The True Heiress Is The Real Bigshot-Chapter 448 - 409 Please take the top spot Still arrogant 1 more
Chapter 448: 409 Please take the top spot! Still arrogant? [1 more update]
Chapter 448: 409 Please take the top spot! Still arrogant? [1 more update]
Irina said this without the slightest attempt to conceal her scorn.
And she was indeed speaking the truth.
Those who could participate in the ISC International Finals were indeed geniuses from various countries; the term “top students” would be an understatement.
But after all, no matter how talented, they were still high school students.
No matter how strong the genius, their experience was there for all to see.
In just a decade or so, it was simply impossible to integrate and master such an extensive body of knowledge.
Even Simon Brand, the polymath scientist who left a significant mark in the history of the O Continent, focused only on physics and mathematics when he was 18.
It was with age that he gradually ventured into other domains.
The organizing committee held the ISC both in honor of him and to discover new talents.
But they didn’t expect such a turn of events.
This first competition was also Irina’s first time to show off her strength.
It was indeed an overwhelming victory, leaving no chance for her opponents.
And with her statement, the audience supporting her below became even more frenzied.
“Irina! Irina!”
“Prodigy Irina!”
Aside from the O Continent’s contestants, the expressions of other contestants were pretty awful.
Contestant number 19 didn’t say anything either. He walked down and came to the waiting area.
“Don’t take it to heart,” Feng Yue pursed his lips, “when the time comes—”
Yet, he couldn’t finish his sentence.
The questions in the finals’ question bank were harder than both the selection and semi-finals.
Feng Yue was better at the sciences, but even he wasn’t confident that he would know everything.
Generally speaking, scoring over 12 points was already quite impressive.
Yet Irina had completed the questions within five minutes and got them all right.
Feng Yue was very aware that even if it were him facing Irina,
with his speed of solving problems, he could at most score 7 or 8 points.
It could be said that any contestant facing Irina would have their score significantly suppressed.
On the professors’ side, Zuo Li turned his head, “Is this the level of your quality?”
“Irina is a bit arrogant,” a teacher from Helga University chuckled lightly in response to his comment. “And as you know, Irina has had her insane moments. This is just how she talks.”
“Professor Zuo, it’s just a clash of words—nothing worth fussing over.”
Zuo Li sneered coldly, “It’s just hot air.”
If Ying Zijin drew the individual competition, she at least could turn the tables.
In the first round of the individual competition, everyone had to play in ten matches, and drawing lots depended on luck.
But such a start was indeed too much of a blow.
The live broadcast on General Television Station and Chuguang Media exploded with comments.
[This Irina, is too arrogant, right???]
[She calls our contestant trash, what about herself?]
[Arrogance comes from being powerful. If you could, why don’t you let your God Ying defeat her?]
[Blind worship. Isn’t it just because you like Ying Zijin’s face? Now on the international stage overseas, it’s not good enough, huh? Tsk.]
[Can’t stand the haters in the main live broadcast, I’m off to watch a sub-channel, bye.]
General Television Station and Chuguang Media had set up a total of four live broadcast rooms this time.
The main broadcast room covered the entire individual competition, while the three sub-broadcast rooms were for the three teams in the team competition.
The international finals had a total of 1200 contestants, with 300 in the team competition and 900 in the individual competition.
Hua Country had a total of 93 contestants in the international finals, ranking third among all countries and regions.
Ying Zijin was in a team with the top female student from the Verdant High School science class, including Xiang Shun, who had ranked fifth in the global overall list in the online competition.
The team competition consisted of three major problems, with a time limit of three hours.
Although there were few questions, they encompassed a wide range of knowledge.
The first step was to translate the questions.
Ying Zijin affixed the sheet with the questions on the blackboard, and the camera zoomed in to capture the questions on the paper.
The sub-broadcast room had fewer comments. After the three questions appeared, the feed was still for quite a while.
[I… I’m dumbstruck, what in the world are these questions? Not to mention I don’t understand, I can’t even recognize these characters.]
[The second line of characters seems a bit like German and a bit like French, but it’s neither of the two.]
Finally, after a few minutes, a long comment floated up.
[Science popularization group here to clarify, this set of team competition questions used eighteen different languages, including Latin, Lutian, Chinese, Prussian, Icelandic, Hebrew…]
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“I’m not worthy; I’ve never even heard of some of these languages.”
