Chapter 136
What Xie Shi wanted to talk about was the entrance examination results. He paid more attention to the score release time in advance than anyone else, and even checked the score checking process for candidates on the day of the results.
Last weekend, Xie Shi was looking up the score checking process at home. Since he was sitting on the sofa in the living room and the terminal screen was not adjusted to a small size, an elder who was passing by glimpsed the screen from behind the sofa. The elder expressed his doubts: "Why are you looking at the score checking process for the entrance examination?"
Master Xie immediately removed the screen and said nonchalantly, "Nothing, just looking around."
His mother, walking in from the other direction, carrying a neatly trimmed potted plant, also passed by the sofa and said nonchalantly, "Yes, just take a look. It definitely has nothing to do with any of your classmates who skipped their grades to take the exam."
Xie Shi: “…”
Whether the young master was digging his toes into the floor in the living room at that time was something Jiang Yunu had no idea about.
At this moment, Master Xie was just regretting beside the school dining table: ...Why did he bother to wipe his mouth first?
If he had asked Jiang Yunu directly about checking the test scores, wouldn't anyone be able to intercept him?
But Senior Zhou had already gotten there first.
Jiang Yunu's gaze and face also turned to Zhou Jinxue.
"Yes, it's this weekend." Jiang Yunu recalled the schedule she had read at the time. She touched the tip of her nose while confirming, "I don't know what the final results will be like."
"It must be great!" Joyson immediately encouraged her and boosted her confidence.
Jiang Yunu hurriedly shook her head, indicating that she didn't need this kind of premature confidence expansion: "Don't be so hasty to draw conclusions, brother. What if your expectations are too high now, and then they are suddenly disappointed, how uncomfortable will that gap be?"
And no one knows better than Jiang Yunu herself what kind of risk she took when she chose the topic independently.
She was quite cautious with her expectations.
"I just hope I can pass the unified admission line." said Jiang Yunu.
The full name of the unified enrollment line is "unified admission line", which is the basic score that candidates must pass before major high-level universities can access and view the candidates' personal information.
Xie Shi finally found a moment to interrupt and said, "You should have no problem crossing the line."
Jiang Yunu finally looked at him and said with a smile: "I'll lend you my good wishes."
Young Master Xie seemed to be dazzled by a smile. He returned to his original state without saying a word and continued to eat with his head down.
Maybe I really got some auspicious words from Master Xie.
In a blink of an eye, the weekend arrived and the final exams of Enge Junior School of Supernatural Powers were over.
Saturday was the day the entrance exam results were released. Joyson, for once, didn't sleep in, violating his principle of "getting plenty of sleep the day after exams." He was even more excited than Jiang Yunu, the person involved. Driven by adrenaline, he woke up before six in the morning and immediately sent a message to Jiang Yunu: "Are the results out?!"
“…”
Jiang Yunu also woke up early, but it was mainly due to his biological clock. He looked at the notification that the "9 o'clock score checking system is officially launched" and fell silent.
After much deliberation, she sent a message to her overly anxious brother: [Brother, there are still at least three hours before the system opens.]
The red-haired boy seemed to finally wake up. He immediately replied: […Oh!]
Less than three seconds later, Jiang Yunu received a fresh message from the other party: [Why is this system open so late? There must be a group of candidates and their families who woke up early today and are anxiously waiting for the results from now on!]
Jiang Yunu was not anxious at first, but she could sense Joyceen's anxiety from a distance, and because "brothers and sisters are connected by heart", she began to feel a little anxious because of Joyceen.
So in order to deal with this sudden anxiety, Jiang Yunu decided...
[Let's go.] She texted Joyson, [Now that we're up, let's go to the cafeteria and have a super breakfast.]
Before six in the morning, at the 24-hour food delivery counter of the South Canteen, Jiang Yunu was surprised to find that she and Qiao Yisen were not the "only two" people who came to eat super early breakfast.
A few students were already sitting in the South Cafeteria, their portable, retractable suitcases at their feet. Joyson glanced at them and understood: "They're students who live too far from school. They want to get home before the first day of vacation, but because they live so far away, they have to get up early to catch the first public train."
When Jiang Yunu was reminded of this, she remembered that she and Qiao Yisen also had the experience of getting up early on Saturdays when they had a holiday, catching the earliest bus and changing two transfer stations to return to Chat.
"From now on, I will be the only one rushing from Eng to Chat." The red-haired boy suddenly said.
He didn't mean to be sentimental or lonely on purpose, he just felt inspired when looking at other people's luggage. After he finished speaking, he realized that he didn't connect the words well.
"It's okay." Jiang Yunu sat opposite and comforted, "What if the school that accepted me is really far away? Then even if we are in different places, we will still have to get up super early to catch the bus home."
