Rather than simplicity, it would be more appropriate to describe this map as simple.
It simply outlined the highway, with a few signs like "Fast Food Restaurant," "Coffee Shop," and "Gas Station." The rest of the space was mostly blank.
At first glance, the rough and random lines on the paper could almost be called the work of a kindergarten child.
The convertible was open to the wind, and looking through the window, I saw that I was in the middle of a highway. To the left was a cliff with an invisible top, to the right was a thick mist, and in front of me there was no end in sight. And behind me...
Tang Xinjue opened the door and got out of the car to confirm, his eyes slightly narrowed.
Behind is a broken cliff.
The road seemed to be cut in half, with countless mists rising from the collapsed area, making it impossible to see what was on the other side. There was a sign on the side of the road with a sign saying "go ahead".
Below the sign it said: Highway Out of Town.
Tang Xinjue closed her eyes and let the perception in her sea of consciousness spread. However, when it came into contact with the mist, a sharp stinging sensation suddenly became stronger, forcing her to give up the perception.
Where does this tingling sensation come from?
She paused for a few seconds, then opened her phone with a serious look to check her physical condition.
The health value is full, the four-dimensional attributes and self-created skills are displayed normally, and there is no debuff.
[Mind Control (Level 1): The first step to control is self-control.]
Even mental control couldn't contain the pain in his sea of consciousness. It wasn't an attack from the outside, but he couldn't find the source...
Tang Xinjue felt it quietly for a while, rubbed his eyebrows and returned to the car.
The road ahead was relatively open, and she estimated her driving skills and thought she could probably drive on.
I stepped on the accelerator and the car started moving slowly on the road.
I thought it would be a long distance, but unexpectedly, in less than ten meters, the fog on both sides suddenly dissipated, and lush bushes appeared on the roadside.
"bite!"
A red pole suddenly appeared across the middle of the road, and a crisp bell rang from the left.
Tang Xinjue stepped on the brakes and turned his gaze towards the direction where the ringing sound came from - there was a small green building standing on the side of the road, like an upright rectangular box, which almost blended into the bushes if you didn't look closely.
A hand stretched out from the "box" and waved several times in the direction of the car.
Tang Xinjue drove slowly over the steering wheel and stopped next to the building.
The arm extended from a small window. When it retracted, the window was pulled upwards, revealing the face of a middle-aged man wearing a chef's hat.
The middle-aged man quickly glanced at Tang Xinjue, an exaggerated business smile appearing on his face, his bright red gums very eye-catching: "What a nice weather today."
The face disappeared, and a hand reached out from the small window again, this time holding a cup of coffee.
"Here's the chocolate coffee you ordered."
Looking up, above the small window, a word was spelled out with twisted wire on the top of the hut: COFFEE.
It looks like a small coffee shop on the side of the road, serving passing vehicles.
Tang Xin Jue didn't reach out to take it, but rested his fingers on his temples: "I've never ordered coffee from you."
The man in the kitchen hat bent down again, his exaggerated smile unchanged. "No, it's okay. Grandma Mayas will reimburse you."
Seeing that Tang Xinjue had no intention of taking the coffee, the man in the chef's hat maintained a fake smile and said, "This road is very long, and there are few places to rest and replenish supplies along the way. If you don't drink a cup of hot coffee, you won't be able to hold on."
Finally, the man in the kitchen hat reluctantly added, "...Replenishing your energy promptly is a requirement of the 'Road Trip Guidelines'."
This time, Tang Xinjue didn't detect any deceit or malice in the other person's face. She took the coffee and said, "Thank you."
The man in the chef's hat immediately withdrew his hand and muttered, "If those guys in the city find out, they'll definitely laugh at me and call me the kindest businessman in the world. Well, what can I do? I'm just a small business on the side of the highway."
Listening to the muttering coming from the small window, Tang Xinjue felt the tingling sensation in his head becoming more and more obvious.
An inexplicable sense of foreboding lingered in her heart, but she couldn't figure out why.
