The exam ended at 10:00am in the morning. Due to the physical exertion of the <City Collapse> course, Yue Xingwen asked everyone to go back to the dormitory after lunch to grab some sleep and rest. He and Jiang Pingce also went back for an hour nap.
At 13:40pm, everyone was refreshed and met on time in the class selection hall of the Faculty of Architecture on the 3rd floor.
According to the schedule of the Faculty of Architecture, every Monday to Friday at 14:00pm, there was a compulsory course <The Mystery of the Construction Site>. Yue Xingwen walked side by side with Jiang Pingce to the tablet and selected the compulsory course from the schedule.
The familiar course information soon popped up on the screen——
[Compulsory Course: The Mystery of the Construction Site]
[Credit: 4]
[Examination Room Rule: It can be registered as an individual or Research Group. Maximum of 12 people in the examination room]
[Course Description: A piece of wasteland in the southern suburbs of City A is purchased by a developer with a high bid of 200 million. The developer promises to make this place a commercial center in the south of the city, and the construction plan includes a shopping plaza, a pedestrian street, and a food street. After a year of development and construction, the seven-story shopping plaza building has finally been topped out in the near future]
[Examination Requirement: Solve the Mystery of the Construction Site]
[Note: Puzzle solving course, it is recommended to bring a teammate in Architecture]
[Confirm Course Selection: Yes/No]
Yue Xingwen had guessed this was a puzzle solving course. Upon seeing it, he turned back to his teammates and said, “This is not a Research Group limited course, so we can’t use the credit sharing feature, which means that all 11 of us have to take the exam.”
Qin Miao asked directly, “What is the maximum number of people in the examination room? It’s not going to match us with confused classmates again, right?”
She hated the couple Luo Jiajia and Lu Kai from the matching classmate last time, not listening to the examiner’s hints, not collecting clues, one was panicking and running around, then falling to her death when she ran into trouble, and another one just rushing in to die… It was really tiring. It was best not to match with confused strangers in this course, just 11 of them to take the exam.
Looking at Qin Miao’s cold face, Yue Xingwen knew what she was thinking and said with a smile, “Don’t worry, the maximum number of people in the examination room this time is 12. Our Research Group alone takes up 11 spots, we won’t randomly match with only 1 person in.”
Zhuo Feng came over and said, “When we get to the 3rd floor Faculty of Architecture, there shouldn’t be any students who are alone, it’s good that we take the exam ourselves.”
Yue Xingwen nodded and said, “I’ll sign up then, everyone get ready.”
He pressed the ‘Register’ option on the screen, and a prompt rang in everyone’s ears at the same time. “Your C-183 Research Group has successfully registered in the compulsory course <The Mystery of the Construction Site> in the Faculty of Architecture. The exam will start in 10 minutes, please be prepared.”
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There were many empty rooms next to them, and Zhuo Feng familiarly led everyone into a room to rest.
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Xu Yishen stroked his curly hair and said, “Can my split bodies help to inquire for information?”
Zhuo Feng said, “I use electricity to light you guys up?”
Lin Manluo looked at Yue Xingwen and jokingly said, “What can my vine do? Let you swing?”
Yue Xingwen smiled at his senior sister and reassured everyone. “It’s okay. Since we are a team, we can use our brains and contribute with our attack skill. There’s no need to entangle who has greater and who has less help. In a puzzle-solving class, my analysis with Pingce is not necessarily right, so let’s all brainstorm.”
Jiang Pingce said, “Listen to Xingwen’s command and don’t act without permission.”
Everyone nodded their heads. The Mystery of the Construction Site, where exactly the ‘mystery’ was still unknown.
The time for the exam was approaching, and with the ‘countdown to the start of the exam’ in the upper right corner hover box, everyone’s sight flickered——
They appeared at a construction site.
Eleven people collectively changed into workers’ clothes and they also wore a safety helmet.
