Chapter 72 Wilderness Survival Exercise Begins

"Starting from next Monday, we will hold this semester's "Field Survival Exercise" in the forest behind the mountain for five days. Next, we will draw lots to determine our respective four-person teams..."

At the class meeting before school, Iruka was at the podium explaining next week's field course.

Although it is said "outdoors", the exercise location is at a training ground behind the Hokage Rock, which is right on the edge of the Konoha Village barrier. There is a Jonin base within sight, and this is done to ensure safety.

As for "survival", it sounds more like a spring outing that is a mixture of camping and picnic. Rather than training, it can be said that it is more like taking the children out to play.

"…The above 7 groups of students will discuss among themselves and decide on their group leaders. They will report next Monday morning." Iruka finished reading the group list.

"Teacher, Luo Yi and Hua Huo don't have a group yet." The attentive monitor was becoming more and more careful, and he recognized the two students who were missed in the class and raised his hand to signal.

Student No. 30 in the class, excluding 7 groups of 4, the remaining ones are Luo Yi and Hua Huo.

"The two of them are in a separate group, which is Group 8." Iruka held his forehead. He hadn't intended to mention it, so how did he get discovered?

"Hey~ I wanted to be in the same group with them..." The monitor put down his hand in disappointment.

She had been camping with her parents since she was young and was tired of it. How could it be more interesting than watching the two of them?

"Ahem... Luo Yi still has to fulfill his duties as a teacher. With his strength, he can easily be in a group with two people. And even though we are divided into groups, we are basically together throughout the exercise. The only difference is the free activity time and the tents where we sleep at night..." Iruka also noticed that some people were dissatisfied with the group arrangement, so he explained patiently.

It wouldn't matter if he didn't explain it, but once he did, the squad leader got excited again, "Then our group's tent should be set up next to theirs."

Iruka: "..."

What are you expecting?

Luo Yi and Hua Huo were not surprised at all. After all, this was an arrangement that had been decided in advance, and it was also the condition for Rizu to feel at ease with Hua Huo coming to the edge of the village.

For safety reasons, Hinata would either follow her teacher's group or simply not participate in similar outdoor activities, which was somewhat regrettable for the eldest daughter's school days.

Now it’s the turn of the second daughter. Although Luo Yi is also a teacher, what is more important is that their relationship is more like classmates, friends and relatives than teacher and student.

More importantly, we had to be careful about other girls appearing around Luo Yi before, and now we have to be careful about magical boys like Bai appearing around him. In summary, it is safest for two people to act together.

If Luo Yi knew what his father-in-law was thinking, he would be able to practice rolling his eyes in front of the little girl's eyes.

It's too ridiculous.

...

The weekend was quite peaceful.

What is worth mentioning is that Hanabi shared some of her training experiences with Hinata who had just returned from her mission, and suggested that her sister also find another way to refine chakra.

The good thing about Rouquan, which has a long history, is that it has been summarized and concluded by several generations, and has achieved a steady improvement. But its bad thing is that in the long run, it is easy to fall into the rut of empiricism and stick to the old ways.

Luo Yi remembered that after the battle with Toneri, Hinata's chakra received a gift from the Otsutsuki clan, and its color changed from blue to purple, but her Byakugan seemed to show no signs of evolution.

The conclusion is probably that we cannot rely on external forces. The road ahead is long and arduous and will take some time.

It was Monday morning, the day when the first graders of the Ninja School set out for a field survival exercise.

The weather in Konoha in late May is pleasant. It is a comfortable season where it is not too hot at noon and not too cold at midnight. It is very appropriate to arrange outdoor activities during this week.

"If I were back home, the rainy season would be here soon. In terms of weather, Konoha is still better." Luo Yi blocked the sunlight with one hand and looked at the blue sky and white clouds on the Hokage Rock not far away.

The stairs next to the cliff are very high and long, and it takes a lot of time just to climb up.

"Luo Yi, what is the 'rainy season'?" Hua Huo, holding the little hand, expressed curiosity.

"It refers to the month of June in my hometown. It will basically rain for a whole month, and since it happens to be the time when plums are ripe, it is called this name." Luo Yi explained leisurely, his thoughts drifting away.

