Chapter 35: Just One Word: Noob

Was this a legendary advertisement?

The three were all dumbfounded. Scrolling down, there were even more ads.

Things like “Late-night kitten,” “Buy salted duck eggs, and you’ll be my forever daddy.” There was nothing Rong Ziyin couldn’t write.

So, what could they analyze from these Moments posts? The moral bottom line of a salesman?

The three looked at each other, unable to figure it out, and couldn’t even understand the content Rong Ziyin wrote.

After all, their lives were relatively simple, and they had never encountered such a special profession as a WeChat business seller.

So what was Rong Ziyin’s background?

At dinner time, after seeing Rong Ziyin’s latest Moments update, a picture of the three of them each holding a salted duck egg with the caption “Cheers to our eggs,” they were even more confused.

The boy who first added Rong Ziyin couldn’t help but message him, wanting to gather some intelligence.

“Senior, about your Moments post…”

In less than a minute, he received Rong Ziyin’s reply, “Ah! I’m a WeChat business seller, doing a small business.”

“???” [Confusion +1500] Never expecting this answer, the boy was stunned.

And Rong Ziyin continued, “By the way, do you want salted duck eggs?”

The three boys looked at each other, “What does he mean?”

In the next second, Rong Ziyin considerately sent them several videos, all showing different ways to eat salted duck eggs.

It was dinner time, and such videos were simply irresistible. Especially their rumbling stomachs, which kept craving food.

So, five minutes later, the three boys inexplicably ordered thirty salted duck eggs each from Rong Ziyin. Because Rong Ziyin had stock on hand, and they lived next door, the delivery was very quick.

The delivery guy was the top student from the mechanical engineering department.

Facing this seemingly simpler senior, the three boys couldn’t help but ask, “Why did Senior Rong bring so many salted duck eggs to the show?”

Mechanical engineering student: “Oh, he sells salted duck eggs. Everyone in our school orders from him.”

Three boys: “???”

The mechanical engineering student strongly recommended, “Try them, they’re really delicious!”

Then he turned and left, seemingly heading towards Rong Ziyin’s room.

“Senior, are you studying together?”

The mechanical engineering student frowned, “Yes, sort of.”

The three boys looked at each other, feeling even more uneasy.

And after returning to Rong Ziyin’s dormitory, the mechanical engineering student immediately changed to a happy expression.

“Come on, come on! Are you done updating? Let’s play trio queue!”

Rong Ziyin and the beautiful senior sister looked up together, “Let’s go!”

Then a familiar “timi” sound came from their phones.

Bronze trio queue, whoever reaches Gold first is a dog.

After all, in Rong Ziyin’s words, even last-minute cramming required knowing what to cram. The competition was only three days away, so they might as well relax.

And at this time, the competition group chat was also very lively. And their topic of discussion today was Rong Ziyin and his team.

Unlike the fans outside, they had been participating in the show for a month and naturally understood the program team’s usual antics.

The moment Rong Ziyin and his team moved in, they understood the program team’s hint. Rong Ziyin wasn’t just hype, but a strong opponent. Otherwise, if he was just there for one episode, the program team wouldn’t need to arrange for them to stay in the dormitory.

Because of this, these top students from various universities were even more concerned about the impact Rong Ziyin and his team would have on the competition.

“Do any of you have classmates from Agricultural University? Do you know their background?” Someone asked first, and someone quickly answered him.

“Even if you do, it’s useless. The previous incident of fans sending them to the trending topics angered the students of Agricultural University. Now they’re all tight-lipped, not giving us any chance.”

“What about their school forum?”

“Can’t access it. Agricultural University’s forum… was it built before liberation? Without a student ID, you can’t even access the external network.”

“Then we can only wait until after the mock exam. I don’t know which team they’ll choose, good luck to everyone!”

However, at this moment, someone suddenly thought of the Special Class for the Gifted Young team and tagged them, “You live next door to them, haven’t you discovered anything?”

After all, there was a psychology major on that team.

However, they never expected that the answer they received would be, “Rong Ziyin is a WeChat business seller.”

“???”

“He even sold me 30 salted duck eggs at dinner time!”

“…” The group chat instantly fell silent.

