However, they didn't gain a decisive advantage in this round because the Fengjue group next door chose the human windmill mode, and the Zhulang group went even further. Since they were two male A-level players, they didn't care about anything and just rolled into a ball and came over. However, they didn't control their direction well and bumped into the host group next door, making them dizzy and almost rolling over as a four-person ball.
The final task is to challenge ourselves with wearing spacesuits.
Everyone received their clothes to wear, a one-piece spacesuit, but it was very loose and thin.
"Timer begins!"
Jiang Shuiyun was in no hurry. She laid out the clothes smoothly and deftly, as if the clothes had willingly put on her. She zipped them up and finished in about ten seconds. However, Gao Zhouzhou next to her was not so relaxed. She almost started fighting with the clothes.
As teammates, Jiang Shuiyun couldn't just stand by and watch someone die. She grabbed Gao Zhouzhou by the collar, told her to calm down, and then helped her lay Gao Zhouzhou flat on her back, perfectly pushing her into the clothes and zipping them up.
After the three rounds of games, the group emerged from the space capsule, all exhausted and sweating profusely. They collapsed to the ground, sprawling and disoriented, not caring about their appearance. The only one unaffected was Jiang Shuiyun, who stood still for a short while to adjust before feeling perfectly fine. If it weren't for Gao Zhouzhou hanging on her, she could have emerged even more easily.
"My God, is our Captain Jiang Bai cheating? How can he stay so stable in zero gravity? Do you have any secrets?"
The others had temporarily lost their ability to move. The host, who was in charge of the process, could only suppress his laughter and ask Jiang Shuiyun about their miserable state.
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Chapter 58
"Stay calm, don't panic, and don't move around."
Jiang Shuiyun replied with a smile that this round of the game was over, with Jiang Bai's team in the lead.
The temporary break was also to rearrange the scene for the next round of the game. Jiang Shuiyun sat down next to Gao Zhouzhou, who continued to stare at her. "Are you sure you want to keep staring at me like this?"
"Is there anything you can't do?"
Gao Zhouzhou was just being stubborn earlier, but now she's genuinely shocked. How could someone be completely unaffected by weightlessness, even feeling like a fish in water? It makes her flustered state seem silly. Plus, typing backwards is faster than typing forwards. She just tried it and managed to type five words in a minute—it's outrageous!
“I won’t stare at people like that, like I’m being stupid.” Jiang Shuiyun looked at Gao Zhouzhou’s agent in the audience, who was now scratching his head anxiously. “I guess your agent is trying to tell you to tone it down. If someone takes a picture of this and posts it online, it could have a big impact on you.”
"Do I care?" Gao Zhouzhou said she didn't care, but she still reluctantly looked away.
The second round of the game started quickly; this round was called "using both hands and brain."
The gameplay is very simple: it's a quiz game with two people per team. One person is responsible for pressing the button to answer a question and gets a point for each successful answer. The other person is responsible for singing two lines of a song that is played. If they sing it correctly, they get another point. If they answer incorrectly, they lose a point, which means the point they just won is gone. Not only that, but the person in the quiz zone will also be punished by having water splashed on them.
"I'll answer first."
Jiang Shuiyun couldn't sing a single song in this world, let alone the lyrics, so she wisely chose to take action.
"Then I'll take over the singing."
Gao Zhouzhou tossed her hair, brimming with confidence, "Go ahead and try to grab it. If you answer a question wrong, I'll write my name backwards! I absolutely won't let you get splashed with water!"
"Zhouzhou Gao?"
Looking at Gao Zhouzhou's confident demeanor, Jiang Shuiyun could already foresee the outcome of this game. Shaking her head under Gao Zhouzhou's murderous gaze, she went to stand in the answer-grabbing area.
The game officially begins with the intro playing. The player must accurately press the button the instant the music stops, and only the first player to press the button gets the right to answer.
Although Jiang Shuiyun wasn't very confident in Gao Zhouzhou, she believed that participation was the most important thing in the game, so she held her breath and listened attentively.
With her exceptional hearing, Jiang Shuiyun quickly pressed the button the moment the music stopped, and by the time the others reacted, it was already over.
