Shadow of the Wood

Chapter 240 War

After all, Hatake Kakashi's character was not as crazy as Mitarai Anko's. For the second exam, Shikamaru led a group of advanced candidates to the venue-No.17 practice field.

Muye Village itself is a military organization. The largest area in the village is not a residential house or an office building, but a variety of exercise sites. Last year, the No. 44 exercise site nicknamed "Death Forest" and today's slightly The smaller NO.17 exercise field is just one of them.

When Shikamaru led a group of candidates to the periphery of the practice field, Hatake Kakashi had already been waiting there for a while.

"Thank you, Shikamaru!" Hatake Kakashi put away the novel in his hand, greeted Shikamaru lazily, and looked thoughtfully at the ninjas following him: "It seems that the first game The exam went very well."

The number of candidates following Shikamaru was pitifully small, not even a quarter of the original number. Kakashi Hatake's "good" was obviously referring to the effect of eliminating candidates in the written test.

"I'll leave the rest to you." Shikamaru looked at the training ground behind Hatake Kakashi. Unlike the "Death Forest", the No. 17 training ground is a plain, although there are iron fences around it , but you can still see the towering towers standing on the plain.

The rules of the second test are actually very simple. There are thirteen towers standing in No. 17 practice field. These towers are scattered in every corner of the practice field. The interior of six towers has been marked by Hatake Kakashi in advance. , these six marked towers are the targets of the candidates. Of course, Hatake Kakashi will not tell these candidates which towers are marked and what the marks look like. It is up to the candidates to find the towers by themselves. difference between.

For 48 hours after the start of the exam, the candidates have to spend in this practice field. Their goal is to seize the marked tower. To pass this exam, the team must occupy a marked tower alone. 48 Once the hour has passed, whichever team captures the marker tower by then will be considered a victory.

In other words, there are only six qualified teams at most in this exam, and the rest of the candidate teams will be eliminated.

However, Shikamaru doubts whether there are as many as six teams that can successfully advance. Hatake Kakashi did not tell the candidates what the marks inside the towers look like. That is to say, if you want to know which tower is the mark tower, at least It is necessary to observe the thirteen towers one by one, and in the team of candidates who know in advance that the number of promotion places is limited, this process will definitely not be peaceful.

Another point that cannot be ignored is that only the one who "survives" 48 hours and still occupies the tower after the exam is over will be considered the winner. However, successfully occupying the tower is considered a victory, so when to join the battle for the tower will also be something that each team must pay attention to.

"By the way, there are supplies including ninja gear hidden in the marking tower." After Hatake Kakashi explained the general rules of the second exam, he patted the back of his head as if thinking of it: "Although there are not many, but I'm worried that you won't have enough, so I put some in, and you have to find them yourself."

All the examinees looked at each other. For low-level ninjas who are not proficient in more ninjutsu, the importance of ninja equipment is self-evident. In the 48-hour high-intensity war, the speed of ninja equipment consumption is absolutely very fast, Kakashi told This makes these candidates have another need to occupy the tower - supplies.

This undoubtedly added fuel to the already tense atmosphere among the candidates. Even if they had a wait-and-see attitude and were waiting for the candidates who would snatch the tower later, they would not want other teams to successfully occupy the marked tower and obtain supplies.

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Shikamaru watched the last group of candidates enter the practice field, then turned around and asked Kakashi Hatake, who had time to look at his intimate paradise, and said, "Did you really put the supplies in the marker tower?"

Hatake Kakashi did not explain this when the plan was first formulated, so Shikamaru had doubts.

"Of course not." Hatake Kakashi didn't raise his head, but let out a weird smirk from under the mask that covered most of his face: "I'm lying to them, otherwise they would have waited for the time to be late before competing for the tower, What if there is an accident and no one advances?"

Shikamaru raised his eyebrows, he really had nothing to say to the unscrupulous Hatake Kakashi, and he didn't care about someone who was immersed in the novel, he went to a small building inside the practice field first, waiting for the exam result.

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Unlike Shikamaru, Hatake Kakashi and others who were calmly waiting for the test results, the candidates inside the training ground fought at the beginning of the test.

