After the radio finished the exam information, he died, and the car was silent.
What a big baby, what a reassurance, in front of "Gypsy", it all turned into a dream.
Everyone was at a loss for a moment, and slumped in their seats.
CMB instantly turned into a hearse, dragging a few cool people.
Being woken up from sleep is annoying enough, but being woken up by something like that. You Huo was about to sit up straight when he saw someone walking towards here through the slit of his eyes.
He closed his eyes immediately and pretended to have fallen asleep.
China and Pakistan are like driving in the clouds, without any bumps.
The footsteps stopped beside him, and the back of the chair behind You Huo's head collapsed. Then, his headphone cable was pulled a few times.
"… "
Youyou pretended to sleep with a cold face.
The headphone cable was gently pulled a few times, and even the ear lobes and ear studs were moving.
"… "
Youyou continued to play dead.
"There is no signal, what kind of headphones are plugged in? Don't put them on." A familiar, dragging voice rang out.
"… "
Confusion really can't hold it anymore.
He half-opened his eyes, his eyes swept out from the end of his eyes, and looked at the hand on the earphone cord: "Is something wrong?"
After asking this sentence, he raised his eyes to look at the standing man.
From the expression to the tone, it fully expresses the arrogance of "no fart, no fart".
Qin Qiu withdrew his hand pulling the earphone cable and put it on the back of the front seat.
He pointed to the seat beside Youhao with his chin, and said with a half-smile, "Your backpack? Please give it a seat."
"It doesn't want to."
You Huo finished speaking with a blank expression, plugged his earphones tightly, and closed his eyes again.
Within two seconds, the annoying hand came again and took off his earphones.
It was a little itchy when my fingers brushed against the earlobes.
You Huo raised his hand and squeezed the earrings, frowned and opened his eyes: "What else?"
"If it really doesn't want it, I'll have to do it myself." Qin Qiu smiled and picked up the black bag, weighed it lightly, and placed it on the luggage rack above You Huo's head.
Youyou stared at him: "Can't you change an empty seat?"
Qin Qiu: "I'm afraid not. There are a total of nine seats in the whole car, and you occupy seven. If I don't sit here, I have to tie the driver. It's hard to say, but others should not want me to do that."
Confused: "… "
When he got in the car, he didn't count the seats at all. Who would have thought that the position of a broken car would be so tense.
Qin Qiu sat down beside him.
This man looks tall and thin in his coat, but he can feel it when he gets close. His body should be tall and straight, and he can feel his hard arms and body temperature through the fabric.
Fortunately, there are not many seats in the car, and there is a lot of space in the front and rear, otherwise there is no place for the legs of the two people.
But even so, the knees will inevitably touch.
Youhuo wanted to straighten his legs, but that would kick the person in the front seat.
And at this time, it seems that whoever gets out of the way first will lose out. You Huo thought about it for a while, then simply broke the jar and slammed it on Qin Qiu's knee.
He pulled up his collar to close his eyes and went to sleep, when he heard Qin Qiu mutter in a low voice, "Gypsy, that's true."
You Huo woke up: "Isn't this the subject you chose?"
Qin Qiu glanced at him, and his fingers lazily made a slit: "If you say that, I'm a little wronged."
You are wrong.
You Huo looked at him coldly.
"Look at the person you picked." Qin Qiu pointed to where Mike was sitting, "As far as I know, this candidate has a very colorful background. He has mixed American, French, Russian, and Spanish blood, and then he grew up like this. ."
Confused: "… "
"Sorry, I was a little aggressive by accident." Qin Zhou didn't look sorry at all.
Youyou: "Do you have all the candidates' information?"
"Guess what?" Qin Jiu's voice was low, even in a dragged tone.
You Huo snorted coldly.
Since he can pull people to this ghost place, he believes that the examination system should have complete information. How much do proctors know
Wandering back to their previous performance, I don't think there should be much.
Invigilators are also bound by regulations, maybe... They want to know the specific information of candidates, and they also need to go through an acquisition process? And that process shouldn't be easy.
Otherwise, 001, 154, and 922 will be the first person to check.
Qin Qiu supported his head, looked at him with dark eyes for a while, and said, "Don't worry, generally speaking, I'm not interested in candidates' information."
You confused "Oh", extremely perfunctory.
"Anyway, there is such a treasure in the team, it's not unusual for your turn to be in such a ghost place." Qin Qiu said.
Youhuo doesn't know what is behind the so-called examination system, but it feels like a cunning and eccentric temper. In order to avoid all the "mother tongue" of their group, it seems reasonable to come up with a "Gypsy".
Now that he found the reason, he didn't give the pot to Qin Qiu again.
And I don't know if it's an illusion, since getting in the car just now, Qin Qiu has shown a little unhappy.
You Huo looked at the invigilator with dazed eyes...
