Study Monster Cultivation System - Chapter 42
Chapter 42: She Might Be Destroyed
“I wish to add something,” Li Zheng said, raising his hand. “I want the rights to monitor her, including but not limited to studying together, regular tests, setting up security cameras, etc.”
Jiang Qinghua said hurriedly, “Hey, hey, hey, setting up security cameras is a little overboard.”
Zhang Xiaoke slammed her hand on the table. “It’s alright! He can do whatever he wants. He can even lock me up. But I also want to add on a condition. If I win, I can also video call him whenever I want to call him ‘puppy.’ Also, he has to act as my sidekick and help me buy drinks during the afternoon break. He has to be my lackey and do my assignments for me.”
“Alright, that’s fair,” Li Zheng nodded.
Jiang Qinghua said in frustration, “You guys can remember the specific details on your own. It’s too cruel. I’m only here to officiate the contest. I won’t enforce the conditions.”
After that, he gave out the test paper to the two of them.
“Are you ready?”
The two of them nodded.
“On your marks.”
“3.”
“2.”
“1.”
“Start!”
The two of them immediately took up their pens. They didn’t care if they knew how to complete the questions or not, but they wouldn’t lose in terms of spirit when it came to writing down their names and student numbers.
Jiang Qinghua got the rest of the students to move three tables away from the competition to stop them from disturbing the two of them. This way, he could also prevent cheating.
The classroom was silent. Only Liu Xin was mumbling as he memorized the textbook.
They had to wait one hour for the result, but no one left the classroom.
Even though everyone had warned Zhang Xiaoke to value her life.
But since she had voluntarily jumped into the pit of fire…
Everyone was looking forward to seeing how pathetic her death would be.
Discussions broke out at that moment.
“Oh, Xiaoke. She’s quite a cute girl, but I think she’s going to get destroyed after this.”
“I’m more concerned about the security camera. Can that be hung in her bedroom?”
“Yes, so she can be monitored 24 hours a day. Li Zheng monitoring her studies… That’s too scary.”
“Then tell me, do you think Li Zheng won’t be able to cope with monitoring her alone? And that he’ll let us help him with the monitoring?”
“Now that you’ve put it that way, I’m suddenly a little excited for the outcome.”
Jiang Qinghua silently moved beside Lin Yujing.
“Yujing, this is the answer key.” He slid a photocopied piece of paper toward Lin Yujing. “You can grade them later.”
Lin Yujing hurriedly shook her head.
“Li Zheng’s answers might be a little out of the ordinary. I don’t have a good enough understanding of the subject,” Jiang Qinghua whispered. “Plus, both of us have a common interest.”
Lin Yujing squinted. She realized that the situation wasn’t as simple as she’d thought.
There was a subjective component to grading the papers.
The person grading the papers could force out a difference of five marks.
These five marks could be what decided the victor.
Jiang Qinghua coughed and whispered, “I’m the officiant. It’s better to leave the grading to you, the third party.”
Lin Yujing hesitated for a moment but ultimately shook her head. “Everyone trusts you. You should do it.”
“…” Jiang Qinghua was very disappointed.
Of the 36 schemes he could use on the field of romance, the one that he had picked, “attacking someone through the hands of another,” had failed.
At that moment, a large head suddenly peeked in through the door. “What’s going on? It’s Friday. Let’s go play basketball.”
Every boy in the class squirmed.
Jiang Qinghua quickly made a signal for her to lower her volume. “They’re battling it out with questions. Don’t disturb them.”
“Battling with questions?” Qiao Bixia’s humongous frame trembled. She glanced at Li Zheng, who was seriously attempting the questions, and laughed. “There’s a game like that?”
“Alright, let’s not disturb them.” Xu Mengxi carefully poked her head in and quickly noticed Lin Yujing. “Jingjing, are you coming?”
“Hmhmhm.” Lin Yujing pointed at Liu Xin and waved her ruler.
“No one’s coming…” Xu Mengxi shook Qiao Bixia. “Then why don’t you go by yourself? I’m afraid of playing with strangers.”
“Fine.” Qiao Bixia grabbed her bag and walked with big strides into the classroom. As if she were right at home, she casually found a seat, sat down, then turned back and waved to Xu Mengxi. “It’s not fun to play against people you don’t know. Let’s sit here and wait.”
“This…” Xu Mengxi froze at the door. She didn’t dare to step into an unfamiliar class.
Lin Yujing jogged over and dragged her into the class.
