Chapter 280: Pre-Exam Cramming (Part 4)
Whether or not she had any special qualities was unimportant to Tang Xin Jue. However, she needed to understand the impact of this special quality.
The forgotten "part-time job", the recurring nightmares, the eyeballs that appeared before the game began, the special attention and marks from ghosts... If all of this came from a pre-arranged "recruitment", then unfortunately, she was one of the few people who rejected the offer.
From the other side's perspective, a future partner who was originally destined to win not only rejected invitations to join the partnership many times, but also quickly joined the "good student" camp and devoted himself to the reporting cause to combat the evil forces in the university town - it is normal to be unwilling.
Her joining may not be that important.
But it is important not to let her join others.
Given the Chaos God's vengeful and extremely petty personality, he might actually do something like chasing you to your dormitory and marking the game's arrival time just because of a minor setback.
"But anyway, it's all just speculation."
Tang Xin Jue changed the subject again, bringing 606 out of his conjecture: "Until we have solid evidence, these thoughts can only remain in our hearts and must not be shared with anyone."
"Don't worry." Guo Guo vowed, "I've already forgotten most of it."
After a good night's sleep, she would be lucky to remember a few key words. By then, even if she used her mental power to search her brain, it would be difficult to find the complete answer, let alone repeat it.
"It's okay. Everything will work out when the time comes." Zheng Wanqing also said casually: "If they want us to know, they will show it to us even if we close our eyes and cover our ears. If they don't want us to know, we won't hear anything even if we eavesdrop on them through their windows in the middle of the night."
Zhang You nodded. "I think Wanqing is right. The TV show should be starting soon. You guys should get ready first. I'll go take care of the office."
Unexpectedly, while cleaning up, she actually found something unusual.
"What is this...map?"
On the unfolded white paper, a bunch of lines were simply and casually outlined with a black pen, but the buildings and routes could still be vaguely seen.
Guo Guo rushed over and his first reaction was: "Could this be left by those three people?"
She had thought she had at least walked around the university town teaching area, but when she saw the map, she quickly became confused: "What is this?"
She could distinguish each line individually, but couldn't understand them when put together.
Even Tang Xin Jue had to use his spiritual perspective to examine it for a while before concluding, "It should indeed be a map of the university town, but it's not the spatial perspective we usually understand."
"When we walk, we usually judge our location by looking at angles like up, down, left, right, east, south, west, and north. But on this map, many buildings are separated and overlapped."
Tang Xin Jue pointed to the circle in the center of the map: "It says here that there are three teaching buildings in the university town. But you see, the locations of the three buildings overlap. Not only that, here, here, and here——"
She pointed to the four corners of the map one by one and said, "The remaining lines in these places are actually part of the teaching building in the middle."
What does this equate to?
This is equivalent to them wanting to find a milk tea shop on a street. The map clearly shows that the milk tea shop is right next to them, but it is very likely that there is only one telephone pole within a radius of 20 meters, and not even a manhole cover.
Just as they were trying to find a manhole cover, they saw the name of the milk tea shop at the end of the street 50 meters away. They were about to go there, but when they turned around, they found that there was another identical milk tea shop in the opposite direction!
It is known that there is only one milk tea shop on this street, so how should they walk to determine their location and reach the correct destination?
"Help, help! I haven't felt this desperate even when I was doing the linear algebra problems on my final exam." Guo Guo was in agony. "I can only pray now that the graduation exam copy has nothing to do with the university town itself."
After sighing twice, Guo Guo suddenly realized that the expressions of the other three people were not right. There seemed to be a hint of seriousness, and also a hint of... sympathy?
Wait! She immediately became alert:
"Don't tell me the next exam is really about the university town! No, didn't they say that we can't preview the questions in advance?"
There are so many copies to choose from, and not all of them are located in the university town. It can’t be such a coincidence!
"It's impossible to reveal the exam questions, but the knowledge points outlined must have their significance." Tang Xin Jue said, "Don't forget, the counselor has been reminding us throughout the entire process around the university town."
They have to prepare for the worst.
"Sizzle—"
It's eight o'clock.
The TV screen, flickering with snow, suddenly lit up. The Noseless Ghost sat in the studio, broadcasting in a serious tone:
"Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, the new students have already spent many happy days and nights studying in the University Town. On behalf of the Ministry of Education, we would like to congratulate you all and wish you all a more colorful university life..."
…
"Haha, it's really quite colorful."
Deep in the thick white fog, in a dilapidated, cramped boys' dormitory, three boys took turns boiling and applying medicine while frowning at the miniature, old TV on the table.
"What the hell is this game doing?" one of the boys spat. "We've been working our asses off for a month and finally just barely scratched the surface of getting into a top university. Isn't the game going to mess things up again?"
