Global Examination

Humans are really resilient creatures.

On the second day, everyone got used to the life in the examinee's rest area.

Although this is not a town, it is much better than the hunter's lodge.

There is food to eat, sleep to sleep, you will not die when you go out, and there will not be two chickens chasing you to remind you to close the paper.

There is a room opposite the rest area, three stories high, with thick plastic curtains.The plastic was yellow and opaque long ago, only a circle of incandescent light was faintly exposed.

There is a wooden sign outside the house, which says "Cangmai".

"What is Cangmai?" the twin girls asked in unison.

Old Yu was very patient with the child, and explained: "It's just a grocery store, selling everything. Haven't you seen it before?"

Not only the little girl, but several people shook their heads and said, "We don't call it that way over there."

"Really?" Old Yu muttered.

How smart he was, when he went shopping with everyone, he dragged the shopkeeper to have a forced chat, only to find out that the other party was really a fellow villager.

The owner of Cangmai, surnamed Zhao, is a very unenthusiastic fellow villager.

"Brother, I'll just call you Brother." Old Yu said indifferently.

The owner, Zhao, was forty at most, and must be younger than Lao Yu, with a solid build and a straight back.But he shamelessly recognized the "brother" and said half-deadly with a cigarette in his mouth, "Anything you want."

Old Yu said: "Brother has been away from home for many years, right? My accent is gone, even if I have a light accent, you are even lighter than me. If I didn't see the word Cangmai, I wouldn't dare to recognize it."

Zhao smoked straight from his mouth: "Almost."

"Have you been opening a shop here?"

Zhao: "It is."

Old Yu let out an "oh", and asked tentatively, "I see that you are standing like this, brother. You have been a soldier before, right? Why do you come here to open a shop?"

Zhao finally glanced at him from the smoke, and said a long sentence: "I have never been a soldier. But looking at your standing posture, you have really been a soldier before, right? Why are you so fat?"

Old Yu: "..."

Zhao smoked a few big puffs one after another, smoked the cigarette in his mouth until only his butt was left, crushed the ash and said, "Don't get close, the old man's way doesn't work here. I'm still teary today, and I might die tomorrow." "

Old Yu: "..."

"If you want to buy something, hurry up. If you don't buy something, leave." Zhao said, popping out a new cigarette and lighting it.

……

The first floor of Cangmai was filled with smog, and Zhou Jin, the patient, was about to cough up his lungs, and he didn't give up the opportunity to shop.

Because there are many more things in the store than they imagined.

It is more like a dilapidated comprehensive supermarket, with clothes, pants, quilts, pillows, pots, pans, cups, spoons and chopsticks, internal and external medicine for bruises, it has all the supermarkets, and it also has some supermarkets. The building was filled to the brim.

There are several shopping carts on each floor, and a layer of dust has fallen.

Everyone has one in hand, just wipe it and start to sweep the goods like a devil entering the village.

"Wait, there's no price tag on these things!" Yu Wen exclaimed suddenly.

Zhou Jin took a few bottles of cough syrup, wrapped a bunch of anti-inflammatory and painkillers, and said, "I found out earlier, ahem... This is the same as a tourist attraction, and the price must be doubled."

"When everyone is afraid of death, it's normal to slaughter customers like crazy." Everyone echoed.

Everyone knows this truth, but no one takes less.

When money can change your life, you don't feel bad.

Yu Wen still felt something was wrong.He pushed the cart around looking for his brother, and found You Huo in the corner of the third floor.

To his surprise, You Huo was also sweeping the goods.

"Brother, you actually pushed a cart?" Yu Wen followed.

You Huo glanced at him when he heard the words, his expression seemed to say, "What kind of fart are you?"

Yu Wen waved his hands embarrassingly and said, "It's okay, I'll just take a look..."

Since even his brother is shopping, there should be no problem.

Yu Wen immediately felt relieved, and flipped through Fan Youhuo's shopping cart.

He thought he would see a bunch of emergency equipment, such as flashlights, batteries, ropes, knives...

result……

The big guy took a change of clothes and a black backpack.

Gone.

"Uh...brother, do you have anything else?" Yu Wen asked.

You Huo lined up on the hanger, took a black down jacket and threw it into the shopping cart: "That's about it."

Yu Wen suddenly felt that with a bunch of fluorescent sticks, flashlights, and batteries... he looked like a concert scalper.

……

When they returned to the first floor, everyone had already chosen almost everything, and even people and cars surrounded the checkout counter.

Youhuo doesn't like crowding, stays away from the crowd, and waits by the wall bored.

The old lady at the beginning asked the shopkeeper: "That's all, you count the money."

With an unknown number of cigarettes in his mouth, Zhao glanced at the various shopping carts through the mist, snorted inexplicably and said, "It's the first time I saw it."

We don't know why.

Zhao: "Ordinary people would dare to pick this number at most when they come here."

He held up two fingers.

"What do you mean bro? Different?" Old Yu asked.

Zhao: "Well, this is the most generous I have ever seen."

How fucking expensive is that?

Everyone silently glanced at their piles of shopping carts, Zhou Jin finally couldn't hold back and asked: "...Can I use WeChat and Alipay? I can also use my card. I don't have much cash."

Yu Wen echoed: "I haven't withdrawn cash for a year."

Zhao: "WeChat and Alipay cannot be swiped by card."

Zhou Jin and Yu Wen lost their spirits first.

Zhao added: "Cash is not acceptable either."

Yu Wen: "Huh? What's the use?"

Zhao took out a card from under the counter glass, which looked exactly like the small hotel room card they each had.

