The next morning, the alarm rang in the student’s dormitory area on time. The group went to the canteen together and had breakfast, then Yue Xingwen went back to the dormitory with his three teammates to rest, while Zhuo Feng, Lin Manluo, and Xu Yishen went to the Public Elective Center on the 5th floor.
Both of their groups were pretty lucky, and they both successfully signed up for the Public Elective course.
Many students did not understand Jewelry Appreciation, but the ‘no retake if you fail’ rule for the weekend Public Elective allowed everyone to try the course without the psychological burden. It was not a loss if they passed the course, but it did not affect much even if they did not pass. All 50 classes were full, and the class officially opened at 10:00am.
Regardless of the content of the course, according to the ‘library’s time’, this course was 2 hours, and the exam must be over by 12:00pm. At noon, Yue Xingwen and the other three went to the entrance of the student canteen where they had arranged to wait for their senior brothers and senior sister. Not long after, they saw Zhuo Feng and the other two walking over together, their expression was not very good, and Yue Xingwen hurriedly went up to them and asked, “Senior brother, how did you do on the exam?”
Liu Zhaoqing was also concerned and asked, “Have you passed?”
Zhuo Feng and his two teammates looked at each other, sighed lightly and said, “We passed, but it is a pity that the score is just a passing score, we passed with the score of 60, and finally only got 120 points.”
“120 points for each person?” Yue Xingwen asked.
Zhuo Feng shook his head helplessly, “It’s a total of 120, and the points for the Public Elective Courses are counted by the Research Group, not by individuals. The points will be given directly to the team leader.” In other words, they worked hard and finally only got 120 points for 12 box lunches?
“It’s already good that you’ve passed. 120 points are enough for 2 days of living expenses, but you also got 2 more credits, it’s not a loss,” Yue Xingwen said comfortingly.
“Yes, at least two days’ worth of meals earned.” Zhuo Feng’s expression gradually improved as he told everyone about the experience of the exam. “The exam started off by dragging all of us to the auction site, and halfway through the auction, it suddenly said that a jewel was missing and told us to look for the stolen jewel and find the thief who stole it.”
Lin Manluo added. “A group of students were about to turn the auction site upside down, and in the end we didn’t find it. There’s no telling where those small diamonds were hidden, and we were lucky to find three. Some groups didn’t find anything and worked all day for nothing.”
Xu Yishen smiled and said, “The failure rate of this course is very high and the scene is extremely chaotic, but the good thing is that there is no need to fight monsters and there’s no danger. Xingwen is right, 2 credits and 120 points, it’s not a loss if we can pass.”
Everyone walked into the canteen together to eat. Lin Manluo gently reminded Yue Xingwen, “Xingwen, judging from the failure rate of the Public Elective course in the morning, the Cross-country Orienteering in the afternoon will definitely not be too easy, you guys should be mentally prepared.”
“En, the course rules say that costumes and props will be distributed uniformly, and I think it will turn into a wilderness survival mode?” Yue Xingwen looked at Jiang Pingce next to him and said, “Fortunately, the four of us have no problem defending ourselves with our abilities. There’s also Pingce’s strong field-control, so even if it’s a survival class, there’s nothing to fear.”
Jiang Pingce calmly said, “Don’t worry, we will definitely be able to pass the course.” Looking at his confident and calm appearance, Yue Xingwen smiled and patted his shoulder. “With your auspicious words, I hope this course’s exam goes well!”
After eating lunch, Yue Xingwen and the other three received a system reminder at the same time: “Your C-183 Research Group has signed up for this afternoon’s <Cross-country Orienteering> Public Elective Course, you’re assigned to class 1. Please sign in at the Public Elective Center on the 5th floor before 13:55pm.”
Yue Xingwen and his teammates arrived at the Public Elective Center on the 5th floor 10 minutes early.
There were 50 classes for this Cross-country Orienteering course, a total of 5,000 students. However, the Public Elective Center did not seem crowded at all. The intelligent system had automatically divided the students in different classes. When the four people came to this floor, there were only less than 100 students in the entire hall, and the big screen in the middle read ‘Cross-country Orienteering Class 1 Registration Place’.
There were several smart tablets placed at the registration place. Yue Xingwen led his teammates over, pressed their fingerprints in turn in the identification area, and a prompt popped up on the screen: “All members of the C-183 Research Group had signed in successfully, the examination room is about to open, please wait.”
There were only 8 minutes left before the course started.
This was the registration place for Class 1, indicating that the students in this hall would be entering the same exam room later.
Everyone did not know each other well, and groups of three or four gathered together and discussed in low voices.
Suddenly, a male student said aloud, “Classmates, if this course is in survival mode, I hope everyone will cooperate if you can, and don’t make it difficult for the others if you can’t. After all, we don’t need to retake if we fail this Public Elective course, there is no need to fight with your classmates, take it easy for your skills and don’t hurt other students!”
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She seemed to notice Yue Xingwen’s gaze, looked over to his side, and her eyes brightened immediately as she called, “Xingwen?!”
Yue Xingwen smiled at her and said, “What a coincidence, Liu Xiaoxiao?”
