Chapter 78
The students of "Flea Market" College are just like their school spirit, a little outgoing and can easily make a place lively. A group of newly arrived people gathered in the common area, busy with room assignments and admiring their new living environment. It was so noisy that it was almost noisy.
Jiang Yunu had seen many complaints from students of the other school online before. It seemed as if those students were overloaded with resentment towards the school and wanted to become walking instructions for students to drop out. But looking at these students who came from afar today... Jiang Yunu didn't see that they seemed to dislike the school in any way.
It is also possible that my alma mater is such a place. I can often write several short essays to criticize it online, but when I really represent the school to participate in activities in real life, I still have to defend it.
After Jiang Yunu had observed the students who came as "fleas" enough, he strolled back to Enge's own villa.
Reiss Daniel was squatting beside her at the gate.
"Are you running to watch the fun?" Teacher Lei said.
Jiang Yunu walked so fast that he almost rushed into the door like the wind. Lei Daniel suddenly stopped at the door and said, "Teacher Lei."
Reiss Daniel hummed, and the wind raised by Jiang Yunu blew the hem of his coat. He looked down at the little girl, still waiting for her reply.
Jiang Yunu enthusiastically shared: "I went to see the fleas."
Reiss Daniel: "..."
They were all old acquaintances who participated in the inter-school competition together. Of course, the teachers of each school knew the "nicknames" of the schools in the league. However, as the former "big brother", Enge was accustomed to being polite and courteous to friendly schools, whether he was the team leader or the care and logistics teacher accompanying the team, and was not used to calling the schools by their nicknames directly.
Reiss Daniel knocked the little girl on the head and said, "Student Jiang Luobo, please don't call me that in front of me."
Jiang Yunu smiled, looking as if he didn't know whether he had heard his words or not.
"I won't," she said. "I'll definitely call them teachers and classmates at Preston to their faces."
The full name of the "Flea" Academy is Preston Elementary School for Special Abilities, and the full name of the "Roll King" Academy is Jiuri Elementary School for Special Abilities, but classmate Jiang Luobo privately thinks that the nicknames of the friendly schools are easier to remember and pronounce.
A "flea" who is famous for his unconventional school spirit and fickle policies, a "roll king" who requires all students to participate in the competition and even requires student leaders to participate, and the "big brother" Enge who is already showing signs of decline, plus a "rich" Songnan who provides food and accommodation and is at home this time.
With the arrival of four schools, the joint school competition will officially begin tomorrow.
This was Jiang Yunu's first time participating in a large-scale joint competition in this world. Her initial impression of it was somewhat ambiguous, and she classified it as a kind of existence that "sounds very powerful, but she doesn't know exactly what it is."
It wasn't until she was actually involved, even traveling with the school delegation to Songnan, that she realized this inter-school competition was, frankly, very similar to the "X School Joint Examination" of the past: teachers from multiple schools jointly developed the exams, and students were brought together for a unified test. However, compared to simply gathering students together to take the same test, the inter-school competition had a number of sub-items. Each school's scores were then combined to create a single overall score, with the highest overall score taking the top spot in this year's inter-school competition.
When Jiang Yunu saw the item about the summary ranking of project points, she silently revised her opinion in her mind: she felt that the inter-school competition was like a "mixed sports meeting" with the theme of supernatural knowledge and application.
The project settings are divided into two parts: theory and practice. Jiang Yunu is already quite familiar with the theoretical part. She has read the outline distributed during the school team meeting and the "private tutoring" materials given to her by Zhou Jinxue. She knows that the format of the theoretical competition is similar to their on-campus competition.
The format of test questions may vary, but the test points and content cannot go beyond the established knowledge framework.
The practical competition is relatively new to Jiang Yunu and is also what she is most interested in.
"Senior, do you really want to go to the simulated battlefield?" Jiang Yunu came to talk to Zhou Jinxue with great interest, and she went into the senior's room.
When Jiang Yunu came to Zhou Jinxue to discuss this topic, two days had passed since the inter-school competition.
The first day was used to gather students from the four schools, and representatives from each school took turns giving speeches. Then, the competition rules, which the teachers and students had already read during the preparation stage of the competition, were read out. Then, the representative teams from each school made their appearance, allowing the teachers and students from each school to greet each other. The competition officially began on the second day.
Zhou Jinxue had already finished a competition with the school team today. It was a theoretical knowledge competition. Both teams competed to answer questions in the same 3D projection examination room.
It doesn't consume much physical energy, but it consumes a lot of energy.
After concentrating on the competition, Senior Sister Zhou felt a little tired. However, when she heard that it was Junior Sister Jiang knocking on the door, Zhou Jinxue opened the door without complaint and let Jiang Yunu into the house.
"Yes." Zhou Jinxue answered Jiang Yunu's question, "The practical competition comes after the theoretical competition."
Because of fatigue, Zhou Jinxue's tone, which seemed always calm, became a little softer.
