Beta cannon fodder just wants to make perfume

Zhu Fu did not attract much attention in the first match, but the situation was very different in the individual competition.

The organizer announced that the content of the assessment was basic skills, but before everyone could even breathe a sigh of relief, the rules made people nervous again.

“To make it more intuitive, we introduced a little bit of competitive design.”

"The contestants are competing in their sense of smell..."

It is divided into three events. The simplest one is to smell the spices blindfolded and answer the type. In each round, the top 50% of the 50 contestants who answer correctly and fastest will enter the next level.

The next step is to smell the perfume, which can also be called finding the differences. Among the perfumes of different strengths, you can find the one that is different based on the smell. The pass rate for this test is relatively high, with fifteen out of twenty-five people passing.

The last one is the most troublesome one, which is to smell the perfume and answer the formula. It is a quick-answer question. All contestants who have passed the first two rounds will participate at the same time. Those who grab the answer will be considered passed. There are a total of 20 places.

This stage of the competition will last for three days, and eventually sixty people will be selected to participate in the more complex competition below.

It is foreseeable that the attention of these 60 people will increase significantly. Perhaps this is the reason why most contestants are willing to participate, for the sake of business and fame~
But Zhu Fu overlooked one point. Although the number of intermediate candidates was not that large, there were still about a thousand people after half of the applicants were screened out. With so many people competing for sixty positions, you can imagine how angry he was in his heart.

"Are these people crazy about creating stars?"

"Twenty in one day! How could they come up with that? I didn't spend a whole day standing there just to answer questions!"

"What's the point of competing in perfume making! The organizer is simply crazy!"

Although they all think so, Zhu Fu can guarantee based on his own feeling that none of these people who complain all the time will quit. Instead, they are full of fighting spirit and want to step on the others under their feet. A person who can advance to the intermediate level in a professional field will not feel that there is a gap. They will only think confidently, why not me who stands out?

At this time, no gender characteristics are useful, and one enters a state of unwillingness that is emboldened by professionalism.

This made Zhu Fu feel that this competition was quite interesting. At least it could reveal that people's personalities were not all stereotyped, and Omegas were also able to compete without showing any weakness.

Zhu Fu's draw was on the next day, but when she tried to check related news on social networks, she found that the most discussed competition on the Internet was the primary competition.

These frequent situations and constant mistakes brought quite a lot of laughter. In addition, the junior contestants were generally younger and more able to let go of themselves, so their performances could be described as wonderful.

However, this level of attention may not be what the organizers want. The accounts of the Fragrance Industry Guild have been posting information about the advanced group competition in an attempt to attract attention.

"Hey~ idiot!" Zhu Fu shook his head after seeing this. What is this? This is going against the people!
How can the audience understand so much professional knowledge and taste the connotation of high-level competitions? She dares to say that 90% of people in this world don’t know how to make perfumes. They watch the show just for fun. If they don’t understand the operation, how can they understand the jokes?

Even in the competitions held in military academies, technology has to be integrated into the confrontation. At least there has to be a winner and a loser. Otherwise, who would know what greatness is?

The schedule setting is not a big problem in this regard. This kind of competitive process can bring about the program effect and make more people stay to watch. On the contrary, the high-level competition is a bit boring. Who can understand how to use the smell of perfume to compete? She can't understand it without an explanation, let alone ordinary people!

…………

The next day, Zhu Fu was in the show.

Fifty positions had been precisely marked out in the field, and she stood at her position waiting for the staff to check and confirm the venue.

[It finally started. I escaped from next door. I am so tired of watching it. Although I don’t understand it, it is really too confusing. I can’t even say anything! ]

[Agreed! It looks like there is some skill I don't understand. Why didn't you inform me when humans evolved to have gaming skills? ]

[It’s still good here, everyone is working so hard~]

[Huh? It seems like there are a lot of acquaintances today]

[I saw my sister Fu. Some people have always doubted her level, but today I can see it clearly]

[That may not be the case? This test is about the sense of smell. Although it is a basic ability in perfume making, I haven't heard that Zhu Fu is good at this. Hasn't she always been a creative contestant? What if her foundation is not that good? ]

[I don’t think there’s anything worthy of sympathy for not having good basic skills. This part is said to be a test of basic skills. If she can’t do it, she can go back and practice! ]

[It hasn’t even started yet, and you’re already saying Sister Fu is no longer good? Are those people in the front all water army? Are they here to stir up trouble to discredit Sister Fu? ]

[Who is this? You have already become a fan? Have you already protected her? ]

[I am really impressed by all of you. If you are arguing here, why don’t you just watch it. It will start in five seconds.]

Zhu Fu took off his blindfold and started the first round of identification.

The mechanical device in front of her started up without her seeing, and a small tray loaded with material slices moved under Zhu Fu's nose.

