章 48: Chapter 48
He had been here for more than twenty minutes getting nauseous repeatedly in a sizable span of time.
After the first two times that he got here and threw up, he stood at the door and he took out his phone to re-read a message. He was busy occupied with that then suddenly EunWoo blast in here , startling him paralyzed. EunWoo didn't stay long before he zoomed out . However the shock triggered WooJin s gag and made him nauseous again thus sending him back to regurgitation .
WooJin opened the door of the toilet stall, energy drained and he dragged himself closer to the sink . He placed his school bag and phone on the counter of the sink then he washed his hands before he used them to get water from the faucet and cleanse the bitterness of throwing up.
After three mouthwashes, he rejuvenated his face on the sink , trying his best not to wet any part of his hair or uniform. It would an added stress on top of the one he already feels.
Last night while he was studying at around eleven, he got an email with an attachment. He was reluctant to open it as he felt it was spam mail or just some updates from the school board but those school mails use his work address and not his student. Eventually he ended up opening it
The attachment loaded for a few seconds and when it finally opened. It was dated and structured like past papers akin to the one he will writing the only difference was that its cover was dated to the following day , basically it was the paper that he is going to be writing today. . it looked sort of like a marking key that was designed by the examiner at the time of making the paper. all the answers were written perfectly
He would not believe his eyes and thought it was a joke so he thoroughly went over the paper and mid-way the paper , a pop-up message invaded on his phone
' YOU HAVE SPENT MORE THAN FIVE MINUTES ON THIS PAPER...',
He quickly closed the attachment and when he went to the sending details . He saw that the email was to him by himself and to seventy other students as a carbon copy with the main mail being sent to a serial number probably an IP address.
Today when WooJin was walking into school , another message came into his phone and asked if he would like to know whose ip address that was.
For some reason he felt really uncomfortable and he clutched the phone and stormed to the nearest bathroom to which upon getting there he flew to a nearby stall to orally dispose the contents of his stomach.
He looked at the mirror . His skin was pale and he was gaunty . His hair that was neatly combed back looked like he was dipped in honey just because his appearance resembles a neatly dressed corpse.
' Ten forty-five', his phone cried
He looked to it and knew that he had to head to the exam room. His test is about to start
Woojin exhaled and silenced the phone and he fixed himself before stepped out of the bathroom...
In the stall behind, HyunJun was inside and he was looking at his phone insanely because he too had been given a carbon copy of today s maths paper, but he wasn't given a timer since he can't see it but it is there.
Like every student who receive all paper , they got a timer and for every minute they spent with the file opened, they were timed.
The sequential simplicity of this works because after someone downloads a file they are not inclined to go offline therefore their network remains connected to an online timer. And even if they do go offline, the moment they go back online , the app usage timer of a file viewer that they used to read the file will be recorded. The online timer will connect to the phone and copy this data thus updating the timer . If the student says they never went online , then there is going to be a need for a blindmate hack but basically no one is safe or is aware of this .
And the only people capable of doing this is HanSol , SanHa or YoonGi. SanHa is still dealing with San and Zyan s shenenegance , YoonGi is still on assignment by Sehun from Austin. So the only one left is HanSol
Woonwoo told him to bake a spectacle and Wooyoung helped by breaking into the vaults for the test papers and accessing some offices because he also stole the keys that Doyoung had . Chan helped compile the answers using some app that was developed by SanHa but stole by YoonGi and forwarded to HanSol
The thing is that there are three players in the game. Zyan , Austin and GiChan. All of them wanted Sejun and they want to see who will win nevertheless they are not just after Sejun since they want to paralyze each other while at this . Zyan uses San , Austin has Woonwoo and GiChan has HanSol. Zyan is blind , Austin is dictative and GiChan is tantalizing. San is skillful, Woonwoo is tactical and HanSol is creative.
Though it seems like San s teams was used as guinea pigs because their actions and objects are being used as weapons and could land them in a lot of trouble , Zyan is quite aware of this because GiChan tormentingly and slightly hinted it after HanSol pretended to alert him of this . And now Zyan is trying to find out what is going on but they are using the wrong people aka MingYu and JunHui. How can they ask the culprits to figure out how other blackmailers are doing what they are doing? It's because of their actions , instructed by Zyan that Woonwoo is capable of asking these venomous moves .
Anyway during the incident yesterday , before San and SanHa were alerted , thanks to an encrypted phone call that Zyan gave them, MingYu and JunHui were told to leave the field and were told that San agreed to it.That was obviously a lie but they didn't bother questioning it because San gets instructions from Zyan and if Zyan lies and lures them to do something,they have to or they will face dire consequences
Regarding student HyunJun, he doesn't really study enough but he is good at the practical parts of civil engineering and that gives him a passing advantage because the practicals take seventy percent of the gpa. So if he gets atleast forty percent on theory , that will be twelve percent added to probably the sixty-eight from practicals resulting in an incredible passing mark
At this moment he is looking at this paper arbitrary not really thinking about sponging the answers. He is just focusing on the fact that he thinks the sender is the same person who sent him a clip of the 'EunWoo video' way before it was released. He didn't tell Jang about it because he could not even figure out how to present it.
Nonetheless, the longer he looks at this video the more he gets confused.
