Hong Kong films: Starting from Shaolin Temple

One of them was clearly a "Uni-President" brand! And on the bottom of the bowl, a few large, hastily written characters in marker read, "Password: 244." It was obvious that Uncle Da had jotted it down hastily so he wouldn't forget the locker's combination.

Long Yan instantly understood everything.

Stephen Chow, also carrying the cursed doll, arrived with a dark expression. The two stared at each other, speechless, at this absurd "evidence."

Chapter 240: You're practicing alchemy during chemistry class?

After the scandal involving Uncle Da's unreliable "intelligence," Long Yan and Zhou Xingxing's investigation has temporarily stalled. They can only continue to infiltrate the school while searching for a new breakthrough.

That morning, it was Miss Liang's chemistry class again. For Zhou Xingxing, this was undoubtedly mental torture. He deeply loathed those bottles and jars and complex chemical formulas.

Today's topic is an experiment about "esterification reaction". Miss Liang asked each group to prepare ethyl acetate, also known as banana oil, by hand.

"Students, please be careful during the experiment! Especially when heating, be careful when using the alcohol lamp! Do you hear me?" Miss Liang impatiently reminded them from the podium.

Stephen Chow wasn't listening at all. He was secretly fiddling with his "high-tech" equipment. He was wearing seemingly ordinary black-rimmed glasses with miniature cameras hidden in the temples. He also had wireless earphones smaller than grains of rice plugged into his ears.

He planned to take advantage of the chaos during lab sessions to wander around the lab, filming all suspicious corners and people with a camera, and then transmit the videos in real time to his police colleagues waiting outside the school for analysis.

However, the ideal is full, and the reality is very skinny.

He had just turned on the camera, but before he could even start filming, his sudden movement caused him to accidentally knock over the alcohol lamp in front of him. The flame instantly ignited the lab report on the table, sending thick smoke billowing out.

"Stephen Chow! What are you up to now!" Miss Liang screamed, grabbing a fire extinguisher and rushing over.

Stephen Chow frantically tried to put out the flames, but ended up knocking over a row of test tubes. With a series of clanging sounds, various colored chemical reagents spilled all over the floor, mixing together to produce an even more pungent, multicolored smoke.

The entire chemistry lab was instantly filled with smoke and alarms blared. Students screamed and scattered in all directions, and the scene briefly spiraled out of control.

Looking at the mess he had made, Stephen Chow turned pale and thought to himself that he was doomed and his undercover career might have to end prematurely.

Amidst the chaos, only Long Yan stood quietly, his brows slightly furrowed. He looked at the chemical reagents that were reacting violently due to mixing, then at the complex molecular formulas on the blackboard, and a sudden realization flashed in his eyes.

In his view, this so-called chemical reaction was remarkably similar to the principles of "ruler, minister, assistant, and guide" and "mutual generation and mutual restraint" in the alchemy he studied. Acids are the ruler, alcohols are the minister, and catalysis is the assistant... all variations do not deviate from the fundamental principle.

“Reckless.” He uttered two words softly.

At this moment, Miss Liang had extinguished the flames and stormed up to Zhou Xingxing, pointing her finger at him and yelling, "Idiot! You're a walking disaster! I really regret putting someone like you in the lab!"

She then turned to the whole class and said angrily, "Today's experiment is canceled! Everyone, copy these ten most complex organic synthesis reaction formulas on the blackboard one hundred times! You won't leave school until you've finished copying them!"

The whole class erupted in wails.

Stephen Chow was even more dejected, feeling like he had become the enemy of the whole class.

Just then, Long Yan slowly walked up to the podium. He picked up a piece of chalk and said to the ten reaction formulas on the blackboard that gave everyone a headache, "Teacher, these reactions are all flawed."

"What?" Miss Liang looked at him like he was an idiot. "What did you say? This is a classic reaction formula from the textbook! What do you, a student, know?"

Long Yan did not argue. He simply pointed to one of the reaction formulas and said calmly, "This reaction has an excess of yang energy and a deficiency of yin with excessive fire. Although the product is formed, it contains too many impurities, which damages the body's foundation. If we add 'licorice' here to neutralize it, and then use 'rootless water' to adjust it, we can achieve yin-yang harmony and reach perfection."

As he spoke, ignoring Miss Liang's ghost-like expression, he directly erased a chemical formula on the blackboard, picked up the chalk, and wrote down a brand new molecular formula with a more complex structure but exuding a strange sense of harmony.

"What...what did you write?" Miss Liang stared at the unfamiliar chemical formula, completely stunned. Although she couldn't understand it, her professional intuition told her that the structure seemed more stable and perfect than the one in the textbook.

