Chapter 68 Shugao Girls’ High School 28

This system announcement was also transmitted to other people in the team. The second time, the questions were shared by students and teachers, unlike the last time when there were two levels of difficulty. In other words, all participants, including Jiang Yuelu, lost.

The health value is decreasing too fast...

Generally speaking, the deterioration rate will not be so fast that it will be completely eliminated in the blink of an eye, which will leave a certain amount of time buffer for the test taker.

However, after six consecutive reports, the situation was getting worse with each warning, which was beyond anyone's expectations.

Xie Xiaoya didn't come back to her senses for a long time, "Just now... it wasn't just my hallucination, right?"

Xu Li shook his head. "I heard it too. The system said that our second answer..."

Failed?

Is this a failure?

How many seconds? Five seconds?

They didn't even do anything, just stood there and faced the most tragic defeat.

Everyone present was a top student in the school and had never suffered such a blow. You have to know that "Shugao Girls' High School" was just a small examination hall right after the entrance examination. Before the upgrade, "Paper Man City" was a C-level difficulty, and "Shugao Girls' High School" was at most a B-, which was slightly lower in difficulty.

Normally, they could get through the third question with their eyes closed. Now, before the third question, the most difficult one, appeared, they had already completely missed a big question. This was a whole question!

"Xu Li..." Xie Xiaoya said uncertainly: "Do you feel that the difficulty of the exam has increased? The second round of questions are different from what we heard before."

Shugao Girls' High School is not a new exam venue, which means that there will definitely be strategies from predecessors. Although the academy does not encourage such cheating, as long as you are determined, you can still find detailed reference materials at a high price in the 18 shops in Fallen Street.

What's more, among them are young ladies from powerful families like Fu Mengru and Leng Wenhan. And because the focus of this mission is to capture the escaped Ghost City Lord Ji Hongcha, Vice President Leng Jingshan provided a lot of reference materials before leaving.

But after entering the examination room, they found that only about a quarter of the detailed information was consistent with the actual situation. For example, the topography of the snow forest, the location of the girls' high school, the teacher they were going to report to the girls' high school, and the existence of the Moon Altar priest... these basic information were consistent, but things like the Moon River Cemetery, the Heavenly Book, the Tree Man Skull, the Funeral Ground... were not recorded in the information at all.

Of course, they would not question the professionalism of the vice president. He must have given the information about the examination room of "Shu Ren Girls' High School" based on past reports. But what if there are new changes in the examination room? Before this, there was already an example of upgrading "Paper Man City" to A grade.

If Qin Xue brought new changes to Yitou Town, then Ji Hongcha...could it be the initiator of the "rebirth" of Xuelin Girls' High School?

With the leap in the exam room level, they would definitely get higher scores at the end of the evaluation, and might even break the record of "Shu Ren Girls' High School". But they didn't feel happy at all.

"If that's the case, then it's bad." Xu Li's face was livid. "We don't know how difficult it is, A? Or S? If we don't know, it will be difficult to make a perfect response. And..."

She didn't finish her words, a heavy shadow looming over her heart.

first.

This was the first time she heard the system ruthlessly announce in the examination room: [Failed to answer the question]. Failure, this word is very negative, and the consequences of failure are too serious, especially in an exam where deductions and scores are crucial.

Two minutes.

The system had been silent for two minutes. In every exam she had taken, whether she answered correctly or incorrectly, the system would take a relatively objective standpoint and give the next instructions. But now, it had not spoken for a long, long time. This silence followed the word "failure", which made people feel extremely heavy.

Being in the examination room is like taking a real test paper, and the scoring will start after the end.

Will the examiner follow your answering steps closely to mark your papers?

At this moment, Xu Li felt as if the system was drawing crosses over and over again with a red pen, and finally wrote down four big bloody words: [Failed to answer the question].

As if to further hit her, the system suddenly spoke and read out their names and Jiang Yuelu's names, [Xu Li, Fu Mengru, Xie Xiaoya, Xu...]

Its tone was flat and extremely cold, totally different from the usual attentive weather check-ins. [You failed to protect the girls' high school students and made them sacrifices. You betrayed the trust of the academy and let this mission end with regret. You should have been representatives and role models, but you didn't even get a single point.]

