Chapter 5: Slaying Demons and Eliminating Evil

  Occasionally passing by the kitchen corridor outside Su Can's bedroom window, his mother was shocked to find that Su Can was studying with a bean-yellow lamp on.

  The impression of Su Can is not so meticulous and focused on reviewing lessons. Before big or small exams, Su Can would use various methods to relax, similar to the current middle school entrance exam, Su Can could use the excuse of changing his mind to watch TV.

  However, as night fell, her own son was not only not playing outside, but was also locked in his room, diligently reviewing his homework, which gave Su Mu a kind of comfort and relief.

  Back in the living room, Su Mu Zeng Ke whispered to Su Li Cheng, "Our son now knows how to work hard and is studying well. This kid has never been so diligent before, he also knows that he needs to work hard!"

  Su Licheng's face relaxed slightly as he glanced at the location of Su Can's bedroom door, his eyes first flashing with equal comfort, then a hint of worry, wanting to speak but stopping himself, finally sighing, "Only three days left, this kid, if only he had worked hard earlier..."

  Su Can's desk was lined up with all the textbooks he could find for his third year of junior high school. The ones placed on the side table looked quite impressive: Chinese, English, math, history, politics, chemistry, and physics. Fortunately, geography and biology had already been completed and wouldn't be included in the middle school entrance exam, so that was two fewer subjects to worry about. But the stack of textbooks in front of him made Su Can's head ache subconsciously.

  It's also a bit funny to think about it, in 2009, there were countless stories about rebirth and reincarnation, whether online or in traditional publishing. However, they all have one thing in common: when the protagonist is reborn, they are either born into an official family with a high-ranking position, or they seize business opportunities and develop across eras, making a fortune by catching the first wave of the times. Or else, they simply run further away, to another dynasty, causing trouble for foreign tribes and conquering the world.

  He inexplicably returned to eleven years ago, sat back on the desk, looking at the thick textbooks, and the purpose was actually to relive the miserable test-oriented education of eleven years ago!

  Su Can felt that if he told anyone about this experience, no one would believe him. Even if it were in 2009, others would say he was overthinking and had a nervous disorder.

  But life must go on, if God really exists, then he wouldn't let himself reincarnate just to deepen the impression of a painful life, otherwise this old man would be too boring.

  After failing the high school entrance exam, his parents' disappointment and the mocking faces of people around him were still vivid in his mind. These memories that had been locked away for so long now burned clearly in Su Can's heart, he never wanted to repeat the same mistake again, experience the same pain. He wanted to change the sorrowful experience of eleven years ago, alter his own destiny within this short period of time!

  Su Can roughly flipped through the Chinese and English texts, and many familiar things from before suddenly came to mind. The Chinese text, which required memorization, looked familiar and intimate to Su Can, and he could glance through it at a glance. However, if he had to recite it word for word without error, he estimated that he wouldn't be able to do it. So he proactively gave up on the memorization part. But when it came to using vocabulary, even filling in sentences from Lu Xun's works, analyzing articles, and identifying subject-predicate-object-modifier-complement structures, these were Su Can's strong suits, and he was very skilled at them.

  English was no longer a barrier for him in 2009, after all, his own company had foreign investment, and Su Can could also do oral English without any problem. The key to junior high school English in 1998 was the accumulation of vocabulary and the mastery of some simple grammar, so fortunately, these things were not difficult for Su Can, of course, he had to browse through all the word lists and consolidate them.

  This is still a time-consuming task, except for a small number of words that need to be looked at to understand, including some complex structures similar to "gratution" (congratulations) and "delicious", which are already natural everyday language for Su Can.

  Flipping through an English book, I saw my own middle school exam papers inside. Looking at the total score of 105 points, while I was always struggling on the edge of passing with 80-90 points, Su Can couldn't help but scold himself for being so stupid in middle school! Those wrong questions now seem like obvious mistakes that shouldn't have been made.

  But looking back, many of the mistakes at that time were due to a lack of in-depth understanding of sentences, and even some words couldn't be recognized, which is a problem with memorizing vocabulary.

  In fact, the 1500 vocabulary required for junior high school English has already been far exceeded in the eleven years of accumulation from Su Can's high school to university graduation and work, so now looking at the wrong test paper at that time, he will feel that the mistakes are very childish.

  But if it's just a rough look, you can go take the middle school entrance exam. It's probably not worth making a big deal out of this exam anyway. At least Su Can thinks that if he goes into the exam like this, he might not end up at the bottom of the third middle school, but as for the city's top high school or provincial key high schools, they're probably out of his reach.

