Global Examination

Chapter 96: I love you very much, the big examiner, please bow your head and tell you something

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The clock just passed 8 o'clock.

Other candidates in the joint examination room were waking up from their early evening naps. Some of them had just taken their seats on the sofa, some had just left the room, and some were scratching their heads on the last night's questions.

The moment they heard the announcement, they were as usual, what to do.

The two days of swiping the screen made them go from shock to excitement to numbness. When they heard the name, they only thought:

"Oh... he died again and again. How many times will he die this time? Can this bug be fixed?"

After a few seconds, all the candidates were stunned on the spot...

Who just said who died? ? ? ? ?

In the invigilation area, the examiners responded differently.

They were actually brushed to the point of numbness, but this numbness only ended this afternoon.

Ever since they realized that "Wandering" is the main invigilator A, their mood has become subtle—

On the one hand, they hoped that the examination room would be a little more dull, candidates would let each other go, and finish the exam well without making any fuss, or else they would hurt themselves.

But on the other hand, they were inexplicably a little excited.

This undercurrent of excitement was most evident at dinnertime.

An entire restaurant's examiners are doing the same small gesture: take a few bites and glance at the big screen overhead. Take a few bites and take another look at the big screen overhead.

A meal was eaten from 5:00 to 8:00, still eating.

In the end, 021 couldn't take it anymore, and couldn't help but say, "What is this for? Are you going to sit in the restaurant for a long time?"

"We're all waiting." 922 felt the same way, and explained it in a straightforward manner: "Wait to see him and then refresh the screen, after all, he is the legendary A, and he was the leader of these people. It was painful to watch the screen before, but now it is exciting and Expect. You don't understand."

After speaking, the stick took a sip of red wine.

In the next second, the wine choked his throat.

Because he suddenly realized that the people at their table had long been accustomed to the rude manipulations, and it was not surprising. He was the only one who joined the fun in the afternoon to see the details.

Gao Qi, Zhao Jiatong, 021, 154, they all rested in their rooms all afternoon, they just entered the restaurant, and they didn't know what was going on with A.

From 922's point of view, he accidentally revealed two big secrets:

1. Wandering is examiner A. 021 and 154 should not know this.

2. He knows that You Huo is examiner A. Nobody knows this.

However, until he wiped his mouth with a napkin, and drank two more sips of red wine... No one else at the table had any special reaction.

154 patted him on the back, and 021 said in confusion, "How can you still choke when you drink red wine."

Zhao Jiatong asked him if he wanted clear water, Gao Qi... Gao Qi saw that the others were moving, so he withdrew his hand and continued to drink.

922: "?"

922: "???"

Isn't that the right reaction? !

922 was full of questions and sat in a strange manner.

After another moment, the entire table froze after a while.

There is so much noise around, only they are still.

Gao Qi put down the bottle he was pouring, and looked at Zhao Jiatong with a complicated expression. Zhao Jiatong mouthed and said, "Look at what I'm doing." She crossed her face and looked at 021, 021, who stared at 922 in surprise, and 922 stared at 154.

154 at the bottom of the food chain swallowed the lamb chops and cursed in his heart.

The death announcement of the 197 examination room came in at this time.

The dynamic prompt sound on the big screen has the effect of dripping water into the oil, and the quiet restaurant suddenly frys. Buzzing discussions came from all directions, diluting the embarrassment of the table.

"I knew it, and I would definitely have to swipe the screen!" said an invigilator at the table next to him.

"Yeah, it really doesn't stop."

"Is it hard to predict? After all, the invigilator..."

Some people actually said regretfully: "There are only two this time?"

"I'm used to reading four or five, but suddenly I don't think it's right. I have to reflect on it."

Their focus was on the four words "examinee wandering", and they didn't look at the specific content of the announcement.

After a while, someone finally said in surprise, "Oh, fuck me?"

"What's wrong?"

"No, look at those two again! See who died."

Before everyone could take a closer look, the system notification came.

A huge exclamation mark appeared on the screen, and the system's voice sounded in the restaurant:

[197 Examination room NPC Shirley and Sally died, and the examination in this examination room is terminated. Please go to the examination room immediately, take the candidates back to the invigilator office for punishment, and wait for the official opening of the second stage of the examination. 】

Everyone was silent for a moment, suddenly excited.

***

At the same time, 197 examination rooms.

