Translated by: La Phong
Edited by: BE_EP

Book 1 Chapter 8: Car Accidents and The Ghosts

“We… what should we do now?”

“Yeah, do.. do ghosts really exist in this world?”

“I… I obviously saw the skull on the test paper rush over…”

“I, I don"t want this "living forever" thing, can I go home?… I want to go home…”

Gao Ying could see that although these people had gathered together, their hearts were completely scattered. In this situation, the team had no cohesiveness at all. When the ghosts would come out again, he was sure that they would run away, unable to keep calm let alone find the answer. In this way, even if more people had gathered, the effect would be worse than the original. There was a saying "it is better to have a strong enemy than foolish teammates"". Not mentioning that problem, just the fact that so many people were talking, and if that had attracted the ghosts, were they not begging to be killed by the ghosts?

Therefore, he knew that stabilizing the people was the first priority now. Therefore, he cleared his throat and said, “Everyone! Please quiet down first, otherwise, what if you provoke a ghost?”

As soon as they had heard the word “ghost”, almost everyone held their breath, and most people had immediately shut their mouths or had quickly lowered their voices.

Gao Ying saw that everyone had calmed down and cast their gazes on him, so he nodded and said, “I understand that you are worried now, and I am the same. I was also sitting in the college entrance examination room before, but inexplicably came to this ghost place. However, this world will not be moved by you just because you can"t adapt. The fact that we have to face now is that we have to take this d.a.m.n test… well, you see, it"s really one h.e.l.l of an exam, isn"t it?"

When he spoke, his tone was as relaxed as possible, and his self-confidence and calm tone had infected everyone. Gao Ying was tall and straight, and handsome, so his confident temperament would make people feel that he was a real man.

At this time, one of the fat girls asked nervously, “What… what should we do?”

“What should we do? It is written on the blackboard very clearly.” Gao Ying said and pointed it out at everyone without any answer. “We must complete this exam, as long as we can correctly answer six questions, we can go back alive! Everyone here are people who came all the way from the college entrance examination room. These questions are difficult, but… I am sure about one thing that as long as we can complete the exam correctly, the ghost corresponding to the exam will not attack us!”

Gao Ying"s words had suddenly made many people feel amazed. Especially the last sentence of Gao Ying which let them see the hope of life!

Gao Ying knew that for those who were desperate, even a very small hope could become a huge pillar, so as to avoid their mental breakdown. You must know that once a person had a mental breakdown, he would show a lot of irrational behavior, such as… forcibly tearing or taking away the test papers of others. People who had the thought "If I can"t live, then everyone must die along with me" were not few. But as long as there was even a glimmer of hope, people would not easily collapse, and their desire for life could overwhelm everything.

“Are you sure?” Hou Mingbo"s breathing was also rushed and he asked nervously. “You are sure… if we can do the questions, then the ghosts will not attack us again?”

In fact, Gao Ying had no way to be 100% sure of this. Although the ghost had disappeared in front of Fu Hai Cheng, who knew if it had been a deliberate misleading? Or could that ghost still be hiding around and peeking at them?

In fact, for Gao Ying, if there were ghosts in this world, he would not feel that incredible. People had always taken it for granted and were blindly obsessed with the knowledge in books, to the point that they had rejected all phenomena that science could not explain. However, even scientists like Newton would still pursue the existence of G.o.d in their later years. And there were also many weird images in the world that were difficult to justify. For the existence of ghosts and G.o.ds, we could only say that they should not exist, but there was no way to prove that they absolutely did not exist. Although the time he had been in contact with the ghosts was very short, Gao Ying could already make a few inferences. The ghosts in the test scene would not choose to chase the candidates for the sake of enmity, as they could disappear and reappear instantly. They could kill the candidates in a very short time, and then disappear with the dead corpse. Based on the current intelligence he had, he couldn"t deny whether the ghosts would deliberately disappear to play and mislead them, but judging from the practice of the ghosts deliberately pretending to be candidates, there was a high chance that it was true. However, the morale of the candidates was already so low that he had to let them fully believe that they had the possibility of survival. This point was very important!

“Yes! I can be sure!” Gao Ying"s confident temperament combined with his magnetic voice was quite convincing. “You can ask them.”

“Yes! Yes!” Xu Yudan knew that this time was his best chance of performance. Immediately he said, “Gao Ying said nothing wrong!”

Then, Xu Yudan and Fu Hai Cheng told the story of what had happened before which had excited everyone, as it seemed that their chances of survival were still promising, not to mention only six single-choice questions, the people present here had reached the college entrance examination under the tempering of numerous choice questions, and they could be said to be “very experienced”. Especially Hou Mingbo, he had quickly seen that Gao Ying, this person, was probably the most likely to live until the end. So he had immediately chosen the station team and had actively expressed his willingness to follow the arrangements of Gao Ying for the next action. People were all creatures that easily tended to follow blindly. Moreover, in this situation where their lives were facing an unknown but great threat, so most people would think of Gao Ying as a pillar to lean on.

Then, the two sides exchanged information without involving any key information of the questions. Therefore, Gao Ying was basically convinced that this should be an underground used car wholesale market, and the vehicles here…may hide a lot of cars involved in accidents. There were a lot of used cars, all of which had various hidden faults. Some cars involved in accidents would be modified and sold. Then… these accident-involved cars could possibly be haunted. Either the owner of the car was dead, or… someone had been killed, not even excluding those who had escaped and sold the car, and the second-hand car dealers could also greatly reduce the price.

According to Question 10, in the worst case scenario, the total number of ghosts here… should at least be 25! This was a very horrible conclusion. If 25 ghosts were to come out, how many people could survive? Of course, there may not be that many, but Gao Ying"s character had always made him consider the worst for anything. However, he couldn"t tell this to other people, otherwise it would definitely cause panic!