Three consecutive questions slapped them hard on the face. Xie Xiaoya closed her eyes tightly, clenched her hands into fists, and just as she was about to open her mouth to defend herself, she heard another heavy hammer falling.

The college is very disappointed in you.

Her fists loosened and her shoulders slowly slumped.

[Will your people be disappointed with this kind of result? Won't the tribe gods you worship be disappointed?] Xie Xiaoya unconsciously clenched her fists. She painfully discovered that her strength seemed to be slowly draining away.

Disappointed. The god their tribe worshipped was truly disappointed.

He was shaking his head, withdrawing the divine power that was bestowed upon him. Tears flowed madly, and shame and regret were like waves that extinguished her. Unconsciously, people filled up the area around her. The teachers, tribesmen, and classmates who had praised her stood in a circle, looking at her with condemning eyes, like insurmountable walls staring down at her.

The high walls and the waves rose and fell one after another, not giving her any chance to breathe. She cried out in pain: "...I'm sorry."

Only an apology would make her feel better.

However, she despairingly discovered that she, who was at the center of the storm, was clearly begging them to stop scolding her. But she, who listened to the teachings of God day after day, could not say anything to resist. Even so, her instinct was still to whisper for help.

Help me, someone come... someone come... help me.

At this moment, a burst of crisp applause suddenly sounded from the gaps between the waves and reached her ears from the other side of the wall.

She raised her tearful eyes and vaguely found herself still in the Moon Altar. The invisible waves and walls had disappeared, and there were no teachers or classmates in front of her. They were all illusions.

The person who led her out of the illusion was not far away. He was not affected, calm and relaxed, clapping his hands lazily, as if he had watched a good play in the best theater.

Jiang Yuelu was clapping slowly, "A few words can break people's hearts, it's worthy of the school's system."

The system said ruthlessly: [Candidate Jiang Yuelu, your mistake is the most serious. As a teacher, you should protect all students, but they were used as sacrifices by the priests in front of you. Don’t you have any guilt or shame? ]

"Oh." Jiang Yuelu said, "The academy captured my brother and sister, and made me go deep into the danger to be a teacher in this ghost forest. They assigned me the task of saving thousands of people by myself. What should I apologize for? Apologize for my brother and sister's disappearance? Apologize for not being able to enjoy my life at home?"

The system slowly discovered that it seemed to have bitten off a hard bone, and one bite could break a mouthful of teeth.

Jiang Yuelu didn't give it time to answer, and asked relentlessly: "What about you?"

"As a system, you should maintain your neutral position, but you repeatedly interfered with the students, using words comparable to those of a PUA master to break their physical and mental defenses. Don't you have any guilt or shame for failing to do your job to this extent?"

[If you answer the questions correctly, you can continue. If you answer the questions incorrectly, you will stop. Any exam, any system, will follow the rules.]

Jiang Yuelu suddenly realized: "Oh, follow the rules."

"That's right." He said, "But I don't recognize your rules."

The system was silent for a few seconds, [You don't recognize it? ]

"Yes. I don't recognize your rules, and I don't recognize your failure in answering the questions."

The system laughed, [Candidate Jiang Yuelu, answering the questions incorrectly does not make you a rogue...]

Jiang Yuelu ignored him and looked at Xie Xiaoya. The girl with tears on her face was as devastated as the other students. He seemed to see her raise her head... Jiang Yuelu tried to call her name a few times, but the girl didn't respond and her tears flowed even more violently.

[It's useless. They still have awe for the academy and the gods, know how to repent, know how to be embarrassed, know--]

Jiang Yuelu interrupted, "Okay, okay, stop PUAing me. Forget it."

He lowered his body slightly, asked Xie Xiaoya and the others to look him in the eye, and said quickly and in a low voice: "If your awe is directed at the system under the jurisdiction of the academy, then you can rest assured that it is not a system you are familiar with at all."

"But a fake one."

There was a long silence.

System: [I don’t understand why you say that]

Jiang Yuelu stood up and said, "I suffered a loss once in Iron Town, and it won't happen again."

The scene of Madam Zhu repeatedly twisting the subject is still vivid in her mind, and Ji Hongcha, whom she called the master, secretly replaced the Shenyin heard by Lin Shenyin.

