I have a life simulator.

When Sakayanagi Arisu, the last person to get up in the entire camp, leisurely walked out of her tent, she happened to see Horikita Suzune and Ichinose Honami exchanging an awkward glance.

"What's wrong?"

Unable to adjust to the direct sunlight for a moment, Sakayanagi Arisu placed her hand on her forehead, squinted, and asked a question.

"It's nothing, hurry up and wash up, breakfast is ready."

Kitagawa Ryo, who arrived just in time, pushed Sakayanagi Arisu's shoulder from behind and led her to the washroom, as if he was really afraid that she wouldn't be able to eat the freshly cooked food. He even took Sakayanagi Arisu's toiletries as they walked, squeezed toothpaste onto her face and prepared the water at the right temperature for her to wash her face.

"I can do it myself—I'm not a child."

Although Sakayanagi Arisu verbally resisted, she didn't move an inch. She smiled as Kitagawa Ryo placed everything he had prepared in front of her before starting her own washing up.

"I feel that the only thing that keeps me alive on this deserted island is Kitagawa's cooking."

When everyone had finished washing up and were officially sitting down to eat, Ishizaki Daichi was enjoying his meal while also showering everyone with praise.

"Even the boss of Dragon Garden probably doesn't get this level of food. He's probably still fishing in the woods right now..."

Before Ishizaki Daichi could finish speaking, he heard a sinister voice behind him:

"Hey, Ishizaki, it seems like all that running around all day didn't do you any good. You still need to tighten your skin."

Suddenly, Ryuen Sho appeared, glaring at Ishizaki Daichi with an unfriendly expression, making him shudder in fear.

"Hey, no way. I was just thinking that you, Boss Longyuan, are still suffering in the woods for the benefit of our class. You've even lost your appetite."

Although the fact that there is a clean plate in front of you does not necessarily mean that the food is not delicious.

"sit down."

On the other side, Kitagawa Ryo handed Ryuen Sho an extra serving of food that he had prepared earlier, and nodded to him to sit down.

Because Kitagawa Ryo had already informed the others in the group about his working relationship with Ryuen Sho, and Shiina Hiyori and the others were all students in Class C, Ryuen Sho's sudden appearance didn't attract much attention. Everyone ate and drank as usual, only occasionally glancing over.

"Then I won't be polite."

Without any hesitation, Long Yuanxiang took the food and immediately began to swallow it in large mouthfuls without any manners.

Yesterday, he only participated in one event: the group parallel bars and horizontal bars. Taking advantage of the preferential treatment enjoyed by the individual group, he won second place. After obtaining the minimum score, he converted them into supplies and handed them over to Class A.

Although Ryuen Sho has now completely allied with Kitagawa Ryo, he still has a prior contract with Ayanokoji Kiyotaka and can only continue to fulfill his responsibilities.

However, after completing this most basic task, Ryuen Sho began his wanderings. Unlike Ishizaki Daichi and Komiya Yogo, who were ostensibly gathering intelligence but were actually directing Kitagawa Ryo, he was the real intelligence assassin, moving around the increasingly shrinking area of ​​the uninhabited island.

However, his focus of investigation over the past two days has not been on the students on the island, but on the school staff.

Thanks to Kitagawa Ryo's earlier reminder, Ryuen Sho quickly realized that the biggest difference between this deserted island exam and a survival game on a computer was that the students might be the players, but the school was definitely not a pre-set system.

Whether it's supplies or research projects, it's impossible to simply input a string of code in advance and have it immediately appear in the designated location.

Materials need to be transported, and the research site needs to be set up. The school cannot guarantee that everything will be done perfectly by relying on manpower to accomplish all of this.

Just like how some students discovered the school was setting up the venue for their projects and decided to wait there in advance, calling on their classmates to grab all the registration slots as soon as possible, there were bound to be flaws in this exam, like bugs in a game.

"I saw some interesting props."

After finally filling his stomach, Ryuen Sho showed Kitagawa Ryo his wrist, which was completely empty.

"To prevent the school from discovering it because of this positioning, I broke it twice yesterday."

With the resurrection card in hand, Ryuu Sho became increasingly daring in his actions as time went on.

"It's a BB gun."

He said it with such certainty.

Chapter 208: The Role of Supply Cards

Just as Long Yuanxiang revealed that he had discovered the school was transporting BB pellets to the D9 area, the school's headquarters, everyone present's watches chimed softly.

[The fourth round of restricted areas on the uninhabited islands has been established. Teams still in the restricted areas must leave their areas before noon today. Teams still in or entering the restricted areas after noon will be eliminated, and their scores will be fixed.]

【第三轮无人岛禁足区具体公示如下：C2、C3、C4、C6、C7、C8、C9、D2、D3、D4、D5、D6、D7、D8、D9】

Starting from the third day, the restricted area notifications, which appeared every other day, were sent to the watches of every student on the island as scheduled. Similar to the third round of shrinking the restricted area last time, there were also fifteen restricted areas this time, which almost covered the left side of the island.

