Chapter 143 Higher Education Entrance Examination (Part 3)

"Why are you asking this? This is the college entrance examination, you just need to take the exam!"
The closest person was a fat male invigilator with a fierce look on his face. Tang Xinjue had no doubt that if it wasn't for maintaining the dungeon settings, he would have bared his teeth and pounced on him.
Tang Xin Jue said calmly, "Is it inconvenient? It's okay, I'll ask my classmates when the time comes."
The invigilator was silent for two seconds: "As you wish, go now."
The atmosphere was gloomy as they went down one floor. Tang Xinjue spoke without warning, "Teacher, how many floors does our building have?"
Invigilator: “?”
Didn’t I just answer you?
Tang Xinjue's face showed no change in expression. "I'm sorry, I've had a low IQ since I was a child, and I suffer from chronic amnesia and intermittent amnesia. Sometimes I ask the same question several times. I hope you don't mind."
Invigilator: “…”
Two seconds later, Tang Xinjue said, "Teacher, our building—"
“Fifth floor!!”
The male invigilator finally couldn't bear it anymore and stared at her with a distorted face. His already bulging eyeballs seemed to be about to bounce towards Tang Xinjue.
"Thanks."
Tang Xinjue walked into the classroom quickly and closed the door, blocking out all the grinding and roaring sounds.
"By the way, teacher, there's an invigilator outside who seems a little agitated. I'm worried his voice might be too loud and could affect everyone's answers." Tang Xinjue nodded to the two teachers inside.
"I hope it can be resolved. Thank you for your hard work."
After the room and the outside were completely quiet, Tang Xinjue, like the other students, began to answer the questions wholeheartedly. At least from the outside, he really had the demeanor of a college entrance examination candidate.
However, this silence was ruthlessly broken five minutes later.
"Teacher, I want to go to the bathroom." Tang Xinjue raised his hand.
The two invigilators looked reluctant, their feet nailed to the spot, unable to move, as if they wanted to make Tang Xinjue change her mind by glaring at her.
Tang Xin Jue remained unmoved: " There's no rule in the college entrance examination that forbids students from using the restroom, right?"
No matter how difficult the dungeon, it still had to adhere to the most basic principles of balance. If the NPC used the college entrance examination rules to strictly restrict her actions, then she could also use these rules to demand the other party to do the same.
Unless there are any unexpected circumstances, the other party must comply.
As expected, the NPC finally took her to the restroom reluctantly. They just sent more surveillance personnel, like a massive demolition team, to stand guard outside.
However, when the supervised student came out again, the "demolition team" was dumbfounded.
Tang Xin Jue looked regretful: "The bathroom door is broken, I can't use it."
Invigilator: “???”
They went in to check immediately, only to find that the handles and locks of each compartment door had turned into various strange shapes with missing limbs, and none of them were spared.
"You—" The invigilator was interrupted by Tang Xinjue before he could even finish his words. "I have amnesia and can't remember what just happened. The exam doesn't allow for wasted time. I think we can talk about these things later. Let's go check on the other floors first."
During the long silence, Tang Xinjue emphasized his tone, "Teacher, we shouldn't let this little thing delay our college entrance exam, right?"
Not long after, the group stepped onto the fourth floor.
The invigilator went into the bathroom to check and came out to coldly warn her, "Everything is fine."
Tang Xin Jue just smiled and said, "There are always unexpected events in the world. Who knows?"
A minute later, reality showed them what "unexpected events happen" meant.
Looking at the restroom facilities that had once again been completely broken, the invigilator's stiff face flashed with a look on the verge of collapse, and he gritted his teeth, "You destroyed the college entrance examination facilities!"
"First, this is a school facility, and the quality issue should be explained by the school."
"Secondly, accusations require evidence." Tang Xinjue spread his hands and calmly recounted, "I'm just a fragile college entrance exam candidate, suffering because I can't solve the comprehensive science test and the bathroom is out of order. You can report me after the exam, but if I can't find a suitable bathroom right now, I think I can only give up the exam because of this small matter."
The invigilators seemed to have a hard time understanding the logic of so many words in such a short time. They were silent for a moment, then gave up the argument and jumped to the next instruction: "Go to the fifth floor."
"If you can't do that, you have to go back and take the exam."
He threatened again: "Otherwise the consequences will be very serious!"
"No problem. Don't worry, I love the college entrance examination the most. No matter what happens, it can't stop my yearning for the exam. The exam is the light of my life."
Tang Xinjue agreed without hesitation and vowed solemnly.
"I hate exams. They are the source of my suffering. If God could give me a second chance, I would skip the exams. If I had to set a deadline, I would hope it would be 10,000 years."
Guo Guo slumped back in his chair, feeling drained of energy.
She realized that the most terrifying punishment in the world was not being locked in the dormitory and fighting ghosts, but taking all the college entrance examination subjects continuously without a break, until the brain was dizzy and felt like vomiting, and there was no rest time at all!
vomit.
Guo Guo covered his stomach. Although he didn't feel hungry, he really felt like vomiting.
Whether it was due to overexertion or she was too nervous, she had intended to wait until the exam was over so she could leave the dungeon and reunite with her roommates, but the urge to vomit grew stronger. Guo Guo's face turned pale and red, and she finally raised her hand to signal the invigilator.
