The bad students had an expression that said, "If I stick my neck out, I'll be stabbed no matter what." They looked at death calmly and rushed to the execution ground — no, the examination area.
Meng Chao remembered that he had the same expression in his previous life, and he could not help but smile.
The written test lasted a total of five hours, but there was only one subject to be tested. It was a comprehensive test paper that mixed biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics, strategic analysis, and other subjects together. It was incredibly difficult.
Besides, they did not provide seats during the entire test. The exam table with the computer was adjusted to an awkward height where they could not stand or squat down based on the height of the examinees.
Only when the examinees' stances reached a certain level could they adjust themselves to a comfortable posture and focus on completing the test.
They were allowed to go out to relieve themselves, but the toilet was at the other end of the examination area. Going back and forth would waste a lot of time.
This was another test of a teenager's control over their organs.
Over the years, quite a number of examinees had squatted for a few hours. Their blood flow was not smooth, their legs were numb, and they fainted.
Even if they gritted their teeth and persevered, they could not focus, and their results would not be good.
The examinees walked into the examination area and immediately let out loud wails.
This was because the difficulty of the national college examination had increased again. The examination area was not flat. Instead, the left side was elevated and tilted by twenty degrees. The exam table and computer were fixed in place by screws.
The examinees had to stand on a twenty-degree slope. They could persevere for a while, but they had to focus on a comprehensive test for a total of five hours. This was too crazy.
Meng Chao could not help but chuckle. He remembered that he had been a member of the wailing crowd in his previous life.
He wondered which immoral invigilator came up with this sort of examination area.
At that moment, he was naturally not afraid of a small problem. Based on his student number, he walked to his seat as if he was walking on flat ground and entered his fingerprint and retina.
The shutters by his sides rose slowly and enveloped him in an independent space. He could only see heads popping out of the shutters. He could not see other people's screens, keyboards, or their movements.
"Please wear earphones."
A notification appeared on the screen.
Meng Chao put on his earphones. Rustling sounds rose, and soon, he heard wails. It was as if the gates to hell had been opened. He also heard the sounds of wolves chewing on flesh and grinding bones.
This was a hearing test.
It was not as crazy as a mental strength test, but it lasted for a long time. It was not easy to stay focused for five hours while being harassed by all sorts of strange sounds.
Of course, the volume of the sound could be freely adjusted, or even turned off.
However, the level of the volume would also be graded. If one simply turned it off, the result of the listening test would be 0, and they would be judged as "not strong enough willpower to apply for a major that requires mental stability".
Meng Chao casually adjusted the volume to the highest. As the wails and howls rose, he shook his head and whistled.
Dong, dong, dong.
Someone knocked on the partition.
Raising his head, he saw the invigilator staring at him in disbelief.
"Ah?"
Meng Chao lifted his earphones, and he was completely confused.
A deafening monster roar came from the earpiece.
When the invigilator heard this, his gaze became increasingly strange. He said softly, "Don't make any noise, it will affect the other candidates."
"Oh, sorry."
Meng Chao shut up and returned to his senses. He stared at the countdown timer on the screen.
Half a minute later, the first question popped up on the screen. It was an Iron-armored Rhinoceros.
The examinees had to draw the structure of the Iron-armored Rhinoceros' main organs and point out its weaknesses.
This was not a problem for Meng Chao. He immediately started drawing on the drawing board.
The second question was about the five main types of crystal engines. He had to draw their basic structures and fill in the spirit energy conversion formulas.
The third question was about the Nine Great Stances. It contained eighteen breathing techniques and meditation techniques. He had to list their main points.
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The sixteenth question was a comprehensive application question.
"If a Demonic Halberd Pig King weighing 9,989 kilograms charged at you at a speed of 180 kilometers per hour, and you were a normal soldier wearing a strengthened Sword-Shield-Type II exoskeleton with heavy defense mode activated, and you were 1.75 meters tall, weighed 82 kilograms, and had well-distributed muscles, how far would you be sent flying by the Demonic Halberd Pig? Would your strengthened exoskeleton be damaged? Would you be injured? Would you be injured?
[If the strengthened exoskeleton is damaged, how will you be treated?]
[If you are injured, how will you be treated?]
This sort of comprehensive question had a lot of room for the examinees to express themselves. They just needed to say something meaningful.
Meng Chao moved as if he had a mind of his own. The tapping sounds on the keyboard did not stop.
There were a few examinees in the cubicles nearby. They could not stand the monster roars coming from their earphones, so they turned off the hearing test.
However, the sound of the brainiac typing on the keyboard stimulated the flunkies who were scratching their ears and cheeks, unable to type a single word.
They thought about it and put on their earphones again. They would rather endure the torment of the monsters than be trampled on by the ace student.
Meng Chao cleared all the obstacles and used around two hours to arrive at the final question, which was a discussion question.
[Describe the thought process and style of the development of firearms after Dragon City transmigrated.]
This was a major question.
He thought about it for a while before he started writing.
[Half a century ago, when our ancestors transmigrated to the Other World, they were shocked by all sorts of unbelievable physical and chemical phenomena.
[Metals that were originally as sturdy as iron change drastically when they are placed in storage for a night.
