Chapter IX: Punishment
The most frightening thing is to hear but not see, to see but not to feel, to feel but not to meet, and to meet but not hear.
Part I: Hidden
I'm a good guy with two good friends, one super quiet and the other super lively. The super quiet one is a good law-abiding citizen, while the super lively one is like an electric fan, which blows everywhere as soon as the electricity is turned on, and sometimes you can't open your eyes.
Because the super quiet one wants to take the driver's license, so the two of us followed him to the test site, because the driver's license test is stricter, there are no four or five days not to come, after all, it is a transportation spaceship to the moon and the earth, and ordinary people really dare not use it. For the Earth Bada Space Transportation Group, the cost of a transportation spacecraft is not a joke, and there are passengers on it, and it is even more sloppy.
There has always been a saying in the driver industry that those who can drive a traffic spaceship are all top masters, and no one can match their concentration and duration.
For me, I can only envy that I don't have the ability to get a driver's license.
He went to get his driver's license, and the two of us rented a small two-story apartment nearby. In order to wish him a smooth exam, the lively one specially prepared delicious food and drink, and the quiet one did not get up too presumptuous and slightly drunk in order to get up early tomorrow, the key is to eat enough.
I don't know what I'm eating, but in terms of smell and texture, it's mostly meat. Although I don't like greasy, but I don't take a driver's license, so I don't care about him! I don't know why, I'm hungry tonight, and I really want to eat slowly, but after two hours, I can't eat, and I can only take small sips.
In the dead of night, both of them fell asleep, while I lay on the windowsill, quietly listening to the sounds of the night, and I was always curious about what he would take tomorrow. As far as I know, the first day of the exam is a test of physical fitness, and during the period, you will be drawn a tube of blood to see if there is anything wrong with you. At the thought of that tube of bright red blood, most of the food in my stomach suddenly showed signs of surging upward.
I wasn't afraid to see blood, but I was afraid of smelling it, and over time, I was nauseous at the mention of blood.
The psychiatrist said that this is a disease and must be treated.
How to treat it? Do you take medicine?
The doctor said that taking medicine is not the best thing, you have to see more, smell more, think more, and overcome the fear of blood from the heart.
I bowed my head and fell silent.
The doctor came over and patted me on the shoulder, "Child, your wallet is off."
Oh, thanks.
I have also been to the psychiatrist many times, and every time I go, the doctor will change the type of blood in the test tube, and make me smell it with my nose again and again, I think it is useless, but it will make me more disgusted by the smell of blood.
In the cool breeze of the night, I didn't want to think about the unhappy things anymore, and just as I was about to roll over and go to bed, I could clearly say to myself that I must have smelled blood, a special smell that I was most familiar with. I don't know where the smell of blood came from, but it's certainly not far from me.
I was amazed at my own behavior, and I put on my slippers and sneaked out to see who was bleeding.
There were no people, no cars, only a street lamp glowing yellow.
Something must have happened in the place where the light couldn't shine, I was a little hesitant standing in front of the door, I didn't know the exact location of the blood, but I could roughly determine the direction of the smell of blood, which was in the direction of two o'clock on my right.
I was about to turn around and go back to the house when a cat's scream startled me.
My heart pounded, and I quickly sat down on the ground, and I took off my slippers and held them in my right hand, and if the cat dared to come, I would shoot it to death.
End of the first part.
Part II: Phantom.
Early the next morning, he didn't wake us up, and went to the test site alone without the sound of our cheers.
The test site is huge, and now there are more than a dozen people waiting in it, and someone next to them is already warming up.
Okay, now that you're all here, let's start testing. First of all, the first test, the physical fitness test. This test is not a test of how fast you can run and how high you can jump, but how much patience you have. First of all, let me give you a demonstration.
A man who appeared to be a coach stood in front of the crowd with a clipboard in his hand and a whistle on his chest.
