People bring their own maids to the training camp

171. Risk coefficient

Vegetables and fruits are available in various places in the forest. Although it is called wilderness survival, judging from the quantity, the school has reduced the difficulty of this so-called wilderness survival through various channels.

In addition, Class B's campsite had a well. On the first day, due to a lot of tasks, Class B opted to use points to redeem a combination meal of food and drinking water. However, on the second day, besides dealing with the hammocks, they had more time to complete other tasks.

For example, fishing, or searching for fruit.

Because there were people in Class B who were knowledgeable about this, Class B not only didn't need to buy drinking water from the school on the second day, but they could also save a lot on food packages.

The only problem is that everyone only eats until they are half full at most—but when you think about how you can save a lot of points and then go back to the ship to enjoy life, you don't feel that eating only half full is a painful thing.

In particular, Class B has been performing exceptionally well recently, and the gap between them and Class A is gradually narrowing.

The final exam score is not high, but this special exam is different. The special event points alone are as high as 300. Even if we calculate conservatively, we can get at least 100 class points. Not to mention that this number does not include the number of strongholds occupied. If the subsequent strategy is effective, it is not entirely impossible to get 200 class points by the end of the special exam.

Class B firmly believes that they will definitely be promoted to Class A because they are united in purpose.

In the afternoon, Class B quickly shook off the gloom of the "pop quiz" and began their afternoon work after a short lunch break.

Chihaya's official job was to find fruit, and she was paired with Hayasaka.

This was naturally Honami's arrangement. Whether Chihaya actually needed to find fruit was not so important, and arranging Hayasaka as his partner was also to maintain secrecy. After all, Honami himself needed to stay at the base camp to coordinate the planning, while Kanzaki took his fishing rod to the beach to fish.

Honami arranged Hayasaka as Chihaya's partner after taking all factors into consideration; otherwise, acting alone would have seemed very suspicious.

After leaving the camp, Hayasaka made sure no one was following them before speaking.

Where do we go now?

"Let's go to Class D first. I have some questions for Lingyin. Since Longyuan sent people to Class B, they must have come to Class D as well."

"Understood, I'll lead the way."

Before long, the two arrived at Class D's camp.

Sure enough, Ibuki was spotted at Class D's camp.

"Oh, isn't this Himegami-san and Hayasaka-san?" Hirata noticed the two outside the camp and quickly walked over. "Is there something you need?"

"I heard Class D's camp is here, so I'm just doing a quick scouting of the 'enemy situation'," Chihaya joked with Hirata. "Actually, I came to see Suzune. We had some unfinished business on the ship, and I was wondering if she's available right now?"

"Wait a moment, I'll go find Horikita-kun." Hirata smiled at the two of them and then left.

"He's clearly in Class D, but he has a considerable level of ability. If we only consider his appearance, I think he's at least Class B, or even Class A." With no one around, Hayasaka commented on Hirata.

“The school’s criteria for judging students are quite interesting. Although they say that ability is paramount, they also assess the risk level of each student. Kikyo was assigned to the lowest class because of this, and if nothing unexpected happens, Hirata will also fall into this category,” Chihaya said. “These kinds of people are actually easier to control and can exert strong combat power—Class A and Class B have many students who seem to have low risk factors and good averages, but these people don’t have much creativity and can only do ordinary things step by step.”

"Do you mean you prefer to use people like Kikyo and Hirata, who have a higher risk factor?"

"In terms of ability, that's true. As long as we can figure out what happened to him in the past, isn't Kikyo working very hard now?"

"Kikyo-chan works very hard even in bed, huh? She's really a workaholic."

"..." Chihaya decided to ignore Hayasaka's sudden topic, who was wearing yellow glasses.

On the other hand, a spirited girl with long, straight black hair walked over, and her cold face softened slightly when she saw Chihaya.

"Good afternoon, Chihaya, and Hayasaka-san."

"Kiss Suzune," Chihaya said with a smile. "Was what I told you helpful?"

"You've been a huge help, I really feel—" Lingyin trailed off, unsure how to express herself, "What you told me is so invaluable, I didn't even have a chance to repay you for your help last time."

"It's nothing. I can't eat that much by myself. Besides, if Class B suddenly becomes outstanding, it will arouse suspicion from other classes. It's better to divide it evenly like this."

“Since you put it that way,” Lingyin nodded, “you gave me six coordinates, and I occupy five of them, including this place right now.”

"It seems that Class A has taken over that one." Chihaya did a quick calculation. Class B has 4 strongholds, Class D has 5, Class A has at least 2, and Class C probably has none. So, there are 11 known strongholds so far.

According to Chihaya's guess, these identifiable strongholds might be divided into four equal parts. Secondly, the school provided Chihaya with 10 coordinates, so the most likely numbers for dividing it into four parts would be 12, 16, or 20.

The probability of 16 is higher; 12 is too low and 20 is too high. However, it's hard to say for sure, since the school has always been unconventional.

"By the way, I came here to remind you that it would be better to send the students from Class C back as soon as possible," Chihaya said. "Kaneda from Class C was also taken in by Class B, but I persuaded him to go back to the ship today."

“Besides the leader, she probably knows your test scores from noon, right?” Hayasaka added. “If others find out you got the secret package or something, it might be troublesome to take action.”

“Hmm…” Rinne began to think.

"Is it really something that Class C, who will stop at nothing, would do to resort to a zero-point tactic?" Chihaya gave a final reminder, "Rinne, you really need to think this through carefully."

172. Longyuan's plans

Earlier, a wood-chopping test was conducted.

Class C, represented by the Black exchange student Albert Yamada, indeed won first place.

