Chapter 86

In the entire examination room, all the candidates put down their pens.

The two invigilators, with sparks of anger in their eyes, stood up to find the source of the sound.

In the corridor, footsteps sounded, indicating that the roving invigilator was heading towards the source of the sound.

Tao Qing also stopped writing, looking up at the invigilator with a blank expression.

The candidates around him looked at him with strange eyes, as if they were looking at a hero or a fool, with both admiration and confusion in their eyes.

The invigilators quickly confirmed the source of the sound.

One stood on the podium, glaring fiercely at a few candidates who were trying to take advantage of the chaos, while the other quickly walked to Tao Qing's desk and said rudely, "Stand up."

Tao Qing obediently stood aside as the invigilator began to check his desk.

After thoroughly checking the examination bag, nothing else was found.

The invigilator reached into the desk drawer, found nothing, and then felt under the desk. Suddenly, he stopped, gave Tao Qing a sharp look, squatted down, and tore off the miniature dictionary stuck under the desk.

Tao Qing was stunned!

The candidates around him were also stunned!

What kind of person is this! How dare he!

A miniature dictionary doesn't make a "beep beep beep" sound, everyone knew that. The invigilator looked at Tao Qing emotionlessly and said, "Take it out!"

Tao Qing's mind was blank; he didn't pay attention to what the invigilator was saying, only staring at the English dictionary the invigilator had found.

Seeing that Tao Qing didn't move, the invigilator began to search the chair.

At this moment, the roving invigilator arrived. Seeing the scene in the examination room, he knew something had happened. As the roving invigilator approached Tao Qing's seat, the invigilator found the beeper.

A perfect catch of the culprit and the evidence!

The invigilator and the roving invigilator exchanged a glance, said nothing, gathered Tao Qing's belongings and exam papers, and pulled Tao Qing out of the examination room.

The remaining candidates were extremely uncomfortable! Especially those who had phones and beepers waiting for answers, they cursed Tao Qing's entire family.

Everyone was thinking: What kind of idiot doesn't put their cheating device on vibrate when entering the examination room?

Tao Qing followed the roving invigilator to the entrance of the building, where the roving invigilator exchanged a few words with another teacher and then took Tao Qing to the academic affairs office.

Tao Qing stood at the door of the academic affairs office, motionless.

The roving invigilator handed over Tao Qing to the staff in the academic affairs office, occasionally pointing at Tao Qing.

Now, Tao Qing's mind was buzzing loudly, and his ears were filled with a mixed sound, like when tuning a radio between frequencies, one sound clear, then another. He closed his eyes tightly several times, hoping that everything that had just happened was a dream, because the experience was too strange.

The roving invigilator left.

The teacher in the academic affairs office picked up the beeper found under Tao Qing's chair, threw it on the table with a "slam," and, with his hands loosely clasped on the desk, looked at Tao Qing: "Speak up."

The invigilator returned to the examination room, treating the other candidates as if they were his enemies, and immediately collected the papers of anyone who made the slightest movement.

The atmosphere in the examination room was extremely oppressive. With 10 minutes left until the end of the exam, almost everyone had already handed in their papers and left. They were eager to go back and tell their classmates about the bizarre incident in their examination room: a guy cheating with the beeper ringing.

In fact, on the day of the exam, apart from the candidates in the same room, the invigilators, and those in nearby rooms who heard the beeper, Tao Qing's incident had not yet spread.

Wang Deliang was eager to know the outcome but knew he must not show any abnormality on the surface.

At noon, Tao Qing did not return.

No one paid much attention, after all, he had a girlfriend, and if he did well on the Level 4 exam, they might have gone out to celebrate!

In the afternoon, Tao Qing still did not return, and Wang Deliang estimated that Tao Qing had probably been caught.

At around 8 PM, Tao Qing finally returned.

Seeing Tao Qing's dispirited state, Wang Deliang was already certain that Tao Qing was in trouble.

