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NO.88 The Joker(3)
update icon Updated at 2025/3/18 12:10:12

Answering candidates have disappeared? Answer Sheet Candidate?

Isn't the answer candidate Xu Fang? How could he have disappeared?

In this game, vanishing is equal to death, that is to say, Xu Fang is dead. The invigilator gave me Xu Fang's answer sheet to continue to finish.

But how could Xu Fang die? How could he hang up so easily?

No matter what, I could not believe that Xu Fang died, but the fact was in front of me, so I could not believe it.

The sadness gradually emerged. I was not sad about his death, but desperate for my upcoming fate - even Xu Fang had died, how could I get through it peacefully?

Can't give up!!!

I gritted my teeth, put the test paper that Xu Fang had answered in front of my eyes, and then carefully read it by the faint candlelight.

[Ghost Cards]

I had 13 cards in front of me.

According to the rules of the game, on turn one, I played a "6" and received a "10", and the 10 cards offset.

On turn two, I play a "7" and receive a "J", which cancels out.

Round 3, I played "8" and received "2", the 2 card cancels.

Round 4, I played "9" and received "3", the 3 card cancels.

Round 5, I play "4" and receive "6", no offset.

Round 6, I played "6" and received a ghost card.

I was left with only A, Q, K and the ghost card in my hand.

The ghost card is a twisted face that looks hideous, and it keeps staring at me as if it is alive.

On round seven, I played the ghost card and received it.

Round eight, I played the ghost card and received the ghost card.

Round nine, I played the ghost card and received the ghost card.

Round ten, I played the ghost card and received the ghost card.

Round eleven, I played the ghost card and received the ghost card.

Round twelve, I played the ghost card and received the ghost card.

Round thirteen, I decided to keep the cards and played other cards, but the ghost face came out from inside the cards and swallowed me.

I died.]

Seeing this, I felt a pang of dizziness.

Xu Fang ah Xu Fang, why don't you think about the reason why you keep receiving ghost cards? The ghost tiles keep appearing, which is obviously not normal, why do you still keep moving the ghost tiles, why don't you find such an obvious loophole?

I really feel sorry for Xu Fang, if he had found it earlier, he wouldn't have met with an untimely death.

But ...... why did the matter of his death have to be included in the essay? At that time, the ghost sign was completely activated, already facing a life-and-death moment, and Xu Fang could still calmly write the fact of his death into his essay?

The weirdest thing is ......

why there is still content after it!

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[...... My companion died, and here is my experience.

I was left with "6, J, Q" and received "A, Q, K" from my partner, a ghost card. Q cancels out and at this moment I am left with "A, 6, J, K", a ghost card in my hand.

Round 10, I played "6", received "K", and the K card cancelled.

Round 11, I played "A" and received "J", which cancelled out.

At this point I was left with only the ghost card in my hand, which swallowed me up.

But I, myself, had won a real victory.

It's a mess, it's all a mess.

Had my memory been tampered with? No, the timing and the handwriting were not right. First of all, what happened next had not happened yet, yet it had predicted the order of my card play. After two rounds, I would have only ghost cards left in my hand.

But according to the rules of the game, I would disappear completely as a loser with only ghost cards left, so how could I win? This kind of composition is already scribbling, and the bad thing is that what has been written can't be changed.

What is the content of Xu Fang's death all about? Look at the handwriting is obviously different from Xu Fang's, and it's not quite the same as what I wrote either? Who wrote it in the end? Did ......

my hand tremble a little.

The rules of the game don't seem to say that only the candidates do the writing, right? If a ghost does it then ......

dead end.

Next how I do not follow as on, then the essay is not a real experience. If I do it as it is, I will end up with only the ghost card in my hand again ......

What the hell should I do? Who can help me ......

[In any situation, you must pay attention and never trust your instincts!

Xu Fang's words once rang in my ears.

Never trust your intuition ......

intuition.

I snapped to attention.

Follow the above content will definitely die? But the end said that I myself will get the real victory!

I looked at my right hand, and then at the darkness of nothingness around me.

The rules of the game explicitly prohibit [communicating with other players in any form], but what if the test paper is used as a vehicle to transmit information?

Understood, I laughed bitterly in my heart.

Is this really a trap? How did that guy find out?

I'll believe you for once ...... hope you're not lying to me.

I finally made up my mind, I drew the card "6" and passed it to the left, while I immediately received the card on the right.

It was "K", the K card offset.

It was exactly as described in the essay.

I slowly pushed the "A" to the left gap, knowing exactly what would happen next. But I had to do it for the sake of victory, because it was something I had decided of my own volition.

The ace disappears and I receive the "J", which cancels out.

All I had left was the ghost card.

The ghost card ......

trembled violently, the ghost face inside twisted, and suddenly it broke free and appeared in front of me, occupying my entire field of vision.

Madness, greed.

A manic stream of consciousness rushed into my mind, consuming my thoughts. In front of it, I felt so small, like a grain of sand in a cosmic river of stars.

My consciousness grew thinner and thinner, until finally it slowly disappeared.

I was really swallowed by the ghost card, I lost, but I also won.

In fact, I was not Xu Tong.

My identity is a "ghost" who participated in this game, but I was inserted into a human memory of "Xu Tong".

It's been a long time since I've experienced the human way of thinking. ......

