As he gazed upon these familiar test questions, Barrett Walker gradually felt a sense of familiarity welling up within him. It had been three years since he had last been here, and everything from the previous life had been swept away by the winds of time. In this new life, he was determined to make a name for himself with his exam results. The atmosphere in the exam room was heavy with tension. Although the students from the 21st Public High School no longer held much hope for attending college, this was still the most important exam of their lives. A good result could completely change their future. Especially in this post-apocalyptic world, not being able to enter college after reaching adulthood meant being expelled from the federation and unable to stay in the city. This exam, which determined the fate of their lives, made the entire exam room feel suffocating.
Barrett Walker returned to his seat, having already delayed for over half an hour. He glanced around at the students who were buried in their work, and then at the monitor on the wall. After taking a deep breath, he opened the exam paper. As the questions were revealed, he quickly searched his memory for this part. Three years had passed, and he had not taken it seriously the last time. But now, upon revisiting it, he found that the impression was quite deep. Apparently, he had never been one to take things lightly, as how else could these questions be so clear in his memory? It was simply a case of self-deception.
Barrett Walker’s pen flew across the page, only briefly glancing at the multiple-choice and true/false questions before filling in the correct answers from memory. As he worked on the exam, he felt more like he was recalling than answering. His speed was astonishing.
The people sitting around Barrett Walker were stunned by his appearance. Was he just fooling around, or was he truly too talented for his own good? Ignoring the shocked expressions of the others, Barrett Walker checked his work and found no mistakes. Looking at the time, he realized that less than an hour had passed. The written exam was supposed to last three hours, yet he had finished in less than half the time.
"Teacher! Can I turn in my paper?" Barrett Walker asked repeatedly after carefully checking multiple times. He went over the correct answers in his head and realized there was no more room for changes. Sitting around was boring, so he asked the question.
“Oh God! Is this person pretending to be weak or is he really that good? Why did he come to this lousy class with such good grades? Are you trying to make life difficult for us?” Barrett Walker's voice shattered the silence of the entire exam room, leaving countless exam-takers unable to discuss with each other, only able to whisper in amazement. The atmosphere in the exam room became even more tense and oppressive, some examinees even began to experience blank minds and nervous urges.
"You better think carefully! The written exam is not as easy as the martial exam. Turning in your paper early won't earn you any extra points." The invigilating teacher came from a prestigious school and looked down on these public school students. Seeing a student turn in their paper early, he felt dissatisfied. This was always a special privilege for their prestigious school. How dare someone do this today? And looking at Barrett Walker’s confident appearance only made him more displeased. He had only answered the questions for less than half an hour, yet he dared to turn it in early.
"Hmph! Do I need extra points?" Barrett Walker heard the tone of the invigilating teacher and knew that he looked down on poor students like them. He became angry and slammed his paper on the podium, saying, "Fine, take it!" After saying that, he walked out of the exam room with his head held high.
Barrett Walker didn't dare to go to the main door. He didn't know if the bloodstains had been cleaned up properly. Instead, he sat by the campus flower bed. After two days and two nights of traveling, and after a life-changing exam, Barrett Walker felt a wave of fatigue washing over him. He lay down by the flower bed and dozed off.
Suddenly, Barrett Walker felt his nose tickling and let out a big sneeze, instantly waking up. Despite feeling disoriented, he saw a smiling face in front of him. Barrett Walker's mind was in a state of confusion. Who was this woman? Why did he have no recollection of her? Barrett Walker, with a puzzled expression, slapped his head hard and asked, "Who are you?"
"You're so bad! You don't even recognize me. Why haven't you come to see me these past few days?" The woman suddenly cooed, sounding wronged.
Barrett Walker shivered on this hot day. He had been in the wilderness for a month and never spent money on such things. After being startled, Barrett Walker's mind cleared up a bit. He finally saw the woman's appearance clearly. She was a beauty with thick eye makeup and long false eyelashes. Wasn't she Jenny Antell? Although her character was not that great, she looked quite innocent on regular days. Why was she so heavily made up today, looking like a monkey's backside?
"Oh! It's you! What do you want from me?" Barrett Walker suddenly lost interest. He hadn't even secured his future wife yet!
"Why did you come out so early? Are you sleeping here? How did the exam go?" Jenny Antell heard the discussions of the students as soon as she came out of the exam room. They were not talking about the answers, but about Barrett Walker from the 21st Public High School, who had made a surprising appearance on the mock exam and became a campus celebrity. Many people had come to know him, but he had been absent for a long time and had returned today, making another amazing move in the exam room. He arrived late, took only half an hour to complete the exam, and even humiliated the invigilating teacher. Truly a remarkable person!
