Hikigaya doesn't want to be a force of strength

As long as the operation is done properly, there is a possibility of achieving result 1.

So what is the method that needs to be used to achieve the result?

"Starting tomorrow, you will all go to the designated room at school at 1pm and 8pm." Majima interrupted Hikigaya's thoughts. "When you first meet, you must introduce yourself in the room. After entering the room, you are basically not allowed to leave the room during the exam, so please go to the bathroom first. If you can't stand it or feel unwell, please contact the class teacher immediately and apply."

"Each conversation will last for one hour. Apart from the initial self-introduction, you can use the rest of the time as you wish. After one hour, you are free to stay in the room and continue talking, or leave."

"In order to ensure fairness, the school will select the favored students in the group according to the rules. Regardless of whether you are selected as a favored student or not, we will not accept any requests for changes. In addition, all copying, forwarding, and altering of emails sent by the school are prohibited."

"That's all for this exam. I wish you all the best."

This time, Mr. Mashima completely finished his story, and even got up and left the scene after he finished.

Chapter 350: Have you also read the complete collection of commonly used proverbs in the Celestial Empire?

Teacher Majima explained the specific rules of the second round of special exams to Hikigaya and others.

To put it simply, all first-year students will start a werewolf game on this cruise ship where they will guess who will be the one to benefit from it.

Each class not only needs to guess who the favored ones are in other classes, but also needs to hide the favored ones in their own class so that they are not discovered by members of other classes.

This will inevitably lead to confrontation between classes, as well as mutual suspicion and deception among students.

All I can say is that the style of this school's design exams is still as perverted and terrible as ever. Compared to a pure and innocent little white rabbit like Qi Gu, it is really too dangerous.

"Anyway, let's try to understand the current situation first." Horikita Suzune forced herself to stay calm, "If any of us are favored, please inform the others immediately, so that we can try to move forward with the second result as the goal."

Horikita Suzune tried to adopt a conservative strategy to achieve the second result that the other classes would not guess who the preferential treatment was.

In fact, this is a reasonable idea.

Four different endings.

Result 1 is not only difficult but also dangerous, and can easily be sabotaged by traitors, making it a difficult result to achieve.

Result three is a purely bad ending. If the person who is guessed to be the favored one is found out, the class will directly lose 50 class points.

Result four requires understanding the traitor's psychology and making him actively guess the identity of the benefactor, which is the most difficult one.

With Horikita's brain, the best option she could think of was to try her best to achieve result 2.

Although I can't get class points, as long as I can get 50 personal points, it's a good reward.

"..."

As for Horikita Suzune's choice, Kushida Kikyo seemed to have some different ideas.

But she couldn't object on the surface, so she fell into a brief silence, and then replied stiffly: "Well, if I were the one who treated you well, I would tell you the news."

Seeing Kushida like this, Hikigaya fell into a brief silence, and then quietly spoke:

"It's okay if you don't say it."

"Eh?"

Hikigaya's words elicited reactions from Horikita and Kushida. They obviously didn't expect him to say such words, and they were both surprised for a moment.

"Hikigaya, what do you mean?"

Horikita Suzune asked the question immediately, and made a serious statement to Hikigaya that sounded like she was worried and angry.

In Horikita's mind, the most critical factor in this exam is teamwork. The key to the exam is to work together as a team to cover up the truth about who is the preferential treatment.

This idea is not wrong, but it is indeed far from being correct.

Hikigaya said silently: "It's just what it says. If you follow your idea, Horikita, and only aim to achieve result 2, then it would be the right thing to do not tell your companions about your status as the favored one? In other words, even if you tell your companions, what's the point?"

"This……"

Hikigaya's words made Horikita Suzune fall into silence. Apparently, the latter gradually understood what Hikigaya meant by his questioning.

However, Kushida Kikyo was still confused and asked, "What do you mean, Hikigaya-san? Why do you say that if you want to achieve result 2, you shouldn't tell others about your status as a preferential treatment recipient?"

"It's simple, because Result 50 is a personal victory." Hikigaya glanced at Kushida silently, "Among the four results, only Result 50 allows the favored person to get points as a reward, and the others will not get any benefit at all. If I were the favored person and achieved Result , it would be better to hide the fact and enjoy the generous reward alone in the end, rather than telling the rest of the class that I got points and letting them share my achievements."

