Chapter 83: Am I not a poor student? "Xixi?" ...
"Xixi?"
"Cee-Cee? Are you awake, baby? How are you feeling?"
In the VIP ward, a pale and thin girl slowly opened her eyes from the hospital bed.
Lin Xicai's mind went blank for a moment. Beside the bed were several familiar faces: her parents, her cousin, and her best friend.
Gradually regaining consciousness, she opened her mouth and uttered a few syllables weakly, "Mom, Dad..."
"Mom is here, Mom is here." Xu Fangzhi almost burst into tears when she heard her daughter calling her mother. "How is it, baby? Does it hurt?"
Father Lin's eyes also sore, he looked over and asked softly, "How do you feel now?"
Feel it? Lin Xicai felt it for a moment, then said truthfully, "I feel a little hungry."
The cousin and best friend beside them were amused, and Lin's father and mother couldn't help but laugh.
"Okay, I'll make you something delicious later."
"He woke up and said he was hungry. It seems he was starving."
"You're still hungry, it seems you're okay."
Lin Xicai was surrounded by several people who asked about her health. In the middle of the conversation, Lin's father and mother went out to see a doctor, leaving only her cousin and best friend in the room.
As soon as the two adults left, the two of them gathered around her, approaching her, their eyes watering with tears welling up before they could speak. Lin Xicai couldn't help but laugh at their expressions, "What are you doing?"
"Thank goodness you're okay," my bestie said, "You don't know how worried I was."
"Me too," my cousin burst into tears. "I even asked my mom to take me to the temple to get two amulets for you."
"Okay, everyone. I'm fine, aren't I?" Lin Xicai could clearly feel the strong and steady heartbeat in her chest. She suddenly felt happy, and a look of longing appeared on her little face. "The operation was successful. Once I recover, I can go out and have fun with you guys. You used to go everywhere, and you have no idea how envious I was!"
Her best friend stared at her, somewhat curiously: "What does general anesthesia feel like?"
"What was that feeling..." Lin Xicai recalled, trying to describe it. "How should I put it? It was like my computer was suddenly unplugged and forced to shut down. The doctor was talking to me, and I suddenly knew nothing. Then I opened my eyes and saw you all surrounding me. It's different from being in a coma or sleeping. There's just nothing there, not even dreams. This is probably what it feels like to die."
"Pfft, pfft, what are you talking about? Death or not," my cousin said with a look of taboo. "This is not a good experience. It's enough to go through it once in a lifetime. Don't let it happen again."
My best friend nodded in agreement and couldn't help but sigh, "I'm glad you're okay."
Lin Xicai also nodded, and suddenly felt the preciousness of life, and sighed from the bottom of her heart: "It's great to be alive."
The atmosphere became relaxed, and the three girls were chatting and laughing in the ward. The best friend was in the same grade and class as Lin Xicai, so naturally she told her a lot of gossip. Lin Xicai made comments from time to time and listened with great interest.
"The college entrance examination is just a few months away. Are you not going to take it this year?" asked my best friend.
"What do you think?" Lin Xicai couldn't help but look up at the ceiling. "Did I go to the exam room specifically to contribute a few zeros?"
"I don't think I'll get a zero," my best friend laughed. "I'll always choose C on the multiple-choice questions. I'll probably get a few points right."
"......" Lin Xicai gritted her teeth, "Is it really okay for you to bully the patients like this?"
"It doesn't matter, your uncle will definitely arrange for you to repeat the grade." said my cousin.
Lin Xicai suddenly wanted to be anesthetized again. "How disgusting! With my level, I have to repeat the senior year of high school. I'm afraid I'll have to work myself to death if I want to get a decent grade next year."
"Take your time. Let your uncle and aunt hire a tutor for you. You're smart, but you were delayed by illness before. Now that you're well, it shouldn't be easy to catch up."
Lin Xicai lay dead on the hospital bed and sighed heavily.
Lin Xicai stayed in the hospital for about another month before being finally discharged and returning home.
It was clearly her home, the place where she grew up, and she should be very familiar with it. But from the moment she stepped into the house, Lin Xicai felt some strange emotions inexplicably flash through her heart.
I can't put my finger on what it is, but I just feel uncomfortable.
