I am a demonic cultivator, not a capitalist with a conscience.

Chapter 44 This Time It's Over (33)

Go back to school, start studying, and then take exams.

This exam is a general academic exam. All five high schools will take the exam together, and then the scores will be updated collectively.

However, because there are only a limited number of teachers qualified to invigilate, the order of the exam subjects in the five high schools is different. Therefore, some students may take advantage of this opportunity to collude, but if they are caught, they will be severely penalized with demerit points.

In sports-focused high schools, students take an academic exam first. When the exam bell rings, everyone must immediately enter a dream world assigned by the teacher, complete the exam within the dream, submit their work, and then leave the dream world.

This way, test takers cannot cheat in real life.

Moreover, time can pass very slowly in dreams, allowing teachers to use the time difference in dreams to quickly grade papers and update student scores into the grading system as soon as possible.

The academic exams cover a wide range of subjects, including general knowledge, history, reading comprehension, and mathematics, totaling 350 questions.

In addition to multiple choice, the exams also include fill-in-the-blank, essay, composition, and practical skills. Because they cover so much content, the academic exams are often called "ox-plowing exams" because they are extremely tiring to take.

Even a ruthless person like Chen Yu felt his head buzzing after he finished.

Having left the dream world, he was just about to go to a small restaurant to rest and invite his classmates over for a treat, hoping they would help him out by spending some money, when he heard a vibrant voice rang out: "Chen Yu, let's check the answers!"

"Ugh……"

With a long sigh, Chen Yu turned to the short class monitor behind him and said, "I really admire you. You still have so much energy after the exam. Can't you be with Ma Daqiang?"

"Are you kidding me if you want to answer his questions?"

"Just check in reverse. If your answer to a question is the same as his, you should be careful that you might be wrong."

Liu Qing clapped her hands: "That's right."

"Hurry up, call the other classmates, let's go to the little restaurant for dinner. I heard they're having a nourishing mushroom hot pot today, I can't wait to see the little people."

"I understand, I'll be right back."

Turning back into the classroom, Chen Yu quickly heard Ma Daqiang's dissatisfied voice: "Class monitor, what are you doing? I don't want to check the answers, I want to play Dreamland!"

"The 'Quiz Showdown' game I've been playing lately is so much fun. The characters are so cute. Especially those little female devils, they make my bones melt every time they yell at me."

"You call me a pervert? I like being scolded by cute girls, how does that make me a pervert! Besides, I can't just scold anyone. For example, you, I always feel really uncomfortable when you scold me!"

"What are you doing? Quack!"

With a scream, Liu Qing walked out silently, his face ashen.

Chen Yu wanted to advise the other person to take it easy, since they still considered him a woman.

But upon seeing Ma Daqiang's blood-stained phone in the other person's hand, he wisely chose to remain silent.

Liu Qing, meanwhile, scrolled through Ma Daqiang's phone and found his answer for the day. After comparing it with the answer, her face turned deathly pale.

"What's wrong?" Chen Yu asked cautiously.

Liu Qing raised her hand to tell Chen Yu to be quiet, and then quickly checked the answers again, her face turning even paler.

Clutching Chen Yu's sleeve, Liu Qing said in a tearful voice, "Chen Yu, what should we do?"

"Just say what you want to say. If you're a true brother, don't wipe your snot on my clothes!"

I might fail this time!

"So miserable?"

"I don't know why either. I felt like the questions were really easy this time! What should I do? Am I going to lose my position as class monitor?"

Chen Yu figured this job wasn't any good anyway, so he might as well not have it.

But seeing how pitiful the little hamster was, he shook his head helplessly, asked her for her phone, and then began to examine it.

He glanced at it briefly, then checked it again, puzzled, and asked, "Class monitor, what were your usual scores in academic subjects?"

"75."

"You answered very well this time, you got 79! With a little more effort, you could easily get 80. You've been studying very hard lately." "Huh? But my answer is very similar to Ma Daqiang's."

Chen Yu took Ma Daqiang's phone back, looked at it, and then felt insecure himself.

How can they be so similar?

Ma Daqiang usually scores around 30 points in his academic subjects, but this time the overlap with his score was as high as 40%, which means the other person should have scored around 37 points.

Improving scores isn't something that can be done overnight, unless you have a cheat code.

So, Ma Daqiang opened a shop too?
"That can't be right. What have you all been doing lately?"

Liu Qing hesitated for a moment, then said shyly, "It's just that I cultivate, read books, and occasionally play in the dream world to earn a little money."

"There are no outsiders here, so you might as well just say it: how long do you mean by 'occasionally'?"

"It's only a few hours each day."

"...I've been playing all the time except when I'm in class! What kind of dream is this that's so captivating!"

"It's that dream world from your company, 'Quiz Showdown,' it's so much fun. Although I've only earned a few dozen mana points so far, it's really enjoyable to play. I heard that the skilled players have already found the question bank and memorized it all. This makes answering questions more efficient, faster, and more fun. I've also memorized some of them, but not all of them."

After learning what it was, Chen Yu understood.

"Quiz Showdown" is inherently addictive; it's a dream where you want to win when you lose, and want to keep winning when you win.

In addition, there is magic power as a reward, so players will play it hard after they start, and then they will be so engrossed in it that they will forget about it and eventually become addicted.

Memorizing question banks is a normal behavior, but Chen Yu did not expect the players to be so amazing that they could find so many question banks.

After all, the entire game is based on at least 300 books. Later, Luo Tong and his friends collected books from various school libraries, so they should have reached 700 by now.

Someone who can memorize so many questions is truly talented.

At this moment, Chen Yu felt a vague unease, but he wasn't quite sure where this unease came from.

Looking at my skill interface again, negative emotions are still far ahead, and I'll soon reach the goal of 100,000.

Compared to his positive sentiment score of just over 60,000, Chen Yu couldn't imagine what could possibly overwhelm him.

He wanted to delve deeper, but Liu Qing grabbed him: "Hurry up, I can't wait any longer, hurry up and check the answers with me!"

"Then let's eat and gossip at the same time."

"Okay! My treat!"

"Don't even think about it! I won't allow anyone to not spend my money in front of me!"

"...Yu Zi, you've been acting really strange lately."

The exams at the sports high school had just ended, and Teacher Zhao immediately took the students' dreams to the cultural high school.

To save time, he leaped onto the roof and sprinted across it.

Its body, as large as a wild bull, is as light as a swallow when it rises and falls, and it doesn't even break a roof when it lands, showing its remarkable agility.

He arrived at Cultural High School in five minutes, climbed through the window into the proctoring classroom, and immediately spotted Wang Chuyun sitting in the middle of the classroom.

As expected of the top student, he remained calm and composed even during the exam, displaying the demeanor of a great general.

He looked away, clapped his hands, and said, "The exam is about to begin. Everyone, prepare to enter the dream world. You all know the exam instructions, right? I won't repeat them. Alright, let's begin. Wang Chuyun?"

Wang Chuyun, whose name was called, shuddered, then gripped her phone with trembling hands and drifted into a dream.

The moment she closed her eyes, she was thinking about one thing:

This time it's over.

(End of this chapter)