"What am I?"

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Invigilators Era, after Qin Jiu comes back into the System, he and You Huo have a semi-working relationship. Qin Jiu knows there's some sort of plan but You Huo is still working out the finer details.

Some Extra notes:
Assuming the Romani Exam (Shu Xue, Zhao Wentu, Bald Man) takes place before Qin Jiu has become an Invigilator, (Novel says Bald Man has a exemption card, ManHua says he has 2x 2 Year Exam deferral cards, I'm taking the Manhua explanation, but will only include the Novel words)

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You Huo wasn't sure when it happened.

A mere second ago, he was just watching the moderates and hardliners arguing, as usual, about the overly violent exam settings.

Led by Qin Jiu, the hardliners was demanding that they make the exams safer for the examinees because it was seriously getting out of hand, not even letting examinees test the waters and try to figure things out properly, while the moderates was rebutting with the fact that demanding anything of the System would just upset it and everyone would end up suffering as a result.

Now, he was sitting on a couch, blinking in confusion as he found himself in unfamiliar surroundings. He no longer felt the horrible, disgusting feeling of something lurking behind him, watching his every move, and while that was initially very comforting, You Huo realized that something had to be very, very wrong for that feeling to disappear, so he chose to stay still, looking around subtly, hoping that if this was a malicious force, it would be distracted by the arguing invigilators and You Huo could buy some time to figure out a solution.

The others were still arguing, but one person who was in the middle of speaking up suddenly paused, and everyone else stopped in turn.

"Gin?" Someone from the hardliners asked uncertainly, as Qin Jiu's pitch black eyes flickered about warily.

Before anyone could react, there were some confused screams from examinees who suddenly appeared out of thin air. Upon seeing all the scary invigilators that had "kidnapped" some of their fellow examinees for a violation, all of them looked like they wanted to cry, but most of them were sensible (terrified) enough and immediately clammed up.

"Oh god, what exam is this? So many invigilators?"

"All of you, shut up!"

Qin Jiu wanted to snicker at the remaining panicking screeching examinees, but he had more pressing matters at hand.

"Oh fuck, why is there a pregnant lady here?"

Some of the kinder examinees tried to tend to the poor shivering lady, and a member of the hardliners yelled, "And you're okay with this? The System is starting to pulling in people like her?"

"It's probably another bug in picking people that the System will patch out later."

"These exams are killing people! Able-bodied people are already having it rough, and now-"

All the attention was taken off the lady as the invigilators started arguing again, the examinees watching the invigilators banter back and forth like they were watching a tennis match.

Luckily, they were instantly shut up when You Huo looked up, allowing them to turn to the real problem at hand.

"Big Invigilator... where are we?" Qin Jiu asked.

Chu Yue frowned as she surveyed their surroundings, "I don't recall ever having a room like this... but who knows what the System added on its own."

You Huo observed the room. He first turned his attention to the huge group of current examinees, who were all standing awkwardly, huddled together as far away from the invigilators as possible, next to a bunch of couches, beanbags and pillows.

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