75: Specially targeting you!

Specially targeting you!

2The last question was up.

If she wanted to fight for the buzzer, she could only follow what Qin Yan did and fight for it without looking at the question at all.

Not only that, she'd have to be quicker than her as well.

That would be hard.

In addition, if she was right, she'd earn a point. But if not, a point would be deducted.

If she couldn't see the question, how would she know whether she could answer the question?

Wouldn't this be a gamble?

Zhao Xiaoou hadn't even finished her thought process before the countdown had already ended.

As the numbers disappeared from the screen, the tenth question appeared on the screen.

The crowd had already gotten used to the CLANG! from Qin Yan.

And, suddenly, it wasn't heard.

The audience, the competitors, the teachers, and the six professors all looked at Qin Yan.

Why didn't you press the buzzer?

Qin Yan was seen to be looking down at her table. No one was sure just exactly what she was investigating.

Was she thinking about whether or not she should press the buzzer?

She had already pressed all the buzzers in the past two rounds. What was there to think about?

Oh, hold on, there was that one time when Zhang Xiaosheng had pressed the buzzer.

Don't mention it.

Everyone had one thought then. Will you press the buzzer?

Qin Yan seemed to pick up on the tense atmosphere from the silent crowd.

She raised her head and looked at all the other competitors from left to right.

"Isn't anyone going to push the buzzer?" she asked.

The crowd waited with bated breath.

What on earth?

You're waiting for someone else to press the buzzer?

We're the ones waiting for you to push it.

Qin Yan pointed at the screen. "There's still time. You can read the question before competing for the buzzer."

The crowd stayed quiet.

"I'm not gonna fight for it. It's the last question, so I'll leave it to the other students," Qin Yan was worried that no one would take her seriously, so she put her hands behind her back.

Now the buzzer was far from her reach.

The crowd was stunned.

Oh, my god, just how arrogant are you?

Everyone uncontrollably sighed.

She was this arrogant.

She had already answered all 18 questions correctly. Whether or not she answered this one wasn't an issue for her.

However, some people did suspect that maybe she didn't know the answer to this question.

Maybe it was because of this that she didn't fight for the buzzer.

Zhao Xiaoou thought exactly this.

Qin Yan didn't know the answer to this question and was worried about losing face. Hence, she didn't fight for the buzzer. Instead, she acted as if she was being nice about it.

"She definitely doesn't know the answer to this question." From the competitors' stand, Huang Mingshun boldly declared. He was also from Jixia Academy.

"That's what I think too. The last question for each round is the hardest. Very few competitors in the past years have been able to answer them correctly," another competitor said coldly. "As Student Zhao has collated in her information sheet, the chances of you getting the tenth question in each round correct was only 10 percent."

Tai Anjing pouted. "If Qin Yan really wanted to give others a chance, why didn't she just do it in the first question? Why leave it to the very last one?"

"Exactly!" Zhang Xiaosheng grasped at straws as he shouted. Answering the last question wrong was not embarrassing at all.

"Qin Yan doesn't know the answer herself and would find it humiliating if she couldn't answer it correctly, so she just decided to not fight for the buzzer. She even wants everyone to think that she's so confident." Zhang Xiaosheng huffed.

"Student Zhang was done wrong by Qin Yan," Huang Mingshun was outraged.

Zhao Xiaoou didn't want to think or talk about just exactly what the situation was surrounding Qin Yan.

If she wasn't going to fight for it, then she'd take the chance to read the question.

This was the only question she'd had time to read.

Qin Yan could answer each question extremely quickly and move on to the next one. When Qin Yan had finished answering, Zhao Xiaoou hadn't even properly digested the question's contents.

That was such a pitiful feeling!

But now, after reading the question, Zhao Xiaoou realized that she couldn't answer it for she didn't know which was the correct answer.

There were just way too many texts.

She hadn't read this one at all.

She didn't even know where the question came from.

Her mouth started getting dry, and even her breathing started to become difficult.

Her hand was right above the buzzer, but she just couldn't press it.

She looked at the remaining four contestants.

They all had uptight expressions and looked grave.

It seemed as if they were all weighing up their options and chances of getting the answer correct if they were to press the buzzer.

"There are 30 seconds left. If no one decides to answer, this round will end with the last question being waived," the host reminded everyone.

Sounds erupted from the audience.

No one could decide on an answer. It was now even harder to concentrate with the extra noises in the background.

"Student Zhao, won't you try?" Qin Yan turned to look at her.

"…" Zhao Xiaoou pursed her lips and curtly replied, "Why don't you ask the other competitors?"

Qin Yan only smiled coldly back at her. "The others had never looked down on us from Shengyang High school."

Zhao Xiaoou had nothing to say to that.

Neither did the crowd.

Ruthless!

That was way too ruthless!

Qin Yan was explicitly saying that that's right, I'm targeting you from Jixia specifically.

Who asked you to be so flamboyant and arrogant before the competition even began?

Qin Yan just wanted to prove to everyone just how much they blew their own trumpets beforehand.

Now it was her turn to be arrogant and show off during the competition itself.

Targeting you purposefully was her main goal. Now I'm pressuring you as much as I can.

No one would argue against what Qin Yan was doing.

Who told those from Jixia to look down on Shengyang anyway?

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