"It's quite a retro exam format. ”

Kakashi Hachiki leaned on the railing, looking at the ninjas who were struggling to write or scratch their heads and ears on the sidelines, and said leisurely.

The middle ninja exam will be restructured every year, but usually only the form of the first game will be changed, after all, some tricks are useless once played. As for the second Jungle Scroll Battle and the third Individual Battle, they are quite classic and don't tease the candidates, so they generally don't change much.

However, this year's Zhongnin exam is slightly different-

"Hmm, was that the same with the previous Chunin exams, Kakashi-sensei?"

The slender girl standing next to Kakashi leaned over and asked curiously.

It was a girl with a very delicate and charming appearance, although her forehead was a little broad, but with those smart eyes, her soft facial features looked heroic and extraordinary, and standing next to Kakashi, her aura was not weaker than that of this elite ninja known as Konoha Technician, and even faintly better, so that people couldn't help but look at her.

It's Haruno Sakura.

After a whole week of leisurely work, she was finally summoned by Tsunade today and given a new mission: to patrol the examination room with Kakashi, eliminate unsafe factors, ensure the smooth progress of the Chunin exam, and protect the safety of the big shots.

"Well, that's pretty much what I did when I took the Shinobu exam. Kakashi took out an exam schedule from his bosom and said to the girl next to him as he looked at it, "The first is a cultural test, the second is a team battle in small groups, and the third is an individual battle. ”

He rubbed the paper in his hand, his expression like he was lost in remembrance.

Who are you thinking?

Sakura Haruno glanced at him secretly, the mask covering his expression, and Kakashi, who only showed one eye on his entire face, had a hard time figuring out his thoughts.

After a long time, Kakashi said, "There will be no elimination in each game, only the score will be calculated, and the total score will be calculated after the candidates have taken three exams, so as to evaluate whether they can be promoted to the middle ninja." This was the format of the exam at that time. ”

Maybe I'm thinking about the two people on the memorial monument. Sakura didn't speak, just silently buried her guess in her heart.

Turn your attention back to the exam room.

This year's Zhongnin exam is quite interesting.

Except for the third one, which is still the same for the individual battle, the first and second exams have changed.

The first exam requires candidates to answer questions in small groups.

On the surface, it is just a cultural class exam, but the rules of the exam are very interesting. In addition to the regular questions, there are also a few questions on the paper that are clearly difficult to answer, and the level of forbearance will never be answered.

Then each squad's shinobi was assigned to a seemingly closed cubicle to answer the questions, and the examiner's invigilation was very lax, only patrolling every once in a while, which was simply encouraging cheating. Therefore, the candidates are using their magic powers to cheat and counter cheating—the focus of this exam is actually on the ability of the shinobi to gather and protect intelligence.

The three children in Haruno Sakura's class didn't have any particularly covert ability to peek at the answers, and they weren't like the candidates in Haruno Sakura's class, all of whom knew a few mysterious and weird family secret techniques - this kind of thing didn't even have Konohamaru. It is not efficient to use ordinary ninjutsu and covert techniques to peep at cheating, and in fact, this is also the dilemma faced by most candidates.

"Those are deliberately arranged, right?" Sakura Haruno smirked as she pointed to the ninjas who suddenly withdrew from the exam in the field.

As soon as those guys entered the cubicle, they began to answer questions, and each of them took an answer sheet and wrote the answer and then withdrew from the competition, and their acting skills can be described as touching.

Kakashi smiled and didn't speak.

From the perspective of the two of them, it can be seen that after a few Kautos left the field, the candidates who were about to move began to act in what they thought were hidden. The test papers full of answers were left on the table in the cubicle, and the candidates from different groups fought for those few papers, and the seemingly calm examination room quickly became turbulent and turbulent.

Konohamaru and the others behaved very well. With their excellent combat effectiveness, they snatched a part of the exam paper from the other groups, and also repelled the peeps of several groups of shinobi. In addition, the cultural class of the three people has always been okay, and this one should be able to get a high score.

Sakura Haruno looked around.

