Chapter 025: Tripartite Invigilation

  Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, June, which is in summer, has come to an end.

  June 20-22 were dark days for third-year students at Loshan City Middle School.

  It's either breaking through the darkness to welcome the dawn or being swallowed by the darkness, and that's where life's turning point lies, helpless yet having to face it.

  June 22nd, early morning.

  A fleet of police cars has arrived at Nan Ying College, with elite police officers stationed around the perimeter to maintain order.

  In the sky, military planes landed one after another, and fully armed soldiers rushed to each examination room, maintaining absolute order in the examination rooms.

  The graduation exam for third-year students at Zhongji Academy is always a major focus of attention from all walks of life. The government and the military will dispatch elite troops to ensure the smooth conduct of the examination. Especially on June 22nd, this day is the martial arts test, the most important part of the graduation exam. If any mistakes occur today, many relevant personnel will definitely lose their jobs. On this day, anyone involved dare not be careless.

  At 8:00 am, the square of Nan Ying Academy was crowded with people, all third-year students were present, and the noise was deafening.

  Some people are still regretful about the poor performance in the written test two days ago, beating their chest and stamping their feet; some people are full of expectations for the upcoming martial arts test; while others have an attitude of not caring, just going through the motions.

  In the crowd, Sun Yan opened his eyes and stared straight ahead, as if concentrating on listening to the speech. Next to him, Shui Lianqing bit her lower lip and quietly nudged him, "Sun Yan, Sun Yan! Don't sleep, wake up quickly."

  In a daze, Sun Yan woke up and blinked his eyes. "Shui Lian Qing, you're so amazing! You can actually see through me sleeping."

  "That's because you have too many previous convictions." The graduation exam was so easy that even if I slept with my eyes open, Water Curtain Qing really didn't know what to say.

  "I asked you, why didn't you even participate in the written exams for the past two days?" Shui Lianqing was both angry and annoyed. "By doing this, aren't you giving the teachers a handle to grasp?"

  "This is my way of cultivating my spirit! Alas, that wooden bucket guy is the happiest, he even got exempted from taking the exam." Sun Yan smiled and saw the girl's annoyed expression, so he explained: "Whether or not to participate in the written test, or to hand in a blank paper, it doesn't make any difference. As long as I'm here today, that's all that matters, isn't it?"

  As they spoke, a radiant aura burst forth from the young man's body, leaving Shui Lianqing momentarily stunned. She thought back to the scene on the rooftop several days ago and felt a bitter taste in her heart. Yes, as long as he came today, it would be enough. The overlap between his world and hers might only last for today. From now on, they would only grow further apart, and she would never be able to catch up with him again.

  At this time, three light spots flickered at the end of the sky. In the blink of an eye, the three light spots grew larger and larger. They were three flying machines, two of which resembled black bats, while the other was like a gray eagle.

  Three aircraft flew over Nan Ying Academy, and as the wings retracted, they became the size of ordinary military planes, slowly landing on the airport of the teaching building.

  "What a great flying machine!" Sun Yan's eyes lit up, owning a spaceship was his dream. Immediately, he wondered: "That Iron Scale War Eagle model flying machine, isn't it the military's B-class fighter? How did it fly to our school?"

  Shui Lian sighed and said, "Those are proctors sent by the Advanced Academy and the Military Department. How could you not even know that?"

  The martial arts test of the graduation exam, the top 100 colleges in the Nanfeng domain, as well as the military department, will send staff to be assigned to each middle school for proctoring through a lottery draw. This practice is both an obligation and a manifestation of authority for these prestigious colleges and the military department.

  Sun said in response: "Why should I know these things?"

  Shui Lian Qing shook her head silently and muttered to herself, "It's just unclear which famous college has sent a teacher to our school this time."

  The light screen in front of the square suddenly flickered and started to loop play a series of subtitles, showing the test room number and test number of the candidates.

  Staring at the subtitles on the screen, Sun Yan quickly found his own name, "Exam Room 362, Candidate Number: 144."

  "My test room number is also 362. Test number: 72." Shui Lianqing let out a soft cry, with a hint of surprise in her tone, and she felt a sense of security being able to take the test in the same room as Sun Yan.

  Sun Yan nodded and gave a thumbs up, raising an eyebrow and winking: "Add oil, girl!"

  She rolled her eyes and Water Curtain Qing snorted: "Hmph, you're one of them too! Youngster."

  Two people walked side by side, following the flow of people, heading towards their own examination room.

  ……

  Airport on top of Building A for teaching, three aircraft landed and three people walked down respectively.

