"Hey! Yao Berry! Xu Tong! Xu Fang! ...... You guys are still there, right? Can you hear my voice?" Zhu Chengtao's shout echoed in the darkness.
"Yes!" Xu Tong's voice rang out from the other side.
"It's so dark! I can't see anything ......" Yao Berry shouted with a trembling voice.
"Can hear my voice back one, see if the people are all!" Xu Fang spoke while groping for clothes and bodies in the darkness to confirm there was no change.
Zhang Wanling, Yao Berry, Xu Tong, Yue Yang, Zhu Chengtao have responded, no less people. Judging from the sound they are very close to themselves. Echoes are clear and obvious, indicating that they may be in an open but not open place at the moment.
Xu Fang soon finished his examination. There were no wounds on his fingers, no changes in his nails, no tingling on his body surface, and his heart rate was as clear as ever, and he was conscious.
Xu Fang first decided that the memory had not been modified, so the test score in front of him was probably more than 13 points, with a high probability of 49 points. Of course, Xu Fang was not afraid of the examiner's trick again, the trap of exchanging souls was good for the unexpected effect, but if the heart was prepared, the confusion would be very low.
Xu Fang speculated about the examiner's intention.
In fact, he was not able to time it accurately, and it was difficult to control the error even to ten minutes. He just noticed that the candles were not very frequent and could not be carried, so he was wary of judging the time, which is why he chose to say to the others that he smoked a drug cigarette - deliberately saying the words precise timing so that the examiner would not dare to confuse the time, after all, the examiner's score is also limited, and one point out is one point less.
It seems that his lie had an effect.
Since the examiner gave up using the method of hiding time, he probably increased the difficulty of the questions and let the spirits kill them in the exam room.
And this is exactly what Xu Fang wanted to see. The disadvantages of the examiner's war of attrition have already been revealed - now the topic only has 49 points even if he throws a lone bet.
Even so, care must be taken not to let the scoring candidates die, Xu Fang thought, as he rummaged through his pockets and pulled out his cell phone.
Before coming to the grievance examination room, Xu Fang made all the preparations, in addition to a large amount of electronic documents in the real world, there are some food, medicine, knives, considering that the memory may be modified, he also brought a camera, recorder. But all these things did not enter the grievance examination room, only the smartphone bought by Xiaoming entered.
It was the only electronic product Xu Fang had on him, but it was unusable. He thought maybe he could use it sometime, like this time -
After Xu Fang touched the phone, the originally dark screen lit up, emitting a soft glow that instantly dispelled the darkness around him.
"Where's the light coming from? Is it a flashlight?"
"There's light!"
Instead of the desktop icon that should have appeared on the phone screen, it was white, with a few lines of small letters:
---- "Analyzer" --- -
"Barometric Pressure: 101.325KPa
Gas Composition:Nitrogen 78%, Oxygen 21.99%, Water Vapor 0.0097%, Carbon Dioxide 0.0003%
Temperature: 24°C
Non-Matter: None
Fruit Universe: None"
--- ---------- -
The bright light on the phone is like a firefly in the dark, the people see the light source, clumsily waving their limbs, but there is no place around to lend a hand, can only then incite the air generated by the tiny thrust to move with difficulty.
"- take out your own cell phone, see what information is on it!" Xu Fang took the phone and shone it around to see the rest of the five people and the environment they were in.
It was a huge and closed spherical space, very small, with a visual radius of only ten meters, and due to the loss of gravity, it was impossible to distinguish the top and bottom, and the position of Xu Fang was in the middle, while Zhang Wanling's position was at the very edge.
Hearing Xu Fang's words, other people took out their own cell phones and took a look at them, and sure enough, they lit up. But instead of showing the page where the phone should have been, there were a few lines of small words on a white background. Miraculously, when the hand stopped touching the phone, the screen went off by itself, and it lit up again after touching it.
After seeing the font on the screen, everyone's heart was happy, which means that a clue appeared, and the bright light of the phone is easier to bring a sense of security than blindly groping in the dark.
After a brief exchange, they found that the information displayed above each person is completely different.
The contents of Zhu Chengtao's phone:
---- "Observer" ----
"Number of Candidates: 6
Fruit Universe Status: None"
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What's in Yueyang's phone:
---- "Debugger " ----
"Axis: None
Timeline: None"
----- -------
Contents in Zhang Wanling's phone:
-- -- "Fixer" ----
"Element: a rabbit, countdown: 642s
Element: Lich, countdown: 1243s"
- ---------- -
The countdown is in dynamic flow.
