Chapter 3735
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Riina Fukumoto's growl made Michiko Matsumoto's expression turn even gloomier. She crawled out from behind the bushes. Due to the weight of her luggage, she had been pressed down for too long. When she got up, she felt that half of her shoulder had lost feeling.
With one hand holding the gun, she rubbed her numb left shoulder against the rough tree trunk to loosen up her meridians. As she moved, she coldly replied to Riina Fukumoto. "If we continue to wait, we'll waste even more time later."
"While there's still a chance to make up for it, we must retreat immediately and hurry up and find the forty coordinates!"
She was glad that the competition's rule was that one point would be awarded for finding a coordinate. If the forty coordinates were not found within six hours, the score would be zero. Then, since they had already wasted an hour, they could foresee that their score would be 'zero'.
The Chinese side must have noticed their plan, so they absolutely could not wait any longer. Now, it was up to them to see if they had the chance to meet the Chinese students in the depths of the forest.
It was not up to the Japanese students to decide whether they could meet each other or not. The Chinese students, who were one step ahead, met the students from the United States, Germany, and Russia, but they did not meet the Japanese students.
When they met the students of the three countries, they all avoided them in a friendly manner. Both sides did not even have time to greet each other before speeding into the depths of the forest.
After three hours, the Chinese students had already found twenty-seven coordinates. After four hours, they had found thirty-four coordinates. After five hours, they had found thirty-eight coordinates.
As time went on, the coordinates became harder and harder to find. Now, it was time to return.
"We can't go any further. Retreat!"
The last hour was the time to retreat. Once the time was up, Zhang Minghong immediately stopped moving forward. Ye Chien led the team to return according to the original plan.
The Chinese team found thirty-eight coordinates within five hours, which was already quite fast. Li Jinnian's mouth slightly tightened. The possibility of continuing to move forward and find all the coordinates was very high, but there was obviously not enough time. Then … what would the Chinese students choose?
He hoped that they would return immediately!
Just as he was thinking this, the Chinese students turned around from the front. In other words, the Chinese students did not choose to continue moving forward, but to hurry up and return.
Although the probability of going back to look for two more coordinates was small, it was much more reliable than going forward to look for the coordinates.
Five hours of walking through the primeval forest had already exhausted most of the students' stamina. This was the case for the students from various countries, but there were also a few students who chose to give up halfway. This was because they understood that even if they continued to move forward, they would not be able to find any more coordinates. It was better to reach the destination earlier.
The 39th coordinate was found when they were going down the slope. The appearance of this coordinate gave the Chinese students a boost. Now, there was only one coordinate left!
They discovered that the last set of coordinates was at the bottom of a large rock. Ye Chien and Zhang Minghong spread out the map again and calculated the time it would take to reach the coordinates and the time it would take to reach the end point. Not long after, they came to a decision.
If they ran down to get the coordinates and increased their marching speed, they would still be able to reach the finish line ahead of time.
The Chinese students, who couldn't afford to waste time, received the order from their leader, Zhang Minghong. They didn't have any objections, and all of them did their best to rush to the foot of the mountain.
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