After they got out of the car, they were dumbfounded.
There is a street in front of you, with high-rise shops on both sides.
The tall building is a bit old, like a department store from the last century. The shop windows were gray, and the lights in the corners made a light circle on them.
Like some forgotten old street in the city.
"Is this a resting place?" Everyone grabbed the driver and didn't let him get in the car.
"What are you dragging me for?" The driver was very unhappy and took his hands off his arms: "It's the resting place, don't you see a hotel here?"
This shabby minibus did stop at the entrance of a hotel.
The hotel is the most common style of express store decoration, located at the corner of the street, the door can be far away.
… In fact, not only the door, but the whole street can be opened.
"The resting place has changed?" Everyone was very surprised.
"Where's the small hotel? Where's Boss Chu? We finally got to know her a little bit."
"Boss Chu? Chu Yue?" Maybe because of the light, the driver's dark face turned a little red, but soon, his expression turned down: "Have you seen her? She's still in that small hotel. Let's rest. There are 5 resting places in the country, and they rotate frequently."
Wandering: "Domestic? Does the exam also include foreign countries?"
The driver pursed his lips.
He didn't seem to want to say more, but for Chu Yue's sake, he finally said, "Of course there are, isn't there a foreigner standing next to you? Besides, there are foreign language subjects, and of course there are foreign test rooms."
The man who had just finished his foreign language test in the village stared at him silently.
driver:"… "
"You are a small probability event." He added.
…
Youyou glanced around, the tall buildings were brightly lit, as if they were full of people.
"Can you choose a resting place?" he asked.
The driver said, "Generally random. Each of the five places has something special—"
Youhuo remembered the resting place before, and reluctantly found a feature: "Extremely broken?"
Driver: "...Chu Yue is indeed a bit—"
Youyou looked at him.
Driver: "... very broken."
"That resting place may be the only one who can't find any advantages." The driver frowned and mumbled: "Otherwise, she wouldn't have been fined..."
"But there are still advantages in other places. Chu Yue's resting place is No. 1. Resting place No. 2 is like a military base. It has a lot of weapons, and it has everything you can think of. For some candidates, it is paradise."
"The landmark building in Rest Area 3 is the casino. If you are lucky, you can try it out, and maybe you will get a walking card. Rest Area 4 eats a lot and plays a lot. You can temporarily forget the exam if you stay there for a few days. Annoying. Number 5 is here."
Youhuo frowned, and had an ominous premonition: "The advantage here?"
"The supermarket is cheaper," the driver said.
Everyone: "How cheap?"
"5-10% off."
"… "
Chen Bin couldn't help but said: "To be honest, I can't even deduct 0.1 points."
Driver: "It's a coincidence, most of the candidates are the same as you. So the luck here is relatively bad... "
Ou Huang Youhu turned his head and left.
…
Anyway, this rest 5 is better than the last one.
They don't want to use the adjective "prosperous", which sounds like irony.
In short, even the hotel scrutiny is stricter here.
The automatic glass door is equipped with a scanner, and red light scans when candidates pass by.
In line with the principle of giving priority to the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, You Huo leaned against the door.
After all the others entered the door, he followed at the bottom of the team.
He had just stepped one foot in when the alarm went off.
The girl at the front desk of the hotel "rubbed" up and stretched her neck long: "What did you bring?"
You confused and stopped: "What do you mean?"
Everyone didn't know why, and they were worried that there was something wrong with the confusion, and they all stared at the front desk vigilantly.
The front desk waved to Youhuo: "Please come here, I have to check."
You Huo threw the black bag on the table, opened the zipper, raised his thin eyelids and said, "What are you looking for? Look it up."
This face looks a little shocking up close.
The girl blushed from her neck to her face, and explained: "Uh... You can turn it over yourself. You can recall, did you bring anything back from the exam room?"
Everyone was confused.