[The answer is correct, plus 18 points, the total score of candidates: 51, after deducting the dead candidates remaining score: 47]

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"Bang! "

The man in front of the screen gazed fiercely at the dark-haired youth smoking a cigarette inside the classroom, his expression completely twisted.

"Bastard!!!" He cursed viciously, "Looks like I'm going to have to resort to the ultimate tactic."

"Misperception" was common, but in the examination room, the consequences of misperceiving time could be fatal. The next question he was going to give was designed to stall for time, not difficult, but it would give the illusion that it was "over soon.

This idiot doesn't really think that you can tell time by looking at the length of a candle, does he?

"Heh..." he laughed mockingly.

He had deliberately set the length of the candle like this, so that the smart people would be fooled into thinking that they had found a timekeeping tool. However, within the grievance examination room, time was hidden. Only the examiner knows how much time has really passed.

He laid this trap in order to shade these people so hard in the next test that by the time they realized the exam was going to end, it would be too late.

Suddenly -

"It's useless, no matter what, the time is in my hands."

At this time, the black-haired youth in the screen was actually looking at him, his cold gaze crossing the space across the screen looking straight at him, as if he had long seen through what was in his mind, and his mouth uttered words that appalled him.

His breath caught and he almost jumped up. It took a few seconds to realize that the dark-haired youth was talking to himself.

"Impossible, I'm the examiner, only I can see you and hear you, you scum can't see me anyway, hahaha!" He laughed out loud, but a cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

Smoke? The drug?

Blood sprang to his eyes.

"Come on, get it over with, it can't go on like this!"

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Inside the classroom, the crowd covered their heads, digesting the sudden extra memories in their minds.

Xu Tong was dazed, not yet slowed down from the game; Yao Berry was hugging his knees, his eyes wide with palpitations.

Xu Fang leaned on the windowsill smoking a cigarette, but there were only three cigarette butts by his feet.

Everyone else was in a daze.

"The memory ...... has been altered again?" Yue Yang said in shock, "The score is suddenly so much more, it's still ...... surprising."

"Yeah, suddenly it's 47 points, it looks like it's about to pass!" Zhu Chengtao said, he looked to Yao Berry, "I did not expect, Yao Berry is also quite powerful ah."

"Ahaha, also...okay." Yao Berry gave a dry laugh, his face was not very good, obviously he had experienced something bad.

"Xu Tong is also doing well ah." Yue Yang extended his thumb.

Xu Tong's face was a little pale, he sighed, "It feels like I've died once, it's too hard!"

The "Ghost Cards" game was played for two innings. In the first game, the examiner chose Yao Berry, who seemed to have the worst psychological quality, as the "designated candidate". In the second game, the examiner chose Xu Tong. Since the second game was a duplicate of the first game, the grievance examiner temporarily erased the memories of all the candidates.

Zhang Wan Ling looked at Xu Fang and said, "I didn't participate in the examination, just a spectator, can you tell us what really happened?"

With her words, everyone looked at the protagonist of the incident-Xu Fang, expecting him to give a perfect explanation.

"Are you almost done adjusting?" Xu Fang exhaled and flicked off his cigarette, "Then I'll start talking ......"

"Wait a minute." Zhang Wan Ling suddenly walked to Xu Fang's side and grabbed both of his wrists. The middle finger, index finger, and ring finger pressed the Guan pulse on the inside of the high bone at the back of the palm, the inch pulse in front of Guan, and the ulnar pulse behind Guan.

Soon, her expression changed and she examined Xu Fang up and down, her brows furrowed.

"What's wrong, is it bad?" Xu Fang said.

"Your body is like a patient with advanced cancer, with all due respect, you won't live for a few days." Zhang Wanling said, "What's going on? Is it caused by the grievance spirit examination room?"

"A little sickness, normal phenomenon, don't care."

"Aren't you afraid of dying?" Xu Fang's light-hearted attitude irritated her.

"Death is just a state, everyone has to go through it, so what is there to be afraid of or not afraid of?" Xu Fang smiled, "Worthy of being Dr. Zhang, one pulse and you have measured my condition."

Zhang Wanling was in a complicated mood, on the one hand, she was happy to see that Xu Fang would not live long, on the other hand, she was worried that he would die before the examination was over.

"This is a good thing for us." Xu Fang said.

"How can I tell?"

Xu Fang took out the cigarette box and shook it, "Look, this box of cigarettes looks just like an ordinary Huang He Lou, but in fact it is a 'medicine cigarette' that I bought through a special channel."

"A cure?" Zhu Chengtao asked.

"No." Xu Fang shook his head, "This cigarette has a large amount of drugs similar to the effect of nandrolone phenylpropionate in its mouthpiece, which can significantly accelerate the metabolism in my body. The accelerated metabolism combined with my gradually deteriorating body, every moment I feel my life is flying away."

"Then why are you still smoking?" Yue Yang said worriedly, "There should be a limit to self-harm!"

"Only in this way, I can calculate the time more accurately through the condition of my body ah, do not worry, smoke or something without drug ingredients." Xu Fang spread his hands.

"Isn't there a candle?" Xu channel.

"Everything has to have a multiple standard, that thing can only be used for reference."

"What if the examiner deliberately changed your perception? Then wouldn't that be meaningless?" Yao Berry said.

"Haha." Xu Fang laughed: "It's useless, no matter what, the time is in my hands."

What do you say, examiner?