I Can Control Resources

...

It wasn’t just the monitoring room.

By now, every student in the examination hall who had finished their paper was staring dumbfounded at Gao Neng—at his two hands, which were moving as if they were convulsing.

"Wow, Gao Neng has lost his mind!"

"Is he really taking the exam? It looks more like he’s just copying notes..."

"Writing that fast, what could his accuracy possibly be? 50%? 40%? Or maybe 30%... This is a suicidal way to take a test!"

Unlike the people in the monitoring room, the students couldn’t see the content of Gao Neng’s papers. As a result, they gave him even stranger looks, their eyes filled with doubt and confusion.

"If he can score higher than me like this, I’ll eat shit on the spot!" He Haifan was almost certain that Gao Neng was just scribbling nonsense.

No matter how much of a genius you were, no one could possibly answer questions at such an absurd speed!

But the three Examiners standing right next to Gao Neng could see.

They were furiously trying to solve the problems in their heads, following his pen and checking if his answers were correct. And then, they discovered...

They were all correct!

Goddammit, they’re all correct!

Time remaining: 15 minutes.

Gao Neng had finally completed two exams: one for *Advanced Mathematical Theory* and another for *The Development and History of the Alliance Language.*

The three Examiners’ eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.

He had actually finished!

He finished two papers in fifteen minutes, using two pens... taking two tests simultaneously! What was he doing, performing the legendary Art of Ambidexterity?!

Gao Neng paid them no mind.

He continued on to the remaining two basic specialized subject exams.

Because now, he truly could focus on two things at once. With his Spiritual Power being sufficiently strong, his left and right hands were perfectly capable of performing different tasks.

His Spiritual Power shifted from one target to another. He Haifan’s paper wasn’t always facing up, but this wasn’t a major problem.

There were 452 candidates in the hall.

Time was almost up.

Most of the candidates—well over half—had already finished their exams. Finding a suitable target wasn’t actually that difficult.

Of course, there was still one prerequisite.

You had to be able to accurately determine which exam papers had the correct answers.

If you couldn’t make that judgment, what was the point of copying?

At best, you’d just get the same score as the person you copied from.

Ten minutes later...

Gao Neng stopped writing.

The two basic specialized subject exams were done.

"Whew..." Gao Neng let out a breath and glanced at the time. Five minutes left. "Hm, not bad. Still have five minutes to check my work."

THUMP!

A student fell right out of his chair and onto the floor.

’Check his work?!’

’He finished four exams in half an hour, and he still has time to check them?!’

"Ahem!" The three Examiners coughed heavily, then exchanged a look. One of them gently patted Gao Neng’s shoulder. "Gao Neng, nice work!"

What could they say?

They couldn’t say anything...

’This kid is a monster. And a monster who’s using cheats, at that!’

Only after watching the three Examiners leave did Gao Neng finally relax. ’It seems... they really can’t detect my Spiritual Power?’

’Wait, is Spiritual Power undetectable?’

’No!’

Gao Neng remembered that back in the underground factory, Angel Mu Feifei had seemed to "capture" his Spiritual Power. But besides her, no one else seemed to have sensed it.

Even when facing the sharp-eared woman, when Gao Neng had released his Spiritual Power to pinpoint her location, she hadn’t sensed it either.

’Hmm...’

’It must be because these people aren’t strong enough!’

So what level of strength did one need to possess Spiritual Power? Gao Neng didn’t know yet. After all, the high school curriculum didn’t cover such specialized knowledge.

...

「In the monitoring room.」

Li Qingping also let out a long breath and patted his chest. He could see the contents of Gao Neng’s exam papers, so he naturally knew Gao Neng’s score wouldn’t be low.

"Principal Li, weren’t you just saying that we should consider Gao Neng’s composite score?" Lieutenant Chen wiped the sweat from his forehead, then seemed to remember something.

"There’s no need for consideration!" Li Qingping declared with a stern expression. "The college entrance exam is sacred! How could we make an exception for one person? He must be graded according to his actual results!"

"Hahaha..." Lieutenant Chen laughed so hard he was almost in tears.

Meanwhile, Xue Jingjing and the other principals just chuckled before congratulating Li Qingping, saying that Third Senior High School had truly produced a super genius this time.

Li Qingping accepted their praise without any false modesty, merely smiling nonchalantly. "It’s nothing, you don’t have to praise him so much. Besides, your students aren’t bad either. Although, none of them are as outstanding as Gao Neng, but that can’t be helped, right? Hahaha..."

"..." Principal He Lin of First High.

"Looks like Principal Li is a shoo-in for the chairmanship of the Supervisory Committee now, huh? Does this mean lunch is on Principal Li today?" Xue Jingchang said with a smile.

"With Major Shen from the Military Department here, I, Li Qingping, wouldn’t dare presume to host." Li Qingping laughed it off, his heart still aching over the fountain pen that Gao Neng had swindled from him.

"Ahem." Shen Ning’Er gave a light cough.

The entire room instantly fell silent.

"After the exam, take them directly to the ’Military Exercise Training Base.’ Everything has been arranged. They’ll have lunch there, and after lunch, we will announce the theory exam results. Then, the practical assessment will begin." After speaking, Shen Ning’Er stood up, nodded to the principals, and walked out of the monitoring room.

"Principals, please prepare to accompany us to the Military Exercise Training Base." Lieutenant Chen’s expression turned serious as he watched Shen Ning’Er leave.

"Understood!" Li Qingping and the others nodded at once.

Outside the monitoring room,

Shen Ning’Er looked up at the sun, which was already high in the sky. "Ah... Dear Grandpa Sun, tell me, if I had taken the theory exam with him, would I have lost?"

"No way, no way! The lovable little imp Shen Ning’Er is the strongest!" a strange, hoarse voice replied from her own mouth.

"Grandpa Sun is so honest!" Shen Ning’Er smiled, then left happily.

...

The theory exam concluded.

Led by the principals of the various high schools, Gao Neng and the other students once again boarded the bus, heading for the military training base on the outskirts of the city.

The college entrance exam lasted for two full days, with no time to go home in between.

An hour later, the four hundred-plus students arrived at the entrance of the Military Exercise Training Base.

Before them stood a structure resembling an underground fortress. Apart from a single large gate, the rest was all-natural mountain rock.

’An underground fortress?’

’Shouldn’t it be a wide-open training ground...?’

Although Gao Neng had lived in the Forgotten Land, this was his first time at a military base. He remembered Li Qingping mentioning that the content of the practical assessment was random and changed every year.

But in his mind, Gao Neng had always imagined the practical assessment would be a tournament-style fight, with a group of people trading punches on a stage.

However, when he saw the fortress before him, he suddenly had a strange feeling that this practical assessment might be a little different from what he had imagined.

(A note about Spiritual Power: I, Xin Yi, originally planned to write about this later, but seeing that many readers are confused, let me offer a quick explanation. So far in the book, I’ve only written about two people who can perceive Spiritual Power: Angel Mu Feifei and Shen Ning’Er. Their perceptions are also different; Mu Feifei can directly "capture" it, while Shen Ning’Er just feels that something is off. When Gao Neng first got his Spiritual Power, he even said he’d become "super-duper strong." How could anyone think it’s so common that everyone has it? After all that, it’s not too much to ask for a recommendation ticket, right?)