[R18] Global College Entrance Examination – “Global College Entrance Examination” Chapter 69 [English]

☆, Chapter 69 Unforgettable Tonight

This is a villa. The interior decoration is mainly white and dark blue and gray, which is simple and clear.

Youhuo dreamed that he was walking down the stairs…

This place is very strange.

It is not the place where he temporarily lives abroad, nor the place where he stays in the country.

It’s not a hospital, it’s not the school army, it’s not the home of Lao Yu and Yu Wen and his son…

Anyway, not anywhere he knows.

But standing here, he has a familiar yet unfamiliar feeling——

He seemed to know where to turn, which room he was going to, and the structure of the room.

Every move he makes is like the owner here, so it feels familiar.

But he didn’t feel any sense of belonging, so he was still a stranger.

He guessed that this might be where he lived as Examiner A.

The house should be located somewhere in the invigilation area, and he doesn’t like it here.

But this is normal. Who would call this kind of place their home?

In the dream, it was getting late and the sun was setting in the last moment.

There were large floor-to-ceiling windows on one side of the second floor and the first floor. Whenever Youhuo turned that angle, the lights outside would dazzle his eyes.

I could see through the glass and the lights that it was snowing outside.

It was clear that the sun was setting just now, but in an instant it was snowing very heavily…

He squinted his eyes to avoid the light, but his footsteps did not stop on the first floor.

In the dream, Youhuo somehow knew that he was going to the basement…

***

This was one day many years ago. It was just dark and it was snowing heavily.

The temperature in the house is just right, and a single layer of clothing is enough.

Examiner A just came back from a trip, and a layer of snow fell on his shoulders.

He took off his coat and went upstairs, hung his clothes in the bedroom, and was about to take a shower when there was sudden movement downstairs.

This is the residence arranged for the invigilator in the system, a villa with a unified style.

On the left side of the villa area are the twin buildings used for punishing candidates, and on the right side is a small pretentious park, which is unusually quiet on weekdays.

As a result, the movement downstairs seemed very sudden.

Examiner A lives alone, does not like to keep friends, and rarely lives with other people.

But these two days are exceptions——

A certain illegal candidate named Qin Jiu lives here.

Of course, he lives not in a bedroom, but in a solitary confinement room.

The system does not allow illegal candidates to live too happily.

The noise downstairs stopped for a while and then started again.

It’s not a noisy sound, just a gentle knocking sound, unhurried.

It can be heard that the person who knocked was joking.

Examiner A listened for a moment and followed the stairs to the basement.

According to the original design, the basement is an activity area and also has guest rooms.Later, in order to accommodate Qin Jiu, the system changed the guest room into a built-in confinement room.

It has the same properties as a normal confinement room except that no surveillance is installed.

The knocking sound came from inside the confinement room.

he presses his finger to open the door.

There were not many things in the solitary room. A set of tables, chairs and a bed against the wall were all the furniture.

There are some tools hanging on the wall in a pretentious manner.

Qin Jiu, who was still a candidate at that time, was sitting on the edge of the bed.

The corridor lamp shone in from outside the door and happened to fall on Qin Zhu.

He squinted his eyes and turned his head to block the light, and his raised hands were tied with leather ropes.

Looking past the open palm, you can see a lazy smile on the corner of he’s mouth.

“What’s wrong?” Examiner A asked while holding the door.

“It’s nothing.” Qin Jiu said, “I heard that a certain examiner who is busy with official duties has returned. I just wanted to say hello as a courtesy.”

He squinted his eyes again, still unable to adapt to the bright light.

Examiner A looked back at the corridor lamp and closed the door of the solitary room behind his back.

He is closed very hard and makes a “peng” sound, seemingly reluctantly.

The room suddenly became dark.

“Why don’t you turn on the lights?” Examiner A said coldly.

He flicked a switch, and a light came on somewhere in the corner, much dimmer than the hallway light.

“Oh, I want to let it go.” Qin Zhu raised his hand and said, “But unfortunately, I was tied up like this and it is difficult to move. And the person who tied me was free for most of the day without food or water, and he didn’t come back until now. If I hadn’t taken the initiative to say hello, I’m afraid he wouldn’t have remembered that I came… Is this considered excessive punishment, Great Examiner?”

As we all know, Examiner A is the youngest among the invigilators.

