No.32 Death or eternal life

Test... Examination?!

Not only Ye Yifan was a little surprised, but even the classmates in the class looked at each other.

These freshmen have only been in HKUST for a month. Although a month is enough time for an exam, their college life in this month is really too tortuous......

First of all, a monster appeared at the opening ceremony, and most of the school was demolished, and many students also died tragically in the disaster. Three weeks later, he met Sfia again while visiting the electric punching system experiment, and although there were almost no casualties under the protection of TPC, it was psychologically clouded.

In the following week, the school was rebuilt, and the freshmen finally went back to class. However, because the school has just been built, there are still a lot of chores to deal with, and their freshmen are also arranged by the school leaders to do chores, and they don't have much class.

In this way, the actual class time of their freshmen is only one or two days, and what theoretical knowledge can be tested?

The students really couldn't believe it, and the gossip caused the head teacher to be angry and said, "Keep your mouth shut!" This time, the test paper is from TPC, you just have to answer the questions, and the rest will be talked about after the test! ”

The students were shocked by the intimidation of the class teacher. Hearing what the head teacher had just said, they knew why the always gentle head teacher was so serious. Because of the exams organized by TPC, they are all very important, and even the results of the exams can directly determine the future of their students.

When the students in the class realized the importance of the matter, the head teacher opened the sealed bag in his hand and sent out the test papers.

Because he was sitting in the back row, Ye Yifan got the test paper relatively late, but there was still some residual heat in his hand when the test paper was in his hand, and it should have been sent down after it was printed.

Ye Yifan was not in a hurry to answer the question, he first glanced at the paper, and the test paper was the same as the ordinary test paper, it was printed on A3 paper, the question was divided into four pages, and the title was just a few big words of "TPC test". But after seeing those questions, Ye Yifan's expression was a little puzzled and a little dazed.

It's not that the question is difficult, it's just that the question is a little weird. Those physics questions only account for a quarter of the entire paper, and they are only multiple-choice questions, and the remaining three-quarters are psychological questionnaires and personality assessments.

Ye Yifan looked at the test questions, and read them carefully one by one, and Ye Yifan, who had many questions, even narrowed his eyes. But the more closely he looked, the stranger depression in his heart became deeper and deeper.

It only took about two minutes to watch, but Ye Yifan already felt irritable and depressed! Fortunately, he no longer looked at the test papers, but thought about the purpose of the TPC papers: these psychological tests...... Is TPC looking to select a group of talents?

It only takes a glance to understand that these test questions are something similar to the Cartel 16pf personality test. Make a choice based on first impressions to score and then rate the person's personality type.

Ye Yifan felt a little headache. For their HKUST students, although the barrier to entry into TPC work is very low, it is not easy to get in. If the person who completes this test paper is not the type of person who does it psychologically and physically, no matter how good his mind and body are, TPC will not accept it.

In particular, the test of this paper is more comprehensive, as long as you answer it, you can know what kind of person you are, and even know the talents you have and the skills you have not discovered. As long as they use this paper, TPC will be able to select the talent they want.

What does TPC want to do? Why are you choosing someone here?

Ye Yifan thought for a long time, and it wasn't until the head teacher coughed that he realized that the people around him were already working hard to write, and they were even about to finish answering and handing in the papers, but he didn't move a word.

Ye Yifan, who had just woken up from a dream, wrote his own information at the head of the roll and began to answer the questionnaire.

Those physics questions, which account for a quarter of the entire volume, are just simple theoretical knowledge, probably at the high school level, and some of the more difficult ones have also been talked about in the last few classes, as long as you listen carefully, you can answer them.

Ye Yifan had studied the textbooks in the hospital bed before, and he was a top student himself, so he quickly finished answering those physics questions and began to switch to test questions.

Can you answer the following test questions honestly? A. Yes B. Not necessarily C. Can't" That's the first question.

According to the general exam, A must be the standard answer, after all, an honest and fair person must be loved. But this is more like a test than an exam, how to make a choice can reflect the person's consciousness and self-motivation, so Ye Yifan chose B.

It probably depends, and the rest of the answer is not sure if he can follow his first impression.

Ye Yifan knew that the first question was just a small psychologically motivated reaction, and after answering this question, he quickly looked at the next question: Do you think you are normal?

A very strange question, there are still three choices, normal, unclear, and abnormal.

What kind of normal does normal mean? Normal? Mentally normal? Behavior is normal? Three views are normal?

Ye Yifan knows that how he understands it is also a part of the exam, and the normality he thinks about now includes all the factors he thinks, but it's ridiculous, everything he is doing now is not related to normal, so Ye Yifan simply chose C, which is not normal.

"Do you think your memories are real?"

Another strange question, or rather, these questions are very strange, even overturned Ye Yifan's impression of the personality factor test. After thinking for a while, Ye Yifan chose to be between what is and what is not.

"Are you willing to help others?"

"It's not."

"Do you feel happy helping others?" This is also a very vague question, and although it is similar to the previous question, there is a fundamental difference between the two.

Helping others is usually enjoyable, right? But what if that person is someone you particularly hate? What if that person is a murderer? Would you still feel happy if you helped that person but indirectly hurt someone else?

