A street urchin turned academic genius, starting by saving the blind school beauty.

Chapter 100 Math Competition Preliminaries

Guo Zichen's sudden outburst startled everyone. His mathematical ability was universally acknowledged as the strongest, second place was always there, no matter how many came.

Moreover, Guo Zichen is a very strange person. He spends all his time studying problems and hardly talks to anyone.

Zhang Xinhan also pursed her lips in exasperation. She and Guo Zichen had been deskmates for a year, but they hadn't exchanged more than twenty words.

But Lu Zhaoye had only known him for less than a week, yet Guo Zichen was already willing to speak up for him? Zhang Xinhan really couldn't understand it.

Lu Zhaoye walked over and hooked his arm around Guo Zichen's shoulder, then grinned at Zhu Zifeng, whose face was dark with gloom, and said...

"Why aren't you saying anything? Chen is also my friend, why don't you compare yourself to him?"

However, Zhu Zifeng only glared at him fiercely before turning around and walking into the examination room, kicking away the bench blocking his way.

The onlookers curled their lip; after this incident, their opinion of Zhu Zifeng had changed considerably.

They still looked curiously at the grinning boy in the corridor, wondering what magic he possessed that could attract so many outstanding people to speak up for him.

However, at this moment, the protagonist, Lu Zhaoye, leaned close to Guo Zichen's ear and whispered,

"Chen, I didn't expect that your skill in showing off is just as good as mine."

Guo Zichen turned his head with a blank expression, his eyes crystal clear.

"No, I'm just telling the truth. Besides, after this exam, I'm afraid no one in the school will look down on your grades anymore."

At this moment, Lao Zhang and several proctors slowly walked over from a distance with the exam papers.

Lu Zhaoye glanced at Guo Zichen, a wicked smile playing on his lips, patted Guo Zichen on the shoulder, and walked into the classroom.

The other onlookers followed suit, entering the classroom, returning to their seats, shaking their heads, and preparing for the exam...

However, just before entering the classroom, Lu Zhaoye suddenly noticed that Luo Xiao and Zhang Xinhan were holding hands.

"......"

There were only four spots available for No. 2 Middle School in this preliminary competition. Zhang Jianhua instructed the math test-setting team to create a test paper strictly in accordance with the syllabus, with the aim of selecting the four best math students from No. 2 Middle School to represent the school in the competition.

Lu Zhaoye had the lowest math placement test score among this group, so he naturally sat in the last row.

Guo Zichen sat in the first seat, Zhu Zifeng in the second, Zhang Xinhan in the fifth, and Luo Xiao in the eighteenth seat, in the same row as him...

As for Xu Ziqing, she was arranged to take the exam alone in the next classroom.

With the eight exam papers in hand, the preliminary round of the math competition officially began.

As usual, Lu Zhaoye first glanced through all the questions. The question types were the same as the previous placement test, with no major differences.

However, the difficulty increases exponentially.

At least when Lu Zhaoye looked at the last two questions, he couldn't immediately come up with a solution.

However, he was not affected by this, and instead started over from the first question.

Lu Zhaoye's lips curled slightly as he deliberately made a turning-the-pages gesture, which naturally attracted the attention of the other students around him.

Then Lu Zhaoye chuckled and chuckled softly, shaking his head slightly.

Everyone present heard it, and some even turned their heads to look at Lu Zhaoye, their minds already subtly affected by the sound he made.

Guo Zichen, Zhang Xinhan, and Luo Xiao smiled to themselves, recalling what Lu Zhaoye had said at the entrance of Class One. Then they began to answer the questions.

There were four teachers proctoring the exam this time, including Lao Zhang and three other teachers from the mathematics department.

Zhang Jianhua frowned when he saw Lu Zhaoye make a strange noise, knowing he was up to his old tricks again, and rolled his eyes. Fortunately, Lu Zhaoye didn't react any further, and Zhang Jianhua didn't say anything.

Old Zhang walked to the last row and stood behind Lu Zhaoye, watching him answer the questions. His already furrowed brows furrowed even more, and he subconsciously took a step forward to take a closer look.

This brat, he's already finished all the multiple-choice questions?!

Old Zhang rubbed his eyes in bewilderment and looked at it carefully again.

Holy crap, I've finished the fill-in-the-blank questions too?!

He opened his mouth and looked up. The student in front of Lu Zhaoye was still sweating profusely as he wrote multiple-choice questions, and the girl sitting next to him was even stuck on a certain multiple-choice question, frantically calculating.

Although Lao Zhang is not good at math, he knows the difficulty of this test paper. Even if he is fast, he can't finish writing all the multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank questions in three minutes, let alone this is a math competition test.

He looked down in disbelief again, then suddenly smiled with relief.

Lu Zhaoye's exam paper was already filled with formulas made up of English letters. He had finished the first major question and was working on the second one...

Old Zhang's lips curled into a smile. "Good lad, so you're not going to act anymore, huh?"

Old Zhou had already told Lu Zhaoye about the high-scoring non-subject exam paper he had done a few days ago.

Zhang Jianhua had long known that Lu Zhaoye was pretending to be weak to deceive others, but he didn't know why Lu Zhaoye chose not to act this time.

Could it really be because of Xu Qingwan and Xu Ziqing? Old Zhang wondered to himself.

I'm afraid this is the only way. I really am a born leader.

until......

Old Zhang suddenly felt a slight force coming from beside his leg. He looked down and saw that it was Lu Zhaoye elbowing him.

"?"

"Old Zhang, get out of here. Your low, groaning is disgusting," Lu Zhaoye said, raising his head.

"..."

Seeing Old Zhang walk away with a smirk and a face full of black lines, Lu Zhaoye finally straightened his expression and continued writing the third big question.

Lu Zhaoye wasn't going to hold back this time, mainly because he didn't know the true level of these people, so controlling the score to get into the top four was too risky.

However, he just glanced up and couldn't see the ones in front of him, but the ones around him seemed to still be on the multiple-choice questions, blocked by the paper tiger multiple-choice question in front of them.

Lu Zhaoye didn't think much of it and continued to answer the questions.

Time flies when you're doing problems. When Lu Zhaoye looked up again, twenty minutes had passed, and he had finished all the problems.

Except for the last two questions, which took a little time, I answered the other questions almost instantly, like a muscle reaction.

This test paper looks difficult, but it is actually very simple. It tests formulas and doesn't even have any very complicated calculations, which is why Lu Zhaoye finished it so quickly.

Once you thoroughly understand the formulas you've learned before, you'll be able to write this test paper very smoothly.

The problem is that not everyone can understand all the formulas.

Moreover, the last two questions were quite tricky and very comprehensive, so Lu Zhaoye was a little worried about Luo Xiao and Zhang Xinhan.

He put down his black pen, took a sip of water, and turned to look at Luo Xiao.

Luo Xiao wore her hair in a bun today, revealing her smooth face, but Lu Zhaoye noticed the fine beads of sweat on her cheeks and her tightly pursed lips.

Luo Xiao was calculating something on a draft paper, and it seemed she had encountered a problem.

As for Zhang Xinhan?

They were too far away for Lu Zhaoye to see.

Seeing Lu Zhaoye looking around, Zhang Jianhua raised his wrist to check his watch. Only twenty minutes had passed. Had this kid finished writing?

"Teacher, I want to hand in my paper."

"???"