Next comes another excruciating 60 minutes.

To be honest, I originally planned to write my own name again when I looked at the blank test paper in front of me, but...

"Other than my own vote, who... who else voted for me?"

"Will the next person to die be me?"

If at the beginning

I was fearless out of ignorance, now, I'm truly starting to feel afraid.

Even though the chance of leaving the exam room is very slim, I really don't want to be the first one to die.

Just like... just like Chen Jiao.

Clearly, in the class, she was so popular among the boys and girls, although the girls would talk about her behind her back. But I really didn't expect that in this exam, she would be the first one voted out and killed.

I sneak a look at my classmates on the left and right, I don't know if their hand is behind the vote that killed Chen Jiao.

I also don't know, when I'm voted out, if it'll be their doing...

"Escape! I must escape!"

At this moment, I feel that the seemingly innocent group of classmates around me is scarier than the invigilator...

But who to write?

Should I write the boy in the class who bullies others? Or should I write the person with poor grades?

Or...

My gaze then shifted to the blackboard in front.

Other than Chen Jiao, the second in rank is Zhang Kai. He's the sports committee member of our class and also a troublemaker in our grade. In this situation, I feel that he is likely to be the one who will be voted out.

But I'm not safe either.

If it's in that order, maybe someone will vote for me soon, what should I do then?

Thinking about this, I feel sweat in my palms.

"Even though I'm just a middle-of-the-road student in the class, if... if I can show some value now, even though everyone may have a herd mentality, they probably won't vote for me!"

"Value..."

Thinking of value, I suddenly think of a few questions.

Why did this strange thing happen in our class today? Are other classes also in this state? Can we contact the outside?

And the problem has always been finding the extra person, where are the extra people? Is there any clue?

Thinking of this, I start surveying the class and immediately notice a few strange things.

First, this exam room is not quite right.

During our mock exams, the students in the class were sitting separately, we've never had an exam with our own 12th grade class before. Even in an exam, I remember that we didn't sit in our original seats, but this exam is strange.

I try hard to recall who arranged the seats for this exam, but my mind is blank.

"Why do we have to have the mock exam in our own class today?"

"Why?"

"How did I know the seating arrangement?"

My head is completely blank about these things.

I, I can't remember anything!

Secondly, maybe because my name is on the blackboard, I'm sensitive to numbers.

Chen Jiao 20 votes, Zhang Kai 11 votes, Li Mu'ai 7 votes, Shen Ming 5 votes, Xia Xue 2 votes, Zhao Ming 2 votes, Chen Shuo 1 vote, Tian Tian 1 vote, Hao Ren 1 vote, all these votes add up to exactly 50 votes, the same as the number of people in our class.

"But, no! This is absolutely wrong!"

Because...

The class leader died before the exam even started!

A dead person absolutely couldn't have filled out this paper, so...

"There are too many votes! Really too many..."

I secretly drop my eraser on the ground, then I confirm the number of seats again pretending to pick it up.

There are two seats in the last row of the classroom of four, there are indeed 50 seats, but the seat of the class leader in front of me is empty, meaning there are still 49 people in our class.

"How could there be 50 votes!"

"There are too many votes! Really too many..."