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In an age when AI has saturated every corner of life, the real learning abilities of young people have fallen off a cliff. Education authorities respond with the *Xue Zhan* system — turning study into sport, and knowledge into power. Two players face off, each with 100 HP; answer a question correctly and you deal damage, hit zero and you lose.
Lin Xiaoman is a boy of ordinary gifts. His edge? A method everyone else dismisses as laughably crude: grind the simplest questions until his accuracy is essentially perfect. On the strength of that single unglamorous trick, he fights his way from the lowest grade all the way to the national *Xin Keju* finals. Twelve years to answer one question: if AI can handle it all, why should anyone bother learning?
