At twelve o'clock at midnight, hundreds of soldiers wearing swords and riding horses rushed into the 'A' examination room. This was the regular army of Southeast State. Each one not only wore a sword, but also carried a musket.
This is a flintlock gun. After the bomb was developed, the flintlock gun came into being.
Every military armor is majestic and full of murderous intent. One hundred war horses were scattered in every corner of the examination room, standing silently.
After a while, the bell suddenly rang, and someone borrowed an electric speaker and started shouting:
"The ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven begins. Candidates stand up, observe silence for their ancestors, pray for the empire, and pray for themselves!"
The sound was repeated three times and spread throughout the examination room A.
In the rows of small houses that looked like prisons, all the candidates stood up nervously, and each of them became nervous amidst these solemn words.
The guards began to search the examination rooms one by one, making sure that every candidate stood up to perform the ceremony.
After arriving at Li Zhen's room, he saw Li Zhen still lying on the ground unconscious. Then a soldier came in and called, but he couldn't wake him up. Immediately, a soldier came over carrying two buckets of cold water.
"splash!"
A sharp shout.
Two buckets of cold water were poured on Li Zhen, who was lying unconscious on the ground.
'ah'
Suddenly, Li Zhen was awakened on the spot. I just feel like I have a splitting headache, and I feel so groggy that I always look at two people.
My whole body felt cold and I couldn't help but tremble.
"I...where am I?"
Li Zhen looked at the unfamiliar environment around him, the guards with knives around him, and his naked appearance. He was shocked. Could it be that he had been caught by the horse thieves from Yanziji
But the guard shouted sharply: "Candidate 0916. Stand up immediately, observe silence, pray, and pray for blessings!"
Li Zhen was shocked when he heard this. Examination room? Why did you arrive at the examination room by yourself
You can't think too much. If you think too much, you will only feel a splitting headache. The fever was so high that he now felt uncomfortable all over his body.
The officer locked the door of the examination room and left. But Li Zhen stood there shivering, holding his hands on his chest, feeling cold to the bone.
The body was already afraid of the cold due to a high fever, and two buckets of cold water were poured on it. This was a sin that no one should suffer.
Although Li Zhen didn't know how he got here or what time it was, he had heard about the rules of this examination room a long time ago.
Sacrifice to heaven is the most solemn ceremony before the exam...
"Yes, I suddenly remembered that I had to enter the examination room the night before."
Li Zhen suddenly realized that it was written in the exam notes. But I experienced a life and death disaster today and forgot about it. I suddenly remembered this while I was in the examination room, but I was confused again, who sent me here
At this time, there were sounds of candidates talking outside, and Li Zhen also walked to the door and stuck his head out to take a look. In a row of examination rooms, all the candidates stuck their heads out from the crack in the door and looked at it.
Some candidates were talking across the room:
"I heard that every year during the college entrance examination, many people die in the examination hall across the country."
"Yes, I heard that this examination room is haunted."
"I'm really scared. I'm alone in the house here. I'm so flustered that I can't even think about doing the questions."
"I won't be able to sleep until the ceremony is over."
“…”
Li Zhen was a little flustered after hearing these words. Is it haunted? I have heard about it, but to be honest, I have never seen any ghosts and gods.
At this time, the examiner's voice came from the electric speaker again: "The candidates observe a moment of silence."
No one observed the silence, everyone still stuck their heads outside to look, but just stopped talking.
After a while, a group of fast horses suddenly started galloping around the examination room. At the head was a general wearing gorgeous armor, riding a white horse and holding a huge red flag in his hand. Running wildly and waving the flag all the way.
Behind him are eighteen warriors riding black horses. Each warrior holds a sword in his right hand and a lantern in his left hand.
lantern. Something that has long since been eliminated.
After the invention of direct current a hundred years ago, various lighting tools were born, and flashlights were one of them. But at this time, everyone was holding lanterns, which was indescribably weird.
Li Zhen watched blankly as the pair of soldiers ran around the examination room several times. The general suddenly waved the red flag violently and shouted loudly:
"Summon the gods of heaven and earth in Southeast Prefecture to offer sacrifices to heaven and earth and worship ancestors. I hope the gods of heaven and earth will protect the success of the college entrance examination in Southeast Prefecture. I hope the gods of heaven and earth will protect the success of the college entrance examination in the Kyushu Empire. I hope the gods of heaven and earth will protect the order of the examination room..."
After the general shouted, the eighteen soldiers behind him shouted again in unison. Then left.
The candidates kept sighing, and Li Zhen was also extremely emotional. He couldn't help but feel extremely solemn deep in his heart.
'drive'
At this time, another group of military armors rode wildly around the examination room.
At the head was another general, still riding a white war horse, followed by eighteen soldiers riding black horses.
The difference is that this general has a blue flag in his hand.
'Huhuhu'
As he kept waving the flag, he ran around the examination room for six times, then stopped and stood on the high platform waving the blue flag crazily.
After shaking for a while, he shouted in silence:
"Summoning, the souls of each candidate's ancestors, relatives, brothers and friends. I hope to cheer for the candidates from all families and protect the candidates to have a bright future."
“…”
As soon as this statement came out, there was an uproar in the examination room, and many candidates became commotion. Still attracting ghosts
Li Zhen was also subconsciously creepy. He had heard before that during exams, the exam room would attract ghosts, but he only thought it was a legend and did not expect it to be true.
After saying that, the second team of soldiers also retreated.
A moment later, the third team of military armors was seen running wildly around the entire examination room. Amidst the sound of the cavalry, many candidates trembled. The atmosphere in the examination room instantly became heavy and strange.
