The discussion in the hall gradually faded.
Dai Lei looked up and couldn't help but frowning: "Why is that NPC still answering questions? Isn't he here to announce the rules? And the invigilator—"
"The game has gotten completely out of control."
Doctor Sui held the husband's arm and explained slowly: "Everyone is trapped in the game, and they also need to find a way out."
"We need to work with them," said team doctor Sui.
She is old enough to be a mother, not too young. She speaks in a soft voice, and her temperament is neat and calm, just like her field.
Hearing the words coming out, even Dai Lei couldn't help but lower his voice and complained vaguely: "Who knows what they are doing? What if they are here to trick us? Then we will all be in trouble..."
The hall was empty, so even if he lowered his voice, it was still easy to hear. Yu Liuhui was afraid of angering the NPC, so she quickly shook her hands at him, and her face turned a little paler.
Zhan Chen seemed not to hear anything. He continued to hold the invigilator in his arms and concentrate on writing the paper in front of him.
After a moment's deliberation, Team Doctor Sui walked towards Zhan Chen and stopped in front of his invigilation table.
Zhan Chen put down his pen, raised his head and waited for the conversation to begin.
"We just did a blanket search of the hall."
Team doctor Sui said: "We found this behind all the tables and chairs, under the blanket."
Team doctor Sui took out a crumpled piece of paper and placed it on the table.
Hearing the location reported by the police, Zhan Chen and Yu Tang's expressions changed slightly at the same time, and they looked at each other.
…That location happened to be the table where Feng Qing was not projected.
Zhan Chen took the note and flattened it.
The note contained hastily written, scribbled pencil writing, as if it had been crumpled up many times and rubbed into a mess.
"It looks like it was torn from a notebook or diary," said team doctor Sui. "We tried many methods but couldn't identify it."
Zhan Chen put away the note and thanked him in a gentle voice: "We will find a way."
Team doctor Sui nodded, hesitated for a moment, and then asked again: "Are you sure you should get full marks on this paper?"
Zhan Chen raised his eyes.
"We just discussed this."
Doctor Sui said: "The children in the orphanage should have no ability to answer the test papers. In order to avoid angering the director, they could only fill the test papers with random words."
This is exactly where the problem lies - these children are too familiar with each other, and they can tell whether they are their own even if they are just scribbling.
No matter what they did, it was impossible for them to hand in a paper and successfully pass the inspection of those "kids".
Once you hand in the paper and are recognized as an imposter, you will be pushed out of the door like a one-eyed dragon and be devoured by your own supernatural power.
"If the table you were sitting at was not the invigilator's table, but the seat of a new kid, it would be possible to answer this paper."
Team doctor Sui said: "But why must it be a perfect score?"
Yu Tang said, "Because this is a game."
Team doctor Sui was slightly startled, looking at Yu Tang curled up in Zhan Chen's arms.
Apart from the role of the host, Electronic Storm was a young man with a rather cold look and aura. He was holding a small porcelain bowl that he had gotten from somewhere, with both hands tucked into his sleeves, drinking hot milk in small sips.
At this point, it seems that the electron storm is almost completely different from that of ordinary people.
"This is a battle royale game, and the game must have answers that can be solved. This is the rule of the game world."
"Just like a math problem, a question that has no answer cannot appear on the exam paper, no matter how cleverly it is formulated."
"There must be a way to pass the game cards, that's the rule."
Yu Tang said: "The world cannot break the rules."
The game can do its best to set up obstacles and hide the conditions for solving the problem, hindering the player from finding the truth. But no matter what, the player must be provided with a way to get the correct answer.
Just like in the game world, no matter how much you want to keep all your friends to accompany Feng Qing, you have to leave a way for the players to escape.
Yu Tang: "I guess this paper got full marks because the person who took the test handed it in early."
Yu Tang said: "He should be the first and only one to hand in his paper."
"Why do I get full marks if I hand in my paper early?" Dai Lei listened to their conversation from a distance and couldn't help but interrupt, "When I was taking the exam, I didn't want to answer the questions and wanted to go out and play games, so I also handed in my paper early..."
