Chapter 241: War

Kakashi's personality is not as arrogant as Mitarai Azuki after all, and in the second exam, Shikamaru led a group of advanced candidates to the venue - the seventeenth training ground.

Konoha Village itself is a military organization, and the largest area in the village is not a private house or an office building, but a variety of exercise venues, such as the No. 44 exercise site, nicknamed the "Death Forest" last year, and the smaller No. 17 exercise site today, are just one of them.

By the time Shikamaru led the group of candidates to the periphery of the exercise ground, Kakashi Hachiki had already been waiting there for a while.

"Good work, Shikamaru!" Kakashi Hachiki put away the novel in his hand, greeted Shikamaru lazily, and looked thoughtfully at the shinobi who followed him: "It seems that the first exam went very well." ”

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

"I'll take care of the rest." Shikamaru looked at the exercise ground behind Kakashi Hachiki, unlike the "Forest of Death", the seventeenth exercise field was a plain, and although there was an iron fence on the perimeter, you could still see the towers towering over the plain.

The rules of the second exam are actually very simple, the seventeenth exercise field towers are thirteen towers, these towers are scattered in all corners of the exercise field, six of the towers are marked with the same mark in advance by Kakashi Hagi, and these six marked towers are the goals of the candidates, of course, Kakashi Hagi will not clearly tell these candidates which tower has a mark and what the mark looks like, which requires the candidates to find the difference between the towers themselves.

Forty-eight hours after the start of the exam, the candidates have to spend the test in this exercise field, their goal is to seize the marked tower, in order to pass the exam, the team must occupy a marked tower alone, after forty-eight hours, whichever team occupies the marked tower at that time is considered a victory.

In other words, there will only be a maximum of six places for the promotion team in this exam, and the remaining candidate teams will be eliminated.

However, Shikamaru doubted that there could be as many as six teams that could successfully advance, and Kakashi Hachiki did not tell the candidates what the markings in the towers looked like, that is, if you want to know which one is the marker tower, you have to look at at least the thirteen towers one by one, and in the team of candidates who know in advance that the number of places for promotion is limited, this process will definitely not be calm.

Another point that cannot be ignored is that only those who "survive" forty-eight hours, after the end of the exam, and still occupy the tower, are considered to be victorious, in other words, even if they do nothing for the first forty-seven hours and fifty-nine minutes, and successfully occupy the tower at the last moment, it is also considered a victory, so when to start the battle for the tower will also be something that each team must pay attention to.

"By the way, the Marker Tower has supplies hidden inside, including ninja equipment." After Kakashi Hachiki explained the general rules of the second exam, he patted the back of his head as if he had just thought of it: "It's not much, but I'm worried that you won't have enough by then, so I'll put some of it away, and you have to find it yourself." ”

The candidates looked at each other, for low-level ninjas who were not proficient in more ninjutsu, the importance of ninja equipment was self-evident, forty-eight hours of high-intensity warfare, the speed of ninja consumption was absolutely very fast, Kakashi informed this, which made 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 were holding a wait-and-see attitude and were ready to wait for the later time to grab the tower, they would not want other teams to successfully occupy the marked tower and get supplies.

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Shikamaru watched the last group of candidates enter the exercise ground, then turned around and asked, Kakashi Hachiki, who had begun to look at his intimate heaven again, "Did you really put supplies inside the marker tower?" ”

When Kakashi Hachiki didn't explain this when he made the plan, Shikamaru had some doubts.

"Of course not." Kakashi Hachiki didn't raise his head, but let out a somewhat weird evil smile from under the mask that covered most of his face: "I'm lying to them, otherwise they have been waiting for the time to be late and then fighting for the tower, what if there is an accident and none of them advance?" ”

Shikamaru raised an eyebrow, he really had nothing to say to the unscrupulous Kakashi Hachiki, and he didn't care about someone who was immersed in the novel, so he should go to a small building inside the training ground and wait for the results of the exam.

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Unlike Shikamaru, Kakashi Hachiki, and others, who were calmly waiting for the results of the exam, the candidates inside the training ground had a battle at the beginning of the exam.

