Chapter 57 Chapter 57 They continued forward...

They continued forward, encountering three more mission notes along the way.

Although the locations of the mission notes were randomly distributed, it can be inferred from the number of notes they received that if they wanted to get eight notes, they would have to walk the same distance again, unless they were extremely lucky or unlucky.

And now the four notes in their hands, the points added up to less than 50 points, the highest point was still the 10 points that Ferrus had taken to join forces with another team to occupy point C, and the mission numbers spanned from 13 to 94. It is conservatively estimated that there are 100 such notes, and each mission number is unique.

"From the notes we collected," William said with a bad face after reading the notes, "if there are only 100 tasks, the 26 teams must compete for tasks to get more than 100 points, otherwise the average score of each team will not exceed 50."

To redeem the task points, you need to complete the task + submit the task note together, which also means that some teams may have completed the task without knowing it, but because they have never seen the task note, they have no way to get points.

If such unexpected losses are added, the upper limit of 50 points may have to be lowered.

"Also, for tasks like 49 that involve joining forces with other teams, the score is too low." William specifically took out the note for task 49, "Only 10 points, even..."

"Not even as high as the score for killing the entire opposing team." Tang En said.

She had a mask on her face, revealing only a pair of deep blue eyes. At the moment, each of their teams was dressed like this, with clothes that wrapped them tightly, and cuffs, collars, and trouser legs tied tightly to prevent poisonous insects in the forest from getting into their clothes and biting them.

Tang En jokingly held up two fingers, "Each person eliminated will get two points."

This score is a fixed rule outside of the mission.

Lambert was already ready to make a move. With the quality of their team, even if they didn't do any missions, they could just run rampant in the forest and eliminate any team they met. If they could defeat 14 teams, they would already have a score of over 100 and be far ahead.

There were only 14 teams, which was half of the 26 teams plus one more. The area was in this forest, and 7 days was enough for them to know the place thoroughly. They could run into 14 teams even if they were like headless flies.

"The joint mission seemed to be just to make up the numbers." Phylus thought. The score of mission 49 was indeed a little higher than the other missions, but it didn't add up at all when you calculated it carefully. Presumably, other teams will also give up the option of cooperating with other teams after discovering this.

Tang En pulled out the note for Task 49 and handed it to Oscar, "Take this first."

Oscar was a little surprised.

When they arrived at the agreed location, the Third Military Academy had already arrived.

There are currently no reductions in personnel in both teams. The Second Prince Samuel has met with Tang En and was very warm and friendly. He ignored Iris and even smiled at Iris, who had a cold look in his eyes.

Felix also heard about what happened at the shooting range a few days ago. It is said that after they left the shooting range, Iris went to find trouble with Spire University, but the Second Prince intervened, so Iris left angrily.

Fortunately, it did not affect their cooperation, so everyone present treated it as if nothing had happened.

The two groups of people first exchanged the existing notes. The third military academy took out three notes, and the first military academy also took out three notes, excluding the one that Tang En took out as an exception and gave to Oscar for safekeeping.

The information on the six notes not only did not overturn their previous speculation, but made Tang En more certain of her guess.

Samuel showed a half-true and half-false surprise and worry about the poverty of the number of tasks and points, making it difficult to tell what his attitude was.

But then he said: "Fortunately, our alliance is unbreakable. It seems that our previous choice was right. Then we will use this coordinate as a base and start searching for mission notes around."

Tang En also said: "Okay, but the points of the mission are relatively low. Even if we send out some notes, it will not have any impact on us. On the contrary, if we take a large number of missions, it may allow others to form an alliance to attack us. After all, the points of eliminating others are not low."

"Yeah, it's not worth it to reduce staff because of such a small matter." Samuel said, Tang En's words hit the mark.

Of course, Samuel received instructions from his father to instigate the relationship between the next generation of the legion. Even his brother, the eldest prince who has already started to work in the capital star, knows about this matter. The change in the competition system was pushed by the eldest prince.

The royal family is united in dealing with the common enemy, the legion, but since the ultimate goal is to turn the royal family into a white lotus in the eyes of the legion, Samuel also thinks that he cannot directly participate in the struggle between the various military schools. He also has his own ideas. If he can make the gunpowder smell between the military schools stronger in this league, and also show his tolerance, generosity and tolerance, in the future, in his fight for the throne with the eldest prince, perhaps more legions will be willing to support him. It would be even better if he can prove his own strength.

