Wu Yi laughed loudly.
"It seems that he didn't. I think he told you this - this exam prohibits students from disguising and modifying school text messages. This is to prevent students who are proficient in programming from changing the content of text messages by connecting to computers to defraud other students in the same group. Deleting text messages does not count as disguising and modifying... right?"
"Besides, the school doesn't stipulate that everyone must show their text messages to other group members. If I don't show them to you either, then what does it have to do with you whether I delete the text messages or not? Huh? Huh?!"
As he spoke, Wu Yi raised his eyebrows, sounding particularly sarcastic.
Machida took a deep breath to calm his blood pressure. "Indeed, as you said, we just need to not say anything. Then... all the following discussions will remain silent in Class A. That's it."
"Let me guess, this is Ge Cheng's strategy?" Wu Yi looked like he was trying to provoke.
He said this on purpose. Even without guessing, we knew that since Arisu Sakayanagi said she would not participate in this special exam, she would definitely not participate and would leave the baton entirely to Katsuragi.
Besides, this kind of shield-style gunlance operation like in Monster Hunter has never been her style.
If it was Arisu Sakayanagi, she would just let everyone in the class try as much as possible in the first discussion, summarize the situation after it was over, and then directly start the one-to-eleven mode.
In some ways, this white-haired loli and Wu Yi can be said to be almost cut from the same mold.
"So what?" Machida responded unyieldingly.
"Nothing, just a guess, why are you so excited?"
Every word Wu Yi said was like a soft thorn, torturing the other party.
"After all, this tortoise shell style of tactics is not very similar to the style of your class's Katsuragi, but it can be said to be exactly the same. He does not seek merit but only avoids mistakes. I think he should be quite suitable to be a civil servant in the future."
"So it's the same for your Class B, isn't it?" Machida glared.
"Same?"
Wu Yi sneered in an ambiguous manner.
"What a joke, I deleted the text without even reading it because I thought it was fun to do so, to push the exam into a completely unpredictable situation; and you, Class A, are sitting in jail here as Malphite because Katsuragi doesn't trust your abilities, afraid that you'll let slip and get tricked into revealing your true colors. To put it in an analogy in a MOBA, it's like all four of your teammates asking you to just stay at the fountain and not come out, and win by lying down... Doing nothing is your greatest contribution to the team, you understand? The difference in rank between us is too big, you idiot."
"You, try saying that again!" Machida's anger bar instantly filled up.
"You're an idiot...an idiot...an idiot...an idiot..."
Wu Yi simply intercepted the most essential parts and repeated them in an echoing manner, which made Machida very angry.
Just as the war of words was about to break out, at this moment, the broadcast announcing the end of the first round of discussion sounded over the loudspeaker.
"Huh~ Okay, that's all for today, time to rest~"
Wu Yi immediately stood up from his seat, stretched lazily, and walked out the door.
However, he stopped just before stepping out the door and looked back at Shiho Manabe from Class C who was still sitting.
"By the way, regarding the incident at the beginning, remember to look back and send me a message when you have time. At that time, please also invite the girl named Lihua from your class so that we can meet together."
"Oh, I see..."
Manabe Shiho nodded blankly.
The first round of meetings was thus disbanded.
However, Wu Yi did not immediately return to Sakayanagi Arisu, nor did he return to the student dormitory with Yukimura and Sotomura.
He was pulled by Karuizawa Kei, and the two came to a secluded corner where no one was.
"Why did you stop me before?!"
Karuizawa Kei had no intention of concealing her feelings, and right from the start she burst out all her anger and grievances through words.
Wu Yi shrugged unmoved.
"Don't be silly, it's for your own good. What else can I do? Do you want me to slap someone's phone and send it flying? If it breaks, you'll have to pay for it."
"Then who asked her to take a picture of me! Did I let her take a picture of me!?" the girl continued to yell.
"That's two different things. If she wants to take a photo of you and you don't let her, but she still takes a photo of you, then you do have reason to smash her phone."
Wu Yi paused here.
"But if you just go up and slap someone without saying anything, that would be considered intentional."
"..."
Without waiting for Karuizawa Kei to speak, he continued.
"So, is what Manabe said before true? You cut in line at the coffee shop and bumped into someone."
"…So what if that's the case!"
Karuizawa Kei clenched her fists and yelled back at the top of her lungs.
"Aren't you a good fighter? Even Ibuki from Class C couldn't beat you. Didn't you always say you were doing this for my own good and protecting me? Then why don't you go and beat that bullshit Manabe and that bullshit Rika to death! Don't let them bother me!"
Perhaps she was frightened by the volume of her own voice. After yelling, the girl gasped in panic and her body trembled slightly.
Wu Yi stared at her for a while, then suddenly felt a little bored and let out a breath.
"Really? So you're this type. Never mind. Just pretend I didn't ask."
He left behind these words so faintly that they were almost unnoticeable, then turned around and left, leaving Karuizawa Kei standing there alone.
After a long time, soft sobbing sounds spread in the deserted corridor on the second floor.
Volume 118: Chapter : Promise with Ibuki
The school arranges discussion time twice a day.
The first time was from 1 to 2 in the afternoon, and the second time was scheduled from 7 to 8 after dinner.
To be honest, Wu Yi doesn’t think this so-called discussion has any meaning.
Assuming that each group has at least three to four people from a class, as long as the favored person is determined to hide his identity and is not so stupid as to deceive his teammates, as long as he communicates privately and lets his classmates in the same group refuse to participate in the discussion, then the people from other classes will not be able to infer it out of thin air no matter how capable they are.
As for pure guessing...
Even if the remaining three classes in the same group all showed text messages confirming that they were not the preferential treatment recipients, there were still two of the three people in the only remaining class who were not the preferential treatment recipients.
