Girls' Dormitory Escape - Chapter 35

 Chapter 35: Classic Movie Appreciation (9)

    "Damn!"

    Even Zhang You couldn't help cursing the moment the reminder sounded in her ears.

    Every time when they thought they could finally pass the test, new tricks would pop up in the exam, testing people's psychological defense time and time again.

    After writing the review, it still needed to be scored. What was this asking "all the students in Class 3-1" to rate the review?

    Weren't all the students in this class, including Wang Peng, Feng Wan and other characters, ghosts who are on the death list of the movie?!

    Thinking of being chased and killed by ghosts and monsters in the otherworld, and the conflicts formed with several protagonist ghosts... an ominous premonition welled up in their hearts.

    Zhang You thought about it, and comforted them: "It shouldn't matter much... I remember that the exam clearance requirements only said that we must complete at least four movie reviews, but they didn't say how high the scores that we must achieve!"

    Tang Xin Jue also nodded affirmatively, and gave her roommates a shot of reassurance: "Yes, according to the exam rules, the assessment of this movie has ended since I finished writing my review." It is an additional process. Therefore, no matter the score is high or low, it will not affect the result of customs clearance.

    Only then did the tense atmosphere ease down. Not many seconds later, almost as soon as the discussion among the four of them had finished, a notification sounded:

    [Scores for after-views have been completed! The final score of your impressions of this article is: 65 points (percentage scale)]

    "Wow!" Guo Guo was quite surprised.

    It's not just her, this score is higher than almost everyone's expectation - at least in terms of the full score, it even passed.

    Given the natural malice of ghosts towards examinees, it was already earth-shattering to be able to give a passing grade.

    Zhang You guessed: "Perhaps because Xinjue killed Zhao Mingtao, or because we made other protagonists suffer?"

    After all, for the other students who died, these protagonists were more or less the culprits who almost directly led to the complete annihilation of Class 3-1.

    It's even possible that this group of "students" really agreed with Tang Xinjue's point of view, or gave them random scores and so on. In short, the score was already out, and there was no way to explore the reason.

    The exam rules obviously also think that this score was not low:

    [Congratulations to the examinee, who received a "pass" evaluation and became the first person to pass the film assessment test! Rewards can be obtained: ...]

    The light flashed through the air, and the prize hadn't appeared yet, but suddenly stopped in place with the sound of the prompt.

    Under the light, Li Xiaoyu put down her hand with a smile, and tilted her head to look at the crowd: "This prize will be confiscated for the time being."

    "???"

    Zhang You: "Why? "

    Zheng Wanqing: "Why?"

    Guo Guo held her pendant and swallowed her saliva.

    Tang Xinjue looked directly at Li Xiaoyu, who was smiling falsely, with no emotion on her face.

    Seeing the reactions of several people, Li Xiaoyu grinned even wider, almost leaning back and forth, and stopped laughing after a long time; her long eyes narrowed into a line: "Because I didn't want to give it to you, so I confiscated it."

    Guo Guo: "This is the reward given to us by the exam rules... You, you want to violate the rules?

    "So, what do you want to do about it?" Li Xiaoyu blinked and drew out her accent: "Are you going to report it?"

    Lifting her eyelashes, Tang Xinjue looked at her coldly.

    The others were also dumb for a moment, and the air fell into silence.

    They reported the dungeon incident last exam, how did Li Xiaoyu know?

    A look of satisfaction appeared on Li Xiaoyu's face, she seemed to enjoy seeing other people's surprise and fear. It's a pity that this kind of expression almost never appeared on Tang Xinjue's face; she just stood there calmly, her body was thinner than Li Xiaoyu's, but she was quite relaxed.

    After staring at Li Xiaoyu for two seconds, Tang Xinjue said to the air without hesitation: "We have finished the movie assessment, and now we want to return to reality."

    After receiving the request, the stagnant rules started to run again:

    [The candidate signal has been received...connecting... …In loading…]

    A sense of detachment surged forward, and Li Xiaoyu’s exaggerated laughter entered everyone’s ears:     “Do you think you really won?

    "Relying on the exam rules to compress the difficulty, avoiding the enemy whose strength was deliberately suppressed to be almost as weak as you, and surviving in the unchallenging C-level copy, do you feel that you have achieved a real victory?

    "Continue to grow, in a place full of treachery, where malice gathers, when you have enough strength and have to face it, we will wait for you there..."

