Diary (Continued)

Hey, that's where your thinking is wrong.

Winners should be the ones to analyze and reflect on their performance. Only by analyzing why the winners triumphed can you truly learn from their mistakes, right?

Holding onto mistakes can only prevent them from happening again, but mistakes are inevitable; learning from them only reduces the probability of repeating them.

What we really need to do is study why they won, whether we can learn from them, copy them, and apply them.

Do you understand?

As for my people... so what!

What do you mean by "mine" or "not mine"? We are all Advanced Nurturing, excellent students.

We must treat everyone equally, understand?

Let's start with the settlement process.

There are a total of fifty outposts on this island. For a place that is 0.5 square kilometers, this number may seem a bit dense, but it is clear that this cannot be quantified simply with numbers.

Those who have actually walked on the island can probably tell that this number is actually quite accurate.

If we don't play the game of open raiding, and everyone secretly hides and tries to capture strongholds while keeping the leader's identity a secret, we can probably only capture a dozen or so strongholds at most.

The score wasn't actually that high.

That's probably what the school hopes for.

Instead of the current situation where a class haphazardly takes over all the strongholds.

But... who cares about the school's opinion?

I don't care anyway.

Looking at the final settlement, the score is divided into two parts: the initial reward score, which is subtracted from the consumption score, and the final stronghold capture score.

Taking Class C as an example, despite having used up all their points and even having committed other violations, they still managed to gain points for capturing the stronghold.

The school didn't say it explicitly, but there are likely two possibilities.

One violation was 'using another class's base without permission.' This violation was determined to be caused by another class's violation, so Class C did not actually have any points deducted. Although their base score was reset, they will still receive the base occupation points they were entitled to.

Another point is that the aforementioned violations will still result in point deductions, but these will be for the initial reward points that have already been cleared and reset to zero. Therefore, the points for capturing strongholds will still be awarded.

I don't know which one is accurate.

We could have had our beloved Class B as a control group, since eating those two rule-breaking foods raw would have made Class B and Class C the only ones affected.

Unfortunately, they were disqualified and their scores could not be recorded.

I'll consider this the last one.

Since this is the last one, actually... I still have a tactic I can tell you all.

Although it's a bit late to tell you this now that the exam is over, I just had to say it!

Maybe you could develop a time machine to go back in time and retake the exam?

Actually, this school, although it has many problems, is especially unfriendly to the weak, and is very... well, 'meritocracy'.

But there's one thing that's always been good.

'Guaranteed minimum' mechanism.

Water and electricity are free, accommodation is free, tuition is free—these are all conditions that have been stated long ago.

In addition, the school cafeteria offers free wild vegetable meals, and the convenience store offers free daily necessities. The school will thoughtfully consider and provide these necessary items free of charge.

Even this Uninhabited Island Exam is the same; they provide unlimited amounts of invincible 'absorbent cloth' as basic building materials for everyone, all for free.

From this, you should be able to get a glimpse of the school's style, right?

Competition and rivalry are acceptable, but a safety net must be secured.

This isn't Hope's Peak Academy. Going too far and causing the biggest and most desperate incident for the students will not benefit the school at all.

It would be pointless if it turned into a case of student abuse.

That's why the 'Zero-Point Strategy' mentioned in the first month came into being.

Once the score drops to zero, it won't drop any further, leaving room for a comeback; there's no option to go for a negative score.

By now, some of you probably already know what I'm going to say, right?

Yes, that's right, it's the Zero-Point Strategy.

You can also play it in the Uninhabited Island Special Exam.

I'm not talking about the Zero-Point Strategy that Class D used: buying up all the supplies, selling them, having fun, and then returning to the cruise ship. That's too inefficient and would only widen the gap between classes.

Unless they truly have no intention of seeking a draft position, they definitely won't play that game.

The Zero-Point Strategy I'm talking about definitely involves two steps.

The first step is still selling supplies as usual; why not sell them if it's free?

But reserve enough supplies to survive for seven days, or even less than seven days, four or five days would be enough.

The exact amount to keep will be calculated later. In any case, resources should be kept, and any excess points should be exchanged. Exchange Private Points if possible, and exchange for contracts that provide continuous lifesteal.

Maximize profits.

Then don't rush to run away. You'll feel relaxed back on the cruise ship, but the exam will be out of your reach.

If you ask me what I'd do if I didn't go back to the cruise ship when I already had zero points?

I can only say that I still lack experience and my thinking is not broad enough.

There are also stronghold points!

You're just going to throw away those precious base points? They're almost a thousand points in total!

Isn't this more than the initial 300 points?

Even if, I mean even if outpost points are deducted, even if my guess is wrong, outpost points are settled together.

Are you just going to stand by and watch the other three classes happily clock in and rake in points, only to have tens of thousands of yuan in monthly payouts just casually deposited into their accounts?

Can you stand by and watch the gap continue to widen?

As I've said before, if you're going to play the Zero Point Plan, you have to be prepared to be a troublemaker!

