Urban Sims

At 2:10 in the morning, after nearly four hours, sitting in Su Yuxiang's car, Zhou Ming finally arrived at the Tianhe Stadium, where the program "The Strongest Brain" was recorded.

Upon learning of Zhou Ming's arrival, the entire program team was excited. Dozens of staff, including chief director Wang Yunqing, stood at the entrance of the gymnasium to greet him.

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

"Mr. Zhou..."

Looking at his obviously slimmer body, it took a while to confirm that he was Zhou Ming's Wang Yunqing. He was stunned for a moment and asked: "What happened to you recently? Your body..."

"It's okay. Come in quickly and finish recording the program first."

Zhou Ming stepped on the carpet and strode into the museum. Next to him was Su Yuxiang, who was wearing sunglasses and had a cold face. Wang Yunqing and others quickly followed behind.

"呲呲呲~"

When we reached the end of the passage, a group of lights came on. As soon as we approached the stage, high-pitched music sounded. The dry ice machine at the edge of the stage sprayed out two rows of smoke. The host's voice welcomed the contestants to the stage:

“We invite our challenger, ‘The Rubik’s Cube Emperor’ Zhou Ming to appear!”

"Dang, clang, clang..."

Amidst the sound of music, the lights in the venue were all bright, and uneven applause came from the audience. Some audience members who fell asleep leaning on their chairs reluctantly stood up after being reminded by others, rubbing their sleepy eyes.

The celebrities in the scientific review seats and guest seats, as well as the nine Hall of Fame contestants in the Hall of Fame area, all sat back in their respective positions, cheering up and looking at the belated "" on the stage with expressionless faces. The Rubik's Cube Emperor".

What a big rack.

What a shameless person!

Many people worked hard with their mouths and cursed in their hearts!

However, after seeing the thin appearance of this person clearly, the anger in some people's hearts was quickly extinguished. Especially after hearing the host's helpful explanation, everyone was even more surprised.

"The column team just learned from this contestant's friend: Mr. Zhou Ming suffers from a special brain disease. He was in a coma at home for six days some time ago. He only successfully woke up a few hours ago. He learned that he missed " After the recording time of "The Most Powerful Brain", he called us as soon as possible and rushed to NJ as soon as possible... Mr. Zhou's friend told us that based on his physical condition, what he needed most was to go to the hospital for a check-up. Rather than wasting time here."

"ah?!"

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

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

Zhou Ming nodded and said: "You can hold on! I'm very sorry for keeping everyone waiting!"

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

There was silence for a while. Taozi in the guest seat wiped the corners of his eyes with a tissue, clapped his hands and said, "Well done, we applaud him!"

The audience in the audience applauded and stood up. Many emotional female audience members 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 circular platform for the competition onto the stage in advance. There were ten Rubik's cubes placed on the circular platform, including six second-order and four third-order Rubik's cubes, which were placed at intervals in the ten areas of the circular platform. .

The VCR played on the big screen introduced the rules of the "Magic Speed ​​of Life and Death" competition: two players stand at both ends of the round platform, chasing each other counterclockwise, and when encountering a disrupted Rubik's Cube, they will restore it. 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 time limit for the challenge is five minutes. Within five minutes, the player who catches up with the other party first wins. If the chase is not completed within five 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 had not touched the Rubik's Cube for many days and lacked practice, he hoped that the column team would give him fifteen minutes to familiarize himself with the Rubik's Cube.

The host said yes. Fifteen minutes later, Zhou Ming walked into one end of the circular stage. Like his opponent Wang Yinghao, each held a Rubik's Cube in his hands, and then the game began!

Click, click, click!

The sound of the Rubik's Cube rapidly twisting was heard.

The atmosphere at the scene was tense and fierce. The audience saw with nervous faces: the two people were chasing after each other in the round platform, and their speeds were almost the same. However, it may be due to physical reasons. The performance of the Rubik's Cube Emperor Zhou Ming was not ideal, although his hand speed was still very fast. , but the turnover rate is very high, and it is slightly at a disadvantage.

Zhou Ming on the field also discovered that if you don’t practice knowledge-based memory frequently, even if you are the “most powerful brain”, you will forget it after a while, because not all of the memories in your brain will be saved permanently. 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 "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 Z country, and there are a total of six second-order Rubik's Cubes in the circular platform. It is conducive to his performance in this advantageous project.

