Global Examination

The key prepared earlier solved the biggest authority obstacle, and 154 rushed to the console in one stride.

Inside, there are so many things that are classified as garbage by the system.

"Memory board...historical operations..." 154 muttered as he flipped through the pages, "There are too many amnestics and adjustment operations about internal personnel."

Over the years, the system has done too much interference for too many people, ranging from clearing the entire film to the blurring and adjustment of a small detail.It is very difficult to accurately pick out the parts of You Huo and Qin Chen.

It's not impossible, it just takes time.

What they lack most now is time.

"I'm too easy to be warned here." 154 said: "If you go too far, you will be targeted by the system."

He paused as he spoke, because he suddenly realized that he was infinitely close to the central core, but he didn't arouse the system's error response.

Is it because the system is busy with self-test and becomes dull?

154 muttered in doubt.

Now that time is running out, he has no time to think about it, and he pushed back this guess as soon as it surfaced.

"How long will it take?" Qin Chen asked.

154 kept pointing his fingers: "About 5 minutes. The system should have done anonymization and obfuscation processing. I didn't catch you in the first rough sifting, so I have to do a fine sifting."

He looked up at the screen and said, "Your key is very high-level, and the authority is valid for 30 minutes. Don't worry, it's enough."

Qin Chen nodded.

Less than a minute after this sentence was finished, red lights suddenly flashed twice in the room, and a line of words jumped out on the screen:

"warn!The operation involves sensitive items, and the permissions will be locked within 10 seconds! 』

154's expression changed.

"Sensitive items?"

"It means you are among the group of targets I am screening." 154 said.

"How many targets in this group?"

"1000."

There was a moment of silence in the house.

This would have been a good thing, but at the moment it has no consoling effect.To find the precise target within 10 seconds and withdraw from here is simply impossible.

"Don't look for it, let's withdraw it all with one click." You Huo said.

154 suddenly raised his head: "All withdrawal? Everyone?"

This is a plan so vast that he has never thought about it. Undoing it with one click means that all memory interference operations done by the system will be undone, no matter who it is.

It's exciting to hear!

"warn!Permissions will be locked within 5 seconds! 』

154 looked at You Huo like a devil, and then slapped the "Cancel" button.

Countless records, large and small, scrolled crazily on the screen, so fast that the words could not be read clearly.

"warn! 4! 』

The warning strip has turned into the most dangerous crimson, which is shocking.

"Go!" 154 called.

The three went straight to the metal door.

"3! 』

154's fingers were hanging on the sensor lock, but he didn't press it immediately.

You Huo kept counting the seconds in his heart, knowing why he paused.

Because the cleaning program started every 10 seconds outside the door has the last 2 seconds left, they can only open the door after the program ends, otherwise they will also die.

"2! 』

154's hand is still hanging steadily, but his expression is already ugly.

The time difference of 1 second is like the speed of life and death, which can drive people crazy.

"1! 』

The warning counted down to the last second, and 154 pressed the sensor lock.

drop--

The metal door swung open.

A little red light suddenly flashed in Youhuo's earrings, and then went out in the blink of an eye, which meant that the key authority had expired.

In the house behind him, black round pipes protruded from the three walls, like hundreds of suddenly raised muzzles.

A pillar of fire erupted from the circular tube, instantly drowning everything.

The three rushed out stepping on the flames.

The console and the screen are wrapped in a safety cover. Under the reflection of the sky-high flames, the last piece of information scrolls across the screen, and a prompt box pops up quietly——

『The cancel command has been executed. 』

『Empty all the trash in the memory bank. 』

At that moment, too many people in the system reacted similarly——

922's hand to open the door froze, and a momentary trance appeared on his face.

Chu Yue was talking to Yu Wen, but she lost her mind when she opened her mouth.

Shu Xue stopped rubbing her arms suddenly, and let out a soft "ah".

Next to them, the old gatekeeper who had been transferred from his post had just rushed back to the punishment passage. He was about to look at the inspection screen when his footsteps suddenly slowed down. After two steps, he stopped in a daze.

There are farther places, more people...

Of course, there are You Huo and Qin Chen.

