Soon, Gao Ying found a newspaper from the cabinet in the living room.
From the newspaper, I soon learned the answers to the first and second multiple-choice questions.
Here in Massachusetts, the time... is December 1, 1993. The first two multiple-choice questions are actually points-giving questions. There were 2 bonus questions ahead, but Gao Ying was not at all at ease. This is probably... a balance of the difficulty of the exam itself.
The exam time is very tight, only two and a half hours, and most of the exam questions on the exam paper can only be known outside. In other words, even if you know it's dangerous outside, you can only choose to go out. And once they encounter other candidates, they will inevitably die endlessly.
Gao Ying took out the gun from his body and handed over the spare magazines to Zhu Sunling and Yan Yuchu.
One of the difficulties in this exam was that the fog blocked the view, and Gao Ying could only see the opponent's face clearly when the opponent was very close to him, so it might be too late to give orders, so he could only use a gun at this time.
"Look for a map of the town first, or a compass." Gao Ying could see that the test paper involved many road names and various locations of the town, and now it is not clear whether the east, west, north, east, west, and west of the test paper are filled out. Questions about orientation. So a map and compass, if they can be found, will be of great benefit.
They reached the second floor of the house and began searching. And when they pushed open the door of a bedroom on the second floor, Gao Ying suddenly saw...
Two rotting corpses suddenly fell on the bed! Each of the corpses held a revolver in their hands.
"Is this... suicide?"
While Gao Ying was still in a daze, Zhu Sunling quickly walked to the corpse, then quickly took the revolver from the corpse's hand, and checked the number of bullets in the magazine.
"Only one shot..." Zhu Sunling didn't even look at the rotting corpse on the bed with a horrible face, "I took the gun."
Gao Ying immediately went up and pulled Zhu Sunling behind!
"Are you crazy? What if these two corpses are devils?" Gao Ying didn't know whether Zhu Sunling was brave or what.
"It's okay..." Zhu Sunling said calmly, "We won't be attacked by the devil for the time being."
I just filled out 2 multiple-choice questions. Indeed, according to the exam rules, the devil will not kill people immediately in such a short time interval.
Gao Ying also wanted to understand this, but even so...
Gao Ying sighed, but he still pulled Zhu Sunling behind him and said, "I will give you the gun, and you are not allowed to take risks like this again. Don't search this room..."
"Shouldn't we be here looking for a map and a compass?"
"Having said that..."
"We should take advantage of the present and find these two things as soon as possible, even if we only find one."
Gao Ying looked at the bedroom window, and the thick fog outside made it impossible to see anything clearly, and his heart became more and more uneasy. Even if they found a map and a compass, it would be difficult to move even an inch in this thick fog.
One of the great difficulties of this exam lies in the difficulty and risk of intelligence collection. If you want to make all the test questions in the test paper, you must risk your life many times.
It's really a midterm exam.
Zhu Sunling withdrew her hand from Gao Ying's and said, "I think the most important thing is to use the present to find the map as soon as possible."
Gao Ying looked at the corpse on the bed, still feeling uneasy.
The size of this bedroom is so small that there isn't much room to dodge. Once these two corpses turn into devils, they probably won't have time to hide.
"Three minutes... Leave if you can't find the compass and map within three minutes." Gao Ying gave Zhu Sunling an order: "This is an order."
Since it is an order, there is no other way.
Gao Ying only asked Zhu Sunling to copy his absolute order, and the first order given to Zhu Sunling was that Gao Ying could never issue an absolute order to Gao Ying himself. However, apart from this point, Gao Ying did not impose any restrictions on Zhu Sunling.
He can absolutely order Zhu Sunling "not to hurt yourself in any way." Especially when Gao Ying's arrest warrant offers such a generous bounty. However, Gao Ying did not restrict Zhu Sunling.
In fact, from a rational point of view, Gao Ying's approach is very inappropriate. But Gao Ying discovered that the real reason why he did not issue this order to Zhu Sunling was that he hoped to make Zhu Sunling someone he could fully trust. Once she is manipulated with orders, the trust between the two parties will no longer have a basis. Gao Ying had a premonition that the closer this bloody road was to the end, more and more people around him would die, but Zhu Sunling might be able to accompany him on the journey.
Three minutes passed quickly. They didn't find the map they hoped to find.
After walking out of the room, Gao Ying finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Yan Yu could see that Gao Ying was still too nervous at first, so he patted him on the shoulder and said, "Take it easy, Gao Ying. If you are too nervous, it will affect your thinking."
Gao Ying nodded and said, "I... I see..."
Speaking of which, he found that Zhu Sunling was much calmer than him. He found that there were countless contradictions in Zhu Sunling. She was obviously a person who had such a deep obsession with immortality. She didn't have a spare life like herself, but she couldn't see how much she was afraid of death.
Is she longing for eternal life because she fears death? Or is it because immortality is just her pure obsession? Or is there some reason I don't know
At the same time, in another house in this small town.
"There is actually a wine cellar here, not bad..."
Ten white men and women with blond hair and blue eyes are staying in this house. And they are candidates from country M. Therefore, this is also their homeland. As people from country M, many of them have come into contact with guns. Perhaps for balance, the house where Gao Ying and the others lived only had two revolvers, but the number of firearms in this house was unexpectedly large.
A man with blond hair and glasses was pouring wine into the glass in front of him, but he heard the sound of pulling the bolt behind him, and when he turned around, he saw a girl with red hair fiddling with an AK47 automatic rifle.
"This gun... nice!"
"Hey, hey! Catherine, don't point the gun at me!"
The man in glasses who was about to drink was startled and quickly avoided.
The girl named Catherine said coldly: "Now it's the midterm exam, and you still have the desire to drink, I think I might as well just shoot you to see God."
"Okay... stop talking..."
The one who spoke was a black-haired foreign man with a beard on his face sitting on a single sofa in front.
The man has found the town's atlas from the bookcase!
"map?"
"Great, with a map, we can get twice the result with half the effort!"
The ten candidates quickly gathered around the bearded man, looking at the map in his hand.
"I don't know how many candidates have entered this small town for this exam..."
Catherine came over with an AK rifle, stared at the atlas in the bearded man's hand, and said, "It's agreed in advance... Everyone hunts according to their own skills, and no one is allowed to snatch the other's prey halfway."
When playing games, head-grabbing is just a virtual data, but here, whoever dares to steal the head will really have a deep hatred.
In the killing mode, the candidate must be dealt a fatal blow in order to win the other party's reward. Everyone is quite aware of this. The owners of the home probably liked to collect guns, and they found enough guns and enough magazines to arm all ten of them. Although they are from country M, not all of them have been exposed to guns because of their age, so those who can shoot will start to teach those who can't shoot how to use gun insurance and how to use guns.
The bearded man put the atlas on the sofa and let the other candidates read it. Anyway, he had already memorized it all.
He went to another table, took a Colt revolver from his body, removed the bullets from it, and practiced quickly reloading the magazine. At the moment of life and death, if you run out of bullets, the speed of loading bullets can sometimes become the dividing line between life and death. In this exam, no matter it is the devil or other candidates, they are all enemies of life and death!
(end of this chapter)