"The soul absorbed by it can only be liberated by using my soul as the key."

"It's the only possibility."

"Even my will can't change the rules of 'know or not'."

"So..."

Adam smiled expectantly, "Are you willing to take on the challenge?" ”

Naranga clenched his fists tightly, almost subconsciously wanting to reply, "Accept the challenge."

"Calm down!" Bugarati grabbed Naranga's arm: "It's a trap. ”

"I know..."

Naranga clutched her head in pain:

"I don't have that brain... Even Fogg failed, and I couldn't have won him at all. ”

"But let me just give up... I'm not reconciled! ”

In the darkest hour of his life, it was Fuge who saved him from his homeless life.

Now that Fugue's soul is in prison and reduced to a collection, Naranga can't stand anything, and it's even harder to calm down.

"Haha."

Appreciating such entanglement and pain, Adam was very "kind" to remind:

"You better not come to die."

"People who can't even do math in elementary school are not qualified to be my opponents."

"You?!"

Naranga was furious, then weakly lowered his fist.

He knew that the other party's mockery was actually right, he was not good at competing in knowledge, and he didn't have the strength to compete with Adam at all.

"What should I do?"

Everyone fell into confusion and helplessness, and the air was extremely silent.

"I see..."Apaki was the bad guy and uttered the cruelest but rational choice: "It's better to just kill this bastard." ”

"If you keep trying, you'll only get more of your companions into the trap."

"Get out in time..."He paused a little unbearably, "in order to minimize the loss." ”.

Survival with a broken arm is the ancestral art of the stand-in messengers, but now it is not an arm that will be broken, but a human life.

However, in the face of such a cruel proposal, even Bugarati and Naranga, who had the deepest feelings with Fogg, did not react for a while.

Reality is not a hot-blooded comic, and those objectively existing gaps cannot be made up for by will and blood.

Now it's about knowledge...

Naranga, on the other hand, has a primary school education; Misda, junior high school education; Apaji, high school education; Giorno, junior high school student; Bugalati, dropped out of junior high school;

Fuge, who dropped out of college after studying, is already the most educated existence among them, and even Fuge has failed to challenge, how can others succeed?

After all, they suffered the loss of being uneducated.

"Let me do it!"

In the midst of this desperate atmosphere, the only college student in the team who had completed his higher education stepped forward.

Li Qing walked up to Adam with a serious expression and sat down: "Just let me be your opponent!" ”

"Li Qing?!"

Giorno frowned, and his tone was solemn: "Are you sure?" If even you fall into it..."

"Don't worry, I've observed..."

"If nothing else, I'd be 80% sure."

Li Qing replied so calmly.

For the first time, he didn't turn on the data mode in battle, but stared at the enemy with his naked eyes:

"Listen up Adam, I'm Li Qing, now officially accept your Q&A challenge!"

"Good!"

There was a hint of eagerness in Adam's eyes.

He looked at Li Qing's hairstyle, which was very popular among high-level intellectuals, and faintly sensed an aura of wisdom.

This soul, which seemed to contain a huge amount of knowledge, was exactly the spoils he was looking forward to:

"Very well, in that case..."

"Then let's gamble our souls and start this challenge!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the book that had just devoured Fogg's soul rose into the air again.

It opens the pages of the book and blooms with a strange halo.

The chains of light penetrated Adam and Li Qing's brains, and a projected light screen appeared in the air:

"First round."

"Please ask Li Qing to ask a question, with a time limit of one minute."

"You go first."

Adam explained the rules to Li Qing again in an impatient tone:

"As long as you can ask questions that I can't answer, and then answer the questions I ask, you'll win the challenge."

"Of course, the question has to be within a narrow range of knowledge."

"The test is the knowledge that can be memorized, and it is a foul to embarrass others with some personal problems, and the same is true for math problems that require a lot of time to calculate on the spot."

"I hope you don't play any tricks and kill yourself like that little ghost just now."

"Understood."

Li Qing laughed preparedly:

"This macroeconomic issue should be formal enough, right?"

"So, take my question—"

Thoughts are conveyed through the chains of light, and a question then arises on the projection screen:

"Q: Twenty years from now, what will be the country that is the world's second largest economy?"

"Adam Kiever, please, for one minute."

"What?!"

Adam's face suddenly changed:

"Twenty years later? Isn't this a prediction of the world economy in 20 years? ”

"How can you possibly have the right answer to this kind of question that is difficult for top economists to give an accurate answer to - this is a foul and should be directly adjudicated..."

