Volume 1: Student Life Chapter 1: Checking the score, getting an electric shock?
Early summer, 23rd of June.
China's annual college entrance examination has finally reached the most tense and exciting score checking stage.
How you perform in the exam and which university you can get into will be the main theme during this period.
Watching the teams coming in and out of the school gate for score checking, Chen Zhou scanned them one by one, searching for his target.
He was waiting for his deskmate. No matter how well or poorly he did in the exam, they agreed to come to school together to check their scores, and then hang out in front of their younger classmates to stir up hatred.
Chen Zhou looked carefully and saw that the tall and thin man who was riding the electric scooter so slowly finally appeared at the school gate.
Huang Jiayi looked around and saw Chen Zhou, so he stopped in front of Chen Zhou on his electric bike and asked, "Have you checked?"
"No, I'm waiting for you." Chen Zhou said unceremoniously as he sat on the back seat of the electric scooter. He raised his arm and glanced at his watch. This kid was not late.
After a pause, Chen Zhou continued, "But it doesn't matter whether you check the scores or not. The scores are set after the college entrance examination anyway. Besides, it's not easy for us to get into a key university."
"That's different. Who knows if you'll explode again? Don't you expect to explode yourself?"
"Do not expect."
"Okay then. So let's go hang out at the school first?"
"Check the scores."
"……?"
Huang Jiayi rode an electric scooter and took Chen Zhou to the small supermarket in front of Wanxi No. 1 Middle School. Neither of them had a cell phone, so they chose to use the small supermarket's phone number to check their scores.
Chen Zhou picked up the landline in the small supermarket and dialed the score checking hotline on his admission ticket.
"beep……"
The busy tone was very short, and when the call was connected, Chen Zhou's nervousness unconsciously emerged.
Although he said that the score was already determined, the nervousness and anticipation in his heart gradually increased as the call was connected.
Just like all candidates, after taking the test, they always think in an optimistic way, maybe there will be a chance of success?
Following the prompt tone on the phone, Chen Zhou entered the admission ticket number and pressed the # key to end.
"Chinese: 1**."
"Mathematics: **5 points."
" English: *0 points."
"Comprehensive science: 2*8 points."
"Total score: 5** points, ranking 44444 in the province. Please press the * key if you want to listen again."
I don’t know if it was Chen Zhou’s illusion, but he couldn’t hear the voice on the phone clearly when it was announcing the scores, as if there was a sound like electric current interfering.
Therefore, Chen Zhou did not listen to all the exams, whether it was Chinese, mathematics, English, comprehensive science, or the total score.
However, the provincial ranking is 44444, which is undeniable. After all, this number is too special, and the voice of the ranking is clear.
"According to the latest news from the Anhui Provincial Examination Institute, the scores of Anhui Province's college entrance examination candidates have all been released this year, and the minimum control scores for each batch have also been set. The first-tier score line for the 2013 Anhui Provincial College Entrance Examination in science is 544 points, and the number of people who have reached the score line is 45,631. The second-tier score line for science is 478 points..."
The owner of the small supermarket was also watching the news about the college entrance examination in Anhui Province, and this latest news also came into Chen Zhou's ears.
"It seems that the ranking is more than a thousand places higher than the first-tier line. Well, if I heard correctly, it should be this much higher." Thinking about it this way, it seems that the test result is not bad. The rising sense of anticipation in Chen Zhou's heart was slightly satisfied.
"Fuck!"
Just when Chen Zhou was about to press the * key to listen carefully to his college entrance examination score again to completely satisfy his expectations, his friend's exclamation scared him.
Chen Zhou tilted his head slightly and saw the excitement that was beyond words on the faces of his companions.
Meeting Chen Zhou's gaze, Huang Jiayi raised his eyebrows, his tone filled with uncontrollable excitement : "Fuck! Chen Zhou, I, I passed the first-tier line! I scored 545 points, just 1 point higher than the first-tier line."
"Sure, Dahuang!" Chen Zhou could understand Huang Jiayi's current mood and empathize with him.
My previous mock exam scores were always lingering around the first-tier line. But at the moment of the college entrance examination, I finally passed the first-tier line. It is so gratifying.
It can be said that the sense of anticipation in Huang Jiayi's heart, the uneasy little deer before checking the scores, can now finally run around freely.
Huang Jiayi held the phone and pressed the * button, preparing to listen to the score again. At the same time, he asked Chen Zhou casually, "What about you?"
"I didn't hear it clearly. I was just about to listen again..."
Before Chen Zhou finished speaking, Huang Jiayi had already followed the voice on the phone and started reporting his scores, "Chinese: 105, Math 115, English..."
“Total score: 545 points, ranking 44,445th in the province.”
"What?!"
When he heard Huang Jiayi report that his ranking in the province was 44,445, he was a little dazed.
Huang Jiayi listened to the score ranking again, and after hanging up the phone with satisfaction, he noticed Chen Zhou standing beside him in a daze, and asked in surprise: "What's wrong? Are you shocked by my score?"
"How many are you?"
"There are 44,445 in the whole province." Huang Jiayi said, "Fortunately it's not 44,444, all of them are si."
Little did he know that as Chen Zhou listened to Huang Jiayi's complaints, a thousand horses were running through his heart.
Could it be that the ranking was more than a thousand places higher than the first-tier line, but the score was only 1 point higher?
Now he finally understood what teachers often said: 1 point can defeat a thousand people.
By the way, this college entrance examination is too tragic...
Thinking of this, Chen Zhou felt sick. He was originally quite happy to check the score, but he was abruptly woken up by someone when he was halfway happy.
Glancing at Huang Jiayi, Chen Zhou felt a little resentful: "Why should I listen to this person's score? I couldn't even hear my own score clearly. Why do I care about others so much? What are you doing? Why..."
Suddenly, Chen Zhou realized the last glimmer of hope. Maybe he had heard the ranking wrong?
He fixed his eyes on the * button on the base of the phone and pressed it without hesitation.
“Sizzle…”
Instead of hearing the sound of the scores being announced, Chen Zhou heard a sharp electric sound.
Unable to hold back, he loosened his grip and the microphone fell to the ground with a thud.
As if it had been "weathered", the microphone was broken into pieces, and the exposed telephone wire happened to hang on Chen Zhou's leg.
Chen Zhou felt his whole body go numb and he couldn't help falling backwards.
The "sizzling" sound of the electric current had already rushed into his brain from his ears.
Afterwards, the "buzzing" sound in his head completely isolated him from the outside world.
At that moment, the "sizzling" sound of the electric current suddenly disappeared.
After a moment of silence, Chen Zhou heard a voice.
"Host scan successful, Xueba system loading..."
"Student master system?"
Before Chen Zhou could react, the voice continued, "It is detected that the host's brain development level has not reached the loading requirements, and the system is in emergency disengagement..."
Chen Zhou: “Huh?!”
"To erase all traces of the system, activate the consciousness clearing mode! Clearing the unqualified host consciousness..."
Chen Zhou: “wtf???”
I was completely unable to resist and my consciousness gradually faded.
