Chapter 183 The purpose of the exam, the sprint stage of crisis
The conversation was divided into two parts. Just as the top leaders of the village were secretly strengthening their garrison forces in an orderly manner and waiting for the Yunyin Village and the group to fall into the trap. Because the news was not announced to the public and most people in the village were unaware of it, the annual Ninja School freshman entrance examination was still in full swing. And as time passed, the children who took the examination were either eliminated due to overwhelming burden, or gritted their teeth and persisted in moving forward, and gradually showed two completely different endings.
While the number of reference personnel has been decreasing, the third and final round of enrollment examinations of Ninja School this year have passed most of the process of recruiting the first day of Ninja School, and gradually approaching the end and entering the final sprint stage.
But even though it has entered the final stage of sprinting, the current situation is still bumpy and severe for the children taking the exam.
As for the number of candidates that are still declining sharply, the number of candidates who can stand out and successfully admit their admissions on the first day of this year will definitely be the lowest in history since the founding of the school! If the candidates continue to choose to give up or reach the limit and are forced to be eliminated, it is a problem whether they can build a complete class!
Of course, this is not to say that the children who took the exam in this class are too bad in all aspects, so that there are bad situations of failing in large quantities of exams. The fundamental reason is actually the same as most people have subconsciously complained in their minds. If we put aside our strength, we just talk about the complexity of the interweaving of open rules and unspoken rules, as well as the real assessment intention, it can actually be considered as a small Zhongnin exam being conducted.
All of this is obviously the masterpiece of Naruto Uzumaki, a time traveler who is the examiner behind the scenes. In order to think about the future Chunin exam, all chose to eliminate most cannon fodder in this year's entrance exam and try to keep only elites as much as possible so as to reduce casualties as possible on the basis that the members who take the Chunin exam have certain self-protection ability.
Compared with the lengthy and difficult third round of exams, the reason why the first and second rounds of exams were silently from the beginning to the end made people wonder whether they had taken the exam. It was because these two exams, like the first round of the Chunin Examination in the original work, were the tests of the reference personnel's ability to adapt to changes under any circumstances, which is the "word game" that everyone is gradually aware of now.
For example, in the first round of exams, if you can pass the queue and enter the school seriously, it will be like a top student who passes his own abilities and completes all the answers in the original work. It is naturally understandable that it can be counted as passing the first round of exams.
If you cannot enter the school by queuing properly, the candidates need to find another way and try to cut the line in order to ensure that they can enter the school on time before the full mark of the reference personnel and pass the first round of examination. In other words, in the first round of written test of the Zhongnin exam in the original work, they secretly reminded and encouraged the reference personnel to take "cheating" behavior. But if you insist on the difference, it is that the former, that is, the exam currently underway, is much simpler and easier than the latter.
After all, although reference personnel are encouraged to cheat in the original work to assess the candidates' intelligence acquisition ability, if the methods are too inferior and naive, and are caught by the invigilator, they will be directly considered unqualified and eliminated.
On the other hand, if you use the method of rushing to the line or other cheating methods to enter the school first, considering that most of the reference personnel are ignorant children and only test their on-site adaptability, even if they are caught by the invigilator on the spot, they will turn a blind eye and let people in. They will neither be eliminated as losers nor be punished. In other words, there is no risk option with no loss.
As for whether the first round of exams that rely on one's own strength - for example, most children are brought in by their elders - this question is actually irrelevant in the first round of exams. After all, most ninjas are never alone. So in Naruto's view, being able to obtain assistance from others is one of their own abilities.
But this does not mean that if you always rely on your elders to make choices for you, you can pass this exam peacefully. On the contrary, most of the children with this lucky mentality will suffer a huge loss in the second round of exams.
As the examiner behind the scenes, Naruto did not silently endure those unreasonable insults and accusations and rumors as usual, as he did. Instead, he cleverly used it after he clearly understood that he would definitely attract the attention and dissatisfaction and hostility of most people after he appeared in the examination room. He deliberately used his body as bait to test whether the children who should have been pure in their hearts meet this evaluation.
In addition to the apparently claimed, in this second round of exams, children can control their emotions and not be influenced by others - even their elders -. More so, it is to test another basic ability to become a ninja.
That is the ability to think independently and make choices.