"Teacher, I feel like vomiting..."
"Want to vomit?"
The invigilators' stern faces were so intimidating that Guo Guo hardly even dared to look up during the exam. Seeing the two iron-clad invigilators approaching, she subconsciously tensed her body, clenched her fists, and asked as politely as possible, "Excuse me, can I go to the bathroom?"
Guo Guo didn't know if it was his own illusion, but when he heard the word "bathroom", the invigilators' faces seemed to twitch at the same time, then returned to normal in the blink of an eye, and said in unison indifferently:
"Can't."
...Is it so strict?
Guo Guo's eyes were filled with tears. "Can you give me a vomit bag? I feel really uncomfortable right now. Ugh."
The person on the other side hesitated for a moment, then opened the door of the examination room. Immediately, several invigilators in uniform with serious expressions walked in from outside, and walked straight towards Guo Guo with a menacing look.
Guo Guo: “??? !!!”
What's going on? Has the hunting season suddenly begun? She can hold it in until the end of the exam!
The invigilator who came to him did not attack. Instead, he quickly took out a roll of paper and placed it on Guo Guo's desk. He said succinctly, "At the door."
——It turned out to be a vomit bag.
Guo Guo quickly took the bag, cautiously ran to the door of the examination room, opened the vomit bag under the watchful eyes of the invigilators, and buried his head -
I was so scared just now that I couldn't vomit anymore.
One hundred thousand alpacas carrying weeping cat heads trampled through his mind. Guo Guo took two deep breaths and looked up silently: "Um, teacher, I don't think I'm so urgent now. How about waiting a while?"
The invigilator looked suspiciously: "Now."
Guo Guo: "...Okay, I'll try harder then."
She lowered her head again silently, trying to gather her breath.
“Bang!”
The sudden crisp sound behind her startled her and she darted forward and turned around: "Who?"
However, there was no one within a few meters behind him. Instead, two invigilators came out of the adjacent classroom 508, walked over without saying a word, and picked up a transparent examination bag under Guo Guo's nose.
"Another student's admission ticket." The invigilator next to me explained expressionlessly, "It fell here."
Guo Guo: "Did it just fall here?"
She looked around, and a huge question mark rose from her heart: "But why see anyone?"
Where is that classmate?
The invigilator seemed reluctant to answer and simply said, "He has already entered the examination room to take the exam."
Guo Guo: "Oh... huh???"
The distance from here to the next classroom was at least eight or nine meters, and from the time she heard the sound of the test bag falling to the ground to the time she turned around, it took no more than a second.
So, within a second of dropping his exam bag, the unknown student rushed into the adjacent 508 at lightning speed and told the invigilator about it?
Although Guo Guo didn't think she was smart, at this moment she still felt that her IQ was despised.
More importantly, after realizing that the invigilator was talking nonsense, a guess suddenly emerged from the bottom of her heart.
Could this test bag that appeared out of nowhere belong to the other three people in Class 606?
If we grasp this clue, is it possible to find Xin Jue and the others?
Seeing the invigilators turning around to leave, Guo Guo quickly shouted to stop them and summoned the courage to ask, "Can I take a look at this exam bag?"
Facing several stares, Guo Guo steeled himself and continued, "I think this admission ticket looks a lot like mine. Although I didn't see the name, the photo looks a lot like me! So, maybe you've got the wrong ticket. This is actually my admission ticket. If you don't believe me, let me take a look."
She stared at the exam bag eagerly and held up a finger: "Just one glance!"
"It's just a quick glance. I don't have clairvoyance, so I can't see other people's scrolls."
Walking in the corridor on the fifth floor, Tang Xinjue calmly persuaded the invigilators following him not to always look as if they were facing a great enemy.
Not only the people supervising her did the same, but all the open classroom doors in the corridor on the fifth floor slammed shut as they saw her coming. Only the vigilant eyes of the invigilator were revealed through the small glass windows, slowly turning with her position.
"Eh, so defensive?"
Tang Xinjue smiled instead, and greeted everyone very familiarly, not caring about the other party's warning attitude, and walked through the short corridor as if he was strolling around for a tourist.
When the invigilator urged her again and again, she covered her mouth and coughed twice, looking weak: "I have not been in good health in recent years, please forgive me for walking slowly."
She was so calm that it seemed as if she was not the one who went up to the fourth floor when the invigilator was not paying attention.
The other party seemed to have learned his lesson this time. No matter what she said, he didn't answer. He surrounded her with a gloomy face and a dead look, leaving her no chance to do anything.
But through the gap between them, Tang Xinjue's sharp eyes still scanned the corridor one by one. The closer she got to the direction of the sound she remembered, the slower her pace became.
If she guessed correctly, it should be around here, perhaps...
Tang Xinjue suddenly stopped and his eyes were fixed on a classroom door.
Several fresh scratches were left on the edge of the door frame.
Looking up, the classroom door number comes into view.
508.
Seeing that she didn't move, the invigilator behind her came over and pushed her. However, the girl who usually didn't move at all fell to the ground weakly, covering her mouth and coughing loudly.
Invigilator: “…”
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