Chapter 27 (2/2)

Bai Yu nodded and hinted for her to sit down. She looked at Cui Xiao, “Tell me your answer and how you figured it out.”

“My methodology is similar to the monitor’s, and my result is seventeen minutes. Our teacher should be stronger than the wolf king with her longsword. Also, she can take advantage of bushes and trees since she is fleeing. So, the time cost should be shorter!” explained Cui Xiao.

He only received two points for this question.

Bai Yu gave no comments after they explained their answers. Then she gazed at an absentminded Shen Zhe while wearing an expressionless visage. “Shen Zhe, you will answer this question!”

“Me?”

Shocked, Shen Zhe stood up and felt like crying.

“I got a zero. I’m just an outsider here…”

“Why do you have to ask me?”

“That’s right. You!”

Squinting, Bai Yu seemed as if she would explode at any moment due to the power boiling in her body. “If your answer is wrong, I will slap you three times consecutively… Whether you die or not will depend on luck!”

“Three… three slaps…” Shen Zhe was stiffened. “Why…?”

That was too severe a punishment!

Even the two geniuses failed to answer correctly. Why did the teacher demand so much from him and even threatened to beat him?

“You know the reason very well!” Bai Yu sniffed, “You can try if you don’t believe me…”

If Shen Zhe had calculated the precise amount of time it would take for her to knock out an iron-toothed wolf and carry it back to the school, it would certainly be easy for him to calculate the time it would take for her to get rid of the wolf king.

After all, that question was only part of the previous one.

“I…” Shen Zhe was almost in tears.

“I truly don’t know anything…”

The teacher must be pissed that he got a zero.

However… He really couldn’t answer any of the questions!

“I tried working hard, and I even studied math yesterday… But I couldn’t stop my eyes from closing! There was nothing I could do!”

“Cut the crap. Tell me your answer, one that is different from what you just wrote!”

Bai Yu glared at him aggressively.

“I want to keep a low profile, and I don’t want to be beaten up…”

“Why do you have to push me?”

“Is it fun?”

Seeing that his teacher was not joking and that she would obviously punish him as she promised, Shen Zhe thought hard and helplessly, “What is the answer equal to…?”

As he wondered how he should reply, the “=” on page two of his notebook suddenly surfaced and appeared before his eyes.

It seemed to be on a screen that nobody else could see.

After a momentary daze, Shen Zhe picked up the pencil that just showed up and circled the question.

Hum!

The most detailed answer immediately popped up, with the steps and the final result.

Shen Zhe trembled in excitement.

Could the equal sign offer the most correct answer to any question?

He could change the guidance book by writing on page one, but he might be busted for doing so. However, nobody would notice anything wrong if he gave correct answers!

“This is a treasure…”

With the notebook, he could get a full score easily by copying the answers in the next quiz.

In such a case, were exams anything to be scared of?

However, Shen Zhe recovered from his astonishment two seconds later.

He discovered that… his pencil had been shortened by one third again.

It meant that the cost of using the equal sign was the same as writing on page one. He would need twenty pencils to get the correct answers to sixty questions in an exam with the “=”.

How many good things would he have to do?

He was bummed, but he knew that it was not the time to worry about it because the teacher was still staring at him.

He raised his head and said, “The answer is… two hours, eight minutes, and 17.32 seconds!”

“You…”

Bai Yu quivered and looked at him in disbelief. She asked with a shaky voice, “How did you reach that answer? Tell us your methodology!”