Global Examination

Chapter 92

Don’t Close Your Eyes At Me

Chapter 92

After You Huo gathered more information from the priest and the tattered witchcraft book, he was more or less able to piece together 80-90% of the truth.

After some thought, he returned to the dungeon and picked the witchdoctor up.

In order to set the dead free, two people must die.

The Duke and the witchdoctor.@@@@

The priest had said that if the castle is burnt down the moment the curse is lifted, maybe........just maybe, the victims of this curse could be brought back.

Both the witchdoctor and Duke would not have been resurrected, and the victims wouldn’t have died.

It was worth a try.

And so, he had an idea, but it required the Duke’s help. Hopefully that madman would be more cooperative.

He boarded a carriage in town and dragged the witchdoctor back to the castle.

The castle was in chaos. The corridors were filled with examinees.

You Huo immediately sensed that something wasn’t right, but he didn’t stop his steps. Compared to the other things, the matter at hand was more urgent.

Dim candlelight peeked out from inside the room. You Huo who had one hand dragging the witchdoctor and the other holding a knife looked down at the light falling at his feet and suddenly felt his heart tremble.

The door creaked open.

He stiffly looked in and saw the Duke sitting in his armchair with a look of intense agony. He seemed to be experiencing pain and discomfort from the separation of his soul from his body and his entire body writhed around violently.

As if there was an invisible hand grabbing him by his chest, his entire body lifted upwards.

The buttons of his coat broke off, revealing the shirt inside and the blood-red stitches on his skin. It looked like those fine stitches........were slowly being pulled apart by something.

The head, chest and limbs were all twisted into strange angles.

The next second, those limbs finally broke off and separated from the body........

Once that body was abandoned, the owner found a new replacement.

The new duke had his back towards the door. Getting up from his knelt position in front of the armchair, his hand that was originally placed onto the Duke’s head was removed.

With his tall back illuminated by the candlelight, the man flexed his fingers as if experiencing something very novel.

As he flexed, the cracking of bones could be heard.

In an instant, You Huo felt like all the blood in his body was gone. His heart pounded rapidly.

It was clearly only warm candlelight, but at this moment he found it very blinding.

When he opened his eyes again, that new Duke had turned to look back.......

It was Qin Jiu.

The moment their eyes met, You Huo suddenly could no longer feel the knife in his hand.

It was only when the other party revealed a guilty and slightly surprised look that he was finally able to feel the pain around his knuckles......

The hand that barely had some intact flesh remaining had at some unknown point in time clenched tightly around the handle.

His jaw twitched. After clenching his teeth tightly for a moment, he called out: “Qin Jiu?”

His voice was hoarse. It was unknown whether it was because of the pain caused by the curse, or because he was nervous.

It wasn’t until this moment that he realised that he was actually nervous.

And he was even........a little flustered.

The other party was silent for a moment. Perhaps it was because it was too unexpected.

After a few seconds, he answered “yes” with a similarly hoarse voice.

All the blood in his body returned.

You Huo’s face was extremely pale, like those of snow. He closed his eyes and took a few deep breaths before approaching him with his knife.

Qin Jiu politely dodged a few attacks, but he almost didn’t fight back at all. With just a few blows, he was pressed down onto the ground.

You Huo knelt onto him, pressing him down. The knife he held was held less than two centimetres away from Qin Jiu’s neck.

“Are you crazy?!”

Qin Jiu wasn’t concerned about the knife that was threatening him. He rested his elbow on the ground to support his upper body and said reassuringly, “I’m not crazy, don’t worry. Don’t be angry. I only did this because I have a hidden card.”

His voice was both low and deep. It echoed inside the bedroom like a dull cello playing in the night.

He picked up a card and said to You Huo: “Remember this? The one I drew. I can learn any ability in an exam.”

When he heard Jiang Yuan’s words earlier, he had suddenly realised that there was a way for him to lead the Duke to his death.

To achieve eternal life, the Duke used other peoples’ body and because the other person didn’t have eternal life, when they die, he would subsequently be able to take over and become its owner.

But what if the person the Duke tried to take over would never die?

The Duke wouldn’t be able to control that body.

And so, he used the “Last-minute Cramming” card and learnt the Duke’s “Eternal Life” ability.

You Huo’s breathing was still very heavy and his expression was still icy. He was clearly still angry.

Grabbing Qin Jiu by the collar, he threw out a few words with great emphasis: “The card mentioned ‘a certain probability’. Where did you get the confidence that it would definitely work?”

Qin Jiu opened his mouth.

He wanted to say that he shouldn’t underestimate his willpower; if Jiang Yuan could last that long, he shouldn’t be worse than him.

He also wanted to say that no one can be 100% certain about anything. All things require taking some risks and he should be familiar with that too.

With his usual character, those were words that he would’ve normally said.

But when he saw You Huo’s tightly pursed lips and tensed figure, he suddenly felt like he could understand his anger.

He suddenly reached out and rubbed the corner of You Huo’s lips with his thumb.

Because of the curse, and also because of his extremely pale skin, the veins on the side of his neck had become clearly visible. A blue vein travelled up along his chin, stopping at the corner of his lips.

Qin Jiu finally said, “I promise. I won’t do anything this risky in the future.”

You Huo had his eyes lowered. When Qin Jiu reached out to rub his lip a second time, he turned his head away: “Save those words to deceive the others.”

