Chapter 590 Simulation Exercise 1

After rounds of selection, nine commanderies—Yingchuan, Handan, Dang, Jiujiang, Shanggu, Xue, Nanhai, Longxi, and Qianzhong—emerged victorious and, along with Neishi Commandery, which governs the Qin capital region, entered the final simulated competition.

"Li Yuan, just you wait!"

Li Mu clenched his fists, his expression menacing. Seeing that he was still preoccupied with the previous conflict between Chu and Zhao, Pang Nuan sighed and helplessly reminded him, "Li Yuan is a civil official."

"What's wrong with civil officials? Once they enter the drill, they become the enemy. Why can't we fight the enemy?"

Li Mu spoke with conviction and unwavering resolve: "Just wait and see, we'll definitely crush Jiujiang County!"

Li Mu possessed a commanding presence and an indomitable spirit, inspiring the team members behind him to echo his sentiments. The atmosphere was incredibly lively, making Pang Nuan sigh so hard she felt like she was growing old.

Is this the consequence of lacking civil officials? They expect a military general to use his brain.

"You disagree?" Li Mu glanced at Pang Nuan sideways, with an expression that said, "How can you be so spineless?"

“I didn’t say I disagreed,” Pang Nuan said helplessly, “but the competition rules haven’t been released yet. How can you be sure that Jiujiang County is definitely the enemy?”

"It was always like this before..."

Before Li Mu could finish speaking, Pang Nuan interrupted him: "The final round's questions were set by the eldest son."

Li Mu calmed down instantly. As the first representative of the six kingdoms to enter the court, and the one specially erected by His Majesty, Li Mu had quite a lot of contact with Fusu.

The eldest son is also a very straightforward and outspoken young man with a personality so distinctive that it can be frightening.

Therefore, Li Mu asked with some hesitation, "Given the eldest son's personality... he wouldn't ask us to team up with Jiujiang County, would he?"

Watching a spectacle and not being afraid of things getting out of hand is something the eldest son is capable of doing, so Pang Nuan nodded: "Why wouldn't he?"

Li Mu gasped instantly. What if it really happened? How could he... how could he control himself from killing his teammates? Being eliminated like that would drive him crazy.

The final drill has officially begun.

Bad news: Handan County is indeed an ally of Jiujiang County!

Good news! All ten prefectures are teammates! Li Mu can choose not to meet with the people from Jiujiang Prefecture!

"But there's more bad news," Pang Nuan said, looking around at the vast expanse of white snow, "It seems we can't find a single teammate..."

Final Practice Competition Rules:

All participants are teammates and must work together to deal with various "enemies" that appear in the exercise.

Friendly reminder: Keep an eye on your teammates!

"It's nothing, just a snowstorm!"

Li Mu spoke with great confidence, but that didn't mean he had let his guard down. It just meant that as the leader, he obviously couldn't be cowardly before the battle even began.

The simulation exercise of the "Sky Eye System" can be seen as the creation of an illusion, an illusion without any flaws, almost like facing a real situation. Of course, the damage suffered is also the same as the environment at the time, real and consistent with the situation.

Previously, the difficulties in the drills in various places were randomly selected, but the snow disaster was one that Li Mu's Handan County team had been selected for.

Because of his previous experience in dealing with similar situations, Li Mu remained vigilant but not overly tense.

Having already acquired knowledge about dealing with snow disasters, the group of people, without Li Mu needing to say anything more, put on goggles to prevent blindness from looking at the snow. They moved forward quietly and cautiously, searching in groups of three or five, their vision encompassing all parts of the snowfield.

"Just a snowstorm?"

Li Mu stood on the snow-covered slope, gazing into the distance, where all he saw was a vast expanse of white and nothing at all. But instead of relaxing, he frowned deeply.

Snowstorms are certainly not easy to deal with. But with their improved physical fitness and well-developed abilities, low temperatures and hunger cannot cause them any harm in the short term.

Li Mu hadn't forgotten that this was a challenge set by the eldest son. He might not understand the rules of the competition, but how could he not understand the eldest son's personality? How could he let them get through it so easily?

"Don't rush, maybe we're just going to launch a surprise attack."

As Pang Nuan spoke, she subconsciously glanced back at the ranks, then suddenly stopped, her face instantly hardening as she ordered, "Report your numbers!"

Li Mu also turned around to look, and as the team loudly reported "one, two, three," his expression grew increasingly grim.

He didn't need to wait for everyone to finish reporting; he could tell at a glance that someone was missing.

Ultimately, after removing their two bands, the remaining team of 75 people was reduced by one team, 15 people.

This wasn't even a complete team; each sub-team was missing a column. But before the roll call, no one noticed.

"This is absurd!"

Li Mu frowned. Before the enemy even noticed, 15 of his team members were already missing.

Such a silent attack, truly a plan devised by the eldest son, is indeed difficult to defend against.

Pang Nuan flipped through the competition rules again, her gaze lingering on the instructions for a long time. "Young Master Chang's instructions were indeed very clear..."

Compared to their wild guesses about espionage, rebellion, and other messy developments, the answer was actually hidden in the riddle itself, and they were genuinely optimistic about its future.

Without much hesitation, Li Mu immediately ordered the team to tighten up and instructed the team members to connect with ropes so as not to hinder their movement, but to remind anyone who strayed from the team.

Once everyone was ready, they continued forward.

The number will be announced every fifteen minutes.

Even with the tightest precautions, people continued to disappear, silently untying their ropes and leaving as if on their own, without alerting anyone else.

Li Mu's brows furrowed deeply, and a tense and fearful atmosphere spread throughout the group.

"This can't go on!"

When only 30 people remained in the team, Li Mu made a decisive move, ordering everyone to stop and rest, and pulled Pang Nuan aside to discuss countermeasures.

"Is it an invisible enemy? A ghost? A mountain spirit?"

Since anything can be simulated, Li Mu made a bold guess.

"The important thing is how we find them." Li Yuan couldn't hide her worry and was clearly very troubled.

Looking at Li Yuan sitting next to them, Pang Nuan nodded without any sign of surprise, completely baffled by the current situation.

Unable to think of a solution, Pang Nuan couldn't sit still any longer and hurriedly stood up: "No, I'm not at ease!"

He walked to the front of the crowd and ordered again, "Count off!"

"One, two, three... twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-one... forty-five, forty-six... sixty!"

Pang Nuan breathed a sigh of relief: "Thank goodness, at least no one else is missing."