"Don't panic yet."
Tang Xinjue picked up the whiteboard and calmed the frightened crowd.
Panic cannot solve the problem. There is too much information in the situation now, and they need to sort it out one by one.
"The first thing that is certain is that we failed the health inspection."
The judgment on the whiteboard was bright red, announcing everyone's failure.
But to their surprise, failure did not result in death or monster attacks, only a general [confinement penalty].
"Secondly, based on the hints in the exam information, we can guess that there will most likely be a second exam tomorrow."
Tang Xinjue read the information on the screen several times before putting down the phone. "So now we need to clarify two points."
"One, why did we fail this time? Two, how can we safely wait until tomorrow's inspection?"
…
After accepting the reality, everyone felt complicated.
After a busy and tense morning, it all ended in vain, and anyone would be disappointed to face the unknown confinement ahead.
But on the bright side, aside from a few minor harassments, the entire process was surprisingly safe. With all 16 people standing here intact and the task at hand undemanding, it was already safer than most exams they had taken.
"By the way, have you seen the inspectors?" No. 11 asked.
"Don't mention it. Just now, everything went black in front of my eyes, my head was buzzing and I heard a lot of fuzzy noises. Then the pain was so severe that I almost fainted. When I opened my eyes, it was now." Several roommates of No. 11 looked frustrated.
Everyone's answers were largely the same. At 11 o'clock, everyone was simultaneously dragged into a memory that didn't belong to them, or rather, a hallucination. When they woke up, everything was over, and there wasn't even a trace of the "Student Union" to be seen.
"That's strange." Jiang Lan muttered to herself, "Just because the inspector hasn't shown up, does that mean there's no danger?"
The "sanitation inspection" that was repeatedly emphasized by various clues was thought to be the most dangerous moment, but it ended so abruptly without even a hint, leaving them with no way to change it...
No, there are hints!
Jiang Lan suddenly clapped her hands: "Let's write down everything we heard in the hallucination. Maybe there is a reason in it!"
"ah?"
Number 11 and his roommate looked at each other, all four of them bewildered. "You guys can still hear complete sentences? But we only hear incomprehensible noises."
Tang Xinjue suddenly raised his eyes and met Jiang Lan's surprised gaze, as if he understood something.
Ten minutes later.
Zhang You contributed a few pieces of paper from his pocket, and everyone repeated everything they had just felt in their heads into words. However, only 10 people wrote down the specific content.
Tang Xin Jue put these papers together and scanned them, and came up with the following comparison results:
From the 11th to the 16th, no clear sentences were heard, only vague sounds, and no useful information could be extracted.
Starting from No. 10, the girls could hear the vague conversation and remember the words, but they could not form a sentence or tell who was talking to whom... This was the case for everyone, including Zhang You until No. 5.
The only exception was Guo Guo. Perhaps because she had the Yin-Yang Eyes, although she couldn't hear clearly, she could "see" the picture and directly reproduce it in the form of simple drawings.
There are only four people who can clearly hear the voices in the hallucinations and remember them completely.
Bed number 1: Tang Xinjue, bed number 2: Jiang Lan, bed number 3: Keke, bed number 4: Zheng Wanqing.
Among the four people, only Tang Xinjue saw the scene.
Tang Xinjue frowned slightly, temporarily suppressing his memories and speculations about the scene, and began to piece together the existing information.
The memories of everyone pieced together just happened to form a complete memory.
The subjects of the memories are a group of girls whose names are unknown.
Because they failed the college entrance examination, they spent a lot of money to come to this university - a regular undergraduate school that claimed to have all the necessary documents. On the first day of school, they were placed in this large dormitory at the end of the 9th floor, and their mobile phones and all electronic tools were taken away.
The dormitory was crowded and simple, not only was it extremely cold, but every night they could hear faint cries coming up through the floor from the 8th floor, making them feel uneasy.
In the panic, the girls in their dormitory also wanted to communicate with the people in other dormitories. In addition to their own, there were two other girls' dormitories in the building, 919 and 921... But for some reason, the other students stayed in the dormitories all day, and when they met, they were like zombies, making communication difficult.
The girls were getting more and more scared.
At first, the school sent someone to comfort them in response to their questions. But as time passed, the promised classes never began, and they were trapped in their dormitories by the strict school rules, unable to move around except for their three meals a day.
The unbearable girls got into an argument with the school staff and were soon subjected to an unprecedented and terrible punishment: a long-term confinement.
