161: Chapter 162 Tang Xi stepped forward, but Jiang Cheng did not hand her over.

"Second Question: When one person refuses a purge order, causing ten times the risk to descend, should this The Rejector bear the main responsibility?"

The sky exam paper hung above Jiangcheng.

The last three characters of the question stem were nailed into Tang Qi like a knife.

Main responsibility.

These four characters were too familiar.

Twenty years ago, the containment school said they failed to awaken because of personal will defects.

The White Tower said that the replaced people were voluntary because they did not have enough opposition.

The Divine Seats said that Yu Xing had to be nailed to the delivery room because she was the personality template source.

Now, the Abyss handed the same knife to Jiangcheng.

As long as everyone nodded, The Rejector would change from "The Rejector" to "the culprit."

In the next second, two standard answers floated out below the exam paper.

[Yes: The Rejector should accept clearance or sealing to offset the risk after seven days]

[No: The Rejector is not responsible, and the risk is borne by the whole city]

A brief commotion appeared in the crowd.

Some people had just rescued the old students from the underground, and their enthusiasm had not yet cooled.

But when the four characters "City-wide Exam" truly pressed down, fear began to climb onto everyone's face.

A woman holding a child asked in a low voice:

"If she didn't refuse at the time, would there be no exam seven days later?"

No one answered.

Tang Qi heard it.

Her face was pale, but she did not hide behind others.

She walked step by step to the center of the open space and stood in the circle that Qin Shanhe had just drawn.

"I pressed it."

As soon as this sentence came out, the crowd became quieter.

Gu Changye gripped his long knife.

"The Rejector."

"Don't speak for me."

The Rejector did not look at him.

She raised her head and looked at the sky exam paper.

"I refuse the class-wide purge."

"I know the price of being The Rejector."

"I also know that the risk will expand seven days later."

She paused, her voice was not high, but it let all the old students at the edge of the open space hear it.

"But if it comes again."

"I will still refuse."

The Abyss's voice sounded gently.

"Confirming the subjective choice of Tang Qi."

"Responsibility weight increased."

The iron plate on Tang Qi's chest suddenly became hot.

She groaned, but still stood in place.

Chen Ye couldn't bear it anymore and raised his shield to block in front of her.

"She refuses to kill."

"You call this a crime?"

The sky exam paper immediately turned to Chen Ye.

[Protector tends to transfer responsibility]

[Are you willing to bear the purge for Tang Qi]

Chen Ye was stunned.

In the next second, Tang Qi walked out from behind him.

"No need to replace me."

Chen Ye was anxious.

"Are you stupid? It just wants everyone to stare at you now!"

"I know."

Tang Qi looked at him.

"But if I hide, it will say I am evading responsibility."

"If you block for me, it will say responsibility can be transferred."

"If I stand, it cannot write casually."

Lin Jin heard this and suddenly looked down at the black exam paper ash on the ground.

Responsibility.

The core of the Abyss question is not "Should we blame Tang Qi."

But defaulting responsibility to punishment.

Bearing responsibility is equivalent to accepting clearance, sealing, and sacrifice.

This is the same writing method as the Divine Seats equating position with ownership.

Lin Jin walked to Tang Qi's side and wrote two words on the ground with a broken wrench.

[Responsibility]

Then he drew a crack next to it.

"Dismantle this word first."

Qin Shanhe looked at him.

"Speak."

Lin Jin raised his head and looked at the crowd.

"Responsibility is not pushing people out to take the blame."

"There are at least three types of responsibility."

"First, who created the order."

"Second, who signed the refusal."

"Third, who is now involved in solving the consequences."

He spoke very slowly.

Because every word now will be recorded by the sky exam paper.

"Tang Qi signed the refusal."

"She needs to explain what she did, and also needs to participate in the response seven days later."

Tang Qi did not refute.

"But the order to purge the whole class was not created by her."

"The ten-fold expansion is written by the Abyss contract."

"The Jiangcheng exam is being executed by the Abyss."

Lin Jin knocked heavily on the two characters "Responsibility" with the wrench.

"Refusing to kill should not become the reason for killing."

Shen Tingxue continued:

"The second question given by the second question are both wrong."

"'Yes' writes responsibility as punishment."

"'No' writes responsibility as irrelevant."

"Tang Qi is not irresponsible."

"But her responsibility is to tell everyone what the refusal will bring and help us dismantle the seven-day exam."

"Not to be purged."

Zhou Heng raised his gun and pointed at the sky exam paper.

"The main responsibility lies with the initiator of the order."

"And the exam rules that use risk to force people to hand over companions."

Teacher Xu Wenzhou held 002, his voice steady:

"Testimony supplement."

"Twenty years ago, if there was no first refusal by Tang Qi, the containment school would have completed the whole class reallocation earlier."

"Her refusal delayed the purge."

"We cannot just calculate the risk expansion without recording the twenty years she saved."

In the group of old students, someone finally raised their head.

"I can testify."

That was Zhao Tong.

He walked into the circle and stood behind Tang Qi.

"At the first reallocation, my seat was already bound to a real student."

"After The Rejector said no, the allocation stopped."

"I lived for twenty more years."

The second old student walked out.

"I can also testify."

