At 8:00am in the morning, the examination of the Faculty of Architecture officially started, and 7 people in Yue Xingwen’s team disappeared before them instantly. Zhuo Feng looked at the remaining teammates next to him, saying, “The exam will take two hours, let’s go to the side and find a room to wait.”
Once the students entered the examination room, regardless of whether the clearance time was a few minutes or a few days, the library’s time was calculated as 2 hours for a course. The four of them would not know whether Yue Xingwen had passed or not before the examination ended at 10:00am.
Zhuo Feng took everyone into the empty room next to them and sat down to wait.
Everyone’s mood was simply more nervous than the parents waiting outside the examination room for their children’s college entrance examination.
Xin Yan suddenly said lightly, “You have already failed the course before, and you will be eliminated if they fail to pass the course.”
Zhuo Feng said frankly. “That’s right. Do you want to ask, how can I trust my fate to Yue Xingwen’s hands? Not afraid of being dragged down by them?”
Xin Yan shrugged his shoulders, and acquiesced to Zhuo Feng’s rhetorical question.
He could not understand Zhuo Feng’s approach, he had not gone to this course because he had not failed this course yet, and even if Yue Xingwen and the others failed the course, he still had a chance to retake it, but Zhuo Feng and Lin Manluo were different, these two people’s lives were hanging by a thread, so doing so was simply gambling on their lives.
Lin Manluo smiled. “You may not know much about Xingwen. We have known Xingwen for three years, and he has never disappointed anyone who trusts him. If he can’t lead the team through this time, then even if we both follow him, we won’t pass it either. My vines and Zhuo Feng’s electricity really won’t help in this course at all.”
She turned her head to look at Xin Yan, who looked cold, and said calmly. “I know that you joined this team because young Ke is your high school’s classmate, and you don’t have much affection or trust for the rest of the team. It doesn’t matter, later on when you get to know Xingwen, you’ll trust him as much as we do.”
Xin Yan did not answer—— Trust? This feeling had long ceased to exist in his heart.
Qin Miao said calmly, “Senior sister, I don’t quite understand you, but I admire your decision.”
Lin Manluo gave Zhuo Feng a look and teased. “If Xingwen really gets us both eliminated, then we… be a ghost and don’t let him go?” Zhuo Feng laughed. “Don’t be so poisonous, I can’t imagine you turning into a fierce ghost.”
At this time, Yue Xingwen’s pressure was also great.
Seven people had been teleported to the examination preparation area, a wide square that was completely different from what was written in the strategy guide. It was obvious that the starting and end points of the exam of this course were randomly generated.
With a three-minute countdown to the official start of the exam, a massive map of the city was posted on the billboard in the square.
Yue Xingwen looked at everyone and said seriously. “Senior brother Zhuo and senior sister Lin are still waiting outside. So, I’ll give you a reminder that they’ve already failed this course once. If we make a mistake, they’ll be eliminated from the library straight away. Therefore, we must focus and not make mistakes! Skill will be used alternatively, stay close to the group, and listen to my commands during the escape, you have to remember it, okay?”
Everyone nodded seriously, “Remember!”
Yue Xingwen took everyone to the map of the city.
This map of a city was really different compared to the map of the Orienteering before. The flat map that appeared in the square had a large number of buildings, highways, flyovers, bypasses, tunnels…
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This was comparable to the real third-tier cities in China.
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Yue Xingwen also thought of this, he nodded and said, “The western suburb airport will be the end point. Pingce, you can calculate the path.”
Jiang Pingce quickly found the best path, he drew on the map while saying. “The closest route will need us to take the L-shape route, turn right on Xinhua Road to Xiushui Road, then left to Dingxiang Avenue, along Kunlun East Road, Kunlun West Road, on the bypasses, and then on the airport highway. The whole distance is about 60 kilometers. We have various displacement skills, which can barely get there in an hour if there is no accident.”