Provoking discord and being tolerant and generous may seem conflicting, but Samuel chose the most effective solution—being a peacemaker, or playing the game of smoothing things over. Not solving the fundamental problem, but only suppressing the current conflict.

Conflict is unavoidable in the current environment, and temporary suppression will only make the next conflict more intense, accumulate greater anger, and create a larger rift.

Iris still has some emotional intelligence, and she doesn't hit a smiling person. The second prince is still a royal family in name only, so she also smiled and joined the subsequent discussion on action wholeheartedly.

The current situation of the First Military Academy and the Third Military Academy is quite similar. The command power is in the hands of the captain, not the instructor.

Felix also looked at the three missions of the Third Military Academy. The rest of them gathered together to discuss the three missions and get to know the people of the Third Military Academy to avoid attacking their own people later.

"Hello, my name is Eric, you should remember me," Eric from the Third Military Academy greeted Felix.

Felix smiled and said, "Hello, we met at the shooting range that day. I remember, my name is Felix."

Eric was the one who followed Samuel with flowers that day.

Oscar and Shano looked at each other. Several other people from the Third Military Academy took the initiative to introduce themselves to Felix, and the rest were talking to others.

"Hello, I'm Dorothy Lee, a military doctor."

"Hello, I'm Anthea, an engineer."

"Hello, I'm Brynn."

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"…The number of missions is limited, but we can kill a few more people when we grab the notes, which can make up for this part of the loss."

"Hahahaha, this is still a competition after all, and the victory is determined by points. No matter how many members of others are eliminated, if there is still one alive, it is possible to complete the mission and get points, so it is still the safest to grab the notes."

The commanders of the two teams did not spend much time to determine the details of the next action.

More than a dozen people from the two teams began to sweep other unknown areas.

"Swish."

A light bullet hit the colorful smoke in the fatal part of someone's body, and thick red smoke came out.

"Your brother is dead."

Lambert said with a big laugh.

Dorothy was carrying a light sniper on her shoulder.

Lambert ran out to search the man, stretched out his hand to disperse the smoke, revealing the man's unwilling face.

"What's the point of sneaking -" said the "dead" man.

Lambert covered the man's mouth with his hand, "You are dead now, don't even think about talking or reporting."

He pressed the locator on the man's body, which was pressed by the contestants after they were eliminated, so that the competition committee could pick them up.

For some reason, Tang En specifically reminded them that they must press this button in person after eliminating someone.

- Maybe it was to prevent someone from wandering around in the forest after being eliminated.

Lambert only found two notes on this man.

[Mission 83: Escort a non-eliminated prisoner out of the forest after seven days, 7 points. 】

【Task 21: Eliminate 30 people, points: 23 (additional calculation, added to the 60 points for eliminating 30 people)】

Lambert read the words clearly and said, "What kind of tasks are these?"

Dorothy walked over and saw the task 21.

"Captain is right, hide this one too." Dorothy said in a cold and neutral voice.

Tang En had told them before they set out that they would most likely encounter some task notes that would cause disputes but give high scores. These notes should be handed over to her for unified processing and should not be mixed with other notes.

In another direction.

Don and Felix found a team's base. It seemed that they planned to spend the night here on the first day. Following the traces of human activities, Felix and Don found the people who left the base.

"You are responsible for the one o'clock direction." Don first saw the group of people at the water source.

"Got it." Felix approached quietly.

If it was really a fight to the death, kicking the opponent directly into the water would be an option, but that would make too much noise, and they would have to hit the colored smoke on the opponent's body to eliminate the person.

Felix approached and covered the opponent's mouth, and the dagger instantly pierced into the colored smoke on the opponent's waist. In an instant, red smoke exploded in his hand, rising up, and mesmerizing his eyes.

On the other side, Tang En also silently eliminated a person.

She put the person down, grabbed his hand and lifted it up, and with her other hand, she took away the energy block on his body, "You don't need this, lend it to us."

The person she pushed down was shocked, and saw that his companion was killed by another teammate of Tang En, so he could only say helplessly: "Can you take the energy block without taking other things?"

Tang En smiled and said, "No."

She searched the person's body and found a task note.

"I should have given the note to the captain for safekeeping." The man muttered.

Tang En still helped him press the elimination locator. On the other side, Felus did not find the task note, but took away the energy block and some compressed biscuits.

This situation happened in many places. Oscar and William were old partners. One looked for someone and the other took him down. The process was smooth. Iris and Shanuo stayed in the base with two other people from the Third Military Academy.

The two teams immediately retracted after radiating to a certain distance. They would never go deep alone. This time they had collected all the notes nearby, a total of thirty task notes, and it was already night.

