Real teaching, hypocritical gray life

Similarly, Class A, Class C, and Class D are also arranged in the order of the fifty sounds.

[Group A: Shigeru Takemoto, Koji Machida, Takuro Morishige. ]

[Group C: Ibuki Mio, Manabe Shiho, Yabuna Nami, Yamashita Saki. ]

[Class D: あやのこうじきよたか (Ayanokouji Kiyotaka), かるいざわえ (Karuizawa Megumi), そとむらひでお (Tomura Hideo), ゆきむらてるひこ (Yukimura Teruhiko). ]

After noting the above order, it can also explain why the simple names of Group 1, Group 2, etc. need to be replaced by the twelve zodiac signs. In order not to make the order too obvious, the twelve zodiac signs were used to replace them. The names of all the students in the group were mixed together and arranged in the order of the 50 sounds, and finally the order of the characters was selected according to the name of the corresponding group.

Rat (one), Ox (two), Tiger (three), Rabbit (four), Dragon (five), Snake (six), Horse (seven), Goat (eight), Monkey (nine), Rooster (ten), Dog (eleven), Pig (twelve).

This is why I would guess that the number of people in each group will be more than twelve.

The identities of the favored students in this special exam were revealed to the students when the exam rules were explained.

With this information, I immediately figured out the beneficiary of the Rabbit Group. That night, before the identity of the beneficiary was announced, I spent points with Mr. Hoshinomiya to buy a layer of insurance for the beneficiary.

After making sufficient preparations, I then planned to secretly use the 'knowledgeable' book as a means to remind everyone in the class of the words 'Twelve Zodiac Signs, Logic, Sorting, Decryption', in an attempt to use this method to make Kanzaki and others understand the hidden rules of the identity of the preferential treatment. Unfortunately, Kanzaki and others were unable to obtain any information from it.

There is also another character whose understanding is not known accurately and who does not take action.

These deviations are not the most serious ones. The key fatal mistakes were made by myself.

I let Ichinose know that 'I am not a preferential treatment'.

Now when I think about what happened that morning, I still wonder why I did that. I would never reveal my true identity to outsiders, but I revealed my identity to Ichinose that day.

This led to a complete change in my future plans.

There is very little that a single soldier can do in this team competition, not to mention that the battlefield is divided into twelve parts. I have no choice but to give up the team's acquisition of the class points of the twelve groups and retreat to seek private points that I can privately possess.

At the same time, I also need to ensure that the class points of my class are complete.

Before this exam officially started, I had two people I was afraid of. One of them was Ayanokouji Kiyotaka. Since he and I were in the same group, I could accurately grasp his exam progress, so I was not too worried. But the other person, Koenji Rokusuke, who was also in Class D, had to attract my attention.

The man's thinking and spiritual realm transcend common sense, and the abilities he displayed were definitely not arrogance, but real abilities.

My strong insight and extreme physical functions are the records I showed in the special test on the uninhabited island. Then, considering that the name of Koenji is the same as the name of a chaebol in the outside world, it can be inferred that he may be no less knowledgeable. Such a person is likely to come to the same conclusion as me.

If Koenji wasn't in the B class, I might have let him go. However, the monkey group that accommodated him was the B class, and Koenji was the only one who was different from the other. So when the monkey group exam ended early, I knew it was his doing, so no matter what the truth was, I had to prepare for the missing fifty class points.

At first I was planning to tamper with the Rabbit Group, but the personal visit from Class C Long Yuan made things easier for me.

On the first day of the exam, Ryuen invited Kanzaki to cooperate with him. Although Kanzaki rejected it on the spot, he did not give up. With his repeated insistence, we began to consider his credibility.

He not only cooperated with our class B, but also contacted Katsuragi from class A. The purpose of the cooperation was to allow the Dragon Team to end the exam with the result 1.

Result 1: If everyone except the favored student in the group and the students in the favored student's class answers correctly, the school will pay all team members 500,000 personal points, and the personal points of the favored student will be doubled.

On the first day he was unable to provide us with credible proof, but on the second day he received a photo of the email information of the candidate for the Dragon Group's favored candidate, so Kanzaki began to reach a preliminary cooperation direction with Ryuen.

However, once this result is achieved, another problem will arise, which is the uneven distribution of benefits.

The members of the Dragon Team are as follows:

Class A: Katsuragi Kohei, Nishikawa Ryoko, Toba Shinji, Yano Koharu

Class B: Sayo Ando, ​​Ryuji Kanzaki, Hitomi Tsube

Class C: Takumi Oda, Eitoshi Suzuki, Masashi Sonoda, Sho Ryuen

Class D: Kushida Kikyo, Hirata Yosuke, Horikita Suzune

As can be seen from the member list, Class B has only three members, and excluding Class D, which is a favored group, Class A and Class C both have four members. In this way, after the successful cooperation, Class B can only get 1.5 million private points, while Class A and Class C can each get 2 million private points.

