True Solution of the Sword Dao
Chapter 193 - 93

Chapter 193: 93

Jiang Feng and Jiang Nan also came over and sat on the side to watch the father and son play chess.

When they heard Lin Jianguo sticking to his guns despite losing, both couldn’t help but laugh.

"What’s so funny? I haven’t played in a long time, it’s normal to need to get the feel of it again," Lin Jianguo said, unwilling to admit defeat.

Lin You sat to the side, hugging his knees and smirking.

"Now I know where my temper comes from. It turns out I inherited it from you, Dad."

Lin Jianguo’s face turned red, but he didn’t retort.

Lin Fei was being discretely accommodating, trying to avoid making Jianguo realize it was deliberate. But by the end, even Jiang Feng couldn’t stand to watch anymore—the obvious suicidal moves were not being taken, which was too apparent.

As expected, Lin Jianguo lost again.

"No way, how could I have been confused by that move? To make such an obvious low-level mistake, truly unexpected! Let’s go again!" Lin Jianguo said, having been soundly defeated again. He had trouble keeping his composure.

Lin Fei reluctantly continued to play chess with him. In reality, he was multitasking, studying while playing distractedly, but the outcome was still speechless. This time, even Jiang Nan, who was not very good at chess, could recognize the several obvious concessional moves. Jianguo noticed too. He was speechless too.

"Wow, so you’re that awesome, huh? Giving your old man breaks at every turn and still winning!" He now understood why every chess game only ended when he was in an absolutely impossible position. It was all because Lin Fei had no more room to give.

"Last game," he said, starting to set up the pieces again.

"This time you have to give me the rook, the knight and the cannon!"

Jiang Feng laughed and teased, "You’re not getting any younger, and you still want your son to give you the rook, the knight, and the cannon, tsk tsk..."

Lin Jianguo was indifferent, "It’s only fun to compete when everyone has a fair starting point."

Ten minutes later.

Lin Fei once again reluctantly won.

Lin Jianguo stood up with a sullen face.

"That’s enough for me." He turned around and stepped aside. "Anyone who wants to be thrashed by this abnormal kid, be my guest!"

However, as he walked away, his hand pressed down on the chessboard, which suddenly tilted sharply. The pieces that had been arranged neatly all slid toward the spot where his hand had pressed.

He nearly knocked the chessboard over.

"That was close, that was close!!" Lin Jianguo quickly steadied the board with his other hand. "That was a close one!"

"Lin Jianguo, were you planning to flip the board since you can’t win?" Jiang Feng said with a chuckle.

"Completely unintentional!" Lin Jianguo laughed too.

But Lin Fei was suddenly taken aback, staring intently at the area of the chessboard where all the pieces had slid. In his mind flashed Yuan Yicheng’s sword strike. Countless True Forces spread out like a web.

After that, nodes formed one after another, encasing him entirely within the web. At that moment, he was like his father Lin Jianguo’s hand.

"So that’s how it is..." A light dawned in Lin Fei’s heart. He had understood the method used by Yuan Yicheng.

After Yuan Yicheng’s True Force was released, it automatically formed several denser nodes in the space. These nodes seemed to have a particular property; as soon as Lin Fei made any slight movement within the web, they would puncture towards him instantly with that force. This borrowing of power meant that the faster Lin Fei moved, the faster these nodes would slide. They were using Lin Fei’s own speed against him.

From the beginning to the end, Yuan Yicheng had not made a single move to draw his sword; he had simply used his True Force to set a trap.

"Should be time to check the results now, right?" Lin Jianguo suddenly said.

Lin Fei snapped back to reality and glanced at the clock on the wall. It was exactly ten o’clock.

"It should be," he responded.

The cut-off score for Yan Capital University was over six hundred, making it one of the highest-scoring admission batches. Lin Fei’s estimated score was around six hundred seventy to eighty, which should place him in the top fifty in the province, as long as he wasn’t in the top three or five, which would be too conspicuous.

Upon hearing that it was time to check the scores, Lin Jianguo, Jiang Feng, Jiang Nan, and Lin You all gathered around the telephone.

"Dial the number on the admission ticket," Jiang Feng reminded.

Lin Fei nodded, took the admission ticket, and turned it over to look at the telephone number. He pressed the numbers one by one.

Soon, a sweet female voice came from the phone.

"Welcome to the college entrance examination score inquiry. Please enter the candidate’s admission ticket number. Press the pound key to confirm."

Lin Fei did as instructed and entered his admission ticket number.

"Candidate’s examination number confirmed, beginning the score inquiry."

"Your scores are as follows: Chinese 136 points, Mathematics 148 points, English 142 points, Science Comprehensive 280 points. Total score 706 points."

points.......

The whole family was in a daze.....

Struggling to turn their necks.

Lin Jianguo felt his cervical spine cracking.

"How.... How much? Did I hear 706 just now?....."

