My health recovery is incredibly fast.

At least do everything you can, so you won't have any regrets or guilt.

Chapter 25 Simple Exam

A week later.

Seven o'clock in the morning.

The freshmen filled their stomachs in the cafeteria, and then, carrying books or notebooks, they made the most of their last moments before the exams, trying to memorize the difficult-to-grasp knowledge points.

Xia Zuo escorted the anxious Anruer into the corridor of the girls' dormitory, avoiding everyone's gaze, and entered the passageway of the poison alchemy area.

Kulov had prepared the small classroom in advance; it would be the place for the exam today.

The original rows of seats were moved into the storage room.

Only a pair of tables and chairs remained in the center of the small classroom.

One meter in front of the desk, six fist-sized glass spheres floated, emitting a faint white light.

The detection technique revealed that these glass spheres housed the professors' surveillance and guards.

Each glass ball corresponds to a professor.

Other students are randomly assigned to be proctored by a professor.

Xia Zuo, on the other hand, enjoyed six times the treatment, with six professors proctoring his exams.

After bowing respectfully to the six glass marbles, he calmly sat down behind his desk and quietly waited for the exam to begin.

The wall clock points to 8 a.m.

A wooden box flew out from under the teacher's desk and landed smoothly on the desk.

Following the instructions given by Headmistress Beatrice during class yesterday morning regarding the exam, Xia Zuo repeatedly confirmed that the surface of the wooden box was intact before gently pushing open the clasp on the side of the box.

"click"

A crisp unlocking sound rang out, and the wooden box lid opened, revealing the exam papers and a special pen for the exam inside.

On the wooden board inside the cover, there are rows of grass specimens of various shapes.

They are wrapped with glass slides or transparent liquid adhesive.

It allows candidates to clearly view the specimens while preventing them from scattering.

The second test item mentioned by the head of the institute, Beatrice, was to check whether the specimens were damaged.

These are for word problems. It's considered the second benefit the university provides to help freshmen pass their exams.

Xia Zuo scanned the specimen, which was about the size of a little finger, and casually cast a detection spell.

well

All of them received clear and explicit feedback.

It seems today's herbalism exam wasn't too difficult.

I picked up my pen, wrote my name on the exam paper cover, and turned to the first page to look at the first question.

He wrote down the answers fluently, and finished all 200 multiple-choice questions in just 20 minutes after the exam started.

On average, each multiple-choice question took only about 6 seconds.

If he hadn't deliberately held back, he could have finished a multiple-choice question in just 3 seconds at most.

These multiple-choice questions, whether single-choice or multiple-answer, basically test one or a few knowledge points. You can simply write down the answer by referring to the information in your knowledge base and thinking a little.

The application problems became more challenging.

The corresponding textbooks for herbalism are the Magic Herb Catalogue, the Magic Herb Harvesting Guide, and the Magic Herb Pretreatment.

Although this exam paper tests knowledge of the Magic Herb Catalogue, its application questions will involve all three books, but with different focuses, emphasizing students' familiarity with the Magic Herb.

Faced with the first question, Xia Zuo pondered for ten seconds after reading it before determining the solution.

Word problems

Question 1

It rained in the forest last night.

In the early hours of this morning, you prepared to pick ghost mushrooms from the tree trunks in this forest. There were 11 small mushrooms, 6 medium mushrooms, and 2 large mushrooms in total.

How can I pre-treat these ghost mushrooms to maximize their preservation?

Ghost mushrooms grow rapidly in dark, damp environments.

The so-called "ghost mushroom picking" actually refers to removing the cap of the mushroom, which has spotted patterns and emits a ghostly blue light.

A fully mature ghost mushroom has a cap that turns a transparent, ghostly blue, hence its name.

The stem, which is attached to the cap, is firmly embedded in the trunk and cannot be picked together, let alone cut with scissors.

Because its stem is filled with a pale blue liquid.

Once the stipe is damaged, the liquid inside will quickly drain away, leaving only the soft outer skin sticking to the trunk.

