"Look at Yu Wen, he's just quietly eating breakfast!"

"I don't care if you eat or sleep! But keep quiet! Anyone who causes noise won't be allowed to hand in their papers early! Quiet! Understand?"

The exam room fell silent.

Apparently, the invigilator's threat was quite effective.

Lin Li's mouth and eyes formed an 'O' shape at this moment.

Who Wang Yixiang is doesn't matter—probably the girl from the second group who is already sleeping.

Who Yu Wen is also doesn't matter—likely the guy from the first group munching on a sandwich.

Just.

What the hell is happening here? Is this really Nansang Middle School?

The last exam hall, unexpectedly terrifying?

Experiencing the little shock from the last exam hall, Lin Li managed to regain his composure, feeling hard to assess the situation, smiled and shook his head, then looked down and turned his attention to the Chinese test paper, starting to answer the questions.

"Whoosh—"

However, after writing for a few minutes, a small paper note was tossed onto his desk and rolled to the ground on the other side.

It came from the left side; Lin Li's writing paused, noticing that no system task was triggered, he thought it better to leave it alone, pretending not to see and didn't pick up the note.

The other person was persistent, soon tossing a second paper note over.

Lin Li remained unmoved, not bothering to pay attention.

And it seems that Lin Li's determination made the other person realize as there were no more paper notes thrown over.

Lin Li, win!

Two minutes later, Lin Yi Feng turned his head, clutching a paper ball in his hand, and whispered to Lin Li, "Buddy, Wu Xuan wants you to reply to his message, the message is on the ground."

Lin Li: "..."

Wu Xuan, win!

Lin Li took a deep breath, feeling it's not quite appropriate to keep playing dead.

Thinking it over, since it was a Chinese test at the beginning, it didn't seem to be for cheating, so he bent down to pick up the paper ball on the ground, and unfolded it.

"Are you there?"

That's it, just two words.

Lin Li: "???"

What the hell? Is this Wu Xuan even human?

Even sending "Are you there" on QQ or WeChat is dumb, but using paper notes to chat and sending "Are you there"?

I'm sure I'm not anywhere right now! Am I robbing graves at someone's family grave?

Once calm, there's no way Lin Li could just reply with "I am here," so he turned his head, looked at the person not far away who seemed to be staring at him, possibly Wu Xuan, and nodded.

That person also nodded, soon tossing over the second paper ball.

"Buddy, haven't seen you before, you don't seem to be a local?"

"Well, there was an error when the exam room was assigned, and I was placed in the wrong room."

Feeling the other person won't stop until he gets an answer, Lin Li then responded with a paper note—anyway, even if caught by the invigilator, just looking at the content, it was clear that it wasn't cheating.

Moreover... Lin Li suspected this invigilator was possibly the dedicated last exam hall invigilator, very skilled at handling the situation that happens in this exam room.

Will he catch paper notes? Probably lazy to bother.

Wu Xuan replied back with a message.

Lin Li opened it.

"What does 'error' mean?"

Wait, what?

Wu Xuan, I'm kind of "beep—" your mom now.

Lin Li felt his brain wrinkles being smoothed out, as if he were strolling in a Norwegian forest, forgetting the rest.

Surely, is there another classroom for experts like Lin Yi Feng?

Nansang Middle School was after all a county's top school, theoretically, except for sports students, all others should have excellent grades, and even sports students have academic requirements upon admission, it's not just being physically strong while being a complete illiterate and can just get in.

Of course, Lin Li knew public schools inevitably have the backdoor.

Some children of teachers or social figures with poor grades could also get admitted by spending some money, but are there really so many in numbers?

Lin Li took a deep breath and replied to the message:

"It just means error. Anyway, I shouldn't be in this exam room, so I still need to take the exam, let's chat after the exam (no need to reply to this one)."

Just after this paper ball was tossed out, another paper ball came back.

Starting to seriously suspect it just has a "fine" word in it, Lin Li then looked up at Wu Xuan.

——Honestly, patience was running out.

It turned out Wu Xuan waved his hands repeatedly, pointing at another girl, seeming it wasn't written by him.

Lin Li opened it.

"Hello, do you have a girlfriend? If not, can I have your QQ or WeChat?"

Lips twitched, Lin Li lifted his head and looked at one of the few girls in the classroom near Wu Xuan.

Pallidly nodding towards her, to prevent misunderstandings of this being affirmative, he mouthed "already have," then pointed to the paper note and waved off indicating "won't give."

She nodded, but then tossed another paper note over:

"Is she nice to you? If not, you can switch. I think we could economically maintain a household together: I help you save 2T of hard drive space while you help me save 2 batteries."

Starting to feel annoyed now.

This time, Lin Li didn't write a paper note nor did he respond with mouth gestures, instead, he blandly crushed the paper note into a ball and tossed it into the drawer.

Ignoring was his answer.

Regardless of whether the other person understood his intention, Lin Li continued with his test paper.

In other subjects' tests, Lin Li could guarantee finishing with over an hour of spare time, but Chinese was different—Chinese was a subject where even if the correct answers were in front of you, you wouldn't want to copy them. Wasting time chatting with these people could lead to unfinished work.

Lin Li planned to score poorly, but he had his own method—he wanted to make the class teacher aware that he could get the answers right but deliberately chose wrong ones.

It's a meaningful way to lose points.

It's simple to use not writing to achieve grade decline.

But firstly, it's hard to explain to the teacher, and secondly, given Wu Min and Chen Yu Ying's mom knowing about his relationship with Chen Yu Ying, it might lead them to change their supportive stance, thinking studies were being compromised and even suspecting last time's top spot in the grade was questionable, leading to more loss than gain.

Yet another paper note came over.

Really angry now!

Time to end this drama.

Just as Lin Li was about to stand up and speak to everyone, he saw Du Hansi frantically waving at him as if indicating the note was written by him.

For Du Hansi's sake, some patience could be granted.

"Bro, keep writing, I'll talk to them to stop bothering you."

Seeing Du Hansi's message on the note, Lin Li raised his eyebrows and then nodded towards him.

Du Hansi returned an OK with a hand gesture.

Perhaps thanks to Du Hansi's help, finally, Lin Li found some peace.

Just now and then, he could sense quite a few people's gazes fixated on him as the 'outsider,' increasing as time passed.

But it didn't matter.

Lin Li was already onto the composition.

After reading the essay topic, Lin Li quickly sifted through countless full-score essay templates he memorized using [Strong Memory], selecting one that could match, then started translating from Chinese to Chinese, incorporating several beautiful unbeatable sentences as the beginning and ending.

Ever since gaining [Strong Memory], Lin Li had always been writing essays like this.

Silver tray with gold rims, pretty effective, his essay scores consistently floated between 50 to 56 points, considered quite high scores.

Writing whatever felt too bothersome.

Lin Li's penmanship was all spent on describing Chen Yu Ying, no time allocated for essays.

As he was writing intently, Lin Li suddenly halted— 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

[Accidentally entering the servant disciples' residence of the sect, once they know your identity, they choose to distance themselves, unwilling to associate, claiming there are differences in circles, impossible to force union.

Yet as fellow sect disciples, there shouldn't be grudges between comrades, rather it should be camaraderie and acceptance among all disciples, and being gained recognition today may lead to aid in the future! Beneficial without harm!]

[Task Triggered!]

[Task Three: During the apprenticeship tournament period, gain recognition from at least 20 sect servant disciples (3/20)]

[Task Rewards: Physical Improvement: Martial Arts Talent Enhancement by 100%; Random Magic Treasure; System Currency*100]