Although Shikamaru eliminated many candidates in the written test, there were still sixteen teams left, and if they wanted to occupy the few places, they would definitely have to compete with other candidates, and the process of competition could not rely on peaceful negotiations.

Syllable!

Hinata Ningji watched as the enemy in front of him collapsed limply on the grass, and slowly retracted his soft fist stance.

In this exam, even if it is a strong team, if it has no fear and fights with others too much, it may lose and lose the qualification 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, and most of the teams that have this idea are those who have a certain degree of confidence in their own strength, and the same is true for the teams encountered by Hinata Ninji and others.

It's a pity they picked the wrong target.

The strength of this Takishi ninja team is good, but unfortunately for the white eyes of Hinata Ningji, the ambush has inevitably become a ridiculous move, after the ambush battle turned into an encounter battle, but in just three minutes, Li Luo, Hinata Ningci and Tiantian solved the enemy lightly, and they themselves were unharmed.

But there was no trace of smugness on the faces of the three people who ended the battle, the exam had just begun, even with their strength, if they were not careful, they would inevitably fail.

Not to mention the battle between the candidates in the training ground, Shikamaru, who had just stepped into the small building in the training ground, had not had time to drink a saliva, when he was called to the office by Tsunade, who had been waiting here for a while, to discuss the holding of the third exam with the chief examiner of the third exam, Shizune.

Unlike last year, Tsunade put a lot of effort into making a name for Konoha Village to be able to perform this exam, and the third exam, which was originally scheduled to be one day, was held for two days, and the pre-selection of the third exam was removed, Shikamaru was noncommittal, and most of his tasks were related to maintaining order and safety.

However, this year's representative of the Fire Country Daimyo is still the old Mita Hideo, this old man had watched the match between Shikamaru and I Airo last year, and he attached great importance to Shikamaru, and then recommended him to the Daimyo to be an important task, although neither Tsunade nor Shikamaru thought of agreeing to this mention, but out of politeness, Tsunade arranged for Shikamaru to protect each other in the third exam this time, and shouldered the responsibility of explaining the explanation.

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As time passes, the second test of the Chunin Exam is also coming to an end, and the six Chunin* elites of Konoha Village will go to each of the six marked towers to bring the winning and advanced candidates to the small building where Tsunade is temporarily sheltered, and explain the rules of the third exam.

Tsunade, Shikamaru, Kakashi Hachiki, and Shizune Kato were all waiting in an indoor training ground early, and after a while, Konoha Nakashinobi, who was out, had already brought the team of candidates.

As few people expected, Hinata Ningji, Li Luo, and Tian Tian's third class of Shinobi, Shino, Inuzuka, and Hinata's eighth class of Shinobi, and the tenth provisional class composed of Akido Dingji, Yamanaka Ino, and Haruno Sakura all passed the second exam.

Tsunade unabashedly showed a satisfied smile, with these outstanding shinobi promoted, her goal has been completed more than half.

Just like Shikamaru's suspicions before the start of the second exam, in addition to sending a few small strong teams, only one team of candidates from Taki Ninja Village passed the exam together, and when Konoha Nakashinobi went to lead the team of candidates, there were still two marked towers that did not distinguish the results, and all the candidates were ruthlessly eliminated.

After experiencing Shikamaru's psychological offensive in the written exam, as well as the brutal fight in the second exam, Konoha Village will no longer bother to test and think of some complicated means to test the psychological elements of the remaining candidates, first ask if anyone feels unwell and need medical ninja treatment, and after getting Qi Qi's negative answer, Tsunade began to explain.

It's much the same as the words of the three generations of Hokage last year, although most of them are teenagers in front of them, and they were even at the age of school in Shikamaru's previous life, but in this world, many times they already have to face the cruel competition of life and death, and as the Hokage, Tsunade must completely shred all their senseless fantasies and present the bloody reality in front of their eyes.

"This is war." Tsunade took this as his opening statement: "Countries show their strength and potential, stifle some people's unrealistic delusions, put uncontrollable friction and strife on the table, and at the same time obtain the maximum benefit ......, this is the origin of the Zhongnin Exam!" ”