The competition has not yet begun, and the envoys of various countries are still carrying out extremely tedious ceremonies. Seeing that no one was paying attention, Shi Jinyan casually took a cloak and wrapped it around her body, and quietly walked down the waiting area.

After a while, Shi Jinyan returned. Sima Hongyan was very surprised, and asked her in a low voice, "It's okay so soon?" ”

Shi Jinyan smiled and replied, "Yes! I handed the token directly to His Highness the Nine! As soon as I said it was you, he did it without saying a word. ”

Sima Hongyan looked at Shi Jinyan with wide eyes, and said, "Okay, second sister, are you making the best use of your talents and making the best use of your resources?" ”

Shi Jinyan said disapprerovingly: "With the dispatch of the Nine Emperor Princes, isn't it ten times faster than I think of a way?" ”

For a while, Sima Hongyan was silent.

The boring etiquette was finally over, and the envoys of various countries took their seats. The sound of gongs and drums sounded in the school martial arts field, and the center of the entire arena was emptied, and several Yanling officials walked into the field and announced loudly: "The game is on!" "The moment of anticipation has finally arrived.

The format of the Five Nations Tournament is completely different from that of the Martial Arts Conference, and for the sake of fairness, Yanling has made a detailed plan for the rules of the competition.

Ten competitions, each of which is played in order, and there is no judge for the outcome of each event. The reason for the absence of a referee is that no matter which side the referee comes from, it will be questioned by others, so the outcome of the game is a way to determine the winner without the referee.

This method of competition was announced to all countries as early as when they invited countries to participate, and finally it was unanimously approved by the other four countries. So in terms of the way the game is played, it's absolutely fair.

It's like the first "literal" word competition. Each of the five countries has one player in the competition, and these five opponents compete at the same time. The outcome also depends entirely on the ability and ability of the five racers.

In the center of the arena there are five circled circles, and a table and a chair are placed in each circle. These five circles form a circle and a formation, and from the top, they look like a plum blossom in full bloom.

The competitors sit in their own positions according to the colors of their countries, and these five people sit down with their backs to the middle, and no one can see their opponents or the center of the plum blossom formation.

At this time, a guard will step forward and cover the eyes of the five racers with a black cloth, which has naturally been inspected by the five countries. After that, a screen was placed behind the runners, so that the five people in the game could not see the center of the club formation in any way.

In the center of the plum blossom array, there are many square boxes of the same size on the ground, densely packed with hundreds, and the box is just the size of enough to fit a book.

All this was arranged, and then the guards carried the world's famous book titles that had been recognized and screened by all countries, and put them directly into the square box in the center of the plum blossom array, with the titles facing upward.

Then, one of the assistants from each country stood behind their national players in the center of the line, facing a tome in the field. Of course, in order to prevent cheating, there is still a certain distance between these assistants and the racers, but they can't talk if they want to.

Each racer's table is dyed with stones of their own color, and when the race begins, each racer takes turns throwing their own stones backwards. When the stone fell into the box, five assistants took out the book in the box at the same time, and after confirming it, they called out the name of the book at the same time.

And this book is the one the racer is going to memorize!

From the beginning to the end of the whole book, a good recitation of a word is qualified, a wrong word is a failure, a time limit for a stick of incense, if the incense is burned and has not been recited completely, it is also a failure. Until a national racer recites three books in a row without error, he wins!

So who is to judge whether the recitation is correct or not? It's up to the other four racers to decide.

During the recitation, if one of the competitors thinks that the opponent has made a mistake, they can immediately raise their hand, and the five assistants will announce the reciter to stop at the same time, and then ask the person who raised his hand to say what the mistake was.

The person who raises the hand needs to say in detail what the reciter made wrong and say the correct answer. Then, after five assistants opened the original book to confirm it, they raised the flag to indicate the result, and whoever correctly raised the flag of the corresponding color.