At that moment, Qin Chen suddenly looked back.

The golden-red fire was tumbling and burning, and the heat wave rushed over, dry and scalding.

It's the same feeling that memories flood into your mind in an instant.

***

In the winter of the year You Huo was born, there was an accident on a remote mountain road in the southwest. A car rushed out of the fence and turned down the mountain road. There were four people in the car—a couple with an old man and a couple who had just turned two. year old son.

Some people said that it was the ex-drug police who was hunted for revenge; others said that it was just a snowy day when the self-driving tour was unlucky, and the mountain road slipped into an accident.Different rumors have the same ending. People say that no one in that family survived.

Actually not.

The col was covered with snow that day, it was wet and cold, it was not easy to live.But the fire burning in the front seat of the car continued to heat up, and it turned out to be a kind of shelter.

Under this alternative shelter, the two-year-old child managed to survive.

He was sent away a short time later.Changed the surname, changed the place of origin, changed all related information, and has nothing to do with the three people who died in the car accident.

Sometimes, not paying too much attention is a form of protection.This kind of protection brings a corresponding problem, which is loneliness.

This surviving child was a bit of an exception.

It is said that people born in winter are resolute, restrained and quiet, while those born in summer are fiery, romantic and willful.

He was born at the end of midsummer, but his real life began in that deep winter.Perhaps because of this, he blends two almost contradictory personalities.

He is not alone, only alone.Crazy and lonely.

Like lighting a fire in ice wine.

He studied, grew up, entered the military academy, entered the army... Maybe he didn't realize that he was walking a similar path to his parents.

Until one day, he voluntarily joined that death squad and tied his life around his waist.At that moment, the two roads finally overlapped.

This may be something engraved in the flesh and blood.

Some people say that memory generally begins at the age of 3, and the earliest things are too long to leave any impression.

But he remembered that winter.

He has forgotten the appearance, voice, manner of talking and laughing of the three people in the car, leaving no trace.But he remembered the winter in the col.

A certain time long ago, I don't remember who I met with.A friend insisted on asking him to cooperate with a game, which was similar to a quick question and answer, where the other party said a word, and he answered the first word that came to mind.

He lacked interest and answered perfunctorily.

I only remembered that the man said "home", and he suddenly remembered the snow-covered appearance of that mountain col——

Cold snow on one side and fire on the other.

This is the beginning of all his memories.

After he joined the Death Squad, he got a piece of known information about the system.Half of the information was emphasizing the danger of the mission, and the other half was introducing the goal of the mission.

His mission is strictly twofold:

One is to test the bottom line of the system rules, which is equivalent to drawing a circle for everyone. Wherever he is, there is the limit.

The second is to interfere with the core of the system.

In his task list, the core of the system also has two meanings.It refers to both the cold machine and the people related to the core.

It is written in the information that there are two people who are closely related to the system, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are part of the system.

The position of these two people is marked as "not optimistic", the level of danger is marked as "S", and the level of authority is also "S".

His task is to keep an eye on these two, remove them from high positions, seize authority, and even guard and control them when appropriate, commonly known as "house arrest", and then shut down or destroy the system from them.

There are not many members of the Death Squad, and based on the principle that eggs cannot be in the same basket, everyone has different mission goals.There is only one team member named Wen Yuan whose mission is directly related to him.

Before entering the system, he changed his surname back to the original, Qin.

Because the information says that the system is disturbing and confusing. People who enter the system can easily forget the real things. After a long time, they will even have an illusion that they are people in the system and a part of it, just like a game. NPCs in .

This surname is the most important connection between him and reality, as long as he still bears this name, he will finally be able to remember who he is.

Facts have proved that the warnings in the information are not alarmist.

The members of the Death Squad enter the system as candidates and are scattered in various examination rooms.For a long time, he hadn't seen those people again, so he could only guess the task progress of his teammates from the other candidates, the rest place and some things.

Compared with other people, Qin Chen is much more insane.

In fact, there is a safer and more prudent approach to test the bottom line of the system's rules, but it will take some time.He chose the most dangerous and arrogant one.

