A dark round hole appeared in front of him. It was on the wall the bed was resting against, where it met the floor. It was the size of a person’s skull and was like the opening of a man-made pipe. There was a black hole and he couldn’t see anything. He could just feel the wind blowing from it.

After looking at the opening for half a minute, An Zhe lowered the sheets and crawled back into bed. A human’s room always had some weird structures. He had to go to bed early tonight. Tomorrow was a very important day.

***

“Your body

Still struggling

Wants to return.”

“The nameless wildflower

it is already blooming abundantly.”

An Zhe watched Bai Nan silently write a poem on the test paper. Today was the final exam for this group of children. He was responsible for patrolling the examination room to prevent cheating.

The low sound from last night was also heard in the classroom but everyone seemed accustomed to it. An Zhe had also found a hole in the corner of the classroom. It seemed to be a common thing in human architecture. He hadn’t noticed it before because it was too noisy during the day and this covered up the sound. Today, the windy weather made the windy sound even louder.

He walked past Bai Nan’s position and moved forward. Jisha’s paper was a mess, full of smears and changes. Only the English questions had neat words. An Zhe looked down at them and it seemed that a few weren’t correct.

Most of the children were in the same position as Jisha. Some of them didn’t even make efforts to change their answers and the papers in front of then were almost blank. Of course, there were a few children who completed their papers well.

An Zhe walked around and came to a corner of the classroom next to the indifferent child called Sinan. Sinan’s papers had all been completed. It had only been 30 minutes since the exam started and he was faster than everyone else.

At this point, he wasn’t even checking them nor was he in a daze. Instead, he used a black pen to draw in the blank space on the test paper. It wasn’t appropriate to call it drawing. There were just some irregular black lines that were tangled in a chaotic manner, like vines in the Abyss. There was a type of madness that broke through the paper. By the end of the one and a half hour examination, the frantic lines had covered the entire test paper and only the handwriting of the answers could be seen.