The top of this mountain where Yue Xingwen and the other three of them had landed was a bottomless cliff on the left side, and there was no way to go. There was a jungle on the right side. From the map given by the library to them, the road to the bottom of the mountain was very much in the shape of a ‘branch’, with a large number of forks next to one of the main roads.
If they wanted to go straight down the mountain, they could just take the main road. However, Yue Xingwen thought that such a large mountain would not just hide one point card, and the end of those forks in the road might be the location of the hidden treasure. It was still early, so Yue Xingwen planned to check all the forks on the top of the mountain, get all the point cards, and then rush down the mountain before dark.
Yue Xingwen pointed at the map and said, “There are a lot of forks on the mountain, should we split up?” He turned back to Ke Shaobin, “Didn’t Xiao Tu learn the radar monitoring function? Can Xiao Tu automatically search for cards around?”
Ke Shaobin said, “Xiao Tu’s radar monitoring can identify anything it has seen. Unfortunately, its monitoring range is only 10 meters for now.”
Jiang Pingce asked, “Is it spread around a circle of 10 meters with Xiao Tu as a center? Or is it fan-shaped with a radius of 10 meters in front?”
Ke Shaobin replied, “With Xiao Tu as the center, a circle with a radius of 10 meters.”
The coverage of the circle was much larger than that of the fan-shaped. Jiang Pingce looked down and thought about it, pointing to a certain area of the map and saying, “You can set up a path program to make Xiao Tu move according to the specified route, right?”
Ke Shaobin’s eyes lit up and said, “Right! I can let Xiao Yu scout the shorter forks, which will save a lot of time!” He summoned the robot, and held the white robot in his hand, saying, “After Xiao Tu learns the radar monitoring function, I can see its monitored surroundings at any time in my laptop, and its eyes are moveable like a camera.”
Liu Zhaoqing gave a thumbs up and said, “Xiao Yu is awesome! That means it can detect and identify anything it has seen, so won’t it be more sensitive than a police dog that can track the target by smelling it?”
“En!” Ke Shaobin looked at the robot in his hand and gently stroked its head, “Xiao Tu has indeed become stronger after upgrading. The radar monitoring function is really convenient to find cards, I’ll set its movement path first.”
As he spoke, he opened his laptop and wrote the program as fast as he could.
Jiang Pingce gave some suggestion next to him and said, “The detection range of Xiao Tu is a circle with a radius of 10 meters, it is easy to miss some dead corners, you can let it make an S-shaped curve movement along this road…”
Two science students began to calculate the data.
Jiang Pingce calculated based on the circular shape of the 10 meters radius, and calculated all the dead corners. Some of the roads with a closer distance, Xiao Tu could actually cover the area between two roads, which could greatly improve the efficiency of the scouting.
Ke Shaobin set Xiao Tu’s movement route according to the data given by Jiang Pingce.
Liu Zhaoqing was curious and asked, “Xiao Tu’s size is so small, if it encounters obstacles, can it get through?”
Ke Shaobin said, “Xiao Tu has the ability to automatically bypass small obstacles, and, I can always check the surrounding environment Xiao Tu monitors, and if it encounters a large obstacle that can’t be bypassed, I will use the program to change its path or take it back.”
Yue Xingwen smiled lightly and stroked Xiao Tu’s head. “Xiao Tu is really a clever robot.”
Xiao Tu’s head was lit up, not sure if it was in response to Yue Xingwen’s praise.
Ke Shaobin placed Xiao Tu on the ground and woke it up softly, “Xiao Tu, specify the path movement, turn on the radar detection function and detect the target, the card with the light source.”
Ke Shaobin scanned the card over Xiao Tu’s eye area, and a clear childish voice of the robot soon rang in his ears, “Okay master, the target data has been recorded, radar detection function is on, specify the path movement!”
Xiao Tu opened the wheels on the soles of its feet, turned around flexibly, lit the light on its head, and slid forward according to the path set by Ke Shaobin.
