"I will send you off one last time" [Global Examination]

[60] You Seem Delicious: Turning Sharply

This examination center had been around for a long time.

If you calculated it based on the time in reality, it had existed for many years. If you based it on the time in here, it could be considered a century-old island.

"Wait... it's been... almost a hundred years?" Someone asked quietly.

It didn't seem to make any sense. Sure, time may work differently from everyone, and two people can leave a rest stop, take two different exams that run for a different amount of time, and then somehow still meet each other at the next rest stop...

But even in the future, the System had been running for six years, so how did it become a century? Wasn't that just too extreme!?

"We don't know the details about it either." A first generation invigilator stated apologetically, "But they must have passed down the legends about the "angels" somehow..."

The examinees considered her words, and nodded. It was definitely very unsettling... but there was nothing they could do about it.

For almost a century, the octopuses had based their lair here in this corner of the island.

From one to two and then it became a family of three.

Of course, they also knew about the existence of those pale faces under the ice. They not only knew about it, they have also personally witnessed them grow larger and larger in size, eventually becoming an existence on the island that could not be provoked.

154 seemed a bit dumbfounded for a second, before he shook his head internally.

So he had been wrong about the fact that the octopuses didn't know about the "angels"... but in the beginning, with maybe about a dozen corpses, the octopuses probably didn't give a single shit about it.

Of course, being nothing but a bunch of frozen dead bodies, it probably wasn't something that would be preyed upon, but given the octopuses' sizes, they probably didn't think the "angels" were too much of a threat.

Every time those faces wandered around at night, that sight was truly terrible...

Due to various reasons, they didn't want to interact with those pale faces.

But now, with hundreds of dead corpses stuck together, moving together like some kind of gigantic monstrous mass, and something that seemed to only come out at night like some kind of unearthly ghoul... it truly was a haunting sight.

Fortunately, their range of activities were different.

While they ate in the ship cabin, those faces were on shore chasing the examinees. While they returned to the sea after eating, those faces were still on shore chasing the examinees.

Well water does not interfere with river water.

...

Some people sighed at that. Since the octopuses were the exam's punishment device, it pretty much could teleport between the cave and their "restaurant". Naturally, they wouldn't attract the attention of the "angels" while getting their food.

The subsequent panicking of the examinees, the snoring of the crewmates, and even the crackling of the fire would be more than enough to attract the "angels" to the examinees, leaving the octopuses to feast in peace.

They had thought that life on the island would always be like this.

They had never expected... that something like this would happen.