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"Bai Luo, why is it you..."

Shen Qiting suppressed the speechlessness in his heart and squeezed out each word from between his teeth.

But Bai Luo obviously couldn't sense Shen Qiting's emotions. He laughed and looked to the side: "Look, Xiao Linzi and the squad leader are here too!"

Lin Yuan/Su Mingya: "......"

"As soon as we saw you didn't reply to the message, we were worried about you and rushed over immediately! How is it? Are you surprised? Happy?" Bai Luo said.

Lin Yuan tapped Bai Luo's arm from behind, a little embarrassed: "You should say a few more words."

Bai Luo: “?”

"I feel like Shen Qiting is going to beat you up." Lin Yuan said sincerely. Although he didn't know why Shen Qiting was so upset, it was as if he had finally seen the climax of a drama, but someone forced him to shut down his computer.

Bai Luo blinked, somewhat confused about what Lin Yuan meant.

Shen Qiting took a deep breath and decided not to pay attention to Bai Luo, the fool. She turned to look at Su Mingya and Lin Yuan, who were reliable, and asked them expectantly: "Did you see anything special when you came in?"

"Something special" The two were stunned, and thought carefully for a moment, "Does it count if the librarian at the front desk is sleeping?"

"Oh, there seemed to be a male ghost just now." Su Mingya added, "He was chopping the door with an axe, as if he was going to break in. I thought he looked ugly, and I was afraid that he would disgust you, so I killed him... Tingting, is there something wrong?"

Chen Qiting closed his eyes, feeling hopeless: "Nothing, you are worthy of being my best friend."

I really feel the pain that she feels and worry about the worries that she has.

Now, the murderer’s soul has gone to hell, and now not even a trace of ashes is left. Where can she find the answers to the test questions?

I can only guess.

Since Ellie said his father was possessed by a demon, the normal answer should be the demon, right?

Never mind, let’s choose D first.

"Are you taking an exam?" Lin Yuan asked curiously.

As Shen Qiting wrote down the answer, the radio, which had been silent, started up again. It was still the stiff and rigid electronic sound, but for some reason, Shen Qiting heard some joy in it.

"Beep—"

"Wrong answer"

"What is the correct option?" Shen Qiting couldn't help but ask.

To her surprise, the ghost was very good-tempered and directly announced the correct answer: "B"

Shen Qiting: "...What a lousy drama!"

She cursed loudly.

"The candidate answered the first question incorrectly and will be punished—"

"Candidates are prohibited from talking to each other during the exam. You have violated Article 7 of the Y City Second Senior High School Library Rules and Regulations."

"By entering the examination room without permission, you have violated Article 10 of the Y City Second Senior High School Library Rules and Regulations."

"No noise is allowed in the library. You have violated Article 1 of the Y City Second Senior High School Library Rules and Regulations."

"If the examinee has committed serious violations, the punishment will be doubled!"

Shen Qiting: "..."

It's fine that making noise is prohibited in the library, but if you include whispering in the library rules and regulations, it might cause big problems - who would take the exam in the library?

"Beep, since the exam order has been disrupted, this exam will be restarted. The three people who strayed in will automatically be classified as candidates, and the exam rules will be changed again."

"This round of exams will be conducted in a confrontational mode. Four people can form teams and compete against each other to answer questions. The one with the highest score will win. The winner can escape punishment and leave the library. The loser will receive ten times the punishment and complete fifty exam papers."

"What is this?!" Bai Luo's eyes sparkled, and he seemed very excited: "It's a bit like the rule-based horror stories that were very popular on the Internet before! Is that it?!"

"Is it the one with the zoo, rabbits, and white lions?" Lin Yuan also took a look at it and showed a curious expression.

In contrast, Su Mingya, who has a more old-fashioned lifestyle, looked confused: "What is a rule-based weird talk?"

"Monitor, you really need to understand the trends of young people." Bai Luo patted her shoulder and said sincerely: "Monitor, use your smartphone more often, and stop thinking about the 36 ways to cook chicken all day long."

"To put it simply, it gives you a set of rules with many contradictions and conflicts. There is often a horror story hidden behind this rule, and you need to find a way to escape through this rule." Lin Yuan briefly explained: "For example, the library rules and regulations that this broadcast has been mentioning. It says that no noise is allowed in the library, so if I violate this rule, I will be punished. But sometimes it will deliberately set up some smoke bombs to lure you into the trap, making the rules fall into a dead loop..."

One of them explained while the other listened. On the other side, Bai Luo and Shen Qiting also started their conversation.

"Lin Yuan said you were angry just now. What were you angry about?"

"My exam requires me to find the real murderer from the murder case that happened." Shen Qiting told the first half of the story again: "As a result, when her father was about to come in, the three of you broke into the house and killed her father in the process."

Bai Luo: "...What about the murderer?"

Shen Qiting: “Her mother.”

"What a crappy movie!" Bai Luo cursed.

Shen Qiting nodded: "That's what I cursed too."