As he spoke, his voice suddenly froze.

Because, after Li Qing raised this question, the absolutely impartial "truth machine" did not sentence Li Qing to foul.

Other words... Li Qing knew the correct answer to this question.

"How is that possible?!"

Adam couldn't help but start doubting life.

And Li Qing was sitting there on the ground, learning from Adam's previous appearance, and mocked with disdain:

"What? Do you only know how to memorize economic theories, but you can't predict economic trends? ”

"What else do you say that your own wisdom is superior to others.... If you don't know how to use it, rote knowledge is complete rubbish! ”

"You?!"

Adam clenched his fists unconsciously, and the green tendons on the back of his hands squirmed like snakes in anger.

Li Qing's words inadvertently touched the hollow in his heart and reminded him of his past:

He's a genius, a child prodigy.

Don't forget, read and remember, know astronomy, know geography, learn through the east and west, and learn the ancient and the modern... In Adam's view, these idioms from the ancient countries of the East seem to be tailor-made eulogies for him.

He can memorize all the books he has read, including the punctuation of the author's markers on every page and paragraph.

He can remember everything he has heard, including the tone of the teacher's lecture in every lesson and sentence.

In Adam's view, since he already possessed the wisdom to stand at the pinnacle of humanity, he should have a position above others.

"People are in the United States, just got off the plane", he doesn't even bother to pay attention to this level of life.

Of course, this was just Adam's own fantasy.

In fact, this so-called genius, who has enjoyed the admiration of thousands of people with the aura of a prodigy since he was a child, was persuaded to quit by his supervisor when he was just a graduate student.

The professor's statement was:

"You only know memory, but you don't know how to create and use it. You think you have a lot of knowledge, but you never know it. “

"Fragmented knowledge is completely fragmented, and in the end it is a pile of garbage!"

"Instead of wasting time in the lab, people like you should go to the TV station and perform 'acrobatics.'"

The stern professor was so merciless to wake up Adam, who was living in fantasy.

But Adam didn't want to wake up, and he went mad in the humiliation of being swept away.

In order to prove that his intelligence is superior to others, he becomes addicted to a boring quiz game that gradually becomes the sole purpose of Adam's existence after awakening to some strange power.

He finds great satisfaction in winning after victory, flaunting his victory with the soul of his opponent.

And now...

When life was proud, Adam heard such ridicule from Li Qing again: "The knowledge you have is just some rubbish." ”

"Damn!"

Adam cried out angrily:

"You will pay for what you say!"

"Isn't it just predicting the economic trend, I... Wait..."

He seemed to have suddenly reacted to something, and his mood became a little calmer:

"I was almost fooled by you."

"If you think about it, it's not that hard to predict the world's second largest economy in 20 years."

According to the theory of the Italian economist Pareto, 20% of the people in the society own 80% of the social wealth, which is the famous 28 law.

This law is not only valid for one country, but also for the whole world: developed countries, which account for 20% of the human population, account for 80% of the world's wealth.

The class has been solidified, the poor will only get poorer, and the rich will only get richer.

Today's economic power will only be stronger in 20 years.

The rest of the poor countries are all mud legs that are disdained by Westerners, and they are all leeks harvested by the economic powers, and they want to change their lives against the sky?

The Asian financial crisis two years ago has proven that this is simply wishful thinking!

"Huh."

"The high-end technology is in our hands, and the market cake that can be divided has long been divided."

"Unless the third world war is fought, the status quo of world domination by our old developed countries will never change!"

Adam pondered for a while, and finally came up with an answer:

"Twenty years later, the world's second largest economy will still be Japan!"

As soon as the words fell...

A touch of disdain appeared at the corner of Li Qing's mouth.

The stereoscopic light screen flickered for a while, and then the subtitles were played like this:

"The answer is incorrect."

"Correct answer: Dragon Country."

"What ?!!"

Adam's face changed drastically, and his eyes were round like a cow:

He also thought that the country of Wano, which is now far ahead, might be surpassed by Britain, France, Germany, and Italy, but... Kill him, he couldn't imagine that it would be that country to become the No. 2 player!

Now it's 1999, and in the midst of Western public opinion during this time period... That country is simply a weak existence that is going to collapse the next day.

Adam had read countless articles and books on economics, and none of them were not singing about the dragon kingdom.

Now faced with the correct answer given by the "truth machine", he has to doubt life again:

How so?

Said to be going to collapse!