Dream Exam
The barrage was instantly blown out.
[? ? I don’t understand why, so Lin Huailu was once the boyfriend of the heroine’s daughter? Or are these two characters brothers? ]
[Ah! I understand where that familiar feeling comes from. Lou Huailin and Lin Huailu have the same pronunciation when reversed!]
[If they are the same person, then their ages seem to be quite different? Help, I feel goosebumps all of a sudden. ]
Lang Tingyao walked closer, and Ao Qingxue was able to see the student badge on Lou Huailin's chest. He was a senior high school student, which meant he was about seventeen or eighteen years old, and his appearance was consistent.
Lin Huailu's information is also very clear. He just graduated from university two years ago and was transferred to No. 2 Middle School a year ago. He is not a local and should be twenty-five or twenty-six years old this year. Logically, his age does not match.
But this time difference of less than five years can be made up if you insist. Ao Qingxue suppressed the chill and observed the boy in front of him more carefully.
The more she looked at them, the more she felt that the two people were exactly the same, not only in appearance, but also in the details of their behavior, expressions and movements, as if they were cast in the same mold.
Even the age difference in appearance is not particularly obvious. As long as they change their dress and hairstyle and stand together, no one can tell them apart.
Ao Qingxue couldn't control herself and wanted to run away.
[Ahhh, what is the truth? This feeling of being blinded by fog, I think the final revelation may not be as scary as I thought! ]
[Look at it in a positive way. Maybe Director Shang was just being lazy and used the same model. There is no special meaning...]
[Shang made even the passers-by in the school so realistic, would he be lazy with such a famous character? There must be a connection.]
[If it was a person, then why would he hook up with the heroine? Is he using a body double? ? ]
[Yes, don’t forget, although it is always said that “the player will die once they conquer Lin Huailu”, it was him who first showed affection to the heroine and seduced her! ]
[As a player who died twice because of him, I have something to say... I'm really not being sentimental. He always agrees to go on a date whenever I ask him out. Isn't this playing hard to get? What kind of green tea is this? QAQ]
[No matter what the situation is, the same appearance is very scary. We already know that Lin Huailu wants to harm the heroine, and every player who wants to capture him will die in a fancy way. ]
[That’s right, and those deaths all seemed like a collection of various “accidents”, but which human can control accidents? In Lu Zibing’s case, he was directly drawn into a supernatural dream.]
[No one can do this, unless Lin Huailu is not a human at all! ]
[This is not a human at all], this comment received hundreds of likes in just a few seconds, and it flashed across the screen in bright red.
In her memories, Lang Tingyao was unaware of anything unusual and happily used the lunch break to chat with her boyfriend.
Lou Huailin listened gently, and the two of them were just like any ordinary campus couple.
Gradually, Ao Qingxue and the audience deduced how the two got to know each other from their conversation.
After his parents divorced, Lang Tingyao transferred to Baishui No. 2 Middle School in his second semester of high school. He was bullied and his campus life was not smooth.
But this period did not last long. She relied on her own strength to get through the difficult times and gradually adapted to life here.
Just at this time, when Lang Tingyao's second year of high school was about to end, a new student, Lou Huailin, transferred to the class next door.
She helped him when he was bullied, and the two became friends. As transfer students, they had more common topics and naturally became a couple.
[Lou Huailin came at the right time. His timing and identity were so perfect that it didn’t seem like a coincidence…]
[He was transferred here, and Lin Huailu was transferred here. Is this also a coincidence? ]
[Think carefully, what are the advantages of such an identity? It is that the previous past is difficult to verify, and it is the most abrupt and least abrupt way to integrate into the school...]
"Xiaoyao, I recently heard a campus legend in our No. 2 Middle School."
As senior high school students, and already in the second half of the semester, it is inevitable that we will talk about the future and expectations when we chat.
Lou Huailin smiled casually and said, "The legend goes like this: as long as a couple goes to the rooftop of Building 18 and makes a wish, they will be able to get into the same university in the college entrance examination. Should we go too?"
[Fuck, what does he want to do on the roof of Building 18? ? ]
[Ahhh, actually Lang Tingyao was killed by him! ]
[Monster, don't come near my daughter! .jpg]
When Ao Qingxue heard this, her radar went off and she wanted to speak on behalf of Lang Tingyao: No, I won’t go!
