Hidden identities of the AI Heiress-Chapter 949: What a pity, just one point short
Qiao Yun didn’t bother with them before because she didn’t want to waste time, but they just loved to push their luck, which even tested her good temper.
Now that Darren has provoked her for the third time, she spoke with her brows pressed down, her voice tinged with ambiguous meaning: "I congratulate you as well."
"That must be you finally recognizing that you’re only fit for the last place." Darren, still holding a grudge from when Qiao Yun said he was the last one before, felt immensely satisfied to slap Qiao Yun with such a high score. 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂
Even though only the Future Alliance and Huo’s scores have been announced, everyone knew without guessing that the first place this time must undoubtedly be the Future Alliance’s.
Fu Yun was originally annoyed because during the first round Jiang Jing lost to Qiao Yun, but after the scores were announced, that irritation turned into joy; she couldn’t help but smile.
Xu Qiao quickly spoke up for Jiang Jing when she saw this: "The Future Alliance’s score is too high; it’s estimated that they’ll take first place this time."
After a pause, she added another sentence: "Huo’s performance is also impressive, though I don’t understand it, I just feel it’s mysteriously outstanding."
Fu Yun didn’t like Xu Qiao’s behavior, but she liked Xu Qiao’s way with words, and she smiled with restraint: "Tianqi’s results aren’t out yet, so it’s not certain who will win or lose."
"You don’t need to see it to know the result."
Xu Qiao was dismissive; after Tianqi’s equipment was poisoned, she saw it clearly, Qiao Yun spent almost twenty minutes on virus removal, how could it be possible for her to score high in the remaining ten minutes.
Qiao Yun was so splendid in the first round, seeing Jiang Jing distressed by the booing from the audience made her heart ache terribly.
She didn’t expect that karma would come so quickly.
Falling from a high place is not a pleasant feeling; she hoped that Qiao Yun would be able to endure it.
On the screen, the numbers started to roll, and Tianqi’s score was about to be announced.
Su Mian was so nervous that she closed her eyes, not even daring to look; she grabbed Lu Rui’s hand tightly, her voice trembling as she said: "Old Lu, I’m a bit scared to look, let me know when the results are out."
"What’s meant to be will come; you have to believe in Qiaoqiao." Lu Rui’s heart was pounding so hard it felt like it might jump out of his throat.
If the two of them were like this, there was no need to mention the others.
Even though it was Qiao Yun competing, it felt as if they were the ones in the competition.
Li Hanzhou straightened up slightly, his lips tightly pressed, his deep eyes fixed on the screen, not daring to look away for even a moment.
He trusted Qiao Yun wouldn’t have any problems, but that didn’t stop him from caring about Qiao Yun’s results.
Compared to everyone else’s sky-is-falling tension, Qiao Yun was quite calm; beneath her thick lashes, those clear eyes showed no ripple as she slightly tilted her sleek chin up to look at the screen.
Finally, the result gradually came to light.
Tianqi Research Institute—9999 points.
points!
It’s the highest score, just one point shy of a perfect score!
The entire venue fell silent, it was as if time had frozen at that moment, everyone’s eyes widened, mouths agape, stunned.
They couldn’t believe that Tianqi Research Institute had achieved 9999 points.
Old Master Li and Simon literally stood up from their seats, staring hard at the score for a moment, ensuring they hadn’t read it wrong—it was indeed 9999 points!
Someone shouted: "Holy shit! Am I blind?"
Time started moving again, and a huge outcry filled the venue.
"It’s really 9999 points! Holy shit, how did they do it!"
"Why not a perfect 10000 points? Just 9999 points? If they could get 9999 points, why miss that one point?"
"I get it, it’s deliberate! Hahaha, it must be to annoy people."
"With this, I could have the highest score, but I just won’t take it, right, just for fun, isn’t it infuriating!"
"Compared to this, Huo’s and the Future Alliance’s scores are nothing."
Li Hanzhou looked at the score, ignoring Shen Qi’s ghostly screams beside him, a smile forming at the corner of his mouth, his eyes full of pride.
Su Mian originally didn’t dare to look until she heard the cheering around her, then she sneakily took a glance, which made her scream out loud.
"Ah— Is it real, or is there a malfunction with the scoring system?"
"I told you to have faith in Qiaoqiao," Lu Rui laughed out loud, but as he laughed his expression twisted, and he said through the pain, "Wife, let go of my hand first, you’re about to cut it off."
Snapping back to reality, Su Mian hurriedly let go of Lu Rui’s hand, then pinched Lu Rui’s arm as if not quite believing, "Does it hurt?"
Lu Rui: "..."
Forget it, he won’t quibble with his own wife.
Lu Zhanxing laughed with relief: "My sister is really amazing, to be able to stay calm in the face of adversity, and even after lagging behind them for so much time, she could still widen the score gap, it’s really..."
He was so shocked that he didn’t know what to say.
Sitting behind the Lu family, Su Qingqing’s eyes sparkled with admiration and she said, "Why do I feel so exhilarating."
Su Qingyan pressed his lips together and smiled, "This comeback is just too beautiful."
Su Qingqing nodded fiercely, "That slap in the face was brutal; such a big gap in the score. There was an incident on Tianqi’s side, whereas the Future Alliance and the Hughes didn’t have one, and they even had much more time than Tianqi."
The most important thing is that the cousin won but seemed uninterested in the score, making the score-conscious Future Alliance look so LOW.
...
Darren, who was waiting to celebrate victory, was also dumbfounded, standing there frozen, wide-eyed and slack-jawed.
How could there be such a high score.
His eyes were filled with shock, disbelief, anger, and a mix of other emotions.
He couldn’t believe what he saw, muttering to himself, "How is it possible, impossible, this is not scientific."
But the reality was right in front of him, he couldn’t help but believe.
Qiao Yun indeed scored several times higher than him.
A score close to perfect.
They had gone to great lengths to sabotage Tianqi’s equipment, yet they were still crushed so miserably by the opposition.
Darren’s expression collapsed, his face twisted grotesquely, he couldn’t accept this outcome.
Jiang Jing was also shocked by Qiao Yun’s terrifying ability, but perhaps it’s because she had been struck too many times, this time she actually felt it was normal for Qiao Yun to get such a high score.
Qiao Yun looked at the score and just curved the corners of her mouth slightly, expressing her satisfaction with this score.
Han Zhou was as angry as he could be, but now he was equally excited, almost jumping on the spot.
"Teacher, 9999 points! I can’t believe such a high score is ours."
He had been assisting Professor Qiao all along, and knew they wouldn’t lose, but he just didn’t expect the score to be so high.
However...
Han Zhou wondered, "What a pity, just one point short."
Qiao Yun diverted her gaze and looked sideways at Han Zhou, who was full of regret, and spoke slowly, "Not a pity, I did it on purpose."
Han Zhou was stunned for a moment and blinked, "On purpose? Why?"
Isn’t a perfect score satisfying?
Qiao Yun hummed and spoke truthfully, "I just want to let him know that I could have gotten the perfect score, but I wouldn’t. Even if it’s one point short, he still can’t beat me."
