"Grade A."
The hall was dead silent.
Everyone stared at the proctor.
The proctor looked at the swirling gray light on the screen that wouldn't disperse, his brows tightly furrowed.
He reached out and knocked on the outer shell of the instrument.
He pressed the force refresh button next to it a few times.
The screen flickered twice.
The gray light dissipated.
A clear blue letter popped out.
【 Mental Power Rating: A 】
The proctor let out a long breath and turned to look at Jiang Wangzhi.
"The machine's sensory probe had a poor connection just now, and the readings fluctuated a bit."
"Your final result is out."
"Mental Power, Grade A."
The surrounding new students instantly let out a buzzing wave of discussion.
"Grade A? I thought it was S."
"Grade A is already very strong, okay! Only ten percent of all new students in the school can get an A."
"However, matched with her first-place tactical mind, Grade A is indeed a bit low."
Some people in the crowd were envious, while others felt it was below expectations.
But no matter what others thought.
Jiang Wangzhi currently only had one sentence in her mind.
"Why isn't it F?"
"Why on earth isn't it F?!"
She stared dead at the blue "A" on the screen, feeling as if this letter was mocking her.
"What happened to the promised good-for-nothing?"
Physical fitness E+, Mental Power A.
Although this couldn't be counted as a top genius, it was definitely an excellent candidate in the upper-middle tier!
With these grades handed in, the Academic Affairs Office not only wouldn't expel her, but might even issue her a progress award!
Jiang Wangzhi took a deep breath.
She raised her head, looked at the proctor, and her tone was extremely serious.
"Teacher."
"Hm? What is it?"
"Can I retest?"
The proctor was stunned.
He had brought so many batches of students, and had only ever seen people demanding a retest because they thought their scores were too low.
He had never seen someone dissatisfied after getting Grade A.
"You want to grind for Grade S?"
The proctor shook his head. "It's useless. The machine readings are very accurate; measuring it ten times will still be an A."
"No."
Jiang Wangzhi pointed at the machine.
"I think it's inaccurate. It must be broken."
"I've been often dizzy and my vision blurred these past two days, and I even suffer from insomnia at night. It's impossible for me to have an A."
"Please let me test again. I think I'm at most a D."
The proctor looked at her as if looking at a fool.
The whole audience of new students also quieted down.
Did this person have too low standards for herself?
Before the proctor could open his mouth to refuse,
A loud sneer suddenly came from beside them.
Han Zheng walked forward.
At this moment, on the screen of his machine, dazzling golden light was flashing.
【 Mental Power Rating: S 】
Grade S!
The whole audience suddenly burst into a gasp of exclamation.
This was a one-in-ten-thousand top-tier Mental Power!
Han Zheng raised his chin, his face full of arrogance.
The face lost in the Desolate Star assessment was finally won back at this moment.
He walked up to Jiang Wangzhi and looked down at her condescendingly.
His eyes were filled with undisguised mockery.
"Jiang Wangzhi."
"Did you hear that?"
"Tactical contribution first, yet Mental Power is only a Grade A?"
"I said it, achievements like yours that rely on others risking their lives can never make it to the big stage."
Han Zheng thought Jiang Wangzhi would be angry.
Would lose her composure.
Would jump up like Tang Li and point at his nose to curse.
He had even thought of the words to counterattack.
Yet.
Jiang Wangzhi just gave him a calm look.
Then, she nodded very sincerely.
"What you said is right."
Han Zheng was stunned.
Jiang Wangzhi continued, "Grade S, too amazing. You are truly a genius."
"Congratulations."
Her tone was plain.
Her eyes were clear.
There was not a trace of sarcasm, nor the slightest bit of jealousy.
She was truly congratulating him.
After all, with a few more Grade S geniuses around her, her Grade A would appear all the more mediocre.
Han Zheng was directly baffled by this "Congratulations".
He felt as if a heavy punch he had mustered all his strength for hit fiercely against a mass of air.
His chest felt stuffy to the point of panic.
Does this woman have any self-esteem at all?!
"Alright, stop arguing."
The proctor clapped his hands, interrupting their conversation.
"Mental Power rating is just the foundation."
"Next, we will proceed to the second test."
"Mental Power control test."
The teacher pointed to the open space on the other side of the hall.
A row of transparent glass passages was placed there.
The inside of the passages was intricate, filled with various moving partitions and obstacles, like a maze.
"The rules are very simple."
"Ten sensory light balls are placed at the starting point."
"You need to use Mental Power to simultaneously control these ten light balls, pass through the obstacle passage, and reach the finish line."
"The faster the speed, the fewer the drops, the higher the score."
"Now, begin."
The new students lined up in a row, standing in front of their respective passages.
This test not only examined the strength of Mental Power, but even more so the level of concentration.
Han Zheng stood at Channel One.
Jiang Wangzhi stood at Channel Two.
Han Zheng gave Jiang Wangzhi a cold glance. Follow the newest chapters on g.com.
"Watch carefully."
"How a true genius crushes you."
Following the teacher's order,
Han Zheng suddenly closed his eyes.
Grade S Mental Power instantly erupted!
An invisible fluctuation poured into the glass passage.
Those ten small light balls seemed to have been injected with a stimulant, suddenly darting out.
The speed was extremely fast.
Rushing forward recklessly.
"Bang, bang, bang!"
The light balls shuttled through the passage at high speed.
The bulldozer tactic adopted by Han Zheng was the simplest and crudest.
Force push!
When encountering obstacles, he directly squeezed past them hard with Mental Power.
The speed was indeed very fast.
In less than ten seconds, the ten light balls rushed to the middle section of the passage.
But because the speed was too fast, three light balls hit the partition fiercely when turning corners, directly losing their light and falling to the ground.
Han Zheng frowned.
But he didn't care.
Losing three, leaving seven—as long as the speed was fast enough, the score would still be very high!
He gritted his teeth and continued to accelerate.
Looking instead at Jiang Wangzhi beside him.
She didn't act immediately.
She stood in front of the passage, her eyes staring fixedly at those constantly moving obstacle partitions.
One second.
Two seconds.
She was looking for patterns.
This was her occupational disease as a data analyst in her past life.
Any seemingly disorderly movement had its operating logic behind it.
The first partition opened and closed once every three seconds.
The second one, five seconds.
The corner in the middle had a visual blind spot of half a second.
The route instantly formed in her mind.
Jiang Wangzhi raised her hand.
Grade A Mental Power slowly released.
She didn't push forward all at once like Han Zheng.
Those ten light balls lined up into a neat straight line.
They drifted leisurely into the passage.
"Haha, what kind of speed is that? Is she taking a walk?"
One of Han Zheng's lackeys nearby couldn't help but mock out loud.
Han Zheng also snorted coldly, staring intently at his own finish line.
"Bang!"
Han Zheng's seven light balls rushed out of the passage and fell into the groove at the finish line.
Time taken: 21 seconds.
The whole audience gasped.
This speed was simply outrageously fast!
Han Zheng opened his eyes and let out a long breath.
A smug smile curled the corners of his mouth.
He turned his head and looked at Jiang Wangzhi's passage.