The courses of the Faculty of Arts were obviously different from other faculties. Most of the faculties’ courses they had passed were 8 am, but the compulsory courses of <Illusion in the Painting> and <Musical Melody> were scheduled at 2:00 pm, and <Masquerade Ball> was 8 pm, which meant that they had a morning to prepare for the exam.
According to the schedule, the best order for them to pass this faculty was to take the art exam on Monday, music on Tuesday, and dance for the last. There were no students in the C-183 Research Group who understood art, and it was of course safer to find an X-team member.
Yue Xingwen discussed with his teammates, “Should we just post recruitment on the forum, or should we find acquaintances to introduce them?”
“It’s more reliable to find acquaintances, right?” Lin Manluo looked at Yue Xingwen and asked, “Xingwen, do you remember Xu Feixue from Qingcheng Fine Arts Academy? When we first came out with the joint statement of colleges and universities, she was the one who drew the emblems of all colleges and universities.”
“Of course remember, she’s on the C-166 Research Group, right? We also met in the semi-finals of the soccer tournament.” Yue Xingwen was quite impressed by this girl. When they sorted out the joint statement, Xu Feixue took the initiative to propose to add the emblem to the statement to make the students feel more sense of substitution. She drew the emblems of each college and university in just a few days, which was very realistic, and they met by chance at the Sports Meeting.
“Does this team also have students majoring in directing, animation, music, and so on?” Ke Shaobin was standing next to the soccer field taking photos and he remembered the game vividly.
“I remember that they also had a classmate from the directing major over there, who directly summoned the lights, sound, and camera to start making a movie!” Liu Zhaoqing couldn’t stop talking about it, “That soccer match was really strange, their team also has anime majors, and can transform into Sailor Moon.”
“Yes, this team is also very strong.” Yue Xingwen turned around and asked Lin Manluo, “Senior sister, are you familiar with Xu Feixue? Which level is their progress currently at?”
“Quite familiar, Xu Feixue’s dormitory is only ten meters away from us, and I often see her. They spent a long time looking for teammates in order to form a team, and their progress is a week behind ours, and they are currently in the Faculty of Law on the 6th floor.” She paused, and then said, “Yesterday, Xu Feixue also asked me if the course of the Faculty of Law was difficult or not. The student from the Law Department in their team is a sophomore, and didn’t have much confidence. I told her some details and asked her to see the strategy on the forum.”
Yue Xingwen thought for a while and asked, “The Faculty of Law’s schedule, as I recall, was the morning exam and breaks in the afternoon, right?”
Lan Yarong said, “Yes, there is a compulsory course on the morning of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and another compulsory course on the morning of Tuesday and Thursday. There is no class scheduled in the afternoon.”
Yue Xingwen said, “In this case, they will take the exam in the morning while ours in the afternoon, the time doesn’t conflict. Can we borrow people from Xu Feixue’s team to come to our team as an X-team member?”
Finding someone they knew to join their team would be more reliable than finding a stranger. Moreover, Yue Xingwen trusted Xu Feixue’s professional level, and the ‘Qingcheng Fine Arts Academy’ where she was located was one of the top three famous schools in the national art colleges, especially difficult to enter. Every year, tens of thousands of students applied for the exam, and in the end, only 7,800 students were admitted. The acceptance rate was less than 2%, and the competition was extremely fierce.
Lan Yarong came up with an idea and said, “How about I send her a message now, asking if they need external assistance from law? Reciprocal exchange of an X-team member is more acceptable. What do you think?”
Yue Xingwen readily agreed. “It’s hard work for senior sister.”
Lan Yarong immediately sent a private message to Xu Feixue: “What classroom number?”
They could send free private messages in the forum, but they could not see it as soon as possible, and they must open the forum interface in the tablet to see it. If they sent the message directly to a specific person, it would deduct points, and 10 points would be deducted for one word.
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In order to let Xu Feixue see the message as soon as possible, Lan Yarong did not care about these dozens of points.
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Since their Research Groups had fought in the soccer match in the Sports Meeting, the people of C-166 were surprised to see these familiar faces. Xu Feixue was puzzled. “Senior sister Manluo, Xingwen? Why are you here?”
Yue Xingwen said, “The exam will start at 8:00 am, so let’s make it short. Does your team need an X-team member as external assistance for the Faculty of Law? If needed, senior sister Lan is willing to help.”
Lan Yarong smiled kindly. “That’s right, even if the course content will change, I have experience in clearing the Faculty of Law, so I should be able to help.”
Xu Feixue couldn’t believe it. “Really? Senior sister Lan is willing to come to our team as an external assistance?!”
The Faculty of Law’s student in their team had never been to the courtroom, and was not very confident. She was thinking about whether to find another external assistance, and the top students of the Research Group 183 actually personally sent themselves to the door. This feeling was like a pie falling from the sky, smashing the people of Xu Feixue’s team.
Xu Feixue quickly came back to her senses——The Research Group 183 was not a charity team, so there was no reason to suddenly turn back to help them. She realized something was wrong and asked immediately, “What made you guys think of me all of a sudden, going back to the 6th floor to help us?”