"You all have this, right? Swipe this." Zhao flicked the face of the card, as if all the enthusiasm that hadn't been shown before had been accumulated at this moment.He smiled and said: "Isn't the back of the room card an admission ticket? There are accumulated points on it, right? I have to get points to buy everything here."

"It's not expensive. Daily necessities, including clothing, cost 0.5 per item, and food and medicine cost 1 point per item. As for knives that can be used as weapons, they cost 2 points per item. It's very easy to remember. Why don't you calculate the price first? "

Everyone was stunned on the spot, their faces pale.

Just their full shopping carts are enough to make the score negative.

Zhou Jin looked at the cart of medicines, and immediately choked out a breath of cold air, coughing heart-piercingly.

No wonder……

No wonder those shopping carts are dusty, and no wonder the most generous people take only two.

The scores in hand are all earned with trembling, and no one dares to say what the next test will be like.

If you buy one or two more items here and pay later, you will be just one point away from passing, and you may have to do seppuku.

Zhao is not surprised by this kind of scene.

After stimulating people, he returned to a lukewarm mourning look, and said, "Come, pay the bill."

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone around the counter took two steps back.

"Don't buy it?" You Huo, who was waiting by the wall, said suddenly.

Everyone, including the owner, turned their eyes to him.

He straightened up, pushed the car to the counter, took out the room card from his jeans pocket and handed it to Zhao: "Check out."

Zhao: "..."

He opened his mouth to look at Youyou's shopping cart, and the cigarette butt fell on his shoe.

You Huo waited for a while holding the card between his fingers, feeling a little impatient.

Zhao snapped back to his senses, hurriedly bounced his foot, rolled his cigarette butt and said, "Let me do the math—"

Inner and outer clothing plus jeans, black bag, down jacket, a total of 3 points.

You Huo nodded when he heard the result.

He seemed to feel that the budget was still sufficient, glanced at the cabinet behind the boss, and said, "Take another pack of cigarettes and a lighter."

Zhao: "..."

Yu Wen couldn't help it: "Brother, you don't smoke, why buy this?"

Youzhuo put the clothes into the black bag and said without raising his head, "Just in case."

Two minutes later, when You Huo returned to his residence with a backpack on one shoulder, the cumulative total score on his admission ticket had become 2.With the speed of jumping off the building, he became the lowest score in the group.

Yu Wen looked at the other party's unchanging cold face, and felt that his brother was really tough.

……

The 7 days in the examinee's rest place passed in the blink of an eye.

At 3:12 p.m. on the last day, all the staff automatically checked out, and Boss Chu personally threw them out of the gate.

"Here, go straight ahead, there is an intersection 200 meters away, go." Chu Yue waved at them and said, "Don't delay, the right to choose is not easy to use if it is too late, I hope this time is not a farewell .”

After she finished speaking, she closed the hotel door.

The light box that said "Accommodation, Heating, Catering" flashed twice, and then went out suddenly.

Those houses were still standing in the snow and fog, but without a single light, they looked like dilapidated houses that had been abandoned for many years.

"Is this really a haunted house?" Yu Wen shivered.

You Huo remembered what he had asked the invigilator before.

He asked if this was a supernatural event, and the invigilator replied no.The other party wanted to add something at the time, but before he could speak, he received a violation warning.

and so……

What on earth is this?

You Huo thought in his heart, when the next exam starts, he must find a chance to trick the invigilator to tell the truth.

I hope that the invigilator drawn this time is honest and easy to deceive.

……

200 meters is not long.

Everyone quickly came to the place Chu Yue said.

It was indeed a crossroads, a security booth stood alone in the middle of the intersection, and a figure leaned against the outside of the booth.

The man saw them and struggled to his feet.

When everyone got closer, they saw clearly that it was the tattooed man who didn't want to live in the rest place.

However, he had changed his appearance by this time, his body was covered with blood, his left arm was hanging lifelessly, and one leg was also limping.

"How did you become like this?"

Although everyone didn't like him very much, no one wanted him to become disabled or die. After all, he was just a stranger with no vengeance.

The tattooed man said hoarsely, "It's not bad if you're not crazy."

"How long have you been here?" Everyone looked at the security booth.

The tattooed man said, "Two days."

"Why don't you go back to the examinee's rest place?"

The tattooed man looked a little embarrassed and a little angry: "When I went back, grandson, and... I couldn't find the way when I turned around. I couldn't find the houses when I went back the same way, only here."

"Then why didn't you continue walking?" Yu Wen asked.

The tattooed man glanced around, pointed to several intersections and said, "Look at the road signs yourself."

After he reminded, everyone noticed that the intersection leads to four directions, and there is a sign at each intersection.

Under normal circumstances, those signs will say xx road or xx street.

But not here.

There are four road signs in the southeast, northwest, and four words:

Language

foreign language

Math

history

Inside the security booth, the small horn suddenly sounded, and the familiar voice from the radio appeared here again.

[The examination system for this round is 3+1+1. Congratulations on successfully completing one of the exams. There are four other exams to be taken. 】

[Candidates have the right to choose and can arrange the order of the examination independently. 】

[Please make a choice within 30 seconds. 】

[Latecomers will be deprived of the opportunity to take the exam. 】

Everyone: "..."

At this kind of crossroads, they want to stand still until they die.

The dogleg Yu Wen grabbed You Huo and said, "Brother, I will choose whichever you choose!"

The others also looked at him.

Unexpectedly, You Huo glanced around, and said blankly: "Is there a choice? The four directions here are all foreign languages."

Yu Wen: "What???"

What's even more annoying is that in You Huo's sight, there is a figure at every intersection.

The man was tall and stood with an umbrella in the snow, as if waiting for him.

You Huo sneered, his face turned green with anger.