"Congratulations to Captain Jiang Bai for winning the right to answer the question! One point added! Zhouzhou, here we go!"
The host, who was in charge of the event, called out Gao Zhouzhou's name.
“Um… love isn’t your smile…” Gao Zhouzhou frowned, stammering out the words, each one filled with uncertainty.
"Wrong," Fei Yan announced directly, "This is my song! Love is every synchronized melody, and your smile in the sunshine!"
"Fei Yan sang correctly, but no points. Zhou Zhou made a mistake, so one point is deducted. Come over here to our Captain Jiang Bai, get your water basins ready."
The host announced the result with a smile, and the stage staff filled the basin above Jiang Shuiyun's head with water. The next second, they poured the water over her head, but Jiang Shuiyun closed her eyes beforehand.
Jiang Shuiyun wiped her face, took the towel handed to her and put it on. She glanced at Gao Zhouzhou, who was too ashamed to look at her, but remained calm. It's normal to win or lose in a game.
"Next question!"
As the host's voice faded, the music started again.
Next, Jiang Shuiyun was like an emotionless button-pressing robot, a tool to be splashed with water. There were ten questions in total, and no one else managed to answer a single one. The reason she was emotionless was because Gao Zhouzhou on the other side didn't answer a single one correctly. After ten questions, everyone was still tied at zero, which was truly rare. She practically took a shower and changed ten thick towels, almost using up all the towels provided by the production team.
When the host announced that one more question would be added to determine the winner, Feng Jue stood next to Jiang Shuiyun, trying to suppress his laughter while advising her.
"Captain Jiang Bai, why don't you stop trying to steal it? Give us a chance, and let yourself off the hook too."
The first and eleventh basins of water made no difference to Jiang Shuiyun. Helplessly, she shook the water off her hair. "The game can't be abandoned halfway. I have to give her another chance."
Jiang Bai's team still participated, but the others stopped playing and just watched the show with their arms crossed, since the outcome would be the same anyway.
However, when the "Happy Birthday" music started playing, everyone couldn't help but jolt and immediately perk up. But they were still too slow, and Jiang Shuiyun once again got the chance to answer the question.
This time, everyone looked at Gao Zhouzhou. If she dared to sing wrong again, it would be an unforgivable crime.
Under everyone's gaze, Gao Zhouzhou felt an unprecedented amount of pressure. "Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you!"
Thunderous applause erupted. Jiang Shuiyun wiped her hair and breathed a sigh of relief; the ten basins of water hadn't been wasted.
"Congratulations, Zhouzhou, you answered correctly! One point!"
The host clapped along, laughing so hard he could barely stand up straight. "Zhouzhou, do you have any words of victory to say?"
Gao Zhouzhou was also a little excited. "Looking at this scene, I feel like the silly child of a landlord has finally learned what one plus one equals. I have to thank Captain Jiang Bai for his unremitting dedication and sacrifice!"
The second round of the game finally came to an end. Although the others didn't feel much participation, they gained a lot of fun. This fully demonstrated the realistic scene that even the best teammate can't carry a bad teammate in a game.
It was break time again, and Jiang Shuiyun went backstage to change clothes and blow-dry her hair. Gao Zhouzhou felt a little uneasy about it, so she dawdled and went backstage as well.
Jiang Shuiyun was sitting in front of the makeup mirror, and the makeup artist was touching up her makeup. She saw Gao Zhouzhou looking like a thief in the mirror. "Zhouzhou, Gao?"
“You…” Gao Zhouzhou was about to retort, but then she remembered that she was indeed in the wrong and swallowed her words back. “I just had a bad day this time. Wait for me in the next round of the game, and I definitely won’t hold you back.”
"It's all about participation in games."
Jiang Shuiyun didn't seem to intend to settle scores with her later, and simply brushed it off with a few words.
Seeing that Jiang Shuiyun didn't mind, Gao Zhouzhou took advantage of the makeup artist's absence to sidle up to Jiang Shuiyun and said, "You have a pretty good temper, don't you?"
"I'll be in a better mood if you stay away from me."
Jiang Shuiyun stood up, straightened her clothes, and walked outside.
Gao Zhouzhou shrugged and followed him out.
