Chapter 94: A unique competition
The next day, lunch time.
Xu Yan once again embarked on the road of challenge, striding with his head held high and full of style, but he didn't know that the situation had been reversed. The various companies had already found ways to deal with him, and what awaited him would be an unpredictable and tough battle.
After a brief opening statement, Xu Yan said as usual: "Trainee Private Xu Yan came to ask for advice. I wonder if you have decided what event you want to compete in?"
"Compare your memory!" said a squad leader.
"Memory?" Xu Yan was stunned, raised his eyebrows and whispered.
Seeing this, the squad leader seemed to be afraid that Xu Yan would refuse, and hurriedly said: "It's like this, we watched your match with the communications company yesterday, and we know that you are tired of competing in physical fitness shooting and other events, so you want to compete in something special!"
As soon as this statement came out, it immediately caused a lot of discussion. Some people supported it and some opposed it. The opposition was mainly from the reconnaissance company. Luo Yifei and Jiang Danian were fine. They knew Xu Yan better and knew that this guy was more powerful in the brain than in physical strength. However, Lu Xiaolin and other comrades from the reconnaissance company could not help but worry objected, "We are in the army, and we are competing in military projects. It is not appropriate to compete in memory!"
"Memory is also a kind of military skill. Many military technical parameters are inseparable from memory. It is just a soft military skill. Why is it inappropriate? Moreover, they can even compete in tongue twisters, so why not memory?" The other party argued with reason and said the words he had prepared last night, leaving Lu Xiaolin and others speechless. Then he stared at Xu Yan and provoked him: "Xu Yan, you said that we can choose any project. I wonder if this sentence counts?"
"Of course it counts, but are you sure about competing in memory?" Xu Yan curled his lips and said with a rather strange expression. This group of people probably didn't know that his best skill was not physical fitness, but wisdom and strategy. They actually chose to compete with him in memory. Isn't this like a mouse trying to get excitement from a cat?
"It's just memory. How about it, do you dare?"
"Since you are looking for trouble, I will grant your wish!" Xu Yan laughed.
Seeing that Xu Yan agreed, the squad leader called over a man with a pale complexion and looked thin and weak. His name was Yang Xiao. He was a card-playing master in the company and was best at remembering and counting cards. He never lost in playing cards. The best choice was naturally playing cards, but he was afraid that Xu Yan would refuse, so he had to settle for the second best and chose to test his memory - remembering cards!
The method of the game is very simple. Just take out a deck of cards and place them on the table. Two people will look at them for one minute respectively, and then say the numbers and suits of the cards in order. Whoever remembers more wins.
Xu Yan didn't care about this and agreed directly. Then someone took out a deck of cards, shuffled the cards a few times, and laid them out, acting as the referee of the competition.
"You are quite well prepared!" Lu Xiaolin and others couldn't help but sarcastically say something when they saw this. The other party didn't get angry and just arranged the cards by himself.
After the referee arranged the cards, Xu Yan said to Yang Xiao, "You go first."
Yang Xiao did not back down either. He took a deep breath, turned around slowly, and started .
Just look at his bright eyes, which flashed with brilliance from time to time, and his mouth muttering softly. After about forty or fifty seconds, Yang Xiao looked away with a confident smile .
"From left to right, they are the 7th of Diamonds, the 3rd of Hearts, the 2nd of Diamonds, the 9th of Spades..." Yang Xiao read out loud the cards he had seen before.
As he spoke, the people around him couldn't help but whisper, marveling at his amazing memory. It was not an easy task to remember so many numbers and suits in less than a minute. It was already amazing for ordinary people to remember ten or twenty cards, but Yang Xiao managed to remember all fifty-four cards without a single mistake. His memory was truly amazing.
After finishing talking about the memory cards, Yang Xiao looked at Xu Yan proudly, "It's your turn."
"Shuffle the cards!" Xu Yan curled his lips and said to the referee. The referee nodded, put the cards away, shuffled them and put them back on.
After the cards were laid out, Xu Yan turned around and scanned the cards quickly, which took no more than three seconds before he withdrew his gaze indifferently.
"Okay." Xu Yan said and turned around.
"Are you sure you have remembered it?" the referee asked uncertainly.
"Yeah!" Xu Yan nodded.
"No way, he only took a quick glance and he remembered all 54 cards, how is that possible?" Everyone whispered to each other, not believing that Xu Yan really remembered them, because it was too unbelievable. If they said that he remembered the data after looking at them for dozens of seconds like Yang Xiao, they would still believe it. But like him now, he remembered them completely after just a quick glance, that was too unbelievable and beyond everyone's acceptance.
"Could it be that he simply can't remember it and is just trying to cover it up?" someone suspected.
This statement immediately gained recognition from many people, "I think so too, how could someone be so amazing?"
"I don't think so. Although this guy is arrogant, shameless and extremely annoying, his talent is unquestionable. His previous performance in the competition is enough to prove it, and I'm afraid it's no exception now..." someone who was impressed by Xu Yan's performance retorted.
"Physical fitness is physical fitness, and memory is memory. These are completely different fields, okay? How can they be mixed up? And who says that people with good physical fitness must have good memory? Good physical fitness can only prove that the motor nerves are well developed, and it has nothing to do with the memory nerves, okay? Haven't you seen many good athletes who have poor memory and terrible academic performance?"
A minute passed as everyone argued in low voices.
"Everyone, be quiet." The referee shouted, and everyone immediately shut up and looked at Xu Yan, waiting for him to give the answer. Xu Yan smiled lightly and said the faces of the fifty-four cards one by one, without any error.
"He actually remembered it, how is that possible?"
"This is too good to be true. There are 54 cards on the deck, and he memorized them with just one glance. Even a scanner can't do this!"
There were sounds of people gasping for air, and the crowd became noisy like a pot boiling. They could hardly believe their eyes. All this was so beyond everyone's understanding.
"How is this possible?" Yang Xiao looked at Xu Yan in surprise and disbelief. His self-confidence suffered a big blow. He thought he could easily beat Xu Yan in memorizing playing cards, but the result was far beyond his expectations. Although he also memorized the fifty-four cards, it took him nearly fifty seconds, while Xu Yan memorized them all at a glance. The gap between them was huge.
