Yue Xingwen and his three teammates took the lead to jump off the helicopter, and the students inside the cabin saw the scene and came to the hatch door.
A female student stretched out her hand and tied up her long hair and said, “Come on, let’s jump! It is better than being forced to jump after 10 minutes. I don’t want to be thrown into the sea to feed the fish!”
She took a deep breath and simply jumped down, her other three teammates also braced themselves to jump off the helicopter in turn.
Soon, there were more parachutes in the air in all directions.
In the cabin, Liu Xiaoxiao, who had a slight fear of heights, looked pale and said, “Senior brother, we…”
Qin Lang simply said, “Let’s catch up. Pay attention to the altitude of the parachute, and be sure to open the parachute before 500 meters.”
He was the first to jump down. Liu Xiaoxiao’s face was pale as she gripped the handrail of the hatch door, her senior sister next to her gently patted her shoulder and said, “Don’t be afraid, close your eyes and jump down, I will remind you when you are almost at the height to open the parachute.”
Liu Xiaoxiao clenched her teeth, closed her eyes and jumped down, her face of ‘not afraid of dying’ was quite magnificent.
As one team after another jumped out, the others also came to the hatch door.
Most of the students jumped off the helicopter, except for those with a severe fear of heights whose legs were weak and who refused to let go of the handrail. For a moment, the whole sky was full of open parachutes, fluttering around like a cloud of flower petals.
Many students did not control the direction, coupled with the sense of fear caused by losing weight by falling rapidly, a burst of screams rang out around them, mixed with the sound of the whistling wind.
Jiang Pingce did not care about the others, he only stared at his three teammates below.
At this time, the first person who jumped, Yue Xingwen, was less than 500 meters from the ground, and the scene of the deserted island came into view. Jiang Pingce found that the location of their four parachutes was very close to a mountain peak, and seeing that Yue Xingwen was about to hit the cliff in a few tens of meters, Jiang Pingce immediately extended his right hand.
Right-hand rule, Cartesian coordinate system.
Three coordinate axes appeared in front of Jiang Pingce’s eyes, and his three teammates were like blue dots, falling down in the coordinate system, and then Jiang Pingce estimated the coordinate position of Yue Xingwen and wrote a parabolic formula at a very fast speed.
Yue Xingwen was trying to turn the direction of his parachute.
The wind was too strong, and if he continued to drift forward by the wind, he would definitely hit the cliff!
At that very moment of his anxiety, suddenly a magical force seemed to envelop his entire being, and his body began to fly involuntarily upwards in an oblique direction——
By the time Yue Xingwen came back to his senses, he had landed firmly on top of the mountain.
It was impossible for a parachute to somehow fly upwards during its descent, and Yue Xingwen stood frozen at the top of the mountain for two seconds before quickly responding—— It should be Jiang Pingce who changed his trajectory after seeing that he almost hit the cliff.
After experiencing it for himself, Yue Xingwen discovered the power of the Mathematics’ coordinate system control field.
The motion trajectory calculated by the mathematical formula would not be affected by external factors such as wind direction and gravity. Jiang Pingce calculated which landing point, and the target controlled by him would land exactly on that coordinate point.
Yue Xingwen looked up and saw that Liu Zhaoqing and Ke Shaobin had also landed next to him one after another, Jiang Pingce was the last to fall, and the four landed less than two meters apart.
If it was not for Jiang Pingce’s control with the formula, they would certainly not be able to land smoothly as they drifted with the wind.
Yue Xingwen stepped forward and patted Jiang Pingce’s shoulder, “It’s great! You wrote four formulas in the blink of an eye, and calculated our landing point accurately.”
His hair was messed up by the wind, but his smile was bright.
The corner of Jiang Pingce’s lips raised slightly and he asked in concern. “You didn’t get hit, right?”
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Yue Xingwen waved his hand and replied, “I’m fine, with you controlling the trajectory, I landed very steadily just now!”
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“It’s still good to fall flat on your face, I’m afraid that we will fall into a box.” Liu Zhaoqing made a joke.
Finding that everyone was not injured, Yue Xingwen sighed in relief and said, “It’s good to land at the top of the mountain, we can look at the surroundings and discuss what to do while standing on high ground.”
“What about the map?” Jiang Pingce asked.
Yue Xingwen put away his parachute and turned his backpack over to look for it—— The tools in the bag included a map, a compass, a very old pocket watch, and a lighter.
It was simple, just these four things.
Liu Zhaoqing could not help but complain, “The library doesn’t even give us a bottle of water, and let us stay for three days. Do the library want us to ah?”
Ke Shaobin looked around for a moment and said in a low voice, “Maybe, the library wants us to search by ourselves? There should be wild fruits, vegetables, ets on this deserted island, right? Maybe we can even shoot some pheasants or rabbits and roast them for eating? The lighter can be used to make a fire.”
Jiang Pingce calmly asked, “Can any of you identify if the wild fruits are poisonous or not?”
The three people fell silent at the same time.
They were just ordinary university students, who had the experience of surviving in the wild ah?
