Chapter 152: Higher Education Entrance Examination (12)
When the disheveled woman appeared at the door with a gloomy face, she saw Tang Xinjue quietly writing on the paper.
The pale-skinned girl's eyelashes twitched as she inadvertently caught a glimpse of the figure at the door. She took a startled breath and said, "Hiss, Mr. Lu, did you just jump into the sea to save someone? Why do you look like a drowned monkey?"
As soon as he opened his mouth, he became a hermaphrodite.
Teacher Lu smiled with a forced smile, revealing a row of sharp white teeth. "I was just accidentally tricked by a student who didn't follow the rules. Tell me, should I punish him back?"
Without waiting for Tang Xinjue's answer, she stepped into the room. She was indifferent to the paper stuffed into the hand of the candidate next to her. Her eyes were fixed on Tang Xinjue, and her hatred was so strong that it seemed like pus was about to ooze out.
Tang Xinjue's gaze paused on the paper for a second.
Sure enough, there was no response.
It seems that the usage of the real admission ticket is a bit complicated.
The next second, the girl shook her head as if nothing had happened and smiled. "That's not right. The teacher told me to call your name if anything happened. I just tried to call you. I didn't expect the teacher to locate me and rush over immediately. It was such a coincidence."
"As for the students remembering their teachers' instructions and the harmonious relationship between teachers and students, how can it be called a pitfall ?"
——It's obvious that you are shooting yourself in the foot.
Teacher Lu's smile looked as if his facial bones had been deformed by some force, or as if he had just come out of a failed plastic surgery. Every inch of his muscles was diligently pulled upwards, which made it look even more bizarre.
"You're right, I shouldn't waste my time talking to you." The woman whispered softly, but she was moving closer to Tang Xinjue. "I should..."
Tang Xinjue lazily lifted his eyelids, the pen turning smoothly between his fingers, quietly waiting for the other party's next move.
However, what arrived faster than the woman was another voice that suddenly appeared in her ears:
"...Heart Sutra...Heart Sutra, can you hear me?"
This is Zhang You's voice.
The movement of his fingertips paused, Tang Xinjue's eyes suddenly became sharp, and the pen in his hand flew directly towards Teacher Lu!
Teacher Lu didn't even try to dodge, but simply slapped the gel pen away with her bloodstained hands, not caring about her image at all - after all, she already looked like a ghost and had no room to fall.
At this moment, Tang Xin Jue took the paper back from the other person's hand, swiftly flipped it over the table and replied:
"I can hear you."
"Very good!"
The happy voice over there changed from Zhang You to Zheng Wanqing's, and she couldn't wait to say, "Xin Jue, quickly kill the chief invigilator of your exam room, so that we can be reunited!"
"Thank you for your advice." Tang Xin Jue leaned back to avoid Mr. Lu's grab, and spoke steadily and quickly: "Then let Zhang You come and talk to me."
Zheng Wanqing: "...I clearly explained it clearly."
The background mumbling sound changed to Zhang You's again, and this time it was obviously much more organized. Zhang You finished telling the story of her reunion with Zheng Wanqing in the shortest time.
"Break through the barrier with violence?"
Tang Xinjue seemed to be thinking about something, and pulled an unconscious invigilator to block in front of him. The next moment, the man's body was pierced through by a pair of sharp hands without hesitation.
“The suggestion is tempting, but implementation is a bit difficult.”
After throwing the other invigilator out, Tang Xinjue kicked the door open and a large number of invigilators, who looked like clones, swarmed in. Half of the examination room was instantly blocked.
When all the invigilators rushed in, Tang Xinjue had already quietly moved outside the door.
Whether ordering the invigilators to leave or forcibly pushing them out of the way, this delay would be enough time for Tang Xin Jue to disappear anywhere in the corridor. Having been tricked so many times, Lina Lu understood this better than anyone else.
She glanced at Tang Xinjue from a distance with a distorted smile on her face, stretched out both hands at the same time, and pierced the two invigilators in front without hesitation.
Then the third, the fourth, the fifth—
With a series of splashing sounds of blood and flesh, all the invigilators from in front of her to the door were killed in the blink of an eye!
Faced with this action that could no longer be called "severely attacking our teammates" but was fast-forwarding to "slaughtering our teammates", Tang Xinjue blinked and disappeared at the door without hesitation.
“Hehehe…”
The pile of corpses collapsed, and Lina Green, no longer recognizable as a human, walked out . Her eyes rolled across her blood-soaked face, and she called out more tenderly:
"Tang, where are you? The teacher is here to see you. I have the Band-Aid you asked for. Do you need me to bandage your wound? The teacher is here——"
On the other end of the line, Zheng Wanqing felt a dense layer of bumps rising up all over her body. She said with certainty, "The chief invigilator in my exam room isn't this perverted."
Zhang You: "No one in my exam room has reached this level... Because it's a heart technique, is it the most difficult one?"
He says he will bandage your wound, but it sounds like he is chopping off your head. The more gentle and disgusting this cruel "Green Teacher" is, the more alarming it is.
Tang Xin Jue didn't say much, but simply asked Zhang You: "How is your exam situation now?"
Zhang You immediately understood and quickly began to tell what happened after he reunited with Wan Qing.
