Chapter 47 (1/2)

“The invigilator will probably ask him to leave the exam hall…” the guy with glasses thought.

However, the teacher glanced around and fixed his eyes on him, who was looking at Cheng Nuo.

The student suddenly felt a chill down his spine.

The invigilator chided him loudly, “No talking!”

That caught the student by surprise. He immediately turned his head away while wondering why the invigilator had scolded him instead of Cheng Nuo. He felt wronged.

But what he didn’t know was that the invigilator had already prized Cheng Nuo like a gem. Of course he wouldn’t want to scold Cheng Nuo.

The female invigilator, who was sitting on the podium, shot a confused look at her partner. When the male invigilator nodded at her to show that everything was fine, she was relieved and continued to watch her drama on her phone.

The male invigilator decided to stay behind Cheng Nuo. He wanted to know whether this “genius” would give him an even bigger surprise on the last problem.

…

In fact, Cheng Nuo wasn’t planning to show off when he shouted that he had seen this problem before, because it was indeed a reused one! Moreover, he had just done the exact same problem on the previous day.

To be more precise, it was actually the last problem on one of the tests that Old Man Tang had given him yesterday.

They hadn’t even changed the numbers in the given conditions!

What a surprise! Even Uncle Ge was unable to come up with new problem types!

Nevertheless, that same problem had appeared more than a decade ago. Not many students would go to such an extent to practice so many past tests like Cheng Nuo.

The problem was a piece of cake to Cheng Nuo since he had seen it before.

His brain’s ability to memorize numbers had been improved significantly. Hence, he was able to recall every single line of the solution even though it had been one whole day since he had done it.

Just copy, then!

Why would he bother to calculate all over again when he could simply copy the answer from his memory? Cheng Nuo counted himself lucky. However, as the saying goes, luck is part of one’s strength too.

The male invigilator was dumbfounded at what he had seen.

He saw that Cheng Nuo’s pen was almost flying all over the test. The blank for the last problem had been fully filled in by mathematical symbols within merely two minutes.

“He’s frighteningly smart!!”

The invigilator’s thought process couldn’t even catch up with Cheng Nuo’s speed of writing.

After Cheng Nuo had put down his pen, the invigilator checked the time. Only two minutes had passed, yet Cheng Nuo had already completed the last problem! In his knowledge, even the most intelligent students across all schools had to take about 20 minutes to finish that problem!

The invigilator had become numb to the series of surprises Cheng Nuo had given him.

“Phew—”

Cheng Nuo put down his pen and let out a sigh of relief.

He looked up at the clock—it was 3:47 PM, just like he had predicted.

Cheng Nuo glanced around the classroom and realized that most of the students were seizing every second available to complete the problems. One should count themselves lucky if they could finish the entire math test within the time given.

When Cheng Nuo looked back, he was surprised to see the invigilator behind him. But he didn’t put much thought into it as the invigilator might have happened to stop there during his patrolling.

Cheng Nuo slowly packed his stationery into his pencil case. Then he stood up and submitted his test to the invigilator, who was staring blankly.

“I’ve completed my test, Teacher,” Cheng Nuo said softly.

“Oh,” the invigilator said and accepted Cheng Nuo’s test subconsciously.

Cheng Nuo was waiting for the invigilator to say something.

But the latter was still looking into blank space…

Cheng Nuo frowned and called, “Teacher… Teacher?”

“Oh… Oh!” The invigilator finally recovered from his shock. He stared at the test in his hand and asked, “What did you say…?”