ebookland Chapter 20, 1st place: Lin Yu, full marks.
Chapter 20, 1st place: Lin Yu, full marks.
The proctors have become somewhat numb to it.
"I can't deduce the boundary conditions for the last two math problems."
Xia Zijing's tone was extremely calm, as if she were analyzing a broken machine: "The physical part is done. There's no point in staying here."
After handing in her paper, she walked out without looking back.
Zhao Tianyu felt a fire burning in his chest. Jiangcheng No. 1 High School again! Where did these two monsters come from?!
4 PM. Winter camp main building lobby.
The list of top students who passed the preliminary exam is being posted. One hundred and twenty top students have crowded around the bulletin board.
Su Qingwan stood at the front of the crowd, her heart pounding. She had only answered two and a half questions this time, and estimated her score would not exceed 30 points.
But she knew that everyone did very poorly on the test, and as long as Zhao Tianyu could get first place, the circle of the provincial capital's No. 1 High School would remain unshakable.
Li Hao confidently said from the side, "Don't worry, I couldn't even understand the questions on that test. Senior Zhao said he solved seven of the major questions. He's definitely number one by a wide margin. As for Lin Yu, he handed in his paper in twenty-five minutes. I can't think of any other possibility besides him scribbling something random."
The staff unfolded the red list and glued it to the glass window.
All eyes in the arena instantly focused on the first-place position.
Ranked first: Lin Yu (Jiangcheng No.1 Middle School). Total score: 150 points.
Second place: Xia Zijin (Jiangcheng No.1 Middle School). Total score: 115 points.
It ranks third, separated by a breathtaking gap in scores.
Third place: Zhao Tianyu (Provincial Capital No. 1 High School). Total score: 82 points.
The entire hall fell into an eerie silence. You could hear a pin drop.
150 points. Full marks.
On this exam paper that was far beyond the syllabus and would easily crush the province's top geniuses, Lin Yu scored full marks. And he only took twenty-five minutes.
"That's impossible!"
Zhao Tianyu burst out from the back of the crowd. His hair was disheveled, and his eyes were bloodshot. He pointed at the list and roared, "This exam paper has an enormous amount of calculation! Even if he were a supercomputer, he couldn't possibly finish all the derivation steps in twenty-five minutes! I demand a review of the paper! He definitely cheated!"
Li Hao immediately chimed in, "Yes! A perfect score in twenty-five minutes? This is an insult to our intelligence! It must be thoroughly investigated!"
Students from the surrounding provincial capital began to whisper among themselves, casting suspicious glances at the Jiangcheng No. 1 Middle School team standing on the edge.
"Cheating? Who can teach him to cheat?"
A deep, angry shout came from the stairwell on the second floor of the hall. Professor Chen strode down the stairs with three or four professors from Tsinghua and Peking Universities.
Professor Chen's face was ashen, and he held a USB drive in his hand. He walked to the LCD screen in the center of the hall and inserted the USB drive.
"Do you think he's insulting your intelligence?"
Professor Chen sneered and pressed the projector remote. "You think you're worthy of being insulted by him?"
The large screen lit up, projecting a high-definition scan of Lin Yu's answer sheet.
"Take a look at his eighth electrodynamics problem."
Professor Chen pointed at the screen with a laser pointer, "You're deriving scalar potentials bit by bit using Maxwell's equations from high school, while he directly used a four-dimensional covariant form. Two equations, a direct dimensional reduction and crushing victory. He didn't omit any steps; his brain is using higher-dimensional mathematical tools for a dimensional reduction attack!"
Professor Chen looked at Zhao Tianyu, his eyes filled with disappointment: "Zhao Tianyu, you solved seven problems. But your seventh problem, the fundamentals of quantum mechanics, involved the commutation relation of the operators, which caused the entire result to be off by a negative sign. You spent two hours on it, and it wasn't as good as his three seconds of intuition!"
Zhao Tianyu was struck dumb, his whole body trembled, and he took half a step back.
At this moment, Lin Yu walked in from outside the hall. He was holding a can of iced cola that he had just bought from the vending machine. He pulled the tab with one hand, making a crisp click.
Everyone's attention immediately shifted from the screen to him.
Lin Yu walked to the screen and took a sip of cola. He looked at Zhao Tianyu, his gaze still as calm as if he were looking at pebbles on the roadside.
"I told you last night that your computing power is utterly inadequate."
Lin Yu casually pointed to Zhao Tianyu's answer section on the screen, "You're used to using exhaustive methods to cover up your lack of logical modeling ability. The essence of this exam isn't mechanics at all, it's topology. You haven't even seen where the threshold is, yet you're already frantically knocking on the door from the outside."
He pressed the iced cola against Zhao Tianyu's stiff cheek, the cold touch sending a shiver down Zhao Tianyu's spine.
"Stop using ignorance as a basis for arrogance."
Lin Yu's voice wasn't loud, but it clearly reached everyone's ears: "In this field, my score is the rule itself."
thump.
Zhao Tianyu's legs went completely weak, and he collapsed to the ground. His pride and his worldview were shattered into dust under Lin Yu's absolute and brutal intellectual crushing.
Li Hao's face was ashen, and he couldn't utter a single word.
Su Qingwan looked at Lin Yu, who stood in the center of the hall as if he had everything under control, and her fingers trembled violently.
The social circle she was so proud of, the top circle in the provincial capital that she desperately wanted to squeeze into, was completely flattened by Lin Yu in just thirty minutes.
Professor Chen took a deep breath, walked up to Lin Yu, and said with utmost sincerity, "Lin Yu, Academician Li from the Institute of Theoretical Physics at Tsinghua and Peking Universities would like to meet with you in person. Regarding the equation you solved last night, there's a derivative model that needs your leadership to verify. Also, the highest-level score reduction agreement can be signed at any time."
The entire audience gasped again. Academician Li was a titan of the Chinese physics community!
Lin Yu threw the empty Coke can into a trash can ten meters away, making a precise impact sound.
"I'm busy. Whether my score is lowered or not is irrelevant to me!"
Lin Yu put his hands in his pockets, turned around and walked out. "Going back to sleep. I still need to go back to Jiangcheng to go through the motions for tomorrow's 100-day countdown rally."
Professor Chen and 120 of the province's top geniuses were left utterly bewildered in the wind.
Jiangcheng No.1 Middle School, playground.
There are 100 days left until the college entrance examination.
The early spring wind carried a chill, sweeping past the red banner with white lettering, several meters long, on the podium: "A 100-day decisive battle to seize first place in the province!"
More than 2,000 senior high school students, dressed in their school uniforms, stood on the plastic track like a dense flock of penguins.
Lin Yu stood at the back of Class 7's line. His school uniform zipper was still open, his hands were in his pockets, and he was looking down at his toes.
"Students!"
The principal, with a large belly, stood in front of the microphone, his face flushed, and his voice, transmitted through a cheap speaker, made people's eardrums hurt.
"Our school achieved a historic breakthrough at last week's Tsinghua and Peking University winter camp! I would like to give special commendation to Lin Yu from Class 7 of Grade 12!"
Swish.
More than two thousand eyes instantly swept across the crowd and turned to the back row of Class Seven.
Lin Yu didn't even lift his eyelids.