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Compared with the exploratory, adaptive focus of freshman year, the academic pressure of sophomore year at the California Institute of Technology had clearly risen by another level.

The school had deliberately increased the proportion of core major courses and prerequisite requirements, aiming to lay a solid and broad foundation for students' deeper, more specialized study and research once they entered their junior year.

As a result, the schedules of Lin Hai and the other three had all been packed tightly, as directly reflected by the densely filled timetables in their hands.

Although Lin Hai and Gwen, Peter and Harry belonged to two different fields of study, they found that their course schedules this semester were remarkably synchronized. It was no longer like freshman year, when one of them often had class in the morning while another had it in the afternoon, leaving their schedules out of sync.

Now, they were basically awakened by their alarms together every morning, then headed to campus together. When school ended, they could usually set off for home together as well.

This highly regimented campus life ran day after day like a program that had already been set.

The rhythm of school was almost completely unchanging—day after day, week after week.

However, when one fully immersed oneself in absorbing knowledge and overcoming academic challenges one by one, it did not feel dull or tedious. Instead, it brought a fulfilling sense of satisfaction.

Still, there was no denying that repetition and plainness were the main themes of campus life, even for people like Lin Hai and his friends, who had experienced extraordinary things.

Classrooms, laboratories, libraries, and their little home... these formed the main quadrants of their lives.

Yet compared to other ordinary sophomores, the supernatural qualities Lin Hai and the others possessed often brought unusual