The Extraordinary Urban God of Medicine - Chapter 20

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation

Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

It was incredible that Huang Xiaolong even squeezed through the crowd from the outside. There were even some girls that got squished so hard that their bras came off and they did not bother putting them back on!

“Everyone, please don’t rush or push each other too hard. If you guys continue to squeeze, someone may get pregnant…Hahahaha… Our prize-winning contest will last for a few hours so everyone present will have the opportunity to come onto the stage to win something…” The male emcee tried to maintain order from the stage.

There were already fifty people on the stage, and a group of big-bellied security guards forcibly blocked the people who could not make it onto the stage.

There were staff members who lined up the people on the stage in an orderly manner.

Then, they proceeded to give everyone a pen and an answer board.

“OK! We have recruited fifty pals of ours onto the stage. The first round of the Memory Breakthrough event is about to begin. Please pay attention to the rules.” The male emcee meticulously pointed to an LED display on the stage and announced. “Please take a look at the big screen. There will be 10 pictures on the big screen and after a minute, the pictures will be flipped. That means that everyone is required to jot down the pictures in order within a minute on the answer board in your hands… Is everyone ready?”

As soon as he said that, a timer appeared on the large LED screen and the time displayed 60 seconds, which was one minute.

“Get ready—Go!”

With the order from the male emcee, the countdown started and 10 pictures appeared on the large LED screen!

The people below the stage were also quiet. The people who were not able to get onto the stage watched the pictures on the large LED screen intently, silently remembering it in their hearts.

The 10 pictures in the first round were pretty simple to the point that there were virtually zero difficulties.

The moon, the sun, Tiananmen Square, the Great Wall, a Pekingese…

After glancing at it, Huang Xiaolong started writing quickly on the answer board with a ballpoint pen.

“Hehe. The so-called first round is always the easiest. Even a child could do that. Correspondingly, the prize will be a lousy one…” Cui Feiyan stood below the stage and sneered. She had been the top of her classes since she was a child. She was smart and had an extraordinary memory. Within a few seconds, she had memorized the 10 pictures in the first round in order.

The 60-second countdown ended.

The pictures were flipped like poker cards.

“Okay, it’s time for the first round of elimination. Please quickly write your answers on the answer board.” The male emcee smiled.

To be honest, that round was indeed an easy pass with most of the faces on the stage plastered with joyful smiles.

After three minutes, they put their boards up.

The staff checked them one by one.

In the end, only one out of the fifty people who participated in the first round of the Memory Breakthrough event was eliminated, and all the others passed!

“Er… seriously? How can he answer this incorrectly? It was obviously a simple question…” Huang Xiaolong looked at the eliminated man with extreme curiosity. He was a young man with glasses and looked like a student. His face was full of acne and was led off the stage by the staff regretfully.

“Ah! I see. This is the so-called phenomenon that people who returned from the city mentioned about people who were addicted to masturbation and don’t communicate their feelings. As a result after years of that, they will decline in their memory ability and hallucinate when they look at things.” Huang Xiaolong nodded.

The first round of prizes was distributed on the spot!

A bag of 500g Tide laundry detergent!

A box of Nescafe instant coffee!

A bottle of Nongfu Spring mineral water!

A bag of Lay’s potato chips!

A bag of Two Squirrels mixed nuts!

A small bottle of Six Flavor Rehmanni!

A bag of QiaQia sunflower seeds!

…

“Wow! That’s a lot of prizes! There’s even the legendary Nescafe coffee! I’ve never had that in the village!”

When Huang Xiaolong held his prizes in his hands, he was so happy!

The male emcee invited another person onto the stage to keep the number of participants at fifty.

“Everyone, get ready. The second round is about to begin!”

Huang Xiaolong hurried to the edge of the stage with his prizes carried in both of his hands. Coincidentally, Cui Feiyan was standing just below the stage.

“Feiyan, I’ll have to ask you to hold this for me for a while…” Huang Xiaolong smiled and handed them to Cui Feiyan among the audience.

Cui Feiyan stupidly took them with an annoyed look on her face. “I’m warning you, stop playing this game! Do you think I have a lot of time?”

“Feiyan, don’t be impatient. I’ll stop playing once I get all the prizes.” Huang Xiaolong smiled at Cui Feiyan and quickly returned to the line.

“All the prizes?!” Cui Feiyan looked like she was in confusion.

The second round of the Memory Breakthrough event!

The countdown time displayed on the large LED screen showed the usual 60 seconds.

