Global Examination

This is a villa, the interior layout is mainly white and dark blue gray, simple and clear.

You Huo dreamed that he was walking down the stairs...

This place is weird.

It is not the place where he temporarily lives abroad, nor the place where he stays in China.

It's not a hospital, it's not a school army, and it's not the home of Lao Yu and Yu Wen's father and son...

In short, not anywhere he knew.

But standing here, he felt a familiar and strange feeling——

He seemed to know where he should turn, which room he was going to, and the structure of the room.

Every move is like the master here, so I feel familiar.

But he didn't feel any sense of belonging because of this, so he was still a stranger.

He guessed that this might be where he lived as examiner A.

The house should be located somewhere in the proctoring area, but he didn't like it.

But this is also normal, who would take this kind of place as their home?

In the dream, it was already late, and the setting sun sank in an instant.

There are large floor-to-ceiling windows on one side of the second floor and the first floor. Whenever you turn to that angle, the lights outside will dazzle his eyes.

It could be seen through the glass and lights that it was snowing outside.

Even though there was still sunset just now, the snow fell very heavily in an instant...

He squinted his eyes to avoid the light, but his footsteps did not stop on the first floor.

You Huo in the dream somehow knew that he was going to the basement...

***

This was a certain day many years ago, just at night, and it was snowing heavily.

The temperature in the room is just right, and a single coat is enough.

Examiner A just came back from a trip, and a layer of snow fell on his shoulders.

He took off his coat and went upstairs, hung up his clothes in the bedroom, and was about to take a shower when there was a movement downstairs.

This is the residence arranged for the proctors in the system, a villa with a unified style.

On the left side of the villa area are the twin buildings used to punish candidates, and on the right side is a small pretentious park, which is unusually quiet on weekdays.

As a result, the movement downstairs seemed very abrupt.

Examiner A lives alone, does not like to make friends, and there are few other people in the residence.

But these two days are exceptions——

A certain violating candidate named Qin Chen is living here.

Of course, he didn't live in a bedroom, but in a confinement room.

The system does not allow candidates who violate the rules to live too happily.

The movement downstairs stopped for a while, and then started again.

It's not a noisy sound, just a light tapping sound, calm and unhurried.

It can be heard that the person who knocked was joking.

Examiner A listened for a while, then walked down the stairs to the basement.

According to the original design, the basement is an activity area and also has guest rooms.Later, in order to accommodate Qin Chen, the system changed the guest room into a built-in confinement room.

Except that no monitoring is installed, it has the same properties as a normal confinement room.

The knocking sound came from inside the confinement room.

He pressed his finger to open the door.

There are not many things in the confinement room. A set of tables and chairs and a bed placed against the wall are all the furniture.

There are some tools hanging on the wall pretendingly.

Qin Chen, who was still a candidate at that time, was sitting on the edge of the bed.

The light from the porch light came in from outside the door, and it happened to fall on Qin Chen.

He squinted his eyes and tilted his head to block the light, and his raised hands were tied with leather ropes.

Across the open palm, you can see a lazy smile on the corner of his mouth.

"What's the matter?" Examiner A asked while holding the door open.

"It's nothing." Qin Chen said: "I heard that a certain examiner who was busy with official duties came back, so I just greeted him politely."

His eyes narrowed again, still unable to adjust to the bright light.

Examiner A glanced back at the corridor lamp, and closed the door of the confinement room behind his back.

He closed it very hard, making a "Peng" sound, as if reluctantly.

The room suddenly darkened.

"Can't you turn on the lights?" Examiner A said coldly.

He snapped a switch, and a light somewhere in the corner turned on, much dimmer than the porch light.

"Oh, I really want to." Qin Chen raised his hand and said, "But unfortunately, I was tied up like this, so I can't move. Give me water, I didn’t come back until now. If I didn’t take the initiative to say hello, I’m afraid I wouldn’t be able to remember me... Is this considered excessive punishment, big examiner?”

As we all know, examiner A is the youngest among the invigilators.

Surprisingly young.

