The seats were allocated like this. Jiang Chen, He Qianyu, and He Qianmin took the car driven by the driver, while He Qianjian, Li Xiao, and Yang Yun took the car driven by He Yanfeng. The two cars drove towards the hotel one after the other.
He Qianyu was very excited. Even though He Qianmin forced her to sit on the passenger seat, she still turned around and talked to Jiang Chen persistently. Jiang Chen showed no impatience at all and could talk to her for a long time even if the topic was childish.
Along the way, He Qianmin tried to interrupt several times, but in the end, all failed. He was so angry that he got off the car with a sullen face.
The restaurant He Yanfeng booked was the Huaiyang restaurant that Jiang Chen and his friends had visited last time. When ordering, Jiang Chen ordered a few dishes that He Qianmin liked according to his memory. Yang Yun was surprised and said, "I didn't expect that my taste is similar to Qianmin's."
Jiang Chen smiled and said, "Qian Min and I have been here to eat before."
"So that's how it is." Yang Yun smiled and said, "Then you probably ordered all these dishes for him. Order two more dishes that you like."
"My brother and I have similar tastes." The dark clouds on He Qianmin's face instantly disappeared. He crossed his arms and said, "We even have the same taste in the dry sauce and sauce for hot pot."
He Yanfeng raised his eyebrows: "What a coincidence?"
"Yes, Xiaochen and our family are really destined to be together." Yang Yun said with a smile, "Please come to our house more often in the future."
Jiang Chen smiled: "Okay, thank you Aunt Yang."
The waiter pushed the door open and brought dishes to the table. Taking advantage of this gap, Li Xiao walked past He Qianyu and discussed the topic of today's competition with Jiang Chen.
Yang Yun picked up a piece of fish with chopsticks and put it into the mouth of He Qianjian, who had been silent since getting on the car, and whispered softly: "Dabao, what's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?"
He Qianjian tightened his grip on the chopsticks and raised his pale face: "Mom, I..."
"Oh, right." He Yanfeng also looked at He Qianjian and said casually, "Qianjian, how did you do on the test this time? Xiaojiang and Xiaoxiao are comparing answers. You can also compare with them."
When He Yanfeng called out He Qianjian's name, Li Xiao and Jiang Chen stopped talking. After hearing what He Yanfeng said, Li Xiao and Jiang Chen looked at each other and fell silent.
For a moment, the restaurant fell silent.
Seeing that He Qianjian had been silent and looked very unhappy, He Yanfeng put down his chopsticks and asked, "What's going on?"
He Qianjian lowered his head, sweat seeping from his forehead. Although He Yanfeng was not a strict father, for some reason, He Qianjian was a little afraid of him since he was a child, so he had always thought about going home to confess this matter to Yang Yun, and then Yang Yun would tell He Yanfeng. But who knew that he was brought here to eat as soon as the exam was over, and Jiang Chen was also among the people eating.
Before, just seeing Jiang Chen and the He family appearing in the same place would make He Qianjian feel guilty. Now, coupled with the system and the fact that he had just given up the competition, this guilty feeling weighed on him and turned into panic.
When he was filled with endless anxiety and fear, the voices of Jiang Chen and Li Xiao discussing the test questions came into his ears vaguely and intermittently like a spell. Every word they spoke seemed to be mocking his incompetence and ridiculing his mediocrity, and trying to push him back into his memory of the past where anyone could step on him.
Seeing that He Qianjian's face was getting uglier and uglier, and even sweating on his forehead, Yang Yun reached out to touch his forehead worriedly: "Qianjian, are you feeling unwell?"
He Qianjian raised his head slightly, his eyes fell on Jiang Chen who had no expression on his face. He heard Yang Yun's concerned questioning in his ears. He calmed himself down and raised his head.
"I gave up the exam."
"What?" Yang Yun paused while wiping the sweat off his face, then turned around and looked at He Yanfeng.
He Yanfeng frowned and said, "Tell me the reason."
"I'm not feeling well." He Qianjian forced a smile, half guilty and half self-blaming, "I felt a little uncomfortable when I woke up this morning. I thought I would feel better when I got to the examination room, but I didn't expect that I would feel even worse when I got there. I couldn't hold on as soon as the test paper was handed out. I wrote my name and slept for the entire first test, and then I didn't take the second test."
"Where do you feel uncomfortable?" Yang Yun worriedly blamed, "Why didn't you tell mom if you felt uncomfortable this morning? No wonder you looked so bad. You didn't tell me when you got in the car just now. If you had told me earlier, we would have gone to the hospital first."
He Qianjian glanced at Jiang Chen, and his smile became even more forced: "I didn't expect there would be other people... and I think Jiang Chen and Li Xiao should have done well in the exam, so it's not bad for me to hold back and come over to celebrate for them."
Yang Yun opened her mouth, wanting to blame him but reluctant to do so: "Your body is your own. No matter how big the problem is, it is not as important as your body. Besides, there is no time to celebrate. Mom will take you to the hospital now."
"No need." He Qianjian wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "You guys eat slowly. I'll ask Uncle Wang to take me home first. I should feel better after a good sleep."
Yang Yun was worried: "Let's go to the hospital."
"No need, mom." He Qianjian stood up and said, "Sorry, I'm not feeling well. I'm leaving now."