"Who knows? We can only bear it." Another boy shook his head. "Even if the game suddenly says it wants to wipe us out tomorrow, won't we just sit there and wait for death? Well, if we can just hold on a little longer, until we get into a university and our dorm ranking rises to the top 100... maybe we'll be closer to graduation."
"graduate?"
As if hearing something ridiculous, the boy in front of him twitched his lips. "Bullshit, this game! Graduation? It's just a lie! A C-level dungeon only adds a tiny amount of credits, and the mortality rate for B- and A-level dungeons is high. I've taken at least twenty exams in the past four weeks, and I've only earned half the credits. How long will it take?"
"Clearing the game is a big pie. We are indeed far from it, but that doesn't mean other dormitories are far away."
The third boy stopped the other two from complaining and signaled them to watch TV properly.
"Those dormitories ranked in the top 500, 100, or even the top 10, who knows how far they've advanced... What if?"
On TV, the camera has switched from the studio to a huge open stage.
"To celebrate this auspicious day, the TV station will present a documentary performance: 'College Life is Wonderful'. Please give it a round of applause!"
“Pah pah pah!”
In a clean little dorm, a girl with a bun-like hairstyle rushed out of the bathroom and clapped along with the host's voice. She quickly washed her hands and face, opened the box of instant noodles, and brought it to her desk, eating while staring intently at her phone.
She was alone in the empty dorm, without a TV or radio. But she used some special props to connect the TV signal to her mobile phone, giving the entire university town a taste of the "video website" experience in advance.
She quickly finished her instant noodles, wiped her mouth, picked up a small pink and blue notebook next to her phone, and quickly wrote down:
Ou Ruofei's 60th day diary: Today was another day I successfully dodged an exam. I ate two boxes of instant noodles. Good news: the TV station is back on! Something to watch on a boring night. I hope the signal doesn't get cut off mid-air, or I'll have to risk climbing over the firewall... Wow, the show has started!
On the big stage on the screen, a girl in a red dress ran up with her skirt lifted, and bowed to the screen:
"Hello everyone! I am Little Red Riding Hood. I will be performing a dance for you."
little Red Riding Hood?
In dormitory 606, Tang Xinjue and the other three looked at each other, and suddenly a bad premonition came to their hearts.
The entertainment industry in the university town does seem to be developing very poorly: after so much time, there is still only one artist, Little Red Riding Hood?
Will she throw her head out again while dancing this time?
As the melodious music played, Little Red Riding Hood held her hands to her chest and began to recite with emotion:
"Ah, this is my first day in the university town to enroll. What a wonderful day!"
"Here we have kind and gentle teachers, friendly and gentle classmates, rich and colorful courses, and my favorite - exams!"
The music became more passionate, and Little Red Riding Hood trotted to the other end of the stage. As she walked, the scenery changed from black to streets and buildings. At the end of the building, three towering buildings stood tall, reaching as far as the eye could see.
"Ah! What a lovely teaching building! Look, the teacher is leading the way for me at the door!"
Little Red Riding Hood walked happily towards a small gray eyeball about one meter tall at the door of the building, and was then punched away by the eyeball.
audience :"……"
Wait, how can an eyeball have a fist?
I saw his eyes and said coldly: "You don't have a student ID."
Little Red Riding Hood picked up her head and pulled out a bunch of IDs from her pocket. "I have this white ID, this gold ID, this silver ID, this black ID, and this red ID. Which one do you want?"
His eyes remained indifferent: "Old students are black, new students are white; first-year students are gold, second-year students are silver; the symbol of bad students is red - take the color that corresponds to the student you are."
Little Red Riding Hood took out her white student ID card and this time she was not hit and was able to enter the teaching building smoothly.
She sang again cheerfully:
"Ah! What a wonderful school! Look, the kind teacher is teaching me!"
Strolling into a classroom, another White Eyeball was handing out test papers at the podium, throwing one of them at Little Red Riding Hood's face: "It's time for the test! Answer the questions quickly, the papers will be collected in an hour!"
Little Red Riding Hood sang affectionately: "Ah! I don't know how to do it~"
She was about to pick up the paper and look at the questions carefully when the bell rang. White Eyeball jumped down and snatched her paper away: "Time is up, collect the papers."
little Red Riding Hood:"……"
"But teacher~ there's less than a minute left——"
The teacher snorted coldly: "I have the final say in my class. Time here is two hundred times faster. You fail!"
After she finished speaking, a huge millstone suddenly fell from the ceiling and crushed Little Red Riding Hood into a flat puddle. Fortunately, her head was faster than her body, and she rushed out of the screen and fell into dormitory 606.
606 four people: "..."
Tang Xin Jue reminded her: "Go back quickly, the kind teacher is waiting for you inside."
little Red Riding Hood:"……"
