Chapter 149: Higher Education Entrance Examination (IX)

Hearing the question, Zhang You continued walking: "Because Teacher Lan had an ID card sticking out of his pocket, and it seems you forgot to put it back."
"Oh, by the way, I shouldn't call you Teacher Lan." She paused and corrected him strictly, "Teacher Bing, I'm offended."
Bing Lanlan: ...slowly stuffed her ID card back into her pocket.
She stared at Zhang You's back, and for a moment, murderous intent flashed in her eyes, but she seemed to be unable to lash out directly for some reason. She could only grit her teeth, turned her head, and fiercely ordered the other invigilators: "Go and keep an eye on her, all of you!"
The invigilators exchanged glances and said, "To avoid disturbing the examinees' mentality, there cannot be more than eight invigilators in the same classroom."
Bing Lanlan: "...You are a bunch of idiots, you deserve to starve to death!"
"We are invigilators. We won't go hungry."
"Go to hell, you losers!"
"We are invigilators, and we won't die."
“…Ahhhhh!!!”
"407 has reported that order in the examination room has returned to normal. All invigilators are requested to perform their duties and remain at their posts to maintain order in the examination room."
The dense crowd dispersed in an instant, and the corridor was empty as before, with only Bing Lanlan, whose face was distorted, left.
"Why are all my men such useless bastards? They can't even capture a student! I'm so angry! Die, all of you! Skin them! Drain their tendons! Fry them! Roast them! Deep-fry them!"
Bing Lanlan was so angry that she grabbed her own highlighted hair and pulled it, growling at the air for most of the day before she managed to calm down. Even so, her chest was still heaving violently, making her exhausted.
A trace of regret flashed in her eyes: "If I had known... huh... I shouldn't have chosen this character... huh..."
But it was too late to regret. She glanced at the corridor unwillingly, and had to open a door and disappear into the hall.
A few seconds later, Zhang You quietly poked his head out from the shadow in the corner, looked at the place where Bing Lanlan disappeared with a complicated look, and then left here at a very fast speed.
"Student, the exam is over now. Please leave the exam room immediately."
A tall, square-faced female teacher stood in front of the podium and spoke harshly to the only girl left in the classroom.
However, the girl was not only fearless, but even more serious than the invigilator: "Who said we have to leave immediately after collecting the papers? Can't I sit here and think about the questions I got wrong? I've taken the college entrance examination so many times, and I've never heard such an unreasonable request!"
Invigilator:?
Are you the invigilator here or am I the invigilator?
She regained her teacher's dignity and scolded him harshly, "That's the rule! Besides, the papers have already been collected. What are you still thinking about? Are there any questions on this table?"
"Are you serious?"
Zheng Wanqing glanced at him, her beautiful eyebrows wrinkled into an expression of impatience. "How did you get into college? You've already forgotten all your study methods. Who would forget the problems they just did? Of course they'd just remember them and do mental math in their head."
Invigilator: ...Wait, why are you suddenly making personal attacks?
Who didn’t do well in the college entrance exam?
Outside exam room 407, several invigilators stood in the corridor, quietly waiting for the people inside to emerge. However, as time ticked by, there was still no sign of anyone leaving.
Several people approached the classroom door silently, ready to rush in at any time.
But just as he got close to the door, the sound of a fierce quarrel suddenly reached his ears:
"I think you're attending a fake university! You took the college entrance exam so many times, and you're just a repeater, what are you doing pretending to be a top student?"
"Haha, even if I shaved off zero on the total score I got in my second year of high school, it's still a score you couldn't get even if you took the exam ten times. If I had studied harder for a few more years, I wouldn't still be working part-time at a third-tier university at my age. If I had time to be lenient with myself and strict with others, why not reflect on why I'm wasting my time here slacking off and wasting my life?"
"You're talking nonsense! I'm not a third-tier university student, I'm a second-tier university student! How can a third-tier university student like you be qualified to be my life mentor?"
"Is it glorious to be in a second-tier university? If you had worked as hard as I did during the college entrance exam, you would have at least been in a first-tier university by now, if not a double first-tier university."
"Nonsense! Do you think I'm as lucky as you guys, that I can get into a top university just by passing the college entrance exam? I work 20 hours a day and still can't earn enough GPA to get into college. Do you know how hard I work every day? You're a useless person who only needs to use your brain and write to get into a top university. What qualifications do you have to look down on me?"
"You're right. I'm sorry."
"You...ah?"
The square-faced female teacher was stunned. She didn't expect Zheng Wanqing to change the subject and admit defeat so easily .
Zheng Wanqing said seriously, "I shouldn't judge you based on your grades, nor am I qualified to judge your university or your work. This kind of metric shouldn't be used to judge a person. Besides, you're right. You're a second-tier university student, and I'm only a third-tier student. I just said those things randomly, and I hope you don't take them to heart."
"Ah, this." The invigilator opened his mouth, but a wealth of quarreling vocabulary was stuck on his lips, which was even more uncomfortable than being scolded. For a moment, he didn't know how to respond.
And after she came out of the intense emotion of the quarrel, she began to realize that something seemed to be wrong.
Then Zheng Wanqing said, "But why are we both students? I have to take the exam here, but you can invigilate me?"