This coach is very tall, he should be two meters tall, very strong, just look at the thick arms and thighs, and the dark brown skin looks like a fitness expert who often does sports outdoors. He walked into a box that he had just opened, and the door creaked shut, and there was a square transparent window on the door that could be seen from the outside.
Quietly, he saw that after the coach entered, he saw that the big box began to rotate up and down, turned for a while, and then began to rotate left and right, and after it was over, it began to shake back and forth, up and down. About ten minutes later, the coach walked out, his face was sweaty, I don't know if he was scared or tired.
The coach wiped his face and looked at the group of people with blank faces.
What's wrong? Don't get it? It's okay, you can go in and give it a try. Come on, who's going to come first?
No one dared to get on it.
No one took the initiative, so don't blame me for naming me!
The one who was named by the coach quickly waved his hand and said to wait a while, let the others get on first, and then said that he had a stomachache. But it didn't work, the coach waved his hand, and two big men came up and picked up the man, and threw it into the box with a bang. The man was still struggling in the box, and if it weren't for so many people looking at him, he would probably be crying.
Ten minutes later, the door of the box opened, but the man did not come out, and the people craned their necks to look inside, and they all laughed, because the man had already fainted.
The coach shook his head and sighed, the first test was not passed, you didn't understand the process of taking a driver's license before?
The crowd began to talk to each other and whisper.
Quietly, he walked out of the crowd, looked at the coach and said, Coach, we have seen the process of taking a driver's license, but isn't the first test a physical examination?
Physical examination? What is the physical test? I knew at a glance that you were fine, and the physical examination was directly exempted!
The coach said loudly, in fact, he knows what the first test is, but he is very short of time, he doesn't want to spend time on useless physical examinations, everyone will spend half an hour just on the physical examination, these more than ten people will definitely not be able to finish the test in the morning, let alone the physical fitness test in the afternoon, he is planning to go out with his good buddies in the evening!
Okay, stop talking nonsense, who is it?
In order not to let everyone shirk each other, the coach asked them to take the test in turn in the order in which they signed up.
Some people go in and crawl out, some go in and stand up, and some go in and are helped out.
Quiet, he went in and came out quietly.
More than a dozen people in the audience were quiet, and he didn't seem to have anything to do, which made the coach start to pay attention to this bull.
At noon, lunch will be prepared at the testing site, which is included in the registration fee. Of course, it is a luxurious testing ground, and not only those who have signed up for the test have dined here, but also some famous drivers, mechanics and executives have eaten here.
Suddenly, in silence, he saw a pair of eyes staring at him, and those eyes seemed to be the eyes of a wild wolf in the jungle, giving him a cold feeling.
The eyes stared at him for a moment, then looked away.
The coach sat down quietly beside him with cutlery.
There was no one else around them, but these two people just didn't speak.
Quietly, he finished eating quietly, and when he was about to get up, the coach spoke.
Boy, where are you?
Luna-3 base.
Quietly, he just said such a sentence and left, and directly chilled the coach there.
There is personality.
The coach looked at the thin back and remembered an acquaintance. That person is the same as the kid in front of him, whether he walks or talks, he is as calm as water, and even in the face of danger to his life, his face does not change, if he doesn't know that he is a human, he would think he will be a robot.
Quietly, he came to the examination room and saw the people taking the exam gathered together and chatting.
He sat quietly on the side and didn't go up to talk, which made others think that this person was relatively cold and difficult to approach.
Quietly, he casually looked up and saw those eyes again, but they were not as sharp as before.
End of the second part.
Part III: Trend.
Since the coach did not conduct a physical examination, the third test was started, the concentration test.
This test requires everyone to sit in a dark room, in front of a huge screen, each person has their own number, the screen will randomly display one or more numbers, when their number is displayed, stand up, and those who do not stand up within a second will be electrified.
There will be three rounds of this test, the first round is a point ranking test, one point is added for each completion, and 0.5 points are deducted for each time.
