Chapter 118 - Self-Rescue Manual of a Villainess

After breakfast, the daily assessment was about to begin, so Nan Yin promptly finished her steamed buns and started contemplating her next move. As mentioned before, compared to the national college entrance examination, the ability-oriented college entrance examination is relatively more lenient because it relies on one's talent and physical abilities. It's challenging to cheat in the ability-oriented examination. The examination itself is quite informal. The entire process lasts for thirty days, with the first eight days used to eliminate unqualified examinees. The remaining twenty-two days are then dedicated to evaluating the remaining thousands of students, who are divided into groups. In simple terms, each examinee is assigned a terminal device affiliated with their corresponding school. This terminal lists all the assessments the student needs to pass, including ability tests and physical fitness evaluations. The examination room is well-equipped with various projects, and within the designated twenty-two days, examinees can take on these assessments in any order and up to three attempts. Once an examination is passed, the examinee needs to mark it with a tick on the terminal at the admissions office. In short, as long as you believe in yourself, you can spend the first twenty-one days indulging in leisure activities, and then complete and pass all the assessments on the final day. Nevertheless, the Tianzhou City's Twelfth Academy, which has been established for over a thousand years, has yet to see anyone accomplish such a feat. Some might suggest sneaking in to leisurely enjoy free meals and then exiting directly after a month. However, leaving aside those qualifying for the second round, possessing unique abilities, in a world where the resources for ability-oriented education are strictly controlled, no one would treat the ability-oriented examination lightly. Unless your father is Emperor Xin, or your mother is Long Yun... Furthermore, the Ability College has contingency plans for such instances. If an examinee does not take any assessment for seven consecutive days, a teacher will "cordially visit" the student. Well, regardless of how you interpret this "visit", it's not negotiable. These assessments are as casual as medical check-ups, but there's no alternative. After all, the examination area is completely sealed off, so even if it's casual, it’s still efficient. Moreover, this relaxed examination atmosphere aims to maximize the potential of the examinees, as there are even children as young as eleven or twelve, and no one knows whether they might panic under the strict and severe atmosphere and then underperform, resulting in the loss of a potential genius for the academies. It actually gives Nan Yin a chance to go along with the flow, as she's not truly aiming to become a student taking the ability-oriented college entrance examination in this world. She just wants to take advantage of the opportunity to look for Jiang Mi and Xia Yi Yi, as there are only a few thousand examinees, and finding them one by one isn't impossible. Nan Yin decided to try out the projects with more people, as it's easier to blend in with a larger crowd. The first one that caught Nan Yin's attention was a driving assessment. In this assessment, the examinee must attempt to drive various levels of vehicles and pass the test. The higher the level of the vehicle used, the more ticks the examinee will receive for their individual assessment score. Nan Yin took a preliminary glance inside and saw a virtual space where a variety of vehicles were available, from motorcycles and regular cars to large trucks, and she even spotted vehicles like light tanks and helicopters. She even saw an old-fashioned fighter jet! Of course, for multi-passenger vehicles like tanks and helicopters, students can choose to collaborate with others for operation, with the final score being average among the participants. Nan Yin first tried riding a motorcycle and a regular car, which most people had no trouble with. However, there were fewer people attempting the large truck, even fewer for the tank, and no one attempting the fighter jet. As the tank required at least two people to operate, Nan Yin, being an outsider, found it inconvenient to cooperate with others. Nonetheless, she did try the helicopter and narrowly cleared it as a single individual, after all, she had learned about this stuff in her previous life. Her single-handed passage through the helicopter impressed the invigilating teacher, but Nan Yin, being an outsider, had to brush off the teacher's inquiries. She didn't attempt the fighter jet as she had never tried it in her previous life. There was nothing she could do but let it wait for another fortuitous encounter. Having left the vehicle assessment project, Nan Yin did not proceed to mark the attendance and instead continued to explore other projects. Subsequently, Nan Yin tested projects such as "Terrain Endurance Test," "Weather Endurance Test," and even the "Outer Space Environment Endurance Test," and she performed well in these. It felt like she was immersed in a real simulation game. As for the tests that required abilities, Nan Yin didn't even bother with them, as she didn't have those abilities. While Nan Yin was busily interacting and blending in, she suddenly came across something that greatly interested her – a Weapon Combat Proficiency Assessment! Weapon combat proficiency assessment? Wasn't this a tailor-made examination for her? Nan Yin took a deep breath, feeling excited, and walked in. Upon entering, she watched a holographic video explaining the project, which essentially involved using various weapons and resources to defeat enemies in different virtual environments. These weapons included, but were not limited to, close combat weapons like swords, axes, and longbows; as well as firearms, many of which Nan Yin never even saw or heard of outside. Just as Nan Yin was prepared to showcase her skills, she suddenly saw a familiar figure! The figure, in orange, was standing in front of the virtual armory, pondering over her weapon selection. Wasn't that her good friend Jiang Mi? Jiang Mi, still frowning over her weapon choice, felt someone tap her on the back and was about to turn around to scold them, but she was so astonished that she nearly scared herself when she saw who it was. "Leader..." "Leader, how did you get in here? You're not..." In the rest area outside the assessment projects, Jiang Mi looked at the snowy-haired girl with amazement, utterly baffled at how her elder sister had bypassed the highly advanced examiners who were themselves high-level ability wielders. Nan Yin certainly couldn't disclose her ability to transform into a cat to Jiang Mi, at least not now, so she casually brushed off the process of how she got in and redirected the conversation: "Where are you currently staying? Is Xia Yi Yi with you?" Jiang Mi didn't suspect Nan Yin's divergence in topics and thought for a moment before responding, "I'm in room 405 of the Third Castle. Xia Yi Yi isn't staying with me; there's another girl in my dorm." Nan Yin frowned. Right, not everyone has Su Xiao Yu's connections to arrange for her sister and Nan Xi to stay in the same dorm. Jiang Mi's situation of random dorm allocations was more common. She pondered for a moment and said, "I can't show myself too much here. I'll hide in your dorm for a while, and we can talk in detail tonight." Jiang Mi blinked. Tonight... was the leader going to sleep with her?