Two o'clock in the afternoon.
Class 8, Senior High.
When the classmates saw Gao Fei reading in the classroom, everyone was shocked!
Some even doubted if they were dreaming, seeing Gao Fei reading in the classroom in their lifetime.
But upon noticing he was reading manga, everyone instantly lost interest.
They thought this slacker was trying hard in the last month before the college entrance exam, only to find him reading manga!
But what they didn't know was that Gao Fei had already completed two math practice papers in the two hours from twelve to two.
Reading manga now was nothing more than wanting to rest and relax.
Noticing the hopeless looks from his classmates, he didn't bother to explain.
Tomorrow is a placement test. After the exam, I'll shock you all... Gao Fei looked at the scornful and disdainful gazes, eagerly anticipating the students' expressions when the results came out.
After the two classes in the afternoon, the entire senior high grade began moving desks to set up the examination rooms.
Everything was standardized according to the college entrance exam venues.
During the setup, teachers came to supervise, to prevent any ill-intentioned students from leaving cheat sheets on the desks.
During this time, Gao Fei saw his class teacher, a female teacher in her thirties named Li Xiaoxiao.
Li Xiaoxiao came to the setup site and kept glancing at him intentionally or unintentionally.
Gao Fei knew it wasn't that his class teacher had any feelings for him, but rather that the perfect math score from the morning had attracted her attention.
After setting up the examination rooms, all venues were sealed, and no one was allowed near.
The entire senior high grade was also given half a day off, allowing for a half-day respite in the intense final push for the college entrance exam.
...
Huyuan residential area, a multi-story building constructed in the 1980s.
Most of the residents here are locals. Gao Fei's home is also here; it was the marital home before his parents' divorce.
But after his parents divorced, the house went to his mother, and his father left with nothing.
Since there was no evening study hall, Gao Fei went home and directly completed all the practice papers given by Xu Qing.
After checking against the answer key, except for some errors in the solution steps of the essay questions, the rest were perfect scores.
"The knowledge feedback from the simulator is truly a timely rain!"
Gao Fei lay on his bed and couldn't help but sigh.
He wanted to continue doing more practice papers, but he only had a hundred yuan left for pocket money.
He had asked at the bookstore before going home, and a complete set of liberal arts college entrance exam papers cost one hundred and twenty yuan.
He was planning to ask his mother for some money to buy a set of papers after she got off work, but he suddenly remembered from his memory.
The hundred yuan the original host had was from tricking his mother into buying him test papers last month.
"You even tricked her for this kind of money, you're really not human!"
Gao Fei complained about the original host, wanting to activate the life simulator to do more practice, but he held back in the end.
He now had forty simulator points left, with only two more chances to use the simulator for free.
After using up the complimentary simulator points, it would cost one hundred yuan for ten simulator points.
As a poor person, he had to cherish these two simulation opportunities and not waste them.
Because he had other uses for them, which could only be used after the college entrance exam.
The next morning.
The First Middle School no longer had the usual scene of clear reading voices.
Due to the senior high placement test, the first and second years enjoyed a two-day holiday.
The school entrance was filled with senior high students, the atmosphere heavy and serious, as if today was the college entrance exam.
As a bell rang, all students entered in an orderly fashion, heading towards their respective examination rooms.
"Old Gao, good luck, don't get overtaken by the bottom of the entire grade!"
Hu Xu cheered Gao Fei on before they went to the exam room.
But his words made Gao Fei both amused and speechless.
What did he mean, "don't get overtaken by the bottom of the entire grade"? Just wait, after the exam, I'll dazzle your dog eyes.
They parted ways, passed through the metal detectors, and entered the examination rooms respectively.
At eight o'clock, the bell rang again, and the entire school fell silent once more.
The first subject, Chinese, officially began.
Gao Fei, sitting in the examination room, still looked at the papers first before answering.
He scanned the questions in thirty seconds and then began to answer them diligently.
As it was knowledge feedback he had received the previous day, and he hadn't done any last-minute cramming, Gao Fei chose to skip some of the more profound question types and save them for later.
At this moment, the surveillance cameras in every examination room were activated, and all Chinese teachers gathered in the monitoring room.
Gao Fei's class teacher, Li Xiaoxiao, who taught Chinese, was also in the monitoring room.
In fact, she hadn't received any specific news from the math teacher Xu Qing.
Instead, she had learned from the class monitor yesterday that Gao Fei could solve math problems that even they found difficult.
Therefore, Li Xiaoxiao was paying extra attention to the bottom-ranked student in her class in today's placement test.
Seeing Gao Fei, who used to stare at the ceiling waiting for the exam to end, now engrossed in answering questions, Li Xiaoxiao was slightly surprised.
Could his being ranked last for three years have been intentional?
Just as Li Xiaoxiao was filled with doubt, the teacher operating the surveillance cameras chuckled and said, "I didn't expect the last-ranked student and the second-to-last ranked student in our grade to be able to do problems, and they're doing them so diligently. It seems the pressure of the college entrance exam is significant for them."
This teacher, with his peculiar focus, immediately drew the attention of other teachers to the last- and second-to-last ranked students.
Seeing that both of them were diligently working on their papers, they couldn't help but make some lighthearted jokes.
Li Xiaoxiao's slight hope was shattered when she noticed that the second-to-last ranked student was also diligently working on the problems, just like Gao Fei.
Perhaps getting half of them right after finishing would be their ceiling!
The exam ended at half-past eleven.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, the math exam began.
The monitoring room, like in the morning, was filled with math teachers from various classes.
The teacher operating the surveillance cameras, seeing the heavy atmosphere, couldn't help but make the same joke as in the morning.
"I didn't expect the last-ranked student and the second-to-last ranked student in our grade to be able to do problems, and they're doing them so diligently. It seems the pressure of the college entrance exam is significant for them."
This teacher, intending to lighten the mood, thought it would be like the morning, and the atmosphere would be a little more relaxed.
Who would have thought that Yang Xu, the head of the math department, would directly say, "Focus the surveillance on Gao Fei from Class 8, Senior High. He's the one you called the second-to-last ranked student in the grade!"
The teacher operating the surveillance cameras was stunned. He hadn't yet noticed the strangeness of these math teachers and said jokingly, "Director Yang, what's so interesting about watching the second-to-last ranked student in the grade? I'll adjust the surveillance to students in the top ten of the grade for you."
But as soon as he finished speaking, he noticed the change in the expressions of every math teacher.
Clearly, they were displeased with his casual remark.
Xu Qing walked forward and directed the surveillance to Gao Fei, and in an instant, the entire large surveillance screen showed only Gao Fei.
Upon seeing Gao Fei's lightning-fast pace of solving problems, all the math teachers' eyes widened.
Each of them couldn't help but think, this kid is either guessing, or he's a genius!
Meanwhile, in the Chinese department.
When the Chinese teacher from Class 1 was grading Gao Fei's paper, she initially seemed impatient.
But as more and more red checks appeared, the expression on her face gradually turned to shock.
At the same time, a question arose in her mind, similar to the one Xu Qing had yesterday.
"Did the second-to-last ranked student in the grade really do this? Could he have cheated?"