This is the third time I have submitted the exam paper for this subject.
In this class full of poor students, it is almost impossible for someone to get full marks. The students here do exercises over and over again, repeating this endless exam and witnessing the death of their classmates one by one.
They may have collapsed, despaired, tried hard and gave up, until now they have become a stagnant pool.
Mingqiao trusts Shi Xin and hands the place over to him, and he must rescue these children.
The moment the two invigilators left the room, Shi Xin couldn't wait to get up from his seat and follow them.
He has already mastered some basic rules of this exam. Now if he wants to find more clues, he can't just stay in this small classroom.
Moreover, Mingqiao's affairs were becoming more and more strange. The longer time passed, the more uneasy Xin felt. He had to find the real Mingqiao immediately, or at least confirm his safety.
He followed the two invigilators out of the classroom.
They walked very fast, and in the short time that Shi Xin chased out of the classroom, they had already reached the end of the stairs on the other side.
Shi Xin carefully observed the corridors around him as he walked, and after confirming that there was no danger, he quickly ran over.
But just as he reached the stairs, before he could see where the two people were going, he was pulled into a small utility room in the stairwell by a strong force.
It was dark and damp in here, and the air was mixed with the disgusting sour smell of garbage. As the door closed, countless tiny dust particles rose and fell.
Shi Xin subconsciously tried to break free from the force. His wrists were still bound, and he heard a familiar voice in his ears: "Don't move."
It’s Mingqiao’s voice!
But this small utility room contained a lot of cleaning tools, leaving little space for the two to move around. When Shi Xin was pulled in, he was facing the wall, and now he couldn't even turn around to look at Ming Qiao.
His heart was beating like a drum.
This Mingqiao is still not the real Mingqiao. This is Shi Xin's first judgment after he calmed down - Mingqiao has mysophobia, and he would not choose this small storage room to talk to him.
But even if he went out now, he had missed the best time and could not catch up with the fake Mingqiao No. 1 who was invigilating the exam. It would be better for him to stay here and see what this Mingqiao would tell him.
"Why did you come out?" asked the fake Mingqiao No. 2.
"I'm looking for you." Shi Xin answered casually.
Fake Mingqiao No. 2 did not respond to his answer, as if ending the planned greeting: "Keep quiet and listen to me."
“Students can unite.”
"Don't be afraid of death, it's fake."
"All students are real, and some teachers are fake." Fake Mingqiao No. 2 paused for a long time after saying this. When Shi Xin thought he had finished speaking, he continued, "I am fake."
Shi Xin had already guessed his identity before, so he was not surprised by the last sentence, but he also guessed that these fake Mingqiao might have been made by the real Mingqiao specifically to serve as mouthpieces.
He felt the warm breath on his neck and said slowly: "Ming Qiao, you want to save everyone in this school, but I only want to save you. I am here because you are here."
He was testing and also betting that Mingqiao could hear what he said.
The fake Mingqiao behind him was so quiet that only his breathing remained. Shi Xin asked himself, "Are you safe?"
The fake Mingqiao just said "hmm" briefly: "There are no clues you want outside."
Shi Xin heard that someone wanted to chase him away, but he didn't move for the time being. However, the fake Mingqiao behind him seemed to be unable to hold back and pushed him hard to go out together.
Just as the two were about to break out of the door, Shi Xin suddenly turned around and asked, "Ming Qiao, where are you?"
"Goodbye." The fake Mingqiao couldn't answer his sudden and unexpected question, and ran away in a hurry.
Shi Xin stood there, his fists slowly clenched, but he also breathed a sigh of relief.
As long as there is a fake Mingqiao who can come out to deliver the letter, it means that the real Mingqiao has not encountered any major accidents, and he believes that Mingqiao has found the key thing, otherwise there would be no need to create these fake Mingqiao to cover up.
The key point is that this time the clues provided by the fake Mingqiao gave him new hints.
Xin had already thought of the idea that students can unite this, but if we continue to combine it with the idea of not being afraid of death, we can come up with something new.
The problems that had been bothering him before were nothing more than two points: one was that people kept dying, and the other was that the rules could not be explored.
If what Mingqiao said is true and the death is fake, it means that the students who violate the rules will not die, but their "fake death" can bring new rules.
The key is that a person can only die once, which is equivalent to a consumable. If you want to continue to explore the rules, people must continue to die.
Letting a group of minors sacrifice themselves in exchange for rules so that other students can continue to live is simply an impossible fairy tale.
Besides, the students here were not familiar with him, and it sounded ridiculous and absurd for him to suddenly rush out and ask the students to take risks as a stranger.
