424: Chapter 404: Test 424: Chapter 404: Test The second day of the exam had fewer questions, but all of them were large subjective questions.
After a quick glance through them, Lu Ping’an found the subsequent ones even more disgusting.
[You are a mber of a special service team in a certain region, and you notice that your squad has been acting strangely lately.
The captain is always praying to a deity’s statue for no real reason, and mbers keep disappearing mysteriously.
It seems like sothing is lurking in the shadow.
A comrade you owe a life debt to wants to introduce you to a deity.
You suspect this is an Evil God Faith, will you report them?
Please elaborate on your thoughts and propose a resolution.
]
“…
I thought this was supposed to test practical skills?
Why are these all disgusting moral exams?
Ugh, the person who made these questions must be really sick.”
Lu Ping’an decided to adopt ow’s “screw it” attitude after briefly reviewing the high scoring answers from previous years.
They played gas till late into the night…
After all, we have our always-ready grandpa…
grandma…
cough, crib notes.
Rather than work harder, it’s best to cling to stronger legs.
At this point, “Stir-fry” spoke up.
“…
This is indeed a test of ability.
Only those lacking in strength bla their condition on choices.
I write, you answer…”
In response to the first question concerning the “Evil God Sacrifice” incident, ow’s answer far exceeded expectations.
Firstly, she proposed using all ans to investigate specifics about the evil god—its na, abilities, and past exploits.
Then, she proposed targeted responses towards the likeliest deities, like introducing a counter deity or seeking the help of professionals to strengthen the sealing.
As for the “Girlfriend Sacrifice”?
Irrelevant from the start.
“That’s just a red herring.
There’s no need to concern oneself with it.
If you answer based on moral dilemmas, you’ve fallen into their trap.”
Each question is posed very broadly.
It doesn’t detail the circumstances surrounding the evil god, its dominion, or how to handle it.
ow’s solution involves using various explicit thods to safely investigate, like dealing with a “Mountain God” or a “Blood God” within the city.
For each deity, she presented a hypothesis and even pointed out a few recent deity nas that have been sealed.
It was then that Lu Ping’an understood why such a large blank space was left intentionally under the question and why the following page and additional answer sheets were provided.
As long as you are capable enough, you can co up with the most complete, comprehensive ways of handling the potential situation.
A limit?
There’s no limit at all.
You could totally write, “I’m tougher than the evil god, I’ll punch him back into his hole” if you can actually achieve that, then you can score full marks on this question.
If you can’t, then make the best decisions based on your current knowledge, abilities, ans, resources, and connections.
The question is not detailed enough?
That’s precisely to allow for your creativity.
The examiners want to witness your potential, as long as you can do what you’ve ntioned…
even if the idea seems achievable, a corresponding score can be given.
The limit you set can also demonstrate your ability limit.
This is a deliberately generic question with distractions to let you showcase what you know, a subjective question.
If you’re usually dealing with street vendors and shady characters, then the evil god you envision is probably at the level of a gang boss.
But if you truly understand what an evil god is, you can produce sothing more impressive.
Whether you choose to evade, confront or be forced to make a choice, all you need to do is suggest asures based on your actual situation.
Lie?
Exaggerate?
You can, as long as you can convince the examiners that you’re telling the truth.
Besides being veteran secret keepers themselves, they’ll also use supernatural thods to determine the veracity.
The simpler the question, the vaguer the setting, the higher the tester’s limit becos.
As for the situation where the special service team is eroded by the evil god, it’s even more straightforward…
this is a hopeless reality that professionals often encounter, it’s the most troubleso and common predicant.
When law enforcers are corrupted, when the vigilant are already corroded, it often ans the downfall of a village, a town, or even a city.
In this case, you shouldn’t be too idealistic.
What’s critical is to investigate the origin and degree of corruption.
You must assess the situation and address it promptly, either by requesting help from superiors or infiltrating and waiting for backup, or simply stating that it’s a lost cause and giving up on the question…
The more you can think, the higher score you can potentially get.
