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To avoid trouble, 922 immediately added: "It's the same as the exams in reality. You are forbidden to ask for the answer. We don't and can't help you with that."

You Huo made a sound of recognition.

But he had always been quite little with words....922 still felt skeptical.

"So when we encounter a problem, how do we find you?"

922 said: "Just....Use the delegated pen and write on the answer wall——–"

He originally wanted to say 'write the invigilators number' but he felt resistance inside. His mouth changed and the words that came out was, "Write 001."

You Huo looked expressionlessly at him.

922 looked at him innocently and repeated: "Yes, write 001."

"......…"

After what felt like a century, You Huo nodded. He then turned around and closed the door on him.

922 who had managed to make a big achievement happily went back.

In the cabin.

The fire was still burning strongly, and everyone sat around it in clearly separated groups.

Because of the knife incident earlier, the tattooed man was left alienated. Alone, he sat at the corner of the table with a sullen face.

The others sat far from him and would deliberately walk around him.

Seeing You Huo returning, Yu Wen immediately jumped up.

"Brother! Did the invigilators do anything to you? What punishment? Are you okay?"

He waved the knife around and fired out a succession of questions.

Everyone looked over.

You Huo furrowed his brows and moved away from the blade. He said: "It's nothing."

"You sure?" Yu Wen didn't believe him.

He glanced at the corner of the room and asked quietly: "That person was taken away once and he became like that. How harsh was the punishment?"

You Huo looked over at the corner of the room. The bald man who was confined earlier huddled there with yellow and turbid eyes. He swayed his body back and forth nervously as he muttered incoherently.

He seemed to have been scared mad.

You Huo saw the bald man and recalled the confinement room. He instantly felt a little sick.

"He has always been like that?"

"Yes. It has been three hours and he didn't recover at all." Yu Wen snorted coldly. He then whispered: "See him constantly mumbling? I even went over to listen in."

"What did he say?"

Yu Wen shook his head and said: "I only heard something like 'unfortunate life'. On there was also something about burning incense. I couldn't understand the rest."

You Huo made a sound of understanding and no longer asked.

You got punished more than him so why do you seem okay?" Yu Wen was very curious.

You Huo was lazy to explain. He answered perfunctorily: "Method is different."

Yu Wen: "What punishment did you get?"

You Huo answered briefly: "Slept. Gifted the invigilator a bucket of blood."

Yu Wen: "???"

"Why did you gift the invigilator blood?"

You Huo looked coldly at him: "Who knows? He likes it."

Yu Wen keenly noted that his brother said 'he', not 'they'.

"Which one? Is he a pervert?"

"You Huo: "001."

Yu Wen: "Huh...."

You Huo and that invigilator were not in good relations and he didn't want to talk about it anymore.

He glanced around, and frowned: "Were you just sitting around for the past three hours?"

"How can that be?" Yu Wen pointed at the answer wall and said: "Brother, your solution inspired me so I went and wrote a few things."

You Huo looked at the answer wall.

On it there were densely packed scrawls made by by Yu Wen.

You Huo: "......."

Yu Wen said: "My teacher said that we should write anything that comes to mind. Even if you don't know, while you're writing it down you might pick up a few points inadvertently."

You Huo: "So, you wrote an essay?"

He tried to read the messy scrawls. He pointed at one of the lines and asked: "What is this sentence?"

Yu Wen tried to read it with even more difficulty than You Huo: "I think....We have a total of 13 people and there are 12 tableware."

You Huo: ".....Why are you copying the question?

Yu Wen: "...…When I don't have anything to write in an exam, in order to increase the word count, I would try to emphasise the key point in the question."

You Huo: "...…"

Fuck you and the key point.

He pointed to another pile of circles: "What's this?"

Yu Wen: "G=mg, g=9.8N/kg...…."

You Huo: "What does this have to do with optics?"

Yu Wen: "The thing is...…I don't know what kind relationship tableware has with optics."

You Huo: "...….."

Yu Wen was afraid of his brother going mad with anger, so he quickly added: "There are also optics here."

You Huo no longer wanted to look at the nonsensical scrawls. He asked directly, "Where?"

You Wen said timidly: "Here. I wrote refractive index, parallel lines, spherical surface, lens, focal length, imaging...…Aren't these words all optics related? I even drew a simple two mirror diagram."

You Huo was expressionless. Yu Wen thought about it and then pulled his brother away from the wall. He changed the topic: "Let's not talk about the unhappy things. Apart from answering the question, we also did something else."

In fact, after the answer wall was updated, they turned the cabin upside down.

The question said that this was a hunter's cabin and that he had 13 tableware but only enough food to feed 12.

But after searching through the attic, cabinets and various bottles and cans, they firstly didn't see a hunter and, secondly, there weren't any tableware. As for food.....They could only dream.

"We searched for two hours." Yu Wen said dejectedly, "In such a small cabin, two hours! So you can imagine how much we've gone through. There really was nothing. What a shit question."

You Huo asked: "You definitely went through everything?"

"In fact, we didn't." A stick thin man wearing a hospital gown coughed a few times and interjected: "There were two places that weren't touched."

He raised his skinny fingers and pointed at the two locked rooms.