Zombie Bodyguard
Chapter 857 - 854: Beyond Reach?

Chapter 857: Chapter 854: Beyond Reach?

The ancestors invented gunpowder, but we used it to make firecrackers, while foreigners used it to make cannons, and then used those cannons to bully us. This, one must admit, is quite a sorrow.

So, how do these high-tech glasses work? The black market not only sells a pair of cheating glasses but also includes the answers to the college entrance exam questions. Of course, the exam papers are strictly guarded, and it’s impossible for them to get the papers in advance.

But they send someone to the exam hall to take the college entrance exam. This person scans the questions and sends them outside, where "experts" quickly solve them and then transmit the answers to the students who bought the cheating glasses.

Each person outside handles only one question, or a few people handle one question, so their solving speed is very fast, giving them plenty of time to transmit the answers to the buyers of the glasses.

This is a dark industry chain, involving people that ordinary folks cannot even imagine. No matter how strict the surveillance during the college entrance exam, someone will always think of ways to cheat. As the saying goes, the higher the road, the more cunning the devil.

In the face of increasingly advanced technology, surveillance methods have become indefensible.

Sun Decai pushed the frame of his glasses with a finger and gave Lin Tian a provocative smile. Clearly, Sun Decai thinks that having good grades is pointless; with money, you can still handle the college entrance exam.

Lin Tian just returned a mischievous smile. As for matters like cheating, Lin Tian could, of course, report it to the teacher, making it impossible for Sun Decai to participate in the exam.

But Lin Tian didn’t do that. Reporting is a petty move, and if the supervising teachers intervene in this, it would affect the exams of other students, possibly causing the entire exam hall to perform poorly.

The consequence of a poor performance is failing the college entrance exam, which is a major turning point in life for kids from ordinary families, sometimes even a turning point in fate.

Failing the college entrance exam is a lifelong matter for them.

Lin Tian doesn’t see himself as a saint of morality, always considering others first. He just wants to do what he wants to do. But he thinks it’s too much for Sun Decai to bring down the entire exam hall with him.

Not reporting Sun Decai doesn’t mean Lin Tian has no solutions. He bowed his head, started solving the problem, writing on the exam paper, and silently calculated the time in his mind.

Estimating that Sun Decai had probably received the test answers by now, Lin Tian nonchalantly tore off a corner of the draft paper, rubbed it into a small paper ball with his fingers.

Looking at this inconspicuous little paper ball, Lin Tian smiled, a faint mischievousness in his smile.

He quickly flicked his fingers, and with a soft "pop," the paper ball, infused with a rotating and vibrating power by Lin Tian, flew silently towards Sun Decai.

At this moment, all of Sun Decai’s attention was on his ear because inside his ear, there was a miniature earplug. The earplug, along with the glasses, received signals so that he could hear the answers to the questions.

In the past ten minutes, Sun Decai had already received answers to the first few small questions. While others were still racking their brains for the answers, he was already filling them in quickly, just like an academic genius, at ease and unhurried.

You poor guys who have no talent for learning and can’t afford cheating glasses are destined to fail and become bottom-tier societal members. The glitz and glamor of society will always belong to people like us. This society will always have the top 20% elite class managing the other 80% common folk, Sun Decai thought proudly.

He wrote quickly, filling in the answers. The small questions got handled swiftly, and soon he would reach the large questions. The large questions accounted for a big score proportion and were naturally more difficult. The critical moment to stand out from the crowd of college entrance examinees was here.

The miniature earplugs began to produce sound as well; the answers were about to come in. But suddenly, Sun Decai felt a strange vibration in his glasses. Then the clear reading in his ear turned to a "rustling" noise, and he could no longer hear any answers.

How could this happen? Why can’t I receive the sound? Sun Decai was very puzzled. Failing at this critical moment was something he hadn’t anticipated.

He pretended to scratch his ear while actually pressing the miniature earplug in his ear canal, hoping it would return to normal. But the result was the same, just a "rustling" noise.

Now he was a bit anxious and couldn’t help but take off his glasses to fiddle with them. Perhaps because of too many small movements, the supervising teacher walked to his side and warned him sternly: "Student, please focus on the test questions and refrain from making too many irrelevant actions to avoid disturbing other examinees."

"Okay, teacher, my glasses are a bit dirty, and I can’t see clearly. I was just taking them off to wipe them," Sun Decai reacted quickly, pretending to be calm as he explained and even mimicked wiping the lenses with his clothes.

In truth, his heart was hanging. If the teacher noticed something wrong with the glasses, his college entrance exam would be over. He might even make the news or get caught, which he didn’t want and didn’t dare to think about.

To his relief, the supervising teacher only responded with an "mm" and walked away without further trouble.

Sun Decai put his glasses back on, hoping they would suddenly work, but the miniature earplugs still only produced static noise.

He had no choice but to try solving the problems independently. But after reading through the questions, he was completely dumbfounded. Not a single one made sense to him. He couldn’t even answer the simplest rote memorization questions.

"In which dynasty did the poet write ’The bright moon rises over the sea, and we share this moment from afar’?"

"What’s the next line after ’White hair three thousand zhang, as worry seems like length’?"

"What follows ’Not seeing the ancients before, nor coming people after’?"

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Who the hell were these poets writing so many poems, making us suffer like this? Sun Decai was really infuriated, feeling like he wanted to shout and curse to vent his frustration.

Suddenly, Sun Decai thought of a possibility: could it be that Lin Tian messed with the high-tech glasses? He couldn’t help but secretly turn his head to glance diagonally at Lin Tian, only to find Lin Tian focused on his test paper without even glancing at him.

Of course, Lin Tian didn’t bother to look at him. After flicking that paper ball, he had already confirmed with his x-ray vision that the chip and circuit board inside the high-tech glasses had been damaged.

Lin Tian used a clever force for that paper flick, just enough to damage the inner components of the glasses without destroying the outer shell.

In the past, Lin Tian wouldn’t have known such clever force. Even after becoming a zombie, he wouldn’t have. But recently, he learned many Ancient Martial techniques, Ning Luoxi’s Meteor Burst, Demon Blade Muramasa’s Thousand Illusion Blade Technique, the young lady’s swordsmanship, and more real combat experience.

All these don’t allow him to cultivate the True Qi of an Ancient Martial Artist, but he learned the use of power. Previously, possessing a powerful zombie body, it was like Zhang Wuji practicing the "Nine Yang Divine Skill," deep in Inner Strength but unable to exert 100% of its power.

However, after Zhang Wuji learned the "Qiankun Great Shifting," which is about the use of power, Lin Tian’s situation was similar; he learned to use power.