Overprotected By My Tsundere CEO-Chapter 712 - 448: Just How Awesome Is Nora Scott?

Chapter 712: Chapter 448: Just How Awesome Is Nora Scott?

[Whoa, Nora Scott looks like ’isn’t this the normal operation?’, really shocked me. Does she have some kind of misunderstanding about us ordinary folks?]

[Question: Nora Scott can memorize all shadow positions with just one glance and construct a 3D chessboard in her mind—how viable is that?]

[Combining Nora Scott’s Huayu Road solutions with solving advanced math problems, if it’s about creating a persona, it’s too much. The team must be out of their minds to give Nora such a high-intelligence persona. But if it’s true... can we ask why Nora only has a high school education? What hindered someone with such intelligence from going to college?]

[Nora Scott’s existence is simply unscientific!]

...

Just when the screen was filled densely with comments, on the show, Nora Scott’s sentence "Forget it, wasting time, let’s just smash it" drew their attention again, and then with a "bang bang bang" sound, Nora brutally smashed the chessboard and, after adjusting the mechanisms inside, successfully opened the vent.

Comments: "..."

[Nora was just pretending, right?!]

[Messing with Jerry Yates?!]

[Definitely pretending! I knew it, how could there be such a freak.]

...

For some reason, many viewers felt relieved.

After all, believing Nora knows mechanical techniques is much easier than believing in her high intelligence.

...

Next, the audience saw more of Nora’s series of slick maneuvers. She let Jerry Yates go into the vent first as a "cleaning rag," then released the two groups of people from the sides of Room 307 one by one. 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Once everyone arrived at Room 307, the NPC "spoke" again to notify them—

"Congratulations, you have arrived at Room 307 within the specified time. Next, you have two hours to find the clues from a year ago and leave Room 307."

Nora: "Where’s the reward?"

NPC: "The reward is that you proceed directly to the next level."

[...]

[How come I hear a pampering tone from the usually numb NPC?!]

[Hahahaha, Fairy’s expression is stunned. With Fairy’s acting skills, I totally believe there’s no script!]

[Is this even allowed?!]

[Is the NPC really Nora’s boyfriend? Will he reveal himself next time?!]

[Ahhh, is Nora leaving already?! I came just for her!! And she only recorded half an episode?!!]

...

After the new episode of "Escape Room" aired, they routinely bought two promotion spots on the trending list, both pretty laid back, not aiming for high ranks.

Because, with Nora on the show, there’s never a worry about lack of buzz. She always finds ways to trend, and not just once.

This time, it was no exception.

Following the initial trending from three Weibo posts, soon a new batch related to the show appeared—

#NoraViolentMechanismTechniqueSolution#

#NoraNPC#

#NoraMemory#

...

Meanwhile, on forum boards, numerous posts appeared, all analyzing the authenticity of Nora’s mechanical techniques and memory skills.

To cater to the audience, after the program aired, with the consent of escape room planner Evelyn Winter, they released the blueprint of the mechanism Nora destroyed on Weibo, letting knowledgeable viewers study it.

So a group of engineering students started analyzing the blueprint, updating their findings online in real time.

Others studied Nora’s memory skills, painstakingly drawing each side of the room to construct 3D shapes, comparing them with complete screenshots of the chessboard.

Several hours later, one expert after another released the same news—

The chess pieces Nora placed were indeed correct. And, for an ordinary person to memorize these markers and construct shapes at a glance is absolutely impossible.

Two speculations: One is that Nora Scott memorized the positions on the chessboard in advance, and the show is all a performance, creating a persona; the other is that Nora Scott really memorized it at a glance, incredibly impressive.

[I lean towards the former. If Nora Scott really had that intelligence, would she still be mingling in the entertainment industry?]

[The person upstairs must have a memory like a goldfish. Let me remind you, Nora Scott is first a comic artist, and then an actress. This is her first time doing a variety show in the eight years since she entered the industry.]

[Emmm, I almost forgot Nora Scott was a comic artist too.]

[No, no, no, Nora Scott is actually an adventurer. She once said that comics are a hobby, not for profit.]

[Damn, with so much news about Nora Scott in the entertainment industry lately, I almost forgot she is God Z. By the way, don’t some comic fans have a piece called "The Legendary Feats of God Z," the whole sixteen-page one?]

[If Nora Scott were just the obscure celebrity from a year ago, I’d definitely choose the former. But now... God Z is invincible, God Z is awesome, it must be the latter with no doubt. Besides, from the few peeks into her life that God Z has revealed on Weibo, she’s been roaming society for five or six years now. With her personality, it’s not that she couldn’t get into college, but she didn’t want to. Doesn’t anyone know how much she scored in the college entrance exam?]

