Chapter 277: Capturing Ten at a Time
"Okay, I called you here not to hold you responsible, Su Mei. Your case will continue to be investigated. I still have to confirm with you again, right? There is really no problem with you?" Principal Lin asked.
Su Mei nodded: "Of course, no problem, I'm very clean, cleaner than a blank sheet of paper."
"As long as there is no problem, just focus on your classes. If there are any more reporters interviewing you..." Principal Lin was interrupted by Su Mei before he could finish his words.
She said with a smile: "I know this. If there is a media interview, I will say that the school leaders attach great importance to my difficulties and have solved my problems as quickly as possible. Our school is definitely a higher education institution that cares about students and does things with warmth and patience."
"Alright, alright, stop standing here and go back to your class." After seeing Su Mei say this, Principal Lin didn't say anything else.
The resumption of classes was settled so easily.
So going crazy is useful. If Su Mei hadn't cried in front of the media without caring about her image, this matter would definitely not have been resolved so quickly.
Su Mei did not go back to the classroom to attend classes after the resumption of classes. There were still two days before the experimental test, so Su Mei decided to take a break and clear her mind.
She is not used to cramming at the last minute, and continuing to study and review before the exam will only mess up her mind.
While taking a break, Su Mei found a law firm, handed the contract to the lawyer, and submitted the complaint demanding compensation from Mu Lan to the court.
After dealing with the lawsuit, Su Mei went straight home and lay down.
She lay in bed until the day of the experimental test, then she got up early, packed her things and rushed to school.
There were thirteen people in total taking the test, including four seniors and eight graduate students. Su Mei, a freshman, stood out among the crowd.
This test was about fate, and almost everyone was focused on it, so even though Su Mei was special, no one paid attention to her.
However, there are always some people who are too idle. For example, when queuing, a boy standing in front of Su Mei, with one person between them, patted the shoulder of a girl in front of him and said:
"We graduate students can't get in, and there are freshmen coming here to join in the fun. Some people overestimate their abilities and think that being the top student in the country is great. How many of us here are not the top students in the country?"
"Just talk, don't use your hands or feet!" The girl in front glared at the boy impatiently, and then said, "As far as I know, Yu Bin, you are not the top scorer?"
"That's because the college entrance examination was cancelled when we were in high school. If I had the chance to take the exam, I would definitely have been the top scorer." The boy named Yu Bin's eyes suddenly turned red with anxiety, "Chu Tian, we were both recommended for admission. Will you die if you don't destroy my plan?"
"Yes, we were admitted through recommendation. So since you are not the top scorer in the college entrance examination, why do you look down on others? What's wrong with them taking the test as freshmen? The school does not have a rule that freshmen cannot take the test. Why do you care about other people's business?" After Chu Tian finished speaking, he walked past the person behind him and gave Su Mei a kind smile.
Others were pushing for money for unknown reasons, but without me having to do anything, someone else pushed that person to pay back. This feeling was so good. Su Mei felt the kindness of the girl in front of her and smiled at her.
Eleven people lined up with their admission tickets and soon all entered the waiting area.
There were a total of six teachers supervising the exam. Su Mei heard that two of them were senior professors who had entered the Medical Research Institute.
After entering the examination room, Su Mei carefully observed the six people and found that they had similar temperaments. She did not notice which two were the veterans.
There were eleven cardboard boxes in the examination room, each containing one hundred small experimental questions.
Each candidate draws ten experimental projects, then enters the laboratory and completes all ten experiments independently.
You need to make no mistakes, complete all ten experiments correctly, and calculate the answers neatly to have a chance to enter the next round of tests.
All the candidates stood in front of the cardboard boxes.
Everyone started to draw test questions one by one, and opened the book after each one was drawn.
When they got the simple questions, some people smiled happily.
Some people will feel depressed when they get a difficult question.
The scene was very tense. Su Mei felt that the atmosphere was even more serious than the college entrance examination.
"Student, what are you thinking about? Why don't you hurry up and draw the test questions?" A professor saw that Su Mei had not moved, so he reminded her.
Yu Bin, who was standing next to him, heard what the professor said and muttered quietly, "I'm so scared that I don't dare to smoke anymore!"
"Mind your own business." The professor glanced at Yu Bin.
Su Mei took a deep breath and reached into the cardboard box. She counted silently in her mind: "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight... ten."
After touching ten test questions with one hand, Su Mei took her hand out.
As soon as she opened her hands, ten paper balls lay in her palms.
Seeing Su Mei grab so many at once, the professor standing in front of Su Mei frowned when he saw the pile of paper balls in Su Mei's palm.