"The school obviously intends to guide students to do this, so they allow anonymous recipients of rewards, and the identities of the recipients will not be revealed until the test results are released."

"..."

Hikigaya's calm but all-too-human words echoed slowly at the scene.

Horikita Suzune and Kushida Kikyo were both shocked by his cold words, and for a moment they didn't even know how to respond.

"And telling others about your status as a favored student, don't you think this is superfluous?" Hikigaya thought that the two did not understand what he said, so he continued, "Since you are just pursuing result 2, instead of letting other people in the same group bear the risk and burden, and increasing the possibility of everyone discovering your status as a favored student, it might be better to just say nothing and keep your mouth shut until the end of the exam. Maybe it will be more efficient!"

"This...I..."

Horikita was convinced by Hikigaya's cold words and could no longer maintain her original opinion.

After all, what Hikigaya said was all valid points, and outcome two was the most boring of the four outcomes, and also the easiest to achieve.

If you are only acting with this result in mind, the best thing to do is to do nothing.

In fact, there might be a class among the four classes that actually takes similar actions and does nothing from the beginning to the end of the exam.

Seeing that Horikita was depressed by what he said, and was about to become depressed like before, Hikigaya quickly made amends, "Ahem, well, there is an old saying in China that goes, know yourself and know your enemy, and you will give up every battle. Sometimes, giving up appropriately and taking action is also a reasonable choice."

"Does China have such an old saying?" After hearing this, Kushida Kikyo said seriously, "Xiaomei, as an international student from China, doesn't seem to have said such a thing."

“Don’t worry about the details.”

Hikigaya naturally ignored the fact that he had secretly changed the words of the ancients, and tried to comfort Horikita Suzune and calm her down.

However, Horikita was clearly not as fragile as Hikigaya thought.

After the disastrous defeat last time, she had learned some lessons. She said seriously, "Hikigaya, you are right. If we only aim for result 2, there is no need to know the identity of the favored person in advance."

"Yeah, so why don't we just give up this exam and do whatever we want." Hikigaya quickly went into a bad state, "As the saying goes - shoot the horse first before shooting the man, I think we should just give up."

"Another weird old saying..."

Kikyo Kushida has been in contact with the Chinese student Wang Meiyu for a long time, and has some knowledge about China. Now she couldn't help but complain about Biqitani's words.

On the other side, after a brief hesitation, Horikita Suzune's gaze gradually became stern.

"As Hikigaya said, if we pursue result 2, it is better to give up directly. But what if the goal is not just to pursue result 2?"

"what?"

Hikigaya and Kushida both looked surprised by Horikita's sudden words.

Horikita Suzune hesitated for a while, then slowly spoke:

"Whether it is result one or result two, the final result will only be based on individual points, and will not affect the ranking of the class itself. If you really want to promote the class and upgrade Class D to a higher level, you can't just focus on individual points, but must obtain enough class points!"

"So, the real goal of this exam is to pursue results three and four. Only in this way can we really get enough rewards and can we really move Class D in a higher direction. Moreover, in this way, sharing the information of the preferential treatment will become meaningful, right?"

"..."

Horikita Suzune's words took Hikigaya and Kushida by surprise.

Especially Hikigaya, he didn't expect that his words trying to persuade Horikita Suzune to give up the exam would have the opposite effect, making the other party more determined to work hard on the exam.

"But both result three and result four are very difficult." Kushida Kikyo couldn't help but speak up, "Whether it's guessing who is favored by other classes or making other classes misunderstand who is favored by our class, it's not something that can be done casually."

"Yes, yes, this kind of thing is very difficult."

Hikigaya agreed decisively.

Are you kidding? He has no interest in wasting time on such a boring exam.

Instead of engaging in intrigue with these guys, it is better to go back to the dormitory and lie on the bed like Ge You. You can't waste your precious time of slacking off.

But the two's words obviously couldn't shake Horikita's mind.

"It's not an easy task to promote Class D to Class A." Horikita Suzune said firmly, "Isn't there an old saying that goes, 'God helps those who help themselves, and God forsakes those who abandon themselves?' If you give up on taking the right path from the beginning, even God won't help you."