Surprisingly young.

But both candidates and colleagues will subconsciously ignore his age because he is too strong and his status in the system is extremely high.

The only exception was Qin Jiu.

When this examinee met Examiner A for the first time, he made fun of him without fear of death.

After learning that Examiner A was two years younger than me, he added “大” in front of the title, opening his mouth “Big Examiner” and closing his mouth “Big Examiner”.

This title can be called by anyone else without any problem.

In fact, some people do call him this, which is regarded as an honorific title for the chief invigilator.

But when it came from Qin Ju’s mouth, it was a bit of a nonchalant joke.

Examiner A glanced at the wall clock and said, “I went out to do errands at 4 o’clock in the afternoon, and it is now 6:10.”

A total of 2 hours and 10 minutes, which is most of the day calculated using your face?

As for not giving food or water, that is even more fart!

he snorted coldly and pushed the cups and plates on the table: “Is this pig food?”

Of course it’s not pig food, the presentation is very exquisite, and it’s also expensive.

This was brought to him by another invigilator from a restaurant in the business district to apologize for something that happened during the day.

He was not hungry, so he stuffed food into the solitary room.

Unexpectedly, some candidates did not appreciate it.

Qin Zhu straightened his legs and changed into a more relaxed posture.He raised his eyelids, glanced at the cups and plates without interest, and said, “It’s different from last night.”

Examiner A: “…”

“The meal last night was very good, the taste was a bit special.” Qin Jiu said, “The shrimps were fried, but other than that they were all good.”

“…”

Examiner A pulled the nearby trash can with no expression on his face and poured the water and fried meat into it: “You chose it yourself, then go hungry.”

He leaned on the edge of the table, poured the cold dinner, and threw the plate back on the table.

There were two clanging sounds in the solitary room, and silence returned.

For a while, there was only the sound of two people breathing.

Examiner A folded his arms and lowered his eyes from his thin eyelids to fall on Qin Zhu.

Silence has a sense of tension.

This tense situation quietly continued for a while, and Examiner A finally said: “What is the purpose of violating the rules so many times?”

Qin Jiu raised his eyebrows: “Is there a purpose behind violating the rules?”

Examiner A said nothing.

Qin Jiu added: “Isn’t the purpose of the exam lies in selection? As far as I know, that’s the case. The questions are quite difficult. I can’t think of a particularly perfect way to pass it, so I can only settle for the next best thing. If there is a better way, why should I violate the rules? Who is not afraid of punishment?”

Examiner A: “A few nonsense words are enough, stop when appropriate.”

Qin Jiu laughed.

He laughed for a while and said, “I’m serious, do you believe it?”

“Don’t believe it.”

Qin Zhu had a look of regret on his face, which made his teeth itch.

“The first time I cleaned the exam room, you buried a jammer inside.”

“The third time you cleaned the examination room, you led the questions into logical confusion. Later, the examination room was put into use, and it completely collapsed halfway. It has not been successfully repaired to this day.”

Examiner A counts the items one by one.

Qin Jiu was not anxious or annoyed when he heard this, and defended himself by saying, “It’s just a prank.”

Examiner A: “The fifth time, you said you lost a retest card.”

Qin Jiu: “The forest looks the same in all directions. Maybe I brought out the cards when I took out the compass. I remember mentioning it to you at the time?”

Examiner A paused: “Last time, you hid the cheat sheet.”

Qin Jiu: “Helping others is a pleasure.”

Examiner A stopped talking.

He’s light-colored eyes were reflected even lighter by the light, and he stared at Qin Jiu quietly.

Qin Jiu also looked back at him without giving in.

After a long while, Examiner A glanced away, glanced around and landed on the floor lamp.

After a while, he suddenly said: “Forget it, let me explain.

Qin Jiu: “What’s going on? Tell me.”

“I have countless opportunities to torture you with these questions, but I chose here, do you know why?”

Qin Jiu thought for a while and said, “I don’t know.”

Examiner A: “…”

Qin Jiu looked at he’s face, suddenly smiled and said, “Okay, answer seriously, because this is a solitary room.”

Examiner A’s eyes moved: “So you know.”

“I happened to hear this saying.”

“The confinement room is the only place where the system cannot detect. This is the room left by the original design concept, which can be regarded as a safe haven under the rules.”

