Curve driving

The halftime break after the first round is a rewarding interactive session for the audience. The eliminated players sit in the reserved seats off the court, and the promoted players go to the lounge assigned by the backstage.

As soon as Ji Sinian got off the stage, he asked where the bathroom was, and never came back.

In the chaos, he didn't know why he had to dodge. He only knew that if he didn't dodge, he probably wouldn't have the heart to compete in the second round.

From the moment the game started, he had already entered a state of high tension, mentally nervous and his heart was beating fast, and for a moment he could hardly tell what the cause of such ups and downs was.

Because of the spotlight, the roaring applause, the exciting racing, or because Xie Hang was laughing.

Some things can't hold back anymore.

Ji Sinian supported the sink, his clothes were stained with water, he looked up at himself in the mirror.

His chest seemed to be suffocated, and he couldn't get up or down.

Wait, at least until the game is over.

He bent down and washed his face.

"Hey, are you Ji Sinian?" A vague voice came from behind.

Ji Sinian wandered out of the solar system, subconsciously responded to the sound of water, and coughed.

"Why do you still choke after washing your face!" It was a girl's voice.

Ji Sinian turned off the faucet with one hand, bent over and coughed for a long time, then wiped his face and turned around.

The girl found a pack of unopened tissues in her pocket: "This..."

Ji Sinian squinted one eye, pulled out a piece of toilet paper from the cardboard box on the wall with his backhand, and wiped it on his face a few times.

"Let's go." The girl smiled and put the tissue back in her pocket, "My name is Dong Yue, and I'm from the School of Life Sciences."

"Hello." Ji Sinian's brain hadn't turned to the normal position yet, and he couldn't react.

It wasn't far from the bathroom to the backstage, and he planned to go back with a pinch, but he couldn't find a reason to stand at the door of the bathroom at this time, so he had to walk back.

Seeing him like this, Dong Yue laughed and said, "Aren't you impressed with me? Our group is No.3. I don't know if we will be able to draw a group of PK soon."

"Ah." Thinking about it, this is the girl who was active before the game.

But he still didn't know how to answer the call.

Dong Yue was amused by his dull attitude, but he wasn't embarrassed: "Hey, you didn't look like this just now."

The backstage was still in full swing, and from a distance, a girl in the crowd was looking at her. Dong Yue waved her and said to Ji Sinian, "I'm going."

She ran two steps forward, then turned her head and said, "Come on!"

Ji Sinian replied dryly, "Come on."

He was still holding an unthrown paper ball in his hand, and he didn't even need to look back to know that Xie Hang was standing in the corridor of the lounge.

"Back?" Someone asked behind him.

Now I had no choice but to turn around, Ji Sinian somehow sensed the taste of the teacher's questioning, he hesitated for a moment: "Yes."

He avoided Xie Hang's gaze, and looked past him at the corridor: "Is there a trash can here?"

Xie Hang stood in front of the lounge door: "There are in the room."

Countless busy staff were walking around, walkie-talkies were ringing everywhere, Ji Sinian stood in the middle of the corridor, frowning lightly: "I'll go in and throw something."

Xie Hang stared at him for a while, then moved aside.

As soon as his back foot stepped into the door, Xie Hang grabbed his wrist.

Ji Sinian almost had a conditioned reflex to throw him away, so he pinched his palm to hold back.Xie Hang's hands were cold, spreading from his wrists all over his body.

His head was a little dizzy, and the water droplets that hadn't been wiped off dripped down his chin, and the water marks were cool.

Xie Hang looked at him deeply.

"I'll talk about it later." Ji Sinian didn't look at him, but stared at the hand on his wrist, Xie Hang was wearing that string of luck beads today.

A small space seemed to be created among the noisy voices, Xie Hang said: "The competition is over."

"Yeah." Ji Sinian looked up at him.

Xie Hang tugged him in his direction: "Don't hide."

"I didn't...no," Ji Sinian smiled calmly after saying this, "I don't want to hide, the question is, if we just face each other for 10 minutes, will this match be even better?"

"The contestants are assembled!" Someone shouted from outside the corridor.

Xie Hang held on for a while before letting go of his hand.

Ji Sinian threw the roll of toilet paper into the trash can, and walked over with him.

The part of drawing lots was done during the interaction of the audience. They were going to fight against the cafeteria duo. The two potential cafeteria players stood beside them and waited, their foreheads were covered with sweat.

Due to time constraints, the second round of the competition was held in four groups at the same time. This time, a player introduction session was added for the return, and they entered the arena in order of groups.

After the first three groups appeared on the stage, Ji Siyan suddenly remembered something very important.