The second round is only for the top eight people to participate, this time it is a two-to-two duel, the screen will be divided into two parts, when your number appears on which side, you have to make a choice within a second which side to stand on, add one point for doing right, deduct one point for doing wrong, a total of ten rounds. If the two have the same number of points at the end of the ten rounds, an overtime will be played, and the rules of the overtime will remain the same until the winner is determined.
The four people who won the third round basically got a perfect score of 10 points, but they still have to decide the ranking, which is related to their driving route in the future, after all, the salary is related to performance. There are more people with good routes, and naturally the wages are higher.
The difficulty of the third round is not at the same level as the previous two rounds, and everyone who can enter the third round is a master, so the coach himself plays, this time it is not about who does right and who does wrong, but with the coach's eyesight.
The coach's number is 0, and the other four people's numbers are 5, 6, 8, and 9.
The rules of the third round are very simple, that is, find out the opponent's numbers among the numbers on the full screen, the numbers on the screen will randomly appear 0 to 9 numbers, a total of one hundred, the shortest plus one point, and the other side does not add points, the competition system adopts a double round-robin three-game best-of-two system, that is, each person has to play a maximum of six matches with four other people, and the final points ranked above the coach will get an additional three points in addition to getting a full score of ten points; Those who are ranked below the coach do not have additional points.
As expected, his eyes and reflexes were very fast, which stunned the coach, and others also felt incredible, is this still a human reaction?
In the end, he won the first place in the quiet and the coach took the second place.
Quietly, he didn't cheer at the victory over his coach, but calmly stepped aside and watched his replay.
The afternoon test ended successfully, the coach drove everyone away, and he couldn't wait to leave the test field.
Quietly, he returned to his rented apartment and saw me and Ai watching TV lively.
The result? I didn't look back, just casually asked.
Took the first.
Quietly, he said it for granted.
Ooh! First? Yes, boy! What's in store for tonight?
Hearing this, he quickly stood up and hammered him quietly, rubbed his hands and asked.
Go to bed?
Quietly, he undressed and walked into the bathroom.
Let's go out to eat, how about it?
With a wave of his hand, he hurriedly looked for his wallet to see how much money was in it.
I don't want to go out to eat.
Quiet he said in the bathroom.
Why?
He loves to be lively, and he wilted in an instant.
I'm a little tired.
All right.
He threw away his wallet and sat back on the sofa.
That's called takeout.
I proposed.
OK.
Quietly he said.
Because he was tired from being quiet, it was estimated that the test was too bitter during the day, so he and I specially ordered some nutritious and low-calorie foods.
He liked the quietness.
I don't know if he's looking forward to tomorrow's test, but I'm going to go with him anyway.
Before I went to bed, I suddenly remembered the cat from last night, and I don't know how it was now, after all, it was a miserable meow.
In my sleep, I dreamed that he was caught by the traffic police sitting in the bus, because he threw the core of the eaten pear out of the window and smashed it on someone else's window, and the car was frightened, twisted around, and almost caused a traffic accident, and his face was frightened. And I laughed out loud when I was next to me, and even thought about taking a picture of him.
For some reason, the traffic police found him, and I was taken back to the police station as his companion.
To be honest, I've never seen what the inside of the police station looks like when I'm so old.
He also honestly explained what happened, was fined, carried out quality education, and then let him go.
On the way back, I couldn't stop laughing.
I woke up, and I also saw him who loved to be lively and he who loved to be quiet looking at me at the same time, and then handed me a piece of toilet paper and told me to wipe my mouth.
End of the third part.
Part IV: Instantaneous.
After breakfast, I accompanied him to the examination room with his lively love, and saw that the number of people today was a few fewer than yesterday, and it seemed that someone had given up the test.
In the morning, the fourth test, the driving test, finally came to the point.
