Retired for A Hundred Years: Re-Employment for the Apocalypse Bigshot!-Chapter 398 - 393: Preliminary Tournament (Part 1)
The healing ability does not have the function of forgetting.
But the healing effect can temporarily make the body forget the pain.
Both of them had been treated by healing ability users before, but no one was like Ji Ning, who could relieve physical pain so quickly.
So Ji Ning must be a high-level healing ability user.
No wonder the principal let her be the coach of the competition team.
Both showed surprise and joy in their eyes.
If it’s all for her sake, they could accept having these ordinary class students as teammates.
Once they started to accept it, they slowly got used to the presence of ordinary students.
This was also Ji Ning and Huang Ying’s strategy.
First, use the strongest You Le and Li Mu to shatter their perception of ordinary people, then use others to provoke their disdain and a bit of a small touch, and finally be convinced by Ji Ning’s healing ability.
No matter how smart those two kids were, they couldn’t outsmart the two seasoned old foxes.
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Under day-to-day training, both the superpower students and these ordinary class students were undergoing transformation.
Besides the rapid improvement in physical qualities, their spiritual power was also steadily improving.
The 20 events in the Huazhou High School Student Competition preliminary contest tested not only the students’ personal physical qualities, but also their spiritual power, focus, knowledge ability, hands-on ability, teamwork, and personal virtues, with comprehensive assessments and competitions.
For instance, Lin Yuanyang’s specialty in smart brain technology was also a competition.
The rules of the competition were relatively simple. A team of three cooperated to assemble a smart robot in the shortest time possible and reprogram it to follow the given commands during the competition.
The more tasks the robot completed, the higher the team’s score.
Besides Lin Yuanyang, there was a girl named Hu Lingling on the team. She was a student from ordinary class 6, with spiritual power level B9 and physique level B6. Her comprehensive strength was not very strong, but she excelled in mental arithmetic, sometimes even faster than smart brain calculations.
She was specially recommended by Lin Yuanyang for the team.
Before the competition, Ji Ning tested her spiritual power again, and this time it had already broken through to A1 level.
...
The principal of Anhe Middle School watched these children grow rapidly under the training of Ji Ning and Huang Ying.
To be honest, sometimes he felt a bit unwilling due to the intensity of the training, but these students were like little grass in spring. Although facing setbacks, they still showed tenacity and strived to grow toward the sunshine.
He somewhat understood why Ji Ning would choose these students again.
Because opportunities were rare, they cherished them more than anyone else.
Because they knew their talents were ordinary, they worked extra hard.
Because they saw the gap between themselves and the proud students, they did not want to admit defeat.
Ji Ning really knew how to recognize talent and was willing to lower herself to cultivate these ordinary people.
No wonder the Security Bureau chose her as a detective.
She was indeed more capable than the others!
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March 3rd.
The annual Huazhou High School Student Competition preliminary contest officially started.
Anhe Middle School extended the school start date for this event.
The winter break, which was over a month, was extended to two months.
The principal specially waived the holiday homework for the participating students, which made everyone praise the principal greatly.
For the preliminary competition, the school needed to go to the designated venues for competitions, assigned based on proximity principle.
In other words, the first few matches of Anhe Middle School were against middle schools from Anhe City, and after winning, they would gradually compete with neighboring cities, slowly advancing from the regional competitions toward the Huazhou finals.
Not all middle schools in each city could participate, as there were quota allocations.
After all, the Municipal Education Bureau also wanted the schools under its jurisdiction to achieve the best results and bring glory to the bureau.
Therefore, only ten schools in Anhe City were eligible to participate, all of which were schools with top entrance exam scores.
Anhe Middle School was one of the outstanding schools among the ten that were trusted every year, but its results were disappointing every year. Yet, even so, Anhe Middle School was still the school with the best competition results among these ten.
This time, the principal of Anhe Middle School promised the Municipal Education Bureau leaders that they would definitely break into the top sixteen and enter the finals.
But the Municipal Education Bureau leaders had lost hope in the principal’s words by this point. They told him to replace the participants, but the principal insisted on using these ordinary-talented students. As leaders, they couldn’t intrude on school management, so they only awkwardly smiled, encouraged the participating students with a few words, and then went to the side to watch the schools they were confident in.
The principal pouted with a cold snort inwardly but kept smiling outwardly.
He enthusiastically encouraged the 12 students and had Wang Li and the other leading teachers tie red ribbons with "Go Anhe Middle School" on their foreheads.
Everyone’s inner OS: They really didn’t want to wear such a nerdy thing.
But seeing the usually serious Master Extinction Wang Li also wore a red ribbon, they only inwardly protested a bit.
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The competition venue in Anhe City was at Anhe Stadium.
While the participating teams waited to enter, some students from Anhe Second Middle School approached Wu Muzhe out of curiosity and asked, "Hey, I heard your principal replaced all the Elite Class students?"
Wu Muzhe really wanted to ignore him, but that person was also an old rival of his.
A student from the Elite Class in Second Middle School, they often met in various competitions. If he could extract some information...
Wu Muzhe’s eyes flashed with a cunning light.
He put his arm around his old rival’s neck, pretending the place wasn’t ideal for speaking, moved to the end of the line, and whispered, "Sigh...who knows? I’m as nervous as hell right now. I really hope we don’t encounter you guys first. I don’t want to be eliminated in my first competition."
The old rival’s eyes quickly flashed with inquiry and then he laughed heartily, "Wu, you’re being too modest. I saw You Le from your school, she’s not weak."
"That’s the only one barely passable, still far from you guys. I tell you, the reason why we replaced so many people this time is because those two want to compete." Wu Muzhe nodded toward Bai Xiaotang and Lin Yuanyang, glancing around and lowering his voice.
The old rival looked in the direction but didn’t know who he was talking about, yet it didn’t stop him from gathering information, "Connections?"
"Yep, from Beijing, with a solid background. The principal couldn’t stand it, and he couldn’t let them be overshadowed, so he picked a group of ordinary class students, just to accompany them this year."
The old rival was secretly delighted and gave Wu Muzhe a thumbs up, "Your principal is something."
"No choice. Hey, Lao Li, we’ve been friends for years and neighbors, do you have any insider info you can share? All I want is to win one match, I don’t want to be at the bottom."
The old rival gave him a look of sympathy, lowered his voice, and pointed to a group two places away from them, "I heard Third Middle School has a smart brain expert who’s basically unbeatable in the Northwest, you guys be careful..."
Just as they were about to enter, Wu Muzhe returned from the end of the line with satisfaction.
Exchanging a glance with Lin Yuanyang, both were tacitly understanding.
The LED screens on both sides of the stadium began rolling the match lineup.
The match was randomly matched.
The first match involved four teams.
Anhe Middle School wasn’t scheduled for the first round.
Everyone sat in Anhe Middle School’s designated viewing area, exchanging the information they had gathered.
Lin Yuanyang integrated this information into his smart brain, starting to analyze which projects each competing student might participate in.
Their strengths and weaknesses were clear at a glance.
Everyone looked at Lin Yuanyang with newfound respect.
Exclaiming: Amazing!
