Chapter 151: College Entrance Examination (Gaokao)
“You originally had one minute to explain why you just left the exam hall and appeared on another floor, but now I don’t want to give you that chance to explain anymore.”
The woman with blue highlights wore a malicious smile, looking down from above as she examined the low-ponytail girl.
“You violated the college entrance examination rules, so you should receive punishment.”
Surrounded by a group of invigilators who were eyeing her like tigers watching prey, the low-ponytail girl looked extremely weak, but the face beneath the black eyeglass frames remained calm: “I don’t think I violated the college entrance examination rules. On the contrary, if Teacher Bing insists on deciding to punish me, then it’s possible that you are the one who is violating the rules.”
The woman with highlights seemed to have heard an extremely ridiculous joke, the corners of her mouth stretching high to both sides: “Heehee, if this is the last piece of nonsense you say before dying… before being punished, then I can mercifully forgive you, and then—”
After saying that, she waved a hand toward the other invigilators, and two tall, ferocious men were about to pounce forward to grab the girl.
Bang!
A chair flew heavily from the back of the classroom, heading straight toward the invigilator on the right!
“What is that?!”
Along with the shocked and furious voice of the woman with blue highlights, there was also a familiar shout full of robust strength:
“Zhang You!”
Zhang You sidestepped to avoid the invigilator’s grab, and upon hearing the voice, turned back in surprise. When the girl at the back of the classroom was reflected in her pupils, they shrank slightly, and even her movements slowed for an instant:
“Wanqing?”
In the blink of an eye, two more chairs flew over, and the group of invigilators hurriedly dodged. Zhang You seized the opportunity to break out of the encirclement and flashed to the other side of the podium, her first reaction being to ask her roommate: “How did you get here? Did you find a method to break the instance barrier?”
At the very first moment, it wasn’t that Zhang You hadn’t had doubts, but the second she saw the other party’s actions, that bit of suspicion basically vanished into thin air.
This behavior of coming up and immediately starting a fight carried a reckless aura that had reached a certain realm. It was absolutely Zheng Wanqing, there couldn’t possibly be a second person.
Zheng Wanqing threw chairs while taking three steps at a time to rush up to the podium. After carefully looking at Zhang You and confirming she wasn’t injured, she said angrily, “I just received a notice to transfer exam halls, and then when I opened my eyes I was here. But what’s going on with your place? How did you let them bully you?”
“We are invigilators, we won’t bully people.”
An invigilator who had been knocked down by a chair crooked his neck and staggered up, his voice still rigid and mechanical: “We are maintaining exam hall discipline.”
Zheng Wanqing grabbed the desk beside her and threw it overhand: “Get lost!”
The examinee who had just lost both test paper and desk: “……”
Trembling, not daring to make a sound.
Bing Lanlan shoved away the invigilators on both sides, so angry that her eyes were crooked and her mouth skewed, sharp teeth jutting out, her appearance extremely frightening: “Are you crazy, daring to attack an invigilator!!”
“Attacking an invigilator is the most serious crime, I announce the immediate revocation of your student status and formatting… eh?”
Bing Lanlan’s voice paused, breaking into a single puzzled syllable: “You’re not an examinee—no, you are from this batch of examinees! Aren’t you supposed to be in Xiao Zi’s exam hall? How did you appear here?”
Zheng Wanqing was even more confused than her: “One moment I’m not an examinee, the next moment I am an examinee, what exactly are you talking about?”
“I’m the one who wants to ask. What kind of ghost place is this of yours, the exam loops infinitely, NPCs can’t be coaxed into saying a single sentence even with eight poles, the chief invigilator mutates at the slightest disagreement, and you can only get out after killing them—oh, I think I understand now, you’re the same as her, a Boss of the exam hall?”
Zhang You: “?”
Bing Lanlan: “??”
After several seconds of silence, the two realized the problem at the same time and blurted out:
“Your method of breaking the instance barrier was violent breakthrough?”
“What did you do in that exam hall!”
The two voices, one high and one low, one sharp and one steady, overlapped in the same moment, shaking even the classroom ceiling slightly. The examinees and invigilators who had been bent over doing problems all put down their hands at the same time and uniformly raised their heads to look toward the podium.