They put Xiao Xue Li in the backyard and slept next to a small daisy, because her parents mentioned in the diary that this small daisy in the backyard was planted by Xue Li, and she liked it.

The delicate flowers trembled in the wind for a while, and then regained their calm.

Like a child who is tired from crying and finally falls asleep.

After the death announcement was made, Qin Jiu and Chu Yue finally got out of the state of being assimilated. The two were extremely tired, so they propped up two sofas in the living room and slept on them.

The Wandering Room pulled two quilts over, and as soon as they were covered, the answer sheet that was floating beside them changed.

"What fart are you going to do?" Yang Shu said bluntly.

She picked it up and took a look.

I saw that there was a zero next to the second question on the paper, and then the words "third question" appeared.

It's a pity that it was held for almost five minutes, and only one sentence came out: the test room was wrong, the test was terminated, and the test questions were not resolved.

Yang Shu laughed with a "ha", and took this tattered paper to pass it on to all the staff.

Soon, there were a few more lines in the blank space on the paper, indicating that the system was calculating the first stage scores—

Under their concerted evasion, eight adults with normal IQs answered only two questions correctly, for a total of 18 points.

Deduct 2 points for the paper, and then deduct 5 points for their bullying, leaving 11 points.

Under the bright red 11 points, I saw a familiar sentence:

Inform the invigilator of violations and problems in the examination room. Invigilators 922, 154, 021 and others are on their way.

"Wait?" Yu Wen handed the paper to You Huo and said, "This is the first time I saw the invigilator waiting behind me. Brother, how many people do you think will be in charge this time?"

"I don't know." You Huo said, "Seven or eight."

There are a total of 8 candidates in their examination room, and even if they are staring at each other, eight invigilators are adequate.

However, it turns out that he still underestimated the word "wait".

Ten minutes later, the doorbell rang.

Yu Wen enthusiastically ran over to open the door, and then froze on the spot.

Outside the door, 154 was still the same old man, holding the notice on his coffin face.

On his left are 922 and 021, on the right are Zhao Jiatong and Gao Qi

That's not the point, the point is behind him...

Wuwuyangyang's head can't see the edge at a glance!

Yu Wen was stunned, turned his head and shouted into the room after a while, "Brother!!! More than 30 invigilators have come to arrest us!"

Confused: "?"

Are you sick

Outside the door, 154 rolled his eyes, and his inner activity was exactly the same as that of wandering.

He felt that the group of colleagues behind him were all sick, and one of them "sent out all over the place" for breaking the rules, as if he hadn't seen a candidate in eight lifetimes.

Obviously, there are only a few of them in charge of the domestic candidates, and this group of people has to come over to join the crowd.

This is all right, make him look like a tour guide.

"Quiet, if you have anything to talk about, go back and talk."

He turned to warn the disgraceful group of colleagues.

Unfortunately, it doesn't work.

Those people were stunned when they saw Yu Wen, and then they asked, "Why is he a child?"

"Who are you?"

"Where's A? Isn't the 197 exam room his place? How did you get here?"

They talk a lot, and they have one problem after another.

Yu Wen was overwhelmed, so he remembered the last answer and said, "I came over the wall."

The invigilators were stunned for a moment, and finally understood how the 1/8 came about.

They dared to find a loophole and forced eight people into it.

A person who understands said: "I know, let's form a team card."

Yu Wen didn't know what to say.

Out of student instinct, his palms sweat when he sees more than four invigilators.

"Well, the team card is indeed used." He nodded in response.

The invigilators became more interested, and there was more discussion.

Yu Wen vaguely heard a few words:

"Will A team up with someone?"

"I thought he would throw it away even if he had a team card."

"I also thought... I don't know what kind of people he has formed."

Probably because Yu Wen's expression was too confused, 922 couldn't stand it any longer.

He raised his hand to cover his mouth and said, "It's all your brother's former colleagues."

Yu Wen: "Huh?"

He thought of what Chu Yue said, and suddenly realized: "Oh, what kind of first-generation invigilators are they?"

922 nodded: "You know?"

Yu Wen said in surprise: "I've heard a bit about it, but didn't you say there are very few people? What a coincidence?"

This is an invigilator, this is a 35-person dungeon tour group, specially to brush the boss's face.

922 said: "Let's just treat fate as wonderful."

Seeing that they were talking more and more, 154 had to speak out and get back to the right path.

