Chapter 4 Chapter 4 Joint Examination.
A month is not a short time, we can’t just sit there and wait.
After thinking it over, Tao Ying signed up for the Interstellar Entrance Examination before the registration deadline.
The interstellar joint examination is held every three years and is an important opportunity for students in remote galaxies to change their destiny.
Foreigners are not welcome to stay in the Reval Empire, and tourists need to go through various complicated procedures to travel there.
If she went as a tourist, she might be driven back to a remote galaxy before she was even fully recovered from the genetic modification surgery.
But as a student, it was a different story. At least during her four years of college, she could live stably in the First Galaxy.
This is her best option now.
There are many university options in the First System, but the best is undoubtedly the University of Leimen.
As far as Tao Ying knows, the subsidy for physical surgery at Leimen University can reach more than 50%, which can greatly alleviate her financial pressure.
But now there is only one month left until the joint entrance examination.
It's a bit difficult to reach the score requirement of Leimen University.
Tao Ying quickly scanned the main subject test papers of recent years. The test points did not change much. After trying a few sets of test papers, the average score was still about 100 points away from the admission line of the Mecha Department of Lai University.
If she were given a month, she could reduce the gap to ten points... but it would still be dangerously close to the admission line.
"If all else fails, I can only choose other slightly worse schools in Lehman City."
Tao Ying leaned his head against the wall and tapped the screen with his pen.
Five minutes later, she stood up.
No, maybe there is another way.
Most people who take the interstellar joint examination only take the main subjects, but there is also a very small number of people with very clear goals who choose to take two additional specific subjects.
For Tao Ying, it would be more appropriate to choose to take the additional exam.
She then decisively asked, "Assistant, what are the elective subjects for this year's interstellar joint exam?"
[Hello, this year's interstellar joint exam has a total of 431 elective subjects, including Energetics, Ancient Virology Research, Interstellar Ecology, Interstellar Law and Policy, Interstellar Psychology, Interstellar Ethics, Space Agriculture and Food Science, Space Materials...]
Tao Ying tore off a piece of paper, wrote down a dozen subjects she was more familiar with, and circled three of them with a pen.
Space materials, mecha, and sentient mecha.
She had seen the questions on the mecha subject before, and they were not difficult for her, so she chose them.
Space materials are closely related to the main materials used to make mechas. Although she majors in software, she needs to understand materials to study mechas - this subject is one of her optional subjects.
Tao Ying scribbled twice on the paper, and finally drew a question mark next to the words "Perceptual Mecha", then turned her head.
"Assistant, I don't remember there was a subject called Perceptual Mecha before."
The optical computer assistant answered quickly.
[Yes, it didn't exist before. However, due to the popularity of sentient mechas among the general public in recent years, a new subject called "sentient mecha" was added six years ago.]
[However, since this is a new subject, the question types are not easy to summarize and are relatively flexible. If you plan to participate in this year's joint entrance examination, the assistant does not recommend that you choose this subject...]
Tao Ying ignored its suggestion: "Are there any reference questions?"
The optical computer assistant quickly gave the exam questions for the previous six years.
Tao Ying flipped through the pages with a calm expression.
She was so familiar with these calculations. Although they had been modified, they were all based on Hengwo's data. She wouldn't make a mistake even with her eyes closed.
Then things are simple.
Intention: Leimen University, School of Mechanics, major in Mechanics Systems.
Tao Ying filled in the goal, used the balance in her account to rent a small room near the examination venue, and began to concentrate on preparing for the exam.
A month passed quickly.
The day before the joint entrance examination, Tao Ying went to bed on time, and the optical computer assistant entered the sleep-aid mode and started playing the news station of the universe radio.
[Starnet Evening News: Minghuo's second-generation mecha has been put into use and has received rave reviews. Its chief designer, Zhu Chi, has now transferred to the Laimen Monitoring Center.]
[It is reported that the sentient mecha "Hengwo", which was born at the same time, is about to enter the destruction process...]
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Chester Star, Lehman City.
In a large room with floor-to-ceiling windows, a black-haired girl was communicating using a light brain.
The girl was about sixteen or seventeen, but her eyes were calm. She bit the rubber band around her wrist and casually tied up her long, weed-like hair. Her sleeves slid down her raised hands, revealing several long scars on her forearms.
Putting her hands on the desk again, she clicked on the received email.
【Re: Hengwo's third phase of repair experiment failed. 】
The machine has now been shipped from the Fourth System's testing grounds to Lemen. If you wish to prevent the destruction program, you must find someone who can activate it. This is our last chance.
The girl—Bai Mo, the next head of Bai Industries—frowned.
Since its establishment, the Bai family has had a rule that if the same mecha cannot be started for ten consecutive years, it must be destroyed.
Baishi Industry and Laiji Institute have a cooperative relationship. After the fire, Baishi Industry took over Hengwo and was responsible for the restoration work.
But Hengwo lost too much data because of the fire. Although the researchers restored most of Hengwo's functions based on some data files sent to them by Tao Ying before his death, there was a problem with the most important mental power connection module.
