Not everyone has a strong enough desire to learn.
From the very beginning, there has never been an atmosphere that advocates learning to change one's fate. On the contrary, when Cheng Zhu was surfing the Internet before, he saw many posts on the forum of the Human Radiance Society that argued that "learning is useless." Some of the indigenous people complained that they had wasted their time learning and should have entered society earlier to adapt to reality. Others lamented that no matter how much they studied, it would be difficult to change their status. They had too much energy to spend on life and could not possibly spend all their energy on work as easily and casually as the nobles.
Cheng Zhu did not reply, but he saw the replies from many people below.
Indeed, some of the original posters who complained about the current situation were overly pessimistic in their replies. Others suggested that the original posters could buy high-end home AI devices, which could greatly reduce the energy wasted in people's lives.
However, let's not forget that the Human Radiance Society is an anonymous forum for indigenous people to vent their dark emotions.
Both of these comments will be criticized by many people. The former is criticized as "naive teenagers who have not yet entered society", while the latter is criticized more directly for the problem: "The cost of using advanced artificial intelligence is too expensive, requiring 10,000 general points per day, which is simply unaffordable for ordinary families; while the basic home-use artificial intelligence is like a fool, completely lacking higher intelligence, and sometimes it is good enough if it does not annoy people, and it is not enough to assist human life at all."
At that moment, Cheng Zhu's biggest thought was—it turns out that he had actually earned the equivalent of 10,000 Universal Points every day for the past two days. My life has been worth it!
Returning his thoughts to the exam papers in front of him, Cheng Zhu quickly completed two pages. He then made a gesture resembling a glance around, and sure enough, the school system alerted him once again:
[Warning: Do not look at other students. A second offense will result in disqualification from the exam.]
This time, the notification had one more sentence than the last, clearly indicating a stronger warning, which made Cheng Zhu immediately lower his head obediently. The added notification meant that the campus network's mainframe was recording the examinees' behavior. "What I can confirm for now is that I haven't entered the contaminated environment yet, which is good news, so there's no need to continue trying," Cheng Zhu thought.
From the moment he started looking for his seat, Cheng Zhu realized that he was not experiencing any hallucinations at all, and his cognition remained rational, indicating that he had not been contaminated.
However, Xu Ruzhe is the opposite, constantly being strangely led to break the rules.
There must be a reason for any difference, and Cheng Zhu didn't believe it was a matter of luck until all other possible differences were ruled out. It's important to understand that besides the different order in which they entered the instance, there was another significant difference between her and Xu Ruzhe.
She never "died" once.
Because Xu Ruzhe was new to the game and lacked experience, he fell into some traps related to discrimination. He was also attacked by law enforcement officers more than once for revealing his wisdom that surpassed the knowledge reserves of the indigenous people.
But Chengzhu is different.
She watched the live stream and, adhering to the principle of being cautious in her words and actions, along with the help of her talent, avoided some fatal situations.
If the teleportation from the school hadn't been interrupted so quickly during the last summoning, Cheng Zhu would have actually wanted to ask the higher-dimensional beings why he ended up in the hospital instead of being killed and having to start over.
In other words, under what circumstances would a chosen one be judged as "needing to clean up the contamination" rather than "needing to clean up"?
Although the difference is only two words, the final result is worlds apart. Being able to spend universal points to retain a resurrection opportunity is practically like paying to extend one's life. Cheng Zhu had indeed thought in the public kitchen, "Since I have many resurrection opportunities, it doesn't matter if I die a few times to save some money." But now, sitting in the auditorium of Slote High School, she suddenly realized that her previous thinking seemed a bit off.
She originally cherished her life, but with the number of resurrections, she subconsciously treated her life as a joke.
Could it be that I have already been contaminated?
As Cheng Zhu reflected on his own condition, he filled out the rest of the exam paper, feeling a chill run down his spine.
In the strange tales of rules, not every violation of a rule leads to immediate death; some rules may appear to have no punishment on the surface, but they can subtly and imperceptibly affect the judgment of the chosen one.
On the other hand, Cheng Zhu did not believe that the school's intranet was absolutely safe.
If it were truly safe, Xu Ruzhe wouldn't have died, and Cheng Zhu wouldn't have become the second chosen one in Kyushu to challenge the "Normal Future" instance.
This "future" is anything but normal.
Whether the pollution was brought into Slote High School by the Chosen Ones or not, it will silently make the entire campus increasingly eerie, and the school's rules will gradually increase.
In the future, some chosen ones attempted to warn Slote High School in advance, but this only postponed the outbreak of pollution by two days. Two days later, the pollution would suddenly erupt, signifying not only a major failure of the school's cleanup efforts but also turning the school into a place with the level of pollution accumulated over five days by other chosen ones.
Two days become five days, a super double!
As he approached the last exam paper, Cheng Zhu felt a surge of tension. He took a deep breath and turned to the last page of the exam paper.
There was no mirror, just an ordinary exam paper.
Cheng Zhu carefully read the test questions, only to find that they were not basic knowledge questions, but rather more like a survey of general social knowledge, a survey of study habits, and mental health issues.
For example, questions like "How many hours do you study each day when you use your home study space?", "What are the five major types of artificial intelligence on the market?", and "Do you experience auditory hallucinations?" are just some of the strange questions.
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