Chapter 57: It is difficult to draw the bones of a dragon or a tiger

Chapter 57: It is difficult to draw the bones of a dragon or a tiger

Everyone's jaw dropped. Is this a perfect score for a painting? Could it be higher than this?

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The following competitions went on normally and orderly, especially when it was Prince Philip's turn to draw for everyone. He had reached the King rank in this game before, so there was no such thing as a hanging picture that he couldn't draw.

He walked onto the stage with confidence without hiding anything. His pride lasted until he received a small note with seven words from his assistant. On it was written: It is difficult to draw the bones of a dragon or a tiger.

Philip: “…”

My special code...

Why was he given a drawing that was so difficult to draw? Did the referees have a grudge against him?

No, no, this is just a mock battle. We can’t draw any conclusions now. We will have to wait until tomorrow to know the outcome.

It is difficult to draw the bones of a dragon or a tiger. The following sentence means you can know a person’s face but not his heart.

When playing on computers in the past, some players would cheat by writing “It’s a seven-character proverb”.

In some places, the system will even give a hint that the answer is seven words.

There was obviously no way to hint the contestants here. Philip's sixth sense told him that if he dared to write "seven words" on the blackboard, which was an obvious cheating hint, the assistant would immediately summon the referee to drag him out for being so audacious and arrogant.

Depending on the severity of the situation, it may be necessary to eliminate the players in the mock competition.

Then Philip would have the glorious experience of being eliminated on the first day of the simulation competition.

I'd better try to draw the picture honestly.

He thought hard. Logically speaking, the probability of the idiom appearing here was quite high. As long as he could draw a dragon, a tiger, and then a skeleton, it would not be difficult for the contestants to guess.

But the key is how to draw a dragon and a skull? A tiger can also draw a cute cat with three horizontal lines on its head.

Bones...bones...

What can replace bones?

Yes, why does he think bones are difficult to draw?

Philip suddenly had an idea. He thought that if he couldn't draw a skull, he could just draw a bone, the kind that dogs would love to eat.

ε===3, that’s about the feeling. Philip felt like he was a little genius.

He drew a cat with three horizontal bars on its head in the middle of the blackboard and a bone head on the right.

Even after these two things were drawn, no one answered.

Philip was a little anxious.

No way? Is your reaction so slow? I won't be penalized 10 points, right?

At this time, Hansen did not live up to expectations and answered the question. Another contestant who looked smarter also answered the question at the same time. Could it be that they both came up with the same idea?

It was a pity that Philip was on the stage and was some distance away from both of them. Even though the assistant said that they both drew wrongly, Philip didn't know what their answers were.

Hansen wrote: The cat chases the dog.

This shouldn’t be considered an idiom, but there’s nothing he can do about it. He doesn’t even know what other idioms there are for cats and dogs together.

Another contestant wrote that cats and dogs are worse than this.

It seems that they all treat meat and bones as dogs.

Hansen was also very curious why Philip didn't just draw a dog. Maybe dogs are harder to draw than cats?

It can be seen from the three-legged cat that Philip is not very good at drawing.

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Philip did not get discouraged even though he made two mistakes. Suddenly, he had an idea of ​​how to draw a dragon.

In the twelve Chinese zodiac animals, the snake is called a little dragon. It is so easy to draw a snake. All you have to do is draw a rope.

Philip also decided to draw a rope, and in order to make it easier for others to distinguish his dragon from his snake, he made the rope larger.

So, his painting was completed. There was a big rope on the left, a cat in the middle, and a bone on the right...

Put together, it's... a cat and dog on a leash?

Joseph repeated these three words several times in his mind in rapid succession, and came to the conclusion of one sentence: What dog?

This is really amazing, thanks to Philip for coming up with it...

So Joseph wrote: Husky.

Wrong answer.

Hansen, who was standing next to him, accidentally saw his answer and immediately understood it.

Yes, it turns out to be a Shenma dog. If you read it quickly, it means a dog.

It turns out that Philip has this special game skill that he didn't know about.

Hansen also quickly wrote Teddy.

Then, because of being misled by Philip, the two kept writing down the names of dog breeds. Seeing how actively they answered the questions, the other contestants were convinced that they must have guessed an answer that was not far from the correct answer.

After a brief thought, he immediately started to answer.

An unprecedented dog breed competition has begun.

It is said that there are more than 400 varieties currently available in the world, of which more than 100 are well known to the public.

It was enough for everyone to write slowly for fun, erase after writing, write again after erasing, and write again if there were any mistakes, until Philip's remaining time was all used up.

Philip also saw from the small blackboards that everyone frequently moved that they seemed to be writing words related to dogs...

He got anxious. His proverb had nothing to do with dogs!

