The clock hangs in the upper right corner of the blackboard, and time passes bit by bit.

"There are 15 minutes left until the end of the exam."

"Those who hand in empty papers will die, and those who become the answer will die."

"No whispering allowed. Those who violate the exam rules will die!"

"Only when the entire class has the correct answers can you leave!"

The exam proctor with the sunken cheeks stood up and paced back and forth in the aisle.

She continued to repeat the same few sentences.

"Tap, tap, tap." The proctor walked around the classroom in high heels. However, when she approached me, I instinctively moved aside.

I even imagined in my mind that when she passed by me, she would stick out her tongue just like before and take my life away.

With this thought, my heart raced uncontrollably. Inadvertently, I accidentally knocked my admission ticket off the edge of the desk, and it fell to the ground with a "clatter."

"Oh no!"

I thought I was done for, and my gaze happened to meet that of the proctor. I could even see my own reflection in her pupils.

Suddenly, she leaned over to my side, and instinctively, I covered my head with both hands.

But the next second...

"Classmate, your admission ticket fell."

I couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, and then quickly said, "Thank you," as I took the admission ticket.

"She... she didn't kill me!"

I didn't know why, but this strange proctor spared me.

I quietly looked at the proctor and inadvertently glanced at her chest badge, which seemed to have the number 443 written on it.

Just as I was feeling relieved, the proctor spoke again:

"There are 5 minutes left until the end of the exam."

"Those who hand in empty papers will die, and those who become the answer will die."

"No whispering allowed. Those who violate the exam rules will die!"

"Only when the entire class has the correct answers can you leave!"

Looking at the blank answers on the exam paper, I didn't know what to write.

Although I had been swimming in the ocean of knowledge for many years, when faced with such an exam paper, I had no idea how to start writing.

"Will the person whose name is written on the paper die a tragic death like the class leader earlier?"

"Then... won't I become the murderer?"

"How... how should I write..."

"Even if I write, will the person who dies... truly be the correct answer?"

"Can we really escape from this place?"

I didn't want to hand in a blank paper, and I didn't want to become a murderer.

In the end, almost involuntarily, I wrote a name on the paper.

"Who is the extra person?"

"Answer: Xia Xue."

My name is Xia Xue.

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