Every temptation he made was earth-shattering, not to mention the whole examination room, I am afraid that everyone in the whole system has heard of it more or less.This actually has an advantage-no matter where the other members of the death squad are, they can know his progress and information.

It was the first time Qin Chen violated the rules, and a subordinate invigilator was in charge of handling it, and he was released after routine confinement.

It didn't take long for him to commit a second offense.

This time, the subordinate invigilator did not hold back and invited the chief examiner.

That was the first time Qin Chen saw You Huo.

At that time, Qin Chen was standing on the sloping roof of a small two-story building, throwing away the monster corpse blocking the skylight, and the crying of several candidates in the room finally became less disturbing.

He heard footsteps not far away. Someone was walking towards here stepping on the dry leaves and monster stumps all over the ground. Such a calm pace could not be a candidate.

Qin Chen shook off the blood on his hands, stepped on the brown-red roof tiles and turned to look.

A tall young man stood not far away, wearing a shirt with an "A" arm badge, his long straight legs wrapped in military boots, and he showed a chill and indifference among the bloody stumps and dead leaves all over the ground. Temperament...

It's like snow falling on a cold mountain.

At that moment, for some reason, Qin Chen suddenly remembered that winter mountain depression again.

The bloody smell like rust is wrapped in snow foam, life and death, ice and fire, cold and scorching heat, all contradictory things are in that scene, dangerous but unforgettable.

"Qin Chen, an examinee who violated the rules—" The person under the eaves folded the notice in his hand, and looked up at him: "Follow me to the invigilator."

Qin Chen glanced at his arm badge, and thought casually: Chief examiner A, that "S"-level dangerous person who needs to be cleaned up, my task target.

Chapter 144 Turning point┃Qin Chen suddenly realized that he actually missed the examiner a little bit.

Because of the words "task objective", examinee Qin Chen set his sights on examiner A.But soon he discovered that the other party was not so easy to watch.

In the examination room of this system, if a candidate wants to see the invigilator, he can either ask questions or make a foul.People in their right mind would prefer the former, because it is much simpler.

At the beginning, Qin Chen also tried this.Randomly make up an innocuous question, and then write down the pronoun "A" in the examination room.

The proctor is always quick to give feedback.In a few minutes, the person in charge of answering questions will appear in front of Qin Chen, but it is not the one he is looking for.

"I don't think what I wrote is F." At that time, Qin Chen leaned against the door with his arms folded, and glanced at the other party's arm badge.

Examiner F also had a headache when he saw him: "I know, you are writing about the chief examiner. He is busy now, so I am here. What problems did you encounter?"

Qin Chen threw out random questions, and examiner F felt that he was looking for faults.

But he is not the only candidate who finds fault.

There are too many people who are resentful by the test questions, and it is normal to vent.Examiner F was not surprised, and ran away after answering the question.

In view of the fact that "examiner A has something to do", Qin Chen waited for a long time that day, until the sun in the examination room turned from east to west, and the day turned into night, then he made up another question and wrote down the code "A" again.

As a result, a few minutes later, he and F met again.

It's hard to say which one is more upset, he or F, anyway, he understands that the so-called "A has something to do now" is pure fart, and the examiner is just too lazy to answer such trivial matters.

From then on, examinee Qin Chen embarked on the road of professional violations.

This is exactly the same as his method of testing the bottom line of the rules, and it can be regarded as no delay.

At that time, there was no rule of "violating the rules three times, the invigilator will invigilate the whole test". After all, before Qin Chen, no one would be so unscrupulous and lawless.

So strictly speaking, he violated the rules more than any of the subsequent candidates.

At first, it was he who was looking for trouble unilaterally for the purpose of the task, but examiner A was always able to get the trouble back without mercy.

Meeting a well-matched opponent is actually a very happy thing, which can make life less boring.After a long time, even a little addicted to it.

When the tit-for-tat between them began to become subtle, it is hard to tell.The only thing that can be explained clearly is the turning point.

It was Qin Chen's third exam, which was about mathematics, and he met Zhao Wentu in that exam.

But to him at that time, Zhao Wentu was just a candidate with good character, just like countless passers-by.

During that exam, Qin Chen often sat at the corner of the table by the window, fiddling with a small chip in his hand, thinking about how to get in touch with the core of the system—the proctoring area.

