Chapter 115
Chapter 115
Everyone looked away and didn’t take it seriously.
So far, the four teams’ point rankings were as follows:
Ning Xi and Xie Lanchen: 210 points
Jiang Sheshe and Fu Zhi: 160 points
Qin Se and Wei Xuan: 75 points
Shen Yibai and Ning Mingyue: 60 points
“Why does it feel like the Physical Team earns points more easily? Ning Xi and Xie Lanchen got 110 points in one round!” Jiang Sheshe said bluntly.
The moment she said that, Ning Mingyue’s expression turned a little unnatural.
She had scored zero this round. If not for the 30 points Shen Yibai had earned, their score would probably be even lower.
“Don’t worry. No matter which team you’re on, earning points will be hard for you,” Fu Zhi sneered, roasting Jiang Sheshe without mercy.
He had never seen anyone dumber than Jiang Sheshe.
She had only gotten one out of three questions right, yet she was still feeling pleased with herself. She had absolutely no self-awareness.
“You!” Jiang Sheshe’s good mood vanished completely.
Her impression of Fu Zhi went from Sharp-tongued Madman to Damn Sharp-tongued Madman!
She wished she could rush up and slap him.
[If Ning Xi and Xie Lanchen are a pure-love couple, then Jiang Sheshe and Fu Zhi are pure-hate teammates.]
[When they were answering questions, their communication was useless the entire time, and neither of them listened to the other.]
[My feelings are honestly so complicated watching those two. I don’t even know whose side to take. On one hand, Fu Zhi has a nasty mouth and a bad temper. On the other hand, how is Jiang Sheshe that dumb? Fu Zhi was already doing his absolute best to hint at the answer beside her, and she still picked the wrong one. If I had a pig teammate like that, I’d be furious.]
[Fun fact: you can hate two people at the same time.]
[It’s fine. The existence of those two basically tells us that there aren’t many perfect people in this world. Everyone is cheap in their own special way.]
[I’m cheap too, so what? Cheap people aren’t all the same. Fu Zhi is openly cheap, Jiang Sheshe is stupidly cheap, but I’m the cute kind of cheap. [smile] [top-left]]
For the third round, Ning Xi and Xie Lanchen’s team chose the Compatibility Team PK.
Jiang Sheshe and Fu Zhi had still been arguing, but when they saw Ning Xi press the button for the Compatibility Team PK, they actually came over in perfect sync.
“I want to play too~”
Jiang Sheshe automatically stuck herself to Ning Xi’s side and reached out to press the button.
The next second…
“Ah-”
Fu Zhi mercilessly yanked Jiang Sheshe aside. The spot that had originally belonged to her was taken over by Fu Zhi, and the button she hadn’t even had time to press was also pressed first by that cheap bastard Fu Zhi…
“For this Compatibility PK, I feel like it’s more suited to people like us, who know each other pretty well. What a shame we didn’t end up on the same team this time… Sigh…” Fu Zhi heaved a long sigh at Ning Xi.
He was definitely implying something.
Ning Xi only felt that both her eyes and ears had been assaulted. Her reply was even shorter and more forceful:
“Get lost.”
With Xie Lanchen as her teammate, she had easily taken first place on the leaderboard.
If she had been teamed up with Fu Zhi, this guy who was great at ruining things and terrible at getting anything done, there was no way things would have gone this smoothly.
Fu Zhi choked with anger and was about to say something else.
Then Jiang Sheshe butted him away with her head. “That’s what you get for pushing me earlier!”
Everyone: “…”
Soon, the screen displayed the questions for this round of the Compatibility Team PK:
“For this round, the Program Team has prepared seven high-EQ questions. There are no correct answers. You only need to state your answer and your reasoning.
When the two teams of guests answer, the netizens watching the livestream online will vote based on their answers by pressing the ‘Support/Don’t Support’ buttons. If the support rate exceeds 90%, the guests will receive 10 points!”
“Right now, our four livestream rooms combined must have tens of millions of people watching online. A support rate over 90%? Tsk, that’s a bit difficult.”
“Don’t people online argue about everything?”
“High-EQ questions? What does that mean? Emotional intelligence has exams now?”
“My partner doesn’t have anything like emotional intelligence at all. She doesn’t even have a brain. Isn’t this just making things hard for her?”
