Urban Sims

Chapter 170
At 9 o'clock in the morning, the motorcade arrived in NJ, and soon a vehicle arranged by the program team pulled Zhou Ming to the indoor studio next to Tianhe Stadium, where he filmed a section of VCR.

In the process of taking the lines, Zhou Ming met his opponent - Hiroaki Ishiya, the king of mental arithmetic.

Zhou Ming made eye contact with him for a while, then took the lines in front of the camera, put on a bit of aura, and read out the lines in his mind:
"Being exposed to mental arithmetic for a month, I challenge the strongest. It's not that I am young and frivolous, ignorant and arrogant, but that I firmly believe that my brain is omnipotent! Whether it is the Rubik's Cube or mental arithmetic, no one in any mental field can do anything." I can't stop me! Defeating Atomic Brothers is just a trivial victory, a real strong player, waiting to be defeated by me! Hiroaki Ishiya, are you ready?"

Shiwu Hongming, who was next to him, could not understand Chinese, but he also felt an aura from Zhou Ming who was reading his lines, which made him quite palpitate, and he was not to be outdone. Not only the lines are recited very imposingly, but the expressions are also very exaggerated.

He said:

"I'm Shiwu Hongming, No. 1 in the quick calculation of the foot basin. I really didn't expect the Atomic Brothers to lose last time. Could it be that I have other opponents besides Chen Lanlan? No! I can't let him go! Hurry up, I want to be faster , even faster than before! No matter who you are, let your horse come here!"

In front of the camera, he raised his fists and let out a roar.

This momentum successfully overwhelmed his opponent Zhou Ming.

……

10:50pm.

In the ninth issue of the fourth season of "The Most Powerful Brain", after the recording of the previous two challenge projects "Walnut Mark" and "Sudoku Elimination", amidst the sound of passionate music, the last project tonight is also the audience The mental arithmetic war between country Z and the foot basin country, which the guests are most looking forward to, has officially kicked off.

"The international hall of fame player led by Professor Robert Desmond is about to play, the 'Mental Arithmetic King' from the foot basin - Hiroaki Shiwu! The player who is about to face him is the future of the Z country hall of fame player led by Dao Wei "Mental Arithmetic Demon King"—Zhou Ming!"

Accompanied by the host's introduction and cheers from the audience, Zhou Ming, who got up from the throne of the warrior in the Z Country Hall of Fame, walked towards the center of the stage, and Ishiya Hiroaki, who started from the International Hall of Fame, walked towards each other. People stood in front of the Brain King trophy at the top of the stairway. After bumping fists, they walked side by side to the center of the stage, stood on both sides of the host, and greeted all the audience.

……

In the auditorium near the field.

"Sister Xiangxiang, I didn't expect my brother-in-law to look handsome after the make-up artist gave him a little make-up."

Sitting on Su Yuxiang's right, Song Feifei's eyes lit up when she saw Zhou Ming on the stage.

It turned out that before the recording of the show, in the backstage dressing room, the makeup artist of the column group designed a look for Zhou Ming, and carefully helped him put on makeup for more than two hours, with a layer of makeup oil on his face, and changed his clothes into He wore a gray Chinese tunic suit with a stand-up collar, and in the past half a month, he has regained five or six catties of flesh. Now his figure has reached the golden ratio in all aspects.

Even that ordinary face, after putting on makeup, became extremely attractive at this moment.

"Zhou Ming is very energetic today, even more handsome than your father when he was young!"

The mother on the left, Song Yaqin, also gave a thumbs up.

Su Yuxiang pursed her lips and smiled. In her eyes, a man's appearance has never been important, because the handsomeness of a man never lies in his appearance, but in his style and aura. Confidence, maturity, wisdom, strength, majesty... These auras are the fatal handsome features of men in the eyes of women.

Zhou Ming on the stage at the moment has these handsome features that she admires and is obsessed with.

"Humph~"

Su Qingrong snorted dissatisfied, and thought: This kid is as handsome as I am?Not to mention comparing myself with myself when I was young, I can't even compare with myself now...

……

After the warm-up speech of the host on the stage and the two contestants’ smacking declaration of defeating their opponents, the host introduced the competition rules of the project “Peak Mental Arithmetic”:

Several combinations of five-digit addition and subtraction and multi-digit multiplication and division form a massive question bank. The guests will choose nine questions from the question bank at will, and each question will be worth one point. , the opponent who grabs the wrong answer gets one point, and the first to grab five points wins.