She looked at the square-faced middle-aged female invigilator and said seriously, "I was wondering why the exams never ended. Could it be that you are my real test paper?"
Invigilator: …Shit.
Got phished!!
"So on the surface there were four of us, but in reality there were eight admission tickets, and we were taking the exam for others. The person who actually took the exam was actually our invigilator!"
Guo Guo tried to sort out the logic, but found that it became more and more confusing: "But, what exactly are we going to test?"
It’s impossible for eight people to compete with each other in college entrance examination scores, and whoever has the higher score will pass!
Tang Xin Jue: "That's another question, but I'm more inclined to believe that our exam hasn't even started yet."
After all, their own admission tickets have been hidden here from beginning to end. How can they enter the exam without even the admission tickets?
Guo Guo: "Does that mean that if I take the real admission ticket back now, I can take the real entrance exam?"
Tang Xin Jue: "Not necessarily. Don't forget there are four of us."
It is useless for only two people to get the admission tickets. They must find a way to contact Zhang You and Zheng Wanqing, and exchange all the information in the hands of the four of them before they can decide what to do next.
"Oh, I see."
An idea suddenly struck Guo Guo: "Because the four of us are separated, each person's substitute exam is different, the environment is different, and the clues we find should also be different."
"Assuming the admission ticket is the key to entering the formal examination, then in addition to the key itself, we also need to know the location of the entrance and how to use the key..."
Guo Guo was counting on her fingers when she suddenly felt the light above her head seemed to shake slightly. She shrank her neck sensitively. Could it be an illusion?
"You're not wrong." Tang Xinjue seemed to be able to hear her thoughts and replied calmly, "The light did flicker just now."
As soon as he finished speaking, the incandescent light in the room flashed again. The whole room was dark for a short time and then lit up again, and then began to flash alternately madly.
Zizi... An electromagnetic sizzling sound came from nowhere and began to spread. The papers stacked on the bookcase were picked up by the wind and flew around in the air in a disorderly manner.
The two looked at each other.
"Walk!"
Tang Xinjue grabbed Guo Guo and ran out quickly. The door of the room began to shake wildly, making some unexplained friction sound.
——After being pulled open by Tang Xinjue, Guo Guo saw that a roll of documents was left in the gap of the door, which just happened to block the door from closing.
Fortunately, Tang Xinjue had a trick up his sleeve, otherwise they might have been locked in the room. Guo Guo felt a chill run down his spine, and as soon as he stepped out of the door, he immediately opened his Yin-Yang eyes and looked around.
It would have been fine if I hadn't seen it, but once I did, my hair stood on end: "God of Jue, run! There are people behind you!!"
No, they could no longer be called people. At best, they were just densely packed white figures, groaning and crawling out from every corner of the darkness, even faster than cockroaches.
Without saying a word, the two of them ran out of the corridor. When they were almost at the stairs, Guo Guo felt himself being pushed to the left and immediately deviated from the stairs.
"Go to the window." Tang Xinjue spoke quickly, "That's your exit."
A small window appeared on the left wall at some point. Looking closely, one could see a vague transparent figure. It was the short-haired girl who had led them here before!
Guo Guo realized that the other party might be here to "pick him up", so he quickly changed direction and asked hurriedly: "What about you? Can't we go together?"
The girl with short hair raised a finger.
She could only take one person.
Guo Guo subconsciously said: "I have the Yin-Yang Eyes, please send Jue Shen back!"
The short-haired girl shook her head and gestured:
If I send you away, she can survive.
Send her away and you will die.
Guo Guo: “…”
Thank you, she got it.
Before he could say anything else, a familiar force swept Guo Guo toward the window, and he lost his sight.
The narrow window disappeared silently, and the corridor fell into complete darkness again. A cold wind was howling behind him. Tang Xinjue did not hesitate any longer and directly grabbed the stair handle.
In an instant, the quiet stairs began to buzz, as if a hungry beast smelled the aroma of delicious food and began to become restless.
The dark staircase was like a gaping bloody mouth, eagerly awaiting the upcoming meal.
Tang Xinjue glanced at it, pushed his wrist downwards, and leaped lightly onto the handrail of the stairs without touching the step by a millimeter.
stairs:?
The next moment, Tang Xinjue exerted force in the opposite direction, and his body slid down the stair railing to the bottom!
Just as the staircase realized the food was about to fly away, the chilling wind suddenly turned into a sweeping air current. The handrail sprouted sharp spikes, angrily trying to force the girl down.
The sudden change in the handrail was so fierce that if he didn't change his posture, he would be stabbed all over immediately. Tang Xinjue turned around, grabbed the handrail with one hand, and jumped down, jumping directly across a distance.
The airflow missed again, and Tang Xinjue landed on the handrail, just a few steps away from the corridor on the fifth floor.
The fifth floor is the way she came.
Seeing that the prey was about to slip away, the last rage of darkness gathered at the end of the stairs, and the end of the handrail instantly transformed into a huge claw, grabbing upwards in a dark mass!
This time it is unavoidable and there is no need to avoid it anymore.
Tang Xin Jue remained in his stance, took a deep breath, focused his gaze on his dantian, and spoke towards the corridor:
"Mr. Midori!!!"
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