Chapter 85. Stubborn?

"I'm not doing it anymore! I can't work it out!" Twenty minutes later, a student suddenly stood up and said angrily.

After that, he walked straight to the podium to hand in his paper.

"What's going on? Can we hand in the papers so early?" Ethan asked.

"Yes, you can hand in your papers in advance! And if two students get the same score in the exam, the one who hands in the paper earliest will be admitted!" The invigilator explained.

These regulations should have been read out by the invigilator before the exam. But most of the students who came here to take the exam had been pre - coached by their teachers, so the invigilator was too lazy to repeat them.

There were very few students like Ethan who came to take the exam without any preparation.

"Why didn't you say so earlier? Then I don't need to waste my time here either!" Ethan also stood up and walked towards the podium.

The people outside the examination room saw the situation inside through the monitor. Seeing that two students handed in their papers so early, they couldn't help but start talking.

"Just twenty minutes in and two students have already handed in their papers."

"It seems that this year's test papers are quite difficult."

"Yes, in twenty minutes, one can only work out at most one question. If there was still hope of working out the other questions, they surely wouldn't give up so easily."

Seeing Ethan come out, Mr. Lane quickly went up to meet him.

"The questions are too difficult and you can't work them out, right? It doesn't matter. These questions are a bit like Olympic - level exam questions. The thinking mode is very strange, or even perverted. It's normal not to be able to work them out." Mr. Lane comforted Ethan.

He, who had still held a glimmer of hope before, saw Ethan come out so quickly, and that last glimmer of hope was completely shattered.

Just as the teacher next to him said, handing in the paper in twenty minutes was obviously giving up answering the questions on one's own initiative.

"I've said before that without special training, it's impossible to pass this exam! One can't even pass the first and most basic level! This is definitely not something that can be done by luck alone!

However, when you found that you couldn't work out the questions, you gave up early, which shows that you still have self - knowledge and don't need to keep wasting your time there." Mr. Moore said.

"Yes! Maybe in the end, none of the students in the whole class will answer correctly, and you might get the second place just because you handed in your paper the earliest!"

"Hahaha!" Those teachers laughed and joked.

"Who said that I can't pass just because I handed in my paper first? If I answer all the questions correctly, can't I still be promoted?" Ethan retorted unceremoniously.

"Answer all the questions correctly?" Mr. Moore almost laughed out loud.

"Student Ethan, don't be so stubborn! I know you don't want to accept this fact, but I have to tell you that in such an examination room, let alone not doing well, even handing in a blank paper is not a rare thing.

Be brave enough to admit it. There's nothing shameful about it! After all, this is the elite preliminary competition. Not everyone can be promoted!" Mr. Moore said.

"..." Ethan didn't want to argue with these people anymore.

He would use his grades to prove them wrong later. This was more powerful than anything he could say!

An hour had passed.

More and more people came out after handing in their papers.

Mainly because some people had clearly felt that even if they were given more time for the remaining questions, they might not be able to work them out. So, it was better to hand in the papers earlier, so that they could have an advantage in the handing - in time.

Soon, Kevin also came out.

Kevin was a little surprised to see Ethan there.

"You're out too?" Kevin said.

"I've been out for a long time. How did you do in the exam?" Ethan asked.

Among the three of them, Ethan was most worried about Kevin.

"It was so difficult! There were ten questions. I only worked out six. I'm sure three of them are correct, one is a bit uncertain, the other two were completely guessed blindly, and I didn't have a clue about the remaining questions at all. I didn't even know where to start when guessing blindly! It was really difficult!" Kevin said a bit dejectedly.

"It's already very good that you could work out so many." Ethan commented.

"Fortunately, I had self - studied university books before, so I could work out a few questions in this exam."

"You've self - studied university knowledge?" Mr. Lane couldn't help but have a glimmer of hope in his eyes when he heard Kevin say this.

"Yes! Otherwise, it might be possible that I couldn't work out a single question." Kevin said.

"It's not surprising that you couldn't work them out. It's already lucky that you can work out so many questions now. But you can't go far just relying on luck!" Mr. Moore said beside them.

Kevin couldn't help but roll his eyes when he heard this, and Ethan's eyes also became cold.

Mr. Moore, however, seemed not to notice and continued, "None of my five students has come out yet!"

When he said this, there was both pride and expectation in his eyes.

Obviously, at this time, none of his students had come out yet, so he naturally thought that his students were confident about those questions.

Another twenty minutes passed.

The exam had been going on for eighty minutes.

Now, another group of people came out after handing in their papers.

The people who came out this time were obviously more confident than those in the first batch who handed in their papers.

Unfortunately, Sophia was not among these people.

At the 100 - minute mark, a few more people came out.

They looked more confident than anyone who had come out before.

However, some of them also had a little regret on their faces.

"I had no idea about the fifth question at all! Otherwise, I might have been able to answer all the questions correctly this time!" A student said.

"Mine too! The fifth question was so difficult that I didn't know where to start!" Another student echoed.

Hearing this, Kevin couldn't help but complain.

"Damn! Is it that perverted? I only worked out six questions, and a few of them were guessed! But these guys only have the last question left! Is the gap so big?"

Kevin felt very frustrated, and his usual self - confidence was once again hit hard.

"Ethan, how did you do in the exam?" Kevin couldn't help but ask Ethan.

He was really nervous.

"I've worked out all of them!" Ethan said calmly.

"What! You've worked out all of them!" Kevin's voice suddenly increased by several decibels, and everyone in the waiting area heard it.

Then, like a huge stone thrown into a calm lake, it caused a great commotion.

"Worked out all of them? Are you bragging?"

"Exactly. This kid came out in less than twenty minutes. Could he have finished all of them?"

"If he wrote randomly, regardless of right or wrong, he could indeed finish writing all of them."

"Mr. Moore, this student of yours is very strong!" A teacher next to him said with a sarcastic look on his face.

Suddenly being stared at by so many students and teachers, Mr. Moore also felt a bit uncomfortable.

Hearing that the teacher mistakenly thought Ethan was his student, he quickly waved his hand to deny it.

"He's not my student! He's just a student from Azure City, and I'm just taking care of him for a while! I don't have such a student!"

"Oh, that's what I thought. How could you have such a lousy student!" A teacher said unceremoniously.

The time for handing in papers was up.

Now, another group of people came out, but the number was obviously much smaller, only about a dozen or so.

Sophia was among them.

Sophia was wearing a white dress, with a beautiful face and elegant manners. Walking in the crowd, she was like a snow lotus blooming on a snow - covered mountain, attracting those students to steal glances at her.

"How did you do in the exam?" Kevin walked up quickly and asked.

"These questions were so difficult! I didn't finish all of them. I only worked out a few steps of the fifth question." Sophia said with a little regret.

"Why was I so stupid to ask about your grades? I was just asking for trouble!" Kevin said with a bitter face.

He originally wanted some comfort, but as soon as he said it, he received another ten - thousand - point critical hit.

"Humph! Another one who is trying to be mysterious!" Mr. Moore said disdainfully when he heard Sophia's words.

"The results will be out in half an hour. I want to see how long you can keep up this pretense!"