Chapter 144: Higher Education Entrance Examination (IV)

The invigilators' limited data logic had probably never encountered the term "碰瓷" (touching a porcelain) before. They stared in horror at the collapsed girl, and for a moment, no one moved, seemingly undecided whether to enforce the order or wait for Tang Xin Jue to recover.

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, the girl coughed for a long time before she seemed to stop. She coughed and said intermittently: "I'm allergic to pollen. It seems that the whole class smells of pollen. It's too pungent. I hope you can clean it up. Cough cough cough..."

The invigilator said nothing, and Tang Xinjue was not in a hurry at all. He continued to cough despite the creepy gazes of the crowd.

After trying so hard so far, she has figured out the pattern.

The invigilators are like a program that automatically maintains the operation of the system. As long as the situation is not outrageous enough to severely disrupt the college entrance examination, they will upgrade and repair themselves until the problem is resolved.

About ten seconds later, the crowd quietly parted to the sides. A gentle and kind female teacher walked in and extended her hand to Tang Xinjue. "Student, how can I help you?"

Here comes the invigilator N+1 version.

Tang Xinjue didn't reach out, but weakly but persistently repeated his request. The female teacher's gentle smile remained unchanged. "We'll deal with it later. Can we get you back to the exam room first?"

As she spoke, she gently held Tang Xinjue's arm and pulled him up.

Click.

The female teacher froze, a look of disbelief crossing her face.

Tang Xinjue sighed softly: "Teacher, you dislocated my arm."

“…”

"But it doesn't matter. It's my left hand that's dislocated." Tang Xinjue put on a strong smile and said, "I can take the exam with my right hand as well."

…

After a brief silence, the female teacher smiled stiffly and changed the subject: "Which exam room did you say had pollen? This is a serious issue that could affect the exam. We need to investigate thoroughly."

After he finished speaking, the door of classroom , creaked and opened automatically.

Tang Xin Jue peered through the gap. The classroom was filled with the rustling of pens, and the students, in much the same posture, were absorbed in their homework. At first glance, it looked no different from any other exam room.

No. Tang Xinjue narrowed his eyes.

There is still a difference.

At the end of my sight, a skinny male teacher hurriedly walked in from the back of the classroom. Upon seeing the invigilators, he quickly opened the door and reported quietly, "Everything is normal in exam room 508!"

Other invigilators: "A candidate reported that there was pollen here that caused her allergies."

Male teacher: “?”

He looked around curiously, then glanced at the students working on their questions, then turned back to confirm: "There's no pollen here."

"Aren't there other substances that people can be allergic to?"

"No."

——Anyone with a nose can smell that there is no pollen. Tang Xinjue raised his eyebrows, but his heart was calm.

After all, this wasn't the real world. Theoretically, these replica-generated exam rooms were free of pollen and even human odors and noise, creating an absolutely perfect exam environment. Any accusations were clearly groundless.

But is she trying to make sense?

As soon as the male invigilator finished speaking, a female voice interrupted clearly: "Are you sure?"

Only then did he notice the young girl, who was sitting on the ground in the middle of the crowd for some unknown reason. She folded her arms, looked up, and said in a serious tone, "My nose can't be wrong. Are you doubting my sense of smell?"

"Teacher, I suspect there's something wrong with your sense of smell."

Tang Xin Jue said righteously, "I need to communicate with the other invigilator."

The male invigilator choked: "Smell, smell?"

Invigilation requires a sense of smell?

He really had no way to answer Tang Xinjue. Even everyone on the field looked like they were learning about this function for the first time from their expressions.

…It doesn’t matter, they can evolve.

After calming down, the female teacher gently gave instructions: "Send another invigilator over. We will solve the problem within five minutes. After five minutes, a separate room will be allocated for this student to take the exam."

Tang Xinjue understood that this was the maximum tolerance limit currently given by the copy.

