Evil As Humans

Chapter 9: Initial pass

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The door of the compression test room was closed tightly, and no one prompted them to continue.

The three did not enter the room immediately. The man in the red soft hat took out a wet wipe and a band-aid from his bag and carefully treated the wound. The man in the blue vest took out two bottles of sports drinks and gave one to Yin Ren, who had nothing in his hands.

"Drink it, it will make you feel better."

The man in the blue vest took two gulps and sat down at the side of the corridor: "We have plenty of time, let's take a break first."

Yin Ren took the drink with both hands, unscrewed the bottle cap like the other person did, and took a sip.

Very refreshing sweet taste, he likes it.

"You have great mental strength. You didn't panic even when you saw such a weird thing. Last time we had a physical examination, a young man fainted." The man in the blue vest sighed and looked at the ceiling.

“Isn’t this your first time here?”

"The second time." The blue vest said, "That girl is my cousin, and we both belong to the same small family... Hey, I say family, but that's just the way it is. We are not good at studying, but we have this kind of talent, so we came here to try our luck."

Yin Ren sat down next to him: "Last time..."

The temperature in the stress test room is very low and the room is smaller than all the previous rooms.

“What is compression resistance generally measured for?”

They said nothing.

Red Floppy Hat looked at his scarred hands, thoughtfully.

Swish.

The shadow put its hands on the girl's shoulders, its fingers were abnormally long. The shadow's neck just reached the ceiling, and its head disappeared behind the pale wall.

Yin Ren had never seen such evil creatures before. Just looking at the evil aura they exuded, even if the blue vests and red soft hats were combined, they would not be able to defeat one.

The cracks in the turtle shell are so deep that you can't see the bottom. From time to time, dirt is brushed off and falls onto the table.

But it wasn't a rotting corpse.

"I don't know. The content of the physical examination changes every year, and the things that test vision are not the same. It's like the college entrance examination. This place only focuses on skills, nothing else matters."

"Yeah, we won't do anything deceptive." The man in the blue vest grinned.

“Forget it, I… I’ll go first.” The man in blue vest rolled up his sleeves and sat on the empty chair reluctantly.

"I don't understand these... but I have some impressions from work. How does the saying go, 'too much is as bad as too little.'" Yin Ren clenched the bottle and said casually, "You two are pushing yourselves too hard, which may affect your performance."

She seemed to have a hidden meaning in what she said.

The little girl's hands were motionless.

The man in blue vest clenched his teeth, pulled out a talisman with his left hand, and stuck it on his right wrist.

Without one of his ghost hands, the man in the blue vest had red eyes and his lips were bleeding from being bitten.

Her head was made of mud, as if someone had chopped off a human head and replaced it with a lump of mud with hair. The lump of mud was dry and a circle larger than a human head. The flat "face" had no facial features, only deep cracks.

The concrete floor was covered with dust, and there was a desk and two chairs on it. A little girl sat on one of the chairs, motionless, with her right elbow resting on the desk, in a posture similar to arm wrestling.

"It is a taboo to touch unknown evil things." Red Soft Hat was worried.

The girl slowly turned her head, and as she moved, more dirt rolled onto the table.

After half a minute, she probably got tired of waiting, and a gust of wind blew out from the crack in her head. The ghost hand was instantly covered by dust. The blue vest screamed in pain, and the ghost hand on her wrist quickly dried up and rotted like a corpse in the ground. It collapsed into pieces of brown and yellow bones and quickly disappeared into the air.

The man in the red soft hat and Yin Ren watched in silence, only to see the man in the blue vest's face turn purple and veins popping out on his head.

The man in blue vest wiped the sweat from his forehead, rubbed his palms, and held the little hand that was extended to him.

"Let's go." After a while, she adjusted the soft hat on her head and said nothing more.

He shivered as he fumbled in his pocket and stuck five or six talismans on his forearm. The next moment, his elbow seemed to have blossomed into a deformed flower, and five or six ghost hands stretched out from his elbow and fiercely grabbed the little girl's arm.

The corridor was poorly lit, and the white light shining down from overhead made the man in the blue vest look particularly tired.

She wrapped the Band-Aid in a red cap and took a few sips of the drink. She was obviously listening to the conversation between the two, and her tone was firm when she interrupted: "You can sign up for the test every year. If it doesn't work this time, you can just come back next year."

The little girl was very quiet, probably because she had no mouth. There was a shadowy figure standing behind her, with a slender figure, and it was impossible to tell whether it was a man or a woman.

"I just couldn't handle the pressure." The blue vest said calmly, "I just wasn't ready yet, I can't blame others."