Some of the students sitting next to him had seen his answers. The long answers were neat and tidy, and the multiple-choice questions had all the correct answers. The student who saw his answers was overjoyed, thinking of Barrett Walker as a great person. Unfortunately, he was a bit too quick. Besides the multiple-choice and true/false questions, he didn't see the long answers. Seeing this student showing off, the other struggling students around him were envious. They were so envious of his luck! How did he manage to get near this remarkable person?
The people were discussing the remarkable person, and it seemed that his absence for a month and then returning to take such an exam was truly a bold move. It seemed that the 21st High School might be the first public high school to have a student admitted to the War God Academy. This honor made the alumni proud and gave them something to boast about to their future generations.
"The exam? It went fine," Barrett Walker casually replied. He had no interest in this woman who had caused him so much pain in his previous life. Not cursing at you is already showing my magnanimity.
Seeing Barrett Walker ignore her, Jenny Antell followed him closely. Remembering the persistent pursuit of Barrett Walker in the past few days, she couldn't believe that she, who had deliberately dressed up, couldn't win back his heart. She had already decided to pursue this promising man: "What's wrong with you? Am I not your girlfriend? Why are you ignoring me? Is it because you've been struggling for a month without sleeping well, that's why you're feeling so down?"
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Barrett Walker truly felt that life was very strange. In his previous life, he had become extremely inferior because of this woman. In this new life, he had been constantly changing himself since the rebirth, hoping to make some improvements. Just as he had started to make some progress, this vain woman came clinging back. Was he really so foolish as to let her hurt him again? But Barrett Walker was the kind of person who couldn't stand up to softness. Perhaps it was better to call it weakness. Barrett Walker was well aware that it was precisely this weakness that had led to the tragedy of his previous life. There is an old saying that goes, “The landscape is easy to change, but the nature is hard to change.” Listening to Jenny Antell's soft words, he felt a surge of hot blood, and he wanted to say something harsh to her, but he couldn't bring himself to do it. So, he made the hard choice to ignore her, hoping that she would give up.
"Hey! What are you doing here? How did the exam go?" Baron finally found Barrett Walker and came forward to ask.
"And you?" Barrett Walker was overjoyed to hear Baron call him and walked quickly to him.
"It was okay," Baron casually replied. He never expected to achieve anything in the written exam. Then he added, "We'll see about the martial exam this afternoon. What have you been doing for the past month? Last time, you shouldn't have left us and run away."
"Let's go!" Barrett Walker grabbed Baron and walked away.
"This time I didn't do much when I went out, just familiarized myself with the terrain. At the coming-of-age ceremony, the three of us must intimidate those lowlifes!" Barrett Walker casually remarked, knowing that among the three brothers, as long as it wasn't a matter of causing offense, a casual reason would suffice.
"What's going on with her?" Baron looked at Jenny Antell, who was following behind Barrett Walker, with an ambiguous expression.
"You're really shameless," Barrett Walker said to Baron, unable to tolerate Baron's suggestive and shameless expression, and couldn't help but punch him.
"Seriously! Don't put all your eggs in one basket, try dying a few times on different trees!"
"Humph! I see you want me to die completely!" Barrett Walker replied irritably, feeling a sense of guilt when he thought about the heartbreaking look on Nie Xiaoqian's face, getting wet in the rain under Mount War God, trying to hold back her tears, unable to distinguish between rain and tears. The thought of this scene filled Barrett Walker with a sense of guilt, and he couldn't bear to choose a man who made him sad.
Jenny Antell was completely ignored by Barrett Walker and Baron, and a surge of nameless anger rose in her heart. What's so great about being handsome? What's so great about good grades? As she watched Rose approach, her mature and charming appearance easily aroused the desires of men, even with her cold and flirtatious demeanor. Seeing Rose suddenly smile at the two men, Jenny Antell felt a serious threat and her jealousy was ignited, feeling like she could do without the handsome guy, but he couldn't be so shameless as to steal her current boyfriend before they even broke up!
"Teacher Rose! I hope you, as a teacher, should have some self-respect. It's extremely unethical to seduce students," Jenny Antell scolded angrily.
As this bold scene unfolded in the campus, students passing by were shocked and gathered to watch, eager to know the truth.