Yu Tang asked, "Have you ever ranked first in an exam?"
Dai Lei: “…”
"Their family has an elite education. The children raised by the family must be stable and excellent. He is the most outstanding child."
Yu Tang watched Zhan Chen answer the questions and continued slowly, "He doesn't have the habit of being naughty, and he won't challenge the rules. According to his family tradition, unless he can guarantee that he has answered all the questions correctly, he will not sit through the exam."
Team doctor Sui frowned slightly: "Didn't he wait until the exam was over?"
"No." Yu Tang said, "The exam will never end."
Team doctor Sui was stunned for a moment, as if he suddenly realized something, and his expression gradually became gloomy.
Yu Tang moved and rested his head on Zhan Chen's chest, listening to the rustling sound of the pencil in Zhan Chen's hand rubbing against the paper: "Because this is not an exam at all, it's a punishment."
Before the exam, the dean's words played to them in the game world mentioned that this exam had to be conducted because "the kid from the Sui family would not give in."
The orphanage has always done a good job of showing off. No matter if the Sui family sends people to check on it or sends their own children to volunteer, it is difficult to find anything strange going on inside.
…Unless there is a child in the orphanage who disobeys the director and tells the Sui family about it without permission.
The director of the Secret Service was questioned by the Sui family and was forced to give the children an exam. He simply took the opportunity of the exam to teach these disobedient children a lesson.
"The 'Dean's Pet' card shows seat number six."
Yu Tang said: "Why would such a card appear in an exam?"
"It's so cold that even adults can't stand it, and the children can't last more than a night. There's a library on the first floor, so why do we have to take this kind of exam?"
"Feng Qing is the leader of the children. Everyone listens to what he says."
Yu Tang said: "In the conversation we just heard, he told the other children to 'hand in the papers when the teacher comes back'."
These kids had no idea that the invigilator would not be coming back.
They were caught off guard and frightened to death by the "Fear" card that was used as a punishment, until the children who had already been punished and arrived earlier gathered the courage to cover the card with their clothes.
In the snowstorm, the children were getting colder and more sleepy. One little girl could not hold on any longer and fell asleep, but was woken up by the others who shook her hard.
The children shivered and blew air into their palms, trying to huddle together to keep warm, waiting eagerly for the invigilator to come back so that he could let them go back to sleep.
…
"So when the one-eyed dragon was about to hand in his papers, the children collected their own papers?"
Doctor Sui's voice was filled with anger: "According to this, as long as you force yourself to hand in the paper, no matter what you write on it, you will definitely be recognized as an imposter. Because the children are very good and obedient, they want to wait for the invigilator to come back..."
Yu Tang nodded.
This is the real trap of this exam.
If there is no one acting as an invigilator and the keyword "invigilator" is not triggered, there is no way to get this hidden table.
After getting this table, if you follow the stereotyped mindset and hand in the paper to the invigilator, you will be recognized as a fake and thrown out of the door.
"This is... Aren't we in a dead end?"
Yu Liuhui was so frightened that her face turned pale: "If you hand in the paper, you will be thrown out. If you don't hand in the paper, the exam will not end. Sooner or later, we will all freeze to death..."
He had been frozen unconscious once, and was supported by the treatment field of Team Doctor Sui. His body was still shaking, and his voice was very low: "We will all die here. This orphanage is for us to stay..."
Dai Lei couldn't help but wanted to say something, but Sui Zhengfan stopped him with one hand: "There must be other ways to submit the paper."
According to Yu Tang's speculation, someone handed the test paper to the invigilator that evening and ended the exam early.
Sui Zhengfan walked up to Yu Tang and said, "You have guessed who this new kid is—you recognize him, right?"
Yu Tang nodded.
Not only did he know the identity of the new child, he had also roughly guessed the secrets hidden in this orphanage, but further verification was needed.
Yu Tang jumped down from Zhan Chen's arms. The pervasive cold instantly penetrated his clothes. He rubbed his fingertips and blew a breath from his lips: "Senior Zhan, have you finished the test paper?"
Zhan Chen checked it one last time, nodded, and put down his pen: "OK."
