Real teaching, hypocritical gray life

"Is there such a thing...?"

"What's with your questioning attitude, asshole—"

"Don't get excited Takashima. This is not the first or second time that Luo goes to bed before us at night. In fact, he hasn't participated in our discussions many times on the cruise ship... uh, it seems like only once?" Shiratori held down Takashima, who was about to lose his temper, and persuaded him.

"Strictly speaking, not even once. Have you forgotten? The only time we woke him up was when we forced him to wake up." Okabe said sarcastically while peeling an orange peel that came from nowhere in his hand, "This guy can really sleep."

"It's really my fault that I can sleep so well..."

"By the way, under what circumstances would a cruise ship's power supply equipment have problems? It has been sailing normally for two weeks."

"Even if you ask Okabe, none of us will know. This question can only be answered by professionals in the field. It's still a question whether we can name the specific equipment."

"Too......."

The four of us continued chatting like this until half an hour later when the radio sounded again.

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[Notice, the power supply of the cruise ship has been restored to normal. The special examination will continue in five minutes. The free answering time is from 9:30 to 10:00, and the school will accept the answers from 10:00 to 10:30. Please hurry up and answer. In addition, students will resume their free activities at 10:30. The school will inform all students of the detailed examination results by email at 11:00 pm. The notice will be broadcast again...]

"send."

Five minutes after I heard the announcement, I immediately gave orders to the C-class members who had been called together in the room. Although I had given instructions in advance, I still couldn't help but get excited when this moment came.

Thanks to the cooperation of Kikyo Kushida, the favored student of the Dragon Group of Class D, and the three original favored students of Class C, I successfully mastered the rules for selecting the favored students for this special exam.

The names of the members of each group are arranged according to the fifty-sounding alphabet, and then the favored ones are arranged in the order corresponding to the twelve zodiac signs.

However, I never expected that Kikyo Kushida, who has always been treated as a goddess by others, would be a completely different person behind the scenes.

In addition, I am also somewhat interested in what Ibuki reported just now. Perhaps exposing it afterwards may lead to some interesting results...

While I was still thinking about all these things, I suddenly noticed that the email ending the exam had not been sent yet.

Sending a betrayal text message during the free answer time will immediately end the exam for the corresponding group.

"What are you doing? I told you to send a betrayal text immediately."

I grabbed a student by the collar.

"Wait, wait, I already sent it."

"If that's the case then the end of exam email will be sent out immediately, just like the time with the Ushio group. Don't try to play tricks on me."

"I really have sent it. If you don't believe me, just look!"

He immediately opened the letter in his hand, and I checked it to make sure that he had submitted the answer to the Rat Group's preferential treatment.

"..."

"Ryuen-san, I submitted it, but no email was sent to inform me that the exam was over."

“It’s the same here…”

I couldn't help but frown when I saw the same results one after another. This shouldn't be the result... Was it because the staff were transferred away and the system couldn't be restored in time?

"...Ryuuen-kun, what should we do now?"

"...Just wait a moment. The email has been sent anyway, and we can ask questions from the school afterwards."

"So, is this all that's going to work?"

"Well, but you can't leave here until you get accurate results."

"Okay, okay..."

"..."

There must be nothing wrong with my inference. Class C will definitely be the biggest winner in this exam.

"..."

but why?

Where does this uneasy thought come from?

Chapter 107: The Sudden End

"Hey, let me tell you, did you receive any news on your phones that other groups ended the exam early?" Takashima couldn't suppress his inner doubts and finally asked us.

It is currently between 9:30 and 10:00, which is the free answer time according to the broadcast. Submitting an email to the school at this time will end the group's special exam early.

"Our phones are not muted."

“But this is too incredible.”

"The facts are as you can see... If you don't believe me, feel free to check my phone." As he said that, Shiratori threw his own phone onto Takashima's bed to prove the truth of his words.

However, Takashima did not reach out to take it. Instead, he turned his head and looked at me.

"Where are Okabe and Okabe's cell phones?"

"Unfortunately, there was no response at all."

"Me too." I waved the email display on my phone towards him.

Nineteen minutes had passed since the announcement ended, and fourteen minutes had passed since the free-answer period. However, during this period, none of our four phones had rang with the unique sound of a school email being sent. The room was even quieter, with only the sound of breathing.

"What the hell is going on? Could it be that our cell phones have lost signal?"

Takashima scratched his hair in confusion.

"What are you thinking about? There's still a lively conversation going on in the class group."

"What is that? A delay? Would the school make such a stupid mistake?"

"I said, can't you just guess that everyone else is just like you and is unsure about who the preferential treatment will be, and hopes to answer while the school accepts the answers?"

"How is this possible? I admit that I was a little stupid, but the leaders of other classes wouldn't just not take any action, right? Especially the Dragon Team."

"...That's true, but doesn't the silence strategy implemented by Class A also lead to a decrease in the ability to communicate information? At least in my group, there hasn't been a single normal discussion from beginning to end, and I don't know who ended it all at once." Shiratori yawned and drank a sip of water nonchalantly, "The other two are okay, but it's impossible that the phones of more than a dozen of us, or even all of us, are delayed at the same time."

"No means no, it's just that simple. And maybe it's not a bad idea to end the exam like this, right?"

"......Tsk, but I always feel like something is fishy." After listening to Shiratori's advice, Takashima still couldn't deal with his inner uneasiness, and kept biting his thumb at the corner of his mouth.

"Ding Ding-"

At this moment, my mobile phone suddenly received a message that the email had been delivered. The eyes of the other three people were instantly focused on me, and Takashima jumped over from his bed impatiently.

