Chapter 142: Higher Education Entrance Examination (II)
Following the same flow of people, Zhang You slowly walked out of the examination room.
She placed one hand casually on her earlobe, looking normal, but her lips moved slightly as she whispered, "It's me."
Beside her ears, a tiny voice could be heard intermittently, unable to conceal its excitement:
"Sister You! You finally contacted me. Woohoo, you don't know how terrible I've been through..."
Zhang You frowned beneath his black-framed glasses: "What's wrong?"
"Wow, that math test question was so hard! It was so weird!"
Zhang You: “…”
"Oh, let's not talk about this. How are the others?" On the other end of the communication, Guo Guo remembered the important business, sniffed his nose and asked in a low voice.
"I haven't been able to contact you yet."
Zhang You paused, the crowd behind her jostling her. She didn't like being so close to strangers. However, just as her pace quickened, the flow of people around her also quickened.
He almost wanted to carry her and push her out the door.
Time was limited, so Zhang You could only quickly say, "I can't leave here now. As soon as I leave the school gate, I will be automatically teleported to the examination room for the next subject exam. Fortunately, the mall didn't lie. These glasses really can be taken into the dungeon."
Guo Guo immediately replied: "Yes, yes, it's the same here. So I'm holding onto a pole now, otherwise I'll be squeezed... Hey, hey, don't squeeze me..."
Zhang You continued, "But the signal shielding inside the exam room is extremely strong, so the glasses will be ineffective. I can only contact you along the way after you get out, and I can't contact everyone at once. Only those who are online can contact each other."
"So, if we want to contact each other, we must walk out and approach the gate at the same time after the exam. If not everyone is online, for example, Wanqing is not here, it means that she is either taking an exam or something unexpected happened during this period."
Guo Guo was in a state of confusion for a moment before she caught up with Zhang You's train of thought. "But, our exams are at the same time. Logically, we should start and end at the same time. Oh, that's not right. We don't know if Xin Jue is awake yet. If she doesn't wake up, will her exam progress be different from ours?"
"This is where I want to talk to you."
Zhang You adjusted his glasses and said, "I suspect that the speed of our time flow, or the progress of the exam, is likely different."
Guo Guo was stunned. The first thing that came to his mind was: "If someone finishes a subject first, can we give spoilers to the next person?"
"No, it's not feasible." Zhang You shook his head. "The game indicates that this is an assessment instance, and the background is the college entrance examination. Don't forget, cheating is not allowed in the college entrance examination."
What's more, she didn't believe that this copy was just the college entrance examination. How could an examination copy be so simple?
Guo Guo was stunned for two seconds before immediately rallying himself: "It's okay, at least we have four of us! Wanqing and Jueshen are both top students, I believe they can handle taking the college entrance exam again!"
Zhang You: "...I hope so."
Then she heard Guo Guo's panicked voice: "It's over, Sister You, I'm about to be squeezed out of the door. Please contact others first. We'll have to meet next time. Do your best on the comprehensive exam."
Zhang You nodded silently and was about to say a few more words of advice when his eyes suddenly fixed and he raised his hand to touch the mirror frame.
From an outsider's perspective, she wore nothing but a pair of ordinary black-framed glasses. Only Zhang You could see the small words on the mirror, the most prominent of which were the four squares that contained her names.
Just at that moment, a dark and silent gray name flickered and then lit up.
——Tang Xinjue.
Zhang You blurted out: "Xin Jue has awakened!"
Guo Guo: "Huh? What's Jue? Wait, the Jue God is awake???"
Guo Guo was suddenly very excited and wanted to speak, but all that reached Zhang You's ears was a fragmented noise that soon disappeared completely.
Zhang You looked up. The school gate was only a few steps away. She immediately tapped her glasses twice, racing against time to initiate the next call.
It only takes one second, as long as the other party can get it, Tang Xinjue will definitely understand what she means.
Of course, if this time didn't work, there would be another chance. As long as she was sure that Tang Xinjue was awake, she would feel relieved.
She believed that Tang Xinjue would definitely find new clues there.
Boom boom boom!
There was another loud knock on the toilet door, and the sound of hurried footsteps continued to increase, indicating that the number of people outside the door was increasing rapidly.
Tang Xinjue withdrew his gaze from his surroundings. There were still no clues here, including on the way here and in the corridor.
Generally speaking, she is now in an extremely strange place, but she can't find any loopholes - in short, the copy looks like it really wants her to take the college entrance examination.
She opened the door and walked out. Outside the toilet, the number of supervisors who were originally only two had increased to more than a dozen in just a few minutes, crowding the narrow restroom. Everyone's face was expressionless as if copied and pasted, and their only purpose was to urge Tang Xinjue to go back and continue answering the questions.
Tang Xinjue walked past them as if he didn't see a thing, washed his hands calmly, and then walked back.
As if to guard against her, every classroom door in the corridor was closed. Outside each door stood a teacher, silently watching her as she walked past.
Aside from the sound of footsteps, the corridor was completely silent. As he reached the door of classroom 307, Tang Xinjue suddenly smiled at the invigilator, "Teacher, is the discipline in the exam rooms on our floor this good?"