Qin Jiu paused and then said: “I also heard that this safe haven was not opened before this year. Someone pointed out to the system that the practices were not in compliance, so the exemption was granted to the confinement room.”

After hearing this, Examiner A said, “Who said that?”

Qin Jiu: “Those who have investigated, those who participated, and those who happen to know.”

This was a confession of sorts.

Examiner A was quiet for a while and said: “So you did come with a mission, and then you targeted me.”

This should be a question, but he said it calmly.

Qin Qiu: “Examiner A has a deep connection with the system. This is the information I got. It’s really unreasonable not to treat it specially.What do you think?”

Examiner A snorted coldly as a response.

This reaction seemed to please the candidate opposite. He stared at Examiner A for a long time, and then said: “When I first met you, I felt that you were on one side with the system. Just like the ostriches among the designers, maintainers, and other he participants, they covered their eyes and ears and pretended not to see the system’s problems, because they couldn’t control it and it was themselves who rashly stopped it, causing trouble.”

“But later it turned out that didn’t seem to be the case.Qin Zhu said: “But you are too difficult to guess. I don’t know if it’s because you acted so well or because of something on my part.”I have never been sure of your position. In fact, just now, I was wavering.”

Examiner A looked at he from the corner of his eyes, still not enthusiastic: “What now?”

“Now?Let’s try another way.Qin Jiu said: “Can you give me a correct answer, great examiner?”I’ve been guessing your thoughts for a long time…”

he paused and then said: “If I continue to guess, I will almost doubt my identity.”

“identity?What’s the meaning?”

“Do you know what kind of relationship people treat speculation as fun?”

Examiner A looked at he and said nothing.

Qin Jiu didn’t say anything either.

Silence spread again for a while.

Examiner A suddenly said: “I did this to exempt the solitary room.Is it accurate?”

Qin Jiu’s eyes were bright and he said: “Forget it, I can barely calculate it.”

Examiner A looked at the time again and finally straightened up.

Only then did Qin Jiu realize that he hadn’t even taken off his military boots and seemed to be going out.

“You just have to do it slowly.”As he said this, he started to walk towards the door.

Qin Jiu’s voice sounded behind him: “Why don’t you loosen your ties for me?”

Examiner A paused and said expressionlessly: “You can obviously get rid of it in one minute, do you have to pretend to be so miserable?”

There was a chuckle behind him, followed by the sound of a thin rope.

“Okay, but you made a mistake -”

Examiner A did not look back.

As soon as he walked to the door, there was another person behind him.

“——Actually, it only takes a few seconds.”

Qin Jiu stood behind him and was about to say something, when he suddenly stretched out his thumb and wiped the side of his neck: “The collar is a little damp, is it raining outside?”

The touch of fingertips is warm and dry.

Examiner A held the door handle without moving, only narrowing his eyes slightly.

After a while, he said: “No, it’s snowing.”

***

Youhuo suddenly woke up at this time.

Just like the occasional dreams over the years, the content becomes blurry the moment I wake up, and I can’t capture it no matter what.

Only scattered fragments can be caught in the rapid blur of shadows.

Youhuo only remembered that there seemed to be Qin Zu in the dream, as well as the rope and the room.

I can’t remember any details.

There were several muffled banging sounds from somewhere outside.

You Huo sat up from the bed and pinched the bridge of his nose to relieve his sleepiness.

Just after rubbing it twice, he suddenly felt something was wrong…

Dreams come true, dreams come true.If he really dreamed of Qin Jiu, it wouldn’t be——

Youhuo opened his eyes suddenly.

He first saw Qin Qiu on the other side of the bed. Like him, he had just woken up and was also a little confused.

Then, he turned his head silently and saw the extra people in the dormitory——

Not far from his bed, a man with his hands tied by a leather rope was sitting lazily on the desk.

Next to Qin Qiu, who had just woken up, a man wearing a shirt, trousers and military boots was leaning against the balcony door, with his arms folded and his eyelids lowered, looking at them coldly.

He wears a standard badge on his right arm, with the metal words “Invigilator A” engraved on it.

It is clear who dreams of whom.

Youhuo: “…”

Qin Jiu: “…”

The atmosphere is particularly solid and the moonlight is particularly beautiful.

Unforgettable tonight.

The author has something to say: Today is the day before dawn, and the dignity of being a human being is preserved【】