Things Get Intense Right from the Start

"I am Acting Chairman Tsukishiro. This Uninhabited Island Exam will likely be an unprecedented large-scale Special Exam. Needless to say, you must be on high alert, but please also remember your student status while taking the exam."

As always, the school will prioritize the safety and order of all students during this exam, and will monitor the situation as closely as possible.

However, no matter how responsible the school is, it cannot monitor every area.

Let me just pick one key point: if a sexual dispute occurs, we will not hesitate to impose severe penalties, including expulsion. If the behavior is deemed egregious, we will also report it to the police.

"Furthermore, the longer one stays on Uninhabited Island, the more frustrations one will naturally accumulate. Due to insufficient food or water, students may sometimes have minor conflicts. On this point—I agree to a certain extent."

Tsukishiro's words not only caused concern among the students, but also greatly shook the teachers' resolve.

Is this some kind of battle royale game?

If that's the case, wouldn't it be better to just rob the person and their supplies, then force them to withdraw from the exam due to illness?

If that's the case, this exam will probably become a joke.

However, he quickly provided further clarification.

"Of course, even if it is allowed, I do not advocate it. I only agree to occasional disputes, but for disputes involving egregious behavior, the school will not hesitate to intervene."

Furthermore, the rules certainly cannot condone acts such as looting and unauthorized use of another person's property. Depending on the case, in addition to immediate removal from the exam, students may also be expelled from school.

After explaining these points, Tsukishiro concluded his speech.

After Tsukishiro finished replenishing his supplies, Yukimura breathed a sigh of relief.

"I thought the students would be looting supplies without restraint, thankfully it's alright."

"Wouldn't that revert the students to barbarism? If he really did that, the school would have to close down next year."

The group nodded, then looked at Chabashira-sensei on the platform.

Then, Chabashira-sensei brought up another photo, which showed a large number of product images, and below each product image was a number representing its value.

"At the start of the exam, each of you will have 5,000 basic points, which can be used to purchase supplies. In addition, students who hold Lead Card will be given an additional 2,500 points."

The product list will be sent to each student via email. Please carefully consider what you need to buy. The purchase period is from now until 6:00 AM tomorrow.

Additionally, you can purchase additional items at shops located at the port during your exam journey, but the price will be doubled. Please remember this.

"In addition, you can use the toilets and showers at the starting point free of charge. From the second day onwards, there will be places to replenish water, which you can make good use of if you pass by. However, you cannot take the water out; you must drink it on the spot."

In addition, the school will provide toiletries such as toothbrushes, T-shirts, and underwear at the starting point. Other items such as portable toilets, insect repellent spray, sunscreen, and sanitary products are also available free of charge.

At that moment, almost all the students' phones rang or vibrated. Shuichi Kanda took out his phone and found that the purchase list had been sent to the students' phones.

After opening the file, it was found that everything from tents and fishing rods to walkie- Intercom, food, and water was available for sale, and the list of items that could be purchased seemed to have increased significantly compared to last year.

In addition to these, the equipment for playing games is also impeccably complete, such as fashionable swimwear, beach balls, and swimming rings.

Some items are available on a daily rental basis, allowing you to borrow them at a low price by paying a certain number of points as needed.

After all, if you're certain you won't be eliminated and have no way to compete for first place, using points to buy some things and then enjoying fourteen days on the island isn't a bad idea.

As for Shuichi Kanda, there was no need to buy food or water; he had a cheat code, so it didn't matter to him.

However, not buying anything at all would definitely arouse suspicion, so Shuichi Kanda decided to spend only a little on food and water.

All the rest was used to purchase other items. After explaining that some food and water could be freely transferred, Chabashira-sensei began the final explanation.

"Also, just like the watches, you'll all be given tablets. Tablets are essential for basic information access, so you can charge them anywhere you have a task, besides at the starting point."

Then, information about tablets appeared on the screen.