Yue Xingwen smiled bitterly, “It’s better not to eat those wild fruits, mushrooms and the like indiscriminately, it’s easy for us to be poisoned. As for the pheasant that Young Ke said… When I see this deserted island, it does not look like there are such small animals, but there may be fish in the sea.”
Liu Zhaoqing said, “We won’t die of hunger even if we don’t eat for three days, so don’t worry about this first. Let’s see the situation with the map. This pattern is a lot like a live PUBG, do we need to go to the safety circle?”
Yue Xingwen found a boulder and spread the map on that boulder to analyze it with everyone.
The map was much larger than he had expected, with direction and distance conversions marked, a red flag in the center, and the words ‘End Point’ written on it.
Yue Xingwen pointed his finger at a place on the map that resembled a mountain peak and looked at Jiang Pingce and said, “Our location should be the top of this mountain. The map scale is 1:500 meters, can you convert the distance between us and the end point?”
Jiang Pingce narrowed his eyes slightly and did some quick calculation in his head.
Not long after, he came up with the result and said, “The linear distance is 20 kilometers,but we can’t go in a straight line because there are obstacles such as swamps and jungles along the way and we have to get to the end point in 3 days. If we take a detour…” He quickly drew a winding path on the map with his finger and said, “About 45 kilometers.”
Liu Zhaoging cursed in a low voice, “Fuck, 45 kilometers on foot! We did not walk this fact back in our military training that year!”
Ke Shaobin adjusted his glasses and asked seriously, “Can you write a parabolic formula and throw us directly over?”
Jiang Pingce: “……” He was a bit speechless at Ke Shaobin’s question.
When Yue Xingwen saw his serious face, he took the initiative to explain. “Definitely not, Pingce’s coordinate system can control the coordinates and paths with his field of vision, and he can’t see 45 kilometers away. Secondly, a big move like the coordinate system should have a long cooldown, and it’s impossible for someone to use it infinitely, right?”
Jiang Pingce nodded. “En.”
Ke Shaobin blushed slightly. “*Cough*. I just said it casually.”
Liu Zhaoqing said, “Junior brother Jiang, then can you calculate how long it will take us to reach the end point if we start walking now?”
Jiang Pingce frowned and said, “Adult normal walking speed is 12 minutes/km, 10 kilometers takes 2 hours, and with the physical exertion, in theory, it takes us more than 10 hours to walk 45 kilometers.”
He pointed to the two coordinate points on the map and said, “The exam time is 3 days, and we can advance 15 kilometers per day. Using this and here as a transit point for resting, not only to ensure sufficient stamina for any unexpected situation, but also to reach the end point on time before the end of the exam on the third day and collect enough point cards.”
Yue Xingwen looked down at the path Jiang Pingce had drawn on the map and agreed, “The movement route covers the left and right sides of this area, so we can spend more time scouting around and get all the point cards in this area.”
Liu Zhaoqing took a closer look at the map, and felt that it was not bad at all.
The path planned out by the Mathematics Department’s top student, it must be both efficient and fastest, the best path. As a medical student, he gave up thinking after seeing the map, just followed the path.
Ke Shaobin simply took out his laptop and said, “To avoid losing the map, I’ll make a backup copy in the laptop, and build a model of the route drawn by Pingce, or let Xiao Tu scout the surrounding environment.”
“En, I’ll help you.” Jiang Pingce said.
Two science students began to draw the modeling on the laptop on the spot.
This kind of map modeling was not difficult, with Jiang Pingce helping to organize the data, Ke Shaobin tapped on the keyboard with his fingers as if flying, and quickly made a 3D version of the map out.
The exam had sent them a flat map, and Ke Shaobin made it 3D, the mountain peak was also marked with heights, and he used a blue line to circle the area radiating around the best path, as if to say, “This territory is ours.”
Liu Zhaoqing watched from the side and praised, “With you two around, will you be able to make a simulated map every time we go to an unfamiliar environment in the future? Are all science students so hardcore?”
Yue Xingwen smiled, “Not all science students are so hardcore, it’s our Young Ke and Pingce who are too strong.”
On-site modeling was indeed a piece of cake for Ke Shaobin and Jiang Pingce, who were able to use the skills by the library to the best of it. If the person was an underachiever that got the coordinate system’s skill, their teammates would have fallen to death if they could not calculate the formula quickly…
Just thinking about this, a prompt suddenly popped up in the hover box in the upper right corner——
[Exam Officially Started]
[Number of Deserted Island Examinees: 88 people]
Everyone saw this prompt.
Ke Shaobin was stunned. “Are there only 88 people on the island?”
Yue Xingwen said, “It seems that 12 examinees who fell to their deaths, or landed at sea and drowned, were directly eliminated.”
The four of them glanced at each other, remembering the scene that they had jumped down from a high altitude and could not help to have lingering fears. This was the first time they experienced skydiving and were lucky to land without any problems.
Those 12 unlucky examinees really lived up to senior brother Liu’s words: Landing into a box is so tragic.
