Mayuri's card from Naruto

Chapter 37 The exam begins

"You are going to take part in the Chunin Exam tomorrow, right?" After the teaching was completed, when Luna was leaving, Namikaze Minato suddenly spoke, looked at Luna and asked with a smile.

"Yes, Minato-senpai." Lu Ni nodded.

"Come on, I can rest in the village for a few days because of the Chunin Exam." said Minato Namikaze.

"I understand." Lu Nie nodded again. He knew that this was Minato Namikaze telling him not to worry about him suddenly leaving the village during this period of time, as he would focus on the Chunin Exam.

……

The next day.

The examination room for the Chunin Exam.

The first exam was undoubtedly a written test. The Konoha Ninja School specially set aside classrooms for the Genin from the allied villages to use to take the Chunin Exam.

Here, Lu Nie and the other two also saw ninjas from other villages wearing forehead guards with various patterns.

The Hidden Grass Village, the Hidden Cloud Village, the Hidden Sand Village, the Hidden Rain Village...

The total number of people is about two hundred.

The entire written test was relatively simple. The questions on the test paper were not difficult for either Kaname or Shisui. The only exception was the uncertainty about Anko, who became increasingly unwilling to use her brain after teaming up with Kaname and Shisui.

After the written test results came out, I breathed a sigh of relief when I saw my name on the passed list.

After the written test is the team competition, which simulates the situation where a ninja team accepts a mission and then successfully delivers the information to the destination.

Of course, there will be various obstacles when performing tasks, such as poisonous insects and wild beasts, enemy attacks, etc. The assessment itself is inherently confrontational and elimination-oriented.

The examination venue for Konoha's second round of Chunin Exams is the Forest of Death.

"After a round of screening, there are still ninety Genin and thirty Genin teams. According to the mission requirements, we must snatch different intelligence scrolls from other teams.

The best case scenario is that 15 Genin teams advance. But in reality, due to various accidents and the possibility of grabbing duplicate intelligence scrolls, the number of people who pass will be even less.

How are we going to do that?

Standing in the examination room of the Death Forest, the three Lu Nie group squatted together on the branches of a giant tree and discussed.

"Let's just go to the destination and wait. If we meet him on the way, we can take action." Hearing Shisui's question, Lu Nie recalled the list of people who passed the written test in the first round. There was no one on the list that sounded familiar to him, so he said directly.

The second round of exams lasts for five days, but Lu Nie doesn't want to really waste five days in this Death Forest.

"Blocking people at the destination? That's a bit overbearing." Shisui immediately understood that Lu Nie wanted to take advantage of the situation. But at the same time, he also understood that if their behavior was unlucky, it would cause hostility from multiple teams.

But he did not refuse. He believed in his own strength, and even more so in the strength of his teammates.

As for Hongdou, she didn't care at all. She even seemed eager to try. She stood up directly on the branch, waved her fingers vigorously towards the target location in the Death Forest, and took the lead in sprinting.

"Save some energy." Kane and Shisui looked at each other, followed helplessly, and reminded Hongdou beside her.

"Nonsense!" Hongdou stomped hard on the branch, jumped forward high, and increased her speed.

……

"somebody is coming."

A man with brown skin, well-proportioned muscles, wearing sunglasses and a forehead protector from the Hidden Cloud Village suddenly stopped.

"Where?" His teammates immediately formed a triangle formation, with their backs turned and facing all four directions vigilantly.

"The one rushing over here without hiding anything, is he a pure newcomer who doesn't know how to hide himself?" The man with glasses pointed in a direction and made a gesture, and his two companions understood what he meant and disappeared on the ground together.

Just as Hongdou and the other two rushed out of the woods, flat lightning bombs flashing with electric light suddenly shot out from the dense leaves in front of them.

"careful!"

In mid-air, Shisui reached out and grabbed Hongdou's collar, and at the last moment he moved his body in mid-air to avoid the lightning bombs, and finally landed on the ground.

A leaping figure seemed to have anticipated Shisui's actions, and quickly formed hand seals in mid-air, and then used ninjutsu the moment the three of them landed.

Water Style: Loudspeaker Technique.

A thin stream of water gushed out of the opponent's mouth, and when it landed, it had turned into a trumpet-like shape. A large amount of rapids washed the ground vigorously, and the impact of the water made the three people at the center of the impact unstable. The next moment, a streak of lightning that spread like a spider web had already merged into the water along the ground, and the dazzling lightning was instantly directed onto the bodies of the three people who were still a little flustered.

Lightning Release: Ground Walking.

