I simultaneously traverse countless worlds

"I'm so sorry, I almost missed it!"

At that moment, Karuizawa Megumi's voice rang out. The girl had just entered the room and saw Li Mo. A hint of joy flashed in her eyes, and she quickly apologized.

"Hurry up and sit down, you're the only one we're waiting for!"

Faced with Karuizawa Megumi's apology, Majima Tomoya raised an eyebrow and gave a very direct order.

"Feel sorry……"

At this moment, Karuizawa Kei didn't say much. After nodding, she quickly slipped into the room and sat down in the last chair to Li Mo's right with her head drooping. On Li Mo's other side was Ichinose Honami, the class representative of Class B.

The entire 504 room was filled with thirteen students from four different classes, all tacitly watching Majima Tomoya!

"Very good. Now that everyone is here, I will begin explaining the rules for this special exam!"

Majima Tomoya, with a serious expression, looked at the thirteen first-year students from various classes before him, tapped the table to alert everyone, and then said in a solemn tone:

"In this special exam, the school will compare all first-grade students to the twelve zodiac animals and divide them into twelve groups according to the number of students. We will hold exams within the groups. The purpose of the exams is to test the students' thinking ability."

"The basic abilities required of members of the community can be roughly divided into three categories: Action, Thinking, and Teamwork. Only those who possess these abilities are qualified to be called outstanding adults. For example, the previous test on the deserted island focused on testing your teamwork ability, and everyone performed very well in this aspect without any problems."

"However, this time it's Thinking, which will be an exam that requires thinking skills. Thinking skills, in other words, are the ability to analyze the current situation, clarify the issue, understand the problem-solving process before preparing, and also the ability to unleash creativity and create new value!"

Undoubtedly, Majima Tomoya spoke in a very official and academic manner, making sure that all thirteen students could hear him clearly. However, apart from a few bright students like Li Mo and Ichinose Honami, the other students had several question marks above their heads, wondering why he was talking about this.

Especially the students in Class C, most of them are delinquent teenagers or hot girls. Expecting them to understand those serious official academic terms is like expecting pigs to fly.

"Teacher, why didn't you just say it was a test of how quick-witted we are!"

Seeing that Karuizawa Megumi had a dreamy look in her eyes and a cute expression of deep thought and understanding, Li Mo gently patted her shoulder and said casually.

"If you had a hard time understanding what I just said, then I'll explain the assessment rules to you in the simplest and most straightforward way!"

As if sighing in exasperation at the students' intelligence, Majima Tomoya reached behind him and pulled out four postcard-sized sheets of paper and four standard A4-sized instruction manuals. He distributed them to the students in the four classes and said:

"As I said, this special exam will divide all the first-year students into groups based on the twelve Chinese zodiac signs. These are your group members and the exam rules. You have been assigned to the Mao group, which is the Rabbit group in the Chinese zodiac. You can look up the rest of the rules yourself. If you don't understand them, just read them a couple more times!"

"Oh~!"

As the leader of Class D, Li Mo was the first to reach out and take a slip of paper and instructions. He glanced at the paper and raised his eyebrows slightly. The others were divided into four groups according to their class and read the slips of paper and instructions separately.

On that postcard-sized piece of paper, there was indeed a large character "卯" (Mao), which in the twelve-year cycle represents "rabbit," and it was the list of members of the Rabbit group:

Class A: Shigeru Takemoto, Koji Machida, Takuro Morishige

Class B: Honami Ichinose, Tetsuya Hamaguchi, Ryota Beppu

Class C: Mio Ibuki, Shiho Manabe, Nami Yabuna, Saki Yamashita

Class D: Li Mo, Karuizawa Megumi, Sotomura Hideo, Yukimura Teruhiko

The list of attendees was not surprising; Li Mo had already seen them all. Ichinose Honami had greeted him warmly, while Ibuki Mio looked grim. The students from the other classes were mostly fearful or apprehensive. He then looked at the instruction manual.

The instruction manual contained a lot of information, which Li Mo quickly skimmed through. Overall, it was rather lengthy, but with some simplification, it could be summarized into a few rules.

First, this special exam involves dividing all first-grade students into twelve groups, with each group consisting of students from four classes: A, B, C, and D. Although the distribution is not completely equal, the number of students is roughly the same, differing only in the number of students from different classes (three from one class and four from another). There is no need to pay too much attention to this.