Suddenly, there were scratching sounds from not far away.

When the two looked up, they saw the Duke’s separated limbs scratching frantically at the door trying to get out. It was as if they wanted to find other body parts to combine with.

That hoarse voice made his heart grow cold.

The moment he managed to push away the spirits around him, a hand rested on his shoulder. Soon afterwards, a body with slightly lower than average body temperature moved closer. The collar was a little damp, and it carried the scent of rain from a midsummer’s night.

“Big Invigilator, is it raining outside?”

This phrase suddenly flashed through his mind.

A cold object was stuffed into Qin Jiu’s hand. It was the knife handle.

Immediately afterwards, the other end of the knife stabbed something.

You Huo’s hoarse voice rang from beside his ear: “Don’t go crazy a second time.”

***

Gao Qi had not seen such a big fire in a very long time.

The last time he saw one was many, many years ago when he was still in the army. It was for disaster relief or something........he no longer remembered.

Ever since he entered the system, there were a lot of things he no longer remembered.

Fire enveloped the entire castle. It burned brightly to the point the sky had even turned red.

Zhao Jiatong looked at him worriedly. She wiped away the ashes from his face and asked: “How are you? Hands still shaking?”

Only God knows how panicked he was when he came out of the castle.

He had prepared all the wood and oil as requested but when he hurried to the Duke’s bedroom to get the signal, he saw A with a knife in his chest and Qin Jiu holding him up.

The moment he saw that, Gao Qi’s heart almost stopped!

Fortunately, the effect soon took place.

The witchdoctor had willingly let the Duke kill him, so all the witchcraft had been reset.

He watched the blood on Qin Jiu and You Huo gradually lessen, the mutilated flesh slowly heal up and the colour slowly restored onto their pale complexions.

You Huo who was leaning on Qin Jiu’s shoulder furrowed his brows and reopened his eyes.

All the examinees evacuated the castle one after another. In less than a few minutes, the fire burning the castle could almost reach the sky.

On the field outside, the bloodied patients slowly recovered and regained their humanly appearance. They slowly sat up and looked at their arms and legs in daze.

Light pierced through the dark clouds in the sky, falling onto these people.

These people had been hiding away inside the church for a very, very long time and had almost forgotten what the sun was like.

Now, they no longer had to hide and could stand tall under the light they had been missing all this time..........

After a very long time, several people suddenly appeared from within the fire.

Those with sharper eyesight cried out with surprise: “Zhang Pengyi???”

More people stood up. They all looked over with disbelief.

............

While almost all the examinees were gathered together, there were two who stood far from the crowd.

At the end of the field was a row of tall metal fences which looked like the generic fences one would see surrounding a manor. Behind those fences was a thick fog, and through the thick fog you could see the invigilator’s cabin located at the top of Carlton Mountain.

But You Huo didn’t go through it. He just leaned against the fence watching the excited people in front of the castle from afar.

After the soul withdraws, one would feel tired and fatigued.

He didn’t like noise. Right now, he didn’t want to hear the exclamations and shouts.

He also didn’t want to move. What’s more, there was another person next to him who appeared to be in a bad mood.

Ever since Qin Jiu came out from the castle, his face had been held taut.

Like it was on the verge of exploding but was forcefully restrained, he silently suppressed his anger.

In fact, the same was true for You Huo.

He remembered Qin Jiu’s risk taking, Qin Jiu remembered his. They were no better than the other and were both holding in their anger with nowhere to vent.

You Huo for some reason felt irritable.

His heart was still racing from the aftermath of doing something so risky, and drowsiness and exhaustion surged through him, but his mind was still exceptionally clear.

The silk shirt and tall boots that had yet to be changed out of were still covered in traces of blood that emitted a rusty scent.

There was something in his pocket. When You Huo noticed it, he reached inside and pulled it out.

It was the packet of cigarettes and lighter Gao Qi had given him.

He normally didn’t smoke but at this moment he suddenly wanted one to refresh himself.

Qin Jiu suddenly said: “Lend me one.”

You Huo handed him a cigarette and then flicked open the lighter to light his own cigarette.

The thin cloud of smoke from the cigarette almost connected with the fog behind him. It stung his eyes slightly.

You Huo closed his eyes and didn’t suck it in.

He had intended to remove the cigarette and just watch it burn when the person next to him suddenly leaned over.

Qin Jiu leaned forward into the cloud of smoke with his eyes narrowing slightly.

Held in his lips was the cigarette. He lowered his head and the end of his cigarette met with You Huo’s.

A red ball of fire brightened.

The figure before him soon moved back. Qin Jiu had straightened himself back up.

A moment later, he removed his cigarette and once again leaned over.

You Huo had his back against the fence. Fog travelling through the gaps brought along ambiguous humidity.

The worries and anger from earlier, the suffocation and irritation that couldn’t be voiced; at this moment they all finally could be vented.

As the effect of the curse dissipated, the last piece of flesh on Qin Jiu’s wrist healed.

The red warning light that had been silent for a long time was flashing wildly at this moment. Beeping sounds of warning rang nonstop in between the interspersed sounds of breathing.

Far ahead was the crowd and the fire.

Behind them was the invigilator’s cabin separated by the fog.

They kissed under the warning alarm.

KK has something to say:

A KISS!!