Yu Tang held Zhan Chen's arm and asked him to stand up from his seat and move away from the set of tables and chairs.
… The method of submitting the paper is very simple.
Pu Ying was already incomplete at this time. He had stripped off the part of himself that belonged to Luo Ran, and the remaining half had not been trained. It was almost a blank sheet of paper, and its level of humanization was not even as good as that of a system that had just left the factory.
Therefore, Pu Ying's style of behavior would be directly deviated by the core particles sent by the electron storm without any suspense.
Yu Tang snapped his fingers.
A wonderful and brilliant ball of light appeared out of nowhere, followed the instructions, and "swallowed" the paper.
This is the most common method used by electronic storms.
Their dimensions are inherently smaller than those of this world, just like to go from one point on a piece of paper to another, you don’t necessarily need to draw a line. You can also fold the paper in half so that the two points overlap directly.
Pu Ying, the little robot who had just emerged from the electronic storm, delivered the test paper directly to the desk in the dean's office in accordance with the electronic storm's habit.
…
Suddenly, the entire space began to fluctuate.
There was a thump like the sound of a piano cover being lifted, and the stairs that had disappeared reappeared. There were hurried footsteps coming down the stairs, and the stairs that had turned into black and white piano keys also sounded, like a chaotic and harsh soundtrack.
"Whose paper is it? Whose is it?!"
In the empty hall, the dean's voice rang out again: "Come out quickly! As long as those who have handed in their papers come out, the others can go back to sleep under the covers, and there will be hot soup to drink..."
The "children" were already extremely weak from the cold; their soft, intermittent breathing seemed to brush against everyone's ears.
Yu Liuhui couldn't help but wanted to speak, but Dai Lei pulled her hard, and she suddenly woke up from her delirium.
…
The boy's voice rang out: "Dean, did he do something wrong?"
The dean was stunned for a moment, as if he suddenly realized his own gaffe, and his tone suddenly softened: "Of course not, he answered very well, he got full marks, we will send him to school."
The boy asked, "Really?"
"Of course it's true." The dean's tone was incredibly kind. "Do you have anyone else who has answered the test paper? You can also be sent to study."
The children didn't know how to answer any of the questions. They were all a little embarrassed and silent. There was also a faint sense of awkwardness in the air.
"It doesn't matter. This is the first one. There must be a second one and a third one."
The dean said: "First, sponsor him to study. There will be other exams in the future, and there will be two places left. You should try harder..."
The children put their ears close to each other, held hands, and whispered to each other.
… After a few seconds, the stairs that had turned into piano keys began to play again.
The children lined up to go downstairs. The ding-dong music was mixed with the creaking sound of doors closing one after another.
Not long after, the floor above them began to creak again.
…
"The top floor is the children's bedroom."
Chai Ning could still roughly remember the location and whispered, "They should have gone back to sleep..."
"We'll go too." Yu Tang said, "Can you still remember the order of the piano music?"
Chai Ning was stunned for a moment, looked at Meng Nanke and nodded.
and Meng Nanke's original major was couple dance. They grew up in dance studios and next to pianos. Even if they had only heard the music just now once, they could still repeat it almost exactly.
The temperature in the hall was getting lower and lower, and it was no longer possible to stay there. Chai Ning understood what Yu Tang meant, and was about to go to the staircase to give it a try, when a figure appeared in front of him.
Meng Nanke lowered his head, his hands still wearing insulating gloves, and he still had that cowardly and timid look. Without saying a word, he pushed Chai Ning away from Team Doctor Sui and walked towards the stairs.
It was like a piano that had been in disrepair for a long time being plucked, and the distorted music suddenly rang out in the hall.
Meng Nanke walked very unsteadily, thinking carefully for a long time before taking each step, but he never made a mistake.
Dai Lei became nervous watching this, but he couldn't help, so he couldn't help but ask Chai Ning: "Who of you has a better sense of music?"
"Him." Chai Ning whispered, "He was originally picked by a talent scout and was almost able to debut on his own... Be careful!"
Meng Nanke swayed and managed to stand steady by holding on to the handrail.
