Villagers | I Think I've Seen You Somewhere Before

"Hmm..." Black Granny picked up the dolls from their hands and frowned, seemingly very dissatisfied.

Liang Yuanhao went pale and muttered, "We wasted time on all that unrelated stuff. Otherwise, I definitely could've finished sewing..."

Black Granny looked at the others and saw that they were all empty-handed. Her face immediately darkened.

Everyone watched her in alarm, afraid she might suddenly attack.

To their surprise, after scowling for a while, she licked her lips and smiled.

She put the dolls in the bamboo basket and gathered them together. Then she said another string of words they couldn't understand and shooed them out of the cabin.

The moment the door closed, the crow's voice rang out:

[The listening exam playback has ended. You have sufficient time to consider what you heard.]

[The reading exam will begin promptly at 7:30 tomorrow morning. Please do not be late.]

[We wish you a good result.]

You Huo and Qin Jiu went into the house. The others followed them in like chicks seeking out a hawk, filling the living room to bursting.

"So was there a point to sewing the dolls just now?" Yu Wen scratched his head. "I couldn't see one. It seemed like nothing happened whether we sewed or not."

Old Yu gave him a smack. "Keep dreaming. As if we'd get off that easy. Maybe the time just hasn't come yet. Wait and see!"

You Huo paid no attention to this. He pulled up the recording on his phone and asked, "Who has a translation app?"

"I do, I do!" Yu Wen said quickly.

"But there's no signal right now," Chen Bin said.

Yu Wen said, "Mine doesn't need an internet connection. I downloaded the dictionary, and it has speech recognition!"

Everyone immediately perked up.

You Huo pressed play and tossed his phone within Yu Wen's reach.

Yu Wen held his own phone like a precious treasure and listened reverently.

Everyone stared at him without blinking, full of anticipation.

Before long, the garbled stream of words from Black Granny finished playing.

No one dared speak. They held their breath and concentrated.

After about two minutes, Yu Wen went pale and said, "Fuck..."

"What's wrong?"

"The translation app doesn't have Romani..."

"What kind of fucking translation app is that?!"

Chen Bin and Liang Yuanhao refused to believe it and opened their own apps. After searching for a while, they found that they really didn't have it.

Everyone: "..."

Fuck.

They were going to die because of a foreign language.

Chapter 21: Villagers | I Think I've Seen You Somewhere Before

A foreign language that even translation apps couldn't recognize...

Trust the system to come up with that.

"...What about going online?" Yu Wen prodded his phone screen, getting a little anxious. "Maybe I didn't download enough dictionaries? Would going online help? Could the invigilator help us with that?"

At this, everyone looked at Qin Jiu.

The invigilator was standing in front of a cabinet in a corner of the living room, examining an incense burner out of sheer boredom. As if he had eyes in the back of his head, he said without turning around, "You weren't the ones who drew the Reward Card. Why are you looking at me?"

The incense in the room was too strong.

He unscrewed the burner's lid, picked out the thing giving off the overpowering scent, and tossed it aside. As he did so, his long, slender fingers rummaged around inside the burner, seemingly unafraid of being burned.

Hearing this, everyone turned their expectant gazes to You Huo.

But before You Huo could speak, Yu Wen, who had made the suggestion, gradually calmed down again. "Never mind. I should've downloaded all the dictionaries. I was just asking... If several versions of the translation app don't have Romani, they might not be able to translate it even online. If we really can't find anything, we'd have wasted a card."

Chen Bin looked around and couldn't help asking, "What card? I've kept hearing you mention it since I joined the group, but I was too embarrassed to ask."

When the card had been drawn, the whole group had been watching. Everyone who needed to know already knew, and there was nothing to hide.

Everyone chimed in to explain the Reward Card's use to Chen Bin.

Chen Bin listened, dumbfounded. "...There really are rewards? I'd only ever heard rumors about them before. I thought they were lies. What did you do? How did you get the chance?"

Everyone looked ashamed, thinking that they had relied entirely on the system's random selection to give them a golden thigh to cling to.

Chen Bin knew how to read the room. Seeing their varied expressions, he didn't press the matter.

He glanced at Liang Yuanhao and saw that his lips were pressed tightly together and his face looked grim. In truth, his own expression wasn't much better.

Although they had never seen a Reward Card themselves, they had heard of them.

Whatever the reason for getting a chance at a reward, it proved only one thing: this team was extremely formidable.

Or rather, there was someone extremely formidable on this team.

It went without saying who that formidable person was.

And as ill luck would have it, the two of them had just made the opposite choice from the big shot.

Chen Bin nudged Liang Yuanhao gently and, while the others were discussing things, asked him in a low voice, "Do you regret it?"

Liang Yuanhao pulled a long face and said gruffly, "The consequences haven't shown up yet. Does being right once mean he'll be right every time? Anyway, I don't regret it."

"I do, a little." Chen Bin looked miserable as he stared absently at the floor.

"Ge, should we ask the invigilator for help?" Yu Wen asked.

"No."

You Huo sat on the arm of the sofa, playing with his phone.

Qin Jiu put the lid back on the incense burner.

He casually picked up a colorful scarf, wiped his fingers clean, then strolled unhurriedly behind You Huo. Bracing both hands on the back of the sofa, he said, "Really not asking? I've been holding on to this card for a long time. I really can't wait to use it up."

Without even looking up, You Huo gave a cold laugh by way of answer.

Qin Jiu grew even more interested.

This examinee was truly interesting. When it came to minor questions within normal bounds, he hadn't hesitated to ask a single one, and he wasn't the least bit polite about ordering the invigilator around. But as soon as the Help Card was involved, he absolutely refused to use it, as though asking for help were the same as admitting defeat.

A tough nut to crack.

That was invigilator 001's assessment to himself.

You Huo tapped his phone a few times, and Black Granny's girlish voice rang out in the room again.