Wu Yi lost interest instantly. He had no intention of competing for any ranking, so naturally he didn't care about whether or not he would get extra points.
His goal was just to get Koenji to number one, and to get a million personal points at the same time, which would make him very happy.
Besides, this is only the second day, and the real battle will not begin until the sixth day when the full-map scanning function is released.
"Come on, let's set up camp here first."
"Ah? Camping here?"
Asahina looked around after hearing that, feeling a little confused.
As mentioned before, the vegetation in the E7 area is extremely lush, and in such a place, the tent can be lifted about ten centimeters off the ground.
If you just use it to sleep at night, it might even serve as a mattress.
But it’s almost noon, and they still have to cook. Setting up camp and making a fire to cook in a place like this... aren’t they a little too careless?
Aren’t you afraid that it will turn into setting the mountain on fire?
"Of course we're not setting up camp here. Follow me."
Wu Yi patted the girl's shoulder and turned 90 degrees to head straight into the depths of the jungle.
Asahina was completely unable to react and subconsciously moved her legs to keep up.
"Eh? Wait a minute, no... where are we going?"
"It'll be there soon."
Perhaps less than ten seconds had passed since he finished speaking, and everything in Asahina's eyes suddenly became clear.
The dazzling and slightly scalding sunlight shines through the gaps between the leaves. The stream formed by the clear mountain springs rushes down along the stone-paved riverbed, accompanied by the sound of gurgling water.
"Okay, this is it."
Wu Yi took the lead and walked out of the bushes, coming to the spacious open space on both sides of the river where the sun was shining directly.
It is hard to imagine that there can be such a spacious open space by the river in such a primitive jungle. Logically speaking, shouldn't the vegetation be more lush the closer to the water source?
As Asahina thought about it, she followed Wu Yi's example and took a step forward.
Then--
"Wow~!"
A soft and slippery touch came from under her feet, and the girl felt as if she was stepping on something fresh. She screamed subconsciously and lowered her head.
Fortunately, she didn't step on it, but a considerable part of her shoe sole had sunk into the mud, the deepest part being about three-quarters of the depth of her index finger knuckle.
"Be careful. The mud on your side has probably not been exposed to the sun. Plus, it was soaked in water last night, so it's still quite slippery."
Wu Yi, who had already put down his backpack and was preparing to set up camp, turned around and saw what was going on, and explained.
"All the places on both sides of the river that you see with no vegetation are places that are often washed away by the floodwaters during rainstorms. As long as it rains, they will be soaked, so no plants can grow. As I said before, it is dangerous to camp by the river at night for this reason. However, if we just take a short break at noon, it is no problem."
"Oh oh..."
Asahina nodded, she kicked her feet hard against a thick tree trunk, trying to quickly clean off the mud on the soles of her shoes. Her girlish demeanor was instantly gone.
After finally cleaning the mud off the soles of her shoes, Asahina hopped all the way to the former, checked repeatedly, squatted down, picked up a nail, and started to help.
"Senior, aren't you going to set up your own tent?"
Wu Yi turned his face away in surprise.
Asahina's technique of setting up the tent cannot be said to be very skilled, but it is definitely not awkward. In the past two days, she watched Wu Yi every time he set up and put down the tent. It is not a difficult technical job, and she should be able to learn it even if she just watches.
The girl was humming a cheerful little tune.
"It's okay. We're just going to take a short break at noon anyway. You can just stay in your tent. Besides, this is a three-person tent. It's not like there's no room for two people."
Eh...it seems to make some sense?
The two worked together and the tent was set up quickly.
And because the temporary camp was right next to a stream, Wu Yi replenished the water resources as usual, using the water purifier he got from the Nanyun Group to refill all the drinking water consumed in the past two days.
Including the bottle that Tianze Yixia drank in the morning.
This is why Wu Yi doesn't care at all about his water being stolen.
Anyway, as long as there is a water source, it can be replenished almost infinitely, so it doesn’t matter at all.
Otherwise, he could make a certain little devil schoolgirl drink as much as she wanted and then spray it out in another form... no, spit it out.
"Okay, there's still some time before dinner, I'll go take a look around..."
Before Wu Yi finished speaking, Asahina, who had just opened a bottle of drinking water and was about to drink it, patted her butt on the spot and stood up, raising her right hand high like an elementary school student answering questions in class, with an extremely positive attitude.
"Wait for me, I'll go too!"
"Then the question is, if you go too, who will guard the camp..."
"Oh, it's okay. Just put on your backpack. No one will steal your tent here anyway, and you never know if anyone will come back to this area."
As he was talking, Asahina had already put her backpack on her back and walked briskly to Wu Yi's side, looking like she was ready to go.
Oh, this...
Wu Yi was helpless because of her.
"Don't worry, I'm just walking along the river. I'll be back in less than five minutes. I don't plan to bring any luggage with me. You just wait in the camp. Besides, this is a three-person tent, so it's not like no one will steal it."
"Hmm~"
Hearing this, Asahina hesitated for a moment, then looked at the person in front of her with a rather suspicious look.
"Just five minutes?"
"Yes, just five minutes."
"OK then."
After receiving Wu Yi's repeated affirmation, Asahina finally felt relieved and nodded with a pout.
"Remember to come back in five minutes."
No, why does it sound so much like a little wife's words?
Alarm bells rang in the girl's heart, and she quickly added.
"I don't want to be bothered by inexplicable people again. If someone touches your backpack again, I won't be able to do anything about it."