The general of the third team actually held a black flag in his hand. There are all kinds of weird symbols painted on the black flag, which makes people's scalp tingling just looking at it.
The third team stopped, the general waved the black flag wildly and roared:
"Recruit, the dead souls who have grudges and grudges against each candidate, all kinds of ghosts and monsters. If any of the candidates have committed sins, today all the dead souls... There will be revenge for revenge, and there will be resentment for revenge. Life and death are determined by destiny, wealth and honor in heaven!"
The eighteen soldiers repeated: "Revenge when there is a grudge, revenge when there is a grudge, life and death are destiny, wealth and honor are in the sky!"
hiss-
The third team retreated, and the entire examination room was filled with the sound of air-conditioning.
Li Zhen's face turned pale, and his whole body was covered in cold sweat. Looking at the other candidates who poked their heads out, they all had frightened faces. Everyone looked around in fear.
Is this how you offer sacrifices to heaven
First sacrifice to the gods of heaven and earth, then summon the ancestors of each family, and then summon the souls of each family's enemies? This... this is so creepy.
Li Zhen shivered and retracted his head, looking around in his small room, which looked a bit eerie under the dim light.
In the afternoon, I killed one person with my own hands, Qi Lengzi killed six, and buried six dead people with my own hands... At this moment, ghosts suddenly appeared, causing the dead souls to seek revenge and complain.
Li Zhen's hair stood on end. Looking at the quiet environment around him, he always felt extremely eerie, as if the whole room was filled with things he couldn't see...
Li Zhen now had a splitting headache, a high fever that didn't go away, and wanted to sleep. But in this environment, he found that he could no longer sleep.
As soon as I lay on the wooden bed, I felt like there was someone under the bed.
Turning over to sleep, I seemed to feel someone behind me.
Sleeping on my stomach, it feels like there is someone on the roof.
After the three teams of soldiers and horses retreated, it felt as if invisible people were everywhere in the examination room. It seemed that they could see the teachers who died in Yanziji with their faces covered in blood, and they seemed to be able to see the horse thief whose head was smashed by him. It’s so lively.
"ah!"
Suddenly, a shrill scream sounded.
Li Zhen's hair stood on end and he quickly ran to the door and stuck his head out. At this time, almost all the candidates also stuck their heads out and looked around with horror on their faces.
"Who? Who is screaming?"
"Really... is there really a ghost coming to take revenge?"
"Oh my god, why is this exam so scary!"
“…”
But there was the sound of horse hooves, and a fully armed warrior riding a horse rushed out from the darkness, holding a flintlock gun in one hand and a sword in the other: "Who is making such a noise!"
In the exam room of 'A0942' in the corner, a candidate cried and screamed:
"I won't take the exam anymore, I won't take the exam anymore. I feel like there's something wrong with me, so I won't take the exam anymore. Send me back, I want to go home..."
The war horse stopped again, and the heavily armed warrior retreated into the dark corner without saying a word.
The candidate seemed to collapse. He banged his head against the iron door crazily, then stretched out his bloody head and cried:
"Is it okay if I don't take the exam? I want to leave, I want to go back. I feel like there is a ghost. I feel like there is someone in my exam room who is always looking at me from behind."
"Help, there is really a ghost."
"Then talk to me, okay? I'm scared. Who can talk to me? You all should be silent."
The examinee had already collapsed. Everyone stuck their heads out and looked at him silently, not daring anyone to respond.
The examinee began to break down and scream again: "Soldier, can you stand at the door of my examination room? If you stand at my door, I am afraid."
"Isn't it okay if I don't take the exam?"
“…”
After a while, an invigilator came over with a livid face: "0942, are you sure you don't want to take the exam?"
"I won't take the exam. I won't take the exam. I don't want to stay here anymore."
"Open the door and let him go."
Immediately, guards opened the iron door and escorted the candidate who was crying and broke down without explanation, and drove him out of the examination room. Immediately, someone came over and put two seals on the door of the examination room.
It is said that it attracts ghosts, but in fact it is also a criterion for the state to test the psychological quality of candidates. Scholars are not afraid of ghosts and monsters, they are just full of awe and righteousness. If you are unable to overcome your own fears, it means that your determination to have a bright future is not so determined. If your psychological quality is too poor, how can you serve the empire in the future
All the candidates sighed and became more and more frightened.
Li Zhen swallowed and returned to the bed naked, sighing in his heart that there was not even a quilt here. chilly.
The fever hasn't gone away yet, and being naked in the middle of the night is simply torture.
A moment later, another candidate broke down and cried: "I won't take the exam!"
Li Zhen didn't go out to see, he just lay in bed and kept chanting under self-hypnosis: "There are no ghosts in the world, there are no ghosts in the world..."
In the middle of the night, the examinee next door kicked up the wall with his feet. Li Zhen only heard a thumping sound, and the examinee shouted from the next door: "0916. Can you talk to me for a while?"
"0916, I'm scared. Please talk to me, it's too quiet around here."
"0916, I seem to see two brainless people wandering around my place, as if they passed through the wall and went to your place."
"0916?"
“…”
Li Zhen was trembling, his face turned pale at this time, and a weak white color came out of his lips. He couldn't care less about being afraid now, he just felt extremely uncomfortable.
His eyes seemed to see the world spinning, his whole body was limp and weak, and cold sweat was flowing out layer after layer.
The fever was extremely serious.
In this drowsiness, he rolled his eyes and fell asleep...
(End of chapter)