"This is the 'Jade Dew Purification Bottle Formula' that this humble monk comprehended," Long Yan replied solemnly.

The whole class thought Long Yan had gone mad, talking about alchemy in chemistry class.

Stephen Chow covered his face, feeling too ashamed to face anyone.

"Fine! Fine!" Miss Liang laughed in exasperation. "You think you're so capable? You think you can refine pills? Then use the things in the lab right now to concoct your 'Jade Dew Purification Bottle Formula' for me! If you can't, you and Zhou Xingxing will copy it two hundred times!"

She wanted to embarrass this arrogant brat in public.

Long Yan nodded and said calmly, "Okay."

Having said that, he walked to the lab bench amidst the skeptical gazes of the crowd. Instead of using beakers and test tubes, he casually picked up a few clean glass bottles. Using water as a base, he added several common acids, alcohols, and salts, and even picked a few mint leaves from a potted plant on the windowsill, crushed them, and put them in.

His movements were fluid and effortless, relying entirely on intuition without the use of any precise measuring tools. His focused and confident demeanor made him seem less like someone conducting a chemistry experiment and more like an ancient alchemist refining a peerless elixir.

A few minutes later, a bottle of clear liquid, as clear as mountain spring water and emitting a faint herbal fragrance, appeared before everyone.

"Alright," Long Yan said.

"This...that's it?" Miss Liang looked incredulous.

Just then, a girl in the class who usually loves beauty curiously came over, dipped her finger in a little clear liquid, and applied it to the back of her hand.

The next second, she let out a shocked scream!

"Oh my god! Look!"

Everyone looked over at the sound, and saw that the back of her hand, where the liquid had been applied, had become as smooth, delicate, and fair as a baby's, creating a striking contrast with the surrounding skin! The effect was a hundred times more magical than the most expensive skincare products in the world!

Wow! What kind of magical water is this?!

"Let me try it! Let me try it!"

The entire class of girls went wild! They swarmed around Long Yan, vying for the bottle of "Jade Dew Purification Water." Even Miss Liang, disregarding her dignity as a teacher, squeezed into the crowd, her eyes gleaming with longing.

Staring at the chaotic and frenzied scene before him, Stephen Chow stood there dumbfounded, his mouth agape, muttering to himself:

"This...this actually works?!"

Chapter 241 Stephen Chow: Master, please accept my deepest respect

The "beauty potion" incident propelled Long Yan's reputation at Sheng Yuqiang Middle School to unprecedented heights. He was no longer just the mysterious "hidden boss" of Class F; in the hearts of all the girls in the school, he was a "living god" comparable to an alchemist. Every day, girls would find various excuses to peer into the door of Class F, hoping to get a little bit of the "Jade Dew Purification Bottle Water."

This drove Stephen Chow insanely jealous, and also caused He Min and Cindy's sense of crisis to skyrocket.

However, the students' nemesis won't disappear just because you can "refine pills." Soon, the final exams arrived as scheduled.

For students at St. Yuk Keung Secondary School, exams mean war. A war of wits and courage, centered around cheating and anti-cheating.

As the "soul" of Class F, Zhou Xingxing naturally took on the role of commander-in-chief in this cheating war. The night before the exam, he summoned the core members of Class F to an abandoned warehouse near the school for a "battle meeting."

"Class of '07!" Zhou Xingxing stood on a dilapidated oil drum, pointer in hand, pointing and gesturing with high spirits, "Tomorrow is the moment that will decide our fate! Whether we go home to get a beating or have a carefree New Year depends on this battle!"

He cleared his throat and began to lay out his long-planned cheating scheme, a classic in film history.

"Listen up! Our operation codename is 'All Gods and Buddhas!' Handsome Bro, you're in charge of physics. If I cough, use your slingshot to shoot the answers to the A set of questions onto the little red table across the way! Cindy, you're in charge of English. If I touch my nose, use a mirror to reflect sunlight and transmit the answers to Xiaoming in the back row using Morse code! And you, Dafei, you're in charge of..."

He assigned tasks to everyone, from coughing, shaking their legs, and twirling a pen, to using pagers, serial pagers, and even pigeons outside the window, designing a seamless, three-dimensional cheating system.

“The most crucial link,” Stephen Chow lowered his voice, his expression becoming extremely serious, “is our off-field support—Uncle Tat!”

He turned on the old projector, and Uncle Da's sleazy face appeared on the wall.