The rules of the competition are simple and clear: there are nine questions, and two people will rush to answer them. Whoever gets five points first wins.

"Is it the roar of the mountains and the tsunami, the overwhelming of the mountains, or the thunder and the birth of the devil king? Haitian Soybean Sauce, the strongest warriors, two, please challenge the warriors!"

Sitting on the warrior seat, the special guest Fu Yuanai began to write questions for the two of them. After the questions were finished, Zhou Ming and Shiwu Hiroaki walked into the challenge area together, stood on the challenge platform, and faced the question board.

Mental arithmetic PK, officially started!
After reiterating the rules of the competition, the host began to ask questions: "The first question is to divide 13-digit numbers by 7-digit numbers. Two people, listen to my password, 3, 2, 1, go!"

The countdown number on the question board appears, 3, 2, 1, and the question shows:
÷ 5076396369264 8934612
"Shhhhhh~"

After the question is displayed, through the recording device on the challenge stage, the sound of the marker pen writing on the answer board can be heard from the speaker.

Just five seconds later, "beep~" a buzzer sounded from the answering machine, and exclamations came from the audience.

Fu Yuan opened his mouth wide, and said to Jiang Zhenyu next to him, "I haven't finished reading the topic yet!"

Jiang Zhenyu folded his hands and said helplessly, "Me too!"

Who pressed the answering machine first?
Shiwu Hongming looked at Zhou Ming on the opposite side with a look of annoyance, and the answering machine was pressed by this kid in advance by 0.1 seconds.

"Zhou Ming answered first! Of course, time is important, but accuracy is even more important. Is the answer right? Let's take a look at the correct answer first..."

After the host finished speaking, facing the question board on the big screen, he pointed his finger over, and a line of yellow numbers was displayed below the question: 568172
"Okay, let's look at Zhou Ming's answer again."

The host bent down, and as the assistant slowly twitched the paper seal that covered the answer, one number after another appeared, and began to read: "5... come, 6, correct, come again, 8... and more Yes, 1, come again... 7! There is one more, come here, 2! Correct, absolutely correct!"

A burst of "Boom, Boom, Boom" music sounded, and there was applause from the audience. Jiang Zhenyu, the scientific reviewer, threw his fist and yelled "Roar!"

Song Feifei patted her palm hard: "The next round is won, brother-in-law won the next round!"

Su Yuxiang smiled and said: "This is only the first round, there are still several rounds to come."

The host, guests, and contestants on the stage each said a few more words. In the second game, a seven-digit multiplication question was followed by the host's password and gestures, 3, 2, 1, and the question board was drawn. above, the title shows:

4985136 × 8241679
"Shhhhhh~"

Another sound of markers rubbing against the answer board.

"Du~" Less than five seconds later, the beeping sound of the answering machine sounded.

Zhou Ming!

He pressed the answering machine a few tenths of a second faster than Shiwu Hiroaki.

“答案是个14位的数字，到底对不对呢？410…858……906……83344！完全正确，恭喜周鸣再下一城！”

"Pa la pa la ~"

The applause from the audience was even more enthusiastic. Many audience members had already stood up and shouted the slogan "Come on Zhou Ming, Zhou Ming will win!"

After losing two games in a row, Hiroaki Ishiya began to feel a little uneasy. In order to regain his disadvantage, after the third question, a 10 five-digit addition and subtraction question was displayed, and after he wrote the answer, he didn't check for half a second, so he immediately After taking a photo of the answering machine, he was finally 0.1 seconds faster than his opponent.

After comparing the answers, the host announced that the answer was correct, Zhou Ming and Ishiya Hiroaki fought 2:1.

Seeing that Hiroaki Ishiya pulled back a point, Zhou Ming, who had planned to kill the "Mental Arithmetic King" 5-0, began to deal with it more seriously. In the next two rounds, he did not give his opponent a chance and took it easily. , the score was 4:1.

Hiroaki Ishiya, who was completely confused, pressed the answering machine in a hurry before he finished writing the answer in the sixth game, and Zhou Ming was given a point for nothing, the score was 5:1.

Zhou Ming wins!