There are several groups of candidates who have played too much, and the movement is too big and they are caught, and it is estimated that they can only take a duck egg in this game. These people are basically ninjas from small countries and villages, they don't know the rules very well, their strength is not very good, and they are rough to start, and most people don't like to ask them to issue tasks.

It's just over halfway through the exam time, and it's already clear.

The strong team has grabbed the answer, got the points it deserved, no longer took the risk of cheating, and only focused on defense, only the weak team is still probing their brains, attacking in all directions, looking for opportunities.

"The second team battle is a round-robin wheel battle, right?" Sakura Haruno began to care about the next exam, "The next exam is all actual combat!"

The second exam changed the most.

However, no matter how much the Zhongnin exam changes, it will never deviate from its roots. The lower forbearance should be promoted to the upper middle forbearance, and the examination is nothing more than the comprehensive quality, combat effectiveness and teamwork ability of the individual. It's just that the difficulty of each exam has increased or decreased, and the emphasis is slightly different.

"So this year's assessment ......" Sakura Haruno groaned, blinked, and said meaningfully, "The focus seems to be on combat effectiveness?"

Kakashi nodded.

"Still so sharp, Sakura-chan. He turned his head to look at the girl beside him and said lightly, "You should know why." ”

The two looked at each other.

"War. ”

Sakura Haruno spat out the word expressionlessly.

"Well," Kakashi cupped his forehead, his tone a little heavy, "It's a precursor to war. ”

This year's Chunin exam is very similar in form to the Chunin exam during the war years.

In the war years, the middle ninja examination will pay more attention than usual to the combat effectiveness of the lower ninja, rather than the comprehensive quality of dealing with complex situations.

Interestingly, during the war years, the pass rate of the Chunin exam, which adopted a total score system, was higher than that of the elimination system in peacetime. If the stunned Naruto in the original book also took this exam, he would probably be able to rise to the middle ninja - because the high score in the actual combat exam was enough to make up for everything.

The reason behind this is quite cruel: in peacetime, only the best are selected, and then resources are concentrated on training, and in wartime, more people are selected because the village needs ......

More cannon fodder.

And Zhongnin, many times, is just high-level cannon fodder.

Of course, Konoha is not going to war against a certain country, and this is not a time of war.

All of this is just a preparation for the coming threat of Akatsuki.

But what other countries will think of it is unknown. Sakura Haruno turned her gaze to the viewing platform, where Tsunade was whispering to me with a smile on her face and Terumi and the examinees in the audience, while standing not far away were several observers sent by Ray Shinobu and Iwa Shinobi, looking at their gloomy faces, Sakura Haruno seriously doubted that they could feel the kindness released by Konoha.

Especially this year's middle ninja exam has also pulled the sand ninja and the fog ninja over, and the scale is unprecedentedly huge.

And three years after Orochimaru's Konoha collapse plan, Konoha once again held a large-scale middle ninja exam, which was much larger than the previous ones, which indicates that Konoha has not only completely come out of the disaster three years ago, but also is stronger than in the past!

I'm afraid that in their eyes, Konoha is a far more serious threat to them than the unknown Xiao organization......

In fact, Sakura Haruno also missed a major reason.

What Lei Shinobi and Iwa Shinobi are most afraid of is not that Konoha has become stronger - in the past, Konoha had three generations of Spring and Autumn Peak, three ninja gathered, as well as white fangs, golden flashes, etc., and even a little further ago, Konoha had more than a thousand hands at the same time and Uchiha Madara, at that time Konoha was so strong, Thunder Ninja Village and Iwa Ninja Village were not destroyed, not to mention that now this Konoha has just begun to revivenation?

However, at the moment, Tsunade suddenly pulled Kazekage and Mizukage together to talk happily, which made Thunder Shinobi and Iwa Shinobi feel very nervous.

Konoha has been trying to bring the five ninja villages together to fight against Akatsuki, but so far it seems that all the gains from some ninja villages have been side effects.

"Let's go. Sakura Haruno suddenly became a little distracted, pulled Kakashi's sleeve, and said lightly, "Go patrol somewhere else." ”

[Today, I drove a long distance back to my hometown, and I didn't have time to code words during the day, so there was only this one. 】8)