"Tomorrow, Uncle Da will disguise himself as the school electrician and monitor the entire exam room through a miniature camera I've installed beforehand in the electrical distribution room next to our exam room! He will transmit the standard answers to each of us through invisible earpieces in our ears using the latest 'FM radio' technology! This is our trump card!"

The crowd listened with great excitement, as if they were not planning to cheat, but rather to orchestrate a groundbreaking espionage operation.

Only Long Yan remained completely uninvolved. He simply sat quietly to the side, eyes closed, muttering to himself as if reciting scriptures.

Stephen Chow walked up to him and patted him on the shoulder: "Hey, monk, don't you need our help? This math problem is said to be hellish."

Long Yan opened his eyes and said calmly, "The Prajna Sutra says: All things flow, nothing lasts forever. These few mundane calamities are nothing but reflections in a mirror or the moon in the water, not worth mentioning."

Stephen Chow rolled his eyes, thinking: Fine, you're so high and mighty, just wait until you get a zero on the test!

On the day of the exam, the atmosphere in the F class exam room was tense and eerie. All the students were in their positions, exchanging glances and exchanging coded signals, resembling a well-trained secret service organization.

The exam begins, and Zhou Xingxing gives the first signal: the cheating system is officially activated!

However, unexpected events followed one after another.

Due to nervousness, the handsome guy's slingshot accidentally shot the answer sheet directly into the proctor's face.

Cindy's mirror, due to the wrong angle of the sunlight, shone light into the discipline master's office, triggering a surprise inspection.

But the most fatal flaw was their ace supporter – Uncle Da.

Uncle Da sat in the power distribution room, where he should have been nervously transmitting answers, but instead, while watching the monitor, he turned on another channel on the radio and listened to the live horse race with great interest.

So, instead of hearing "The answer to the first question is A, the answer to the second question is B" in their headphones, all the students in Class F heard...

"...Horse number three, 'Never Give Up,' is sprinting! It's overtaken! It's overtaken horse number two, 'Dad's Fortune'! Keep it up! Go for it! My happiness for the rest of my life depends on you!!"

The desperate screams were clearly transmitted throughout the entire examination room through the headphones.

The entire class froze instantly.

Stephen Chow's face turned deathly pale. He knew that the "Gods and Buddhas Everywhere" plan had completely failed. He slumped onto the table in despair, preparing to face his fate of "death."

However, on the day the exam results were released, the entire Sheng Yuqiang Middle School was once again completely engulfed in chaos.

The bulletin board was packed with people. Everyone was scrambling to see the posted grade rankings.

The first place winner was a name that no one expected.

Long Yan, total score: 750 points (full marks).

Physics, perfect score. Chemistry, perfect score. Math, perfect score. English, perfect score... perfect score in every subject!

This result was like an atomic bomb, exploding in the minds of all the students. The students in Class F who had cheated were stunned. The good students who had studied so hard cried. All the teachers in the school went crazy!

730 They couldn't believe that a monster with "perfect scores in all subjects" could appear in a place like Sheng Yuqiang Middle School!

Zhou Xingxing held the report card, his hands trembling. Looking at Long Yan's dazzling perfect score, and then at his own appalling score of less than 100 points in all subjects, he felt his worldview being crushed by this man for the second time.

He walked back to the classroom dejectedly and saw Long Yan still sitting there, calmly copying scriptures with a brush.

"How...how did you do that?" Zhou Xingxing stammered, his tone filled with awe.

Long Yan raised his head, looked at him, and said calmly in a matter-of-fact tone:

"I memorized the book after reading it once. I could solve the problems after just one glance. Is it that difficult?"

Stephen Chow: "..."

He knelt down before Long Yan with a thud.

"Brother! No, Master! Please accept my deepest respect!"

Long Yan's god-like performance not only secured his place as the "academic genius," but also elevated Teacher He Min's curiosity and admiration for him to a whole new level, beyond her initial shock. She felt that this man practically possessed a universe within him.

Chapter 242 Teacher He Min holds an umbrella for Long Yan, a tender moment in the rain.

The aftershocks of the final exams hadn't yet subsided when Long Yan's reputation as a "genius student" swept across the entire campus like a hurricane. He always attracted countless awe-inspiring and admiring glances as he walked. This made Zhou Xingxing incredibly envious, and it further solidified his determination to cling to Long Yan as his "gut brother."

That evening, the sky was terribly overcast, with dark clouds like spilled ink spreading wildly across the horizon. A long-brewing downpour began. Large raindrops pounded against the windows, making a "pitter-patter" sound, and the whole world was shrouded in a gray, misty rain curtain.