The entire examination room was carefully designed. Bai Luo and the other three were expected to fall into fear because of the rules of the game, or to be dumbfounded for a moment in order to escape from the fighting ghosts.

How did these four people start chatting?

"Attention, four examinees! The exam is about to begin! Please quickly split into teams and do not whisper to each other!"

The stiff mechanical voice finally took on a fierce tone.

The four people who were chatting animatedly raised their heads at the same time and looked in the direction of the broadcast.

The air was quiet for three seconds, then became lively again.

"No noise allowed in the library—"

If the voice of the broadcast before was just anger, now its voice has risen like a scream.

"The exam rules have changed!" The vengeful spirit said angrily, "Team formation is cancelled, and the exam is about to begin. There are ten questions in total, and the one who answers the most correctly wins. The winner can leave the library, and the other candidates——"

The ghost's voice suddenly became sinister: "——Die!"

Su Mingya: "...Oh."

Bai Luo: "Does it really think it can trap us with this broken barrier?"

Lin Yuan: "So it's pretty smart. It knows it may not be our opponent, so it pretends to be very powerful and instigates us to kill each other. Well, do you think it thinks we are fools?"

Bai Luo: "Who knows? Do we look like fools?"

Lin Yuan: "Hahaha, don't you look like one?"

Bai Luo: “Hahaha, get lost!”

Shen Qiting: "..."

How should I put it? I suddenly felt that it was quite pitiful for this vengeful spirit to meet them.

I clearly just wanted to help people improve on their exams, but now I’m forced to play a life-and-death game like “One Step to the End”.

How could such a vengeful spirit go crazy?

But when you meet their class, one of them, whether human or ghost, will go crazy.

"So do we still need to take the exam?" Su Mingya asked, "I still have a page of math homework to do. If you don't want to play, I'll go back first."

"How about we join in?" Lin Yuan, the softest of the four, said tentatively, "I think this vengeful spirit is quite pitiful."

"Of course I will!" Bai Luo said without hesitation: "What else can be more interesting than going back to the classroom for evening self-study?"

This sentence was unanimously recognized by the three people including Shen Qiting.

"Okay, then how are you going to take the exam?" Bai Luo raised his head and asked the ghost directly.

The vengeful spirit did not answer him, but the scene around him distorted again as Bai Luo uttered his last word.

This time, the dilapidated library was transformed into a medieval castle. Several maids in black and white knee-length skirts walked up to the four people with a proper smile and bowed to them.

"Young Masters and Young Ladies, the room is ready for you. Please follow me."

Bai Luo, Lin Yuan and Su Mingya exchanged glances, a little surprised.

Judging from the magic power of the vengeful spirit before, it seems that its magic power was not enough to create such a large illusion. Although the expressions of these maids were stiff, like puppets being controlled by others, you have to know that it has only been a few days since the magic power was revived. Even because of them, No. 2 Middle School is like a gathering array that continuously absorbs magic power. But you have to know that once the magic power gathers in No. 2 Middle School, it will be absorbed by them immediately. It will take a long time to gather to the same concentration again.

But even if the magic power gathered for a moment, the magic power concentration of No. 2 Middle School at its most concentrated moment was far less than that of any random rural town in Parnatki.

——The concentration of magic power remaining after Team Nine absorbed it was more than fifty times the average concentration on Earth.

Although this is the first time that the Earth has been exposed to magic, and it is easier for it to mutate than the Parnaqui creatures that have long been accustomed to high concentrations of magic, the speed of this mutation and the speed of its power evolution are really too fast.

Could it be that when the four of them came to the library, they also attracted a lot of magical power?

But can such a small amount of magic power really increase the power of the vengeful spirits so quickly?

Shen Qiting: "...Is there a possibility that it is just mad?"

Bai Luo touched his chin and couldn't help but sigh: "Tiao Ma is right. Anger can not only ignite the fire of death, but also enhance magic power and promote mutation."

Lin Yuan: "...That's enough!"

...

The four followed the maid upstairs, walked through the long corridor, and stopped at four adjacent rooms: "Masters and young ladies, you can rest in your rooms first. We will come to notify you before the banquet starts."

Before he finished speaking, an old-fashioned clock deep in the corridor struck three times, informing the four of the current time: four o'clock in the afternoon.

"What time did we come to the library?" Lin Yuan asked.

"Six o'clock, maybe half past six." Su Mingya tilted her head and thought for a while, then said uncertainly.

"What time is it now? I didn't bring my phone." Bai Luo asked, "Our evening study session ends at 9:30, and I don't want to stay here until midnight."

"Don't worry. If the exam is not over by then, we can just remove the barrier violently and capture the evil spirits." Su Mingya said, "Let's just have fun now. But I didn't bring my phone, did you, Lin Yuan?"

Lin Yuan said: "I just put it on the table in the library, and now it has been moved outside the barrier. I am not good at space magic, and I am afraid that I will accidentally destroy the barrier."

