ca-book Chapter 5, 42 points, Chinese Language Test
Chapter 5, 42 points, Chinese Language Test
He was dressed in an extremely simple plain black T-shirt and an oversized school uniform jacket. His height of 1.85 meters created a strong sense of oppression in the aisle.
Beneath his neatly trimmed, tousled hair, his face was fully revealed in the morning light. His high, straight nose cast a shadow on his profile. He stared straight ahead, his steps steady, offering no response to the astonished gazes around him.
The chubby classmate stared wide-eyed, dropping the steamed bun he was holding onto the table.
"Yu...Brother Yu?"
Lin Yu pulled out a chair, threw his schoolbag into the drawer, and sat down.
Su Qingwan's mind went blank for a moment.
Is this really Lin Yu?
Lin Yu, who always kept his head down, had a fawning expression, and bent his back like a bow to explain problems to her.
Her current boyfriend, Li Hao, whom she was so proud of, had handsome features, but in front of Lin Yu at this moment, the sophistication he exuded, built on money, suddenly seemed incredibly vulgar.
The composure and aloofness that Lin Yu exudes from within is something that no brand name can replicate.
Su Qingwan's fingers tightened little by little. The red pen pressed a deep white mark into her fingertip. An extremely intense anxiety rose within her.
"So what if you're good-looking?"
Li Hao's voice came from the first row. He turned around, his face ashen as he stared at Lin Yu. "The science exam doesn't care about your appearance. Lin Yu, there are still three days until the monthly exam. I advise you to write your withdrawal application in advance."
Lin Yu leaned back in his chair. He picked up a practice book from the table and opened it.
"You talk too much."
Lin Yu's gaze fell on the workbook, and he turned a page. "Noise will affect my reading speed."
Li Hao suddenly stood up, about to lash out.
"Excuse me."
A clear, cold female voice sounded behind Li Hao.
Xia Zijing stood in the middle of the aisle, holding a stack of books. She was still wearing that old school uniform that was a size too big, her bangs covering her eyebrows, and thick black-rimmed glasses perched on her nose.
Li Haoqiang suppressed his anger and stepped aside to make way. Xia Zijing was a top student in the grade, and he usually didn't want to provoke this aloof girl.
Xia Zijing didn't return to her seat. She went straight to the back of the classroom and stopped in front of Lin Yu's desk.
All eyes in the class turned to each other once again.
Xia Zijing placed the top thick book on Lin Yu's desk. The cover was worn, and the title "Higher Algebra and Analytic Geometry" was printed on it.
Page 82.
Xia Zijing pushed up her glasses, her face expressionless. "Your Lagrange multiplier formula has redundant calculations in the second-order partial derivative matrix of the constraints. You can skip that step."
Lin Yu shifted his gaze from the workbook to Xia Zijing's face.
He picked up the advanced algebra book and turned to page eighty-two. The edges of the page were densely covered with derivations of formulas.
"The positive definiteness of the Hessian matrix can be determined directly by the determinant sign in two-dimensional extremum problems."
Lin Yu closed the book and pushed it back in front of Xia Zijing. "I wrote it down because the blackboard was too spacious, not because I needed that step."
Xia Zijing's eyes lit up behind her thick glasses.
Instead of taking the Advanced Algebra book, she pulled a crumpled exam paper from the middle of the stack of books and slapped it on Lin Yu's desk.
This is a mock exam paper for senior high school students in Chinese language.
Name: Xia Zijin. Total score: 42 points.
Lin Yu glanced at the exam paper. All the multiple-choice questions were wrong. Large sections of the reading comprehension were blank. The essay consisted of only two lines.
"Your mathematical logic is impeccable."
Xia Zijing stared straight at Lin Yu, "But I don't believe someone who can precisely control their scores in the combined science exam can get 90 points in Chinese. Can you help me organize the logical structure of the reading comprehension? I'll give you the physics practice questions I collected from the city's teaching and research group."
Absolutely equivalent exchange. No fluff.
Lin Yu picked up the Chinese language test paper. His gaze lingered on the answer section for the first reading comprehension question.
The question asks: What thoughts and feelings did the author express in the first paragraph, which describes the autumn wind and falling leaves?
Xia Zijin's answer is: The autumn wind speed is about 5 m/s. The volume of the fallen leaves and their weight create air resistance, causing them to fall at a constant speed. This expresses the author's objective record of the laws of classical mechanics.
Lin Yu's lips twitched slightly, a rare occurrence.
"Your reading comprehension logic is completely outside the realm of carbon-based life."
Lin Yu flipped the paper over. "I don't need the city's teaching and research group's practice exam papers. Next week's ten-school joint exam will be set by a provincial-level distinguished teacher, and the teaching and research group's question bank weight has been reduced. Borrow me two original English-language copies of the Journal of Physics. I'll give you a code for improving your Chinese score."
"Code?"
Xia Zijin frowned slightly.
"Deconstruct literature into a set of algorithmic code with a fixed triggering mechanism."
Lin Yu picked up a pen and quickly wrote down a dozen core keyword structures on the back of the paper.
He handed the exam paper back to Xia Zijin.
"Memorize it. When you encounter literature about sorrow, apply formula one; when you encounter literature that expresses sentiments through descriptions of objects, apply formula three."
Lin Yu's voice was calm, "I guarantee you'll pass."
Xia Zijing took the test paper and stared at the handwriting on the back for three seconds.
"make a deal."
She turned and left, clutching the book.
The entire class was stunned. The conversation between the two academic geniuses was devoid of any extraneous emotional exchange; it was purely a clash of interests and logic.
Su Qingwan watched this scene, biting her lower lip. She had once thought that Lin Yu's ability to organize wrong questions was a privilege specially reserved for her.
Now, he casually passed this ability on to an ordinary-looking, eccentric, bookish girl.
The bell rang for morning self-study.
The homeroom teacher, Wang the Bald, walked up to the podium. Instead of starting the lesson as usual, he solemnly slammed a stack of documents onto the desk.
"We have received an urgent notification from the Education Bureau."
Wang the Bald's gaze swept across the entire class, lingering on Lin Yu's seat for an extra second.
"Next week's joint midterm exam for ten schools will have its difficulty level raised to the highest level. The exam will be jointly set by five top universities in the provincial capital."
Wang the Bald tapped the blackboard, "This time, the marking of the joint exam will be conducted entirely through cross-blind review. Anyone who usually relies on clever tricks to get points will be exposed."
Li Hao turned around and made a downward gesture to Lin Yu.
Lin Yu ignored him. He opened his workbook and began to mentally construct a model of the score distribution of the top students from the city's ten schools.
A new map for digital games has been opened.
News of the bet spread throughout the entire senior year of high school within a day.
This speed of transmission was entirely within Lin Yu's expectations. The senior year campus is a highly information-intensive closed system, and any conflict related to grades would spread like wildfire within the ten-minute break between classes.
By noon the next day, even the girls from the neighboring arts class made a special trip to the entrance of Class 7, standing on tiptoe to peek inside.
"Is that the guy with the new haircut? He's definitely good-looking, but what does he have to bet against Li Hao with..."