Global Examination

Youyou regained consciousness at the end of that year. After the emergency treatment, he was transferred to Munich, where he continued to recuperate.

After another four months, Qin Chen, who was hovering on the death line repeatedly, was finally out of danger and opened his eyes in the medical center within the system.

For this sudden change, the system issued an announcement explaining it as a serious bug, and then banned all candidates in the rest area, and the invigilator in the invigilation area, closed all the examination rooms, and carried out the longest self-test and adjustment in history.

After the repair period of the main control center passed, the system extended its hand to the invigilator, all the original rankings were abolished, and all the serial numbers were messed up and restarted.

Chu Yue was removed from the title of invigilator and transferred to the most remote resting place.She wasn't surprised, after all, she had discussed the fate of the "rebellion" with A a long time ago.Other invigilators who are familiar with them are far away and downcast.

The system seems to be suffering from paranoia, moving around, and the ones who move the most are the initial proctors, because they are the people who are most familiar with it.

As a result, rumors continued in the proctoring area, and everyone was guessing what happened, what happened to Examiner A and Examiner Gin.

In view of the fact that the two always behaved incompatible with each other, in most people's guesses, it was always one person did something, while the other tried his best to stop it, and in the end both sides suffered losses.There are also very few people who say that maybe they will unite at a critical moment.

Until the system removed the traces of examiner A one after another, and set Qin Chen's ranking as 001, all kinds of speculation finally came to an abrupt end.

Because there is no need to guess, this result can explain everything.

Before leaving the medical center, Qin Chen became a thorn in the side of many initial proctors.

Examiner A's former friend Gao Qi drank too much all day long and was in a daze. Once he drank too much and almost made a fuss in the intensive care ward. He quickly confused himself into the tail of the crane in the invigilator, number 1006.

Not long after, the system selected a group of examinees to join the team of invigilators.A girl who came out of a military academy opened her mouth and asked to join the 001 group, but she failed.She was finally assigned to the ninth group, and entered the supervisor's upper area with a request from someone, numbered 021.

A month later, Qin Chen was discharged from the hospital and became the new chief examiner.The system selected the second batch of new examiners from the candidates, and the system fragment released by Qin Chen was mixed in. He became one of the earliest subordinates of 001, number 154.

A few months later, candidate Wen Yuan was transferred to be an invigilator by chance, and also became a subordinate of 001, number 922.

From that day on, no matter where the examiner 001 went, there were always these two figures by his side.

They followed Qin Chen, handling the daily affairs that the chief examiner needed to deal with, held countless meetings, large and small, read the records and documents piled up on the screen, and walked through more than 200 examination rooms.

Then one day, at the moment when he randomly selected the examination room, 154 saw a familiar figure among the countless people waiting for the examination, and he set the target of invigilation there without hesitation——

The examinee was called You Huo, and he was Examiner A who was removed from the system.

Time in the system is messed up.

Often, after ten days in the examination room and returning to the rest area, the calendar has just turned a page. The No. 1 rest place has moved to late autumn, and the No. 2 may still be early spring.Only by standing on the street in the proctoring area can you see the shadow of time passing, because this place is least affected by the various examination rooms, and the sun and the moon are almost the same as reality.

The proctors are used to this kind of chaos. Wherever a person is, the time will be counted according to where they are. They say that they will look at their mobile phones every second of the day.But when they talk about "year", it must be based on the time in the invigilation area.

That night in the mountains, Qin Chen took a violation notice and pushed open the door of the hunter's cabin in the snow.

All the candidates in the room looked at him anxiously, except for one.

He saw that person at a glance, and under the reflection of the orange fire, he looked like a handful of wind and snow that had strayed into it.

At that moment, three years had passed since they parted.

For You Huo, the three years were countless long days and nights when he was blind, and the more than 700 days he spent alone later.For Qin Chen, including those in the examination room and the rest area, there were more than 2000 days in total.

In two thousand three hundred and twenty-two days, they met in the cold wind and snow.

I thought it was the first meeting, but it was actually a reunion.

……

Memories flooded in, and nothing left was squeezed into the chest cavity, and the heart was throbbing with pain. I couldn't tell whether it was too full or too heavy.

The fire in the core area was locked behind the door by 154, but the heat wave continued unabated.Maybe the temperature was too high, and the fire just now was too intense, making people's eyes sour and hot.

You Huo lowered his head and took a few heavy breaths, clenched his hands hanging by his sides into fists.The air rushed into the lungs, but it didn't make the heart lighter.Satisfaction and pain exist at the same time, squeezing each other, nowhere to be placed, and unable to dissolve.

