Chapter 52: The so-called lottery
It's not just Ethan who thinks it's a park, it's also not a dangerous place for Yakushidou.
Therefore, from the very beginning, Ethan's team moved towards the tower at full speed, and according to Yakushidou's suggestion, it was a relatively labor-saving method to directly approach the tower as fast as possible, and then ambush the other teams before the finish line.
With the true strength of Yakushidou, even if he wandered around in the Death Forest, he could easily collect pairs of the Book of Heaven and Earth, and then directly enter the tower to complete this exam.
However, as an undercover agent, he can't be too high-profile, not to mention that this time there are real Konoha ninjas among his teammates, so he can only continue to hide his identity and act honestly according to the rules of the exam.
Ethan agreed with all of Yakushidou's suggestions, and it was enough for him to pass this exam as soon as possible, and he didn't care how he passed.
In order to hide his identity and not attract anyone's attention, Yakushidou will definitely choose the 'right' opponent to gather the Book of Heaven and Earth. He only needs to make soy sauce on the side the whole time.
The facts are similar, Ethan basically has no chance to perform, although the red armor shows a 'Lao Tzu is very good', no one likes to deal with him, but his strength is not weak, and it is not difficult to deal with some small ninja villages at all.
Yakushidou can also behave appropriately, and Ethan will not lag behind, so only one day has passed after entering the Forest of Death, and Ethan and they have gathered the Book of Heaven and Earth.
However, neither the Red Armor nor the Medicine Master Dou were ready to go to the tower immediately, and Ethan, who knew that these two people wanted to continue to do something in secret, also pretended not to care at all.
Although the pharmacist also deliberately explained: eliminating as many competitors as possible here is actually good for the next exam.
"Ah, that's right!"
Ethan acted like a rookie who really didn't understand anything and believed it casually, and then honestly stayed in a safe place with the red armor, allowing the pharmacist to go out often to 'scout the situation'.
In fact, this thing went to observe the situation of Uchiha Sasuke, and by the way, it was also to ensure that Sasuke successfully completed this exam, because Orochimaru wanted to continue to observe Sasuke, and the middle ninja exam was a good stage.
This continued until the last day of the exam, when Yakushidou reappeared with Naruto.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but I got involved in something. ”
"Forget it, let's hurry into the tower and report, if it's a little later, you'll miss the time. ”
The rest of the matter is nothing special, enter the tower and open the scroll, and then there will be a special reception of the middle ninja to introduce some general information to the students who have passed the exam.
Since Ethan is a Konoha ninja and a newcomer, he will inevitably have to listen to some additional preaching, and for this situation, Akaki Armor and Yakushi Dou are very calm, and Ethan is honest throughout the whole process.
At the end of the usual lecture, those who passed the exam were all taken into a very empty room, and then they stood in line in small groups and listened to the three generations of Hokage-sama say, "Why do you want to hold the Chunin exam?"
To put it bluntly, it is a small display of force between major powers without war, and the ninja village that performs well can also get excellent publicity effects and win more task orders in the following time.
It's essentially a small war, and it's all about young people from various ninja villages.
After a large group of newcomers learned the truth about the middle ninja exam, Moonlight Blaste introduced the pre-exam qualifiers to the group of young shinobi again.
"Qualifiers?"
In the final analysis, there are too many people left, and the third exam is a long-awaited battle, in addition to the fact that too many participants will cause the competition to be too long, and the big people who come to visit will be impatient, and there is also the weak ones who are too poor to 'represent their own ninja village'.
“......”
It sounds a bit cruel, and I finally came here with a lot of effort and effort, only to be told that if you are not strong enough, then you are not qualified to continue to take the following exams.
However, the middle ninja exam was originally intended to test the various abilities of ninjas, so no one felt that it was unreasonable to do so, after all, no matter what the exam was, the essence was very cruel.
Therefore, if you feel unwell, or if you do not want to continue participating after listening to the above explanation, report it immediately. Otherwise, we're going to start the pre-selection right away. ”
"Immediately?"
Then it was Yakushidou's performance time, and the spy of Orochimaru decisively said that he would give up this exam.
Ethan looked at it, he must have started to feel that this kind of game between children was a bit boring because he had completed the task, and he didn't want to continue playing, right?
Maybe this will be very conspicuous, especially since the resume of taking the middle ninja exam several times in the past (there have been several voluntary abstentions), it will definitely arouse suspicion on the part of Konoha side.