“A long sentence in Chinese doesn’t even need translation, so easy.”
“Are you stupid? Chinese is one of the most difficult languages to learn in the world. Just because we know it doesn’t mean people from other countries do.”
Competitors who could participate in the international finals were at a minimum proficient in three foreign languages.
However, languages like Latin and Hebrew are rarely used nowadays, so few people know them.
So the first major hurdle of the team competition
On the live broadcast, the audience saw the girl glance at the question, then pick up a marker and start writing on the blackboard.
She wrote quickly with a lazy expression, yet her writing was still beautiful.
“Damn, I’m stunned. God Ying is starting to translate already?”
“Basic skills, don’t deduct 6 points.”
“God Ying: Isn’t this just a glance away?”
“Don’t talk about 18 languages, even if it were 180, God Ying would solve it in minutes [dog head]”
While the other teams were still translating the first sentence of the question, Ying Zijin had already translated the entire question into Chinese and written it on a small blackboard, ensuring every team member could see it.
Xiang Shun: “…”
He was dealt a heavy blow.
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He had thought that being fifth in the global rankings meant he could definitely compete with those who had direct access to the international competition.
But he didn’t expect the gap to be so huge.
“Classmate Xiang, don’t fall apart. God Ying never plays fair,” the girl beside him comforted him, “You’ll get used to it after a while.”
Xiang Shun: “…”
He couldn’t get used to it.
Xiang Shun sighed and picked up his pen to start solving the problems.
But he had to admit, with Ying Zijin around, they had a much easier time.
Once all three questions were fully translated, it couldn’t be said that they were so difficult they couldn’t be solved.
The committee intentionally set traps in the questions when making them.
Naturally, the teachers in the background all paid attention to Ying Zijin’s group and fell silent in unison.
One teacher looked up wistfully at the chief question setter, whose hair was turning gray, “Didn’t you say that no one would be able to translate the last sentence of the third question?”
The last sentence of the third question involved a very key condition for solving the problem.
Without this condition, the problem could still be solved, but the difficulty would be multiplied by twenty.
But after Ying Zijin translated it, solving the problem became easy.
The chief question setter was torn: “…”
Was he stupid? He had deliberately chosen a very obscure language that not only was unlikely to be learned but that normal people had never even heard of.
“Terrifying,” the chief question setter wiped his sweat, “If this contestant were to go for the individual competition, her rivalry with Irina would definitely be intense, and I would love to see it.”
The teacher nodded in agreement, feeling a tinge of regret, “Actually, what we most want to see is the first place in the overall rankings. The committee even sent ‘him’ a message and proposed a 1v1 face-off, but ‘he’ didn’t reply at all.”
The chief question setter sighed, “There’s nothing that can be done about it.”
After all, once the first place in the overall rankings got the prize money, they disappeared without a trace, didn’t they?
**
Under the leadership of Ying Zijin, the team competition was completed in just half an hour.
The final total score was 100 with bonus points for time, resulting in a total of 150 points.
Whereas most other teams scored between 50 and 60 points, with the highest only at 67.
The team competition ended by noon, and although there were 10 stages for the individual competition, only 130 rounds were conducted.
Thus, the individual competition would last for three days in total.
Teng Yunmeng and Feng Yue were lucky not to encounter Irina in the first round and smoothly advanced to the second round with full scores.
When Ying Zijin arrived, Teng Yunmeng was comforting a crying girl.
The girl was not a direct entrant to the international competition, but she had also managed to earn a respectable 17th place in the global rankings.
Ying Zijin’s gaze paused momentarily: “What happened?”
“It’s that Irina,” Feng Yue spoke first, clearly angry, “In our group, 19 contestants hit her in the first round, and none scored more than 6 points after their matches.”
“She’s really sick, calling our contestants ‘trash’ after each match, and looking at them with such scorn, who can stand it?”
Ying Zijin’s eyes flickered with a light laugh: “Trash?”
“Yes,” Feng Yue pursed her lips, “The head judge is from their country and doesn’t intervene. I think she’s trying to retaliate for what happened the day before.”
Irina having suppressed the scores of 19 contestants meant that Hua Country’s total score would be very low, possibly even at the bottom.
“She’s truly disgusting,” Teng Yunmeng said, her eyes red with anger, “Would she still be so arrogant if our first place in the overall rankings were competing?”
If only the committee hadn’t failed to invite the first place from the overall rankings.
