Girls' Dormitory Escape - Chapter 26

 Chapter 26: Four Seasons Protection Guide (13)

    After Tang Xinjue's message, the customer service interface, which was flickering with gleaming light, paused for two seconds.

    After two seconds, a new message pops up.

    [Customer service 001: Hello, what information do you want to report?]

    Tang Xinjue typed like flying: [I am taking the autumn exam in the "Four Seasons Protection Guide" dungeon. The dungeon boss reaper violated many exam rules, gathered a crowd to fight but was not punished, which caused great harm to the fairness of the exam.]

    This time, the customer service responded very quickly:

    [The report has been accepted, it is being checked. The dungeon information is being loaded...]

    The sound of footsteps in the corridor was getting closer and closer. The walker sounds like they walked very leisurely.

    Tang Xinjue lowered her eyes: [The reaper will be back soon. If we die, I hope it's because we failed the exam, not because of game bugs.]

    Customer Service 001: ...

    [Ding dong! The dungeon information has been successfully loaded, the test has started, and the test is suspended—]

    The rubbing sound of the doorknob being pressed, the creaking sound of the dormitory door being pushed open... all sounds stopped abruptly with the sudden sound of the game prompt, turning everything to silence.

    In the silence, Tang Xinjue heard her own heart beating violently.

    "What's going on?"

    Guo Guo had already closed her eyes in despair and waited to die. She was so frightened by the sudden notification sound that she accidentally opened a gap in the cabinet door. From the gap, she could just see the pushed open the dormitory door.

    On the doorknob on one side of the hallway was a hand that was white to bloodless, with distinct blue veins.

    One step later, the hand will push the door and enter. But it was too late, and together with the owner of the hand, it was forced to stop in place.

    Someone seemed to have pressed an abort button of the entire exam dungeon.

    [Dungeon detection progress 5%...25%...67%...99%, detection completed]

    [Error reminder! Error reminder! Error reminder!]

    The piercing alarm bell repeated three times in a row, and the child's voice turned into a serious mechanical sound:

    "Statistics from the test results show that there were three violations in this exam: exam takers' level error, exam content violation error, and NPC review error."

    "The major negligence caused are as follows: 1. Some candidates' grades are lower than the acceptance range of the examination room; 2. A large number of off-site NPCs interfere with the examination process illegally; 3. The examination rules are disturbed, the invigilator is negligent, and there are violations and concealment."

    Listening to the cold machine voice recounting one by one, feeling the slow and steady heartbeat of the violent heartbeat, Tang Xinjue opened her eyes, sharp and bright.

    She won.

    "According to Article 13 of the "Joint Convention on Games and Examinations", the judgment on the test is as follows:"

    "Candidates who do not meet the requirements will end the exam early, and those who fail will be dealt with as a passing grade. All off-site NPCs will be cleared, and those who violate the rules will be contained and disposed of at the crime level. Revocation of the position of invigilator of this dungeon. After the remaining candidates finished, the exam and related courses will all be recalled, pending further investigation."

    "Exam time, Leap Autumn* 7355.115, 9:31, the judgment will take effect!"

*闰秋; rùn qiū; literally leap autumn. The rùn has the meaning of leap month, sort of intercalation in the calendar. All in all I think it meant to say the dungeon's skipping the rest of autumn.

    The mechanical sound disappears and the dungeon continues to run. The closet door made a slight sound of being pushed open, Guo Guo was so frightened that she quickly pulled it back, but she was stunned when she accidentally swept outside.

    There was still a gap in the dormitory door, but there was no one outside.

    The sound of footsteps, the loud bombing, and all the terrifying sounds disappeared, and the world became extremely quiet.

    [Ding dong! Thanks to everyone's concerted efforts, autumn is successfully over! With the four seasons cycle, another wonderful year is over!]

    The four of them have never felt this strange child's voice so pleasing to the ear as it is now.

    [I believe that the students have a deeper understanding of the four seasons after this lesson. Let us see what kind of answers the students handed in!]

