"Oh my god, the viewers in the livestream room …"
Chu Zijin was holding the new livestream phone that Lu Xiaoliang had just bought today. She looked at the data panel in the livestream room in astonishment.
Chen Guang, who was resting with his eyes closed, looked up slightly. "What's wrong?"
"16 million viewers are online at the same time!"
"Oh, not bad. Xiao Chong's ladder contract has been triggered. 30 million."
Chen Guang nodded lightly.
"Do you still care about this at a time like this?"
"What else can I do? There's nothing for me to be serious about today! "
"It's almost time for the semi-finals to draw lots!"
"Speaking of which, I'm really envious of you. You actually made it to the finals straight away. It's so unfair. I should be like you guys."
"I said it's time for the semi-finals to draw lots!"
"How powerful are the Awakened from the Broca Area? Why don't I see anything special about you? Apart from being pretty, you have two eyes, a nose, and a mouth. "
At this moment, Chu Zijin felt that Chen Guang was cutting the conversation short again.
She said east, he said west. She said cow, he said horse.
What's the structure of this guy's brain? What the hell is he thinking at this moment!
Forget it, I'm not going to talk anymore. I'll probably die of depression if I keep talking.
The 641 semi-finalists today would be divided into 16 groups. Each group had about 40 contestants. Only three would be selected to enter the finals. A total of 48 contestants would enter tomorrow's finals.
The elimination rate was quite high. It was very cruel.
It was still the same round of drawing lots. However, Chen Guang's name did not appear in the first round of drawing lots.
Still not in the second round.
"He probably won't come today, right?"
"He's sitting in the contestant's lounge in his own livestream room."
"He's just putting on a show. He'll probably either have a stomachache or a headache, or have to run away for a few days every month."
"That's right. If it were me, I would know when to stop."
"I heard that his Tianguang Agency has received almost 200 million in sponsorship and copyright fees?"
"Didn't he earn back the money? If he had not made the bet with Mr. Butler, he would have made a profit. "
"Don't joke around. Don't think that just because Butler and Park Changnam are seeded contestants, they can easily become champions. From what I can see, among the 600 or so contestants that came out of the qualifiers, there are at least a dozen or so Awakened ones from the Broca Region that have never appeared before. There are also a few old pedants. Although they are not Awakened ones, they were once quite famous language geniuses."
"That's true. None of the forty-five seeded players are easy to get along with. Although Butler and Park Changnam are the permanent directors of the World's Language Club and have high statuses, they aren't that focused on learning, right?"
Similar conversations could be heard in the audience below the competition venue.
Even the audience in front of their televisions and computers thought that Chen Guang probably wouldn't play this time. Perhaps the moment his name was drawn would be the moment he would withdraw from the competition.
Even those who were familiar with Chen Guang probably thought the same.
However, Chen Guang, who was the focus of everyone's attention, didn't feel this way at all. Instead, he lowered his head and played with his phone.
Many people who were watching the live broadcast on TV, in order to see Chen Guang's current performance, simply downloaded Bamboo or Twhich mobile apps. They watched the TV while watching Chen Guang on their phones.
As for those who were wearing VR monitors, it was much more comfortable. VR had multiple cameras and angles. With one click, they could freely switch between the various cameras in the competition venue and the cameras in the contestants' lounge. They could also immerse themselves in the scene.
Slap! Chen Guang slapped a camera that was almost in his face.
"What are you doing? Are you going to give me a gastroscope? "
He glared at the camera in front of him. F * ck, if I didn't know you were from a VR film crew, I would have slapped your face.
The cameraman quickly shook his head and stepped back. "I'm sorry, Mr. Chen. I was too engrossed in the shot. I thought that the audience might also want to experience what it feels like to look at you up close."
Chen Guang rolled his eyes and ignored him. He lowered his head and continued to look at his phone.
However, just now, a sharp-eyed audience member caught a glimpse of his phone screen.
This guy was actually reading a novel!
At this time, we thought that you would definitely do some research before the competition, or at least read some professional knowledge or something. In the end, you were just reading a web novel?
You should at least read a foreign language version!
At this time, the results of the third group of contestants' draw suddenly appeared on the competition stage and on the screen in the contestants' lounge.
Chen Guang's name was impressively on the list. It was ranked 27th!
The entire world's audience held their breath at once.
In the venue, the other contestants from all over the world, the experts and scholars from the World Language Association and the Huaxia Language Association, and the audience who bought tickets to watch the competition also widened their eyes.
Huang Changming, Lu Xiaoliang, and the others all had different thoughts. They put their palms together and prayed.
Sir, I'm begging you, please withdraw from the competition.
It's enough. It's really enough.
"Your name is on it. It's your turn."
Chu Zijin patted Chen Guang's shoulder. This guy was engrossed in reading the novel.
Chen Guang raised his head and glanced at it. "Oh."
Oh?
What does that mean?
Are you going to withdraw from the competition or not?
"Then I'll go. See you later."
Chen Guang said calmly and then stood up as if nothing had happened. He was as calm as an office worker greeting his wife before leaving the house every morning.