He Yanfeng held back Yang Yun who insisted on taking He Qianjian to the hospital: "Let him go back and rest first. If he still doesn't feel well when we get home, let Xiang Hong come over to check on him."
Hearing the familiar name, Jiang Chen narrowed his eyes slightly, as if thinking about something.
After dinner, Jiang Chen and Li Xiao said goodbye and went home.
Back in the room, Jiang Chen turned on the computer and put on headphones.
Changjiang reported today's interception and attack. After Jiang Chen processed the multiple codes captured by Changjiang, he opened the wing network and C's message popped up.
[C: God D, who did you ask me to track today? If you hadn't locked the range for me, I really wouldn't have been able to catch it. Even so, it slipped away from me many times. I only caught up with it and found its IP twice.]
The night before, Jiang Chen contacted C and asked him to help track the IP.
When discussing tactics, Jiang Chen selected a very small area for C, which was the location of the teaching building of Yanyi Middle School, and asked C to try to track this IP and transmit every tracked IP change to Changjiang who was working, to provide a second line of defense for Changjiang's interception. This would not only allow Changjiang to intercept the system more accurately, but also confuse the system, making it unable to determine who was against it.
Sure enough, under Jiang Chen's arrangement, the system's only two escape attempts were intercepted by C, completely cutting off contact with He Qianjian.
[D: Being able to catch up with her twice is already pretty good. ]
[C: This is the first time I have encountered an IP address that is so well hidden. God D, can you tell me who the other party is? I checked the address from yesterday and it is Yanshi No. 1 Middle School. That person is not a student.]
[D: Sorry, it’s not convenient to disclose it for the time being. ]
【C: Then just tell me one thing, are you a student? 】
[D: Yes.]
The screen was silent for a while.
[C: Today’s students are really amazing :)]
Jiang Chen smiled, thanked C again, closed the wing net, and began to study the new code captured by Changjiang.
These codes are not much different from the previous codes. The only difference may be that these codes are more than that paragraph, so the energy contained in them is also greater. However, Jiang Chen still doesn't know the source of this power, so he can only start with the code.
Jiang Chen was calculating and analyzing the code. The ground was covered with rolled-up draft papers. He crossed out the equation he had just written and threw the paper aside again.
No matter how he calculated, he couldn't parse this code. The code he had obtained so far was not enough.
Jiang Chen rubbed his brows, pulled out a piece of paper and prepared to continue, when there was a knock on the door.
Yang Si said outside the door: "Chenchen, you just finished participating in the competition today, why don't you rest earlier?"
Jiang Chen opened the door: "Mom, why are you up?"
"Drink some water." Yang Si said, "Why aren't you sleeping yet?"
"I'm working."
"Is it a difficult job?" Yang Si looked at the mess of paper balls on the ground and asked with concern: "No matter how difficult or tiring it is, you can't ruin your body. It's almost two o'clock now. You should go to bed early and continue tomorrow morning."
Jiang Chen nodded: "I know, I'll go to bed soon, mom, you should go to bed early too."
"Oh, right." Yang Si suddenly remembered something and said, "I forgot to tell you at dinner. This morning, a phone call came to my house. The person on the other end said he was a professor from Yan University, his last name was Zhang. He wanted to talk to you. Mom didn't know if what he said was true or not, so she said you were not at home and asked me to call him back tomorrow."
Jiang Chen raised his eyebrows: "Yan University?"
"Yes, Mom confirmed it. That's what the caller said."
"I see." Jiang Chen smiled and said, "You should get some rest early. I am also going to sleep."
"good evening."
"Goodnight, mom."
The math competition was held the day before National Day, so Jiang Chen had enough time to study the codes in the following week. Jiang Chen did not waste a second and rushed between home, the library, and the laboratory throughout the week. His hard work paid off. Although he overturned countless formulas, Jiang Chen also got an unexpected reward.
These shrunken codes, when combined together, actually looked very much like a type of writing he had seen before. However, Jiang Chen had only seen this type of writing in the largest library in the empire when he was in college in his previous life. It was a type of ancient writing, and the length of this writing was very small, and it did not specify which country, planet, or civilization it belonged to.
The only thing Jiang Chen could be sure of was that this kind of writing could be passed down for so many years, and even after experiencing the great migration and the years of reclamation, it could still be preserved by the paleography department of the Federal Library, which proved that it was inseparable from the Earth, or at least proved that it had appeared on Earth.
However, it remains to be investigated which country's writing system and from which era it belongs.
Just when Jiang Chen made a breakthrough in his research on the system, the National Day holiday came to an end quietly. After leaving school for a month, Jiang Chen finally returned to campus. However, before he even entered the classroom, he was hurriedly taken to the principal's office by the director of the political and educational department.
"Principal." Director Liu said, "I brought Jiang Chen here."
The principal smiled kindly: "Student Jiang Chen, please sit down first."
After saying hello, Jiang Chen sat down at the seat pointed by the principal. He nodded politely to the old man who had been looking at him with a smile, and asked the principal: "Principal, who is this old man?"
"This is Professor Zhang from Yanda University." The president smiled kindly, "He heard that you wanted to apply to Yanda University's computer science department, so he wanted to come and talk to you."
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