Second, there is one "selected person" in each group. The selected person will receive an email from the school at 8:00 AM tomorrow, which will secretly inform them of their selection. Those who are not selected will also receive an email, but the content will be slightly different.

Third, this test is somewhat similar to Werewolf, except that one is to find the werewolves and the other is to find the favored players. The favored players can hide or reveal their identities, which is their personal choice and there is no mandatory requirement.

Fourth, this exam will theoretically last for four days, including one day of complete free time. According to the school's arrangement, students can submit their answers and their preferred candidates to the school's designated email address between 9:30 pm and 10 pm on the last night. However, they can also submit their papers early, at any time. But this kind of early submission is a risk-reward situation.

To use a somewhat inappropriate analogy, it's like you made a bet with your dad. If you hand in your exam early and get a perfect score, you can go out to eat and have fun at the amusement park this weekend. But if you don't get a perfect score, you'll not only have to do your homework, but you'll also get a few slaps from your dad.

Alternatively, if you don't want to take that risk, you can simply choose to take the exam. While this may not guarantee you any great rewards, you won't have to worry about being punished for not getting a perfect score.

Of course, this is just a somewhat inappropriate analogy, but it's one that's relatively easy for people to understand.

Besides that, there are some minor details. For example, each group member has to meet at a designated time and room every day during the four days of the exam for a one-hour discussion. The content of the discussion can be anything. If you study without saying a word, that's not a big deal.

Also, [Advanced Education High School] only accepts answers from students using their own mobile phones to send emails to a designated email address, and students can only answer questions about their own group's privileged status. Answering questions about other groups, even if they guess correctly, is useless and will not earn them any rewards.

Then there are four possible exam results, corresponding to "answering correctly" and "answering incorrectly," as well as "submitting the paper early" and "submitting the paper on time." So there are four possible outcomes, and each of these four outcomes is slightly different.

Result 1: If everyone in the group, except for the privileged members and their classmates, answers correctly, the school will pay all group members personal points: 500,000 personal points for each regular group member and 1 million personal points for each privileged member.

Result 2: Under the same conditions, if someone does not answer or answers incorrectly, the school will pay the recipient 500,000 personal points separately.

Result 3: Under the same conditions, if someone submits their paper early and correctly identifies themselves as a privileged individual, the exam process for that group will immediately end. The school will reward the student who answered correctly with 500,000 personal points, and their class will also receive 50 class points. As a punishment, the class whose privileged individual identity is revealed will have 50 class points deducted.

Result 4: Under the same conditions, if someone submits their paper early and answers incorrectly, their class will have 50 class points deducted and the subsidy will be given to the class of the person receiving the bonus. The person receiving the bonus will also receive 500,000 personal points as a reward.

Furthermore, the instruction manual specifically points out that all SMS messages sent by the school to verify the identity of preferential recipients are read-only, so there is no possibility of them being tampered with. As long as the SMS message is seen to be from the school's IP address, it is definitely a genuine message. This prevents some clever individuals from trying to use this to engage in some shady practices, such as editing the SMS message to pretend to be a preferential recipient, tricking students from other classes into answering incorrectly, and directly deducting points from their own class, thus benefiting both the preferential recipient and their own class.

These rules are written in great detail on paper, so they seem very complicated and confusing. However, once you understand the main points and focus on the key information, they are easy to understand. Even students who didn't quite understand Majima Tomoya's official terminology explanations before understood the rules of this "preferential treatment game".

After reading the rules in the instruction manual, everyone even had a thought: this "preferential treatment game" really lived up to its name. Excluding the situation in result three, where the student selected as the "preferential treatment" gets nothing, the other three results all guarantee at least 500,000 personal points, with a maximum of one million personal points, which is an astronomical figure for ordinary students.

Even for Li Mo, aside from the fact that he challenged those fighting clubs on the first day of freshman enrollment, which gave him more than two million personal points, he relied on the monthly personal points he received to earn points. Other students, including those in Class A, who still have more than 100,000 points are definitely not many.

However, the status of the privileged members would only be communicated to everyone via text message the next day. Therefore, after reading the instructions, the thirteen students of the Rabbit Group did not linger but chatted for a few minutes before leaving and returning to their respective cabins!

