Chapter 110
Chapter 110
“Youai Village Chief: All guests, please proceed to the open area outside Room Four. Each pair of guests may choose an Intelligence PK, Physical PK, or Compatibility PK according to their own situation. Each round of PK will award the corresponding number of points.”
“The game has a thirty-minute time limit. Within the allotted time, the guest pair with the highest score may choose to maintain the current room assignments or choose a more preferred opposite-sex guest to stay in the same house with them. The remaining guests will have their rooms randomly assigned by the Program Team!”
The moment this message was sent, it stirred up a storm.
[In other words, the winners of this competition only get to decide their own room? The losers are at the mercy of the Program Team?]
[Yes, and judging by the Program Team’s love of stirring up trouble, the result definitely won’t satisfy the guests.]
[Doesn’t that mean everyone will want to win? This PK is going to be intense!]
[Wanting to win and being able to win are two different things. This is a paired PK. What if you get stuck with a partner who won’t cooperate…]
“Village Chief, can I fight solo?” The moment Fu Zhi saw the words “Intelligence/Physical/Compatibility PK” in the message, his vision nearly went dark.
Which one of those three had anything to do with Jiang Sheshe?!
Jiang Sheshe was in no mood to argue with Fu Zhi either. She kept twisting her fingers together.
“Huh? We have to compete in intelligence and physical strength?”
She didn’t have either of those!
Seeing the young lady so nervous, Ning Xi kindly comforted her.
“It’s fine. When the boat reaches the bridge, it’ll naturally sink. We aren’t out of options. There’s still the road to certain doom.”
Jiang Sheshe: “…”
Thanks. Now she felt even worse.
The guests arrived at the competition venue one after another.
On the three large screens were the words Intelligence, Physical, and Compatibility.
In front of each screen was a button, with a line of instructions beside it: Press the button to learn the challenge content.
Fu Zhi swept his gaze across them and, without the slightest hesitation, pressed the Intelligence button.
Jiang Sheshe was shocked. “You big idiot, what are you doing!!!”
She didn’t want to choose an Intelligence PK!!!
But it was already too late. At that moment, the large screen displayed:
One pair of guests has selected Intelligence PK. Begin the challenge now?
Yes/No
Countdown: 30, 29, 28, 27…
Meanwhile, with the other pairs.
Ning Xi stroked her chin. “Xiao Xie, which team do you think suits us?”
Xie Lanchen pondered. “Mm…”
Ning Xi didn’t give Xie Lanchen any chance to continue. She slapped her thigh hard.
“The Intelligence Team, of course! Does my intelligence even need to be questioned?!”
Xie Lanchen fell silent for a moment, then nodded in agreement. “Teacher Ning is right.”
And so, the two of them went to the Intelligence Team and pressed the button before the thirty-second countdown ended.
[? I thought Ning Xi was just being absurd, but she really chose the Intelligence Team?]
[You big idiot, what are you doing! Fu Zhi is from the mathematics department at Cambridge, and you’re crazy enough to compete with him in intelligence… Wait, no, why do I feel like Ning Xi is actually smarter than Fu Zhi? [brain crash]]
[I was a little worried when I saw Ning Xi choose the Intelligence Team, but then I realized she was competing against Fu Zhi, and suddenly I felt reassured.]
[Everything has its natural counter, hahahaha.]
The thirty-second countdown ended.
Only Ning Xi and Xie Lanchen’s pair, and Fu Zhi and Jiang Sheshe’s pair, had chosen the Intelligence PK.
Ning Mingyue and Shen Yibai’s pair, as well as Wei Xuan and Qin Se’s pair, had chosen the Physical PK.
The screens on both sides displayed the competition content.
Intelligence PK: “There are a total of one hundred numbers and △, ○, □ patterns in the image. The guests will be given three minutes to memorize them. After three minutes, reproduce the positions of the numbers and shapes on the answer board. The more you reproduce, the higher your score. The full score is 100 points.”
It looked like a question testing memory.