As a candidate, under normal circumstances, he has no chance of entering there at all, and no other candidates can provide him with reference.

There was a little girl of about four or five in that examination room, she was cute and quiet, and occasionally she would snuggle up to him and ask him some questions in a childlike voice.

The little girl pointed to the thin piece and asked him, "Is this transparent one a fish scale?"

Qin Chen said, "It's the eyes."

The little girl wanted to touch it at first, but when she heard this, she beeped and lost interest.

The flake is not really transparent, but the surface coating is quite special, and it will change color according to the surrounding environment. At first glance, it looks transparent, and it is difficult to find it wherever it is pasted.

Before the math test, he ran into Wen Yuan from the Death Squad in the rest area, and he was the one who gave Qin Chen this sheet.

This young man's skill is inferior to other team members, and he is far behind Qin Chen, and his personality is a bit blunt.But to be able to enter the Death Squad, there is always something special about him.

He is in charge of technology in the team.

Of course, Qin Chen had limited contact with him. He only knew that he looked frizzy, but he was actually quite delicate. He was good at all things that needed to be done by hand, and he seemed to know everything.

Wen Yuan said: "I modified this thing and added some coatings. It can be understood as a pinhole camera with poor performance."

Qin Chen asked him: "How much worse is the performance?"

Wen Yuan: "Well, things over 10 meters may be glued into a mosaic."

Qin Chen raised his eyebrows, and he added: "The material is limited, understand it! And it has an advantage, the reverse material has a self-melting effect, it will disappear if it is pasted for more than a week, and the risk of being discovered is lower. .”

"What does self-melting mean? It's a little corrosive?" Qin Chen asked.

"You can say that."

"Isn't there a spot where it was pasted?"

"Ah...the possibility cannot be ruled out."

For the sake of understanding Long live, Qin Chen took this thing away.

He didn't intend to use it at first, but changed his mind halfway.

It was the third day of the math exam, and they ran into a rather troublesome monster.If it must be described, it is like a plate of hot loose sand, which can flow, and no one will notice where it slips.

It converges into a human form and imitates the appearance of any candidate. At first glance, it is difficult to distinguish the real from the fake, and it is extremely confusing.

That day, the monster took the form of the little girl, cheated the sympathy of an examinee in the team, and almost burned that examinee to death.

Qin Chen chased it all the way to the woods on the outskirts of the city, and led an army instead, burning it to death.

The invigilator office received the notice logically, and examiner A came over with his subordinate invigilator Q.

When they entered the woods, the burned monster happened to disintegrate into loose sand.

The wind in the forest blew randomly for no reason, and scattered sand rushed towards my face.

Examiner A turned his head with his eyes closed, and raised his hand to block it.Then I heard Q's "Bah bah" by his side.

Q's footsteps were a little chaotic, and the dead branches crackled, blocking other movements.

When A reacted, a gust of wind swept over the back of his neck, and someone hooked him with an elbow.

In the blink of an eye, he was crushed on the dead leaves all over the ground, and the one who rebelled was the offending candidate he wanted to catch.

"What are you doing?" Examiner A raised his head slightly and asked coldly.

Qin Chen pressed his knee against his leg, pressed his neck with one hand, and pressed his thumb against his vitals.

Taking advantage of the chaos, he stuck the thin sheet given by Wen Yuan on the belt of examiner A's military trousers. During the movement, his fingers accidentally touched the opponent's thin waist through the shirt.

At that moment, he could clearly feel the other party's waist tightening.

Qin Chen paused for a moment, then raised his eyes to look into examiner A's eyes.

The examiner Q next to him opened his eyes and saw such a scene, gasped: "Are you crazy?"

Zhao Wentu and another candidate chased after him to help, and they were also shocked when they saw this scene, not daring to breathe.

Qin Chen withdrew his strength, let go of both hands and said, "I'm sorry, I took our examiner as a monster."

Examiner A frowned and pushed him back to the ground, and the two almost exchanged positions: "Where is the cheating ghost?"