"Let me see your phone."

"Calm down. That was clearly the sound of a personal email being delivered. The sound of a school email would be even harsher."

"I don't care. I want to see the name of the sender."

"You've lost your mind..." I muttered softly, then unlocked the password to check the message, "Here, this is from Ichinose. I'm not sure if Ichinose would mind being seen by others, but do you still want to continue?"

"Tsk, an email from Captain Ichinose... Could it be a notice or something?... Anyway, take a look at it yourself first, and let us know if it's anything you want us to do."

Suspicion is really too serious...

[Ichinose: Can you receive the email? If possible, by the way, can you please tell me if Luo-kun has received any emails about other groups ending the exam early?]

[Me: I can receive the email. No one on my side received the email about the early end of the exam. What happened?]

After the email was sent, I waited for a while.

[I don't know. Mr. Hoshinomiya is probably maintaining order among the students or checking emails, and he didn't respond to me. Anyway, it should be that the school system has not been able to recover... or did something 'accident' happen?]

"..."

'Accident'...?

"What's the situation now, Luo? It's time to give us an answer."

"Just, stop staring at the screen."

"I see... Ichinose hasn't received any news, and Mr. Hoshinomiya is busy and didn't respond. In short, he just asked us to wait until the exam is over."

"What? Are all the groups going to end up in Result 1 or Result 2?"

Although it was a little hard to believe, Shiratori and Okabe reluctantly accepted the news, leaving Takashima alone feeling unhappy.

"It's not like this is impossible... How about we play some games to ease the mood?"

"Since you want to relax, you should know that I am not suitable for playing games right now. I might become more and more irritable."

"Then what else do you want to do? You don't want to answer in advance, do you?"

"..."

"Hey, don't get carried away. If you make a mistake, it'll cost you fifty class points."

Seeing Takashima hesitated for a moment, Shiratori kicked him directly to wake him up.

"It hurts! I do have my suspicions, but I'm not prepared to do that. Don't attack me directly."

"It's hard to say about you. You're not as quiet as Luo looks."

"You attacked me with personal emotions, that's definitely the case!"

"No, I wouldn't be angry with you."

"Asshole, look me in the eyes and say this."

"..."

The civil war between partners has begun again.

Fortunately, I didn't say anything, otherwise I would definitely be persecuted.

I put down my phone with peace of mind and continued reading the book I got from the bookstore owner.

Soon, the 30 minutes of free answering passed and it was 10 o'clock. It was supposed to be the time for the school to accept the answers, but our phones received text messages abnormally.

It was an email from the school.

"Wait, wait! What's going on—?"

Hearing Okabe's exclamation, Shiratori and Takashima also stopped fighting.

Okabe opened his phone and was surprised from the bottom of his heart, then he turned the phone screen sideways.

[The special examination for preferential students has ended. Emails sent by students after this date will not be accepted. Students have resumed their ability to move freely. The results of the special examination will be sent out on time at 11 o'clock. Please check the results.]

Chapter 108 Post-War Budget

It was 10:27 pm, the time when most people were going to sleep, but the number of people on the cruise ship increased instead of decreasing. At the same time, even in the dark night without lights on the stern, I could hear the noisy sound of the deck cafe.

However, compared to the deck, the stern is rarely visited, so it is a good place to calm down.

The school will announce the results of this special exam in thirty-three minutes. However, even before that moment, I think the students have a general understanding of the situation of each group.

There are very few benefits to acting alone. I am now in an environment that can be compared to the situation of hackers. The advantage of hackers acting alone is that the target is small and it is not easy to expose themselves; the disadvantage is that when a single person encounters a technical bottleneck, he cannot obtain the results of brainstorming. In this exam, it is difficult for me to make a comprehensive countermeasure for emergencies.

In fact, my original goal plan had to be overturned and evolved due to frequent unexpected events.

What did I do and what did I know in this exam?

——Post-war budget estimate.

In the distant past, this was a very important matter, and it was also one of their criteria for evaluating candidates. It was basically to describe the process experience, analyze the statistical results, and collect the benefits.

I haven't done this for a long time since I left, and at least I want to recall it tonight.

During the rule briefing before the special exam, I made a deduction - the number of members in all teams would not be less than twelve.

The fact is just as I thought, this is not some groundless guess, but is based on the word "Zodiac". If you want to know why I made this guess, I have to start with the name of the group.

The names of the groups could have been "Group One", "Group Two", etc., but the school chose to use the Chinese zodiac instead. I didn't doubt it at first, but when I saw the list of members, I immediately gave up the idea.

It is so regular that the arrangement of the names from Class A to Class D completely conforms to the arrangement rules of the fifty-sounding sounds.

The reason why the names of the group members cannot be taken out is not because the school is afraid of excessive interference from non-group members, because we can fully understand this, no matter how much precautions are taken, communication cannot be prevented. The real reason why the school does this is that they are afraid that too much interference will lead to the school's hidden hints at the very beginning being easily deciphered and cracked.

If we fill in the member information ourselves, we only need to distinguish the classes and fill in the names in the corresponding classes. However, the names on the member list provided by the school are not sorted randomly, but are sorted according to the order of the 50 syllables of each class.

Taking the Rabbit Group as an example, the list of members is as follows.

Group B: いちのせほなみ(Ichinose Honami), おちき(罗木), はまぐちてつや(Hamaguchi Tetsuya).

In the order of the 50-sound system, 'い' comes before 'お' and before 'は', so the member list would be presented in the form of [Ichinose Honami, Okugi, Hamaguchi Tetsuya].