Rebirth in the 90s: A Perfect Life

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Chapter 181
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The final result was no surprise. Xiaoyue's group won first place with 130 points. The second place was the group from Normal University Affiliated High School with a gap of 20 points. The third place was a delegation from another province.

After the team competition, there is an individual competition. The format of the individual competition is a ring system. There are a total of nine people in the top three groups. They are determined by drawing lots from number one to number nine. Number one defends the ring and number two attacks the ring. If number two wins, number one will eliminate number two and defend the ring, and number three will attack the ring, and so on. The one who successfully defends the ring in the end will be the first, and the one who is eliminated the latest will be ranked second and third.

So the drawing of lots began. The host took out a bamboo tube for drinking games, which contained nine bamboo slips with numbers marked on them. The host shook it twice, looked at the remaining three groups and said with a smile: "How many do you want to draw?"

Xiaoyue rolled her eyes in her heart. Isn't this nonsense? With this kind of competition system, everyone would wish to draw number nine and be the last to challenge. Their chances of winning the championship would be much greater. The most unlucky one would definitely be number one. If they wanted to get first place, they would have to eliminate eight people.

Mr. Li on the judges' panel said, "It will be exciting if Su Xiaoyue draws number one. It's very exciting." The other three nodded in agreement. They all wanted to see how many surprises this girl had. After all, although their group won first place in the previous team competition, Su Xiaoyue hadn't performed well before. If it weren't for the question about mooring at Maple Bridge at night, many people would have thought that she was just here to make up the numbers. As a result, they were very curious about this amazing girl and were eager to know how great she was. Therefore, everyone at the scene hoped that Xiaoyue would draw number one.

Of course, apart from the parties involved, Xiaoyue wanted to draw number nine, as winning or losing would only matter in one game, which would save her trouble. So during the drawing process, she superstitiously closed her eyes and prayed, hoping that the Buddha would bless her to draw number nine, or number eight would be fine. But in the end, she drew the number she least wanted, number one.

Xiaoyue saw the big word "1" on the bamboo slips and suspected that there was something fishy going on, because when she drew number one, she could clearly feel that everyone became excited, even the four judges and the host.

The beautiful host also joked: "It seems that Su Xiaoyue's No. 1 is the most popular choice. Now let's invite our No. 1 champion to the stage."

Xiaoyue then discovered that a small arena had appeared in the middle at some point, and Xiaoyue had no choice but to stand on it. The reason she suspected there was something fishy about the competition was that she had drawn number one, while Du Shiqing had drawn number nine. Du Shiqing could just wait and see, but she had to fight nine people alone. As long as she lost once, Du Shiqing would definitely be the first place in the individual competition. If there was no secret manipulation, she would never believe it. It seemed that Du Shiqing's background was really impressive.

The individual competition went more smoothly than Xiaoyue had imagined, because she had seen all the questions more than once, and it seemed that no matter how many years had passed, the experts' ideas for setting questions were always the same.

There were indeed many difficult problems. If Xiaoyue were to be judged by her true level, she would have been eliminated long ago. But with the plug-in, the result was very different. She passed all the levels and eliminated the first seven people easily.