Jiang Yunu's consolation was actually a bit crooked, and the way he thought about it was a bit strange. However, Qiao Yisen accepted the consolation and thought along the way...
"You're worse off," the red-haired boy said sincerely. "No matter what I say, Eng is still within the Seventh District, and it only takes half a day to get to Chat. You might have to cross several districts and get up even earlier than 'Super Early' to ensure you get home before dark."
"..." Jiang Yunu said, "Brother, we are truly a pair of siblings."
It takes half a day to get home within the same area. When he goes to senior high school, how long will the journey home be... Jiang Yunu doesn't want to think about it for the time being.
And she had to wait three hours to find out whether her score was above the passing line and whether there was a backup high school for her to attend.
The three hours that followed were the longest three hours Joyson, who was over 10 years old, had ever experienced in his life.
The exams were over, and there were no classes or other chores to attend to, nothing to offset the waiting time. Even browsing the internet, which usually piqued his interest, lost its appeal. He was completely preoccupied with finding out how Jiang Yunu fared on the exams, and whether his sister would be able to get into the school he had carefully selected.
Excessive expectations can sometimes become a burden. Joyson's high focus on test scores can easily put pressure on others - but fortunately, Jiang Yunu is not an ordinary person.
Others, such as Zhou Jinxue who was also concerned about the test scores, Xie Shi who was reluctant to express his concern openly, and the teachers led by Reiss Daniel, had consciously avoided topics related to the "score release" since last night to avoid putting pressure on people before the official results came out.
Time finally slowly approached nine o'clock in the morning.
"-Is it time?!" Joyson jumped up from the chair where he was half lying in the sun.
Jiang Yunu sat on another bench in the outdoor rest area on campus. She glanced at the time displayed on her personal terminal screen: [09:00]
"Yes," she said.
Qiao Yisen kept urging: "Hurry up! Check the system!"
Jiang Yunu had no psychological barriers to checking her scores. She tried clicking on the score-checking entrance on the screen and found that the button had been activated. After clicking it, the interface automatically jumped to the score-checking page, and she began to enter her candidate information.
Joyson held his breath and opened his eyes wide.
Then--
"It's so stuck." Jiang Yunu said calmly.
Joyson stared at the dotted circle spinning on the screen in despair: "What era is this? Why is the score checking system still stuck?!"
Jiang Yunu sighed and felt that she also wanted to know this question.
She had assumed that this kind of system would inevitably freeze, a relic of the pre-interstellar era, a relic that wouldn't exist in today's technologically advanced world. However, the spinning loading icon before her told her—congratulations! This "relic" had stubbornly survived into the interstellar era.
"Is the internet connection in our school not good?" Joyce stared at the screen and raised the crux of the matter.
Jiang Yunu said, "Brother, this is the 'treasure place for checking scores' that we have carefully selected after going around most of the school."
The location where you check your scores must be in an open environment, close to a signal tower, and have instant high-speed Internet access.
Fortunately, although the score checking system was stuck, it finally got in after the loading circle kept spinning for a long time.
The screen flashed slightly, and when the information page jumped to white light, the red-haired boy had been looking forward to seeing the result for a long time, but he closed his eyes the moment the white light came out.
He also kept his eyes tightly closed.
"——Is it out?" Joyson asked in a low voice.
Jiang Yunu didn't quite understand why her brother suddenly looked like a thief again.
"Brother," Jiang Yunu said, "Aren't you going to see the results?"
Why are you lowering your voice, as if you are afraid of disturbing someone?
"I..." The red-haired boy opened his mouth but still didn't open his eyes. After a brief hesitation, he said decisively, "I found that I dare not look."
Frankly, Jiang Yunu felt that Qiao Yisen acted much more like a student checking his scores than she did. She couldn't help but briefly interrupt her thoughts and imagine the future a few years from now: what if her brother took the entrance exam himself in a few years and checked his own scores?
The idea is indeed a bit far-fetched.
Jiang Yunu quickly pulled his thoughts back to his senses.
She refocused her gaze, fixating on the page in front of her that already displayed the complete score.
"Open your eyes." Jiang Yunu's voice brightened. In a brisk tone, she said to Qiao Yisen, "I think you can come and watch it with confidence—because I passed the unified entrance exam."
And it's not just about passing the unified admission line.
The test score checking system interface shows that Jiang Yunu undoubtedly received high scores in both the basic module and the independent question selection module.
With the combined scores of the two modules, her overall ranking is among the top in the entire seventh district.
The entrance examination does not publish detailed score rankings, but the ranking range of the scores will be displayed.
"Wow!" Joyson finally opened his eyes to greet the surprise, and was a little dizzy with the surprise. "You are in the top 1%!"
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