Indeed, in the second round of the exam, almost all of their parents participated in the follow-up insults of Naruto and questioned the "list of people passing the second round of exams" written by Tenzo. This also made the children around him follow suit, resulting in the fate of being eliminated by their children. But this is not absolute.
Just like among this group of eliminated children, there are only a small number of children who are infected and inspired by the people around them and decide to follow the trend, but their elders have not participated in it from beginning to end. Among the children who can stay smoothly and participate in this last round of exams, there are also special examples where parents follow the trend and insult the children, but they keep silent. This is because the children themselves make different choices based on their own self-judgment, which leads to the opposite endings.
After all, in this second round of exams, what is really tested is whether the children themselves can question the wrong role models of their elders and even others, rather than the quality of family education.
And in this third round, it was also the last round of the entrance exam today. As Tianzang announced at the beginning, it was a comprehensive examination that added the essence of the first two rounds of assessment.
At the beginning, Naruto used food as bait and asked the small ball fan to step out one step in advance, not only to stimulate the remaining candidates' motivation to be afraid of tigers. More so, it was to use this small time difference to make small adjustments and changes to the signs along the way through this small time difference. For example, at the fork in the fork, it was pointed in the opposite direction "accidentally" at the fork.
Although strictly speaking, that road is indeed in the same direction as the test path, and it will eventually reunite at the next intersection. Most of the invigilators who are responsible for observing the performance of candidates are quietly placed at the intersection of these correct and wrong roads, just like the time trial extra time points in the racing game that Naruto often played in his previous life. Passing through these intersections in order, no matter how you get here on the way, as long as it is not too much of a big noise to attract attention, you will not worry too much. In this way, it is not a complete mistake... But in terms of the length of the journey alone, it is 10% longer than the original route.
Ten percent doesn’t sound like a lot, but don’t think that this 10 percent gap doesn’t seem to be a big deal… Don’t forget that on the surface, the topic of the third round of exams requires candidates to surround the entire village and run a whole circle.
Not to mention the total length, just for this journey, a ten percent extra detour is enough to completely erase the initial impulse and excitement of the candidates! What's more, in the subsequent detours, the length of the distance is also different. This ten percent calculation conclusion is just a comparison of the data of the first section of the journey.
In other words, the moment the candidates faced the first choice of the fork in the road is the real announcement of the official start of the third round of exams. The first thing to be tested is the adaptation and observation of the environment they are in. If they cannot tell which road is correct in the village where they grew up, and do not dare to use this as a proof to question and make the right choice. Then, when they become ninjas in the future and go to unfamiliar areas to perform tasks, they will easily become dizzy and unable to find the north, or even foolishly get into the trap and ambush by the enemy.
If anyone can still complete the exam according to the open rules while keeping the wrong path, then there is no doubt that being successfully admitted is a foregone conclusion. He will be taken seriously because of this excellent performance and allocated to the top classes with relatively richer teaching resources.
But for young children, there are only a few who can do this. In other words, from Sasuke tampering with the first fork in the road, it was time for candidates to start thinking whether they should risk being caught by the invigilator and get rid of the "loopholes" of the examination rules to "cheat".
Although in the perception of candidates, the performance of Ninja School not playing according to routines in the first two rounds of exams will mostly choose to follow the school's regulations in the first half of the exam, without doubting that they have. However, when they consume a lot of physical energy, they have personally realized that relying on a ration pill and a small amount of drinking water is definitely not enough to support their bodies to complete the entire exam. If they don't want to give up, they can only consider taking risks to "violate the rules". Among them, there are several relatively simple "rule loopholes" that are deliberately reduced at this time, and given specifically.
The first one is to be like Shikamaru, who is keenly aware of the tricks that exist in the choice between the forks of the road. He firmly believes in his choice and embark on the right path to reduce physical energy consumption in disguise by shortening the distance.
The second point is to challenge Sasuke as if he was overestimating his own ability, trying to seize military food pills and drinking water from the solitary candidates, and use them to supplement his own consumption... Although the practice may be too violent and shameless to outsiders, it is strictly within the scope permitted by the rules.
After all, at the beginning of the exam, although the examiner Tianzang, who was on the surface, had made a serious and clear statement that the recovery props that candidates could use during the exam were only a military ration pill that the school had a certain quota and a small amount of drinking water. But he did not mention it from beginning to end. These recovery props cannot be forcibly seized by others by force?
