Urban Sims

Chapter 158 Winning
At [-]:[-] in the morning, after nearly four hours in Su Yuxiang's car, Zhou Ming finally arrived at Tianhe Gymnasium, the recording site of "The Most Powerful Brain".

Knowing Zhou Ming's arrival, the entire program team was excited, including chief director Wang Yunqing, and dozens of staff stood at the gate of the gymnasium to greet him.

The red Porsche stopped in front of them, Zhou Ming, who opened the door, got out of the car and appeared in front of them, everyone was surprised.

"Mr. Zhou..."

Seeing his obviously thinner body, it took him a while to confirm that he was Zhou Ming's Wang Yunqing. He was taken aback for a moment, and asked, "What happened to you recently, your body..."

"It's okay, go in quickly, and finish recording the show first."

Zhou Ming stepped on the carpet and strode into the hall, followed by Su Yuxiang, who was wearing sunglasses and had a cold face, and Wang Yunqing and others followed quickly.

"呲呲呲~"

Walking to the end of the aisle, a group of lights came on, and as soon as they approached the stage, high-pitched music sounded, and two rows of smoke were sprayed out from the dry ice machine on the edge of the stage, and the voice of the host welcoming the contestants to the stage sounded:
"We invite our challenger, 'Magic Cube King' Zhou Ming to appear!"

"Clang, clang, clang..."

Amidst the sound of music, the lights in the arena were brightly lit, and there was uneven applause from the auditorium. Some spectators who were sleeping on their chairs, under the reminder of others, rubbed their sleepy eyes and reluctantly stood up.

The celebrities in the scientific jury and guest seats, and the nine Hall of Fame contestants in the Hall of Fame area, all sat back in their respective seats, cheered up, and stared blankly at the late "" Rubik's Cube King".

Such a big shelf.

What a shameless person!
Quite a few people snarled their mouths and cursed in their hearts!
However, seeing this person's thin appearance at a glance, the anger in some people's hearts was quickly extinguished, especially after hearing the host's help to explain, everyone was even more surprised.

"Just now the column team learned from this contestant's friend: Mr. Zhou Ming suffered from a special brain disease. Some time ago, he was in a coma at home for six days, and he only managed to wake up a few hours ago. He learned that he missed "" After the recording time of "The Most Powerful Brain", he called us at the first time and came to NJ at the first time... The friend of Mr. Zhou told us that in view of his physical condition, what he needed most was to go to the hospital for a physical examination. Instead of wasting time here."

"what?!"

The audience exclaimed, and Xu Jialing in the guest seat said with concern: "Mr. Zhou, the show can be recorded tomorrow. Your health is the most important thing. You should go to the hospital first."

Jiang Changjian patted Zhou Ming on the shoulder and asked, "Mr. Zhou, for your health, this episode can be postponed until tomorrow. I will ask you again, can you persist?"

Zhou Ming nodded and said: "You can persevere! I am very sorry for keeping everyone waiting for so long!"

After speaking, he bowed to the judges, guests and audience.

The scene was silent for a while, and Taozi in the guest seat wiped the corners of his eyes with a tissue, clapped his hands and said, "Well done, let's applaud him!"

The audience applauded and stood up one after another. Many emotional female audiences covered their mouths and shed tears while applauding.

The scientific reviewer talked about Wei, nodded and praised: "The character of this contestant is very admirable!"

In the Hall of Fame area, several Hall of Fame players who had just been whispering to each other with sarcasm on their faces also kept silent and silently applauded a few times.

In order not to waste time, the staff moved the ring-shaped platform used for the competition onto the stage in advance. A total of ten Rubik's cubes were placed on the round platform, of which six second-order and four third-order Rubik's cubes were placed at intervals in ten areas of the ring-shaped platform. .

The VCR played on the big screen introduced the rules of the "Magic Speed ​​of Life and Death" game: two contestants stand at both ends of the round platform, chasing each other counterclockwise, and restore the Rubik's Cube when it is disrupted, and scramble it if it is restored. After recovering or disrupting a Rubik's Cube, press the red or blue light representing one's own side and move forward one square until one party catches up with the other.

The challenge is limited to 5 minutes. Within 5 minutes, the player who catches up with the other party first wins. If the chase is not completed within 5 minutes, the player with the most lights on wins.

There are a total of three rounds of challenges, and the first player to win two rounds will successfully advance to the international finals!

After understanding the rules of the competition, Zhou Ming made a request: Since he has not touched the Rubik's Cube for many days and lacks practice, he hopes that the column team will give him 15 minutes to familiarize himself with the Rubik's Cube.

The host said yes, and after 15 minutes, Zhou Ming walked into one end of the circular platform, holding a Rubik's cube in each hand like his opponent Wang Yinghao, and the competition began!
Crack clap!

The sound of the Rubik's Cube twisting rapidly sounded.

The atmosphere at the scene was tense, and the audience saw nervously: the two people in the round platform were chasing after each other, and their speed was almost the same. However, it may be due to physical reasons. , but the turnover rate is very high, and it is slightly at a disadvantage.

Zhou Ming on the field also found that if you don’t practice your intellectual memory frequently, even if you have the “strongest brain”, you will forget it after a period of time, because many memories in your brain will not be permanently preserved. It's a bit like a "computer cache". The brain will clear the previous memories from time to time, including those knowledge memories, which also conform to the law of the forgetting curve.