The mycelium of the ghost mushroom is hidden deep in the tree trunk, just as the roots of a tree are buried deep in the soil.

This shows that transplanting this type of mushroom is quite difficult.

It's better to note where it appears, remove the cap, and keep the stem and mycelium for the next harvest.

After the cap of the ghost mushroom is separated from the stem, moisture continuously seeps out from the gills. Within a maximum of two seconds, the entire cap will dry up and wither.

The stronger the light and the higher the temperature, the faster the water seeps out.

Simultaneously.

The rate at which water seeps out increases exponentially with the number, width, and length of the gills.

Therefore, large mushrooms with the most gills are not worth picking.

It's possible that as soon as it's picked, its gills start spraying water, and within half a second, only a wet, soft outer skin remains.

The little ghost mushrooms puff up water the slowest; just put them in an opaque potion bottle.

As for the 6 medium-sized ghost mushrooms, it all depends on luck. If you're quick, you can save 3 to 5.

Xia Zuo mentally prepared his answer, writing it down in concise sentences that encompassed all the key points.

In the time that followed, I carefully considered each word problem before answering it.

The exam will start approximately 2 hours later.

He put down his pen, slowly exhaled, carefully checked all the questions, and after confirming that there were no errors, put them back in the wooden box, closed the box, and locked it.

The wooden box flew back to the podium, and another wooden box flew out.

This time it's a test on megaphysics.

With the insights shared by young Moben Riley, the application problems of macrophysics were no longer a mystery.

To be on the safe side, Xia Zuo used the cardboard model in the wooden box to simulate the operation mentioned in the question before finally writing down the answer.

12 o'clock noon.

We ate lunch in the small classroom.

A satiating potion floated over from the podium. The bottle contained an amber-colored gel.

Xia Zuo read through the instructions on the medicine bottle, then uncorked it, opened his mouth wide, poured the gel into his mouth, and let it slide down his throat and into his stomach without chewing or swallowing.

The message from the cheat system came to my mind:

"Successfully consumed the satiety potion, gaining a satiety effect that lasts for 168 hours. During the duration of the effect, gain 0.05 experience points every hour."

Gee tut.

He looked at the medicine bottle in his hand, feeling that he hadn't had enough.

You won't get hungry for 7 days and will get 1.2 experience points every day. If you rely on satiety potions to fill your stomach for a year, you can steadily get several hundred experience points every year.

This is similar to AFK leveling, practically fully automated leveling.

I wonder if there are any similar potions in potion alchemy.

With this in mind, Xia Zuo decided not to take a lunch break.

After resolving the domestic demand issue, he sat back down in the small classroom and told the six glass marbles that he wanted to continue taking the exam.

A third wooden box flew out from the podium. Two hours later, the third wooden box flew back, and a fourth wooden box flew out.

It wasn't until 7 p.m. that Xia Zuo waved at the five glass balls, indicating that he was too tired, his exam performance was not good, and he needed to rest for the night.

Entering the castle hall, I walked around the dining room but didn't see Anruer. She must be in her dormitory.

Xia Zuo returned to his dormitory, looked at some concept diagrams of quirky objects for a while, and then went to bed early.

...

Noon 4 days later.

The small classroom in the poison alchemy area.

Xia Zuo put down his pen under the watchful eyes of the six glass marbles.

The final exams, which lasted nearly five days, have ended. I finished all my exams 20 days earlier than other freshmen.

The price I paid was calluses on the web of my right hand and the knuckles of my index finger, and a dull ache in my wrist and lower back.

All of this is worthwhile.

Xia Zuo nodded with a smile, packed up the wooden box, and walked out of the small classroom to the alchemy room.

Kurov lay on the soft sofa, his eyes closed, and said:

"There's a box of books on the desk with some textbooks inside. Take it home and look at it. You can manage your time as you see fit for the next 20 days."

"Yes, Professor."

Xia Zuo's smile widened as he cheerfully picked up the slightly heavy book box and walked out.

The tutor didn't reveal how I did on the exam, but simply asked me to take the textbooks; the deeper meaning was self-evident.