Shadow of Chinese Entertainment

Chapter 20 Ability Differences
The head teacher Yuan Yuan gently placed the report card in her hand on the podium, making a slight "pop" sound.

The classroom suddenly became quiet, and the students gathered their thoughts and focused their attention on her.

Yuan Yuan supported herself on the podium with both hands, leaning forward slightly. Her four eyes were like precise scanners, slowly scanning the faces of every student in the audience.

“This is the last mock exam and everyone already knows the results.

Overall, our class has made progress, but the performance of individual students still needs reflection.”

Having said that, her eyes drifted intentionally or unintentionally towards some areas with less than ideal results, and her brows furrowed slightly.

"Here, I want to give special praise to Hu Xiaobei."

Yuan Yuan raised the corners of her mouth, revealing a rare smile, her eyes full of approval. She pushed her glasses and looked straight at Hu Xiaobei.

"He performed very well this time, ranking first in the liberal arts department of the school with an excellent score of 666, which is a huge improvement compared to the previous score of 591.

He scored 147 points in Chinese, 148 points in English, and 286 points in liberal arts. These subjects all demonstrate his strength and hard work."

The classmates turned to look at Hu Xiaobei, with envy and admiration in their eyes, and exclamations of praise rang out in the classroom.

Hu Xiaobei was almost embarrassed and could only lower his head and pretend to be a little embarrassed.

Teacher Yuan Yuan raised her hands and gently pressed them down, signaling everyone to be quiet.

She paused, her expression turned serious, she picked up a piece of chalk, turned around and wrote "Mathematics 85 points" on the blackboard.

The sharp sound of chalk rubbing against the blackboard is particularly clear in the quiet classroom.

"This math score seriously held you back. Although there has been some improvement, the college entrance exam is based on the total score. One point can determine your fate. You still have a lot of room for improvement in math."

Having said this, she looked at Hu Xiaobei intentionally, however, she could only see his long hair covering his forehead when he lowered his head.

In the past month, Hu Xiaobei's grades first plummeted, and then soared like a rocket.

His high score, the highest in the liberal arts in the school, shone like a bright star in the school sky, attracting the gazes of his classmates around him filled with amazement and envy, as if he were a legendary warrior who suddenly arrived in the examination room.

But the shortcoming of 85 points in mathematics was like a dark cloud, quietly blocking part of the light.

Yuan Yuan raised her voice a few degrees and swept her stern eyes across the class again.

“Don’t relax just because this is the last mock exam.

In the next few days, you need to check for and fill in the gaps in your weak areas.

I will work hard with you all. If you have any questions, please ask the teacher as soon as possible.

Everyone should strive to achieve ideal results in the college entrance examination, and no one should be left behind! Do you have confidence? "

As soon as the words fell, students in a certain area responded in unison: "Yes!"

Those voices were firm and powerful, echoing powerfully in the classroom.
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At midnight, the dormitory was shrouded in darkness, with only the faint moonlight coming in through the window, casting a hazy shadow on the ground.

Hu Xiaobei sank his consciousness into the shadow and activated the level 1 spiritual perception.

In an instant, the six to eight meter area centered on the shadow seemed to be instantly lit up.

In the dormitory, he could clearly "see" the staggered arrangement of books on the bookshelf. Although he did not read the words on the books deliberately, he could still feel the shape and arrangement of the characters.

The breathing sounds of my roommates came one after another, some were long and slow, some were a little rapid, and I could even sense the subtle fluctuations in the air caused by the breath going in and out of the nasal cavity and mouth.

The snoring of the fat boy next door is still very rhythmic, playing non-stop.

A slight dripping sound came from the faucet valve, and a drop of water condensed into shape, shining with a round luster.

It slowly slid down the inner wall of the faucet, and as the water droplets fell, tiny splashes of water splashed at the bottom of the sink, spreading out in all directions, forming circles of shallow ripples.

The ripples spread gently, and when they touched the edge of the sink, the water stains slowly spread out.

