On the day of the competition, Lin Chaoxi got up a little later than usual.
First, we need to conserve our energy to prepare for the next three days and three nights of competition.
Second, her favorite restaurant only opens after 7 a.m., so she decided to just sleep in a little longer.
But the biological clock doesn't lie.
At half past five, she closed her eyes automatically, rolled over on the bed, forced herself to close her eyes and rest for an hour, and then got up.
She stuffed some stimulants into her schoolbag, and the minty scent of the cooling oil lingered.
Old Lin had already gotten up and was practicing what was said to be the Five Animal Exercises in the small courtyard. Lin Chaoxi, carrying his schoolbag, pushed open the door.
Old Lin was wearing an old man's sweatshirt. In the morning light, he made a "whoosh" sound, put his fists together and stood still, looking very sage-like.
"This must be a good time to eat fried bread and wheat. Do you want to have breakfast with your old father?" Lao Lin asked her with a smile.
"No." Lin Zhaoxi shook his head. "I have to go to school. I want to take out breakfast."
"Why!"
"Because girls can't be kept at home when they grow up." Lin Chaoxi replied.
Laolin Petrochemical.
Finally, Lin Chaoxi dragged the reluctant Old Lin out.
The oil cake shop that Lao Lin mentioned was also her favorite snack shop. A long line had formed in front of the shop. The father and daughter stood in the line, and were filled with the hot air inside the shop.
Lin Chaoxi wiped the sweat off his forehead and finally bought two servings. He also ordered two more to be taken away.
There were no seats left in the store, so the father and daughter sat on the curb to eat their breakfast.
Only bicycles and electric vehicles pass by on this road, and pedestrians are hurrying back and forth.
Lin Chaoxi took a big bite and grimaced from the burn.
Old Lin ate slowly and leisurely, as if it was just an ordinary morning and he didn't make a special trip to have breakfast with his daughter because he cared about her competition.
From the time he went out to the time he lined up, from the time he sat down on the curb to the time he finished his entire breakfast, Lao Lin didn't say a word.
In the end, Lin Chaoxi couldn't help but say, "Dad, if you have anything to say, just say it. It's not good for your health to hold it in."
"Actually..." Lao Lin wiped his mouth and said two words.
"What actually?"
"Before I left, I had a secret to teach you, but you were sleeping so I forgot it."
Lin Chaoxi was speechless.
Lao Lin was satisfied with her expression, so he took out an envelope from his pocket and handed it to her.
Lin Chaoxi lowered his head and found that it was still the business envelope from the accounting firm where Old Lin worked.
In the sunlight, the red characters on the white background are shiny and new.
But this time the envelope was very thin, as if there was only one page of paper stuffed in it, or maybe there was nothing at all.
"Dad..." Lin Chaoxi was speechless.
Lao Lin smiled and put it in her hand, saying, "Secret book, a unique secret book."
After saying that, Lao Lin patted his butt, stood up, put his hands behind his back and walked away.
His figure became thinner and thinner.
An electric vehicle ran over the manhole cover, making a clanging sound, and sped away.
Lin Chaoxi came to his senses, lowered his head and opened the envelope.
There was a thin piece of white paper folded in three.
She slowly unfolded it, and this time, there was no blank paper stuffed inside.
There was a line of elegant handwriting on it, with a large blank space left.
——We are just trying to understand the world and strive to get closer to the truth.
Lin Chaoxi held the paper and looked at it for a while. He felt like laughing but also felt very emotional.
It really is the secret book of the chicken soup master. Even writing a pre-match encouragement is full of mysterious metaphysical flavor.
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Half an hour in advance, Lin Chaoxi arrived outside the examination classroom prepared for them by the school.
Computer rooms 3 and 4 are on the top floor of the library. Outside the door is an elevated corridor that overlooks the entire campus. From a distance, the trees are bright green and the layers are clear, which makes people feel relaxed and happy.
There were already quite a few people waiting at the door of the computer room, and Pei Zhi and Jie Ran had also arrived early.
Lin Chaoxi looked at the wheat cake in his hand, pulled Lao Wang and A Guang over, and handed them a bag each.
"Disciple, you are really filial!" Lao Wang praised her.
"Disciple, you are truly filial!"
A Guang also repeated Lao Wang's words, and was hit on the head by Lao Wang.
"Ouch!" A Guang cried out in pain.
Lin Zhaoxi couldn't help laughing, and Pei Zhi's eyes followed the sound.
She smiled at the boy as a greeting.
"Students, please pay attention."
Seeing that most people had arrived, Xie Ran clapped his hands to attract everyone's attention.
"Let me introduce to you all. Computer labs 3 and 4 are the competition classrooms arranged by the school for us. The big office next to computer lab 4 is our lounge. There are water, energy bars, Red Bull, and instant noodles of various flavors that everyone likes. Believe me, when you feel hopeless in your thesis, have a bowl of instant noodles and you will have the courage to live on."
In order to let them relax, Xie Ran also specially arranged for them to visit the food.
"Wow!"
