C92 The 1000-man Competition

The first game of the thousand-man race is the tug-of-war, a ten-man team, where you can choose the same palace or the other palace members as teammates. He could choose his teammates for the time it takes an incense stick to burn to determine the winner and loser of the three matches. To be fair, after one match, the venue would be exchanged.

Yunshu naturally chose Little Qiuzi, whom she was familiar with, and then the two of them discussed with each other to find four people. After the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, Little Qiuzi found four relatively sturdy eunuch officials from the other palaces. Yun Zhu, on the other hand, found four people who were trained by Du Junjie's subordinates to look for her to form a team with her, and it was effortless for her to find all of them.

After finding teammates, it was time to draw lots to decide who her opponents were. Their team's luck was pretty good. Only two of the ten people they faced seemed slightly more robust. However, things like tug-of-war could not be won by simply relying on strength. In order to prevent their opponents from using some techniques to win the match, they had to end the match quickly. In the end, they won by two to zero.

After three matches, half of the Palace members had been eliminated, and the venue was no longer as crowded.

The second match began with the individual competition, and the competition was to throw the pot. But the venue was five kilometers away, and he needed to run there himself. Then, he had to shoot six arrows to clear the stage. If he had used twenty arrows, he wouldn't have been able to shoot them. Then he would be eliminated.

The venue for the third round of the competition was about five kilometers ahead. The competition was called "Wooden Shot." There were fifteen wooden stakes on the field, and the ten stakes were written with cinnabar paint: Ren, Yi, Li, Zhi. Message: Wen, Liang, Gong, thrifty. The five stakes were written in black ink: Slow, arrogant, treacherous, greedy and despicable. The contestants needed to knock down the wooden stakes ten steps away with special wooden balls. They would get two points if they hit the cinnabar stakes. After hitting the black wooden stakes with three points, they could only run to the bottom of the cliff one kilometer away when they were full of ten points. They would obtain the "Victory" flag inserted into the cliff.

However, after going through so much trouble to obtain the flag, he still wasn't able to determine who the final winner was, because on the way back from the bottom of the cliff back to the starting point of the competition... Those who hadn't been eliminated could also obtain the flag and run back to the starting point. Whoever held the flag would win the competition.

After understanding the rules of the competition, Yunshu somewhat wanted to give up on the competition. If the competition ended the moment she obtained the flag... She was confident that she had the strength to win, but after obtaining the flag, she had to avoid others snatching it. It was simply too embarrassing. No one knew who had thought of it.

She cursed the unknown person who had thought of this competition hundreds of times in her heart, but she still had to run. Fortunately, the second game wasn't too difficult for her, who was proficient in archery. It was just that she had to run about 11 kilometers between these four games. She really couldn't bear it, so when she ran to the third competition site, she had to rest for a while before asking the eunuch who was responsible for scoring for her to get the wooden ball.

Although hitting the wooden pole looked as simple as throwing a pot, it was too difficult to control the wooden ball on the road to not roll to other places. She threw two wooden balls out and barely grasped the trick of making it walk in a straight line on flat ground. Fortunately, this event did not limit the number of balls used. It only limited the number of people who passed the level to ten.

However, by the time she got ten points in the third event, there were already four or five people running towards the bottom of the cliff. Thus, she didn't panic and only walked slowly. In any case, even if she wasn't the first one to obtain the flag, she could still directly snatch it over. She had not tried the close combat tactics that she had learned before, so now was a good opportunity to put it into practice. Moreover, she could also take the opportunity to recover some of her stamina.

Furthermore, Xiao Ya bet with the Emperor on whether or not the people in her palace could win. So it didn't matter if she won or not. She had to wait and see if there were any other people from the Yongle Palace who could pass the first stage. Even if there was only one more person, the chances of winning would be higher.

Just as she was thinking about it, someone patted her shoulder from behind. She subconsciously grabbed the hand on her shoulder and wanted to throw her onto the ground. The person behind her shouted, "Qing He Qing He, let go of me first. My wrist is hurting from your grip. Why are you so strong? You don't usually feel it. Speaking of which, your voice has been a little different from before. Is it because your face is covered that you're different?"