Su Mei counted the paper balls and confirmed that there were more than ten. Then she opened them one by one, flattened them all, and then stacked them together.
While others were still nervously drawing the third card, Su Mei had already entered the laboratory with her test paper.
"That's because he's afraid that he won't have enough time, so he's racing against time. He's caught so many at once, what are those two or three minutes enough for?" Yu Bin saw Su Mei picking the questions and leaving, and began to complain to Chu Tian in a low voice again.
After hearing what Yu Bin said, Chu Tian simply drew the remaining questions at once and entered the examination room behind Su Mei without even reading the questions.
When others saw Chu Tian doing the same thing, they followed suit.
So, ten people left one after another and nothing happened.
Yu Bin, who had just drawn five test questions, was left standing there awkwardly. He originally wanted to bite the bullet and finish drawing before going in.
It was not until he saw the person running away that Yu Bin became anxious and simply grabbed a handful of questions and took them out.
The professor next to him saw Yu Bin's expression and slapped his hand: "Count them, just catch them. If you catch one more, you will be disqualified from the exam."
"I caught very few, three at most." Yu Bin was shocked, but he still threw away the paper in his hand, counted again, and picked it up again.
Yu Bin, who had just been implying that Su Mei finished all the questions at once because she was worried that there was not enough time, finally adopted the same method as Su Mei to draw the remaining questions.
When Yu Bin entered the laboratory and found that someone had already found the experimental instruments and was about to conduct the first experiment, he almost collapsed.
In previous years, everyone picked test questions one by one, but Su Mei was special. She took the test in her freshman year and set a precedent by picking a handful of questions at once.
You should know that at the end of the experiment, only five people at most can remain from the first round.
If there are more than five people, the students with lower rankings will be eliminated. Thinking that he will be eliminated because of his ranking, Yu Bin was so scared that he ran to the cabinet where the equipment was stored...
This is Yu Bin's third year taking the test. If he fails this time, he won't be able to come next year. His family will ask him to stop studying the experiment and go out to work.
No. 278 was eliminated? No, no, no
The students taking the test came out of the examination room one after another. Each of them had a different expression on their face. Some were excited, some were disappointed, and some were expressionless.
Chu Tian was the third one to come out. She looked a little tired, but there was a gleam in her eyes, and she was obviously quite satisfied with her performance.
Yu Bin was the sixth one to come out. When he came out, he was already sweating profusely and looked nervous.
He was afraid that he would be eliminated due to his low ranking. After all, this was his last chance.
However, when the professor announced the results, he was given an unexpected surprise.
It turned out that the fifth candidate got one question wrong, and Yu Bin just happened to squeeze into the top five.
"I...I really passed?" Yu Bin couldn't believe his ears. He was ecstatic, as if he had already seen his future success.
Just at this moment, Su Mei walked out of the examination room.
When Yu Bin saw Su Mei, the joy in his heart instantly turned into ridicule.
He walked up to Su Mei and sneered, "Su Mei, you are a freshman so don't hand in your paper. It will be embarrassing if you make too many mistakes. You will be eliminated anyway."
Su Mei glanced at Yu Bin calmly and said, "Whether I hand in the paper or not has nothing to do with you, right?"
"Oh, you're just a freshman, how much ability can you have? Anyway, the top five have already come out, so don't embarrass yourself here." Yu Bin said disdainfully.
Su Mei ignored Yu Bin and walked straight to the professor who was grading the papers and handed the test paper to him.
Although the professor knew that Su Mei had been eliminated, when he saw Su Mei handing in the test paper, he still took it and began to review it carefully.
At first the professor's expression was normal, until he saw the end, his brows suddenly wrinkled and became tighter and tighter, as if he had discovered something extraordinary.
"Professor, the basis of this question is wrong. I discovered this problem during the experiment and proved it through experiments." Su Mei said calmly. The reason why she came out late was because it took so long to prove the error.
The professor and several other invigilators were all surprised when they heard Su Mei's words.
They took Su Mei's experiment answer sheet and started a heated discussion, seeming to be very shocked by Su Mei's discovery.
Seeing this scene, Yu Bin couldn't help feeling a little flustered.
He vaguely felt that Su Mei seemed to have discovered something extraordinary.
The discussion lasted for half an hour, and the professors' expressions became increasingly serious.
Finally, they decided to hold an emergency meeting to discuss Su Mei's discovery in depth.
An hour later, the meeting ended.
When the professors came out, their expressions were very solemn.
The oldest professor walked up to Su Mei and said sternly, "Student Su Mei, your discovery is correct. There is indeed an error in the basis of this question, and we have not discovered this problem before."