It's precisely because we've caused chaos and unrest that you have your chance.

Take a close look at the rules; this violation incurs point deductions, that violation incurs point deductions—it looks quite intimidating, right?

But there's only one truly problematic, fatal, and disqualifying criterion.

'Violence, looting, and destruction of equipment'

To be precise, it's these three items.

The others only resulted in minor point deductions, and they were all points used in the exam.

Will it drop to a negative number? No, since it won't, then it just means—deduct whatever you want?

Please don't use QQ, and don't use QQ everywhere.

Those who have no weaknesses, don't care about deductions, and execute the Zero-Point Strategy are invincible.

You will become the most powerful troublemaker.

Interfering with other people's daily activities, interfering with other people's check-in, interfering with other people doing anything.

Anyway, it won't deduct points. As long as you hold back, as long as you're shameless enough, and control your fists, that's right, just like a streetwalker, purely standing on the street, blocking the way, with a clear price of 500 yuan per move.

How about a more playful, cheeky attitude?

Sister Bao, you're from Baoxing.

People have always been most helpless when it comes to Laipi She.

The logical extension downwards, besides blocking the way and collecting money, wouldn't it also allow everyone to sit together, hug the stronghold, harass here, and affect there, as long as no violence is used, no resources are looted, and no equipment is damaged?

There are plenty of ways to Laipi She.

Alas, it's a pity that the only one who could think of a similar method was Dragon Boy, but Dragon Boy was somewhat limited in his abilities and couldn't really go all out to do it.

Ultimately, he had no reason to be a troublemaker, since his goal wasn't to bring down the school, and dragging everyone down with him would just be asking for trouble.

This is why, although everyone may have thought of a plan like the Zero-Point Strategy, no one has actually implemented it.

There's no need to go to such extremes. School recommendations aren't everything, and graduating from Class A doesn't require risking everything.

That concludes the debriefing. The major violations, which were essentially the same points discussed in the meeting, will each be deducted 100 points according to the standards for major violations.

On its own, this statement may not seem like much, but it does offer a glimpse into the school's practices and standards of conduct.

The school has an internal logic for deducting and adding points, with the standard being 'one hundred points deducted for serious violations'.

Fluctuations won't exceed this line, which is why a transfer score of 20 million seems so unattainable.

Because the school never intended for you to transfer classes through normal means.

Of course, it's hard to say whether one can transfer classes using the money earned from Class Points each month, because the school will definitely control the upcoming Special Exam while saving costs.

The Special Exam, which were similar to two 'Class Points distribution' exams on behavioral norms and Uninhabited Island, have been replaced by 'Class Points transfer' Special Exam with a competitive theme.

The weaker class's Class Points are transferred to the stronger class's Class Points, or the weaker class steals the stronger class's Class Points to achieve a reversal.

In other words, the next 'VIP Special Exam' is coming up.

Yes, I'm going to give away some spoilers.

If you have any ideas, take notes and listen. If you don't, just wait until the day of the exam and listen to my instructions.

First, the school will divide all students into a certain number of groups according to a certain pattern, and each group will contain an equal number of students from four classes.

Second, among these students, a role called 'VIP' will be selected in advance according to a certain pattern.

Third, the school will provide a certain amount of time for discussion, during which students can discuss, converse, think, and draw conclusions on their own.

Fourth, the condition for ending the exam is simple: inform the school of your guess of the VIP, write down the name, and submit it.

Fifth, the school will announce different exam results based on the different answers.

In short, the VIP Exam consists of these five rules.

The details are rather complicated, and I'm too lazy to write them down. You'll find out on the day of the exam; the teacher will announce them.

I have a general idea of what to do and what I want to do.

But I'll be the riddle teller here first.

Let's go back to Class A.

Class A, formerly Class B, was assessed by the school as being perfectly acceptable, at least initially. They were simply Class B, who neither made many mistakes nor necessarily did anything excessive.

Therefore, in the initial Behavioral Norms Exam and the Uninhabited Island Exam, they shouldn't have achieved scores higher than the original Class A.

Even though the Little Princess is actually quite disappointing.

The reason we achieved this result—of course, is because I, the father, intervened.

What are you thinking about?

I can help someone up if I want, and I can step on them if I want.

I enjoy teasing the Little Princess, so I'm going to tease Little Princess mercilessly. Luckily, there's a graduate from the gym in Class A, so I might as well take advantage of that.

Absolute violence, dominant power.

And with my little bit of encouragement...

Reaping the rewards of victory was effortless.

Do you even know what a "White Room graduate" means?

Do you know the true value of White Room?

As for the others... well, it's already great that they didn't drag us down.

Don't think I'm being perfunctory, really, you don't understand how rare it is to have a teammate who won't drag you down.

Look at Class D, then look at Sakayanagi Class, look at Lord Yamauchi, then look at Kito kid—sigh, you'll see how right I am.

Good teammates aren't necessarily good, but bad teammates are definitely bad.