Although Shikamaru eliminated many candidates in the written test, there are still [-] teams remaining. If they want to occupy the few places, they must compete with other candidates, and the process of competition cannot be peaceful. negotiations.

Snapped!

Rixiang Ningci watched the enemy in front of him limply collapsed on the grass, and slowly withdrew his soft fist posture.

In this exam, even if it is a high-strength team, if they are confident and have too many fights with others, they may lose and lose their qualifications for promotion, not to mention the possibility of being besieged.

In contrast, being able to ambush and eliminate one or two teams when the situation is favorable can also reduce competitors to some extent. Most of the people who have this kind of thinking are teams that have certain confidence in their own strength. What happened to Rixiang Ningci and others The same goes for teams.

Too bad they picked the wrong guy.

This Taki ninja team is strong, but unfortunately for Ri Xiangning's eyes, the ambush has become a ridiculous move. After the ambush turned into an encounter, in just 3 minutes, Li Luoke and Ri Xiangning He Tiantian easily dealt with the enemy, and he was unharmed.

But the faces of the three people who ended the battle didn't show a trace of complacency. The exam had just begun, and even with their strength, if they didn't handle it carefully, they would inevitably fail.

Not to mention the fierce battle among candidates in the training ground, Shikamaru, who had just stepped into the small building in the training ground, had not had time to take a sip of water before being called to the office by Tsunade who had been waiting here for a while. The chief examiner Kato Shizune discussed the holding of the third exam together.

Unlike last year, Tsunade put a lot of effort into Konoha Village's momentum for this exam. The third exam, which was originally scheduled for one day, was changed to two days, and the pre-selection of the third exam was eliminated. This is non-committal, most of his tasks are related to maintaining order and security.

However, this year’s representative of the fire country daimyo is still the elder Hideo Mita. This old man watched the match between Shikamaru and Gaara last year. Neither Tsunade nor Shikamaru thought about agreeing to this proposal, but out of politeness, Tsunade arranged for Shikamaru to protect each other in the third exam this time, and shoulder the responsibility of explaining.

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With the passage of time, the second exam of the Chunin exam is coming to an end. The six Chunin* elites from Konoha Village will go to the six marked towers respectively, and bring the winning candidate team to Tsunade temporarily. In the small building where he settled down, he explained the rules of the third exam.

Tsunade, Shikamaru, Hatake Kakashi, and Kato Shizune all waited early in an indoor training ground. After a while, Konoha Chunin, who was out, brought the team of examinees.

Not surprisingly, Rixiang Ningji, Li Luoke, and the third class of Genin who belonged to Tiantian, and the tentative tenth class composed of Yume Shino, Inuzuka Ya, and No Sakura all successfully passed the second exam.

Tsunade showed a satisfied smile unabashedly, with these few outstanding ninjas advancing, more than half of her goal has been accomplished.

Just like Shikamaru’s suspicion before the start of the second exam, besides sending a few Xiaoqiang’s teams, only one team of candidates from Taki Shinobi Village passed the test together. When Konoha Churen went to lead the team of candidates, he still There were two marked high towers that failed to separate the results, and all the candidates were ruthlessly eliminated.

Having experienced Shikamaru's psychological offensive in the written test and the brutal fight in the second test, Konoha Village will no longer try to think of complicated methods to test the psychological quality of the remaining candidates. I feel unwell and need to be treated by a medical ninja. After getting Qi Qi's negative answer, Tsunade started to explain.

It is similar to what the three generations of Hokage said last year. Although most of them are teenagers in front of them, and they were still in school in Shikamaru’s previous life, but in this world, many times they have to face the cruel competition of life and death. As Hokage, Tsunade must All their meaningless fantasies were completely torn apart, and the bloody reality was presented before their eyes.

"This is war." Tsunade used this as his opening remarks: "All countries demonstrate their strength and potential, stifle some people's unrealistic delusions, and put uncontrollable friction and struggle on the table, while obtaining the greatest benefit ..., this is the origin of the Chunin Exam!"