[R18] Global College Entrance Examination – “Global College Entrance Examination” Chapter 145 [English]

Chapter 145: Companion┃If there is, it must only exist in old age and death.

When the ship arrived at the desert island, Qin Zhu followed Examiner A onto the deck and inevitably noticed the belt around his waist.

At that time, a week had passed since the math exam. According to Wen Yuan, the chip stuck to the belt should self-destruct. During the destruction process, the adhesive surface was corrosive to a certain extent, so a faint mark would be left on the belt.

But no.

Qin Zhu carefully confirmed that there were no traces left where he attached the sheet.

There is only one possibility. Examiner A discovered the slice before it self-destructed and removed it.

For the first time, Qin Jiu truly doubted Examiner A’s stance, and it wasn’t just the eyes and expressions that were too subjective to interpret.

There was no denying that he was delighted.

The few days on the desert island were a period where the relationship between them was extremely relaxed and relaxed. In some moments, it would even give people the illusion that “they were fighting side by side.”

But after all, it’s just some moments…

After coming out of that examination room, a lot of things happened one after another——

Examiner A and Chu Yue, who was called Examiner Z at the time, were called into the main control center and stayed there for several days.After coming out, Examiner A once again became the “system spokesperson” who was difficult to offend.

Qin Jiu discovered that the members of the death squads were losing news one after another.

Then, in a round of exams not long after, he met Wen Yuan again.

The examination room was set at a military base. The sky in early winter was always gloomy, gray and cold.

They have no weapons and no suitable equipment, so they are more dangerous than ever.

Qin Zhu was dropped into a war zone by a helicopter. When he landed, there was a fight, and he didn’t even bother to say hello.

When he hijacked a firearms carrier and rolled into the truck bed, leaning against the bunker to change magazines, Wen Yuan sneaked over from the side.

he climbed into the car, threw a set of equipment to Qin Jiu and said, “You are so awesome. You dare to attack this kind of car without wearing some equipment. I just came over there and I didn’t dare to breathe. I was stunned for a while.”

Wen Yuan pointed to a certain unloading area in the distance and said, “There are a lot of equipment over there, so I brought you a set. It’s not easy to meet each other in such a big examination room. We can be considered friends. What’s your name?”

Qin Jiu had installed two sets of guns and was handing one of them to him. He was stunned when he heard this.

“What did you say?” he asked with a frown.

Wen Yuan said “Ah” in question, thinking that he said something wrong and made this person unhappy: “I didn’t say anything. I just said you were awesome. I made a friend and asked you what your name is.”

Desperate for survival, he praised Qin Jiu again, which made Qin Jiu’s expression even darker.

Wen Yuan: “?”

He is holding the gun in one hand, whether he takes it or not.

“You don’t know me?” Qin Jiu asked.

“I…should know you?” Wen Yuan said hesitantly.

It’s hard to describe Qin Jiu’s mood the moment he heard these words.

Above the examination room, systems are everywhere.He couldn’t even directly ask the other party what happened, what happened, whether he remembered the purpose of coming here, and whether he remembered the death squad known as “d-to-d”.

It took a lot of effort for he to figure out the whole story.

It turned out that Wen Yuan also broke the rules in the previous exam. He was taken to the Twin Buildings in the invigilation area for three days to clean up bugs as a punishment, but he encountered an accident near the end of the cleaning.

It’s hard to tell whether this is an injury in a simple sense, or whether the system did something in the name of his injury.

In short, the result is that Wen Yuan’s hands are no longer as steady as before, and he has forgotten who he is.

Qin Zhu remembered the information he received before entering the system. It reminded people who entered the system that they would be disturbed to varying degrees and slowly forget the connection between themselves and reality.

But he didn’t expect to interfere so completely.

He has lived for more than 20 years. If we want to talk about who can be counted as friends, the names of those in the death squad must be among them.

With the same purpose, they are scattered in an unpredictable situation of life and death. They are both independent and can be regarded as a whole.Under normal circumstances, such an involvement could even develop into a close friend.

