Chapter 273: Sister Yue's Tricks, on the Eve of the Competition (Part 2)
At 9:15, the brother and sister ended their call.
Before hanging up, Jiang Xiaodi's eyes were full of reluctance, but he still said goodbye obediently.
"Sister, you have to eat well, rest well, and do well in the exam. If you have a little free time, remember to think of me!"
"good."
At half past nine, Jiang Fuyue lay down to rest.
Seeing this, Huo Fanjin put down his phone and turned off the lights.
In the darkness, neither of them felt sleepy yet.
Huo Fanjin said softly: "Are you asleep?"
"……No."
"Captain," the young lady turned over and faced Jiang Fuyue, "Do you think online dating is reliable?"
"Why, are you in an online relationship?"
"Ahem...it's not me! It's a friend of mine!"
"Oh, that's you. I understand."
Huo Fanjin: "..."
Do you really have to be so sharp? Can you save some face?
"So, do you think it's reliable?"
Jiang Fuyue: "It depends on the situation. We need to analyze each case individually. You only mentioned online dating, but there's too little information to make a conclusion."
Huo Fanjin was silent for a moment: "... a foreign country, with cultural differences. The man is two years older than the woman, precocious, smokes, drinks, and has tattoos. But he is a genius, a super-powerful one..."
Miss Huo continued to speak intermittently, and finally asked, "What do you think?"
The only response she got was Jiang Fuyue's steady breathing.
Depend on!
"Falling asleep? No way... Then I'll fall asleep too..."
The first day passed uneventfully.
The next morning, teams from all participating countries gathered in the Mulan University auditorium to attend the opening ceremony.
The team leaders were all gone.
Fang Canyang: "Where are Professor Yan and Professor Qin?"
Lin Shumo: "The IPhO's authoritative body is the International Committee composed of team leaders and vice-team leaders from various countries during the competition."
Don't underestimate this committee. It not only has the right to propose amendments to the competition regulations and syllabus, and make limited selections of theoretical examination questions prepared by the host country, but also to propose amendments to specific questions and scoring criteria, and determine the ranking of the competition results.
"So?"
Ling Xuan's mouth twitched. "Professor Yan and Professor Qin were called to a team leader meeting. They probably won't be around until the theoretical part of the exam officially starts tomorrow morning."
Huo Fanjin: "Why won't it appear again?"
Ling Xuan gave her a glance: "That's the rule."
“…”
After the opening ceremony, everyone was sent back to the hotel for dinner.
Jiang Fuyue ran into the blond man from yesterday again. He and his companions stood beside the long table. His eyes fell on her without any concealment, and he talked loudly in his native language without restraint.
"She has a really great figure! Her waist is so thin and her legs are so long. Oh my God, I really want to touch her. I heard that Asian women's skin feels very nice!"
"Oh, Edmund, you're being nasty again. That's not gentlemanly."
"Fuck gentlemen, I love beautiful women. It's my nature."
"It's a pity that the beauty couldn't understand what we were saying and ignored your love."
Edmund curled his lips: "Just watch..."
As he said that, he straightened his collar and walked forward with a smile: "こんにちは (Hello)."
Jiang Fuyue didn't respond.
It seems that he is not from R country.
Edmund continued: ".(Hello)"
Still no response, ruling out H country people.
"Sawadee ka (Hello)." Not from T country either.
Then there is only...
"Hello?" Edmund asked tentatively in stiff Chinese pronunciation.
Jiang Fuyue was still in the same state, and suddenly started to speak: "@#￥%..."
Edmund: “?”
What is she saying? Which language? Why can't I understand a word?
Jiang Fuyue raised his chin and continued: "@#￥%……*&"
Then he frowned, lowered his eyes, and continued: "*&￥#%..."
She didn't know what she was saying, but her facial expression management was quite good. She portrayed the whole process vividly, from the surprise of a girl receiving attention, to her confusion and bewilderment at the boy's language, and finally her eyes full of apology and regret.
When they left by mistake, Jiang Fuyue even thought that she could apply to a film academy to study acting, and it shouldn't be too difficult to become an acting star in the entertainment industry in the future.
"Hey, Edmund, what's wrong with you? What did the beauty say? You seem a little strange."
Edmund: "@#￥%……*&"
companion:"?"
Edmund: "What do you mean?"
"ah?"