Heng I rejected every pilot I met and was completely unable to start.
In recent years, Bai Mo has been running back and forth between galaxies whenever she has free time, trying to find a suitable pilot. She even invited a marshal with S-level mental power in the army to test drive the plane, but in the end no miracle happened.
This month is the deadline. If Hengwo still cannot be activated, it will have to be destroyed at Baishi Industries.
As the next heir to Bai Industries, she couldn't stop it either.
On the table was a model of Hengwo about ten centimeters in size. It was a toy given to her by the director of the Laiji Institute when she was a child and went there to play.
Bai Mo tightened his arm muscles and held it tightly in his hand.
After a moment, she opened her hands and put the model back on the table.
He sighed and sat back in his chair.
He murmured, "Where on earth can I go to find a pilot whom Hengwo recognizes?"
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On the third night after the joint examination, the joint examination system will send the score information through the optical computer.
However, given that the network conditions between various galaxies are extremely unstable, and there are also ceremonial considerations - the examination department of each planet will provide on-site result inquiries.
Taking Shamat Star as an example, every three years, a large number of candidates will gather at Galaxy Plaza, where they will wait for the results of the joint examination to be announced.
There is still one hour left before the results are announced.
There was already a lot of noise downstairs.
This was not Tao Ying's first time taking the joint entrance examination, so she was not nervous at all. She had planned to wait for the results in the room. However, when she opened the window for some fresh air, she suddenly smelled a slightly bitter Binglai-style coffee, which was very similar to the one she loved to drink at Laimen, where the second cup was half price.
She leaned against the window and took a few deep breaths, her appetite aroused. Finally, she decided to take a few dozen star coins and go downstairs to join in the fun.
The room she rented was in a high-rise building next to Galaxy Plaza. At this time, most of the people renting in the high-rise building were candidates.
At eight o'clock, the group of candidates crowded in the building went downstairs together.
The candidates couldn't hide their excitement as they awaited the results, mixed with a touch of nervousness. The high temperature made their blood boil.
The girl wearing a red scarf was so excited that her nose was bleeding, but she didn't care at all. She covered her nose and was still immersed in the carnival atmosphere, swinging her T-shirt and jumping around like a monkey.
She pointed her finger to the sky: "Even if I bleed to death today and die here, I will wait until the test results come out before dying!"
Because it was so embarrassing, she was quickly pinned to the ground and subdued by her two friends.
"Shut up and stop the bleeding first."
The two friends pulled the girl with a bleeding nose to a low ladder next to the square and tried to stop the bleeding, but they had run out of tissues in their pockets.
They looked around and found a coffee shop at the end of the square and decided to go there to borrow a towel.
The store was deserted, with only one customer.
The customer held a glass of ice cream in one hand and used the computer to check the results with the other.
It was Tao Ying.
While the two candidates were waiting for the clerk to bring towels, they couldn't help but glance over here a few more times.
People on their planet don't like to drink coffee, so this coffee shop is usually empty. Tao Ying sitting here is very conspicuous.
In addition, her pale skin and the appearance of being in poor health made it even more noticeable.
Tao Ying noticed their gazes and looked back. When she saw the blood on their hands, her head buzzed.
Clank—she slid down the table to the floor.
"?" The two candidates were shocked.
"You, what's wrong with you?"
“…”
Tao Ying stood up by holding the table.
I have been drinking nutrient solution normally these two days, so the dizziness should not be caused by hypoglycemia.
What is the reason?
Tao Ying turned her head and her eyes fell on the red liquid in the candidate's palm, and she almost fainted again.
……Blood.
The two candidates seemed to have noticed something and asked hesitantly:
"You, you won't faint from blood, right?"
Ten minutes later, the girl, whose nosebleed had stopped, saw that her friend had not returned yet, so she slowly wandered to the entrance of the coffee shop. Just as she was about to say hello, her friend and the clerk shouted at her in unison, "Don't come over here!!"
"Huh? Why?" The girl covered her nose in confusion, but still listened to her companions and stood there obediently.
Tao Ying tested the blood several times, and after confirming that she was really afraid of blood, she fell silent.
Candidate A became excited.
"This is the first time I've seen someone faint at the sight of blood. I've only seen it in textbooks before!"
"Keep your voice down." Candidate B pinched her mouth.
"No, sorry, I don't mean to laugh at you, it's just that this disease is quite rare... I've never seen it before..."
Tao Ying took a sip of coffee and waved her hand to indicate that she didn't care about what she said.
"It's okay, it's my first time seeing this too."
Tens of thousands of years ago, war completely destroyed the Blue Planet's living environment. Humanity's long journey through space in search of new planets has screened out many weak genes, and children born after the first year of the Star Calendar are generally very healthy.
Hemophobia is a rare disease, and its prevalence in the entire galaxy is as high as winning the lottery.
She had only seen it in textbooks before.
What other surprises does this body hold for her?
Seeing that there was only one minute left until eight o'clock, the candidates began to excitedly refresh their scores.
Cheers broke out in the square.
"I'm 488, so I should be able to go to Triton Middle School in the First System."
