A Young Girl's Naive Troubles

A girl named Shi Yi responded. She had a ponytail, long eyes and eyelashes, and a round face. When her cheeks puffed up, she looked like she was holding two small steamed buns.

After Bai Pu left with Shi Yi, the old principal said in puzzlement, "Li Ling, what's the background of this student Bai Pu? He's only been at school for a few days, and the Great Tang Group is willing to donate such expensive equipment. Something's fishy about this."

Li Ling looked around and said softly, "Old Principal, this set of equipment is actually compensation someone gave to Bai Pu, and Bai Pu donated it to the school himself."

"Oh? Then why did he use the name of the Great Tang Group..."

Li Ling sighed softly, "Bai Pu told me that if he donated in his own name, the school would mistake him for some wealthy man and have too many material expectations of him, which would put unnecessary psychological pressure on him."

The old principal made a light sound, "This child is quite kind, but he's a bit too defensive, thinking of human nature as too greedy."

Li Ling said, "This may be related to his upbringing. Bai Pu was abandoned by his parents since he was a child and grew up in a shelter. Due to physical reasons, he didn't have many friends, and he even dropped out of school to recuperate before finishing the country's compulsory education. He is wary of many, many people, including me."

The old principal understood Bai Pu's growth experience and felt pity in his heart, sighing, "Truly a towering tree growing from weeds. To be able to maintain a kind heart after such a dark childhood is rare! His excessive self-protection is also human nature, and there is nothing to criticize."

"Bai Pu, this is the classroom of Senior Year 3 Class. You can come over anytime you want to listen to the class."

"Bai Pu, this is the dormitory area. The school has arranged a separate dormitory for you. I'll take you to the doorman to get the key."

"Bai Pu, the cafeteria is ahead. You can use my meal card. The money in it should be enough for you to eat for these few days..."

Shi Yi was very lively, skipping and jumping all the way, like a cheerful little deer.

Bai Pu's eyes seemed unfocused, but he was actually silently reciting the contents of the textbook in his mind, while multitasking, listening to Shi Yi explain the layout of the school.

Shi Yi handed the meal card to Bai Pu. On her meal card was a sticker of a green cartoon frog.

Bai Pu took the meal card and asked, "If you give me your meal card, what will you do for food?"

Shi Yi smiled, her slender eyes narrowed, "My grandfather lives in the school, I can freeload meals with him."

"What date does this year's college entrance examination start?" Bai Pu put away the meal card.

"Heavens, you're the first examinee I've ever met who doesn't know the time of the college entrance examination..." Shi Yi complained, "The college entrance examination starts on June 7th and ends on the 9th. It hasn't changed for many years."

"That's 12 days away," Bai Pu said.

"Well, actually everyone is not in the mood to review at this time. After three mock exams, everything that should be learned has been learned, and the next thing to look at is on-the-spot performance."

Speaking of this, Shi Yi suddenly "Oh" and woke up, "You are an Awakened, you are taking the Awakened Exam, right? It's different from our Ordinary Exam. After you finish the cultural subjects and simulated combat subjects, you have to go to the 'Mirror Image Plane' to participate in the Spirit Realm Exploration Subject exam."

The Spirit Realm Exploration Subject is held in the "Mirror Image Plane" of the Spirit Realm.

The Huaxia College Entrance Examination in the real world is a "world event" with far-reaching influence, and has been recognized by the Spirit Realm Will.

The Spirit Realm Will has specially opened up the "Mirror Image Plane" and put the Awakened examinees in batches into multiple identical plane worlds. The gains they explore in the Mirror Image Plane will be converted into the score of the "Spirit Realm Exploration Subject".

Bai Pu had learned before that the score of the Spirit Realm Exploration Subject has a very high weight, accounting for 60% of the total score of the Awakened Exam! The other two items, cultural subjects and simulated combat, each account for 20%.

In the end, what measures the value of an Awakened is still the ability to explore the Spirit Realm.

Bai Pu thought to himself that this should be a major benefit for him.

After all, Bai Pu awakened too late. Although he has reached more than half of the experience value of Level 2 after hard training in the Dead Bone Mountain Range, it is impossible to reach Level 3 in the remaining 12 days.

Among the Intersection Lands recently opened in China, there are no Intersection Lands like the Dead Bone Mountain Range, with many ignorant and mindless Skeleton monsters.

Bai Pu can clear monsters in one wave mainly because of the two-minute group magic damage effect of his "Flesh Armor." Any enemy with a bit of intelligence would run away when Bai Pu activates "Flesh Armor." So, if it were another group of monsters, Bai Pu really wouldn't be able to clear them so quickly.

Think about it, it took Qilin and the others more than a year to reach Level 3, which shows how slow the level progression is for Awakeners.