If these factors are taken into account, it is generally in between, but Ye Yifan chose C. Because he won't help others, even if he helps Mu Yanxue's group, he feels that it is an obligation, and he doesn't feel happy because of it.

"Do you crave authenticity?"

Ye Yifan's pen stopped for five seconds, and then chose A-Desire.

"Do you desire truth beyond the world?"

"Desire."

"Is that true truth for you beyond all that you have?"

"Yes."

"Can you go out of your way to pursue the true truth?"

Seeing the heavy four words "desperate", Ye Yifan's hand that wanted to write down the word "can" stopped. I don't know when it started, Ye Yifan's heart pressed down a heavy stone, and he felt so heavy and depressed......

Maybe it was under the influence of those old gods, Ye Yifan hurriedly shook his head to calm down, and finally wrote B at the end of this question, which is not clear.

"Do you crave true power?"

"Not craving."

Writing like this, it expresses that he gave up, so it's a joke that the above can surpass everything, and TPC probably won't accept this kind of rotten person, right......

Ye Yifan's expression became a little painful and a little helpless.

The exam room was quiet, and all you could hear was the sound of students writing hard. The head teacher sat on the podium and played with his mobile phone with his head down, ignoring the students' exchange of words and even cheating...... Is this an exam?

However, the questions in that paper did not look like an exam, it was equivalent to a questionnaire, and the students did not answer very seriously, and they began to hand in the papers one after another about half an hour.

At this time, Ye Yifan also completed hundreds of questions, and only the last question remained: Talk about your views on death.

There was a blank space underneath, obviously to write something like a discussion essay, but there was no word count.

In the end, Ye Yifan felt that his heart was already restless. After the baptism of hundreds of questions, his nerves are now tense to the extreme, and when he talks about the word death, he is almost carried by the subconscious without any thought.

Humans really are a flawed species. The lifespan is short, and it is fragile, and it only takes the slightest blow to die. So, human beings are also a species that is greedy for life and afraid of death.

In order to survive, some people will do everything they can to prolong their lives, in order to live a little longer and better plunder everything in the world. There are also some people who do not work, do not work hard, eat, drink and gamble, in order to make this limited life more meaningful, in order to enjoy this short life without regrets and happiness. But such behavior is spurned by people, because their lives are meaningless in the eyes of others, they do not contribute to the people, and they also squeeze the resources of society, which is the moth of society.

But is there anything wrong with making this short life happier?

But die... Is death simply death? Isn't it a new beginning?

What is the world like after death? Will you be happier than you are now? No one knows, because the dead people, whether they live happy or miserable, at least they will not return to this world.

Ye Yifan once heard that after death, the soul of a person will decompose and turn into countless invisible photons that will be scattered all over the world, and this kind of photon seems to be called shaking light.

Isn't it true that the body dies and the soul still exists, and is it not reborn?

The more he thought about this topic, the more gloomy Ye Yifan's spirit became. As if he wanted to witness the true meaning of death, Ye Yifan saw that everything had changed.

The classroom was still the same classroom, and he was still sitting in his place, but the students around him who were taking exams had disappeared.

At this time, the classroom was very dim, and the dilapidated walls were stained with black blood, like flowers, and the walls were bright in color, but the stench was like sludge. The floor was also shattered into numerous cracks, and every crevice was filled with dirt.

The science and technology podium at the front is now a dilapidated wooden table, on which an oil lamp is placed, and the light flickers, reflecting the cloudy color of the tabletop, and also covering the entire classroom with a layer of blood.

On the wooden table was a human corpse, with a distorted face, a large hole in the chest, ribs sticking out of the flesh like sharp blades, blood dripping down the bones and blood vessels to the ground, as if there was no heart inside.

Ye Yifan finally knew why the table was so worn, because this human corpse was like a beast that had died violently in the wilderness, and the tattered clothes and hair rotted along with the pieces of flesh, and the table was corroded by dirt in this way, so it became like this.

The dim light was faint, and Ye Yifan found that there was a figure standing in the position of their head teacher. Although it resembles a human form, it stands on its two legs, leans forward, has a dog-like face, and its rubber-like skin is stained with black fungus, which makes people disgusted.

There was more than one creature, and there were several diminutive creatures around the podium. They were surrounded by the corpse like the big one on the stage, as if they were teachers and students, and their eyes were full of strange and greedy eyes.

Ye Yifan sat on the bloodstained table and chair behind him, watching them quietly, unable to make a sound.

The dim oil lamp reflected the bloody scene, and the strangely shaped creature on the stage looked at the living corpse on the table, and said to the creature in a hurried, crying voice: "We can see that although this creature is full of defects, they can achieve eternal life like us......"

"Teacher, why can this creature with short stature, fragile bones, and low intelligence achieve immortality like us?"

The strange creatures in the audience made strange words like crying, and the one on the stage said: "Because death is a kind of sublimation, death is a kind of restoration, and death with blood is a ...... of restoration."

Suddenly, the group of creatures turned their heads to Ye Yifan's side, and lightning flashed, illuminating the strange faces of this group of creatures. At the same moment, they showed a strange smile at Ye Yifan, and said in a stiff and dull tone:

"What about you? Are you choosing to die? Or eternal life? ”