"My 520! I can go to Rex Middle School!"
"Stop jumping around. If you get a nosebleed again, we'll just dump you here."
"Stop talking nonsense. How many points do you have?"
"I'm two points behind you, so I should also go to Rex Middle School..."
"Hahaha, these schools are all close to each other. We can go out for barbecue together in the middle of the night."
"And then a group of people went to the store clerk to ask for towels to stop your bleeding?"
"Can you please forget this?"
"No, the image of your nosebleed is already etched into my DNA and will be passed on to my children."
"Hey, this can't be inherited."
"Who said that?" The two friends reached out at the same time. "Friendship price, 300 star coins each. I'll delete your memory once you receive it."
The girl held her nose and jumped up in anger.
"Are you two my friends?"
So youthful.
Tao Ying took a sip of coffee and tapped on the screen.
These three people should be candidates for junior high school. The Triton and Rex Middle Schools they are going to have a good reputation in the First Galaxy. It seems that they have good grades.
The three candidates cheered for a while, and then heard the ding-dong notification sound from Tao Ying's computer. The three of them came over very familiarly.
"You're also a student taking the exam this year, right? Which middle school are you applying to? If you go to Laimen City, maybe we'll be classmates."
The interstellar joint entrance examination is divided into middle school and university departments. Tao Ying is about the same age as them, so several candidates naturally thought that Tao Ying had applied for the middle school department as well.
The computer was still stuck on the query interface. It was useless to wait. Tao Ying took a sip of coffee and replied casually:
"Who said I was going to Lehman City?"
"Didn't you just book a boat ticket to Lehman City? The notification tone of the booking app is very unique, you can tell it by the sound. Speaking of which, there's only one boat to the First System per month, so we can travel together!"
"It's possible that I could get off the ship halfway through the second galaxy."
"How is that possible? There have been Zergs in the area recently!"
"That's right, the passenger ships nearby are restricted, so we can't go directly here."
The three nodded.
Tao Ying knew that, according to the attack data released by the military, the Zerg's favorite target was the Second Galaxy. However, if the situation there was so serious, a lot of troops from the Third Galaxy should have been transferred there.
"What's the situation in the third galaxy?"
"You don't really want to get off the ship halfway, do you?!" The three were shocked when they heard Tao Ying ask this. "The third galaxy is even more unacceptable! There's a lack of police there, and pirates could take advantage of it to cause trouble. Normal people would take a few safe routes and not take the direct starship."
"Oh, who knows."
Tao Ying blinked mischievously.
The air was filled with the aroma of coffee. Under the warm yellow light, Tao Ying took a bite of the freshly baked cake with a spoon. The sweetness slid down her throat into her stomach, and the feeling of energy surging made her happy.
Such authentic Lemon flavor. Did the boss work as an apprentice there?
She put down the spoon.
"Well, I do share the same starship with you, but it's unlikely that we'll be classmates."
"How could that be? Our classmates are all over Lemen. If you go to Lemen, you will definitely be unable to avoid us! Tell me, which school are you planning to go to?"
Before the trio could ask for the result, the query results came up on the light brain. Tao Ying glanced at the score, tapped his hands on his thigh, and took the last sip of coffee.
The total score was 559, ten points lower than she expected.
There is no problem in choosing the major she wants, but the point of this score card is a bit strange.
Seeing that Tao Ying hadn't answered, the candidate turned around and started chatting animatedly again.
"This year's highest score for undergraduate studies is out: 570! Bo Mo."
"Ah? Bai Mo, the mecha maniac who's only sixteen years old, but has already participated in four mecha tournaments and never lost a single duel? No way, she has A-grades in both mental strength and physical fitness, how could she not go to the Imperial First Military Academy!"
"Exactly, what a waste of talent!"
Bai Mo? Such a familiar name.
Tao Ying touched his chin.
Isn't that the next head of the Bai family?
Tao Ying had met her before, when they were collaborating on a project with Bai's Industries. Bai Mo, barely ten at the time, was already able to battle it out with a first-class pilot in a simulator, demonstrating a remarkable talent for mecha control.
With double A physique, it is a pity not to go to Diyi. I don’t know what the considerations are.
If I could meet Bai Mo, maybe I could find a way to find out about Heng Wo's situation. However, given Bai Mo's level, even if he didn't go to Diyi, he would definitely go to another first-tier military academy. The military academy is in Area C, and Leimen University is in Area A, so it would be difficult for the two of them to run into each other.
I'd better make plans after I get to Leimen.
Tao Ying threw the Binglai-style cup into the trash can and stood up to leave.
The wind chimes at the door jingled a few times. The three candidates caught a glimpse of Tao Yingguang's search page from the corner of their eyes and froze in their places. After a long pause, He Li trembled and said,
"I, I just saw her score, it's 559..."
"That's impossible, did you see the wrong person?"
"No, I'm sure, it's definitely 559. And even if it's 459, it's outrageous!"
Benjamin swallowed, his hands shaking.
"Because she's applying to the university department!!"
"What?!"
There were a few exclamations from the coffee shop.
"Does she want to go to Lemen University?!"
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