And the boy, as if he had finally found an outlet, added, “You’ll never guess, the ranking exam is coming up soon, and they’re not even reviewing or anything, but playing games in a trio queue.”

“Honor of Kings, Bronze rank! And they’ve lost five games in a row!” The three boys from the Special Class for the Gifted Young felt like fools at this moment.

After adding Rong Ziyin on WeChat, they couldn’t find anything and even spent money buying his salted duck eggs, becoming his customers. Feeling frustrated, they were determined to find something on Rong Ziyin.

At this moment, the boy who first added Rong Ziyin received a WeChat notification that Rong Ziyin had sent him gold coins in Honor of Kings!

So he was playing games?

Games could best reveal a person’s personality, so they quickly entered Honor of Kings and found Rong Ziyin.

Honor of Kings had a spectator mode. After clicking in, they were delighted to find that Rong Ziyin and the other two seemed to be in the game, playing in a trio queue.

This was even better! The three of them could analyze together.

However, half an hour passed, and they watched as the three chased a Cheng Yaojin for three miles in the jungle. Just as they were about to kill him, Rong Ziyin, controlling Xiang Yu, pushed Cheng Yaojin away, helping him escape. During this process, the opposing team successfully destroyed their base and won the game.

They couldn’t find any personality analysis, only one word filled the screen: noob.

“You probably can’t imagine! They’ve been playing for two hours, and the three of them are still stuck in Bronze III.”

“…” The group chat became even quieter.

What kind of strange opponent had they encountered?

Rong Ziyin suddenly received a system notification, receiving 10,000 confusion points.

System: Wow! This wave is amazing!

“Indeed, they’re a group of excellent lambs.” Rong Ziyin couldn’t help but smile, his Xiang Yu’s skill deviating again, sending the enemy back to the safe zone, while his four teammates missed all their skills.

The mechanical engineering student had collapsed, hugging Rong Ziyin’s arm and wailing, “Daddy, please switch to Yao, Daddy, just sit on my head.”

Rong Ziyin: “Watch your language, we have a girl here! How can you talk about riding people?”

“…” The beautiful landscape architecture student wanted to slap Rong Ziyin to death. Now he knew she was a girl, but when he said she could uproot trees with her bare hands, he didn’t think about her being a girl!

After another team wipe, the two angrily threw their phones, refusing to play trio queue with Rong Ziyin anymore, and planned to return to their dorms.

Rong Ziyin still tried to comfort them: Don’t be depressed, just be happy!

The two said in unison: “MMP, we’re not fucking happy at all!”

The ship of their friendship sank. For the next two days, because they were worried that they would strangle each other if they met, they didn’t meet at all.

But their carefree attitude, in the eyes of the other competing teams, became unfathomable. The three boys who first tried to gather information on Rong Ziyin even suffered from insomnia because they were too worried.

According to the competition rules, even as the winners of the last round, they didn’t have immunity. As long as Rong Ziyin challenged them, they had to participate.

And compared to the other teams, they were clearly the weakest.

In other words, in the next competition, as long as Rong Ziyin and his team got the right to challenge and chose their team, it would be a life-or-death situation. However, the other side could understand their situation by watching the previous episodes, but they knew nothing about Rong Ziyin.

In this tense atmosphere, the mock exam finally arrived.

The process of this variety show was far more demanding and complex than ordinary ones. Because all the participants were top students, and it was a point-based competition, not all teams could participate in every recording. Instead, they would select the top six teams based on the results of a mock exam before the recording.

Of course, for fairness, the mock exam was conducted online with remote invigilation. In other words, during the exam, the cameras in each student’s room would be open to the public, and any netizen could watch them answering questions through the cameras. At the same time, these netizens could also view their answer sheets in real-time on the program’s official website.

In other words, even if you just wrote an “A” on the paper, it could be immediately seen by netizens. There was no possibility of cheating.

Therefore, every mock exam was the most anticipated part for netizens.

Now, there were five minutes left until the exam started. The official website’s live stream was already crowded with people, and 70% of them were there for Rong Ziyin, wanting to see if he had real talent. And the students from Agricultural University who were cheering for their top student were all staring at the screen nervously.