After realizing that his current area was not in this round of restricted zones, Kitagawa Ryo closed the watch's screen and nodded towards Ryuen Sho.

"What are your thoughts on this BB gun, Longyuan?"

"What do I think?"

Long Yuanxiang finished his meal with satisfaction, picking his teeth as he casually replied:

"I don't think this kind of thing would be used just to assign a single topic."

Sakayanagi Arisu, who had been listening to their conversation, nodded in agreement.

"I think so."

At that moment, Ryuen Sho suddenly turned around and shouted to Ishizaki Daichi behind him:

"I remember you seem to know a lot about this, Ishizaki. Why don't you share your thoughts?"

"Ahem, I know a little bit, I know a little bit."

Although Ishizaki Daichi remained modest, he immediately reverted to his talkative nature and began to chatter on and on when it came to areas he was familiar with:

"Generally speaking, if the school is going to ship BB pellets to the island, the topic that comes to mind is live-action CS. I played a lot of live-action CS when I was in junior high school. It is roughly divided into four types of ammunition: paintball, water bullets, laser, and BB pellets, which correspond to four different equipment and ways of playing."

"If the school has decided to use BBs, then it means that the other supporting equipment should also be prepared. After all, without equipment, BBs will hurt a lot when they hit someone."

"On the other hand, the school is preparing ammunition and supporting equipment. As Longyuan's boss said, it seems like a waste to use it on a regular team-based project, especially since we've never encountered anything like this before."

"Moreover, this special test on the deserted island has a shrinking circle mechanism, which makes it hard not to think of various battle royale games."

As Ishizaki Daichi spoke eloquently, he also gestured wildly, making shooting gestures, clearly quite excited.

After all, if the school really does include a live-action CS game in the final project, it would be excellent news for him.

"Alright, alright, from today onwards, remember to keep your mouth shut."

Ryuen Sho raised his hand to interrupt Ishizaki Daichi's speech, then stood up gracefully and prepared to leave.

Unlike Kitagawa Ryo, even though Ryuen Sho guessed what kind of assignment the school might assign next, he had no better way to deal with it.

After all, he couldn't just take on all the expenses for the class like the wealthy Kitagawa Ryo. Although he knew that the more people who survived to the end, the easier it would be to gain an advantage, most of the C-class students were probably thinking more about getting eliminated as soon as possible to fix their scores so they could return to the cruise ship.

Kitagawa Ryo was well aware of Ryuen Sho's inner turmoil, so he didn't stop him and let him carry his fishing rod and bucket back into the forest after he had eaten and drunk his fill.

Ishizaki Daichi hurriedly packed his luggage and chased after him. Although he had been temporarily requisitioned by Kitagawa Ryo yesterday, he was, after all, a student of Class C, and he was too embarrassed to stay here and bother Kitagawa Ryo any longer.

I've already gotten two free meals.

After Ishizaki Daichi and Ryuen Sho left, breakfast time came to an end. Naturally, Kitagawa Ryo, who was in charge of cooking, no longer needed to do the washing dishes and cleaning up, as the girls were quite adept at it.

"Fanbo, let me see your card again."

Just as Honami Ichinose was carefully washing the dishes, she suddenly heard Ryo Kitagawa calling her name.

"it is good."

Ichinose Honami agreed, wiped her hands with a dry towel, walked up to Kitagawa Ryo, and offered him her fair right wrist:

"What's wrong?"

"I just suddenly had a new idea."

Kitagawa Ryo opened the card page on Ichinose Honami's watch, and the effects of the supply cards held by the opponent were immediately displayed:

[Supplies: Cardholders receive a daily food and drinking water supply equivalent to one meal for four people (level 3)]

"Has Fanbo ever played battle royale games?"

"No."

Faced with Kitagawa Ryo's sudden question, Ichinose Honami honestly shook her head. Due to her family background, she only really started using computers after entering Tokyo Advanced Educational High School. In her spare time, she would go to the school gym and didn't really have much experience with games.

"I've played it."

Sakayanagi Arisu appeared out of nowhere beside the two of them and spoke softly.

In the first ten years or so before Kitagawa Ryo brought her a healthy life, because she couldn't do physical exercise, Sakayanagi Arisu had more contact with electronic devices such as computers, and naturally tried various popular online games.

She lowered her eyes and followed Kitagawa Ryo's gaze to look at the supply card instructions displayed on Ichinose Honami's watch.

"Does 'cool' mean that the supply cards will be useful in the upcoming live-action CS game? Like airdrop crates in battle royale games, providing players with extra supplies?"

Sakayanagi Arisu hesitated slightly before expressing her opinion.

"Probably not. The school's description of the supply card only states that it provides food and water. If it's really like a game where you can get some high-quality equipment and a lot of supplies with this card, then the school is deliberately hiding information and breaking the rules."

Kitagawa Ryo shook his head, stroked his chin, nodded, and slowly stated his guess:

“I had thought before that supply cards would only be most effective when food or water resources are scarce.”