However, everyone’s helmets were not the same color. Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce wore red helmets, Zhang Xiaonian, Ke Shaobin and Zhuo Feng had blue helmets on their heads, and the others wore yellow helmets.
Jiang Pingce looked back at Yue Xingwen, who had a rare look of confusion on his face as the helmet on his head was too loose and on the wrong side, covering one of his eyes. Looking at such Xingwen, Jiang Pingce laughed lightly and reached out to help him straighten his hat. Yue Xingwen came back to his senses, hurriedly put the wobbly helmet on, looked back at everyone and said, “Construction site? Are we going to play the role of workers?”
“Is my head too big? This hat is so tight.” Xu Yishen said in a low voice and took off his hat to adjust.
“You have too much hair and thick curls.” Zhuo Feng followed by poking fun at him.
Liu Zhaoqing looked around at his teammates. “Why does our hat have different colors? Is there anything to pay attention to?”
Zhang Xiaonian’s head was small, and the hat was about to cover his entire head. He took off his hat, and while adjusting the tie, he replied seriously, “On a construction site, different colored hats represent different status. Ordinary construction workers wear yellow hats; Technical workers wear blue hats; Managements wear red hats; There is also a white hat, who is the person in charge of the entire project and does not usually appear.”
Liu Zhaoqing suddenly realized. “In that case, we who wear yellow caps are ordinary workers; Xiao Ke, Xiao Nian, and Zhuo Feng wear three blue hats are technical workers, and Xingwen and Pingce’s red hats represent the management?”
Jiang Pingce said lightly, “Ke Shaobin and Zhang Xiaonian join the engineer team, and senior brother Zhuo Feng go into the electrician team. I will mix into management with Xingwen. The others can stay with the construction workers to facilitate the investigation of the case from different angles.”
After hearing his explanation, everyone finally understood the intention of wearing different hats on the construction site.
Outside the construction site, a fence was erected with signs such as ‘X Province No. 9 Construction Team’ and ‘Xinyue Plaza Project in the Southern Suburbs of A City’, and a large number of red ribbons were hung on a seven-story building in front of it, all of which read ‘XX Group congratulates the successful topping out of the Xinyue Plaza project’ in big golden letters.
Yue Xingwen looked up. “There was a topping out ceremony just recently?”
Zhang Xiaonian said, “The construction team’s project is divided into several stages, and usually, a topping out ceremony is held once the last beam is placed atop a structure, and the leader will personally come to inspect. The topping out ceremony is done before we improve the construction of the interior facilities.”
Liu Zhaoqing rubbed his chin and looked up at the seven-story building in front of him, “As far as I know, it’s quite fast to place the last beam, right? A building shouldn’t take too long from laying the foundation to topping out.”
Zhang Xiaonian nodded. “Yes, the building framework is very well built. The fast construction team can build a floor in a day, with bricks going up layer by layer, just as fast as stacking blocks. But the time between topping out and official hand over is a bit longer. The interior fire control, water and electricity, network, heating, those are the fine details that are the most troublesome.”
Yue Xingwen pondered. “The current construction progress of this Xinyue Plaza project is that the main building of the square has just been topped out, which means that we have to stay at the construction site and continue the next stages with them. What kind of case will it be?”
Jiang Pingce said, “This time it should be a plot case. We can investigate and visit these people at the construction site.”
The previous case at the Faculty of Mathematics was a drama-within-drama mystery that had already happened. They were teleported to the scene of the crime, looking for corpses, clues and reasoning out the process of the case.
It was different from this construction site this time. All of them wore a helmet, perhaps they have to experience the murder in person? Everyone was unsure in their hearts. Yue Xingwen said, “Put on your safety helmet and go in first.”
The construction site was surrounded by a fence in a circle, leaving only one entrance and exit, was more than five meters wide and more than three meters high.
At the top of the entrance, a banner with white characters on a blue background read ‘Safe Passage’, and next to it were symbolic warnings such as ‘Pay Attention to Safety’ and ‘Beware of Falling’. On the left and right were a pair of couplets in white letters on a blue background, with ‘Safety and Prosperity in Production’ on the left and ‘Civilization and Prosperity in Construction’ on the right.
