Shadow of Chinese Entertainment

Chapter 3 Spiritual Perception

Chapter 3 Spiritual Perception
The entire Saturday was compressed and divided into four mock exams: Chinese and mathematics in the morning, and liberal arts and English in the afternoon.

Compared with the two days of the formal college entrance examination, there is not only more urgency, but also higher intensity.

There was still some time before lunch, so Hu Xiaobei calmed himself down, breathed in the fresh air on campus, and strolled back to the dormitory.

Hu Xiaobei started living in the affiliated high school dormitory after his grandmother passed away.

When I was in the first year of high school, my grandmother passed away suddenly and peacefully.

She had always been in good health. She just took a nap that day and passed away forever. It could be considered a happy death.

When she was alive, her grandmother had originally planned to transfer the property to him after he came of age, but he was not yet eighteen years old at that time.

In addition, some distant relatives of my grandmother's husband's family had some disagreements on the property issue, and Hu Xiaobei did not want to argue with them.

In his opinion, money is not that important.

After being adopted by my grandmother, I was able to grow up healthily and spend a happy and loving childhood. I am already very content.

He is not short of money in the short term. Even if he has no income, he will have no problem finishing his freshman year safely with the money his grandmother saves for him.

Hu Xiaobei slowly inserted the key into the lock of the dormitory door and turned it gently. "Click", the crisp sound seemed to open a treasured memory.

The door opened, and the scene inside the dormitory slowly unfolded before my eyes like a picture scroll.

A narrow aisle divides the space into two, with two beds on each side. The upper one is for sleeping, and the lower one is for storage cabinets and study tables, creating a symmetrical beauty.

Everywhere you look, you can see the spotless floor and neatly made beds. This is all thanks to the roommates who also love cleanliness, keeping this small dormitory tidy and comfortable at all times.

Looking up slightly, the old electric fan on the simple ceiling came into view.

Every summer, it rotates slowly and tirelessly. Although it cannot dispel too much heat, the cool breeze can bring a touch of comfort in the sultry heat and calm the restless heart.

On the left is the bathroom, which is not very spacious and has simple facilities. Apart from the squat toilet, the only noticeable thing is the cold shower head.

Every winter, taking a bath here is like a fierce battle with the cold. You must have lightning-fast hands to barely complete the bath under the invasion of biting cold water and not shiver from the cold.

Walking to the bed on the right side, he found this was his little nest in the affiliated middle school where he had lived for a long time.

Time is running out, there is no time to go to bed and reminisce.

I have to take liberal arts and English exams in the afternoon. There is no hope for liberal arts for the time being, but I can still try to pass English.

Because of the college entrance examination, basically every senior high school student will prepare all the required textbooks from the first grade to the third grade, and Hu Xiaobei is no exception.

Following the arrangement habits I remembered, I quickly found my first-year English book, pulled out a chair and sat down, then quickly flipped to the word summary page.

Let’s not talk about grammar for now, the most important thing in English is vocabulary.

It would be foolish to memorize everything in the textbook.

The English vocabulary for junior high school students is about 1600 words, while that for high school students is about 1900 words. That is to say, the English vocabulary of high school students should reach about 3500 words.

But if you want to cope with the college entrance examination better, you need to master more vocabulary.

In general, mastering 4000 common words is basically enough.

After all, if you can master 4500 common words and a certain number of phrases in the CET- exam, you will most likely pass it.

Hu Xiaobei didn't think about all these. He planned to start memorizing English vocabulary from the first grade of junior high school and memorize as much as he could before the afternoon exam.

Communicate your thoughts to the shadow, expand your spiritual perception and start memorizing words.

In this state, he felt like his brain was a high-speed scanner.

Those words flashed in his mind one by one as if they were highlighted.

The pronunciation, spelling and meaning of each word seemed to be broken down into the smallest fragments of information, which were then captured and integrated by his brain at an incredible speed and deeply imprinted in the storage area of his memory.

About five minutes later, Hu Xiaobei checked the word list and compared it. "Hmm, not bad, I've memorized it word for word."

A page of word summary table contains about 80-150 words, which means that in five minutes, Hu Xiaobei can memorize at least 100 words.

This means that, if you don't count the consumption, under perfect conditions, you can memorize 1000 words in at most one hour.

It's not even eleven o'clock yet. The liberal arts simulation starts at one o'clock in the afternoon, and English starts at four o'clock in the afternoon.

There are about five hours in between, minus half an hour for lunch and the liberal arts exam, I have nearly four hours to memorize words.

Judging from this situation, without saying too much, it shouldn't be a problem to master the basic vocabulary of high school English before the English exam, right?

Just do it when you think of it, use your spiritual awareness to perceive it, and let me test your limits!
An hour later, Hu Xiaobei began to feel lethargic.

Sure enough, it still has consumption and cannot be used for a long time!
In the past, he consumed supernatural energy. When he first awakened his supernatural power, he vaguely remembered that he could only sustain continuous consumption for three to five minutes.

What is being consumed now is one's own mental strength, and one's endurance has increased dramatically.

After testing his own energy consumption, Hu Xiaobei began to rest for a while, and then silently calculated his memory situation.

I have basically memorized all the English words for the first year of junior high school, so I won’t have to memorize them as continuously from now on.

This is not very efficient. Instead, it would be more efficient to memorize in batches, taking a few minutes break after every five to ten minutes of memorization.

It's the same as ordinary people lifting heavy objects. Is it more tiring to lift a hundred pounds of books at once, or is it easier to lift ten to twenty pounds of books in five to ten times?

Hu Xiaobei communicated with the shadow, immersed his mind in it, and sensed the changes in the shadow's abilities.

Huh, after connecting with the shadow, I can actually clearly sense the precise degree of evolution of the shadow's ability.

Not only was the shadow power before his rebirth unable to do this, but among the powers he knew, no other power could accurately sense the degree of evolution to this extent.

The supernatural powers of that era were all vague perceptions of the general situation, which meant that only instruments could be used to define some abilities that could be digitized.

Uh, the evolution level has actually reached 0.23%, considering I only used my shadow ability for an hour.

Judging from this evolution speed, it is really much faster than my own in the era of superpowers.

"Cuckoo."

Suddenly, it felt like an old blender started up in my stomach, making a dull and continuous sound, vibrating constantly in my abdominal cavity.

The "cuckoo" sound is like an angry cry, protesting against extreme hunger, as if it wants to break through the body and attack like a tidal wave.

His stomach felt like it was being tightly gripped by a big hand, causing a dull pain. The pain was like a steel needle piercing the stomach wall, or like Monkey King was kneading it wantonly, making him break out in a cold sweat.

Hu Xiaobei looked at the time, forced himself to get up and go to the cafeteria.

He knew that he had to eat to replenish his energy, otherwise his body would go on strike.

However, after taking just a few steps, the feeling of hunger seemed to come to life and spread rapidly along the nerves.

It was as if all the strength in my limbs was drained away in an instant, and they became soft and weak. My feet felt like they were stepping on cotton, so weak and frail that it made me feel uneasy.

My head was a little dizzy, and the world in front of me seemed to be covered with a layer of light fog.

Every cell in the body is like a dying fish in a dry desert, craving for energy with all its might.

　This book is really not about the end of the world and does not contain any apocalyptic content.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)