The class schedule stated that the exam time for <Cross-Country Orienteering> was from 14:00 to 16:00 on Sunday afternoon, and it was exactly 16:00 when Yue Xingwen finished the exam. The canteen had not yet opened, and the four of them who ate grilled fish in the wilderness for three days were hungry. It was unbearable, so they simply went to the shopping plaza on the -5th floor to buy some instant noodles to take back to the dormitory.
They could not use illegal electrical appliances in the dormitory, but there was a water dispenser with hot water there. Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce came to the F-930 quadruple room, cooked instant noodles while meeting up with senior brother Zhuo Feng.
Zhuo Feng had been waiting for them in the dormitory and hurriedly asked when he saw the four of them, “You passed the exam, right?”
Yue Xingwen replied, “Yes, we got 420 points, the result is OK.”
On the balcony, the four of them soaked the instant noodles with hot water, found a seat and chatted about their experience in their public elective course. Yue Xingwen briefly went over the process, telling them about the parachute jump, the beast, etc. The more Zhuo Feng listened, the more shocked he was, “So it seems that Orienteering is much more difficult than our <Jewelry Appreciation> course?”
Xu Yishen ruffled his curly bangs lightly and said with a smile, “The process is a little more tortuous and sounds more thrilling, but the elimination rate is actually about the same. The failure rate for <Jewelry Appreciation> is also about 30%.”
Jiang Pingce suddenly said, “Our first course <Escape from the Laboratory>, has a 30% failure rate, and this course also has 2 credits.”
After his reminder, Yue Xingwen also thought about this, “Does it seem not to be a coincidence? 2-credit courses have a failure rate of about 30%, regardless of whether it was a compulsory course, or public elective course, as long as the credits are similar, the failure rate is also similar?”
Jiang Pingce nodded. “En, the library is controlling the failure rate.”
Ke Shaobin frowned with a worried expression, “The <Cardiovascular Ward> has 4 credits, right? What was the failure rate of that course?”
Liu Zhaoqing said, “I remember it was 60%.”
The crowd was silent for a while, and Zhuo Feng comforted Ke Shaobin, “Don’t worry, you’re going through the Faculty of Mathematics on the 2nd floor, and the course will be a piece of cake with Pingce behind you.”
Zhuo Feng was from the Physics Department, and all the science and engineering students had to learn advanced mathematics. His math was actually not bad, but it was still much inferior to Jiang Pingce. Everyone’s heart finally relaxed after hearing this, and Ke Shaobin’s eyes glowed. “Yeah, what are we afraid of this Faculty of Mathematics, no matter how high the failure rate is, we can still pass!”
Yue Xingwen smirked as he moved over and told a joke in Jiang Pingce’s ear, “It seems that we have to hold your thighs.”
Jiang Pingce replied, “I’ll do my best.”
Yue Xingwen raised an eyebrow at him and said, “What do you mean by ‘I’ll do my best’? You should say—— Don’t worry, I’m here, just be a salted fish and get a perfect score.”
Jiang Pingce: “…”
“Xingwen, if you say that, he’ll be under a lot of pressure.” Liu Zhaoqing reminded him.
Yue Xingwen pressed Jiang Pingce’s shoulder and looked at him with a smile. “Just kidding, you can just play it normally.”
Jiang Pingce hummed in agreement.
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“Did he wear bright pearl stud earrings?” Zhuo Feng asked.
Yue Xingwen nodded. “Yes, that’s him.”
Zhuo Feng smiled and said, “His name is Yu Mingyu, both of us met at a university exchange meeting. We chatted quite well and added friends to each other. He was the previous president of the Student Council at Kyoto University, and now he’s already admitted to the graduate school. Although he likes to dress up in a flashy way, he is a very good person. His A-76 Research Group is also very strong, four of them are all top students.”
No wonder that A-76 Research Group consistently held the first place in the <Cross-Country Orienteering> course. Then, Yue Xingwen was curious and asked, “Their progress has reached the 4th floor, right? I wonder if they can directly pass the 4th floor’s courses…”
As he was talking about this, Xu Yishen suddenly said, “Guys, look at the forum, some people have quarreled.”
Yue Xingwen devoured the instant noodle quickly, walked to Xu Yishen’s side, and looked down at the tablet in his hand.
A popular post marked with a fiery red ‘HOT’ word had indeed appeared on the forum.
[Can the students in <Cross-Country Orienteering> class 37 have some face!!!]
The title had a series of exclamation points, and after clicking the post, the poster was a complaint by a student——
[In this week’s public elective course, an argument between two groups of students over a red point card turned into a group fight.
It was understandable that everyone wanted the 20-point card, but are you guys going overboard by throwing fucking acid at people?! After getting the acid at the library, you think you’re awesome, huh?!