What was going on?
He was as calm as drinking soup.
Was he going to continue participating in the competition?
The shady business was going to continue?
When he really stood on the stage with the other 39 contestants, everyone finally recognized this rather ruthless reality.
That's right, this guy was so shameless. He really chose to continue participating in the competition.
Even if he was condemned by thousands of people, even if the whole world suspected him, it was useless. No one could stop him.
"Mr. Chen, haven't you caused enough trouble?"
A foreigner who looked like an old pedant standing next to Chen Guang said in a low voice.
Chen Guang ignored him.
He started to provoke again. "It is said that modesty is a virtue for the Chinese. Mr. Chen, you have changed my view of the Chinese."
Chen Guang finally turned his head slightly and looked at him. "Old man, I respect you as an old man and won't argue with you. But can you shut up?"
"You …"
"What about me? If you talk nonsense again, I will tell the referee that you are interfering with my competition! "
Chen Guang turned his head and stood in the crowd with his hands clasped behind his back.
"Contestants, please take a step back. An answer board will rise from the bottom of the red glass panel in front of you. Please put on your headphones. On the answer board in front of you, there will be reading comprehension questions and listening questions randomly selected according to the language you declared. You will have two minutes to answer each question, so please hurry up."
"In this round of the semi-finals, you will be eliminated immediately. If you exceed the time limit, you will be eliminated immediately. There is no chance of revival. The big screen and the live broadcast signal will randomly select the contestants' answers. "
The language competition was different from other competitive events. It was difficult to measure the level of a contestant with a simple score. It couldn't even be measured by the number of languages a person had mastered.
For example, some people claimed to have mastered 30 to 40 languages, but in fact, they could only use simple phrases in most of the languages. They couldn't even communicate with others. Then, their level was not as good as those who had mastered more than 10 languages and could communicate with others normally in their daily lives.
Another example would be another type of person. Although they were linguists, they spent most of their time and energy on a few or ten languages, which were not large in number.
Every language had been passed down and evolved for thousands of years. They represented the culture and wisdom of a nation.
Just like the broad and profound Chinese language, every language in the world had its own birth, evolution, and process of evolution. It might not be as complicated and changeable as the Chinese language, and it was not as complicated as the Chinese language, but it was also very deep in the academic field.
Mastery was not as good as proficiency. Proficiency was not as good as intensive cultivation, and intensive cultivation was not as good as ten years of sharpening a sword.
It was difficult to quantify the level of the contestants.
But a competition was a competition, and people would always come up with a solution.
The rules of the semi-finals, where one wrong answer would result in elimination, were indeed too cruel. There was also a lot of uncertainty.
Because everyone's answers were different, there would be differences in the difficulty.
Common types of languages could be randomly selected from the question bank. For some of the more niche languages, the World Language Association would find people from all over the world to help set the questions a few days in advance. The difficulty of such questions could not be controlled at all.
But this was also an expedient measure. It might be too heartless for some of the unfortunate people who were eliminated, but this was a competition. There must be rules, and tears were not believed.
Perhaps there would be people with good skills who failed in the semi-finals. Then, they could only blame it on fate.
In the next round of the finals, there would be a more comprehensive comprehensive scoring mechanism. It could effectively avoid all kinds of accidents and assess the complete and true level of the contestants.
"Contestants, please get ready. Answer the questions. We will begin immediately!"
With a wave of the female host's hand, the semi-finals officially began.
The next moment, the answer panel of one of the contestants appeared on the television, computer, and the big screen of the competition venue.
The square in the upper right corner of the screen was the contestant's face captured by the camera on the answer panel. The question stem was in the middle of the screen, and the number of languages declared by the contestants were in the lower left corner.
The questions in front of each contestant were selected by the computer program in advance according to the language declared by the contestant, and then randomly selected from the question bank.
The kind of players who had forced themselves to give false information when they first signed up were now begging the heavens to not pick a language that they didn't know very well.
There had been two groups of contestants before. Among the contestants in the first two groups, most of the numbers in the lower left corner were between 10 to 15. A few people could reach 15 to 25, and a very few people exaggerated by declaring more than 30 languages.
But at this time, almost everyone stared at the screen with their mouths wide open, thinking that their eyes were playing tricks on them.
Host, didn't you say that the contestants would be randomly selected?
Random?
Random my ass!
First, it was Brother All-Rounder!
You had to choose one correct answer out of forty people, and all of your answers were Brother All-Rounder!
This was the most hypocritical pseudo-random we had ever seen.
In the picture, it was Chen Guang's "handsome face" with his long hair fluttering in the wind.
On the lower right corner was his name.
This was all very normal, but …
What was up with the number on the lower left corner?
Previously, we saw other contestants with two digits on the lower left corner. Suddenly, a four digit number popped out. This was not normal!
The number displayed on the lower left corner of Chen Guang's answer panel was 4978!
Why didn't you just write 3154 or 4396?
Why didn't you go to heaven?
There must be a problem with the system, right?
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