"Then, my test paper..." Su Mei asked.
"Your test paper will be judged as full marks." The professor said, "and, due to your discovery, we have re-evaluated your experimental ability, and you will be judged as the first in this test."
The moment the result came out, Yu Bin's face turned pale instantly.
He couldn't believe his ears. He had clearly made it into the top five, so how could it suddenly become like this?
"No... this is impossible!" Yu Bin cried out, "How can she be stronger than us as a freshman?"
"Yu Bin, the facts are before you. You have to accept them even if you don't want to. I know you work hard. Come back next year." The professor said comfortingly, "Also, I want to tell you that a person's strength is not measured by grade. Although Su Mei is a freshman, her experimental ability and understanding of knowledge are no worse than any other student present."
As the professor finished his words, the atmosphere in the examination room instantly became tense.
Yu Bin’s face turned pale and he stared at Su Mei with wide eyes, as if he could see through her.
"No... this is impossible!" Yu Bin's voice was trembling and unwilling, as if this shout could change the established facts. The world in his heart collapsed in an instant, and he could not accept this sudden turn of events.
Su Mei seemed unusually calm. She glanced at Yu Bin indifferently, and actually did not feel much joy of success in her heart.
After all, she knew she would succeed.
In later lives, she had many opportunities to spend time in laboratories, which was completely different from the candidates in this poor era who found it difficult to enter a laboratory.
It was just an accident that I encountered that question.
The error in that question was not actually a big mistake. It just said in the question that a certain element could only react with a certain type of air. But later professors discovered that other air could produce chemical reactions with that element. Su Mei just copied other people's teaching results.
In fact, she could have passed the test more safely by not stating the error.
But she still chose to point out the mistake, because Qin Zhengfeng said that two examiners were senior professors of the Medical Research Institute.
Since they are the master's old subordinates, Su Mei wants to climb up in the future, so she must leave a deep impression on them when she meets them for the first time.
So Su Mei took the risk and pointed out the mistake even at the cost of time.
Fortunately, she made the right bet. Although she said she was ranked sixth, the professors were reluctant to miss out on this talent.
She was promoted to the first place as an exception.
The moment she heard the result, Su Mei breathed a sigh of relief.
Now facing Yu Bin's accusations, she didn't say much, but just stood there quietly, calmly accepting everyone's attention.
That kind of calmness hurt Yu Bin's eyes, and the anger in his heart seemed to be ignited and burning fiercely.
I had clearly seen the dawn of success, so how could it suddenly become so miserable?
"You cheated!" Yu Bin suddenly shouted loudly, with a hint of hysteria in his voice.
He could not accept this fact and could only vent his anger and resentment on Su Mei.
When Su Mei heard this, her brows slightly frowned.
Just because you are not as skilled as others, you start making personal attacks?
Before she could say anything, the coach who was responsible for grading Su Mei's papers stood up.
"Yu Bin, calm down." The professor's voice was dignified and unquestionable. "Our proctoring process is very strict, and there is no possibility of cheating. Moreover, Su Mei's experimental steps and results are correct, and her ability is beyond doubt."
"No, even you professors didn't find the mistake, how could she, a freshman, find it? Did you find it and tell her?
Don't think I don't know that her master is Qin Zhengting, and the Dean of the School of Chemistry is her master's elder brother. You must have opened a back door to let her enter the special laboratory.
People with backgrounds are different. They make us hardworking people a laughing stock. This world is a huge lie!" At the end, Yu Bin suddenly laughed wildly, "Hahahahahahaha..."
Laughing like a paranoid psychopath.
Su Mei has been in the newspapers more than once, so it is not surprising that Yu Bin knows her identity.
After he said it so openly, the other students around him looked at Su Mei strangely.
Before Su Mei could say anything, a voice that was intimidating but not angry rang out in the examination room:
“Is this student questioning the fairness of our national top-level experimental assessment?
If you think there is a problem, you can apply for a review from the school, but don't talk nonsense here.
If you are not as skilled as others, you should admit defeat. It is shameful to be hesitant. "
"We are applying for a review. The school is still protecting her and you." Yu Bin stiffened his neck and tears burst out.
Seeing this, Chu Tian walked up to Yu Bin and pulled him hard:
"Silly, stop talking nonsense. Do you know who that was? It was Yue Qingshan, one of the twelve veteran professors of the School of Medicine. If you don't shut up, you'll be kicked out."
"I..." Yu Bin stopped talking and didn't dare to say anything else.
Seeing that the examination room had quieted down, Yue Qingshan turned his head to look at Su Mei and said with a smile:
"As expected of a disciple chosen by Dean Qin, he is quite capable!"