Chapter 58: Sure Enough, Grandpa Was Right!
“How was it? The exam was easy, right?”
When it comes to the most heartbreaking questions to ask after finishing an exam, this one is definitely at the top of the list.
Casual chit-chat from an academic master will mostly unconsciously deeply stab the already riddled and fragile heart of a poor student.
At this moment, Li Wei was in such a state.
At the dinner table, everyone present was a big shot who had been rigorously trained to death by the private school using question sea tactics and graduated.
On Blue Star in the Zhonghua Family, there’s not much difference between public schools and private schools.
Private schools are just a bit more affluent, with much nicer uniforms, more choices in the canteen food, richer faculty, and slightly more advanced teaching facilities, that’s all.
But in the Pokémon world, for schools teaching foundation courses, no matter how advanced the facilities, it’s still a case of the cleverest housewife cannot cook a meal without rice.
A group of children under fifteen years old unable to claim Pokémon, and this limits the upper ceiling of elementary, middle, and high schools, making private schools lose absolute competitiveness, completely incomparable to the university academies that students will apply to later.
In this situation, private schools, to ensure their reputation, enrollment rates, and so on, besides teaching some ballroom dancing and social skills needed by ‘upper society’, they also grip scores very tightly, even preemptively teaching basic knowledge for the Trainer exam to boost admission rates.
At least the high school Li Wei attends is committed to pulling the average score more than 10 points higher than public schools; it’s said the reform started from their class, so when their second-year high school students graduated, it was tearful all around.
“It was pretty simple, just the last open-ended discussion question—I’m not too sure about the scoring points for that one. Not clear if the direction leaned toward ‘Pokémon protection’ or ‘regulations on Trainer conduct codes’, but I thought neither contradicted, so I wrote half and half on both sides.”
Tu Xiaomi recalled the written exam questions, making a terrifying remark that made Li Wei feel horrified.
Li Wei: (O_o)??
“Yeah, yeah, that’s how I wrote it too—first write the definitions of a few rules and regulations and various special terms, and the examples given in the textbook, then combine with the examples in the article for actual analysis.”
Tian Bai immediately chimed in.
Li Wei: Σ(⊙▽⊙”a???
“Questions like this are mostly like that, right? Pretending to make you agree or disagree, then compare and analyze, but actually you have to stand on both sides, say good or bad, right or wrong, if you don’t, you’ll miss nearly half the score.”
Under Li Wei’s shocked gaze, even Yu Yixian joined the discussion.
“Indeed, it’s so annoying, I almost didn’t finish writing.”
Zhou Fengjue reaped, striking the fourth layer of blood rage with his words.
Li Wei: (ω)!
“I think it was okay······ basically whatever was hard to test was on it, but the content was all covered in the last few days’ courses, so with analogy, it was easy to write.”
Mo Jiu casually supplemented about this written exam while rubbing the few tufts of fur on Morpeko’s top of head.
Li Wei: )Д(
Blood rage stacked full, one big chop down, Li Wei dies, no problem.
“Ah, that’s true, but this time there were too many subjective questions, getting 85% would be good.”
Tian Bai continued somewhat regrettably.
“Yeah, if I’m lucky I can get around 90%, A-star seems hopeful.” Mo Jiu nodded, plainly saying something extremely terrifying.
“Eh? Mo Jiu, you knew the fill-in-the-blanks too? There were so many strange questions inside, I had a few I’m unsure about.”
Speaking of scores, Tu Xiaomi asked Mo Jiu in surprise.
“Yeah, I have impressions of them all, just went back before the battle to flip through the textbook and found I got them all right.”
“Eh??? You found the answers? Where where, let me see!”
Saying that, the several girls huddled together····· oh, and Yu Yixian squeezed in too.
At the dinner table, Zhou Fengjue calmly ate with his own Treecko, while only Li Wei had no appetite for tea or rice, always feeling something was wrong with how he opened today.
As expected······
The downside of not receiving memories is right here.
Living habits were fine, his copycat skills in etiquette were top-notch, and originally in his previous world, his etiquette standards were also very proper, so getting along with people wasn’t much trouble.
Since transmigrating until now, the biggest difficulty wasn’t clashing worldviews with this world, nor unpleasant interactions with Pokémon, but exams.
Being in a pile of academic masters was like a little duck alone among a flock of geese.
In? Can’t hold on anymore, is there anyone to save me??
“Hm? Li Wei, why aren’t you talking?”
After discussing for a bit, noticing the usually active Li Wei was completely silent, Tian Bai turned her body, patted Li Wei’s arm, and asked him.
“I······ have nothing to say to you guys.”
“No way? You didn’t really forget all the second-year high school knowledge after a month off, right??”
