Chapter 84

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Chen Mo, upon seeing these two people greet him, immediately greeted them with a smile: "Yes, I am Chen Mo. Hello, both of you, nice to meet you!"

Chen Mo originally thought that the classmates in the class were not very friendly, but he didn't expect these two to be quite friendly to him, so his tone was a bit excited.

The first three groups of people didn't even bother to acknowledge him when they heard him speak, not even a glance. The two boys who greeted him looked at Chen Mo with worried faces, and after the others entered the dormitory, they didn't hesitate to pull Chen Mo to the stone bench outside the dormitory door.

After the three of them sat down, Chen Mo looked at their worried faces and couldn't help but ask curiously: "What's wrong, both of you? Did you get scolded by the teacher?"

The two boys sighed when they heard this, and then one of them extended his hand: "Let's introduce ourselves first before we talk about other things—my name is Xiao Yuxian, and his name is Zhu Yuanxiang. We will be comrades-in-arms from now on. Chen Mo, you must be curious why those classmates were so cold to you, right?"

Chen Mo shook hands with Xiao Yuxian and Zhu Yuanxiang and then nodded: "Yes, I met about fifteen or sixteen classmates in the hallway earlier, and when I greeted them, they even looked down on me. What's going on?"

Zhu Yuanxiang, with a baby face but an old-fashioned tone, sighed: "It's a long story—when you were looking at those people just now, I think you already noticed something, didn't you?"

Chen Mo's heart stirred when he heard this and said: "Those classmates were in different groups, didn't they form their own cliques?"

Zhu Yuanxiang shrugged: "Congratulations, you're right. Do you know why only the two of us greeted you?"

Chen Mo had a rough idea of the reason. He looked at Xiao Yuxian and Zhu Yuanxiang and said: "Because we belong to the same group?"

Zhu Yuanxiang sighed: "Exactly, the three of us belong to the same small group—more precisely, we belong to the Linhai faction."

Chen Mo couldn't help but laugh and cry at the same time: "It's not even the start of the semester, and they've already formed cliques? And... our group is so small, isn't it?"

Xiao Yuxian interjected: "This is our first time entering the天才少年班 (Genius Youth Class), and we're not very clear about these situations. But according to the students who transferred from the Northern Genius Youth Class, forming cliques is a tradition in the Genius Youth Class. Those guys stole the enrollment list from the teacher before they even registered, then they divided themselves into groups based on the regions in our country. The largest group is the Central Plains faction, followed by the Southwest faction, then the Southern faction, and the Northern faction. When it was our turn, no group was willing to accept us, so we had to form the Linhai faction on our own."

Chen Mo thought to himself: No wonder Sister Tian said the teacher lost the enrollment list; it turns out it was stolen by these classmates. He couldn't help but laugh: "There are Central, Southwest, South, and North factions. I didn't expect these classmates to be so creative!"

Seeing Chen Mo joking, Xiao Yuxian and Zhu Yuanxiang were a bit at a loss. Zhu Yuanxiang complained first: "Chen Mo, how can you still laugh? We're being isolated, and we won't have a good time from now on."

Chen Mo patted their shoulders: "I can see the situation clearly. This is definitely a trick by the teacher to intensify competition. The teacher wants us to dislike each other, and only through conflict will we compete and compare with each other. Since the teacher went to such lengths to set this up, wouldn't it be a waste of the teacher's efforts if we didn't cooperate?"

Neither of them had thought as deeply as Chen Mo. Hearing him explain, Xiao Yuxian couldn't help but mutter: "I said it before, why was there a psychological test during the assessment? It was to see if we could handle the pressure in this environment!"

Zhu Yuanxiang looked worried: "Even if we know the truth, what can we do? Our Lihai faction only has three people. How can we compete with the other groups?"

Chen Mo encouraged them: "Since it's a Genius Youth Class, the competition is based on academic performance, not the number of people in the group. They might have more people and more momentum, but as long as we outperform them academically, they will respect us. I'm very confident about this. Are you not confident?"

Zhu Yuanxiang felt embarrassed: "Do you know why the other factions didn't accept us? It's because our grades are poor. The teacher ranked the students based on the assessment results. The top-ranked student is Li Xiaofeng from the Central Plains faction, followed by Wang Xiaojun from the Southwest faction, and then—"

Xiao Yuxian interrupted Zhu Yuanxiang before he could finish: "Why are you rambling so much? Just tell us our rankings."

Zhu Yuanxiang looked a bit embarrassed and used his little finger to indicate: "We ranked 45th and 47th out of 49 students in the class. Because we're from different provinces and our grades are so poor, no one wanted to accept us as a burden."

Zhu Yuanxiang then seemed to think of something and asked: "By the way, Chen Mo, why didn't we see your grades? The list only has rankings for 48 people. Could you be the 49th? Oh no! This is really bad! I think we should drop out early! As the saying goes, it's better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix. I was definitely the top student in my original school, and it's really humiliating to be at the bottom here!"

Xiao Yuxian agreed: "That's right. I ranked second in the province in the high school entrance exam. With this score, any high school would be eager to have me. Why should I come here to suffer?"

Zhu Yuanxiang turned to ask: "Xiao Yuxian, you ranked second in the province? I was right behind you, third in the province! But I didn't expect that the top two in the province would rank so low in the Genius Youth Class. Are the students from Lihai really that bad? I wonder where the top student in the province is. But even if he comes, I doubt he would do much better!"

Xiao Yuxian, reminded of something, turned to Chen Mo and asked: "Chen Mo, I heard that the top student in the province also surnames Chen. I was busy playing games during the summer and didn't follow up much. Could that person be you? If it is, then the top three students in the province from Lihai are all here."

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