Although Lang Tingyao is usually rational, he will still satisfy his lover's "superstitious" expectations in such matters.
"Why are you so childish!" She was amused, "Okay."
"This Saturday night, then."
"good!"
Ao Qingxue was so anxious that she was running around in circles, but after she said the word "OK", her vision gradually became blurred, as if shrouded in fog, and she was inevitably pulled away from this memory.
“Ding Dong——”
A bell rang in the dream, and a door appeared not far away. Ao Qingxue saw the girl whom he had seen countless times in his dreams.
Every time she turned around before, the girl would reveal a bloody face, but this time, when she turned around, she saw Lang Tingyao's face.
The surrounding scene suddenly began to extend from Lang Tingyao's feet and became clear. This was a simple and old house. Langzhu stood in the living room, looking at her daughter in a daze.
Lang Tingyao did nothing but looked at Langzhu, his eyes full of resentment - or to put it more accurately, it was a kind of "angry" resentment.
"Don't you like to control me? I'm going to find my dad, and you can never control me again!"
"Xiaoyao...Xiaoyao!"
Langzhu's voice became trembling, and she reached out to grab the girl, her voice starting to cry in anxiety. But "Xiaoyao" looked at her, turned around and slammed the door.
"Xiaoyao!!"
The scene was broken again, and the thick fog covered the field of vision again. With this heart-wrenching call, the heroine suddenly woke up from her dream and returned to reality.
When Langzhu woke up, her face was full of tears. Ao Qingxue's eyes were also a little wet. The holographic game gave people a strong sense of emotional substitution.
[This dream actually happened before the mother and daughter separated. At that time, the heroine was still arguing with her daughter. ]
[As a result, I never saw him again after that...]
[It hurts to think about it. It will become a lifelong obsession. 】
[Combined with the diary fragment 1, the changes in the mother and daughter's family should be easy to guess. When the heroine divorced her ex-husband, the daughter was with her at first, but later a conflict arose, so the daughter returned to her father and transferred to No. 2 Middle School.]
[Alas, one of the heroine's characteristics is "strict" and career-oriented. The quarrel between mother and daughter may be related to this. She probably wanted to let both of them calm down, and she was busy with her career in those years, but in the end, she only waited for the bad news of her daughter. ]
[It is clear who the “I hate (or love) you” in Lang Tingyao’s diary on her birthday refers to. It must be her mother…]
"…After Xiaoyao was buried, I spent a whole year doing nothing but investigating why she jumped off the building, but all the clues pointed to suicide. After that, I left Baishui County and refused to get any information about the place. I only came back once a year during the Qingming Festival, as if I could deceive myself that my daughter was still alive in such a faraway place."
"It was not until last year's Qingming Festival that I accidentally heard about the incident in Building 18 of No. 2 Middle School. Was it my daughter's soul that was disturbed? Or did she want to tell me something? So, I came back here to seek the truth."
Langzhu's inner monologue sounded in the silence. In the darkness, blood-red words appeared in front of Ao Qingxue's eyes: [Act 3: Completion.]
Story games usually have three acts. From the name "Graduation", we can tell that she has reached the last act, and the barrage of comments has become a little boiling.
Ao Qingxue was also shocked, but it was too late now. She was still thinking about taking a look at Shang Jingyan's new game, so she left a message before going off the air: "Next time, I'll finish Building 18 in one go!"
After Qing Se Xue’s live broadcast ended, a hot post appeared in the “Building 18” section soon after. The title was very straightforward: [This bastard Lin Huailu is very scary, be careful! ]
The poster is not anonymous. Her ID also shows that of a well-known player in the forum. Her progress is not inferior to that of Ao Qingxue and Lu Zibing. Her path is a bit like an intermediate between the two. Sometimes she is reckless, and sometimes she performs exceptionally well.
This is also the normal state for most players, and the purpose is to do whatever they want.
[In my storyline, after I got the diary fragment 1, Lin Huailu began to mislead me, making me think that my daughter's death was caused by school bullying.]