Why did this guy start learning from himself directly?

Have you also secretly read the Complete Collection of Chinese Proverbs?

However, now that Horikita Suzune has said this, it is clear that neither Hikigaya nor Kushida can change anything.

However, neither of them thought things would go so smoothly.

After all, it is easy to say that you want to achieve results three and four, but when you really want to do it, you don’t even know how to start.

Although Hikigaya could think of some feasible methods, he didn't have to help Horikita because it would not benefit him in any way.

After all, there is almost no negative punishment in this exam. Unless you get result three in the end, any result will be acceptable.

Moreover, what made Hikigaya decide to give up from the very beginning was the group they were currently in.

On the Dragon Team's list, the members of the four classes are all absolutely outstanding.

Competing with these guys, Hikigaya felt that he was simply tired of living...

It’s better to just be honest and give up.

Chapter 351 Am I the adapter that connects the two of them? !

"Well, if you think so, then do it."

Since Horikita Suzune has made up her mind, it is impossible for Hikigaya to persuade her to give up at this time, and he can only silently agree with Horikita's idea.

He turned to look at Kushida, and for some reason, Kushida Kikyo's eyes looked a little flustered and confused.

“…Well, let’s do this.”

Kushida spoke in a tone that was not too firm, and as if due to the atmosphere, he agreed with Horikita Suzune's idea.

"Thank you." Horikita Suzune said gratefully. She also knew that her request was a bit too reluctant and too difficult to achieve. "In this case, as soon as the identities of the favored persons are revealed, if one of us is the favored person, we must tell each other and work hard to achieve result four. If the favored person is not among us, we must find a way to find the real favored person hidden in the group."

Horikita was obviously anxious to regain her ground in the second special exam because of the failure on the uninhabited island, or at least to make up for some of the gap in the class.

Although the rules of this special cruise ship exam are more complicated, the operation has become simpler.

Simply put, if there are no preferential students in your family, then try to find the real preferential students hidden in other classes, and send this information to the school in advance to achieve result three.

If the favored student is at home, then you can try to make other classes mistakenly think that the real favored student is another person, and send the news to the school, so as to achieve result four.

Other than results one and two, you will only get personal points, which have nothing to do with class points.

Therefore, if the goal is class struggle, basically, these two results will not be considered.

Of course, even so, achieving results three and four can still be said to be very difficult.

If it weren't for Hikigaya's instigation and provocation, Horikita Suzune would not have made up her mind so easily. However, her personality is the kind that it would be fine if she didn't make up her mind, but once she made up her mind, she would decide not to change her goal.

Next, the other party will probably try their best to create the final situation of result three and result four.

But can this kind of thing really be done easily?

Even Hikigaya couldn't help but be skeptical about this.

"The first meeting is scheduled for 1pm tomorrow afternoon. Before 8am tomorrow morning, the identity of the beneficiaries will be made public. I hope the three of us can gather together at that time."

Horikita spoke silently, looking to the right at Hikigaya and Kushida.

"Well, if there is confidence in the favored person at that time, I will share it with you."

Kushida Kikyo nodded seemingly enthusiastically, but Hikigaya couldn't ignore the hypocrisy in it.

However, Hikigaya still couldn't figure out the reason for Kushida's peculiar attitude, so he could only nod and say, "Then we'll see you then."

……

After the briefing, Hikigaya returned to the dormitory alone to rest.

When I returned to the dormitory, I found that the dormitory, which was usually empty, was now fully occupied.

Not only were Hirata Yosuke and Ayanokouji Kiyotaka already lying in bed, but even Koenji had come back at some point and was fiddling with his hair in front of the mirror.

They should have attended the briefing session for the special exam and returned to the dormitory after learning about their grouping and exam rules.

It is easy to guess what Hirata Yosuke is thinking. He must be trying to grasp the situation of the entire class as much as possible and confirm the number of people who are receiving preferential treatment.

As for Ayanokouji Kiyotaka, according to the characteristics of his opponent's actions on the uninhabited island, he should also aim to pursue results three and four within the group next.

Although Hikigaya has always been reluctant to see Ayanokouji use the method he did, since they are not in the same group this time, he is too lazy to care about him.