Maybe it was because the snow outside the car was too bright, and his eyes hurt again, making him feel a little uncomfortable.
He hastily rubbed it twice, plugged in his earphones, and went to sleep muffled.
…
…
After driving for ten minutes, the road suddenly bumped.
The depressed candidates were turned back to their senses, only to realize that the scene outside the car had changed.
The snow and fog in the sky have disappeared, and there is a winding mountain road in front of you.
The road conditions were not good, and after the car came up, it kept bouncing all the way, and there were solidified mud and smashed gravel everywhere.
The road is still very narrow, and if both parties meet, they have to shift to first gear and move past them little by little.
At the foot of the mountain, the grass and trees were growing, and the depth could not be seen at a glance.
In this way, this broken CMB also drove extraordinarily unrestrained.
Halfway through, the driver released one hand to turn the broadcast knob. The radio in the car rang a few times, jumped to a certain frequency band, sang old songs, and occasionally interspersed with a traffic warning, saying that some sections of a mountain road had landslides and were impassable.
In the broadcast room, a warning sign appeared in front of the car.
In front of the warning sign is a large rock and a fallen tree, which is obviously difficult for a normal car to pass.
But the driver completely ignored the warning sign and staggered the big car twice while driving the broken car.
Everyone exclaimed for a while, and when they fell back to their seats heavily, the car had passed through the landslide section and continued to drive into the deep mountains.
…
Since entering the depths, the sky suddenly became gloomy.
There was heating in the car, but everyone still shivered unconsciously.
When I came out from the other side of Panshan Road, there was an old street sign on the side of the road, marked with the road number.
Lao Yu wrapped his clothes tightly and huddled in his seat, looking at the number and muttering: "This road seems to be near the border..."
"Do you really want to go out?" Yu Wen widened his eyes.
Lao Yu: "I don't know."
Yu Wen shrank his neck and hurriedly stared out of the car: "Can the border be scrambled!"
While talking, the minibus made a big turn and got into the woods beside the road.
Everyone was confused by this unpredictable route, and wanted to ask, the driver was dumb again.
Another 10 minutes passed.
The car emerged from the forest and braked hard on the side of the dirt road.
…
"Brother, wake up, get out of the car." Yu Wen knelt on one leg on the seat and crossed the back of the seat to call You Huo.
He really admired his brother's big heart and actually slept so deeply.
You Huo pulled his hair and glanced around with his eyes half-open, the seat was already empty.
He hid the lower half of his face under the collar and said in a muffled voice, "Where's the person?"
"Huh?" Yu Wen didn't hear clearly.
You Huo shook his head and woke up completely.
He stood up and stomped his sleeping numb feet, looking down at the window: "Where is this?"
This time Yu Wen heard clearly, "I don't know, the driver stopped the car and ran away."
"What do you mean by running away?"
Yu Wen pointed out the window: "Well, it's just such a dirt road, he ran in."
They seemed to have stopped at a village intersection, passing through the cluttered branches, and could vaguely see the staggered roofs. There was nowhere else to go except a small road leading to the village.
They were surrounded by trees that could not be seen.
Yu Wen got out of the car behind You Huo.
The candidates stared at each other stupidly outside the car door.
The invigilator Qin Jiu stood far away in the woods, holding a tree, not knowing what he was looking up at.
"Old Yu said that the road was close to the border before, will we be somewhere in reality?" Yu Wen asked You Confused.
Newly joined Chen Bin chimed in: "In my experience, probably not. But you will see some shadows of reality here, and some things have even been seen somewhere."
Yu Wen: "If it's not a place where reality exists, then the so-called death, is it really death?"
Chen Bin smiled bitterly: "I don't know, only after trying it. But who would dare to try this kind of thing?"
Yu Wen lowered his head and said, "Also..."
Youhuo didn't bother about this topic. After he got out of the car, he turned around near the dirt road.
After a while, he kicked somewhere and said, "There's a monument here."
"I was looking for it, it turned out to be with you." Chen Bin is an experienced person, and he was looking for information everywhere when he got out of the car.
He came over and squatted in front of the monument, peeling off the weeds covering it: "It should be written with the name of the place. Although it's not very useful, it's a comfort to know where you are..."
Everyone gathered around.
I saw a few strange figures engraved on the dilapidated stone tablet.
"What is this painting?"
"Letters..."
Chen Bin took out a tissue from his bag, wiped off the muddy part, and everyone was struggling to identify it.
Yu Wen: "k... This is a?"
Chen Bin: "lo... what is this thing?"
"P." Yu Yao held his stomach and tilted his head to read: "That looks like h... u... v."
Aside from the miscellaneous parts that are useful or not, the place names engraved on this tablet look like this:
kalo phuv
Everyone: "… "
What the hell is this.
Tell a joke, you can see where you are by looking at the monument.