[You may think this is nothing, as everyone is guessing this way, but in fact, the truly terrible consequences of this wrong conclusion are still to come! ]
[I thought my daughter jumped off the building because of school bullying, so of course I would think that the various strange phenomena in No. 2 Middle School were caused by my daughter's wronged soul. So what should I do after entering the third act? Should I solve this matter? ]
[I thought Lin Huailu was a good person (I am crying when I say this, I should have believed the speculations on the forum before. But he pretended too well in my plot, probably because the heroine I played had her IQ up from time to time, which made him feel that he had to continue pretending... After I died, I found out from the forum that if you are as stupid as Lu Zibing, and have a high favorability, he will directly cast a spell on you), and he has some metaphysical abilities, so I told him about it.]
[He told me it was okay, he had a solution, and gave me a magical instrument that could help the dead souls to be reborn.]
[I will talk about this magic weapon in detail later, but in short, I used it. A prompt popped up in the game at that time, telling me that "in the following month, No. 2 Middle School really gradually returned to peace." Everything was very much like the finale, and I was so happy at the time, thinking that I was the first player on the entire network to complete the game with a happy ending! ]
[Not long after, the ending was indeed revealed, but I’ll show you…]
The poster posted a screenshot from the game.
【Bad Ending 10: The end without an end. 】
[After you help your daughter's soul to rest in peace, it seems meaningless for you to stay here any longer. Peace has returned to No. 2 Middle School, and Building 18 has finally been unsealed after a decade.]
[“It’s all over.” You thought, feeling a little relieved in your sadness, and decided to leave this sad place.]
[But half a year later, you find that something seems to be wrong with you. You start to get sick for no apparent reason, and your physical condition gets worse and worse.]
[“Is it my daughter who came to take me away?” You had no will to live, until one day, you received the news on your hospital bed: Lin Xiaomei had jumped from Building 18 and died! ]
[“How could this happen?!” You are shocked. She was fine when you left. After asking her about it, you are even more frightened: every month after you left, a student would jump from Building 18!]
[Your illness rapidly worsened under the stimulation, and the ending you believed in did not seem to be the ending. Not long after, you died.]
This ending is accompanied by an animation, with the camera focused on the main entrance of Building 18, and a loud "bang" is heard outside the camera. Although there is no direct death, it will make everyone feel cold.
The host continued:
[You know how my hair stood on end at that time, right? Damn it, Lin Huailu tricked me into killing my daughter again with my own hands, but the real troublemaker in No. 2 Middle School was not her! ]
[In fact, it might be because of my daughter that No. 2 Middle School was able to remain peaceful for ten years. There were only strange phenomena, but no one died... After her soul was dispersed by me, the number of deaths increased to one per month! ]
[Lin Huailu is such a scary bastard. He is definitely the scariest boss I have ever encountered in all my years of playing games. It is terrifying to think about it carefully. His murderous intent is self-evident. [Huangdou cries]]
The poster said that she needs to take it slow after typing this BE, as she now has a psychological trauma when looking at Lin Huailu’s handsome face.
The comments also expressed the same sympathy.
[As expected, the most vicious thing is always the human heart. No, here it is the heart of a monster. It is much more exciting and frightening than a simple picture.]
[I don’t just have PTSD towards Lin Huailu, I’m almost having PTSD towards love! ]
[It is reasonable to suspect that the purpose of the dog's plan is to make us stop loving, it is really scheming...]
The only love element in the game is the campus romance between Lou Huailin and Lang Tingyao, which is an outright tragedy and deception.
Director Shang really did what he said in the interview. The love element gave way to the plot, and there was no plot arrangement.
Ordinary games have multiple love branch endings, but when it comes to "Teaching Building No. 18", there are more than 20 death endings, including those fancy ways of dying. It is definitely the game with the most death endings in the entire history of the Second Star Calendar.
Players even came up with a way to amuse themselves: Don’t think the game is exciting enough? How about dying once? "Teaching Building No. 18" takes you to experience a variety of ways to die.
Of course, this is just a joke. Death in the game will not be painful. This is stipulated in the virtual game law.
During the discussion, someone changed the subject: [Speaking of which, is the entrance exam about to start? The exam location has been announced, so Director Shang should have left by now, right?]
As the players and audience expected, Shang Jingyan had indeed boarded the spaceship.
She had taken one more new form of transportation since she traveled through time. On the way to the test site, almost all the passengers were candidates like her.
——If it weren’t for the entrance exam, Shang Jingyan wouldn’t have known that there were so many dream builders exiled to the galaxy.
The participants at the party that day all had their names mentioned, but there were more than just those candidates who registered.