Qin Chen let him hold him down, pointed to the loose sand not far away, and said, "I didn't lie to you, the imitative ability of this topic is too strong, and I can become whoever I want. It took me a lot of effort to burn it." took it."

He looked into the light-colored eyes of examiner A again, and his deep voice was full of laziness and jokes: "The scene just now was too much like a monster resurrection. What a coincidence that you came."

Zhao Wentu was beside him to help explain, talking nonsense for a long time.

Examiner A pressed Qin Chen hard with an elbow, then stood up, and patted the dead leaves on his body coldly.

"Want to help?" Qin Chen pointed to his back and lower back.

"No need." Examiner A stepped aside, tilted his head at him and said, "Go to the invigilator, you go ahead."

"alright."

Examiner Q was in charge of the whole confinement that time, and A went into the rest room with a cold face after entering the invigilation office, ignored him, and probably went to change clothes.

That's why Qin Chen put the sheet on his belt. The clothes have to be changed every day, but the belt doesn't.

Examiner A is a core member, and entering and exiting the core area of ​​the system should be commonplace. Although the thing Wen Yuan made is a bit "congenitally deficient", he can see some useful information to some extent.

However, this "inherently deficient" flake was not used in the end.

Because at the end of the exam, he stepped on a spot and violated a rule, and was taken into the proctoring area by mistake.

That was Qin Chen's first time entering the Twin Towers.

I don't know whether it's a coincidence or not, but when he was waiting for the elevator, the elevator next to him had just reached the first floor, and two people came out of it.One of them had half his shirt covered in blood, and the other was holding him.

Judging by their clothes, those two should be proctors.

Examiner A glanced at the backs of the two men, and took them back after a while.

Seeing him lowering his eyes, Qin Chen frowned slightly, and then returned to his usual cold and sleepy look in an instant.

"What happened to that one just now?" Qin Chen asked.

Examiner Q's face was also a little pale: "He violated some rules and neglected his duty, so he was fined."

Qin Chen was a little surprised, he glanced at examiner A, although he didn't know why he looked at A at that moment.

"You will break the rules too?" he asked.

"Of course, you have your rules, we have ours." Examiner Q said.

Qin Chen smelled the residual smell of blood in the air and said, "Why does your punishment seem to be heavier than that of the candidates?"

Examiner Q said: "It depends on the degree of violation, small punishment for small things, big punishment for big things."

That time, Qin Chen didn't cause any trouble, but only learned about the situation of the Twin Towers.Because he was a little absent-minded.

Occasionally, he would think of the proctor who was punished bloody, and then suddenly think of examiner A and the slice on his belt.

On the day after cleaning the examination room, the examiner Q who was scheduled to see him off did not show up, but the one who came was examiner A.

He was waiting in front of the Twin Towers in a black car, rolled down the window and said coldly, "Get in the car, and I'll take you back to the resting place." He didn't seem very willing.

The atmosphere in the car that day was very subtle, so subtle that when I recall it after many years, I still remember the feeling of being in the car.

The two sharp-edged people are in a closed environment, but they are very close.It was a kind of tension in a quiet atmosphere, but at the same time it contained a little other meaning.

The car finally stopped at a certain corner of the rest area, and Qin Chen got out of the car. To his surprise, examiner A also got out of the car.

The weather in the examination room that day was very good, and the wind in late autumn was still a bit cold.

Qin Chen stood by the newsstand, looking at Examiner A.For a moment, he felt that A seemed to have something to say.

He waited for a few seconds, but the other party did not speak.

So he said a word in a strange way, he said: "The next exam, I will try to be quiet and try not to bother the chief examiner."

Because he suddenly didn't want to use the hand of examiner A to get close to the core of the system, he wanted to change a method.

Examiner A listened with lowered eyes, always expressionless.

He rubbed Qin Chen's shoulders and walked back to the car, stopped for a moment when he opened the door, leaned on the roof of the car, turned his head and said to Qin Chen, "I'd better not see you again."

But hearing that voice, he probably didn't intend to believe it.

Qin Chen's fourth exam was surprisingly smooth, and the invigilator was not an A. He only dropped his grade to a "C" in the end by a very coincidence, and was taken to the invigilation area to try again.