Immediately after, a transparent hover box in the upper right corners lists a row of information——
[Point Card Ranking]
[A-76 Research Group 20 points]
[B-16 Research Group 15 points]
[C-11 Research Group 10 points]
[A-53 Research Group 5 points]
At present, there were only four Research Groups on the list. They had collected point cards when the exam had just started. Obviously, they were lucky to get a point card near the location of their landing.
Seeing this row of information, Liu Zhaoqing could not help but spit out, “There’s really a taste of PUBG, there’s also a real-time leaderboard update!” He paused and asked worriedly, “In the later stage, will there be infighting among the students over the point cards?”
Thinking about it, Yue Xingwen shook his head and said, “This is still quite different from PUBG. The winner of PUBG must kill all the other teams and survive to the end to be considered a winner. There is no contradiction between the teams in our cross-country orienteering this time, we can pass as long as we get 60 points. Moreover, at present, everyone is not quite sure about the other majors’ skills, and any rash move would likely be backfired.”
Liu Zhaoqing agreed. “That’s right. A soft girl like Liu Xiaoxiao can lecture monkeys and make them stand for 15 seconds, so who knows what strange and unusual abilities other majors had. In this class, we should match with all kind of Research Group, groups or k-groups, it’s really not convenient to make a rash move.”
Ke Shaobin said, “Yeah, if we encounter a direct acid attack from the Chemistry Department, even if we win the fight, we will be disfigured.”
Yue Xingwen said, “We won’t provoke other teams. The area planned by Pingce is large enough, we should be able to collect quite a few point cards.”
The model of the map on Ke Shaobin’s side had been prepared.
Jiang Pingce stood up straight and said, “Let’s go before it gets dark, search for the point cards on the mountain first.”
Wearing an army green camouflage suit, walking on long legs with a crisp and clean movement, which made the 189-tall male student look handsome. His original tough facial features were even more heroic with the military uniform.
Yue Xingwen quickly followed him, walking alongside him, and asked in a low voice, “It’s 2:00pm in the afternoon now. Shall we spend the night at the top of the mountain, or go down?”
Jiang Pingce said, “Go down the mountain. Only our team should have landed at the top of the mountain, all the other teams are at the bottom of the mountain. If we get down too late, the point cards near the bottom of the mountain will be collected by others.”
Yue Xingwen also thought about it like this and replied, “En, let’s hurry up and sweep the top of the mountain first.”
Two people tacitly stared around left and right. After walking about ten meters, Jiang Pingce suddenly narrowed his eyes and pointed to a tree in front of him, “There’s a light on it, I wonder if it’s a point card.”
The trunk of the tree was as thick as an adult’s arms’ embrace, and the treetop branch and leaves were thick, forming a large natural shade. Yue Xingwen followed Jiang Pingce’s gaze and indeed found that something seemed to be flickering in the middle of the leaves. The light was very soft, just like when encountering a gathering-type quest’s items in the game.
However, this tree was too high, right? And the trunk was very smooth, with no way to climb.
Yue Xingwen pondered and asked, “How do we climb up there?”
The four people stood under the tree, looking at each other. Did this cross-country orienteering test the students’ ability to climb trees?
Ke Shaobin said in a low voice, “Can Pingce’s coordinate system send someone up there?”
“In cooldown,” Jiang Pingce said expressionlessly.
“Oh.” Ke Shaobin scratched his head and said, “My robot can’t climb trees either.”
Liu Zhaoqing said, “The card is in the middle of the leaves, and I can’t aim my scalpel accurately.”
“Look at me,” Yue Xingwen suddenly took out his dictionary and smiled. “Stand farther away, so you guys don’t get hit.”
The three of them glanced at each other and quickly took a step back.
Yue Xingwen closed one of his eyes to aim at the glow in the tree, he raised his head and threw his dictionary violently towards that position—— With a loud ‘bang’, the branches were smashed and shaken, and then snapped with a crash!
As the branches fell, a green cad floated down gently.
Yue Xingwen looked happy and reached out to take the card, only to see a ‘5’ written on the back of the green card, followed by a system prompt in everyone’s ears, “The C-183 Research Group has obtained a green card, adding 5 points.”
Yue Xingwen shoved the card into his pocket, and looked at his teammates with a smile, “Done!”
The other three people: “……”
It was still Yue Xingwen’s dictionary that was easy to use in the critical moment. His dictionary was like a brick, moving wherever it was needed.
What an OP innate skill, his throwing aim lolololol
Thx for the chapter!
Words hit hard
See those we read 📚 for the win!!!!
Power of knowledge
Thanks for the chapter ~
wahh jiang pingce, so cool calculating math!
thanks for the chapter!
All hail the dictionary-style brick 😂😂😂😂📕🧱
Thank you so much for the chapters!! 💙💙💙💙💙💙
Trigger Warning (for some): next chapter includes snakes.
(I am ok with them but I know they are in the top phobia list, and no joke to some. Be safe, happy and forewarned.)
Thanks for the warning! I have a snake phobia myself, but luckily I’m completely fine with text descriptions of snakes (and cartoony snakes, but that doesn’t matter here). 👌
It’s the power of knowledge. 😂