Gu Taoyao said, wiping the sleepiness from her eyes, “It’s all lessons from my blood and tears. Seeing as you are my deskmate, we were fated to meet, so I’m telling you all this.”
Lin Xinghe asked, “Are there only written exams? I bought a potion at the magic potion stall today, and the owner said that I could use his physical potion for the exam.”
Gu Taoyao replied, “Of course not. The rote memorization exams I mentioned are not important. Although you can get points, they still don’t match the points needed for survival. You are a freshman and haven’t officially taken an exam yet, but one is sure to be soon. I remember when I first came to the school, I took the freshman exam on the fifth day.”
Lin Xinghe inquired again to try to completely understand the points system of the villain school.
There was a fixed examination with 100 random people every month. The content of the examination was undefined, and the school randomly arranged candidates to enter the examination room. Only the top 50 could get a guaranteed minimum score of 50. The top ten would get additional points based on their performance in the examination room.
Students could sign up for other exams by themselves. When the number of people reaches 100, the time of the opening of the exam room would be announced, and the scoring rules would be the same as the monthly ones.
In addition to the half-elimination test, there was another promotion test, which was also open to 100 people, but included four tests. The first round would eliminate 50 of 100 participants, the second eliminating 25 of 50, the third eliminating 12 of 25, and the fourth eliminating 7 of 13.
The top six would score points, and the guaranteed minimum score was 500.
All the exams, except the first exam for freshmen, were school-wide exams. All the departments could join, and students in the exam room could attack and kill students without any punishment. Death in the exam room was real death.
The first exam for a freshman was the department exam, which has a high safety factor and was considered part of the protection period for freshmen.
The above was one of the main ways to get points. Apart from exams, there were also miscellaneous ways to get points, such as final and midterm exams, as well as full attendance points for every month’s classes. The reward was only twenty points, but students were charged double for absences and failing exams.
The only way to get the remaining points was to do extra work on the side.
Gu Taoyao said: “I was a singer and dancer before, and I can barely survive here. There are no other job opportunities here, and I don’t want to sell my body. I can only broadcast in my room every night to earn some points so that I’m not eliminated. I have no other dreams now. My only goal is to earn enough points to buy some self-defense tools in the plane**** mall. When you pass the freshman exam, the plane mall will also be open to you. The props in the plane mall are much higher quality than those sold by the students in the school. It’s a pity that I have been here for more than a year, and I am still D-level; just like you, I have a cyan bracelet.”
Lin Xinghe remembered, today the owner of the magic potion stall had a purple bracelet, and the owner of the soy milk and fritters stall next door had a blue bracelet.
“Levels are differentiated by bracelet colors?”
“Yes, D-level is cyan, blue is C-level, purple is B-level, silver is A-level, and S-level is gold. I heard that there are SS-level and SSS-level further up, corresponding to black and black-gold. But if you can reach this level, it is estimated that your points are full and you can leave the school. There are no S grades in our modern era department, but there are a few big guys in other departments who are S grades. The xianxia playboy Xie Wuan is S-Level. I saw him from a distance, the golden bracelet is really extravagant.”
Gu Taoyao’s tone was full of envy. As if thinking of something, she added: “Hey, you shouldn’t buy magic potions, these merchants just want to scam people, five points for one tube is basically stealing. He is just using the guise of winning a magic broom in a lottery to attract people, and he…”
Gu Taoyao’s eyes fell on the broom next to Lin Xinghe, and she suddenly stuttered, “Holy… fuck…”
“This…this…is this the legendary lottery magic broom?”
“What did you do in the past? Is it the legendary koi luck?***** Do you belong to the type of people who don’t have to do anything and support their whole families on Weibo****** lotteries?”
Lin Xinghe said, “I’m in the same career path as you; I’m an actor. I’ve won the Weibo lottery many times, but my account was actually deleted because Weibo thought I was a special account for prizes.”
Gu Taoyao’s eyes lit up, clasped her hands together, she exclaimed, “The koi immortal has boundless energy, please bless me to get to the top 50 in the next exam.”
Lin Xinghe: “…”
Gu Taoyao became more enthusiastic, put her arm around Lin Xinghe, and said to her, “I’m telling you, you have to be careful with Lu Qin. She is not a good person, and many new students are caught in her webs the second they get to our school. She’s a pimp and did a lot of bad things in the name of helping new students. You didn’t fall into her hands last night, did you?”
Lin Xinghe said, “No, I know she didn’t have good intentions.”
TL Notes:
****Here, plane means dimension, not aircraft.
*****Koi luck is derived from koi being a symbol of good luck in Chinese culture. The direct meaning is something close to koi physique, meaning blessed by the koi.
****** Weibo is the largest Chinese social media. It’s similar to Instagram or Twitter.