Lu Mingfei, why are you slaying dragons if you're not involved!

Chapter 136 Mock Exam: How to Get Points?

For senior high school students, exams have long been a daily routine.

After all, so-called review usually just means handing out endless test papers, checking the answers after finishing them, finding mistakes, and then having the teacher explain and supplement them collectively.

Every now and then, the mock exams at school are a bit more formal. At least the mountains of books piled up on the desks have to be moved, the desks have to be arranged in single rows, and answer sheets have to be distributed.

As for the more formal city-wide mock exam, it even includes everything from changing seats to barcodes. Except for not having to go to other schools to take the exam, everything else simulates the college entrance examination, and the exam papers are graded by scanning.

Besides the tried-and-true method of rote memorization, such a large number of exams also play another important role—desensitizing students.

Logically speaking, after this whole "treatment," a mere mock exam before a holiday shouldn't have attracted any attention at all.

But this time is different!
A "sale opening" with a total amount of over a million was attractive enough in itself. What's more, the person whose property was being sold was none other than Lu Mingfei, the focus of attention who had dominated the "Shilan Middle School Hot List" for nine consecutive days?

Almost everyone was looking forward to this exam. Unlike city-wide mock exams, these school-wide mock exams were not as rigorous. They were smaller in scale and the grading was faster, with everyone's scores available within a day of the exam being completed.

At that time, whether Lu Mingfei's hard work over the past nine days can create a miracle of "suddenly improving his score by nearly 200 points" will naturally come to light!
"From a rational point of view, I think normal people can't do that."

Someone started a discussion thread on the campus forum.

"But Lu Shen isn't like a normal person. The fact that he can endure so much for so many years despite his appearance is beyond what can be described as 'enduring hardship and biding his time.' I have a feeling he's going to do something big!"

"I second that. How can a normal person arrive at school earlier than the security guard on duty every day? I asked the security guard the other day, and he said that he only ever sees Lu Mingfei leaving the school to eat breakfast!"

"Even if he doesn't reach 600, it doesn't affect the fact that he is number one on the list of those to be killed, and he is already destined to be a 'winner in life'... Just the girls who have their eyes on him can guarantee him a life of comfort and wealth, okay? Little Fairy's family is really rich, and there's more than one!"

"By the way, if Senior Brother Chu were still on campus, who do you think would be number one, Lu Shen or Senior Brother Chu?"

"...If the person upstairs had posted this a few days earlier, I would have thought it was trying to start a fight. But it's different now. Senior Brother Chu and God Lu are obviously on an exaggeratedly good relationship, right?"

Whether it was the first time replying to a comment or the first time performing together at a gala... the girls were insanely jealous! This was an unprecedented collaboration between boys and girls, chanting the slogan "This scoundrel deserves to be punished!" I think Lu Shen deserves the title of number one!

"Seconded," "Seconded," "Granted," "Seconded, and also kick the upstairs neighbor's chair..."

Just as the topic was starting to veer off-topic, someone brought it back on track.

"Time's almost up, are our frontline reporters in position? We need to see Lu Shen's current state! Is he reviewing? Or is he still studying physics?"

Soon, the student with the ID "This Station's Frontline Reporter," who always arrived at the classroom immediately after Lu Mingfei and Ling, jumped out and said, "We're here! Look at the newly pinned post! [link]"

So everyone flocked to it, and the post, which had just been published and had been highlighted and pinned, saw its popularity soar.

The first thing that catches the eye is the still eye-catching title.

[No prize! Guess what book Lu Shen is reading today?]

"I have an idea! Whoever guesses it correctly, the other two will split the breakfast cost equally. How so?"

"catch!"

"received!"

Three boys who happened to meet at a breakfast shop and were having breakfast together started guessing games on the spot.

"That's definitely a big one."

"I think advanced mathematics might also be a possibility?"

"A last-minute review of Chinese isn't unacceptable, considering how much money is involved..."

They placed their bets and clicked on the post; the next second…

"What the hell is 'Linear Algebra'?!"