The sender or IP address of the email is not revealed and the address is saved as asterisks unlike for the chemistry paper where the sender is allegedly WooJin.
SanHa programmed it such that the sender only becomes asterisks if the receiver is not the sender. Meaning the fact that Woojin s email is shown and not asterisks means his name is being used however for all other student the sender is saved in asterisks.
This creates room for the sender to be altered any time and anywhere but the changing can only be done twice for those with asterisks and once more for those with a name like Woojin
Be that the case, SanHa also saved a pseudo feature that whenever the name is altered, it requires for confirmation three minutes later from his laptop irregardless of who remotely used the app. Meaning if HanSol or YoonGi ever changed the name, SanHa will know..
' Should I tell someone about this ?', His mind has been wondering this question more times than he actually thought about anything else.
Today before he came here , he saw SanHa passing through the school and wondered if he should approach him. HyunJun had been becoming a cute stalker for SanHa .
He had been following his records even since high school and his grades and everything . He knows when he had his first football match, his first hair dye and his first glass fitting and the like. And he knows that he is a computer major and he was the first person he thought of to ask for help but that would be weird as he has never even said hello to SanHa even if they keep meeting and looking at each other like they are not strangers.
He changed screens and he looked to the time. Only three more hours until he has to start writing.
***
" Mr President, why are you standing outside? Are you getting the chills? Don't worry ,you know your stuff.", Mr Gong mocked Woojin as WooJin stood outside the room frozen
He was so tense and his palms were dry and itchy instead of wet and shaky. He was panicking , scared , fidgeting , worried and all things bad for one reason and one reason only
WooJin didn't get scared when he was home and thought of it as nothing but now that he is here and only minutes from writing, he feels like a crook, a cheat and a liar .
He wiped his forehead, adjusted his tie and he stepped into the room.
Like a synchrony,the thirty plus students in the room all pinned their eyes on him. And now looked like it was intentional ,like they had been waiting for him to come.
He looked to them and tried not to act suspicious but the fact that he was pretending to be his usual calm, confident and esteemed self , was making his anxiety sky-rocket. His nerves were concurring him like he was on stage for the first time and he was delivering a performance to declare and validate his innocence.
Dr Kim had told him to take it easy on his health and stress because of his head injury he had but he literally had not even obeyed any of that. He has been working like crazy , studying like crazy and stressing like crazy.
He exhaled and smiled very futilely and he headed to the nearest empty seat which unfortunately was the the one at the very back or the class.
They gawked at him naturally but they were also panicking because they did receive the attachment file and more than three-quarters of the class memorized the contents. So now they are leering at him with the hidden hope that he doesn't know or that if he does then he won't mention anything as the entire class could loose their scholarships. While he on the other hand thinks they are ashamed that he sent an email like that.what was he doing? What were his reasons? Is he corrupt? Is he insane?
He walked to the seat and though he was surprised that he legs could still move, he managed to act effortlessly the sit down.
Immediately after that he just stared into the horizon.
One or two students looked back to him and he tried to act cool but that was just counterproductive because he looked very much like he felt nude . The students were looking to him thinking that, they are the only ones who got the copy.
Because for each individual email, it was carbon copied their name and the SRC email address instead of that of WooJin , but the only chemistry major student in SRC is WooJin .
Mr Gong handed all the papers and after giving to WooJin who was on the last chair , he gently banged on his shoulder and that brought WooJin back to reality.
He fidgeted and he opened his bag then took out his pencil case then he laid it on the table . As he did that , he felt like he would exchange positions with the case and go inside the bag.
" Okay ,you have five minutes .Please read the instructions and check that the paper has relevant number of pages .", Mr Gong said and just , lab demonstrator Mr Choi walked in and he sat at the table at the front of the class .
Woojin didn't want to open the paper incase it's the way that the carbon copy said because if it is like that he is going to lose his mind.
Five minutes later.
" Okay , the time is eleven twenty and the paper is two hours long. You may begin writing and good luck", Mr Choi said and he said specifically looking WooJin who seemed to be planets away from the earth
Woojin wasn't really paying attention and he probably didn't hear what said but the loud turning of papers shocked him once again back to reality.
He had not touched the paper nor had he done what he has been instructed and knowing the structure of this paper and the complexity of his major, time is not a very good friend..
Mr Choi looked at WooJin but he had to focus on other students and they looked tense as well because the paper was exactly the one that they had been sent last night and the worst part was that there was a multiple choice shading section and THE ANSWERS WERE SHADED IN.
Woojin opened the paper and that was the worst thing that he seen that made him feel like screaming and running out of the room.
If one though the email was a prank, this is definitely clears and nullifies all assumptions . Plus the fact that it's a placement test hundredfolds the tension, multiplies stress and numbs autonomy. Reason being with the school scandals here, the punishment bar through suspension has dropped to nearly zero and now it's a ride or die with expulsion and a criminal record for life. To use or get involved cyber-tech to attain success is a CRIME.
There were only ten multiple choice questions but there were about seven that were shaded and they were correct.
YeoReum was seating in the front seat. The stress from always fighting with InYoup , risking her scholarship, risking her image ,her family image and her future was truly overwhelming
She didn't study and even if she did, this paper is like fighting and alligator in Water after two days of swimming lessons.It's beyond difficult and will get way if she doesn't start answering or rather pasting the answers..
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