"Yuki Hongcha is here, I have to be on guard. She is really an expert at taking the blame." Jiang Yuelu said: "And what you did was too obvious."

"The assignment you gave me was to protect all the students and lead them out of the snow forest. And the priest's action tonight was to sacrifice all the students and send them to the underworld. This assignment, which leaves no chance of survival, is just short of having 'want us to die' written all over it."

As he explained, the regret on the faces of the others gradually turned into confusion, and soon turned into anger, "...You actually used the academy's system. You are quite courageous."

"Tell me! Are you Ji Hongcha?"

After a long time, "Uh..." Xie Xiaoya turned around and said, "Did this thing run away?"

Jiang Yuelu: "It looks like it."

Xu Li wiped his face and said, "It doesn't look like Ji Hongcha's high-profile style. It's more likely that the priest is manipulating it. Hmm... what do you think?"

Jiang Yuelu glanced at Xu Li. If he remembered correctly, this was the first time Xu Li sincerely asked for his opinion. "I think so too."

Xu Li heaved a sigh of relief and began to explain his plan in detail: "We'd better split into two teams. One team will track down the whereabouts of the real system and quickly find the real second and third questions. The other team will go to Yuehe Cemetery. The priest should have gone to meet up with his accomplices. We have to rush over to stop him."

"Okay. Let's go." Xu Li quickly counted the number of people, and under her arrangement, everyone walked towards the main entrance of the hall one after another.

After walking a long way, Xu Li turned around and found Jiang Yuelu still standing there alone. He said in surprise: "Let's go, we are in a hurry."

Jiang Yuelu shook her head and said, "I want to stay here."

As he spoke, he slowly walked in the hall. In such an urgent situation, he was still in the mood to take a walk. Someone couldn't help but say, "Don't make trouble if you can't help. Xu Li has already made a plan, we have to execute it as soon as possible according to what she said."

Jiang Yuelu walked around absentmindedly, "Your plan may not be correct. Why should I carry it out?"

"You...are you feeling complacent just because you performed a little better?" Xu Li stopped the indignant girl and asked Jiang Yuelu, "Do you think I'm wrong?"

"Not just wrong. Dead wrong."

Xu Li: "Then I want to hear your opinion."

"Well. I don't think the priest will leave the Moon Altar and go to the cemetery. If I'm not mistaken, he should still be here." Jiang Yuelu knocked on a stone, "Hey, it seems to be this." After that, a fire talisman was pulled out, which blew the bricks and stones into pieces. A spiral corridor appeared in front of him, bottomless, and no one knew where it led to.

Xu Li was skeptical, "He's down there?"

"You can say it is. You can also say it is not." Jiang Yuelu said: "He is below, above, beside, and all around."

"I'm sorry, I don't quite understand."

Jiang Yuelu suddenly said, "The Treeman Skull once told me a story, 'The High Priest has two faces, one gloomy and the other bright and the other uncertain', do you remember?"

Xu Li: "Well, I remember it, but it has nothing to do with where he is."

"It's a big deal." Jiang Yuelu sighed, "All the news is not groundless. The students from the girls' high school said that he has two faces for a reason."

"I went to the Treeman's Skull to ask around, and I found out that the story goes like this. Sometimes when the girls' high school students come to the Moon Altar, the priest will talk a lot and be very enthusiastic. But sometimes, he won't say a word. That's why they say he's moody."

"Is there a possibility that the reason why he was said to be moody was because he happened to hear the girl's question when he was passionate, so he responded, and the other silent state was because he didn't hear it?"

Xu Li: "It's possible that he is not at the Moon Altar. He went out. Uh..."

Jiang Yuelu: "You discovered it too."

"This high priest left no record of his appearance. No one had ever seen him. The only thing that could prove his existence was that he could speak. And every time he spoke, it was at the Moon Altar. Even the rumor about his mood swings was based on whether he was heard speaking or not at the Moon Altar, not whether he was seen in person."

"Some people think that this is due to the mystery of the High Priest, but considering all the factors, I think there may be another reason."

Xu Li couldn't help but say: "You mean..."

"Haven't you realized it yet? Our High Priest has perhaps merged with the entire building. The bricks and stones are him, the flowing water is him, his voice is everywhere, and he knows everything about us." Jiang Yuelu paused, "This is why he has never left the Moon Altar in the past ten years."