The announcer, after a long pause, resumed speaking.
"Now, I know the question that everyone has been wondering. Why did Nimbus Hail lose? Well, the reason why Nimbus Hail lost was because of one student. Do you remember me saying that there are 20 students that got a perfect score? Well, turns out that the Nimbus Hail group has 21 students."
"Wait, so does that mean that the last student bombed the test?" an audience member asked.
"Exactly. In fact, that last student got the lowest score ever recorded on the final exam."
"Did he get a 0?" the member jokingly inquired.
"Yes."
That reply by the announcer shut up the entire audience. Soon, however, the uproar returned, albeit in grander scale. After hearing about why Nimbus Hail lost, the head of the school that won, Blooming Fleet, offered to give the trophy to Nimbus Hail. This made Nimbus Hail lose a great amount of face, much to its own chagrin. Many blamed the new regulations set last year that raised the number of students from the class that could participate from 20 to everyone in the class. If the old regulations were still there, then Nimbus Hail would definitely crush the competition, no questions asked. And most people were furious at the mystery person who ruined it all for Nimbus Hail. Many called for the person to be kicked from the school, but it was found that the person was already kicked out from three schools before coming to Nimbus Hail. As the regulation said a person can only be kicked out from a school three times, Nimbus Hail had no choice but to accept him.
When that news came out, the lawmaker that made the legislation vowed to change it to "as many times as possible".
Liu Yang, on the other hand, couldn't care less. He knew that he was dead meat the minute he stepped into this competition, and he planned to lose.
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When Teacher Wang heard the news, he was furious. His veins looked as if they would pop out. His blood boiled quite literally, raising 15 degrees in the short span of half a hour. He already had low hopes for the runt of the team, but he couldn't have imagined that Liu Yang was that stupid. In the test, the first section of questions was so easy, literally everyone could solve them. They were intended to be free points. To give an example, this was one of the questions on Liu Yang's test.
3.) If a stranger is running towards you with a sword in his hand during a war, should you:
a.) Kill him
b.) Cry for your mother
c.) Do nothing
d.) Go up to him to give him a hug
(Liu Yang selected d.) as his answer)
Nimbus Hail literally only needed Liu Yang to answer two questions correct from the first section, which had 10 questions, to win. And Liu Yang somehow managed to miss all of them, something unprecedented in the history of the competition, especially at the national level.
"Such a failure should not be in my school, or even in humanity itself." he heard himself muttering.
In the end, the only solution that Teacher Wang could think of was to kill Liu Yang until his account died. After that, Liu Yang would never be allowed to join Nimbus Hail again, even if he made a new account.