Several female students had their entire faces disfigured, leaving a severe psychological shadow, and they did not date to take follow-up courses after resurrection. Right now, they are still hiding in the dormitory. What I’m going to say here—— The male student who threw acid on the female student won’t get a peaceful death!]
Yue Xingwen could not help but frown when he saw this, “These girls are too miserable. The enhanced sulfuric acid from the library can instantly melt flesh and blood when splashed on the face, which is even more terrifying than the sulfuric acid in reality. How did he have the heart to strike at the girls?”
Liu Zhaoqing could not help but curse. “Fuck! It seems that our class 1 is really peaceful. There’s actually someone who threw acid at his classmates, are these people crazy?!”
Ke Shaobin remembered the spiders and wolves that had been melted away by the concentrated acid. They felt distress for the girls, even if they could be resurrected in the library, but the tragic experience of having their entire face destroyed by acid was probably something they could never forget in their lifetime.
“Have you found out who it was?” Jiang Pingce said in a cold voice.
Hearing this, Zhuo Feng quickly opened the forum and scanned through the posts with a single glance. “This case hasn’t been solved yet. Due to serious infighting, only 12 Research Groups of 48 people from 100 students in class 37 had passed, more than half were eliminated. Many students came out to confirm the original poster’s statement, and indeed several girls were disfigured and a few were blinded by the ball of light from the Physics Department.”
Yue Xingwen: “…”
Student infighting, this was his biggest fear and he did not expect it to come up so soon.
The students in their class 1 were good. A-76 Research Group from Kyoto University volunteered to wait at the last minute to take their classmates to the finish line. The other, although several sports students from Xizhou Sports College had an argument with the female students because of point cards, they still took the girls along with them after encountering the crocodiles as they fled for their lives.
The male student’s words were well remembered by Yue Xingwen. ‘How can I watch you get bitten to death by a crocodile?’
We all knew the weight difference between points and the life and death of a classmate.
However, the students in class 37 apparently could not figure it out—— They made the competition for points so fierce that no one backed down, even to the point of deranged use of lethal power, blinding people with balls of light and disfiguring them by throwing acid on them?!
The horrible attack from the classmates was more horrifying than the surprise attack from the wolf pack.
With tens of thousands of students in the library, they could not ask every one of them to be as kind to their classmates as Yue Xingwen; Weirdos were bound to appear, and as the later courses got harder, there would be more and more psychopathic students.
——I’ll take you all with me even if I die.
—— If I can’t get through, you will all be buried with me.
The more this kind of mentality appeared, the harder it would be to get through the later courses, and the last thing Yue Xingwen wanted was for the library to end up devolving into a real-life battle royale, killing classmates at will in order to stay alive.
If they passed the courses in this way, could they continue to be a normal student even if they returned to reality?
Yue Xingwen frowned and fell into a deep thought.
The number of post replies on the forum gradually exceeded a thousand, directly building a skyscraper——
One of them said anonymously: “I’m from class 1, and I was very uncomfortable to read about your experience. Our class was exceptionally nice and I would like to thank everyone who stayed at the end to take us to the finish line, you were simply angels.”
Someone else said: “It’s the same when encountering a red card, our solution was for both teams to work together and split the points equally, and a certain handsome guy from the Chinese Department in class 1 was really warm-hearted! When we met wolves at night, he didn’t leave us strangers behind, leading our combined efforts to kill all the wolves. I hope there will be more students like him in the library.”
Someone righteous criticized: “Everyone’s living environment is bad enough, even if you didn’t want to help your classmates, don’t beat them to death ah, what are you thinking by throwing acid! That chemistry classmate, you are insulting chemistry!”
A person with the ID, Xin Yan, coldly left a sentence: “Students of the Chemistry Department are ashamed of this student.”
A male student named Zou Yuhang replied: “The brother in the Physics Department who blinded his classmate with a ball of light, dare to give his name, and try my second-level magnet? Take that broken ball of light and look at what you can do, you’re a dumbass!”
The number of replies was still increasing, and there were some familiar names among them. Many students were condemning those who hurt their classmates, while others were thankful that their class did not get into a serious fight.
Yue Xingwen scanned through the post quickly and found that among the 50 classes in this Orienteering, besides class 37, there were also class 5 and 16 where something similar happened. Although it was not as serious as throwing acid, many students were injured.
There was also class 7. Someone revealed the news that at the last minute, students with displacement skills sat on the ground and extorted everyone’s points, and those teams without displacement skills could only be forced to hand over their hard-earned points to buy ‘tickets’.
The quarrel in the post got worse and worse, even turning into mutual cursing and insulting each other.
