Next, Sang Ning announced the battle strategy.
Once the electric restriction is lifted, the three girls would enter the bridge from the same entrance and, upon reaching the first inner intersection, split into two teams.
Sang Ning leads one team, while Huang Chengzi and Sun Bangyu form the other.
At the first inner intersection, Sun Bangyu is responsible for taking the supplies from the first wooden box, and Huang Chengzi is responsible for clearing obstacles ahead of her.
The two teams will act separately from the first inner intersection, scavenging supplies inside the pentagram in opposite directions and reuniting at the final intersection before jumping off the bridge together.
For the entire operation to go smoothly, speed, precision, and decisiveness are crucial—they must outpace the male students. Huang Chengzi has the heaviest task; she must clear all obstacles before Sun Bangyu moves forward.
The tricky part is that survival backpacks are easy to grab, but the boat-building supplies are much harder and probably require the combined effort of all three of them.
Sang Ning decided to exploit a loophole in the show’s rules. Didn’t the rules say no backtracking?
Then they would just run circles inside the glass bridge path, collecting all the survival backpacks first before going together to grab the boat-building materials.
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Sang Ning gave Huang Chengzi a reassuring look: "Trust me, the guys should be the ones worrying. But no matter how fast I am, I can’t collect all the supplies by myself. That’s why I need you and Xiao Yu to work together. You cannot hesitate—your only task is to use the wooden stick to shove any male student trying to steal supplies out of the way!"
Huang Chengzi planted the wooden stick by her side, stood straight as a board, and saluted Sang Ning: "Mr. Sang, rest assured, I guarantee the mission’s completion."
The hovering drone sounded out a sharp, urgent alarm, causing the students to instinctively cover their ears to block out the piercing noise.
The alarm immediately heightened everyone’s alertness—could it mean the restriction was about to be lifted?
Instantly, the students scattered across various spots discussing alliances converged, ready to seize the right moment to step onto the bridge path.
Sang Ning moved fastest, quickly seizing one of the five entrances. Hu Yirun had initially wanted to contest this entrance with her, but Huang Chengzi rushed over and drove him away with her wooden stick.
"Xiao Run, hurry up and leave. These sticks don’t have feelings, and if you keep trying to steal our path, I can’t promise I won’t hurt you."
After seeing Sun Bangyu also guarding the entrance, Hu Yirun helplessly pouted, utterly dumbfounded: "Oh wow, so you’re playing the gangster card now!"
He didn’t dare go head-to-head with these three "female tyrants." Ever since tangling with Sang Ning and Huang Chengzi, he increasingly felt that his perfect muscles, apart from looking good, were utterly useless—good for show but not for battle.
Hu Yirun elbowed his side, attempting to rally an ally to confront the "female tyrants," only to realize he was nudging empty air.
Realizing all his allies had bolted, he looked incredulous, his suspicions confirmed when he turned his head to see his closest ally already running away without a trace.
Coward, utterly embarrassing for the male students!
"A real man doesn’t fight with women. Fine, you can have this entrance!" Lacking any means of resistance, Hu Yirun could only give up the entrance while throwing out some tough words.
In the end, he had no choice but to obediently step aside.
Other students who had their eyes on this entrance hesitated as well. Seeing Sang Ning’s aggressive demeanor and Huang Chengzi looming with her hefty wooden stick, nobody dared to act rashly, silently agreeing to yield this entrance to them.
It seemed the girls were thinking along the same lines as the boys; it was too hard for one person to grab all the supplies alone. Forming alliances to share supplies was the safest bet.
Although this meant splitting the spoils, at least it guaranteed some resources instead of none.
"Attention all students. The restriction lift will commence in ten seconds. Ten seconds from now, you may enter the bridge path. A kind reminder: once inside, you may not go backtrack. Use your quick wits to collect supplies and escape the bridge path!"
The final reminder echoed in the air. Sang Ning had already stressed this point earlier, so Huang Chengzi and Sun Bangyu took it to heart. As for the male students, they couldn’t care less.
Their feet were at their discretion—whether or not they backtrack wasn’t for the show’s staff to decide but for them.
Ten, nine, eight, seven...
As the countdown rang out, all the students locked in their chosen entrances.
At the end of the countdown, with the restriction lifted, everyone surged toward their respective entrances in a frenzy.
The girls moved effortlessly. Sang Ning led the charge, clearing the path with remarkable speed.
Huang Chengzi and Sun Bangyu followed closely behind without breaking a sweat.
In contrast, the male students were immediately caught up in heated physical confrontations at the entrances due to their sheer numbers.
Waist locks, shirt pulling, leg grabs—no tactic was off-limits. Even the sneaky move of yanking hair was shamelessly employed.
While the guys were still brawling and struggling to step onto the bridge, the girls had already reached the first supply drop-off point and grabbed the first survival backpack.
Someone let out a loud scream: "Despicable! So despicable! Brothers, stop fighting. The girls are trying to hoard all the supplies!"
The outburst immediately diverted everyone’s attention. Some took advantage of the chaos to slip onto the bridge path unnoticed.
By then, Sun Bangyu had already slung a survival backpack over her shoulder, while Huang Chengzi wielded her wooden stick to clear any obstacles ahead.
Meanwhile, Sang Ning headed in the opposite direction, advancing towards the next supply location.
Damn it, they’d underestimated them! The boys’ plan had been to pair up and share one supply. They hadn’t anticipated the girls’ appetite would be so voracious—it was unbearable!
Taking advantage of the delay caused by the boys’ internal squabbles, the girls had already collected three survival items—all survival backpacks.
Now only two supply points remained. Once they secured those, the boys would be left with nothing.
Sang Ning had a survival backpack on her back. When she arrived at the next supply location, two fast-moving male students had already beaten her to the wooden box.
Looking down, she saw this supply was another survival backpack.
Perfect, this made her task easier.
Sang Ning had no intention of negotiating. She strode forward with big steps.
Perhaps it was the deadly aura radiating from her charge, but one of the boys, clearly lacking strong nerves, retreated several steps on the spot out of fright.
Just then, the beep-beep-beep alarm sounded again. Sang Ning and the boy’s ally turned to look at him, just in time to see him, like Tan Qianzhi earlier, momentarily twitching from a small electric shock.
"Warning! Warning! Students, please follow the game rules and do not backtrack!"