The staircase was sealed off from the outside, trapping everyone in the dark dormitories, with only brief bathroom breaks each day. To avoid starvation, they could only buy exorbitantly priced instant noodles and snacks from a few seniors claiming to be members of the student union, barely surviving with hunger.
After the punishment was over, everyone in the dormitory was devastated and no longer dared to protest.
They just wanted to go outside and take a look, even if it was just for a second of sunlight... Everyone crowded eagerly in front of the instructor and dormitory manager who came to give a lecture, their eyes fixed on the far end of the corridor, in the direction of the stairs.
They hadn't been out for so long that they had even forgotten the direction and appearance of the stairs. In their eyes, this corridor was like a prison blocked on all sides, so oppressive that it made them feel suffocated.
The instructor continued his lecture: "Of course, don't worry. Our school is a licensed, formal university. As long as you pay your fees on time... I guarantee you'll have both a diploma and academic qualifications... Around next month, a new group of students will be moving in, staying in the vacant rooms 919 and 921. You must set good examples then. Do you understand?"
Their dulled senses finally responded, and the girls looked confused. "919 and 921... vacant? Aren't there classmates living there?"
The instructor raised an eyebrow, as if looking at a group of lunatics. "Bullshit! Yours is the only dorm on the 9th floor where people live. The students in the other two dormitories died last year... They've already graduated. What are you dreaming about?"
The girls were speechless, cold sweat crawling up their backs.
Their gazes involuntarily passed behind the instructor and looked towards dormitories 919 and 921… The originally normal wooden doors had been covered with thick dust at some point. The next second, the doors opened silently, revealing one pale face after another pressed against the wall.
The girls who had passed by them countless times had blank expressions on their faces, dark spots all over their skin, and their stiff mouths slowly opened:
Don't believe it...leave...run away...
Fear gripped their hearts, even stronger than the instructors' vicious scolding, but they couldn't scream or move their legs.
——Because another even more terrifying scene appeared before their eyes.
The memory ended here, and Guo Guo sat down on the ground in exhaustion: "I really can't see what happened next."
Up to now, all descriptions of the scene are basically the work of Guo Guo alone, but her entire memory ends here, and she has not seen the end of the memory.
What did the "original students" in this dormitory see that was scarier than seeing a ghost with their own eyes?
Tang Xin Jue said in a deep voice: "It's black fog."
"At the end of their memory, they saw a black mist drifting out from the end of the corridor, and the darkness swallowed everything."
Whether it was the ghost in the next dormitory, the instructor, or the students in the memory, they were all swallowed up by the black fog that suddenly appeared. This was the end of the memory.
Jiang Lan sighed heavily. "So, it seems there's no information related to the health inspection, but rather about the background of this school and dormitory. What does the exam want to tell us?"
Ke Ke said coldly, "All I know is that this fake university and its so-called staff are a bunch of animals that slipped into the human world from the animal realm during their reincarnation. Expecting them to give us a passing grade is more reliable than hoping that the animals will become spirits."
Guo Guo's focus was on another aspect: "It's obvious that the test is trying to tell us that there are ghosts in 919 and 921! Living ghosts!"
Zhang You frowned. "Solitary confinement is a punishment that tests one's endurance and storage capacity. From what I recall, the total amount of food required for 16 people is enormous. This is the problem we will face tonight."
Everyone has different questions and focuses when reading memories.
Jiang Lan turned to look at Tang Xin Jue: "What do you think?"
The thick black fog that swallowed everything flashed through Tang Xinjue's mind again, but both her reason and intuition told her that this scene was probably unrelated to the content of the exam.
This was a fragment she felt with her mental power alone, and judging by the decrease in her health value, it seemed that the game did not want her to know.
So she shifted her gaze and looked at other information.
"All the information in the exam can be summed up into two categories: one is to kill us, and the other is to keep us alive."
"Since we haven't triggered the death conditions yet, this information provides us with a way to survive."
"The paths to survival can also be divided into two types: one is to find answers, and the other is to avoid danger."
Jiang Lan's eyes lit up. "That's right...exams are not without danger. Beneath the surface of safety may be more unpredictable hidden dangers. I tend to lean towards the latter. Memory is a reminder to help us avoid danger."
She absolutely did not believe that the test would be easy and they would have to wait until tomorrow's inspection. This night would definitely not be peaceful.
Tang Xin Jue nodded: "So, the danger we will face next is buried in this memory."
Find it and you can survive.
And being alive is the prerequisite for everything!
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