Yue Xingwen smiled and said straightforwardly, “Because, we also need your help.”
Lin Manluo explained, “The 9th floor is the Faculty of Art, which has courses related to art, music and dance. We also need an X-team member, we all work together for mutual benefit.”
Xu Feixue suddenly realized. “So that’s how it is!”
Lin Manluo said, “Feixue, you guys will take the exam in the morning, senior sister Lan will join your team to help you go through the Faculty of Law. We happen to have the exam in the afternoon, and then you will join our Research Group as a X-team member and help us pass the art courses. How about it?”
Xu Feixue looked back at her teammates, and the team members behind her nodded collectively like chickens pecking rice—— Wouldn’t the addition of senior sister Lan from Research Group 183 to their team ensure that they make it through the Faculty of Law?
Xu Feixue said excitedly, “So be it! As long as you don’t dislike me for dragging your feet, I will do my best to help!”
The matter was simply settled.
Instead of withdrawing from their original team, the X-team member could just join another Research Group to take the exam as a temporary external assistance, and they would automatically leave the other group once the exam was over.
Lan Yarong joined Xu Feixue’s team as an X-team member on the spot and began the Faculty of Law’s exam. Others returned to their dormitories to rest.
The two-hour exam time passed quickly, and Yue Xingwen sent a message in the Research Group and asked; “Senior sister, how is it?”
Lan Yarong said: “It’s over.”
Ke Shaobin was curious: “Is it the same course as the one we took in the Faculty of Law back then?”
Lan Yarong: “The names of all the suspects and deceased have changed, and the plot is different, but overall, it’s pretty much the same.”
Yue Xingwen followed up and sent an external assistance invitation to Xu Feixue. Xu Feixue pressed to agree and a system prompt appeared on the Research Group’s chat channel—— Welcoming classmate [Xu Feixue] to join the C-183 Research Group as an X-team member.
Yue Xingwen posted a message on the chat channel: “Feixue, welcome.”
Other teammates also sent messages: “Welcome, welcome!”
“Welcome the new team member!”
Xu Feixue asked directly, “This afternoon exam is at 2:00 pm right? When will everyone gather ah?”
Yue Xingwen said, “How about this, with a newcomer coming, let’s have lunch together at noon to familiarize ourselves with each other, and also introduce you to our team?”
Xu Feixue said: “Okay!”
At noon, everyone gathered in the canteen for a meal.
Xu Feixue’s skin was very white, she had delicate and beautiful facial features, long black hair, and a smile when she spoke, looking quite gentle. Lin Manluo was more familiar with her, and she also consciously sat next to Lin Manluo, politely greeting everyone.
Yue Xingwen briefly introduced the team members and their skills.
Xu Feixue also took the initiative to introduce herself, “I have three skills, the first is the brush, you can draw some animals and summon them, similar to Ma Liang’s magic brush, except that the summoned animals exist for a relatively short time; The second skill is the color palette, which creates illusions by changing the color of the current scene, for example, painting the originally green stadium into a blue swimming pool; The third is the eraser, which can erase still lifes in the scene, but not living things.”
Liu Zhaoqing said with a smile, “The skills of your Art Department sound quite impressive ah!”
Xu Feixue said, “The strength of the skills arranged by the library for art students is okay, and my teammates in the conservatory also have a bunch of control skills, otherwise, when we encounter survival class, we’ll fail pretty badly.”
It seemed that the library positioned the art students as the ‘magicians’ in the team. In addition to showing their professional specialties in the arts, they could also control the field to help their teammates in the escape class of other faculties.
Every major had great skills that could be used in them. Still, to get through the library, they had to have multiple majors working in conjunction with each other, which was the core rule hidden by the library.
Yue Xingwen said, “Everyone can go back to take a nap, 1:30 pm, and gather at the Faculty of Arts on the 9th floor.”
At 1:30 pm, everyone came to the 9th floor.
Although Xu Feixue’s current progress was on the 6th floor, the identity of X-team member could help her pass the verification of the elevator and followed Yue Xingwen and the others to the 9th floor.
The Faculty of Arts course selection center had a distinctive style, with world-famous paintings on the walls and a white piano in the middle of the hall. Yue Xingwen stepped forward, opened the course selection tablet, and the course information of the first course appeared in front of everyone——
[Compulsory Course: Illusion in the Painting]
[Faculty: Faculty of Arts]
[Credit: 4]
[Examination Room Rules: Maximum number of examinees in the examination room is 12 (excluding X-team member)]
[Course Description: Abstract paintings are difficult to describe in words]
[Examination Requirement: Solve the illusion puzzle]
[Note: It is recommended to have teammates majoring in art-related in
[Confirm Course Selection: Yes/No]
Everyone saw the course information and looked at each other.
Since it was to solve puzzles, was this a reasoning class related to ‘painting’?
I’ve caught up! Thanks for the hard work <3
Thanks for the update 😍
Oh, it’s hard, abstract art can be super complicated to explain
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