You have to know that if you hand in the paper early and answer the questions incorrectly, you will lose 50 class points. Who dares to take this risk?
No one dares to take this risk.
Ichinose Honami was also aware of this, but she did not give up. Although both classes A and B showed varying degrees of tendency to open up during the afternoon discussion, she still came up with a new way to break the ice.
She brought two decks of playing cards directly with her in the evening.
"Well, I know it's impossible for you to have a heart-to-heart talk right away, but it's not a good idea to just stay in this stalemate, so I brought some entertainment tonight for you to play with. What do you think?"
"No problem for me." Wu Yi waved his hand to indicate that he wanted to join.
"Hmm, a retro card game? It's nice to play it occasionally as a pastime." Sotomura Hideo nodded seriously, holding his chin.
"Anyway, it's better than sitting here and staring." Yukimura pushed up his glasses.
The final result was that everyone except the three people from Class A joined. Machida and the others probably wanted to implement the tactics that Katsuragi gave them. Even when Ichinose asked them if they wanted to play together, they remained silent.
It really became Moffitt.
Oh, by the way, Karuizawa Megumi didn't join either, but it wasn't because she refused to join, but because she didn't come to the evening discussion at all.
"Is Karuizawa-san okay? She didn't even show up for the evening discussion..."
While Ichinose was shuffling the cards, Manabe from Class D came over and asked Wu Yi curiously.
"She?"
Wu Yi pursed her lips, and there was a hint of indifference in her voice.
"Nothing, just a kid being upset."
"Uh?"
Manabe Shiho didn't understand at all, but she didn't ask any further questions.
The way of playing that Ichinose prepared is a bit like Stud. The scientific name of Stud is “Five Card Stud”, which is a very popular poker game. It also has other common names such as “Hong Kong Five Cards” and so on.
But it's not completely all-in. The rules of Ichinose are very simple and not that complicated. It's just a simple comparison of size.
In addition, in Stud Poker, only the first card is a hidden card, while Ichinose's way of playing is to deal all the cards as hidden cards.
To increase the excitement, she even hand-cut some small pieces of paper and wrote the same amount on them as chips. If she wanted to follow, she would raise the bet one piece at a time.
So under this rule, the person who lost the fastest was Yukimura, who was the best at math among all the people present.
He is a very cautious person. Once he sees that his cards are not that good, he will immediately choose to fold and not follow the call. After just a few rounds, the chips in his hand will be reduced by half.
In comparison, the one who won the most was Wu Yi.
This guy was betting like a madman from the very beginning. He didn't even look at the cards in his hand. He dared to show his hand fiercely with a hand of cards whose value he didn't even know. Others wondered how big a hand he had and they all folded their cards halfway to cut their losses in time.
But soon others gradually discovered the clue, that is, this guy would follow any cards he got without any hesitation.
The cowardly
After a few more rounds, several people who were unwilling to keep losing began to imitate Wu Yi's actions and followed him to the end.
However, it is not known whether to say that they were unlucky or Wu Yi was too lucky, because it was precisely in those few hands that the points on the latter's hand were always just a little bit higher than theirs.
The result was that without exception, all of them were given for nothing.
In the end, the only one still fighting with Wu Yi was Ibuki Mio from Class D. Everyone else had lost all their chips, but she had learned to go all-in since the first third of the game, and she actually won quite a bit along the way. The two of them had almost the same number of chips.
"Well, it looks like this is basically the last round."
Wu Yi tilted his head and compared the number of chips in hand of both parties.
And Ibuki Mio responded with a serious look without showing any weakness.
Manabe Shiho's lips moved slightly. Although it was unclear what she said, judging from the changes in her lip shape, she should have said - Tsk, it's true that fools have good luck.
"Then both parties please place your bets!"
Ichinose Honoki, who had completely transformed from a dealer and contestant to a pure sexy dealer, said loudly while dealing the first hidden card to each of them.
Wu Yi raised his head and glanced at the quartz clock hanging on the wall, then threw all the chips in his hand into the middle.
"Come on, let's decide the winner in one round."
"Humph……"
Ibuki Mio snorted and followed suit, pushing all her chips forward.
She also showed her hands proudly.
Seeing this, Ichinose said nothing more and dealt the remaining four cards to the two of them.
"By the way, do you want to add something else?"
Wu Yi suddenly raised his head.
"After all, these chips are just fake. No matter whether you win or lose, you won't feel anything. So I'll raise the bet again. The loser has to promise the winner something."
"Follow me."
A condition that might take Ryuuen five or six seconds to think about, but for Ibuki Mio it only takes one second.
The girl decisively chose to place the bet.
Both sides opened their cards, Wu Yi had 39 points and Ibuki Mio had 45 points.
To everyone's surprise, the final winner was Ibuki Mio.
At the same time, the announcement of the end of the discussion sounded from the loudspeaker.
"Oh, it looks like I lost."
After seeing the difference in points between the two sides at a glance, Wu Yi folded the cards in his hand and returned them to Ichinose, then stood up gracefully.
"Then as agreed, I will lose you a promise."
The two rounds of discussions on the first day ended without any progress.
No, it cannot be said that there has been no progress. At least we have more or less understood each other's personalities.
I think this is Ichinose's purpose.
After the discussion meeting was over, Wu Yi did not return to the room immediately. Instead, he came to the beverage vending machine on the deck, with the endless starry sky above his head.
However, just as he was about to click the button to confirm the order, a familiar voice came from the lounge area in the distance.
"It's been a long time since we three have sat down together to drink tea and chat in such a relaxed manner."
"It was destined. After many twists and turns, we both chose to become teachers."
