Chapter 77 Part 1
At nine o’clock in the morning the next day, the theoretical exam for the semi-finals began.
Three hours later, hundreds of candidates from across the province walked out of the exam room together.
For most of the candidates, their journey ended at the semi-finals. Only the students with relatively high theoretical scores were eligible to take the experimental test in the afternoon tomorrow.
This kind of competition system was extremely cruel. On the night after the exam, no one could breathe a sigh of relief. The results and corresponding rankings were going to be announced. Based on the rankings, everyone could estimate how many prizes were available.
There was no free time at all.
In the afternoon, students from other ordinary classes from the high school in N City had already gone to various tourist spots in J City based on recommendations from the internet. The students from the two physics competition classes were listless.
They wanted to have fun, but they had too many worries to enjoy themselves. If they couldn’t have fun, it was hard to pass the time at the hotel. So, Chen Jun suggested for their group to play Werewolf in the hotel’s game room.
After only two or three hours of playing, Liu Zhijun hastily knocked on the door of the game room.
“The results are out.”
Cao Zhixue, who had drawn the wolf card, was about to take advantage of the darkness to kill someone. When he heard this, he blurted out, “F***.”
Everyone turned to look at Liu Zhijun in unison.
Old Liu, whose face had been paralyzed for more than a year, had a strange redness on his thick shiny skin. It made his already dark face even darker.
He probably ran up in a hurry. Although his face was still expressionless, there were big drops of sweat on his forehead, and he was panting slightly while speaking.
Liu Zhijun stood at the door and wiped his face.
He took a deep breath and announced, “The scores of all the students in our class are among the top 100 in the province.”
The end of his speech was a little weak.
Everyone in the physics class looked at each other. The almost dead silence was interrupted by Cao Zhixue’s “F***” again.
What the hell? All of them are in the top 100 in the province?
That means at least all of them were above the second-rank prize? Moreover, the second-rank prize of the top 100 in the province was different from the second-rank prize of the top 200 or 300. In the last session, there were more than 80 seniors, and they also enrolled in Z City’s Experimental School.
Forget about others, Cao Zhixue himself got into the top 100 in the whole province?
Cao Zhixue was the one who faced this exam with the most ease among their group. He had always been at the bottom of all the test results in the physics competition class. He thought it would be good to get top 200 or 300.
Anyway, he was only a second year in high school. If he could get top 200 or 300 this time, he would be considered very good. His goal had always been to place higher in his last year.
Unexpectedly, he actually reached the top 100 in the province? Foolish Cao put down the wolf card in his hand in a daze. His brain, which usually rotated rapidly, suddenly froze at this moment.
It was not only Cao Zhixue. The heads of most of the physics class were buzzing, unable to calm down for a long time.
Liu Zhijun gasped excitedly, “Also, this year, the province has selected the top 120 students in the theoretical test to take part in the experimental test.”
When he said this, the hand holding the door frame trembled, and his voice stammered a little.
There was another deathly silence in the game room.
Everyone’s mood was like a roller coaster: happy and sad.
The happy part was that if they could take the experimental exam, they might win the first-rank prize; the sad part was that it seems that the werewolf game couldn’t continue, and they couldn’t go visit anything. Tonight, they had to review the content of tomorrow’s experimental exam.
After Liu Zhijun finished speaking, he also returned to his usual calm. With a stern face, he took away the cards in their hands one by one. He pretended to be serious and said, “Go down to eat. After dinner, you are not allowed to go out at night. You have to review or rest. Tomorrow’s experimental exam is very important! If you win the first-rank prize, you will be able to do nothing for the rest of your time in high school.”
Everyone was trembling at first, but when they heard the last sentence, they laughed out loud.
“Well, I’m going to do nothing at home for a year.”
“Me too, I want to do nothing and play games at the same time.”
…
So during the afternoon, eleven people went to the experimental exam together.
Although the experimental exams were conducted in batches, basically all the candidates who took the exam were already waiting in the long hallway outside the laboratory.
A few students from Z City’s Experimental School who had dinner with them yesterday were also there. The short-haired girl saw them and went over to greet them warmly.
“Are you all here? Are you waiting for your classmates?”
Her first reaction was this: there had to be only one or two students in the school who were going to take the experimental exam, and the rest probably had nothing to do, and came here to wait.
After hearing this, Cao Zhixue shook his head with a smile. His eyes were filled with unconcealable satisfaction. “No, all eleven of us in the class have come to take the experimental exam.”
After he finished speaking, the small area in the hallway suddenly fell silent.
Others in the hallway: “…”
There were not a lot of people who were eligible to take the experimental exam. 20 or 30 people would come from the top high schools in the province, like Z City’s Experimental School or the provincial experimental school. From the small schools, there should only be one or two people here. Where have any of them seen such a large amount of students from one school competing?
But as shocked as they were, they were not as shocked as the short-haired girl.
She was so shocked that she didn’t come back to her senses for a long time.
??? How can that be possible? Aren’t they from a poor county? So poor that they can’t even hire a physics teacher?
And they are only in their second year…
Later on, the short-haired girl asked, “Which school are you from? Did you come from the provincial experimental school?”
Chen Jun shook his head and puffed his chest. “No, we are from N City’s high school.”
N City’s high school? She had never heard of it. However, City N was not a poor city, it could be regarded as a well-developed small city.
The short-haired girl took a deep breath, and put her hand out to Chen Jun with a smile. “Give me back the shrimp.”
Chen Jun: “…”
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