front of him.
A wave of azure light surged above the desk, and a Mystery Mark Formation hidden inside the desk was activated. Then a miniature shelter fully enveloped him, blocking the sight and sound of others.
This was the college"s anti-cheating system.
The Mystery Mark Formation had been widely and deeply applied to every aspect of people"s daily life.
On the desk, a piece of test paper slowly appeared.
It seemed to be a bit like a tablet on Earth.
The North Sea Empire"s Recent History exam included five types of questions: multiple-choice questions, judgment questions, map-completion questions, material-correction questions, and historical fact-a.n.a.lysis questions.
Lin Beichen glanced at the test paper and came to a conclusion—he was not going to give any answer to these questions.
But it did not matter.
He took out his cell phone and started the North Sea Empire"s Recent History APP, which had been already on the phone"s home screen.
Before the exam, he had already put all the textbooks of this theoretical course from the freshman to junior years on the phone. Sure enough, a corresponding textbook APP was generated in the app store and cost him less than 10MB of data. Obviously, this subject, which aimed to test one"s memory, was insignificant according to the evaluation system of the phone.
He scanned the test paper, which was the APP"s native function.
In less than three minutes, the APP automatically generated the answers.
Lin Beichen only needed to copy them down.
It took him 10 minutes to complete the test paper.
Lin Beichen did not hesitate to press the b.u.t.ton on the desk to hand in his paper.
"Beep!"
Along with the prompt of paper submission, the Mystery Mark Formation was withdrawn.
Chu Hen, the grade dean who was appointed as the invigilator, was immediately shocked, as a touch of surprise flashed in his eyes.
"Who was going to hand in the paper so early?"
At a glance, he saw Lin Beichen in seat 109.
It turned out to be this prodigal.
The surprise in Chu Hen"s eyes disappeared.
It seemed that he could not do the problems and directly gave up on getting a good score.
This ignorant prodigal had done the same before, and many teachers would not wonder about it.
Chu Hen looked away expressionlessly.
Several other invigilators seemed to turn a blind eye to Lin Beichen"s submission of his test paper.
Lin Beichen stood up straightway and left the examination room.
Time flew by.
In an instant, another half an hour pa.s.sed.
"Beep!"
A prompt of paper submission sounded again.
The Mystery Mark Formation at seat 110 was removed, as Wu Xiaofang also finished the test paper.
"Haha, this history exam is really a little bit interesting. The map completion questions were about two border maps of the Laser Empire. If I hadn"t seen it just before the test, I couldn"t have answered it. In addition, the material correction questions also contained several traps that could be noticed by no one but me."
Wu Xiaofang thought to himself, unable to help being greatly confident.
He was very satisfied with his performance.
The grade dean, Chu Hen, came over and asked with a smile, "Xiaofang, since you could hand in your paper so early, do you think you can get 90 points?" He was very optimistic about the talented student.
Wu Xiaofang said with confidence, "Certainly I can get a score of 95 or more. If I"m lucky enough, I may get 100."
"Good," Chu Hen said with admiration, "I appreciate your confidence. I expect that you and other top soph.o.m.ore students can be the qualifiers to compete in the Talent Battle."
"Thank you, Dean Chu... Well, has Lin Beichen also submitted his test paper?"
Wu Xiaofang turned his head and saw that no one was in seat 109 next to him, and he was a little surprised.
"Alas, this unlearned black sheep is hopeless. Never mind him." Chu Hen smiled and said, "Since your paper has been submitted, go ahead and prepare for the next exam. I"m very optimistic about you."
"Okay, thank you, Dean Chu. I will not let you down," said Wu Xiaofang.
After that, he left the examination room.
Chu Hen nodded with satisfaction.
As time went by, the students handed in their papers one after another.
50 minutes later, when the exam ended, the remaining students were forced to submit the papers.
"Oh my G.o.d. Who drafted this test paper? It"s too difficult..."
"I have no idea of the map completion questions."
"There are also many traps in the material correction questions."
"Haha, I think it"s very simple. Scoring 80 points or more is not a problem."
Outside the examination room, many students were excitedly or sadly exchanging their opinions about the test questions, with different looks.
At this time, in the examination room, 20 experienced teachers were working hard to mark the test papers.
According to the rules of the joint examinations in Cloudy Dream City, after the examination of each subject was completed, the papers had to be marked immediately and the scores had to also be announced before the next examination.
An hour later...
All the test papers had been marked.
"It seems that these test questions were indeed a bit difficult. The results of my group of test papers are generally not good. The highest score is 79 points."
"In my group, the highest score is 88, but the others... are terrible."
"Oh my G.o.d! Unexpectedly, there is a student who scored only 11 points. Most probably, it"s the sc.u.m Lin Beichen who submitted his paper so early..."
"It"s not surprising for that sc.u.m to score 0 points."
"In my group, there"s a student who got 92 points. It is a very good result."
"Come on, open the seal. Is it Wu Xiaofang, Mu Xinyue, or Wuxi?"
Hearing such a high score, many teachers were all excited.
At this point—
"What? How... how is it possible?"
An irrepressible exclamation reached everyone"s ears. This sound came out of the mouth of an old teacher who was usually very stable, and he was in a state of extreme excitement and was completely in a daze.
"Mr. Hou, what"s wrong?"
The grade dean, Chu Hen, was in wonder.
The teacher surnamed Hou said in a trembling voice, "There... there is a student that got 100 points."
His words seemed to sprinkle a handful of salt in a pan of oil.
"What?"
"Full marks?"
"No! How could it be possible that any student could get full marks... in this exam?"
"Who is it?"
All of a sudden, all the other teachers were shocked.