Chapter 58 (1/2)

Uncle Wang didn’t give up.

The second ring hooped onto a toy. He didn’t manage to control his strength well for the third try. Hence, the ring flew too far and naturally didn’t hoop around anything.

Then he continued.

Although the bamboo rings in Uncle Wang’s hands were relatively heavier and less elastic, coupled with his richer experience in ring toss, he couldn’t ensure a 100% success rate. Nevertheless, his success rate was still much higher than a normal person’s.

“Yes!”

Uncle Wang tossed out the last ring.

The ring perfectly landed around a vase in the corner of the arrangement before the spectators’ nervous gazes.

“Awesome!” Uncle Chen couldn’t help but shout as he slapped his thighs in excitement.

Uncle Wang immediately beamed with joy. The spectators broke into a sea of shouting too.

Amazingly, Uncle Wang had successfully hooped six objects in ten tries. That was incredible to people who couldn’t even get anything with more than ten rings.

“OMG, he’s so good! Six out of ten! That’s terrific!”

“Unbelievable! You must have practiced a lot! To me, I’d be very happy if I could succeed three times out of ten!”

“Ha, don’t be stupid. It’s already a great feat if you can get anything at all in ten tries!”

“If he’s so good, do you think he’ll be defeated by the boy who’s competing with him?”

“Defeated? You’ve got to be kidding me. Did you not hear the boy say this is his first time playing ring toss? How good can he be?”

…

The spectators didn’t think that Cheng Nuo would win. That sentiment was obvious from the way they were looking at him. It was as though their eyes were saying, “I bet you’ll lose!”

However, it was almost a rule that applied everywhere that spectators were always wrong.

Uncle Wang’s 60% success rate had only been achieved through cheating. Nevertheless, he still believed that he had performed well. Uncle Wang walked towards Cheng Nuo with his bulging beer belly and said with a snort, “Your turn, young man.”

Then Uncle Wang whispered to him, “I suggest you give up now, young brother. It won’t look good for you.”

The rings in Cheng Nuo’s hands were lightweight and very elastic. Moreover, taking into consideration the fact that Cheng Nuo knew nothing about ring toss, Uncle Wang was certain that he would be the winner.

It wouldn’t matter whether Cheng Nuo was going to play or not, because Uncle Wang believed that there was no way Cheng Nuo could be even better than him.

Cheng Nuo gripped the bamboo rings in his hands and shot a cold glimpse at his opponent. Then he said calmly, “Uncle Wang, I have three words for you.”

“Oh?” Uncle Wang was confused. “What three words?”

“Watch and learn!” Cheng Nuo replied with a grin.

“You…”

Before Uncle Wang reached out his hand, Cheng Nuo had already positioned himself behind the toss line.

“Eh? Why did he throw without even measuring the distance?” a middle-aged woman in the crowd exclaimed.

The other people looked at Cheng Nuo and realized the woman was right. At that moment, Cheng Nuo was already standing at the toss line, making a gesture that he was about to toss. Usually, people would gage the distance to the object by steps before they threw. In that case, they would have a better estimate and would thus be able to throw the rings with more accurate strength.

But Cheng Nuo didn’t need to do that!

“Distance: 235.35 cm, Direction: 11.24 degrees NE, Width: 5.24 cm, Length: 6.25 cm…”

Cheng Nuo was aiming at a pink plastic cosmetic box. A series of statistics emerged in his mind as he was looking at it. That was followed by another line about the bamboo ring in his hand.

“Mass: 21.05 g, diameter: 10.54 cm, spring constant: 58.29 newtons per meter… wind speed: 2.14 m/s, direction: 68.35 degrees SW… gravitational acceleration: 9.825 m/s squared…”

The two sets of data were combined and manipulated in Cheng Nuo’s brain. A plan came up within a few seconds.