Everyone is equal in the Dream Builder entrance exam, and you only need to have published one work. Even if you write ten words and submit a cover, you can be considered an "apprentice dream builder."
X71 said responsibly: [Yanyan, we just passed by V066. What are the specialties of V066's southern hemisphere? ]
[……] Shang Jingyan showed a somewhat painful expression, [Please spare me. Is it fried little Smee? ]
For a country bumpkin time traveler like her, the general knowledge questions in the entrance exam relied entirely on rote memorization, and she had no idea how to match Little Smith with the pictures.
X71: [Sorry, the answer is wrong. It's Big Smily. [Picture][Picture] They look like this. ]
Shang Jingyan pondered for a while, and finally asked the question he had always wanted to ask: [X71, I was wondering, if I have you, can I cheat? ]
The system is a universal search engine, better than the Star Network. And it is in her sea of consciousness, and others don't even know it.
She didn't really want to cheat, she was just curious. Shang Jingyan would not do something that would lower her level.
[Actually, you can't.] X71 said, [Each system will be implanted with a code of conduct that complies with the current plane's moral laws to prevent the host from messing around. For example, I can't help you cheat in the federal public exam.]
It said earnestly, "Yanyan, if you cheat on the exam, you will be put in jail."
Shang Jingyan frowned: [Of course I know. ]
There was a grey feeling everywhere in the Exile Galaxy. The examinees at the examination center were like a lazy flock of sheep. They were scattered in twos and threes in the square in front of the examination center, queuing up slowly for identity verification.
It was still winter at the test site. As soon as the sky was getting light, Shang Jingyan was covered in snow as soon as she got off the car. She blew a breath and rubbed her hands. She hadn't adjusted to the time difference yet and felt sleepy.
At this moment, she heard a voice from the side: "Is that Director Shang?"
Shang Jingyan turned his head, surprise flashed in his eyes, and he was slightly stunned.
It turned out to be the two spectators that I met outside the barbecue restaurant before, and there were three people following them.
"Hey, we're here on behalf of Jingmihua to wish Director Shang a good ranking in the exam!"
The two little girls' cheeks were also red from the cold, and they started explaining one after another.
"Does Director Shang know 'Jing Mi Hua'? This is the fan name we gave ourselves."
"Actually, it was only decided yesterday, hahaha. I hadn't thought of a name yet, and there were also candidate names like 'Salt Grain'."
"But then I suddenly thought, wouldn't the way we look when we are frightened by Director Shang look like popcorns jumping around? So we decided on this! Everyone thinks it's great..."
Shang Jingyan laughed: "It's a cute name, I like it too."
They didn't bring any cheering items. Light signs and banners are only spectacular when there are huge crowds of people and a huge atmosphere. Otherwise, just a few or three of them would look very awkward.
Therefore, they just said a blessing to each of them and waved goodbye to Shang Jingyan without asking for her autograph - "Director Shang, do well in the exam! We are not here to ask for her autograph."
Shang Jingyan felt a warm feeling in her heart. Although she was also famous in her previous life, this was the first time she encountered such a thing. Fans sent her off to take the exam. It sounded a bit funny, but also a bit touching.
The candidates around her cast envious glances at her, and some recognized her.
The status of the dream builder is not inferior to that of Shang Jingyan as a star in his previous life, and even higher - as a spiritual healer of people, the dream builder is often given the title of "defender and soldier of the spiritual territory".
It is normal to be surrounded by fans, but that only happens after becoming famous. The fact that fans come from thousands of miles away to send blessings offline directly shows that this dream builder is a strong competitor in the entrance exam.
Passing through the inspection door, an electronic female voice read out the information on the citizen's ID card: [Candidate's name: Shang Jingyan; Gender: Female; Age: 18 years old... Registered mental strength level: 79 points...]
Shang Jingyan paid close attention to the column about mental power level. It turned out that the original owner had 79 points, but he didn't know how many points she had.
The lights in the hall were bright and warm, people were crowded together, and there were reporters and photographers with cameras scattered along the way, and the sense of solemnity suddenly rose.
X71: [Yanyan, I'm starting to get nervous! ]
Shang Jingyan yawned: [Why are you so nervous? Don’t underestimate this grand occasion, but it is essentially an exam to leave the Novice Village. ]
When she closed her mouth, she felt someone staring at her not far away - a little girl.
