At the International Chinese Proficiency Competition, thirty foreign top students collectively lost their minds.
"Chinese? Our primary school students can master it in two months, and it's not as difficult as toilet paper!"
Caltech genius Alex boasted that he would use logic to deconstruct all Chinese characters; Australian contestant Anthony even mocked in public: "I can get all the questions on this show right with my eyes closed."
Millions of people in the live broadcast room were so angry that their blood pressure soared, but they had nothing to say. The first five questions were indeed scoring questions such as how to pronounce "good morning" and what quantifier to use for "star".
Until the man came on stage.
Lin Mo, a doctor of linguistics, threw away the question card prepared by the program team and said with a smile:
"Xiao Ming had a computer class in the evening, and he was debating whether to go or not. He said one thing - 'I will go, I won't go.'"
"Please listen to the question. Xiao Ming said - 'I will go, I won't go'. Will he go or not?" The audience was silent.
Thirty confident faces suddenly turned into thirty black faces with question marks.
The live broadcast room exploded: "Hahahaha, this is too cruel!"
But this is just the beginning of the nightmare.
"Wear as much as you can wear in winter, and as much as you can wear in summer—what do the two 'how many' mean?"
"Xiao Ming's eyelashes are so beautiful, are they real or fake? Fake, are they real? Really - so are Xiao Ming's eyelashes real or fake?"
One after another devilish questions force foreign top academics to doubt their lives.
They discovered for the first time: It turns out that there is an entire universe hidden in Chinese.
And when they cried and shouted "Chinese is too difficult", Lin Mo just smiled faintly——
"No hurry, where are we now?"