He shook the notice in his hand, and read it in a routine manner: "Unfortunately, we received a notice ten minutes ago that you violated the rules in your answering questions, which led to the termination of the exam at this stage, and now you have to come with us. "

This process is already very familiar.

Yu Wen turned his head and greeted: "Brother, I'm going to the proctoring office again! How are you packing? Luggage, food, how many bags are upstairs?"

154 felt more like a tour guide.

After a while, under the gaze of more than 30 pairs of eyes, Yu Wen came out with his backpack supporting Lao Yu, who had been injured many times.

Then Shu Xue held her big belly and supported her waist, and came out pretending to be a real pregnant woman. Behind her were Wu Li and Yang Shu walking side by side.

At this point, the invigilators' reactions were all normal.

It is this style of the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled that makes them unbearable.

Just when they thought that Examiner A formed a team to help the poor, Chu Yue yawned and went down the steps sleepily.

The crowd hummed, and there was another discussion.

"Chu Yue???"

"Z

"Boss Chu?"

The new and old names were mixed up and rushed at her face.

The lady opened her mouth halfway, and with tears in her eyes, looked at each other with more than 30 old colleagues.

Before she could regain her senses, the invigilators craned their necks again.

Chu Yue turned her head and saw that you were confused.

After a while, he had changed his clothes. He had lost the dusty and muddy shirt, and now he was wearing a light gray crew-neck, salvaged from the resting place.

This color is not as sharp as black, nor as mild as white. It seemed that he was extraordinarily white, and also extraordinarily cold.

Although no uniform, no arm badge, and no meeting documents. His eyes just swept around, and he didn't stare at anyone, but the invigilators still felt like they were in a different world.

They straightened their backs subconsciously, just like before.

As if nothing happened, A was not removed, they were not dispersed, and they were not exiled overseas. Meeting notices always come suddenly, sometimes in the morning, sometimes in the afternoon. They would grab their papers, argue and hurry through the long corridors of the core, and take their seats at a round table.

Before wandering out, they were still talking a lot, excited, thinking about what it would be like to meet again.

After they came out, they fell silent in unison.

Chu Yue wiped the corners of her eyes, the physiological tears brought on by the sleepiness actually added a taste of reunion, she said with emotion, "It's actually you."

"Yes." Someone responded, "It's actually us."

Once upon a time, among them there were close friends and polite colleagues. Some people have had squabbles, some are like-minded. Some are rigid, others are enthusiastic and lively.

They have very different personalities, but have been together for a long time.

There are the same distresses, the same constraints, and the same burdens.

They live in the same place, look up and see each other, and are almost the most familiar people in the system.

Now they are suddenly reunited, only to find that everyone is a little strange.

Compared to Chu Yue, You Huo actually had no emotion.

His memory has not been fully recovered, and he is not very impressed with these people. He can only find a sense of deja vu in some habitual movements.

Until someone in the crowd suddenly said, "The examiner, Chu, long time no see."

Yeah, long time no see.

With four simple words, You Huo suddenly realized that they were all old friends.

But the emotional reunion did not last long.

Because the last person came out.

Qin Jiu didn't pay attention to the battle outside, he was still very sleepy, and he didn't even bother to raise his eyes when he went downstairs with his bag.

He walked to the door, stretched out his hand and hooked You Huo's shoulder and said, "With a little help, I'll fight with my eyelids."

After speaking, he realized that the atmosphere was not right.

Several street lamps were a bit dazzling, he squinted and looked up, and saw more than 30 pairs of eyes staring at him, what to say about his face... Give them some Hedinghong to blow a bottle on the spot.

Saving a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda.

154's lips moved, breaking the silence: "How about everyone hurry up and go back first?"

He grabbed Yu Wen and Lao Yu, and took 8 candidates from the 197 examination room to the direction of the invigilator.

Knowing that their figures passed through the grass on the northwest side and disappeared into the white fog, the invigilators who fell at the end of the team said, "What's the situation? That's 001, I'm not blind?"

Gao Qi and Zhao Jiatong were forcibly dragged by them and stayed at the end of the team to answer questions.

"It's not blind, it's 001." Gao Qi said angrily.

"How could he walk with A's shoulders? Is he crazy or A is crazy?"

Gao Qi answered the question negatively: "It's all crazy."