"All sorts of alloys known as' stainless steel 'are showing signs of rust at a visible rate.
[Lead ingots and copper pieces that only have one characteristic turn into all sorts of strange materials that have never been heard of on Earth even though they are stored in the warehouse.
[Even though most of the changes in the materials are very slight and do not affect our daily lives, it's not like we can't use them even if the malfunction rate of complicated machines such as computers for civilian use increases by a large margin.
[But the high-end weapons industry places great emphasis on the stability of materials. If the key materials become shorter by the slightest bit or their hardness and tenacity change by 1%, there will be catastrophic consequences.
[As long as one part of the jet engine of a supersonic fighter jet changes, it might explode in the air.
[In the gyroscope of a surface-to-air missile, if one part expands or shrinks by 0.01mm, the missile will lose its target or even change its target.
[War fortresses that seem indestructible when they are welded with special solder might instantly crumble when the properties of the solder change, and all the soldiers will be buried inside.
[In the beginning, scientists could not understand this phenomenon no matter how hard they thought about it. They kept calling it magic and demonic arts and wondered if we had transmigrated to the legendary world of magic or the world of immortal cultivation.
[But even magic and divine arts could not stop Earthlings from searching for the truth. Soon, we discovered the super energy source known as spirit energy.
[Spirit energy is a very active form of energy. It can invade the molecular level of matter and directly interfere with the atomic nucleus.
[The latest scientific research shows that the protons and neutrons in the atomic nucleus can form a spherical vibrating energy layer formed by the balance between the internal and external forces.
[On Earth, there is no radiation that can interfere with the vibrations of the atomic nucleus' energy layer. Hence, atoms are believed to be indivisible. The building of matter formed by countless atoms is also indestructible. At most, it can only be changed at the molecular level.
[But in the Other World, when spirit energy attacks the atomic nucleus, it can easily change the spherical vibrating energy layer of protons and neutrons. It can change the properties of the elements at the atomic level.
[We have a general idea of the reason for the change in materials, but it does not help us solve the imminent danger.
[That's right. Scientists can use the crystallized materials unique to the Other World. They can use all sorts of crystals, crystal cores, crystal marrows, and crystal liquids to create relatively stable high-end materials.
[We can also develop biochemical technology and use monsters to fight against monsters. In fact, we can completely change our civilization into a biochemical civilization that is completely different from Earth's.
"As we continue to explore spirit energy technology, there will come a day when we will be able to use spirit energy to bombard atomic nuclei and change protons or neutrons in a controllable manner. At that time, we will be like the wizards and cultivators in legends. We will have the ability to turn stone into gold and cast beans into soldiers.
[But this is all in the future. We will need to invest a lot of valuable resources and even more valuable time into it.
[Right now, our understanding toward spirit energy is still very shallow, and crystallized materials are very rare and expensive. They are not suitable to be created into single-use weapons and ammunition.
[When we face the aggressive monster horde, aside from using crystallized materials to create cold weapons that can be used up multiple times and allowing martial arts to shine once more, we also need firearms that are cheap, numerous, easy to operate, and will not be affected by spirit energy!
[Just like that, a genius idea was born.
[If we can't create very stable, accurate, and expensive high-precision weapons in the unfathomable environment of the Other World for the time being, can we do the opposite and increase the weapon's fault tolerance and pressure resistance so that we can create a large number of stupid, crude, and black weapons?
"Since it is impossible to prevent the volume, density, hardness, and tenacity of the most precise core structure of a firearm from undergoing minute changes, why don't we simplify the core structure and create a weapon that will not affect the battle even if the key parts have a 1% change in shape? Even if parts fall off while firing, it will not affect the firing of the second or even the hundredth shot. Is it possible to do so?
[In truth, not only is it possible, our ancestors were quite skilled in this style.
"Two hundred years ago, on Earth, our ancestors and their teachers used the same idea to forge the Torrent of Iron and Steel with the idea of 'thick and sturdy, durable, and cheap'.
[At that time, any tractor factory could be modified into a tank factory, and such a factory would have to endure the enemy's bombardment day and night. In fact, fierce battles would break out at the entrance of the factory. The production workers were all newbies who had just been trained for a few weeks. Even so, it did not stop the seemingly clumsy tanks from rolling down the production line and heading to the frontlines to turn the enemy's most elite armed forces into scrap metal.
[The Other World's environment is terrible, and it is even worse than the full-scale wars on Earth.
[Then, we temporarily put aside the development of high-precision weapons and lowered the technical standards to the level of two hundred years ago. We used multiple turrets to increase the firepower, used dense rivets to prevent the welding materials from changing, and continuously thickened the rigid suspension of the axles to prevent the failure rate of all sorts of complicated suspension structures.
[Even though the weight will definitely surpass that of similar weapons on Earth, the high output of crystal engines will allow these steel beasts to charge about on the battlefield.
[As technology continues developing, all sorts of biochemical brains and superbrains will appear. We can also replicate the brainwave data of heroic spirits to create artificial intelligence with high degrees of freedom. We can also carve runic symbols into new armor that can absorb spirit energy and form spirit energy magnetic fields.
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