Chapter 135 College Entrance Examination

July 20, 2018.

Lin Xi stood on the glorious podium at the graduation ceremony.

She became the dark horse of this year's college entrance examination, with extremely high scores in all subjects, ranking first in the whole school and becoming the top scorer in their district.

Everyone was surprised, including the homeroom teacher, Wang Hua.

There was a great deal of discussion about it:

"It's one thing that she got high scores in biology and chemistry, but wasn't she terrible at physics and math?"

"That's what I heard too. Her overall grades used to be below the top 20 in the class."

"The scores in Chinese and English seem to be much higher than usual."

"Were the lower scores in these two subjects compared to math due to a deduction in points for the essay?"

"She must be hiding her true abilities, waiting to surprise everyone by excelling in the college entrance examination."

However, Lin Xi paid no attention to these voices.

Her scores in biology and chemistry were truly high; she mastered these two subjects in two years, which caused her to fall behind in the other subjects.

When applying the answer key that she had memorized perfectly, Lin Xi deliberately wrote a few wrong answers and lost a few points. Combined with the points deducted from her English and Chinese essays, this increased the authenticity of her college entrance examination score.

Otherwise, if she simply copied all the answers, she was a little worried that she might be questioned.

Lin Xi received her admission letter from the Medical School of Capital University as she had hoped.

Her homeroom teacher, who had been nagging her for two whole years, finally reconciled. While taking a photo with the school's top science student, he said with some regret, "Your total score actually exceeded that of XX University, but you still persisted in your ideals and hobbies. That's rare!"

Lin Xi flashed her signature smile in the group photo.

But she didn't say: there are things more important than ideals and hobbies.

Over the next two months, Lin Xi received many invitations to graduation banquets from her classmates.

As is customary, Lin Xi did not invite them to a graduation banquet, so it was inconvenient for them to attend.

Just like her first incarnation, Lin Xi congratulated each of her classmates but declined their invitations, changed her social media accounts, and disappeared from her original social circle.

While her peers, who were the same age as her body, were celebrating the end of the college entrance examination, traveling around and starting to enjoy life, Lin Xi had already begun to preview the basic courses of her major, pathogenic biology.

Although it is also immersive learning, unlike high school, it is not subject to school supervision now. Students have free time and can freely allocate time for exercise and social practice.

Xiang Xin visited Nanhua once during the summer vacation, and met with Lin Xi several times after visiting a large-scale comic convention.

After learning where Lin Xi had gone, Xiang Xin couldn't help but exclaim, "Wow... Capital University. Pathogenic Biology... Is that related to what you said about saving the world?"

Lin Xi nodded.

Xiang Xin: "Did mutants appear later?"

Lin Xi hesitated whether to tell Xiang Xin the truth so soon, but her eyes betrayed everything.

Xiang Xin looked surprised. Lin Xi thought she would be disbelieving or scared, but to her surprise, Xiang Xin slammed her hand on the table and stood up abruptly: "That's really interesting!!"

"..."

"I've always found the three-dimensional world incredibly boring!"

Xiang Xin, who is a few years younger, is somewhat different from the one she met in her previous life, but the core essence is the same.

Xiang Xin is full of enthusiasm for saving the world: "I will study Sanda (Chinese kickboxing) hard, and I also practice shooting! But where am I going to get a gun? Will the Xiongda (Bear Association) provide one for us?"

...

On the day Lin Xi left Nanhua to attend university in the capital after summer vacation, Lu Wei was still at school due to the special nature of the school and his personal development. Liang Hui and Lin Xi were not very familiar with each other.

Only Xiang Xin came to the station to see her off, ending his summer vacation early.

Thinking back to when she went to Nanhua University to register alone, and then looking at the girl in front of her like the sun, Lin Xi felt a warmth in her heart.

Xiang Xin kept nagging, "We won't be able to see each other often anymore. I came to Nanhua to study while you left Nanhua, and I went home for vacation while you came back to Nanhua. In the end, we missed each other, sob."

"We'll see each other often."

Xiang Xin, who looked even younger than Lin Xi, gave her a long lecture: "Be careful when you're out and about alone. Don't walk alone at night. Oh, but your Sanda skills should be enough to protect you."

"Eat less takeout; even the worst food in the cafeteria is better than gutter oil."

"Stay away from student loans!"

"Be careful of jerks in relationships..."

"Drink more hot water regularly..."

Lin Xi listened silently.

Xiang Xin: "Huh? You actually managed to listen to the whole thing?"

Lin Xi: "Although it doesn't sound like something you would say, but..."

Xiang Xin: "Sigh! I don't know what to say, so I just copied what my parents say to me every time I leave home."

It's clear that although Xiang Xin's family of origin wasn't exactly open-minded, they genuinely loved their child.

Lin Xi smiled and said, "Okay. Thank you for your kindness."

Xiang Xin: "Junior, have a safe journey!"

In this life, Xiang Xin discovers that Lin Xi is actually younger than her, and forces herself to act as the older sister.

Lin Xi, who had noticed this thought, thought: Sometimes I don't think being called "Sister Xi" is so embarrassing.

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Lin Xi arrived in a completely new environment, and life at the Capital University School of Medicine was not easy.

Although she graduated from a prestigious university, she studied accounting, a relatively low-pressure major. Moreover, she didn't have high expectations for herself in the past. She would slack off in class and secretly play on her phone, as long as she didn't go too far and get called out by the teacher. Her academic performance was average. She only needed to obtain the basic professional certificates and graduation certificate.

However, medical studies are traditionally a field with heavy course loads and frequent exams, resulting in different levels of stress.

Moreover, the students at Capital University are all top students. Although Lin Xi entered the medical school of this school by answering the college entrance examination questions, his actual level is not as good as those students who have a solid foundation since childhood or who are naturally talented.

Pathogenic biology is a research-oriented field, and the undergraduate curriculum doesn't cover it in enough depth. Lin Xi wants to be at least at the level of someone who can get into a research institute if he wants to do research on zombie viruses later on.

At the Capital University School of Medicine, where top students abound, most students maintain the learning attitude of high school seniors, creating an excellent learning environment.

This environment was conducive to Lin Xi's focused study, but it also created extremely fierce competition.

Lin Xi sleeps only 7 hours a day and spends the rest of her time in the study room, constantly under high pressure.

Her path forward was very clear—

I took the postgraduate entrance exam and got accepted back to Nanhua University.

After all, Nanhua was the first scene of the incident, and nearby research institutes were the first to come into contact with the pathogen.

Ideally, you should get into the Nanhua Biological Research Institute, which has a top-notch research team in the country.

Lu Wei had contacted them when Lin Xi was imprisoned and learned that they were two highly accomplished scientists, Academician Ling Zheng and Academician Yu Heng. If one were fortunate enough to join their team, even as an intern or assistant, one could gain access to firsthand resources.