"Wake up, Brother Ziyu, wake up, wake up... Brother Ziyu, the exam is over, wake up quickly..."

Zhao Rong was awakened by the anxious call of the girl in his ear and slowly opened his eyes.

He raised his head from the table and felt a headache as if he had been suffering from lack of oxygen after sleeping too deeply.

The headache came in waves.

This feeling is a bit like falling into a deep sleep one afternoon, slumbering all day long, and then being woken up suddenly by someone.

When I opened my eyes, I couldn't tell the difference between day and night.

I don’t know if it’s because I didn’t get enough sleep or I slept too deeply.

Zhao Rong rubbed his eyes, his thoughts a little slow at this moment.

The scenes and images transmitted by his eyes were so confusing that his brain, which had just started to work, could not process them for a while.

Zhao Rong's upper body was slumped on the hard back of the chair. It took him a long time to regain consciousness and analyze the situation in front of him...

Zhao Rong rubbed his brows with two fingers and looked at the worried ponytailed girl in front of him, "Is the exam finished?"

The latter nodded, "The exam is over."

"So... nothing happened?" He said weakly.

Li Xueyu opened her bright eyes, sat on the chair next to him with a book in her arms, and looked at him anxiously, "Brother Ziyu, are you okay? How come you suddenly fell asleep in the middle of the exam just now..."

"No...I'm fine."

Zhao Rong looked around and saw a steady stream of people leaving the corridor in the distance. It seemed that the Scripture Examination had ended and was disbanding.

At this time, most of the people in the examination room had left, and the invigilator was nowhere to be seen. The remaining students were also packing up their things and leaving the Renzi Examination Hall one after another.

However, Zhao Rong, who was more sober at this time, discovered that, similar to Li Xueyu, these students who were packing up and preparing to leave all looked towards him more or less, paying attention to him, but their eyes were... weird.

Zhao Rong touched the corner of his mouth and then touched the table, and it seemed that he was not drooling.

In addition, there was an empty space on the table, and the test papers seemed to have been taken away.

He breathed a sigh of relief, but then looked at the strange expressions on the faces of the people around him.

Zhao Rong asked directly in Xinhu: "What happened after I fell asleep?"

Gui said seriously: "I didn't expect that Mr. Zhao, who is so handsome and suave in front of others, can snore quite loudly."

Zhao Rong turned around and asked Li Xueyu: "Did I make any noise when I was sleeping? Did I snore?"

Li Xueyu nodded, then was stunned and shook her head: "You didn't snore after you fell asleep."

"Then you..." Zhao Rong paused because he met the girl's somewhat strange gaze, which was the same as the look he had just seen from the candidates leaving the venue.

"But you... were talking in your sleep," she whispered.

Zhao Rong opened his eyes and asked, "What did you say in your dream?"

He was very worried about accidentally revealing some secret, and countless bad possibilities flashed through his mind in an instant.

But he never expected that Li Xueyu suddenly turned away from his gaze and looked away, then lowered her head and whispered, "Recite the chapter on biography in the Book of Rites."

Zhao Rong:……???

When he was speechless, Li Xueyou repeated in a low voice: "You had just fallen asleep, and the old man invigilating in front of you seemed to be asleep as well, but you seemed to have woken him up by talking in your sleep and reciting the text. The old man walked down from the podium, and I wanted to wake you up, but you were sleeping so deeply that I couldn't wake you up. When the old man came over, it seemed like he wanted to throw you out."

"I heard that in the last big exam, a naughty student was kicked out of the exam room where he was invigilating, and his score was invalidated..."

Zhao Rong looked down at his clean clothes, patted his forehead and asked, "What happened next? Didn't he throw me out of the examination room?"

Li Xueyu shook her head. "Later, Meng Xuezheng, who was patrolling the corridor outside, also noticed the noise in the examination room and came over. She took out the paper from under your arm and took a look at it, then handed it to the old gentleman. After reading it, the two of them looked at each other, but neither of them spoke. They took your paper and left. However, they set up a soundproofing array next to your desk and did not wake you up..."

At this point, the ponytail girl patted her chest with her hands and breathed a sigh of relief for someone, "And it has been until now. The exam is over and I came to call you."

"Is Mr. Meng here too..." Zhao Rong thought for a moment and whispered to himself, "He didn't wake me up either, so I should be considered to have handed in the paper early, right?"

Li Xueyu nodded, her jet-black ponytail bouncing. "It should be. After all, you slept in the examination room, brother Ziyu, which was a bit against the examination rules. You were lucky not to be punished by the two gentlemen on the spot. I guess the papers were collected early as a punishment from the gentlemen. Fortunately... I was worried that Meng Xuezheng would make trouble for you again. Before the mid-month exam, she always liked to pick on your little braids. Now it seems that Xuanji's plea may be useful. Mr. Meng doesn't seem to embarrass you anymore."