The guests burst into chatter.
Only Director Qin smiled faintly, clearly very satisfied with their reactions.
Soon, the first high-EQ question appeared on the screen:
“When you go to an interview and the interviewer asks, ‘If you pour a glass of milk into the ocean, how would you get it back?’ how would you answer? You have thirty seconds.”
Jiang Sheshe stared at the question, dumbfounded. “So annoying. I don’t want to use my brain. Can I just buy that part of the ocean?”
Fu Zhi sneered. “Are you joking with questions like this?”
After thinking for a moment, Xie Lanchen answered seriously, “Why pour the milk into the ocean? If it’s poured into the ocean, why does it need to be retrieved? What does the interviewer plan to do with the retrieved milk? If the milk can’t be retrieved, what will the consequences be?”
Ning Xi made a heart gesture at the livestream camera. “Give. Me. Back. My. Resume.”
[Ahhhh, wifey made a heart at me! I’m hitting the buzzer! Hitting the buzzer!]
[Hahahaha, Ning Xi’s answer felt so good. I’m switching to my nine alt accounts right now to like my daughter!]
[Oh my god, Xie Lanchen’s answer is amazing. Clear thinking, strong logic too. Our boss loves employees like that.]
[Sheshe, my one and only queen. Her first reaction was actually to buy a stretch of ocean. Sob sob sob.]
[I must be seeing things. I read “sob sob sob” as “chirp chirp chirp.”]
Thirty seconds later, the screen began displaying the approval ratings for the two groups’ answers.
Ning Xi and Xie Lanchen’s group: 95.20%
Jiang Sheshe and Fu Zhi’s group: 90.01%
Both groups received 10 points each.
But the guests were all a little slow to react.
Ning Xi thought Xiao Xie’s answer was pretty good and should be able to get over 90% support, but she hadn’t expected it to reach as high as 95.
Sure enough, only the strong were worthy of being her teammates.
Jiang Sheshe, on the other hand, was shocked. “I actually managed to get 10 points?”
She clearly hadn’t come up with any answer at all!
Soon, the second question appeared on the screen.
“Which of the following behaviors is more unacceptable?
A. Your lover peels shrimp for your friend. B. Your friend peels shrimp for your lover.”
Ning Xi furiously flipped the table. “Then who’s peeling shrimp for me? If they eat it all, what am I supposed to eat?!”
What kind of garbage question was this?
Xie Lanchen frowned, a rare sight. “Don’t they think that’s dirty?”
Peeling shrimp was such an intimate act. He could only accept doing it with the person closest to him…
Jiang Sheshe clutched her head, sinking into indecision. “Why are those two peeling shrimp for each other? This is so annoying. I feel awful the second I hear questions like this, ahhhhh!”
After some thought, Fu Zhi flashed the screen a smug, highly punchable smile.
“Huh? You mean the shrimp everyone eats still has shells? The shrimp I eat never has shells. You guys are so weird.”
[?]
[So obnoxious!]
[Wait, do rich people only eat shrimp without shells? [thinking]]
The voting results came out quickly.
Ning Xi and Xie Lanchen’s group: 91%
Fu Zhi and Jiang Sheshe’s group: 49%
Compared to the previous round, Fu Zhi and Jiang Sheshe’s group had taken a nosedive.
The reason, when traced to its source, was that netizens were extremely displeased by Fu Zhi’s show-off attitude while answering the question.
Fu Zhi was even more baffled. “No, wait. Ning Xi got a 95% approval rating last round for being absurd. Don’t netizens like hearing absurd answers?”
Why did everyone turn on him the second he tried being absurd?
[Oh, so Fu Zhi was trying to be absurd just now? He wasn’t like this before.]
[Fu Zhi, please understand: netizens like Ning Xi being absurd. They don’t like absurdity itself.]
[The second Fu Zhi reads the comments, his sky is going to fall.]
After scoring points for two rounds in a row, Ning Xi only felt that she was terrifyingly powerful.
At that moment, the third question appeared on the screen:
“On a rainy day, you kindly lend your umbrella to a boy sheltering from the rain under the eaves, but he says, ‘Thank you, but I have a girlfriend.’ What would you do then?”