He closed his eyes for a while, then raised his eyes, and saw Qin Chen raised his head, his protruding Adam's apple slid twice between his necks, something heavy wrapped him, like an invisible fire, which would soon burn over .Qin Chen finally looked over, his eyes were red.

Suddenly someone screamed: "Brother, your hand!"

You Huo looked down and saw that the back of his right hand was blood red—the cleaning procedure every 10 seconds started again, and the red light moved over.The back of his hand was just touched, and it was dripping with blood, but at that moment, he had only Qin Chen in his eyes, and he couldn't feel the pain.

Another person's body temperature wrapped over.

"Go out first." Qin Chen's voice was very hoarse, whispering in his ears.

In the next second, they stepped on the tail of the red light and crashed into the third door.

The scene inside the door was completely different from the main control center in his memory. You Huo didn't see the familiar woods, nor the metal fort with NA written on it, nor the phantom of the distant city.

It looks like a semi-enclosed laboratory, with a screen and a simplified main console on one side, and a cloud of fog on the other.

"After your incident, the main control center was cut off, and the most core ones are not here." 154 explained while driving a road to the rest area at the fastest speed.

It takes only a moment to restore the memory, but it takes a long time to digest it.During those few minutes, all the people whose memories changed were almost confused.The ones with smaller changes can still recover, while the ones with big changes, such as 922, were dragged away by Yu Wen and Lao Yu the whole time.

They divided into three batches and finally met in the third door.

There was also a circle of redness in Chu Yue's eyes. She looked at Qin Chen for a while, then You Huo for a while, and asked softly, "Are you okay?"

They nodded.

When You Huo heard what she said, Chu Yue let out a long breath.

154 took time out of his busy schedule to turn around, looked at this side and asked another question, which he also answered.

He and Qin Chen must have looked calm, so that Lao Yu and Yu Wen approached them worriedly for a while, and then moved away in relief.

But in fact, what they said and did later, You Huo had no memory of it.

All he could feel was a fire standing beside him, burning all the time.He probably did the same himself.

They just restrained all their personal emotions in front of people and pressed them tightly.It may be too difficult for others, but not for them, because they have been doing such things every day long ago.

The road to the resting place opened quickly and unexpectedly.

154 frowned and muttered repeatedly: "It's strange, there is no alarm procedure triggered, and there is no too complicated defense. It shouldn't be..."

Wu Li asked, "How difficult would it be under normal circumstances?"

"That's not what I said. After all, there are usually no people who are bold enough to mess around here, so it's not normal. But..." 154 said: "I thought the system would at least open a few additional attack and defense programs, but No."

Along the way, 154 has been clearing traces at the fastest speed.It can't be ruled out that he cleaned it up too soon, and they were lucky enough, so the trouble level of the system's final characterization was not too high, so it didn't take much effort.

But... this possibility is really too small.

154 believes that it is intentional, and it has other plans.

But right now they don't have much time to think about this. Now that they've reached this point, it's too late to turn around, and it doesn't fit their character, so it's better to continue walking according to the plan.

They passed through the fog one after another, and in the process, 154 had a heart hanging.I was afraid that in the middle of the journey, the system would suddenly realize that it would cut off the passage and disperse them.

The fact is not, they are still very smooth.

Everyone came out of the thick fog, and what they saw were silver-gray high-rise buildings, metal towers, and large warehouse-like buildings, with some simple row buildings in the middle. At first glance, they looked like dormitories for schools or troops.Those rows of buildings are surrounded by courtyard walls, and metal plaques are hung on the outside of the walls, engraved with black words: Rest Center Hotel.

Yu Wen and the others came here for the first time, and they opened their mouths in a daze for a long time before asking, "What resting place is this? What are you doing?"

154 said: "Number 2, also known as the Arsenal."

"Did you ask us to make equipment?"

"Equipment is one aspect, not just because of this." 154 explained: "It's also because this place is special."

When they were talking, Youyou raised his eyes and looked further away.

There, a tower made of steel bars and metal skin is sandwiched between three silver-gray tall buildings, which is the most iconic building here.A long time ago, when You Huo was Examiner A, he would often see the shadows of these buildings in the smoke.

But not here, but in the former main control center.

Every time he walked through the woods, through the metal mesh, and walked towards the metal fortress of the main control center, You Huo would look up to the sky. There were phantoms of tall buildings there, which often reminded people of cities shrouded in fog in the early morning.

That phantom is the No. 2 resting place.