Hu Xiaobei could clearly see the edge of the water stain gradually spreading, and the water stain took on a translucent texture on the sink. At this time, the faucet was not closed tightly, and an extremely fine stream of water was still flowing out, interweaving and colliding with each other, making a crisp and pleasant sound.

A shadow appeared out of nowhere, transformed into a right hand and gently tightened the faucet.

In the dormitory next door, a spider in the corner was weaving a web. Its eight thin legs moved rhythmically, and the spider silk it pulled out flashed a subtle silver light in the air.

From spinning to winding, the movements were done in one go. The spider web still had the remains of several small flying insects hanging on it, and the texture of their wings was delicate and fragile.

Hu Xiaobei turned his "gaze" to the door and could see the metallic luster on the door handle and the tiny scratches on it.

In the ray of light that filtered through the crack under the door, dust particles danced gently, colliding with each other, gathering and dispersing, like a microscopic dance performance.

Within a radius of six to eight meters, everything becomes vivid and lively.

Every detail is magnified, together constructing a surreal and wonderful space that belongs only to Hu Xiaobei's spiritual perception.

Hu Xiaobei retracted his perception tentacles, immersed his mind, and focused on sensing the evolution of his own shadow ability.

[Shadow Level 1]: 0.48%
[Shadow Control Lv1]: Control your own shadow to perform simple deformation.

[Spiritual Sense Level 1]: Perceives the surroundings using the shadow as the axis. This state allows for photographic memory and rapid reading. Current perception range is 6-8 meters.

[Virtual Reality Level 0]: 6%
Shadows can affect reality. The level of influence is linked to one's own strength and is proportional to the level of reality and illusion. Currently, it is 10.6% of one's own strength.

The evolution speed of the shadow ability itself did not decrease, but increased.

However, the evolutionary requirements have increased tenfold, which, expressed as a percentage, equates to an evolutionary efficiency of 0.03% of that level per hour.

The energy required to upgrade virtual and real abilities is roughly one-tenth of the shadow abilities of the same level.

In other words, as long as Hu Xiaobei is willing to continue using this ability, it will evolve at a rate of 3% per hour, and 33 to 34 hours will be enough to upgrade it to level 1.

It seems that because they are innate, the abilities of shadow control and spiritual awareness do not require additional consumption to advance.

These two abilities and the shadow ability itself remain consistent.

The college entrance examination is just a few days away, and it is not cost-effective to spend time and energy on improving your virtual and real abilities at this time.

Hu Xiaobei only dabbled in it briefly and then devoted his energy to daily studies.

After the shadow ability was upgraded, the efficiency of using spiritual perception to memorize and learn was greatly improved.

If he had the strength he has now when he was reborn, perhaps he would have achieved his current academic results during the third mock exam.

Before this, he needed to eat enough food to convert energy every two or three hours of memorizing and studying.

But now it is different. With the same memory learning method, there is no problem in persisting for five or six hours, and the amount of food needed for a single time has not increased.

Unless he activates both the memory learning mode and the virtual-real ability at the same time, the frequency of food replenishment will remain the same as before.

In addition, when Hu Xiaobei encounters a problem that he doesn't know how to solve, he can use his spiritual awareness to solve the problem and apply it to other similar situations.

Of course, consumption will also increase.

After trying it several times, Hu Xiaobei did not choose to use it as a regular learning method.

Turning this thing on is like running it in high-frequency mode on overload. If it is not necessary, forget it.

After all, even with such a good computer, software crashes, hardware damage, and system freezes may occur.

Throughout the day, Hu Xiaobei spent most of his time studying math problems, leaving only a small part of his time to review and consolidate knowledge from other subjects.

The official college entrance examination will be on the 7th, and the holiday will be on the 6th. If you have any questions in the next two days, you can ask your classmates and teachers.

Hu Xiaobei analyzed the situation and began to think about how to allocate his time for the next few days.

(End of this chapter)