At first, the cooperation between the two teams was limited, but after most of the day, the second prince also found some benefits of cooperation. If there was only one team, their search speed would not be so fast, and the efficiency would be reduced by half, and they would be easily attacked by other teams.

Tang En just carried out the cooperation as usual according to the previous discussion.

After she collected the notes from the whole team, they picked out several tasks that they had already completed, such as tasks related to eliminating other people and collecting tasks, and also picked up some harmless or less harmful tasks.

Many of the tasks were intentionally reprehensible and seemed ordinary, but for example, the task of "Complete X tasks to get xx points...", the number specified on it was greater than 4. If it was less than 4, it could be said to be a lucky egg for the team, and points could be obtained by completing the tasks normally, but when the number reached 7, 8, or 9, this level was to guide the team that got the note to conflict with other teams.

However, they did not pick out all of them, and put in some points that were not so tempting.

Conflicts may not be bad, but in this case, the competition is no longer about the comprehensive qualities of the military academies. It is more like locking them in a cage and inciting them to fight to the point of both sides being hurt.

Then the survivors are crowned with the championship medal, making them think they are the winners.

Tang En was also thinking that now after they eliminate each other, they will still chat with each other easily. Maybe in a few years, people from different schools will only look at each other with disgust when they meet.

Tang En asked Oscar for the note that he had left with him before. Oscar gave her the note, which was a little dirty, and looked like it had fallen into the mud and was scrubbed by someone.

Oscar smiled awkwardly. Tang En patted his shoulder, looked into William's eyes, and said to the two of them,

"You did a good job."

According to the previous agreement, the two parties had to exchange the notes after selecting them, and then destroy them after selecting again.

Tang En and the second prince exchanged the notes in front of everyone, and both sides took out at least 20 notes to exchange.

Then it was night, and each team took turns to be on duty.

The next day, the engineers of the two teams stayed in the camp and began to study how to destroy the task notes.

Everyone else, except for those who were stationed at the base, moved together.

Sure enough, after the first day of snatching notes, even the most slow-witted and the least skilled in math realized the cruel fact that they did not have enough points for the mission, and began to snatch notes. After all, the mission required notes as a token of trust. If you

do the mission honestly at this time, you may become the unlucky mantis - maybe there is someone behind you, who intends to pack up the mission results and the mission notes and take them away.

Such a development is almost inevitable.

Who would not be tempted when it is easier and less costly to snatch the fruits of other teams' labor?

But it seems that they were still a step behind. It was

only later that Philus came to his senses.

The next day.

The later note-stealing operations of the First and Third Military Academies were actually a little easier.

Most of the notes in the forest had been found the next day, and the few remaining ones were negligible. Yesterday they still had some notes that had not been found, but today there were almost none.

And with William and Felix, who are good at tracking human traces, it was really convenient for them to find people.

When they robbed a team and got 5 task notes, the second prince was happy.

When they found another team an hour later, the second prince's face was a little solemn.

When they found the third team, the second prince's face was already quite abnormal, and he restrained the members of the Third Military Academy, allowing them to slow down and not be so aggressive.

But the First Military Academy was still as energetic as

ever. The progress was not much slower.

Samuel couldn't help but count. They had received at least 70 task notes. He thought that the proportion was too small when there were only 60 before, because the people of the First and Third Military Academy had limited energy and could not complete all the tasks. If someone collected 20 notes, it might be possible to pick out enough points from them.

But after getting 70 notes, the remaining 24 - no, although there are not 24 teams, there should be more than a dozen teams. Their 30 tasks will not be enough points.

Samuel was not afraid that they had too many notes, but that they had too many notes and the other side had too many people!

If they force their men into a desperate situation, and some of the remaining nearly 100 people want to retaliate against them, they will be given a pot of wine.

The second prince hoped that Tang En could also understand his meaning through brain waves, but unfortunately, Tang En not only did not stop his men, but even praised them sincerely.

Samuel even saw the cold beauty, Phyllus, who had been half-hearted towards him before, smiled at Tang En's praise, and then cast a cold look at him.

Now Samuel looked at Phyllus with a feeling of love and hate. He knew William's ability, maybe William himself didn't know, but Samuel had heard of his nickname "tracking hound", a nickname that was usually overshadowed by his scientific research talent.

But Phaerus should have been a student in school for half a year, and he has mastered 70% to 80% of William's skills. In fact, because of his combat physical fitness, his tracking range and endurance are much better than William's. At present, it seems that he is on par with William, and even slightly better. This is very outrageous.