But whether candidates or colleagues, they will subconsciously ignore his age, because he is too strong and has a very high status in the system.

Only Qin Chen is an exception.

When this candidate saw Examiner A for the first time, he made fun of him without fear of death.

After learning that examiner A was two years younger than himself, he added "big" in front of the title, opened his mouth "big examiner" and closed his mouth "big examiner".

It's okay to be called by anyone else.

In fact, some people do call it that, it is a respectful title for the chief examiner.

But it came from Qin Chen's mouth, with two points of casual ridicule.

Examiner A glanced at the wall clock and said, "I left for errands at 4 p.m., and it is now 6:10."

A total of 2 hours and 10 minutes, is this most of the day calculated with the face?

As for not giving water to those who don't eat, that's even more farting!

He snorted coldly and pushed the cups and plates on the table: "Is this pig food?"

Of course it is not pig food, the presentation is exquisite and expensive.

It was sent by another invigilator to the restaurant in the business district to apologize for some incidents during the day.

He was not hungry, so he stuffed food into the confinement room.

Unexpectedly, some candidates do not appreciate it.

Qin Chen straightened his legs and changed into a more relaxed posture.He raised his eyelids, glanced at the cups and plates with little interest, and said, "It's different from last night."

Examiner A: "..."

"The meal last night was very good, and the taste was a bit special." Qin Chen said: "The fried shrimp was burnt, but other than that, it was good."

"..."

Examiner A blankly hooked the trash can beside him and poured the water and fried meat into it: "You chose it yourself, so be hungry."

He sat on the edge of the table, poured out the cold dinner, and threw the plate back on the table.

There were two bangs in the confinement room, and it was quiet again.

For a moment, there was only the sound of the breathing of the two of them.

Examiner A folded his arms, his eyes drooped from his thin eyelids, and fell on Qin Chen.

Silence has a taste of tension.

This kind of tension continued quietly for a while, and Examiner A finally said: "So many violations, what is the purpose?"

Qin Chen raised his eyebrows: "Is there a purpose for violating the rules?"

Examiner A did not speak.

Qin Chen also said: "Isn't the purpose of the exam to be selected? As far as I know, it is. The questions are quite difficult. I can't think of a particularly perfect way to pass it. I can only settle for the second best. If there is a better way, Why should I break the rules? Who is not afraid of punishment."

Examiner A: "Two words of nonsense are enough, stop when it suits you."

Qin Chen laughed.

He smiled for a while and said, "I'm serious, do you believe it?"

"Do not believe."

Qin Chen had a regretful face, making his teeth itch.

"The first time you cleaned up the exam room, you buried a jammer inside."

"The third time you cleaned up the exam room, you led the questions into a logical mess. The exam room was put into use later, but it collapsed halfway through, and it hasn't been repaired until now."

Examiner A counted one by one.

Qin Chen was not in a hurry or annoyed when he heard the words, and argued, "It's just a prank."

Examiner A: "The fifth time, you said you lost a re-examination card."

Qin Chen: "The woods look the same in all directions, maybe I brought out the cards when I took out the compass. I remember I mentioned it to you at that time?"

Examiner A paused: "Last time, you hid the cheat sheet."

Qin Chen: "It's fun to help others."

Examiner A stopped talking.

His light-colored eyes were made lighter by the light, and he stared at Qin Chen quietly.

Qin Chen also looked back at him and did not avoid it.

After a while, examiner A glanced away, scanned around and landed on the floor lamp again.

After a while, he suddenly said: "Forget it, tell me the truth.

Qin Chen: "What the hell, tell me."

"I have countless opportunities to torture you with these questions, but I chose here, do you know why?"

Qin Chen thought for a while and said, "I don't know."

Examiner A: "..."

Qin Chen looked at his face, smiled suddenly, and said, "Okay, answer seriously, because this is a confinement room."

Examiner A's eyes moved: "So you know."

"I just heard such a saying."

"The confinement room is the only place that the system cannot detect. This is the room left by the original design concept, and it can be regarded as a safe haven under the rules."

