For someone who regularly solved Rubik's Cubes, solving one in ten minutes wasn't too difficult. But if you suddenly added a condition...
If they couldn't solve it, they'd turn into an idiot. For a lot of people, that would make the challenge instantly much harder.
Because now, it wasn't just their brains being tested. It was their ability to handle pressure, too.
Why did some people perform poorly as soon as they had to take an exam?
Because they couldn't handle the pressure!
Think of it this way: if failing to get at least 70 points on this exam meant turning into an idiot, plenty of people would probably give up on the spot.
Hua Yueyu didn't think she had that kind of strong mentality.
Sannomiya Airi was as steady as could be. Once she got the cube, her eyelids didn't twitch and her hands didn't tremble.
Everyone watched her slender, pale hands twist the cube this way and that. She didn't even stop to think about her next move, and then the cube was solved.
"Here!"
Sannomiya Airi tossed the solved cube to Pan Junjie.
"Two minutes and thirty-six seconds. Not bad!"
Xia Hongyao applauded. She admired people with brains like that most.
But she wasn't envious, nor did she have any intention of recruiting Sannomiya Airi. She already had that kind of genius under her command—and she had two of them.
Although Lin Baici hadn't solved the cube, Xia Hongyao believed he could definitely do it—and do it better than anyone else.
That was the power of a crush.
Lin Baici had played with a Rubik's Cube before and knew the patterns, but solving it as quickly as Gu Qingqiu and Sannomiya Airi...
He couldn't do it!
Lin Baici was just a little better than most people, among