Chapter 176 - Consider Your Hands Gone!
Chapter 176: Consider Your Hands Gone!
“Would each team please send their representative on stage,” the host said.
Every team was now carefully choosing who they wanted to compete for them. Only Beijing University was sitting idle. Some of the team members even wanted to head back to their resting room to grab a few snacks.
The Tsinghua University team was sitting right next to Beijing University’s. Seeing them acting so casually and relaxed made them angry.
The teacher who was in charge of the Tsinghua University team said “Huang Mingshun, you’re up. Your main expertise is in this field anyway.”
Huang Mingshun nodded and stood up. “I don’t believe that there’s any way that she could whiz through the third round the same way that she did for the first and second rounds.”
“People have their strengths, but they also have their weaknesses,” Zhang Xiaosheng said in a serious voice. “Her expertise in the first two fields is already highly admirable and so very unexpected. If you put her in Tsinghua’s Chinese Department, that would be top-notch behavior. She can’t continue to do as well in the third round.”
Zhao Xiaoou was crying in the corner as two of the other girls comforted her.
Shuang University, Tong University, Nan University, and Jiang University had sent up their representatives.
As she passed by Tan Mo, a senior from Shuang University quietly said, “We just discussed the situation with senior Guang. You don’t have to worry about us. If you can do what you did in the past two rounds in this third round, go for it. Don’t worry about us.”
Afterward, she left in a hurry… Just in case people saw and thought there was some sort of cheating going on…
When Nan University’s senior passed by, he also said in a hurry, “Don’t worry about us, just give it your all!”
Tong University and Jiang University’s seniors also came by with the same message.
When passing by Tan Mo, they all slowed down and quickly expressed their feelings.
It was obvious now that they didn’t mind Tan Mo’s actions at all.
Tan Mo didn’t say anything.
Just exactly how arrogant and flamboyant was Tsinghua University?
They must have really insulted the other universities.
Huang Mingshun was the last contestant to go on stage. He agreed with Tan Mo on the question of the buzzer.
“Tan Mo, my seniors have been humiliated enough by you,” he said angrily. “If you have the ability, do the same as you did before and fight for the buzzer without looking at the questions.”
“All right.” Tan Mo nodded. Then she replied, “But since it was your idea to tell me to do this, don’t say that I wasn’t giving you a chance to answer when I press the buzzer first.”
You seniors are so very weird…
Huang Mingshun choked. He didn’t actually think Tan Mo would agree.
Did she really plan to keep this tactic of hers going, or was this just a simple bluff?
Huang Mingshun couldn’t help himself. He had to ask. “Aren’t you worried you’ll answer wrong?”
“So?” Tan Mo maintained a nonchalant expression. “I already got 19 points in the previous two rounds. Even if I answer some wrong, I have enough points as backup. If I fight for the buzzer, you won’t even get a chance to answer at all.”
If you can, you could do the same and follow in my footsteps.
Huang Mingshun had nothing to say.
He really was taken aback by Tan Mo’s words.
He wouldn’t dare to do that.
Tan Mo had 19 points to begin with. Even if she got 19 questions wrong, she’d only be at zero at most. That was still one mark higher than Tsinghua University.
Not to mention that there were so many questions. Tan Mo had to get one or two right. Not to mention that Tsinghua University was at -one.
What should he do now?
Even if he answered a few questions correctly, he could still slip up on some. He didn’t have the guts to do that.
Huang Mingshun now thought that he understood the truth.
The two previous rounds had been so intense because she carried this mentality.
Not to say that it actually works.
The other four teams were at zero points right now.
Tan Mo had plenty of room to move around.
If he had known that they could do this from the beginning, his team would’ve done the same.
There was absolutely no need for them to become so passive now.
Huang Mingshun couldn’t help but look back at the Tsinghua University area.
The crowd from Tsinghua were looking at him strangely.
What had he said to Tan Mo? Why was he looking back at them?
