TWWMABMTBH Chapter 41

Rong Ziyan’s sudden remark startled the host. He almost reflexively said sorry.

Meanwhile, the top student in geography and humanities also stepped forward, directly and crisply questioning the host, “I think you need to apologize for more than just this, you also need to explain to me why the questions were changed on the spot.”

“Out of the questions I answered, 70 percent came from ordinary, entry-level popular science magazines. In other words, you don’t even need to ask Zhihu; you can find the answers directly on Baidu Homework Help.”

“Any high school student with a slightly broader knowledge base might get all of them right. What exactly are you trying to do?”

“Are you looking down on me?” His voice trembled, clearly reaching the peak of his anger.

Even a clay figure has three parts fire, not to mention that all the people present were the top talents from various universities, young people who could endure loneliness and immerse themselves in scientific research. How could they possibly tolerate such an insult?

However, the host couldn’t answer such a question at all.

The key to saving the situation lies in time. Missing the most precious opportunity, any attempt to remedy it afterwards would just be a case of locking the stable door after the horse has bolted.

And the host’s silence after being stumped by the question turned into an acceptance of everything.

The netizens in the live stream who had been cursing before began to panic. They hadn’t really reacted yet and found Rong Ziyan and the geography and humanities academic’s sudden outbursts to be abrupt.

Those who had agreed with Rong Ziyan earlier and thought there was something wrong with the show quickly explained to them.

“Don’t you understand yet? The show is rigged. To make Rong Ziyan and the others lose, these people deliberately used the most difficult questions while lowering the difficulty of the opponents’ questions to ensure they could achieve their goal.”

“But those questions were quite difficult, weren’t they?”

“Is the person above stupid? Have you never eaten pork but have seen a pig run? Have you ever written a graduation thesis? Can you find all the books used for a graduation thesis on Baidu? You can’t! Even if you leave the campus network and try to search on CNKI, you have to pay.”

“This is an academic competition, if the answers can be found on Baidu, then what’s the point of finding these future scientific research experts? You could just call some aunties and uncles who like to watch documentaries and they might even get first place. It’s obviously a rigged show!”

The comments on the screen quickly became one-sided, and the show recording site was already in chaos.

Almost all the academics present were waiting for an explanation from the production team.

Seeing the situation was bad, the head director immediately pushed out the eloquent assistant director, wanting to salvage the situation.

“Don’t worry, don’t worry, I’ll first apologize on behalf of the production team to all the academic stars.” The assistant director looked like a friendly old man, and saying sorry did calm some people down, allowing them to listen to him.

Next, with a skillful speech, he covered up the rigging issue, attributing it to a lack of preparation and on-site mistakes.

“Our questions were prepared on the spot, so…”

“Nonsense!” Yao Lele couldn’t help but blurt out.

The assistant director was not anxious, smiling as he asked her, “Calm down little girl, you said I was talking nonsense, what evidence do you have?”

“…” Yao Lele was suffocated by his shamelessness.

Rong Ziyan, however, said, “I do. I’m afraid that after I speak, your show won’t be able to broadcast anymore. And you guys will have to be punished!”

The assistant director felt a jump in his heart, and subconsciously wanted to have Rong Ziyan’s mic removed. But Rong Ziyan had already spoken.

“Everything I say now, everyone can record on their screens, and then verify it later.”

“The production team has scripts, and is constantly trying to provoke the relationship between different universities. For the sake of sensationalism, they maliciously skewed the difficulty of the competition questions.”

“Evidence 1, the show’s unspoken rule is that the scope of the mock tests is the scope of the official competitions. And the books categorized within the scope of the mock tests can be found in the dormitories’ library. But there’s only one set.”

“To get it, you have to compete with people from other schools. Logically, each should rely on their own ability. But my PD hinted to me that I could use special methods. Such as forming alliances and scheming.”

“But in reality, there are only six teams participating each time, and the books involved each time are between 30 to 50. It is simply impossible for any one team to read through them all in a short amount of time. Therefore, clearly, 18 people could unite and focus on studying. Why waste time scheming that only entertains others?”

Rong Ziyan asked the top student from geography and humanities, “Think about it, isn’t that the logic? You three were supposed to be the home team this time, you practically know what’s on every page of those forty books with your eyes closed. All three of you together would have had it. Why bother competing?”

“Who told you to go?”

“Inducement, my PD induced me! He said that if you got the book, we would lose.” The geography and humanities academic muttered to himself, cold sweat instantly breaking out.

Such chilling details also made the others shudder involuntarily.

Yes! Focusing on studying would have been enough. On closer inspection, they had clearly spent a large amount of time competing! They said competition was second and friendship first. But the constant scheming and fighting had already created a huge gap between them. Gradually, they were still forming groups on WeChat, wary of each other.

But in reality, as long as they left this stupid show, they not only had no competitive relationship, but they were each other’s closest allies, watching out for and relying on each other.

But now, they had clearly lost sight of the big picture, yet they were still complacent, thinking they had gained an advantage.

It was too scary, all of this was too scary!

Seeing that they all understood, Rong Ziyan immediately stated the remaining evidence.

The production team was already tottering, they might cut off the live broadcast any second, Rong Ziyan had to say the final truth before all of this.