Judging from her figure, the girl was only five or six years old. Her hair was tied in a pigtail, and her shirt was stained brown by the corpse water and mud. Her arms under her sleeves were swollen and decayed.

The girl's little hand seemed to be frozen in place, not moving at all.

The man in blue vest thought it was just a polite remark and was about to laugh it off, but was choked back by a look from the man in red soft hat.

The desk fight was heading towards his abdomen, and it was pitch black inside.

The man in the blue vest swallowed his saliva and said, "Is this... arm wrestling?"

The talisman ignited without wind, and in the fine paper ash, another dark blue hand appeared from under the right wrist of the blue vest. The two hands wrapped around the little girl's hand and pulled it down desperately.

There was a living person in front of her, but the little girl didn't react at all.

The man in the blue vest stared at the little dead hand, trying his best not to look at the girl's cracked "face". He didn't dare to neglect it, and immediately used all his strength to bend the little hand towards the table.

No one knows what strange abilities they will have, at least these two don't look like powerful ones. Even if the Zhian Group won't let them get into trouble, it will only "guarantee no sequelae" instead of "freeing them from pain."

The dark blue hand was twice the size of a human hand and as thin as a skull. Its sharp nails pressed tightly against the back of the girl's hand, but failed to leave any scratches on the rotten skin.

Yin Ren drank the drink bit by bit.

The little girl tilted her head.

The man in the blue vest shuddered and a thick gurgling sound came out of his throat. He opened his mouth and vomited a large amount of dark yellow mud.

After a few breaths, the mud soup turned into a dark brown mud like a swamp. The blue vest had no strength left, and his hands were easily pressed onto the table by the little girl.

Blue Vest didn't care about winning or losing. He pushed aside the table and chairs, fell to the ground, grabbed his throat in pain, and his mouth and nostrils kept gushing out sticky mud. Red Floppy Hat was so scared that she hurried forward, she pulled off the mahogany amulet on the bag and pressed it tightly against Blue Vest's forehead.

The amulet clung to my skin, making a sizzling sound like flesh being seared on an iron plate.

The man in blue vest finally gave up choking and lay on the ground powerlessly, the mud he vomited out gradually becoming clearer.

After ten minutes of torture, Blue Vest finally recovered. His medical report fell to the ground, soaked in mud and water. There was a dark brown cross on the report, which looked like it was painted with mud and water.

"Hey, I lost again. Go for it, you guys. I'll sit for a while."

After a long pause, the man in the blue vest picked up the report and spoke weakly. His voice was unusually hoarse, and there was a painful wound on his throat, with blood oozing out. The little girl returned to her original position and faced the door.

"But, maybe we are going in the wrong direction. We have to win it in other ways..." The man in the red soft hat stepped on the muddy ground with a livid face.

Yin Ren: "I'll be the second one."

"No, I'm more professional, you first..."

Before the man in the red soft hat could finish his words, Yin Ren strode to the seat and sat down.

He did not touch the hand, but bent down carefully and reached one hand into the dark tabletop.

The desks were the kind used by elementary school students, so the tabletops should not be more than half an arm deep for an adult. But Yin Ren almost got his shoulder stuck in them, still trying to figure it out.

"Look out!" screamed Red Cap.

Just as Yin Ren began to fumble with the table, the little girl slowly stood up. She twisted her stiff joints, climbed onto the table on all fours, and "looked down" at Yin Ren from above.

The shadow behind her loosened her hands and rushed towards Yin Ren with both hands, with ten long and thin fingers spread out. As the little girl approached Yin Ren, those fingers retracted into the palm one by one.

It's the countdown.

Yin Ren was digging without any distraction, without even raising his head.

The little girl did not let him go. More mud fell down and hit Yin Ren's face. The "face" without facial features was getting closer and closer to him.

Just before touching—

"found it."

Yin Ren took out a small red object and resumed sitting. The little girl returned to her original position at an inhuman speed.

Yin Ren exhaled, picked up his medical report, and placed it neatly in front of the little girl. Then he carefully picked up the red thing and put it into her slightly open right hand.

He didn't touch her at all.

The little girl clenched the red object, adjusted the angle of Yin Ren's medical examination report, and quickly raised her hand and pressed it. The column of "Compression Test" in the medical examination form suddenly had... three little red flowers.

Blue vest, red soft hat: "…"

Yin Ren smiled politely at the strange girl: "Thank you."

The evil creature paused, and a layer of dirt fell off its face. She slowly raised her hand and added another flower to Yin Ren.

Yin Ren: “…” The little girl is simply too polite.