The last time You Huo looked at it like this was three years ago. He held the program button of partial self-destruct in his hand, with gunpowder smoke in front of him and a large area of ​​blood behind him.He closed his eyes in the light of the sky, and when he pressed the button, intense stinging pain burst open in his eyes.

He bent down at that moment, and stood up straight again a moment later.He pursed his lips and opened his eyes in continuous pain.The sky is dimming, and the shadows of tall buildings in the distance have become blurred.He will soon lose sight, but he knows that someone is still waiting for him in the other corner of the ruins.He needed to make a good walk over it and take another look before the light faded away completely.

……

"What's so special?" Yu Wen was still chirping and asking.

"Special here used to be able to communicate with the main control center, as long as you have permission and know the way." 154 said.

"Really?!" Yu Wen was a little excited: "Then let's get some weapons now?"

154 said: "It's not enough, you are all black households now, once you enter the weapon depot, the alarm will go off. Find a place to stay first, and give me some time."

He led everyone around the regular hotel, walked through two abandoned areas, and walked to a row of dilapidated buildings, saying, "This is a former hotel. It looks dilapidated, but it's actually okay inside. I can open the water and electricity for you."

"Hotel? How did it become like this?"

"Because when these two rebelled, they got a lot of weapons from here and put them into the main control center, and they took the road of the hotel." 154 pointed to Qin Chen and You Huo and said, "When the system got angry, it just went to the main control center." Scrap this side."

"Then can I still go to the main control center from here?"

"It's a beautiful idea." 154 said, "Of course we have to find the entrance again."

"Are you sure there is still an entrance?" Yang Shu said, "If it was me, I wouldn't need to beat him to death."

"So you are not the system." 154 said: "The main control center must ensure sufficient ordnance firepower support. For the system, the risk of reopening an entrance is even small before."

"Let's make do with one night here first, I turned on the shield, and wait for everyone to gather."

Everyone went upstairs one after another, and 154 opened all the rooms, and the lights and the sound of rushing water appeared at the same time.Their tense nerves finally relaxed a little, and the exhaustion accumulated for a long time swept over.

922 was still at a loss, 154 couldn't stand it, and dragged him into a room.

The whole corridor suddenly became quiet, and all the "others" left, only You Huo and Qin Chen.

The moment their eyes met, the fire burned instantly.

They have known each other for five years since the examinee Qin Chen took the documents and stared at examiner A. In fact, these five years have been nearly four thousand days, which is equivalent to ten years in reality.

In the 600 days, they spent less than half of the time in the system together, less than [-] days of overlapping days, and only a handful of days spent alone.

There is no one less lovers than them.

They entangled and slammed into the door, and then entangled on the table.

……

Qin Chen's long and narrow eyes were half closed, sunken in the shadow of the brow bone and the bridge of the nose, and the fundus of his eyes was still red.

Damp sweat dripped down the clear muscle texture and fell on the other person.

You Huo grabbed the back of his neck and panted and arched his waist, his voice was muffled by Qin Chen's kiss again.

Qin Chen kissed his slightly parted lips, half-closed wet eye slits, and Adam's apple on his neck, and said hoarsely, "I did this four years ago, kissed these places... I actually forgot."

"My great examiner is so good, I actually forgot."

Forgot twice.

One of the times the other party remembers...

You Huo stretched his waistline, clearly feeling his presence, and his eyes were foggy under his movements.

Panting heavily, he looked down at Qin Chen.The light-colored eyes are born with a sense of coldness, and at this time, there is a bit of lust behind this coldness.

"Make it up to me," he said.

A long time ago, someone touched the corner of his eyes and said: Do you still feel uncomfortable here?After leaving the system, I will accompany you to check your eyes again.

Later, this person left for a while, and when he came back, he was the only one who remembered this sentence.

Later, when he left the system and was admitted to the hospital one day, the doctor blindfolded him, even he himself forgot that sentence.

It's just that after the long darkness passed, on the day when the gauze was untied, he stood by the window of the nursing home, watching the sky change from dazzling to peaceful, and suddenly felt that there was something missing around him.

It was the end of the year, and he heard the nurse chirping beside him saying that Santa Maria Square was very lively, but other than there, other places were starting to be deserted, the shops were always closed, and the New Year was coming.

There was an empty corner of the street outside the nursing home, and when he looked there, he sometimes felt a little familiar.

The little nurse asked him why he was distracted, and he said nothing.

He just felt that he seemed to have seen such a quiet street somewhere, and there were no people on the street before nightfall.It should also be the beginning of a new year, and it was snowing outside, and he strode towards his residence in great strides, as if... he wanted to go back and meet someone.

……

Fortunately, after going around for so long, he still saw it.