From Yao Berry's phone:
---- "Passer ----
"Enter the thing you want to pass: ____"
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And finally, the contents of Xu Tong's phone, the most noteworthy of all:
---- "Notifier ----
"Exam Title: Universe Simulator
Scoring Criteria:Notifier survives, score 6. The observer survives, scoring 6 points. 6 points if the transmitter survives. 9 points for repairer survival. 10 points for debugger survival. If the analyzer survives, 12 points are awarded. The test paper is answered by the grievance test center.
The rules are hidden and must be explored by the candidate.
There are 5 hours until the end of the exam."
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"This is, what is this?" Looking at the content in his phone, Zhu Chengtao said blankly.
"This should be the hint." Weightlessness made Yao Berry's ponytail spread out, she had to re-tie her hair into a ball, "Brother Xu Tong's hint is very useful, this exam doesn't require us to answer the paper, just survive."
"Turning the exam into a survival game?" Xu Tong's brow furrowed, "Why not let us answer the paper?"
"He doesn't want to waste time." Xu Fang said, "The examiner wanted to make full use of the remaining five hours, and if the test paper was in our hands, it would be easy to get a passing score thus ending the exam."
"That means the next few hours are going to be spent here?" Yue Yang's face was bitter, "What the hell is this place, why can't I feel the gravity!"
"Probably this is the 'cosmic simulator' that the grievance examination center said, right?" Xu Tong looked at the contents of the phone, and looked around by the bright light in the screen: "This is a closed spherical space, there is no exit?"
"I don't see ......"
"Dr. Zhang, you see we are floating now, we can't move by force at all, and you are at the very edge, can you help us gather together?" Xu Fang looked at Zhang Wanling who did not say a word in the corner.
Hearing Xu Fang's words, Zhang Wanling looked at the others. Pushing the inner wall behind her, her body rose up in the air and grabbed Xu Fang and Yue Yang who were in the way, bringing them to the opposite side. Then with the reaction force of the wall flew to the other side, and so on and so forth, eventually bringing everyone together.
In the weightless environment, at first Zhang Wanling was not quite adaptable, but soon she got used to it, with the force of the wall reaction push also control more and more accurate.
"Really is in that line of work, good motor nerve."
Zhang Wanling glared at Xu Fang, said: "Do not say these useless, find a way out?"
"The way to live ...... is to survive for five hours."
"This is not nonsense?"
"Why don't you think about what the dead end is?"
Xu Fang stroked the inner wall. Cold to the touch, hard, smooth, black in appearance, no metallic luster of the kind of black. When struck with force, the sound was small and dull, showing the extreme thickness and hardness of the inner wall.
Not metal and not like ceramic, Xu Fang couldn't help but think of the black floor of the "Customer Service Consultation Center" with unlimited free space, which also seemed to be this unknown material.
"Dr. Zhang, your phone still shows two elements, right?"
"The rabbit and the evil ghost."
"How much of the countdown is left?"
"'A rabbit' for 316 seconds and 'Liege' for 917 seconds."
"It looks like the phone is working all the time even when it's not lit up."
"The word Liege always gives me a bad feeling." Zhu Chengtao said.
"What does it mean? Does rabbit have anything to do with a stern ghost?" Yue Yang couldn't help but ask.
"Maybe there is, maybe not ...... Dr. Zhang, give me the phone to look at."
After receiving Zhang Wanling's phone, the screen was suddenly dark. xu Fang let the other party reach out and touch the phone again, and the screen lit up again.
Xu Fang also saw with his own eyes what Zhang Wanling said - only the countdown passed for another 10 seconds.
"You try to control what is displayed in the screen." Xu Fang handed the phone back to Zhang Wanling.
"How can I control it?"
"Try to see if you can delete the 'element' or modify the countdown on it."
Zhang Wanling did as Xu Fang said, and soon she changed her expression: "The elements can't be deleted or modified, but the countdown above can be adjusted ...... No, the total countdown of the two elements is constant and can't be increased unilaterally."
"Then, let's add all the countdown of 'rabbit' to 'Liege'."
"No problem?"
"Rabbits should always be a little safer than Liege, right?"
......
So, Zhang Wanling changed the time of "a rabbit" to zero, while the countdown of "a ghost" became 1153s. In a flash, the element of "a rabbit" disappeared. A rabbit" the element disappeared.
The crowd stared blankly at ......
and then what?
"It did appear!" Xu Fang's voice was slightly surprised, following the light of the screen, the crowd saw the small creature that suddenly appeared in the center of this spherical space - a white rabbit.
Perhaps frightened, the rabbit stirred its legs in panic in the weightless space, but its body stayed suspended in the air, looking rather comical.
......
"I probably know what's about to happen." Xu Tong's face suddenly became ugly.
After a while, the other people also reacted, and the atmosphere was suddenly plunged into panic.