…
When everyone was collapsing, the driver who ran away without a word came back. He brought two feet of black mud and a middle-aged man wrapped in a military coat and a leather cap.
Look at the face, it should be domestic.
The driver said, "Well, these are the people."
Lao Yu was stunned: "You can talk?!"
The driver glanced at him and said in a hoarse voice, "He will take you to that house, remember, don't enter Linzi."
After he finished speaking, he waved to the man in the leather hat, turned his head and got into the minibus, and drove away.
The car twisted into the woods, and in a blink of an eye, it was blocked by the cascading branches and disappeared.
Even the throttle and rubbing noises are gone.
The forest was unusually quiet, and everyone's hair stood on end.
…
"What are we here for?" You Huo asked the man in the leather hat.
The man in the leather hat gave an "ah" and said, "Didn't you say you're here to find the black woman? What? Are you all stunned?"
"Black woman? Who is the black woman?" Chen Bin came over and asked.
The man in the leather hat flinched for some reason. He sealed the bottom of his hat, lowered his eyes and said in a muffled voice, "An old woman who came here with Lao Maozi during the war, looks like some kind of gypsy, anyway..."
He wrapped himself a little tighter and whispered, "I'll take you there, be careful. After she got here, our whole village was not normal. What do you think... you want to stay here for ten days?"
Everyone wanted to cry without tears, thinking we were sick and wanted to live here.
Chapter 17 Allocating Room ┃ In addition, it is forbidden for candidates to develop improper relationships with the invigilator, please reassign the room.
The man in the leather hat who led the way was the head of the village. He said it was called "Zhasu Village", and there were 18 families in total.
The village is close to the border. During the war, the black woman lived here with the Russians and stayed here.
The monument was carved by her, and the village chief couldn't tell what it meant.
The crowd followed him and walked along the dirt road to the village.
On one side of the path is the river, covered with a thick layer of ice. On the other side are houses with scattered heights, some with concrete walls, and some with traces of brickwork, but no matter what the structure, the roofs are exactly the same dark red.
"Didn't you say eighteen households?" Yu Wen whispered, "There are more than eighteen houses in these houses, right?"
As if he didn't hear the village chief, he wrapped his military coat tightly and walked forward.
"Hey, don't go so fast, what about you, bro!" Lao Yu still didn't forget to add "you" at this time.
The village chief was taken aback by him, and finally stopped, and said vaguely, "There must have been more than eighteen households before.
He pointed to two of them: "Like this one, and this one, it looks like no one lives there."
Just as Lao Yu was about to nod his head, he heard You Huan interject in a lukewarm manner: "I can't see it, I think every house seems to be unoccupied."
The village chief was taken aback: "Why do you say that?"
Confused: "It's too quiet."
After he finished speaking, everyone stopped.
As soon as the chaotic footsteps stopped, the abnormal silence was highlighted.
It's really quiet.
It was early in the morning, but no one spoke, no sound of pots and pans colliding, no sound of opening and closing doors...
Nothing at all.
Everyone got goosebumps and stared at the village chief.
There was a hint of fear in the embarrassment of the village chief. After hesitating for a moment, he sighed deeply: "There are really people living there, but... everyone doesn't dare to go out. They usually sleep as long as they can."
"Don't dare to go out? Why?"
The village chief glanced cautiously into the distance.
The crowd followed. On the other side of the river, there are several short houses with different styles. The gray is very inconspicuous, and even the roof is black, almost blending with the woods behind it.
The village chief seemed to be afraid of being heard, and whispered in a very low voice: "It's not safe at night. If you live here, please remember, don't go out at night, and don't open the door if you hear anything."
"What do you mean?" Everyone was scared and puzzled.
But the village chief didn't dare to say any more, he waved his hand quickly and continued to lead the way.
Everyone was confused, but they didn't dare to ask more questions.
…
"Fuck."
On the way, Yu Wen suddenly screamed and said, "Brother, look at that house."
You Huo looked over, and several other people who heard it also looked over there.
On the second floor of a certain house, someone was standing behind the curtains, watching them quietly.
"Leng Ding glanced at a face by the window and scared me to death!" Yu Wen said, touching his chest.
Immediately afterwards, they discovered that there was more than one doing this.
In several houses, someone opened the curtains like this and quietly looked out.
The village chief said: "When guests come, they are also very curious. They are just too frightened and dare not come out easily."
"Then stay in the house?" Yu Wen asked in surprise, "What should I do if I'm hungry? Don't eat or drink?"
"Every family here has cellars. There are grains stored in the cellars, and there are ladders to go down." They will go back to the house before dark."
"Oh."
"It has something to do with that black woman?" You Huo asked.
The village chief was silent for a moment, nodded and said softly, "I heard that you are here to find her for work?"
"Work? What work?"
