"First, you need to know that this is an extremely rare, special instance dungeon that you can stumble upon but never seek out."
"You might not see the great benefits of something like a Spirit Car Driving License right now, but once you've experienced many dungeons and developed further, you'll realize just how amazing it is."
"In the future, this is something that will make all players rack their brains."
"So I advise you best not to intentionally fail and get eliminated."
Gu Mian understood what this instructor meant.
It was just like when a certain game first launched its gacha system, and you drew a mediocre card with low attack and paper-thin health, feeling it was useless and decomposing it.
Yet as the game progressed, you discovered that card was actually the strongest support in the entire game, and extremely rare.
That feeling was truly more agonizing than swallowing ten thousand flies, something Gu Mian had experienced.
"Next, you will follow me into the Written Test Center to get your papers. Everyone's paper is different, so cheating is impossible, but you can discuss the questions."
"There is a wall clock in the building where you can check the time at any time. Remember, the answering time is from ten to twelve at night, otherwise you cannot fill out the test paper."
The instructor spoke while walking toward the huge building nearby.
The others followed as well.
Before following, Gu Mian took another close look at his surroundings.
In front of the Written Test Center building was a wide road, with a long section framed by yellow lines, which should be the road-test area.
One end of the road extended to a mountain not far away, taking a turn before disappearing from sight entirely. The surroundings were wide open, making this place look like the remote wilderness.
Three cars radiating eerie auras stood side by side by the road. The western sun had already sunk halfway, and dusk was lingering on its last breath.
"Go in." Chu Changge's voice came from beside him.
Gu Mian snapped back to reality.
Several players had already followed the instructor through the main doors, and were now turning back to wait for him.
Gu Mian quickened his pace and stepped through the door as well.
Stepping inside revealed an open-air courtyard, brightly illuminated in the center by an incandescent lamp while the surroundings remained somewhat dim.
Because the building itself was a flattened cylinder, the rooms were arranged in a circular ring clinging to the edges of the structure, while the center was hollow.
Looking up, one could even see the glass roof at the very top layer.
The brightly lit spot in the very center was a table.
A long table, like the conference tables used by those suited-and-booted CEOs.
Resting on the table were seven sets of test questions and a round clock, which displayed the time as 5:56.
"The test papers have been distributed and your names are written on them. The exam now officially begins."
The instructor spoke while retreating.
Gu Mian watched with his own eyes as he retreated out of this structure, then pulled out a large padlock and locked the door with a click.
Seeing this, someone at the scene had a dazed expression and shuddered violently.
Gu Mian didn't shudder along with them; his eyes swept across, and he instantly spotted the test paper belonging to him.
Only now did he understand that this spirit car driving test wasn't just eerie on the road test, even the written exam was this bizarre.
These were definitely not questions that a standard driver's license test would ask.
"Total score 100 points, multiple-choice questions account for 40 points, fill-in-the-blank questions account for 20 points, essay questions account for 40 points."
Below were four multiple-choice questions, two fill-in-the-blank questions, and one essay question.
His gaze was first drawn to the essay question that took up the largest area.
"Given that there are three floors in this building, and there is a fierce ghost residing on each floor, find the order of death of the three fierce ghosts."
WTF! Gu Mian exploded mentally.
What kind of ghost essay question was this? It was even more outrageous than "Little Ming's mother bought five catties of apples and three catties of pears, find the mother's age"!
If Gu Mian's math teacher knew there were such question papers in this world, they would definitely jump out of their coffin in anger.
Looking further up, the multiple-choice questions were equally unreliable.
"What is the gender of the Zhao-surnamed Fierce Ghost?"
"A: Male, B: Female, C: Neither male nor female, D: Sometimes male, sometimes female"
"What are the facial features of the Yang-surnamed Fierce Ghost?"
"A: Dead fish eyes, B: Scarred face, C: Potbelly, D: Long tongue"
"How many people in total did the only male fierce ghost in this building kill during his lifetime?"
"A: 1, B: 2, C: 3, D: 4"
"If you sing 'Only Mother is Good in the World' to the Pregnant Ghost, how will she react?"
"A: Roar frantically, B: Go downstairs and smash the door, C: No reaction whatsoever, D: Dance in the clear moonlight"
The two sole fill-in-the-blank questions below were also enough to make one's brain cramp just looking at them.
"The Zhao-surnamed Fierce Ghost died in the () car."
"The Long-tongued Ghost's killing method is ()"
The above was the entire content of the entire test paper.
Yet who could tell him what on earth this paper had to do with a driver's test? At most, the fill-in-the-blank questions contained a single mention of the word "car."
The other questions genuinely exceeded the scope of a driver's test.
Gu Mian glanced sideways at Chu Changge's test paper. Oh! That was utterly preposterous too.
After looking at their own test papers, the other players also turned pale as sheets, looking as if they wanted to commit suicide immediately, with the sharp-featured man named Yan Hua Yi Leng being the worst of them all.
He swallowed saliva with a dry throat, his legs trembling, his entire body shivering slightly.
Of course, the others' situations weren't much better; although they had all already experienced one dungeon, they still couldn't quite accept reality at the moment.
On the contrary, that female celebrity Xiao Qiao still wore a look of sudden realization, as if she had just figured out what this dungeon was for.
The fat man nervously sidled up to Gu Mian: "Doctor, what should we do?"
This fellow had been sticking close to Gu Mian ever since the game started, and the phrase he uttered most frequently was definitely "What should we do."
Gu Mian folded the test paper a few times and slipped it into his white lab coat pocket: "Let's take a look first. There are three floors in total here, let's start searching for clues from the first floor."
Since such a test paper was given, the answers must be found within this building.
Thinking this, he looked around.
The building had a very large footprint, with the rooms forming a circle surrounding the center. The first floor probably had fifty or sixty rooms.
Gu Mian hadn't looked closely when he came in just now, but a careful look now gave him a real fright.
He saw that all the room doors on this floor were tightly closed, and a black-and-white obituary photo hung at a person's height on every single door.
These obituary photos surrounded the seven people in the center tightly, as if gathering all their gazes upon them.
"Oh, mother..." The fat man's back turned cold.
"Don't be afraid," Gu Mian comforted him: "Let's go into one first and see what the situation is inside."
The fat man nodded tremblingly.
Seeming to notice that there were many people on his side, the sharp-featured youth also shuffled over tremblingly: "Judging by your attire, you're a doctor right? Can you let me follow you?"
If he wanted to follow, let him follow; the road was so wide that following him wasn't breaking the law.
At that moment, the female celebrity Xiao Qiao suddenly also closed in a few steps and raised her hand: "I want to follow too."
That posture looked remarkably like an elementary school student raising their hand in class waiting for the teacher to call on them to answer a question, extremely earnest.
Where there was one and two, naturally there was three.
Before long, all the other players were following right behind Gu Mian.
Gu Mian had no other choice, and could only take the lead at the very front to push open a door.
With a creak, a door hanging an obituary photo was pushed open, revealing a mourning hall inside.
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