Small tablets distributed to all students -

You can browse maps of Uninhabited Island and instantly confirm your location in designated areas.

You can browse the project location or details of remuneration.

The scores for the ten groups before and after the exam can be confirmed from the fourth to the twelfth day.

(You can also browse the top ten groups, the bottom ten groups, and detailed information on your group's total score)

After the sixth day, a GPS search function will be enabled to confirm the current location of all students.

(But each search will cost one point)

If an issue arises during the exam that affects the entire class, you will receive a message from the school.

When the battery is low, you can charge it at the starting point or a designated location.

(If the map program is used continuously during the exam, the battery life is approximately eight hours.)

"To help everyone confirm how much stuff each backpack can hold, and also to allow for direct product verification, the school will be displaying samples. Please feel free to check them out. These samples will be on display in another room from now until midnight on the changed date. Also, you can go and collect your watches and tablets now."

After these explanations were completed, the briefing finally came to an end, and Shuichi Kanda immediately stood up.

"Let's go, let's collect the watch and tablet. Oh, and Akito, could you please look for the Sotomura?"

Sotomura, a die-hard anime and tech geek in Class A, known as "Professor," is an expert in computers and other electronic devices.

"Sotomura? What do you want with him?" Akito scratched his head.

You'll find out soon enough.

Shuichi Kanda did not answer; after all, some things couldn't be said here.

After queuing up to receive his watch and tablet, Shuichi Kanda immediately contacted Miyake.

[Have you found any Sotomura?]

[Okay, we'll wait for you on the second-floor deck.]

[Take him to our room.]

After putting away his phone, Shuichi Kanda led Ayanokoji and Yukimura back to their room, where, as expected, Miyake and Sotomura were already waiting.

After almost dropping out of school last year, Sotomura has become much more reserved, or rather, even more of a homebody.

"Um, Kanda- kun, is there something you need from me?"

Upon seeing Shuichi Kanda others return, Sotomura raised his hand and asked timidly.

"Don't be nervous," Shuichi Kanda said with a smile, then took the watch off his wrist.

"Huh?"

Shuichi Kanda's actions stunned everyone. Why did you have to take it apart for no reason?

"Remember? This watch has something called a [scheduling schedule]. I wanted you to try and export the schedule from it. I remember you always carry a laptop with you in the Sotomura."

Hmph, you said the answer is inside the watch, why wouldn't I try to get it out? You underestimate me?

Shuichi Kanda's actions stunned everyone in the room. Holy crap! This exam can be done like this?!

Chapter 308 started with a big surprise.

Shuichi Kanda's words left the students in the room somewhat confused.

"Um, Shuichi, isn't what we're doing a little inappropriate?" Miyake scratched his head.

"What's inappropriate about it? The school didn't say we couldn't take the watch apart. They just said that if we took it apart, it wouldn't have any scoring function, and there wasn't even any punishment."

If the school doesn't want us to exploit this loophole, then they could simply hand out the watches during tomorrow's exam. Giving them out now is just giving us a way to take advantage of the situation.

Compared to Miyake's worries, Shuichi Kanda seemed indifferent; he had already gotten used to the school's flawed rules.

"So, how about it, Sotomura? Can you handle it?"

Sotomura glanced at the watch and scratched his head. "We need to take this watch apart to check first. If it's a common storage device on the market, there shouldn't be any problem."

"Let's give it a try. Anyway, the rules don't say there's any penalty for disassembling the watch."

Since Shuichi Kanda had already said so, Sotomura nodded in agreement.

"I'll go get the tools and be right back."

"I'll help."

After a while, the group regrouped in Shuichi Kanda's room. On the table near the window, Sotomura opened his toolbox.

"Holy crap!"

"Sharp!"

Although there were many things inside that no one could understand, the sheer number of tools inside still impressed them all.

The key point is that although the school doesn't prohibit bringing personal belongings, this guy actually carried these things with him, which really surprised everyone.

