Chapter 38: Chapter 38: Giving the Crowd a Little Golden Badge Shock!
Lin Yi turned towards the voice.
All the candidates from Minchang First High School were leaning over their seats, turning back to stare at the students of Jiangcheng Second High School’s Class 8 as if watching monkeys.
Under the influence of the Eye of Omniscience, Lin Yi could see their levels clearly.
Most of them were at Level 20.
A small number had reached Level 21.
A few particularly strong ones were even at Level 23.
Lin Yi suddenly recalled what he learned from the Xia Culture and Geography class.
Looking across the whole of Xia, Dongjiang Province ranks among the top in education and economy.
Cities like Tianhai, Lishui, and Xiling are all Level 2 bases.
However, the education and economic distribution in Dongjiang Province is extremely uneven.
Resources and education are mainly concentrated in Level 2 and Level 3 base cities.
The facilities and education levels in Level 4 base cities become inconsistent.
By the time you reach a highly marginalized Level 5 base city like Jiangcheng, it is even more deplorable.
This is also why Lin Yi found his classmates have levels as low as 12.
And why the candidates from Minchang, a Level 3 base city, have a minimum level of 19.
From the perspective of average levels.
Lin Yi put himself in their shoes and found it novel that those sitting at the back were shocked by Level 20.
Upon hearing the ridicule from these Minchang First High School candidates.
The entire Class 8 of Jiangcheng Second High School fell silent.
It wasn’t really self-abasement.
But the disparity in hard skills made them feel somewhat ashamed.
The most ashamed, of course, was Zhang Shan.
The cause of everything was his fussing.
Seeing the students of Class 8 silent.
The Minchang First High School group became even more rampant.
The nearest student smirked and said, "Hey, villagers from Jiangcheng, I’m also Level 20, does that make me a big shot over there with you?"
"Want to come lick my boots too?"
"Hahaha!"
"Who do you think you are, I’m Level 21, everyone come lick me! Haha!"
Zhang Shan’s face turned red from their jeers.
He was fuming with anger.
He really wanted to rush up and challenge them to a real PK.
But Lin Yi placed a hand on his shoulder, shaking his head.
"We are under surveillance now, remember what the teacher said, mind the discipline!"
"If you cause trouble here, you’ll be disqualified from the exam!"
Lin Yi didn’t care about their ridicule.
In his view.
It was like a bunch of wild cats boasting about their hunting skills in front of a tiger.
Completely not on the same LEVEL, Lin Yi wouldn’t even feel angry.
The lack of response to their provocation.
Gradually made them lose interest.
Each returned to their own circle, chatting among themselves.
The three-hour train journey passed quickly.
As the train arrival announcement sounded, Lin Yi opened his sleepy eyes and stretched.
The latter half of these three hours, perhaps because classmates were silenced, even Zhang Shan became quiet, so he slept quite well.
Off the train, outside the station, shuttle buses were already lined up for exam participants.
Following the numbers and order, Lin Yi and the Class 8 students boarded the shuttle bus.
Heading straight to the examination site.
Along the way, Lin Yi discovered that Dongjiang’s capital, Tianhai City, was indeed extremely prosperous.
Being transported to this world of Blue Star, where the territory expanded dozens or even hundreds of times, Lin Yi had never left Jiangcheng.
The farthest he’d been was the nearby Canglan City from Jiangcheng.
But Jiangcheng and Canglan, one being a Level 5 base city and the other nearly a Level 4, didn’t differ much.
One might say they were in the same predicament.
Arriving in Tianhai.
Lin Yi realized that the construction of bustling cities in Xia of this world was in no way inferior to that of the past life on Earth’s northern megacities.
In fact, it was even more impressive.
Infrastructure was very well developed, and urban greenery was excellent.
However, correspondingly—
Whether the scale of luxury residences or the housing prices were extraordinarily high.
Along the way, Tianhai’s transportation and road maintenance departments constantly gave the shuttle buses green lights.
The entire Tianhai City set up 22 examination sites to welcome students from the entire Dongjiang Province for this national college entrance exam.
Despite such a large distribution of examination sites, when the shuttle bus carrying Lin Yi arrived at the exam site.
He still witnessed a truly spectacular scene.
Perhaps it was a coincidence, but Lin Yi’s examination site happened to be Site 1.
After numerous shuttle buses parked in the lot and all candidates disembarked and queued orderly to the large square outside Site 1, they saw a sea of people.
This time, there were no exam officials, only candidates.
Just for one exam site, the number of candidates was estimated at forty to fifty thousand!
With the arrival of Lin Yi’s batch of shuttle buses.
The candidates for Site 1 were almost all present.
Outside the exam site, an announcement rang out—
"Attention, examinees!!"
"The 3024 National Unified Admissions Examination for Higher Learning Institutions is about to begin!"
"This test site is Dongjiang Province’s Test Site 1, please line up and pass through the first smart gate outside the exam site’s main gate in order!"
"Once you pass through the gate, the sensor above the gate will automatically select your profession and level and mark it."
"The exam will provide corresponding difficulty options based on the examinees’ level ranges."
"The higher the difficulty, the more points you can earn after passing the tests."
"Examinees with level ranges from 1 to 15 will receive a white mark and can only choose the easy difficulty."
"Examinees with level ranges from 16 to 20 will receive a green mark and can choose easy or normal difficulty."
"Examinees with level ranges from 21 to 23 will receive a blue mark and can choose normal or hard difficulty."
"Examinees with level ranges from 24 to 25 will receive a purple mark and can choose normal, hard, or extremely hard difficulty."
"Examinees above Level 25 will receive a gold mark and can choose normal, hard, extremely hard, and nightmare difficulty!"
It seems Zhang Shan’s father wasn’t wrong about the exam rules.
Indeed, it would screen candidates by difficulty bracket in advance.
If your level isn’t high enough, you can’t select higher difficulties.
Naturally, you can’t obtain higher scores.
In such an exam, your ranking naturally can’t compete with those choosing higher difficulties and passing the tests.
Such pressure...
No wonder when awakening their professions, the teachers and media seemed energized as if they were on something.
Amidst such cutthroat competition, without adrenaline and working hard, you would definitely fall too far behind others.
As the admission procedures continued.
A large number of examinees queued to pass through the gate.
Lin Yi saw the Class 8 students walking in front of him.
For example, the straightforward Zhang Shan.
After passing through the gate, above his head, it first indicated the exam location, namely Jiangcheng.
Behind it was a warhammer icon and a white star mark.
Subsequently, all candidates with the same white mark as him were diverted by assistant examiners to the corresponding exam entrance.
After so many years of college entrance exams, the procedure was incredibly smart and seamless.
If it were manually screened, it would take an unknown amount of time.
"Tsk tsk, really are white with a hint of green, haha!"
A burst of laughter came.
Lin Yi saw the group of students from Minchang again.
At this moment, they had passed through the gate.
Most of them had a blue star mark above their heads.
A few with purple star marks looked at Zhang Shan and the others as if they were looking at livestock.
Lin Yi looked at the gate ahead, a smile played on his lips.
Time to give this exam site of tens of thousands a little golden mark shock!