Chapter 174: The Game Begins

"I just came up from downstairs and it was so noisy. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 info "Youth scratches hair.

Lin An was still speechless, opened the door, and planned to shut himself inside. The young man subconsciously pressed one hand on the door frame, so that Lin An couldn't close the door.

"Anything else?"

"You, you're the designer who came to participate in the competition, I happen to be too, my name is Ichiro Hasegawa, I don't know what your name is? Are you Japanese? ā€

"Lin An, from China." Lin An replied coldly, and then before Hasegawa came back to his senses, he broke off his hand that was holding the door frame and closed the door.

Nothing happened overnight.

The next day, it was time for the tournament to officially start. The hall that was noisy last night has been divided into small rooms. The room is made of semi-transparent glass, so you can see the inside from the outside, but you can't see the outside from the inside.

To some extent, the possibility of cheating by the designers present is eliminated. The people inside can't see the outside, and the soundproofing also ensures that the possibility of the designer being disturbed during the competition is minimized.

Lin An took Alan and went directly into the small room marked with his name.

"Do what we agreed to do." In Lin An's small room, all the things that need to be used have been placed. Even the crystal that Lin An brought over by himself was placed on the clamp. The rest is the metal that Lin An has prepared.

"Okay." As soon as he entered the room, Alan was still a little nervous. But when he saw the layout in the room, Alan inexplicably returned to the academy's laboratory. The mood is much soothed.

"Let's get to work." Lin An sat in front of the crystal.

Lin An's task is heavy. Because, Lin An's works need to be cut in too many places, and the accuracy is also extremely high. If it were another designer, maybe only one stone would need to be cut, or even a dozen or so gemstones. However, although Lin An only brought one crystal, the number of cuts was thirty-six.

That's right, Lin An's work has thirty-six petals. And the cut surface on each petal is hard to say.

Lin An set up the microscope, adjusted the magnification, and then began to work. This time, the difficulty is much higher than the last one.

"Lin An?" The designers in the small room were busy, and outside the small room, people began to make rounds. The people who inspected were all jewelry design masters, and if Lin An and Alan were outside the room, they would definitely be able to recognize that the person standing next to the speaker was his teacher, Bernard.

"Do you have an impression of her?" Bernard pestle his cane, his eyes narrowed into a slit.

"yes, I'm very impressed with the name." The person who spoke was more than twenty years younger than Bernard, but when he stood next to Bernard, he said something old-fashioned. "Moreover, in the process of gemstone cutting, there are probably only these people named Lin An who use microscopes."

Obviously, this person who spoke had watched Lin An do the design more than once.

After Lin An pondered for a few seconds, he decisively put a knife on his crystal, and, first, peeled off a large piece of crystal. Bernard was taken aback, according to this peeling method, it won't be long before Lin An will finish peeling off the already small crystal!

"The first knife was down so quickly, this woman is very confident in herself!" The man was also very interested in leaning in front of the glass, and watched curiously as Lin An put the piece of crystal he had peeled off on the clamp.

Bernard was also curious, it stands to reason that half of the gems are scrap in the first cut, and what is really needed must be carefully crafted. Could it be that Lin An only wanted this crystal slice, not the big crystal next to him?

In the next cutting, Lin An's movements were extremely detailed. Because in the design, the size, shape, and position of each slice are extremely important. The slightest mistake is irreversible.

"The success rate of her work is too low." When the man had already withdrawn his gaze and moved to the door of another small room, he said to Bernard, who had been beside him, "If, this time, her work can be successful, then the first place will definitely belong to her." Of course, the probability of success is almost zero. ā€

Bernard turned around, Lin An was still busy next to the microscope, her speed was much faster than that of other designers, but her hand was extremely stable. And every time she went under the knife, she hardly hesitated, as if, she had already experienced the process of going under the knife many times.

Indeed, this way of going under the knife, Lin An doesn't know how many times he has simulated it in his heart. It has also been simulated countless times on the computer.

Light and heavy, angle, size, distance. Every data is in Lin An's heart, and every small section is determined by Lin An after careful calculation.

The man's evaluation is right, Lin An's work is an almost impossible design to complete. However, Lin An is Lin An, not anyone else. What others can't accomplish, Lin An may not necessarily can't accomplish.

The whole hall, there was no sound at all. Everyone wanted to hold their breath, even if the sound of their breath didn't affect the designers at all.

Allen's job is not easy at all. Even, it was the most difficult task he had ever been exposed to. The polishing of metals is not much easier than the polishing of gemstones, and besides, there are forty or fifty pieces of metal that Lin An handed over to him, and each piece of metal is pitifully small.

These things are so small that the small ones can only be cut by wire cutting, and the smallest props can be cut. Even, some small parts are more difficult than cutting diamonds.

Lunch, both Lin An and Alan missed it. To be exact, none of the designers came out for lunch.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, next to Lin An, one of the thirty-six pits was finally filled, which meant that the first petal had been cut.

The crystal stone, which originally had no brilliance, is now shining brightly. Allen's speed was even faster than Lin An's, and on his side, there were already three small parts into the small box.

Lin An reloaded the large piece of crystal on the clamp, exhaled deeply, and then carefully peeled off a piece of the crystal again.

Lin An put the crystal on the clamp, exhaled, and stood up. The sound of the stool moving slightly woke Alan from his work, and he looked at Lin An suspiciously.

"You're busy, I'll go get something to eat." Lin An waved his hand and walked out the door.

After not eating for a day, Lin An's state has dropped a lot. Each piece of crystal in the work is required to be cut in one go. Lin An can't guarantee that when he cuts the second slice without eating for a day, he can do it in one go.