However, the male invigilator was slightly stunned, but did not receive the order immediately. His lips moved twice, but no sound came out.

The female teacher frowned: "Hello? Did you hear that?"

Tang Xinjue raised the corner of his mouth slightly.

Under normal circumstances, each examination room should be matched with at least two invigilators, and it is impossible for one of them to be absent without reason.

Unless...an accident also happened in this examination room!

As the male invigilator showed signs of visible panic and uneasiness, Tang Xinjue suddenly spoke up, "Teacher, if I saw correctly, there seems to be an empty exam seat in this classroom."

She smiled and said, "Could that classmate also be allergic to pollen like me?"

Vacant invigilators and vacant candidates.

Now, without Tang Xinjue’s explanation, they also realized where the real problem lay.

The male invigilator's eyes rolled around before he finally admitted hesitantly, "It was an accident. We wanted to handle it ourselves, but things haven't returned to normal yet."

Tang Xin Jue didn't give him time to react: "Where is he?"

The invigilator was caught off guard by the question and answered subconsciously: "He disappeared. Another one went to look for him, and then he also disappeared..."

“That’s enough!”

The female teacher interrupted him harshly, her mouth stretched too far to the sides, causing her normally gentle expression to become strange:

"We already know the situation, you can rest now."

As the words fell, the male invigilator's head drooped limply, his body beginning to tremble slightly. After a moment, the shaking stopped, and "he" slowly raised his head again, having transformed into a middle-aged man with a completely different appearance.

"The exam begins." He answered in a hoarse and serious voice.

Watching this scene, Tang Xinjue glanced at the female teacher thoughtfully.

Is it the power of the copy, or the ability of the invigilator himself?

Almost simultaneously, an invigilator emerged from the crowd . The new and old examiners exchanged glances before simultaneously entering examination room 508.

With a bang, the door of examination room 508 closed again, covering everything inside.

"You should take the exam. Don't worry, all your problems will be healed after the college entrance exam."

The female teacher looked down at Tang Xin Jue, and the invigilators carried out a stretcher, demonstrating the core principle that the exam must be completed no matter what.

"Why bother with so much trouble? The college entrance exam is so important, of course I have to do my best to finish it."

Tang Xinjue smiled, stood up and followed them cooperatively, not caring about his dislocated left forearm. His thin and upright body seemed to be unaware of the pain.

Before leaving, she looked back and her eyes fell on the door of 508.

The classroom door looked as new as if it had just been installed, and the scratches on it had completely disappeared.

...A fleeting clue, a breakthrough point that cannot be found no matter how hard you try, and an examination process that must be completed.

It seemed like everything was pointing in a bad direction.

This copy might be more difficult than she expected.

When Guo Guo got the test bag, his eyes widened immediately, and he was even a little flattered.

She hadn't had much hope, but she didn't expect that her nonsense words of persuasion to the invigilator would actually work?

After all, usually in 606, only Tang Xinjue likes to take advantage of NPCs. They have made a lot of money just by fleecing ghosts and monsters. They are quite unenterprising and have never tried to promote and practice this unethical technology.

This was the first time Guo Guo had bravely taken the exam, and she hadn't expected it to be a lucky stunt. Her heart pounding, she opened her exam bag and pulled out her admission ticket, fearing the invigilator would change his mind.

However, as soon as he vaguely glanced at the portrait on the admission ticket, Guo Guo's heart sank.

This avatar clearly shows a girl with short hair! But except for herself, the other three people in 606 all have long hair.

Looking again, I saw a completely unfamiliar face. Glancing down, I saw only one character, Cai, in the name column. The rest of the name was covered with glue, making it unclear.

"Cai what?" She said subconsciously, but the admission ticket in her hand was instantly snatched away, "Hey wait?!"

“This is not your admission ticket.”

The invigilator had a stern face and looked very ferocious when he was serious.

