Chapter 13: Apologize
The result was just as expected at the beginning, and there was no suspense at all.
Almost immediately after the first question appeared, Locke pressed the answering machine and said the correct answer, which surprised his opponents, and felt that Locke's performance was better than last year.
However, after a little more than an hour, the game was over, and the team led by Locke directly crushed the opponent and won the victory with a super high gap of 78:22.
After glancing at the final score, the host immediately announced: "Our champion has been produced, and that is Sturt High School." β
βyesοΌβ Lip, who won the victory, was very excited, ran to the side of the Trinity High School Olympiad team, and almost pointed to Kent, the captain of the Trinity High School Olympiad team, who was blue-faced, and danced and sang:
"Do you like me now? Do you like this? yeahοΌ β
He still remembered the mocking attitude of Kent, the captain of Trinity High School, after his victory last year, and naturally took the opportunity to return it at this time.
"Hmph." Kent, the captain of Trinity High School, turned red with a cold snort and left the game, not even participating in the post-game award ceremony.
"You're so arrogant when you lose!" Watching the other party leave, Lip complained angrily: "We didn't have a lot like them when we were runners-up last year. β
"Students, don't care about this, just remember that we won, we will go to receive the award now, and everyone should enjoy the joy after the victory." The math teacher who led the group clapped his hands and laughed.
The other party's rude performance, Locke also understood the reason.
Because people with high intelligence do not mean that they are broad-minded, on the contrary, because the intelligence of geniuses is far beyond ordinary people, they are accustomed to winning, and when facing failure or even different opinions, negative emotions will be more intense.
This is not a special case, in the scientific community, there are many such people, such as Newton and Edison are recognized as typical examples of extremely poor character, which is not widely circulated in the East, but it is not a secret that related things are related to Europe and the United States.
In the plot of Sheldon Jr. and The Big Bang Theory, it is extremely common for scientists to fight over theories, and saber rattling is extremely common.
It is understandable that this does not mean that Locke is willing to accommodate the other party, thinking of the plot of Leonard when he won the school physics competition in the Big Bang Theory, after receiving the medal, he said loudly:
"Don't care about those guys at Holy Trinity High School, don't hesitate to accept the award, even if they behave arrogantly, there is one person who disagrees."
"Huh?"
Everyone couldn't help but look at Locke.
"Our final winner's medal!" Locke picked up the medal on his chest and waved it vigorously.
"Hahaha......"
Everyone laughed happily as they looked at the direction in which several members of the Trinity High School team left, as for the shadow area in the hearts of the Holy Trinity High School Olympiad members after these words spread, what does it have to do with them
At the same time, Locke glanced at the system task and pocketed 500 potential points, which is still a little happier than such a task reward, and it is not troublesome at all.
As for next year, Locke felt like he could do it again.
In addition to the rewards for completing the tasks in the system, the school also has a cash prize, a prize of 2,000 US dollars, and the remaining five days, you can move freely to see the local scenic spots, or what attractions are coming.
The hotel room rate has been paid in advance, and there is even a $1,000 reimbursement for each person, which adds up to $3,000, which was still very valuable in 1989.
It's no joke that you can make money with good grades, both in the East and the West.
If you are being educated about happiness, then you should be vigilant, if you can't perceive this and try to get out of the situation, then you will eventually be raised as a pig, and the only value in society in the future is to be served on the table as a leek.
After a few days in New York, the group returned to school in high spirits, and Locke realized that before he knew it, Christmas was very close.
In his previous life in the Eastern Kingdom, Locke didn't care much about Christmas, but in this life, Locke was an orphan and didn't have any special feelings about Christmas.
This Christmas, he will most likely stay in his dormitory quietly as usual.
That weekend, Locke rode to Mandy's house and knocked on the door.
Soon a maid opened the door, saw that it was Locke, and led him directly to Mandy's room, and at a glance saw Mandy in an orange coat.
"You're here early today." Guiding Locke to his desk and placing the books on the table, Mandy said, "I'm going to clean up a bit, you read the books for a while." β
Locke didn't care, took out the prepared book and read it, he came to be a tutor, he originally had the idea of mixing money, working for capitalists, and he was not a good employee if he didn't grind foreign workers.
Locke gave her tutoring just for a generous tuition fee, and after winning the lottery, these tuition fees were not much in Locke's eyes, at most as pocket money for ordinary expenses.
In addition to the opportunities that can be grasped in memory, Locke's investments in stocks are all long-term holdings, and some are similar to Warren Buffett, and Locke, who has relevant memories, will only do better than him.
After winning the lottery for the first time, Locke finally didn't resist the greed in his heart and changed to lottery betting.
He chose niche lotteries with modest amounts, and most of the prizes were hundreds of thousands of dollars.
If you want to learn Buffett snowball, of course, the bigger the snowball at the beginning, the more lucrative the future income.
Of course, the place to buy lottery tickets is not Dallas, but a nearby city, which is equivalent to changing places with one shot.
It's all about being as unobtrusive as possible, and winning the first prize of each lottery only once, so as to avoid being noticed as much as possible.
After all, if you always win the lottery, it will be too noticeable, and now Locke is just a nobody, and there will be no good results for being targeted by the issuers of those lottery tickets.
"Locke!" After a while, Mandy's voice came from behind him, and Locke couldn't help but salute slightly.
Seeing Locke's reaction, Mandy was slightly happy in her heart, and the smile on her face became even sweeter.
This time, she had been preparing for a long time, and through her previous failures, she carefully studied Locke's preferences and specially prepared this 'battle suit'.
The close-fitting clothes perfectly set off Mandy's figure, and with her pure and sweet appearance, the temptation is even higher.
A girl who looks pure and sweet is not necessarily pure, at least the Mandy that Locke knows is a rather arrogant, selfish and cunning girl.
The new outfit of the girl in front of her is indeed very attractive, and Locke's gaze stayed on Mandy's body for several seconds before slowly retracting: "Let's start, what else do you not understand about the parabola problem I told you last time?" β
"I still feel like there are a lot of things I don't understand." Mandy came and sat down beside Locke, revealing a pitiful look, and with a pure face, it was extremely seductive.
Raising his eyebrows, Locke can be regarded as having been tested many times, and said quietly: "Then let's start from the beginning, you see, the parabolic equation is like this......"
Picked up the pen and wrote the equation on the manuscript paper, Locke was just about to cooperate with the drawing of the figure, but he didn't expect Mandy next to him...
"What are you doing!" The girl's movements surprised Locke, it turned out that Mandy was only in the temptation stage, but he didn't expect it to be so direct this time.