On the first day, which had just come to an end, a total of sixty-eight Challenge events had been held. Around 10% of them specifically provided drinking water, while another 10% specifically provided ingredients. Nearly all of these Challenges that offered daily supplies were [Speed Race] events, comparing only the order in which participants reached the Challenge location, with plenty of winning slots available.
More importantly, there was an obvious pattern to the timing and locations of these Challenges. Every round of Challenge distribution was guaranteed to include a [Speed Race] Challenge, and the next Speed Race Challenge would definitely appear somewhere in the area surrounding the previous one.
This was probably the school's safety net. After all, competitions that offered participation prizes were extremely rare. To steadily acquire daily supplies, students had to place in the top three, something ordinary students found difficult to achieve.
Even if the students tried to search the island for wild fruit, fish, and game, the entire island would struggle to support more than five hundred people for two weeks.
Since these Challenges offered very few points and could even delay the next movement, after another two days, once all the students had spread across the Uninhabited Island, competition for these Challenges would be much lighter.
If they truly lacked daily supplies, they only needed to stake out the location where the previous Speed Race Challenge had appeared during the intervals between movement orders. It would be easy to secure a spot in the next Challenge.
After five in the afternoon, the school stopped releasing new Challenges.
Although it was summer and nightfall would not come early, the students still had to prepare dinner and pitch their tents themselves.
Shiraishi Makoto's group had camped only a few hundred meters from the departure harbor. More