Chapter 300: As Easy As Turning Over One's Hand
"First place!"
"Liu Sheng!"
Liu Sheng's expression remained unchanged when she heard her name.
She stood up, head held high, and walked forward amidst the burning, envious gazes around her.
Various whispers continuously arose.
"Look, she's so calm!"
"Liu Sheng Jie is so cool!"
"Yeah, she must have known she was first."
"That's normal. I can't think of anyone else who could take first place besides Liu Sheng Jie."
"Quick, look, the face up there is almost splitting from smiling."
"I've never seen such a bright, sunny smile on that grumpy face..."
"Shhh, stop talking, what if he gives us a pile of homework again?"
"Wow, I'm so envious! Liu Sheng Jie got the limited edition Little Magician schoolbag!"
"That's a gift for first place, how could it not be good!"
"Oh, right..."
At this moment, Liu Sheng stood calmly on the podium, holding an orange-red award certificate that read:
【Student Liu Sheng: Awarded for achieving first place in the 276903rd semester final Examination. This certificate is hereby issued as encouragement.】
【Hongxing Elementary School, Grade 6, Class 8】
【Date Unknown】
Liu Sheng also had the limited edition Little Magician schoolbag on her back, the one that made all the Elementary School students cry with envy. The pink schoolbag had two large translucent wings and a plastic-looking mini transformation device that, when pressed, would play the theme song of "Pili Pala Little Magician" accompanied by a colorful, cool light show.
Liu Sheng, feeling somewhat embarrassed, naturally didn't want to carry it, but she couldn't argue with her Class Teacher. Liu Sheng felt that if she truly refused, she might be crushed on the spot by this Class Teacher whose eyes glowed with a bloodthirsty light. She could only half-heartedly put on the schoolbag.
"Smile! Student Liu Sheng, come on, give us a smile!" The Class Teacher, holding a phone with his bones almost protruding and his flesh a bloody mess, stood below the podium facing Liu Sheng, ready to take a commemorative photo.
Liu Sheng, however, really couldn't bring herself to smile.
The Class Teacher probably sensed Liu Sheng's unwillingness to cooperate, so he squeezed the skinless muscles on his face and grinned, saying, "Students! It seems Student Liu Sheng is a bit shy! So shouldn't we give her some applause to encourage her?"
"Yes!" The students answered in unison, their childish voices echoing through the classroom.
So, under the Class Teacher's direction, they clapped their hands and sang a song called "Don't Be Shy, Shy, Shy."
Listening to these bloody, dismembered little companions open their gaping mouths, singing this oddly arranged song off-key, each on their own tune, the melody long since flown away with the splattering blood and broken flesh.
Liu Sheng looked at this scene and found it quite mentally polluting. Thinking that her mental state was already precarious, it was better to be obedient.
So, she tried her best to show a standard eight-tooth smile.
"That's right! That's the way!"
The Class Teacher was very happy to see Liu Sheng finally smile and stopped their unpleasant singing.
Liu Sheng quietly let out a sigh of relief.
The Class Teacher frantically pressed the photo button, a strange fervor clearly flashing in his eyeless sockets, and continued, "500 points, full marks in five subjects, first in class, first in school! A historic first! How can you not smile with such unexpectedly good results!"
Liu Sheng maintained a stiff smile and nodded.
Yes, how unexpected!
Her gaze quietly fell on the tall figure hiding behind a pile of bloody little radish heads in the last row, avoiding Liu Sheng's gaze, only revealing a branch and a few leaves.
Her teeth secretly clenched.
When this public commendation, which was also a public humiliation, finally ended, Liu Sheng returned to her seat amidst the envious gazes of her classmates.
The tall figure still sat hunched, secretly glancing at Liu Sheng, then quickly shrinking back.
But they were deskmates, how could they avoid each other?
"Ling, Xiao, Shu!" Liu Sheng gritted out the other person's name, word by word, her voice icy, "Why are you hiding from me?"
Ling Xiaoshu raised her pale face, which had been buried in her textbook, and looked at Liu Sheng with a wronged and innocent expression: "...Sister, I'm afraid you'll scold me..."
