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Chapter 458 2019 Exam Cheating Group

As a sunny, kind, honest, and law-abiding player, Gu Mian would certainly not force in strange things.

Little Red and her brother were among these strange things.

Gu Mian's idea was that it would be easy to bring them in, but if they couldn't be brought out, then everything would be over.

One can imagine how Xiao Hong and her brother, the two ghosts, would react after discovering Gu Mian's disappearance.

Xiao Hong simply jumped into the water and swam around aimlessly in a doggy paddle, trying to find him... That's what she did during the dragon boat event.

And from now on, the older brother will only have to reluctantly call other ghosts "sister."

So when Gu Mian and the others entered the school gate, the two ghosts were squatting in a dog-like posture at a distance outside the gate, and they really looked like two dogs.

After leaving behind her brother and Xiao Hong, those two strange creatures, Gu Mian successfully entered the school with her guitar bag.

As Gu Mian passed by the NPCs, she took a closer look at the illegal item detectors in their hands, thinking that if he had one, he might be able to find out about his parents who had been missing for many years.

The NPCs who were being stared at by Gu Mian shuddered silently and took a step back in unison.

"No wonder it's an event from a horror game," the fat man looked up at the school in front of him, "Even the school is made so gloomy, was the atmosphere at your school always this gloomy, Brother Chu?"

The school seemed somewhat eerie and empty, perhaps because no one had been attending classes for a long time.

“No,” Chu Changge said slowly as he walked forward. “It’s just that sometimes people commit suicide by jumping off buildings. To prevent such things from happening, the school has installed security bars on all the windows above the third floor. If you encounter a ghost in a room above the third floor, don’t even think about jumping out of the window to escape.”

"And have you noticed?" Chu Changge glanced back as he said this, behind him were several NPCs standing outside the school gate. "Those NPCs are all standing outside the school; they haven't come in."

Gu Mian noticed this as well, and there were no other NPCs after entering the school; only scattered examinees were searching for their own examination rooms.

“Even NPCs are unwilling to set foot here, so this event may exceed our expectations. You should be careful.” Chu Changge withdrew his gaze.

The fat man nodded, making sure he remembered that.

A few steps further on is a huge statue, about three stories high, depicting the emblem of Lianhua School—a trophy-like object.

Gu Mian stopped in front of the statue: "This event isn't a direct entry and exit process. Everyone will meet here after answering the questions and leave together... Xiao Qiao's group chat will work here, right?"

As he spoke, he tried it out and found that the game's built-in chat system was no longer working. However, Xiao Qiao's ten-person group chat was not closed, although she had changed the group name to "2019 College Entrance Examination Cheating Group".

The name is quite fitting.

This thing is indeed a powerful tool for cheating on exams, and among them is Chu Changge, who is like an encyclopedia. If this college entrance exam really tests normal knowledge, then with Chu Changge on their side, they will be invincible.

It feels pretty good to copy all the answers within the first ten minutes, then wave your sleeves and leave, leaving only your back view for the other candidates.

However, the exam papers for each person may not be the same, and the exam questions are unlikely to be normal.

"Anyway, once you've all finished answering the questions, you can choose a time to meet here... If you feel it's dangerous, I can come to the exam venue to pick you up." Gu Mian paused for a moment.

For a moment, the fat man thought Gu Mian looked a bit like a parent picking up their child from kindergarten.

Chu Changge said, "It depends on the situation. We can communicate through the group if there are any issues."

"Okay, the event starts at seven o'clock. Go find your exam room now." Gu Mian checked the time. It was already 6:30 pm. The sunlight had mostly disappeared, and the school was gradually falling into darkness.

Lianhua University, Building 6, Examination Room 208 – this is Gu Mian's examination room.

He was very familiar with Lianhua University and found his examination room in fifteen minutes. It was the westernmost classroom on the second floor of Building 6.

When Gu Mian entered the examination room, the overhead lights were already on. There were twenty-five tables in the room, and no one was on the podium. It was a classroom that looked quite normal.

A dozen or so tables were already occupied, and people were looking over here with curiosity.

Gu Mian was not at all ashamed of being called Chu Meiren. He walked a few steps forward after entering the room and then spotted someone he knew: 007.

At that moment, she was sitting in the second row by the window in the classroom, looking up at me with wide eyes.

The table in front of her was right under Gu Mian's nose. He looked down and saw that the seat number on the table was 1.

What a coincidence!

It's a pity Xiao Hong isn't here, otherwise the human and the ghost could be stuffing each other's mouths with delicious food.

Unexpectedly, she ended up sitting next to 007. Gu Mian also knew that 007 was looking for her parents two months ago, although Fatty said she didn't find them in the end.

Gu Mian put down her guitar case and leaned against the table, then plopped down in the seat in front of her and turned to look at 007: "I heard you didn't find the person you were looking for?"

He spent a long time getting 007 home, but in the end, it was all for nothing.

“Yes,” 007 wasn’t surprised for long that he and Gu Mian were now sitting next to each other. “When I got home, they had already moved, and new people were living there.”

"Don't you suspect the family currently living in your house?"

After the global game started, murder and robbery became commonplace, and even murder and house-robbing were possible occurrences.

“No, the house is rented,” 007 shook his head. “And my parents… they often move suddenly like this without telling me, because they don’t want me to worry.”

Gu Mian thought for two seconds and then understood: "Hiding from debt?"