The clock struck the hour, and the theme of this exam appeared. A total of 100 questions, all multiple-choice, to be answered within ten minutes. In other words, each question had less than six seconds, almost no time to think, they had to write down the answer immediately.

It was truly terrifying.

However, what was even more terrifying was the theme of this exam – National Geography.

The students of Agricultural University gasped, their minds buzzing. They thought, this was too unlucky! The three from Agricultural University, one from landscape architecture, one from mechanical engineering, and one from veterinary medicine, none of them were related to this field!

The forum was instantly filled with wails.

“Oh my god, this is truly divine luck! The previous exams were all comprehensive, how could it be National Geography this time?”

“Don’t worry yet, I think the beautiful senior sister from landscape architecture will be fine!”

“It’s useless even if she’s fine! What about Rong Ziyin?”

“Don’t say it, I can already predict the trending topic later, ‘Agricultural University flower vase, lives up to his reputation.’”

And at this time, the director of the Department of Veterinary Medicine was also very worried, but he was still putting on a brave face, clicking into Rong Ziyin’s test paper to watch him answer the questions. But he was surprised to find that Rong Ziyin was answering very quickly, even faster than the top student majoring in geography and humanities.

“Is this fake! Did this kid give up and just guess randomly?” The department director asked his colleague in disbelief.

“Not necessarily.” The female teacher frowned. Although she didn’t know much about geography, among the questions Rong Ziyin answered, the ones she knew were all correct.

So, what was going on with Rong Ziyin?

Obviously, those netizens who were watching Rong Ziyin also had the same thought.

At first, some people thought Rong Ziyin was just putting on a show. But then, they found that the answers Rong Ziyin chose were almost the same as those chosen by the geography and humanities top student. For the few that were different, after searching on Baidu, they unexpectedly found that Rong Ziyin’s answers were correct.

“Oh my god! Did he get the answers in advance?” Someone couldn’t help but question.

“Don’t talk nonsense, the program team isn’t crazy.”

“Who knows! Otherwise, how do you explain a veterinary student answering these questions better than a geography and humanities student? This doesn’t make sense!”

“That’s right! I also think something’s wrong!”

“Program team, come out! We need an explanation!”

Just like that, before the mock exam even ended, the netizens started making a fuss. And amidst this noise, the mock exam ended, the computer graded the papers, and Rong Ziyin got a perfect score, ranking first. The second-ranked geography and humanities top student was two points lower than him.

“How is this possible?” After getting the results, almost all the top students were shocked.

Veterinary medicine! If Rong Ziyin’s major was related to geography, they wouldn’t be so surprised.

“Hey, shouldn’t we get an explanation?” A hot-tempered student directly contacted the program team. They really suspected that the program team had given Rong Ziyin the answers in advance.

Especially the top student from the geography and humanities department. This was his field, yet he lost to Rong Ziyin!

So, without waiting for the program team’s explanation, they went to Rong Ziyin’s dormitory.

A PD quickly asked the chief director, “Should we stop them? It looks like something’s going to happen.”

The chief director gritted his teeth, “Let them go! Just treat it as an unexpected event.”

Because they also didn’t understand why Rong Ziyin got a perfect score. But in this situation, no matter how they explained it, the contestants and netizens wouldn’t believe them. It was better to let them ask Rong Ziyin themselves. Maybe it would not only clear up the suspicion but also bring new content.

So, with the program team’s tacit consent, these top students went to Rong Ziyin’s room and knocked on the door.

The person who opened the door was the PD in charge of filming Rong Ziyin.

Inside, Rong Ziyin was clearly unprepared. Not only had he taken off the white coat he wore for the interview, but he was also wearing the red and green veterinary department uniform, busy filling out a stack of express delivery slips. Packaged salted duck eggs were piled up at his feet.

Everyone: …

They seemed to have found the reason why Rong Ziyin was good at geography. After all, he was a WeChat business seller with nationwide business, and it was better to travel ten thousand miles than to read ten thousand books.

The atmosphere was very awkward.

The system quickly prompted: Host, say something, this is a live stream, we agreed that if you can attract fans, the gold coins will explode!

Rong Ziyin thought the system had a point, so he used the phrase students often said after exams, “The questions were quite difficult, what scores did you all get?”