Luo Feng called for recommendation tickets and favourites.
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One month before the college entrance exam, Luo Feng devoted almost all his energy to revision. As revision progressed and with repeated mock test papers, his confidence in the college entrance exam grew stronger and stronger.
“Getting into the number one military academy in Jiangnan is almost certain.”
This was the thought in Luo Feng’s mind.
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Seventh of June was the first day of the college entrance exam. The exam in Huaxia country lasted for three days from the seventh of June, the same as before the Great Nirvana period.
First High School in Yi’an District.
According to the exam centre arrangements, Luo Feng, who was originally a student at Third Middle School, would take his college entrance exam at this First High School.
“Daughter, good luck.”
“Relax, Dad.”
“Sweetie, do not put too much pressure on yourself.”
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Outside the gates of First High School, a dense crowd of college entrance exam candidates and parents had gathered. A row of armed police officers with real guns and live ammunition also stood outside the school gates.
“Little Feng, keep a relaxed mindset during the exam. Even if our family cannot get into the number one military academy, the second one is fine too. Take it easy.” Father Luo Hongguo looked at his son and said with a smile.
“Yes.” Luo Feng smiled and nodded.
“Beep, beep.” With loud honking sounds, a brand new, all black Mercedes S600 with an aristocratic air slowly drove towards the gates of First High School under the escort of police motorcycles. Candidates and parents around immediately made way. All eyes gathered on that car.
The latest Mercedes S600 could accelerate to 100 kilometres per hour in just 1.6 seconds, with a top speed of 500 kilometres per hour. Of course this performance was nothing special. As a brand passed down from the Great Nirvana period, the historical heritage of the Mercedes S600 was what attracted people most.
Three people got out of the Mercedes S600 and walked towards the school gates while chatting and laughing.
“The bald man on the left is Director Zhang from the police bureau in our Yi’an District.”
“The one on the right should be Director Liu from the education bureau.”
“The one in the middle must be the warrior in charge of overall exam security.” Many parents and candidates outside the exam centre discussed this one after another. Most eyes focused on the central person, filled with excitement, admiration and curiosity.
Nowadays the battle between humans and monsters continued without stop.
Ordinary people were forbidden from leaving the city boundaries, while warriors were the ones who could fight monsters one on one. Human society as a whole felt deep gratitude towards warriors for their great contributions to humanity. Ordinary people naturally admired warriors very much.
Warriors belonged to a group with exceptionally high status in human society.
“That is a warrior.” Father Luo Hongguo also looked at that person. “For every college entrance exam, the overall security commander is always a warrior.”
“Warrior.”
Luo Feng looked over. That warrior gave a heart palpitating feeling. His eyes were like cold snake pupils. He did not smile all the way. Facing the police bureau director and education bureau Director Liu, this warrior only nodded indifferently from time to time and could not be bothered to pay them much attention.
“In the near future, I will also obtain the warrior title.” Luo Feng said silently in his heart.
“Clack, clack.”
The gates of First High School slowly opened.
“Time to enter.” Voices immediately rang out.
“Little Feng, time to enter. Go in quickly.” Father Luo Hongguo said urgently. Mother Gong Xinlan also said, “Go quickly. Mum will go back soon to cook for you. Your dad and younger brother will wait here for you to finish the exam.”
“Yes.”
Luo Feng smiled and nodded.
“Brother.” Younger brother Luo Hua, sitting in his wheelchair, raised his fist towards Luo Feng and smiled slightly. “You must work hard.”
“Work hard.” Luo Feng also raised his fist.
Then Luo Feng turned and joined the crowd of candidates. After checks, they passed through the school gates one by one.
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Inside the exam classroom, the exam permit and identity card were placed at the top right corner of the desk for the invigilator to check. The exam papers then started to be distributed.
“2056 Jiangnan City College Entrance Exam Science Paper A.” A clear line of words appeared at the top of the paper.
“The first session is the science exam.”
Looking at the paper in front of him, Luo Feng scanned it with his eyes and then looked at the final few big questions. They seemed familiar. “The questions this time should not be too difficult. If the questions are not difficult, my advantage in science will be hard to show. I can only answer carefully and seriously, trying not to lose points on what I know.”
Luo Feng immediately lowered his head and started writing.
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The college entrance exam had three sessions in total: the science exam, the arts exam, and the final mathematics exam. Each subject was out of 250 points, with a total full score of 750 points.
Science referred to the comprehensive paper for physics, chemistry and biology.
Arts referred to the comprehensive paper for Chinese, history, politics and geography.
The mathematics exam was naturally just mathematics.
After the Great Nirvana period, especially with the continuous battles between humans and monsters, humanity devoted itself desperately to research in science and technology as well as martial arts. This made everyone feel the importance of mathematics more clearly. Anyone who wanted to achieve great success in fields such as computers, biology or physics needed a solid foundation in mathematics.
Therefore, in cultural education, the status of mathematics was raised very high. Luo Feng was a bit weak in arts but had a huge advantage in mathematics.
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Seventh of June, science exam.
Eighth of June, arts exam.
In the blink of an eye, it was already the ninth of June.
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Inside the exam hall, the mathematics paper had just been distributed.
“This is the last mathematics exam.” Luo Feng took a deep breath. “The science paper was not difficult, and I think I did quite well. I also performed normally in the arts exam. That means the results for both science and arts should be within my normal range. For the mathematics exam, as long as I do not perform much worse than usual, I can definitely get into the number one military academy in Jiangnan.”
