Chapter 141 Higher Education Entrance Examination (I)
...Is it the way she opened her eyes that was wrong?
From the moment he woke up and didn't see his roommate, Tang Xinjue knew something must have gone wrong.
But she didn't expect it to be such a big problem.
What could be more terrifying than a person who has been in college for several years and whose brain knowledge has basically been lost in compulsory education, opening his eyes and standing in front of the college entrance examination room again?
For a moment, even the monsters in the nightmare became familiar, making Tang Xinjue have a rare urge to close his eyes again.
"Hey, which school are you from? Are you going to get into the exam room? You're going to be late!"
More and more people outside the exam room cast their gazes over. Some suspected Tang Xinjue had a heat stroke and started calling for security. Some asked where her parents were, and some even started pushing her. The crowd surged forward like a wave, attempting to push her directly into the exam room.
In the face of the college entrance examination, all actions no longer feel out of place, and are even full of legitimacy and rationality, making it impossible to find any flaws.
——Especially when you lose your super powers.
Tang Xin Jue retracted her fingers. She had just tried it quickly, but neither her mental power nor the toilet plunger worked. She was now dressed in casual clothes consistent with the college entrance examination regulations, and her props and phone had disappeared without a trace.
She said nothing, and quietly followed the flow of people into the school gate. After a series of familiar inspections, she stepped into this unfamiliar teaching building.
"Examination Room 37, 3rd Floor, Turn Right, Classroom 307."
The middle-aged female teacher in the hall glanced at her admission ticket and gave her brief directions.
There were less than two minutes left before the first exam started. There was almost no one in the corridor, which stretched quietly to the end of her sight. The only sound she could hear was her own footsteps.
This is unreasonable.
Tang Xinjue took a quick glance and already had an idea in his mind.
In the real college entrance examination, there are always teachers supervising in the corridors, so it is impossible for them to be so empty.
No matter how normal the scene looked , she could still keenly sense a hint of chilliness as she walked in the silent passage.
The appearance of abnormality actually made her feel at ease.
——After all, if she was not crazy or dreaming now, then she should be in a new exam copy at this time and place.
Probably for some unknown reason, she entered the dungeon without waking up. Not only did she not hear the dungeon information and rules, she also lost contact with her roommates.
Is it the unique nature of the dungeon, or is the game messing up again? None of this is known.
You can only respond to each move as it comes.
Her footsteps stopped at the door of classroom 307. Tang Xinjue pushed the door open, and her vision was filled with two similar-looking thin female teachers. They stood at the door with expressionless faces, as if they were waiting for her.
After completing the last inspection process, the outline of the classroom finally came into view.
From the classroom layout to the students, everything was exactly the same as in reality. Tang Xinjue couldn't help but think that if she had lost her memory now, she would probably think she had traveled back to the college entrance examination in 2017.
"Don't look around!"
A teacher suddenly shouted, pointing to the last row, "Hurry over, the papers will be distributed soon. Let me repeat the exam rules again. First of all—"
…Even the sense of urgency is incredibly real.
Tang Xinjue smiled and sat down, silently estimating the time when the copy would reveal its true face.
Is it the examination room that has changed, or the test paper?
Given the sheer volume of questions in the Gaokao, it's impossible to replicate them one by one like in classic movies. Therefore, it's difficult to predict the specific form of danger.
But no matter how good the game is, you won't really let them do the college entrance examination questions here, right?
…
Two hours later, Tang Xinjue realized that he was wrong, extremely wrong.
Because the game looks like it really intends to let her take the college entrance examination.
In the air-conditioned room, the girl held her forehead with her hand as she stared at the densely printed words on the Chinese language test paper, her gel pen silently turning between her fingers.
No accidents occurred in the examination room during these two hours.
The biggest surprise is that when you're working through the questions, you never know how difficult the next one will be. Looking closely, the beautiful ancient poems and classical Chinese texts seem so unfamiliar, as if they've never appeared before in your life. The clean answer area seems to interpret the blank space in this life.
Is this something horror game students should watch?
"There are still thirty minutes left in the exam."
The invigilator gave a serious reminder.
Tang Xinjue stared at the invigilator and for the first time felt a strong desire for the NPC to mutate quickly, in any way possible.
Sadly, the invigilator simply stared back expressionlessly, emphasizing, "The last thirty minutes!"
“…”
She resigned herself to her fate, took back her pen, and continued answering the questions.
Before figuring out the details of this dungeon, I couldn't risk giving up any opportunity—what if the dungeon was really just a college entrance exam? Given the level of Dogecoin in the game, it wasn't impossible.
He wrote until the very last moment, and only when the bell rang to end the exam did Tang Xinjue breathe a sigh of relief and put down his gel pen.
After the exam, she couldn't stay in the classroom. She walked out along with the huge group of examinees, looking for Zhang You and others.
In the best case scenario, they were simply assigned to different examination rooms in the same school.
And in a worse case scenario, they may not be in the same school or the same examination area... or even in the same province or city!
