Three Monks and No Water to Drink
"Damn it, what kind of hellish questions are these?" Moberi sat at his desk, staring at the questions on the Exam Paper, completely overwhelmed by self-doubt.
"Am I taking a mock college entrance exam?"
Although that's what he said, he could clearly recognize that every question on the Exam Paper was a serious, rigorous college entrance exam question, with every point strictly adhering to the rules. But could someone really finish an exam like this, where even the multiple-choice questions involved six or seven knowledge points, in just two hours?
Taking a deep breath, Moberi began to solve the problem using his most common substitution method, which did save some time. However, when he came to the fill-in-the-blank questions, he decisively chose to skip them.
According to the exam strategy taught by the teacher, when the questions are of similar difficulty, it is wise to choose to answer the ones with higher scores first.
While Moberi and other regular high school seniors were using the knowledge they had learned at school to answer the questions, the three gods found themselves in a predicament.
The first to break down mentally was God of Nightmares had been forcing himself to listen attentively in class for the past week. Looking at the questions, he felt his scalp tingle. He thought the content taught by the teacher in class was already incomprehensible, but the Exam Paper before him was truly despairing.
Over millions of years, he accumulated a great deal of useful authority, and he also possessed powers such as wisdom. But in the end, to ensure that he would not be burdened by his own origin, the ancient gods mostly treated new authority as a tool. Without the nourishment of Divine Power, the strength of these Divine Technique was naturally questionable.
Not to mention that the exam itself is not simply a battle of knowledge, but more about the accumulation of experience and the game of strategizing with the question setter. In just one week, the knowledge that God of Nightmares can acquire is far less than one ten-thousandth of the knowledge in the college entrance examination question bank, which leads to him not even being able to pass the Examine Question the questions.
Next to collapse was the God of Sweet Dreams, whose collected power of dreams suffered a setback in the very first test.
Having successfully navigated the fill-in-the-blank and multiple-choice questions by mastering the concepts of "Examine Question" and "Break Down Question," she encountered the biggest hurdle of the exam—
She couldn't write the answer on paper.
This magical Exam Paper isn't particularly powerful, but it's incredibly tricky. It prevents you from writing down answers you don't understand. For fill-in-the-blank and multiple-choice questions, you can understand the question's logic by Examine Question and then use Break Down Question force to arrive at the answer, since Examine Question itself is part of the comprehension process, and you can barely give an answer. However, for problem-solving questions, the process itself is part of the answer.
However, the God of Sweet Dreams directly Break Down Question cannot write a process that is within the curriculum using "high school student thinking".
She couldn't even write down the word "solution"!
Compared to her two gloomy colleagues, the Lord of Incubus was full of pride. With millions of Succubus enrolled in the academy to collect college entrance exam questions, and then Dominate Incubus Authority, she was like a question bank. She could look at a mere math problem and immediately find several or even dozens of the same or similar question types in her mind, just like Search Engine.
Although it was all just rote memorization, as long as there were templates, the authority accumulated by the gods could be put to use. These similar question types were quickly analyzed, and the Exam Paper of the Lord of Incubus was being filled at lightning speed.
While meticulously working out the solution on the artifact-grade draft paper, the Lord of Incubus's lips curled into a smirk. She raised her head, glanced at the God of Sweet Dreams and God of Nightmares not far from her, and felt a surge of superiority as she watched their troubled expressions.
"Heh heh, how could one-on-one possibly defeat my million-strong army of dream demons?"
However, the Lord of Incubus's smugness didn't last long. After handing in her math paper and receiving the Liberal Arts Comprehensive paper, her brain went blank for a moment as she looked at the subjective questions.
It wasn't because the questions were too difficult, but because the college entrance exam questions collected by the dream demons contained a large number of contradictory answers.
"People from different countries... no, even different regions, have different answers to the same question? The problem is, which country is this nightmare from? Palin? But even in the Parlin Kingdom's capital, there have been three completely different solutions to the same question over the past ten years!"
Inside the principal's office, looking at the surveillance screen that had expanded to six figures, the Miss Ke Family rubbed her temples. She had to admit that the million Succubus brought by the Lord of Incubus had undoubtedly provided considerable help to the School Hell.
"The three gods of the Dream System have made quite a stir, especially with the unusual behavior of the dream demons in the past week. This will soon attract the attention of other gods."
"There's no need to worry too much about this." Hearing the Miss Ke Family's concerns, Feng Xue smiled and shook her head. "Generally speaking, when a deity suddenly starts behaving abnormally, according to the logic of the deity, the most likely suspicion is that they are about to expand to other faiths. As for the three gods... even if it's just to occupy this special dream rule, the three gods won't spread it outside."
"So confident?" Although the Miss Ke Family had lived long enough, her impression of gods was only of them frantically devouring each other. After all, ever since she woke up from the chaotic and Omen state, she was the only god left in her world. Having not experienced the startup phase of the supernatural Weird Tale, she seemed to have a hard time understanding the normal development pattern of Weird Tale.
"The driving force of profit is extremely powerful. For Dream System deities, a dream that can even prevent them from using their own Divine Power can almost be considered an unexplored dream realm. If it were merely about profit, they might think twice, but the problem is that there are three top-tier Dream God in this dream."
Feng Xue pointed to the three figures sitting in a triangular formation at their desks in the classroom and said with a smile:
"The saying goes, 'One monk carries water, two monks share the burden, three monks have no water to drink.' When the three gods discovered their old rival was also in this dream, their concern shifted from how to seize control of the rule to how to prevent the other two from doing so. After all, in Dream System without a master god, such a clearly high-priority dream could potentially disrupt the current balance for anyone, leading to their own downfall. Simply put, if you know there's a sword that can kill you with a high probability, would you let it fall into the enemy's hands?"
"Don't even mention leaving it to the enemy; we should even try to conceal its existence." The Miss Ke Family nodded thoughtfully, but when she looked at the three deities who had answered the questions, a hint of pity appeared in her eyes—
Little did they know that the dream they so cherished was, in essence, not a dream at all, but rather, another world...
Last night, the car finally gave me my XP card, and I swooshed over it! Now the problem is, the new book's Golden Finger is similar to an integrated strategy system. I'm considering whether to wait and see the Life Calculation and board game instead? Speaking of which, the new book's world view does have a farming element... However, the Life Calculation rules are a bit complicated, and people who haven't played it before might not understand it. I'll think about it some more.