Yu Wen said: "Impossible, there is nothing normal in the unfortunate examination room. Whoever has the brain to bring it back, it is not a local product."
The girl at the front desk was amused by him: "It is not ruled out that some things try to sneak out with the candidates. There have been cases before, and they almost killed people in the rest area. After that, they started to investigate, which is a kind of reminder."
Everyone said that they didn't check in the last rest place.
But since the alarms are ringing, it can't be unreasonable. So everyone just nodded without embarrassing the front desk.
Seeing that they were easy to talk to, the girl blushed and added to You Huo: "I know you definitely didn't do it on purpose, how could a normal person do such a thing. So it's best to rummage to see if there is anything dangerous. secretly-"
You Huo didn't even turn over, and took out something from the side pocket of the backpack: "This?"
"… "
The girl at the front desk couldn't "steal" anymore.
As far as the speed of digging things out, it is obviously the hands of this handsome guy.
You Huo glanced at Yu Wen.
Yu Wen was too cowardly.
incredible! Half a minute ago he scolded his brother for having a blister.
"Brother... how did you get the black woman's doll back?" he murmured in a low voice.
Confused: "It's easy."
Yu Wen: "… "
What a blind hand
…
What You Huo is holding in his hand is the black woman's doll.
Not the kind he sewed himself, but the doll that was originally placed on the bottom of the wooden frame, with a bluebell pattern on its feet.
Everyone was tortured for days, and there was a shadow when they saw the doll.
Like Yu Yao and Chen Bin, their faces turned green with fright.
Who would have thought that the boss would go for a walk in the examination room and bring a souvenir.
You confused and asked the front desk: "It is stipulated that you can't bring it?"
Front desk: "The main reason is that the candidates are in danger in the rest area. If you really want, you can keep it."
Youyou took the doll back again.
front desk:"… "
Okay, asshole.
The girl's face was no longer red, she tapped the keyboard, and quickly took out a stack of cards and sent it to everyone: "This time the rest period is 5 days, the room number is marked on the card, be careful not to go wrong, so as not to It will affect the rest and recovery of other candidates. The top floor is the restaurant, which is open 24 hours a day. Other daily necessities or test equipment can be purchased in the store. Five days later, which is the last day of your rest, the department store has the most discounts at 7-10 o'clock in the morning. do not miss it."
You Huo took the card and turned it over.
Sure enough, the format of the room card was exactly the same as the previous time.
Name: Wandering
Admission ticket number: 860451-10062231-000A
Subjects tested: Physics, Foreign Language (2/5)
Cumulative Score: 27
Yu Wen held his card beside him and scratched his head: "There is something wrong with the scoring mechanism of this test. Obviously, you got the most points for answering the question, but in the end everyone got the same score."
Moreover, Youhuo had bought something before, and after the same two exams, his remaining total score was still the lowest.
"It doesn't matter." You Huo didn't look at it much, and put the card into his pocket.
Chen Bin interjected: "Not every exam is counted like this. At least one of the five exams will be scored individually, and whoever gets it will be counted. I've encountered it before."
Yu Wen: "Then what? How much did you take?"
Chen Bin looked gloomy: "3 points."
Everyone was frightened by the news, and no one spoke until they entered the elevator.
…
Their room is downstairs from the restaurant, which is very convenient.
When everyone was looking for the room with the cards, Lao Yu suddenly said, "Oh, that's not right."
"What's wrong?"
"All the dolls are given to the villagers. If you bring one back, one villager will not get it? Then why did we get full marks for that question?"
Youyou said: "One more."
"what?"
You Huo held up the doll in his hand and said, "This one doesn't match the name of the villagers."
Everyone was stunned and noticed the patterns on the doll's legs.
"We didn't have this when we analyzed who the doll was before. Otherwise, it would be impossible to see such a string of patterns."
You Huo said, "I didn't put this in."
"So, this is also given by the black woman?" Yu Wen asked.
Confused: "Hmm."