007 nodded silently: "Two years ago, my dad's company went bankrupt and he owed a lot of debt. For the past two years, debt collectors have been coming to our door, and our place is often vandalized with paint. Although we have tried our best to pay it back, the amount is too large and we still can't pay it back... So I dropped out of school and went out to work to pay off the debt. If I work locally, those people will definitely cause trouble at my workplace, and then I will lose my job."

Gu Mian remembered the first time he met 007 in the movie. He remembered that 007 said he didn't have money, which was why he didn't go to school. At that time, he wondered how poor he was that he couldn't even afford tuition. It turned out that he not only didn't have money, but also had to pay off debts.

Because of her naturally bad luck, Gu Mian was afraid to go out to work, fearing that she would drag others down with her and cause them to go bankrupt.

Just as Gu Mian was envious of 007 being able to go out and work, she suddenly noticed that the classroom had fallen silent.

He was all too familiar with this silence; it usually happened when the homeroom teacher's face appeared on the glass of the back door of the classroom. The proctor had arrived.

But the proctor clearly didn't have the leisure of a homeroom teacher; it walked straight in through the front door.

Gu Mian turned around and saw a pair of empty eye sockets.

The fat man couldn't understand why the proctor was dressed like that. He saw that the thing on the podium was hunched over in a strange posture, wearing a bulky, dirty biohazard suit, just like the ones worn by lab technicians in biohazard movies, with a tattered mask on its head.

The entire classroom fell silent. All the students jolted, holding their breath as they stared at the terrifying thing on the podium.

It stood contorted in the middle of the podium, and then the fat man saw blood-red words appear on the blackboard behind it.

[Question Time: 19:30 - 24:00]

[Exam Rules]

[1. Open-book exam; answers can be found at the school.]

2. You must submit your exam paper to the invigilator before the end of the exam.

3. There will be proctors during the exam. Students outside the exam room who are discovered by the proctors will be dealt with as having violated regulations.

4. Men are prohibited from entering female dormitories.

The fat man was concerned about the third point: "If an invigilator is caught by an invigilator outside the examination room, it will be treated as a violation..."

What are the penalties for violations? Will I die?

He glanced at the time; it was 7:10, and there were still 20 minutes before the quiz began.

The fat man's gaze couldn't help but fall on the thing on the podium wearing a biohazard suit, let's just call it "the thing" for now, because it didn't look like a human at all.

If the exam paper isn't handed in before midnight, something terrible might happen.

This event is even more mysterious and bizarre than the last dragon boat event. Not only does Fatty think so, but other players think so too.

They were enveloped by a strange feeling the moment they saw the proctor enter the classroom; it was odd, the players here had experienced many dungeons, and even events that could result in real death at least once, so they shouldn't be so afraid.

But when these people saw the bizarre and distorted proctor, an extremely terrifying feeling welled up inside them. Horror and despair struggled to surge from their hearts, making it hard to breathe. It was the fear of facing death head-on.

At that moment, the fat man suddenly remembered what Chu Changge had said after entering the school—"I'm afraid this event will exceed our expectations."

A bizarre thought suddenly popped into his head: "How many players will actually make it out of this event alive?"

Just then, he saw an exam paper appear out of thin air on his desk.

……

It's 7:20 now, and there are still ten minutes left before we can start answering the questions. Everyone is staring nervously at the test paper in front of them, and no one dares to pick up a pen.

Gu Mian was also looking at the exam paper in front of him; he had forgotten to bring a pen.

But this wasn't a big problem. Gu Mian looked at the contents of her test paper. By this time, it was completely dark outside. The classroom lights shone dimly through the windows, and the building across the street could be vaguely seen.

Gu Mian leaned against the window, looking at her exam paper.

The exam paper was strange; it only had two questions.

One question was multiple choice, and the other was fill-in-the-blank. However, there were large blank spaces below these two questions, as if new questions would appear in the blank spaces.

He first looked at the multiple-choice question above—

The third floor of the school cafeteria is ( )

[A. East] [B. West]

These were definitely not questions you'd expect in a normal exam, and they seemed completely unsolvable. The format was similar to a copy of the classroom management exam they'd taken before... but were they really the same?

Leaving that question aside for now, he then looked at the fill-in-the-blank questions below.

There were 104 dead fish in the fish tank on the windowsill of room 4244 in the girls' dormitory.

This question was even more perplexing; I couldn't see where to fill in the blank at all.

Upon seeing the girls' dormitory, Gu Mian looked up at the last rule of the exam on the blackboard.

Men are prohibited from entering female dormitories.

He subconsciously looked out the window, next to which was the No. 4 girls' dormitory, and suddenly he saw a face in the opposite window.

A horrifying human face, completely rotten and held together only by two tendons.

But the face vanished in an instant, as if everything just now was Gu Mian's hallucination.

It was just past 7:30, and the students in the classroom all took out their pens that they had prepared in advance. No one noticed the unusual situation in the girls' dormitory building across the street.

Gu Mian heard other players' voices behind her: "Why can't I write it?"

He turned his head and saw the person holding the pen trying to draw on the exam paper, but couldn't make a single mark.

Gu Mian looked back in the direction of the face from before: "I'm afraid this is the real choice and fill-in-the-blank exercise."

They need to make choices and fill in the blanks based on their own experience.

(End of this chapter)