24 Menggui High School (24)
There has never been a college entrance examination.
Having resolved the immediate crisis, Qin Fu'an did not sit down again.
He bypassed Xie Yunhuai, who stood silently in place, and walked to the dead monster. He bent down slightly, holding a deformed steel rod in his hand, and easily lifted its long neck with broken tendons and bones.
So, as if using a stick to lift a bloody, ugly dead snake, he carried the blood-soaked corpse to the exit.
The steel rod was pulled downwards.
The dead monster's corpse, having lost its support, slumped down the narrow entrance with a heavy thud.
"I'm going down now." Qin Fu'an turned to look at Xie Yunhuai, who had followed silently, but his eyes darted to the increasingly crimson countdown in the night sky.
There is one hour left in the exam.
At the same time, the screams of terror and despair on the playground below gradually subsided, replaced by the roars of monsters rising and falling.
This means that the balance between the number of test takers and the number of sports equipment has begun to shift in this exam.
If a student is caught by a monster three times, they will automatically be transformed into a sports equipment. As more and more students become sports equipment, it will become increasingly difficult for the remaining students to hide and escape.
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that it was extremely difficult.
From the moment he entered the game, Qin Fu'an could sense the game's malice towards the players at all times.
Just like this exam, it forces players to choose between hiding and facing the challenge head-on.
If players choose to hide, then without anyone stopping them, the next half of the exam, and even every day afterward, will likely involve countless monster attacks, because the NPC students who could be called "classmates" have all become "sports teaching aids".
Physical education equipment is not used in classes or exams.
They will hunt players at any time.
In this situation, it's simply a pipe dream for players to survive until the fifth day and successfully take the college entrance exam.
But if players choose to confront them head-on... players who have only completed one or two beginner dungeons are essentially courting death if they try to deal with the monsters roaming the campus now.
"Perhaps, in this game, in this instance school, the college entrance examination never actually happened," Qin Fu'an murmured, speculating.
Although it was just a guess, for some reason, Xie Yunhuai and the viewers in the live broadcast room could detect a certainty in his tone.
The comments section visibly paused for a moment.
Then came an explosive surge—
[Aaaaaah, I can finally post comments! I've been so pent up! The rule against posting comments that don't reveal unknown information is just insane!!]
[How did the host guess this? I'm really curious, could you share it with us?]
[I've wanted to say this for a long time, but when I posted it, I got a ban warning in the live stream. I could only watch helplessly as the streamer and the NPC flirted and sang. It was so frustrating!!]
[As a viewer who has watched many beginner dungeons, I have to admire the streamer's keen observation this time. Who knows, someone might actually be able to clear this "death dungeon"!]
[...What does this mean? What is a "death book"? Is there some special interpretation?]
[Of course, in each stage of the game, there are a few particularly infamous dungeons, usually known for their extremely high death rate. Among the beginner dungeons, "The Haunted High School" is one of the three deadliest dungeons, because every player who enters the game will die within the first two days, without exception.]
[Wow...really? Then why hasn't this dungeon been upgraded to a high-level dungeon yet? The death rate is terrifying compared to many high-level dungeons, right?]
[Because in the eyes of expert players, it's actually really simple. Like that Mr. Zhang, ordinary players can't solve it, but expert players can kill him with ease. Therefore, this dungeon has never been upgraded and has remained a low-level dungeon, earning it the nickname "newbie graveyard" from many viewers.]
"Newbie graveyard," Qin Fu'an glimpsed this chilling title amidst the dense barrage of comments. Smelling the cold wind, thick with the stench of blood, as the campus gradually quieted down, he finally realized that his intuition from that moment had not been wrong.
A 0% success rate means that no player has ever survived to the fifth day of the college entrance examination in this instance.
So, he looked up at Xie Yunhuai, who had been standing there in a daze since hearing his words.
Qin Fu'an had overheard the tentacles' conversations many times; they said that Xie Yunhuai had never lived to see the college entrance examination.
So, after suddenly learning of another possibility, what is Xiao Xie, who is now standing here in a daze, thinking about?
"Do you want to come down with me?" Qin Fu'an suddenly changed his mind about having Xie Yunhuai wait there.
Xie Yunhuai snapped out of his daze, but upon hearing this, his eyes reddened as he looked at Qin Fu'an.
"Could you... say it again?" The emotion hidden in his flickering eyes was hard to tell whether it was fear or expectation.
Qin Fu'an reached out and ruffled the child's frosty hair, smiling as he asked, "Want to come down with me?"
Xie Yunhuai took a deep breath: "...Not that sentence."
The turmoil in his heart subsided somewhat, and he didn't need Qin Fu'an to repeat himself. He glared at Qin Fu'an with slightly reddened eyes and made the first decision: "I want to go down with you."
After saying that, he paused, then added firmly, "Don't worry, I won't hold you back!"
He used to think that he was too weak, which was why he died too early, and he was trapped in one cycle of reincarnation after another, unable to break free.
But now Qin Fu'an has told him another possibility: no student has ever lived to take the college entrance exam, and no one has ever been able to successfully leave the school.