Sure enough, Tao Qing ignored his dorm mates' questions, lying straight on the bed with his eyes open, scaring even the usually closest to him, Dorm Mate No. 7, who stayed away.

Until the lights were turned off in the dorm, Tao Qing did not move.

The next day was Sunday, and the dorm had power all day.

The TV was broadcasting an episode of "The Same Song," and a dorm mate increased the volume with the remote control. Suddenly, Tao Qing jumped up, snatched the remote control, and threw it hard against the dorm door.

"Slam!" The remote control shattered into pieces, fragments flying all over the room.

Tao Qing stepped on the broken pieces and left the dorm.

In the evening, when Tao Qing returned to the dorm drunk, everyone already knew about his cheating in the Level 4 exam.

Good news doesn't spread, but bad news travels a thousand miles. Almost everyone on the entire floor knew that Tao Qing was the guy who didn't put his beeper on vibrate and received answers in the exam.

People were discussing, speculating, mocking, and taking it as a lesson...

After the class representative told Wang Deliang and the others about the incident, Wang Deliang immediately confirmed the news with Bian Xuedao via text message.

Bian Xuedao replied: "We'll meet up in a few days."

This was the response Wang Deliang most wanted to see.

In the entire incident, he was undoubtedly the first hero. Wang Deliang even secretly hoped that Bian Xuedao would give him some reward, because recently Wang Deliang had just started dating Zhou Hong, and they were in the sweet phase. He had been very generous, buying Zhou Hong several gifts to express his affection. Although he had enough money in the dorm, it would run out in half a month if he continued to support going out with Zhou Hong, eating, and shopping.

Tao Qing, reeking of alcohol, was snoring on the bed, and the other dorm mates were being very careful not to make any noise.

Everyone heard from the class representative that the Level 4 exam was different from school exams and was a national exam, with particularly severe penalties. Being caught on the spot meant not only being unable to take the Level 4 exam for several years but also facing expulsion or, at the very least, being placed on probation.

Regardless of their usual relationship with Tao Qing, seeing him in this state, like a healthy person watching a terminally ill patient with little time left, everyone felt some sympathy and pity.

If possible, they would endure, give a little, and accommodate him for a while, thinking he might pack up and go home in a few days.

The next morning, just as dawn was breaking, Tao Qing got up, took out a pile of things from the cabinet, and left the room. Before leaving, he kicked an empty drink bottle on the floor, not knowing who had left it there.

After a while, a careful dorm mate, woken by the sound of the drink bottle, went out to check and saw Tao Qing standing by the railing on the public balcony, tearing up the large exam results list he had shown everyone from high school, scattering the pieces of paper like confetti.

From the side, Tao Qing's body was half out of the railing.

This was the fifth floor!

The dorm mate immediately woke up, quietly returned to the dorm, and woke the other dorm mates, saying, "The boss is going to jump!"

"What?" The two upper bunks jumped out of bed, shouting, "Where, where?" and ran down the corridor barefoot.

Wang Deliang was also sweating, thinking if Tao Qing really jumped, how could he sleep soundly in the future?

The dorm mates ran to the water room balcony, and without a word, they rushed over and tightly held Tao Qing, lifting him back to the dorm.

Then they sent someone to knock on the class representative's door and called him over.

When the class representative arrived at Wang Deliang's dorm, he was also frightened. He immediately comforted Tao Qing, saying, "Tao, don't think too much, it's not a big deal. I'll tell you, university is like society; everything can be negotiated. Haven't you seen how laws can be flexible? Don't get stuck in a rut! Rest assured, I can't influence the academic affairs office, but I will definitely speak up for you to the counselor, who will talk to the academic affairs office. Trust me, as long as you sincerely admit your mistake and negotiate well, you won't be completely ruined; you will be given a chance."

After hearing the class representative's words, Tao Qing actually started crying.

Not sobbing, but crying pitifully. Everyone was moved by his crying, but Wang Deliang, who was particularly attentive to Tao Qing's expression, noticed a hint of cunning in his eyes before he started crying.

Damn, a feigned move!?

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