Global Examination

Chapter 145

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Chapter 145: Travelling Together

When the ship arrived at the deserted island, Qin Jiu followed Invigilator A onto the deck and couldn’t help but notice the belt around his waist.

It had been a week since the mathematics examination. According to Wen Yuan, the film stuck on the belt should have destroyed itself by now and during the destruction process, the adhered surface would corrode so there should be a faint trace left behind on the belt.

But there was none.

Qin Jiu looked carefully but he confirmed that there really weren’t any traces left behind.

There was only one possibility; Invigilator A found it before it could destroy itself and had removed it.

For the first time, Qin Jiu started to doubt Invigilator A’s position and it wasn’t just because of subjective factors such as his eyes and his expressions.

There was no denying that he was very pleased.

The few days they spent on the island was one of those rare moments where the atmosphere between them wasn’t tensed. At times, they even had the misconception that they were “fighting side by side”.

But in the end, it was only for a few short moments......

After leaving that examination, many things happened one after another——-

Invigilator A and Chu Yue who was called Invigilator Z at the time was called to the system’s main control centre and they were in there for several days. After coming back out, Invigilator A had become the ‘system’s spokesperson’ who couldn’t be provoked.

And Qin Jiu also noticed that the members of the death squad were declining one by one.

Soon afterwards, he ran into Wen Yuan again in the next exam.

The examination centre was set at a certain military base. The sky in early winter was always gloomy, grey and cold.

They didn’t have any weapons at hand, nor did they have suitable equipment. It was a very dangerous predicament, more dangerous than ever before.

Qin Jiu was thrown into a war zone by a helicopter and it was a massacre scene the moment he landed. There wasn’t even a chance for him to give Wen Yuan his greetings.

When he hijacked a car carrying weaponry and was leaning against the bunker changing the magazine, Wen Yuan sneaked over from the other side.

He climbed into the car and tossed a set of equipment to Qin Jiu, “You’re so amazing. You even dare to do something to the car without having any equipment on you. I just came from over there and for a moment I couldn’t breathe because I was so shocked.”

Wen Yuan pointed at a certain unloading area in the distance and said, “There are a lot of equipment over there. I brought you a set. It’s not easy meeting in such a big examination centre so you can be considered a friend. What is your name?”

Qin Jiu finished setting up his two gun and was in the process of passing it over to him when he was taken aback by this question.

“What did you say?” He frowned as he asked.

Wen Yuan belatedly let out an ‘ah’ and seemed to have thought that he had said something wrong and had angered the other party, “I didn’t say anything, I just said that you’re amazing. Let’s be friends, what is your name?”

His desire to live induced him into giving Qin Jiu another praise but this only made Qin Jiu’s expression become even darker.

Wen Yuan: “?”

He had one hand on the gun and didn’t know whether he should accept it.

“You don’t know me?” Qin Jiu asked.

“I.....should I know you?” Wen Yuan asked back hesitantly.

The sudden reopening of the safe haven became the turning point for many things——-

After being spied on for more than twenty years, the two invigilators finally had a chance to breath.

All the testing and probing between Qin Jiu and Invigilator A also rendered some results.

Strangely enough, to them, the confirmation of their positions and their revealing of their cards wasn’t something that would smoothen out their relationship. It was because their relationship was too intense, so intense it couldn’t be smoothened out with just a few words.

Qin Jiu even felt that there would never be a ‘calm’ moment between them. Every meeting and every interaction were almost as if they were balancing on a thin line. As long as they went a little over, something was bound to happen.

It wasn’t something as tragic as ‘if you die, I die’. Afterall, they are peers with the same goals. It was far from that.

But what was it?

For a long time, Qin Jiu couldn’t come up with an answer.

This was until the night they finally made their positions clear.

Invigilator A was standing at the door about to leave while he stood behind Invigilator A with his thumb slowly retracting from the other party’s neck. The tip of his thumb still carried residual heat and touch.

He pinched his finger and said, “Your collar is a little damp, is it raining outside?”

The jut in Invigilator A’s throat moved. A moment later, he said, “No, it’s snowing.”

Qin Jiu nodded.

The confinement room at that moment became very quiet.

After a few more seconds, Invigilator A said, “I have something to do. I’ll be going.”

When he turned the door handle, he heard Qin Jiu let out a soft ‘ah’ to indicate that he understood but the slight dragged tone at the end also carried a faint hint of indescribable regret.

Invigilator A’s actions paused.

A moment later, he suddenly released his hold of the handle.

In an instant, the line they were balancing on was gone.

Qin Jiu’s eyes trembled. His finger slid down along Invigilator A’s thin neck.

He lowered his head and kissed Invigilator A on the back of his neck.

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Based on the time in the Invigilator’s District, that day was the beginning of the new year.

There were no windows underground, but Qin Jiu knew that it was snowing heavily outside. The cold night wind blew past the buildings, sharply and fiercely.

They kissed in the confinement room. This was the final outcome of those fierce relationships they had.

The exam on the deserted island was probably the moment they were closest to being ‘teammates’.

And for an even longer time after that; whether they remembered or not or were in opposition or were allies, their relationship would forever be intertwined with love.

Just like how their relationship can never be ‘calm’.

If calmness even existed, it must only exist in old age and death.