Tian Bai helplessly patted her head.
“Probably······ something like that.”
“Then what about your provincial exam?” A somewhat worried Tian Bai turned and asked Li Wei.
“Passing this time seems no problem.”
“Oh, that’s fine then, actually as long as you pass there’s no issue, anyway it’s all recommendation. Your recommendation level should be higher than ours, right? Seems no score requirement, no need to worry, your father is reliable.”
Tian Bai thought for a bit and continued to Li Wei.
“Yeah, but if the score really sucks······”
Saying that, Li Wei couldn’t help thinking of the occasional stories in his class from before about kids who got into school through ‘connections and channels’ being discriminated against······ sighed a bit annoyingly.
“What’s the big deal, your dad has so many merits, even if your score is trash no one will do anything to you, plus you’re strong in battle anyway. Anyway, we don’t break the law, exams are ultimately to correct worldviews, subtly educating to reduce crime rates.”
Tian Bai patted Li Wei’s shoulder and continued to comfort him.
“Sigh, you’re right. Wait for the scores, targeted review these few days.”
Rarely, Li Wei also realized the urgency of the situation.
Tian Bai’s comfort gave him a slight sense of crisis.
After all, that was Tian Bai.
Comfort from her contained a level of blow no less than Yu Yixian’s mockery.
And most importantly, the Riolu next to him was euphemistically indicating with Aura that he had basically learned it all, and if there were questions he didn’t know, he seemed able to help.
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Ah this.
As a Trainer, his self-esteem was seriously damaged again.
“Though, seems we can hold a study session? Memorizing alone is so dull and boring, right? And there are knowledge points and stuff, reciting the whole book is too silly, gotta pick key points to memorize.”
Tian Bai thought for a bit and continued.
Li Wei: (ΩДΩ)???
Riolu: (⊙_⊙)?
“Wait, what’s with that expression. Wow!!! You didn’t memorize the whole thing, right?”
Li Wei: ······
“You······ ah this······ although for the Trainer exam, that’s a bit safer, but······ why didn’t you ask me for notes?? This is basically the same as our graduation exam!!! You just need to memorize the same knowledge points!”
“Why didn’t you say so earlier?”
“Why didn’t you ask earlier? Does anyone really recite thirty books cover to cover? Even just the exam outline parts is nearly a million words! Are you crazy?”
“Uh······ isn’t the Trainer exam supposed to test all that? And shouldn’t basic Trainer knowledge be memorized fully?”
Li Wei’s brain suddenly short-circuited, memories of reciting Lu Xun, Zhu Ziqing articles, and poems cover to cover surged up.
Isn’t language arts something you have to memorize entirely?
And the Riolu sitting beside had the same thought.
‘Isn’t studying just like that???
One person and one Pokémon, with equally doubtful eyes and the same head tilt angle, looked at Tian Bai waiting for her explanation.
“You······ do law students have to recite all the statutes cover to cover? Same logic? Just recite a few key representative ones? Use the rest of your brain capacity to remember keywords, isn’t that better? Did you get full marks on your final by reciting everything?”
Tilt? Li Wei? Wake up???
······
“I’m an idiot.”
After being silent for a long time, Li Wei quietly said this.
And Riolu took a deep breath, jabbing the chopsticks hard into the potato nearby.
“Well, but being able to recite everything is impressive too. Hahaha, you’re awesome, hahahaha. Also, if I may ask boldly, up to which volume did you memorize?”
“Twenty-one.”
“Impressive impressive, not surprising it’s you.”
()
But obviously, Li Wei didn’t want this kind of praise at all.
“Someday when everyone organizes a study session, I’ll lend you my notes to copy, after all there are quite a few minor knowledge points in there, maybe stuff I wrote you won’t understand, I’ll explain to you.
Also hey, I’m pretty envious of Mo Jiu’s notes too, once I snag them, we’ll share, hehe.”
Saying that, Tian Bai comically poked Mo Jiu’s arm.
Mo Jiu: “Okay.”
Li Wei: “Okay, remember to call me.”
“Got it~ Once the place is ready I’ll definitely call you, as for Li Wei······ this time I’ll go straight to your home and knock, no call, I’m scared.”
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The pleasant conversation ended just like that, after eating, the group stretched lazily, strolled to the Zone 1 exam venue like taking a walk, released their Pokémon, handed exam numbers to the examiner for identity verification, then went to the preparation seats to wait for the battle exam.
3-minute battle, time is short, but lots can be done.
At the same time, Li Wei wasn’t planning to let his Riolu shine alone and complete the task for his friends.
After following the discussion arrangements, his task was just to be the vanguard.
As a tank, block the opponent’s main carry, wait for teammates to carry.
