I am a Big Player
Chapter 107 - 106, not a little prepared_1

Chapter 107: 106, not a little prepared_1

This was probably the best news Ren He had received lately. It didn’t make much of an impact on him, but Xu Nuo needed it!

Forget about the middle school examination questions, after all, no matter how one performs in it, the difference isn’t too huge. Getting into high school is just a new beginning anyway, as everything is restarted there. Even poor students can start anew in high school, but college entrance exams are a different story!

Knowing the college entrance exam questions in advance is practically the same as being crowned top scholar in advance, and securing a spot at the best universities in the country!

In this society where people judge others with a biased view, a good school is equivalent to an attractive business card.

He didn’t need it, but Xu Nuo did, his dad did, and maybe in the future, other friends would too.

Of course, perhaps Ren He’s own parents did as well.

Everyone lives in their own circles; nobody needs to pretend to be too noble by saying they want to live purely for themselves, regardless of their parents’ sadness or joy.

That isn’t being oneself; that’s selfishness.

In his past life, Ren He didn’t get into a very good school, leaving Ren and Mrs. Ren without much pride to show. When friends met, they would ask, "Where is your son studying?" and then they would hear some unknown second-tier college that they’d never even heard of. But Ren and Mrs. Ren never blamed him, instead, they would comfort him.

Having been reborn, why should Ren He stay in school? He wanted to repay his parents for the glory they were owed from his previous life.

The schools that other children could get into, he could too. The success that other families boasted of, he could achieve as well.

Whether it’s right or wrong for parents to compare their children among each other, if Ren He had the ability, the most appropriate thing to do was to satisfy their vanity, not to deny it.

That is a mature way of thinking.

What’s most important in a second life? Money? Pleasure?

Ren He didn’t think so.

Of course... money and pleasure are also very important...

Xu Nuo was stunned to hear Ren He say that, guaranteeing passing at their own school? That sounded very much like all sorts of advertisement slogans. Guaranteed to pass the English test, driving test, or money back...

Such advertisements inherently felt unreliable...

"Don’t fool me," Xu Nuo said weakly.

"Don’t worry, absolutely guaranteed," Ren He thought. He had seen the past five or six years’ real test papers, and they were all the same as in his previous life. There was no reason for any changes this year. Ren He planned to mix the middle school exam paper questions into a bunch of others to organize a review plan for Xu Nuo, ensuring he would score high.

He didn’t plan on sharing this secret with Xu Nuo. It wasn’t that good friends shouldn’t share secrets; he was just worried that Xu Nuo would slip up and accidentally cause the test questions to change, which would be a real headache.

Ren He contemplated copying the set of papers first. Then he would use it to help Little Fatty review. However, just when he managed to happily finish copying the papers during one class period...

"Task: Ride a bicycle at a speed of 75 km/h in the city for 20 minutes, with a one-week deadline. Failure to complete will result in the punishment of farting for a month."

Damn it, I didn’t do anything! I just copied a set of middle school exam papers, okay? Are you flipping insane? There’s even a punishment for that?

However, the Divine Punishment System didn’t seem to care about his complaints, and just as Xu Nuo turned his head, he saw Ren He with a bewildered expression...

Damn, this task came out of nowhere and completely caught me off guard! I’ve been utterly played by the Divine Punishment System!

Farting for a month... Ren He would bet that when the Divine Punishment System said a month of farting, it definitely meant non-stop farting for an entire month!

How could one show their face in public then? Chat about folk music with Yang Xi while farting? That would be... thrilling...

I guess after farting for a month, the 3rd year, class 2 will have to change classrooms again - the whole room is stinking, okay!

But this is still the first time the Divine Punishment System has given a task related to cycling, huh? 75 kilometers per hour, maintain for 20 minutes, those are the two prerequisite conditions.

No, wait, there’s another one, within the city!

That is to say, Ren He couldn’t leave the urban area to complete this task.

What does 75 kilometers per hour represent? In general, the speed of cars in the city doesn’t exceed 60 kilometers per hour, and in many places, the limit is even set at a maximum of 50 kilometers.

If a car was driving at 75 kilometers per hour, one could hear the howling wind if the windows were rolled down.

So, some people don’t quite understand why there needs to be a so-called "wind-blower" in bicycle races. What’s this all about?

Because when people normally ride bikes, they’re not going fast, so they don’t feel it. But in a race, that kind of speed means facing a significant amount of air resistance!

In a normal race, like the Tour de France, the average speed on flat ground is usually around 40 kilometers per hour, while downhill speeds can break 100. The highest recorded speeds are 82 kilometers per hour for flat sprints and 120 kilometers per hour downhill.

These are records made during races.

Of course, there are faster ones, like mountain biking downhill races where speeds over 150 kilometers per hour have been recorded.

Now, the Divine Punishment System is demanding that Ren He achieve a speed of 75 kilometers per hour. Honestly, the speed is secondary; the problem is that it’s not safe! To maintain that speed on roads full of traffic, you’d have to run red lights. And it’s not only about whether running a red light is right or wrong but also about the many vehicles on the road - a single collision would have Ren He hospitalized for two months.

It seems that this task must be attempted at night, preferably around 4 am, when there are the fewest pedestrians and vehicles.

That’s the safest for oneself.

Ren He might take risks, but he’s never really been at odds with his own life. Like those who seek the presence of life, Ren He loves life.

He plans to give it a go these next few nights. The bike he ordered from TK has been lying in the pickup for some days now and is finally coming into play.

Ren He’s guess was spot on; a task related to cycling was bound to come sooner or later, and it would be too late to order a bike at that time.

Now that a cycling task has appeared, it probably won’t be long before other dangerous sports like mountain downhill come up.

Right, the real era of risk-taking began with freehand climbing the Kailai Great Hotel, and even winter swimming and 12-meter diving were just warm-ups compared to that!

Interesting!

Xu Nuo originally found Ren He’s sudden change quite strange, but in the blink of an eye, Xu Nuo turned around and started getting him to do problems, seeing questions come out one after another, unable to keep up with his own problem-solving pace!

Ren He felt that he was unappreciative of his blessings; others were crying out for questions, and here they were, guaranteed to pass the exams, no refunds!

At this very moment, while helping Xu Nuo review, Ren He also felt as if he were back in his old classroom, crazily revising, with some people studying until the early hours of the morning, others getting up at the crack of dawn, doing problems until their hands were sore. Conversations among classmates revolved around grades, never straying from academic performance.

Every time the exam results were posted, everyone wanted to see their current ranking, whether they had improved or not, and whether they got wrong the questions they shouldn’t have or got right the ones they should have.

The desk no longer hosted novels, love letters, or stationary, and internet cafes were only dreamed of in rare moments: "After my exams, I swear I’ll hole up in the internet cafe for three days to make up for lost time!"

Others might use a second chance at life to make money or to have an untouchable life, but Ren He loved his current life. The point of re-walking the path of life is to leave no regrets, right?

All those exams were sore points in our youth, yet now, all of a sudden, we turn back and reminisce. Looking back abruptly, those faces from life are almost blurred, leaving behind only the deepest memories of light and shadow.

Rather than missing that tense atmosphere before an exam, it’s more about missing that ignorant yet blissfully innocent self from back in those days.