Looking at the robot that disappeared from sight, Yue Xingwen endured his laugh and said, “Our orienteering is really high-tech enough. There is a map modeling, and another one is an intelligent robot radar detection. Young Ke and Pingce are also too powerful, with you two around, we don’t have to be afraid of what kind of wilderness maps we encounter in the future.”
Ke Shaobin’s ears turned red because of the compliment, but his mouth was not modest as he said, “*cough*. This is just a basic operation.”
Yue Xingwen knew that if Xiao Ke had a tail, the tail would be standing up proudly at this point. Relatively speaking, Jiang Pingce seemed to be used to being complimented, there was no expression on his face. He furrowed his brows and looked into the distance, and said calmly, “Remember the location of the main road, and save time by splitting into two teams when we get to the fork.”
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During the exam, it was impossible to send private messages to the outside, but the Research Group’s chat channel was always open.
It was 2:30pm in the afternoon, shortly after the exam had begun. In the daytime, even if the students encountered each other, students would not rashly start a war. As for the beasts, most of them came out at night.
Yue Xingwen had a map and compass in his hand, and Ke Shaobin had a modeled map in his laptop, so there was no fear of getting lost if they moved separately. Therefore, Yue Xingwen was brave enough to divide the team and wanted to collect the point card at the top of the mountain as quickly as possible.
Ke Shaobin and Liu Zhaoqing glanced at each other and nodded in agreement with Yue Xingwen’s arrangement, “Okay, we’ll split up to search for the point card.”
Four of them separated at the intersection.
Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce rushed side by side towards the right fork in the road.
The fork in the road was winding, with tall weeds on both sides of the road, the ‘squeak’ sound of crickets were heard from time to time, and some frogs hopped around in the bushes.
In this deserted island, the road was only wide enough for two people to pass side by side. Jiang Pingce picked up a branch and used it to brush the dense bushes he encountered on the way to check whether there would be a point card hidden inside or not, while Yue Xingwen checked the direction with his map and compass.
After walking for almost half an hour, a cliff which was about 5 meters high, with a rushing river below appeared ahead of them. A trunk was placed on the cliff to serve as a bridge connecting on both sides. The single-log bridge made of trees must be somewhat old, covered with green moss growing around the trunk.
On the other side of the bridge was a dense forest, and from a distance, it looked like there was some soft light flickering in the trees. It wasn’t known whether the light was a reflection of sunlight on the leaves, or whether it was a hidden point card.
Yue Xingwen looked at Jiang Pingce and asked for his opinion, “Go over and take a look?”
“En, I’ll go first, you can follow me.”
It should have rained for a while this morning, the trunk of the tree was a bit slippery, Jiang Pingce had one foot in front and one in the back, trying to keep his body balanced. He crossed over two or three steps over, and turned back to look at Yue Xingwen.
Yue Xingwen followed closely forward, his body balance was obviously not as good as Jiang Pingce’s. He began to sway slightly when he reached the middle of the single-log bridge. Jiang Pingce immediately extended his hand and said, “Give me your hand.”
Yue Xingwen hurriedly grabbed the other party’s hand.
With a slight force, Jiang Pingce pulled Yue Xingwen over.
Yue Xingwen turned back and looked at the rushing river under the single-log bridge, breathed a sigh of relief, and smiled. “It really has the excitement of a wilderness adventure, much more fun than the orienteering team building of our Student Council.”
Looking at the smile between his eyebrows, the corner of Jiang Pingce’s mouth also raised a curve and said, “Let’s go.”
With Yue Xingwen’s optimistic personality, he adapted quickly to whatever environment he was in, and it was actually quite good to find joy in sorrow for their self-comfort. Otherwise, it would be very tiring to constantly think about whether they would be eliminated and die. Jiang Pingce also temporarily let go of the burden in his heart, as if this was a wilderness adventure.
Both of them walked toward the depths of the woods.
At this moment, a message from Ke Shaobin appeared on the Research Group’s chat channel: “Xingwen, I didn’t find any point cards on the path I scouted with senior brother Liu, but instead, Xiao Tu found a green card with 5 points, and we’ve already took it.”
Yue Xingwen praised Xiao Tu: “Xiao Tu is awesome.”
