Bonus chapter~ Merry Christmas!!
After leaving the Genetic Mutation’s world, the familiar prompt about passing the examination appeared before everyone——
Research Group: C-183
Course: Genetic Mutation
Credit: 6
Clearance Score: 95 points
Additional Question: 40 (Professor Tang gave 100 points, received a full point)
Final Point: 6×135 = 810 points
Research Group Bonus: Group C points bonus x 1.5 times. The final point is 1215 points
Course Failure Rate: 55%
The clearance score was 95, like the other courses, and was rated by the system based on everyone’s performance during the examination process. This time, the additional question was a task to ‘escort Professor Tang to the finish line’, and Professor Tang himself graded the final score.
With a clearance score of 95 points coupled with 40 points from the additional question, the final points were 135.
That was the highest score anyone had ever gotten.
It was a compulsory course with 6 credits, a high factor, coupled with the 1.5x bonus for Group C, the final points they got equivalent to two courses at other Faculties for this one course alone!
Everyone was very excited to see their points.
Liu Zhaoqing said, “We drove that tattered bus for four consecutive days in a rush and it seems that it still has an effect! In the end, I got more than 1,200 points, it’s so profitable.”
Xu Yishen smiled and said, “The clearance score of 90 points or more is the normal score of our 183 Research Group. What I didn’t expect was that we can actually get a full point for the additional question? Is Professor Tang so satisfied with us?”
Ke Shaobin coughed lightly and said, “I’m afraid it’s not satisfactory, is it? Doesn’t he hate us very much…”
Zhuo Feng said seriously, “He must think we’re magicians who are out of this world, so if he didn’t give them full points, won’t he be stunned again in case we get upset and go back to him?”
Lin Manluo smiled and said, “I think the last two sentences that Xingwen said to Professor Tang were crucial, the first one was ‘Can you give us a high score?’, the second sentence is ‘Are you reluctant to part with us?’. From Professor Tang’s point of view, this is a naked threat! The subtext is—— If you don’t give us a high score, we’ll come back to you.”
Everyone: “……”
No wonder Professor Tang directly gave full points!
It seemed that Professor Tang was full of desire to survive, he did not want to offend their group of ‘devils’, and did not want to be found, so he gave them full points for peace.
Yue Xingwen held his forehead helplessly and said, “I just said it casually and he was scared like this?”
Zhuo Feng nodded solemnly, “After all, when he was besieged by bats, you left him and said that you wanted to buy oranges.”
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Yue Xingwen did not know whether to laugh or cry—— It really was not on purpose, it couldn’t be helped, right? He went to buy oranges to protect him ah!
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Everyone followed Yue Xingwen out of the lounge together.
Just as they came out, they saw Chen Muyun’s team from the University of Political Science and Law, Qin Lan’s team from Binjiang Normal University, and the team led by Yu Mingyu from Kyoto University also came out of the lounge at the same time. Everyone took the <Genetic Mutation> examination at the same time, no matter how much time was spent on the process, it was 10:00 am when they returned to the library after the exam.
Chen Muyun walked over to Lan Yarong’s side and said, “Senior sister Lan, judging by your expression, you should have passed the exam, right?”
Lan Yarong smiled kindly and said, “Of course, our score is quite high.”
Zhuo Feng looked at his old friends Yu Mingyu and Qin Lang and asked, “You guys have passed too, right?”
Qin Lang smiled straightforwardly and replied, “If we don’t pass, we’ll go back to the 1st floor to retake the exam again. We’re lucky this time and pass.” Yu Mingyu suggested, “Since we’ve all cleared the course, let’s exchange information so that it’s convenient for Xingwen to write a strategy for the people behind.”
Chen Muyun asked, “Did Professor Tang, who you escorted, give you any trouble?”
Yue Xingwen said, “He showed us the wrong way at the fork in the road, which was seen by us. Then followed us through several vicious battles and probably he became scared, so he was acting quite honey, did not actively give us any trouble.”
Chen Muyun frowned and said, “We didn’t see that the path he pointed out was wrong, he guided us to Huahai City and ran away halfway. Huahai City was like a maze, and it took us a full 24 hours to find him. Then, he led us to the mutant base and caused us to almost be wiped out!”
The senior standing alongside her frowned and spat, “This Professor Tang, he gave us trouble everywhere along the way, and it took us a week to escort him to the Genetic Research Center, with a final score of 95 and 25 points for the additional question, getting a total of 120 points.”
Qin Lang was a little surprised. “Are you guys working that hard? It looks like our team is much easier.” He looked at junior sister Liu Xiaoxiao, who was less than one meter six meters tall beside him, and said, “Junior sister, describe it for everyone.”
