Super Invincible Battleship

50  Chapter 40: China's Genius Class

At seven in the evening, inside the private room of Juwei Restaurant in Shanghai, Yan Fei met his long-lost friends Lu Pingping and Yang Qi.

Lu Pingping was youthful and beautiful, fashionably dressed, and stood tall at a full 1.7 meters. Not only was her face pretty, but her figure was also attractively curvaceous. Upon seeing her, Yan Fei couldn't help but swallow hard. Yang Qi, on the other hand, was a frail and short young man wearing black-rimmed glasses, giving off a somewhat foolish and naive appearance.

Yan Fei originally rose to his feet, intending to hug Lu Pingping, but hesitated and merely shook her hand instead, and when it came to Yang Qi, he just patted him on the shoulder.

Once they were seated, Lu Pingping laughed and said, "Fei, you seem to be glowing recently. Have you had some good fortune?"

Yan Fei replied with a smile, "My family's building was demolished, and we were compensated with some money. Naturally, I'm glowing because my pockets are full."

Lu Pingping said, "Didn't you say that building was the only thing your parents left you? Were you willing to let it be torn down?"

Yan Fei gave a wry smile and said, "It was beyond my control, an individual can't stop the inevitable."

Regretfully, Lu Pingping added, "It was so sudden. There was no warning. I didn't even have the chance to see it one last time. After all, I also have memories tied to that place."

Yang Qi, who had been gazing into the void beside them, suddenly spoke up, "Lu Pingping, hadn't you already known about the demolition of Yan Fei's house? When he had people causing trouble at his door, you even looked for a well-known lawyer in Beijing, ready to come to Shanghai to help Yan Fei with the lawsuit. It was only because that troublemaker got exposed by the police and was arrested that you didn't come. Since you were already aware of this, why are you pretending not to know now? Your behavior is so strange, I can't understand it."

After hearing Yang Qi's words, Lu Pingping looked somewhat embarrassed and didn't know what to say.

Yan Fei said, "So that's what happened. Pingping, I need to thank you. You truly are my best friend."

Lu Pingping responded, "I didn't really help much."

After speaking, she glared fiercely at Yang Qi sitting beside her, but Yang Qi didn't even look at her and continued staring into space, deep in thought.

At that moment, the food and drinks were served, and Yan Fei poured a glass of alcohol for Lu Pingping without paying attention to Yang Qi. Meanwhile, Yang Qi kept silent, simply picking up his chopsticks and starting to eat.

Yan Fei and Lu Pingping clinked glasses and downed the alcohol in their cups, and Yan Fei's face turned a shade of deep red.

Lu Pingping asked, "After all these years, can you still not hold your liquor?"

Yan Fei replied with a bitter smile, "Perhaps my constitution is special; I have no capacity to metabolize alcohol. Even a small amount makes me drunk."

Yan Fei had always been healthy since childhood, but his major weakness was his inability to drink alcohol. Even a small glass would leave him dizzy and drunk. Even though Yan Fei acquired his Drone Avatar and his body was transformed by a mysterious power, he still had no tolerance for alcohol. Thus, even a small glass made his face turn red. Of course, his drinking capacity had already much improved from before.

Lu Pingping snatched Yan Fei's glass away and said, "If you can't drink, don't force it. Hurting your health is the bigger issue."

Yan Fei looked at Lu Pingping and suddenly asked, "By the way, how's your boyfriend doing?"

Lu Pingping poured herself a glass of alcohol, downed it in one gulp, and said, "My boyfriend is the same as always, neither good nor bad. But lately, he hit a stroke of dumb luck and made a small fortune."

Yan Fei said, "That's good to hear."

Lu Pingping laughed, "His money is his own; it has nothing to do with me. I still need to work hard."

Yang Qi seemed suddenly jolted awake by this statement and asked, "Lu Pingping, for all these years, you've been saying that you have a boyfriend. But we've never met him. Are you sure your boyfriend really exists and isn't just a figment of your imagination?"

Lu Pingping laughed and said, "Yang Qi, your thought process is really different from ordinary people. You even doubt such things. Whether I have a boyfriend or not, isn't Fei the clearest on that?"

Yan Fei said, "Yang Qi, I can prove this, Lu Pingping really does have a boyfriend, and she's had one since her senior year of university."

But Yang Qi seemed as if he hadn't heard Yan Fei speak, continuously muttering, "This is illogical, totally illogical!"

Watching Yang Qi's behavior, Yan Fei and Lu Pingping shook their heads together.

The three of them were classmates at Zhendan University, but their class was a bit special, with only 15 people. The sign outside, however, read "China Genius Class." Yes, Yan Fei's class back then was the "China Genius Class" created by Zhendan University.

Although there were only 15 students in this genius class, each student was a true genius from around the country, far excelling in one particular aspect. Of course, there were two exceptions, and those were Yan Fei and Lu Pingping. The person who established this China Genius Class was Lu Pingping's father, Lu Shuchun, the Executive Vice President of Zhendan University, who, in an attempt to add to his political achievements, racked his brains to inaugurate a genius class at Zhendan University.

