This is a very well-trained team. One person is responsible for exploring the front, one is responsible for covering the rear, and another is holding a terminal to observe the terrain in real time.
"Well, if we go further, we will reach the estuary. If the map is correct, the estuary should be quite wide. It will be difficult to cross it in a straight line. How about we go a little further north and see if there is a place that is a little narrower. Then we can find a way to cross the river?"
The tone was inquiring, but five or six seconds passed without any response.
In the end, the third-year student who was walking in the front and leading the way could not wait any longer and could not help but turn back and urge the blond boy at the end of the team who had been silent since leaving the port as if he was daydreaming.
“What do you mean, are we going to just go straight through like this, Nanyun?”
"Uh……"
It was not until her name was called that Nan Yunya came back to her senses as if she had just woken up from a dream. She hesitated for a moment and nodded.
"Well, let's go up after we reach the estuary."
"Understood~"
Now that the route has been determined, there is nothing more to say. The three of them continue to move forward in the jungle.
No one spoke, the atmosphere was a little depressing, and the occasional protruding rocks and clods of earth underfoot made the seemingly flat terrain extremely difficult to walk on.
Especially under the cover of vegetation, even a small pit the size of half a foot is like a trap, so even the third-graders who have had experience in island survival in the first grade have to carefully make sure that each step is on solid ground before they dare to take the next step.
However, even so, Nanyun's group's progress was much faster than other ordinary students.
After about five or six minutes, the trees in front of me suddenly became sparse, and the clear sound of the sea tide came through the gaps in the forest.
Adjusting the angle and looking into the distance through the gaps in the woods, you can vaguely see a wide beach at the end of the forest in front. The white sand on the beach blends with the silver-gray reefs, and the rushing transparent waves beat against the reefs and rush into the sea continuously.
As soon as you step out of the woods and onto the beach, the view suddenly opens up.
"Huh, it looks like we've finally reached the estuary."
One of the third-year students sighed, wiping the beads of sweat from his forehead due to the hot weather and the long cross-country journey.
Although we have only walked one-third of the total distance, it still makes us feel good to be able to have such close contact with nature.
"By the way, why didn't Nagumo team up with Asahina this time?"
Looking at the blond boy who had just walked out of the jungle and looked at the beautiful scenery in front of him without being moved and just breathed a sigh of relief, one of the team members asked curiously.
"Didn't you always team up with Asahina for this kind of special exam? Could it be that you made an appointment with someone to compete with each other this time?"
"Well……"
In response to her companion's question, Nan Yunya did not give a clear answer, but just nodded without comment.
I don't know if this nod means that he really doesn't want to team up with Asahina, or if he has really made an appointment with someone to compete with her.
"Nagumo, are you okay?"
The other person couldn't help but show concern.
"Come to think of it, I noticed that you looked a little strange when we left the port. Are you feeling unwell?"
"…Don't worry, I'm fine."
Nan Yunya's eyes twitched slightly when his companion accidentally stepped on a minefield again. However, he quickly composed himself, put on his usual smile without a single flaw, and walked up to pat the two on the shoulders.
"Okay, there's still two-thirds of the way to go. Let's keep going. We can't let the first and second grades get the rewards first."
"That's right. It would be really embarrassing if the first and second graders got there first."
"Let's go!"
At the same time, at the junction of E9, one grid above the north side of E8 on the map of the Nanyun team, a human figure speeding at a speed of kilometers per hour lightly tapped his toes to pass a few branches and then stopped steadily at the edge of the forest.
"Oh, not bad, you're pretty quick, you almost collided with me."
Wu Yi muttered to himself quietly as he squatted on the tree and calmed his breathing.
From his perspective, through the gaps between the dense leaves in front of him was a large flat beach, and on the beach Nanyun and the other two were walking slowly towards him.
Due to the principle that things appear larger when closer and smaller when farther away, the tiny gaps between the leaves allow Wu Yi to clearly see the actions of the latter and others.
But Nanyun couldn't see him at all. He could only see a tree from a distance and nothing else.
