Chapter 146: Higher Education Entrance Examination (VI)
"Can you use coercive means?"
Tang Xinjue repeated this sentence in his mind, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised.
Obviously, with the arrival of the second cycle, some changes have not only affected the candidates.
The rules of the dungeon are balanced, with both ends of the scale increasing and decreasing at the same time. When a candidate regains some of their abilities and their strength is no longer that of an ordinary person, they must begin to face the dangers of the dungeon.
Tang Xinjue focused on filling in the answer sheet, as if he was unaware of what was happening in the outside world.
At the same time, his mental power was like a thin and transparent network, capturing everything happening outside the examination room into his mind.
The NPC who strictly abided by the rules throughout the last "college entrance examination" and did not show any aggression towards the candidates finally shed its peaceful appearance and showed a hint of fangs.
This dangerous leak lasted only a dozen seconds, and they returned to normal as if under an illusion, and continued to supervise the exam as ordinary teachers.
Squeak——
The two invigilators from examination room 307 pushed the door open and walked in again. They glanced around the room as usual, then turned away expressionlessly... Wait?
The two men's expressions suddenly changed, and their heads turned around at the same time with a snap, their bulging eyeballs staring at the last row.
The seat where Tang Xinjue should have been sitting is now empty !
how so?
The two invigilators immediately rushed to the empty seats, their faces full of disbelief.
They had only been gone for a minute or two, and had clearly been standing outside the door the entire time. How had Tang Xinjue managed to slip away right under their noses?
The air was still silent, but the eyes of both of them were spinning wildly at an inhuman speed, as if they were sending messages in some unique way.
When their eyeballs stopped moving, they arrived at Tang Xinjue's seat. Before they could check carefully, they heard a puzzled voice:
"Teacher, what are you doing?"
Turning around, they saw Tang Xinjue sitting in his seat, a marker still in hand. His pale, plain face tilted upward, staring blankly at them.
Invigilator: ???
In the blink of an eye, the door of the examination room was pushed open, and a group of invigilators rushed in as if facing a great enemy, surrounding Tang Xinjue's position.
Tang Xin Jue raised an eyebrow: "What? Counter-terrorism?"
The crowd dispersed, and the female invigilator walked out. She looked at Tang Xinjue for a long moment with an unreadable expression, then turned to the invigilator in 307 and asked, "Is this what you were talking about, that someone is missing?"
Invigilator: "Uh, but... we did find out just now that..."
"Missing? Who?" Tang Xinjue asked in surprise, "Are you talking about me?"
She raised a hand and swore, "The surveillance footage can prove it. I was answering the questions right here the whole time. I didn't even raise my head."
The invigilator opened his mouth but couldn't say anything. Then he heard the girl ponder for a moment, "If you must say that something is missing, could it be the teacher's brain?"
“…”
"Okay, don't disturb everyone's exam." The female invigilator seemed too lazy to keep a hypocritical smile. She directly spit out two orders, which made the invigilator, who had no way to explain, change his mind.
Before she led the others to leave, Tang Xinjue stopped her and said, "Teacher, I think the invigilator here is a little sensitive. Can I call you directly next time if I have any questions?"
The female invigilator slowly turned around and gave a long laugh. "Okay. My last name is Lu. I'm usually in the lobby on the third floor. Just call me by name when you need me."
"Okay. Midori-sensei."
Tang Xinjue nodded obediently.
The classroom returned to silence. The two new invigilators didn't even pretend this time, simply standing silently beside Tang Xinjue's desk.
After watching Teacher Lu leave, they all turned to stare at Tang Xin Jue——
——Where are the people?
Looking at the empty seats, the two looked at each other, their astonishment evident in their expressions.
This wasn't even a one or two minute gap - just a second ago, the girl was sitting here perfectly still!
How could such a big living person disappear in the blink of an eye?
If they could sweat, they would have been sweating profusely by now. However, given the previous experience of the invigilators, they did not immediately report to their superiors. Instead, they continued to squat and search. After turning the seats upside down, the two invigilators finally understood:
This time, Tang Xinjue was really missing.
Walking in the empty corridor on the fifth floor, Tang Xinjue removed the mental suggestion from his body.
The first time, this hint was used to deceive the invigilators of 307, making them mistakenly believe that they had escaped; the second time, this hint was used on everyone, allowing her to follow the evacuating invigilators and walk out openly.
After using it twice, his mental strength was almost completely depleted. Fortunately, Tang Xin Jue was very skilled in using it, and he completed a series of operations just before the overdraft line. Otherwise, when the overdraft limit was reached, the risk, which was already high, would have increased several points.
She paused and stopped silently in front of the door of examination room 508.
Tang Xin Jue was certain that the 13 marble-beating sounds came from here. But at this moment, there was absolutely no sound from the other side of the door.
There was no abnormal sensation in the mental power, and the person who threw the marble seemed to have left.
She lowered her eyes and listened for a moment, until she heard a burst of hurried footsteps intruding into her quiet senses, approaching the door from inside 508, and she immediately withdrew.
The invigilator in 307 should have confirmed and reported her disappearance. The invigilators have their own internal contact information. The footsteps coming from deep inside 508 are most likely the invigilator who received the order.
Tang Xinjue originally wanted to hide in another room or go back downstairs, but the moment she turned around, she suddenly had an idea, and her mental power and vision were almost thrown backwards at the same time.
