In the chat channel, Sea Fishing King did not respond again, and Zhong Man stopped waiting for Zi Ran Mian Er's reply, turning her attention back to the proctoring duty that was about to begin.
After all the proctors assembled, they received the usual reminders and lecture from the supervising leader before being assigned to their respective examination zones. The teachers dragged in for this assignment all entered Research Building One with black faces, where every communication signal had already been blocked.
They could come up with a thousand reasons to criticize this traditional, outdated method, whose ceremonial value outweighed its practical value, but none of that would help reduce today's workload.
Fortunately, proctoring in this day and age no longer required teachers to sit in classrooms watching every student. Smart Brain-operated surveillance equipment handled that. The teachers participating in proctoring mostly made symbolic rounds and dealt with matters such as removing students caught cheating.
The ones taking exams in Research Building One today were university students. They usually had credit requirements to meet, so Final Exams were actually less stringent. The proctors, Zhong Man included, were happy to take it easy. As long as they did not leave their examination zones, no one cared if they strolled around, chatted, or even played offline games in a corner.
Still, the most popular place at the moment was undoubtedly the building's main monitoring room. It had a good view and comfortable temperature, and most importantly, because it was connected to the academy's main system, it had physical fiber-optic cables. It was the only area in the entire building that still had external internet access.
Zhong Man, the least experienced among all the proctors, had only learned from an older colleague about this little treasure spot while making her rounds. But when