Before he could recover, he heard a powerful call from the stage: "Let us welcome the No.15 contestants, your father and hoe from the School of Chemistry and School of Public Administration!"

The staff guarding the side of the curtain pushed him onto the stage: "Enter!"

"I—damn!" Ji Sinian was pushed onto the stage bravely, and found that at some point his microphone was connected to the loudspeaker, and this curse echoed clearly in the auditorium.

Several beams of stage lights hit him in unison, and the audience burst into unprecedented warm applause and laughter.

Not only were the audience laughing, but the canteen duo standing next to the host laughed straight up their glasses, and Dong Yue and another girl in the same group also covered their mouths and laughed.

The host's professionalism is extremely strong, and he said in the same voice as before without changing his face: "Welcome to the two contestants, this is the only pair of freshmen who have advanced, and their strength is very strong!"

Ji Sinian was shaking with laughter when he saw Yin Bo in the first row holding up their mobile phones to record.

"The competition is about to start, do you two have a declaration for the competition?" The host was not affected at all.

Ji Sinian looked at Xie Hang.

Xie Hang said in a low voice, "The older ones speak first."

There was another burst of laughter in the audience.

"We..." Ji Sinian racked his brains, flashed through the beginning and end of the excellent composition he had memorized in the third year of high school, flashed through countless famous quotes, and finally said, "The name of... is not intended to offend."

The audience immediately started applauding.

He felt that if he continued speaking, he would become a hit.

The host's ability to control the field has reached the point of proficiency. He immediately continued the conversation, said a few more words, and began to introduce the rules of the project.

A bunch of irregular blocks with concave and convex appeared on the screen. With the background music, it looked very high-end.

Ji Sinian quietly tapped the mic twice, but didn't hear the venue's PA, so he played hard again to make sure that the PA had been cut off.

"If you shoot again, you will be deaf." Xie Hang's voice came from the earphone.

He stopped immediately.

It is still a two-person cooperation event plus competition, which is divided into A and B. This time, two groups of four people answer the same question board.

"What is a question plate?" Ji Sinian touched his arm.

Xie Hang said: "Grab the topic and do it."

Project A is to use those blocks with different rules, concave and convex, to assemble the specified graphics. There are countless interference items, and the reasoning and space scores on the radar chart have reached [-] points.

There are [-] questions in A, and each question corresponds to a part of a different shape, which can be unlocked by answering correctly, and the questions that one party has already answered cannot be repeated.

Project B is to piece together a closed circuit. The board is a large incomplete circuit diagram, with only a lot of series and parallel bulbs but no wires. The parts unlocked by A are placed in the board to light up as many lights as possible.

A set of red lights and a set of blue lights, the parts you grab yourself are for your own use.

"I answer B." Ji Sinian said.

Xie Hang said at the same time as him: "I will do A."

Ji Sinian touched his nose and suddenly wanted to laugh.

Project A is definitely inferior to him in terms of speed, but he can give full play to his creativity and make things difficult for project B.

Answering the same question board means that these light bulbs are also to be seized, and he can block the opponent's way.

It seems that Xie Hang is also going to hand over this hooligan job to him.

The large screen behind it splits in two, and each half presents an empty circuit board and two smaller flat screens in real time.

"Contestants please get ready for the challenge!" said the host.

The audience applauded again, and Ji Sinian walked to his answering station. On the tablet was the same empty circuit board as on the screen.

The sound effect of the countdown was a bit scary, and Ji Sinian glanced at Xie Hang, feeling a sense of tension.

At the moment of zeroing, several unrelated light bulbs and many obstacles appeared on the board, as well as the components corresponding to each of the [-] questions to be selected in project A.

Ji Sinian glanced at it, and chose a question about straight wire components: "Do the eighth."

Xie Hang opened the question.

The eighth question and No.13 question in the topic catalog were unlocked at the same time, and the No.13 question made by the opponent was a four-fork road component.

Good idea, first seize the intersection.

The bigger the component, the more difficult the problem. Xie Hang solved the answer one step ahead of his opponent, and a straight line appeared in Ji Sinian's answer box.

He was not in a hurry to place it on the circuit board, and picked another straight line: "Do the fifth question."

"This tactic will be beaten." Xie Hang smiled.

You can see the overall picture by zooming out the entire disk with two fingers. Ji Sinian made a simple plan and found that this should be a question of computing power.

Then the time difference he snatched out is very beneficial.

The question is simple and Xie Hang's quick answer, the straight line of this question is almost unlocked at the same time as the other side's four forks.

The other party immediately placed the component at the intersection of the two light bulbs in parallel, and the electronic version lit up the three wires on the blue side.

Ji Sinian then connected two straight wires between the two light bulbs and the blue wire.