"@#￥%……*&What do you mean?"
"Oh my God, what are you talking about? I don't understand a thing."
"I feel like the noise monkeys make when they're fighting at the zoo."
"Ah~ I guess this must be a bird language translator!"
Edmund: "Don't you know?"
"Oh! God! Why should we know?"
"Are you kidding us? Actually, that joke is kind of cold, really."
Edmund frowned: "What about this sentence? *&￥#%..."
"Oh my God! Are you crazy?"
"This language is such a headache. Ah, is it a language?"
Another companion took out his phone and turned on the translation function: "Edmund, please say it again into the microphone."
Edmund: "*&￥#%……@#￥%……*&"
"Let me see what the result is..."
Five heads gathered together, looking at the pile of garbled characters and looking at each other in confusion.
"Edmund, did you repeat yourself wrong?"
"Absolutely not."
“But the translation results are right in front of me, and it’s so unbelievable.”
Edmund facepalmed.
F*k! So what country is she from?
Jiang Fu Yue returned to the dining area with a smile on her face.
Huo Fanjin: "Why did you go for most of the day? Lin Shumo finished eating and left."
"Oh, I met those pigs from Country F again."
"ha?"
"I just played with them for a while."
Huo Fanjin: “?”
Jiang Fuyue started cutting the steak.
"Why aren't you eating?"
“It’s not tasty.”
"Well... a little bit. The rice feels raw and undercooked. But aren't you afraid of getting fat if you eat steak every day?"
"If you take in the nutrients your body needs normally, you won't get fat."
"Is that so?" Huo Fanjin swallowed, "Then I'll get a piece too. Eat slowly! Wait for me!"
Jiang Fuyue lowered his head and started eating.
In the afternoon, all contestants visited Mulan University under the guidance of the host country. The team leaders then went to the auditorium to hold the formal meeting of this International Committee and collectively discuss tomorrow's theoretical competition questions.
Yan Zhenfeng and Qin Libin are among them.
After the two sat down, they whispered to each other:
"This year, Country D will be sending Little Frank to compete again. He won first place in the individual overall score last year, so I'm afraid he'll be even more difficult to deal with this year."
"I heard there's a talented young man named Edmund on the F Country team. He has a strong memory and can remember everything he sees. He's a hot candidate for the gold medal."
Yan Zhenfeng sighed, "Last year, our team ranked outside the top five in the overall score, and we only won one gold medal. The rest of the medals were nothing. It could be said to be our worst performance ever."
"So this time, the higher-ups have issued a strict order. If you don't win three individual gold medals, neither you nor I will be able to report you."
Qin Libin wasn't worried. "With Jiang Fuyue here, what's there to be afraid of? Everyone can see her ability. Has she ever missed a single question? Has her test score ever been lower than full marks?"
"That's true, but the competition field is like a battlefield, it changes rapidly. If I don't perform well..."
"Jiang Fuyue's strength isn't just in solving problems; she also has the ability to adapt to changing circumstances and draw inferences from one instance to another. You're overthinking it."
"Tsk, Old Qin, I've never seen you so cocky in previous years?" Yan Zhenfeng squinted his eyes and crossed his arms across his chest.
"Showing off? How am I showing off? This is called confidence! We've led the team for so many years now, you should know Jiang Fuyue's level better than me. As for Frank and Edmund, they're no match for us!"
"We've met Frank before, so we have a rough idea of his situation. But this Edmund..." Yan Zhenfeng frowned. "It's hard to say."
"Alright, alright, you're already worried before the competition even starts. What's wrong?"
Soon, the meeting began.
The representative of the host country spoke. If nothing unexpected happened, this person was the executive chairman of the organizing committee.
Then, the host country sent the texts and solutions of the three theoretical questions, as well as the German version of the scoring criteria, to the team leaders of each country.
An hour later, the representative of the question setter introduced the proposition ideas and solution ideas of the three questions in English.
Then the meeting will discuss whether to make changes.
If one of the three questions is rejected, the organizing committee will make public the fourth alternative question.
There are usually no objections, it's just a process. After all, if it can be produced, it means it has been refined and impeccable.
Sure enough, no one suggested any revisions in the end.
Second update, 3,000 words.
The schedule is based on the real-life IPhO process, with some minor changes to the details. Don't be too picky.
Three o'clock in the morning.
(End of this chapter)
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