He is a natural detective.

But now it's really too much.

Samuel finally grabbed Phaerus and said to Tang En, "That's enough, let's go back."

Phaerus blocked it with his forearm.

He only listened to Tang En.

Tang En showed a surprised look and said, "Is that enough? There are still more than 20 missions left. They still have a chance."

Samuel didn't know whether Tang En was really surprised or fake surprise, but he thought that Tang En probably also thought that the other side might be desperate, and the idea of ​​strangling the last ray of hope of other teams came to the top.

After all, Iris beside Tang En also showed a look of disapproval to him at this moment.

"Your Highness, we found 8 pieces of paper."

A team member came to report.

This team collected unexpectedly many pieces of paper, and Samuel's face changed immediately.

Felix and Tang En looked at each other. He was the first to arrive here. He had just deliberately placed a few missions that they had hidden before. This was Tang En's instruction to him.

Samuel's face changed instantly.

"Let's go, we'll leave immediately!"

Iris shrugged and sighed, as if to say how the second prince was so cowardly.

- Isn't it just to arouse public anger? She thought.

Tang En looked at the other party's panicked back, lowered his head and smiled silently, then waved to the people of the First Military Academy: "Go back!"

Arousing public anger was the situation that the second prince least wanted to see.

The person who aroused public anger could be the First Military Academy, the Spire University, or even any unknown person, but it must not be a member of the royal family who intends to pretend to be a white lotus and reap the benefits, that's all.

The second prince wanted to perform well in the competition and in the tasks assigned by the emperor, and he also found the sharp knife of the First Military Academy, but it was not that easy.

As Tang En walked, he felt the location of the energy blocks all over his body to make sure that his reserves were sufficient, and he also roughly scanned the bodies of other people.

Back to their station, everyone rested. Tang En silently but enthusiastically ate compressed biscuits, waiting for Samuel to find her.

"I think our cooperation can end. The gains of these two days have exceeded my imagination."

Samuel thought about it. These people in the First Military Academy are useful. Sometimes he even felt jealous, but he had to be moderate, otherwise the sharper the blade, the more likely it is to cut himself.

"Okay, it's a pleasure to cooperate with the Second Prince."

Tang En's answer was very clear and crisp.

Feilus was originally beside Tang En, eating silently.

Although he didn't know what Tang En was going to do, Tang En had asked him and others to do a lot of small things before. Could it be so simple to just break up with the Third Military Academy?

Feilus didn't understand.

He felt that things were not that simple.

- Maybe it was because the things that had been done before were enough to make the Third Military Academy fall flat on its face? So Tang En led them to leave decisively?

Philus knew that the cooperation between the two schools would not last long, because they had already concentrated most of the resources, and the final champion would be decided among them. There would definitely be hostility, and they were destined to be opponents. The more decent way would be for them to break up and then be enemies again.

But in Philus's concept, decency was not something worthwhile. The lower and upper classes of society had the same understanding on this point. The best way should be to stab the other party in the back during the cooperation period, and to give the other party a fatal blow when the other party was least prepared.

When Don was checking the energy block, Philus saw it, and he was even ready to attack the Third Military Academy tonight.

"Then we can start the last step, select the task again, and then destroy the task notes." Tang En said.

The second prince's face froze slightly.

- He didn't want to destroy the notes? Feilus caught this point.

Thinking about it carefully, it is not difficult to understand. The second prince stopped snatching the notes because he was afraid that they would push others too much. If they really destroyed all the notes they didn't need, then they would really have no way out.

Even he noticed the change in Samuel's face, so Tang En couldn't have failed to see it.

Tang En was an old hand at pretending to be ignorant, and he urged Samuel:

"What's wrong with your Highness? Is there anything wrong?"

Samuel raised his lips and smiled with difficulty, "Okay, Anthea and William should be ready."

"I hope it can be faster," Tang En urged, "After all, we only have five days to complete the task."

Samuel nodded, he could understand Tang En's thoughts.

"The cooperation with your Highness makes me look at you with new eyes. At least I hope that our cooperation this time can end successfully. The next time we meet, we will be competitors in the forest."

Tang En pointed out that he hoped that they could end the cooperation decently and compete decently in the future. At least Felix immediately understood the literal meaning of Tang En's words.

Samuel's smile couldn't help but become a little more sincere, but it was still ugly overall.

Felix and Tang En returned to their team's tent. Iris, William and Lambert were counting their points.

"Our team should have eliminated 25 people." William said.