Hearing this kind of thing related to the purpose, everyone pricked up their ears.
"Dead people live!" The village chief was so frightened that his face turned blue and gray, and said in a low voice: "Black woman likes to deal with dead people, such as sewing up broken people."
"… "
The village chief: "The family is lost. Looking for her is considered dead or not, and where did she die."
"… "
The village chief is very excited to scare others: "Sometimes he even picks up people to do it himself."
Yu Wen was terrified: "...What do you mean by picking up people back?"
"It's like a few years ago..." The village chief pointed to the frozen river and said, "A girl floated over the head of the river. The black woman dragged a big basket and picked it up."
drift? Pick up
This person's words are a genius, and everyone is terrified.
Several big men vomited, and Yu Yao's legs were even weaker.
However, there was no change in the confusion: "Since what she does is life and death, what are you afraid of?"
The village chief put his hands in his hands and shook his head with a sad face: "You don't understand, hey... You'll know after one night."
…
Soon, the village chief led them to the end of the frozen river and stepped on the thick ice to the other side.
The dusty houses were just in front of them.
When they got closer, they realized that these houses were all made of stone, and the outer walls were uneven. The gray stone surface was painted with messy patterns with white paint, and the doorway was hung with dried branches and cushioned with worn felt.
One of them is quite special. There are old crystal balls on the windowsill, and some… white things, like finger bones.
Before everyone entered the house, they smelled a fragrant scent, which was so strong that people felt dizzy.
The village chief can't wait to be eight feet away from the house.
"This is where the black woman lives." He glanced at it and said, "What time is it now?"
Everyone pulled out their mobile phones, but found that the time displayed on their screen was 23:13 in the evening, which was obviously out of sync with this place.
While stunned, a deep voice said: "6:55."
Everyone turned their heads to look, and it was Qin Qiu who spoke.
He shook his mobile phone and said, "It's okay, it's more accurate than you guys."
Chen Bin looked surprised: "This handsome guy is a bit amazing! The season time of each exam is different from reality. How can your mobile phone be so synchronized?"
Qin Qiu put the phone back in his pocket and said lazily, "Maybe it's because I'm an invigilator."
Chen Bin said "Oh" while unpacking.
Two seconds later, his hand slipped and the bag fell to the ground.
"Who are you???"
Qin Qiu ignored him, but took out a card from his pocket, tilted his head and said to You Huan beside him, "Am I helping you once?"
The card is the one [Help of the Invigilator] drawn by You Huo before.
You Huo took away the card, turned it over, and ran directly to the tip of Qin Qiu's nose: "Please recognize all the words, extra help, do you know what extra means?"
Qin Jiu smiled but not smiled: "I don't know."
Laugh fart.
Confused: "Go and look up the dictionary."
Can a test taker ask the invigilator for the time without a watch, can this be considered extra help? Of course not, this is the same as dragging the invigilator to the toilet, this is my job.
Of course the cards were not scrapped, Qin Qiu said "what a pity" and put the cards back in his pocket.
The village chief stood blankly for a while before regaining his senses, reminding everyone, "The black woman gets up at 7:30 every morning, and the door is not open until then. Let me show you where you live first."
…
In addition to the one where the black woman lived, there were a total of four empty rooms next to it.
Each room was small, covered with old knitted blankets, and had only one bedroom, with a bed, dressed like a wagon hood.
The village chief said, "I have to trouble you to squeeze it."
Of course, the newly joined Chen Bin and Liang Yuanhao lived in one room. It was inconvenient for a girl in Yu Yao to share with other people, so they had a separate room.
The remaining Yu Wen, Lao Yu, Mike, You Huo, and Qin Qiu scored two points.
You Huo thought for a while and asked Qin Qiu, "Is there your invigilator Xiaoyanglou here?"
Qin Qiu: "Thanks to you, I was invigilating the whole process. There is no small western-style building to live in. You have to squeeze in this narrow, cramped, and not very clean place."
Youhuo pretended not to hear, and said to the village chief with a serious face: "You can figure it out."
Yu Wen said, "Otherwise, the three of me, Lao Yu, and my brother would all be from the same family!"
Mike glanced at Qin Qiu and was reluctant to obey.
Anyone who sees the invigilator is afraid, counts and counts... except for wandering.
…
Two minutes later, everyone carefully watched You Huo and Qin Qiu walk into one of them.
Just as he was about to sit down, a familiar voice suddenly sounded in the room.
[It is now 7:00 Beijing time, and the exam officially begins. 】
[The first test, listening. 】
[The original listening text will be played after 30 minutes, and each question will only be played twice. Candidates are expected to answer the questions carefully. 】
[In addition, it is forbidden for candidates to develop an improper relationship with the invigilator, please reassign the room. 】
Everyone: "???"
Confused: "… "
The system may not want to live anymore.