Guo Guo weighed his strength, which had returned to that of an ordinary person, and then glanced at the number of invigilators and their sturdy arms. He immediately became timid: "I, I get it."

The door of examination room 508 was slammed shut. Guo Guo didn't even have time to stick his head out to take a look. He could only sigh in dismay and resignedly return to the examination room to continue answering questions.

Another half hour, another half hour...

She muttered to herself.

As soon as the last course is over, she will be free!

Perhaps because her anticipation was too strong, for a moment she actually had the illusion of returning to the college entrance examination, as if two unfortunate people from two different time and space overlapped at this moment, only the anxious mood was exactly the same.

Sigh, I wonder where Zhang Youwanqing, Jueshen, and the others are now. Are they in the same boat? Guo Guo thought sadly as he watched the countdown on the clock.

Count down five minutes.

After checking the paper for the third time, Zhang You finally took off his glasses, rubbed his eyebrows, and then held his breath waiting for the bell to ring.

The time for the four exams was neither long nor short, but due to the strict restrictions of the copy rules, she found almost no useful information and it was difficult to contact other roommates. She had no choice but to take the college entrance examination again seriously.

It’s a pity that I have almost forgotten all the knowledge points. If it were Xin Jue and Wan Qing, they might have gotten good grades.

Time passed by minute by minute, Zhang You tapped the admission ticket lightly, his fingertips falling on the line of words "2019" faster and faster, and the thoughts in his mind kept moving.

What will she face after the exam?

Last minute!

In the dull classroom, the most eye-catching spot is undoubtedly a long-haired girl who is writing furiously in the center of the first row.

She had thick long black hair hanging down on both sides of her cheeks. Her delicate and outstanding facial features made her a real beauty if she didn't open her mouth to speak.

"Damn it, why don't we have time?"

Zheng Wanqing suddenly slammed her hand on the table, gritted her teeth and clicked her tongue, then immediately sped up and continued writing.

“…”

The candidates around her moved a little further away from her.

It turned out that the air in the classroom was not stuffy, but that the airflow was blocked because I was sitting next to her.

“Ding-ling-ling——”

Zheng Wanqing stopped writing at the last second before the bell rang, and reluctantly called it a day. Looking at the test paper, she felt dissatisfied with everything.

If nothing else, her test results would have been much better if she hadn't entered the dungeon so suddenly and lost her form. And what was the person who wrote the test thinking? The level of the questions was extremely poor and unbalanced. Don't let her know who it was.

The more she thought about it, the angrier she got. She was even angrier than when she didn't get first place in the college competition. She picked up a pen and tapped on her admission ticket a few times, then drew a pig on the words "2018 National..."

The exams were over, and the halls were quickly cleared. The candidates, smiling with relief, flocked to the main entrance, with Zheng Wanqing, still eager to learn more, among them.

"Forget it, I'll go back and check the answers with Xin Jue..."

Zheng Wanqing shook her head and walked out the door muttering.

The next second, she swallowed the words she hadn't finished saying, and her contracted pupils slowly reflected the scene in front of her.

This is--

"This is the school gate, classmate!"

In front of Tang Xin Jue, an elderly woman enthusiastically answered her questions: "I see you're holding your admission ticket, so you're also a candidate, right? The exam is coming up soon, hurry in!"

The old lady pointed at her admission ticket, on which the words "2017 National College Entrance Examination" were particularly eye-catching.

"I understand. Thank you, Auntie."

Tang Xinjue nodded obediently, but changed direction without hesitation and walked outside against the crowd and the school gate.

Her guess turned out to be correct.

The end of the four exams does not mean the end of the copy, but only the starting point of another cycle.

——Unfortunately, this is a loop copy.

——What’s even more unfortunate is that the name of this cycle is the college entrance examination.

The author has something to say:

Copies in different people's eyes:

Tang Xin Jue: Prison Break

Guo Guo: If you can survive, you will earn money

Zhang You: The number you dialed is temporarily unavailable.