On the first day of their search, they were divided into small groups, so they couldn't eliminate all the people in the other team. They only needed the slips.

"It should be similar for the Third Military Academy." Iris said.

Now both teams should have at least 50 points.

Iris felt that this result was not satisfactory. There was a huge gap between them and other teams. This was only the second day of the competition.

——Sure enough, killing people still earned points faster.

Although Iris thought so, she also knew that the whole competition was monitored by the competition committee. If they really used elimination of others as the main source of points, then the impression they left on the competition committee would be extremely bad.

Moreover, the video of the competition would be released and seen by citizens of the entire empire.

Maybe everyone would discuss it at that time. Are they students or thieves who kill and rob?

Feilus looked at Tang En, her expression did not change, and she said to Iris and the others easily: "50 points are enough. We will choose some more tasks later, and our points will add up to more than 100. William, you go find Anthea. After the selection, we will destroy the notes."

William responded, stood up from the ground, and walked out of the tent.

Iris was a little excited when she heard Tang En's words.

Felix thought that she was probably just excited about destroying the note. Iris showed a very positive attitude towards killing others.

In one word, her style of doing things was slightly vicious.

"I'll keep an eye on them," Iris said, then stood up and followed William.

Tang En said to Lambert, "Tell Dorothy and Shano to take their things with them. We're leaving."

Lambert also stood up. As soon as he heard that the note was to be destroyed, he knew that their cooperation had come to an end.

Everything was like a whirlwind, too fast and too sweeping. From yesterday to today, they have quickly established an unshakable advantage, which made him feel a little confused, but also very excited.

Only Felix and Tang En were left in the tent.

Tang En was now like an NPC that automatically assigned tasks to people who were close to him.

Before she could speak, Felix quickly said, "Sister, are we leaving just like this?"

Tang En sat cross-legged on the ground and moved her shoulders and cervical spine.

"Yes, it's time for us to leave."

Felix was a little hesitant. He asked, "Do we really want to destroy the note? Sister, I don't think this is your style."

Tang En was obviously in a good mood since she came here. She didn't even feel bored staring at others while eating.

She also asked with great interest: "What kind of style do you think I have?"

"Gentle, strong, tolerant, rational..."

Tang En laughed out loud. Balus was really interesting. How could she not know that she was such a person?

But Balus spoke with sincerity. Tang En touched her chin. It was indeed very strange to see herself through the eyes of others. However, she was no longer at the age where she had to rely on the eyes of others to determine her existence.

"You said I was scary some time ago." Tang En said to Balus.

Balus was slowly becoming more like a "person". He was expressionless most of the time and did not wear any social mask. However, in front of his friends, he gradually became "alive". This made him seem difficult to approach, but it made him more vivid.

"Being scary is part of being strong."

Felix lowered his head to avoid Tang En's sight.

When Tang En took the initiative to put him and her in the same group yesterday, Felix was very happy. When Tang En praised him today, he felt that he had met Tang En's expectations and satisfied her requirements.

However, Tang En's attitude was still ambiguous. Sometimes he was impartial, but sometimes he revealed a little bit of just the right preference in his impartiality.

Felix didn't realize that he was hooked by Tang En.

And it was a very clever hook, which hooked him to the point that he began to change himself according to Tang En's pace.

Tang En knew this very well.

When Pylos had no direction, she gave him direction. When Pylos had no goal, she gave him goal. When Pylos had no motivation, she gave him motivation.

Everything had a traceable path, except that Pylos fell into the trap of love again.

Tang En was also very curious about what Pylos would become in the end, to see where his limit was.

However, Tang En didn't think that Pylos would always like her. Putting aside the compatibility, Pylos wanted to maintain his Beta status, which meant that there could be no overt AO-bound relationship between them. This was also a point that Tang En recognized about Pylos. Although he was a fool, he was a fool who used his intelligence in critical places.

As Plaus became more and more outstanding, it was inevitable that he would have more and more suitors.

Later, he found that he already had what he wanted, and he also had good substitutes for other things he didn't have.

Tang En didn't think he would still want to be with her so much.

Most people are good enough if they can resist temptation. In fact, many people's choices are not because they are tempted, but because they rationally assess the situation. If Plaus wants to maintain his independence, he will most likely marry a B in the legion in the future, or it is also a good choice for him to remain single for the rest of his life.

"We leave to give Samuel a chance to choose," Tang En reached out and touched Plaus' head. Her voice was very low, which aroused goose bumps all over Plaus.

"Let him choose, unity or death."