College Construction: My Principal System - Chapter 24

Chapter 24: Live Finals and the Program’s Crazy Effects

The two authors had passed all the obstacles along the way.

From the preliminaries to the semi-finals, and then to the live finals and have gradually become known to the world.

The only two finalists in the whole of Jingcheng City were both from Yun Ding High School.

It also made the Experimental High School, City No. 1 High School, Foreign Language School and other old key schools jealous.

Whether they admitted it or not, Yun Ding High School had returned to everyone’s sight. It had become an existence that cannot be ignored.

Shanghai was where the final match of New Concept Cup Essay Competition.

With the increasing influence of the New Concept Cup in the past few years, this kind of competition has become a grand event to the national youth and their parents.

After all, when you talk about Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, there was still a certain threshold to understand, but who wouldn’t know how to read an article?

As long as one could read, anyone would dare to say one, two, or three things. Everyone had their own unique opinions.

After all, there was no first place in literature.

Creativity was not a mathematical formula that could determine who was right and who was wrong.

It was precisely because of this low threshold and openness.

It attracted a large number of viewers to watch the live broadcast of the New Concept Cup in front of the television or in the live broadcast room on the internet.

“I heard that there will be a lot of people this year.”

“It’s the same every year. Haven’t you heard the saying that new people are monsters?”

“I wonder what kind of questions the examiners will give this time. Every year, the final questions of the new concept cup are the source of my joy for the whole year.”

“That’s right, that’s right. Do you still remember last year’s exam question? The question was called, “If you find a ten-ton piece of gold in the middle of the desert, what would you do?”

“The question was ridiculous, and the contestant was even more ridiculous. The author who won last year wrote down his plan in detail, including how to find the a partner, how to keep it a secret, how to divide the money, how to cut up the gold and transport it out, how to use the equipment and vehicles, how to unload the goods after returning to the city, how to store it, how to hide it from the public, how to deal with the underground transactions in batches, how to launder the stolen money, which bank to deposit it in, how to avoid the tax department, how to explain the money to his family, how to tell his relatives and friends, and how to keep it a secret. It was all clear!”

“Later, he was even invited by the relevant authorities to have a cup of tea to investigate if there really was such a piece of gold.”

“Hahahaha, that’s ridiculous!”

The finals had yet to begin, but the live broadcast rooms on the internet had already begun to comment incessantly.

The authors of New Concept Cup Essay Competition were all dragons and phoenixes among men, one in ten thousand.

The topics were also strange and interesting, just like a variety show that was sufficiently realistic. Obviously, everyone was looking forward to it.

Soon, the judges and the contestants entered the venue in turn.

The final competition divided the ten contestants into the argumentative and narrative writing examination rooms.

They were held in the morning and afternoon respectively.

The final selection of the two gold award winners.

In the argumentative writing examination room, the judges who appeared were basically all famous writers.

They included the President of the National Writers’ Association, Chen Dongdong; the Nobel Prize winner, Mo Yan; the pioneer critic, Zhang Dinghao, and so on.

The Chairman of the Writers’ Association, Chen Dongdong, was in charge of setting questions for the contestants.

Usually, the chief examiner would say something like a welcome speech giving encouragement, and good wishes to the students, however, Chen Dongdong walked into the classroom without saying a word.

The golden ribbon on his chest represented the prize of the sole winner of the exam. It also meant the full recognition of the jury.

The examinees were ready. A cup of water was placed on the podium in the classroom.

Chen Dongdong was holding a stack of papers that was as thick as a finger.

Just when all the examinees thought that Chairman Chen was going to open the paper and read out the proposition inside.

Chen Dongdong suddenly stood in front of the podium.

He stared at the examinees and then crumpled the papers in his hand and threw it into the cup of clear water.

Then, with a sly smile, he said to the crowd:

“This is today’s exam question. Examinees, please begin to answer. You have one hour.”

[I’m dumbfounded! What kind of question is this? Is it a riddle?]

[I’ve long heard that the Chairman of the Writers’ Association, Chen Dongdong, has a strange personality. It seems that the students are really in trouble this time.]

[But there’s no way to write this. The previous questions were a little tricky, but at least there’s still room for writing. But this… what is this thing?]

[It’s considered a performance art.]

[Look at the expressions of the students below. The program’s effects are crazy!]

[The examinees of this year’s new concept essay competition are really in trouble. They encountered questions that they didn’t know how to begin with.]

[Yeah. and the time is so tight. It’s only an hour! I guess many people will have to hand in their blank papers.]

…

Seeing this strange scene in the camera, the tens of millions of viewers in front of the television and computer screens were all dumbfounded, and they couldn’t help but start discussing.

The examinees present were even more so.

Even though they had far more attainments in literature than their peers, at the end of the day, they were still high school students who were 15 or 16 years old.

The examiners in the examination hall suddenly made such a strange move.

They sucked in a breath of cold air one after another. They had a feeling that they would have to give up here when they finally reached the examination hall.

Some of them were in disbelief. They hesitated, hoping that the real examiners would come in next and announce that what had just happened was just a joke.

But… no…

The time in the examination room moved minute by minute.

And the time left for them to write was less than an hour.

It was simply an impossible task to write an argumentative essay on such a strange topic within an hour.

The examinees present all held their heads and thought hard.

But just as everyone was deep in thought.

The contestant from Yun Ding High School, Han Han, looked at the cup on the table and found that the paper in the cup was sinking because it was gradually absorbing water.

He had a flash of inspiration and found an opening.

He started to write rapidly.