[Ding!]
[Congratulations to Luo Qingyan, a candidate from Jianggu City's First Senior High School, for successfully completing the college entrance examination trial!]
[Now proceeding to score entry...]
[Completion Difficulty: Level 6]
[Completion Time: 29 minutes and 53 seconds]
[Completion Rank: 2 (City Rank), 2 (Provincial Rank), 2 (National Rank)]
[Your college entrance examination score has been recorded!]
[Final Evaluation Score: 743 points!]
[The record for the shortest college entrance examination completion time has not been broken. The current record is 17 minutes and 42 seconds. Your score is the second-best in history.]
[Exclusive rewards for passing the trial have been issued. Please check your mail.]
[You will be automatically exited from the instance in one minute. Please wait patiently.]
Holding a lightsaber, bathed in holy light, with golden wings on her back, Luo Qingyan's wrists were somewhat weakened after finally defeating the Frost Zombie King.
It had to be said, Luo Qingyan's luck was truly excellent.
This time's college entrance examination instance was composed entirely of zombies, which were dark creatures naturally suppressed by Luo Qingyan's holy light power, greatly increasing the damage of her skills.
Coupled with her talent as a Divine Angel, her sustain was strong, which allowed her to fight her way through.
If not for Lin Ran, that monstrous talent, she would have broken the record.
Seeing the string of 2s next to her ranking, Luo Qingyan couldn't help but feel a sense of disorientation.
What was going on?
If someone stronger than her appeared nationwide, it wouldn't be unacceptable.
But looking at the ranking, this person was clearly in their Jianggu City!
The problem was, within the entire Jianggu City, besides her and Lin Ran, the highest talent awakeners were only A-rank...
Lin Ran, a person with a defensive talent, would be temporarily excluded.
How could an A-rank talent awakener complete the instance faster than her, who had a natural advantage against the monsters?
Luo Qingyan couldn't understand.
What made it even more outrageous was that she had consulted relevant information before the college entrance examination.
If she remembered correctly, the completion time for the highest difficulty instance previously was clearly over 30 minutes.
Now, how had it inexplicably been refreshed to 17 minutes by someone?
Was this speed too outrageous?
No one understood the difficulty of this instance better than Luo Qingyan, who had fought her way through with her holy light saber and smiting spells.
Could someone be cheating in the college entrance examination?
Luo Qingyan rubbed her sore wrist with a hint of annoyance.
No matter how much she thought about it, she couldn't figure it out and could only wait to exit the instance to see.
*Swish!*
Another flash of white light, and Luo Qingyan's figure appeared on the sports field.
The cheers welcoming her were no less than Lin Ran's earlier.
As for Lin Ran, he was standing at the exit, looking at her with a grin:
"Well done, well done! Classmate Luo certainly didn't disappoint."
"And you were so obedient, so well-behaved..."
"You said you'd aim for second place, and you really did."
"The Divine Angel talent is truly both beautiful and powerful."
Luo Qingyan never expected to see Lin Ran outside, and for a moment, she even forgot to retort:
"Huh? Why are you outside?!"
"At this time, shouldn't you still be struggling inside the instance?"
"Could it be..."
Luo Qingyan suddenly thought of a terrifying possibility, her face turning pale as she stammered:
"You! You you you..."
"You're not... you're not the one who's... the national..."
Lin Ran burst into laughter, a smug smile spreading across his lips as he spread his hands towards Luo Qingyan:
"That's right, the one standing before you now is this year's national top scholar..."
"Surpassing the SSS-rank all-rounder Divine Angel with an SS-rank pure defensive talent;"
"From being deemed incapable of soloing instances to conquering everyone with an astonishing performance;"
"Achieving a perfect score of 750 points without a single deduction;"
"And being 12 minutes and 11 seconds faster than you, with a higher score by 7 points and one rank..."
"Lin Ran, Classmate Lin!"
"How about it, surprised?"
With every word Lin Ran spoke, Luo Qingyan's surprise grew.
By the time Lin Ran finished speaking, Luo Qingyan's eyes were wide with disbelief:
"This... how is this possible?"
Lin Ran continued to chuckle:
"What's impossible about it?"
"Isn't the fact right before your eyes?"
Luo Qingyan finally reacted.
As the second-ranked individual nationwide, the only person she could see waiting outside after exiting the instance was likely one person...
"A pure defensive talent soloing the instance..."
"And achieving first place in a speed run!"
Luo Qingyan fell into a daze again.
She couldn't for the life of her figure out how Lin Ran had done it.
Seeing her dazed and cute expression, Lin Ran couldn't help but tap her head. After bidding farewell to Principal Zhou Yi, he took her hand and walked towards the exit of the sports field:
"Alright, stop standing here in a daze."
"The college entrance examination is over, but we still have many things to do."
"For example, thinking about which university to go to."
Luo Qingyan, having finally accepted the absurd notion of Lin Ran soloing and taking first place, shook her head and asked:
"What about you?"
Lin Ran thought for a moment and said:
"The first choice would definitely be Qingjing Yanyun University, ranked top 1 in the country."
"After all, its number one status isn't just for show, and its resources and faculty should be more excellent."
"However, it will ultimately depend on their conditions at the time."
"The gap between the top ten universities isn't that large. If other institutions offer more favorable terms, it's not impossible to go there."
"We are the top scholar and the second place, so we will definitely have this choice."
Luo Qingyan nodded thoughtfully:
"Is that so..."
"I've already made up my mind, wherever you go, I'll go!"
By this time, the two had already arrived at the school gate. Hearing Luo Qingyan's words, Lin Ran tilted his head and looked at her:
"So willful?"
Luo Qingyan snorted:
"What, do you want me to be far away from you?"
"If that's the case, I'll choose the university furthest from you in a straight line!"
Lin Ran rolled his eyes:
"That's not what I meant..."
"Oh right, before the college entrance examination, you should have received gifts from the school, right?"
"There was a biological intelligent chip inside, wasn't there?"
Luo Qingyan nodded:
"And one million Dragon Coins and five bottles of intermediate gene modification fluid."
Their items were indeed identical...
Lin Ran then turned his attention to his biological intelligent chip:
"Come on, give me your ID, let's add each other as friends."
"Also, I'll send you some information about universities and cultivation that I just got from Principal Zhou Yi..."