Chapter 5 (1/2)

Translator: Henyee Translations  Editor: Henyee Translations

“Okay, let’s do it!”

Knowing that Lu Zihan could really beat Liu Pengyue and get away with it, Shen Zhe could only agree. “However, we won’t compete physically…”

A student who performed poorly would be beaten by both the teacher and the monitor…

“What a terrifying world… I want to go home…”

“How are we going to compete then?”

“Studies…” Shen Zhe proposed.

“Have you lost your mind?”

“Shen Zhe… You do know what place you were last semester, right?”

“Someone wake him up! He must be daydreaming!”

…

Zhao Chen and the rest were stunned.

They knew their friend very well. Competing with Lu Zihan physically would result in him being beaten up, but nothing more. However, a competition of studies would only be a great humiliation for him.

Did he not know how bad his grades were?

The onlookers also burst into laughter.

The last place of the school challenged a top ten in studies…

Was it really not some kind of entertainment show?

“How are we going to compete?” Lu Zihan released Liu Pengyue and asked.

“It’s very simple!” Shen Zhe reached for a handful of coins in his pocket and laid them on another table, “We’ll toss the coins!”

“Toss the coins?”

“The rule is simple. We’ll have someone trustworthy toss those coins on the ground. Then, each of us will predict the number of heads and the number of tails. The one with the correct prediction will be the winner!” said Shen Zhe.

“Is this really… about studies?”

Everybody was stunned. Lu Zihan’s eyelids twitched, too.

Do you even know what studies mean?

This is gambling! A gamble!

“What is it? You don’t dare?” Shen Zhe looked at him.

The most important thing when competing with geniuses was to choose what they were the least capable of!

Gambling was all about luck…

The most likely result was that they would both fail.

Having been a weak student for years, he had come up with too many excuses for his teacher and his parents. Shamelessness had already turned into a habit of his.

He wasn’t scared of anyone when it came to coin flipping.

“Alright, let’s do it, but I have one condition…” Lu Zihan grew cold after he gathered himself. “It doesn’t matter who tosses the coins, but the coins must fall vertically from the table!”

Shen Zhe nodded.

Seeing that he agreed, Lu Zihan waved his hand. Soon, someone else came with two pieces of paper and two brushes. He smiled, “Write your answers!”

“Okay!”

Shen Zhe counted the coins on the table. There were thirty-seven of them.

Since it was all about luck, any random number would do. He was about to write the number with the greatest odds, when Zhao Chen approached him and said anxiously, “You will lose this game!”

“Only if I am unlucky, right?” Shen Zhe looked at him in confusion.

Who could tell the side of a coin when it fell to the ground?

“Look over there…” Zhao Chen pointed at Lu Zihan.

Shen Zhe looked at him, only to be shocked.

He saw that Lu Zihan was doing fast calculations on the paper; that piece of paper was swiftly filled up.

Shen Zhe suddenly had a bad feeling. “What’s he calculating?”

“He demanded that the coins fall vertically from the table. So, the height of the coins is fixed. Now that he knows the number and the current side of the coins, he will be able to calculate their flips in midair and their final status after they hit the ground based on the hardness of the floor, the speed of the coins, and their elasticity, considering momentum, elastic collision, and acceleration of gravity…”

Zhao Chen smiled bitterly.

“…”

“Shoot!”

Shen Zhe shivered and almost vomited blood.

“Are the geniuses all so omnipotent?”

What kind of world was he in exactly?

Lu Zihan had reached an answer. He wrote it on the paper and folded it, before he said, “I’m done. It’s your turn…”

Shen Zhe’s face trembled.

He had intended for the both of them to lose, but his enemy had found the result through calculation. What could he do?

“Fine…”

Writing a random number, Shen Zhe folded the paper.

He resorted to a guess rather than to calculate. His only hope was that his guess was correct…

Both of them placed their answers on the table and laid a cup on top of them. Then, another student slowly pushed the coins off the table.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

The coins fell and were sprawled everywhere. Soon, they all came to a stop.

“Twenty-two heads, and fifteen tails!”

The result was obvious.

“Alright, let’s verify the answers…”

Smiling, Lu Zihan asked the student who pushed the coins to unfold his paper where his answer was written.

It said: Twenty-two heads / Fifteen tails

“It’s absolutely correct!”

“As expected of a top ten! His calculation abilities are remarkable…”

“He’s already won…”

Everybody whispered.

Even though Shen Zhe gave the same answer, Lu Zihan would still win the game, because it took Shen Zhe more time to answer the question.

One could say that Shen Zhe was already a sure loser. There was nothing he could do.

Stiffened, Shen Zhe found the world becoming dark.

That was not a star student, but a God of Gambling…

“If you were on Earth, Chow Yun-fat [1. A leading actor in God of Gambling, which is a 1989 Hong Kong action comedy-drama film.] wouldn’t have gotten that part at all!”

There were so many coins, yet the guy calculated their final status so precisely…

Shen Zhe was rather bummed.

“It’s your turn…” seeing that his calculation was exactly as in reality, Lu Zihan smiled and said to Shen Zhe.