"Hey, come to think of it, why have you been drinking seawater since just now?"
On the beach, one of Nanyun's group watched his companions walking on the edge of the beach since they arrived at the estuary. From time to time, they would bend over, dip their fingers in the rising tide, put it in their mouths to taste it, and then frown and spit it out. He couldn't help but ask.
However, what I got in return was a big eye roll.
"What do you mean by drinking seawater? I just wanted to try it. Didn't I buy this when I was doing the last shopping yesterday?"
As if responding to his companions' questions, the third-grade student in the same group moved his backpack from behind to the front, unzipped it and took out a bottle-shaped water purifier.
"With this, we basically don't have to worry about drinking water for the next two weeks. It's much easier than carrying two large bottles of water. When we need to drink water, we just need to do it like this—"
As he said this, he opened the water inlet and pressed the entire water purifier directly into the water. After filling it with water, he lifted it up and opened the water outlet. He was about to demonstrate how to use it through his mouth, but after thinking about it, he put it down awkwardly.
"Forget it. It's not very effective for the first time. Let's wait for it to filter for a while."
"Go! Go! Go……"
After a brief interlude, the Nanyun team continued on their journey.
After moving from E9 to E8 and finding a narrower river that bypassed the estuary, they turned degrees again and began to head southeast.
Finally, after about half an hour, which took a total of forty minutes, the Nanyun team arrived at the destination grid F9 in first place.
Somewhat similar to E9, F9 is also a bare beach with only a small part of the jungle. It is larger than the E9 beach and has a wider view. You can see everything if you stand a little higher.
On the beach, Nanyun's team was setting up camp.
After setting up the tent, nailing it in, and pulling up the canopy, the third grader straightened up and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Huh, finally done, let's take a break..."
However, just as he sat down in the tent and took out a bottle of water purifier from his backpack to drink, he turned around and saw the other two people in the group not far away running into the woods with a bag of things that looked like they were used to assemble a portable toilet.
"Hey, Makino, Nagumo, where are you going?"
"Go to the bathroom!"
Ah this...
Although it is a bit weird to run into the woods to go to the toilet, but think about it, the beach is so flat and can be seen from the opposite side of the estuary. It would be too abnormal if someone saw me taking off my clothes in broad daylight.
After a little thought, the third-grade boy decisively dropped the water purifier in his hand, stood up from the ground without even taking a sip, and hurriedly ran up.
"Wait, I'm coming too!"
Haloxylon ammodendron——
Just five seconds after the three of them left the beach, a sound of rubbing leaves came from the nearest tree.
Then a figure leaped down from the sky and landed gracefully on the ground. It was Wu Yi who had followed all the way. In his hand was a nine-claw hook that was theoretically used to catch crabs.
Looking at the luggage of the three people in the camp scattered on the beach in front of him, he put away the nine-claw hook and couldn't help but click his tongue twice.
"It's not right to throw away the valuables you paid a lot of money for, but since you've left it like this, I won't be polite~"
Volume 365: Chapter :
While Wu Yi was happily shopping for free in the Nanyun camp, in area D7, Asahina, who had been left far behind since the beginning of the exam, finally arrived at the target grid.
[Congratulations, you have received the destination bonus "1 point"]
Looking at the score prompt that popped up on the screen, the girl with the sunflower hairpin put away the terminal helplessly, sighed, looked around at the lush and dense forest, and couldn't help but complain.
"Really? Where did the people go?"
Since Wu Yi had already received the reward for being the first to arrive as a member of the same group, Asahina could only get the reward for reaching the destination within the specified time.
However, even the scores of the members of the merged group are interoperable. Taking into account the eleven points that Wu Yi has already obtained, the total score of the entire group is now twelve points.
But because of this, Asahina couldn't even figure out which one she was.
What's even worse is that she is now absolutely certain that she and Wu Yi must have been separated.
This seemingly ordinary and small destination grid looks no bigger than the joint of an index finger on the terminal map, but when you are really in it, you will find that... it is really too big.