"That's weird! There are 18 families in total, including the village chief's daughter, there are 19 people in total. The black woman gave us 20 dolls? She can't count? Or is it just to confuse us?"
You Huo squeezed the doll's leg and said, "It may also be missing a person who corresponds to it."
As soon as the words came out, everyone stopped immediately.
What is missing someone? There are 18 households in the village, and not a few of them have been given away. Is it still out
No, even the title judged that they were all right.
Where is there anyone in the exam room who can be missed
Everyone thought for two seconds.
The face suddenly turned green-
Of course there are people, aren't they just candidates
Yu Wen snorted and said, "Brother, don't tell ghost stories at night."
So frightened, everyone couldn't help but glance at each other.
As if everyone could be a ghost at this time.
Then, they found that You Huo was looking at a person on the right.
It was Yu Yao who was seen.
She was the first to find the room, and just opened the door at this time.
The hotel was so heated that she took off the big coat Mike lent her.
The torn clothes were naturally exposed. The clothes were torn at the shoulder line, and the trousers were torn at the cuffs.
She showed her pale ankles, and the bluebells were tattooed on the right side. The hallway lights were bright enough to illuminate it, exactly like the doll's legs.
Yu Yao froze in place, his face pale.
The other people's faces were whiter than hers.
"...Sister?" Yu Wen's voice trembled, "You...what's the matter with you?"
Yu Yao lowered his eyes and his shoulders were shaking.
After a while, she raised her head to look at You Huo, her eyes were red as if she had cried: "You... When did you find out?"
Even then, her voice was still gentle.
There was no emotional change in Wandering, and he was still as lazy as usual: "Me? I noticed that it was the last exam, so I'm sure it was just now."
Yu Wen was terrified: "The last game? What happened to the last game?"
Wandering: "The title says that there are 13 people dining. You can count the actual number of people with your fingers."
Yu Wen broke it down silently: "13!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he reacted abruptly: "No, there are 13 candidates, but the meal also includes Hunter Armor, so that's 14... One is not considered a person?"
Everyone looked at Yu Yao in unison, their complexion turning from white to blue.
"Sister... what exactly are you—"
Yu Wen wanted to say "what the hell are you", but when the words came out, the boy who had just grown up softened his heart: "Who are you?"
Yu Yao clenched the doorknob tightly, exhaled lightly and said, "Come in, I'll tell you, it's not very convenient in the corridor."
Who dares to enter
Everyone was still hesitating, but You Huo nodded first.
…
Soon after, everyone gathered in Yu Yao's room.
Yu Yao stared at the doll for a while, and finally said, "I said earlier that this is my first exam... Actually, I lied to you."
"I am indeed a candidate, but it was several years ago. It was very unfortunate at the time. The first exam we encountered was the one we just finished. I took the Gypsy language test and joined... Zhao Wentu."
…
She speaks a little Gypsy and has done simple translations for her companions.
After going back and forth, she became a girl who appeared every day in Zhao Wentu's diary.
However, at that time, she did not know that there was such a diary.
…
After Zhao Wentu was gone, there were two candidates left.
Yu Yao, and a middle-aged man.
That night, the ghost hand came to the door as scheduled.
It was originally aimed at the middle-aged man, but in a hurry, the man dragged her to the front, pushed her forward, and sent her to the blade of the ghost hand.
"I remember him saying now, cut her, don't look for me, please. The ghost hand didn't cut it right, and the knife fell several times. It should be... pretty ugly." Yu Yao shrank in his chair, lost in memories.
Everyone couldn't bear to hear it: "Then you..."
"Then I should be buried in the woods or become a villager like other candidates, right?" Yu Yao said, "I thought that would be the case, but maybe I'm lucky."
She cried for Zhao Wentu all day, and even couldn't help but went to the woods to try to find Zhao Wentu's blood and see where he was dragged.
Worst of all... it would be good to build a grave for him.
As a result, she found the night, but could not find any trace of Zhao Wentu, but picked up a card.