But they are different.

He We, this group of people, have never had any personal interactions with each other, so we can’t be considered familiar with each other.And because of the special tasks, a lot of information between them is even confidential.The only things that are relevant are missions and life and death.

So Qin Zhu regards them as special friends, and Wen Yuan is the most familiar one among them.

Now, this friend has also “disappeared”.

…

All kinds of things continue to aggravate the conflict between candidates and the system. This tension inevitably spreads between the candidates and the invigilator, and also inevitably affects Qin Zhu and Examiner A.

There are many relationships between them, including opposition, conflict, attraction, and ambiguity.

Every relationship continues to deepen and become more and more intense in the strong smell of gunpowder.

In fact, staying away from such a dangerous relationship is the most peaceful thing to do.But none of them are peaceful people, they are just as crazy at heart.The more dangerous it is, the closer you have to get.

The relaxed and peaceful relationship on the desert island became a fleeting glimpse, fleeting.

They began a long period of testing and dealing, with every word and every contact carrying a sharp edge.

Unfortunately, these temptations will never yield the desired results, because there is no place in the entire system where they can speak seriously.

They hate bondage but cannot be free.

Until one day, Qin Jiu got words from another invigilator and learned that the solitary room had become the most special thing in the examination room.

Because the original design concept of the system was not “deprivation of freedom” and “monitoring without blind spots”.The confinement room involves too many people’s hearts and privacy, so according to the original design intention and fundamental rules, this is a place that the system cannot monitor and is a safe haven under the rules.

But the system deliberately ignored this.

Until recently, someone forcefully opened this safe haven.

This person is Examiner A.

This was the reason why he and Chu Yue stayed in the main control center for a long time.

The sudden opening of the safe haven became a turning point for many things——

After being spied on for more than two decades, the two proctors finally found a place to breathe.

The probing and dealing between Examiner A and Qin Jiu finally yielded a frank result.

It’s strange that for the two of them, openly confirming their positions and showing their cards did not make their relationship calm and relaxed.Because the things between them are too intense and cannot be smoothed over with just a few words.

Qin Jiu once felt that there could never be “peace” between them.Every meeting and every contact is at a certain critical value. Just a little bit more and something will happen.

It’s not something as tragic as “you die or I die”. After all, they are fellow travelers, so it’s far from that.

What should it be?

For a long time before that, Qin Jiu never came up with the answer.

Until the night when they openly and honestly stated their positions.

Examiner A stood in front of the door and was about to leave, while he stood behind Examiner A. He withdrew his thumb from the side of the other person’s neck, bringing with it a trace of residual body temperature and touch.

He twirled his fingertips and said, “Your collar is a little damp. Is it raining outside?”

Examiner A’s Adam’s apple twitched, and after a moment he said, “No, it’s snowing.”

Qin Jiu nodded.

The confinement room became very quiet for a moment.

After a few more seconds, Examiner A said, “I still have something to do, so I’ll leave first.”

When he turned the doorknob, he heard Qin Jiu let out a soft “ah”, indicating that he understood.But the long, low ending also revealed a hint of subtle regret that could not be described.

Examiner A paused with his finger.

After a moment, he suddenly let go of the doorknob.

At that moment, the critical line that had always been tight between them also loosened.

Qin Zhu’s eyes moved from Examiner A’s fingers to the other’s thin neck.

He lowered his head and kissed Examiner A on the back of his neck.

…

According to the time in the proctoring area, that day was the beginning of the new year.

There were no windows underground, but Qin Zhu knew that it was snowing heavily outside.The cold wind in the night passes through the buildings, chilling and biting.

They kissed each other in the solitary confinement room, which was the end of those intense relationships.

That exam on the desert island was probably the closest moment to being “teammates” in their lives.

For a longer period of time after that, whether they remember or not, whether they are in opposition or in the same company, love will always be intertwined between them.

It’s like he can never become “peaceful” between us.

If there is, it must only exist in old age and death.