Relatively speaking, class 1 was really the most harmonious class in this public elective course. Even if there was a dispute between the teams, it was resolved peacefully, and in the end, they helped each other out by taking people to the finish line for free.
Collecting fee? Yue Xingwen did not even think about it, because he knew that everyone’s points were not easy to come by.
A large amount of negative messages clouded the entire forum, and Yue Xingwen said, “Senior brother Zhuo, if we let things go on like this, students will no longer trust each other, and the situation will be even worse than this week in the next public elective course. When we encounter randomly matched multiplayer courses in the future, there will also be students attacking other teams in order to pass.”
Once this precedent was set, everyone would get revenge ‘a tooth for a tooth and an eye for an eye’ in the future. The library’s various abilities were very powerful, who could guarantee that someone will let go of the other easily? It was the equivalent of dancing on the tip of a knife that would one day cut itself.
Zhuo Feng also realized the seriousness of this situation, and said with a calm expression, “This is the first time we had a school-wide public elective course, and there had actually been an accident by using their special abilities to hurt their classmates. We have to nip this kind of first sign when it’s still in the bud!”
Yue Xingwen said, “I have an idea, I don’t know if it can be realized.”
Zhuo Feng immediately looked up at him, “Tell me about it.”
Yue Xingwen said seriously, “The library has pulled students from major universities across the country, and there are quite a few seniors who are more authoritative in the school. You can try to contact them and issue a <Library’s Student Convention> so that students can abide by some rules. Those who use their powers maliciously to harm their classmates are blacklisted and become public enemies of the entire school, and the students from each school can set up a monitoring group to enforce punishment on this category of students. Under such constraints, there will be more rational students.”
He paused and said, “Human nature is too complex. In reality, everyone can live in peace because of the laws, but this library has no laws, and everyone has to make their own rules for themselves.”
The library did not say that there would be any punishment for killing classmates, which was why some deranged person would throw acid in their classmate’s face. However, students could make their own rules that everyone followed. With the rules, they could avoid casualties caused by student team infighting in the future multi-person courses.
Hearing this, Zhuo Feng could not help but pat Yue Xingwen’s shoulder and praised, “Xingwen’s thinking is really far ahead! Most of the teams are still on the 2nd and 3rd floors, and there’s no telling what will be waiting for everyone behind with all the crap that’s been going on in one public elective course. Without rules, there will be more and more incidents of students killing each other over small disputes in the future when the students’ abilities get stronger!”
Xu Yishen supported his chin and thought carefully, “That makes sense. Relying on conscience and self-consciousness is certainly unreliable. So, there must be a rule, and I agree with Xingwen’s suggestion. However, it’s not easy to unite all the major universities. It’s enough for Hua’an University to have Zhuo Feng and Xingwen come forward, but what about the other schools?”
Yue Xingwen said, “I met senior brother Qin Lang from Binjiang Normal University in thepublic elective course before. He has been hanging out in the forum for a long time, and should know a lot of people. We can go through him and find the seniors of the major universities. In addition, it’s best to find students from the Law Department to write the rules and regulations, they will be better at it.”
“No problem.” Zhuo Feng simply agreed, “Xingwen, you can take care of this matter, I will fully cooperate.”
Yue Xingwen instantly sent a forum private message to Qin Lang, who was obviously also brushing the forum and replied back to the message in seconds: “That’s a good idea, I’ll contact everyone right away. At present, there are more than 30 universities that have been pulled into the library. If everyone is willing to abide by the rules as you said, the future courses will be much better.”
After Qin Lang replied this, he followed it up with, “Xingwen, thank you for your willingness to stand up in this storm and call us to do something meaningful!”
There were always people who had to stand up and stop this vicious cycle.
The students had powerful abilities in the library. Once the crowd fighting thing intensified, this place would become a real purgatory on earth! Yue Xignwen just hoped that everyone could retain a little kindness in their hearts, and after leaving the library, they could still calmly face their classmates and teachers openly, and graduate from the university with peace of mind—— Be a normal person.
“Be a normal person”, my life motto 😂
thanks for the chapter!!
Mood lol 😆
Isn’t a red card equivalent to 20 points?
Thx for the chapter!
Thank you for the chapter 🤍
Time to set up the student union.
So this is still a pretty new infinite flow world then? I guess they can all still be considered 1st gen “students” then.
Class 1 was a lucky good one then
Don’t lose your humanity, it’s only that you have except for animal instincts
Thank you for your translation 🤍🤍🤍
The more I read, the more I am appreciative of the different circumstances that this novel chooses to take in the Infinite Flow universe. It is very rare to see a system where members would be so proactive in taking control and discussing stuff civilly.