Two red wires light up on the screen in real time, cutting off the passage of the blue wire to the light bulb.

"Do 23 questions?" Xie Hang asked.

Ji Sinian glanced at the title, 23 corresponds to a straight corner component.

"Yeah." This way of harming others and benefiting oneself is already the limit here. The number of light bulbs is odd, so blocking it like this is not good for one's own side.

The next thing is whoever thinks of the way to kill two birds with one stone first wins.

Project B requires high computing power. To bypass obstacles, it is necessary to calculate the purpose and sequence of each component, otherwise it will either fail to power on or hit the blue line.

Ji Sinian's move obviously disrupted the opponent's rhythm of answering the question, they had to open up a new path, otherwise they couldn't form a closed loop.

"You don't need to count." Xie Hang said.

"Huh?" Ji Sinian saw a new component appeared in the answer box, and Xie Hang finished another question.

His fast-running brain didn't even get distracted at this moment, and it automatically decoded Xie Hang's words.

You don't need to count, I can grab most of the components for you, you just need to fight up.

"I still have to count the number, otherwise I'll be a mess." Ji Sinian said, "Do thirteen, eighteen, twenty-one."

"The calculation is quite fast." Xie Hang said.

As expected of No.1 in the preliminary round, the opponent quickly adjusted his state and grabbed another fork in the road.

Xie Hang asked in the headset: "Do you want to block in a straight line?"

"Don't do it." Ji Sinian stared at the circuit diagram, "Do it seven."

"They're also working on seven," Xie Hang said.

Ji Sinian smiled: "Steal them."

He said it very lightly, but the component in the seventh question is very important, it can connect the lights he had strung together with the power line, and the cafeteria duo is coming to block his way.

Xie Hang didn't speak again, and after 1 minute, it was displayed that the answer to the seventh question was successful.

Three red lights come on.

"Continue to do Thirteen and 21." Ji Sinian said, "Leave them alone."

His instructions came at a good time. Half a minute later, four blue lights lit up on the electronic board, and the opponent took the lead.

The strength of the duo was so strong that they almost bit their tails and followed without a single gap.

The last two are left.

The opponent was obviously very cautious. In order to keep one of them, he connected the three nearby pathways in one go.

In Ji Sinian's vision for this scene, the light was in the middle, almost the key to the final outcome.

He has already paved the way, and he is only short of the last corner corresponding to question 21, and he can get this one in his pocket.

He took a risky move, as long as this light can be lit, he can light up the last light along the way.

This is the only way that the opponent has not broken.

He blinked hard, afraid that a blue line would appear on the question board in the next second.

His heart was beating wildly at this moment, and he slid his fingers coldly on the question board, trying his best to calm down and look for the second solution.

But Xie Hang didn't give him the opportunity to plan Plan B, and said at the same time as the opponent's blue line: "21 is done."

The corner component was unlocked on the answering board, and Ji Sinian laughed.

When the light of this race against the clock turned red, he suddenly felt that the battle was being fought in full swing.

He didn't even say "do 21 first", Xie Hang had already predicted it.

The last light bulb turns red, declaring the game over.

The lights of the audience suddenly turned on, the ending music sounded at the right time, the applause from the audience seemed to lift the roof of the auditorium, and the host came up to announce the result of the competition.

Ji Sinian looked up at the screen, the other half ended earlier than them, almost an overwhelming advantage, most of the page was lit with blue lights.

They won their own half of the game and kept the second prize, but the winning group in the other half had a few more lights than them, and that side should advance.

It's none of their business in the finals, just wait for the final awards.

He didn't care much anymore, he just looked sideways at Xie Hang.

Xie Hang stood in the center of the light, lowered his head and adjusted the headset.

The drumbeat of the music resonated with the heartbeat, and Ji Sinian felt indescribably moved at this moment.

It's not the excitement of winning the game, nor the joy of seeing the person you like, but the spiritual resonance at a certain moment. The throbbing brought about by this tacit understanding of the same frequency is far more ambiguous than before.

He didn't hear anything the host said. The drawbridge effect was so deadly that he couldn't look anywhere else now.

The final will begin immediately, and the rest of the players will leave the field for a rest.

He only heard this sentence, and then he was pushed and dragged off the stage by Xie Hang.

The buzzing in the ear suddenly turned into chaotic and noisy human voices. The backstage was busy preparing props for the finals, and everyone came and went in a hurry.

Ji Sinian also vaguely heard the canteen duo chatting with Dong Yue, he didn't look back all the way, and was dragged into the lounge by Xie Hang.

The small lounge was still the same as when he left, but the lights were turned off, and when Ji Sinian walked in, he put a hook on the door and locked it.