The reason why these three naughty kids were able to find Sasuke faster than Naruto was not only because Naruto spent too much time on the Pig Deer Butterfly trio. It was because he had robbed many candidates of the military rations to replenish themselves, so that he could stuff one into his mouth from time to time, so that he could always keep the chakra almost full and running without any worries in an almost luxurious state of chakra.
Unfortunately, after kicking Sasuke's iron plate, their good luck ended here... Who would have been bad for someone to mess with? He was destined to be a small fan with a lot of resentment. He was destined to be beaten for Naruto as a punching bag, and he was tragic fate of leaving the field early with scars.
In a sense, in the words of Naruto's world, this is probably... I will pay it back sooner or later.
The third article is also a true shortcut to passing the third round of exams, which exists in the load-bearing equipment assigned to all candidates from the beginning of the exam.
That's right, the examination rules clearly state that even if the candidates complete the goal of running around the village, they cannot be considered passing the exam. When they return to school, they must have the weight-bearing equipment provided by the school to be considered qualified.
And this key "word game" appears on this inconspicuous rule.
Just when everyone thought that they should always carry this weight-bearing equipment that consumes a lot of physical energy and complete the entire exam honestly, they failed to show up again... Just as Naruto took Hinata's weight-bearing equipment from the beginning of his departure. In this rule, there is still an extremely simple "loophole" - that is, as long as the candidates return to school, they have a weight-bearing equipment on their bodies.
After all, the weight-bearing equipment is only distributed to you, but it does not mark its own mark on it?
In other words, as long as you can achieve the goal of load-bearing equipment when you arrive at school, you will definitely be fine whether you hand over the load-bearing equipment to your teammates for help during the exam, or even accidentally lose it, and it will be handed over to you by others.
Of course, there is another simpler way, which is to discard the weight-bearing equipment from the beginning. Go to the position to lightly complete the goal of surrounding the village, and to maintain a much more physical advantage than other candidates, and then squat around the school to those other candidates who are overwhelmed and panting. And like robbing soldiers and food pills, forcibly seizing the weight-bearing equipment from them for themselves, which is still within the scope of the rules.
Of course, the risk of choosing to discard weight-bearing equipment is not without - that is, candidates who can return to school are basically strong. So when choosing to crouch, in addition to being 100% sure that they can win the success, they also need to worry about whether the other party has the same plan as them, so after a fight, they find that the other party does not have the necessary weight-bearing equipment to pass the exam, and it becomes a waste of time.
Well, you can also consider taking advantage of the opportunity to throw away the weight-bearing equipment in the first half of the journey, and picking up the weight-bearing equipment discarded by others from the roadside to use it for your own use in the second half or the middle. Although it is not as good as throwing the weight-bearing equipment from beginning to end, it consumes as little physical energy, but it is just one of the safer and safer ways.
There are even ways to discard the weight-bearing equipment throughout the whole process, betray the companions at the last moment, and rob their weight-bearing equipment from their companions to ensure that they pass the test smoothly! Although it is very likely to be despised and criticized by others afterwards, just in terms of the rules, this is indeed one of the feasible solutions...
It can be said that in this third round of exams, the way through it is not limited to the rigid rules on the surface, but depends on how the candidates make choices and show their performance.
In other words, this third round of exams is the second round of exams in the Zhongren exam - a simplified version of the World Scroll. The difference is that in addition to not having to worry about survival in the wild, the distance is relatively shorter than when seizing the World Scroll. In this entrance exam, there is only one goal to be seized, and there is no need to be uncommon. And for candidates who choose to protect the weight-bearing equipment, it will also increase a lot of physical burden.
It is also because of this that when the third round of exams is approaching, the atmosphere between the candidates has not relaxed and eased. Instead, because they gradually realized the "looplets" in the rules, they gradually became anxious and nervous to guard against each other... so that although they were just a group of children, the smell of gunpowder that represents the upcoming melee between them is becoming more and more intense and obvious.
Until among them, who could not bear the tension of this strange atmosphere, like the flames of igniting a bomb fuse, took the lead and then took action...
The real highlight is just now...
Chapter completed!