TTW Chapter 189: I repeated school 8 times (Patreon)

Lin Yi's method was to go look for Finger.

For this perpetual student, his understanding of Cassel College was concrete.

"Ten thousand US dollars to help me with the 3E exam."

In the dormitory, Finger was baffled by Lin Yi's sudden visit.

Lin Yi had become famous on his first day at the school, enjoying his day of freedom, defeating both Caesar and Chu Zihang, unmatched in the limelight.

And yet, he was troubled by a mere 3E exam.

But with an offer of ten thousand US dollars, Finger couldn't refuse and immediately became all smiles.

"Hehe, you've come to the right senior." Finger casually slung his arm over Lin Yi's shoulder, establishing a good relationship with him. In the future, when going out to pick up girls, he'd have more to talk about.

Finger lowered his voice, "Every test is just a tool, and tools are invented by '200' humans, and anything invented by humans definitely has flaws!"

"Speak plainly."

Lin Yi rolled his eyes, disliking this kind of cryptic talk.

"Do you mind cheating?" Finger looked at him intently.

"Not... in the slightest!"

Lin Yi said decisively, as he had planned to cheat from the beginning, which is why he sought out Finger.

"Promising material!" Finger admired Lin Yi's determination.

"To do a good job, one must first sharpen one's tools. If we're going to cheat, we must deeply understand the subject of the cheating! Junior brother, do you know how many sentences of Dragon Script have been deciphered to date?"

"Isn't it counted by words?"

"Wrong! It's by sentences! There are only seventy-six sentences!" Finger had an instructive air about him, "Language is divided into characters and grammar. These two parts combine to form an infinite number of sentences. But Dragon Language is a dead script, with only characters left and no grammar anymore."

Lin Yi smiled faintly. This perpetual student, Finger, actually was not as simple as he appeared to be on the surface. It could be said that he had hidden himself well, but Lin Yi did not point it out. Instead, he nodded agreeably as if in acknowledgment.

"Senior brother, are you saying there's a question bank?"

"You've hit the nail on the head! I'll tell you the way the questions are set. When you enter the exam room, they will only give you a blank sheet of paper and a pencil, with no hints whatsoever. They will play a recording of the chanting of Dragon language. For those of dragon lineage, the Dragon language resonates with the spirit, creating a 'clairvoyant' effect. Dragon language is a kind of pictographic script, and you'll 'see' incredible visions."

"What do you see?"

"It's different for everyone, often a mess of lines, tangles of snakes, wildly growing plants, and the like. You just need to record what you see, that's all," said Finger with certainty.

"I'm exceptional at drawing."

Lin Yi was not bragging about this; in his past life, he had indeed spent some time learning to draw.

"The level of your drawing isn't the key; it's more about the effect of your 'clairvoyance'. Students with purer bloodlines see more, and what they see is more vivid." Finger pulled out a sheet of paper and quickly sketched with a pencil. It was surprising to see that Finger was skilled in drawing; Lu Mingfei watched as the pencil lines gradually formed a picture that was very abstract, with countless waveforms overlapping, resembling an ocean from afar.

"This picture contains a lot of curves. If you extract certain parts from these curves," Finger emphasized some of the lines, "they become the 'characters' of Dragon language. The person grading the paper is Norma; she will analyze in detail what you have drawn, looking for the Dragon language within it. It's very precise, so scribbling nonsensically is useless. This drawing was one I made back in the day, one of the exam questions."

"To put it simply, there are seventy-six pictures in total, and they all vary."

Lin Yi frowned slightly.

His memory could achieve photographic precision, but the variations were too numerous; to say there were tens of billions of possibilities was an understatement.

Even with his strong memory, it was impossible to memorize such a vast array of questions in the mere two days of preparation time.

If on the day of the exam he happened to get questions he was not familiar with, wouldn't that be a joke?

"Don't worry, it's not easy for my junior brother to ask for my help. I will certainly take care of it for you, in addition to doing a lot of practice questions," Finger grinned, showing his teeth. "The biggest flaw of the 3e exam system at Cassel Academy is that they recycle old exam papers!"

"Recycle?" Lu Mingfei asked, puzzled.

"There are only eight sets of papers, one cycle every eight years, always reused and never changed!"

Lin Yi raised his eyebrows.

"Every year, only a few dozen or a hundred people take the 3e exam, all geniuses. They graduate in four years, and upon graduation, they inevitably join the executive department, traveling the world to explore dragon relics. How could they possibly remember the exam questions to leak them to the new students? So, the eight-year cycle is actually safe, but there are always exceptions...."

Speaking of this, Finger actually patted his chest with a bit of pride, "Your senior brother has repeated a year eight times, I've seen all sorts of test papers."

Lin Yi twitched the corner of his mouth, not knowing what there was to be proud of.

But just as Finger said, this time he had found the right person.

All he had to do was remember all the variations of these eight sets of test papers, and he could easily deal with the 3E exam.

"Deal."

Lin Yi nodded.

Hearing this, Finger immediately became all smiles and came closer, asking somewhat sheepishly, "What about that ten thousand dollars?"

"I haven't even received my scholarship, where would I get the money from?"

Lin Yi said indifferently.

Finger immediately widened his eyes in disbelief, as if he couldn't believe that this seemingly harmless junior brother of his was planning to freeload.

Lin Yi patted Finger on the shoulder.

"You can wait until I get my scholarship to give it to you, or you could say that you owe me a favor, which you could sell on the school forum. It should be worth ten thousand dollars for sure."

Lin Yi said calmly.

Finger suddenly froze, his expression becoming somewhat unnatural, but soon he became unserious again.

"You should have said earlier, junior brother. You don't know how famous you are now. This news, as long as it's posted on the school website, Caesar would definitely be willing to pay a high price for it."

So said Finger.

But Lin Yi knew that he would definitely not sell this favor.

Having dealt with the 3E exam matter, Lin Yi got the exam questions from Finger.

Apart from him, there was also a new student who had become a hot topic of discussion on the school forum, and that was Lu Mingfei.

During this period, the name Lu Mingfei appeared on the forum as frequently as Lin Yi's.

After 40 years, Cassel School had once again welcomed an S-grade, but Lu Mingfei's performance was really not commendable.