Beast taming, starting from zero point

Zhehai Province, Hangkang City.

Wencheng Middle School, Class 3-7.

"The improvement of everyone in this mock exam is evident, especially Qin Shou, who scored second in the whole grade, just 2 points short of a perfect score. Everyone should learn from him."

"Most of you did well, but there are a few who didn't strive for progress and even scored zero, which really dragged down our class average."

"I won't name names here, but I hope this student will reflect on their actions. With only 21 days until the middle school exams, such a score wouldn't even get you into an ordinary vocational high school, let alone Beast Taming High School."

The Mediterranean-looking class teacher, Yu Guang, glanced toward the window seat in the third row from the back on the far right, and saw the ponytailed girl sitting up straight in her seat, a picture of a model student.

A smirk twitched at the corner of his mouth. What a pretense! He was talking about you!

Qiao Sang certainly knew the class teacher was talking about her, but she couldn't help it, she wasn't the Qiao Sang of this world.

She had only transmigrated here a couple of days ago and had barely acclimatized when the mock exam hit.

But it was just a middle school mock exam, which she of course wasn't afraid of; after all, in her past life she had been bright enough to get into a 985 university.

But she was stumped the moment she saw the test paper.

"What is formed by the awakening of the human brain domain?"

"To which extraordinary creatures are Heart Scales attractive, and what function do they serve?"

"What is the final evolutionary form of the Smelly Loach?"

"Which planets have humans colonized?"

What... what kind of questions are these?!

In the end, with no other choice, she adopted the strategy of choosing the shorter answer for multiple-choice questions with "three long and one short," and the longer one for "three short and one long," filling in blanks at random, leaving the essay questions blank, and submitting her paper.

In the past two days, Qiao Sang got used to the body and the memories of the original occupant had also started flooding back. She had gradually begun to understand this world.

This was a world dominated by beast taming. Since humans discovered they could tame beasts, 32,050,000 years had passed, and a fully mature beast taming social system had been established.

Although it was the era of beast taming, not everyone was a beast tamer. Human brain domains could be awakened by magnetic stimulation when a person reached the age of 15, resulting in the emergence of the Beast Taming Codex.

The Beast Taming Codex was both a contract and a space that perfectly connected humans with extraordinary creatures.

If the brain domain couldn't awaken by the age of 15, there was a high probability that one would have little to do with beast taming for the rest of their life.

Even though the beast taming era had developed over millions of years, humans still couldn't guarantee a 100% awakening of the Beast Taming Codex.

Last year, for instance, only 73% of the national middle school exam candidates managed to awaken their Beast Taming Codex, meaning 27% did not, and even if some were academic geniuses, they were doomed not to get into Beast Taming High School.

And those who couldn't tame beasts could only become mediocre, spending their lives at the lower end of the social hierarchy.

This was a harsh reality; without the ability to tame beasts, you might not even be able to perform manual labor like bricklaying.

With extraordinary creatures that could carry several hundred or even thousands of kilograms of bricks in one go, who would bother using human labor, which was time-consuming and labor-intensive?

It was the same with carrying dishes.

Even if the salary was several times higher, restaurants would prefer to employ extraordinary creatures as servers because they attracted more customers.

In such a world completely different from the society she used to know, Qiao Sang, as a middle school student nearing the exams, was incredibly anxious!

In the past, knowledge could change one's destiny; now, beast taming could change one's life.

She might have the memories of her predecessor, but the girl was an academic flop! Her grades had been steadily at the bottom three in her class. She had shown progress last month in the mock exam, moving up a rank to fourth from the bottom.

But that was only because the previously fourth-from-bottom student had a stomach upset and abandoned two exams that day.

With the middle school exams only 21 days away, she had no hope of getting into a key high school; she'd be grateful just to get into any high school at all.

Qiao Sang listened attentively in class, took notes, and kept looking at her textbook even after class ended, exhibiting the same commitment she'd had when she was a student facing college entrance exams.

"Qiao Sang, the egg score the teacher mentioned must be yours," whispered her desk mate Fang Sisi, leaning in.

This wasn't a question but a confirmation. Although the teacher had not specified who it was, Qiao Sang was openly making notes on her zero-score test paper without bothering to obscure her score.

Qiao Sang nodded her head.

In Qiao Sang's memories, she and her desk mate got along well, often eating together and going out for fun.

The most important reason for their good relationship was that her desk mate was also an underachiever.

Fang Sisi was the one who had the stomach trouble and took over the fourth-from-bottom spot last month, temporarily saving Qiao Sang from that embarrasment.

"Wow, I saw you filled in all the multiple-choice questions and still didn't get a single point; that difficulty is almost like someone else getting a perfect score," Fang Sisi said, raising her thumb in admiration.