After considering for a long time, Kanzaki decided to refuse to cooperate. Although the difference in interests was one of the reasons, the main reason for Kanzaki's decision to refuse cooperation was that his trust in Ryuen was only at the initial stage.

I thought this matter would end here, but I never thought that Ryuen still didn't give up. In order to prove that he did have the information of the Dragon Group's favored class and to make up for the gap of 500,000, Ryuen decided to send a betrayal text message to the group whose favored class was Class B in front of us.

Ryuen first revealed that the students of Class B were members of the preferential group, the Ugly Group, without us providing any information. After Kanzaki and Ichinose asked, they confirmed that this was the case. Then he ordered his subordinates to fill in the names of the non-preferential group members in the email and sent it to the school in front of us, causing the Ugly Group's exam to end directly.

This measure not only made up for the 500,000 personal points in the profit distribution difference, but also offset the 50 class points that Koenji guessed would be deducted from our class for being the preferential treatment. This way, I don't have to prepare for the 50 class points lost by Class B again.

However, there is another problem. Based on the above performance and the speech I heard from him in Long's room, it can be basically concluded that he has mastered the preferential treatment rules. Although it is clear that he will take action against Class A in this exam, it is not ruled out that he will also drag Class B and Class D into the water, and then Class C will become the biggest winner of this game.

In order to suppress this, I also had to take precautionary actions. So in the Dragon Group room, I deliberately provoked him to tell me the timing of his actions. Long Yuan did not learn the lesson of the failure of the uninhabited island, and maintained an arrogant mentality, leaving us the so-called "last glimmer of hope".

That is to say, he would only send the betrayal text message at the last moment, that is, after the last discussion, during the half-hour free answer time from 9:00 to 9:30, and then let all members of the Dragon Group except Class D send the preferential status email to obtain the result one from 9:30 to 10:00.

Since he behaved so arrogantly, I could also behave extremely boldly.

I had previously asked Mr. Hoshinomiya what the highest item that could be purchased with points was, and the answer I got was [Change school rules].

[The rules of the exam can be changed, but only within the specified scope... The specific content cannot be changed, but some side details can be changed.]

After learning this, the first thing I thought of was to move the entire exam time forward by half an hour. However, just half an hour would cost a huge amount of points, which was not cost-effective after calculation. In addition, the changed exam rules would be notified to all students via email, and hiding this would cost points.

After determining its inequality, I decided to use a different approach to target Long Yuan's behavior of sending betrayal emails during his last free time.

Human beings are obsessed with pursuing the truth of the world because they cannot accept an uncertain world, events that happen without reason, and the occurrence of disordered events.

Certainty, causality and consistency are what humans have been pursuing so far. Therefore, in every case, we will definitely want to find out the cause and effect of the matter, and give a reason. Even if it is a random conclusion, as long as it has the accuracy of seeing it with our own eyes, it can become the "truth", because a false world is better than an absurd world.

Humans are afraid of the dangers brought by uncertainty, so they try their best to reduce its scope as much as possible, to create so-called certainty, so-called prediction, and so-called prevention, even though such behavior brings more unknowns, more unknowns.

Therefore, if you want to forge the authenticity of something, you must ensure its cause and effect.

Humans are such creatures.

To passively accept something due to the surrounding environment, and to confirm something due to human inducement.

Power outage on the cruise ship, plus corresponding announcement on the radio.

So it's easy for people to believe it.

The broadcast that I spent points to broadcast.

Chapter 109 The real show has just begun

(From Ayanokouji's perspective)

The cruise ship was like a featherless arrow, sailing on the slightly choppy sea.

After finding the worker to confirm, I walked slowly towards the deck of the ship. It was almost eleven o'clock in the evening. When I came to my senses, the cafe, which was almost deserted, was now filled with noisy voices, all of which were doubts about this special exam.

At this moment, the expression on a girl's face was no longer the poker face that showed no emotion as before, but she looked a little anxious.

Horikita Suzune, a classmate from Class D. She is next to me in the class and is one of the few people I can call a "friend" in this school. However, she is a very talented and troublesome person who knows a little about my hidden story.

I did not explain to her in detail what happened on the uninhabited island. I deliberately misled Class D into thinking that the problem was environmental damage during the first 25 minutes and concealed the existence of Class B from her.

It's a good thing to know in advance and take precautions, but at least it's a waste of time to let her know now. We don't have the capital to compete with Class B, so we might as well use this to speed up the creation of a system that can increase points.

"You're so slow. Did I tell you to come 20 minutes early?"

"Sorry, I was just checking some things, so I was delayed for a while."

I wanted to joke about how I waited for an hour on the first day of the special exam, but saying that in front of Horikita would only make me feel more empty.