The layout, decoration, color, furniture... everything that was familiar to her in the past made her feel a little irritated. She even felt scared when she was left alone in the house without her parents.
A faint fear that comes from nowhere but lingers on.
Then she began to have nightmares, dreaming of some vague afterimages, sometimes a back figure sitting on the sofa, sometimes a silhouette floating at the head of the bed, like a ghost coming to take her life.
I couldn't see his face clearly, but I vaguely thought it was a boy of about the same age. He was haunting and appeared in every corner of the house.
She tried to comfort herself that it was just a nightmare, just an illusion, but the uncomfortable feeling seemed to get worse every day - as if, as long as she lived in this house, she would never get rid of that strange feeling.
Her condition became worse and worse, and she often woke up in the middle of the night. Later, Lin's father and mother noticed it. After finding out the reason, the whole family decisively moved to another property nearby. After moving into the new house, the condition improved.
However, strange things continued to happen. This time it was not sleep paralysis, but something even more bizarre.
It all started when Lin Xicai went to visit her aunt's house. Her cousin who was in the second year of high school was doing homework. Lin Xicai was playing with her mobile phone out of boredom next to her. She accidentally glanced at the questions her cousin was writing and was suddenly stunned.
My cousin noticed her abnormality and couldn't help but look up: "What's wrong?"
Lin Xicai didn't know how to describe that feeling. She stared at the question for a while, then uttered an answer with some self-doubt: "Choose B?"
My cousin was stunned. Although she had no hope for this poor academic cousin, she still cooperated and turned to the back to look at the answer.
Then, the cousin paused: "How did you know?" Lin Xicai curled her lips, "... guessed it?"
That being said, when Lin Xicai saw the question just now, he clearly had the calculation steps in his mind. As those calculation steps flashed through his mind, the answer jumped out.
In other words, this was actually calculated by her?
So the question is, how could she figure it out?
No, how did she know those weird formulas and use them so instinctively?
How did she know how to solve the problem? What was even more terrifying was that when she was solving the problem, her brain actually felt a kind of arrogant disgust and disdain for the problem, as if "such a simple problem is not worthy of being solved by me".
Lin Xicai was confused. This, this was even scarier than the haunted house a few days ago, okay? No, no, no, it must be a coincidence, a coincidence...
As if to verify it on purpose, Lin Xicai had a strange expression on her face. She rushed over again, grabbed her cousin's paper and looked at the next question.
After staring at the question for a few seconds without even using scratch paper, Lin Xicai looked at her cousin: "This, A?"
My cousin didn't believe it, so she opened the page to see the answer and was stunned.
"How did you get it right again?" My cousin was surprised. "Your guessing skills are quite advanced, aren't they?"
Lin Xicai was completely confused. She looked at her test paper from top to bottom and left to right. Every question that she once thought was disgusting and she couldn't even understand, now became as kind and innocent as "1+1=2".
She wrote down the answers in her mind one by one and then checked them, with an accuracy rate of 100%.
Lin Xicai's hands were shaking as she held the test paper, and she looked completely disheveled.
It wasn't an illusion. She was now almost certain that she wasn't bluffing. She seemed to be really... would it?
The question is, how could she do that? Lin Xicai touched her heart. She had just had a heart surgery, but she hadn't replaced her heart or her brain, right?
Lin Xicai was completely stunned and remained in a state of great shock and bewilderment until she returned home.
For the next few days, Lin Xicai almost locked herself in the room to do her homework.
Check the answers while doing the questions.
While having a very high accuracy rate, I am also doubting my life.
——Is it an illusion?
But this is clearly true, it can’t be false!!!
Mom, I seem to have seen a ghost...
In the morning, Lin Xicai, who had been checking the exercise book all night, walked out of the room with two panda eyes. Lin's father and mother were sitting at the dining table eating breakfast. When they saw her coming out, they called her over to have breakfast and wanted to mention the matter of finding a tutor to her.
However, before the two of them could speak, Lin Xicai stared at them and made a decision that surprised them greatly.
"I want to go back to school and take the college entrance examination," said Lin Xicai.
Lin's father and mother were stunned when they heard this, and looked at each other, both of them were a little caught off guard.
Lin's mother was stunned for a moment, then tried to be tactful: "Your teachers and classmates all understand your situation, and we don't need another year."
