After deciding to sleep, Chen Ran slowly closed his eyes.
His breathing was even...
With the college entrance examination approaching, the workload for the third year of high school was overwhelming. At this time in the past, Chen Ran would have been so tired his eyelids would be drooping, but today he felt no sleepiness at all, quite the opposite, he was wide awake.
Chen Ran wasn't sure if it was the world that had changed that excited him, or if it was the strengthened mental power from the fusion of souls after 'transmigrating and being reborn'. He read.
"Can't sleep," Chen Ran muttered to himself, taking out the crimson Decade Driver.
As a tokusatsu fan and a Rider fan, obtaining a real, genuine Driver made him incredibly excited.
No wonder 'Silly Orange' transformed for a whole night...
Chen Ran had already practiced the transformation poses.
He had no intention of experimenting further.
His grandmother was still sleeping.
Chen Ran couldn't help but fall into memories.
Speaking of which, when did he start liking Kamen Rider?
When he was little, he actually liked Ultraman the most.
He used to watch them on pirated discs back then.
It all began with 'Ultraman Agul'.
Actually, it was the Heisei era's big brother, Kuuga!
...
In a flash, three days quickly passed.
The highly anticipated college entrance examination arrived!
Nothing significant happened at Jiudu No. 1 High School during these three days. After the Rider awakening ceremony, teachers and students wholeheartedly prepared for the upcoming college entrance examination. Well, it was only the third-year students; the other grades had already been released.
No monsters caused trouble.
Jiudu, in the grand scheme of Great Xia, was not a first-tier big city. Correspondingly, the number of spatial rifts connected to the monster world was much smaller.
Moreover, they were guarded by the military.
The Rider awakening ceremony and the college entrance examination were paramount events for Great Xia. The newly awakened Riders would be the future backbone of the nation, and no slack could be tolerated. Defense forces in every region would be elevated to extremely high levels, without exception across the country. How could the tragic events of Jiangnan decades ago be forgotten?
With all combat readiness deployed, monsters would have to be out of their minds to choose this time to cause trouble.
They weren't fools.
Furthermore, each spatial rift connected to different regions and housed different species of monsters. These monsters all desired to conquer the planet outside their rifts but were not united, and they had frictions and conflicts with each other for various reasons.
In short, the city was quite safe for these few days before the college entrance examination ended.
"Xiao Ran, don't put too much pressure on yourself for the college entrance examination today. You have to do your best," his grandmother said, smiling as she tidied Chen Ran's slightly disheveled clothes.
More than Chen Ran's grades, she cared more about his safety.
"Don't worry, Grandma. Maybe your grandson will bring back the top score," Chen Ran said, scratching his head and chuckling.
"Don't be so arrogant."
"Yes, Grandma."
Grandma said...
If only he had a sister, he would feel like he had the template of a show-off.
The college entrance examination in the new era was also different.
It was scheduled for June 7th and 8th.
The 7th was for the written exam, and the 8th was for the combat exam.
Those who did not awaken a Driver and become Riders during the Rider awakening ceremony would be directly dismissed after the written exam on the 7th.
Jiudu No. 2 High School.
According to the examination venue arrangements, Chen Ran would take the exam at No. 2 High School. However, these two schools were not far apart, and if anything, No. 2 High School was closer to Chen Ran's home.
Many years had passed since his previous life. If it were an ordinary world, Chen Ran would have no confidence in returning to take the college entrance examination.
He had graduated from university, and the knowledge he had learned was long gone.
Didn't someone say that most people are most knowledgeable during their third year of high school?
However, this was a world related to Riders and monsters, so Chen Ran was quite confident about the college entrance examination.
The formerly distant three major Rider academies were now within his grasp!
Outside the examination hall, many parents were seeing their children off.
Even in different eras, some aspects were always strikingly similar.
"Son, good luck on the college entrance examination!"
"Okay, Dad."
"Daughter, don't put too much pressure on yourself..."
Chen Ran hadn't let his grandmother, who was old, accompany him.
Having been independent since childhood, his grandmother was at ease.
Entering the examination hall, the test began.
Chen Ran sat in the front row, with the invigilator sitting in front of him. However, he felt no nervousness at all. He was an old hand who had lived two lives, and besides, he was naturally thick-skinned.
Upon receiving the exam paper, Chen Ran began writing furiously.
For him, the questions were not difficult.
"Which of the following monsters requires a special Rider or armament to defeat more easily?"
a. Worm
b. Grongi
c. Fangire
d. Bugster
If he didn't know, he would probably have to guess randomly, or use the rule of choosing the longest option.
However, this question was quite simple.
Chen Ran chose 'd' without hesitation.
Bugsters were born in the world of Kamen Rider Ex-Aid. Their original setting was that of monsters formed from micro-computer viruses that infected humans and grew by parasitizing their brains. However, in this world, which had entered the Rider era, they were classified as data-type monsters.
Data-type monsters have damage reduction against non-data-type Riders.
For example, when Fang Wen transformed and fought a normal Bugster, it was a grind. It was all about being tanky! But for Riders like Ex-Aid, it was a matter of seconds.
This is what is called specialization.
Therefore, when entering spatial rifts where data monsters are born, one either finds data-type Riders to team up with, or spends a fortune to purchase special armaments.
Of course, as Decade, Chen Ran did not have so many troubles.
The next day was the combat exam.
Compared to the written exam.
The number of participants in the combat exam was much smaller, and the examination venues were consolidated. All the examinees from Jiudu gathered at Jiudu No. 1 High School, where Chen Ran attended.
Compared to the written exam, the combat exam was more straightforward and brutal.
It was said that special secret realms would be opened...
Chen Ran did not know the specifics.
In fact, perhaps to guard against any monster activity, there was not much news about the Rider combat exam every year, and it would change every few years.
For ordinary people like them, their sources of information were mainly from online news.
They didn't know much!
"Chen Ran, wait for me."
Suddenly, a voice came from behind.
It was naturally Fang Wen.
After Chen Ran awakened a new Rider series, Fang Wen was the only one in the class whose relationship with him remained the same as before...
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