Global Examination

Chapter 45

You Seem Delicious

Chapter 45: Reverse Operation

“To recall trivial bits and pieces, you must be pretty amazing.” You Huo said sarcastically.

Qin Jiu raised an eyebrow: “Are you always like this?”

“Like what?”

Qin Jiu pretended to think. He then dragged his words and described: “In order to anger someone, for example me, you would help speak for someone you don’t know, for example invigilator A? Honestly, it’s quite childish of you.”

You Huo snorted. He pulled up his collar to cover his mouth and chin and walked on: “My mouth belongs to me.”

The wind in the arctic at night was so cold, it could make facial paralysis turn into true paralysis. No one wanted to speak in this environment.

The two walked on in silence for a while.

Without anyone speaking, the island seemed a little too quiet. Just like how it was when they first came ashore, it seemed to be missing something.

You Huo took a few more steps before coming to a sudden realisation.

There were no sound of waves.

They had experienced the turbulent waves on the small white ship, but it disappeared the moment they came ashore.

“What’s wrong?”

Seeing him suddenly stopping, Qin Jiu was a little perplexed

You Huo said: “The sea is covered in ice. How did the invigilator’s ship come in?”

In the question, the reason why three Dutch merchant ships were anchored here, and the captain and crew were forced to live on this deserted island for eight months was because the sea was blocked by a thick layer of ice, preventing them from sailing out.

That man with the buzzcut said that the merchant ships originally had ice breaking installations and would normally get through normal layers of ice without any trouble.

But the ice here was too thick and too wide. All three ice breaking parts on the ships were rendered useless.

The small white ship they were on earlier however was able to enter without a trouble and it’s speed wasn’t slow.

He had actually overlooked something like this.

“The invigilator’s ship had some special ice breaking mechanism?” You Huo asked Qin Jiu.

As an invigilator, Qin Jiu was more than well-versed about matters associated with the examination centre and invigilators. He was practically like a one metre ninety reference book.

The book said: “Why? You want to steal the equipment from the ship?”

You Huo who was seen through didn’t try to hide his intentions: “I can’t?”

“It’s not that you can’t.” Qin Jiu said: “It’s just that there aren’t any. The invigilator’s ship does not rely on any ice-breaking equipment to sail through. If it did, you would’ve heard the sound of ice breaking along the way.”

“922 said that invigilators ships do not receive any special treatment but in fact it does. It’s ability to sail itself is a special treatment.”

Qin Jiu said: “When the invigilator’s ship sails through, the ice around it would disappear and become normal seawater. It doesn’t need any ice breaking equipment. Haven’t you noticed? If it is something that allows invigilators to apprehend examinees more easily, the system would happily help out.”

Then maybe he could let the crew members pack up and sail out along the path the invigilators ship came in through?

You Huo thought this as he walked towards the edge of the reef.

Qin Jiu seemed to have the ability to read his thoughts. He turned around and shone his phones’ flashlight at the place they were docked at earlier: “Don’t waste your energy. Look, as soon as the ship is gone, the ice is sealed up.”

Sure enough, when the light swept past the ice all looked flat. It was like it was never touched.

......Alright then.

You Huo dispelled that thought of his.

The people on the invigilator’s ship had temporarily managed to escape.

.

In the cave, everyone was busy.

The wood from the two great masters that piled up as high as a mountain managed to solve the problem of not having enough burnable material in an instant.

Everyone naturally wouldn’t waste these resources which were obtained with much difficulty.

They placed the wood in the driest spot possible and each took a tool and used it to cut them up into smaller pieces so that they would burn more easily.

The crew members from the merchant ships possessed extensive survival experiences so the ones who were not injured helped the examinees set up the fire.

Although they didn’t know what the punishment was and why it was called bearing responsibility for their death, they knew it wasn’t going to be anything good......perhaps they would instantly lose their lives.

Right now, they were just waiting for the guillotine to come down.

.

The first officers’ pocket watch slowly ticked on. It represented the examination time.

At 23:57pm at night, a bell suddenly sounded inside the cave.

The sleeping examinees were instantly startled awake. One even jumped up sporting their messy bed hair: “Exam time?”

The one who jumped up was Di Li. He looked around blankly before rubbing his face and sitting back down: “Fuck......Scared me to death. I thought I heard the bell for class and thought I was late for my university entrance examination.”

“It wasn’t your imagination.”

“There really was a bell. Scared me.......”

“Why is there suddenly a bell? I’m most afraid of that sound.”

The others murmured in confusion.

Qin Jiu was rubbing the inner corners of his eyebrow. You Huo suddenly patted him.

“Hm?” He looked up.

You Huo pointed at the stone wall and said: “Recalculating points.”

As soon as he said that, the voice of the dead rabbit rang through the cave. It carried a strange echo.

【2 minutes and 21 seconds until midnight. Now recalculating today’s score.】

【Today, examinees could earn points from two areas.】

【1. Treating the crew members.】

【2. Finding fuel to ensure that temperature is maintained inside the cave.】

【The scores are calculated as follows:】

【A total of 6 points for treating the crew members, including 2 points for finding medicine and 4 points for diagnosis and treatment.】

【A total of 8 points for finding fuel to ensure that temperature is maintained inside the cave, including 5 points for finding sufficient fuel, 1 point for chopping up the firewood, and 2 points for starting up the fires safely.】

On the stone wall, the scores for the examinees began to change.

Because Qin Jiu and You Huo provided medicine and found fuel, they earned 7 points and jumped up from 17.25 to 24.45. In an instant, they became top four.

Shu Xue and Wu Li earned 4 points for diagnosis and treatment, so they also jumped up in rank by two places.

Although Di Li and the others also found some fuel, the quantity found was too far from “sufficient”, so they only received 1 point.

Most of the remaining groups also earned 2 points for chopping up the firewood and starting up the fire. It was better than nothing.

Chen Fei and Huang Rui did their best and received a total of four points. Their total score changed from 11 to 15, but they were still in last place.

They sat there paralysed. They were both shocked and terrified.

At this moment, the dead rabbit spoke again.

【All points have now been allocated. Bonus points and penalties will now be applied.】

【Today, examinees could be penalised for one area.】

【1. Violating examination rules and dismantling the system ship.】

【The scores are calculated as follows:】

【Dismantling of the system ship resulted in complete loss of function of the ship. As it can no longer be repaired, the nature of this violation is extremely serious. A total of 10 points were deducted for offending examinees.】

The scores on the stone wall once again began to change.

You Huo and Qin Jiu’s points were severely affected. From 24.25, it crashed to the ground and changed into 14.25.

Thanks to the joint efforts of the two, they went in the opposite direction and fell into a pit. The total score for them today was -3, successfully kicking Chen Fei and Huang Rui away and taking over the throne in last place.

The examinees were as silent as a mouse.

KK has something to say:

What a rollercoaster....@@@@