mtl008 Chapter 338 A complete scam!
Chapter 338 A complete scam!
[Speedrun Guide for Tower of Swords, Floors 1-7 - with Environment and Terrain Map]
[L: Is this still our Wanjue Academy? I retract all the things I said in a moment of impulsiveness that slandered Jiang He. This is amazing! Jiang He is awesome! "The number one spot belongs to the Wanjue Academy team!" Awesome!]
L: Jiang He is simply a genius. I still remember how many people from our Wanjue Academy were eliminated at the beginning, but by the third stage, we still had the most people among the four academies.
L: Hahaha, I've screenshotted the rankings and the number of survivors for our Wanjue Academy. With Jiang He around, it's hard to say who will win first place in this year's academy competition. Everyone says Ling Qing is the number one holdout; it's about time for a change of scenery after all these years.
L: I'm a little worried. With three dungeons opened at once, can they compete with the other universities?
L: We'll definitely win! This post was originally about dungeon strategies, right? Jiang He did the Sword Cultivator and Mage Cultivator Trial Tower guides. We're not afraid of dungeons at all, just go for it!
L: Yeah, my focus right now is entirely on the "Hospital Horror" scenario. I suspect the designers incorporated their own experiences into it—she loves her, he loves her, he loves his—it's all so confusing!
L: No way, there's no way there's such a melodramatic plot in real life. It only happens in storybooks.
L: Tsk tsk, you guys haven't seen it. Reality is way more outrageous than this. I was only in high school when my classmate got together with a male teacher and cheated on my teacher's wife. And note, my classmate was also a guy, and bisexual at that. Later, the teacher's wife was still upset and ended up getting together with him... It was absolutely shocking.
L:! Tell me more upstairs, don't go!
L: Stop, stop, stop! Gossip time paused! I've read through all the hidden rules of "Infinite Classroom," and these hidden rules are so arbitrary! The proctor just says one every now and then. Why do I feel like these hidden rules were made up on the spot?
Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Or what's the key to clearing this dungeon? Judging from the name, it's an escape dungeon, so why is there a test or something?
L: It's obvious you haven't seriously read the strategy guides made by the experts. Actually, you've hit the nail on the head. This is an escape mission, so the focus should be on escaping, not on completing a test.
The hidden rules are entirely dictated by the proctor. The primary task of the dungeon is to escape, so you must first get out of the classroom. Therefore, the next step should be to kill the proctor!
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"Just kill the proctor?"
Li Ling carefully picked up the note that Jiang He had passed to her, and when she read the words on it, she felt as if she had been awakened.
From the moment Jiang He tore off a corner of the exam paper to pass notes, the invigilator began to watch the actions between Jiang He and Li Ling.
As Li Ling looked down, a shadow fell on the exam paper. She looked up and her breath caught in her throat.
The proctor had moved to Li Ling's desk and chair at some point, holding a knife in his hand, and their eyes met.
"Passing notes during the exam violates the hidden rules—death!"
As Li Ling watched the knife fall towards her, she remembered Jiang He's words, and a hammer instantly appeared in her hand.
The knife and hammer collided, and the forces of the two interacted, maintaining a delicate balance.
Seeing Li Ling retaliate, the other cultivators disregarded the rules and turned to look at the two of them.
"Which cultivator was so reckless as to start a fight right away? That was the proctor, I remember he was an NPC who enforced the rules."
"Oh wow, this is the first time I've seen a cultivator and an examiner fight. Can he win? After all, this examiner is from the instance. If he hadn't said someone violated the rules and started killing them, I wouldn't have said such a long string of words without taking a breath. After all, I've already been warned once, and this is the second time. I would feel like I'm missing out if I didn't say more."
"...That's quite a long sentence."
Li Ling's hammer and the other party's knife froze in mid-air, and the proctor quickly drew another knife and slashed at Li Ling.
Restricted by the chair, Li Ling was unable to dodge nimbly, and another knife, gleaming with a sharp light, was aimed straight at Li Ling's neck.
"Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, this monk is going to be killed by the examiner."
"555 I'm scared."
Just as the two cultivators finished speaking, a figure appeared in front of them, with the same figure and appearance as the proctor who was fighting Li Ling.
The sight of two identical middle-aged men appearing at the same time would be incredibly strange to anyone who saw them.
The same invigilator, uttering the same words:
"Whispering during the exam violates the hidden rules—death!"
The cultivator who had only spoken two sentences: ??? God, you've violated the hidden rules! I only said two sentences, wasn't there supposed to be three warnings? ???
Before every monk who spoke, a middle-aged man who looked exactly like the examiner appeared. Dozens of examiners appeared in the classroom together, each holding a knife, resembling a large-scale beheading scene.
What's most infuriating is that each monk's lower body was fixed in place by the chair, leaving them only able to use their hands.
Just as the knife was about to reach Li Ling's body, Jiang He suddenly threw the Xuan Tie sword out of her backpack.
Jiang He's aim was good; his black iron sword clashed with the examiner's knife, blocking his attack.
Li Ling glanced at the proctor's two knives, then took a hammer out of his backpack with his left hand.
"So you're the only one with two knives, huh? You act like nobody else does."
Jiang Heli launched an attack on the proctor in front of her.
The other cultivators were a beat slow to react when they saw the proctor appear:
"Ah, is this a fight? His knife is about to come down. Should I fight back? Will fighting back violate some hidden rules?"
"Fight! Idiot! If we don't fight, we're all going to die. We might as well take a gamble. Look at those two, they're already fighting."
"What if I can't beat them?"
"If you can't beat them, you'll be eliminated. I finally understand. This exam is a scam. Five hours of exam time, and this is only the first exam. The escape time for this dungeon is only 120 hours. Isn't this just trying to trap us in this classroom?"
The hidden rules are all just the monitor's own explanation. If we violate the rules, he will kill us instead of eliminating us directly through the system!
The proctors and the exam are completely unimportant; what matters is that we get out of here, not answering meaningless and incredibly difficult exams.
When a cultivator from the Wanjue Academy saw Jiang He and Li Ling confronting the proctor, he loudly voiced his opinion.
After he said that, everyone else understood. The exam was meaningless. Maybe this so-called proctor wasn't a rule enforcer at all, but just an ordinary NPC!