Book One: Alpha World

Epsu 10.Mental Test

Five days of written tests have passed. In the following four days the tests on the four districts after the Crown King district can be completed with a decent result.

I can answer about thirty to forty of the fifty questions in each district's test. Even on those four tests I couldn't cheat.

Tomorrow is a mental test, this test will test courage, responsibility, honesty, and various other things.

Tests are held in five different places alternately for five days.So each place will be worn by a thousand participants.

In all places have different forms of tests, assessment methods and times, according to what the examiner wants. On this occasion we set out with a commander of wind users.

He was named Captain Jun, Rin 10023. He gathered a thousand participants from around two hundred rooms this afternoon. My room is also included in it.

We'll go with him for the test tomorrow morning. We were only asked to bring enough food and drink supplies for the trip this time.

The next day we gathered in front of the dorm. Captain Jun was seen receiving reports from the spotter flies who had recorded our presence.

"Is everything ready?" Captain Jun shouted with excitement.

"Wheap." Our voice was compact and loudly answered. Some people chuckled like war soldiers.

"If you're ready, let's go!!"Captain Jun gave the command.

"Yoo!!"we shouted while laughing. What a fun day.

"Captain."a daughter raised her hand, asking with a astonished face. This is Dea, Rin 27181. Asuza introduced me to him yesterday. He has had many friends to this day.

"Yes, what's wrong?"

"What vehicle are we going to use?I didn't see a single vehicle. There are no teleportation devices either."

Almost all participants immediately looked back and forth and looked at Captain Jun again. No, there is no vehicle at all. We asked each other.

Captain Jun laughed.

"Do we have to use a vehicle to reach our destination?"

We looked at him confused.

"So we're on foot, captain? Must be tired." Gina nyeluk.

"No, we're not walking. We're gonna ride this...."

The captain raised his hand and a stream of wind flowed under us, making us float low. At first it was like walking on a rocking ladder, but over time we started to get used to it.

"Okay, let's go!!"

The captain clenched his hands and a thousand participants and Captain Jun floated up

tall.

The other participants who were still at the bottom saw envy in our vehicle. We were amazed by his ability.

Ten minutes drive we reached a green valley. Although the Tekno-Pin district contains tall buildings and cutting-edge technology, there are still some places that are made green to produce oxygen like this valley.

"We've arrived." The captain removed his fist and we slowly landed on a field. Captain Jun gave command for each participant to rest first.All participants scattered to various places.

The morning sun was shining bright as we sat down to enjoy it. The atmosphere here is really comfortable.

All the participants gathered quickly.

"Today is a test of unyielding strength." Captain Jun's voice sounded loud and clear.

Captain Jun clapped his hands three times.Without an aba-aba, a huge earthquake shook where we were. All participants panicked and held hands. Many participants shouted loudly.

“Forge!!...Earthquake!!”

Not even our panic from this earthquake was exhausted, the ground around us crackled hard. Smoke and dust surrounded us. Ground split, right in

below us. Captain Jun smilingly looked at the participants who entered into the split ground. Some cried out in panic and ran away from the split ground.But too late, the hole formed to grow rapidly without stopping swallowing all participants.

"The participants, the exam we started!!" Shouted Captain Jun.

@-@-@-@-@

I stared at everyone around me who was scattering here and there and without feeling my body fell into the ground split. The bright light of the morning sky is getting dimmer and replaced with dust that enters the eye. I rubbed my eyes and my body was drawn into a vortex.

When I opened my eyes, I was in an old wooden walled room with a white cement floor. This is grandpa's house, my inner self.

‘Plakkk’ a hard slap on my cheek. It hurts so much. The slap of an old man in a long brown shirt looked at me with his red face. `Why did grandpa slap me?my Inner Verse again.

“What did you do to him Lian!!!” He said loudly as his index finger led to a pool of blood in the corner of the room. A tiny body was lying there with a knife lodged in his neck.

‘Plakk’ Grandpa slapped me to the ground. I wept. What's my fault, cake? I was not intentionally? My whisper in my heart.

Mama was crying beside me begging my grandfather not to scold me anymore.

“Go!!” Grandpa looked at me with his red eyes.

“Go!! You don't deserve to be here!” His voice loudly boomed.

Why did this memory of three years ago appear? Wh why?

My body collapsed unconscious.

@-@-@-@-@

Captain Jun was still hovering in the giant hole where all the participants fell. Sometimes he sees his watch. It had been a hundred and eighty-five minutes since they had fallen into this gigantic hole. Their time limit was three hundred and sixty minutes.

This test is named ‘Meminatan’ Gorge where each participant who enters into this gap will be brought into their own past memories and memories that will be repeated are the worst memories that will be repeated they must face.

Just in the two hundredth minute one by one a ball of light emerged from the Memory Gorge.The light of each ball is different from each other, there is blue, green, purple, and black. The color is

blue is the one who perfectly finishes the problem, green and purple are the ones who have tried and almost solved the problem, and the last one is black who tried but failed in solving it.

One by one the ball broke and the participants in it were awakened from their memories. Captain Jun opened his transparent screen. There were only forty-seven participants left in the Memory Gorge. Captain Jun again waited while looking at the other participants floating in front of him. The panicked and tired faces were clearly radiating on their faces.

The sun began to heat up.Time ran out and forty-seven participants had not come out one. Captain Jun pressed a button on his transparent screen and all forty-seven participants including Lian appeared in front of Captain Jun in a fainting state. They were lying on thin iron boards. The other participants stared at the lying participant. Those who failed.

If the participant until the time runs out has not been able to solve the problem and instead chooses to run and even commit suicide rather than face it then he is considered a failure. Captain Jun kept all these things secret even including the value of the participants until the announcement and asked everyone to keep their memories hidden. Then ask to help forty-seven participants who fainted.

The land was again closed and became a green valley as before. All the participants landed in a field.

Captain Jun sighed. "First test finished.”