Chapter 40 Riddles and Deciphering

Thanks to Li Mo's prestige in Class D and his close relationship with Tonō no Seihana, Shiina Hiyori, and Sakayanagi Arisu, he naturally knew that each class was divided into twelve groups, and they would meet in a certain room from 6 pm to 9 pm.

In other words, even if Li Mo wanted to know which group all the members of Class D were assigned to, he would have to wait until after 9:30 p.m. But the notification from the "Preferential Treatment" group was at 8:00 a.m. the next day. No matter how much you discussed it beforehand, it would be useless. Few people could deduce all the "Preferential Treatment" information from the three unknown "Preferential Treatment" members in their own class.

In this regard, the students in all four classes followed the original storyline, learning the names of the privileged students in other classes and deducing them based on various clues. Otherwise, if it were that easy to deduce, [Advanced Education High School] wouldn't have held this special exam, because its difficulty was quite high.

Of course, a certain time traveler is an exception!

Having watched the second season of the Classroom of the Immortal anime and read parts of the light novel, Li Mo knew the true situation of the "Preferential Treatment Game." He was fully aware of the key points to break the deadlock, and it could be said that everything was under his control.

The problem is that Li Mo knows he is a time traveler and is aware of the special exam called "Preferential Treatment Game" at [Advanced Education High School]. However, he can't reveal this truth to the public. Otherwise, others might think he's crazy or just a high school sophomore, but if they really think he's a time traveler, it might turn into a Hollywood blockbuster plot of modern technology versus superhumans.

Li Mo had no interest in challenging this hellish mode. Even if he started analyzing the world rules of the True Teaching World, he could only barely increase his power from one ten-thousandth to five ten-thousandths. It would be fine to deal with light infantry or small armored units, but in Japan, where the American aircraft carrier fleet was stationed and China and Russia, two of the five major powers, were by his side, playing that kind of hellish challenge was simply a joke. He might even see the spectacular scene of mushroom clouds rising again in Japan.

In this regard, Li Mo has great faith in America's ruthlessness. She has never acted like a human being. If she discovers that there is an uncontrollable and difficult-to-hunt superhuman in Japan, the probability of her deploying a low-yield nuclear weapon is very high. If China and Russia had the opportunity, launching one or even several nuclear missiles at Japan would be something many people dream of doing.

Therefore, Li Mo never intended to openly display his extraordinary power in the world of the Real Education Academy. Attending school at [Advanced Education High School] was just a way to pass the time. Even if he knew the inside story of [Preferential Treatment Game], he wouldn't be foolish enough to reveal it directly, let alone before [Preferential Treatment] even appeared.

After Li Mo sent a public message to the other students in Class D's group chat, he didn't pay much attention to it for the time being and leisurely chose to rest first and wait until tomorrow to make further plans and arrangements!

………………

The next morning, at 7:45 a.m., all the students of Class D had arrived at a restaurant on the luxury cruise ship. They were all talking quietly about the "Preferential Treatment Game," but they fell silent when Li Mo appeared.

Most students in Class D held Li Mo, the "Great Demon King," in awe. After all, they didn't know him when they first entered the school. But as Li Mo began to show his prowess and the stories of the "Great Demon King of Freshmen" spread among the older students, the students in Class D realized that he was an absolute powerhouse. In addition, the assessments in the first month of freshmen, the midterm exams, and the survival assessment on the deserted island further solidified Li Mo's undisputed position in Class D.

As you can see, last night Li Mo sent a message in the D class's communication group, telling all D class students to gather here before 7:45 this morning. Not a single person dared to be late. Horikita Suzune and Karuizawa Megumi are a given, and even Koenji Rokusuke, Hirata Yosuke, and others had no objections. The reason is that Li Mo has become the absolute backbone of D class, and the psychological pressure created by his previous ruthless methods can be said to have created the current excellent situation of D class through a combination of kindness and severity.

In a sense, Li Mo has already trampled the original plot of the Classroom of the Elite manga to the point of oblivion, including the male protagonist, Kiyotaka Ayanokouji, who is now an inconspicuous student in Class D. He seems quite satisfied with his peaceful life and has no intention of causing trouble at all. Even Class D's homeroom teacher, Sae Chabashira, ignores him and no longer treats him with any special regard.

