The moment the teacher asked her, all eyes turned to look at Huo Yao. She was the most capable student among them and the one with the highest chance of making it into the finals. Although they had been unsuccessful, they hoped she could bring glory to their country.
Now was not the time to be concerned with their personal accomplishments but was a matter of national pride.
Huo Yao did not know whether to cry or laugh. She cleared her throat and straightened her back before she said, “Don’t worry. I will win this for us.”
Her confident and arrogant voice was a stark contrast to the gloomy mood they were in.
Yi Lianfan had been on tenterhooks till now and finally relaxed when he heard this. He knew that everyone could get eliminated except Huo Yao.
The teacher’s sullen face instantly lit up with hope when he heard this. His lips quivered as he asked Huo Yao softly. “How many marks do you think you’ll get?”
Hopefully she will get 160 to 170 marks. As for achieving the full score… the teacher did not even dare to dream of it. The International Quiz Contest was at a completely different level from the nationals.
Huo Yao raised her brow and said proudly, “Full marks!”
“F-full marks…” stammered the teacher.
“Yes!” Huo Yao was very confident about her answers today.
This time, Huo Yao did not have to worry about giving out solutions which lay out of the scope. It felt liberating and awesome. She would be doing herself a major injustice if she did not score full marks.
The teacher looked at Huo Yao with a complicated expression. He felt as though Huo Yao was overreaching here.
Yi Lianfan quietly looked at how astonished the teacher and students appeared to be. He finally did not have to suffer the shock on his own.
The teacher remained stunned for a long time when he saw the result in the afternoon.
Out of 300 students, only one person scored full marks, Huo Yao. There was a ten mark difference between Huo Yao and the student from Country M who had stood second. It was not simply a matter of ten points difference.
In a contest like this, the score gap was five marks. Hence, Huo Yao had over a 60% chance of becoming the champion tomorrow during the finals by being ten marks ahead.
In the past, it was hard even to get ranked, let alone achieve the championship.
The more the teacher thought about this, the more he felt his blood pressure rising. He inhaled a few times before he finally calmed himself down. Then he took out his phone and called home with Huo Yao’s results.
The International Quiz Contest results were not available online for now, so the teachers back home had been waiting for them impatiently.
When the Principal heard Huo Yao stood first with full marks in the heats, his amazement could rival that of the Tsing University teacher in Country M.
He recalled having a chat with Huo Yao and asking her to just come back with any ranking . He had held back from wishing to win any medals. Although these were just the heats, it probably would not be too far off from the final outcome.
The Principal felt as though it was a tight slap on his face.
Also, he was in the middle of a meeting now. All the teachers became curious about the call when they spotted the look of shock on the Principal’s face.
After the Principal finally gathered his thoughts, he glanced at the teachers and realized he had lost control of himself. He quickly composed himself and reverted to his usual stern self before he said unhurriedly, “Oh, it was a call from someone from Tsing University.”