Jiang Qinghua laughed. “It’s fine, whatever your name is. We’re all students. Have a seat.”
“Then, sorry for disturbing you…”
Lin Yujing dragged Xu Mengxi to Liu Xin’s side, then stuffed the ruler into her hands. She then made a waving gesture.
“What do you mean?”
“Slap the table if he gets distracted.” Lin Yujing leaned close to Xu Mengxi’s ear and whispered mysteriously, “It’s quite fun.”
Coincidentally, Liu Xin was distracted. He was drooling and daydreaming.
Lin Yujing grabbed Xu Mengxi’s arm and slapped it down toward the table.
“I won’t dare, I won’t dare, I won’t dare!” Frightened, Liu Xin continued to memorize his textbook.
“Sigh…” Lin Yujing felt a little satisfied, and her stress eased.
Xu Mengxi wiped off her sweat. “Your class… is really… something.”
Unknowingly, ten minutes had passed.
Li Zheng had attempted the questions at his normal speed.
On the one hand, there were too many people spectating. It wasn’t convenient for him to enter his quantum state.
On the other hand, he could only bear to use his speed to cheat against Lin Yujing.
He had to admit that this paper was rather difficult.
It was comparable to the foundational paper Sun Leyang had given him at noon.
However, the paper was deliberately made to be difficult. The calculations were troublesome and required many steps, but they couldn’t compare to the tricky kind of difficulty that Sun Leyang had in his paper.
Even Li Zheng had to spend a great deal of time on the paper.
He deliberately lowered his speed and focused on his accuracy.
On the other hand, Zhang Xiaoke…
She wanted to pee.
“What kind of paper is this? Why did it suddenly get so difficult?” she thought.
“It’s three times harder than the monthly exam.”
“Where did that foolish monitor find this?”
She didn’t know how to do several of the questions halfway into the paper.
She almost fainted.
Subconsciously, she started glancing at Li Zheng.
“Yes, luckily, this braggart seems to be doing the paper quite slowly too,” she thought.
“In terms of absolute ability, I am definitely better than you.”
“If I’m having trouble…”
“Then your answers will definitely be worse than mine.”
Thinking about this, Zhang Xiaoke became calmer.
“I’ll do whatever I can within 60 minutes,” she thought.
“As long as I don’t mess up my rhythm, I’ll definitely be able to decimate Li Zheng.”
“Yes.”
“Zhang Xiaoke, keep it up, work hard, stay strong.”
“Pui, pui, pui.”
“I’ve heard that too much. I almost made the puppy three-combo my nickname.”
No one noticed that at the front row of the classroom, a discussion about the contest had occurred, with Qiao Bixia at the center.
Qiao Bixia wasn’t stupid. She had watched her fair share of performances and competitions. Her analysis was logical.
“In my opinion, Li Zheng might stumble.”
“Look at him. His handwriting is getting messy.”
“Then look at Zhang Xiaoke. She doesn’t seem afraid.”
“I don’t care if you’re a straight-A student or a Study Monster, I’ll fight it out with you.”
“Let me tell you, don’t underestimate a transfer student.”
“A transfer student is a mysterious contestant. No one knows her background, her style of answering questions, or her thought processes. All of these things are self-contained.”
“Do you believe that fists thrown out at random can defeat an old master?”
More than half of the students in the class had gathered around her. They felt rather good listening to her.
They never expected Sister Xia to be this talented. She was able to instill more drama into a test.
“The Three Kingdoms. Have you all read that?”
“In my opinion, this Zhang Xiaoke resembles Zhao Zilong when he first went to Changshan.”
“Everything is fine if she doesn’t do anything, but when she does, she’s sure to shock everyone!”
“As for Li Zheng… he’s already been famous for a long while. He counts as a famous general. We’ll let him be Yan Liang.”
On the side, Jiang Qinghua handed her a bottle of water and asked, “Sister Xia, help us grade the papers later.”
Qiao Bixia took the bottle of water, then pouted. “Chemistry isn’t my area of expertise. Go look for Sister Meng. Don’t think she’s just pretending to be refined and quiet. She’s the representative for Chemistry in my class. She ranks top three in the level.”
“Me?” Xu Mengxi was shocked. “I wasn’t pretending.”
“Then we’ll have to trouble you.” Jiang Qinghua handed her the standard answer key. “There’s still 20 minutes left.”
Xu Mengxi received the answers reluctantly. When she thought about it, she also felt that she was the most suitable.