Liu Xiaoxiao quickly trotted over and stood in front of Yue Xingwen, tilting her head to look at him, and said with a somewhat excited tone, “What a coincidence ah, we are matched into the same class again! Senior brother Liu and Young Ke are also here, are you guys forming a team?” As for the handsome and indifferent male student beside Yue Xingwen, she did not know him and did not dare to greet him rashly.
Yue Xingwen replied, “Yes, a few of us as schoolmates simply built a Research Group together.”
Jiang Pingce looked at her and frowned slightly—— This female student was thin and small, with a baby face. He did not remember such a person among Yue Xingwen’s friends, it seemed that he had just met her in the library?
Sensing that Jiang Pingce was sizing up the other party, Yue Xingwen introduced softly, “This is Liu Xiaoxiao from Binjiang Normal University, we happened to be matched in the same class in the <Cardiovascular Ward> examination room before.”
Jiang Pingce gave a faint ‘En’ and nodded at her as a greeting.
Yue Xingwen introduced, “This is my best friend, Jiang Pingce from the Mathematics Department.”
Liu Xiaoxiao suddenly realized, “So this is the best friend from the Mathematics Department you said before!”
Yue Xingwen smiled. “That’s right.”
Jiang Pingce looked at Yue Xingwen with a confused look, and the latter leaned to his ear and explained, “When I reasoned about the murderer before, I used the trajectory analysis method you taught, and they were curious about how a Chinese Department student was so sensitive to data, so I said that I had a good friend in the Mathematics Department, and I was influenced by you.”
Jiang Pingce was silent for a few seconds, and asked in a low voice, “Do you often mention me in front of others?”
Yue Xingwen looked calm and replied, “I just mentioned it casually.”
Jiang Pingce did not ask any more questions, but his expression was not as cold as he was just now.
Liu Zhaoqing smiled and teased Liu Xiaoxiao, “Classmate Liu Xiaoxiao who dared to lecture the monkeys, have you found a Research Group?”
Liu Xiaoxiao blushed and said, “I formed a team with our Binjiang Normal University’s senior brothers and senior sisters. My senior brother’s name is Qin Lang, he’s quite nice. I don’t know what form the exam will take later, if it’s possible, let’s work together again!”
Under the premise of no conflict of interest, Yue Xingwen was certainly willing to work with other students to pass the course. Her senior brother was Qin Lang, who was the Qin Lang from the Physics Department of Binjiang Normal University that posted the ‘Orienteering Guide’ on the forum last night. He was a very enthusiastic person, and it seemed that he already knew Liu Xiaoxiao, and took in this junior sister in his Research Group.
Yue Xingwen nodded and said, “No problem, let’s talk about it if we have the chance to cooperate.”
Liu Xiaoxiao turned back to her teammates and introduced Yue Xingwen to her senior brothers and senior sisters, who threw a friendly gaze towards Yue Xingwen. Yue Xingwen also nodded his head at them in greeting.
A mechanical voice prompt sounded in their ears: “The sign-in is over, the examination room will open soon, please get ready.”
After 10 seconds countdown, the scene in front of everyone’s eyes suddenly changed——
Seeing everyone collectively appear on a large helicopter, and everyone sat in two rows facing each other, with uniform army green camouflage suits, and there was a backpack behind them.
The deafening roar of the propeller was heard in their ears.
Yue Xingwen looked back at Jiang Pingce and met his gaze.
The familiar camouflage suits brought back memories of the military training when he first entered the school in his freshman year. Having experienced the Faculty of Medicine, Yue Xingwen had become accustomed to suddenly changing clothes in the examination room. However, the question was, what was the point of getting them on a helicopter?
The next moment, the cold mechanical voice sounded in the cabin: “Classmates, welcome to the Public Elective Course of <Cross-country Orienteering>. The helicopter is about to take everyone to the island where the exam will be held, please get ready.”
There was a lot of discussion around the room——
“Going to the island? It won’t be a wilderness survival right?!”
“Why do I feel shiver inside when we’re being sent there by a helicopter?”
“Is it a deserted island where the birds don’t shit? How many days are we going to be there?”
The mechanical voice did not pay attention to the students’ comments and continued coldly, “There’s a parachute behind you, so please jump on your own when the helicopter reaches its destination. The minimum safety height for skydiving is 500 meters, so please open the parachute at an altitude of more than 500 meters, and you will suffer the consequences once you fall to your death.”
Everyone: “???”
What the hell? Skydiving?!
The mechanical voice continued. “Next, please carefully watch the parachute operation instructions carefully.”
This was the first time Yue Xingwen took a helicopter. In the past, ‘safety instructions’ were played in front of the seats when the plane took off, but this time, ‘parachute operation instructions’ were played.
Was it that exciting to drag a bunch of university students straight into a skydive from the start?
Yue Xingwen immediately concentrated his attention and focused on the video playing in the cabin.
This video was a very brief explanation of how to operate a parachute, how to open it and how to control the direction, and it did not look particularly difficult. However, when thinking about jumping down from a high altitude, everyone’s heart could not help but back out.