    As child's voice fell, Tang Xinjue's consciousness fell into darkness again.

    "Personal evaluation of dormitory members is loading... Loading successful"

    "Name: Tang Xinjue"

    "Level: "Four Seasons Protection Guide"

    "Output: 80.9%"

    "Injury Resistance: 45%"

    "Auxiliary: 22.2%"

    "Effective Score: 11 points"

    "Unlocked achievements: 3"

    "Final evaluation: output-oriented MVP"

    With her consciousness returned, Tang Xinjue opened her eyes from the desk and got up. When she saw the intact dormitory, there was a momentary trance, as if it had been a lifetime (since she last saw it).

    The trance was even more pronounced when she looked at the old radio on the table.

    The other three also got up one after another, with blank expressions on their faces. They didn't seem to have reacted yet.

    Zhang You hesitated and said, "What does the final detection notice of the game mean? Is there a bug in the dungeon?"

    "This," Tang Xinjue explained calmly: "I reported it to the customer service."

    "???"

    "!!!"

    After listening to Tang Xinjue's ins and outs, an expression of 'doubt-about-life' appeared on the faces of the three people at the same time.

    "F*ck, why didn't I think I could report it!" Guo Guo quickly took out her phone and searched for a long time to find the location of the customer service button, "Hey, I'm careless!"

    Zheng Wanqing ruthlessly exposed: "Because you never study this app well."

    Of course, since the game arrived to the present, they were overwhelmed just to save their lives. Except for Tang Xinjue, they all only understood the basic functions.

    Coupled with the fact that it takes a full point to connect customer service, they all have not put this function into the scope of use from the beginning, and naturally they can't remember it during critical moment.

    "Thank you for thinking of this, otherwise we might have been wiped out." Zhang You sighed, relieved. This exam is too dangerous, and their end was almost a dead end. Other than that, she really can't think of any way to survive.

    Tang Xinjue also shook his head, "I originally planned to give it a try, as long as I could report the reaper, but I didn't expect that under a gourd, a whole bunch of gourd babies actually formed*."

*I'm assuming this is a metaphor about unexpected gain, like when you get unexpected little gourds growing under a single big gourd.

    The final test result of the game gave them a huge information.

    There were three mistakes in total, and she could match the last two: "a large number of NPCs interfering with the examination process" refers to the "audience" who deliberately voted randomly on the radio in the winter dungeon; "deceived the examination rules" refers to the final harvest by the reapers.

    But what caught her attention was the first point: some candidates' grades were lower than the acceptance range of the examination room!

    To put it simply - the candidates were weak and the exam was difficult. The two should not have been matched, but they were matched together because of some kind of mistake.

    Judging from the early termination of the exam, these "some candidates" undoubtedly include their dormitory.

    Thinking of all the dangers in the exam, Tang Xinjue couldn't help frowning.

    They encountered such an accident at the beginning... Is this game really reliable?

    After recovering, the four of them checked their mobile phones, and the results of this exam also popped up:

    [Exam Completion: 100%]

    [Survival rate of dormitory members: 100%]

    [Dormitory integrity: 40%]

    [Basic score: 64 points]

    [Additional points are detected and calculated as follows:]

    [A high-level challenge exam: +10 points]

    [Major contribution to the exam: +20 points]

    [This time your "Four Seasons Protection Guide" Exam (Level A Difficulty), a total score of 94 (out of 100), the evaluation level is: perfect!]

    The score turns into five red stars and falls on the test record interface.

    "A-level exam reward: each dormitory member will get 4 credits, 36 student points, the upper limit of health value will increase by 20, and the four-dimensional physique will be randomly increased by 2~6."

    After reading the reward, Guo Guo realized that something was wrong: "Wait, how is this test? Is it A-level difficulty? What does the high-level challenge in the bonus item mean?"

    "..."

    In hindsight, she wailed: "Damn, did we choose a super-difficult dungeon?"

