Chapter 150: I'm in a Rush

Zhang Qiyang’s confident declaration shocked everyone on the scene!

Was Lord Pao really this ridiculously awesome?
Wasn’t he just a brainless idiot?
How could he possibly be this awesome?!
How on earth could he be this awesome!
Was he just bluffing?

As Zhang Qiyang’s fist practically threatened to slam right into their faces, many people still refused to believe that he was a genius far beyond their imagination!

Standing behind him, Zhao Lijing looked at Zhang Qiyang’s unyielding back, and suddenly her face felt burning hot with an unbearable wave of shame!

Zhang Qiyang had put it so bluntly; she had most likely misunderstood Lord Pao!
To think she had actually framed Lord Pao as a cheating king, especially when he had constantly been looking out for her!
It was simply too humiliating!

How could she have thought of Lord Pao that way? It felt so agonizing!
Although she had never revealed her inner feelings, facing her own conscience, Zhao Lijing still felt deeply remorseful.

Seeing Zhang Qiyang being so "arrogant," Li Xuan was somewhat startled.
She knew Zhang Qiyang was a super musical genius, but she never expected him to be this incredible at arithmetic too?!

Though nothing had been proven just yet, judging by Zhang Qiyang’s confident attitude, there was a high chance he truly possessed a talent for rapid calculation!

To be honest, such trivial addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division arithmetic problems were not even worthy of being called an appetizer in front of a true mental math genius.
Programs like *Super Brain* frequently invited mental math prodigies onto the stage, where they would instantly calculate four- or five-digit multiplication and division problems in seconds. Elementary addition and subtraction problems like these simply didn't make the cut; anyone with even a sliver of genius would find them an absolute breeze.

However, most people were not geniuses.
Most people lacked the ability to calculate such problems in seconds.
Yet because Zhang Qiyang had always been framed with a dim-witted persona, the general public naturally assumed he was even more foolish than an ordinary person. For him to instantly calculate such arithmetic problems made the feat seem utterly unbelievable.

Even Li Xuan, who was growing increasingly familiar with Zhang Qiyang, found it somewhat hard to believe.
At the same time, she felt a trace of worry for him—he must not stumble and make a fool of himself!
If he failed to calculate them, he would lose so much face he’d burrow straight into the earth's crust!

When Lu Kai was directly rebuffed by Zhang Qiyang, he was stunned for half a second before his competitive spirit surged immediately. Today, he was determined to lock horns with Zhang Qiyang to the bitter end!

With an unconvinced look, Lu Kai reached out to the production crew, demanding, "Give me pen and paper! I'll write the problem!"

Equally indignant, Sophie stepped up beside Lu Kai and said, "I'll write one too! I refuse to believe Lord Pao calculates this fast!"

The clash between the artists from both sides instantly electrified the entire crew.
Although this banter of mutual tearing down probably wouldn't make the final broadcast cut, everyone was eagerly looking forward to witnessing a miracle—the transformation of a fool into a genius.

Xiao Qiang asked Zhang Qiyang with some hesitation, "Are you sure you want to play it this way?"
Zhang Qiyang replied nonchalantly, "If they want to play, let them play. Give them pen and paper; I'm going to make them lose so thoroughly they'll have no choice but to submit!"

A surge of heat rose in Xiao Qiang's chest, and he secretly praised this lord... he was even more formidable than he had imagined!

Feeling Zhang Qiyang’s explosive confidence, Peng Liang and the other members of the guest team had their blood boiling! They clamored to cheer for him, shouting, "Our Lord Pao is a Cambridge elite! What the hell is calculating a few math problems in seconds?"

Fatty went even further with his exaggeration: "When Lord Pao was studying world history at Cambridge, you guys were probably still huddled under the covers reading trashy romance novels!"

Zhang Qiyang laughed helplessly, telling Fatty, "You must be talking about yourself."
Li Xuan and the others couldn't help laughing, and the atmosphere suddenly relaxed a bit.

