Chapter 253: Eight Characters and Face Reading

The lottery pointer falls in the orange area.

"Let's see what the topic is?" The host walked over, tore open the page, and began to read the topic: "Eight characters and face reading. The competition lasts ten minutes. The one with the highest score and the shortest time wins."

Eight characters match face reading?

Zhang Ming looked at Lin Zhixian. Could it be what he thought?

If that is the case, then this question is not difficult.

However, Lin Zhixian felt that the competition questions prepared by the organizers could not be that simple.

"See what the host says." Lin Zhixian said.

Zhang Ming nodded and looked at the host.

The host explained: "The eight characters match the face, as the name suggests, is to match the face with the correct eight characters, or to put it more simply, it is actually the connection questions in our primary school exams, isn't it simple?"

It's simple indeed.

"It's simple, but it also tests the contestants' physiognomy and fortune-telling skills. Only if you are proficient in both, you can easily complete this level. If not, you will probably fail here." The host smiled at Lin Zhixian and Zhang Ming; "The two contestants must not take it lightly just because the questions are simple."

"Of course." Zhang Ming was the first to say, "Now that I am standing on this field, no matter how difficult or easy the problem is, I will do my best."

The host looked at Lin Zhixian, who smiled and said, "Even if I don't respect myself, I have to respect my opponent. After all, my opponent is so good, and if I'm careless, I'll lose badly."

Everyone couldn't help but laugh.

Zhang Ming felt even more comfortable: "So in order to respect such an excellent you and me, I will definitely do my best."

Lin Zhixian shook hands with Zhang Ming.

"OK, without further ado, let the staff bring up the questions," said the host.

Soon, two staff members on each side pushed up two large blackboards. On each blackboard, there were five photos on the left and five birth characters on the right.

The host stood between two blackboards and asked Lin Zhixian and Zhang Ming to stand in front of the two blackboards with their backs facing each other. Then he announced: "Now our two contestants have stood in front of a blackboard respectively. There are five identical photos and five birth dates on the blackboard. The two contestants need to find the appropriate birth date for each photo within ten minutes. The competition time is ten minutes. The one with the higher score or the shorter time wins."

"The competition officially begins."

The host pressed the timer after he finished speaking.

Upon hearing this, Lin Zhixian and Zhang Ming immediately turned around and looked at the photos on the blackboard. She started from the top photo, and then while looking at it, she recorded his marital status and family relationships, as well as some obvious information from his facial features.

They only had ten minutes, that is, they only had two minutes to calculate a set of photos and birth dates. This meant that they could not calculate everything and could only capture the most basic information.

Lin Zhixian was very fast. She basically scanned the photos at a glance and the relevant information of the person emerged in her mind. She then quickly recorded it down. It only took her three minutes to go through all five photos.

After that, she walked to the birth date without any hesitation, looked at the first birth date, and calculated it directly with her fingers without using any props.

This is also basic skills for them, not to mention that their information is not particularly in-depth, so it can be calculated in a little more than a minute. Lin Zhixian did not record the calculated information. She directly wrote 1 after the information calculated from the photo, indicating that the first birth date and time information matched the information in this photo.

This will save you a lot of writing time.

After completing the first one, she moved on to the second and the third. Lin Zhixian quickly completed the calculations of all the birth dates and matched all the photos with the birth dates. Without doing any checks, she directly picked up the chalk under the blackboard and connected the matched photos with the birth dates.

When she finished the last stroke and put the chalk down to indicate that she would not make any more changes, the host pressed the clock: "Lin Zhixian, 9 minutes and 29 seconds."

Lin Zhixian let out a breath and turned to look at Zhang Ming. The other party was also fast. It was obvious that he had finished the calculations and was picking up the chalk to connect the lines.

When Zhang Ming finished the connection and put down the chalk, the host pressed the clock again: "Zhang Ming, 9 minutes and 45 seconds."

Zhang Ming let out a sigh of relief when he heard that. It was a close call. He almost ran out of time.

He subconsciously turned his head to look at Lin Zhixian, but found that Lin Zhixian was also looking at him. Seeing him looking at him, Lin Zhixian smiled at him. He subconsciously forced a smile as well, and then heard the host say: "The competition time is up, stop the timer."

Zhang Ming suddenly widened his eyes: the host read out his time, but did not read out Lin Zhixian's time, and directly said that the competition time was up. Doesn't that mean that Lin Zhixian finished earlier than him?

This cannot be blamed on Zhang Ming. After all, he had to read five photos and calculate five birth dates to match them up, so he had to concentrate completely on this task. So apart from calculating the time, he could not see or hear anything else. He put all his mind into the competition, just as he said before, he gave it his all.

Zhang Ming couldn't help but show some regret on his face for a moment.

It looks like he will lose to Lin Zhixian in this round.

Don’t you know how many seconds you lost?

Zhang Ming asked Lin Zhixian directly: "How many minutes do you need?"

Lin Zhixian understood Zhang Ming's feelings, so he did not refuse: "9 minutes and 29 seconds."

Zhang Ming immediately smiled bitterly: "16 seconds! A full 16 seconds! I accept my defeat with all my heart."

If the difference was only one or two seconds, he would still be unwilling to accept it, but after losing by 16 seconds, he had nothing to say.

Don't think that 16 seconds is not a short time. You should know that their total game time is only 10 minutes. 16 seconds is already quite long.

For someone like Lin Zhixian, 16 seconds is enough for her to get a lot of information from a photo.

Lin Zhixian comforted him: "The result is not out yet."

"That's right." Zhang Ming cheered up.

Lin Zhixian hit him again: "But I don't think I will make any mistakes."

Zhang Ming subconsciously looked at Lin Zhixian's blackboard.

Although the photos and birth dates of the two people on the blackboard are the same, they are in different positions to prevent them from cheating.

However, Zhang Ming had just finished the test, so he quickly discovered that Lin Zhixian's answer was exactly the same as his.

"No, I lost." Zhang Ming smiled bitterly.

Soon, the host announced the results of the competition, and both Lin Zhixian and Zhang Ming got it right.

But Lin Zhixian submitted his answer 16 seconds earlier than Zhang Ming, so Lin Zhixian won and successfully entered the winner group, while Zhang Ming fell into the loser group.