After receiving the tools, Sotomura's entire demeanor changed; he went from being timid and hesitant to becoming incredibly confident.

"Hmph, now I'll show you what I, the Professor, am capable of!"

Then he took out a flat, screwdriver-like tool from the toolbox, fumbled around the watch for a moment, and then precisely inserted the tool into the barely visible gap on the side of the watch.

Then, with a slight exertion of force, the watch was broken in two by the Sotomura holding the tool.

Since the goal was simply to access the storage device, it didn't matter if it broke. So, after disassembling the watch, Sotomura picked up a small screwdriver and removed the screws from inside the watch.

Looking at the complex circuit boards inside, Shuichi Kanda and the others exchanged bewildered glances, but seeing Sotomura's skillful movements, they had no choice but to trust him.

After working for more than ten minutes, the Sotomura finally stopped.

"How is it? Will it work?"

"Yes, the storage device in this watch is a common type on the market. You can access the stored data by simply connecting it to a computer."

"YES!"

"Yay!"

"Wow, that's amazing, from Sotomura!"

He received praise from several people around him, and the Sotomura were also very excited.

Next, he took out his computer from his bag, and then took out a connector to connect the storage device in the watch to the computer.

The school probably didn't expect someone to disassemble the watch and retrieve the data, so the storage device wasn't equipped with any password or similar feature.

Therefore, the Sotomura easily read the data from the watch and transferred it to the computer, including all twelve routes.

It seems that all the watches are the same at the beginning; they are only divided into different groups because of the different activation routes.

"Is this the roadmap for this exam?"

Yukimura stared at the screen in disbelief.

"There shouldn't be any mistake. If we have this roadmap, even if we can't get the first place reward every time, if we give up one of them and focus on the next one, getting first place shouldn't be a problem."

"Yes, that's true. If we had a route, our options would be much more flexible."

"Should we tell the other students in the class about this?"

Should we make it public? Shuichi Kanda moment and then shook his head.

"Let's keep it a secret for now. I'll talk to the leaders of the other classes before deciding whether to make it public."

It definitely needs to be made public, but even though the four second-year classes are allies, it can't be made public arbitrarily, in case there's a traitor among the second-year students.

Therefore, while this news will definitely be shared with others, only trustworthy individuals who would never betray the second-year students will be able to find out.

Furthermore, it would be best to only announce the results to the groups that are capable of competing for second and third place. Since Shuichi Kanda and Ryuen have already given up on competing for second and third place, the only options left are Sakayanagi or Ichinose.

Although it's aiding the enemy, as long as this score falls to the second year, there will still be a chance for transfer later.

For this exam, Ichinose and Sakayanagi will team up. They will use Reinforcement Card to form a large group, consisting of three people each from Class B and Class C, in addition to Kamuro from Class A.

Students who are unable to participate due to illness or other reasons at the start of the exam will be excluded from the withdrawal process from the outset, just like Qiao Huan.

However, Sakayanagi was different. Although she couldn't move freely on the island, the school allowed her to participate in a "semi-withdrawal" manner.

Because of this rule, Sakayanagi can fight alongside his fellow students at the starting point, and Shuichi Kanda has roughly checked the item list, which includes things like Intercom.

Although Sakayanagi cannot move, he can use this device to command the team members to perform various actions.

If this roadmap were given to Sakayanagi, their group would have a good chance of getting second or third place.

However, Shuichi Kanda did not intend to give the schedule directly to Sakayanagi. Since the large group could not be formed until the fourth day, he would give it to Kamuro or Ichinose first. Whether or not to give it to Sakayanagi later would be up to Kamuro and Ichinose to decide.

The itinerary starts at point D9, and there are a total of 96 other locations. It would be difficult for the average student to remember so many routes in one day.

"Please save the itinerary for now, but be careful not to share it with anyone."

The group nodded, and then the Sotomura imported the schedule from the computer into the tablet.