  Two men emerged from the bat-shaped aircraft, one of medium build with a shiny bald head and a warm smile that made him look very approachable, while the other was tall and thin with an expressionless face, looking as if he could be blown down by a gust of wind.

  A military man emerged from the aircraft, tall and strong, with a height of 3 meters. The two silver stars on his shoulder badge indicated that he was a lieutenant colonel.

  Three people walked out of the aircraft, stepped into the air and fell slowly to the ground, completely defying common sense. Light as a swallow, briefly suspended in mid-air, this was the mark of a Ninth-Grade Great Warrior.

  After landing, the young soldier walked three steps and two steps to the front of the two middle-aged men, standing at attention and saluting: "Good knife team! Good Guo team!"

  The bald middle-aged man waved his hand and smiled: "Alright, Xiao Ye, both I and Old Guo have retired, don't call us by our old titles anymore." Following that, he looked around in a circle, slightly furrowed his brow, and muttered: "These people from Nan Ying Academy are really arrogant, all the proctors have arrived but not one person has come to greet us."

  The tall and thin man next to him spoke slowly, "The one who should be receiving us is Principal Wang. That guy has always been slow-tempered, expecting him to come wait for us? Hmph!"

  The young soldier smiled and said, "It's not time yet." He then turned to say, "I didn't expect it to be the Knife Team and the Guo Team coming to supervise. With you two taking action, this lineup is a bit too high-end."

  Ye surname soldier was very surprised, the two in front of him were his former superiors in the military, now serving as lecturers at Emperor Feng Academy, a special-grade lecturer position. Generally speaking, these two would absolutely not come to participate in the examination, what wind is blowing this time?

  The bald middle-aged man also seemed to smile and say, "Xiao Ye, you are now a lieutenant colonel in the First Army Group. How can you come to serve as an invigilator? Isn't it a bit of a waste of talent?"

  Upon hearing this, Ye Zhongxiao was taken aback for a moment, then dryly laughed and said: "I've heard that Luoshan City has many good seedlings this year, so I came to take a look."

  Two people exchanged a knowing smile, and the tall, thin man saw this, disdainfully curled his lip and said: "What's there to hide? This year in Luoshan City three geniuses emerged, especially Miss Feng from the Wind family, who is the treasure of all the famous schools. Although Feng Lingxue has already agreed to enter Emperor Wind Academy, just in case, we must come again to confirm."

  Ye Zhong nodded and said, "This year's Los Angeles City has produced a lot of talented people, which has attracted the attention of the higher-ups. I'm also here to take a look, to see if there are any outstanding young martial artists who have been overlooked."

  The bald middle-aged man sighed and said, "Now is a peaceful era, excellent young martial artists are emerging less and less, it can't be compared with the war years. I and Old Guo ran through all major cities of Domir Star some time ago, but didn't find a few good seedlings. This time coming to Luoshan City, besides ensuring that those three great young geniuses won't be snatched away, is also to see if there are any excellent seedlings."

  Just as they were talking, the gate of the rooftop opened and a group of people came out one after another. The leader was a man with a square face and big ears. All students of Nan Ying College knew that he was Wang Sen, the vice president of the college.

  Behind him stood two rows of people, one team was the four major instructors of Nan Ying Academy, Dean Rodney, and class instructors Diana, Jia Lan, and Qian Wei.

  Another group of people are the deans of Nanjing University, including Dean Liu Fei, and the deans of classes A, B, C, Lin Nan, Nelson, and Qian Juren.

  These people are all important personnel of Nan Ying Academy, and they came here just to welcome the invigilators.

  Seeing the three of them, Wang Sen's eyes lit up and he walked over with a big smile on his face, opening his arms to hug the bald middle-aged man, "Brother Knife, Captain Knife. I didn't expect it to be you!"

  "Haha, alright, stop being polite with me." The bald middle-aged man laughed loudly. "When we were randomly assigned to groups, I was allocated to Nan Ying Academy and I'm really happy! Wang Mi, it's been two years since we last saw each other, right?"

  "That's right, that's right." Wang Sen nodded frequently. "This time, the invigilators for our Nan Ying Academy are actually two teachers from Di Feng Academy. What an honor to have such distinguished guests!"

  Behind him, a group of people all smiled in unison. Although they held important positions at Nan Ying Academy, the ones responsible for proctoring were just ordinary teachers from a higher academy. However, even an ordinary teacher from Emperor Feng Academy had more prestige in high society than they did.

  Next to him, the tall and thin middle-aged man suddenly said coldly: "Peng Chu Sheng Hui? Hum! This empty rooftop doesn't have any feeling of Peng Chu at all?"