These factors may not have had any impact on Zhou Ming in the past. It didn't matter whether he was in the second, third or third level, he could win.

But today, in terms of second-level restoration, Zhou Ming's recovery speed was indeed slower than Wang Yinghao's.

"Boom, it's time!"

Five minutes later, the first round ended. Neither of them could catch up with each other, but Wang Yinghao's red lights turned on seven times, while Zhou Ming's blue lights only turned on three.

Wang Yinghao started the next game 1:0.

There was a round of applause from the audience. Both of their performances were praised by the scientific judges, especially Zhou Ming, who expressed great appreciation for his ability to show such strong strength despite his poor condition.

Su Yuxiang, who was in the audience nearby, frowned and was very worried. With Zhou Ming's current state, it would be difficult to defeat Wang Yinghao. At the same time, she complained in her heart: "Can't we compete again tomorrow? We have to compete now. , what if you lose?" You are the Rubik's Cube Emperor!

"Host, I ask for another fifteen minutes to familiarize myself 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 fifteen minutes.

Saying thanks, Zhou Ming took a few second-level Rubik's cubes and started practicing quickly.

Because in the competition rules of the "Magic Speed ​​of Life and Death" event, in addition to restoring the Rubik's Cube, players can also disrupt the Rubik's Cube to interfere with their opponents. As the record holder of the second-level Rubik's Cube in Z Country, Wang Yinghao has a special set of scrambling techniques that allow him to disrupt the Rubik's Cube. The scrambled second-level Rubik's Cube was very difficult to solve, creating many problems for Zhou Ming.

Therefore, the several second-order Rubik's Cubes that Zhou Ming took to practice were all patterns that Wang Yinghao used to scramble with special techniques that were difficult to crack. Facing these patterns, he replayed multiple sets of quick recovery solutions in his mind, and tried his best to solve them. After working his brain for about thirteen minutes, he finally derived a set of fast and good new solutions, and in the lens of the crane camera, he restored the scrambled Rubik's Cube in his hand in an increasingly shorter time.

Seeing this scene, the scientific reviewer Tao Daowei was surprised and said: "Zhou Ming's learning ability is astonishing. In a short period of time, he deduced a new set of solutions and cracked the two puzzles 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 audience nearby, also breathed a sigh of relief: "I shouldn't lose again now."

Only Wang Yinghao, who had been staring at the big screen next to him, felt his heart skip a beat when he saw Zhou Ming solving his own problems in less and less time. He began to have an uneasy look on his face, and even looked a little shocked: "Fifteenth In just a few minutes, you used the fastest solution to solve a problem that took me more than three years to construct?"

There was just not much time for him to be horrified. After walking into the ring, the second round was announced to begin!

"Crack, click, click!"

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

In this game, Zhou Ming's speed has obviously accelerated. The progress is so fast that everyone's jaw dropped. It only took him less than a minute and a half to catch up to the position only two squares away from Wang Yinghao. .

"Du dong~"

After Zhou Ming caught up to Wang Yinghao and took a picture of the blue light, the host shouted "Wow!" and thousands of viewers stood up and applauded vigorously.

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

After the deciding game of the third game began, Zhou Ming did not give Wang Yinghao, who was obviously in panic, the slightest chance. In one minute and eighteen seconds, he caught up with Wang Yinghao and won with a score of 2:1 amid screams and applause. , defeated Wang Yinghao and successfully advanced!

"2:1! A shocking reversal! Zhou Ming's great strength is completely worthy of his title of 'The Rubik's Cube Emperor'!" host Jiang Changjian said excitedly.

Scientific reviewer Tao Daowei also said: "Zhou Ming's talent in the field of Rubik's Cube can be said to be shocking. He can overcome the bad physical condition and still win, which is enough to show that genius is genius! And those who can overcome any disadvantages Geniuses who can still display their talents under such circumstances are true geniuses! Zhou Ming is such a true genius!"

"Wow, wow, wow~"

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

Su Yuxiang also stood up and clapped along, looking at the man with pride. Seeing his smiling, confident face, and his sharp-edged face that seemed to be more handsome than before, somehow, her heart It started beating faster again...

"Unfair! This game is unfair! I don't accept the result of this game!!"

When the cheers were at their hottest, a sudden shout rang out from the stage, causing the applause to stop and everyone to look at him sideways.

But Wang Yinghao, whose face turned red, pointed at Zhou Ming, very excited, and shouted something that surprised everyone!