The first test was the contestants’ reasoning ability, which was a jigsaw puzzle.
However, unlike a normal jigsaw puzzle, this one was completely irregular and there was no original picture.
The teacher showed how to do it on the big screen and gave each child a jigsaw puzzle to play with first.
Some of the young contestants were learning carefully, some were confused, some were trying to start the puzzle, some were looking around, and some were just slouching like a sloth with their heads resting on the table.
Yes, the last one was Gabriel.
It wasn’t until the teacher walked up to him that he sat up straight and pretended to put the puzzle together.
“…”
Paige couldn’t bear to look, and when she glanced away, she glanced in the direction of Monteo again.
Half an hour passed, and the competition officially began. To prevent the unruly children from peeking at each other,
the jigsaw puzzles were handed out so that everyone had a different puzzle in front of them, even those sitting diagonally in front of or behind them.
Before the competition began, Paige saw her son stand up suddenly and say, “Teacher, I have a question.”
“What is it?”
the teacher asked, looking at him.
“Is it true that the faster you complete the puzzle, the better?” Gabriel asked seriously.
“…”
Paige knew that he had been distracted when he was listening to the rules just now, and his eyes didn’t even have focus.
The teacher was very patient and smiled, saying, ‘Of course, accuracy is the first measure, and then time. After you finish, press the red button in the upper right corner. The shorter the time, the higher the accuracy, and the higher the ranking.’
“Oh, then I can’t take a break anymore.”
Gabriel sat down a little depressed.
Ever since Daddy hired a tutor for him, he has developed a problem where he wants to sleep whenever he hears a teacher teaching.
“…”
The teacher was at a loss for words with this kid, and then looked at the time and announced the start.
Gabriel sat at his desk, reached slowly to take apart the puzzle in front of him, and as if he had thought of something, he suddenly looked up and glanced in the direction of Enrico and Paige.
His little mouth pursed, and he took a deep breath, speeding up his hand.
“Ding…”
As all the audience members were about to lower their heads to check their phones, the sound of the red light being pressed went off.
48 seconds.
Before all the contestants had finished reading the question and were about to start working on the puzzle, the first one had already finished.
The whole audience was in an uproar.
The teacher was also stunned, and when she glanced down, she saw that the little desk with the red light on was that little boy with grey eyes.
At that moment, he had already slumped into a sloth-like position again, looking at the teacher and saying, “Teacher, can I go play for a while first, or I’m going to fall asleep.”
The teacher couldn’t even call out his name, as shouting at him made him even more sleepy.
“…”
The teacher walked over in shock.
The camera followed and quickly zoomed in on Gabriel’s desk, and his jigsaw puzzle appeared on the big screen. It was an irregular 12-piece rainbow puzzle.
This is not difficult for adults, but it is not simple for children, especially since it is considered difficult in this pile of test questions.
Because it is irregular and almost all of it is color blocks, there are no small animals that catch the eye, so the child cannot associate it with much, and there are few color block associations, making reasoning even more difficult.
But this youngest contestant in the whole audience only used 48 seconds.
Paige was also surprised.
She knew how difficult these kinds of questions were, and she knew that her son was by no means stupid, but she never would have imagined that Gabriel could spell out the correct answer in 48 seconds.
She turned to look at Enrico.
Enrico, on the other hand, was not at all shocked. He looked at the big screen and said indifferently, “No cheating.”
“… I know.”
He was not so desperate to get back at her that he would let his son cheat.
That wasn’t what she wanted to ask. “Aren’t you surprised?”
“What’s there to be surprised about? If my son is really stupid, then he’s been adopted by the wrong person,” Enrico said nonchalantly.
“…”
You have a pretty unique way of proving your parentage.
Paige followed his gaze to the screen, and saw that the teacher seemed a little surprised too. He reached out and asked the staff to bring two more jigsaw puzzles, which he placed on Gabriel’s desk and told him to do.
“…”
Gabriel raised his little face and looked at the teacher with a sad expression.
The teacher knew what he was thinking and said with a smile, ‘You can go and play next to him after you’ve finished these two puzzles.’
Hearing this, Gabriel perked up. He immediately sat up straight, opened the test paper and took a look, then started to fiddle with the puzzle with his little hands.
This time, he was a little slower, and it took him two minutes to complete the two puzzles.
As soon as he finished, he jumped off the chair and ran over to play with the robot.
The teacher stood there watching, and Gabriel had got everything right, while at this very moment, many of the other children had not even finished their puzzles.
“My goodness, Gabriel is so clever,”
“Look, Steve from Sheryl’s family has only just finished now,”
“Did you see that? Gabriel just had a quick look, and then he finished the puzzle with a flick of his fingers. I didn’t even have time to react,”
Paige sat there listening to the whispering of the residents in the neighborhood behind them. She glanced back and saw Sheryl, who had already sat back down, sitting there with a white face, silently looking back.
There is only one word to describe it.
Satisfying!
She raised the corners of her lips, and the smile in her eyes was so strong that it wouldn’t disperse.
What happened next was even more unexpected for Paige.
Gabriel usually has no interest in studying. After memorizing the Three Character Classic for a long time, he can only recite the first few lines, and he gets the pronunciation all wrong. He was taught the numbers for a long time before reluctantly recognizing a few of them, and when he was asked the numbers on a banknote, he didn’t recognize them again.
So, Paige really had no idea that when Gabriel was willing to learn, he would be this strong.
He won the maze, the jenga, and the language sense tests effortlessly, coming in first in every category.
There were a lot of kids, but none of them could snatch the first place in a single event from him.
For a while, the entire audience stopped dozing, and everyone stared at Gabriel on the field, to see what other miracles this lazy kid could perform.
Halfway through the competition, the search for differences began.
Two huge curtains fell, full of dancing butterflies. At first glance, all the butterflies looked the same size, color, and pattern.
The questions became more and more difficult.
Not only the children, but also the adults in the audience were dazzled. After staring at it for a while, they felt that the butterflies in front of them were flitting about chaotically, and they simply couldn’t tell where the differences were.
The butterflies were numbered, and the differences were to be noted in the notebook.
Gabriel stood among the children, and after watching for a while, he grabbed a pen and wrote the numbers in the notebook in a crooked handwriting.
He hadn’t been practicing holding a pen for long, and the numbers he wrote were as ugly as they could be, looking as if they were alive, like caterpillars.
Because of his previous performance, which had been so eye-catching, the young contestants all knew that he was very good, so one by one they became distracted and looked at him. When they saw that he was already recording in his notebook, they all became extremely nervous.
The more nervous they became, the more their minds became unstable.
Steve stood there and saw Gabriel biting the cap of his pen, constantly scribbling in his notebook, his little face turning pale with anxiety, and he was about to cry.
The next second.
Steve rushed up and pushed Gabriel to the ground with one hand.