    Judging from the final basic reward, it was a full four times of the Dormitory Civilization Test's. The difficulty can be imagined, it was at least four times more difficult.

    "Maybe it's more than four times."

    Tang Xinjue stated her understanding of the test results about the candidates' grades.

    She checked the rules and regulations again, and finally found it in the corner. The game is divided into 6 test levels, which are SS, S, A, B, C, and D, with decreasing difficulty.

    When selecting the test paper, the APP interface will not display the test difficulty, but it will not exceed the highest level of difficulty corresponding to the student.

    [Third-Rate University] corresponds to a difficulty level from D to C, and [Second-Rate University] corresponds to C to B.

    Generally speaking, A-level examinations will gradually open up to [First-Rate University] and above.

    "However," Tang Xinjue said slowly, "since I didn't find an explanation for this item in the app last time, it can't be ruled out that the game didn't give a hint until this exam, or there is even a possibility of temporarily adding rules after I reported it."

    "..."

    The four were silent for a while, and their hearts invariably asked questions: - Is this game really reliable?

    It's too embarrassing!

    Of course, if they complain about it, they will still get full rewards.

    Compared with other people's reward interface, Tang Xinjue's APP had a more eye-catching message:

    [You have received a special email from the course to thank you for your special contribution to the exam]

    After clicking, an old-fashioned styled flower popped up on the screen, and then a row of reward bars popped up:

    [Credits+3][Student Points+30][Student Mall Discount Coupon*1]

    After calculating and deducting the 1 credit she spent on filing a complaint, she still earned 2 credits, and now her credits have risen rapidly to 7.

    After calculating the benefits of this one game, the dormitory was quiet for a moment.

    Guo Guo was the first to speak, with a tone that couldn't hide her excitement: "I got a total of 36 student points, five lottery chances of Effective Score, and my physique has almost increased by half."

    This is probably the so-called feeling of getting rich overnight!

    Guo Guo and Zhang You's gains were similar. After calculating the accounts, the three eyes fell on Tang Xinjue together.

    Tang Xinjue pondered: "I got 102 points, 11 Effective Score, increased attributes and a discount coupon."

    Everyone: Tears of ignorance.jpg

(T/N: literally this)

    "Oh yes!" Guo Guo suddenly remembered, "My yin and yang eyes skills have also been upgraded!" She excitedly pressed on her forehead, "Can you see the difference?"

    After a careful observation, Tang Xinjue said, "There is a pink mark."

    "That's right!" Guo Guo grinned: "After the Yin-Yang eye reaches level 2, I can rely on the Yin Qi to distinguish the intensity of the ghost. Of course, the most important thing is that I can choose the switch on the ability on my own!"

    This was a life-saver for her shattering courage!

    After talking about her abilities, Guo Guo couldn't wait to ask: "Jue Shen, Jue Shen, have you upgraded your toilet plunger?"

    Tang Xinjue nodded: "Yes."

    After the exam, her status was refreshed, her toilet-plunger proficiency bar was full, and it had been upgraded from the level 2 to level 3.

    It 's just the change after the upgrade...

    Tang Xinjue took out the toilet and took out the Phantom's stump that was almost smashed to pieces, and threw the Phantom's stump into the toilet plunger's rubber head in front of everyone's eyes.

    Then, the rubber head shook up and down twice, eating the stump of the Phantom.

    ...Wait, eating it?

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You know, back when I was a student with no life, I wonder what the grown-ups are busy with. I mean, they go home everyday and have free time, right? But now I realize, after a whole day of work, you just have no energy to do anything... Well, all in all, I apologize, I don't think I can do weekly posting schedule anymore.

Also, an actual story note: Let's recap to avoid confusion, there's actually three types of currency of the game. Credits, similar to academic credits, for filing complaint reports and to escape the game (they will need 100 or more credits); Student Points, currency used to shop in the Student Mall; and Effective Score, coming from their effective actions inside the dungeon, which is used for their lottery chances. I'm changing the terms of all the previous chapters so there would be no confusion. Thanks for reading so far!