The Qualification Certification System V4 has a real-time compliance rate of 99.9%. At the registration window, Lian Dongting reads aloud that Jiang Zhao is “of unregistered origin and ineligible,” then tears his application in half. The reason: the System can’t read the names of his mother and younger sister in the guardian signature field. He wagers that if he can point out one flaw, his application will be reinstated. Using the staff entrance, he gets into the computer room with the exam inspector’s pass, number 062, left behind by his mother. He pulls up the day’s examination records. In the three-hundredth entry and beyond, he finds three records with candidate numbers from the 0714 series, the same fingerprint used to enter the exam chamber, and the actual candidate fields left blank. One person took three places in seventeen seconds. The paper is still warm when he prints the screenshots. But every time he uses the inspector’s pass, something is taken from him. What did it take this time?