This is a big gamble.
But maybe he could wait until tomorrow when he meets Jiang Su and the others to discuss and think of a solution.
Shi Xin returned to the exam classroom.
The students in the class did not give him the silent salute as usual. When they saw him push the door open, they pushed a boy out from the crowd.
Shi Xin knew him; he was the boy sitting near the door.
"I...you...outside..."
Shi Xin looked at him and helped him finish his words: "You were sent out to ask me about the situation outside?"
The boy nodded quickly.
Shi Xin thought for a moment and said, "It's safe outside for now. We now have a few rules that we already know. We should try to avoid them as much as possible and not do unnecessary things. As for the exams, cheating is not expressly prohibited in junior high school exams. We can discuss the correct answers together after the exam, which will also help to quickly finish an exam."
"But we are all poor students." Someone in the crowd said, "No one in our class can come up with a correct answer."
"Eliminating mistakes is also a way to find the right method." Shi Xin gave a timely chicken soup: "I was also a poor student in junior high school, but I was still able to get into a key university later, so don't give up easily. Poor students also have great energy. Besides, there is strength in unity."
His words made many people laugh, and the atmosphere was finally less solemn. It also gave this group of poor students an idea: since they can't get the correct answer, why not just find the wrong answer? After all, what they are best at is avoiding all the correct answers in the exam!
There were still two minutes before the next exam started, and Shi Xin returned to his seat. But before he could even get comfortable, he heard a commotion coming from the corridor outside.
"A fight has broken out!" The boy sitting at the door couldn't help but pry open a crack in the door and look outside: "Several students are fighting."
"Students fighting?" Shi Xin was puzzled. Normally, the students would be too busy to fight each other in this situation. He took two quick steps to the door, and just as he was about to open it and go out, he was pulled back by the boy who had just spoken.
"Don't go out," the boy asked him, "Everyone said that the school is haunted recently, which is why we are trapped here for six days and can't get out."
"Haunted?" Shi Xin was puzzled: "But from what I have learned recently, it is the new principal who caused all this."
"What?" Another girl came up and said, "It's a ghost. Two people jumped off the building and died a while ago. It must have come back to take revenge."
Another added: "The school was originally built on a cemetery. I see more than two ghosts."
"Don't be superstitious." Shi Xin hurriedly pushed back several students who had gathered to stop him: "Stay here, I'll go take a look."
Seeing that they couldn't stop him, everyone didn't make much effort. After all, they didn't know each other well, and with the sudden appearance of a capable person like Shi Xin, it would be beneficial to collect some information.
As soon as Shi Xin came out of the classroom, he saw the source of the commotion from afar. A dozen students in school uniforms were wrestling on the ground. They had fierce and ferocious expressions and were waving their fists wildly. The muffled sound of punches hitting flesh and the sound of bones breaking made people's scalps numb. The large-scale movements of more than a dozen people also blocked the originally narrow corridor.
Eight or nine invigilators were blocked at the stairs by them. Some of them were holding brown paper bags containing test papers and answer sheets, and were turning around anxiously.
Shi Xin stood in the dark and observed.
The fake Mingqiao said that some teachers were fake. Just like the fake Mingqiao No. 1 and the fake Mingqiao No. 2, although they looked and sounded the same as the real Mingqiao, people who were familiar with them could easily tell them apart.
Among the invigilators, some were calm and composed, watching everything with cold eyes, while others were so anxious that they jumped over the wall. If they were not afraid of being hurt by the group of students, they might have even flown into the sky.
The normal thinking should be that those anxious teachers are genuine because they are fulfilling their responsibilities as a teacher seriously. Now is exam time, and they should appear in the classroom with the test papers and answer sheets.
But now the situation is completely reversed. Shi Xin thinks that those calm invigilators are real teachers. Just imagine that they have personally invigilated for so many days and witnessed the death of their students. How can they look forward to these life-threatening exams?
The riot lasted for a long time and even attracted more invigilators to come out and watch.
Some students couldn't wait any longer and rushed out of the classroom, holding up tables, chairs and benches and shouting:
"Kill these teachers and we can escape!"
More and more people responded, filling up the entire corridor.
The group of fighting students had already stopped without anyone noticing, and Shi Xin then realized that they were deliberately using this method to attract attention.
Although there are some sacrifices, the effect is obviously very good.
Shi Xin had already slipped into the vicinity of the stairs before the crowd rushed out of the classroom.
Now, these real and fake invigilators were only an arm's length away from him.
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