Traveling through Nagato, from conquering Konan to dominating the ninja world

"What the hell is this simulated dam!"

Nagato silently greeted Minato's old father in the underworld.

"It's just the first exam. Isn't it too much of a waste of time to do this?"

Minato had just confided in him about the 'unspoken rules' of the first exam.

The questions in the test paper, except for the first question which is so simple that all contestants can answer it correctly, the rest are extremely difficult.

This is understandable. After all, what the organizer wants to examine is not the ability to answer test questions, but the ability to collect information and cheat through ninjutsu.

Staff members who were responsible for delivering test papers and answers had already been arranged in the examination room.

However, this exam is different from the original. Although the original test questions are difficult, a super student like Sakura, who has perfect theoretical knowledge, is still able to answer them independently.

In this exam, except for the first question, all the questions are impossible for the candidates to answer correctly! If you really want to define the difficulty coefficient, you can refer to the real-life exam questions for selecting academicians!

How could it be possible that a mere academic master could solve it?

This also limits the exam, and the only way for candidates to obtain answers to questions is through pre-arranged staff!

If the unspoken rules were just like this, there would be quite a few Genin participating in the competition who were able to detect it.

The problem is that among the 18 staff members who passed the test answers in the examination room, only one person passed the real answer, and the rest were all scams!

Under the premise that all candidates are unable to distinguish the authenticity of the answers, whether you can get the real answer depends on your luck. One in eighteen is scary to think about!

Facing Nagato's naked complaints, Minato said helplessly: "There is nothing we can do about it. There are too many Genin participating in this competition. If we don't eliminate most of them in the first round, then the second round of the Death Forest Survival Tournament will inevitably be too fierce, resulting in too many casualties."

"I personally don't want this exam to get too bloody."

"So you turned the first exam into a game of looks? Only contestants with pale faces like you and me have a chance to advance?"

"You underestimate me, Nagato-san~." Minato smiled confidently, "This is not just a game of looks, Nagato-san. People like you and me who are pale-faced do have the possibility of getting the correct answer by chance. But only by breaking the inertial thinking, not being blinded by the joy of cheating that seems to be allowed by the rules, finding the only flaw from the blind spot, and finding the clue to the truth from the flaw, and following the clue to find the only standard answer on the field, and within the specified time, let the two companions on the field also know the correct answer, and hand in a perfect answer together, can we truly advance to the next game!"

Minato finished his words with a little self-satisfaction.

Nagato said, "So, the clue is something that everyone can answer correctly. Is that the first question?"

Watergate was horrified!

"This...you, how did you know that!?"

Nagato looked at the first question on the blank test paper and said solemnly, "Asking the candidates to tick the 'forehead protection pattern' of their own ninja village seems to be for the purpose of determining the village of the contestants, but in fact, it is not necessary at all, right? So I guess there is something fishy about this question!"

"Oh... Not bad for you to have discovered this! You are worthy of being my junior brother, but this is just a clue. It is still far from seeing through my real routine!"

"Haha." Nagato laughed, "The eighteen staff members who spread the answers to the test questions are all from Konoha, this is indisputable. I think only one of them checked the forehead protector of Konoha Village on the first question of the test paper, right?"

"Then the staff member who checked the Konoha forehead protector in the first question is the source of the only correct answer."

"But it's not easy to notice this. People's habitual thinking will subconsciously ignore the first question, whose answer is certain and varies from person to person, and this will make the first question a blind spot. If you are not careful, the answers that these candidates have diligently brought in like little bees using their own hand ninjutsu will turn the test paper into waste paper."

Minato sighed sincerely, "You are still very sharp, Nagato-san! I almost suspected that you used clones or something to disguise yourself as a Genin and take part in the Chunin Exam!"

"Haha, are you kidding? How could I, the great Daimyo of Rain, do such a boring thing?" Nagato changed the subject: "But, to be honest, Senior Brother Minato, what you did is a bit too much. It exceeds the standard of the Chunin Exam. It will be easy to be criticized afterwards."

Minato smiled and said, "Don't worry. Mr. Ibiki has the same concerns as you. Under his suggestion, every candidate has a chance to 'pull back from the brink'!"

Nagato smiled and said, "'Pull back from the brink'? Isn't it another test of humanity, a final test of whether you care about your companions or not?"

Minato smiled and said, "That was the tactic that Mr. Hiruzen III often used before he retired as the chief examiner of the Chunin Exams last year. It has been used too frequently in recent years, resulting in serious leaks of test questions. There are too many people who deliberately cater to it, and it has lost its reference value. We decided not to do that this time! Let's be hardcore and make the first examination room a classroom for those who believe in strength above all else! Of course... teamwork is also part of strength!"

……

At this moment, in the first examination room, on the invigilator's desk.

The chief examiner, Morino Ibiki, glanced at the candidates who were writing furiously on the test papers, and a playful smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"These conceited Genin brats, they thought they had seen through the mind of the questioner and were smug, but they didn't know that they had already fallen into the trap of the Fourth Generation..."

"Well... after all, it's just a chunin selection. As the chief examiner, I want to leave some room for the candidates. I'm a smart guy, so I should be able to notice it, right?"

With the Sharingan's handwriting-mimicking ability, Sasuke had completed the answer satisfactorily.

He knew that his two teammates, Feng and Naruto, were elites who were no less capable than himself.

So there is no need to worry at all whether they can find the answer.

Sasuke, bored, looked at the exam supplies.

In addition to a pen, there is also a bottle of correction fluid, which all candidates have.

He couldn't help but murmur.

"Just looking at the difficulty of the questions on the test paper, not to mention my level, even Itachi probably can't do it, so cheating with ninjutsu is the only way out. This idea should be correct."

Sasuke glanced at the uniformed 'player' on the left side of the front row.

"It is definitely correct to place staff members who are clearly different from the examinees in such a conspicuous position to spread the answers."

"But why would they give us correction fluid?"

"Could it be that... after answering incorrectly, we can still revise the test paper? Under the premise that the correct answers can only be obtained from the staff! Why is it necessary to revise the answers? "

Thinking of this, Sasuke's head suddenly exploded! !

"hiss!!"

He gasped.

Unless...the staff were ordered to pass on a false answer!!!

"Wait... No way?? That Hokage-sama, can't be so insidious??"

The more Sasuke thought about it, the whiter his teeth became!!

"No!! He's Naruto's father!! You can't use common sense to figure it out!!"

He looked at the test paper he had already finished, cold sweat streaming down his face.

"If that's the case, then I have to start all over again with this answer sheet?"

A deep feeling of unwillingness surged in Sasuke's heart.

"If it weren't for the correction fluid, I would have handed in the wrong answer. If Naruto and Kaede both answered correctly, wouldn't I be the one holding them back?"

"If it was Itachi... he would have discovered it in an instant."

Full of reluctance... Sasuke used correction fluid to smear the answered test paper.

In this examination room... Naruto, Gaara, Taki Kaede, Kurotsuchi and others, after realizing something was wrong, began to pull back!

……

Uzumaki Nan bit her thumb tightly, her face flushed red.

"Damn it!! The second question is so difficult. The first question was so simple... Strange, why do I hear people around me writing non-stop? Am I the only one who can't do it? If I look up and look around, will I be considered cheating? What should I do? Otherwise, just take a quick look..."

She turned her eyes secretly to the side and saw a young man sitting on the seat across the aisle to her right. His eyes were half covered by black bangs. He supported his chin with one hand, and his other eye, which was not covered, was staring at her without blinking!

For a moment...she lost consciousness!