She lowered her head and took a sip of coffee. It was so sweet that it was sickening. The hot liquid instantly dispelled the chill brought by the wind.
There is a line of words printed on the outside of the paper cup:
[It all starts here]
After staring at the words for a while, Tang Xinjue raised his head and asked the man in the kitchen hat, "Excuse me, do you know where Grandma Mayas lives?"
As if not surprised by Tang Xinjue's question, the man in the kitchen hat quickly replied, "Go all the way to the end of this road. At the end is Grandma Mayas's house."
"But you have to go there quickly."
The small window was opened a crack again, and the man's lips moved as he spoke incoherently, "Mayas hates being late. Before dark... You don't want to know the consequences. Hurry up!"
Tang Xinjue stared at the other person without fear: "So, what time will it get dark here?"
"I think it's probably after 7pm." The man in the chef's hat calculated subconsciously, his smile faltering as he grew furious. "No, why should I tell you this? You didn't even pay me! You're a bunch of wicked college students... you only know how to bully an honest businessman like me... I hope you never go back to school!"
The window was angrily slammed shut and replaced with a menu, isolating the space inside.
Tang Xin Jue's eyes shifted to the menu. They only sold coffee here, and each cup was priced in a currency called "University Coins." For example, this chocolate coffee cost 5 University Coins.
She noticed that there were many pencil marks on the back of the product "Chocolate Coffee".
Seeing that the owner was not going to show up again, Tang Xinjue stepped on the accelerator and continued on his way.
The phone showed that it was 3 p.m., four hours before the 7 p.m. time the shop owner had promised. According to her current mission, she needed to find Grandma Mayas's house within four hours.
The green building gradually disappeared in the rearview mirror. The same trees remained on both sides of the road, and an ominous white mist spread among the trees, refusing the candidates to explore.
As far as the senses could reach, there was no sound except the sound of the wind, no living creatures, only a road that seemed to have no end in sight.
Tang Xinjue maintained a steady speed, observing the surroundings while thinking about information about the exam.
This time, unlike before, the four of them woke up at the same time in the dormitory - at least not from the perspective now.
The last time they were separated and acted alone was in the "Death Record of Class 3-1" copy. The four of them entered parallel spaces separately. Although they were in the same plot, they could not sense or contact each other.
If the situation is the same this time, everyone might have a task to "deliver local specialties to Grandma Mayas," and all four of them need to complete it to pass the exam...
The moment this hypothesis appeared, Tang Xinjue himself rejected it.
Because she is the only one in the whole dormitory who can drive.
If the other three people have the same task, they will be declared failed from the first step. There will be no deadlock for candidates in the exam.
His thoughts were turning and twisting, and his intuition and judgment told Tang Xinjue that the difficulty of this exam was not the "parallel space".
The other three were probably here, but she hadn't found them yet.
Everything has just begun, calm down. Tang Xinjue tapped the steering wheel with his fingers, admonishing himself mentally, suppressing the rising irritation, and focusing on driving.
The car continued to move forward, the shadows of trees swaying on both sides, looking at it for a long time, it seemed like the same road was copied and pasted over and over again. Apart from this, no other dangers appeared.
Tang Xinjue still maintained a high level of concentration and did not let his guard down at all.
Suddenly, a short figure emerged from the bushes, and the convertible braked suddenly and stopped in front of it!
The short figure fell to the ground due to inertia, but soon got up unharmed: it was a little boy with a crew cut, about five or six years old. He clapped his hands and was about to continue running forward.
Tang Xinjue watched the scene quietly in the car. She had no intention of taking any action. However, when her peripheral vision accidentally caught a glimpse of color, her eyes flashed and she honked the horn without thinking.
The loud noise made the child stop and turn around. Tang Xinjue then saw clearly: his face was blank, without any facial features.
And just as she had just caught a glimpse of it, the little boy was wearing a women's watch on his arm that looked out of place, exactly the same as the one Guo Guojin had worn before the exam.
How could Guo Guo's watch appear on someone else?
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