Sure-Fire Ways to Guarantee a Draw

A total of eighty Konoha Genin passed the first written exam, and compared to the lack of freedom in the first test, the second exam seemed a bit too free.

The next morning.

Before the exam began, Yuhara arrived at the assembly point on time, only to find that it was already "on high alert."

The examiners were in place, and most of the candidates had arrived. They stood in small groups, talking amongst themselves.

Yuhara didn't recognize anyone, so he quietly stood in a corner.

"Time's up, we will now announce the specific rules for the second exam."

A little while later, the chief examiner announced that the exam was about to begin.

The person hosting this exam was heavily wrapped, with very little skin showing. Judging from his voice, attire, and other details, he appeared to be around twenty-five or twenty-six years old.

This age group should be considered the new generation of ninja who grew up during the Third Ninja World War. Coupled with this familiar style of dress and the special-shaped gourd on his back, Yuhara thought that this examiner, who even skipped his self-introduction, was likely Shibi Aburame of the Aburame Clan.

His age also matched.

If it was indeed him, then this examiner's strength was that of a standard Elite Jonin, and it was reasonable for him to host such an exam... Besides his strength, Shibi Aburame was also a close subordinate of the Fourth Hokage.

In theory, all Konoha Ninja were subordinates of the Fourth Hokage, a scope that even included the retired Third Hokage. However, subordinates were not all the same.

"First, the exam venue is the mountain forest ahead. The area is relatively wide, so you don't need to worry about crossing boundaries once you enter.

Second, the exam duration is one week, and you can bring sufficient supplies.

Third, the exam content is the identification and capture of special targets, and the acquisition and identification of codes. The details are as follows:

Before the exam began, we released one hundred enemies into the venue. These enemies are mostly captured enemy ninjas from the Ninja World War, so they pose a significant threat to you.

Each enemy carries a piece of secret text, but only fifty of them carry the true text; the rest are fake.

Each candidate will also carry a piece of secret text. These texts are also half true and half false. However, when a candidate holds their own initial secret text, it is considered true regardless of whether it is real or fake. But secret texts taken from others must be identified as true or false.

Before the exam ends, any candidate who arrives at the designated location with two true secret texts will be considered qualified. The inspection location is shown in the figure.

Alliances or hostilities between candidates are permitted, but killing anyone within the exam venue is strictly prohibited... Information must be obtained by subduing the opponent and leaving them alive, not by wanton slaughter.

Next, we will announce the method for deciphering the secret texts and the correct secret texts, but candidates can only memorize them on-site and are not allowed to copy them in any way.

If a candidate understands the deciphering method and remembers the correct secret text, they can collect their own secret text and then enter the venue on their own... These are all the rules. Are there any questions?"

"Is solving enemies also not allowed?"

As soon as the rules were introduced, someone immediately asked this question, which many people were concerned about.

"It is not allowed in this exam."

The examiner gave this answer, and the candidates immediately started to buzz.

Based solely on the rules, this exam could be described as rigorous. Eighty Konoha Ninja were participating in the exam, and there were one hundred enemies in the venue. Not to mention the numerical disparity, the problem was that the enemies would definitely try to kill the Konoha Ninja, yet the Konoha Ninja could not launch lethal attacks if they wanted to pass the exam.

The candidates wanted to pass the exam. Based on these rules, theoretically, everyone except themselves could be considered an enemy, because everyone carried a secret text. The secret text on the enemies could qualify a ninja, and the secret text carried by the Konoha Genin could do the same.

Although theoretically, up to sixty-five people could pass, the actual situation would never be so optimistic.

Next, a large curtain was hung up. The upper part of the curtain displayed the decryption rules for a certain secret text, and the lower part displayed rows upon rows of already decrypted correct secret texts.

Seeing these dense lines of text, Yuhara immediately understood a fact: in this Chunin Exam, the first written test was not the real test; the second battle royale was the true written test.

Who could remember all of this? And they also had to remember the deciphering method for the secret texts. Honestly, this was a bit too much for Yuhara.

Then he saw other candidates starting to team up with people they knew.

Considering the large number of enemies in the venue, teaming up was the best option. At the same time, once the teams were formed, they could divide their labor... One person would remember the deciphering method, and the rest would each memorize several sections of the true secret texts.

As expected of ninja who had experienced wars, their quality was quite good... even though these people were only Genin.

So what about Yuhara?

He didn't know anyone, so he could only team up with the air.

Therefore, he just glanced at the curtain, then went directly to collect his own secret text, and then, to everyone's astonishment, he strode into the dense forest.

Those with malicious intent thought Yuhara was looking for death, and deserved it; those who were kinder really wanted to stop this blind action... Ah Ninja, give up, the forest is full of dragons.

Yuhara naturally didn't feel those malicious or kind intentions. Giving up on deciphering and memorizing the secret texts didn't mean he had given up on himself. On the contrary, he was preparing to pass this exam in his own way.

"Well... let's guess how many of the so-called one hundred enemies are actually Konoha Ninja in disguise? Regardless, this is quite a grand undertaking."

Yuhara thought as he walked.

To be honest, he absolutely did not believe that the "enemies" in the exam venue were enemy captives, because it didn't make sense. Genin who managed to survive the battlefield would then die in their own ninja exam? That would be too bizarre.

So Yuhara thought that at least most of the one hundred enemies were Konoha Ninja in disguise, or perhaps all of them were Konoha Ninja in disguise... This shows that Konoha had invested a great deal of manpower and resources into this Chunin Exam.

However, this kind of investment was understandable. After all, this was the first village-wide public event hosted by the Fourth Hokage since he took office, and its symbolic significance was quite substantial.

In fact, Konoha's investment was even more exaggerated than Yuhara imagined. At this moment, the entire exam venue was covered by a barrier. The examiners were not afraid of the candidates running around after entering the venue because the candidates couldn't run around.

As for Yuhara not paying attention to the method of deciphering the secret texts but still wanting to pass the exam, his method was actually very simple... making good use of probability theory.

On average, two "enemies" would carry one true secret text. So Yuhara planned to deal with ten people and take ten secret texts.

Among these ten secret texts, there couldn't possibly be no true ones, right? Have you ever played gacha mobile games? Do you understand the pity system? The acquisition probability is 50%, and a ten-pull yields nothing? This game can be uninstalled.

If ten wasn't enough, then twenty. Anyway, the qualification standard was to acquire another true secret text while keeping your own. This meant that as long as the secret text was true, it didn't matter if it was correctly deciphered.

If Yuhara brought out ten or twenty secret texts, he would definitely qualify.

It could be said that this method was a must-have trick for traveling, and besides being unfriendly to other candidates, disrespectful to the examiners who set the assessment method, and completely ignoring the purpose of the exam, it had no other drawbacks.