If that's the case, then what about all his previous efforts and expectations? What about all his desperate studying and memorizing?
Perhaps graduating from high school was always just a carrot hanging in front of him, something he could see but never touch.
Even just thinking about this possibility filled Xie Yunhuai with endless anger and murderous intent.
"I won't hold you back." He repeated the sentence again, his voice slightly tense, with seriousness and certainty.
I will fight with all my might to survive today. Even if no one stands by my side to protect me, I will no longer close my eyes and cowardly wait to die.
Because I must see with my own eyes the ending that I have never seen in countless reincarnations.
I must find out whether the college entrance examination that I have been longing for every moment is a ridiculous and absurd lie!
Qin Fu'an saw the burning anger in the boy's eyes, and he also witnessed the countless tentacles surging wildly from Xie Yunhuai's body.
The night sky overhead was once again covered and obscured by the enormous tentacles, but they were no longer as listless as during the day, nor did they whisper about their hunger and ulterior motives.
The enormous, dark tentacles, carrying the malevolent energy in Xie Yunhuai's heart, wrapped around and entangled the vast campus, their indescribable murmurs filled with a bewitching and maddening murderous intent.
Even Qin Fu'an was significantly affected at this moment.
His brain throbbed with pain from the inaudible, angry murmurs, and his mind went blank for a moment. If it weren't for the fact that his soul strength was also quite high, he might have already become one of the monsters wandering downstairs.
But he didn't show any signs of distress. He just stared into the boy's bright and clear eyes, chuckled, and nodded: "Okay, then take this and protect yourself."
He stuffed the bubble machine props he had gotten from Nan Zhu into Xie Yunhuai's hands.
Before Xie Yunhuai could refuse, Qin Fu'an had already climbed down the wall ladder.
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As soon as he stepped out, Qin Fu'an could clearly sense the eerie, anxious silence in the teaching building.
The strong smell of blood hit us, and even the howling cold wind couldn't dispel it.
Qin Fu'an frowned and immediately clicked to check the exam status of the students in Class 4 of Senior Three.
Only a few green lights remained in the classroom, teetering on the brink of collapse, and there were hardly any scattered lights left throughout the school.
Qin Fu'an clicked on the points of four players one after another. Among them, Ya Ke and Chen Qi had both lost points once, while the newcomer Zhao Jiayue had a perfect score.
After he finished checking the status of the students in his class, Xie Yunhuai had already caught up behind him.
"Let's go, be careful." Qin Fu'an turned off the proctoring screen, hiding the densely packed live stream screen that was refreshing the comments, and led Xie Yunhuai downstairs.
Corpses were everywhere, blood flowed down the steps, and the sticky, dragging sound of footsteps in the blood pools echoed through the stairwell, so quiet you could hear a pin drop…
What I saw was not a school, but hell.
After taking only a few steps, Qin Fu'an was attacked in the face by a monster that had caught his scent. He stepped aside and left the monster to Xie Yunhuai, who was already prepared behind him.
Xie Yunhuai stared at the monster's familiar, battered face, his fingers unconsciously tightening their grip on the steel rod in his right hand. Then, just as the monster drew near, he closed his eyes and forcefully smashed it down on its neck—
"That's not enough strength." Before the monster could rush forward and bite without even feeling a scratch, Qin Fu'an first used a steel rod to stab the monster's heart from behind, piercing it through.
Cold, foul-smelling blood splattered all over Xie Yunhuai's body, staining his blue and white school uniform with patches of red under the light.
He opened his eyes and looked at the monster that had rushed towards him. His face paled, but even though the monster was already dead, he gritted his teeth, picked up the steel rod, and smashed it down on the monster's head again and again with even more force.
Qin Fu'an supported the monster's corpse, letting Xie Yunhuai use this unlucky fellow as practice.
Only after the monster's head was smashed into a bloody mess did Xie Yunhuai lean against the blood-stained wall, panting and exhausted.
"Want to take a break?" Qin Fu'an tossed aside the monster's corpse and turned to look at Xiao Xie, whose eyes were red from the violent attack.
Xie Yunhuai shook his head, handed the dirty steel rod in his hand to Qin Fu'an, and hugged the bubble machine himself, saying with some annoyance, "I'll use this one instead."
He was so hungry that every cell in his body was screaming for energy, so much so that even though he felt he had enough strength, he couldn't use it at all.
Instead of holding them back like this, we should use this lightweight and convenient tool to at least provide some assistance to Qin Fu'an.
Xie Yunhuai's mind was both muddled and clear. He was confused yet rational, knowing what he should do at the moment, but not knowing what else he could do.
Since he said so, Qin Fu'an didn't waste any more time. He led him over the broken limbs and flesh scattered on the ground, past the 5th floor, and to the 4th floor. In the increasingly eerie silence of the teaching building, he knocked on the door of Class 4 of Senior Three without changing his expression.
[Author's Note]
There are 3,000 words left, and 7,000 words remain. I should update one chapter at midnight tonight.
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