Psychological Control

Because the host Phil's hometown is in Auckland, our first relay station in New Zealand, and the rest place is the father's farm. Dillon and I were on the first team, and were even close to the second place. Zoe and Joseph were almost three hours behind. As for the last group of old friends Lu Renjia and Lu Renyi who arrived, we have opened up a full eight hours.

Speeding forward to the first leg, the group that was eliminated was Lu Renjia and Lu Renyi. After a rest night, we got up at six in the morning the next day, and we got the next stop clue from Phil.

The second stop was to Sydney, Australia, and drove from Phil's father's farm to Auckland Airport. It arrived at about seven o'clock and nearly eight o'clock. We bought a flight to Sydney at ten o'clock. Later, we will catch the plane, along with us are Zoe, Joseph, cowboy brother Sam and Dean.

The first group to start was our three teams. Here I also had a conversation with the two cowboys for the first time and knew a little bit about them. Dean is the elder brother and Sam is the younger brother. Although it seemed that Sam was more than ten centimeters taller than Dean, this made his brother Dean become a dwarf. Sam is one meter and nine feet in length, but Dean is not short, one meter or eight or five.

The two brothers inherited the family of the deceased father and ran a rural village together. After a little communication, I found that although they looked like uninformed country people, they were actually very savvy. Smart but not insidious, they are intersecting opponents, because I believe that they will confront you directly instead of doing small moves behind them.

Zoe and Joseph were more clever than I thought. Last night, after they learned that I and Dillon had got a fast-forward card that needed to be given to others, they didn't rush to ask us. They didn't even mention it, maybe it was because the time had not yet come.

This also relieved me, because although I and Dillon would definitely give them a fast-forward card in the end, this does not mean that I will take them for granted. Besides, sending charcoal in the snow is always heavier than icing on the cake.

The schedule in Sydney, Australia is not much different from that in Auckland, New Zealand. After exiting Sydney Airport and finding the designated vehicle, we received the next clue in the car and headed for the Sydney Opera House. Find a designated person in front of the Sydney Opera House and get clues about the roadblock mission.

The roadblock mission was to go to Bondi Beach and find the next clue among the 500 sand piles on the beach. However, the dug sand pile needs to be repiled by the contestants themselves before looking for the next one. This is basically a task that relies on luck, and luck can pass faster.

In fact, although I hate this kind of thing that depends on luck, in a way, luck is actually a kind of strength. Because I don't believe my luck, and digging for half a day on the beach without shelter, I worry more about sunburn. So this time the roadblock task was completed by Dillon.

On the roadblock mission here, Joseph almost used the extraordinary luck that shocked the show crew. It took only five minutes in the five hundred sand piles to find a clue of one-fifth chance. So the sibling team led us almost half an hour during this time.

Dillon was the second of the three groups to be found. The clue asked us to head to Sydney's Rocks and find the next detour in a famous tavern. The program group's setting that allows contestants to turn around and turn around, in fact, also looks at it from another level, allowing the contestants to really travel once. Of course, it's just more time than the tour group.

Compared to the locals who like to go to Sydney, the rocky area of ​​Sydney is particularly famous for its beautiful scenery.

Here is a maze of sand-paved alleys, dead ends, and courtyards, packed with shops, warehouses, and townhouses built in the early nineteenth century. Although long ago, the Rocks were just a gathering place for Sydney dockers and loaders. Today, however, many shops, boutiques, taverns and restaurants have been built here, attracting overseas tourists like magnets.

Thanks to the previous alliance agreement, when we first arrived in the rocky area, we happened to meet the sister and brother group who had just got the task and were leaving. Maybe it's because of the idea of ​​fast-forwarding cards in our hands, or maybe it's just a simple agreement. Zoe and Joseph pointed out the right direction for us without hesitation.

From the centuries-old pub owner, the next detour clue that was taken over, the two branches given are above ground or underwater. Ground missions require participants to go to Taronga Zoo to help animal keepers count the number of kangaroos. As long as the number given is correct, you can get the next clue.

Underwater missions require participants to go to the Sydney Aquarium, dive into the water like a diver in the aquarium, find a special pattern clown fish in a tropical school of fish, take it with a waterproof camera and give it to the diver A clue.

Both tasks can actually cause a huge waste of time, because when completing these two tasks, no matter which one has a little mistake, you must do it again from the beginning. But because of what I call Siren among survivors, and Dillon is a good hand for diving, we did not hesitate to choose diving.

When we arrived at the Sydney Aquarium without seeing Zoe and Joseph, we knew that they had chosen the ground mission because of Joseph's fear of water. This also gives us a chance to grab back the first place without having to directly confront our allies.

Knowing afterwards that you feel defeated is incomparable to the frustration of seeing yourself defeated. In order to allow our alliance agreement to proceed happily, it is best to be able to split the task selection.