The geniuses of this class were personally recruited by Lu Shuchun from all over the country, verified as true geniuses by the university, each one at a considerable cost to the school. And it just so happened that it was time for Lu Pingping to apply for university. Although her IQ was slightly higher than the average person's, she was a certain distance away from being a genius. However, Lu Shuchun wanted to get his daughter into this genius class to add a brilliant page to her future resume, so he began to look for ways to achieve this.

Coincidentally, during the college entrance exams, there was a highly difficult math problem that every student across the country got wrong, except for one person who got it right, and that person was Yan Fei from Shanghai.

Yan Fei had started school a bit earlier than others, so he was the youngest in his class. When he was in high school, his academic performance was only above average, nothing extraordinary. Unexpectedly, during the college entrance exams, he had a breakout moment, as if cheating in his mind; he could solve all the exam questions at a glance, and he ended up scoring 650 points.

And that math question that stumped the entire nation was also solved by Yan Fei. The problem was highly obscure, hardly present in any test databases, posing a significant knowledge challenge. Against all odds, Yan Fei performed heroically and solved the problem, being the only examinee in the country to do so.

When Lu Shuchun discovered that Yan Fei had answered this question correctly, he investigated Yan Fei and learned he was merely a good performer on the spot, not a genius. However, he still faced the pressure and recruited Yan Fei into the genius class. With Yan Fei now present for comparison, the much more capable Lu Pingping was logically also brought into the genius class by Lu Shuchun. As a result, Yan Fei and Lu Pingping became the only two ordinary individuals in this class of geniuses.

To instruct the genius class, Lu Shuchun invited the country's most renowned experts and professors to teach these geniuses. By this time, Yan Fei no longer had any outstanding performance; he couldn't even understand the content of these experts' and professors' lectures. His heroic performance in the college entrance exams was just a fleeting moment.

A kindred spirit to Yan Fei was Lu Pingping. She was originally very confident in herself and looked down on those so-called geniuses, believing they were hyped up by the media with no real talent. However, after studying with them, she was shocked by the geniuses' performance and felt utterly outclassed. With just one small exam, Lu Pingping's score ranked second to last in the genius class, the last place being the less capable Yan Fei.

It was because of their shared experience that Yan Fei and Lu Pingping became closer and closer, and in the end, they became tightly-knit best friends.

The most peculiar among the genius class was Yang Qi. Yang Qi had an extremely high IQ; no matter the method used, no one could measure the limit of his intelligence because he maxed out every test. However, this same reason led Yang Qi to suffer from Scholar Syndrome, appearing naive and simple-minded, lost in his own world, and completely incapable of interacting or communicating with others.

Although the other geniuses were eccentric, they would at least exchange ideas and verify skills with one another. Yang Qi, however, completely ignored these people and, with his excellent performance exams, firmly held the number one spot, so the collective of geniuses ostracized him.

Out of pity for Yang Qi's pathetic state, Yan Fei often helped him. Influenced by Yan Fei, Lu Pingping also frequently interacted with Yang Qi. Gradually, Yan Fei, Lu Pingping, and Yang Qi formed their own small circle, becoming very good friends. Of course, it was always Yan Fei and Lu Pingping looking after Yang Qi, who only felt at ease when he saw the two of them.

Everything in the genius class was going smoothly until the end of the senior year, when Lu Pingping's father, Lu Shuchun, was reported for corruption, resulting in his imprisonment. The China Genius Class he had energetically founded was criticized and then denied by the university in its entirety. After a meeting and discussion, the China Genius Class was disbanded, and the geniuses were assigned to other classes to continue their studies.

Lu Pingping was deeply affected by her father's imprisonment and left Shanghai after graduation to head north to Beijing, where she found a job and never returned to Shanghai. After graduating, Yang Qi was recruited by a famous research institution in Beijing and was rumored to be specially engaged in technical research. It was unexpected that he would appear in Shanghai today. n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

Previously, Yang Qi couldn't communicate with people at all or live independently, but when they met this time, Yan Fei and Lu Pingping found that Yang Qi had changed significantly. Although it was still difficult for him to interact, he could communicate to some extent. The symptoms of Scholar Syndrome had significantly lessened; thus, he could go out alone and had traveled to Shanghai on a business trip.

When the two saw Yang Qi this time, they felt like he had become a completely different person. If it weren't for his naive and simple appearance and the occasional nonsensical things he said, they would have suspected that Yang Qi had been switched with someone else.

Yang Qi had a very strong logical thinking ability, giving him absolute control over scientific knowledge that no one could surpass. But when faced with humanities knowledge, he was extremely feeble-minded. That also explained why he couldn't grasp what Lu Pingping had said earlier, repeatedly muttering "This is illogical."

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