The test is not a way for you to actually drive on the road, but a simulated driving scenario, which is a passage from Mars to Jupiter, which will pass through the asteroid belt, and along the way you will have to constantly avoid the asteroids that fly in and not crash into them. But the length of this passage is proportionally reduced, equivalent to only a thousand kilometers, and the size of the asteroid has become only a few centimeters to a dozen centimeters in diameter, the bus you are simulating driving will have a blood bar, the full blood is one hundred points, each time it is hit, deduct different amounts of blood, asteroids of different sizes, the damage caused is different, if the final blood bar is zero, it also means that the exam fails, and everyone has three chances, take the shortest score as the final score, you have the right to choose the number of exams.
You can also see a person's personality by driving a car. You have a gentle personality, and you will not drive very fast, but will be very stable; On the contrary, if you have an impatient personality, you will drive fast, rush left and right, and you are not afraid of hitting anything.
I stood quietly behind him and watched him drive, and sometimes I went to see other people. To be honest, he drove too steadily, I felt that sometimes I should accelerate and drive at a constant speed, and sometimes when I saw an asteroid flying over, I should slow down and go around, but he didn't, he still drove at a constant speed, just changed the direction a little, of course, the result must have been a dangerous and dangerous brush with the asteroid, he was fine, I was scared and sweated.
Some have already failed once, some are still on their way to the first attempt, and the quiet one has finished the first test and is ready to start the second attempt.
Actually, you can speed it up a little bit. I whispered a reminder from behind.
Well, the main thing is that I was too careful, afraid that in case I was too fast and didn't have time to dodge. Quietly, he suddenly talked more, and it seemed that he was going to get serious.
It's okay, you have a hundred blood, what are you afraid of. I noticed that he didn't want to bleed, so I told him that it would be okay to run into him once or twice.
That's right.
After saying that, he quietly got out of the driver's seat and started doing health exercises next to him, which attracted the attention of the people around him.
Simply loosening his bones, he quietly sat back in the driver's seat.
This time he was noticeably faster than the last time, and every now and then a stone flashed.
Well? Wrong.
I suddenly noticed a pattern, this asteroid appeared in the same position as the first time. Doesn't that mean that as long as you remember the time and location of the asteroid, you can pass it with full blood at the fastest speed?
I was about to tell him the secret, and he had skilfully dodged all the flying stones. I wondered, did he find out too?
Everyone is done with the second test, they are preparing for the third test, and I will not tell him this secret anymore, because it is not a secret anymore, everyone has discovered this pattern, and you can know by the coach's expression that it has been designed a long time ago.
In the end, he won the second place quietly, and the first place was a middle-aged uncle, who had decades of driving experience at a glance.
The afternoon test measures reaction speed, mainly to test the coordination of hands and feet.
After a few tests, I didn't follow the quiet him, and I started to travel around with the lively one.
With itchy hands, I rented a car and took him to gallop on the country road.
At the end of the ten tests, the quiet became a driver of an official transportation spaceship, which made me and the lively him happy, and decided to slaughter the quiet him.
It was a foggy night, and I had to drive for a ride when I was drunk, and I was quietly reminded not to drive after drinking.
I don't care, there was no one on the road on this big night anyway. I stubbornly sat in the driver's seat and refused to get out of the car.
He also coaxed on the side, but he couldn't resist the two of us, so he had to give up.
I was in charge of driving, he sat in the passenger seat and he sat in the back.
The thick fog blocked my vision, and I was drunk and couldn't react in time, so I didn't slow down when I turned a corner, let alone hear the horn, and crashed directly into the oncoming car.
It was a tragic traffic accident in which five people died instantly, including a child of five or six years old.
End of Part IV.
Backbite! I was woken up by a cacophony of noises, and when I opened my eyes, I saw a transparent hood in front of my eyes, and my legs and hands were firmly held in place, unable to move, and I wanted to speak, but I couldn't.
The 1,624th cycle of prisoner No. 1377 ends, and the 1,625th cycle begins.
As soon as I heard this voice, my consciousness was suddenly dragged into another world. In this world, I became a quiet him, and I was preparing for tomorrow's first test with him in his rented apartment.
Finish.