Because the detour can be completed by two people, and Dillon and I are both observant, we floated in the water for half an hour and we caught the fish. Zoe and Joseph took an hour and a half on the ground to count the correct values.

Although it was the second consecutive winning streak, in fact, in the Australian round, in fact, it was only the three groups on the first batch of aircraft that really won the first round. Because all three of our teams took the lead, and the second and third groups arrived in Sydney, which were more or less one hour to two hours earlier.

But this time advantage that is too far ahead also brings us some disadvantages. That is, we didn't meet anyone else except for simply saying hello to other contestants that night at Phil's father's farm. And there is an old saying well, knowing oneself and knowing one after another.

Today, although he takes the lead, Dillon and I lack the knowledge of other opponents. Lack of knowledge of other opponents may cause us to lose our feet in the future. Fortunately, the show team will not let the leader continue for too long.

At the second round of the Sydney station in Australia, the Asian men and women group Romeo and Zhu Yingtai under the condition of unsatisfied lovers were eliminated after losing the pair of blonde and stunner girlfriends Lucy and Louise. From the beginning of the third round, our lead was offset by the flight time.

"The next stop is Tokyo, Japan." I opened the clue card that Phil handed us, and read the words to Dillon. "Let's find a travel agent to see the earliest flight today."

Asked the hotel reception where we lived and found the nearest travel agency. When we set off, I saw that the older brother and sister group Zoe and Joseph followed us and got up to the hotel lobby. Because going from Sydney to Tokyo is not as close as coming from Auckland to Sydney, the earliest departure time is from 12 noon.

In addition to the combination of Dillon and Zoe Josef, there were also Sam, Dean, and the model group James and Sid. It doesn't look like it is strong, but it has been able to lead the second-tier cancer survivor father and son combination David and Kurt. The black and white paired with police couples, Tevez and Willa.

All at once the number of first-tier teams increased from three to six. The second group of three retired couples Catherine and Paul, blonde stunner girlfriends Lucy and Louise, otaku group Johnson and Louis are not much slower than the first-tier team. Their plane took off only half an hour slower than ours.

Basically everyone returned to the original starting line.

"Hi guys! Are Brian and Dillon right?" While waiting for boarding, James and Hitt of the model group stepped forward to talk. James took the lead to say, "Sid and I both saw your performance in the survivors. You are so handsome! I bet the detour you chose yesterday was the right one for diving?"

Someone came forward to make the offer, and I naturally did not intend to refuse. After all, because of participating in the survivors, Dillon and I are already the type of old churros in the eyes of other participants, and won two relay stations in a row. Although this result is actually not very conspicuous, it makes us stand out. .

At this time, Dillon and I are in great danger of being isolated, so let me turn this disadvantage into an advantage. With the kind of upward psychology shared by human beings, make some good moves with other good combinations. This also avoids facing the enemy when facing the turn.

Looking at James, a model with black curly hair and a unique temperament of Italian men, I smiled and said, "Yes, you guessed right. And I guess you also chose to dive right? Sam, who talked to you before, right? And Dean, I think they must have chosen a kangaroo ground mission. "

"Wow, it's a pity we didn't see Siren enter the water with my own eyes." Light golden hair was tied into a small pigtail behind his head. Sid was a standard Germanic, he said to the cheerful interface behind James.

"And it is indeed Siren, you guessed it too accurately. As far as I know, Sam and Dean are standard dry ducks. I was going to work with them on the ground, but James just wanted to pull Follow me on an underwater mission. Just to see if I can run into you by chance. "

Listening to Sid's words, it seems that Sam and Dean of the Cowboys team were wasted too much time because of bad luck on the barricade task and were caught up by the second echelon. The encounter between the two of them again formed a mode of alliance that was not good but not bad.

"Oh, shut up Sid!" Speaking in front of the client because of his careful thoughts, his friend's mouth opened, and James stunned Sid a little bit in anger. Then he turned back with a little redness and said to me, "In fact, I have followed you from the National Supermodel Contest. It was a pity that you retired. Fortunately, you pulled back a city on survivors. ! "

Didn't expect James, who looked very difficult to deal with, or one of my little fans? Because for the first time, I met people who liked and worshiped themselves, but could easily talk to each other on an equal footing. So with an inexplicable feeling, I was a little embarrassed.

I felt that the smile on my face was a bit overwhelming, and I fixed his eyes before he looked at his eyes and smiled: "Thank you very much for your support. Since they are all models, let's make friends together."

I reached out and shook hands with James. Then, when James was planning to make a bosom greeting commonly used by Europeans, he put a big hand on my shoulder.

"Brian, what are we doing? We're going to board the aircraft." Dillon's voice sounded unpleasantly in my ear. 2k novel reading network