    The scenes around them began to pull away, and in the chaos, Li Xiaoyu continued to hum and sing.

    "We're all the same"

    "We're all the same"

    "Come to us"

    "Learn about everything we do—"

    "We are the harmonious and friendly Class Three-One~"

    ...

    This time, as soon as their consciousness came back, several people moved quickly.

    Tang Xinjue quickly turned off the video that was to be automatically played continuously, Zhang You checked whether she was in good health, Zheng Wanqing rushed back to her seat to drink water, Guo Guo rushed to the bathroom and began to vomit.

    [Spiritual damage: Health value -30]

    [Negative buff: Your health value will continue to decrease for a period of time]

    They all got this negative buff, among which Guo Guo's was the most serious, and Tang Xinjue's was the lightest. However, their health bars also fell within the yellow line.

    "Fortunately, the physical damage suffered in the movie dungeon will not continue after clearing the level."

    After confirming that she was in good health, Zhang You heaved a sigh of relief. Being killed in a dungeon was really a psychological shadow.

    Tang Xinjue looked at the rest of the movie, nodded and said, "This should be the simplicity of the C-level dungeon."

    If it was a B-level or even A-level dungeon, after dying in the movie plot, they might not be able to resurrect.

    After a short rest, they ate something to recover their energy and summed up the experience of the first movie.

    Fortunately, there was no overall time limit for this exam, and they had enough rest time, so they didn't have to rush to the next one.

    "First of all, the movie quiz is very difficult, and there are almost no clues in the movie."

    Tang Xinjue wrote down the first one.

    In this step, they could almost only rely on guesswork. There was a one-in-ten chance that they would figure out the answer. If they are unlucky, they will be forced to "watch the replay".

    "It's a pity that my pendant doesn't work for the options." Guo Guo pulled her hair in distress.

(In case you forget, -it has been several months since my translation mentions it- Guo Guo bought an [Eye of Premonition] pendant that can judge which way/part/option is more ominous and which is better)

    "Replaying this step, judging from the first movie, there is a high probability that we will enter the movie world and observe the plot from the perspective of the characters in it. And as the plot ends, the movie quiz will immediately start again." Tang Xinjue drew A bold red exclamation mark: "We must answer this part correctly."

    This is the bottom line that can ensure no casualties and the highest possibility of clearing the dungeon.

    In addition, in the process of replaying the movie, there will inevitably be various obstacles and dangers. Especially when the four of them are scattered, and they can only rely on the individual strength to see through the tricks.

    "The last process is the movie review. As long as the review is successfully completed, the dungeon can be safely cleared."

    After summarizing, Tang Xinjue said: "The last part can be left to me and Zhang You."

    She can guarantee that she could write steadily in dangerous situations, and Zhang You can provide some supplementary ideas.

    When she is unable to answer the movie quiz due to force majeure, the right to choose (an answer) will be transferred to Zhang You.

    Zheng Wanqing raised her hand and asked: "Then if Zhang You can't choose, who will answer, Guo Guo or I?"

    Guo Guo: "Da xiaojie, if that time comes, let's stop embarrassing each other like this, and just lie flat and die as equals."

    Before the two quarreled over the order of choice, Zhang You blocked her mouth with a piece of biscuit in time, and when she turned her head, Tang Xinjue had already turned on the computer.

    "It's 6 o'clock in the evening, and we still have enough energy to finish another movie."

    When she moved the cursor, the expressions of the four became serious.

    Which one should they choose?

    Zheng Wanqing suddenly said: "According to my previous experience of watching horror movies, the second part of the same series is often more difficult than the first part."

    Because the audience has often seen the elements and routines of the first part, the director It will upgrade the difficulty, and even change it magically.

    "Da xiaojie is right." Guo Guo nodded: "Moreover, there is a high probability that the information from the first part and the second part are interoperable. If you know the plot of one of them, it may be easier to watch the second part."

    After discussing, their opinions were unified: choose the first part of a series to watch.

    In this way, their choices were locked in two movies:

    Should it be "Headless Ghost Tales 1" or "Evil Spirit in the Mountain Village 1"?

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I guess I can only update once a month now... Haha. I hope I didn't just jinx that.

Anyway,  I just realized a translation error after this dungeon part ends. The class name is not "Class Three". The original text is 三年一班, third year first class, probably more accurately translated to "Class 3-1". I've changed the previous translations too, if anyone is wondering. Thanks for reading!