Of course, Li Mo was also well aware that his current prestige was built on the foundation of continuous victories. If he did not want to use coercive means to make the students of Class D obedient, then he had to strengthen his authority while winning.

"Everyone should know the rules of the [Preferential Treatment Game]. Now, in my capacity as the leader of Class D, I ask everyone to take out their personal communication devices!"

Seeing the other thirty-nine students in Class D, Li Mo directly stated his method. Speaking to all the students in his capacity as the leader of Class D, he said, "Don't worry, I won't confiscate everyone's personal communication devices, nor will I check their secrets. I just need to obtain a list of all the privileged members in Class D for the [Preferential Treatment Game], to prepare for our Class D to win the game. Everyone write your name on a sticker, then stick it on your personal communication device and hand it in temporarily..."

Well, Li Mo's politeness is simply due to the different circumstances. After all, the neon world of the Real Education World is still a peaceful modern world. [Advanced Education High School] is at most a special high school. He is not in a position to decide the life or death of the students in Class D with a single word. At the very least, he needs to explain what he is going to do.

Otherwise, given how much modern people value their mobile phones—comparable to how much they value their personal computers—many private things could be found on students' personal communication devices. Even if the students in Class D are already very respectful to Li Mo, if you don't give a suitable reason for them to hand over their personal communication devices, which could potentially leak their privacy information, it will still arouse resentment or even disgust among the students in Class D.

They might still obey Li Mo's direct orders, but many students might have some ulterior motives. If Li Mo continues to win in the "Preferential Treatment Game," that's fine, but if he loses and continues to lose once or twice more, even the freshman "big boss" might lose his voice, unless Li Mo unifies the class through absolute violence, like Long Yuanxiang of Class C did.

In this regard, Li Mo felt that spending a little time explaining his method to the students in Class D would be a completely cost-effective thing. Before they even saw him explain that this was preparation for winning the "Preferential Treatment Game," the students in Class D's emotions all calmed down.

"My personal communication terminal!"

"this is mine……"

Upon hearing Li Mo's words, none of the students in Class D had any objections. As Horikita Suzune placed a blank sticker and a ballpoint pen in their hands, each student conscientiously wrote their name on the blank sticker, affixed it to their personal communication terminal, and handed it in.

If Li Mo hadn't explained beforehand, and given that it involved the special exam, the "Preferential Treatment Game," getting them to hand over their personal communication terminals wouldn't have been easy. Nobody wanted their personal communication terminal's secrets to be leaked. Who knows if someone looking at their personal communication terminal would reveal their private information? That would be unacceptable for every student in Class D.

Fortunately, Li Mo had already explained beforehand that he would check the information on the "Preferential Treatment Game." Due to the prestige that Li Mo had successfully established, the students of Class D were willing to support their class leader in this regard. Even Yamauchi Haruki, who had been punished by Li Mo and imprisoned during the last deserted island survival assessment, was very smart and kept quiet. He obediently wrote his name on a sticker and handed it to Hirata Yosuke, who was helping to collect the stickers.

Horikita Suzune, Hirata Yosuke, Kushida Kikyo, and Karuizawa Megumi all helped with collecting personal communication terminals. Forty personal communication terminals, including Li Mo's own, were placed on the table in front of him. The students of Class D were all sitting in their seats, and no one had any intention of chatting or talking. Many of the students in Class D kept looking up at the clock, trying to see when it would be eight o'clock.

The silence didn't last long. As the clock in the restaurant ticked past eight o'clock, almost within three seconds, forty personal communication terminals simultaneously beeped with text message notifications. This relieved the few students from Class D who were waiting, and they looked at Li Mo, who had begun to act.

This time, Li Mo acted very decisively, picking up each personal communication terminal one by one to check and deleting the messages on them. He was very quick, completing the task in less than ten minutes.

"OK! I have deleted the messages from everyone's personal communication devices regarding whether they are 'preferential treatment recipients' from the school's reminders. Apart from myself, no one in our class knows who has been selected as a preferential treatment recipient!"

