Chapter 111

Chapter 111

“I’m done. Submit the answers.”

Fu Zhi spoke toward the screen.

“I haven’t finished checking!” Jiang Sheshe cried anxiously.

Fu Zhi lowered his eyes and glanced at Jiang Sheshe’s answer board, where she had barely filled in a little over twenty numbers and patterns. Impatiently, he asked, “Is there any point in checking further? Twenty-something points isn’t going to turn into a hundred.”

Jiang Sheshe bristled. “What’s wrong with twenty-something points? You say that like you can get full marks! I refuse to believe you’re that much better than me at a memory question like this…”

As she spoke, Jiang Sheshe snatched the answer board from Fu Zhi’s hands, wanting to see how many he had filled in.

Only to find that the entire board was full.

Jiang Sheshe: …

Had this bad-tempered walking powder keg actually memorized all one hundred numbers and patterns?!

“Our team will submit our answers too.”

Ning Xi raised her hand.

The moment Ning Xi spoke, Fu Zhi and Jiang Sheshe both crowded over.

“This question is seriously twisted. I think a normal person remembering twenty-something is already amazing…”

Jiang Sheshe muttered, trying to get Ning Xi to agree with her.

But after seeing Ning Xi’s completely filled-in answer board, she took critical damage for the second time.

“No, girl, with this kind of question, it’s not about filling in as many as possible. They have to be right!”

At this point, Jiang Sheshe still had a tiny guess in her heart: maybe Ning Xi hadn’t actually memorized everything, but in order to score more points, she had started guessing answers like on an exam and only felt at ease after filling the whole thing in.

Ning Xi gave a soft “Mm.” “I filled them in correctly.”

Fu Zhi, meanwhile, simply lifted Ning Xi’s answer board. When he saw that her answers were identical to his, he first nodded as if that were only natural, then remembered to ask, “How did you solve it? I noticed that when all the △s are connected, the pattern is a ‘windmill,’ and when all the ○s are connected, it’s a rhombus. I haven’t found the pattern in the numbers yet, but I think the numbers and the shapes must be connected. If we’d had a little more time just now…”

Ning Xi felt tired just listening to Fu Zhi’s long-winded analysis. “What pattern? You just memorize it. Is memorizing one hundred patterns that hard?”

Fu Zhi: …

He had forgotten that this wretched girl had a good memory.

Ever since they were children, Ning Xi learned everything quickly. She could remember things after a single glance and draw inferences from one example.

Fu Zhi had once felt that if Ning Xi hadn’t become an idol back then and had prepared for math competitions with him instead, she definitely could have surpassed his results.

There was no helping it. Ever since they were little, Ning Xi seemed to be good at everything.

So in Fu Zhi’s eyes, Ning Xi was omnipotent.

No matter what trouble they ran into, as long as Ning Xi was there, it would definitely be solved with ease.

“How come Ning Xi just roasted you, but your eyes are getting brighter and brighter?” Jiang Sheshe looked at Fu Zhi and sensed something was off.

Fu Zhi coughed unnaturally, withdrew his gaze, and returned to his usual explosive, unapproachable self.

“Mind your own business. Stop observing me.”

Jiang Sheshe rolled her eyes, as if she cared.

In the next second, she went to seek warmth from the only person who had not hurt her: Xie Lanchen.

“Feynman, how did you do on this question?”

Then she suffered a third blow.

[Why do I hear gunshots? This is China. Shooting is prohibited.]

[That wasn’t a gunshot. That was the sound of Jiang Sheshe taking critical damage.]

[If Jiang Sheshe just talked a little less, she wouldn’t have been struck down so many times.]

Xie Lanchen looked at the petrified Jiang Sheshe and smiled faintly. Modestly, he said, “It was all right, I guess. Anyway, there was plenty of time, so I filled in everything.”
Jiang Sheshe: …

I hate these people! I hate the whole world!

The Danmaku quickly displayed the scores for the two groups of guests in the Intelligence PK:

Jiang Sheshe and Fu Zhi: 100 points

Ning Xi and Xie Lanchen: 100 points

“Looks like it isn’t that hard after all,” Ning Xi murmured.

She had thought there would be questions that required a lot of calculation or tested logical analysis, but unexpectedly, it was just simple memory.

“The Program Team probably lowered the difficulty too. After all, Intelligence PK definitely isn’t as easy to score in as Physical PK or Compatibility PK,” Xie Lanchen analyzed lightly.

“Then I’ll play a few more rounds and farm points with Intelligence PK,” Fu Zhi decided.

After all, in Intelligence PK, he could carry two people and ignore the side effects of having Jiang Sheshe as his teammate. Physical PK and Compatibility PK would not work that way.

Jiang Sheshe closed her eyes and turned toward the camera. “Kill them. Right now.”

Outside the monitor, Director Qin also looked utterly incredulous.

They had guessed that Fu Zhi might come out on top in Intelligence PK, but Jiang Sheshe, who was in his group, should have balanced that out nicely.

But never in their wildest dreams had they expected that Ning Xi and Xie Lanchen, those two bugs, would be this amazing too.

“Lower the point value for the Intelligence Team in the next round. Otherwise, the Physical Team and Compatibility Team won’t be able to catch up,” Director Qin instructed.

“Got it.”

In the livestream room.

Seeing Fu Zhi press the Intelligence PK button again, Ning Xi couldn’t help glancing toward the Physical Team on the right.

At this moment, Ning Mingyue and Shen Yibai, as well as Qin Se and Wei Xuan, were still competing.

Their task was to imitate the poses in the photos provided by the Program Team. Completing one pose would add five points, and the time limit was also three minutes.

By now, they were down to the final minute.

Shen Yibai and Ning Mingyue had already gotten 20 points, while Qin Se and Wei Xuan’s group had 25 points.

At first, Ning Xi had been puzzled as to why their scores were so low, but after watching for a while, she understood.

Some of the poses were fairly simple, like holding hands, making a heart with their fingers, or standing back-to-back.

But some poses were much more intimate, such as touching foreheads, the guy carrying the girl on his back, and even the girl hooking one leg around the guy’s body.

If these poses were done by two people who were currently in the ambiguous stage, they would definitely help advance the relationship.

Unfortunately, Shen Yibai and Ning Mingyue were in a cold war for some unknown reason.

As for Wei Xuan and Qin Se, one already had someone in his heart and kept looking over at Jiang Sheshe, while the other was not used to being that close to a stranger.

So after two minutes, neither group had scored very high.

Just then, a new pose appeared on the screen:

The guy had to princess-carry the girl with one arm.

Ning Xi’s eyes instantly turned starry. “So swoony! Who could possibly resist that?!”

Jiang Sheshe could not concentrate at all. Her eyes were fixed on the question on the screen, but her mouth was saying:

“What, what? There’s a ship to feast on? Wait for me, I’ll come over as soon as I finish reading the question!”

Fu Zhi covered his ears in disgust and continued pretending not to hear her as he solved the question.

Ning Xi stared at the two groups, wanting to see which male guest had the incredible arm strength to princess-carry someone with one arm.

The result, however, greatly disappointed her.

After Qin Se saw the picture, she was the first to apologize to Wei Xuan. “I’ve gained weight recently, so let’s skip this pose.”

Wei Xuan said politely, “All right. Your comfort comes first.”

As for Ning Mingyue and Shen Yibai…