Qin Chen paused, and then said: "I also heard that this safe haven was not opened before this year, and someone proposed to the system that the practice was not in compliance, so the confinement room was exempted."

Examiner A finished listening and said, "Who did you listen to?"

Qin Chen: "Those who have checked, those who participated, and those who just know about it."

This is a kind of confession.

Examiner A was silent for a while, and said, "So you did come with a mission, and then you followed me."

It was supposed to be a question, but he said it calmly.

Qin Chen: "Examiner A has a deep relationship with the system. This is the information I got. It doesn't make sense if I don't treat it specially. What do you think?"

Examiner A snorted coldly as a response.

This reaction seemed to please the candidate on the opposite side. He stared at examiner A for a long time, and then said: "When I first met you, I thought you were on the side of the system, and you were on the same side as the designers, maintenance personnel, and other participants. Like a real ostrich, he covered his eyes and ears, pretending not to see the problem of the system, because he couldn't control it, and the one who stopped the bad luck rashly was himself."

"But later I found out that it doesn't seem to be the case." Qin Chen said: "But you are too difficult to guess. I don't know if it is because of your acting so well or because of some reasons for me. I have never been sure about your position. Just now, I was shaken a bit."

Examiner A looked at him from the corner of his eyes, still not enthusiastic: "What about now?"

"Now? Let's change the way." Qin Chen said, "Can you give me a correct answer, examiner? I have guessed your thoughts for a long time..."

He paused, and then said, "If I keep guessing, I will almost doubt my identity."

"Identity? What do you mean?"

"Do you know what kind of relationship people take speculation as fun?"

Examiner A looked at him and said nothing.

Qin Chen didn't speak either.

The silence spread again for a while.

Examiner A suddenly said, "Exemption for the confinement room, I did this. Is it accurate?"

Qin Chen's eyes were bright, and he said, "Forget it, it can barely be counted."

Examiner A glanced at the time again, and finally straightened up.

Only then did Qin Chen realize that he didn't even take off his military boots, and seemed to be going out.

"Go slowly and forcefully." He said and walked towards the door.

Qin Chen's voice sounded behind him: "Aren't you going to untie me?"

Examiner A paused, and said blankly: "You can open it in a minute, so do you have to pretend to be so miserable?"

There was a chuckle behind him, followed by the sound of a thin rope.

"Okay, but you're wrong about—"

Examiner A didn't look back.

As soon as he walked to the door, there was another person behind him.

"—Actually, it only takes a few seconds."

Qin Chen stood behind him and was about to say something, when he suddenly stretched out his thumb and wiped the side of his neck: "The neckline is a bit damp, is it raining outside?"

The touch of the fingertips is warm and dry.

Examiner A held the doorknob without moving, only narrowing his eyes slightly.

After a while, he said, "No, it's snowing."

***

You Huo suddenly woke up at this moment.

Just like the few occasional dreams in these years, the moment of waking up, the content is blurred and cannot be captured.

Can only catch sporadic in the rapidly blurred shadow.

You Huo only remembered that there seemed to be Qin Chen in the dream, as well as the rope and the room.

I can't remember the details.

There were a few knocking sounds outside, muffled.

You Huo sat up from the bed, pinched the bridge of his nose to ease his sleepiness.

After rubbing it twice, he suddenly felt something was wrong...

Dreams come true, dreams come true.If he really dreamed about Qin Chen, it wasn't—

You Huo opened his eyes suddenly.

He first saw Qin Chen who was on the opposite bed, who had just woken up just like him, and was also a little dazed.

Then, he turned his head silently, and saw the extra people in the dormitory——

Not far from his bed, a man with his hands bound by a leather rope was lazily sitting on the desk.

And beside Qin Chen who had just woken up, a man in a shirt, trousers, military boots was leaning against the balcony door, with arms folded and eyelids lowered, looking at them coldly.

A standard badge was pinned to his right arm, with the words "Proctor A" engraved on it.

Who is dreaming who, the difference is clear.

You Huo: "..."

Qin Chen: "..."

The atmosphere is particularly solidified, and the moonlight is particularly beautiful.

Unforgettable tonight.