  Everyone present was stunned. How dare he speak like that? Does he really think he's a teacher at Imperial Wind Academy, the number one prestigious school, looking down on mid-tier academies?

  Wang Sen's smile vanished, and he suddenly raised his hand to punch the tall and thin middle-aged man on the shoulder, then burst out laughing: "Old Guo, can't you say something human for once?"

  The tall and thin middle-aged man hummed softly, turned his head, but a hint of a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

  The young lieutenant stepped forward, standing at attention: "Captain Qiao, Captain Guo, Secretary Wang, hello!"

  This scene made most of the people present curious and puzzled, wondering how these four people seemed to know each other.

  "Ah, that's Knife Teacher Li Guorui," Rodney explained in a low voice. "During the 4th Snow River War, he was the commander of the 79th Army, and another teacher, Guo Nu, was the commander of the 37th Army. And then there's Major Ye Zefeng, who was brought up by Knife Teacher. Back then, the Scorpion Corps of the JW Alliance had laid siege to the city, and Principal Wang was still the secretary of the mayor. The four of them - Knife Commander Li, Guo Commander, Principal Wang, and Major Ye - were comrades-in-arms."

  The most impressive explanation is that all the survivors of the fourth Snow River War are iron-blooded heroes.

  After exchanging a few pleasantries, Wang Sen introduced everyone one by one. Then, a group of people surrounded the three teachers and walked into the elevator on the rooftop.

  In the elevator, except for Wang Sen, everyone else took a few steps back and kept their distance from Dao Laoshi. Whether it was the background of Emperor Feng Academy or the military department, or the identity of the proctors this time, in such a situation, they should have received treatment at the level of the principal.

  Wang Sen smiled and said, "How about it? Old Knife, do you want to go to my office first, have a taste of good tea, and then bring the comrades from Luoshan City over for a night of revelry?"

  Although he has never served in the army, Wang Sen has experienced the baptism of the Snow River War a hundred years ago, and his every word and deed carries the boldness and hardness of a soldier.

  "Drinking tea, you're also elegant? Alright, Wang Mi." Teacher Dao smiled and waved his hand, "Private matters can be discussed tonight, now is work time, let's start the handover."

  Wang Sen slapped his forehead and said, "That's right, now is working time, can't mix public and private matters. Rodney, start the handover."

  Rodney nodded in agreement behind him, stepped forward and stretched out his right hand, wearing a circular instrument like a wristwatch on his wrist, flashing a circle of red light dots.

  The three teachers also stretched out their hands, wearing the same instruments on their wrists. They touched Rodney's instrument one by one, and a series of crisp ringing sounds rang out. Then, the flashing red light points on these circular instruments turned into circles of green.

  This is the graduation exam, martial arts test proctoring method - three-party proctoring.

  The work is supervised by personnel from the Higher Colleges, Military Departments and Intermediate Colleges. The selection of invigilators for the Higher Colleges and Military Departments must be completed 3 hours before the graduation exam, and then randomly assigned. After the three invigilators arrive at the examination school, they will use instruments to hand over to the Chief Instructor of the Intermediate College and automatically sort and verify the information.

  Thus, a double insurance effect is achieved. Although it is almost impossible to cheat in martial arts tests, this approach is intended to reflect the importance attached by all parties concerned.

  After the handover was completed, Lieutenant Colonel Ye Zefeng smiled and said: "Knife team, Guo team, I'll take care of the information review on the exam site. If there's a problem, I'll report back to you."

  Teacher Dao and Guo Nu nodded in agreement.

  "Xiao Ye is still the same, doing things seriously and meticulously." Wang Sen praised.

  "Not a bit of real ability, and no way to serve as a lieutenant colonel in the First Army Group." Dao Laoshi couldn't help but reveal a pleased expression.

  Ye Zefeng was originally a soldier he brought up with his own hands, and 10 years ago, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel of the First Army, which is one of the proud events in Knife Teacher's life.

  Guo glared at him, coldly snorting: "What are you so proud of? If I were to say it, every single one of your soldiers is more outstanding than you. Your life was saved by them."

  "You'd better shut that stinking mouth of yours, or people will think you're mute." Knife Teacher glared back at him, then a look of nostalgia appeared on his face. "My life was indeed saved by them. I wonder how those few kids are doing now?"

  "Huh?"

  Suddenly, Zhong Xiao Ye Ze Feng let out a surprised cry and raised his head. "Jiudao, take a look at exam room 362, it's that guy Carter."

  Upon hearing this, Qian Ju-ren and Qian Wei exchanged glances behind him, both furrowing their brows. That Carter, did he have some private connection with the teachers of Emperor Wind Academy?