Lu Kai, however, pouted and let out a huff, vowing to give this arrogant young master a taste of humiliation!

Soon, the crew handed paper and pens to the host team's side.
Pan Ziwen, who had tumbled down from the protection net and was still spinning from being utterly decimated, ran over to join the fun as well.

Recalling his experience of being instantly crushed, Pan Ziwen found the memory more and more grating the more he thought about it!
On such a high platform, amidst such a tense atmosphere, Zhang Qiyang had blurted out the answer the moment his answer board was flipped—if there wasn't something fishy going on, who would believe it?!

Indignant, Pan Ziwen joined the skeptical team led by Lu Kai, demanded pen and paper from the crew, and prepared to give Zhang Qiyang a problem of his own!

Lü Cheng was a veteran outdoor variety star with a vast pool of experience; he had actually met quite a few geniuses in his time.
He had even participated in the recording of Shanghai TV’s *Super Brain*, where many of the prodigies were utterly mind-boggling.
In comparison, rapid calculation problems involving two-digit addition and subtraction were simply not worth mentioning.

Yet within the entertainment industry, Lü Cheng had truly never seen anyone possess such rapid calculation prowess.
It wasn't that he looked down on the stars in the entertainment circle, but these people spent every day entertaining the masses, chasing fame and fortune, and living in a drunken stupor. They had long since forgotten everything they learned in school. Watching them do math was practically a comedy routine—where on earth would you find a genius among them?

Now that Zhang Qiyang had suddenly popped up, Lü Cheng found it deeply fascinating. Driven by an intense desire to find the truth, he also asked the crew for pen and paper, determined to test Lord Pao himself.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone present, the four members of the Infinity Team finished writing on their answer boards.
They were quite crafty; they all wrote the problems in Chinese characters rather than in numerical digits, which would have been more conducive to mental math.

"Have you all finished writing?"
Waving his hand-fan, Zhang Qiyang asked the four people tightly clutching their answer boards with a casual and carefree attitude.

Lu Kai stepped forward and declared, "Calculate mine first! Do it in seconds! Just like before!"

"Are you guys really going to flip the boards one by one? You underestimate me way too much! We're pressed for time with this recording; the four of you reveal your answer boards together. If I take more than two seconds to state the answers, I'll consider myself beaten!"

Even someone with a diamond-chiseled jaw would shatter it right here!
These industry veterans had never encountered anyone as arrogant as Zhang Qiyang!
He truly lived up to the name Lord Pao!
He was so fucking awesome!

Before Zhang Qiyang even started calculating, many people were ready to drop to their knees before him!

Seeing how utterly presumptuous Zhang Qiyang was, Lu Kai and the others exchanged a glance, and then, brimming with defiance, simultaneously flipped open their answer boards for him to see.

The four question boards appeared before Zhang Qiyang in the shape of a hand fan.
Glancing across from Lu Kai on the far left, Zhang Qiyang read the answer in a single glance: "Eighty-five!"
"Two hundred and seventy-nine!" (The answer to the cunning Sophie's problem.)
"Seventy-two!" (Lü Cheng's problem's answer.)
"Negative eighteen!" (The answer to the even craftier Pan Ziwen's problem.)

Many people hadn't even finished reading the questions on a single board, yet Zhang Qiyang had already swept his eyes across all four and spoken the answers to all four arithmetic problems!

The time taken... absolutely did not exceed two seconds! It was probably less than one second!

*Crack.*
The board in Lu Kai's hand slipped and fell. His jaw practically detached, his eyes widened into perfect circles as if he were staring straight at God! He simply couldn't believe what was happening right before his eyes!

Sophie was even more shocked, her stomach muscles nearly cramping up in spasms!
The moment Zhang Qiyang instantly answered her question, she felt as though a cannonball had blown her mind wide open! Her brains felt like they were about to detonate into mush! Her entire being was completely dumbfounded!

At that very instant, she felt that... Zhang Qiyang was quite possibly the smartest human being she had ever laid eyes on in real life throughout her twenty-six years of existence!
Without a single exception!