After six days in the inn world with a frightened heart, it was still 10:00am in the library when Yue Xingwen and the others returned. The exams for all the courses had just finished, and the Faculty of Mathematics’ hall on the second floor was still packed with people.
The four of them took the elevator to the F-930 dormitory and ran into senior brother Zhuo Feng’s team, who had just returned from the exam, at the entrance of the dormitory.
Zhuo Feng was the first to speak up and asked, “How did you do in the exam?”
Yue Xingwen said, “The score was okay, we’ve got 95 points. It was just the process of the exam that was a bit psychologically uncomfortable.”
Zhuo Feng opened the room with his fingerprints, “Come in and talk.”
Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce followed into the room and briefly described the examination process of the <Death Code> course.
After Lin Manluo listened, her face could not help but turn slightly pale. “There’s actually a setting like ghost bride and soul imprisonment?”
Zhuo Feng frowned, “It seems that the reasoning course will be changed every week, so if you can’t get through this week, it will only get harder next week.”
Xu Yishen rubbed his forehead and smiled, “I actually guessed that if the library courses stayed the same, it would be the same as directly copying the exam paper before when they went to retake the course, nothing difficult. By replacing the course, students will no longer have wishful thinking. After all, it will become difficult to retake, and easier to fail, and once they do, they will be eliminated.”
There was a sudden silence in the room; If they failed the 3rd floor Faculty of Architecture next week and returned to the 1st and 2nd floors to retake it, then the 1st floor course might no longer be <Cardiovascular Ward>, and the 2nd floor course was no longer <Death Code>, it could be replaced by a new course, and they might not be able to pass. If they could not pass the retake course, they would be eliminated.
Yue Xingwen shrugged helplessly. “The best way to solve this problem is to try not to fail the course. As long as we don’t fail a course and keep going up to the top floor, we don’t have to worry about changing course if we retake it.”
Zhuo Feng nodded in agreement. He looked at the clock on the wall and said, “Contact Xin Yan. Let’s take the time to have a meeting today to discuss the matter of upgrading the Research Group to regroup.”
Zhang Xiaonian had been shrinking in the corner and had not spoken. The people here were all senior students, and he was the youngest, he was embarrassed to speak.
It wasn’t until Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce went out that he followed behind Yue Xingwen and went out together. Yue Xingwen looked back at him and asked, “How is the maze? It went well, right?”
Zhang Xiaonian smiled and said, “Senior brother Zhuo led the way, the final score is not as good as yours to get 130 full marks. We’ve got 125 points, which is very high… It’s just, I didn’t help, I’m sorry.”
Yue Xingwen made a joke. “You’re a person with a poor sense of direction, it’s strange if you can help in the maze.”
Zhang Xiaonian’s ears turned red, he lowered his head and did not speak.
Jiang Pingce said indifferently, “You can help out at the Faculty of Architecture.”
Yue Xingwen also said, “That is, we are not looking for all-rounders in our team, we all have our own strengths. Mazes aren’t something you’re good at, don’t feel guilty.”
Zhang Xiaonian said in a low voice, “But I’m not very good at my studies either, so I’m really weak compared to you guys ah.”
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Zhang Xiaonian looked up at Yue Xingwen and said seriously, “I was also at the top of my class in high school, but there were so many great people at Hua’an University that when I got to the university, I felt a little overwhelmed by the courses.”
Yue Xingwen smiled, “This is normal. The key universities gather elite students from all over the country, many people do exceptionally well in high school, and when they get to the university, they find that the people around them are more powerful than one another, creating self-doubt, which is also a very common process, just adjust your mindset. You don’t have to compare yourself to us, compared with your past self, and it is good to make progress.”
Zhang Xiaonian’s grades in the Architecture Department were considered mediocre, and he was still best known for his poor sense of direction, running into the wrong classroom and crashing headfirst into the glass of the school building, all of which were embarrassing events, and his mentality would collapse a little bit.
Unlike Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pignce, who were the center of attention everywhere they went, were the top students in high school, and still had top grades in the university. Both of them seemed to be born with their own aura. Students like Zhang Xiaonian who did well in high school and did not shine enough in the university were the majority.
Therefore, Yue Xingwen could understand the feelings of this young junior brother very well. As a senior, he had also been encouraging the other party.
Upon hearing Yue Xingwen’s words, Zhang Xiaonian’s eyes also regained its sparkle, he smiled and said, “Senior, I will do my best not to hold everyone back.” After a pause, he added, “After all, our team has two academic great gods of the high school no.7 sitting on it, so If I’m too much of a rookie, I’ll disgrace the two senior brothers, right?”
Yue Xingwen smiled lightly and patted his shoulder, “I’m sure you won’t.”
Zhang Xiaonian’s dormitory was in Area F, and he quickly arrived. He said goodbye to the two men before opening the door and entering the room, while Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce walked side by side to the elevator around the corner.