Shang Jingyan commented that she was a little girl, but she should be about the same age as her own body, with long pink hair tied into two ponytails, many shiny little hairpins, a printed sticker on her nose, and wearing trendy clothes in exaggerated colors.
The child's hostility was too obvious. Shang Jingyan glanced at the admission card on the chest of the boy she was holding hands with and knew why - oh, her boyfriend was Guan Gaoyang.
Shang Jingyan’s only impression of this person was that “I snatched the first place from him”, he didn’t know what he looked like, and he couldn’t even remember what his work was in the theme event at that time.
On the other hand, Guan Gaoyang seemed calm on the surface, but in fact he was so anxious that he was about to explode.
He has been in this state ever since Shang Jingyan said in an interview that she also wanted to take the entrance exam.
Why is she here again?!
Guan Gaoyang was quite resentful. His editor-in-chief of Oren.net delayed him for a year before he felt that his level was good enough to rank among the top in the entrance examination, so he allowed him to take the exam.
But Shang Jingyan, this guy, is basically a newcomer, but he started from the same starting line as him.
The first activity failed. Guan Gaoyang became Shang Jingyan's foil and failed to win over Shang Jingyan. His life was very difficult.
In the past month, he even dreamed that Shang Jingyan would trample him under his feet in the entrance examination.
Guan Gaoyang selectively ignored a fact: Shang Jingyan's fame had long surpassed his. If you ask ten people in the Exile Galaxy, none of them would know Guan Gaoyang, but there would definitely be someone who had heard of Shang Jingyan and her haunted house.
Candidates entered the venue one after another. The written test only lasted half a day and was fully closed.
But the following on-the-spot dream-building test is different. After the test questions are drawn, candidates have ten days to build their dreams and are not allowed to submit their papers early.
The final review phase of the on-site exam will not only include scoring by examiners, but also random audience members joining in, and the entire scoring process will be open to the public.
If a citizen of the Alliance wants to become a candidate for public review, he or she only needs to register in advance.
The entire process is essentially a dream-building event that can be followed live by the entire universe.
Reporters and cameramen in the Exile Galaxy are already gearing up, waiting for various breaking news in the entrance exam.
Shang Jingyan had answers to about 70% of the questions in the written test, and he had to guess the answers to the rest. He followed the crowd and handed in his paper, then entered the question-drawing room.
She looked up and saw the camera in the corner of the room flashing. From that moment on, all the candidates were in the live broadcast.
Shang Jingyan pressed the button, and after all the candidates confirmed, the dream-building test questions appeared on the curtain wall light screen. It was a very strange and literary theme -
"Many encounters, the cycle of fate."
Description of the exam question:
[Do you think that sometimes fate is predetermined? But people never lack the courage to break fate. People who are destined to meet are worth your risk again and again. No matter whether the ending is success or failure, it is worth singing praises...]
[No restrictions on the format, including movies, short plays, games, etc. The duration of the finished product playback (or clearance demonstration) is limited to 3 hours.]
The small question-drawing room was suddenly filled with a buzz of discussion. There was no possibility of cheating in the question-drawing session unless you wanted to tell your competitors your ideas, so there was no restriction on speaking.
Shang Jingyan heard Candidate A muttering next to him: "What the hell, what do you mean by whether I feel it or not? What about me not feeling it?"
Candidate B wailed quietly: "I lack the courage to break free. Damn it, I feel like taking exams again and again is my reincarnation."
Candidate C: "Can you speak human language? The teacher who came from the main star system to set the questions really has many problems!"
Shang Jingyan: “…”
It seems that no matter where the candidates are from, their complaints are similar.
She thought, if she followed the normal thinking of interstellar people, after reviewing the questions, a story like this should emerge in her mind:
The two protagonists are destined to fall in love, but they miss each other every time. However, for the sake of their love, the protagonist is willing to muster up the courage to break the fate, regardless of success or failure.
This "every time" can also be changed to "every life", to have a love relationship that lasts for several lifetimes.
Keywords: past and present life, coincidences, sadomasochism.
However, the moment Shang Jingyan saw this description, a classic genre of horror and suspense appeared in his mind - time loop.
His representative works include "The Wheel of Terror" and "The Butterfly Effect".
Let me ask, is there anything that could be more in line with the themes of "courage", "destiny" and "reincarnation" than this?
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