The invigilator gave a "tsk", "Are you a friend? Who used to make wine with you every day?"

Gao Qi heard the words and laughed.

They haven't seen each other for too long, and he has deliberately avoided the core for several years.

This short sentence brought back a lot of memories.

Gao Qi seems to have found the feeling of the past again.

He stopped being perfunctory, nodded and said, "Remember, you brought me back half of it when I drank too much."

"Hey, that's right. Say, why did 001 and A take the wrong medicine?"

Gao Qi: "Let's be serious then. They didn't remember anything when they met. They took a few exams together. Now...the relationship is pretty good now."

He paused, then added: "No, it's very good."

"Damn it." The invigilator still couldn't believe it, "How good is it, how good is it? Compared with us back then? How about compared with you and A? Is it that good?"

Gao Qi: "..."

You are so stupid.

He pinched his nose and said vaguely, "Almost, it's closer than me and A."

The invigilator was even more insane: "Impossible? Don't say A, even 001 has never seen him have a special relationship with anyone."

Gao Qi: "Ah..."

He didn't know what to say anymore.

The invigilator asked another more magical question: "Aren't you jealous? Your friend was robbed."

Gao Qi: "..."

I'm jealous of a bird.

***

The atmosphere in the proctoring office has never been so complicated.

First, because of the reunion of the first-generation invigilators, they were involved in too many things, and they kept a lot of topics secret, so it was inconvenient to talk in detail, so they could only stare at each other in a surging mood.

The second is because of You Huo and Qin Qiu.

These two have no habit of being sticky and sticky in front of outsiders, and coupled with the generalized explanations from Gao Qi and others, all the invigilators thought they became good brothers who worshiped the boss.

This conclusion made You Huan and Qin Jiu wonder whether to laugh or cry, and made the invigilators feel suffocated.

Fortunately, the system made a sound in time to save the people from fire and water.

it says:

[The invigilator please punish the students who violated the rules immediately! 】

021 said angrily, "Just come."

Although there are a large number of invigilators, it is 021 who are really responsible for domestic candidates.

"Come on, the confinement room is on the third floor." 021 said.

They were taken to the top of the stairs, and the other invigilators did not follow and remained in the dining room.

When You Huo turned the corner, he suddenly felt a few clusters of eyes.

He glanced shallowly in the direction of the restaurant and met several pairs of eyes.

The lack of memory made him feel unfamiliar with those colleagues, but it was strange that with such a simple glance, he could capture each other's emotions.

He could feel the restrained anticipation of those people, as if they were waiting for him or someone else to give an order.

Maybe it's been suppressed for too long, too long.

This time the number of confinement rooms is sufficient.

This even made You Huo think of Qin Jiu's original small building. Going down a corridor, there are rooms on both sides, and it is not a problem to close twenty or thirty candidates at the same time.

He was used to merging, and suddenly wanted a single room, he actually gave birth to a little regret.

021 quickly arranged the room, just like swiping a card in an ordinary hotel, swiping the innermost doors one by one.

"Enter this one." Gao Qi introduced Chu Yue into the first room.

Introduced Yu Wen into the second room.

This little classmate is always very filial at times like this. He is not too worried about his trip to confinement, he is more worried about Lao Yu.

From the moment he entered the third floor, Lao Yu's expression became very bad.

You Huo glanced at him several times.

In his limited memory, although Lao Yu was a little afraid of him, he was different from others.

His uncle is not good at covering up his emotions, and every time he sees him, fear and fear will always be instinctively revealed. But then, he would suppress those emotions with a tone of extreme enthusiasm and familiarity.

You can feel that he is working hard.

Lao Yu has been working hard, trying his best to restrain himself while being afraid, trying every means to express his closeness.

Humans have an instinctive sense of good and evil.

Good intentions or malicious intentions cannot be pretended casually. In Lao Yu, you can rarely feel a kind of clumsy kindness from the elders.

This is something he has never felt from other elders, and it is also the reason why he is willing to associate with Lao Yu and his son.

However, since learning of his origins with the system, many of Lao Yu's reactions have become intriguing.

It's not that he has ulterior motives, but... He seems to have something to do with the system, not simply because he was drunk by mistake.

"Is it alright?" You Huo asked him.

Lao Yu seemed to be in a trance, he was shocked when he heard the words, and then smiled bitterly: "It's okay! Even though you have been discharged from the army for so many years, you can't be ashamed of the army, right?"