Because they arrived right on time, they waited less than ten minutes before it was their battle.
6v6, their side’s battle Pokémon were Riolu, Treecko, Morpeko, Ponyta, Whimsicott, and Mime Jr.
Opponent’s lineup was Pidgey, Metapod, Woobat, Fennekin, Rowlet, and Wooloo.
Lineup could only be described as average, nurturing degree purely by visual estimate, after Li Wei and Riolu discussed and gauged with Aura, their judgment was:
Give Magikarp a pool of water, it could at least 1-for-4.
Winning was never the issue, the way matters.
Even if Yu Yixian went all out, with his Ponyta’s training level, at most 128-to-64 strong.
His Pokémon’s power burst is after evolution, Psychic Power mastery relies on time accumulation and energy stacking.
Like Eevee, without that top Orb in her body, forget Psychic Power drawing, with her personality, even meditation would be a big problem.
Tian Bai is similar.
Mime Jr.’s combat power is not to be underestimated, after training, its bulk, tankiness, recovery are terrifying, paired with her physical super output as a nurse, one can imagine its terrifying form in a year.
But that’s also in a year.
Zhou Fengjue’s combat power he hadn’t gauged, but his Treecko’s energy condensation had reached critical value, evolution probably in these few days.
Tu Xiaomi could break into top 32 with pure output strength.
The most inscrutable was Mo Jiu.
That Morpeko usually seemed to only know eating, but whether from his own or Riolu’s Aura detection, the energy fluctuations showed the terrifying energy mass inside it.
While Morpeko was greedily sticking to him, Li Wei was also observing it.
From his judgment, the size of the energy mass in Morpeko had nothing to do with full-belly or empty-belly patterns.
In the game, Morpeko is dual-attribute, form switch doesn’t change its attribute.
But in reality, after League research, it’s found that with form switch, Morpeko’s attribute also switches like Aura Wheel.
Full-belly pattern is Electric attribute, empty-belly pattern is Dark attribute.
The biggest difficulty in nurturing this kind of Pokémon is the energy conversion rate and speed during pattern switch.
Unfortunately, after Li Wei and Riolu’s secret observation, Mo Jiu’s Morpeko switched forms very smoothly, and the internal energy converted attributes almost without loss.
What that means, Li Wei naturally knew very well.
Purely judging strength by energy mass, converting all energy to Thunder Shock and unleashing, its power would be more terrifying than Eevee’s current Thunder Shock.
Eevee has attribute Orb boost, though the energy in the top Orb is dispersed evenly across organs, but per Eevee’s own judgment, she can currently absorb less than twenty percent of the energy.
Much energy needs external drifting attribute energy to assist internal energy operation for absorption.
But even so, flexible use of this twenty percent plus energy output is enough for Eevee to unleash skills comparable to Elite Level Pokémon.
His Eevee has a cheat, he knows.
But what kind of thing is this eating-only Morpeko?
Li Wei had a premonition, this Mo Jiu definitely has a big move behind!
As expected, Grandpa was right!
The prettier the woman, the more wicked the heart!!
So, even if he was leading unrivaled in this training camp, he still quietly, secretly practiced a few trump cards on the down-low.
Not afraid of anything else, provincial competition first not forced, strive hard, win and show off, lose and it’s the taking part that counts.
But capsizing in the gutter, he really doesn’t like that!
Gotta be careful and cautious.
July 30
【July 29, 647 votes, no extra chapter】
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Drank Cola today.
Cola, ah those bubbles, ah that mouthfeel.
Drinking to the bottom, it’s the taste of emotion, the instant Cola hits the tongue, tears wet the eyes.
Ah my god, this is Cola!
Feels like the soul has been sublimated.
Wuwuwuwu.
Crying tone.
Recently home, very unaccustomed, usually don’t stay home two months, so home facilities and stuff aren’t suited for long-term writing.
Today finally reached tolerance limit.
Went to buy small table and small chair.
Convenient for ten thousand words daily now.
Now writing, either neck hurts, waist hurts, or wrist hurts.
In short, all sorts of discomfort.
Hope future ten thousand word updates are fine.
Tomorrow is the last 4k chapter.
Enjoy this last short and powerless one!
Oh, tomorrow can write the go on sale testimonial.
Honestly, I’ve wanted to write that for a long time, hehehe.
Might be a bit long, might be very chatty, but don’t dislike me too much hehehe.
Arrangement is like this.
Tomorrow eight o’clock, update last 4k chapter and go on sale testimonial.
Same day 0:10 PM release go on sale chapters.
As for if not released by then.
Don’t ask
Ask and it’s AI idiot scheming against me.
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That’s it.
End.