Speaking of which, when I was a child, I thought that plum rain meant mold. In warm and humid seasons, all kinds of things are prone to mold.

"Strange, June in Konoha is also the time when there are the most plums, and it also rains frequently, so does Konoha also have a rainy season?" Hanabi looked at the rice balls in her bag, each of which contained a pickled plum.

"That is to say, Konoha is most likely to have a subtropical monsoon climate, which is really familiar..." Luo Yi laughed.

"Does this make you miss home?" the little girl asked seriously, handing over a rice ball.

"Thank you. Home... My home is made of wood. It will be very troublesome during the rainy season. Wood will get moldy very easily."

The main building material of the Hyuga family's mansion is wood. Although the species cannot be seen, generally speaking, wood is afraid of moisture, right?

"Hey? Is Luo Yi's hometown also built of wood?"

"Huh? Hanabi is asking about my hometown?"

Unconsciously, Luo Yi had already taken the concept of "home" as the Hyuga family residence instead of his old home in the original world. When the little girl mentioned it casually, he subconsciously thought of their common home.

"It's really... incredible..."

...

After traveling through time for so long, Luo Yi had never climbed up to the Hokage Rock to take a look. He didn't expect that there were many areas on the mountain.

The meeting hall of the Fire Nation was built on the edge of a cliff, very close to the back of the Third-Kage rock statue. There was also a base of the Anbu nearby, which was also the hiding place of the "Root".

I didn't expect that the position of "Root" is higher than the Hokage's office which symbolizes "Konoha". It's simply rebellious.

Going further out, there are more than 20 training grounds of various sizes, starting with No. 0. The natural environment of each one is slightly different, and the requirements for students participating in the exercises also have different emphases.

The training ground that Luo Yi and his class of freshmen were assigned to was pretty standard, with woods, grasslands, wasteland and lakes. Its advantage was that it was highly comprehensive, but its disadvantage was that it had no distinctive features.

"I'm finally here. I'm so hungry. When will the teacher serve dinner?"

Near noon, a group of people from the Ninja School arrived at the training ground, passed through the barbed wire gate guarded by a special person, and officially entered the activity area for the next 5 days.

The leader Iruka threw the bags on a dry open space, "Right away. Since today is the first day, we mainly eat what we brought in. Starting tomorrow, we have to try to find our own food."

"Teacher! I want to eat curry rice!"

Yes, there is curry in this world, and it comes in packaged, dissolvable blocks. The food industry is so advanced that it makes people scratch their heads.

Of course, curry cubes alone are not enough, so they also brought in a lot of fresh vegetables and meat, just so that some students can have a full meal before they "sleep outdoors" for four days and four nights.

For ninjas, survival in the wild is the norm. If they cannot survive on their own, at least they must develop the ability to endure hunger.

Luo Yi held a large sword in his hand and a cabbage, lost in thought.

"What's wrong, Mr. Luo? Is this vegetable bad?" Iruka had already cut several carrots, but the boy next to him stood still and pretended to be serious.

It doesn't look like he's being lazy.

"No, what I'm wondering is why this cabbage looks so much like a cabbage."

"what?"

Isn't cabbage supposed to look like cabbage?

"Look at the modeling, the texture, the feel, and the details. This is a real cabbage."

"what??"

Are there fake cabbages in the world?

"In the cartoons I watched as a child, cabbage didn't look like this. It was just a big, round, yellow-green sphere, and the feeling of cutting it was even purer than barbecued pork..."

"Teacher Luo, don't be like this, the children are watching. We are in reality now, don't confuse it with animation."

"Oh? Oh!"

Is it realistic?

Perhaps today, it is time to treat this place as real life. Luo Yi held the cabbage under the sun, watching the water droplets on the leaves refract the dazzling sunlight, forming a small rainbow.

Although there was an unwritten rule in the animation industry later: "No matter how broken the cabbage is, it cannot be broken." But this cabbage was too real, and one shot of it was equivalent to the cost of an entire episode.

"Hey, look, what is Teacher Luo doing?"

“I don’t understand it, but I’m shocked…”

"Hanabi, you are the one closest to him, do you know what he is thinking?"

"Hmm... maybe you're homesick?"