However, that plan has already begun, and his undercover career has come to an end, so he doesn't care if his actions will arouse Konoha's suspicions.
There is another reason, Yao Shidou realized that if he continued to take the exam, he might not be able to continue to hide his true strength, and it was better to quit in time.
Naruto was excited, and Ethan only shook Yakushi's hand slightly, "Thanks to your care during this time, otherwise it would be difficult for me to come here." ”
"Ethan, you're a great ninja, and I'm sure you'll be able to pass this exam without my help. ”
Yakushidou still behaved perfectly, then waved goodbye to his teammates and Naruto, and left with a smile.
"Tsk, it really deserves to be the number one acting school in the Hokage world. ”
Even if the third generation himself is here, he doesn't notice the abnormality of the medicine master's pocket, which is really admirable.
Ethan withdrew his gaze and looked at the others around him.
Except for Yakushidou, none of the rest of the people would be willing to give up this exam, even if they had to do a pre-selection, they were not willing to choose to give up.
Moonlight then introduces the way the game is played: the names of both sides are displayed on the big screen, the chosen one enters the field, and the winner advances.
The rules are as simple as that, and it's an individual battle, and you don't have to think about the team's gains and losses, so no one disagrees.
Thus, the qualifiers officially began.
In the first game, it was still Uchiha Sasuke against the red armor.
"It's so unabashed!"
But looking around, there are a lot of people who see through this, but no one thinks it's inappropriate, after all, this is Konoha and Konoha's home field, and it's normal to take care of your own people a little.
What's more, this kind of pure lottery is not easy to find evidence, and jumping out to question it will be looked down upon.
Ethan looked around, and everyone was standing in front of the railing on the second floor, waiting for the game to officially begin.
Because his teammate Yakushidou quit and another teammate, Akagi, was about to start fighting against Sasuke Uchiha, Ethan became a person again.
Compared to the beginning, now he has friends who can chat, and several shinobi of the same class are not far from him, such as the seventh class of Kakashi's belt standing directly next to him.
In addition, his instructor Yamashiro Aoba was also present, but he had been standing behind the three generations of Hokage before, so he didn't have much chance to say hello.
"Looks like you're going well on this exam. ”
Yamashiro Aoba first looked back and forth at Ethan's clothes, ordinary blue-black trousers with a black jacket, a blade bag and a short knife hanging from the back waist, hands with the most commonly used fingerless gloves of ninjas, and the forehead guard was used by him as a belt.
Dressing up is not the point, the focus is on surviving in the wild for a few days, Ethan's clothes are not damaged at all and even clean, and there is not much dust on him.
As for wounds? Not at all.
Compare the embarrassed image of the seventh class next to you, this contrast is really obvious.
"The senior introduced by Mr. Aoba is a very good teammate and has taught me a lot. ”
"Hey, Ethan, how is that red armor strong?"
"He'......"
Naruto and Sakura hesitated for a moment, but then they asked the question, they thought Ethan would have a hard time answering, right?
Looking at the age of the eldest in this team, Ethan passed the second round of the exam without any injuries, presumably the strength of this red armor is very good.
But they didn't expect that Ethan's evaluation of the red armor was not high.
"Not Sasuke's opponent. ”
"Huh?"
Naruto and Sakura were a little strange, but the ensuing match confirmed that Ethan wasn't talking nonsense.
Even though he couldn't exert his full strength due to the influence of the curse seal, Sasuke still defeated the red armor in a short time.
The next few competitions are nothing to look at.,It turns out that the qualifiers are very necessary.,The strength of this group of shinobi through the Death Forest is indeed uneven.,If the strength of many people gets to the big scene like the third exam.,It's simply embarrassing to Konoha.。
Soon, Sasuke and Naruto were promoted, and Sakura Haruno and Ino were tied.
Although Sakura Haruno didn't make the cut, Ethan had already seen that this little girl was starting to grow up, and she was no longer the girl who only knew how to stare at Sasuke at the beginning.
"Class 7 is starting to get on the right track. ”
After thinking about it carefully, the process has generally not changed much from the original plot, and Ethan thinks that this bracket is arranged by Konoha himself, and what random selection is just a casual talk.
"What should be Hinata vs. Ninji next?"
The soft fist duel was an interesting match, but when Ethan turned his eyes to the screen, he saw his name.
Ethan VS Lee Rock!
“......”