Chapter 75 Grave Numbers Above All 37 Sixth Middle School
After listening, Wu Wangwang suddenly had a flash of inspiration: "Hey? Now that you mention it, I remember I went to a dungeon before, and the NPC there said that in every class, there are a few invisible people, with average grades, average looks, average abilities, and average personalities, who disappear for a long time before being discovered."
“Yes, that’s it! Judging from the suicide notes we’ve collected, most deaths among average students, aside from those with conflicts with others, are due to pressure from their families. If we’re careful, avoid provoking others, and do well on the college entrance exam, we might still be able to graduate normally,” Ling Yuanshan said confidently.
“The problem is, apart from you, the results of the other nine of us are all random. How can we guarantee that we won’t be bad but not good enough?” Wu Wangwang thought of her hopeless English and biology, especially biology, which she didn’t even choose. She had studied a lot of geography, but it was different from Ge Nan’s.
Ling Yuanshan was also stunned. He had never thought that he would have to consider grades in a survival game. He had previously said that he would deliberately do poorly on the test and then perform normally in the college entrance examination. Now, in order to save his life, he really had to work hard.
There was only one way. Ling Yuanshan stared at the teachers walking around the art building for a long time, then gritted his teeth and said, "Go and call the other students to gather in our class. I'll go find the homeroom teacher and tell them that I want to conduct an outside-school-rules diagnostic test for my friends. It won't be included in the actual ranking. Regardless of their performance, they can't use this as an excuse to punish us."
Wu Wangwang said directly, "Then why don't you call the referee? We can't trust any of the teachers in this school. The referee is also a teacher. Let her find us the test papers and invigilate the exam, and promise that the results will only be used for our own practice and have no practical significance."
Ling Yuanshan thought it made sense, so she simply stood on the playground and called for the referee. While waiting for the referee to come over, Wu Wangwang left him to negotiate with the referee himself. She went to the dormitory building to call people, first calling the girls, and then going to the boys' dormitory to ask the auntie to help notify them, saying that the teacher wanted to add an extra test and asking the auntie to help call people.
Hearing that there would be an exam, the aunt excitedly called three boys out, but looked completely bewildered when she saw Wu Wangwang and the others.
"What happened? Why do we need to take an extra test?" the man asked, sounding distressed.
"Let's talk as we walk." Wu Wangwang gestured to them not to discuss in crowded places, and led them toward the teaching building. Once they were alone, she told them the results of her discussion with Ling Yuanshan.
The third girl asked worriedly, "So you're planning to wait until you figure out our strengths and weaknesses, and then give us extra lessons to control our scores? But is that enough time?"
Wu Wangwang was also unsure, and smiled helplessly: "Let's try our best to make up for it. We will be dividing into subjects. I can get full marks in Chinese, math, politics and history. We can make up for each other's scores. The rest will depend on Ling Yuanshan."
This time, they truly felt the urgency of taking the college entrance examination. In reality, they attended the best high schools, and given their geographical location, the exam wasn't particularly competitive. Even if they did poorly, they wouldn't lack good universities to attend because the province had many. In the game, however, the final university they got into wasn't considered; only their scores mattered. Suddenly, they felt as if they had transferred to the most competitive high school.
When they arrived at Gao Hu's classroom in the teaching building, the referee and Ling Yuanshan were already there; they were both about to take their exams.
Ling Yuanshan said, "The referee has agreed to let us conduct an independent preliminary test among the players. Only the ten of us will know the results. The test questions used are last year's college entrance examination questions. The referee will help find teachers to grade the papers. The results will be released one subject at a time. It will last for two days. We will know all the results during tomorrow's evening self-study session."
After everyone was seated separately, the referee, holding the test papers, said, "I hope you will do your best. As for the other conditions, I will set them according to the college entrance examination. Previous players have tried to test their skills before completing the game, but they were often not satisfied with the results. You should also be mentally prepared."
Woman C cautiously raised her hand: "Why are you not satisfied?"
“Apart from those who achieve the top score, no one will be satisfied. Without that ability, it means they have no control over their scores and will eventually return to getting single-digit, ten- or twenty-point scores. The preliminary assessment is meaningless to them,” the referee calmly explained.
Then the test papers were distributed, and even the bell sounded like the college entrance examination to ensure a complete college entrance examination experience.
After receiving the test paper, Wu Wangwang immediately started writing. Due to the data she had accumulated over her long life, some subjects were too easy for her.
The exam order was not disrupted. Fortunately, in order to make it to lunchtime, they now have a very regular schedule. Even with Wu Wangwang and Ling Yuanshan delaying them on the playground, they can still finish the Chinese exam before lunch.
After a stressful impromptu exam, the students have been studying hard for the past two weeks and have gotten used to the high-intensity learning style of No. 6 Middle School. When they finally put their abilities to the test, they found it much easier.
Ling Yuanshan reminded everyone not to discuss the exam after it was over, to refrain from doing so, and to go eat, take a nap, and continue in the afternoon.
They no longer attend evening self-study sessions, but instead go back to their dormitories to rest early, even if they just lie down and play.
Other players didn't know what this group of people were doing. They seemed to disappear completely during the day and lay on the floor in the dormitory at night. On the surface, it did seem to match what they said, but the players still didn't believe it and thought that they must have discovered something.