Yu Wen chimed in and said, "We actually had a confinement before, and we accidentally took the politics exam and accidentally broke a rule. I'm alright, at most, it's just a dream of going back to the college entrance examination, and all the 9 majors will be taken once. , and then the bell rang without writing a single word in any composition. I found that the answer sheet was painted horizontally and vertically, and the math, physics and chemistry problems were not enough. No matter how hard it was, it wouldn't be fatal. But my dad! Comrade Yu is old—"

He pointed to Lao Yu and said to You Huo: "the last time he came out, he almost frightened me. I thought he was going to have a heart attack, and his face was as white as a ghost. Look at his complexion, how pale It was so scary. And his forehead was covered in cold sweat, wiping my hands wet."

Being run by his son like this, Lao Yu is better.

He kicked Yu Wen and said, "No big or small, don't say anything nice about your father. Xiaohu, don't listen to him."

Lao Yu explained to Youyou again: "It's okay, no one has anything to be afraid of yet. It's not terrible for me, it's just that I don't feel very well in retrospect. Don't worry, ah."

He looked at You Huo, and for a moment seemed to want to say something.

But he glanced up and sighed suddenly.

In the end, he just patted You Huo's shoulder and turned his head into the confinement room.

021 also sent Yang Shu in, closed the door and said to You Huo, "Let's go, go to the front room."

You Huo walked past Qin Jiu, where no one was paying attention.

Qin Qiu hooked his finger.

***

The confinement room here is as usual, much colder and simpler than the one in the basement.

No toilet shower room and no bed.

Just as You Huo stood at the table, 021 closed the door behind his back.

She leaned against the door panel and asked in a low voice, "The invigilator arrangement this time is very strange, have you noticed it?"

"Is it still necessary to detect?" You Huo said: "Chu Yue told me that almost all the initial invigilators are here. How can there be such a coincidence?"

"Actually not all." 021 said, "I checked carefully later, and there were a few missing."

Youyou said, "Which ones?"

021: "… "

Say you know or what

Youhuo quickly realized that he changed his mind and said, "Forget it, you have too many numbers and I can't remember them."

021 said quickly: "It's just the few that I missed that make me feel weird."

"What's the meaning?"

"I've been checking all kinds of information for the past two days. Those invigilators... um, how to say, from the clues I've collected, when I followed you in the past, it shouldn't be completely towards you. Do you understand what I mean? "

You Huo frowned: "Are you sure?"

"Sure."

This surprised him.

"Ask you a question." You Huo said

"You ask."

"The invigilator's arrangement is systematic extraction? Are there any rules?"

"According to the rules, it's random. It's not ruled out that someone took advantage of the opportunity, but..." 021's expression was very complicated.

"This hand and foot can't be moved by anyone, right? It will always go through the system."

"Yes!" 021 echoed: "This is what I think is the strangest thing! As far as I know, the one who can have such a big authority is you in the past. I am not sure about the scope of authority, after all, I didn't have it at that time. Invigilator, it’s hard to check the information now. Anyway, if you can’t do it, no one can. Then the problem comes—”

She said seriously: "After you were removed from the list, the defense level of the system has increased a lot, and the invigilator has never been given that kind of authority. 001 is the highest right now, and he doesn't have it either. So who can do this? I really can't think of anyone. Just a joke, I spent the afternoon in my room doing the elimination method, queuing for a long time, and finally got an answer."

Confused: "What's the answer?"

"The system." 021 laughed himself, "I marked it one name at a time, and eliminated all the impossible. In the end, only the system itself was left to do this. Do you dare to believe it?"

Unexpectedly, You Huo did not laugh along, nor did he show any sarcasm.

He actually nodded and said, "It's not impossible."

021: "What are you kidding???"

Youhuo was not kidding, he just thought of one thing.

Chu Yue said that when he and Qin Qiu failed to join forces for the second time, they left behind a trick. It was a system self-correction program, but unfortunately, this program was later lost.

What it looks like and what medium it is stored in, I can't remember it when I wander, and I can't predict why and how it will disappear for the time being.

But 021's words reminded him.

Maybe it's the program that made these arrangements

After all, if it intervenes successfully, it is also a part of the system itself. It is not impossible to do this.

But that's just speculation.

Unconfirmed speculations are all farts for the time being.

