After Lin Chaoxi finished speaking, there was a moment of silence.

"Excuse me." The speaker took a step back and saluted her with his fists. After that, he walked back to the stage silently.

Of course Lin Chaoxi also wanted to say that philosophy is not what you think it is, and I really am not pretending.

But... everyone had left and she couldn't call them back.

She turned her head to look at Pei Zhi, and Pei Zhi was also looking at her.

The boy probably found it funny too, and had a slight smile on his face.

Lin Chaoxi turned his head and thought about how to explain it, but it seemed a little strange.

——

The speech started on time.

The lights gradually dimmed, leaving only a few spotlights shining on the stage.

Three college students stood on the stage, which did not make the stage look crowded. They looked very young but full of energy. After introducing themselves, the remaining two left the stage.

"Ahem." The speaker stood in the middle of the stage, holding the microphone, and cleared his throat.

But a second later, a shy and reserved look suddenly appeared on his serious face.

"Sorry, I forgot the words," he said.

The audience laughed.

"In fact, we wrote tens of thousands of words of speech before coming here, and we thought we were very well prepared. But now that I stand up, I find that my mind is still blank. So please allow me to go down and bring my manuscript up."

He said this as he walked off the stage.

The audience was laughing happily. It's really funny to see a science and engineering geek being cute.

The speaker stepped down from the stage and brought up the entire stack of his speech manuscripts. The whole audience fell silent again.

Because he actually had a thick stack of manuscripts in his hand, proving that what he said was true. They had indeed made very thorough preparations for a free lecture to share their experience.

The sound of flipping papers was heard, and he suddenly looked up: "Found it, my first question is this - I want to ask, why do you want to participate in the Mathematical Modeling Competition?"

“Because I know that you came to our lecture in the hope of achieving better results in the modeling competition, but I still want to know why you want to participate in the competition?”

The audience was silent, no one spoke.

"Well, please raise your hands and answer, otherwise I will be embarrassed."

"To get extra points for the postgraduate entrance exam." someone said.

“It is said that the award-winning school has scholarships!”

“My buddy wanted to join me.”

“We are studying this major and want to give it a try!”

“The teacher said there was an opportunity, so I signed up.”

The replies came one after another.

Maybe it was because it was too dark, or maybe in her subconscious she and Pei Zhi were still very close friends.

So she leaned towards Pei Zhi and asked, "Is there any extra points for the postgraduate entrance examination?"

"It's not extra points for the unified examination," Pei Zhi said.

It was not until the boy's low and clear voice rang out that Lin Chaoxi shuddered and leaned back.

The lights were dim, and Pei Zhi answered seriously: "It depends on the policies of each school. If the awards you have won are not high, it will help you in the retest. The instructor prefers students who have participated in the modeling competition and won awards."

"What about the prize?"

"If you win their awards, you can directly obtain the recommendation qualification in our school," Pei Zhi said.

"Admission to graduate school?" Lin Chaoxi looked at Pei Zhi in shock.

Pei Zhi thought it was funny: "You don't know this?"

Lin Chaoxi could only shake his head.

"Then why did you come to participate?" he asked.

At first it was because of you...

Now it’s because of Lao Lin…

Lin Chaoxi looked at Pei Zhi. In the dim light, the boy's eyes were gentle and clear.

She could still make up stories when facing Jie Ran, but when facing Pei Zhi, she was suddenly speechless.

She turned her head silently, covered half of her face, and said, "Let me think about it."

The constant stream of responses in the lecture hall gradually stopped.

The speaker laughed. I know you will find the following words very corny, but: "No matter why you come, it doesn't matter, because the act of 'coming to participate' itself is very important."

"By participating in the modeling competition, you can develop your abilities in all aspects. You will learn how to search for papers, learn how to write your own papers, learn a scientific method, learn a lot of advanced scientific software, and learn the whole process from recognizing a problem to analyzing it to solving it..."

The speaker said a lot, and Lin Chaoxi leaned back in her chair. It was really a subconscious move. She looked at Pei Zhi. Then she met Pei Zhi's slightly questioning eyes, which probably said, "Have you thought it through?"

"I want to win." She thought for a moment and answered.

The boy nodded.

On the podium, the speaker muttered to himself for a long time, then quietly raised his head, suddenly put down the manuscript, and looked at everyone: "These are all the answers I picked up from the Internet. Do you think they make sense?"

The students in the venue were all shocked; they didn't expect there to be such a trick.

"But you want to know why my friends and I are participating in this competition?" the speaker asked.

He was smiling a little, but still serious: "Because we want to win the award we have now, the highest award from the organizing committee."

"Of course, there may be some logical problems here. The goal of participating in the competition should be to win the prize, not the reason for participating. But for us, we participate in the competition to win this prize. This is why we participate. We are not doing it for the prize money, the admission quota to graduate school, or the recognition of the tutor."

"Why?" someone in the audience asked.

The speaker stood on the stage and pointed to the position of the student who asked the question: "Because I was once standing on the stage and was asked by someone standing on the stage why I came to participate in the competition."

"What did I say then?" the speaker looked at his companions in the audience.

"You're so disgusting, you talk a lot about your love of mathematical modeling!" said two others.

The speaker stood on the stage and laughed shyly.

But the venue was very quiet.

And then?

This is probably what everyone wants to ask.

Lin Zhaoxi suddenly looked at Pei Zhi, but Pei Zhi was looking at the main stage.

"The big guy who was giving the lecture on the stage listened for a long time, and finally he said, 'This is a competition.'

After he said this, he had no further comments.

You can feel it. I was facing a great man who was very good at mathematics. He listened to my expression carefully and finally said this. How frustrated I felt.

After that I sat down and he continued talking about other things. At that moment I really wanted to stand up and say, "What the fuck do you mean?"

I actually didn't listen carefully to the entire lecture. Although he spoke very well, I was just very angry.

But later, because I thought about how to refute him many times, my mind was full of how I would seriously refute him when I got the chance. I suddenly realized that the simpler the people's ideas, the scarier they are. "

Lin Zhaoxi lowered his eyes and looked at the notebook in front of him.

Speaker: "If it were me before, I would definitely explain to you repeatedly why he said that or why I participated in the competition just to win the award. But this is too brainwashing, and I still don't want our ideas to affect you.

But I still want to say here that a competition is a competition, and the key is to participate seriously and win in the end. Everything else is added value. If you take the added value mentioned by others as your purpose of participating in the competition, it will be easy for you to relax. Please take the competition seriously, focus on one point, and strive to win. This is what I want to say. "

After hearing this, if Lin Chaoxi still couldn't guess who the great speaker was talking about, then she must be a fool.

After all, for him, when faced with difficult mathematical problems, all he had to do was to prove the solution; and when participating in a modeling competition, all he had to do was to write the best competition paper.

The standard for judging the best and the worst is obviously the awards.

There are actually not many people who can see all problems in a very simple and pure way.

There were boos from the audience, and some students fell into deep thought.

The speaker was nonchalant. After the noise died down, he said, "I had prepared a lot of content to introduce what mathematical modeling is. But two years ago, I heard the best lecture on mathematical modeling in this lecture hall, and that speaker is here too. The most professional part should be left to the most professional people."

The speaker looked down at Pei Zhi, who was sitting in the audience, feeling a little helpless.

"Please come up to the stage. I have finally taken revenge." The speaker held up the microphone, smiled wickedly, and waved towards them.