Class C thus obtained its first piece of advice.

“Then let’s make our selections,” said Mr. Sakagami, the homeroom teacher of Class C. “Choose according to the numbers.”

"Then let's choose 1." Since it was a simple choice without any fancy stuff, Longyuan directly chose "1".

"Yes, number 1." Sakagami-sensei turned around and said to the staff member, who quickly handed a slip of paper to Ryuen.

In other classes, people might peek over to see what was going on when they received the note, but in Class C, no one dared to do it.

So Longyuan kept the contents of the note to himself.

Then Longyuan fell silent.

The reason is simple: the note contained supplies, which were the least useful thing for Class C.

However, just because it's useless to Class C doesn't mean it has no value. Ryuen's mind flashed back to Chihaya, who had visited that morning and spoken frankly.

“Cooperating with Class B might not be a bad thing.” Ryuen smiled.

Ever since the Ludo battle, his suspicions about Chihaya have never lessened—he suspects that Chihaya is involved in the midterm exams, but he has never been able to find any evidence.

But now Chihaya seems to have stopped acting and has revealed his plans after arriving on the island. Although the other party has no evidence, the content is pretty much the same, except for the details.

Now that Chihaya and Class B have figured out Class C's plan, it's practically impossible for them to expose their leader.

However, unexpectedly, the school provided a new way to achieve a certain degree of improvement.

For Longyuan, even if Class C manages to obtain the strategy pack, they basically can't use it directly unless it's related to the leaders of other classes, since they chose the 0-point strategy.

As the saying goes, there are no eternal enemies, only eternal interests. Having at least reached an agreement with Class A, Longyuan has no intention of continuing to trade with them using this secret strategy.

Class D was too poor, so Class B was the only suitable target. And coincidentally, Class B had Chihaya, making her an ideal trading partner for Ryuen.

Ryuen believed that Chihaya and Honami were not the same type of person simply because Chihaya could deduce his plans from a few minor details. Honami was too kind, while Chihaya was decisive enough.

This further convinced Ryuen that Chihaya was the mastermind behind the midterm exams. Although he didn't quite understand her motives, he believed that Chihaya was definitely someone worth cooperating with.

Furthermore, if this is true, many of Chihaya's actions did not represent the interests of Class B, which is quite intriguing.

As for how the transaction would proceed, Ryuen wasn't worried, knowing that Chihaya certainly wouldn't refuse. Even if he didn't need it, he wouldn't give it to Class A. In their conversation that morning, Chihaya made no attempt to hide her dislike for certain people in Class A. Although she didn't say it explicitly, Ryuen guessed that Chihaya was quite "capricious" and would make plans based on her emotions—for example, Chihaya had explicitly stated that she was targeting Class A for this exam, and that it was for personal reasons.

"Ryuen-kun, what do we do next?" Ishizaki asked.

"Everyone can go back to the ship in the evening. We will select a suitable person to participate in the test at noon every day. Sakagami will convey the contents of the secret plan to me then."

"Understood." Ishizaki nodded repeatedly. "Ryuen-kun, you must be careful while you're alone on the island!"

"Stop worrying about these useless things and focus on doing a good job with the tests later."

"Understood!"

----split line----

In the afternoon, Jintian returned to the camp and then went to find Longyuan.

"Was it the concubine who sent you back?"

Unexpectedly, Ryuen understood everything without Kaneda even saying a word.

"Yes."

"Hmph, I knew it. That woman would never tolerate me sending people to Class B."

"So we really have to cooperate with Class B?" Kaneda couldn't help but ask. He was actually quite curious about what leverage Class C still had to persuade Class B.

“No, strictly speaking, we are cooperating with Chihaya Himegami,” Ryuen replied. “Although I don’t have much hope, I’ll still ask you, do you have anyone you suspect? About the leader of Class B.”

"Absolutely not. They hid the leaders very well, and the checkpoints in the camp were hidden among the tents. You wouldn't know who had checked in while passing by unless you deliberately walked over."

Longyuan remained noncommittal.

"Then, in the wood-chopping competition, Class B came in fourth place. That's the only thing that's certain. The person who participated in the competition was Shibata."

"Fourth place?" Long Yuan nodded thoughtfully. "Tell me about the point consumption of Class B."

Kaneda gave a concise explanation.

"In other words, Class B wasn't particularly frugal with points, but they did have some unexpected ways to save money."

"Is such that."

"Well, you can go back to the ship with them tonight."

"clear."

After seeing Kaneda off, Ryuen continued to ponder how to reach a deal with Chihaya.

The supplies he obtained this time can help Class B save some points on meals, which is a valuable asset for both Class B and Class D.

However, Class D is too poor to offer many benefits. And Class B is mostly unwilling to give up their personal points, so the transaction needs to revolve around class points.

That depends on Chihaya's abilities.

Ryuen still trusted this quite a bit; Chihaya's statement about targeting Class A must have included guessing the leader of Class A.

In that case, Chihaya might provide a leader for Class B or even Class D depending on the situation.

Although I haven't met Ibuki yet, Ryuen has already taken it into account. The longer Ibuki stays, the more information we'll have about Class D, even if it's just the daily test rankings.

Having confirmed all this, what Ryuen needs to do is find an opportunity to meet with Chihaya and make a deal. After all, he needs to sell off his supplies as soon as possible to maximize his profits—otherwise, if he holds onto supplies for three days and tries to sell them on the last day, he simply won't get a good price.

As a shrewd businessman, Longyuan would naturally not do business that would lose money.

He not only wants to make money, but he wants to make a lot of money! And how much he can make depends on the results of the daily tests thereafter.

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