After returning to the dormitory, both of them took a shower one after the other. It was really uncomfortable to stay in the inn for 6 days and they could not take a bath. Jiang Pingce sat on the edge of the bed and asked in a low voice, “Zhang Xiaonian is muddle-headed, are you sure it’s okay to add him in?”
While wiping his hair, Yue Xingwen said, “You may not know much about Xiao Nian, this guy is actually a bit muddle-headed in life, but his head is actually quite smart. He mentioned to me that his father is a construction engineer and he grew up playing with building blocks to build houses, which is why he enrolled in the Architecture Department in the university.”
Yue Xingwen paused and smiled. “I think his thinking will be more flexible than those who can only read books. As for his poor sense of direction, just let him stay close to the team in the future and don’t get lost.”
Jiang Pingce was always supportive of Xingwen’s decisions. Upon hearing this, he said, “Okay, it’s also useful to add one from the Architecture Department. At our course before, it’s convenient to have Gao Yongqiang from the Architecture Department to help with surveying and drawing.”
Yue Xingwen thought for a while and added, “By the way, I’m going to send a message to Qin Lu and Qin Miao. These two sisters don’t have a regular Research Group at the moment, I’ll ask them to see if they’re willing to join and find companions for senior sister Manluo, otherwise she will be the only girl in the team, it’s quite inconvenient.”
Jiang Pingce said, “En, This pair of sisters can.”
Yue Xingwen immediately sent a message to Qin Miao through the forum, inviting her to join the Research Group and detailing the configuration of the Research Group. Their team currently included Yue Xingwen from the Chinese Department, Jiang Pingce in Mathematics Department, Zhuo Feng in Physics Department, Xu Yishen in Biology Department, Xin Yan in Chemistry Department, Ke Shaobin in Computer Department, Liu Zhaoqing in Medicine Department, Lin Manlu in Environment Department, and Zhang Xiaonian in Architecture Department.
Yue Xingwen said: “We should be forming a comprehensive team with a complete range of Chinese, math, language, political history, physics and chemistry in the later stage. The two of you are from history and geography, are exactly the one that we’re urgently lacking, and I would sincerely like to invite you to join.”
Qin Miao replied quickly: “Thank you for your recognition, I’ll talk to you all when I have time to meet up.”
She was very assured of Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce. She had met them once before in the public elective course <Cross-Road Orienteering>, and this time in <Death Code>, they coincidentally worked together, and she found that Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce were particularly good at logical thinking. Yue Xingwen was good at reasoning and analysis based on the big picture, and he could control the direction of the entire case from a macro perspective; Jiang Pingce was good at detail analysis and sorting out logical chains. One was good at a big picture and the other one was good at detail. Combining them together, they deduced the murderer in 3 days of a 6 days examination and matched all the details. It could be said that the combination of these two people was simply seamless.
But joining a team was not a child’s play after all. There were many unfamiliar students who she was not familiar with, so it was not good for her to agree hastily. What if there was someone on the team who disagreed with each other and they were particularly annoying?
Yue Xingwen replied understandingly: “I understand your concerns. We’ll meet in the Research Group’s conference room on the -2nd floor at 7 o’clock tonight. I’ll send you the room number and password at that time.”
After closing the forum private message, Yue Xingwen opened the forum home page and looked at the students’ posts.
Jiang Pingce’s post about the ‘Prime Number Maze’s Strategy’ was still on the top, marked with hot red words, and had a reply to more than 3,000 floors. There were countless students thanking Jiang Pingce in the posts. It was said that due to Jiang Pingce’s strategy, the number of <Prime Number Maze> course’s failure rate dropped from 30% to 20%.
The forum also had a number of students who just finished the <Death Code> course and posted something like, “This course is so damn scary, what’s it like to wake up in the middle of the night everyday with a female ghost standing next to your bed?”
“We were strangled by the ghost bride, our group was wiped out and we failed! How exactly do you fight this boss that appears on day 3? All attack skills were ineffective!”
“We didn’t even make it to the third day, we didn’t run it time enough when the female ghost appeared the first night and half of us died, ugh.”
The failure rate of this course was as high as 70%, which showed how many students had suffered in the inn.
Reasoning was one aspect, dealing with the ghost bride at night was also a difficult point, especially Su Wanxin, the boss. If they could not think of the point of transcending the dead soul and directly confronting her head-on, the result was likely to be a wipe out.
Watching the students complain bitterly on the forum, as well as their fears for their fate… Yue Xingwen decided to post another strategy guide to the <Death Code> course so that the students who needed it could pass the course and save their lives.
In the reasoning class, the plot faced by different student teams might be different, and the female protagonist of each instance was not necessarily called Su Wanxin, the key laid in the setting of ‘drama within a drama’. Once they found the evidence related to the ‘Murder Mystery Game’ and followed that line of reasoning, they could deduce the murderer.