Everyone: “…”
It was everyone’s first time at a construction site. It was hard not to feel a little uneasy looking at the green safety net covering the building, as well as the equipment that was constantly working and the noise of ‘bang, bang, bang’ of the construction site.
A familiar mechanical voice rang in their ears. “Please wear your ID card on your chest and enter the construction site.”
Yue Xingwen touched his pocket and found an ID card similar to the ‘Representative Card’, which was tied with a blue string. Everyone put the ID card on their chests before walking into the safety passage led by Yue Xingwen.
There were many people on the construction site today. The workers were working diligently, and there were several middle-aged people wearing white hats.
Zhang Xiaonian leaned in, pointed at them, and whispered. “Those people should be the leaders who came to inspect the construction site.”
Several leaders, surrounded by a group of people, were checking around the site, surrounded by construction workers who were all busy in their own way, some mixing cement, some moving bricks, and others welding metal next to each other. The electric welding and metal friction made a harsh noise.
The chaotic sounds and scenes made Yue Xingwen’s head buzz.
Jiang Pingce frowned for a moment, and his gaze quickly glanced through the construction site—— he saw a crane parked on the sixth floor high, and someone was standing in the crane to repair the wall; Some other excavators and cranes parked in the distance; Cranes high in the air were also transporting building materials.
What the hell was going to happen?
Jiang Pingce whispered in Yue Xingwen’s ear. “It’s too messy, we have to get the blueprint of the construction site.”
Yue Xingwen nodded and looked at his teammates. “One is the design and construction blueprints of this building, and the second is the floor plan of the construction site. The construction blueprint will be handed over to young Ke and Xiao Nian, and we’ll draw the distribution of the construction sites ourselves after we’ve scouted around a bit.”
Ke Shaobin asked, “Then I’ll go to their office with Xiao Nian first and copy off the construction blueprint?”
Zhang Xiaonian said in a low voice, “The leaders came to inspect today, the people wearing the blue helmets that accompanied the white helmets next to them should be the designers and engineers. Their offices are likely to be empty at this time. We can sneak in and copy their computer data, or just make a copy of the blueprint they’ve made.”
Both of them looked at each other and were just about to move forward when Yue Xingwen said, “Xin Yan, Qin Lu, you guys follow to protect them.”
Ke Shaobin and Zhang Xiaonian did not have the ability to defend themselves once something happened. Yue Xingwen assigned two bodyguards to them, and the four of them immediately bypassed the back of the building and rushed to the office area next to it.
Yue Xingwen then said, “Senior brother Zhuo, senior sister Lin, you two team up and check the approximate distribution of water and electricity at the construction site.”
Zhuo Feng nodded and simply took Lin Manluo with him to leave.
The rest of the people followed Yue Xingwen around the construction site.
Liu Zhaoqing lowered his voice and guessed. “The construction site is prone to accidents. Will there be a construction worker who falls to their deaths? Or digging out a pile of corpses in the construction process?”
Xu Yishen helplessly supported his safety helmet. “Stop brainstorming for a moment.”
Yue Xingwen said, “What senior brother Liu said is possible. No matter what happens next, we’ll make preparations first. At least this time there are a lot of people on the site and they don’t have to be chased by a ghost bride in the middle of the night like last time. In modern construction sites, there should be any drama of grievous souls claiming life either.”
Qin Miao said coldly, “The library will be too boring if it’s about the grievous souls again.”
Liu Zhaoqing nodded in agreement. “I’m really tired of reasoning about the night battle royale during the day. I hope this time, the library can let us sleep peacefully at night.”
ooh this is a good one!
thanks for the chapter <3
Classmate, please don’t put flags on the whole team!!!
Thank you very much for the translation 🤍🤍🤍🤍
Ty for the chapter 🙂
I think there should be “helmet on his head” not head on his head 🙂