Chapter 95: Admit defeat!
"Nothing is impossible." Xu Yan said lightly.
This level of memory is simply child's play for him. He has been extremely intelligent since he was a child and has the ability to remember everything he sees. His father, who used to be the captain of the special operations brigade, has specially trained and taught him. Let alone simple numbers, even if he walks through a street, after closing his eyes, every blade of grass, every tree, every shop, and every pedestrian on the street can appear clearly in his mind without any omission.
"Let's increase the difficulty this time and add another deck of cards." Yang Xiao gritted his teeth. In fact, doing so was quite risky for him, because his limit was to memorize sixty cards accurately within one minute. If the number exceeded this, he would not be confident.
"Simply memorizing the cards like this doesn't require any technical skills. How about adding something to the cards and deciding the winner in one go?" Xu Yan suggested with a smile.
Yang Xiao hesitated. He was best at memorizing cards. If he added something else to the cards, it was not his area of expertise. However, it was they who proposed the memory contest. Now that everyone was watching, it was difficult to refuse. So after just a moment of hesitation, he gritted his teeth and asked, "What to add?"
"Add a poem or a sentence to each card. When we say the numbers and suits of the cards later, say them together with the words on them. This way, we should be able to determine the winner in one go." Xu Yan said with a smile.
"Okay." Yang Xiao was in a dilemma and could only agree.
"Please write a sentence on the card." Xu Yan said to the onlookers with a smile.
Everyone had already been attracted by the game between the two, and when they heard Xu Yan say that they could write on the cards and directly participate in the game, they immediately became excited, and many people raised their hands to indicate that they wanted to write.
"Anyone can write on it, but there is one condition. The font must be large and in neat regular script. If the words you write are crooked and you can't even recognize them, then you can't participate." The referee found a pen, distributed the cards and pens to everyone, and joked.
"By the way, I want to add one more sentence at the end of this sentence. You don't have any objection, right?" Xu Yan asked Yang Xiao with a smile.
"Whatever." Although Yang Xiao felt guilty, he still agreed stubbornly .
"Okay then." Xu Yan nodded and said to everyone, "After everyone writes what they want to write, please add a sentence 'You admit defeat' at the end."
When everyone heard this, they thought it was not a difficult task and agreed one after another. Only Yang Xiao raised his eyebrows and wanted to refute, but when he saw Xu Yan staring at him with a smile, he groaned and swallowed back what he wanted to say.
More than a dozen people worked together, and soon all fifty-four cards were written on. The waiter collected the cards and casually flipped through a few of them. They were densely written with words. He picked up one and looked at it carefully. He saw that it said "Looking back suddenly, that person is standing at the end of the lights. You admit defeat!" This made him smile. It was originally a very poetic line of poetry, but with the addition of the last line "You admit defeat", it became a little out of place.
The referee put fifty-four cards together, shuffled them several times to disrupt the order, laid out the cards, asked the two people a question, and then the game officially began.
Under the attention of a group of people, Xu Yan and Yang Xiao turned around to look at the cards at the same time. Yang Xiao stared at the cards intently with his brows deeply furrowed. His gaze moved from front to back, staying on each card for a moment before moving backwards. A layer of fine beads of sweat soon appeared on his smooth forehead, and it was obvious that he was seriously exhausted.
On the other hand, Xu Yan still looked calm and composed, his eyes scanning each card. Although his speed was not as fast as before, it was still very fast and he looked very relaxed. It took him no more than 40 seconds to process the 54 cards. The rest of the time, he raised the corners of his lips and observed Yang Xiao.
" Time's up." One minute passed quickly, and at the referee's reminder, Xu Yan and Yang Xiao turned around.
"You seem to be struggling. You speak first." Xu Yan said to Yang Xiao with a smile.
Yang Xiao did not say anything. At this moment, his mind was completely filled with all kinds of numbers and annoying poems.
"5 of Clubs, the setting sun over the long river, the smoke rising in the desert. You admit defeat!"
"Three of Spades, I am hoeing the field in the middle of the day, and my sweat is dripping down to the ground. You admit defeat!"
"8 of Spades, read ten thousand books and travel ten thousand miles. You admit defeat!"
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Yang Xiao spoke one card after another. When he came to the poem on the eighth card, he was already a little overwhelmed. His forehead was covered with sweat, he was breathing heavily, and he was exhausted.
"Diamond 2, I was... woken up by holding it in this morning, and hurriedly got up... and took a pee. It felt so good! Just admit defeat!" When Yang Xiao said the tenth card with difficulty, he felt a bang on his forehead. The rest of the poem, which he didn't remember clearly to begin with, suddenly became a mess. He groaned and held his head with both hands, his body shaking.
"If you can't remember, don't try to be stubborn." Xu Yan shook his head and said.
"I'll remember ten, let's see how many you can remember." Yang Xiao's face turned pale. Forcing himself to remember these things made him feel nauseous. It took him a long time to feel better.
"The tenth card is '2 of Diamonds, I was woken up by the urge to pee this morning, so I got up and took a pee in a hurry. It was so refreshing! You admit defeat!' instead of what you said, '2 of Diamonds, I was woken up by the urge to pee this morning, so I got up and took a pee in a hurry. It was so refreshing! You admit defeat!' You forgot the word 'pee', but I'll admit that you were right." Xu Yan corrected him, and then said, "In order to avoid people saying that I'm bullying you, I'll start from the eleventh card, just like you said."
"9 of Diamonds, drunkenly looking at the sword by lamplight, dreaming of blowing the horn in the camp. You admit defeat!"
"6 of Hearts, a good man should wake up and take power in the world while lying drunk on the lap of a beauty. You admit defeat!"
"Ace of Spades, King of Kings, Tiger of Earth, Chicken and Mushrooms. Just admit defeat!"
Xu Yan spoke four cards without pause. When he talked about 'The King of Heaven Covers the Tiger of Earth, Chicken Stewed with Mushrooms', he smiled and said jokingly: "It seems that the man who wrote this sentence really likes Chicken Stewed with Mushrooms."
"10 of Hearts, looking back, that person is standing at the end of the street. Give up!"
"8 of Diamonds, braised chicken wings are my favorite. Give in!"
Xu Yan talked about the cards one by one, and in a blink of an eye he got to the 23rd card without any mistakes. He even had time to tease the person who wrote this sentence.
"God! He is truly a god!"
As Xu Yan spoke, everyone's mouths widened wider and wider, and finally their jaws almost dropped to the ground. They were shocked beyond words by his performance.
"Just admit defeat, just admit defeat, just admit defeat..."
Xu Yan continued to memorize, and at the end of each sentence, he would say with a sigh, "Just admit defeat." This sentence was like a curse, giving Yang Xiao a splitting headache.
Finally, Yang Xiao couldn't bear it anymore, and glared at Xu Yan and shouted, "Can you please stop saying that?"
"Okay, just admit defeat."