"So it's actually very simple."

"The school just needs to put everyone in this predicament during the final stage of the project."

"For example -"

"Food is prohibited during the final project, and all point redemption is also prohibited."

Chapter 209: Another Move

Sakayanagi Arisu was quick-witted; she swiftly understood Kitagawa Ryo's meaning and, with a slight furrow of her brow, asked:

"Does Ryo think this final challenge will last a long time?"

If we want to highlight the function of the supply card, the final problem certainly cannot be solved in one day, since most students can endure the hunger of not eating for two meals.

"It's not just my opinion, it's highly likely."

Kitagawa Ryo nodded and explained another reason for his conjecture:

"Yesterday alone, 32 students were eliminated from the entire uninhabited island. You should know that there are only a little over 150 first-year students in total."

"At this rate, by the twelfth day, there will be only about thirty students left on the island. Of course, this is on the premise that I do not let the students in Class D give up participating in the project."

Kitagawa Ryo tapped the table lightly with his fingers, his tone gradually becoming more resolute:

"Therefore, the final challenge will most likely begin on the morning of the twelfth day on the deserted island and end on the afternoon of the fourteenth day, with a shrinking circle on the thirteenth day in between, which can be considered a faithful recreation of the battle royale game experience."

At this point, Kitagawa Ryo stretched and shook his head with a slightly helpless expression:

"But there's no use talking about this now, since we don't know the specific details of the final topic set by the school. Right now, all we can do is earn more points and upgrade our discount card level."

"After all, if you're supporting an entire class, the more grades you get, the better."

Sakayanagi Arisu and Ichinose Honami nodded in agreement. Although they had indeed deduced the final topic that the school might set based on information from various sources, there was not much they could do to prepare at this stage. They could only try to preserve as many students in Class D as possible.

After Kitagawa Ryo finalized the group's operational plan for the next two days, Kitagawa Ryo's group quickly tidied up the campsite, packed their luggage, and prepared to embark on the ninth day of the special test on the deserted island.

However, unlike yesterday, Shiina Hiyori and Ibuki Mio's group also chose to act together with them. This was mainly because Shiina Hiyori's special card, "Dual Blades," made her too easy for other classes to target and exploit, and their two-person group was relatively poor in terms of crisis management and response capabilities.

Kitagawa Ryo was quite at ease with the trio of Karuizawa Megumi, Amasawa Ichika, and Sakura Airi. The trio could handle most of the challenges without any problems, and the abilities of Karuizawa Megumi and Amasawa Ichika were enough to ensure that the group wouldn't fall to last place in the challenge and thus lose members.

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Just as Kitagawa Ryo's group had clearly outlined the school's possible actions and formulated corresponding plans, and the group was having a pleasant morning chatting and laughing, Katsuragi Kohei on the other side was unable to get a good night's sleep.

In order to save as much on food expenses as possible, Katsuragi Kohei specifically instructed the A-class groups to camp together, share surplus ingredients, or exchange for large orders of supplies.

But ever since the project ended yesterday afternoon, Katsuragi Kohei had a vague feeling that the atmosphere in the camp had changed. The intimacy between the groups was completely gone, unlike the time when they had invited their class leader, Chabashira Sae, to a meal a couple of days ago. They all had droopy faces, and only occasionally glanced at others with heavy thoughts.

After making some inquiries, Katsuragi Kohei learned of the 'disaster' that had occurred during the "paper-folding rock-paper-scissors" game. Ishizaki Daichi from Class 1-C publicly revealed several private romantic relationships within the class, causing the three groups assigned to target Shiina Hiyori's group to fail and creating rifts between the individuals involved.

Besides the person involved, the other students from Class A who were present also couldn't help but tell their closest friends about these new developments after returning to the camp. They also repeatedly reminded their friends that they were only telling them and that they should never spread the news.

The final result was that these revelations spread throughout Class A in less than one night, making the atmosphere in the camp so delicate.

However, no suspicion was placed on Kikyo Kushida. This was partly because her angelic image was so deeply ingrained that most of the students in Class A wouldn't think of her that way, and partly because Kikyo Kushida herself was prepared. All the information she gave to Ryo Kitagawa was confirmed by herself and wasn't a secret known only to her.

It can be said that while other classes were still working hard to prepare for the ninth day of the special exam on the deserted island, Class 1A had already entered the 2.0 stage of the island werewolf game.

Katsuragi Kohei himself was not good at handling interpersonal relationships, so he could only leave the male relationships to Kushida Kikyo and the female relationships to Hirata Yosuke.

Even so, last night at the campsite, you could still hear all sorts of angry shouts, arguments, and accusations.

Although he had long known from Kiyotaka Ayanokouji that there was at least one spy working for his class within Class A, it was only now that Kohei Katsuragi truly understood the role the spy could play.

Just as a strong fortress can be breached from within, the students of Class A, who were originally full of morale and ready to forcefully reclaim their position as the top-ranked class, were dragged into a huge chain of suspicion that was neither clear nor understandable overnight.