In addition, the time for him to practice Rubik's Cube was short, so Zhou Ming's current strength may not be half of what it was two weeks ago.

In addition, the competition rules set by the "Most Powerful Brain" column group are also beneficial to Wang Yinghao, because he is the holder of the fastest recovery record of the second-order Rubik's cube in country Z, and there are six second-order Rubik's cubes in the circular platform. It is beneficial for him to play on this advantageous project.

These factors may not have any effect on the previous Zhou Ming. It doesn't matter how many levels are the second and third, he can win.

But today, Zhou Ming's recovery speed is indeed a bit slower than Wang Yinghao's in terms of second-order recovery.

"Boom, time is up!"

Five minutes later, the first round was over, neither of them could catch up with each other, but Wang Yinghao's red light was on seven times, and Zhou Ming's blue light was only on three times.

Wang Yinghao went to the next game 1:0.

There was applause from the audience, and the performance of both of them was praised by the scientific judges, especially Zhou Ming, who expressed his great appreciation for his strong performance in such a bad state.

Su Yuxiang, who was in the audience near the audience, frowned, and she was very worried. With Zhou Ming's current state, it would be very difficult to defeat Wang Yinghao. At the same time, she complained again in her heart: "Can't we compete again tomorrow? Why do we have to compete now?" , what if we lose?" You are the emperor of the Rubik's Cube!
"Host, I ask for another 15 minutes to familiarize me with the Rubik's Cube!"

Before the start of the second round, Zhou Ming raised his hand and made a request.

"can."

After some discussion, the column team agreed to give him another 15 minutes.

Saying thanks, Zhou Ming took a few second-order Rubik's Cubes and practiced quickly on the sidelines.

Because in the competition rules of the "Magic Speed ​​of Life and Death", in addition to restoring the Rubik's Cube, players can also scramble the Rubik's Cube to interfere with the opponent. The messed up second-order Rubik's Cube was very difficult to solve, which created many problems for Zhou Ming.

Therefore, the second-order Rubik's Cubes that Zhou Ming took to practice were all patterns that Wang Yinghao used special techniques to scramble and it was difficult to crack. Facing these patterns, he played back multiple sets of quick recovery solutions in his mind, and tried his best to solve them. It took about 13 minutes to run the brain, and finally deduced a set of fast and good new solutions, and in the lens of the rocker camera, with shorter and shorter time, he restored the Rubik's Cube in his hand.

Seeing this scene, the scientific reviewer Dao Wei was surprised: "Zhou Ming's learning ability is amazing, he deduced a new set of solutions in a very short period of time, and solved those binary problems that were difficult to solve in a short period of time. Rubik's Cube."

The audience applauded and cheered again, and Su Yuxiang, who was in the nearby audience, also breathed a sigh of relief: "This time, I shouldn't lose again."

Only Wang Yinghao, who had been staring at the big screen next to him, saw Zhou Ming solving his own problems in shorter and shorter time, his heart skipped a beat, and a less calm expression began to appear on his face, and he was even a little shocked: "15 minutes Within a short period of time, just use the fastest solution to solve the problem that I have only constructed for more than three years?"

It's just that there wasn't much time for him to be horrified. After walking into the circular platform, the second round of competition was announced to begin!
"Crack, crack, crack!"

The high-speed gear-like Rubik's Cube turning sound sounded again.

In this round, Zhou Ming's speed has been significantly accelerated, and the speed of progress has reached the point where everyone's jaws drop. It took him less than a minute and a half to catch up to the position that is only two squares away from Wang Yinghao. .

"Doo dong~"

After Zhou Ming chased after Wang Yinghao and took a picture of the blue light, the host yelled "Ah wow!" Thousands of viewers stood up and applauded vigorously.

In just over 2 minutes, Zhou Ming won the round and tied with Wang Yinghao 1:1.

After the start of the third round of the deciding game, Zhou Ming didn't even give Wang Yinghao, who was obviously in a panic, the slightest chance. He caught up with Wang Yinghao in one minute and 18 seconds. Amid screams and applause, the score was 2:1. Defeated Wang Yinghao and successfully advanced!
"2:1! A shocking reversal! Zhou Ming's powerful strength is completely worthy of his title of 'Emperor of the Rubik's Cube'!" the host Jiang Changjian said excitedly.

Wei also said, "Zhou Ming's talent in the Rubik's Cube field is shocking. He was able to overcome his poor health and still win, which shows that a genius is a genius! And those who can overcome any disadvantages Under the environment, a genius who can still show his talents is a real genius! Zhou Ming is such a true genius!"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa~"

The audience applauded again. Amidst the applause, the guest Taozi said in a whiny voice: "It's amazing, it's amazing~!"

Su Yuxiang also stood up and applauded, looking at the man proudly, seeing his smiling, confident face, and his angular face, which seemed a little more handsome than before. Jumping faster again...

"It's not fair! This game is not fair! I don't accept the result of this game!!"

When the cheers on the scene were the most enthusiastic, a sudden shout sounded on the stage, which stopped the applause and made everyone look sideways.

But Wang Yinghao, whose face was flushed, pointed at Zhou Ming, very excited, and what he shouted surprised everyone!
(End of this chapter)