Chapter One: One Tester Remains

The finger entered his skull. Pain detonated. Lin stared at his answer while the ink twisted from *false* into *true*. Something cold began scraping away his memories of the shutdown, the spear, and Gu Wanqing. Yet the testing panel did not disappear completely. In one corner, a button he had pressed for three thankless years still flashed: SUBMIT ANOMALY. Lin activated it with a thought. 【Enter reproduction steps.】 Through the pain, he wrote: 【1. The examination claims every question has one correct answer.】 【2. The candidate selects an incorrect answer.】 【3. The proctor changes it to the correct answer.】 【4. Therefore, the final answer was not given by the candidate. The examination cannot evaluate the candidate.】