Chapter 221: Big Watermelon
Then, the host continued with the third question: "Please, who is the poet of the ancient poem that goes: ’The state is shattered yet the mountains and rivers remain, the city in spring is densely vegetated, flowers shed tears in these times, heart startled by the parting birds’?"
The competitors were all weak and only I was a boss, a boss with a built-in Golden Finger. So Ji You was leisurely planning to buzz in slowly, but before she could stretch out her finger, she heard a ding dong:
— It’s Sheng Qingyan.
The robotic host smiled at Sheng Qingyan and said, "Please answer the question. Whether you are over time or answer incorrectly, it will be considered wrong."
While Sheng Qingyan spoke towards the robot, his eyes glanced at Ji You, with a confidence of sure victory, saying, "The poet of this ancient poetry is Du Fu from the Tang Dynasty of Ancient Earth Huaxia."
The robot host smiled and said, "Congratulations, you’re right."
Next.
One question followed by another.
Most of it was dominated by Ji You and Sheng Qingyan, Ji You knew her own affairs - she was an antique thousands of years old. But Little Cutie Sheng Qingyan, surprisingly, knew so much about ancient poetry, which was beyond Ji You’s expectations.
Of course, she didn’t know yet, that this lazy Sheng Qingyan, who usually has no grand aspirations and only knows to idle away, browsing through various lore daily; be it poetry, Soul Device appraisal, or classical antiquities, he dabbled in some of it.
Others?
The questions were monopolized by Ji You and Sheng Qingyan, leaving little for others to do. Yue Qi managed to luck out on 5 questions, narrowly making it to the final round. Shen Changqing did slightly better than Yue Qi, answering 6 correctly and also advanced.