"So, is there something wrong with treating me differently like this?"

The original plan was that I would meet up with Hirata, Horikita, and Karuizawa at 10:55, but Horikita specifically called me out early.

"What did you do in this exam?"

Without even an exchange of pleasantries, Horikita went straight to the heart of the matter.

"When Koenji sent the betrayal email, the school's notification was almost in the same time as the automatic reply. Considering this, it means that no one sent the betrayal email at the last minute, and the exam was declared over at the moment the free answer time ended. What did you do?"

"I have been dealing with the Rabbit Group's exams and have not done anything else."

"...So what did you confirm before coming here?"

"I went to the staff in the power distribution room to ask about the five-minute power outage tonight."

"So the result is...?"

“It’s a school requirement.”

"School requirement? Why would the school do such a thing?"

Horikita didn't think twice and was going to ask me questions directly. If she could take the time to cultivate her emotions and thoughts after the mistake, my opinion of her might be even higher.

"It might be a bit indirect to say that it was a school request. It would be more appropriate to say that a student made such a request."

"Students make such a request... Could it be personal points?" Horikita thought about it for a moment, then immediately came to a conclusion and asked me to confirm it.

I nodded.

"If the power outage was requested by the students, then that means the broadcast that notified us... was actually purchased with private points?"

"Yes, the other party deliberately took advantage of the fact that the school would not send emails to remind candidates to answer questions during the exam process. If a notification suddenly came at this time, without the official announcement, students would easily believe it."

"But what's the purpose of doing this? Will the results of all the groups except the monkey group and the cow group end with result two? That person won't get any benefit at all, and may even suffer losses."

"Since he did this, it means he is fully confident that it will benefit his class."

"The Monkey Team's exam was ended early by Koenji's text message. Even if they guessed correctly and the preferential treatment was given to his class, and the Ox Team's exam ended early to make up for the lost fifty class points, they would still lose the private points they got in the end, and would not gain any class points."

"Horikita, you have to know that sometimes what you can do on a separate battlefield is quite limited. Besides, the opponent will certainly have the same considerations as you. If it's just personal points, he may not care. If the person with class points thinks that this is just right, then wouldn't it make sense?"

"Are you saying that the reason that person did this is because he was hiding his identity? ...Wait, what did you mean by the last sentence?"

"You'll know when this month is over."

"Next month? Can we confirm the changes that will happen next month... class points? But the results of both the uninhabited island survival test and the preferential treatment have already been clearly announced, so what's there to explain?"

"Then it is enough for you to just wait and see."

"...Don't you know how annoying it is to know something but not say it?"

"I remember that you prefer to fight independently, so shouldn't you face the challenge and solve the problem on your own?"

"Then who is that person? What class is he in? At least you need to tell me these basic information."

Horikita didn't feel uncomfortable at all due to my provocation, but instead asked even more questions.

"It would do you no good to know who the enemy is at this time."

"You said you would help me get promoted to Class A."

"This is my own decision, not a promise that needs to be fulfilled to you. In addition, you also need to understand that victory is achieved through step-by-step planning, not something that can be achieved overnight."

"Of course I understand this, but at least I need to understand the true identity of the enemy."

"If I tell you this, my identity will most likely be exposed and known to Long Yuan and the others. At present, there is no need for you to know about an enemy whose actions are unclear. Even if you don't learn about this from me, he will reveal his identity to the public sooner or later."

All his actions so far are incomprehensible to me. If he is really the one in the plan, then he is too emotional or too impulsive. Although he told me in the Rabbit Group's room that he was acting under threat just like me, it is obvious that he has other reasons.

As for his flaws...I can make a preliminary judgment, but if I want to really confirm it, I need to find a trigger point.

Maybe we can use Karuizawa to this point...

"......Why?"

"Because if that person really doesn't want to reveal his identity, all the consequences will fall precisely on a scapegoat. None of us will know of his existence, not even me."

"How could such a person exist?"

“The madness of this world is more terrifying than you can imagine. Geniuses and madmen are both reasonable.”

"..."

"… Sorry for the wait."

While Horikita was still absorbed in my speech, a girl quietly approached the table for four of us.

The person who came was Karuizawa Megumi. Her attitude was so polite that it was scary. I have never had such an experience before.

"I'm sorry to call you out at such a late hour."

"No, it doesn't matter..."

The current time is 10:53, and there are still two minutes until the time we agreed to meet. I don't think we will have any special conversation again during this time, so I turned my head and looked at the sea that was gradually dyed black from near to far. The dark area reminded me of the relevant rumors.

At this time, Karuizawa seemed to be spying on me again, and in order to get rid of the plan that went against human ethics, I turned my gaze towards her.

So she looked away.

"..."

Do I look dangerous?

"I'm sorry I'm late. You three must have had a hard time taking the exam. Can I have a seat?"

"of course."