“Braised beef noodles, my favorite!”
"Laotan pickled cabbage is the best!"
Looking at the mountain of instant noodles and snacks, the students suddenly became noisy.
Lin Chaoxi stood at the end of the team, stood on tiptoe to take a look, then turned back. Pei Zhi looked at his watch, took out the key, and opened the door to the computer room.
From excitement to nervousness, it only takes a few seconds.
Everyone left the office filled with snacks and went into the computer room to sit down.
All the seats in the computer classroom were filled, but it was eerily quiet, with only the rustling noise of the machines.
Like everyone else, Lin Chaoxi held the mouse, typed in the URL, and entered the official website of the competition.
Refresh the page and wait for the question to appear.
Click, click...
Immediately afterwards, the sound of mouse clicking in the computer room was as dense as raindrops, creating an atmosphere of Taobao's Double 11 shopping spree.
The clock in the lower right corner of the monitor jumped to 9:00, and Lin Chaoxi clicked the mouse again.
The page was refreshed, and all major mathematical modeling websites across the country began to post questions in a unified manner.
The three-day and three-night, 72-hour modeling competition has begun.
There were small exclamations in the classroom.
“It’s coming out, it’s coming out!”
"Look!"
"My hands are shaking."
Lin Zhaoxi held his breath and stared at the screen. Perhaps because there were too many visitors, the page refreshed slowly, but the full picture gradually appeared.
She quickly downloaded the test questions and unzipped the file, which contained four folders, abcd, which were the four test questions for the competition. In fact, questions ab were for undergraduates, and questions cd were for college students.
Therefore, according to the competition rules, they need to choose one of the two questions a and answer it.
She had read many experience posts before.
It is said that some teams select questions very quickly, but most teams will spend at least half a day analyzing the questions and finally making a decision.
Because once you make a choice, there is no going back, so you must be careful.
Lin Chaoxi clicked on question a and briefly browsed it.
In general, question A is a question about the competitive game between two companies.
She read through all the questions carefully and felt a little excited.
If her understanding was not too distorted, the question setter seemed to be using the case of corporate competition to allude to the national trade war.
This is a hot topic at the moment, and more importantly, this issue was also discussed in their impromptu modeling class.
There are endless types of questions in the Modeling Contest, and it often takes one or two days to find the solution. Now there is a question that everyone has discussed seriously. Under the tight time situation, everyone knows what to choose.
As expected, the students who had read through the test papers like her all whispered with joy.
"What a coincidence."
“Oh my god.”
"That's it. No need to look at question B."
But compared to the noise and excitement around them, it was very quiet here.
Lin Chaoxi looked to the side and saw that Lao Wang and A Guang had also finished the first question. However, they did not show any emotional reaction, nor did they have any desire to discuss it with her. Instead, they continued to click on question B.
Lin Chaoxi also did the same thing.
When the document was unfolded, the words "suspect", "fugitive", "traffic" and "arrest" came into view.
Lin Chaoxi's heart trembled. She gripped the mouse tightly and continued to drag and scroll.
Word document, black text on a white background, standard Song font.
From beginning to end, once, twice, three times.
Lin Chaoxi read the test question three times. From holding her breath at the beginning to her intense heartbeat now, she was completely immersed in this test question.
This is a question of tracking down a fugitive.
A heinous burglary and murder case occurred in a certain city.
The suspect, armed with a gun, killed a family of three and then encountered a community police officer who was patrolling the community. The suspect shot and killed the police officer in a frenzy and escaped using his excellent disguise skills.
Based on the serious nature of the incident and the dangerousness of the suspect, the police immediately issued an emergency wanted order, asking residents in the surrounding areas of the city to help. If you see a suspect who looks like a fugitive, please call the police immediately to report the case.
A city map is given in Annex 1.
Appendix 2 provides a series of call records, which record the personal information, time and location of witnesses in all suspected sightings that called the police.
Appendix 3 provides the official website of the city’s transportation department.
It is known that there will be a delay of at least 5 minutes from the time the police receive a call to the time they respond, which requires predicting the suspect's possible escape route and the specific time and location where the police may capture the suspect.
Every word in the title was so clear, the display screen was constantly refreshing at a rate imperceptible to the naked eye, and her hand holding the mouse even began to tremble slightly.
Predict the suspect's movement trajectory and capture time and location.
Predict where Lao Lin’s car accident might land.
The question on the screen was very similar to the question that had troubled her for more than half a year in another time and space.
It was in the dormitories and old garages of this city, in countless hot days and nights, without her knowing anything, that she moved forward little by little, constantly trying to solve the problems that were as difficult as a mountain to her, and finally found a breakthrough and got the chance to come back.
But now, the problem in that time and space suddenly changed its form and appeared before her in this time and space. She once again felt a sense of cause and effect.
Cause and effect that cannot be described or expressed, yet seem to exist in reality.
But she is completely different now than she was in the cheese world.
She was no longer ignorant, and she was no longer alone.
Next to her, there are two outstanding teammates sitting.
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