“Evidence 2, their questions were prepared beforehand, and the tenth question that stumped Xu Chuanzhi was also taken from an ancient text. I can guarantee that the person from the history department doesn’t know the answer either!”

“Yes, I don’t know it either.”

“That’s normal, because that question doesn’t have an answer. The ancient text is incomplete. The only printed material that can be found is at the Beijing Library. If anyone is nearby now, they can go check the borrowing records and see who has looked at it before. And what time it was.”

“If I’m not mistaken, it certainly won’t be today. After all, our recording location is not in Beijing now. But the planners and the head director are from Beijing, so they had someone look up this question in the Beijing Library beforehand and decided to use it to stump Xu Chuanzhi.”

“Evidence 3, eighty percent of the questions in my set were not within the scope of those forty books. And some of them were not even within the broad category of humanities.”

“As for that village with the special name, do you really think it’s just a simple geography question?”

“You’re really wrong. That village is not just too small to be shown on the map, it’s because its name was changed.”

“And the moment I say this name, everyone in the veterinary department will know. Fire Burn Village.”

“That’s the village that used burning poisonous weeds to resist locust plagues. The consequences were that the livestock in the village mutated, people suffered from chronic poisoning, experienced large-scale deaths, and the village was ultimately abandoned.”

“Didn’t expect that! This isn’t geography, it’s a matter of humans and nature. And from our veterinary pathology perspective, it’s called animal mutation caused by plant toxins.”

“Quick! Quick, stop the live broadcast, remove his mic!” The head director finally couldn’t hold back, and directly ordered people to cut off the live broadcast.

Rong Ziyan also took off his microphone, walked off the stage, and signaled for Yao Lele and Xu Chuanzhi to leave with him.

“Where are we going?” Xu Chuanzhi was still a little confused.

“Of course we’re going back to school!” Rong Ziyan laughed helplessly. After making such a scene, today was definitely not going to end well. But with the Agricultural University behind them, they would not suffer any losses. Rong Ziyan guessed that when Xu Chuanzhi was maliciously defeated, the school had probably already contacted the production team. They would most likely have a car waiting outside the recording site once they left.

However, with such a major incident happening with the production team, they would not let them leave no matter what.

Soon, stagehands blocked them.

Rong Ziyan didn’t say a word, grabbing the stagehand’s hand and subduing him, “Let go!”

Fast, ruthless, accurate!

Everyone present was just ordinary people, and they were stunned for a moment.

Rong Ziyan released the stagehand, and took the opportunity to lead Yao Lele and the other two away from the recording site, back to the dormitory.

Once inside, the first thing he did was pack his luggage to leave.

Rong Ziyan didn’t have much stuff, it took him a maximum of five minutes to pack it all. As for Yao Lele and Xu Chuanzhi, they were also quick. After the three of them gathered at the door, they unexpectedly found that the dormitory building’s main door had been locked from the outside.

Not only that, but their phones and computers could not receive any network signals, making it impossible to contact the outside world.

Did they want to trap them here?

So bold and audacious, the production team had completely gone mad!

And the other academics in the dormitory who had heard the news had also come out, most of them holding luggage.

These were all smart people. Before, they had been caught in the situation and couldn’t see clearly. Now that Rong Ziyan had given them a breakthrough point, of course they understood everything immediately. They were disgusted by the production team as well.

Rong Ziyan and the others withdrawing from the competition had given them an idea. Therefore, they also wanted to leave quickly, to avoid being related to this trash program. It was a complete waste of time.

But ultimately, they were a step too late. The production team, like a cornered dog, locked them all in here.

The windows on the four-story dormitory had protective bars, so they couldn’t jump out. So everyone was standing in the lobby on the first floor. Some were worried that something would happen, but they were soon comforted by the others.

“What are you afraid of? They wouldn’t dare to actually harm us. At most, they’ll just trap us for a few days.”

“Being trapped is the problem. A few days is enough for them to do public relations.”

“It won’t, we still have the school! They probably think the scientific research community is too weak and unimportant.”

However, Rong Ziyan waved towards a computer science academic inside, signaling him to come over.

“What’s the matter? Do you have a way?”

“I do.” Rong Ziyan pointed at Xu Chuanzhi next to him, who was taking out parts from his bag and tinkering with them, “If he can find a way to connect to the severed wireless signal, do you have a way to create a small program that prevents temporary blocking by the live broadcast platform in the fastest way?”

“What do you want to do?” The others also curiously gathered around.

Rong Ziyan pointed at the door, “The show still has fifteen of our brothers held captive!”

“Those idiot directors want to use the entertainment industry’s tactics to encroach on our academic community, I think we should let them see what’s what.”

“Don’t they want everyone to see what real academics are? Answering questions by rote is so stupid, let’s get down to brass tacks!”

Xu Chuanzhi tinkered with the parts in his hand, “Rong-ge, in another ten minutes, the signal booster will be ready. There’s absolutely no way they can block it again.”

“Very good.” Rong Ziyan pointed at his phone, “I’m going to log on to the live streaming platform in a moment, and expose everything that’s happening now.”

“Scientific research has no script, only the pursuit of truth. Universities teach and educate people for the prosperous future of the country. Even if we are now in an age of entertainment to the death, the academic community should be a pure land away from right and wrong.”

“I’m going to give them a lifelong lesson, are you all with me?”