After stamping, the little girl placed the stamp on the table. The table seemed to have turned into swampy soil, swallowing up the stamp in a few seconds. She wiped off the excess dirt on the table and returned to her original position.

Red Soft Hat exhaled, "Sure enough, Shi An doesn't encourage us to come into contact with unknown evil things. The problem is really somewhere else."

The blue vest had a bad expression: "I thought, it turns out that it's not about winning... There are no surveillance cameras here, and those two are not just test questions, they are also examiners."

He looked up at the low ceiling with a sad expression.

"I'm still not good enough..."

With the demonstration, Red Bonnet did not hesitate to try. She immediately bent down and reached into the fight board.

However, not long after the hand was put in, the red soft hat began to tremble violently, and a layer of sweat quickly appeared on his face. As soon as the strange shadow counted down with one finger, she jerked her hand away and retched.

Her report also fell to the ground, and a large cross drawn in the mud gradually emerged.

Another room.

"What's the situation?" Professor Li asked.

Fu Xingchuan was paralyzed in the recliner, staring at the tablet. The tablet screen was divided into two pictures, one of which was Yin Ren and the other was Zhong Chengshuo.

"Not bad, we've tested all the results. Xiao Yin has average talent, but good overall qualities; Xiao Zhong performed perfectly, just like someone born for our industry... Lao Li, Xiao Zhong has the style of you back then."

His words sounded a bit like a sigh. Zhong Cheng said it would be fine if they took the initiative to dig it out, but it would be a bit strange if they delivered it to their door. As for Yin Ren, Fu Xingchuan didn't find anything strange except that face.

If we say that the three-point test is about hard strength, the entire room of the pressure test room is full of test questions.

Observation, judgment, reaction speed, courage, and whether there is "excessive curiosity". For non-scientific employees, these qualities are a matter of life and death.

Yin Ren's approach was very correct. He observed carefully and did not touch anything randomly. He was able to successfully take things out of the table fight - the table fight was a magic cast by Fu Xingchuan himself. As long as you put your hand in, you can touch the living creature that people fear the most.

"I remember the two people with Yin Ren, Lu Hui and Lu Nana. They have the same old problem, they are not in the right mindset and are too eager to achieve success."

Professor Li glanced at the screen casually.

"Yin Ren seems to be stable. Zhong Cheng said that over there—"

"Zero for clairvoyance, just like you, I guess I can only see extremely strong evil things and environmental phenomena. The random question bank has a 100% accuracy rate, and the on-the-spot reaction is frighteningly fast. The last hour of VR test..."

The corner of Fu Xingchuan's mouth twitched.

"The two people who took the test with him almost peed their pants - one of them actually peed - and Xiao Zhong's first question was, 'Will this device be used in games?' For a scientist, the standard answer is the same for everyone."

I hope it’s not Zhong Cheng who has the problem, Fu Xingchuan thought.

Professor Li told him about the restaurant's "eye wall". So far, Fu Xingchuan has a preliminary guess -

A fierce ghost was living in Yin Ren's dagger. The evil spirit was broken, the evil spirit was in disorder, and the fierce ghost was infected with the evil spirit. When the incident happened, Zhong Cheng said he was with Yin Ren. The picture may be a smoke bomb, and it is difficult to say who had the problem.

If the "insensitive" Zhong Chengshuo was really the victim, the powerful ghost would be extremely difficult to deal with. It might have been affected by the evil spirit, so it is never too careful.

As for the true nature of the evil spirit, Fu Xingchuan did not consider it. No matter how evil spirits mutate, they are essentially physical entities and cannot possess humans.

While Fu Xingchuan was thinking, Zhong Cheng said that the last test was completed. Yin Ren also left the pressure test room with the Lu brothers and sisters. He held his head high and walked straight past the "black door".

The stronger the ability, the greater the attraction of the black door. It is a very targeted deduction point, which can cure difficult problems such as "thinking of oneself as the protagonist" and "unremittingly seeking death".

Perhaps due to lack of strength or cautious personality, Yin Ren did not touch the trap.

Less than half a minute later, a short message popped up on the top of the tablet:

[Science Post (red seal) passed the physical examination: 005-Lao Bin, 011-Zhong Chengshuo]

[Non-scientific post (black seal) passed the physical examination: 012-Yin Ren]

The author has something to say:

Mud-faced girl:? I was listening to the exam, why did someone come to arm wrestle? Is it so aggressive

Ghost King: As long as I become a waste, no one can use me.jpg

Yin Xianyu, specializes in horror movie flag syndrome! Although it seems that he will be fine if he really encounters it (…

(End of this chapter)