Chen Qiting thought that the four of them really came here to play escape room. He once again expressed pity for the vengeful spirit, and Chen Qiting drew a line in the air with his right index finger. The invisible space was like a zippered handbag, revealing a hole two hands wide. Chen Qiting reached his hand in, touched it carefully, and quickly took out a mobile phone.

"Six fifty-four." Chen Qiting glanced at the phone screen: "The speed of time in the barrier has not been adjusted. We can only stay for two and a half hours at most."

"It's a bit lame." Bai Luo urged: "Why don't you help this vengeful spirit? It's so well-shaped, it's probably a world directly separated and constructed from the novel, there may be many interesting elements, it's a waste to only play for two and a half hours."

Chen Qiting was speechless: "What do you think of this vengeful spirit? But..." She thought for a moment: "Didn't Yaya have an interest in opening a script-killing game or a secret room in Y City? You think it would be a good idea for me to collect this vengeful spirit and let it work for Yaya."

"I Have a House of Horrors?" Bai Luo couldn't help but ask: "Would this be considered an over-borrowing?"

Shen Qiting: "..."

...

Perhaps it was because the four of them were too good at talking nonsense, and the topic kept going off topic, wasting time. The vengeful spirit who was originally prepared to hide in the dark and watch the four of them arguing had to remind them: "The exam time is limited, please hurry up and finish the exam."

"They said we would take an exam, but what would we be tested on?" Lin Yuan asked.

"Didn't the maid just tell us to go into the room to rest? Why don't we go in and take a look first? Maybe there may be some clues." Su Mingya speculated.

The four of them pushed open the doors of their rooms together, and what they saw were four rooms with different styles.

"You really put a lot of thought into it." Bai Luo exclaimed in praise.

With the limited magic power of the Earth, this vengeful spirit has achieved such a level. It is not easy at all, and it can even be said to be very outstanding.

If it is given enough time to cultivate, its achievements will not be underestimated in the future, and it may be possible to create a small world of its own.

By the way, when magic power is more abundant in the future, it would be much more interesting if some XX novel website, Pilipala, or the servers storing data of major game companies mutated due to magic power.

If you meet some gifted people, you might be able to imitate the popular infinite flow novels nowadays and create interesting things such as "The Lord's Space" and "I'm broadcasting live in the infinite flow world".

Stop it, stop it, you only have two and a half hours to do it, don’t waste time!

Bai Luo shook his head and quickly put away his wandering thoughts. He quickly scanned the entire room and soon found a test paper on the desk on the right.

"Question 1: How many rooms are there in Youlan Mansion?"

"A: 10 rooms; B: 12 ​​rooms; C: 15 rooms; D: 20 rooms"

"Second question..."

The first seven questions seem to be ordinary routine questions and there is nothing difficult about them.

Until the last three short answer questions appeared.

"Question 8: What is the Duchess's secret?"

"Question 9: What is depicted in the painting in the Duchess's room?"

"Question 10: How can one escape from Youlan Mansion?"

There was a dip pen and a box of ink next to it.

Bai Luo picked up the ink, which contained a sticky black and red liquid that did not look like ordinary ink.

"Disguised as plasma? Isn't it a bit outdated to scare me in this way?" Bai Luo muttered, and with a flip of his right hand, an exquisite golden dice appeared in his palm.

——This is the projection of Bai Luo's magic weapon "Dice of Destiny" created on the earth through magic. It does not have any magical power and will not have any impact on destiny. It is simply used as a dice.

Bai Luo tossed the dice lightly on the table. The dice rolled a few times on the table and stood steadily.

The number 『C』.

"It's worthy of being my dice. These options are very much in my style!" Bai Luo exclaimed. He picked up the pen and dipped it in the ink bottle. Without caring whether the answer was right or wrong, he quickly filled in the answers on the test paper.

——He came to the castle to have fun, not to waste time doing these tests. Why go to so much trouble for something that can be decided by dice?

The evil spirit hidden in the dark: "???"

What is this person doing?

What does he want to do?

Unfortunately, the wisdom of the vengeful spirit has not evolved to the level where it can freely decide the fate of the four people with its own consciousness. It can only let them complete the exam and accept the punishment according to the templated process.

Otherwise, from the moment it noticed that Bai Luo and the other two possessed magic that could easily erase the "ghosts" it created, it should have immediately sent the four of them out of the library and never received guests again.

At this moment, in other rooms, Lin Yuan and the other two, who had just received the test papers and were reading the questions, heard the speakers above their heads suddenly turn on. The familiar and even somewhat friendly electronic sounds filled the entire castle.

"Examinee Bai Luo has handed in his paper. The test scores will now be announced."

"Candidate Bai Luo: Zero points!"

"Candidate Bai Luo has failed the exam. The punishment is about to begin. Please be prepared."

The other three: "......"

Bai Luo, who had just put down his pen when he heard his score, raised his eyebrows and showed an excited expression: "Then can I designate other candidates to accept the punishment with me?"

Wraith: “???”