Liu Xiaoxiao briefly explained, “After we found Professor Tang, we drove a bus to the City F’s Genetic Research Center. Halfway through, fearing Professor Tang’s escape, we tied him to his seat with ropes. When we encountered the mutants, we read the handout to punish the mutants, and it ended up taking us four days to get to the finish line.”
Qin Lang smiled and said, “If Professor Tang is disobedient, we will also read out a handout to him. Along the way, everyone took turns to read a handout to him. He was getting tired of listening to it, and in the end, their passing score is 90 and get 36 points for the additional question.”
Everyone: “…”
The way of Binjiang Normal University to pass the course was really hardcore, they did not need to go through many bloody, heated scenes, and they just went all the way through the class by letting the mutants and Professor Tang listen to their handouts to the end.
Yu Mingyu of Kyoto University said bluntly, “We have a junior sister from anesthesia, so we directly anesthetized Professor Tang, and then we sped over. Professor Tang only woke up at the last minute, did not recognize who we were, and gave us a half score for the additional question.”
Everyone looked in unison at Yue Xingwen and asked, “Xingwen, what about you guys?”
Yue Xingwen said seriously, “We fed Professor Tang good food and drink. Before the final clearance, I asked him if he could give us a high score, and he gave us full points.”
Everyone: “…”
Feeding him with good food and drink? Full points?
Qin Lang, Chen Muyun, Yu Mingyu and the others widened their eyes in surprise.
Chen Muyun was puzzled and asked, “What did you give him to eat?”
Yue Xingwen touched his nose, glanced at Xin Yan and said, “Cook a different flavor of mixed grain porridge for him every day. By the way, it’s boiled in a distillation flask from the Chemistry Department.”
Everyone: “…”
There was also a student from the Chemistry Department at Kyoto University who could not help but spit out, “Mixed grain porridge, you guys are really creative! All of us eating milk bread turned over from a roadside convenience store.”
Zhuo Feng rubbed his temple and said, “The way we passed the course was rather special. Professor Tang ended up giving full points because he was actually scared by us. We threw him in the bat swarm and he fainted straight to the finish line. Probably he didn’t want to see us again and worried that we’d come after him, so he gave us full points.”
Lin Manluo added, “He thought we were magicians, the kind that was particularly bad.”
Qin lang couldn’t help but sigh and said, “I thought that NPC was annoyed enough with us, after all, we gave him lectures everyday. I didn’t expect there was something more desperate, directly scaring the NPC into fainting?”
Yu Mingyu smiled and touched his nose. “It seems, the additional question this time was graded by the escort target based on everyone’s performance, and his personal preferences. There is a certain randomness.”
Qin Lang patted Yue Xingwen’s shoulder and said, “The matter of sorting out the strategy will be left to you.”
Yue Xingwen nodded and said, “No problem.”
Zhuo Feng asked, “Is everyone going to take the next course tomorrow morning at 8:00 am too?”
The people from the other teams glanced at each other, and Qin Lang said, “That’s right, we plan to go through two Faculties in a week, so the time allocation will be more reasonable.”
Chen Muyun also said, “Yes, I found out that most compulsory courses in the Faculties were on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, one compulsory on Tuesday and Thursday, or one in the morning and one in the afternoon. No matter how the classes are scheduled, we can get through two Faculties in five days and have a Public Elective Course or a break on the weekend. This is the fastest progress.”
Yu Mingyu said, “Then let’s work together, a team with the same progress, it’s better to borrow X team members from each other in the future.”
Yue Xingwen nodded his head and said, “Tomorrow morning, see you in the second compulsory course of the Faculty of Biological Science!”
Everyone said goodbye to each other and went back to their dormitories to rest.
Yue Xingwen began to organize the strategy.
In the strategy, he not only wrote up the experiences of the Research Group 183, but also got permission to write down the different ways of passing the courses from the other three teams of Chen Muyun, Qin Lang, and Yu Mingyu.
Method one, follow the NPC’s instruction, as escorting the NPC would give everyone trouble, it would be more difficult to pass the course, so that the clearance score would be above 90, and the points for the additional question depend on the NPC’s mood.
Method two, a relatively mild mode, controlled all the way through without getting into a fight with the mutants, by using the lectures from Normal University, or group control skills of other universities, suitable for teams with a lot of control skills.
Method three, passing the course with violence. In order to keep the NPC from finding trouble for everyone, just knock out and anesthetize the NPC and take him away, all the way to the end, and you would get half the points for the additional question.
As for Yue Xingwen’s way of passing, it would be difficult for other teams to follow suit. Instead of directly knocking Professor Tang unconscious, they unconsciously frightened Professor Tang into fainting. He also gave full points for fear that they would turn back to find trouble…
Not all teams could do this. If they did not have a good grasp of the proportions, Professor Tang might really treat them as villains and directly give them a negative score.