If the college entrance exam only tested hard power, Bai Pu might not be a match for those elite, rich second-generation students. Under simulated combat conditions, the second talent of [Evolution Heart]—Pure Blood Guard—would have its effect reduced by more than half because there are no suitable monsters to enslave.

Now that there's the Spirit Realm Exploration Subject, Bai Pu's confidence has naturally increased significantly.

"Still can't be optimistic, need to see my shortcomings. My combat expertise is still a weakness. I only have Advanced Level 1 in both Melee and Two-Handed Hammer. Compared to those geniuses who have been honing their combat skills since childhood, the gap is obvious."

The last time he fought the assassin Fish Intestine, Bai Pu temporarily experienced Blood Hand Colen's Advanced Level 5 Melee Expertise, and the power of combat expertise was still fresh in his mind.

Fortunately, this monster-grinding trip to Black Mist Valley yielded a large number of Life Source Points and also stored many Gene Fragments from powerful Skeleton Warriors and Undead Bone Mages.

These elite-level undead monsters don't mess around when it comes to combat expertise. For example, many Skeleton Warriors have Advanced Level 3 Melee Expertise, and many others have Advanced Level 3 Two-Handed Sword Expertise.

Bai Pu plans to use his third talent ability, [Gene Fragment], in the next ten days or so to experience combat under high expertise. This is equivalent to having countless teachers personally demonstrating and teaching Bai Pu, and the speed of improvement is definitely much faster than that of ordinary Awakeners.

Early morning.

Shi Yi, dressed in a blue sailor uniform, stood on the deserted playground, facing the personal information terminal floating in front of her, and turned on the accompaniment.

With the sunrise as her backdrop, she danced a lively and energetic dance.

"Video: Dancing in a sailor uniform, recording complete, ready to upload!"

Shi Yi opened a short video website and uploaded the video of her dancing in a sailor uniform.

"So you're a short video UP master." Bai Pu's voice sounded.

Shi Yi was startled and couldn't help but feel embarrassed and annoyed when she saw it was Bai Pu: "How long have you been here? Why, why didn't you make a sound!"

"I got here earlier than you, but you just didn't notice me." Bai Pu asked curiously, "You're not shy about dancing for so many netizens, so why can't I, a classmate, watch?"

"That's different!" Shi Yi jumped up.

Bai Pu waved his hand: "It's okay, you don't have to mind. Actually, I've been reciting all along, I just glanced at you, didn't look closely."

"..."

Watching Bai Pu's departing figure, Shi Yi felt even angrier.

"My dancing is so good-looking, and many daddy fans on the website praise me. He ran into it by luck, but he didn't even look at me properly!

"What a straight man with no aesthetic sense!"

Shi Yi recalled that Bai Pu seemed to have been cycling between the classroom, cafeteria, dormitory, and Virtual Combat Room these days, very regularly.

As the college entrance exam approached, the students had gradually become accustomed to the presence of such an odd person on campus.

Every time Bai Pu walked into the classroom or cafeteria, the girls would secretly turn their heads to look at Bai Pu, restrain their toothy smiles, and try to sit upright to show a quiet and elegant side.

Then they would secretly turn their heads again to see if that bright and handsome boy had noticed them.

However, Bai Pu never looked at anyone directly. His eyes, like morning stars in the night, seemed to have no focus, and never focused on anyone.

The classmates in the class had also discussed Bai Pu.

The girls inquired about where this top-quality young master came from, so handsome that people couldn't take their eyes off him, and also a genius who had awakened early.

Some boys said sourly that Bai Pu wasn't any young master; he grew up in a shelter and dropped out of junior high school. Coming to Seventeen Middle School to study was purely for show, and his cultural subjects were definitely not up to par.

Many girls didn't believe it and went to ask Shi Yi.

What could Shi Yi say? She could only remain silent.

But Shi Yi knew that what those boys said was the truth.

Analyzing it rationally, Bai Pu, who dropped out of junior high school, wanted to achieve excellent scores in cultural subjects with only these ten-odd days of effort; that was simply impossible.

Then why was Bai Pu working so hard? Shi Yi couldn't figure out the answer.

Did Bai Pu know that the students were discussing him like this? Shi Yi wasn't sure either. She only knew that Bai Pu definitely didn't care about these discussions.

Like a soaring eagle, he wouldn't care whether the poultry on the ground would comment on the shadow the eagle cast on the earth.

Thinking of this, Shi Yi felt a little troubled, stemming from the girl's youthful and ignorant, budding heart.

She didn't love fighting and liked dancing, and she and Bai Pu were people from two different worlds. Perhaps these ten-odd days were the only period of time they would spend together in their lives!

Regardless of whether Shi Yi was willing or not, time passed day by day, and the countdown calendar for the college entrance examination also turned page by page, finally freezing on the number zero.

The college entrance examination in the 806th year of the Spirit Energy Era arrived as scheduled.