Uh, Meng Zhengjun collected his paper in advance... Was he worried that he would drool while sleeping and dirty the paper he had just finished?

Zhao Rong muttered to himself.

He glanced at Li Xueyu, smiled and nodded without explaining.

"Thank you, Brother Xueyou, for waking me up."

"It's okay, we are classmates, and... besides, you just helped me."

Zhao Rong pretended not to hear the latter sentence and prepared to get up. Only then did he realize that his hands and feet were numb and weak. He couldn't stand steadily for a moment. Li Xueyu hurriedly supported him.

Zhao Rong thanked him, then suddenly reached out and touched his stomach, frowning slightly in thought.

During the previous exam, he escaped from the state of the evil dragon activating his heart lake, but he did not expect to be suddenly hit by sleepiness, which made him fall into a deep sleep.

To be honest, he hadn't experienced this feeling of deep sleep for a long time since entering the Fuyao Realm.

It can only be explained that the evil dragon stimulated by the modified "Praise of the Humble House" activated the state of his heart lake, which not only simply consumed the evil dragon in his heart lake, but also rapidly overdrawn his physical strength. Falling into a deep sleep was a protective mechanism of the body. Oh, and now there was also the hunger he felt.

Zhao Rong discovered that his physique as an alien warrior, which was stronger than that of people in the same realm, could indeed sustain its power for a long time, but it could not be kept running indefinitely. He needed to stop and rest appropriately, and sleeping and eating were the simplest, crudest, and most effective supplements.

In the past, due to his low physical strength and energy, he often neglected these two things and often stayed up all night. But now, he finally encountered a big item that consumed his physical strength and energy, and he needed the latter two again.

In addition, what made Zhao Rong, who was checking his physical condition through introspection at this time, slightly happy was that after he slept, he did not feel much discomfort when switching from the state of the heart lake activated by the evil dragon to the normal state of the heart lake... In other words, there was no withdrawal reaction, and the transition between the two states was relatively harmonious.

The reason why he was happy was that this showed that the modified method of activating the heart lake through "Praise of the Humble Dwelling" was not "draining the pond to catch all the fish", and it did not harm his heart lake and body, at least... After he and Gui checked it over, they did not find anything obvious, so they had to observe more specifically and carefully.

But the results he has found out now all represent the sustainability of his improved set of skills.

Zhao Rong suddenly felt happy.

At this moment, a gurgling sound from the stomach sounded between Zhao Rong and Li Xueyu.

Zhao Rong's old face turned red.

Li Xueyu pretended not to hear and lowered her head to put the book in her arms into a green bamboo bookcase.

Zhao Rong was not so embarrassed, but he was so hungry that he was ready to run away. He quickly packed up his paper, ink, brush and inkstone.

The two of them left the Renzi examination room one after the other in tacit understanding.

Zhao Rong walked in front with big strides, while the slender Li Xueyu followed behind with two slow steps, holding a small book box.

At this time, all ten examination halls of Mo Chi Academy were adjourned at the same time. The Ren examination hall was almost at the back, so there were many people on the corridor in front, and students in green robes were everywhere.

After Zhao Rong and Li Xueyu walked onto the corridor, they slowed down their pace and followed the crowd, not joining them in the squeeze.

Zhao Rong stood there waiting for a while. He finally understood what Fan Yushu said. It was indeed crowded after the exam.

At this moment, he suddenly felt that he and Brother Xueyou had not spoken for such a long time and the atmosphere was quite awkward, so he was ready to turn around and speak, but Li Xueyou behind him was one step faster than him.

The girl with the ponytail raised her head and asked, "Brother Ziyu, have you finished your papers?"

Zhao Rong nodded and said with a smile, "It's almost finished."

Li Xueyou smiled, revealing two small dimples on her cheeks: "That's good. This sutra interpretation test is very difficult. It's amazing that Brother Ziyu was able to finish it so quickly... But I'm stupid. I finished it in a hurry when the paper was almost handed in."

Zhao Rong blinked and heard the comfort in her words. Was she trying to comfort him not to blame himself for oversleeping and affect the next exam?

He looked back at her dimples and shook his head, "Brother Xueyou is too modest."

At this time, Li Xueyu looked into Zhao Rong's eyes and suddenly said for no reason: "Thank you, Brother Ziyu, thank you for helping me."

Zhao Rong naturally turned his head back and continued to look forward. He spoke with a slightly confused tone, "What are you talking about, Brother Xue You? I don't understand."

Li Xueyu was stunned, looking at the man's slender back.

The man waved his hand behind his shoulder and said, "There's a road ahead. Brother Xueyou, hurry up and follow us."

“Oh…oh.”

Li Xueyu had no choice but to swallow the questions she wanted to ask and followed in a hurry.

The two of them moved forward, but when they passed the Geng examination room, they suddenly met an acquaintance.

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