Fortunately, the judges intervened, and the exam for all ten people went very smoothly. The two days passed in a flash, the dance studio was repaired overnight, and they learned their scores during Sunday evening self-study.
Ling Yuanshan's grades were excellent. His ability, honed by countless top-tier teachers since childhood, was unmatched by others. Next was Wu Wangwang, who, relying on her powerful memory, logical reasoning, and mathematical calculation skills, managed to master biology in just two weeks. Only English was a challenge for her.
Other students looked at their scores of 400 or 500 and were worried. There was no need to pretend that their scores were just average.
Man A grabbed his hair: "This isn't right. Why are the tests here so much harder than ours? I used to get at least 550!"
Apart from art students, other students nodded in pain. Although they had been taking mock tests for the past two weeks, they chose to do the questions they were good at in order to control their scores. Unexpectedly, even though they did the real questions seriously, their scores did not improve much.
Ling Yuanshan put down his test paper and said in a deep voice, "Everyone, I have a bad idea. This test paper is indeed more difficult than our usual tests. There are two reasons for this. First, in the final sprint stage of the senior year, in order to give students confidence, the difficulty of the test paper will be deliberately reduced so that students can get a few high scores."
"However, we haven't studied at this school for a long time. Once we get used to this intensity, we'll inevitably mess up the college entrance exam. Secondly, if this school itself doesn't have any methods to lower the difficulty and boost confidence, then the game will deliberately increase the difficulty of the exam on the day of the college entrance exam, causing players who haven't practiced and whose scores are already low to fail."
Grades can never be improved overnight; they require a long period of study and practice, and you also need to be truly intelligent. However, if an older player comes to a dungeon without putting in the effort, they might accidentally get stuck in the dungeon when faced with even more difficult questions.
This is the biggest pitfall of the dungeon; apart from the referee's statement about the rules for clearing the dungeon, there are absolutely no other warnings.
It's hard enough to just try to survive, why do we have to improve our grades too?
The students immediately began to complain. Before, they could still get angry and say that they would teach the people who had wronged them a lesson when they got back, but now they couldn't even say such tough words. They all felt that they might as well die if they had to control their scores and work hard to improve their grades in such a short time.
Ling Yuanshan took a deep breath: "It's okay. Never give up until the very last moment. Let me see what subjects you are good at. Ge Nan and I will study them together all night. You guys go back and rest first. We'll find time tomorrow to tell you what to do next."
The results were already there, and there was no use in them breaking down. They could only believe that Ling Yuanshan and Wu Wangwang really had a solution. So they handed their papers to Ling Yuanshan and said goodbye before returning to their dormitories.
After they left, Wu Wangwang looked at Ling Yuanshan and asked, "Are you really confident that they can survive the college entrance examination with grades like these?"
Ling Yuanshan shook his head: "Actually, no one else has improved, except for you, because your score didn't drop, and I found that this intensity of learning mode is very easy for you, so your grades improved quickly."
But students are different. They are already under a lot of psychological pressure. They haven't experienced the baptism of life and death. Just facing this kind of high-intensity study is already on the verge of collapse, let alone the more difficult situation that follows.
"How about we figure out how to prevent them from getting into the top three in the class?" Wu Wangwang felt that problems should be tackled one by one, and life had to be saved before the college entrance examination.
Ling Yuanshan happened to remember their rankings and score ranges in their respective classes.
Although the class division at the Sixth Middle School is quite detailed, and there are so-called "poor students," the actual score difference between the "poor" classes is not that big. The best student in the worst class can also get into a top-tier university if he performs normally and takes a test of normal difficulty.
The reason why students with lower grades can still get into better-ranked classes is entirely because they are not academic students; their art scores help boost their overall scores. However, the final college entrance exam in this version of the game looks at actual scores, and those scores are not enough.
If Ling Yuanshan hadn't thought of this beforehand, he probably wouldn't have understood why, even though he and Wu Wangwang had tried so hard to protect the students, so few of them came out alive and all died during the college entrance examination!
Comparing the scores on the test papers, Ling Yuanshan and Wu Wangwang pointed out the areas where they could score points and came up with a solution: have the students do all the questions, but only fill in the answer sheets with the simple questions. Only in this way could they develop their abilities without attracting attention from others because their grades actually improved.
After studying all night, the two returned to their dormitory with a pile of exam papers and notes. They distributed the papers to the students and reminded them not to be discovered by players and NPCs, as they would be easily targeted.
On Monday, the school reported the incident of the female player's accident in the dance studio and repeatedly warned against leaving the classroom at night, as such accidents involving broken mirrors could result in death.
After the morning meeting, everything was as usual, but Ling Yuanshan remembered that Tang Xiaofen and the others had not solved the problem of the dance studio in the early days, but only came up with a solution that only addressed the symptoms, not the root cause.
With this question in mind, Ling Yuanshan went directly to ask the author, and shared the information with Wu Wangwang at noon.
Wen Shou didn't know the answer when she was alive, but she came to investigate after her death. She found that there was something wrong with the mirror in the dance studio. She didn't know what was inside, but the mirror was indeed not normal. Moreover, there were several similar places in the school.
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Author's Note: [End of Chapter]
Wu Wangwang: You are the worst class of students I've ever taught! [Chin resting on hand]
Ling Yuanshan: Let's not make such a prediction. What if we encounter even worse teammates in future dungeons? [Laughing and crying with face covered]
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