She had grown quite a bit now, even taller than Liu Sheng, looking like a young woman of seventeen or eighteen.
"Why would I scold you?" Liu Sheng asked coldly in return.
"I'm afraid you'll scold me for making you personally take the Elementary School final Examination..."
"And?"
"And," Ling Xiaoshu shrank her head, "for making you forced to go on stage for a public execution, oh no, commendation."
"Why?" Liu Sheng's gaze grew colder.
"Wuwuwu, because I'm useless, I can't score 500 points..." Ling Xiaoshu pouted and said pitifully, "But I really can't catch up to even half, no, one percent of your intelligence, Sister..."
This sounded somewhat comforting, and Liu Sheng snorted coldly.
"Hmph, good that you know."
"But, Sister..." Ling Xiaoshu hesitated, her eyes fluttering.
"Speak."
"Can I have your schoolbag?" Ling Xiaoshu looked at the Little Magician schoolbag, the burning desire in her eyes almost burning a hole through it, but she still asked cautiously.
This was Xiao Hong, Xiao Li, and Xiao Ling's favorite show!
If she had this schoolbag, she could show off in front of them!
However, Liu Sheng only said two words.
"No."
She was still a bit angry with Ling Xiaoshu.
Originally, she didn't need to personally take the certain-to-be-500-points Examination, or compete with these Elementary School students for this certain "first place."
However, Ling Xiaoshu, despite studying for so long, hadn't made much progress, except for being exceptionally good at physical education because she just played wildly every day.
Therefore, she couldn't score full marks in five subjects no matter what.
Let alone full marks, she couldn't even pass...
However, under the personal guidance of Liu Sheng's Clone, she at least learned ethics—what to kill and what not to kill, and had a basic understanding of physical health, at least not envying those scantily clad, self-harming young ladies, and even thoughtfully helping them put on clothes and move off the road.
This was the only thing Liu Sheng found comforting.
But this also made Liu Sheng realize that it's better to push herself than to push others.
Looking at the slow Breakthrough in progress, Liu Sheng felt that instead of waiting for Ling Xiaoshu to score full marks in five subjects, she might as well do it herself.
There was no other way, Liu Sheng was truly in a hurry now.
The New World desperately needed this Breakthrough in progress.
Taking advantage of the few days before the Examination results were out, Liu Sheng thought it would be better to stay at home and lay a good foundation for the New World.
The most urgent issue now, of course, was education.
For the New World, Liu Sheng and the world had discussed that the early policy would naturally be to focus on basic infrastructure. Now, academies, medical centers, Research Centers, and so on were all established, but there was a severe shortage of people in them.
And not just these, social governance, resource development, economic trade—which one didn't require professional talent?
Also, with the new population, without a more advanced education system, Liu Sheng and the world didn't even dare to accelerate, otherwise, if they accidentally created a bunch of illiterates, it would be disastrous.
Therefore, Liu Sheng had to quickly put the task of deciphering Hongxing Elementary School on the agenda.
And so, today's scene unfolded.
Liu Sheng didn't even use the world, and she scored full marks in five subjects: Chinese, Math, English, Science, and Physical Education, all in one go.
First place? As easy as turning over one's hand.
Alas, how boring.
【Something interesting is coming!】
At this moment, the world's voice sounded, subtly excited.
At the same time, the Class Teacher's voice also echoed through the classroom with excitement.
"Student Liu Sheng, because you achieved an excellent score of 500 in the final Examination, it has been determined that you can now enter the junior high school entrance stage. That's truly wonderful!"
Liu Sheng actually heard ill intent in the words "truly wonderful."
Then there was a sparse round of applause.
She looked up, and the Class Teacher on the stage was staring intently at her, the distorted excitement in his eyes like cold, glinting knives, scrutinizing Liu Sheng's body, as if anticipating where to cut and peel off a layer of skin.
"How about it, ready to start junior high school entrance?"
He asked excitedly, his face literally splitting from smiling.