The boy bit his lips tightly and held the pen firmly, the pen tip digging into the flesh of his forefinger, yet he couldn’t stop his body from trembling more and more violently.
A desperate cry still escaped from his mouth, much louder than before.
A few teachers noticed the commotion over here, and two of them frowned and immediately walked over.
In the exam hall, other examinees were racing against time to answer the questions. However, many players were secretly observing and quietly shifting their attention to this side.
This dungeon was a Level 6 dungeon and was not simple; it was a highly dangerous dungeon.
However, upon entering the dungeon, unlike other dungeons of the same level, it presented a very peaceful scene, without the bloodshed, where half would die upon entry.
The campus was indeed peaceful.
But this campus exuded an unsettling eeriness everywhere.
Like the girl memorizing vocabulary on campus, and the terrified boy in the exam hall.
They missed no anomalies, trying to uncover the hidden rules of the dungeon beneath the anxiety and tranquility.
The two teachers who initially came over frowning relaxed their brows and smiled upon seeing the admission ticket on the boy’s desk’s upper left corner.
“Oh, it’s Wang Zhiqiu. Is the pressure from your last ranking—third in the grade and third in the city—too much for you?”
Another teacher also comforted him gently: “Don’t be nervous, it’s okay. I’ll get you a cup of hot water.”
Indeed, what the welcoming teacher said was true: at Qingyi High School, as long as you excel in your studies, teachers would meet all your needs.
“Every teacher has seen student Wang’s diligence over the past two and a half years. I’ve seen him studying late into the night several times.”
“Yes, take a break and then continue with the exam. It’s alright.”
Ignoring the disturbance to other students, the two teachers comforted Wang Zhiqiu for a while.
Another teacher walked over, puzzled, and asked, “Is it really just pressure causing this nervousness?”
Ning Su felt Wang Zhiqiu trembling even more violently under the desk.
He never lifted his head, his back arched excessively, covering the entire exam paper, his hands tightly gripping his school trousers under the desk.
“Y-yes, I’ll just start with the essay to calm down.”
Seeing him begin to write the essay, the three teachers finally left.
He did start writing the essay, but due to his uncontrollable trembling fingers, every character was written outside the essay box.
More and more water droplets fell on the exam paper, and his hand trembled more and more violently.
That hand stopped writing.
Even the essay was stuck.
Ning Su moved his gaze from his answer sheet to his face.
His face was as if freshly washed, wet, terribly pale, with the muscles on his cheeks trembling.
His eyes stared at the test paper in horror, wide open, and on the verge of tears in despair.
At this moment, he was no longer trembling but convulsing.
The hand gripping the answering pen was exerting more and more force, and blood stained the already wet answer sheet.
Finally, he lost control and started scribbling madly on the essay answer sheet with the pen.
“Swoosh, swoosh—Rip!—”
“Laughing! Wailing—”
Under his frenzied force, the pen tip tore the answer sheet in several places. He cried and laughed, screaming in despair.
The teachers in the exam room rushed over, and an officer with an electric baton also ran over.
“Wang Zhiqiu, stop!”
“Wang Zhiqiu, what’s wrong with you?”
The chief invigilator tried to pull his test paper away. Seemingly insane, Wang Zhiqiu immediately noticed and refused to hand over his answer sheet, tearing at it even more frantically.
Several teachers together managed to snatch a few pieces of the answer sheet from him. When they pieced them together, they immediately realized what Wang Zhiqiu had been hiding. “Pressure did not cause his tension!”
Hearing this, the officer quickly stepped forward, twisted his arms behind his back, and dragged him out of the exam room.
“Let go of me! I’m third in the grade!”
“I can score 700 points! I know it all!”
“Third in the grade, let go—”
“Buzz—”
The frantically shouting Wang Zhiqiu was stunned by the officer with an electric baton.
The moment the shouting stopped, the exam room was eerily quiet.
The sound of Wang Zhiqiu’s limp body being dragged out by the officer was exceptionally clear.
The sound continued from the entrance of the exam room, down the long corridor outside, growing fainter and lasting a long time before it finally disappeared.
The examination room remained quiet.
The players noticed that the native students in the dungeon world didn’t even look up and continued to answer questions quickly, as if they had seen this many times before.
However, many of the players started to tremble, with sweat breaking out on their foreheads.
In this hot summer, the classroom was so stuffy that it was hard to breathe, with an air that seemed to have a fainting factor in it.
Before long, another student was dragged out of an unknown classroom and passed by their examination room.
Throughout the entire exam, the sound of dragging could be heard from time to time in the corridor. If one looked up, they might see a pair of feet passing by the doorway, dragging away into the distance.
As soon as the first exam ended, several players immediately ran to Ning Su to ask for more details.
Ning Su recounted what he had seen.
The human pupa master said, “This is too abnormal.”
Indeed, it was abnormal.
Wang Zhiqiu was ranked third in his grade at Qingyi High School and third in the entire city. Undoubtedly, he was a top student.
His answer sheet from earlier also proved this point, as he answered very well.
But then he got completely stuck. Was it just because of the pressure?
No matter how nervous one was, they should still be able to write an essay, right?
It was abnormal.
His level of terror was also abnormal.
Many players noticed that Wang Zhiqiu’s answer sheet was completely soaked with sweat and tears.
They also saw his trembling, his terror, and despair.
That terror seemed like he had seen the most horrifying and helpless thing in the world on the test paper, and in the end, he was driven mad by the horror and despair.
This terror was contagious.
The players felt a chill in their hearts.
What exactly made him so terrified in the same examination room and in broad daylight?
They didn’t notice any traces in the same classroom, not even Ning Su, who was sitting beside him.
“Could it be that he was too nervous? Qingyi High School places such emphasis on students’ academic performance that it inadvertently creates an atmosphere where grades are considered the students’ lifeline.”
“Indeed, he ranked third in his grade and had always enjoyed the honor and privileges that came with it. If he couldn’t solve just two problems, he might not even be in the top ten anymore. He couldn’t handle that kind of disparity.”
“Tearing up the exam paper is certainly a sign of being unable to accept failure.”
Gu Witch: “Didn’t you hear what the invigilator said? He didn’t turn out that way because of stress and anxiety.”
With one sentence, all the players’ self-consolation was shattered.
The atmosphere grew even heavier.
From the moment they entered the school gates, the girl memorizing vocabulary words, the boy driven mad in the examination room, and the students being dragged out one after another.
The more they thought about it, the more they felt that this school harbored an invisible terror, something controlling everything, drawing closer to them without being seen.
It turned out that not having a tangible, visible death could also make people restless and uneasy.
Thanks for the update!! 😱😱
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