Chapter 179: College Entrance Exam Day, Emergency Situation!

The college entrance exam is one of the most important events of the year in Yanhuang State.

Transportation, production, news media… many aspects must make certain concessions for it, so that senior high school students who have studied hard in cold rooms can have a relatively fair chance to strive for their own future and change their fate.

Compared to previous years, this year's college entrance exam has attracted even more attention.

Because this is the first college entrance exam after the Descent of the supernatural.

With the world undergoing such tremendous change, the college entrance exam naturally cannot remain unchanged.

First, the change in exam subjects.

Based on the existing liberal arts curriculum, a single subject on supernatural theory has been added, scheduled for the morning of the third day of the exam, while the assessment of supernatural combat is completed in advance before the exam.

Second, the change in exam order.

Most senior high school students are supernatural beings, possessing all kinds of strange supernatural abilities; if the old exam order continued to be used, cheating could not be eradicated at all.

To this end, the Yanhuang Academy specially organized personnel to verify and mass-produce a research result before the exam.

"No, thank you." The girl spoke softly, turning her head to look at Lin Changfeng behind her, whose face showed a hint of worry, "Dad, I can do it."

That is a device called the Supernatural Power Precision Detector.

Although the scene was extremely crowded and footing was difficult, they immediately cleared a passage over one meter wide, then gazed at the girl whose chest bore an admission ticket, wearing a white dress and seated in a wheelchair.

Outside the noisy exam hall, a slightly distorted voice amplified by a loudspeaker briefly drew attention: "Please make way, trouble everyone to make way."

By the time of the next college entrance exam, better equipment will likely have appeared.

Once any fluctuation of supernatural power occurs in the surrounding area, no matter how faint, it will trigger its alarm and precise positioning.

At this moment, before the exam begins, the entrances of all exam sites in Yanjing City are already crowded with people, including parents and relatives accompanying the examinees, as well as reporters from all media outlets.

Besides that, local Special Affairs Groups will also dispatch personnel to patrol each exam site, constantly checking the instruments' operational status while ensuring exam order.

The first exam subject in the morning is Chinese; due to the closing time of the Dream World Entrance, the original 9 a. m. start is postponed to 9:30 a. m. to give examinees as much preparation time as possible.

"Sorry, my daughter doesn't want to show her face." The middle-aged man holding a loudspeaker behind the girl said casually, then gently pushed her wheelchair to the furthest point reachable by examinees' parents.

The crowd followed the sound and, upon seeing the situation, immediately showed varied expressions.

Some media instantly realized that such a special examinee might be a newsworthy hotspot, but before they could raise their cameras, the few people following the girl stepped forward immediately to block them.

"Hello, do you need help pushing the wheelchair?" A Special Affairs Group officer in charge of order, seeing the situation, immediately stepped forward to ask.

Everything that could be done has been done; now we just wait to see how this cohort of examinees performs.

The girl wore a plain white mask over the upper half of her face, revealing a pair of lively eyes and a delicate chin; the corners of her lips curled into a smile as she softly thanked those who made way, then she proceeded along the passage into the exam hall.

After this college entrance exam, these devices will be reclaimed by the Special Affairs Group for use in daily supernatural incident management.

These instruments had just finished their first batch of mass production; they were taken straight from the production line and distributed to exam sites nationwide, ensuring each site has one.

Having said that, she slightly raised one hand.

The gentle wind turned into a lifting force, lightly supporting her body and the wheelchair below, easily leaping over the stairs ahead.

She waved at her father, then the girl headed straight toward her own exam room.

Only after passing the security check did she lightly remove the mask from her face and hand it to the invigilator for safekeeping, arriving at her seat amid the astonished gazes of the other examinees in the same hall.

In the upper right corner of her seat was her name.

Lin Yue.

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"Xiao Pang, go for it!"

Outside the exam hall, Qin Chuan gave Xiao Pang a heavy hug, then smiled and waved at him.

Although everyone else is also a senior high school examinee, Qin Chuan has become the one accompanying himself into the exam hall; this strange feeling flashed through Xiao Pang's heart, he clenched his fists tightly, his face full of determination, "Wait for me, I will definitely pass the second-tier line!"

Seeing Xiao Pang off into the exam hall, Qin Chuan smiled, was about to turn around, but then noticed an unexpected figure walking toward him.

"Professor Zhou? You're here too!"

"Come see the situation." Zhou Zixiu turned his head to look around, "It's not convenient to talk here; shall we go across the street?"

"Okay." Qin Chuan nodded.

The two walked out of the crowded crowd and stood at a corner across the street.

"I just happened to be looking for you; if I hadn't run into you, I might have had to send you a Special Affairs cooperation mission invitation later." Zhou Zixiu looked at Qin Chuan, "Do you have anything else today?"

"No." Qin Chuan shook his head, his expression slightly tightening as he instantly recalled what Ji Huai had mentioned the previous night about traces of multiple fourth-rank demon beasts, "Is it from Professor Ji's side?"

"More or less, let's first go to headquarters and talk along the way." Zhou Zixiu pressed the car key fob once, and the lights of a vehicle parked at the roadside flashed twice.

The car started, and Zhou Zixiu began explaining the current situation to Qin Chuan.

"Early yesterday morning, Ji Huai led a dozen or so Special Affairs Group members to the fourth-rank demon beast nest they had discovered, but they came up empty; the beasts had already moved out beforehand, just before they arrived."

"Ji Huai led his men in pursuit all the way, and still hasn't returned."

"What about after midnight yesterday?!" Qin Chuan's expression startled.

"Don't worry, for the Special Affairs Group's combat personnel, multi-day field operations are not a first; at night they can also quickly set up temporary shelters, with personnel on relatively safe duty at Longmen Camp while others enter the Dream World." Zhou Zixiu explained.

"That's still okay." Qin Chuan breathed a sigh of relief.

It appears that Longmen Camp is not only a mutual-assistance platform prepared for Yanhuang State's players, but also a safeguard for Special Affairs Group combat personnel when they cannot enter the Dream World due to unexpected circumstances.

However, thinking that Ji Huai and the others have not returned all night, Qin Chuan's expression tightened again, "Did Professor Ji encounter danger?"

"That cannot be confirmed." Zhou Zixiu shook his head slightly, "Because Ji Huai and the others have temporarily lost contact with headquarters."

"What?!" Qin Chuan's pupils constricted slightly.

Lost contact…

The communication devices used by the Special Affairs Group are satellite communications, which basically never suffer poor signal, so losing contact likely means the devices are damaged.

But the communication devices are all damaged…

Can they still be safe?

(End of chapter)