No one asked questions, no one went to the bathroom, no one showed any emotion other than answering questions, and there was not even a cough.
Here, it seems that it is not just the invigilators who are uniform and even look the same.
The teacher looked at her for two seconds, but couldn't see what she was going to do, so he said coldly: "This is the college entrance examination."
Tang Xinjue shrugged and returned to her seat. She waited until the bell rang, signaling the end of the math test, before she slowly stood up and followed the crowd out of the classroom.
If she guessed correctly, what might be waiting for her at the school gate this time might be the next English test.
"Excuse me, classmate."
At the intersection of the stairs at the corner of the corridor, she suddenly reached out and put her hand on the shoulder of a girl passing by, and slowed down her pace while talking to her.
"Is there something wrong?" The girl who was called had short hair with highlights. From her hairstyle to her tone, she exuded a sense of arrogance. In some ways, she was more conspicuous than Tang Xinjue in the crowd.
Tang Xin Jue smiled and said, "Excuse me, are you interested in discussing the answer to the second-to-last question?"
The girl's face changed drastically: "??? I don't get the answer right!"
Tang Xin Jue changed the subject: "Just kidding, your hair looks great. I'd like to ask where you dyed it, is it the City West Barber Shop?"
The girl's expression eased slightly, but she still shook her head and mumbled that she couldn't remember, then turned and disappeared into the crowd.
Tang Xinjue didn't even blink, and naturally withdrew his hand and continued to look around. After a few seconds, he stopped another person, this time a boy who looked timid, with his head hunched and his back hunched.
This time she said, "Classmate, something fell behind you. Is it your admission ticket?"
The boy shrank his neck even more, muttered and waved his hands repeatedly, without even turning his head. He hurriedly dived into the crowd like a shrimp and quickly disappeared from Tang Xinjue's sight.
“…Is that so?” Tang Xinjue’s eyes moved slightly, and he continued to look for the next target.
Next, she stopped more than ten students dressed differently.
But no matter what topic they choose, whether they are alone or in a group, no matter how talkative the students seem, the communication process will never exceed two sentences, and they will quickly slip away, disappearing more cleanly than bubbles on the water.
"The fifteenth."
As they approached the school gate, Tang Xinjue finally stopped and smiled at the security guard who was staring at them at the door.
At the end of her sight, countless heads bustled out the door, becoming blurred dots against the background. And when she turned and looked back at them, rows of wooden expressions were like crude reproductions, indistinguishable from an enlarged background.
When she left the exam room for the first time, she noticed that a few students still retained their individual characteristics, looking more like "people" than NPCs. Although their number was sparse and scattered, it seemed like the result of random beautification by the program for rationality.
When there are no clues in the dungeon environment, rules, and settings, the most interesting things may be hidden among the large number of NPCs that are most easily overlooked.
During conversations, Tang Xin Jue smiled when he saw that these students could only give basic reactions that matched their appearance, and were "forced offline" faster and faster each time.
Found it.
"Examination Room 37, 3rd Floor, Turn Right, Classroom 307."
The middle-aged female teacher glanced at the admission ticket and gave Tang Xinjue directions.
He was forcibly teleported back here for the second time, and met at the exact same place for the third time. However, the female teacher acted as if she had never seen Tang Xin Jue before, and asked kindly, "Is there anything else you can help me with?"
Tang Xin Jue was also very polite: "No more, thank you."
"It's okay, go take the exam."
The middle-aged female teacher also smiled, and the atmosphere inside and outside the room was filled with harmony.
It wasn't until Tang Xinjue stepped onto the stairs that the harmonious atmosphere suddenly froze and the temperature dropped instantly: "Classmate, your exam room is on the 3rd floor."
Tang Xinjue, who had already stepped onto the second-floor corridor, turned back nonchalantly: "Isn't this the third floor? Oh, sorry, I went the wrong way."
Twenty seconds later, Tang Xinjue turned around again: "Huh? Is this the 4th floor? Sorry, I was too nervous to look carefully."
Before she finished speaking, she calmly turned to leave, but was stopped by a sharp voice: "That's the direction upstairs!"
Tang Xinjue shook his head: "Maybe I've learned too much. I was in the 30s, wasn't I?"
“——Ding-ling-ling——”
As the exam bell rang, the invigilator's face turned blacker than charcoal: "307, you can't go the wrong way again!"
Several supervisors have already walked up the stairs. If this girl still doesn't go in the right direction, she will be directly "sent" to the examination room.
Tang Xinjue walked down very cooperatively. Just as he stepped down from the fourth floor, an extremely subtle sound flashed by the edge of his hearing.
It was the sound of something heavy falling, coming from far above and diagonally above. It was blocked by the air and the floor and was almost inaudible, but it made Tang Xinjue raise his head instantly, his eyes sharp and bright.
"Teacher." She looked at the upper floor and said softly , "How many floors does our building have?"
The author has something to say:
Zhang You: As long as I call Xin Jue and then hang up, she will definitely understand what I mean
Tang Xin Jue: ??? Hello?