The scene suddenly boiled!
The host Jiang Changjian shouted: "Zhou Ming won, Zhou Ming defeated an invincible opponent, and defeated the 'Mental Math King' with an absolute score advantage. From now on, the 'Mental Math King' has lost, and the 'Mental Math Demon King' has risen !"

"Mental arithmetic devil! Mental arithmetic devil!"

The audience in the audience stood up collectively, clapping and shouting desperately. Taozi in the guest seat also said in a dainty way: "On the stage with the strongest brain! Country Z has finally regained the number one in the world. Zhou Ming, you are the pride of all people in Country Z!"

The contestants in the Hall of Fame of Country Z also applauded, "Master of Memory" Li Wei said: "This buddy is really awesome, if only he came to "The Most Powerful Brain" earlier, the Z country team has him, plus he didn't leave Brother Shui, any international team is no match for Team Z."

Zheng Caiqian on the side suddenly said: "How about asking the program team to invite Brother Shui back again, let this kid compete with Brother Shui, and see who is stronger?"

Everyone's eyes lit up, "Maze Walker" Bao Yun said: "That's a good idea."

……

Looking back at Hiroaki Ishiya in the center of the stage, he looked depressed at this moment. For the first time, he tasted the taste of a disastrous defeat, but he was very unwilling. He was playing in an away game, and the rules of the game were also formulated by the organizer, which was not conducive to his performance. , the question bank used in the competition also has a lot of questions!
So he applied to the host: to compete with Zhou Ming again, and the questions should be given by the players of the international team. He felt that the question bank provided by the column team had a lot of problems, and he was suspected of cheating.

His guess caused an uproar. The special guest Liu Guoliang said that he had a problem with his mentality, that he could not afford to lose when he won, and he did not have the magnanimity that the king of mental arithmetic should have.

The scientific reviewer murmured, "Our question bank is randomly generated by a computer. There are tens of millions of questions, and the probability of human manipulation is zero."

The special guest Fu Yuanai who also came from the foot basin said to him: "Mr. Shiwu, you are my idol, winning or losing a game will not affect your status in my heart."

Amidst the discussions, Zhou Ming made a statement:

"I agree to compete in one more round. The question will be the large-digit division problem that Mr. Ishiya is best at. No other questions need to be asked, just the division! To win, you must win in the event that your opponent is best at, so easily defeated Mr. Shiwu, it’s so boring, Mr. Shiwu also came to country Z for nothing.”

Zhou Ming's statement caused a shock in the audience. Director Wang Yunqing and the program team, after an urgent discussion, felt that this was a very good breaking point, even better than the previous issue of "The Rubik's Cube King Switched to Mental Arithmetic, Breaking the Atomic Brothers" There is also something to watch, as long as Zhou Ming can win, this episode will at least increase the number of hits by more than 500 million compared to the previous episode!After asking Zhou Ming again, after gaining [-]% confidence from him, the column team adjusted the rules of the game according to his suggestion, and the two sides will fight again!
Sure enough, the playoffs are more interesting. The 9 questions are all division problems of large numbers of 2-2 digits divided by 5-2 digits. The two sides once drew [-]:[-]. , Losing three games in a row, he could only look at the crown of his "Mental Arithmetic King" in a daze, and was shot down to the ground by the "Mental Arithmetic Demon King" in front of him with a score of [-]:[-].

"Zhou Jun, I will come to Country Z again, and I will challenge you again next year!"

After bowing to Zhou Ming, Hiroaki Ishiya, who finally surrendered, left the stage in a very lonely manner.

……

After the recording of the program, Zhou Ming, who successfully killed Hiroming Ishiya, was asked for autographs collectively by celebrities including scientific reviewers Dao Wei, Jiang Zhenyu, special guests Tao Zi, Fu Yuanai, Liu Guoliang, etc. Among the thousands of excited spectators, many also rushed onto the stage, broke through the interception of the staff, showed their clothes or cheeks, and asked Zhou Ming to also sign on it, and more and more spectators broke through the blockade, forming The staff whose defense line was washed into a sieve also simply joined the crowd asking for autographs.

After signing the name for more than an hour, Zhou Ming, whose hands were sore, got out of the crowd with his agility, and finally, in the pursuit of a group of people, he ran for his life and got into the parking lot outside the gymnasium. , Su Yuxiang kicked the accelerator to accelerate in the car that was driving, and finally got away from this dangerous area.

(End of this chapter)