"Yes," Lin's father nodded in agreement. "Your mother and I have already contacted a tutor. In our situation, one-on-one tutoring will make us progress faster. Let's learn the basics first in the next six months. When school starts in September, we can repeat a year and we will definitely be able to catch up."
The parents' words were subtle, but in fact they were simply afraid that she would embarrass herself at school and her self-confidence would be undermined.
If it were any other time, Lin Xicai would have thought so too, but now there is a clear variable...
She was extremely eager to verify something. After hesitating for a moment, under the earnest gaze of Lin's father and mother, Lin Xicai finally shook her head, her tone filled with trepidation and determination, "I want to go back to school."
She had had enough and now desperately needed a conclusion.
Whether it was an operation that caused her to hallucinate, or a scalpel that accidentally opened her up, we'll know if we try.
Lin's father and mother tried to persuade her again implicitly, but when they saw that it didn't work, they stopped trying to stop her. They just secretly reassured her in advance that grades were not important, that they had no expectations of her grades, and asked her not to feel pressured.
Lin Xicai nodded absentmindedly, feeling as unsure as they did.
Coincidentally, there was a big exam the day after Lin Xicai returned. When her best friend found out that she had returned, she told her that she went at the wrong time and urged her to ask for leave if she didn't want to take the exam.
Crazy as it is, Lin Xicai didn't dare tell her that she actually went there just for the exam.
Knowing that she was not only going to go to school but also going to fearlessly take the exam the next day, her best friend said nothing but respect and started giving her painkillers in advance, fearing that she would not be able to bear the blow after the exam. Before entering the exam room, she chattered like an old mother, saying a lot of things, such as "Participation is important, the result is not important" and "It's okay, everyone knows your situation, no one will say anything to you".
Lin Xicai listened to her best friend's heartfelt words, nodded stiffly, and seemed to be hesitant to speak.
After being comforted by her best friend, the feeling of uncertainty became even stronger - Lin Xicai began to doubt whether her "rebirth" was really an illusion.
Until she entered the examination room, Lin Xicai had no real sense that she "could do the questions". It was as if the knowledge that appeared out of thin air would disappear out of thin air at some point, and she didn't feel that those things belonged to her at all.
Because he missed the exam last time, Lin Xicai was assigned to the last examination room this time. The situation in the last examination room is self-evident. Halfway through the exam time, everyone in the room fell asleep.
Lin Xicai didn't sleep, but she had stopped writing - because she had finished writing.
Yes, it’s finished.
This was the first time she had completed all the questions in the exam purely by doing it from beginning to end.
Think about how painful it was for her to take exams in the past. She would sit in front of the test paper like a blind man, and there were few questions on the test paper that she could answer.
This time, not only did I finish it, I still had plenty of time left.
Not only does it save most of the time, it even feels simpler.
Lin Xicai stared at her hands, her eyes filled with disbelief. The level of horror was no less than that of a ghost.
Is the hand hers? Is the brain hers? Is this really not a dream? She wouldn't dare dream something so outrageous.
The teacher who was inspecting the examination rooms passed by the window and saw through the window that some students in the last examination room were sleeping, some were whispering to each other, and some were even staring at their hands without doing their papers. The teacher could not help but shake his head, with an indignant look on his face as if he was saying, "This is the last examination room, and there are all kinds of people doing all kinds of things!"
The test paper was full, and Lin Xicai even checked it again after finishing it. In the end, there was nothing left to look at, so she handed in the paper early and left the examination room.
Lin Xicai stood on the railing, her mind wandering for a long time. Then the bell rang, and her best friend ran over and patted her from behind. "Why are you out so early? Did you hand in your paper early?"
Lin Xicai nodded and wanted to say something, but then she heard her bestie say in a very understanding tone, "It's great that you can think it through. It's just an exam. If you can't do it, run away. There's no point sitting there doing nothing."
Lin Xicai looked at her: "If I say that I finished it ahead of time because the questions were too easy, would you believe me?"
Her best friend didn't say anything, and was greeted with a hearty laugh.
“Hahahahahahahaha.”
Lin Xicai: “…”
Her smile was too realistic.
So Lin Xicai fell into doubt again - could it be that her dominating performance in the exam hall just now was all an illusion?
"A poor student's dangerous fantasy about imminent death"?
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