It turned out that their original plan was to team up and defeat Bing Lanlan again, using the same violent method to break into the examination room. But when the two of them chased her out, they found that Bing Lanlan, who had been making such harsh remarks, had disappeared.
When the main invigilator is not there, ordinary invigilators who are like robots will be refreshed endlessly. No matter how strong the two are, they cannot resist the huge crowd. They can only find a corner in the teaching building to hide temporarily and wait to find Bing Lanlan.
"Being irritable is just a setting for her as an invigilator. This ghost has her own brain."
Tang Xin Jue quickly concluded, pointing out a crucial piece of information: "Everything in this dungeon is currently simulating the actual Gaokao. All candidates and invigilators possess characteristics, or rather, settings, that belong to ordinary people. This setting is most evident in the main invigilator, the dungeon boss, and can even constrain their behavior."
For example, Lina Green’s setting is “gentle”, so even if she hates Tang Xin Jue so much that she wants to tear him apart immediately, she cannot let go of the smile on her face.
According to Zheng Wanqing and Zhang You's narration, the "Liuli Zi" character in the former examination room is serious and rigid, while the "Bing Lanlan" character in the latter examination room is impulsive and irritable.
Just as candidates' abilities vary in strength, NPC character designs also have their own strengths and weaknesses. The less aggressive a character is, the less likely it is for ghosts to attack the candidate; conversely, the more aggressive they are, the easier it is for them to go berserk.
Tang Xin Jue: "So I guess the true nature of these ghosts might be exactly the opposite of their characterization."
She continued, "Binglanlan's invigilator is impulsive and violent, so it takes a ghost with a calm mind to control his madness. If he feels things are not going well, he can slip away early and let the ordinary invigilators consume your strength."
"And the invigilator I've met is the most gentle and least aggressive. Correspondingly, her fighting ability is likely to be the most dangerous."
As Tang Xinjue finished her words, a thin, flesh-white blade suddenly pierced through the door beside her. A face with a slit at the corner of its mouth appeared through the hole in the door, and its eyes moved 360 degrees: "I hear your voice... I smell your scent... Classmate Tang!"
With a few swish sounds, the door to Examination Room 305 was completely torn apart, and the "flesh-white blade" finally revealed its true appearance: it turned out to be no weapon at all, but Midori's mutated arm after going berserk:
The arm had been torn into a long strip of flesh and skin, the top part was thicker and sharper than a saw blade, and the other parts acted as an extended and stretched movable body, flexibly dividing Lina Green's limbs into countless freely movable joints, each joint attacking an examination room.
Before Tang Xin Jue was found, almost all the examination rooms on the third floor had been destroyed, and the air was filled with a strong smell of blood.
"Xin Jue, are you okay over there now? Do you need any help?"
Zheng Wanqing was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, wishing she could travel through time and fight monsters with Tang Xinjue.
"...It's okay." After a few minutes, Tang Xinjue's slightly panting voice sounded again.
"This teaching building has five floors in total, enough for her to destroy for a while."
Zheng Wanqing and Zhang You: "..."
So you are playing hide and seek there?
It's just a copy of the property, so you don't have to pay for it if it breaks, right?
However, Zhang You soon realized that Tang Xin Jue's situation might not be as optimistic as he had imagined: "Are you injured?"
Tang Xin Jue: "Skin injury."
She calmly bandaged the deep cut on her arm, which was visible to the bone. "I got injured while searching for clues before, and I didn't treat it. Now the damage is compounded, which is a bit troublesome, but it's not a big problem."
After all, the first thing she recovered was her mental power, and when it was almost exhausted, the bonus to the combat effect was almost nothing.
A large part of his current ease stemmed from his experience in previous nightmare battles. Tang Xinjue was well aware that, at least in the second round, it wasn't the best time to confront the dungeon boss head-on.
As for why Zheng Wanqing suddenly emerged, the answer is probably very simple -
That is, from the beginning to the end, she only evolved and improved one ability, which is the combat skill of Iron Fist.
No matter how many times the test cycle went by, as long as the copy returned her superpowers, she would have to return them in full. The only thing that could suppress her strength was the length of time her skills could be concentrated.
Zheng Wanqing suddenly realized: "I know! No wonder the lifespan of my punches is so short this time. I have to save my punches when I want to hit people. I thought it was the NPC's fault."
If Tang Xinjue hadn't analyzed the whole story, she would have almost not realized that she was restricted by the copy.
"--So now, we only have three solutions."
Tang Xinjue's voice suddenly dropped, which meant that Teacher Lu had found her again.
"The first method is that I will hold on until the exam time is over, automatically enter the third exam cycle, and then work with you to break through the dungeon."
"The second method is to find the missing invigilator and kill her. There's a 50% chance that she'll come to me or reunite with Guo Guo."
"As for the third method,"
She paused slightly, switched to fast movement mode, and continued:
"I need more information about the dungeons so I can take them all out at once."
But this time, for the four NPC invigilators, it was a "solution" in another sense.
Zhang You's eyes flickered slightly, and he immediately understood what he meant. "More information about the dungeon... For example, the exam rules book?"
The author has something to say:
Zheng Wanqing: It turns out that the copy limits my strength!
Copy: Are you polite?