Of course, there are risks associated with questioning what is right or wrong in others. If you say the opponent's mistake and it is confirmed by the assistant of the five countries that it is indeed the opponent's mistake, the reciter will be considered a failure in the round and the next racer will start over. Those who are pointed out to be wrong three times in a row will be eliminated and the remaining players will continue to compete.

But on the contrary, if your questioning is your own mistake and the reciter is not wrong, then the other person can continue to recite and your own incense stick will be cut off by a third. If you ask three questions in a row that are incorrect, you will also be eliminated from the round.

Therefore, if you want to find other people's mistakes, you must first ensure that your own memory is accurate, otherwise it is likely to be ended before you even started.

This competition requires a lot of concentration and no interference from any other sound than the voices of the five players and five assistants.

Fortunately, the martial arts field of the school is extremely large, the onlookers are all hundreds of zhang away, and there is the control of the forbidden army, and there will never be other voices in the field. If there is malicious interference by other racers in any country, it will be regarded as a failure of the racer of that country.

This format has been tried many times and is almost flawless, and players from all countries can only win if they are genuine.

In addition, there are as many as 1,000 famous books and famous books recognized in the world, all of which are familiar to all literati since childhood, and they are not afraid that the racers will have no books to memorize in the end. In case no one can memorize three books in a row, it depends on who can find the mistakes of others, and if four of the five people are eliminated because of their mistakes, the remaining one wins.

This competition is not only a test of memory, but also a test of how many books each competitor has read and memorized in the past. If you choose a book that you haven't read, or that you have read but haven't memorized, you can only admit that you lost this round.

From the beginning to the end, there was no intervention from others in the "Wen" competition, and the competition was only between the racers, so it was fair and reasonable.

But in Sima Hongyan's opinion, this competition is simply perverted.

Not to mention endorsement, it takes a lot of effort for her to read a book. In his spare time, Sima Hongyan once flipped through these books, but he couldn't read a single page after reading them for a long time.

The reason is that these so-called famous books and ancient books are not only obscure, but also extremely difficult to understand. The content was completely incomprehensible, and she really couldn't imagine that someone could memorize the whole book.

Looking at Li Siyu, who was about to appear, Sima Hongyan realized that this weak scholar also had an outstanding side. Being able to read these astronomical books is really not something that ordinary people can do.

In the competition for the text of the martial arts conference, Shi Jinyan won the second place, Sima Hongyan couldn't help but ask Shi Jinyan: "Second sister, can you really memorize these thousands of heavenly books?" ”

Shi Jinyan stared at the middle of the field with her eyes, and replied without looking back: "I can't memorize it!" She thought for a moment before she added, "There are always dozens of books that are still a little bit of heat." ”

"Dozens of copies?" Sima Hongyan exclaimed: "Thousands of books, you are short of dozens of books? Are you really fake? You're only twenty years old! Isn't that more than fifty books memorized every year since you were born? ”

Hearing Sima Hongyan's fuss, Shi Jinyan turned her head and said to her: "You haven't memorized books, so you don't know, in fact, the most of these books is only seventy or eighty thousand words, and the few are only forty or fifty thousand words, which is not very difficult to remember." ”

Seeing that Sima Hongyan still had that unbelievable expression, Shi Jinyan said again: "Forget it! When the game is over, I'll teach you to endorse when I go back, and you'll understand what I mean if you memorize it! ”

As soon as he heard that he was going to teach himself to endorse, Sima Hongyan's head immediately shook and shook his head, and he shook his head and said firmly: "Don't teach me, I won't learn if I am killed!" ”

At this time, I heard the presiding officer shouting, "Please take a seat for the racers from all over the world!" Follow the gong "Bang Bang" three times in a row.

Li Siyu slowly stood up, saluted everyone, straightened his clothes, and walked slowly towards the field.

Sima Hongyan suddenly twitched his head and shouted at Li Siyu: "Come on!" He also clenched his fists and made a cheering motion.