However, after walking and observing for a few minutes, Tang Xinjue quickly discovered that because there were too many people here, his vision was blocked when he wanted to observe the environment, and finding someone was like looking for a needle in a haystack, which was as difficult as climbing to the sky.
And every time she tried to go out in the opposite direction, the surging crowd would push her back like elastic bands, pushing her all the way to the school gate before dispersing like Moses parting the sea.
It was impossible not to feel awkward suddenly returning to the state of an ordinary person without superpowers. Tang Xinjue cracked his knuckles, stood there for a few seconds, and then, after calming himself down, he raised his leg and stepped out the door again.
…
"Examination Room 37, 3rd Floor, Turn Right, Classroom 307."
An admission ticket flashed before his eyes, and Tang Xinjue subconsciously reached out to grab it. Behind the paper appeared the face of a familiar middle-aged female teacher.
"Classmate, are you okay?"
The female teacher asked a question.
Tang Xinjue saw his own reflection in the other person's puzzled pupils. The girl in the reflection seemed to have just come back to her senses from a daze, with a hint of confusion still remaining in her expression, which subtly overlapped with her mood at the moment.
The last second, she had just stepped out of the school gate and was still thinking about collecting clues.
The next second, she was standing in the lobby on the first floor of the teaching building, encountering the same scene that had happened two and a half hours ago.
The same place, the same people, the same words, and even the same position!
Tang Xinjue took a deep breath and asked, "Teacher, what exam is this?"
The teacher looked at her strangely and said, "The math test is coming soon."
Mathematics was the second subject on the Gaokao schedule, and according to the time of day, it should be 3 p.m. Since the Chinese exam ended at 11:30 a.m., a full three and a half hours had vanished.
It was obvious that the copy didn't want her to leave the examination room.
"Ah, only two minutes left, hurry up, hurry over!"
Checking the time, the middle-aged female teacher hurriedly urged her on. Seeing that Tang Xinjue didn't act immediately, her voice became so anxious that she almost reached out to push her. Tang Xinjue instinctively dodged, and immediately saw more than a dozen figures in her peripheral vision.
The originally empty hall was instantly half filled. A dozen men and women dressed as invigilators appeared behind Tang Xinjue, staring at her with furrowed brows, and urged her in unison:
“Hurry up and take the exam… Hurry up and take the exam… Hurry up and take the exam!”
They formed a circle, pressing towards Tang Xinjue step by step with an oppressive feeling. If Tang Xinjue showed any sign of disobedience, the number of people in the circle would increase rapidly.
“…exam…exam…”
Seeing that the success rate of forced resistance was too low and negotiation was ineffective, Tang Xinjue decisively went upstairs to the classroom and blocked the mental pollution outside the door.
"examine!"
The two invigilators stood in front of him like door gods.
...The real mental torture has just begun.
Even though he'd lost half an hour, the math exam seemed even longer than the Chinese. Tang Xinjue finished all the questions he could, then put down his pen and let himself go. He began to replay the entire instance from the beginning to the present, trying to decipher the underlying logic.
First of all, this copy is different from any previous exam copy: there are no superpowers, no props, no mobile phones or contact information, and there is no response even if you call the game in your mind.
Besides that, there were no levels, dangers, or hints in the dungeon. The only clear direction was for her to take an exam, and her range of activity seemed to be confined to the exam area.
The few props, test papers, writing tools, and admission tickets, had all been checked countless times by her and confirmed to be just ordinary items.
——No, there was one thing that always made her feel like something was wrong.
Tang Xinjue cast his gaze towards the admission ticket on the corner of the table.
There was no province marked on it, only "2017 Unified College Entrance Examination".
If the purpose of the copy is simply to make the candidates feel the fear of being dominated by the college entrance examination again, then the year here is superfluous.
Because the four roommates in their dormitory originally took the college entrance examination in 2018.
"Half an hour left!"
The invigilator's thunderous reminder interrupted her thoughts. Several candidates who were not making good progress even had their hands trembling and buried their heads deeper in the paper amid the sound of pens swishing.
Tang Xinjue raised his hand.
Facing the invigilator's stern gaze, she said frankly:
"Teacher, I want to go to the bathroom."
"Ahhh, math problems are too hard! I hate math!!"
Among the crowd pouring out, a petite girl was holding her head with a look of dejection on her face. Her expression of despair was indistinguishable from that of the other candidates around her.
After a few seconds, the girl gradually calmed down and whispered to herself, "It's okay. This isn't true anyway. I finished the college entrance examination eight hundred years ago. As long as I can pass it this time, it'll be fine. Even if I don't do well, Jueshen and Wanqing will definitely be able to do it... Yeah, they can definitely do it!"
After that, she clenched her fists and walked towards the door, muttering to herself, "The next subject is comprehensive. I'm good at this, so there's absolutely no problem..."
The transparent exam bag in her hand swayed, revealing the neat handwriting on the admission ticket:
2020 Unified College Entrance Examination
Name: Guo Guo
…
Just before stepping out of the door, Guo Guo suddenly paused, quickly turned around and grabbed a pole to stabilize his body, while covering his ears and whispering in surprise:
"Is that you?"