Not only is the area vast, the terrain is also extremely complex. Coupled with the obstruction of trees and bushes, it is extremely difficult to find a person.
I don't know how he will find me...
Forget it, at worst I can just treat this as a normal individual exam.
Thinking this in a somewhat angry way, Asahina decided to set up camp on the spot.
They left the port at 9:10, and it was only 9:40 now.
According to the previous school rules, there will be four orders to move the purpose grid every day except the first day when the exam starts and the last day when the exam ends.
They are once from 7 to 9 in the morning, once from 9 to 11 in the morning, and once from 1 to 3 in the afternoon, and once from 3 to 5 in the afternoon.
Now she has completed all the moving tasks in the morning. The next move will not start until one o'clock in the afternoon. With more than three hours of rest time, it is not a waste to set up a tent.
start!
Although she is a girl, Asahina is not slow at all. In just a dozen minutes, a small camp has taken shape.
Not only did she set up her own single tent, she also took out her quick-heating lunch box, drinking water, and a portable gas tank and gas stove. She found two stones on the open ground and set it up to separate it from the grass to avoid causing a fire.
At that time, you just need to boil water in a pot and put the lunch box in to steam it.
But it was still a bit too early to cook now, so Asahina planned to go back to the tent and lie down for a while.
As for putting things outside, just put them outside. Although the acting chairman of Yuecheng said yesterday that there would definitely be occasional resource scrambles later, this is only the first day of the exams, so no one should be so crazy...
With this in mind, the girl opened the door of the tent, crawled on all fours into the not-too-spacious tent, and lay down on the relatively soft ground separated by a thin waterproof cloth. She stared at the top of the tent with her head blank for a while, then quietly closed her eyes.
……
An hour passed while I lay there.
When I woke up again, the time displayed on the bracelet was exactly eleven o'clock.
It's time to eat, Asahina thought.
I was a little hungry, and the aroma of food wafted in from outside the tent...
Wait, where does the aroma of food come from? !
Suddenly realizing something was wrong, the girl jumped up from the ground and hit the roof of the tent with a dull bang.
Fortunately, the tent is elastic and will not break even after such a collision, but it does hurt my neck a bit.
Helplessly, Asahina, who had been taught a lesson by the tent, could only turn her head carefully in the small space.
When she unzipped the tent door and poked her head out, she saw a tent at least three times larger than hers had been set up in the camp ahead.
And the culprit who had abandoned her and disappeared as soon as an exam started was sitting leisurely in front of the zipper of the tent door, leisurely setting up a pot to boil water to heat up lunch, right opposite the door of her tent.
Judging from the look of it, they are not here to take an exam, but more like to come camping and enjoy life.
"Hi, it looks like you had a good rest. I could hear the noise through the tent just now." Wu Yi waved and greeted.
"……sound?"
Asahina didn't react for a moment. When she came to her senses, she quickly crossed her hands over her mouth, her cheeks slightly red.
"I, I snore? Is that true?"
"Fake, I'm just kidding."
Frankly admitting his own prank, Wu Yi picked up the pot and poured the hot mineral water into a disposable paper cup, then raised it towards Asahina, who was still standing there and had not had time to convert her confusion into anger.
"Rehydrate some water?"
"Uh, thank you..."
Asahina was indeed a little thirsty, so she subconsciously reached out to take it. After taking a sip, she seemed to suddenly remember something and grabbed an unopened bottle of drinking water from her side, but after hesitating for a moment, she put it down.
"Well, if you don't have enough water, tell me."
"Hmm? Oh, that's not the case."
Wu Yi understood what she meant. He poured himself a cup of hot water and took out the bottle-shaped water purifier he had stolen from the Nanyun Group from his backpack with his other hand.
"I made this. When the time comes, I can replenish water resources anytime as long as there is a river."
"puff……"
Asahina almost spit out a mouthful of water.
She stared at the water purifier in Wu Yi's hand with wide eyes, her fingertips trembling slightly.