Ke Shaobin’s fingers tapped the keyboard quickly, building a navigation route based on Jiang Pingce’s suggestion, and entered it into Xiao Tu’s navigation program, so that Xiao Tu could judge whether they deviated from the route or not at any time.
Jiang Pingce added. “But, both East and West Kunlun Road are flyovers, which are prone to collapse.”
This had to be taken into consideration as well. After thinking about it, Yue Xingwen said, “Qin Lu, pay attention to your plate movement, and if we encounter a collapse section that cannot be passed, directly use the displacement skill.”
Qin Lu replied seriously, “I understand. I’ll open the skill when you tell me to.”
Zhang Xiaonian added. “Senior brother, if the road is blocked by obstacles, my excavator can be used as well.”
Yue Xingwen nodded and said, “Please pay attention, the exam is about to start.”
The three minutes preparation time passed quickly, and the 10, 9, 8 countdown appeared in the upper right corner.
At the same time, a prompt popped up in the hover box—— This old city was harmed by the jerry-built project, and residents had been forced to leave their homes. Since the foundations of the building are not solid, all buildings can collapse at any time. Please escape the city as quickly as possible after the exam starts.
The countdown turned to 1, and Yue Xingwen said, “Run!”
At the captain’s order, 7 people quickly rushed along the sidewalk to the west, with Ke Shaobin summoning Xiao Tu to lead the way.
The whole city was like an empty city, and there was no trace of pedestrians in sight. The streets and alleys were empty, and not a single shop was open, reminiscent of the abandoned, apocalyptic city in a movie.
Liu Zhaoqing spat in a low voice. “This is a city parkour game, right?”
As soon as the words left his mouth, Zhang Xiaonian suddenly shouted. “Senior brother, be careful!”
Liu Zhaoqing, who was better in physical fitness and running in front, could not react to what was going on. A huge billboard suddenly fell down with a loud ‘bang’ from a high building on the right! Zhang Xiaonian raised his right hand, and an earthen wall as high as 3 meters instantly stood on Liu Zhaoqing’s side, blocking the falling billboard.
The earthen wall was very fragile, crumbling under the weight of the billboard, and everyone quickly took a few steps forward to avoid it.
Liu Zhaoqing looked back, and his expression turned livid. “Such a big billboard, it’s going to smash people to death!”
Yue Xingwen also did not expect the library had sent them such a meeting gift when everyone had just run out of the square.
Fortunately, Zhang Xiaonian reacted quickly enough and caught the billboard directly with the wall. Yue Xingwen looked back to look at his junior brother and wanted to praise him, only to find that Zhang Xiaonian’s face changed and shouted. “Senior brother, the building in front of you is going to collapse!”
Not far ahead was a 10-story building that looked fine on the outside, not a single sign of shaking, but Yue Xingwen believed in the judgment of the student majoring in construction and directly accelerated the team with his ‘Fast as Lighting’ skill and said. “Run!”
The whole group accelerated 5 times, and everyone quickly ran out of the street like the wind, and the next moment, a deafening ‘boom’ was heard in their ears!
The 10-story building behind them had collapsed completely.
The high-rise building collapsed in an instant, with a lot of dust floating in the air and some scattered bricks flying around.
Such a shocking scene made 7 people’s eyes widen.
Zhang Xiaonian said nervously, “There’s something wrong with the structure of that building just now, the load-bearing wall on the third floor had been broken. The buildings here are next to each other, there will be a domino effect and the building will collapse in succession, we have to speed up!”
Domino effect, like putting pieces of bricks together in a row, and when the first flock fell, the next one would also fall, triggering a chain reaction, so that all the bricks would collapse one after another.
This empty city had quite dense buildings. If a domino effect did occur and successive collapses occurred, once they did not escape fast enough, they would be directly submerged in the ruins of the collapsing building, crushed to the bone!
Yue Xingwen’s face was serious. “Speed up and go to Xinhua Road!”
Xiao Tu had pulleys under his feet and was much faster than them. Ke Shaobin let Xiao Tu scout ahead, and after turning left, it was the first street in the best route calculated by Jiang Pingce: Xinhua Road.