The voice was very familiar. She quickly let go of her hand and turned her head to find that it was Little Qiuzi. After she disguised herself as Qing He, she had already tried her best to imitate her voice and spoke less. She didn't expect to be noticed that her voice was different. Thus, she could only use the excuse that she had prepared beforehand to reply to him, "Previously, when you were hot, you accidentally hurt your throat, so you sound a little different, right? You might recover in a few days. "

Little Qiuzi nodded. It seemed like she believed him. After all, she was personally brought back by Xiao Ya. Suspiciding her identity was equivalent to suspecting Xiao Ya, and ordinary palace people wouldn't have the guts to think about it.

"Why don't we run over there? It would be terrible if someone else got the flag. The princess said that if we don't win, we won't have the next month's visiting vacation."

"There's no hurry. Anyway, before the person with the flag runs back to the starting point, we all have a chance to snatch it."

Little Qiuzi saw that she wasn't panicking at all and thought that she had an idea, so she asked.

Yunshu turned her head to look at him and finally shook her head with a calm expression. "When soldiers come, when water comes, when water comes, earth will cover."

Although she answered him very honestly, Little Qiuzi still chose to slowly walk with her. Only when the last person who passed the third round ran past them did he turn his head and ask her, "You really didn't think of a way?"

Yunshu raised her hand to signal him not to speak for the time being. "I was thinking about it." As she spoke, her gaze fell on the bamboo poles in the bamboo forest that had been cut and placed horizontally.

"Right, we can give them an overview. However, this way, we will have no choice but to snatch the flag from the cliff." Yunshu looked at the steep cliff in front of her with a bit of a headache. Several people had already climbed up the steep cliff. She did not want to lose her body because of a flag. But if she let Little Qiuzi climb up, it would be too dishonest.

"How do I hide it?" When Little Qiuzi heard that she had a solution, her eyes immediately lit up.

Hidden storage... How could she have forgotten that she originally wanted to use that thing? Thinking of this, the corners of Yunshu's mouth that was covered by the embroidered handkerchief curled up slightly. She took the lead and walked into the bamboo forest. Pointing at the pile of bamboo poles, she said, "First, help me find if there are any ends of the bamboo poles that have been cut off. The top and bottom of the bamboo poles can be cut off. But it's best if it's above. " This way, it would be easier to run with the bamboo in hand later.

Little Qiuzi nodded and immediately went to the other side of the neatly piled bamboo pole.

Yunshu saw all the bamboo segments. She looked up and was about to ask Little Qiuzi when she saw him trying to pull one of the bamboo poles out with both hands.

More and more people climbed up the cliff, and the one at the top was only about three meters away from the flag. Yun Zhu didn't care if she messed up the bamboo sticks and directly stepped on the pile. She held the bamboo that hadn't been cut off and steadied her body, kicking down the bamboo in Little Qiuzi's hand.

The bamboo on top rolled backward and Little Qiuzi easily dragged out the bamboo that they needed.

Yunshu lifted the bamboo stick that was five to six zhang high above her head. "I'll go get the flag. You wait here for me. But you have to pay attention to the movements on my side at all times. If I tell you to run, you run. " The reason she chose to let Little Qiuzi wait here was because he ran faster than her. If the person behind him was originally a distance away, then... It really wasn't easy to catch up. This way, their chances of winning would be higher. Even if she was unlucky, when she took off the flag, the flag pole did not fall into the bamboo tube. She could also use the bamboo pole to throw the flag towards where Little Qiuzi was.

When the last of the eight climbed up to a height of about two Zhang from the ground, she then carried the bamboo pole to the bottom of the cliff as fast as possible. As soon as she stabilized herself, she used the tip of the bamboo stick to hook the flag. When she saw that it was about time, she pulled it out from the crevice of the cliff. Her movements were so fast that even the eight people lying on the cliff did not have time to react.