In order not to mislead other students when the exam’s content was changed, Yue Xingwen did not directly write ‘who is the murderer’ and ‘what is the motive of the crime’, but listed in detail the reasoning ideas of the course and the key clues to pay attention to.
Writing answers was not as good as teaching people how to solve problems.
Once the students learnt the method, they would be able to get through it even if they faced different names and storylines.
Yue Xingwen spent more than an hour compiling this strategy, and gave a final reminder: “Today is already Thursday, and tomorrow is Friday. There is still the <Death Code> course in the afternoon. In order to avoid the library changing the courses next week, students who want to pass the Faculty of Mathematics, try to seize the time to finish this course tomorrow, and I wish you all a smooth pass.”
After the strategy was sent out, countless fans immediately flooded into the post to express their gratitude.
Some people called Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce as: ‘The Library’s Strategy Godfather.’
Just like when playing online games, when a new instance came out, there was always a team who liked to explore first, spent a lot of time and effort researching how to fight the bosses, and then sent out a strategy guide for the benefit of the public. After that, it became much easier for the other teams to pass the instance.
However, this was different from online games. When exploring the new instance in an online game, they could be resurrected infinitely. However, in the library, there was only one chance to retake the course if they failed. In this case, people who were willing to unconditionally share their passing method were really valuable.
Yue Xingwen did not want to be the sun, he was just the first glowing firefly. He believed that there were still many other experts here. As long as everyone was willing to contribute, and countless fireflies converged together, even a terrifying library could not overwhelm them.
Sure enough, after he posted the strategy for <Death Code>, the faster A-76 Research Group from Kyoto University also issued ‘The method of rapid displacement for <City Collapse> at the Faculty of Architecture’.
The predecessors would explore first, the younger generations could learn from their experience, and they could also innovate and develop other methods, just like how multiple ways of passing a single instance of an online game appear, which was good for everyone.
At 6:30pm that day, Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce went to the -2nd floor, spent points to open a small conference room, and sent the room number and password to their teammates.
At 7 o’clock, all the personnel arrived, and everyone sat down around the conference table.
Yue Xingwen glanced around and smiled. “Welcome everyone. This is the first meeting of our whole Research Group’s personnel. Since we have new people arriving today, let’s all introduce ourselves first.”
Everyone introduced themselves in turn and Yue Xingwen said, “I want to raise the Research Group directly to the third level, and let Xin Yan, Qin Miao, Qin Lu and Zhang Xiaonian join together, do you have any opinions?”
Zhuo Feng asked, “Do you have enough points to upgrade it to the third level?”
Jiang Pingce calculated it and said, “The four people in our Research Group have unused points from the two courses of <Prime Number Maze> and <Death Code>. At present each person has 1,440 points, adding up to 5,760 points, which should be enough.”
Zhuo Feng simply said, “That’s fine. Your C-183 Research Group will be directly upgraded to the third level, and our Research Groups will be disbanded on the spot to join your side. In the future, XIngwen will be the captain.”
Yue Xingwen said modestly, “Senior brother, you’re a year above me, how about you be the captain?”
Zhuo Feng laughed, “Don’t be polite. If you put it that way, senior brother Liu Zhaoqing is still two years above us. Everyone who is not convinced for Yue Xingwen to be the captain can raise their hand.”
Everyone: “……”
Whoever raised their hand now and said no was the one who had brain damage.
During the University Alliance previously, Zhuo Feng had let Yue Xingwen speak on behalf of the Student Council, and this time, letting Yue Xingwen be the captain, in fact, it was also expected by everyone. Not to mention that Xin Yan, the Qin sisters, and Zhang Xiaonian were all pulled by Yue Xingwen.
Liu Zhaoqing smiled. “This is not a place to discuss seniority. Xingwen is very good at leading the team, I agree with him being the captain.”
The graduate student’s senior brother had spoken, so of course the others had no opinion.
Xin Yan suddenly said, “As I remember, Group C has a bonus point, right?”
Yue Xingwen explained, “At that time, Pingce and I chose group C. We were also worried that group A acceleration and group B physical strength increments were too limited if we want to have students with different majors adding up later on, so group C with bonus points would be more comprehensive.”
Xin Yan nodded. “En, I have no opinion.”
Qin Miao: “No problem.”
Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce looked at each other and said cheerfully, “Then it’s decided! I’ll upgrade the C-183 Research Group to level 3 and everyone will disband their groups to join my side. I, along with Pingce, senior brother Liu, and Young Ke will take our points for upgrading the Research Group. Everyone else will hand over 300 points for the group fee to Pingce, who will manage the daily expenses of the team. In the future, we’ll try to act together, and develop tacit understanding.”
Is this their final team composition? Hopefully everyone will pass together unlike some unliflow stories I’ve encountered where the characters had grown on you but suddenly their curtain fall and that’s it.
Wow, finally certainty! Now the Power Rangers must unite into one big brain of Chinese education
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Waaahh it’s happening exciteddd