The accommodation conditions provided by Songnan were really good. In addition to a bed, a window, and a desk, each room in the western-style building also had a small coffee table and a small sofa for guests. Jiang Yunu stood up from the sofa which he had naturally occupied as soon as he entered the door, pulled Zhou Jinxue to the side of the sofa, and then pushed Zhou Jinxue to sit down.
She even stuffed a pillow into his arms and said, "Looking at the competition rules, it will take six days for the theoretical rounds to be completed."
Zhou Jinxue was not used to relaxing in her own space. She had been sitting straight on a wooden chair with her back straight, but was pulled to the sofa by Jiang Yunuo. She only raised her arms symbolically to resist a little. Her body had acted before her mind, and she realized that the posture her schoolmate had put on her was more comfortable. She silently hugged the pillow in her arms, but maintained the posture that Jiang Yunuo had put on her.
"The inter-school competition usually lasts a month because the theoretical and practical rounds combined take quite a while," Zhou Jinxue said, hugging her pillow. "There's also training before the practical rounds, which also takes up time."
Jiang Yunu sat down on the hard chair in front of Zhou Jinxue. "Can candidates for this training also participate?"
The little girl's eyes lit up when she asked this question.
Zhou Jinxue understood what she was planning as soon as she heard it.
Theoretical competitions are different from practical competitions. The former does not require any in-competition training. All participating schools have already grasped the knowledge reserves of their school teams in their own schools, and all students in the school teams have received regular and rigorous knowledge training.
But practical competitions are different.
Practical competitions require in-competition training.
No matter how rich their theoretical knowledge is, the students of the primary supernatural school are still a group of minors, and the oldest senior students are not even 17 years old. However, the practical competition of the inter-school competition will use a real battlefield, with obstacle levels and mechanical elemental beasts placed in the venue.
In the practical competition, students may really get injured if they are not careful. In addition to another round of training for all students before the competition, students and teachers are also required to sign a letter of responsibility.
"Reserve students can also participate." Zhou Jinxue replied.
It is even compulsory for candidate students to attend training.
"In previous inter-school competitions, there haven't been many examples of reserve students becoming regular players, but it's not uncommon." A week later, Lu Xixi convened a small evening meeting in Eng's dormitory. "Those few instances of reserve students playing were during practice matches."
A week has passed, the inter-school competition has also started for a week, all the theoretical competition events have been completed, but Eng's overall points ranking can only be described as pretty good.
Enge is slightly behind "King of Roll" by two points, followed by Songnan and "Flea" who are tied for third.
It is difficult to create a significant gap in theoretical competition.
"In previous competitions, the gap would only be widened from the practical competition." Lu Xixi said in a steady tone.
Jiang Yunu was left alone after the evening meeting.
"Is there anything else, teacher?" Jiang Yunu looked at the small living room used as a temporary meeting room and found that in addition to her and Lu Xixi, there was also a man named Les Daniel who stayed.
Lu Xixi looked at her. The capable and decisive team leader hesitated for a few seconds before saying, "You're the youngest on the team, and the practice matches are the riskiest for you. If you have any safety concerns, you don't have to sign the responsibility letter after the training."
In this way, even if there is a small probability event that requires backup students to participate in the practical competition later, students who have not signed the responsibility letter will not be able to participate.
Lu Xixi added, "Not signing the responsibility letter won't prevent you from participating in the training. You can still experience the supernatural power application class earlier than other first-year students."
Jiang Yunu was particularly looking forward to the practical training because she was looking forward to the course on how to use supernatural powers, which was something she could not learn according to Eng's first-year teaching syllabus.
Lu Xixi thought that after spending ten days or half a month together, she had a certain understanding of Jiang Yunu, but it was obvious that she still didn't know enough.
After hearing what Teacher Lu said, the little girl with white hair just blinked.
"Teacher," the little girl said, "are there any requirements for not being allowed to participate in the practice match if you are less than 1 meter tall or are not in the second grade?"
Lucy said, "No."
The little girl was delighted: "Then of course I have to sign the letter of responsibility!"
Jiang Yunu not only wanted to participate in the training, but was also secretly looking forward to an opportunity to play.
She already has some combat experience, but that experience is limited to the holographic game world. She can't wait to see how much of her combat power she can replicate by applying what she learned in the virtual world to reality.
Lu Xixi was only giving friendly advice to the youngest student in the school team. She certainly couldn't decide on behalf of the student whether to sign the responsibility letter or not. After the little girl, who was like a newborn calf who was not afraid of a tiger, left the small living room, Lu Xixi turned around and saw Reis Daniel leaning against the decorative column in the living room and smiling.
"I thought you stayed here on purpose to help me persuade people," she said.
Reiss Daniel shook his head, still laughing: "I stayed here specifically to verify my opinion of her."
Compared to this capable colleague, Teacher Lei secretly felt that he understood Jiang Yunu a little better.
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