  There are not many people who have the opportunity to start over, and since they can start again, they cannot be so careless and blindly respond. Since the college entrance examination has become a golden stone in this social environment, and will become more intense in the future, why can't they use their later knowledge reserve to make up for it?

  After rebirth, he aimed at the top high school in the city for his middle school entrance exam!

  Of course, now is not the time to just think about it and let it pass, the most important thing is to put it into action.

  The foundation was too poor, it was a huge problem of my own in the past, now it's alive again, and the experience of the first half of my life has completely become my foundation. Now is the time to grow a lush and dense big tree on this thick foundation.

  Spread out the set of photocopied math problems from Dong Qingyun, Su Can understood that what he needed most now was to have a systematic grasp and familiarity with the amount of knowledge in his junior high school years, which had long been vague in his memory. Since this set of math problems is currently the most difficult collection of math problems for junior high school students, if he can try to solve it thoroughly, wouldn't it be equivalent to being able to handle the middle school entrance exam with ease?

  Su Can put aside six math books, spread out the exercises, and started from the first question. As expected, this topic, which was said to be one of the most difficult in middle school, did not live up to its reputation for nothing. The first question alone had Su Can stuck, mainly because his memory of mathematical concepts had become vague after a long time, and he had forgotten some formulas. Su Can still flipped through the math books one by one to find them.

  As night gradually fell, both parents passed by the window several times and saw Su Can concentrating on his calculations, they couldn't help but smile.

  It was eleven o'clock and Soo-chan had just solved the thirty-fifth problem.

  Several times, Su Can's parents urged him to go to sleep first, but in the end, they couldn't persuade him. Zeng Ke and Su Li Cheng were worried that their strong urging would dampen Su Can's enthusiasm for solving problems at this moment, so they reluctantly returned to their room with a hint of heartache.

  In his student days, Su Can almost never stayed up all night, but in his later work, staying up late to work overtime was a frequent occurrence, especially the kind of dull and tedious life that made people want to go crazy with repetition. Now it's just solving problems, and compared to the future, it's completely small potatoes. Moreover, as he answered one question after another, Su Can became more and more adept.

  Review materials from "Monotonicity of Functions", "Multiplication of Powers with the Same Base" to "Quadratic Functions", "Tangent and Cotangent"...

  To be honest, the middle school math problems back then were actually harder than later on, and high school math problems were even more challenging. The advanced math in college was so difficult that even professors at a third-rate university like Su Can's would struggle to solve some of the problems. Now, going back to doing math problems, Su Can has gradually mastered the formulas through practice, and after being used to doing messy sales work, he finds elementary math to be surprisingly clear and logical, with his mind clearer than ever before.

  The first ten questions took Su Can half an hour to solve, and the next twenty questions, Su Can also used only half an hour.

  Next in twenty strokes, Su Can used only twenty minutes on the basis of speed.

  This is an unbelievable speed, for top junior high school students, perhaps ordinary test questions can have such a speed, but this kind of internal practice question can reach this speed, which is unbelievable.

  The next fifty questions, Su Can quickly resolved them like a crushing blow, full force attack.

  Let out a sigh, looked up materials, consolidated system knowledge, and then completely solved the problem, now it's already 1 o'clock in the morning.

  He stood up from his chair, stretched comfortably and let out a soft "ahh".

  The thrill of solving this problem is just like the thrill I had in 2009 when I played online games after work, killing monsters and upgrading levels. However, this thrill is even stronger!

  The numerous exercises that I have conquered with my own answers are the entirety of junior high school math knowledge, and yet they were all defeated in just three hours, it's as if while everyone else is still wandering around at level 70 in World of Warcraft, I'm already at level 80, strolling around with top-level equipment, this is what it means to be transcendent.

  However, this set of exercises does not represent the whole truth. Yesterday, Su Can only photocopied the exercises and forgot to photocopy the reference answers together, so he can't guarantee that there won't be any mistakes or errors in the internal workings of the problems he has done. After all, sometimes even if one feels good about it, things often turn out contrary to one's wishes. The cruel realities Su Can experienced before his rebirth have already made him no longer trust his own feelings.

  He lacks confidence.

  Fortunately, there is still one more day of school tomorrow, and he can borrow a reference answer at that time to check his test scores.

  Moreover, he also has to borrow similar super difficult internal exercises that can be systematically reviewed from other subjects.

  Time is pressing now, hopefully it's still possible in the next three days.