After Li Mo put down the last personal communication terminal, he had Horikita Suzune and the others return the other thirty-nine personal communication terminals to their original owners. Looking at the thirty-nine students of Class D, he gave an order that made many of them scratch their heads: "Next, the personal communication terminals will be returned to everyone. Those who like detective novels, have excellent reasoning skills, and excel in mathematics, stay and await my next order. The rest of you can leave. Keep the information confidential..."

When Li Mo's order came, the students in Class D who weren't very bright and weren't even average-looking naturally couldn't quite understand his actions. However, most of the students in Class D realized that their class leader was planning to have the smarter students do research to find out the logical rules of the "Preferential Treatment Game".

To put it simply, everyone heard the rules of the "Preferential Treatment Game" last night, so they naturally know that each zodiac group has one person to choose a preferential treatment recipient. Li Mo is now concealing the information about the "preferential treatment recipient" for Class D. Apart from him and the people who will remain, the students in Class D have no idea who their class's "preferential treatment recipient" will be. And that student who likes detective novels, has excellent reasoning skills, and excels in mathematics will probably study whether there is a logical pattern in the "preferential treatment recipient" selection.

Even though they envied those who stayed, the students of Class D quickly made their choices. Knowing their own limitations, more than thirty of them left in an instant. Even Ayanokouji Kiyotaka and Koenji Rokusuke chose to leave. The former was truly pretending to be an ordinary student and did so to the end, while the latter, after exchanging a few words with Li Mo, was ignored by Li Mo, who had contributed a lot to the survival assessment on the deserted island, and let him leave.

In less than a minute, only Li Mo, Horikita Suzune, Hirata Yosuke, and two other students from Class D remained in the restaurant. Even Kushida Kikyo and Karuizawa Megumi didn't stay because they were really bad at reasoning and math!

……

"Mo Jun, what should we do next?"

Seeing Li Mo dismiss the other D-class students, Horikita Suzune looked at Hirata Yosuke and the other two D-class students and noticed that they were all looking at her. The beautiful girl with long black hair, who already knew about her close relationship with Li Mo and that the news had spread to D-class and even other classes, was not shy but asked directly. She firmly believed that her lover definitely had a suitable plan.

In the morning, Li Mo was informing her and the others to cooperate in preparing to have the other students in Class D hand over their personal communication terminals. Horikita Suzune already had this in mind, and now she was just asking her lover what to do!

"It's very simple. Here are the names of the three students receiving preferential treatment in Class D. This is the list of our class and the other three classes, as well as the lists distributed across twelve different groups. Everyone, try using decryption and mathematical logic to find out if there are any patterns, such as the birthdate arrangement of the twelve zodiac animals, the number of strokes in the names, etc..."

Facing the attention of Horikita Suzune and the other three students from Class D, Li Mo lightly tapped his desktop, revealing the papers with the names of the three Class D "preferential recipients." He then pulled out a list of students for the entire grade, along with the class personnel confirmed last night, and the group list of the four first-year classes participating in the "preferential recipient game." He then arranged for Horikita Suzune and Hirata Yosuke to conduct data analysis.

Although Li Mo himself knew the correct answer and had already identified the "preferential treatment" personnel for the "preferential treatment game," he didn't want the other students in Class D to develop an overly dependent mentality. Otherwise, they would become useless cowards who relied on others. He didn't need so many people. Li Mo's idea had always been to let the students in Class D gain experience. Judging from the current situation, this approach seemed to be working well, so Li Mo would naturally continue to promote it.

No matter how you look at it, Li Mo had no intention of babysitting everyone in Class D. Otherwise, he would have eventually felt it was irrelevant and let go. For example, since he took control of Class D, he has often trained the other students' abilities. The current situation of the "Preferential Treatment Game" exam can also allow these students in Class D to try it out. After all, many things can only be understood and experienced through actual practice.

Upon hearing Li Mo's words, Horikita Suzune, Hirata Yosuke, and the other two students from Class D all nodded in agreement. They carefully examined the list of "preferential recipients" and began to calculate their own choices. Li Mo, however, left the restaurant first.

Chapter 41 Katsuragi Kohei's Last Struggle

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Shortly after, in room 504 on the fifth floor, Li Mo, Karuizawa Kei, and two other students from Class D entered the room, drawing the attention of the other Rabbit Group members sitting inside.