The asures you take will naturally vary depending on the situation.
In ordinary towns or villages where just one team of special agents is stationed, if they are severely corrupted, the top priority is to get the information out to prevent further damage and spread…
implying that the region might have to be forsaken.
These questions, disguised as moral tests, are essentially testing your abilities…
The profession of secret keeping does not require moral paragons, but individuals capable of handling polluted events.
Brotherhood?
Lover?
Those are distractions from the get-go.
If you can save them, do so.
If you can’t, there’s nothing you can do.
The thods proposed by ow and Fang Wen are simple and effective.
However, the descriptions of the potential for Evil Gods make one doubt the ntal stability of the one answering.
As Lu Ping’an wrote, his understanding of the Secret Keeper’s profession beca increasingly clear.
Confront the pollution, face it, deal with it.
You can use all possible ways and ans to take the most likely thod to success.
Whether you can achieve it depends on your actual ability…
but on the paper, you should think of it first.
“So, this is what the ‘Qualification Certificate’ endorses…”
The ‘optimal decision under the current circumstances’ is the prerequisite for the issuance of the Secret Keeper’s qualification certificate.
It tests the decision-making ability of the professional Secret Keeper…
that is also the ability an official institution expects most from a Secret Keeper.
“We don’t expect you to solve everything, that’s not realistic…
but we hope you will do your best within your ability, at least not to cause any side effects.”
Impetuous and emotional behaviors are weeded out from the start; rationality and restraint are perhaps the answers demanded by the Order.
Lu Ping’an knew that the full score for the subjective major question on the second day was 300 points, but the average candidate could only score between 20 and 150.
Higher scores are not ant for ‘students’.
If you’re going for a high score, the marker might need to look up your basic information to confirm your ability to execute your plan.
The difficulty on the first day wasn’t ant to award you many points.
Whether you pass or not is actually decided on the second day…
discussing human nature and morality in the paper is pointless.
Examiners only want to see your ‘Solution’.
Of course, most examinees will not stumble here, but their poor practical experience and professional accumulation inevitably result in glaring flaws in their proposals, and they must accept all kinds of malicious criticism and marking down.
But Lu Ping’an is different, not only because he has two advisers behind him, but because he himself is unconventional.
As he wrote, he even abandoned the two others, proposed his own resolution plan, and asked the two seniors to help perfect it.
So, this answer beca even more twisted.
It contained a rookie’s arrogant ignorance of the world’s realities, yet also had an air of feasible delusions, along with a seasoned, foolproof plan of action.
Among them, answers such as “I’ll clear all the sacrificial items first so that the Evil God has no sacrifices” were bizarre…
the examiner might need not only extramural support at the knowledge level but also stable support ntally.
Lu Ping’an wrote, discussed, and even beca engrossed in it.
The plan beca even more twisted, outrageous, and over the line, but it also seed feasible.
After ticulous scrutiny and perfection by the two super veterans, its feasibility was surprisingly high, far higher than conventional treatnts, with fewer sacrifices.
By the ti he and ow woke up, it was almost dark, and the thick extra answer sheets had been used up cleanly.
Lu Ping’an, inspired and moved by what he wrote, looked at the packed test paper and felt peculiar.
“…This won’t, I won’t flunk, will I?”
So of the thods proposed here are not simply excessive; they are beyond wild and unreasonable…
yet they indeed solve the problems.
The idea of introducing one Evil God to bash another is a standard operation.
To verify its feasibility, ow even included the contact thod for these Evil Gods, which makes people want to call the police right away.
anwhile, the examiner on the side showed a subtle expression.
It wasn’t because only a few people in the whole classroom had left, but under his ‘Spirit Vision’, the originally ordinary test paper, which was just plain white paper, was emitting radiation of pollutants.
“This…
student?
Your scholar’s tier isn’t low, is it?”
“No, just 2-tier.”
“Just?
Ah, I see.”
“Snap!”
He boxed the test paper separately.
The examiner laughed, politely made way, and allowed Lu Ping’an to leave first.
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