Zombie Bodyguard
Chapter 860 - 857: Cannot Escape from Five Finger Mountain

Chapter 860: Chapter 857: Cannot Escape from Five Finger Mountain

When they went out again in the afternoon, the traffic on the highway had cleared up. Only some gravel by the roadside indicated that there had been a traffic accident this morning.

But others would never know that this major traffic jam was very likely caused deliberately by someone.

"By the way, Lin Tian, did that Sun Decai cheat in this morning’s exam?" Xiao Manxuan asked curiously.

"Of course he did, and he used the most advanced cheating methods, high-tech glasses, invisible earpieces that could evade the exam room’s detection, comparable to 007 James Bond’s spy technology," Lin Tian remarked.

"Spy gadgets can be bought on the black market. As long as you have money, nothing is strange. You aren’t in the business world and don’t know, business spies are more common than your cheating students. Which big company doesn’t have business spies?" Miss replied indifferently.

Xiao Manxuan smiled and said, "With your personality, Lin Tian, you must have stopped him from cheating, right?"

"It was just a little effort, why not do it? Haha, he even came to confront me afterward. But, according to him, the equipment set costs eighty thousand yuan. Although it’s nothing to him, not being able to cheat must have driven him crazy," Lin Tian chuckled.

"Eighty thousand, he’s really willing to spend," Xiao Manxuan said disdainfully.

"In Sun Decai’s eyes, any problem that can be solved with money isn’t a problem. If I’m not mistaken, he’ll continue in the afternoon," Lin Tian said with a faint smile.

Arriving at the school, the entrance was still surrounded by parents. Even the scorching sun couldn’t stop them, truly proving the saying, ’A parent’s love is ever selfless.’

Saying goodbye to the Miss, Lin Tian and Xiao Manxuan entered the school and went to their respective exam rooms.

The afternoon exam was mathematics, the toughest subject for most people. Although the Chinese exam takes more time, since Chinese is the mother tongue, it’s not as insurmountable.

But mathematics requires not only memory but also intelligence. Learning math depends somewhat on talent. Among the students Lin Tian knew, many worked ten times harder than Chen Herun, yet their results were not even one-tenth as good as his.

In the morning, Lin Tian saw quite a few students laughing and chatting, but by the afternoon, everyone wore worried expressions. When it comes to math, even students from advanced classes aren’t confident, let alone those from other classes. Of course, except for Chen Herun.

Chen Herun had fully grasped the basic principles of mathematics, so no matter how much the questions varied, he could see their essence at a glance and solve them with ease.

Other students relied on rote memorization of formulas. If the questions happened to be ones they had seen, they could solve them; if not, they were at a loss.

Lin Tian might not be at Chen Herun’s level, but high school math was no challenge for him, unless it was college-level advanced mathematics, which might pose some difficulty.

Lin Tian sat in the last row, waiting for the exam to begin. In the entire exam room, Sun Decai was the last one to enter. Lin Tian noted with special interest that this guy wasn’t wearing cheating glasses.

Had I guessed wrong? Or did Sun Decai know he couldn’t cheat and completely gave up? Lin Tian was very puzzled.

After entering the exam room, Sun Decai behaved very well. After arranging his stationery and documents, he sat quietly with no unnecessary movements or provocations toward Lin Tian.

To those who didn’t know, it might seem like he was confident about the math exam, but Lin Tian knew that Sun Decai’s grades had always been poor, whether he was his roommate or now.

Not cheating, with poor results, yet acting so calm, this was very unusual behavior for Sun Decai, especially after this morning when he was so angry about the broken cheating glasses.

Could there be a new cheating method? A flash of inspiration crossed Lin Tian’s mind, considering this possibility.

Lin Tian’s piercing gaze swept over Sun Decai, and indeed, he found a micro earpiece in his ear canal. But besides the micro earpiece, he didn’t have anything else on him.

For the micro earpiece to work, it must be paired with a receiver. Therefore, Lin Tian concluded that Sun Decai must have brought a receiver, just more concealed this time.

The receiver this morning was hidden in the glasses, but where would it be this time? Lin Tian thought in wonder.

Lin Tian noticed the items on his desk: an exam card, an ID card, two pens, and some math-related stationery.

The two pens caught his attention. If Sun Decai wanted to cheat, the signal receiver couldn’t be too far from the micro earpiece, so the receiver must be hidden nearby.

The documents were unlikely to hide a receiver, and the stationery was transparent plastic, making it even more improbable. That left only the two pens.

Even a small glasses frame could hide a chip and circuit board, so the space in a pen barrel was more than enough. Lin Tian’s penetrating gaze swept over, and sure enough, he found an anomaly in one of the pens. Inside the barrel, besides the regular ink refill, a tiny chip and circuit board were hidden.

Indeed, it’s hard to guard against. Such a pen, even if an invigilator dismantled it, would only find the normal ink refill and not the sealed receiver in the barrel, unless the pen was smashed open.

But without evidence, an invigilator wouldn’t break a student’s pen, so the inventor of these cheating devices truly understood the art of espionage.

If not for his vision ability, Lin Tian wouldn’t have discovered the truth about the pen barrel either.

So much money, really extravagant. Breaking one and immediately buying another, Lin Tian muttered softly.

Lin Tian’s guess was spot on. After confronting Lin Tian in the morning, Sun Decai went to find those people again to buy another cheating device and, to prevent it from being sabotaged by Lin Tian, he switched from glasses to a pen.

Sun Decai, thinking back, realized his plan wasn’t thorough. Not being nearsighted but wearing glasses certainly drew attention during such a critical exam period. Now he simply switched to a pen.

The exam papers were quickly distributed. Sun Decai picked up his pen and began writing diligently on the paper, but in reality, he was clearly hearing the answers to the questions through his earpiece.

He was quite pleased with himself, thinking that he had finally evaded Lin Tian this time. With the pen in his hand, what could Lin Tian do, take the pen away? Sun Decai thought smugly.

But just after he wrote a few multiple-choice questions, he suddenly felt the pen slip out of control, the tip almost tearing the paper.

What was going on? Sun Decai picked up the pen to check but found nothing wrong. Just as he thought it was an accident, the sound in his ear suddenly turned to static.

This static was very familiar because during the morning exam, he was annoyed by it for two hours before finally giving up and handing in his paper early, as he couldn’t complete it anyway.

Now with the static reappearing, there was only one explanation—the receiver was broken again!