However, there were 20 pictures on the screen.

Moreover, the 20 pictures were much more difficult than the 10 pictures in the first round.

The Eiffel Tower, the Potala Palace, a king of spades, the portrait of Mr. Lu Xun…

That was why for the second round, at least half of the fifty people’s faces on the stage turned stiff, their brows furrowed, and even had tiny beads of sweat appear on their foreheads when they tried to recall the pictures.

Cui Feiyan also memorized the pictures in their correct order below the stage and it took her about twenty seconds.

Huang Xiaolong only had to glance quickly before he began to write on the answer board.

The 60-second countdown ended.

The pictures were flipped to their backs.

They put up their answer boards after three minutes.

In the second round, thirty-eight out of the fifty players were eliminated so only 12 passed.

Huang Xiaolong managed to pass the round easily.

The staff handed out prizes on the spot——

A Joyoung soybean milk machine!

A box of imported Okamoto ultra-thin condoms!

A beautiful rice cooker!

A set of collector’s edition Zizhi Tongjian!

A beautiful vase!

A Luolai four-piece bedding set!

A Citizen watch!

…

This second round of prizes was indeed much more extravagant than the prizes from the first round.

When Huang Xiaolong held the prizes in his hands, he was simply overwhelmed with happiness and he felt as light as a cloud.

Once again, he brought the prizes over to the edge of the stage and leaned over to Cui Feiyan for safekeeping. “Feiyan, hold them for me.”

“Your memory’s pretty good.” That time, Cui Feiyan was finally impressed.

In her opinion, the difficulty in the Memory Breakthrough event’s second round was no longer what ordinary people could handle.

Of course, she was only slightly impressed. Huang Xiaolong’s performance was not enough to make Cui Feiyan admire him greatly or shock her because if she believed that if the difficulty progressed at its current rate, it would be hard for Huang Xiaolong to pass the third round.

After they got thirty-eight other people from the audience, the Memory Breakthrough event started their third round in full swing!

As Cui Feiyan had expected, the difficulty for the third round had increased exponentially!

There were 30 pictures on the large LED screen!

There were license plates, stock tickers, a sentence from a Tang poetry, and even English words…

The countdown time was not extended and stayed at 60 seconds.

As soon as those pictures appeared, more than half of the people on the stage chose to give up immediately.

As for the rest of them, they desperately tried to remember the pictures and they looked like they had faced a horrible enemy. Some of them even turned completely pale and their facial muscles twitched. They sweated and their throats turned dry because they had overused their brain capacity which mimicked symptoms of a lack of oxygen in the brain.

Even Cui Feiyan, who had a good memory, was struggling then. When she reached the last few pictures while recalling the order, she could not remember what were the pictures. If she was given five minutes, she was confident she could pass the level, but one minute was way too short.

That was obviously a level where normal people could not succeed without formal memory training.

To put it bluntly, even if it was not about the memory skills, one minute would not even be enough time to skim over the 30 pictures.

The countdown time was up!

Among the fifty people on the stage, forty-six of them gave up immediately and walked away in despair.

There were only four people left that stayed on as they tried to remember and recorded their answers on the answer board.

Huang Xiaolong was impassively among them. He was calm and unhurried, his eyes as indifferent as the carefree breeze with a smile at the corner of his mouth. He wrote quickly on the answer board.

Time to show their answer boards!

The staff carefully checked and the three people in front of Huang Xiaolong all had made big mistakes. Some only barely remembered a small part of the entire picture, and the rest of them were completely wrong.

Some had incoherent orders and even cleverly came up with something that was not even shown among the pictures.

In the end, there was only Huang Xiaolong left!

“My friend… You look confident…” The male emcee walked toward Huang Xiaolong. “Are you going to surprise us?”

“Surprise? I’m not going to surprise you… The third round was also pretty simple,” Huang Xiaolong said cheerfully.

“Too easy for you?” The male emcee was stunned for a moment and raised the corner of his mouth into a sneer. ‘You little sh*t. You’re just a backward hillbilly and you dare to come here and act all arrogant… Even the best students in our Golden Charm Memory Training Agency may not be able to pass this round…’

Off the stage, Cui Feiyan’s attention was completely focused on Huang Xiaolong. Huang Xiaolong was the only remaining participant on the stage.

‘Is he bragging or… No, it couldn’t be… The third round was so difficult that I couldn’t even do it. How could he… How could he pass? Cui Feiyan had an expression of disbelief.

Huang Xiaolong showed his answer board!

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