Chapter 318 Abnormal Situation
After lunch break, the written test subject in the afternoon was mathematics.
For most candidates, the exam period for this subject should be the least stressful period of the assessment. Therefore, compared with the serious atmosphere during the morning exam, both the candidates and the invigilators were visibly more relaxed in the afternoon exam room.
Almost without any setbacks, Kuiqi finished the afternoon test. And this time, because the questions were really easy, she did not leave any blanks, but just deliberately made mistakes in a few calculation questions before handing in the paper.
After the exam, Delphinium took several juniors to a dessert restaurant as promised.
The place she chose was the one she and Mo He had been to before. Although there were many accidents during that meal, the quality of the food and the service attitude still left a good impression on Cuique. So when she decided to take the juniors out for dim sum, the first thing she thought of was this restaurant called "Mi Ke".
Several magical girls sat around a round table in the restaurant, slowly savoring desserts and enjoying the relaxing moment after the exam, while sharing their feelings about the first day of the written exam.
——"Just, can you understand? The feeling of my brain being in a mess at that time?"
Lin Xiaolu grabbed the spoon in one hand and waved it in the air: "My brain told me that I had memorized the content of this question, and I could indeed recite it, but my subconscious told me that I had memorized it incorrectly and in the wrong place."
"But here's the weird part! I didn't have this feeling when I was reviewing last night. To be honest, even though I memorized these things by rote, my memory is pretty good. How could the things I memorized be out of order?"
Lin Xiaolu looked incredulous: "And the most important thing is that now that I have left the examination room, when I recall those questions, I feel like I remember them again!"
"You remembered it after you left the examination room?"
Cuiqiao, who was standing by, listened patiently to Lin Xiaolu's review. When Lin Xiaolu said this, she subconsciously repeated it: "Including now?"
"Of course, I feel very clear-headed now."
Lin Xiaolu nodded: "Cui Que, just ask me a few questions."
"good."
Delphinium didn't say much, and directly picked a few questions from the test paper and asked them, and then found a few knowledge points that were not tested in this exam from the book. In this series of questions and answers, although Lin Xiaolu recited the questions haltingly and made many mistakes in details, she unexpectedly answered most of them correctly.
It can be said that her current state can only be described as “not learning thoroughly”, but she definitely won’t forget the contents of the book.
The team has been together since they left the examination room, so we can rule out the possibility that Lin Xiaolu was cramming to save face. In this case, the level that Lin Xiaolu is showing now should be her true level.
Not only was Cuiqiao surprised, but even Bai Jingxuan and Xia Liang were also surprised. Lin Xiaolu's answer was basically the same as what they thought. In other words, Lin Xiaolu's grasp of the content of the "Character Literature" exam was definitely not as bad as she said in the chat group at noon.
"...If that's the case, then it's very likely the effect of the spell."
After thinking for a while, Cuiqiao gave a more reasonable explanation: "If it's props, they will be stopped outside the examination room by security. If you want to achieve this effect, you should use a spell."
"Is there any other such technique?" Xia Liang asked curiously.
"Well, although the degree of interference with thinking is relatively weak, it only makes people's memory a little blurry and decision-making a little slower. It can't play a decisive role in the battle."
Delphinium's face was serious. "But if it is in the examination room, this spell consumes very little magic power and can easily be hidden from the invigilator. And if it only works in a small area, it will not be exposed due to the commotion."
"Huh? So, I was in such a bad state during the exam because someone was trying to trick me?"
Lin Xiaolu raised her eyebrows when she heard this: "I was wondering why it felt so strange. Someone wanted to lower my score?"
Bai Jingxuan, who was standing by, listened to the discussion with some confusion. After a while, she asked in a somewhat curious tone, "If it is really a ritual, then why did that person do this?"
"It's probably to reduce the number of competitors, or to lower the passing line, or maybe it's just because they have a dark mentality."
Xia Liang took a sip of the milkshake and analyzed slowly: "To be precise, if you can lower other people's scores, you can lower the passing score in disguise and increase your own chances of passing... or something like that?"
"It's possible."
Delphinium nodded. "The invigilators in the examination room usually focus on whether there are any candidates cheating. In addition, there are many magical girls on the scene, and the magic fluctuations are mixed. Therefore, this kind of concealment is very good, and the purpose is not to cheat, so it is easy to be overlooked."
"But if it only targets a few people, it will hardly lower the score line, right?"
Xia Liang thought further and said, "After all, there are so many candidates this year. Lowering the scores of a few candidates is just a drop in the bucket. It is impossible to change the passing line. Unless..."
“Unless a lot of people are doing it.”
Delphinium narrowed her eyes. "But this technique, if I remember correctly, should be quite unpopular. There are not many books that record it left. Is it really possible that many people can learn and master this technique?"
"Yeah, that's why I said it could also be a simple dark psychology."
Xia Liang smiled and said, "It's not like there aren't people like this. They don't need to do anything for their own benefit. They will do it as long as they can frame others."
"And I just happened to be the victim and the unlucky one?"
Lin Xiaolu blinked and pointed at herself: "How could such a coincidence happen?"
“It seems quite likely at this point.”
Xia Liang nodded: "After all, you have proved that you are indeed memorizing, and the body of a magical girl should not have such a big state fluctuation due to emotions such as 'nervousness'. Then we can only think about whether it is an external reason."
"Damn it! If I find out who did this, I will definitely fight her tomorrow!"
Lin Xiaolu gritted her teeth at first, and after venting her anger for a while, she seemed to suddenly realize something and turned to the Delphinium with a pitiful expression: "Delphinium...ah, Gentian..."
"...What's wrong?" Seeing her expression, Delphinium couldn't help but frown, but still asked back.
"So I really did memorize it, and I did memorize it. I really didn't want to make you worry or disappointed."
Lin Xiaolu pulled the chair and moved closer to Delphinium: "I'm really sad, it's so unfair..."
Seeing her doing this, Delphinium couldn't help but half-close her eyelids and sighed slowly.
Reaching out and placing her hand on Lin Xiaolu's back, she touched it symbolically and patted it twice: "I didn't blame you for anything in the first place. I believe in your efforts."
I have to say that Lin Xiaolu has indeed become more and more fond of acting like a coquettish person in recent times.
If she could still be seen as a rebellious teenage girl when she first met Cuiqiao, her current behavior is basically that of an elementary school student like Bai Jingxuan.
Unfortunately, Cuiqiao really couldn't resist her daughter's coquettish offensive, so gradually, Lin Xiaolu became more and more proactive, and now she even dared to do so in public.
However, even in this situation, the fact that "someone was secretly using magic in the examination room" still aroused Delphinium's vigilance.
Even though Xia Liang finally corrected his opinion and thought that it might be that some of the candidates were just "psychologically dark", from Cuique's perspective, he could not let go of such a risky thing.
If this situation is really not an isolated case, and there are indeed many candidates who use this technique to interfere with other people's states on the spot, then today's two simple subjects will be fine, but who knows how chaotic tomorrow's two more difficult subjects will be.
Even just in case, she couldn't sit idly by and watch something like this happen that would have a large-scale impact on the candidates' scores.
Submit this suspicious situation to the Magic Bureau later, and increase the intensity of the investigation tomorrow.
Delphinium thought to herself as she stroked her daughter's head to comfort her.
(End of this chapter)
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