Hinata gestured to Naruto with her eyes, her lips silently forming words. Naruto immediately understood Hinata's meaning, which was clearly, "Naruto, hurry and copy it."
At that moment, Naruto felt like he had been Reborn from the ashes. In Naruto's eyes, Hinata was simply the Incarnation of an angel. Just as Naruto picked up his pen, ready to copy, the moment the pen tip touched the test paper, Naruto froze.
"This exam! Everything is under the proctor's supervision. You might as well save yourselves the trouble of crude cheating methods. Once discovered, hmph hmph, all team members will be disqualified from the assessment!"
Mori Ibiki's words immediately echoed in Naruto's mind. Naruto swallowed, his entire being falling into a struggle. On one side, he would get zero points, which might drag down Sakura and Sasuke's assessment results. On the other side, if cheating was discovered, all three members of the team would definitely fail.
Naruto suddenly felt overwhelmed, and cold sweat uncontrollably streamed down his face.
"Kawanouchi Ame and his team members! All zero points! Disqualified from the assessment!"
While Naruto was still agonizing, a cold, ruthless snort rang out, instantly startling the still-hesitant Naruto. Along with that shout, three or four other teams of Ninja were caught cheating and had their assessment qualifications revoked.
Looking at the disheartened Ninja leaving one by one, Naruto gasped.
Then he looked at the blank test paper on the desk, and Naruto immediately fell into despair.
Meanwhile, Hinata, seeing Naruto stop writing, immediately grew anxious. In her panic, Hinata tugged at Naruto's arm again.
Naruto snapped back to reality. Looking at the blank test paper and thinking of Mori Ibiki's chilling sneer, Naruto took a deep breath, turned slightly to Hinata, revealed a determined expression, and after silently forming words with his mouth, turned back and closed his eyes.
"No need, Hinata, I'll do it myself!" When Hinata understood Naruto's decision from his lip movements, her mouth almost formed an "O" shape.
Although still very worried about Naruto, since Naruto had refused, Hinata didn't feel it was appropriate to insist.
Furthermore, with so many proctors watching, Hinata didn't dare to make too many moves.
At this moment, Naruto forced himself to calm down. He always felt there was something off about this exam.
Thinking about it, most of the other examinees showed similar expressions to his when they received their test papers.
This indicated that the difficulty of the questions had exceeded the Genin level, making it impossible for most of the candidates here to answer them.
With this conclusion, Naruto thought further, and he remembered what Ibiki had just said.
'This exam! Everything is under the proctor's supervision. You might as well save yourselves the trouble of crude cheating methods. Once discovered, hmph hmph, all team members will be disqualified from the assessment!'
Crude cheating methods?
Discovered?
Disqualified from the exam?
Thinking of this, Naruto's eyes lit up.
Since being discovered would lead to disqualification, wouldn't it be fine if they weren't discovered?
Considering the difficulty of the questions, Naruto had a guess about the purpose of this exam.
To confirm this guess, Naruto discreetly looked left and right, noticing that Sasuke had activated his Sharingan and was imitating the writing strokes of the examinee in front of him.
Ino was slumped over her desk, clearly having used the Mind Transfer Jutsu.
That Hyuga Neji, whom he had just met, had bulging veins around his eyes, indicating he was using his Byakugan to see through and peek at others' answers.
Seeing the actions of these examinees, Naruto had confirmed his guess.
That is, the purpose of this exam was not to test the examinees' theoretical knowledge, but to assess their information gathering abilities.
The first nine questions tested the examinees' ability to gather information, so what about the tenth question?
Naruto felt that this tenth question should be the key to whether he could pass this written exam. He placed all his hopes on the tenth question.
Having made his decision, Naruto relaxed, quietly waiting for the chief examiner to announce the tenth question.
However, since he was idle anyway, a bored Naruto began to mess around on the test paper.
For example, the first question.
Question: What was the earliest form of communication for Ninja?
This question was actually very simple, basically a free-point question. Anyone with a slight understanding of Ninja history would know it.
However, as a poor student, Naruto either slept in class or skipped it entirely, so how could he know this method of communication?
So he simply wrote 'Dream Incantation'.
Second question.
Question: There is a river, and eight people need to cross it: a father, a mother, two sons, two daughters, a Ninja, and a prisoner.
There is a boat that can carry a maximum of two people at a time. Among these eight people, the mother, father, and Ninja can operate the boat; that is, one of these three must be on the boat for it to move.
The boat cannot return automatically, and the following three things must be avoided: 1. If the Ninja is not present, the prisoner will harm the family of six;
If the father is not present, the mother will harm the sons;
If the mother is not present, the father will harm the daughters.
So how should they cross the river??
Starting from the second question, the difficulty of the test questions suddenly increased. Facing such a complex problem, even Sakura, an academic ace, took a long time to figure out the correct answer.
However, Naruto smiled faintly at this moment and wrote: "Why not take a detour?"
The third question... the ninth question... time slipped away bit by bit as Naruto randomly answered the questions.
Looking at the answers he had written for the nine questions, Naruto smiled silently.
These test answers were his little prank.
Speaking of pranks, Naruto suddenly remembered that he hadn't done anything like this in a long time, and for a moment, he felt nostalgic for the days of pulling pranks.
As Naruto reminisced about his past pranks, Ibiki on the podium gave a cold smile and finally announced the tenth question of this exam.
"First, you must choose whether to accept this tenth question. If you choose not to accept, then that examinee will immediately receive zero points, meaning they fail, and the other two members of their team will also be deemed to have failed..."
These words immediately caused dissatisfaction among almost everyone.
Ibiki ignored the examinees' dissatisfaction and continued, "If an examinee accepts this question and fails to answer it correctly, they will forever lose the qualification to participate in the Chunin Exams in the future."
As soon as he finished speaking, the entire venue immediately erupted in an uproar.
"Shut up, no whispering, or you'll be given zero points."
"Kamijou Touma, you get zero points."
"Itou Makoto, you also get zero points."
"Shiba Tatsuya..."
"Sakurai Tomoki..."
After Ibiki had given 'lunch boxes' (disqualified) to several students in a row, the examinees finally ceased their commotion and began to consider whether to accept the tenth question.
"No, I cannot accept the consequence of never being able to participate in the Chunin Exams again. I choose to withdraw."
"I'm withdrawing too."
"Me too."
"Me too~"