The 10 meters radius radar monitoring was indeed much more efficient than scouting with their eyes. Yue Xingwen followed by: “I crossed a river with Pingce, and there is a forest ahead, you guys wait a bit at the fork in the road, we’ll be back soon.”
Liu Zhaoqing said: “Okay, be careful.”
Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce continued to move forward.
The ground was full of fallen leaves blown down by the wind, and there were traces of rain on the leaves. The sunlight poured down through the gaps in the leaves, making all those water traces reflected a soft glow. Yue Xingwen thought to himself, the light he saw just now was not all reflected from the sunlight, right? Did they both come all this way for nothing?
He squinted his eyes and looked around carefully, when suddenly, he noticed a cloud of light on the tree not far away, which was significantly different from the reflection of the sun around him—— The flickering soft light was very similar to the point card he had seen before.
Yue Xingwen pointed to the direction of the light source and said, “There seems to be a point card over there.”
Jiang Pingce immediately followed him, and both of them quickly arrived under the tree as Yue Xingwen summoned his dictionary once again.
The heavy dictionary seemed to be manipulated by a magical power, slowly floating in the air in Yue Xingwen’s hand, who aimed it at the top of the tree and threw it out with force—— With a crack, the branches were broken, and a blue card fell to the ground along with several leaves.
Blue card? Would the points be higher than the green card?
Yue Xingwen was about to reach out to pick the card up, and suddenly heard Jiang Pingce’s low voice in his ear, “Be careful!”
Before he could react to what was going on, his shoulder was suddenly pulled by someone, his body was driven by a strong force from Jiang Pingce and forcibly reversed. Yue Xingwen did not know what was happening, and when his feet stabilized, he nervously turned his head to see——
He saw that Jiang Pingce’s face was cold, his brow was slightly furrowed, and he was holding a small green snake in his hand. The snake was tightly clutched by his long and slender fingers, twisting and struggling frantically.
Yue Xingwen widened his eyes, “…Snake?!”
Jiang Pingce simply and neatly beat the snake to death with a stick and said, “It’s bamboo.”
“The venomous bamboo viper?” Yue Xingwen’s back instantly turned cold and said, “If we were bitten by it, won’t it be the end!”
There was actually one of the ten venomous snakes hidden in the forest, the bamboo viper, could this exam be any more pitted?
At this moment, there was a sudden, eerie rustling sound around them, which was the sound of something sliding through the leaves. Many small green snakes also appeared in the trees in front of them, and as if they had been called, they quickly flew over and crawled towards Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce, surrounding them in a twinkling of an eye.
The dense swarm of snakes spat out red letters for the two of them, that kind of ‘zi zi’ sound that sent shivers down people’s spines. A pair of golden pupils stared at them as if staring at two preys.
The moment he was stared at by the snakes, the blood in Yue Xingwen’s entire body seemed to fall into an ice cellar, and he could not help but curse in a low voice, “Fuck! The library actually put the point card in the snake’s den!”
Jiang Pingce’s face was cold, and his whole body was tense with vigilance.
Both of their bodies were about to freeze into a statue—— They had never seen so many snakes since they were kids!
Jiang Pingce said in Yue Xingwen’s ear, “My coordinate system is still cooldown in 3 minutes.”
It was impossible for the venomous snake to stand still and wait for them for 3 minutes, and they could not fight with the snakes with their branches and his dictionary. There were too many of these snakes and plenty of smaller ones hanging from the top of the tree staring at the two that could attack from the air at any time.
Yue Xingwen looked pale, and he took a deep breath. “I’ll take you away!”
Seeing the snakes around him were about to pounce on him, Yue Xingwen suddenly opened his dictionary—— Golden Cicada Shell!
Almost simultaneously, Jiang Pingce smashed the nearest snake with his branch, bending down immediately afterwards to pick up the blue card from the grass with his hand at lightning speed.
The scene in front of him shifted, and Yue Xingwen led Jiang Pingce to a place 20 meters away in an instant.
The snakes were left behind, but 20 meters was not exactly a safe distance.
Yue Xingwen’s heart was about to rise to his throat as he hurriedly shouted, “Run!”