021 glanced at the time and said, "Since you have noticed, then I will go out first. I will tell you if I find anything. There are too many invigilators this time, and there are some who like to watch the monitoring. I am not convenient to be here. Stay here too long."

"Wait a minute, there are two small questions." You Huo said.

"Um?"

"My uncle is Lao Yu from the confinement room in front. Have you seen him?" You Huo asked.

021 shook his head: "No, I just heard him say that he seems to have been a soldier before? There are quite a few people from your army."

You Huo pursed his lips slightly.

This change in expression was too subtle, and 021 said it in a hurry, so he didn't notice: "If I have seen it somewhere, I should feel familiar, and I must have asked you for the first time."

Too.

Wandering thought, if 021 or Chu Yue or someone else had ever met Lao Yu, they would definitely show it.

Since they haven't mentioned it, it should be really no intersection.

He nodded.

021 said: "What's the second little question?"

"About memory." Youhuo said: "I heard a statement last time that there is a way to undo the memory erased by the system. As long as the operation can be undone, all memories can be restored instantly. Do you know where to undo it?"

021 was silent.

Confused: "?"

The lady moved her lips and said, "Which lunatic told you the way? I'll beat him."

You Huo raised his eyebrows and sold his boyfriend without hesitation: "Qin Qiu."

021: "...Forget it, I can't beat it."

She knows it!

Is there a second lunatic in the system

Oh, no.

I can really find it, there is one in front of me.

Youhuo said: "I didn't plan to try it, just asked."

021: "You think I'm stupid? Don't be so perfunctory, Mr. Examiner?"

You Huo pulled out the chair and sat down: "Don't tell me?"

021 looked at this face, and his willpower began to shake.

So people can't be too good-looking.

Especially friends from the same camp, it is especially easy for people to lose their principles.

You let 001 sit here and try

021 pondered in her heart, but soon she found out in despair that 001 was in the same camp with her now. With that face, nine times out of ten, it's fine.

The young lady attacked herself for a second, and said quickly, "I can't be too detailed, or my conscience will be troubled."

Confused: "Yes."

021 said: "You remember the Twin Towers in the proctoring area, the one that punishes people."

"Um."

"There are three elevators downstairs, one is for invigilators, one is for examinees, and one is special. I heard—" 021 emphasized it again: "I just heard it, not sure if it's true or not, after all, I have authority. How can it compare to 001? I heard that it is very important to the system.”

"Don't people often say who's lung tube was poked? There's no heart, at least it's the system's lung tube."

After speaking, the young lady twisted the door handle and quickly slipped out, for fear that she would be caught out again.

As soon as 021 left, the confinement room fell silent.

You Huo leaned on the chair and stared at a place in the void, still thinking about the words just now in his mind.

But the reason why the confinement room is called the confinement room is that it has its special characteristics.

It can always confuse your mind, make you more emotional than usual, and think of some past events. This makes it evoke terrifying memories of all kinds of people.

In the past, there was always nothing to think about.

This time, for some reason, he always remembered the ruins of Qin Research's confinement room.

Maybe he stayed with Qin Qiu a few times and was assimilated

Or, something that was once vaguely unattainable suddenly landed.

At that moment, he suddenly felt that the darkness that filled the confinement room was not pure darkness, and he was not simply tired of the feeling of being blind.

Under that darkness, there should be something else.

Such as barbed wire surrounded on all sides, such as rusted machinery, such as steel bars and cement pipes.

There should be a large forest behind him, and the air will become colder after walking through it. There was a smell of gunpowder in the distance in front of him.

There was an increasingly blurred figure in front of him, and a trace of blood could be smelled from him.

But when he reached out, he could only touch a soft and dry scarf.

He suddenly realized that he did not hate darkness.

I just hate that the darkness is constantly swallowing up and gradually overshadowing the figure.

He suddenly heard a voice coming from the darkness, close at hand, yet distant and vague.

The other party's voice was tired, but with a hint of a smile, he said, "Big examiner, please bow your head and tell you something."

He should have bent over.

The other's fingers stretched out and wiped his side face leaving a warm feeling. Then he seemed to fiddle with his earlobe, or turn the stud.

He couldn't remember the specifics, but he only remembered that the earlobe was a little tingling.

At that moment, he was suddenly anxious and sad.

He heard the other person say, "I love you very much," in a panic that he had never had before.