The third round of the game challenges eyesight and memory. Nine animals appear on each board, and each animal only has three seconds to appear. Each team needs to find the correct animal name cards and place them in the corresponding 3x3 grid. The team with the higher accuracy rate scores higher.
While the other teams were dividing up the tasks, Gao Zhouzhou nudged Jiang Shuiyun with her elbow and asked, "How should we divide them?"
"I'll remember the six at the top, and you remember the three at the bottom."
Jiang Shuiyun originally wanted to say that Gao Zhouzhou didn't have to participate, but then thought it wasn't appropriate, so she divided the roles among the three of them.
Knowing her own mind perfectly well, Gao Zhouzhou had no complaints and readily agreed.
There are six rounds in total, and the first round started quickly.
Three seconds passed in a flash. After the animal panel was closed, everyone immediately began frantically searching for the wooden plaques. Jiang Shuiyun, however, remained calm and methodically placed the plaques from one to six.
Gao Zhouzhou held up two wooden signs. "Dog, or hyena?"
Jiang Shuiyun took the hyena's wooden sign from Gao Zhouzhou and placed it in her sight.
The host team got six correct, the Zhulang team got eight, and the Fengjue and Jiangbai teams both got nine. All of them were correct.
The second round started quickly, following the same division of labor as before. Jiang Shuiyun frowned slightly. After finishing the first five tasks, she hesitated on the sixth. It wasn't that she couldn't remember, but that she didn't know the name of the chubby black and white animal.
After Gao Zhouzhou placed her three tags, she noticed that Jiang Shuiyun's sixth tag was still empty. She took out the panda tag from the wooden list and said, "Oh dear, so you forget things sometimes? You still have to rely on me?"
Jiang Shuiyun watched Gao Zhouzhou put the panda tag into the slot without saying anything, and then swapped the positions of the eighth and ninth tags.
"Don't touch me! I'm sure I'm not mistaken."
Gao Zhouzhou was getting anxious. She had finally managed to turn the tables, so why was this person cheating?
Jiang Shuiyun stopped Gao Zhouzhou and waited for the host to announce the results.
Jiangbai team, all correct.
Gao Zhouzhou's outstretched hand froze in mid-air. She awkwardly withdrew it, glanced at Jiang Shuiyun, and muttered softly, "Is this person a monster?"
Gao Zhouzhou then developed complete trust in Jiang Shuiyun, and the outcome was as expected.
Jiangbai team, all correct.
Jiangbai team, all correct.
...
"Could you guys make a slight mistake? Otherwise, the audience will think we're rigging the game. Heaven have mercy! We're really playing the game fairly and justly!"
With only one game left, Jiang Shuiyun's team was already far ahead. The host, for the sake of the show, helplessly laughed and shouted.
"I feel a little disoriented; I feel like we're participating in The Brain."
Looking at his second-to-last score, Zhu Lang couldn't help but facepalm. What kind of game tests this kind of ability? And the worst part is that someone can be this insane!
"I'll close my eyes for the next round."
Jiang Shuiyun glanced at the scoreboard. As long as Gao Zhouzhou could place five correct bets, they would still be the champions.
The show's effect immediately improved, and Gao Zhouzhou nodded proudly, "Leave it to me!"
As the sixth round began, Jiang Shuiyun indeed closed her eyes. Not caring about the steamed bun but about pride, Gao Zhouzhou stared wide-eyed as she looked at each item. After the panel ended, relying on the order she had quickly memorized, she didn't look for any signs and just pointed to the squares in the nine-square grid and muttered them.
"Rat, snake, Pallas's rabbit, sheep, tiger, dolphin, killer whale, giraffe, and one more... koi!"
After Gao Zhouzhou finished speaking proudly, she looked at the still empty nine-square grid and was about to look for the wooden plaque when she suddenly froze, "What did I just say?"
The answer slipped out of her mouth, and Gao Zhouzhou's mind went blank again. Jiang Shuiyun, seeing Gao Zhouzhou standing there dumbfounded, had no choice but to do it herself, finding and arranging the items one by one in the order Gao Zhouzhou had described.
"Jiang Bai team, still all correct!"