Xinhua Road was one of the main roads in the city, with four lanes in both directions and surrounded by high-rise buildings.
There were tall buildings on the left and right, and almost as soon as they reached Xinhua Road, the buildings on either side began to shake. A billboard fell from an upper floor, brushing the wires in the air and smashing the glass of a private car on the side of the road with a ‘bang’!
The wires carried sparks all the way to the ground and soon ignited fire on a large propaganda poster on the second floor across the street.
The air was full of dust and the pungent smell of burnt posters and plastic.
Yue Xingwen could not take a closer look and took everyone to run rapidly west along Xinhua Road!
His heart was beating violently, this was the fastest run he’d had since he was a kid. His team acceleration only lasted 5 minutes, and they had to race against the speed at which the building collapsed!
The seven people fled frantically all the way, and by the time they reached the end of Xinhua Road, the building on the entire street had collapsed one after another with a ‘bang’ —— The city behind them was no longer recognizable, it looked like a ruin instead.
Xiao Tu continued to slide forward.
Upon turning right to Xiushui Road, Xiao Tu suddenly stopped and gave Ke Shaobin an alarm. “Master, the road ahead is impassable, should we change the navigation route?”
Yue Xingwen looked into the distance and was surprised to find——
Due to the collapse of a building in front, Xiushui Road was completely blocked, and it was impossible to pass!
At this time, they were located at the junction of Xinhua Road and Xiushui Road. A skyscraper as high as 30-story stood on each side to the left and right, and not far away, the collapsed building was like a dark cloud, flying towards this side.
Yue Xingwen looked back, and the tall buildings covered the sky and the sun, like terrifying beasts that could completely crush them into a mass of broken flesh in an instant!
It was too late to change the route, and taking the other way not only made the distance farther, but also the possibility of collapse of the buildings over there. Just now, Zhang Xiaonian said that when the road was blocked, the excavator could be used, but now, the whole road was blocked, would the excavator slowly dig for a long time?
Yue Xingwen looked at Zhang Xiaonian with an inquiring look, and the latter immediately said, “I can clear the way. Everyone keeps running!”
The junior brother lifted his right hand and an excavator appeared in front of everyone.
The orange machine was huge and had the words ‘Produced by Library’s Faculty of Architecture’ written on it, and it could change shape instantly like a Transformer—— It actually became a bulldozer.
The chains on both sides of the bulldozer were like giant tanks, and the shovel blade about 4 meters wide in front of it flashed a sharp light. Under Zhang Xiaonian’s order, the bulldozer instantly pushed the blocked road in front of it by more than 10 meters instantly with a shocking speed!
Yue Xingwen: “……”
It was indeed a wise choice to bring a student from the Architecture Department to go through the courses of the Faculty of Architecture. This excavator was too advanced, and could be transformed into a bulldozer for opening the way.
Yue Xingwen praised, “Very good, the others will keep their skills first. Xiao Nian, speed up to open the path!”
The sound of machinery at work buzzed people’s heads.
The machinery produced by the Faculty of Architecture was indeed awesome. The whole road which had been completely buried by the collapsed buildings was cleared by the bulldozer, and it actually opened up a large, clean, neat, and wide road for them.
Yue Xingwen and his teammates ran forward quickly, and the collapsed building once again buried the road behind them with a ‘bang’ and the flying bricks almost hit their backs!
The bulldozer opened up the road ahead, Xiao Tu followed behind the bulldozer to navigate, and everyone ran all the way behind Xiao Tu…
It was a fight to death in a city that was about to collapse.
However, they had no choice. Within 1 hour, they must reached the Western Suburbs Airport!
Speed run, I guess?
I would quickly die oh my 💀
I run fast but my stamina is shit (dk if that makes sense)
Me too, I am strong and prob have fast speed but my stamina is horrible. Like momentarily bursts of strength.
I think architecture faculty need a Flash…
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