Without hesitation, Jiang Pingce reached out his hand and grabbed Yue Xingwen’s wrist with force, leading him to run quickly in the opposite direction! Yue Xingwen opened his idiom dictionary and directly opened the skill ‘Fast as Lightning’, increasing the movement speed by 500.
Their movement speed was increased, and they were running as fast as if they had wind and fire wheels under their feet, striding like flying, running wildly in the forest for their lives!
At that moment, there was only one thought in Yue Xingwen’s mind—— Run faster! He did not want to be bitten to death by these snakes on this deserted island!
The snakes behind them chased after them, and many more were roused in the surrounding trees to join the pursuing group.
Yue Xingwen’s scalp was about to explode as the two darted out of the forest at a hundred meter sprint.
The familiar cliff and single-log bridge appeared ahead of them.
Yue Xingwen braked sharply by the river and stopped. This single-log bridge was not easy to cross, and if they walked slowly to cross the bridge, they would surely be caught up by the snakes. He turned his head nervously to look at Jiang Pingce, only to see the calm expression on Jiang Pingce’s face, his right hand suddenly extended——
His slender fingers drew the coordinate system again and wrote down a line of the formula as fast as he could.
In the nick of time, Yue Xingwen’s waist was suddenly wrapped gently by Jiang Pingce, and his body suddenly lifted into the air——
Jiang Pingce took him straight up into the air!
Both of them completed a perfect parabolic motion high in the air and landed steadily on the opposite bank of the river as Jiang Pingce turned back and without a second thought, simply maneuvered the single-log bridge to sink directly into the river, breaking the path of the snakes in pursuit!
With a loud noise, the single-log bridge that had been set up over the cliff fell into the river, sending a splash of wave over the two of them.
Yue Xingwen looked at the snakes across the river, and his palms were covered in cold sweat.
Jiang Pingce had just pulled his wrist all the way to run wildly, at this moment, when they were finally safe, Jiang Pingce then released his hand, looked back at him, and asked in a low voice, “Are you alright?”
Yue Xingwen shook his head, “I’m alright. Did you get the point card?”
Jiang Pingce took out a blue card from his pocket, only to see the written number on the back: “10 Points.”
Yue Xingwen frowned. “The 10-point card is actually that difficult to get?”
The five-meter high cliff blocked the snakes, but the snakes on the opposite side were still staring at them. The snakes could not fly over and could only hissing angrily towards Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce.
Yue Xingwen got rid of his goosebumps and complained, “This is the first time I’ve seen so many snakes.”
Jiang Pingce replied, “Me too.”
Yue Xingwen smiled bitterly and said, “When finding the point card, we can actually find our way into a snake’s den! I really admire this library.”
Was this course really called <Cross-country Orienteering>? This was obviously called <Escape From the Deserted Island>, right?!
cant wait for xiao tu to become a gundam-
thanks for the chapter!!
Lol I hope Xiao Tu truly will look like gundam!
Thx for the chapter!
That’s fair though, six of the blue cards and you pass! Can’t be that easy 😤😅😂
Thank you so much for the chapters!! 😊😊😊🥰🥰🥰
Thank you for the chapter 🤍
What is the eye color of Yue Xingwen? did the author mention it or not?
Thank you for the chapter! <3
I’m surprised they didn’t expect snakes. it’s a jungle. what did you guys expect lol… I’m pretty sure the strategy should be collecting all the 5 points cards first then collect the higher points later. Saves time and resources (skills) for later.
*Sorry I didn’t mean to reply to you.
thanks for the chapter <3
Sorry. I didn’t mean to reply to you…
Can this be considered their first date? 💃
Green snakes usually look really beautiful
Thank you for your translation
What’s next??? Rabid pandas??
Ty for the chapter ❤️
This library sure is strange. In reality snakes never would chase human, even if it was their den. But they’ll definitely bite intruder to death if they can
Thanks for the chapter ~
These creepy snakes seem so unnatural in their behaviour! I can just imagine the library collecting them from the results of lab experiments for some science course.
Can’t snakes swim? Or maybe this species can’t? (I’ve definitely seen snakes irl swimming before. QAQ)