stonecrandall Chapter 24 The more years you repeat, the better you'll do on the exam.
Chapter 24 The more years you repeat, the better you'll do on the exam.
Fingel and Guderian's heads popped out from under the door.
Guderian called out softly to Lu Mingfei, who was standing in the middle of the room.
"Mingfei! I just finished reading the dragon script to you! How do you feel?"
Lu Mingfei looked at Professor Guderian, who had just been standing outside the door with only his head sticking out, reciting dragon script to him.
"I thought you just sang a song as a warm-up... To be honest, I didn't feel anything at all, is that right?"
"You didn't feel anything?! How is that possible! Did I mispronounce it?!"
Even when Professor Guderian questioned his own abilities, he never questioned Lu Mingfei's lineage.
But just as he was about to read it again, Fingel quickly stopped him.
"No, no, no! I felt it just now! It must be true!"
"Then why didn't I react? I'm just an ordinary person with superhuman strength."
Guderian and Fingel entered the dormitory, Fingel looking at them with a strange expression.
"Don't you find it ridiculous to say that to yourself?"
Guderian, however, was deep in thought.
"But he really didn't react at all to the Word of Power: Emperor, while any dragon hybrid would react!... So there's only one possibility! You've mutated!"
Upon hearing this, Lu Mingfei couldn't help but speak.
"Does this mean I should go to Xavier's School?"
"I think it probably has nothing to do with the X-Men."
Fingel offered a timely retort.
But Guderian was very excited.
"You are unique! A mutated hybrid who doesn't react to the Word of Power: Emperor! But how am I supposed to convince others that you're a mutant and not just someone with a flawed bloodline?"
Seeing the old professor stroking his chin, Fingel calmly patted Lu Mingfei on the shoulder.
"I don't think it's a problem. Anyone who wants to say that his bloodline is bad, Caesar and Chu Zihang, who were knocked down by him, will definitely be the first to stand up and object."
But Guderian still stroked his chin with a furrowed brow.
"That's the gist of the matter, but that's not how it works. If you don't pass the 3E, it will affect my professor's evaluation."
"Aren't you the best professor here? The best professor with the best students."
Hearing Lu Mingfei's question, Guderian remained silent, while Fingel burst into laughter.
"Unfortunately, we operate on the principle of 'Tian Ji's horse racing' here, where the most brilliant people are paired with the least brilliant professors. Our Professor Guderian is still just an assistant professor."
"Wait a minute, so my dear Professor Guderian still has no teaching experience?"
"Not really, my last student was Fingel."
Guderian slapped Fingel on the back of the head with tremendous force, as if he were about to flatten his head.
"The principal took good care of me, assigning a deserving S-level outstanding student like you to me. Cultivating you into an outstanding student is as easy as training a table tennis player who has already won a grand slam to defeat the village team without any opponent."
Unfortunately, you were a bit too outstanding, and the school's grading system couldn't keep up, resulting in problems.
"So, really, no one here questions my lineage?"
Lu Mingfei was inexplicably unwilling to give up, and it was unclear what he was arguing about, but unfortunately, Fingel and Guderian simply patted him on the shoulder in unison.
"That's impossible. Even if you really don't have the bloodline, with this kind of physical ability, the principal would only give you an S grade. We've always been very flexible."
Lu Mingfei sighed and prepared to start chugging, saying as he drank.
"What about the exam? If I do poorly on the exam, then I'll truly be unworthy of being called Lu Mingfei—"
"I do have an idea."
As if he had just thought of something, Fingel suddenly spoke up, and Lu Mingfei and Guderian both looked at him.
"I have a secret."
"A secret technique?"
The boy and the old man both uttered sounds of doubt.
After a long silence, Guderian couldn't hold back any longer.
"Tell me! What's the secret?"
Fingel looked at Lu Mingfei.
"Sanqi".
"...I want to keep my wine."
"make a deal."
So they got back into the swing of things, the three of them putting their arms around each other's shoulders.
"The professor knows that only seventy-six sentences of dragon script have been deciphered so far."
Professor Guderian understood instantly and looked at Fingel.
"You repeated four years just for this day?!"
Fingel smiled knowingly and then spoke.
"No, I'm just a complete novice, but Mingfei, you can understand by looking at the professor's expression, right?"
Seeing Guderian's excitement and the nervousness in his eyes as if he were secretly up to no good, Lu Mingfei understood.
"You mean you have a question bank? You can cheat?"
"Cough cough, humph!"
Professor Guderian immediately straightened up and turned around to indicate that he hadn't heard that part, given Lu Mingfei's bluntness.
Fingel immediately spoke up.
"The school's question bank is updated every eight years, and your senior just happened to have the answers."
"So we can set up a betting platform and rake in a lot of money using my passing the exam?"
Hearing Lu Mingfei's quick reaction, Fingel and Lu Mingfei happily high-fived.
"Junior! I knew you had talent. We're such good friends, it's like we've known each other for ages. No wonder we're both Professor Guderian's students."
Guderian, who had turned his back, felt a little awkward, but for the sake of being a tenured professor, he didn't say anything more.
"Well, this time the answer is mine after all. I get 70% and you get 30%. What do you say?"
He cautiously stated that he would take 70% and the other 30%, but Lu Mingfei surprisingly had no objections this time. It was just a pity that there was a third person standing there to prevent eavesdropping.
"Cough cough cough! Everyone who sees this gets a share! Cough cough cough!"
Upon hearing Guderian's voice, Lu Mingfei immediately switched sides.
"Yeah, without a professor's endorsement, how can anyone believe this? I'm so amazing, if this news gets out, how dare they bet I won't pass the exam without a professor's explanation? If you ask me, it's a complete disaster."
Professor Guderian looked at Lu Mingfei gratefully, but Lu Mingfei remained calm. After all, he was a long-term drinking buddy, and the richer Guderian was, the better he drank.
Then the professor and Lu Mingfei glared at Fingel with a shared sense of righteous indignation. Fingel looked at the two of them, and the two stared at each other for a long time.
"Okay, three, three, four, but I can't buy you any more alcohol."
Lu Mingfei smiled slightly, "It's nothing, it's nothing."
"Okay, I'll post it. What should the title be? Breaking News: Freshmen S-Rank Show No Reaction to Dragon Runes?"
"It's up to you, I don't care."
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Inside the Norton Hall, everyone watched a battle replay on a large screen, which Caesar had bought from Fingel.
The student council remained silent.
They had seen Lu Mingfei holding up the Red Team uniform and frantically firing at the Red Team, and they had also seen Lu Mingfei forcefully throwing a nuclear bomb.
They even gave it two close-ups! And there was a rousing background music!
Then came the mutual flattery between Caesar and Chu Zihang. Because things happened so fast, they both thought the other was behind it. The editor even added canned laughter and funny background music to this part.
Someone tried to step forward and turn off the video, but Caesar remained silent and cold, his aura silencing the person.