Chapter 399 - Examination Score
Translator: lav
Editor: SSins
Shi Lei suddenly remembered that when he checked the remaining quota, he asked some questions about the basic points.
The Scepter's reply was that it wasn't as much as fifty points. However, the Scepter shouldn't have replied to this question at all. Hence, Shi Lei thought that there was a trap.
The Scepter was full of schemes and Shi Lei had to watch out.
"Tell me how many accumulated points I have at level two." Shi Lei asked calmly.
The Scepter wasn't as easy to communicate with as last time and replied coldly, "Level Two Employee, your level is not high enough to ask about your points."
"I know that you intentionally tried to trick me last night. You exposed yourself, didn't you? Of course, I know I can't ask about my points yet. However, I remember you saying that I can ask about the extra points. There's no need to tell me the basic points. Just tell me about the extra points."
The Scepter didn't have a choice and scolded, "Cunning Mickey Mouse! You received seventeen extra points during this consumption period."
"Stop being so ambiguous. I need details. Tell me how I got these seventeen points."
"Humph!" The Scepter was proud but it had no choice but to reply, "Level Two Employee achieved a five star plus level consumption during the consumption period and thirty extra points could have been earned. However, because you had a large loan, thirteen points were taken off. Thus, you earned a total of seventeen points."
Shi Lei didn't have any more questions. He knew that no matter how much he asked about his points, the Scepter wouldn't reply anymore. He was told what he was allowed to know and even at level two, he already received twenty-seven extra points in total. The first time was because he bought a bulldozer and demolished Qin Huaiyuan's house, which was a five star consumption. It was combined with a two-star consumption and the points taken off from a postponed consumption gave him a total of ten points in the end.
He ejected the card silently and walked outside the bank with the Black Card.
The factory was silent at night. It was half past midnight and there was no one outside. There were barely any lights on in the residential houses in the area.
Shi Lei walked and pondered about the situation about his accumulated points.
He had twenty-seven extra points alone and after two consumption periods, the basic points should have at least been six points and reached at least thirty nine points.
According to Shi Lei's knowledge, since the basic points weren't set either, it was decided by the consumptions he achieved. Then, it was impossible that he only earned the minimum basic points in the past two consumption periods.
Although he never understood how to calculate basic points, with his experience at level one, Shi Lei only used four consumption weeks to level up, which meant that he earned an average of fifteen points. Shi Lei questioned that other than the basic points that had a limit of thirty points, the other ways of calculating the points perhaps were the same calculations as the extra points.
When Shi Lei was still level one, the final accumulated points was over seventy points and the Scepter clearly told him that he earned a total of twenty extra points. According to Shi Lei's thinking, twenty points of basic points was created by consumptions and the other forty points were created by receiving appropriate judgments every consumption period of about ten points.
In fact, the difficulty in receiving thirty points, which was a consumption period's full points, and receiving the lowest of six points was the same difficulty. Six points reflected complete passive consumptions without any consumptions wasted to change oneself. Meanwhile, receiving full marks required enormous consumption value.
Compared to the newbie training period, the Scepter said one five star consumption could give him forty, which would be the full marks. But the basic points were limited to the maximum of thirty points. In the remaining three weeks, every week averaged about ten points which didn't fit with level one's situation.
Now that he was level two, Shi Lei already had two consumptions periods. The first consumption period had fourteen extra points but four points were also taken off. Shi Lei doubted that his basic points were about fourteen or fifteen points during the first consumption period.
However, because of a five star plus level consumption in this consumption period, Shi Lei's basic points may have reached the maximum.
If that was the case, Shi Lei's basic points should be over forty points. Even if Shi Lei consumed passively in the next two or three consumption period, his basic points would reach sixty points and inevitably level him up.
It wasn't the outcome Shi Lei wanted. He hoped that he could stay in this one million level longer.
If it was as what Shi Lei thought, the forty or more basic points and twenty-seven extra points would bring Shi Lei's points to exceed the seventy points at the current level. Of course, it was good news as if that was the case, Shi Lei could have as high as ninety points before he leveled up, which could be exchanged into 900,000 yuan of self-funds.
But when Shi Lei asked the damned Scepter last night, it said that Shi Lei barely had fifty points. Was that a lie?
Shi Lei suppressed his urge to go back and ask the Scepter again. He sat on the street as he had to think about this clearly.
The first possibility was that when the Scepter said Shi Lei didn't have fifty points, it was because it didn't include this consumption period's extra points. Since it wasn't the calculation day, it could do that.
If that was the case, Shi Lei's points should be around twenty. Since the Scepter didn't add this consumption period's points in, there wasn't a point in telling Shi Lei that to confuse him.
The second possibility was that Shi Lei's points indeed didn't reach fifty.
But he already had an extra twenty-seven points. How was it possible that his basic points weren't as much as twenty-three points?
However, Shi Lei should have more than ten points during the first week of the consumption period alone. This time, it shouldn't have been less than fifteen points…
Perhaps the way Shi Lei calculated the examination points was wrong?
Shi Lei fell into deep thought…
Time passed second after second. Shi Lei seemed to be frozen as he sat on the street. He seemed to not feel the cold from the chilly night wind.
He didn't know how long it took before he suddenly realized that there was another trap.
In the last consumption period, he should've received fourteen or fifteen basic points. However, this week's points were odd as the rewards were halved for the consumption this week, but his extra points weren't affected. According to the Scepter's explanation, the maximum total of the extra points couldn't exceed forty. Theoretically speaking, the rewards should have also been halved, which would have made it twenty points. However, this five star plus consumption's extra points was thirty and it wasn't the result after been halved.
Was it possible that the deducted half of the rewards of the five star plus consumption was deducted on the basic points? In other words, the basic full points were thirty and so was the extra points. After it was halved, Shi Lei only received extra points and the basic points were deducted to zero. Of course, because of the rules itself, the lowest basic points must be six points every consumption period. Hence, Shi Lei only earned six basic points this time.
As to the reason why it was like this, it was because in the Black Card and the Scepter's calculation program, six points could have been taken off. Speaking from a macroscopic viewpoint, it benefitted the Black Card.
It had to be that!
Hence, Shi Lei only had about twenty basic points at level two. In addition to the extra points, he would have forty-seven points. As a result, the Scepter didn't lie nor conceal when it said that he didn't have fifty points.