Fu Zhi looked at the image, his brows tightly furrowed. “There must be a pattern to these numbers and shapes…”
As long as he found the pattern, he could definitely reproduce the positions of all the numbers and shapes within three minutes.
After reading the question, Ning Xi thought for a moment, then looked at Xie Lanchen as if she wanted to say something but hesitated. “Xiao Xie, have you found the pattern?”
Xie Lanchen turned his head. “Not yet. Has Teacher Ning discovered something new?”
Ning Xi immediately relaxed and said bluntly, “Then let’s each memorize half!”
“?”
“Just brute-force it.”
“…All right.”
[HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA why is everything Ning Xi says so funny?]
[AHHH stop laughing, does this question even have a pattern or not!!! There’s no way to memorize it in three minutes!]
[It’s fine, I took a screenshot. [smart]]
[An average person can memorize 33 digits in 3 minutes, but this question isn’t just numbers. There are patterns too, and they have to remember their positions. The difficulty is way higher. If they can reproduce even half of it, that’s already amazing.]
[So if they want a high score, they have to find the pattern, right? But three minutes is way too short. If they can’t find the pattern, they’re completely done for.]
[I’m way too excited to see the results for these two teams.]
Three minutes later.
Fu Zhi’s face was taut as he silently reproduced the numbers and patterns on the answer board.
His expression was serious and grave.
His hand moved steadily and quickly, completely unlike his usual unreliable self.
Jiang Sheshe had also found an answer board, but after reproducing a dozen or so numbers and patterns, she got stuck.
“Was this 14 or 27 again?”
“It was 24.”
A faint voice drifted over from the right.
Jiang Sheshe looked toward Ning Xi, who had spoken, and snorted. “It definitely wasn’t 24! Stop trying to mess me up on purpose! The answer was absolutely either 14 or 27!”
She! Jiang Sheshe! Would never believe a single word Ning Xi said again! Never again!
“Let me think. Was it 27 or 24…” Jiang Sheshe fell back into indecision.
Ning Xi, off to the side: …
Girl, listen to yourself. You’re the one who’s mixed it up now.
Ning Xi shrugged. She had no time to bother with Jiang Sheshe anymore and continued writing and drawing on her answer board.
She and Xie Lanchen had each memorized half. Once they combined their answers, they would have the complete answer.
But…
Ning Xi glanced at Xie Lanchen, whose long lashes were slightly lowered as he quietly answered from the side, then scratched her head. No idea how well Xiao Xie remembered his half.
But even if Xiao Xie remembered it wrong, it didn’t matter, because-
[Holy crap, Ning Xi actually perfectly reproduced the half she memorized, including every number and pattern position!!!!]
[??? What the heck? I thought she was just scribbling, and now you’re telling me she’s right?]
[Huh? She really just brute-force memorized it? Ning Xi’s memory is way too strong!]
[Terrifying! Absolutely terrifying!]
Half of the Danmaku were shocked, and half were skeptical.
After all, Ning Xi’s image as a chaos gremlin was deeply rooted in everyone’s minds. No matter how they looked at it, she didn’t seem like the kind of genius with an extraordinary memory.
Besides… if Ning Xi’s memory really was that amazing, why had no one ever used it for marketing before?
It was probably just a blind cat stumbling onto a dead mouse.
But very soon, the netizens were shocked all over again.
Because after Ning Xi finished filling in her half of the numbers and pattern positions on the answer board, she paused, then continued filling in the numbers and patterns that should have belonged to Xie Lanchen’s half!
And they were one hundred percent correct. Not a single mistake!!!
[So Ning Xi memorized the positions of 100 scrambled numbers and shapes in three minutes, purely through memory?!]
[This isn’t luck anymore. This is absolute skill…]
[How am I supposed to accept the fact that Ning Xi suddenly turned into a genius?! I really used to think she was an idiot with crazy stamina but average IQ. [shocked]]
[She’s pretty, she can sing and dance, she’s got both physical and mental strength, so which window did heaven even close for my daughter?]
[School is on pause. I’ll be Ning Xi’s wife instead.]