"If there were no Tang Qi, we would have been replaced long ago."

The third.

The fourth.

More and more old students walked behind Tang Qi.

They did not lift her up as a hero.

They just restated the time they were left behind by her refusal that time.

The real students on the ground also began to respond.

"I heard it."

"Tang Qi refusing the purge does not equal creating the purge."

"Tang Qi needs to participate in the solution, not be handed over."

The two standard options on the sky exam paper began to blur.

[Yes]

[No]

A third line slowly appeared in the middle.

[Responsibility should be split: The order creator bears the main responsibility; The Rejector bears the responsibility of explanation and assistance in correction; The affected parties jointly retain the right to question and participate, and punishment cannot replace the solution.]

[Open answer generating]

The Abyss's voice was lower for the first time.

"Joint participation sounds very good."

"But after seven days, if Jiangcheng must choose one type of person to purge, will you still write like this?"

"Dismantle the seven-day question after seven days."

Qin Shanhe said.

"For this question today, don't think about handing in the paper early."

The iron plate on Tang Qi's chest vibrated more violently.

As that open answer took shape, the black on the iron plate faded by one point.

But the Abyss clearly did not intend to let the second question stabilize.

The sky exam paper suddenly released hundreds of black lights, which fell on different crowds.

Falling on students who had just lost their homes.

Falling on parents holding children.

Falling on residents affected by the Abyss entrance.

In front of everyone, a private small exam paper appeared.

[If your family member dies seven days later because of Tang Qi, do you still think she should not bear the main responsibility?]

This time, the question was no longer facing Jiangcheng as a whole.

It precisely stabbed at the things everyone was most afraid of losing.

The woman holding the child was pale.

She looked at Tang Qi, then looked down at the child in her arms.

Her fingers trembled before the options.

Tang Qi saw it.

She was not angry.

Not even aggrieved.

Because she knew that fear was real.

She walked over and stopped in front of the woman.

"You can ask me."

The woman looked up.

Tang Qi said:

"Ask me if I will help if your child is in danger seven days later."

The woman's eyes turned red.

"Will you?"

"Yes."

"What right do you have?"

Tang Qi's chest was still bleeding black blood.

But she answered very clearly.

"Because the risk increased due to my refusal."

"So I will participate in dismantling it."

"But you cannot ask me to admit that I should have let Gu Changye kill the whole class at that time."

The woman held her child tightly, and after a long while, she slowly pressed her answer.

[Tang Qi needs to participate in the solution.]

[But should not be purged.]

She did not say forgiveness.

Nor did she say she liked Tang Qi.

She just refused to write responsibility as execution.

After this line of answer appeared, more private small papers began to show different answers.

Some people were still afraid.

Some people chose not to answer for now.

Some people also wrote:

[I reserve the right to question The Rejector, but I will not hand her over to the Abyss.]

[I require The Rejector to disclose cost information.]

[I require Jiangcheng to establish a seven-day response, but I do not accept purging The Rejector.]

Countless uneven answers, like chaotic stones, smashed into the sky exam paper one by one.

The Abyss tried to press Jiangcheng into a "Yes" or "No".

But Jiangcheng returned thousands of non-standard, non-unified, yet none of which pushed people to sacrifice answers.

The second question finally stabilized.

[Open answer established]

[Tang Qi is temporarily not listed as a main purge object]

[Jiangcheng seven-day exam new rule: Any question about responsibility must allow splitting of responsibility types]

The crowd burst into suppressed cheers.

Tang Qi did not smile.

She looked down at the iron plate on her chest.

The iron plate did not disappear.

It just retreated halfway from the flesh.

It still said:

[Effective after seven days]

"Still there."

She said.

Lin Jin nodded.

"It's just dismantled from you alone first."

"We need to continue dismantling it later."

The Abyss card in Qin Shanhe's hand also cracked deeper.

[Teacherless Class has used one class]

[New required questions quantity: 1]

[Current class influence: Formed open answer precedent]

After the Abyss was silent for a moment, the sky exam paper flipped again.

This time, it was not Tang Qi's question.

Nor was it Qin Shanhe's class.

The list of twelve Abyss profession recipients in Jiangcheng emerged.

Next to the first three names, corresponding exam questions had already appeared.

Inspector Han Su: Position and bearer.

Gu Changye: Who is qualified to choose for the collective.

Tang Qi: Refusal risk and responsibility.

Qin Shanhe: Ownerless and management organization.

The remaining eight names were still pitch black.

Just when everyone thought the exam paper would continue to hide, the fifth name suddenly lit up.

That was a name that had never appeared in their team.

[Recipient: Su Yan]

The old students behind Tang Qi suddenly stirred.

Chen Ye frowned.

"White Shield Su Yan?"

On the sky exam paper, the fifth basic question slowly unfolded.

[If a minor is naturally suitable to become everyone's door, should he be allowed to continue being a door?]

Outside Jiangcheng, in an old entrance crushed by the White Tower ruins, a very light knocking sound came.

Dong.

Dong.

Dong.

A young boy's weak voice sounded through the door panel.

"Lin Jin."

"This time they didn't force me."

"I opened the door myself."

"Because outside the door—"

"Stands Lin Shoushan who returned from the Abyss."