Global Collapse-Chapter 483 - 458: Human Head Covered Rice [Five Thousand Words]_1

Gu Mian’s dream of copying his exam paper in ten minutes and leaving coolly was shattered.

Meanwhile, Fatty was frantically typing in the "Cheating Group." It was the first time Gu Mian realized how insanely fast Fatty could type.

[Pan] "Do your exam proctors also dress up like they’re cosplaying?"

[Pan] "I don’t know why, but it feels weird. Do you guys know what my questions are? I only have two. Here’s my fill-in-the-blank question: ’The key to the No.9501 Classroom is in the third-floor office.’ What kind of fill-in-the-blank question is this?"

Gu Mian cringed a little at the nickname "Pan" Fatty had given himself.

On the other hand, Chu Changge always used his real name, never hiding or altering it.

[Chu Changge] "This question is telling you to insert the key into the lock of the No.9501 Classroom."

That made sense.

Gu Mian also looked at his own fill-in-the-blank question. So, this question of mine, ’The fish tank in Dormitory 4244 has 104 dead fish in it,’ means I have to put 104 dead fish into the fish tank.

What an insane question.

Now he was left with the headache of where to find dead fish.

At this point, some of the other examinees had figured out the purpose of the exam.

"They want us to personally carry out the tasks in the questions, right? We go to the location specified in the questions and make a choice... The fill-in-the-blank questions are asking us to fill in something that belongs to a certain place."

"We still have lots of time, so let’s go to the places in the questions together."

For now, no one left the classroom. Everyone was whispering anxiously to each other.

The being referred to as the proctor remained standing on the podium, occasionally slowly turning its head under the light. Whenever it twisted its neck, the examinees’ already hushed voices would drop to near silence.

At that moment, Gu Mian heard 007 calling him from behind. Turning around, he saw that 007 had already put away her test paper.

"If you need any help, I can assist you. For example, if you need to enter the girls’ dormitory." Clearly, 007 had noticed the words "girls’ dormitory" on Gu Mian’s test paper.

Gu Mian shook his head slightly. That wouldn’t be necessary. Although he was indeed male, his gender was still marked as a question mark in the system. Theoretically, this should allow him to enter.

He couldn’t help wondering if the programmer who had set his gender had had a chunk of their brain scooped out.

"But there’s something I’d like to ask you," Gu Mian spoke as he stood up.

As soon as he stood, all eyes in the room focused on him. The students were all somewhat scared of the thing on the podium, and they were still considering whether to team up for this eerie activity. Consequently, no one had risen to leave yet.

All the students watched Gu Mian closely, some keeping an eye on the reaction of the proctor on the stage.

When they saw the man with the guitar safely leave the classroom, they collectively sighed in relief. Although the rules stated they could search for answers anywhere in the school, with a ghost standing right there, no one dared to make a rash move.

007 quickly followed him out.

The hallway lights were off. They could only see by the light filtering out of the classrooms.

A few lone students emerged from other classrooms and dashed for the staircase, likely to meet teammates in other exam rooms.

After all, no one wanted to act alone in this ghostly place.

Gu Mian stopped by a corridor window. "I wanted to ask about your teammate in the black robe. You know his name, right?"

"Xie Bi’an. But his nickname is Red," 007 replied, nodding. "I only met him a few days before the dragon boat event, when I was searching for my parents, and then I ran into him...

"He knew I was looking for someone and told me there might be special items that could help me find my parents. He said that if I entered more instances and participated in more activities, I might get the special items I wanted. I thought about it carefully and realized it was true, so that’s why I came to participate in these activities."

It was true that there might be special items to help find people. Fatty used to have a ’Mini Notebook’. If a nickname and time were written in it, it could provide specific information about a person’s situation during that timeframe, and possibly even their location.

But that item had dropped inside the ’Close Your Eyes’ instance.

Gu Mian also had a special item, the ’Dimension-Breaking Cell Phone’. If used outside an instance, it could call the player with the strongest affinity to the caller, but only if that player had a phone or cell phone nearby...

But that cell phone wasn’t with him at the moment. Since Gu Mian had no inventory, his special items were all kept by Fatty and Chu Changge. He wondered who had the phone now.

Fatty also had a ’Strange Camera’, a special item that could take one photo of an invisible ghost per day. After obtaining the Everbright Lantern, Fatty no longer needed the camera, so it was now in Gu Mian’s pocket.

Putting these issues aside for the moment, Gu Mian said, "I have a special item in the shape of a cell phone. If you use it to make a call, you might be able to contact your parents. But I don’t have it with me right now. You can wait at the school gate when the activity ends. I need to find out who has it first."

007’s expression became thoughtful. "Thank you. I really envy the relationship you guys have. You can trust each other with special items, even forgetting about them if you don’t need them... You know, special items are hard for normal players to obtain, especially if they’re useful in instances. Players usually won’t easily hand special items to others."

Difficult to obtain? Gu Mian recalled Fatty using that very phone to crack walnuts just a few days ago.