Chapter XXIII
Qian Yang doesn't like Lao Dingtou, he really doesn't like it.
He felt that if he got rid of the miraculous gambling skills, Lao Ding Tou was actually a low-level intelligent creature with a dark belly, narrow-mindedness, selfishness, and self-righteousness, and his behavior revealed the low-end of this person everywhere.
But fate is so nonsense, he just made up a pair of CPs like Qian Yang and Lao Dingtou, two people who have no spiritual resonance at all, Qian Yang is very helpless about this, and I believe that Lao Dingtou is also like this. Fortunately, this situation should be over soon.
The venue was finally filled with countless heads, and the six chairs on the rostrum were all seated at some point.
A burst of coercion filled the hall without warning, but it was fleeting. And the originally noisy crowd became silent at this moment.
The white-haired old man sitting on the throne stood up, and amazingly, his eyes never opened.
"Thank you for coming to participate in this exchange meeting, Lao Lu Sheng, as the president of the Stone Master Association, was entrusted to preside over this exchange meeting. The white-haired old man's voice was sonorous, but the speed of his speech was unexpectedly slow, so that the listener's heart could not help but hang in the air, and he felt uncomfortable.
"As a rule, the exchange between the stone tasters will still be carried out in the form of competition, and the colleagues who perform well in the competition will be awarded a medal engraved with the ranking by the association. ”
In addition, the final winner of this exchange will be allowed to join the Stone Master Association, and will be recommended by the association to serve as the chief stone master of the Hongtou Mountain Mine. ”
This President Lu paused slightly when he said this, and heard countless unconscious inhalations in the hall as he wished.
"The one next to me is Elder Chen from the Hidden Sword Sect, and all matters in the Hongtou Mountain Mine are presided over by Elder Chen. ”
The scrawny old man on President Lu's left nodded slightly, indicating his identity.
President Lu then said: "In addition to me, the association also invited four industry leaders to jointly undertake the supervision and audit responsibilities. They are Master Zhou from the Hidden Sword Mine, Master Wu from the Five Elements Mine, Master Deng from the Duobao Mine, and Master Hao from the Ghost Rune Mine. ”
The eyes of more than 1,000 people in the venue swept over several legendary "titans" on the rostrum, and they felt a little more solemn in their hearts.
Of course, there are more than 1,000 people who don't feel the slightest solemnity, for example, Elder Qian, who has no desire for this competition, is now bored with several masters.
Master Zhou of the Hidden Sword Field had a serious face, and at first glance he was a "serious" person who did not smile, and he must be very boring on weekdays. And the martial master of the Five Elements Field has wide shoulders and a wide body, and his face is full of meat, and Bacheng is a master who does not hesitate. And Master Deng of Duobao Mine has seen it before, and he seems to be polite and harmless, but he may be even darker than Lao Dingtou in his heart. And that Master Hao of the Ghost Talisman Field has a kind face, always with a slight smile on his face, he should be a very good person to get along with.
It's the President Lu who has been talking slowly, Qian Yang really can't see what kind of person this is. Maybe it's because the eyes are the windows of the soul, and this President Lu keeps his windows closed, which really makes people feel elusive.
Why did he keep his eyes closed?
Qian Yang competed with himself for a long time before he came to a reliable conclusion, this President Lu shouldn't be a blind man, right?
Blind?
How fast Elder Qian's mind turned, when he thought of the blind man, he immediately remembered that Lao Ding Tou had told him that twenty years ago, the previous chief of Duobao Mine stepped down because he was blind, otherwise there would be no current Master Deng.
Then this old man Lu with broken eyes should not be the previous chief of the Duobao Mine, right?
When Qian Yang was thinking wildly, President Lu had already said almost all the nonsense that should be said, and only the last sentence remained: "I won't talk about the fact that you can't cheat in the competition, and the violators will be disqualified for life and will not be tolerated." ”
There were few responses in the field, and everyone didn't intend to cheat in the first place. Indeed, it is indeed quite difficult to cooperate in this kind of field, not to mention anything else, let's just say that President Lu and the Elder Chen of the Hidden Sword Sect are all real Yuan Infant Stage cultivators, and if you want to pass a small note or a message or a peep during the exam, it is purely to make yourself uncomfortable.
"If there is no problem, the exchange meeting will begin! From now on, no one is allowed to make a sound, and no one is allowed to look left and right!" President Lu announced the start of the examination in a deep voice, and reiterated the discipline of the examination room.
Immediately, several black-clothed security guards brought up ten rough stones of different sizes and lined them up in the middle of the field.
The man in black quickly left the venue after setting up the stones, and President Lu said: "There are a total of ten rough stones here, with labels from one to ten, and each candidate needs to pick out three rough stones from which you think are of the highest value, and enter the selected labels into their respective identity cards. After answering the questions, the ten rough stones will be solved together, and the five hundred people who have selected three rough stones with a higher total value will enter the next round of competition!"
