NCCnovel Chapter 12: So what if I got first place in the whole city? Jiangcheng's pool is ultimately too
Chapter 12: So what if I got first place in the whole city? Jiangcheng's pool is ultimately too
Not number one.
Lin Yu's gaze lingered on the second two words for a second.
He swiped the screen down.
At the very bottom of the announcement, there was a line of small print:
"The top scorer in the city for the science comprehensive test: Zhao Tianyu from the Affiliated High School of the Provincial Capital, with a score of 295."
Zhao Tianyu.
Lin Yu put away his phone.
His expression remained unchanged. But his fingers, which were twirling the pen, paused for a moment.
That name.
I'm not familiar with the No. 1 High School in the provincial capital. But I've seen Zhao Tianyu from the affiliated high school in the provincial capital on the physics competition list last semester. He won first place in the provincial physics competition and a silver medal in the CMO National Mathematical Olympiad.
295 points in comprehensive science.
Lin Yu knew better than anyone what scoring 295 points on this incredibly difficult joint entrance exam paper meant.
This person is a true genius.
It's not like the fake goods that Li Hao produced by piling up resources.
Lin Yu threw the mineral water bottle into the trash can.
When he walked back to the teaching building, he met Wang Tuzi at the stairwell.
Baldy Wang was obviously waiting for him.
"Lin Yu."
Wang the Bald's attitude was completely different from a week ago. His voice was no longer a harsh reprimand, but rather a tentative, uncertain tone: "The principal wants to see you."
"What is it?"
"Your scores in the ten-school joint exam..."
Wang the Bald carefully chose his words, "The principal attaches great importance to this. He wants to talk to you personally about your college entrance exam plans."
Lin Yu leaned against the stair railing.
"I don't need anyone to help me with my college entrance exam planning."
Wang the Bald's face twitched.
"The principal means that the school can provide you with some additional support. For example, exemption from evening self-study sessions, a separate study room, and internal analysis of past years' college entrance examination questions—"
"unnecessary."
"Lin Yu, the principal meant well—"
"Teacher Wang."
Lin Yu straightened up. "I got first place not to negotiate with the principal. I just felt that the number 520 was no longer useful and needed to be replaced with a new one."
He walked past Baldy Wang and went up the stairs.
Wang the Bald stood there, sweat trickling down his hairline from his forehead.
He served as a homeroom teacher for twenty years. He had seen geniuses, madmen, and rebellious teenagers who treated exams like a game.
But he had never seen a student use grades as a password.
520—I love you.
699 — crushing.
What number will this student write on the exam paper next time?
Wang the Bald suddenly felt a chill on his back.
In Class 7 classroom.
Lin Yu pushed open the back door and walked in.
All eyes in the class converged once more, but this time the tone was completely different from a few days prior. There was no mockery, no schadenfreude. Instead, there was a complex mixture of awe, curiosity, and a subtle sense of distance.
Lin Yu returned to his seat.
My chubby deskmate handed me a meat bun.
"Brother Yu, here you go. This is the last one in the cafeteria."
Lin Yu took the steamed bun and took a bite.
"Do me a favor."
"What's up?"
"Check on someone. Zhao Tianyu from the provincial high school."
The fat man was stunned for a moment.
"That guy who got the highest score in the city's combined science exam? Why are we investigating him?"
Lin Yu chewed on a steamed bun, his gaze fixed on the view outside the window.
On the playground, students are running laps during physical education class. The autumn sun shines on the synthetic track, reflecting a dazzling white light.
"It's nothing."
His voice was very soft.
"I just want to know how many of those 295 points represent his true ability."
The fat man shivered.
He suddenly realized something.
Lin Yu scored 278 on the exam this time, not because he could only score 278.
Just like last time he got 520, it wasn't because he could only get 520.
So here's the question.
If Lin Yu takes the exam seriously, how many points can he get?
The fat man dared not even think about this problem.
He had a hunch that once the answer was revealed, the entire senior high school class in Jiangcheng would be thrown into turmoil.
Noon. Classroom 7.
The fat man rushed in through the back door, phone in hand, knocking over an empty chair. He ran to Lin Yu's seat, panting heavily.
"Brother Yu, I've found it."
Lin Yu was holding a red pen, marking lines on Xia Zijing's Chinese language test paper, which she had just finished yesterday. "Speak."
"Li Hao got directly into the Tsinghua-Peking University Olympiad class at the provincial capital's No. 1 High School last night. He sent a photo of your science comprehensive exam answer sheet to their provincial capital's competition elite group."
The fat man handed over the phone.
Lin Yu didn't even lift his eyelids. He wrote a comment in the essay section of Xia Zijin's exam paper: "Excessive use of adjectives, lack of a core logical chain, rewrite."
The fat man panicked and immediately opened a larger version of the group chat screenshot.
The group name is Top 100 Test-Takers in the Province.
Li Hao posted Lin Yu's physics exam paper with the caption: "The top-scoring paper in Jiangcheng City. Omitted core derivation steps and relied on piling up numbers to get a high score. The grading standards in prefecture-level cities are getting more and more lenient."
A reply followed immediately below.
ID: Zhao Tianyu.
"I've finished reading it. He skipped the verification of the positive definiteness of the matrix. With this kind of opportunistic solution, if the number of questions were doubled, his computing power would collapse. If he came to the provincial capital, I guarantee he wouldn't be able to finish the combined science exam."
The fat man swallowed hard. "This Zhao Tianyu, he's the genius who scored 295 in the ten-school joint exam. First in provincial physics competition, guaranteed admission. Brother Yu, Li Hao is really making you the envy of the whole province!"
Lin Yu put down the red pen. He glanced at the line of text on the screen.
"Computing power crash?"
Lin Yu chuckled softly, toying with the pen in his fingers. "He can't understand the omitted steps, so he assumes they don't exist. A monkey watching a human use a lighter would think it's witchcraft."
Su Qingwan, who was in the front row, was organizing her notebook of incorrect answers. Hearing the commotion, she paused for a moment.
She wore a very expensive Montblanc pen today. It was a gift from Li Hao before he transferred schools.
The No. 1 High School in the provincial capital. Olympiad class.
These words attracted Su Qingwan's attention like a magnet. So what if Lin Yu got the top score in the city? Jiangcheng's pool is ultimately too small.
Although Li Hao lost once, the resources behind him could instantly propel him to a higher platform. Lin Yu, on the other hand, had nothing but his intelligence.
She made the right choice.
The school bell rang. Wang the Bald walked into the classroom with a folder tucked under his arm, his expression somewhat strange.
He stopped, his gaze sweeping over the entire class and landing on Lin Yu.
"Tomorrow morning at nine o'clock, the Municipal Education Bureau will hold a summary and commendation meeting for the joint examination of ten schools in our school auditorium."
Wang the Bald cleared his throat. "The top fifty students in the city, as well as principals and distinguished teachers from various schools, will be present. The mayor will also be attending."
The whole class gasped in amazement. The mayor's attendance was the highest level of recognition ever received in Jiangcheng's education sector.