Human beings had an instinctive fear of high altitude, especially the phrase ‘the consequences of falling to their death’, which put pressure on them—— No one wanted to go through the experience of ‘falling to death’!
The video was played only once, and the mechanical voice sounded again. “We’ll be arriving at the examination site soon, the helicopter will circle the island for 10 minutes, and the students can choose their preferred location to jump. The students in the same Research Group should pay attention to the position of the team members and don’t spread out too much when you jump.”
The mechanical voice: “This Cross-country Orienteering examination lasts for 3 days, please take care of your own food and accommodation. There is a map, a compass and other tools In the team leader’s backpack, and there are a large number of point cards scattered around the island. Collecting point cards earns you the corresponding points, and you will be judged as a pass after collecting 60 points.”
The helicopter hovered in the air, and a piercing roar sounded in the cabin, followed by the opening of the hatch door. The cold, chilly wind was blowing so hard that the students could barely keep their eyes open and their hair was messy in an instant.
The ‘di di’ sound of alarms seems to urge everyone to jump.
100 students looked at each other.
A male student had the guts to go to the hatch and glanced down, only to be frightened that his legs became soft. “Fuck! How high is this?!”
The teammate beside him trembled and said, “The parachute has a height indication, the current height is 3,000 meters.”
Some female students were about to cry, “What should I do? I’m afraid of heights, will I fall to my death?! Otherwise, let’s not take this course, can we skip class ah? Isn’t it possible to skip a public elective course?”
“Yeah, I’m not going to jump, can’t I just skip class?!”
The surrounding was noisy, and no one dared to be the first to jump down.
The mechanical voice: “Please prepare for skydiving. After 10 minutes of countdown, you will be forced to jump.”
Liu Zhaoqing whispered, “Is this a live-action version of PUBG? Dropping a bunch of people on a deserted island with parachutes! I usually play PUBG on the computer, and I really jump down now… This is too exciting!”
Ke Shaobin glanced down from the window, and could not help but feel nervous—— At an altitude of 3,000 meters, the wind was very strong, and there was only one oval island in the turquoise blue sea, so, if the students with 0 parachute jumping experience jump directly down, they would be blown into the sea and drown in case they did not control the direction well, or they could accidentally hit the reef and fall to their deaths. It was very miserable to think about it.
It would be better to choose <Jewelry Appreciation> to go to the auction to find diamonds!
The 10-minute countdown and the constant sound of the alarms made the atmosphere in the cabin extremely tense.
Jiang Pingce looked at Yue Xingwen, who also happened to look at him. Both of them exchanged glances and walked side by side towards the hatch door, Liu Zhaoqing and Ke Shaobin had to stiffly follow them.
Jiang Pingce lowered his voice and said, “You guys jump first, I’ll be the last. If you deviate from the direction, or run into danger, I can use the coordinate system to change your trajectory.”
It was also too difficult to calculate coordinates and write formulas in the process of falling down.
However, Yue Xingwen believed in Jiang Pingce’s ability.
He was the one who had the ability to participate in the national competition of Mathematical Modeling, and he was a top student who took all the courses of the Mathematics Department in his third-year and confirmed his spot in grad school early. The descent speed, time, distance, direction, with the coordinate system at hand, he could definitely calculate accurately.
Yue Xingwen looked at the other party, smiled and held out his hand. “I’ll jump first. If I fall to my death, I’ll settle accounts with you after we go back.”
Jiang Pingce held out his hand, and the two gave each other a light high five as if they were encouraging each other.
Then, Yue Xingwen jumped down from the hatch door!
Liu Zhaoqing and Ke Shaobin had to brace themselves to follow up, and Jiang Pingce finally jumped at the end. In this way, he could see the position of the three teammates below himself and used his coordinate system to protect his teammates.
There was an exclamation in the cabin, “Fuck, they have jumped!”
When the other students heard this, they turned their heads and looked down through the window.
The male student who jumped first had already opened his parachute.
Immediately after, his teammates also opened their parachute one after another, and the four parachutes were like four petals blooming in the air, floating rapidly in the direction of the deserted island.
Thx for the chapter!
Omg how exciting 🪂🪂🪂🪂
Look at them doing so well! I feel proud for no reason 😂
Ty for the chapter ❤️
Oh mo so exciting 😻
Pingce getting jealous
Oh my goodness, it’s so scared, but so stimulation
Thank you for your translation 🤍🤍🤍
Live-version of PUBG 🪂
Thanks for the chapter
ah, I’ve caught up!
thanks for the chapter <3
This is the point that bemused me – why assume that everyone would prefer the orienteering class because they “don’t know much about jewellery”…?? Between a survival test and a reasoning test, I think I know which I’d choose 😂
Thanks for the chapter!
JUMPING OUT A PLAN, this library is gonna make these students so hard core when they graduate 😱😂😭
Thank you for the chapters! This story is so interesting and fun (and scary?!?), It’s so enjoyable!
The students will all be fearless once they escape from this library. 😂
Why do I feel like a proud mother?😭😭
Fortunately, even if they died in their course class, it would consider as a failure, not a real death