"Little brat of Konoha, there is actually another Uchiha? Goodbye!" The first person who used the Lightning Release: Thunder Rat Shock was now falling from the sky with a long sword in his hand, and he killed the three people, including Lu Nie, who were unstable and paralyzed, one by one.

The entire attack process was completed in an instant, leaving almost no time for anyone to think. The three of them cooperated perfectly, and the timing was extremely clever.

Judging from the fact that the three of them did not add any other ninjutsu, they were obviously very confident in their cooperation.

However, in an instant, the three felt themselves losing control of their bodies.

"What is this?" The bespectacled man in Yunyin, who was still holding a long sword in his hand, looked at the fragments of wooden stakes scattered on the ground, and looked down at his feet with difficulty.

A shadow connected him from behind, and then quickly connected the shadows of his other two companions.

The last thing he saw was an Uchiha boy with a red Sharingan and a short sword in his hand, and a girl holding a kunai, who instantly came to them and cut their throats.

"Fishing success!"

Red Bean ignored the blood that was still spurting out and steaming, and excitedly began to touch the corpse. When she and Orochimaru went out of the village to perform missions, she had already seen dead people and killed opponents.

"It's what we need." After taking out the scroll of the Hidden Cloud Village and looking at the secret code on it, Hongdou happily stuffed it into her bag.

"Now that we have gathered all the intelligence scrolls, let's continue on our journey. Don't be too fussy this time." Lu Nie said.

He had no intention of making a splash here or blocking others. He just wanted to reach his destination quickly and finish this round of exams.

The destination of the second round was a huge gourd-like building in the Death Forest, where Chunins in vests were patrolling and inspecting.

After submitting two pieces of intelligence and being checked for correctness, Lu Nie and the other two who had received the intelligence scrolls were allowed in.

"You passed through unexpectedly quickly." In the empty interior of the building, a hoarse and magnetic voice suddenly sounded behind the three people.

When Lu Nie and the other two turned around, they saw Orochimaru, wearing a ninja vest, looking at them with his hands in his pockets.

"Come with me. The exam isn't over yet and you'll need to stay here for a few more days. You're the first group to arrive and you can choose your own room first." Orochimaru turned around and winked at the three of them, signaling them to follow.

"If we just pass one more exam, can we become Chunin, Teacher Orochimaru?" Red Bean said excitedly as she followed behind Orochimaru.

"Not necessarily, Red Bean." Orochimaru replied as he walked.

"Huh?" Red Bean was surprised when she heard Orochimaru's answer. Does it mean that even if she passed all the tests, she still couldn't become a Chunin?
"The so-called Chunin Exam is just like the bell-grabbing exam. The result is not set in stone. The organizer will decide what kind of people can be promoted to Chunin based on demand.

Of course, the requirements of different villages are also different. As the organizer, Konoha only provides the venue and test questions, and the requirements for promotion to Chunin are not required to be the same.

For small villages like Kusagakure and Amegakure, teams that can successfully pass the second round will generally be promoted to Chunin after returning to the village.

The standards for Chunin in the ninja villages of the five major countries are higher! Of course, during and after the war, the standards will also drop. "Orochimaru said softly.

"What?" Hongdou pouted, looking unhappy.

“Ninjas are consumables during wartime, so ninjas during wartime are most likely to die and also most likely to be promoted.

But in peacetime, too many jonin and chunin are a heavy burden on the village's economy and resource allocation. When there are enough, there is a huge gap between the mission price of jonin, the mission price of chunin, and the mission price of genin.

So you will find that in wartime, there are many ninjas who are promoted to Chunin on the battlefield. However, in peacetime, the village's requirements for those who are promoted only through the Chunin exam will be very high. There are even cases where only one Genin is promoted to Chunin after a Chunin exam. "

Orochimaru touched Red Bean's head and stopped at the door of a room.

"This place is very close to my room, you can stay here. In addition," Orochimaru said, his eyes fell on Luna, "Minato is also one of the invigilators in charge of this Chunin Exam. He doesn't live here, but comes here every day.

Before the third round of exams begins, you can go directly to him and continue your Sealing Technique course."

Lu Nie nodded quickly. He passed the exam so quickly in order to buy some time as soon as possible so that he could learn more about sealing techniques from Minato Namikaze.

After all, Namikaze Minato didn't have much time to rest, and he could go out of the village to perform missions at any time. Even when he returned to the village, he mostly accompanied Kushina. After Namikaze Minato was promoted to Jonin, he also had to consider leading the class.

The time to learn the sealing technique from him wouldn't last too long, so Lu Nie would have to seize every second.

If you waste this opportunity, you don’t know when the next one will come.

(End of this chapter)