If it were in the past, Zhang You would definitely have avoided this situation without hesitation, but now she only seriously looked at Zheng Wanqing and said gravely: “I need some details.”
“Go die!!” Bing Lanlan’s shrill voice broke their conversation, pouncing over with a claw swipe: “You’re dead! I’m going to kill you!”
Zhang You pulled Zheng Wanqing to dodge the sharp claws, saying calmly and clearly: “It’s fine, let her go crazy on her own. She can’t control her behavior when she’s angry. Once her anger reaches a certain threshold, she’ll be locked into the instance’s little black room. When that happens, it’ll be convenient for us to deal with the other invigilators.”
Bing Lanlan, who was being “plotted against” to her face: “…aaahhh!!”
She finally completely lost her rationality. Frost began forming piece by piece on the blue-highlighted part on top of her head. When the frost fell to the ground, it rapidly froze the surroundings, spreading outward at high speed with bone-piercing cold.
Zheng Wanqing reacted extremely fast and smashed down with one punch, directly flipping up the podium desk and smashing it out—amid the ear-splitting sound of a huge heavy object slamming into the door frame, Bing Lanlan and a group of invigilators were swept out of the classroom like autumn leaves in the wind, crashing in a chaotic heap.
Seeing this scene, even Zhang You fell silent.
She asked Zheng Wanqing uncertainly: “Which loop are you on?”
Zheng Wanqing looked confused: “Isn’t this the second loop?”
Zhang You slowly spoke: “From the pattern of my personal experience, the second loop only restores an extremely small portion of our strength, but you…”
For example, for her, what was restored in the second loop was mainly physical fitness and some jungle skills. Even ledger props and some defensive abilities were still nowhere to be seen, so she would absolutely not choose a head-on confrontation with NPCs when they had superior numbers.
Did she not want to violently push towers*? It was because she couldn’t!
*推塔 a gaming slang, to destroy enemy turrets / towers usually in MOBA games
The same was true for NPCs. Otherwise, with Bing Lanlan’s irritable setting, she would absolutely have wanted to swallow the examinees alive in the first loop, and wouldn’t have only been enraged into berserk mode now.
But just now, that solid steel-like giant punch from Zheng Wanqing, no matter how you looked at it, didn’t seem any different from her peak state at all?
“Huh?”
Zheng Wanqing was stunned for a moment, clearly even more unclear than Zhang You about what was going on.
After landing a hit, she retracted the “iron-window-sized fist,” and simply switched to using her intact left hand to single-handedly dismantle the blackboard. With brows knitted in anger, she coldly faced the remaining students in the class, giving off an air of whoever dares to move will be dealt with first.
The examinees: …not daring to move, not daring to move.
Zhang You couldn’t come up with an answer for the time being, and with the current situation being like an arrow on the string that had to be released, she also couldn’t afford to analyze the reason. She cut straight to the more important point: “Can your remaining strength still hold up for a second battle?”
Zheng Wanqing lifted the empty sleeve tube, as if there were still an arm inside making an OK gesture, and said cheerfully: “No problem.”
“Then good.” Zhang You made a decisive decision: “We’ll follow your previous method, first clear this exam hall together, and regroup with Xinjue or Guoguo!”
Tang Xinjue calmly returned to the exam hall, her natural expression making even the invigilators blocking the doorway hesitate for a second.
But they still dutifully stopped the girl, their faces serious: “Leaving the exam hall for unknown reasons requires inspection.”
“Okay.”
Tang Xinjue agreed without hesitation, then knocked the two out in the instant the invigilators walked over.
“Shh, help me watch these two, I need to confirm something.”
Tang Xinjue made a shushing gesture toward the examinee who was staring blankly at the doorway, then smiled and handed her a stack of papers: “Later an invigilator will run over. Before she enters the door, stuff all these papers into her arms. If you don’t succeed, you and your test paper will both fall from the third floor.”
Examinee: “……”
The author has something to say: -------
Examinee: Can we keep the person and only throw the test paper?
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