Rose has killed over two hundred people, and her aura of killing was so heavy that the school leaders of 21st Public High School dared not approach her. After experiencing a morning of restraint, the guilt and killing intent in Rose's heart were finally suppressed. Looking at Barrett Walker and Baron, she couldn't help but change her usual poker face and smile, melting like an iceberg. But facing Jenny Antell's provocation, Rose sensed something was amiss. How could this student have the audacity to be so impudent in front of her as the head teacher?
Seeing Jenny Antell's provocative appearance, Rose seemed to understand something. She then looked at Barrett Walker's unhappy expression and realized that she had always dealt with such vicious words by beating people or crippling them, but this time she didn't do that. Instead, she pulled the stunned Barrett Walker and kissed him fiercely on the lips, even biting his mouth hard. After doing all this, Rose suddenly realized what she had done, her mind went blank and she didn't know what to think or do.
This bold action of Rose not only declared Barrett Walker's sovereignty to the whole school, confirming the recent rumors, but also told others that Barrett Walker was now hers.
"Blood!" After being kissed by Rose, Barrett Walker's mind went blank, feeling nothing but chaos. Suddenly feeling a pain on his lips, he looked at Rose's bloody mouth and fainted.
Everything was in chaos, the plans of the three major families were disrupted, and no one knew what kind of turmoil the federation was about to stir up. She actually did what a woman would do, but was it something a woman should do? Baron's mind went blank as he looked at his bold sister's behavior and the unconscious Barrett Walker. He didn't know what to do.
"Wow! So violent and obscene!"
"Seek comfort!"
"I swore when I was in my mother's womb that I would achieve success, that I would become a glorious soy sauce party emperor. I never thought that today, after the old man's sermon, I would be so deeply wounded!" Countless losers looked at Barrett Walker, who was also a loser, and were outraged by his shameless behavior. Where is justice in this? If they had seen Rose's violent side, they might have blessed Barrett Walker.
"Instructor, truly worthy of being an instructor!" The test had just ended, and as soon as Fallen got out of the classroom, he witnessed this thunderous scene. He had always thought that his instructor was a handsome man who liked women, but seeing this scene, he realized he was wrong, and very wrong at that.
"How about this, is this a moral behavior?" Rose provocatively looked at Jenny Antell.
"Humph! This weak man is yours! I'm not interested." Seeing Barrett Walker being kissed and fainting, Jenny Antell disdainfully said and walked away.
"Hush!"
"Oh!" A chorus of boos and jeers erupted, whether it was directed at Jenny Antell, Barrett Walker, or Rose, the atmosphere was extremely awkward.
"What are you waiting for? Get your brother to the infirmary!" Rose ignored the jeering crowd and, being one of the few who knew the truth about Barrett Walker, she knew that this kind of deep affectionate man was the most lacking in the federation.
"Okay!" Baron, with his sister's bloody lips, thought of poppies for some reason, and after a moment of distraction, picked up Barrett Walker and pushed through the crowd of jeerers to the medical room.
Rose looked at the commotion and suddenly became solemn, and the crowd felt an overwhelming chill as they watched her, as if a mouse had encountered a cat, and they quickly disappeared.
"Instructor!" Fallen caught up with Rose, saluting with a military salute.
"Alright, stop saluting, this isn't a military base, why so formal?" Rose intended to ask him about the fight at the school gate earlier, but Fallen had come to her before she could do so.
"Regarding Barrett Walker."
"What about him?" Rose was surprised by the question, as Fallen was not one to gossip.
"The people from the War God Academy have noticed him and have had contact with me."
"Which department?" Rose raised an eyebrow.
"The Mecha Warfare Department!" Fallen replied, somewhat strangely.
"The most obscure department! But still part of the War God Academy, I suppose!" Mecha warriors are almost a joke in the current energy-deprived world, especially since they haven't even developed mechs, it's just a fantasy. Mecha Warfare students might be able to fly a fighter jet, but until the energy problem is solved, fighter jets are just a dream, so the Mecha Warfare Department is a big joke in the War God Academy. When Rose thought of this, she lost interest and turned to leave, but suddenly turned back and asked, "Wasn't it you earlier?"
"What?" Fallen asked in confusion.
"Not you!" Rose softly asked, to confirm, ignoring Fallen's puzzled expression, she turned and left, truly puzzled by this strange event. Who in the campus could possess such abilities and help her during the exam.