“Work hard.”
He encouraged himself, then Luo Feng lowered his head and started answering the questions.
The entire exam hall was quiet. Many candidates frowned, clearly finding the questions quite difficult. Every year in the college entrance exam, mathematics questions were generally not easy. After all, this was to select future scientific research talents.
“It really is difficult enough.” Luo Feng also felt the difficulty of the questions. “Even harder than previous years. But the harder, the better.”
If the questions were simple, those worse at mathematics might also score 220 points, while he would probably score only around 230. The advantage would be very small.
But if the questions were difficult, he might only score 210 points, yet those worse than him might only get 150. In this way the advantage would actually be much greater.
“Crack.” A crisp sound was heard.
The invigilator immediately looked over and saw a candidate who had actually snapped the ballpoint pen in his hand. This candidate frowned and gritted his teeth while staring hard at the paper. Clearly the mathematics questions were too difficult. Then the candidate threw the broken pen aside, took out another ballpoint pen and continued answering.
“Looking at the candidates, this year’s mathematics exam is really hard.” The invigilator thought to himself.
Indeed, almost everyone in the entire exam hall frowned and pondered bitterly. Quite a few candidates were so anxious that tears fell.
Students with poor mathematics foundations only felt that they could not do this question, nor that one, and not the third one either. Seeing such a paper, those candidates almost collapsed.
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One hour later, inside the exam hall.
The mathematics exam time was two and a half hours in total.
At this moment Luo Feng had already finished the multiple choice and fill in the blank questions, leaving only the calculation questions. In the mathematics paper, the multiple choice and fill in the blank questions together totalled 90 points. The calculation questions consisted of five big questions. The five questions totalled 160 points. After all, only big calculation questions could better reveal a student’s mathematical ability.
“It really is difficult. I even had two blanks in the fill in the blanks that I could not work out.” Luo Feng took a deep breath. “Next are the calculation questions. This is the key for scoring points. Completing one more question means a gap of thirty or forty points.”
Among the five big calculation questions, the first four were each worth 30 points, and the last one was worth 40 points.
“Hmm?” Luo Feng encountered a difficulty right at the first calculation question.
On the rough paper, Luo Feng kept calculating and thinking.
“Right, if I slightly deform it here and work backwards, it can be converted into the required equation.” Luo Feng’s eyes lit up. Swish, swish, swish. Once this difficult point was broken through, writing became very easy. He wrote out the first question in one smooth go and then checked it carefully once more.
“Yes, first question done.” Luo Feng looked at the watch on his left wrist and his heart jumped. “The first question already took me 20 minutes. I must speed up.”
Luo Feng lowered his head and looked at the second question.
At first glance, Luo Feng felt it was easy and immediately started calculating on the rough paper.
“Hmm, not right.”
Luo Feng realised the approach he thought of did not work at all. He immediately frowned and started thinking. As time passed, Luo Feng kept delving deeper into this question. “Yes, it should be like this. But how to verify the next proof?” At this time Luo Feng’s brain kept thinking rapidly.
“Quick, quick, quick. I cannot waste too much time on this question. How exactly to prove it?” Luo Feng felt anxious in his heart.
At this moment, the pulse number displayed on the watch on Luo Feng’s left wrist started to rise.
120, 125, 130, 140, 150.
“Just a little more and the proposition for this question can be proved. The 30 points will be in hand. How exactly should this be done here?” Luo Feng became more and more impatient. Time had to be allocated properly in the exam, but each calculation question in mathematics carried a large score value. Every college entrance exam candidate who wanted a good result could not get too many of the big mathematics questions wrong.
At this time, Luo Feng, whose attention was completely immersed in the exam questions, did not notice the pulse display on his watch at all.
160, 170, 180.
Luo Feng felt his heartbeat speeding up, but he only thought it was caused by anxiety and nervousness during the exam and did not pay it any attention.
“Thump, thump, thump.” Luo Feng suddenly felt as if his heart was being struck. His eyes went blurry, which finally startled him awake. “What is wrong with me? Why does my heartbeat feel so uncomfortable?” Luo Feng lowered his head and looked at the pulse reading on his watch.
230.
This number made Luo Feng’s expression change greatly. Ever since he fainted at age twelve and bought this watch, Luo Feng had never seen his heartbeat exceed 180.
“It feels so uncomfortable.” Luo Feng felt as if his heart was about to jump out of his chest. Under the constant expansion and contraction of the power source that was his heart, large amounts of blood surged. Waves of invisible and imperceptible energy rushed into the depths of Luo Feng’s mind. Suddenly, a sharp pain came from his brain.
“Ah, ah.” Luo Feng could not help letting out sounds.
“This candidate, what is wrong with you?” The invigilator rushed over quickly. He looked at Luo Feng in shock.
At this moment Luo Feng’s face was flushed red as if it would drip blood. The veins on his forehead and arms bulged and throbbed. His whole person looked extremely ferocious.
“No, no. Slow down, slow down.” Luo Feng sensed something bad and roared in his heart. His eyes stared fixedly at the watch.
“236, 242, 251.”
Thump, thump, thump.
His heart sounded like a big drum, producing low rumbling sounds as blood flowed rapidly.
As his blurring eyes saw the number 268, the sharp pain in his head caused Luo Feng to faint instantly. In the moment of fainting, he vaguely heard that voice.
“This candidate, this candidate, wake up, wake up. Quick, quick, call an ambulance.”