Three out of ten, five hundred people with the highest sum value, the focus of the exam rules was found by Qian Yang at once, after all, if it comes to the exam, Qian Yang is definitely full of experience. And when Qian Yang heard this rule, his first reaction was: This round of exams is not very difficult?
There are a total of ten rough stones, and the value of each rough stone should be different, if this exam is necessary to choose the three pieces with the highest value, then the answer is the only one, and it is not wrong at all, so it is undoubtedly much more difficult.
But the president of the family made it clear that it doesn't matter if you can't choose the most valuable one, as long as the stone you choose is worth more than the one chosen by others. There are a total of 1,000 people, 500 people are promoted, 500 people are eliminated, and the pass rate of 50% is definitely kind.
However, what did he mean by entering the answer into the ID card?
Qian Yang took out the identity card worth 100,000 yuan, studied it carefully, and found that in addition to his number "thirty-eight" engraved on it, it was also crookedly engraved with numbers from one to ten, and next to each number there was a bulge the size of an ear spoon, which seemed to be able to be pressed.
"Is the clicker so high-tech?" Qian Yang suddenly felt a sense of trance. He found that he might have had some misunderstandings about this world all along, and this place was probably very different from his inherent impression of the Xiuzhen world. When he was in the countryside before, he didn't think that after coming to the Western Wilderness, he was stunned to find that many things here have a high "scientific and technological content".
For example, the stupid big DV over there, and then the clicker he has in his hand now.
In fact, if you think about it carefully, these things don't have much sense of disobedience.,The principle of that DV should not be much different from the photo stone.,And this brand that can answer questions.,It's not necessarily more high-end than his Qinglingzong's identity card that integrates ID cards and bank cards.。
But why do you feel that something is wrong?
"Damn Lao Dingtou! Don't explain anything to me, I hate it to death!" Qian Yang especially likes to be angry with others when he has a grudge, obviously Lao Dingtou is an extremely suitable target.
"You can step forward and check the rough stones in turn!" President Lu said slowly and sat down, obviously, more than a thousand people, each person needs to see ten stones, I am afraid that the time required is indispensable.
Sure enough, as soon as Lao Lu's voice fell, the front of the ten stones was already full of people, and Qian Yang didn't grab the hot one, so he waited honestly to the side, and he was not half anxious in his heart.
He never had any expectations for this exam, but because he was deceived by the old man into paying the money, he just tried to compare.
But what puzzled him was how the more than 1,000 people in the room were willing to spend 100,000 spirit stones to participate in such a boring exchange meeting. Is there no point in your heart to get such a resident seat? And he seems to remember that Lao Ding Tou said that even if there is usually no resident quota for the kind of exchange meeting, there will be hundreds of people signing up, what are you trying to do? 100,000 yuan is not money?
The masters on the rostrum drank tea and chatted, and the atmosphere seemed to be quite harmonious. Qian Yang, on the other hand, could only squat on the ground boredly and draw circles, and when he raised his eyes, he saw Lao Dingtou crowded in the crowd and was stroking a black stone with his hand, and his speed of drawing circles couldn't help but speed up again.
After half an hour, the number of people in front of the stone finally decreased, and many people began to hide in the corner next to them with signs.
As soon as Qian Yang saw this posture, he knew that it was finally time for him to show his skills, so he flicked his robe and came to the big earthy yellow stone closest to him.
This rough stone is the size of a washbasin, and it is the largest of the ten rough stones on the field, which is quite conspicuous. However, if you take a closer look, you can find that the skin of this stone is rough, the sand grains are coarse and turned out, and the distribution is very uneven, and the whole skin is colorless and protruding.
Which kind of garbage is this?Qian Yang frowned fiercely.
Elder Qian had been looking at the stones in Yifang City for more than a month, and he had really never seen an ugly man like this.
There is no way to judge the field without seeing it, but as far as his cognition is concerned, the performance of the outer skin of this stone is really bad, and Qian Yang believes that any spirit stone is probably unwilling to live in such an ugly home. In other words, such an outward manifestation can basically prove that it cannot have any wonderful connotation.
After reciting a word of PASS in his heart, Elder Qian had already decided to exclude this ugly stone from his final option.
The next stone is an angular white sand skin, Qian Yang has not seen many white sand skins, but Lao Dingtou's explanation is very detailed. Usually, the quality of the white sand skin with outstanding sand grains on the surface and slightly rough is not too high, while the sand grains like the one in front of me are fine and straight, like fine salt grains, often have good performance.
Moreover, the shape and characteristics of this stone show that this is a mountain stone, coupled with the color characteristics of yellow in white, all clearly show that this is a piece of white sand skin from the old field of the five elements, the scientific name should be called the five elements of white salt sand, which has always been a hot commodity in the rough stone market.
Qian Yang turned over his flashlight and shone it all over the stone, and found that in those angular protrusions, there seemed to be a faint blue reflection.
"What an excellent stone! If you take it out and sell it, you won't have to sell it for five thousand spirit stones!" Qian Yang sighed in his heart, and secretly wrote down the number of this rough stone, intending to use it as his alternative answer.