The three looked at each other in bewilderment. They had heard of this term before; their teacher had mentioned it in the elective section of high school mathematics, specifically in the section on "Spatial Vectors and Their Applications," where it was part of linear algebra.

But high school only covers the most basic concepts, limited to the application of second-order matrices in plane transformations, and using linear operations and coordinate representations of three-dimensional vectors as tools to solve geometric problems... There's absolutely no need to go to the part that requires a systematic study of "Linear Algebra"!
"As expected of the God of the Road."

The three of them sighed in unison.

The same sentiment was expressed in this post on the campus forum: "Lu Shen really doesn't care at all... He's been reading university books these past few days, could he have already finished learning all the high school material?"

"Nine-Day Speedrun for All High School Subjects? I must be crazy to actually believe this is possible!"

"Am I the only one who thinks that Lu Shen learns university knowledge so fast that it's ridiculous? I have heard of a practice among college students called 'pre-exam preparation,' where they barely pass a course they haven't attended all semester by studying in one night... It all depends on the teacher leaking the questions beforehand and grading the papers, and they forget everything after the exam!"

But surely the God of Road wouldn't go that far? Studying like this is a bit insane. But if he really could speed-learn a university curriculum in one day… is he even human?

"The analysis upstairs makes sense; there are actually only two possibilities now—"

First, Lu Shen's score didn't reach 600 after the exam, and his score didn't even improve much, thus exposing the illusion and turning him into a clown.

Second, he actually reached six hundred, or even higher...thus truly ascending to godhood and becoming a true legend!

Public opinion has once again formed an invisible storm.

The eye of the storm is always calm and quiet. Lu Mingfei focused on absorbing knowledge—given that he would need to use linear algebra in his subsequent physics studies, he decided to finish studying "Linear Algebra" first.

Compared to the thick textbooks "Mathematical Analysis" and "Foundations of Physics", "Linear Algebra" is quite thin, with not many knowledge points.

For Lu Mingfei, simply understanding and mastering those relatively abstract knowledge points is equivalent to completing his studies... because the multi-step, high-precision calculations that take up the most time are not a problem for him at all!

Of course, according to Zero, linear algebra is also fundamental, occupying only a portion of the bottom layer of the entire algebraic system. There are even more fundamental algebraic structures, such as set theory and mappings, group theory, rings and fields, etc.

In short, he'll have to learn it all eventually.

There's no shortage of things to learn!
[Through hard work, your [mathematics] skills have improved, and you have gained 5 proficiency points.]

【go through……】

Until the proctor's voice came—

"Alright, everyone, tidy up your desks and get ready for the exam. The exam will last from 9:00 to 11:30."

[Warning: An exam schedule has been detected. Please execute the schedule immediately...]

"Exam schedule?"

Lu Mingfei snapped out of his study mode and looked at the unfamiliar notification message, thinking to himself.

Are there any proficiency rewards?

This exam is part of the regular class schedule and not a temporary event; there are no special rewards for it.

Sure enough!

Lu Mingfei knew that the schedule wouldn't give him a chance to exploit this loophole, so he wasn't too disappointed.

The examination room was quickly set up, and the test papers were handed out. Before Lu Mingfei could even read the contents, a line of semi-transparent characters that he had never seen before appeared before his eyes.

[Time has been automatically allocated based on the difficulty of the exam and the knowledge you have acquired. Countdown: 123 minutes and 06 seconds...]

Lu Mingfei: "???"

No, is this also a time allocation for planning?
He hadn't even had a chance to think about finishing the exam early so he could finally relax!

This is from the schedule... a prediction in advance?
There was no time to complain, because complaining was useless. Lu Mingfei immediately flipped to the end of the test paper and looked at the essay topic.

The most time-consuming part of Chinese language is undoubtedly composition. It takes at least forty minutes from thinking to putting pen to paper. He is used to glancing at the topic before starting, which saves him a lot of thinking time.

But when he saw the question clearly, he was stunned.

An idea inevitably popped into his mind.

"Is this how you give away points?"

(End of this chapter)