...

[Fans, stop defending her. I don’t care who Zero is, but I know no one doesn’t want to be famous. Nora Scott publicly disclosed her identity in a live stream, participated in a variety show one after another, and seized the opportunity with the popular IP 12, her ambition to become famous is too obvious. She’s no saint, why put her on a pedestal? Is it so hard to admit your idol is creating a persona?]

[Wasn’t there a video of Nora Scott at a comic convention being asked questions about her work? She couldn’t even answer questions about her own work, and she has the nerve to boast about her good memory?]

[Ha. I only know she’s an actress who ruins every show she stars in. Recording variety shows just to be showy; only brainless fans would like her.]

...

Fans, passersby, and haters mixing together, wars break out at any moment.

Meanwhile, after a night’s analysis, someone finally deciphered those few blueprints released by the show’s production team, and an expert declared—

Without a certain level of expertise, these blueprints are incomprehensible. Even understanding them in full doesn’t make it possible to deactivate the mechanisms inside.

Unless the person has mastered all the mechanisms, knowing exactly how each part operates.

And this can’t possibly have been pre-arranged—because the way the mechanisms are opened up is too bizarre, with an absurdly high level of difficulty, no way the production team could come up with this.

In other words, having an ordinary person memorize all the mechanical operations, and then find and deactivate the internal mechanism, is incredibly challenging, almost impossible.

The conclusion is: Nora Scott definitely knows her stuff, and calling her the escape room planner for "Horror Hospital" and "Zombie Academy" cannot possibly be false.

Thus, the netizens who saw this post were once again flabbergasted—

[At first, I was a fan of a comic artist, immensely talented, known as the "Framing Genius." Later, I found out she is an adventurer, leaving footprints all over the world. Then she told me she is also an actress, super fucking good-looking, but the dramas she acts in are super fucking bad, which made me feel a bit better—this person is flawed. Now, she tells me, oh, she is also a master of Mechanical Techniques?! And a fucking badass one at that?!]

[I apologize, I repent. I scolded her the first two episodes, thinking she was just piggybacking off Rosa Sullivan, but who would have thought she was the most badass one.]

[Imagine the scene in the first two episodes: the big boss watching shrimp tear apart her mechanism, feeling anxious inside—why hasn’t it been opened yet?! How long is this gonna take? Fine, I’ll give a hint.]

[Rewatching the first two episodes, Nora Scott was indeed subtly guiding Rosa Sullivan. However, Miss Sullivan didn’t seem to notice, maintaining a cold attitude towards Nora the whole time.]

[Now that I think about it, Nora and Rosa together in one frame... gosh, the scenes were so awkward.]

[Wasn’t there someone criticizing Nora Scott for only messing around in variety shows? Praising Rosa Sullivan and dissing Nora Scott, saying it doesn’t matter if Rosa doesn’t have a variety sense, as she has skills to rely on. What about now? Rosa’s skills in front of Nora, does Rosa matter?]

[No way. Isn’t Rosa Sullivan an heir of the Ancient Mechanism Clan? How come there’s such a gap compared to Nora Scott? Could it be that Ancient Mechanism Technique can’t compete with modern mechanical engineering?]

[The person upstairs is talking nonsense. I am a mechanical engineering student, at the top-ranked science university in the country, and in the graduate program. I just want to say that the program-released blueprints, I can’t even understand them.]

[So the question is, Nora Scott is only 25, didn’t go to college, travels frequently, draws comics on the side, always seems quite restless... where did she find the time to study Mechanical Techniques?]

...

The discussion didn’t stop all night, and the next day, the buzz not only didn’t die down but grew even more intense.

*

In the hotel room, the air conditioning wasn’t on, the window was open, allowing a cool morning breeze from high up to gently blow in, along with the dawn’s light. It pierced through the thin eyelids, stimulating the retina, gradually pulling one’s consciousness from deep sleep.

Nora Scott heard the sound of mechanical operation.

Warm, yellow sunlight fell on the ear, making the earlobes appear fair and translucent, with a faint blush.

Her eyelids twitched, and the moment she opened her eyes, Nora instinctively raised a hand to shield her eyes, squinting slightly as she peeked through her fingers. Lo and behold, she saw a familiar mechanism drone in the room.

"Mommy, good morning."

The machine’s voice said with absolutely no emotional fluctuation.

Nora’s eyes widened suddenly.

.... Damn?