"Hi hi~"
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I woke up with a headache this morning. My mom started to have a low-grade fever and vomited once. I did an antigen test this morning and it was negative. I don’t know if it will turn positive in the afternoon…
I will update two chapters today, and I will make up for the missing chapter later. (Despair)
Volume 385: Chapter : Li Zai Gan, the God and the Demon
After leaving the temporary camp, Wu Yi walked slowly along the river.
He was now on the west side of the entire mountain stream, which flowed from north to south until it reached the mouth of the sea.
According to speculation, since Nanase was able to track Ayanokouji in E9 before, it means that Ayanokouji Kiyotaka was also in Kawanishi at least during that period of time.
Moreover, if Ayanokouji Kiyotaka is following the same route as they did before, he should have set up camp in area E7 by now.
As mentioned earlier, the vegetation on the west side of the river in area E7 grows extremely lush due to the abundant water resources, and there is almost no place to camp.
The only two options were to either set up a temporary camp in a place where no plants grew by the river like Wu Yi and the others did, or to simply wade across the river and find a place to stay on the larger east side of the river.
But no matter which one it is, in theory it will leave certain clues on the riverside.
Wu Yi took such action based on this assumption.
Although he was moving slowly, his speed was already fast enough in the eyes of others, almost the speed of an ordinary person walking at full speed on a flat ground with good non-slip properties.
At this speed, even a one-kilometer distance can be covered in just five minutes, which is more than enough to walk back and forth vertically in the E7 area.
In addition, without the dim filter of sunglasses, no detail can escape Wu Yi's eyes.
As time went by, he was getting further and further away from the camp.
To be honest, Wu Yi was not really worried about leaving Asahina alone in the camp, and Amaze Ichika, who came to visit this morning, proved this point very well.
Because so far, only a few people know that he and Asahina are teaming up.
Among them, Takuya Yagami has probably already made up his mind to let Ichika Amasawa kidnap Asahina to threaten him on the last day, so there is no need to act rashly before that.
As for Nan Yun, although he might have suffered a little mental blow, he shouldn't be so desperate as to do something desperate.
The only ones who would do something like this by any means necessary are probably Houquan... or Ryuen.
But the problem arises again, they have no idea that they are teaming up with Asahina, and in their eyes, the latter is just a passerby at best.
Have you ever seen anyone kidnapping someone randomly on the street just to threaten them?
Unless the target is Batman...
But Wu Yi is not Batman.
"Oh, I got it."
When they reached a narrower part of the stream, Wu Yi suddenly stopped.
He bent down and touched the soil with his fingertips. The ground was quite smooth and there was no trace of anyone walking on it.
Logically speaking, it rained heavily last night and it was sunny all day today. If someone walked by here, there would be footprints left anyway.
However, what Wu Yi was really observing was not the bare soil by the river, but the boundary between the soil and the vegetation-covered area, where there were several bent weeds, one at a short distance.
Wu Yi squatted and took two steps over to touch it with his fingertips again. There was still moist soil mixed on the bent grass leaves.
Although the area of the trampled grass could not be measured because the weeds had loosened up over time, the distance between them was roughly the size of one step.
It's a simple truth. Although Ayanokouji Kiyotaka can erase the clear footprints on the soil, he can't straighten the weeds that he stepped on.
Unless he can walk on snow without leaving any trace, but that thing only exists in martial arts novels.
Should we say that being too clever backfired? Although Ayanokouji Kiyotaka thought of using this method to conceal his tracks as much as possible, he failed to hide completely.
And Wu Yi also noticed it. With such a method, he didn't even need to think about it, he knew who did it immediately.
The chances are probably more than 80%.
So the question is, now more than half of the agreed five minutes has passed.
So what should we do next, go over and see for ourselves to increase our confidence to 100%, or should we abide by the agreement and return to the camp immediately?
After a little thought, Wu Yi decisively chose the latter. He stood up and turned around to walk upstream along the stream, which was the direction of the camp.
In short, what is certain at the moment is that the route taken by Ayanokouji Kiyotaka is most likely the same as his own.
Although the full-map scanning function will be enabled after the sixth day of the exam, it will not be so important to find out everyone's route by then. You only need to spend one point to scan it once.
But what Wu Yi needs to do is to give a certain white room's supreme masterpiece a little Gao Yu shock in the first six days.
After all, even he himself could not have carried out high-intensity activities for half a month when there was a severe shortage of water and food. Moreover, every student had a bracelet on his hand to monitor his physical condition. Once any indicator was seriously lower than the average level, the bracelet would trigger an alarm.
Losing the qualification to compete due to shortage of supplies is the most suitable exit method for the useless student character that Kiyotaka Ayanokouji has played for more than a year.
Thinking of this, Wu Yi returned to the camp unknowingly.
However, the camp was quiet.
It’s not that there’s anything wrong with quietness, it’s just… it’s too quiet. Apart from the sound of the gurgling stream nearby, the only sound is the rustling of the treetops in the wind.
"Senior?"
Wu Yi asked tentatively, but no one answered, only the echo.
He suddenly realized the problem, why Asahina was gone.
No, where are the people?
Looking around, I did not see the girl, but there were no messy footprints on the ground either.
It doesn't look like a fight had happened. Did he go to the bathroom?
Well, this is very possible. You know, this lady was the kind of person who, in order to avoid being seen taking a shower, went to the lake in the dark of night in the forest, and even got lost on the way back.
If we pull Rainbow or something into an uninhabited dense forest to solve the problem, it is not completely impossible.
Feeling that his inference was very likely, Wu Yi thought about it for a while and then calmly sat down at the door of the tent, ready to wait for a while before making any further comments.