Then, at the end of the deep and dark corridor, he caught a glimpse of a shadow that had not yet disappeared.
She was a petite girl with short hair.
The girl's head shape was somewhat similar to Guo Guo's, but her hair was thicker. Her face was hidden in the shadows, and through her spiritual power, she could vaguely see a pair of cold and compact features. She looked at Tang Xin Jue silently without saying a word.
Below her thin shoulders and neck, there were only empty cuffs, no arms. This was the only missing part of her body.
The next moment, the girl turned around and walked deeper into the cave. Tang Xinjue followed her without hesitation.
“I saw it!”
"There she is!"
The invigilator's urgent shouts echoed in the distance, followed by a swarm of footsteps. Tang Xinjue ignored them all, his attention fixed on the short-haired girl.
I saw that the girl had walked to the end of the corridor. There was no room to move forward. Her figure disappeared in front of the wall in a flash, leaving only the three tightly closed walls on the left and right.
Where are the people?
[She disappeared. Another person went to look for her, and then disappeared as well...]
The words of invigilator 508 emerged in his mind, and the next second Tang Xinjue also rushed to the same location.
Three bare walls were within easy reach, with no trace of anything left on them except for mottled paint. Tang Xin Jue's movements remained unchanged, as if he was about to crash into them.
"Faster."
An almost inaudible sound suddenly appeared in his ears. Tang Xinjue sped up without hesitation and crashed directly into it!
“Ding-ling-ling——”
Rushing into the classroom just as the exam was about to begin, Guo Guo was still in a daze, nearly bumping into the door frame. After regaining consciousness, clutching his forehead with a headache, tears welled up in his doe-like eyes as he gazed into the exam room.
Finally, after the invigilator silently helped him, Guo Guo successfully sat down. As soon as he opened the paper, tears fell onto it.
What is more terrifying than the college entrance examination is that after going through so much trouble to finish the exam, you have to take the exam again as soon as you open your eyes.
What is even more terrifying than repeating the college entrance examination is that after opening the test paper, you find that the questions are completely different from last time!
Who come to save her!
After finishing the Chinese test paper with sobs, Guo Guo collapsed on the chair with a splitting headache, covering his head with his hands as he breathed his last.
This pain was not physical pain, but a tingling sensation in the brain caused by being repeatedly tortured by test questions and draining brain cells over and over again. It was like a group of little people were reclaiming land in her temples, or like an invisible person was pulling out her hair one by one.
All in all, it was excruciating pain.
But what was even more painful was that, because she wasn't sure what the dungeon test was about, she didn't dare to give up the exam. In order not to drag down her roommates from a distance, Guo Guo could only force herself to finish each question one by one, and the vomiting effect was very obvious.
"Wow, I really can't take it anymore...Xin Jue! Wan Qing! Zhang You! Where are you?"
Guo Guo wiped away her tears, and only after the invigilator with a sullen face urged her repeatedly did she slowly walk out, holding on to the wall like a middle-aged man with exhausted kidneys.
"Don't rush me, my legs are numb from sitting. You're the invigilator for my college entrance exam, and I'm even more pitiful than you. Please be kind and let me rest for a while."
No matter how ferocious the invigilator was, she could only feel miserable and the invigilator could do nothing about her and could only stand behind her and stare blankly.
After dawdling to the door, Guo Guo wiped her eyes and walked out slowly, but this time she stopped after only two steps.
Wait, that was...
I quickly turned my head and the short-haired girl leaning against the windowsill a few meters away came into my sight clearly.
Guo Guo sniffed in shock.
If she remembered correctly, this girl looked just like the one she had seen in that inexplicably appeared exam envelope—"Mr. Cai?"
By the time Guo Guo realized that she had shouted, she had already walked up to the girl with short hair. The girl was looking at a test paper with her head down and ignored her.
Hmm? Test paper?
You are not allowed to take the test papers out of the examination room!
Guo Guo was shocked and subconsciously looked down along the girl's line of sight. He then discovered that except for a few lines of titles, the rest of the "paper" was completely blank.
The words in the title are: The First Higher Education Entrance Examination in University Town.
"Um, classmate Cai..." Guo Guo's heart was beating faster and faster for some reason. She raised her head and found that the window behind the girl was open. Outside the huge window frame was thick white fog. Looking down, she could vaguely see the height of a five-story building.
Guo Guo stretched out his hand to touch the girl's arm, but his fingers suddenly hit the windowsill, only spreading a cold touch.
Her eyes widened instantly.
Can be seen, can't be touched, the temperature is low, this is not...
Isn’t this the soul body?
When did she recover her Yin-Yang eyes?!
Guo Guo raised her eyes in shock and gasped: the short-haired girl's face was less than five centimeters away from her, looking at her coldly!
"I didn't mean to do that!"
Guo Guo retracted his hands as if on fire, only to find that the short-haired girl's arms had disappeared at some point, leaving only the empty school uniform wrapped around her skinny body, making her look like a wandering soul blown up by the wind.
However, the next second, the wandering soul suddenly leaned back, and fell out of the window with its lower body over the waist.
Guo Guo:?
Don’t try to scam me!
At the same time, a force suddenly grabbed Guo Guo from outside the window. She lunged forward uncontrollably and fell straight down in the same position!
The author has something to say:
Guo Guo: I shed tears, I am a lazy fish, I can't do the college entrance examination questions, but as soon as I go out, I will be hit by NPC