Dai Lei's heart seemed to be about to jump out, and he scratched his hair in annoyance, but he didn't dare to disturb him anymore, so he walked back and forth several times.
Chai Ning stared at Meng Nanke, impatiently urging Dai Lei to go away with one hand, and recited each word with her mouth. Only when she saw him successfully reach the top of the stairs did she finally breathe a sigh of relief.
…
With Meng Nanke's path, it becomes much easier for the rest of the people as long as they follow the correct steps.
Dai Lei originally looked down on Meng Nanke, but now he felt that he could be trusted. He pulled Yu Liuhui over and patted Meng Nanke on the shoulder twice: "In my opinion, you are much better than those young idols who debuted."
Meng Nanke was startled by him, and staggered awkwardly, hiding behind Chai Ning.
Chai Ning pulled Meng Nanke behind him, bit off his insulating gloves, glanced at Dai Lei, and red arcs of electricity jumped on his fingertips.
Dai Lei was startled and raised his hands quickly: "What are you doing? I didn't provoke him! I know how you deal with a small group of people..."
As they were talking, Sui Zhengfan and his wife also climbed up the stairs smoothly.
Sui Zhengfan stayed for two more minutes and took apart two stool legs and several thin table tops, distributing them to other people for self-defense.
Zhan Chen and Yu Tang were the last to walk. Just as they left the last step, the rounded lid of the piano closed with a "bang", and the steps twisted twice again and completely disappeared into the air.
Dai Lei let out a long sigh of relief and sat down, "NPC teacher, what are the rules that you can't tell us next?"
Zhan Chen was a little speechless. Just as he was about to speak, his expression suddenly moved slightly and he tilted his head slightly.
…
In the unknown space, the dean's voice sounded again.
Unlike the rare kindness he showed when he was scaring the children, he tried his best to suppress his voice, but it still revealed his uncontrollable greed and excitement.
"Contact the lab... quick, one of them worked!"
“You can peel it off at any time!”
"According to what the terminal said, we took the core particles of the electron storm and handed them over to him immediately."
"As long as we give it to it, can we get the equipment that can brainwash people and implant programs into them in exchange?"
"Okay, I'll arrange for someone to try it."
"I'll leave the child to you now. Send someone to pick him up immediately. Don't delay... Don't worry, explain to the Sui family that he went to school. Just make up a resume and send it to them."
"Don't worry, the Sui family will soon stop worrying about this..."
The voice sounded like someone talking on the phone, mixed with the sound of footsteps, and gradually became clearer.
Dai Lei held his breath and listened, and couldn't help frowning: "Do you feel it? Why do I feel..."
His voice and the approaching footsteps stopped, his expression changed, and his body stiffened.
…I felt the sound was getting closer.
They are in Feng Qing's memory.
Feng Qing remembered the sound of the dean calling on the phone, and there was only one explanation.
—Feng Qing did not go to bed obediently.
He, or he and others, hid at the stairwell and eavesdropped on the phone call made by the Director of the Secret Service.
…
The voice reappeared out of nowhere, almost right next to Dai Lei's face: "...Who is that?"
Dai Lei was instantly terrified. He was the closest to the scene and almost cried out in shock. However, as soon as he opened his mouth, Chai Ning electrocuted him and knocked him unconscious.
Song Sihang dragged his partner away, swallowed hard, and clenched the chair leg in his hand.
Sui Zhengfan's eyes were heavy. He and his wife had both heard the director of the Secret Service mention the Sui family. They looked at each other, suppressed their doubts for the time being, and silently grasped their guns.
Yu Liuhui was so frightened that she couldn't make a sound. She huddled in a corner, hugging her legs and shaking. Her eyes kept wandering around the crowd, and she mouthed, "Where's the NPC? Where are those two game characters? Where did they go?"
They were listening to the voice so intently that they didn't even notice that Zhan Chen and Yu Tang, who were originally with the crowd, had disappeared without them knowing when.
…
"You're hiding, aren't you?"
The voice was hoarse and distorted, floating in the air, sometimes far away and sometimes near: "Are you going to play hide-and-seek with the dean?"