During the period when they were changing the words, Philip certainly made some small gestures to his good friend Hansen, trying to tell him that his thinking was wrong.

Shaking your head or waving your hands are too easy for the assistant to notice.

He just made a gesture of cutting the neck and beheading.

Hansen got a hint that the dog was going to be a very fierce one, so he went on to write down golden retrievers and Labradors, which were natural hunting dogs.

The assistant answered him mercilessly: Wrong, wrong, wrong...

Ten minutes passed and no one answered correctly, which marked Philip's defeat.

The answer is made public: It is difficult to draw the bones of a dragon or a tiger.

Everyone's jaw dropped.

This, this, and this. The prince named Philip, who is bad at drawing, is simply giving them medicine. None of the three things can be drawn like the real thing.

If his situation had happened on an old computer, he would have been pelted with rotten eggs and tomatoes.

Two players couldn't hold back and started venting their emotions.

"What the hell, Dragon, why are you drawing a line? Are all the dragons you've seen so thin? And what about the prince? Don't the people in the castle have money to buy you a picture book?"

Another person echoed, "That's right, my three-year-old brother draws better than him, and he can even tell the difference between a cat and a tiger. I didn't expect that Prince Philip, who is good at fighting, has such poor drawing skills..."

Philip really wanted to retort to them, but he was not allowed to speak during the game.

The two mocking people were quickly taken away by the referee, but it didn't make much difference because it was already dark today. The referee then announced that today's simulation game was over and everyone could go back to rest. Tomorrow would be the official competition. 500 people would be selected from 1,984 people to advance to the final competition item: a war-type competition item that tests hands-on, observation skills, and flexibility on the actual battlefield.

Philip thought it sounded more like the CS he had played in the real world, the difference was that in real life they used simulated guns, while here they only had slingshots.

That is a competition that will come later. The key now is to figure out how to quickly complete the "Draw It, Guess It" game tomorrow.

On the way back, Philip left Hansen and Joseph behind. He went to trap the two teammates who had spoken rudely to him in the mock match in a shadowy corner of the building and beat them up.

I was already in a bad mood after losing the simulation competition, but they dared to make trouble for me.

After Philip taught them both a lesson, he probably had no idea that soon the news that the second prince of Fanfan Kingdom had no talent for painting would quickly spread throughout the country.

This gave the king, who wanted to make an exception and make him his son-in-law, a headache.

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After the drawing simulation game, when the players sat together for dinner in the evening, Philip discussed tomorrow's strategy with Hansen and Joseph.

Because Joseph did not show obvious aggression and even tried to please Philip and Hansen, Philip did not drive him away.

People around are watching. If the news about the discord between the two princes of Fanfan Kingdom spreads everywhere outside and it gets to their stepfather's ears, it will make the rest of their lives very difficult and they will be extremely troubled.

Philip thought that he should just leave Joseph alone for now and see what tricks he would play, and then catch him in the act.

After some discussion, Joseph made a bold suggestion. He said that contestant No. 5 was the descendant of a famous painter, and it would be disadvantageous for them to let him stay. If they could convince the other contestants to isolate him and not answer any questions when he was answering, he would be eliminated because of the deduction of 10 points.

This is also a feasible method, but it is a bit mean and despicable.

"We'll talk about it later." Philip ended with this sentence. After finishing his meal, he immediately said goodbye to Hansen and Joseph and went to the top floor alone.

He didn't sleep with his two companions, and they didn't need to wait for him.

Philip knew that someone was waiting for him, and that was Princess Aurora.

Princess Aurora was still dressed in men's clothes. She was sitting on the top floor enjoying the night breeze, and she didn't know how long she had been here.

Yesterday, because of time constraints and he had something very important to tell Philip, he didn't have time to tell him.

Philip saw from his companion's look that very important intelligence was coming.

As expected.

Princess Aurora told Philip that a village girl came to see him, and he was sure that this person was the sea witch who was their enemy in the previous level.

"Sea witch?" Philip was also shocked. "I didn't expect that the sea witch we thought was the final boss of the level in the previous level was actually played by a player... She is a village girl in this fairy tale world? There is no village girl character in Sleeping Beauty, right? It must be another character pretending to be a village girl. You have to be more careful."

Princess Aurora said, "Of course, I didn't completely believe her. She said she was here to help me. I was able to escape from the castle and get to this place thanks to her. Could it be that the character card she got is really a companion of my character card, Princess Aurora?"

Philip thought about it carefully. Of course, since Princess Ilo was already a known companion of his, and they were going to be husband and wife in this game, their honor and disgrace were tied together.

Philip told Princess Aurora everything he knew about Sleeping Beauty.