"It seems... it seems so...." Jiang Feng was also stunned.

points!! What concept was that! The total score was only 750 points, and in the history of the national college entrance examination for science students, the top scorer barely passed seven hundred points. And that was the national top scorer!!

Jiang Nan was also dumbfounded, and it took a long time to regain her composure. She swallowed hard, looking at Lin Fei in disbelief. Although she had always considered Cousin Feifei to be the best, she could never have imagined he would score this high in the exam. With a total of just over seven hundred, Lin Fei had almost achieved a perfect score. This level allowed him to look down from the highest peak at all so-called top students and honor students. He looked down on No. 3 Middle School, looked down on all the surrounding schools, and even trampled the whole city and province under his feet!!!

Such a score could no longer be called excellent, it was a monster!!

Lin You’s mouth formed an ’o’ shape, staring at Lin Fei without blinking. Her mind was a mess; where had the Lin Fei she always overshadowed gone? Where had the Lin Fei she always utterly defeated in tests gone? Where had the Lin Fei who always bickered and quarreled with her, so frustratingly annoying, gone?

"Monster!!" The black cat Feil telepathically communicated.

"Xiaoyou, your brother is definitely a monster! This score.... is too ruthless!! Now I kind of regret it; if your brother had superpowers, I would definitely choose him!! He’s way stronger than you, you silly girl!"

Lin You had no words to retort. Although she was very unwilling to admit it, after entering high school, she knew all too well that the difficulty of each subject exceeded that of junior high, and the intensity of studying was much greater as well. Her classmates were no longer ordinary people but top students selected from various schools. In the entrance exam, she had been one of the top students as well, but unlike before, the student with the lowest rank in the class was not more than one hundred points behind her. That meant if she slacked off even a bit, someone would quickly surpass her, taking her place.

Under such difficulty and competition, Lin You also clearly recognized how hard it was to score over seven hundred points. If just one or two subjects were not up to par, even if only above average, it would be impossible to achieve this score.

"It feels like I’m dreaming..." Lin You pinched Feil’s tail hard, causing them both to wince in pain.

"What are you doing!!" Feil glared angrily.

"Nothing. I have to train tomorrow, so I’m going back to sleep," Lin You said woodenly as she walked towards her bedroom. "I must be overly exhausted to have such a dream..." She continued softly to herself as she walked away.

Lin Fei shook his head helplessly. His score had exceeded his expectations a bit. He had scored higher than expected in both English and Chinese, which were supposed to be his weakest subjects. It must have been because of the essays, the only unpredictable part of the score. With this surge, it was possible not only to make the top ten but maybe even a chance for the first or second place. This was too much.

Yet seeing the expressions on his parents’, Jiang Nan’s, and Lin You’s faces, he also felt that perhaps earning some accolades for his family wasn’t such a bad thing after all.

"Check again, quickly, it must have been a mistake in the number input just now, it might be someone else’s score," Lin Jianguo, having come to his senses, urged.

Lin You, who had walked some distance away, suddenly realized.

"Definitely!" She immediately turned back to the phone. "It must be a mistake with the exam number. Try it once more!"

Jiang Nan, although also considering Lin Fei very outstanding, thought the score was too exaggerated and hesitantly said, "It might be a mistake, maybe input it again?"

Jiang Feng and Lin Jianguo also felt the score was too unbelievable. Normally their son had been improving and was getting better, but such demonically high scores were unlikely to be his. They knew that he had only scored a little over five hundred points on the mock exam. To catch up by nearly two hundred points, spanning two full levels in just one month, was something nobody would believe.

Helpless, Lin Fei could only go along with them, re-entering the examination number.

"Candidate Lin Fei, examination number ********, individual subject scores. Chinese...." Once again, the same message replayed.

The family fell silent once more.

There was a long silence.

Lin Jianguo’s eyes reddened, and he patted Lin Fei on the shoulder hard without speaking.

Jiang Feng and Jiang Nan also looked on without speaking, everything understood without words.

Only Lin You had a look of someone struck by a blow. The more she looked at Lin Fei, the more she felt he stood at a height she could hardly reach, looking down on her with contempt. That extremely irritating expression made her teeth itch with anger, yet she could do nothing but endure it.

"Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!" Lin Fei in her imagination stood with hands on his hips, laughing wildly, his body shimmering with golden light, and a giant score of 706 points floating behind him!!! His figure had grown to a menacing size. Lin You felt like the most pitiful Cinderella from an Andersen fairy tale, shivering in a dark corner.

She could almost foresee how miserable her life would become. With this weapon in hand, Lin Fei would never let go of such an opportunity to strike at her!! Definitely not!!

The black cat Feil’s face twitched.

"Xiaoyou, your brother isn’t as terrible as you think..."

"You underestimate him..." Lin You said with a bitter face...(To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to cast your recommendation votes and Monthly Tickets at qidian.com, your support is my greatest motivation.)