Chapter 79: Expedition

The young man is really not stupid. She just doesn't have the ability to turn decay into magic yet. It's because the young man has some basic knowledge and is eager to learn. She just did some work to organize and connect the knowledge and conduct a thorough analysis.

The young man's willingness to go was clear and his future was bright. Wu Tong was completely relieved and fully prepared for the IMO which was entering the single-digit countdown.

Keep paying attention, but don't panic. This is the purpose of the last few days of training. They are fully prepared to win the battle and show their invincible spirit!

At 6:30, before the training ended, Wu Tong received the admission letter personally handed to her by Dean Pan Wenhua of the School of Mathematics of Peking University. "Let's just go and do what we should do, and leave a souvenir!"

In order to prevent those guys with ulterior motives, especially those next door, from shamelessly poaching their children again and again.

Looking at the admission letter with unique Peking University characteristics in her hand, Wu Tong felt that she might be the first candidate to receive an admission letter this year.

On July 3, after two days of final preparation, Wu Tong and his group of six, led by two teachers from Peking University, boarded an international flight to Nur-Sultan, the capital of Kazakhstan. Stana, that is its future name.

The IMO national team officially sets off!

Although the flight was only about three hours, plus the time for waiting and leaving the airport, it was only half a day.

But during these three hours, the plane cut through the sky, crossed thousands of kilometers, headed for a distant foreign country, and landed in Nur-Sultan, where the exotic atmosphere hit us in the face.

In the distant past, this place was also said to belong to China.

But think about it, everything here is very different from the mainland, making the Chinese visitors feel unfamiliar. Strange buildings, strange faces, strange language...

Wu Tong and other Chinese tourists who have lived in peace for a long time have a certain impression of countries with the word "stan" in their minds, which are either war-torn or backward. The Nur-Sultan International Airport, where they landed, has relatively simple facilities compared to those in China, which made the newly landed Chinese visitors feel a little nervous.

Fortunately, however, as they drove from the airport outside the suburbs to the city, the road became increasingly prosperous, with tall buildings and heavy traffic, a reflection of a modern city, and everyone felt a little relieved.

This is not discrimination or anything else, but they have a mission. It would be a pity if the environment is too different, which leads to acclimatization and various maladjustments that affect their performance.

The group stayed in a hotel provided by the government. For their first meal after landing, the group was somewhat not used to the local food. Most of the people in the Chinese delegation looked a little listless, but it was okay as the distance was relatively close and the time difference was relatively easy to adjust to.

After all, it is a neighboring country. Getting here from Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Province, is closer than going to Beijing.

As for diet, Professor Li said: "You are allowed to be picky about food these days. You can choose what you like. The meat and dairy products here are all good. You must ensure that you consume meat, eggs, milk, and vegetables in moderation to ensure health and nutrition. Don't try anything strange. You can bear with it these days. After the competition, you will make up for it when you return home. Let's overcome difficulties and demonstrate the spirit of our army that is not afraid of hardship or fatigue..."

As the team leader, he had to give more instructions, "The temperature difference between morning and night is quite large here, so you must pay more attention when adding or removing clothes. These few days are especially critical..."

This was Wu Tong's first time going abroad, so it was a bit strange. The cooking skills here were OK, and Wu Tong wasn't too picky about food, so he chose carefully and didn't make many mistakes.

"Fortunately, this IMO is in Khaza, not in India!" Chu Xiaosheng from Haishi was still in shock. He ordered a dish of traditional Khaza smoked horse sausage and almost vomited it out.

This thing is very popular with people who like it, but it is considered a dark dish by those who cannot accept it. Zhang Beibei, a cute girl from East China Normal University, and Su Zhikang from Sichuan and Chongqing were quite accepting of it, thinking it has a unique flavor, while the others could only try it slightly as a novelty. Chu Xiaosheng fed it enthusiastically, and finally no food was wasted.

The two and a half days of adaptation were spent in such a pleasant atmosphere.

Out of caution, they did not leave the hotel. They stayed inside the hotel, playing games, eating, discussing knowledge points, learning while relaxing and relaxing while learning. The six of them were all friends who had trained in the same trench for forty days. With the arrangements of the thoughtful Guo Jiachen and Chu Xiaosheng, the atmosphere was very pleasant.

On July 6, the 51st International Mathematical Olympiad officially opened, with a total of 517 students from 98 countries and regions around the world participating in the competition.

However, this year, except for the Chinese team, the well-informed team leaders and students from other countries and regions all looked unhappy. Especially when they looked at the Chinese team, in their eyes, the particularly young Wu Tong was even more sad that God and Allah no longer cared for their lost lambs.

China was already very strong, but this year it’s gone too far!

As a superpower, isn't it a shame to release such a trump card to harm them?

Would it be interesting to let a person who solved Zhou's conjecture, published papers in SCI core journals and in the Annals of Mathematics, and can be called an international scholar, come and beat these high school students?

How can they compete? Fortunately, there is only one such over-limit guy! If all Chinese teams have such configurations, what is the point of competing? Just go home and give up the game!

But no matter how heartbroken they were, there was nothing they could do. It's not that no one protested to the organizing committee, but the organizing committee checked all the files and found that Wu was indeed a high school student, not a college student pretending to be a high school student to participate in the competition. In fact, her age was considered young among all the participating students!

Orientals always look young in the eyes of Westerners. When they see Master Wu Tong, many of them can't help but restrain their angry curses and glares. They feel it is a bit sinful to bully a child!

After the opening ceremony, Li Yishen talked to his team members about some of the information he had heard.

"I heard that the difficulty of this year's IMO has increased!" Li Yisheng looked at Wu Tong with amusement, "No doubt, it's because of you! IMO loves to ask number theory questions, and you solved the Zhou conjecture, a difficult number theory problem, so..."

Li Yishen spread his hands. Fortunately, they had anticipated this and made preparations in advance, so they would not be caught off guard this year. Wu Tong was the trump card!

Wu Tong spread her hands. This was something she could not have expected.

IMO, two exams in two days, three questions each, 4.5 hours each. Seven points per question, 42 points in total.

On the 7th and 8th, the competition officially began.

At nine o'clock, all the candidates participating in the competition were in place and the test papers were distributed. The official terms of IMO are English, French, German and Russian. The team leaders were isolated in advance and translated the test papers into their national languages.