After this conversation with Tan Mo, Huang Mingshun was fairly confident that Tan Mo didn’t have too firm a grasp on the subject of the third round.
If she had had, she wouldn’t have performed that well in the first two rounds.
As Huang Mingshun was thinking it through, he heard Tan Mo ask him, “Student Huang, will you be giving it your all in the third round?”
Huang Mingshun heard this and felt a sudden pang in his chest.
Suddenly, he felt as if he couldn’t think clearly.
Because in the previous two rounds, Tan Mo had also asked Lin Zhenhui and Zhao Xiaoou the same question.
And their results were evident. Everyone could see how they’d lost.
HMPH! Huang Mingshun coldly replied, “Tan Mo, winning and losing is dependent on one’s abilities. Don’t play coy with me.”
Tan Mo didn’t say anything.
She was being so wronged here.
Couldn’t she just ask whether he was going to do his best?
How was this her being coy and playing dirty?
Tan Mo pouted, her eyes got red. She looked away with a pitiful look on her face and stopped talking to Huang Mingshun.
Those watching from Beijing University started to get worried.
Ying Siyuan yelled in a loud voice, “Hey! You from Tsinghua University. Don’t be a sore loser and bully others.”
“What did you say to Tan Mo? You made her cry.” Shen Hongshan yelled at the top of his lungs.
Wu Jiazhen was pissed off also. “Tan Mo is so well behaved, how could you do this do her?”
The crowd initially had had no idea that Tan Mo was tearing up.
There was a gap between the crowd and the stage, so it was relatively hard to see the contestants.
But now that the members of Tan Mo’s team started to shout about it, most of the crowd was shocked.
How could someone bully another until there were tears?
Those from Beijing University all stood up. They weren’t having it at all. “What’s the meaning of this? It’s a competition. Why is there the need for bullying?”
“Where’s your character? Those from Tsinghua University, are you all like this?”
Those from Tsinghua University were dumbstruck.
Even Zhao Xiaoou had stopped crying now.
She had just cried too. Why hadn’t anyone from her team scolded them?
Zhao Xiaoou was tired. If it had been someone else, they would’ve.
But it was just a young girl on stage. How could they scold her?
Tan Mo had only teared up slightly, and those from Beijing University were already going crazy.
“You really think you’re something for scolding someone because you’re losing,” shouted Chen Shihua.
The crowd from Tsinghua University was speechless.
So was Huang Mingshun.
When had he scolded anyone?
He hadn’t done anything of the sort.
The crowd from Beijing University looked at Chen Shihua.
They hadn’t expected anyone to have a way with words like this.
Once Chen Shihua said that, everyone now thought that Huang Mingshun had scolded Tan Mo.
He hurriedly looked at Tan Mo and said, “Tan Mo, I didn’t do that! I didn’t scold you at all. Tell them that!”
Little did he know, Tan Mo only got more teary-eyed and her eyes grew more bloodshot.
“Yes, senior Huang hasn’t scolded me.” Tan Mo looked back at the stands.
Huang Mingshun couldn’t say anything.
I can’t say anything if you’re acting like this.
If she’s saying it like that, who’s gonna believe it?
Huang Mingshun was now panicking even more. He wanted to grab Tan Mo.
Suddenly, a male voice harshly ripped through the haze to him. “Don’t you dare touch her. If you do, consider your hands gone!”
This voice sounded cold and harsh enough.
If it had happened to anyone else, no way he would’ve believed it.
You dare?
That’s illegal.
But this voice, for some reason, just shook you to the core.
It really seemed like he would honestly demolish you if he said so.
The crowd looked over, trying to locate the voice.
They saw Wei Zhiqian standing at the bottom of the staircase that led up to the stage. He was very close to the podiums of the contestants.
He was wearing a shirt and trousers and had cuffs just below his elbow.
His shirt collar was slightly loose with an unbuttoned button.