After the strategy post was sent out, a large number of ridiculing comments appeared on the forum: “Senior brother Xingwen, did you guys actually scare the NPC?”
“Professor Tang said: These monsters, frightened.jpg!”
“I suddenly have some sympathy for Professor Tang who met Research Group 183.”
“When we take our exams, we must protect the world’s most lovely Professor Tang!”
Yue Xingwen looked at the comments and suddenly turned back and asked, “Pingce, do you think that Professor Tang really exists? Is he a real person, or is he a data NPC in the course examination?”
Jiang Pingce asked rhetorically, “Then do you think that the library really exists?”
This question was difficult to explain.
If Professor Tang was a real person, how could he split into many Professor Tang at the same time, facing the escort of students from different Research Groups, reacting differently according to the performance of different teams, and finally giving a different score evaluation?
Could he have mitosis and manipulate many split bodies at the same time?
But if he did not exist, what everyone had experienced was so real. Yue Xingwen had a deep impression of the mutant bats, werewolves, and snake spirits, and they even gradually got used to the life of the library.
Yue Xingwen was silent for a moment and said, “I always feel that what we are currently experiencing is a lot like a sensory realistic holographic online game, where the library is the game’s server and every time we take an exam, it’s like entering a dungeon in the game.”
In online games, the same dungeon could generate countless replication spaces. Each space could accommodate a small team, and players could see the same NPC and monsters in different spaces. This was normal, because it was all data.
Data could be copied at will.
Now that they were in the library, everything felt so real and yet could not be explained by science. It would be understandable if Professor Tang was a highly intelligent NPC, a data robot.
Jiang Pingce frowned for a few seconds in thought and said, “if it’s a game, how did we suddenly get pulled in? What is the meaning of the existence of this game world?”
Yue Xingwen said, “I couldn’t figure it out before, but after this <Genetic Mutation> exam, I suddenly had a kind of guess.”
He looked seriously at Jiang Pingce and said, “If one day, the human world encounters a disaster, with the power of ordinary humans, it will be difficult to resist the foreign invaders. When humans encounter a crisis, they are likely to be like the people in the Genetic Mutation world, panicking, screaming in fear, fleeing everywhere without a plan, and being easily killed.”
Jiang Pingce quickly understood his train of thought and said, “But if it’s someone like us, who has experienced the library’s trials and tribulations. Even if we encounter the biggest crisis in the future, everyone won’t panic, or at least be able to remain calm and think of strategies to deal with it?”
Yue Xingwen nodded. “That’s right. Don’t you think that while the library has set us up with many problems, it has also been enhancing our abilities and tempering our minds?”
From having everyone chased by mutant rabbits and monkeys at the beginning, to later, having them solve various mysteries and experience various escape classes.
Even Zhang Xiaonian, who had made a lot of jokes in reality because he had no sense of direction and had little confidence in himself, was able to react extremely quickly to build an anti-vibration wall to protect his teammates upon being chased by mutant bats after so many courses with his team.
The mentality of his little junior brother had matured a lot, and others were gradually changing without realizing it.
Jiang Pingce whispered, “You mean that the library is actually a realistic holographic game that cultivates the comprehensive quality of university students across the country? Does it exist to discover potential talents among university students?”
“I’m just guessing. That’s what I think is the more reasonable explanation.” Yue Xingwen exhaled gently and said, “Otherwise, don’t you think it’s more terrifying if tens of thousands of university students suddenly disappeared? The whole community will be in chaos, not much different from the doomsday. If it’s a game, maybe we’re all fine in reality?”
“En, it makes sense.” Jiang Pingce nodded in agreement. “But we don’t have evidence yet. Don’t tell our teammates about this conclusion yet, lest everyone treats this place like a game and thinks it’s okay to die and be lax and careless at critical moments.”
“Of course.” Yue Xingwen stood up, patted Jiang Pingce’s shoulder and smiled. “Since we’re here, take it easy. Rest well, and prepare for tomorrow’s class!”
Lecturing everyone and everything as a way to pass.
Wow, already 99 chapter!!! Thank you for your translation!!!! It was a really long way for everyone here💖
That seems a very reasonable guess.
Merry christmas, everyone!
His theory made me think of the novel The Earth is Online. The plot of this can pass as pre-TEO. Like prepping students for what’s about to come when earth becomes online.
Thank you!
TEO, Card…
These type of stiries …Tempering and dating Sim in one frightening life and death game!!.
Save the world and find your one true love while risking your life.
….Lol I know it, other Professor Tang also didn’t have it easy…