"What card?" You Huo asked.
Yu Yao said, "It's the kind of card that the invigilator asked you to draw. I don't know why one fell in the woods."
"What is written on the card?"
Yu Yao said, "Retake the exam once."
"After I was... chopped, that card played a role, but because it was picked up, it only played half of the role."
Everyone asked blankly, "Half of it? What do you mean?"
"I didn't become a ghost hand or a villager like other candidates. But I didn't really survive and restart the test." Yu Yao said, "I was floating in the river in that village and was picked up by the black woman."
Youhuo suddenly remembered that the village chief once said that the black woman was a dead man. She once picked up a girl from the river and dragged it back with a bamboo basket.
"I am obviously a candidate, but it seems to have become part of the examination room."
As the exam question, the black woman used witchcraft on Yu Yao, and it actually worked.
She sewed a doll like Yu Yao out of her dead daughter's hair, and Yu Yao came back to life like those villagers.
"It was like this when I woke up, with a big belly. The black woman said she hid her daughter on me."
The crowd was horrified.
Then, they found a problem: "Can you understand the black woman?"
"When I was part of the exam room, I could understand it." Yu Yao said, "But then I left, and after that I couldn't understand Gypsy, including the ones I used to know, and I forgot all about it. I can't pick it up."
"Leave?" You Huo said, "The driver said he didn't pick up anyone."
Yu Yao said, "Am I a human being? I don't even know it myself."
She is like a bug made by mistake, between the candidate and the NPC.
It was not the intercity bus she took to leave the examination room, but she walked for a long time on foot, traversing an unknown number of places, and then by chance she entered a certain examination with a group of candidates.
Maybe the system did it deliberately, or maybe it was influenced by other things.
Her memory is getting worse and worse. She can't remember many things before the exam. She only remembers that someone hurt her and protected her.
"Originally, I didn't know what I should do, so I occasionally helped the candidates." Yu Yao said, "until a certain exam, I saw the person who harmed me again."
Yu Wen couldn't hold back, and stammered out a swear word: "Fuck? He's not dead?"
"I found out later that he had an exemption card, which he got in the casino." Yu Yao said, "In that foreign language test, he wanted to try to see if he could get away with it, but in the end he found it was too difficult and used the card. already."
When Yu Wen heard it, he became even more angry: "Fuck, he has an exemption card and pushed you out?! Then what happened to him later?"
Yu Yao said: "He couldn't take the exam, but he had a lot of tricks, and he was good at gambling, and his gambling luck was good. I found out later that he got two more extension cards at the casino, which can be extended for up to two years at a time, and he used two cards. Zhang, hid in the rest area for four years, and has not got a new extension card, so he can only come out to continue the exam."
"Then have you found him?"
Before Yu Yao could speak, You Huo said, "I found it, in the last exam."
Everyone was stunned.
Yu Yao was silent for a moment, then nodded.
"Who?"
Youyou said: "The one who finally became the hunter armor."
Everyone was stunned.
After a long time, Yu Yao let out a soft sigh: "I've always wanted to say sorry to you, but I'm often missed by the system. That violation... I should have missed me. When you got ink, the system would Misjudged you for the violation. This has happened before, and I've been looking for opportunities to make amends."
You Huo said: "It's just compensation."
Anyway, he was fined a few times, and he himself had no loss.
"It's you." You Huo said, "Why don't you recognize Zhao Wentu when you see him?"
Yu Yao was silent for a long time, then smiled bitterly and said softly: "I have become like this, my face is not quite the same as before, maybe because of the influence of the black woman's daughter, like a little girl who has just grown up, he can't recognize it. Also, I don't know if I'm a human or a ghost, so I won't let him down."
If we don't meet, then... Zhao Wentu, who remembered his name, was at least satisfied at the last moment.
As for regrets, all remain in the diary.
He will no longer worry about it himself, only those who watch it know.