Zhu Fu sniffed it gently. It was pure and mellow, without any astringency. The answer was clear. "Moon yellow."

He gently pushed the tray and switched to the second one. Zhu Fu still sniffed the smell and came up with the answer instantly.

Not to mention the laboratory function in her mind that allowed her to cheat completely, such basic knowledge was no problem for her, and she got the answer to each one almost instantly.

"Guizhixiang."

"Heshi."

"Gray sea stone, cool breeze fruit, lotus fragrance..."

Zhu Fu reported one answer after another. Although the audience watching the live broadcast could not judge the level of the perfumer, Zhu Fu's calmness and ease could still be seen.

Not to mention that this game has a very exciting design. As long as you report the wrong name, the device in front of you will no longer produce new spices. Therefore, many contestants who don’t smell the scent later will start to doubt themselves and their emotions will start to fluctuate.

All these movements were clearly visible under the high-definition live camera, and the audience could intuitively feel the differences in performance between the players.

[Is Zhu Fu really capable? ]

[I said my sister Fu wouldn't be bad! With her personality, if there was any problem, someone who didn't like her would have already exposed it.]

[Sometimes I feel like Sister Fu was born with the wrong gender. Does anyone understand? It’s not that she’s bad at being a beta, it’s just that her overall performance is more like an alpha]

[You are biased. If Zhu Fu was an Alpha, she would not be like this today. I just like her personality as a Beta.]

[I can only say that there is a reason why she can stand out. She has both strength and personality.]

[Really? Are you praising me already? I already said it's basic skills, so this is talent? Don't be so funny, there are too many talented perfumers! ]

[I also think this is a bit exaggerated. This person is just a newcomer and has only made a few perfumes. How can she be praised to the sky? There are so many people of the same level as her in the competition, why is no one praising her? ]

Zhu Fu had no idea what the audience was saying. After passing this part, she entered the next venue and waited. Seats were assigned according to the order of passing, and the stage number in front of her was No. 1.

It’s hard to say whether this round is simple or complex, but compared to the previous round which was purely about basic skills, the complexity of this round has indeed increased.

Although it was very limited, Zhu Fu concluded that the two bottles used different materials after smelling two bottles. Even though both had rich floral scents, they could not cover up the difference. When she smelled the third bottle, she had the answer in her mind. She still smelled the fourth bottle before submitting her answer.

The next two sets of perfumes were no surprises as well. Zhu Fu easily found the difference, that is, the different bottle was in the middle, and she spent some time smelling it.

"Submit—" Zhu Fu ended the game generously and waited for the result.

She didn't notice how much pressure her action brought to the contestants behind her. How come someone submitted their result after just a short while? The first sniff hadn't even been completed yet, so how come someone submitted their result?! Was the gap between the first and him so huge?!

【Look! Genius is not just a name! 】

[Not every perfumer is considered a genius. If you look closely at Zhu Fu's works, you will find that she is not only creative but also very skilled in technique. The first orange perfume she created was made from fruits and vegetables rather than mature perfume materials. This is enough to prove her talent. As a semi-practitioner, I admire her very much.]

[No way? The contrast is so tragic? Are people really that different these days? I'm going to lose my defense!]

[Don't break it yet, geniuses are different from ordinary people, just like you wouldn't demand the physical fitness of an Omega or an Alpha.]

[The previous one is really persuasive, I feel much better]

[It's so funny. What's the point of us being comfortable? Look at the other contestants, they are almost broken. They are nervous during the competition, but they are also in disbelief.]

[So why can Zhu Fu do this? It's a bit strange, nothing special.]

Zhu Fu didn't think there was anything wrong with this. Her olfactory quotient could handle this easily. This could only be attributed to different innate conditions, just like machines with different processors, how could their speeds be the same? But this would not affect normal use, so there was nothing to emphasize.

The answer formula at the end is even more of an old friend. It has been tested when I was a beginner. Now there is just an additional requirement of quick answer, which is not that difficult. Anyway, you can start answering after smelling it once, and you can check for omissions after smelling it twice. Just press the quick answer button at the first time, and then take the opportunity to smell it again. You don’t waste even a second and you can pass it easily.

Compared to the gasps and sighs of other contestants, she was more worried about the next round. She wondered if the organizer felt uncomfortable without making trouble and turned this round of competition into an appetizer.

"All contestants stand outside the venue. After the whistle blows, they can enter and choose any perfume. After smelling the perfume formula, they go to the material area to get the materials and arrive at the workbench to start mixing. The submitted perfume will be qualified if it matches the corresponding numbered sample by 60%. This will be used as the basis for scoring. The first five contestants who submit will receive an extra score of five to one point, and subsequent contestants will not receive any points..."

Zhu Fu could already imagine this scene full of physical conflict, and she was not very confident in her physique.

(End of this chapter)