Chapter 166 Blue Whale
"...How could it be only in the top ten?"
The bell for lunch break hadn't rung yet, and the boys around me were all sleeping soundly, practically comatose.
He Miao peeked out into the corridor outside the front and back doors, carefully looking around, shielding himself with a math test paper, and pulled out his phone from the deepest compartment of his schoolbag. "Look for yourself."
Cell phones in senior high school are checked extremely strictly. When a girl handed it to me, it looked like a spy meeting, with the screen just unlocked.
Where are you looking?
Su Xia felt a little at a loss.
But soon, her confusion and anxiety had a purpose——
Even if she didn't open the campus network or look through the thousands of notification messages in the class group that she had never seen, and just typed Xu Jiqing's name into the browser search bar, the good news of her first place in the national Mathematical Olympiad finals would still be overwhelming.
Xu Jiqing is the first.
No one can stop us from being the best in the world as we spread our wings towards a bright future.
The invigilator of Tsinghua University was so seriously injured that he refused to leave the front line. The marking team had not seen a perfect score in number theory in nearly ten years. The moment of pride that the mathematics competition team of No. 1 Middle School had been looking forward to since its establishment, all became a reality through his hands.
The official website of No. 1 Middle School simply forwarded the report from the organizing committee of this year's Tsinghua University event, and the wording was quite modest.
On the official WeChat account of the Mathematical Competition Group, Xu Jiqing crushed the competition with first place in all sub-scores, winning the national championship this year. Together with the news that Lin Lang was selected for the national training team in ninth place, the good news with red background and gold letters was posted continuously for several days.
The first day was about the results of the two, and the next day was a comparison with their arch-rival, Jiang Normal University Affiliated High School.
In the past two years, online public opinion has been tightened, and it is strictly forbidden to hype the conditions for major universities to compete for elite students. However, with the high school entrance examination just around the corner, this article on the official account still boasts about it in both explicit and implicit ways.
With Xu Jiqing's astonishing final results, Tsinghua University offered the most generous signing fee in history, and ultimately beat out Peking University, which mainly promotes pure mathematics and finance majors, to sign him first.
Super geniuses are rare, and handsome super geniuses are even rarer.
Half a month has passed, and the number of readings of this recruitment advertisement has already exceeded 100,000.
The comment section has already been flooded with high school seniors praying for admission.
Half of them are students from our school, and the other half are from other schools all over the country. They almost regard the place where Xu Jiqing has been as a cyber temple, and pray for 140 or 130 points in the second mock exam in mathematics.
"After we come back from dinner tonight, I'll take you for a walk around the administration building. Since people from other schools can't see them, their honor roll downstairs is even more exaggerated."
"You didn't come back a while ago, so you wouldn't know. When school started, the whole building was worshiping God Xu. Teacher Ding said that he and Lin Lang seemed to have signed up for the Yao Class, skipping the college entrance exam. They can squander the past six months however they want."
"Now, whenever someone gets distracted or screams in class, Teacher Ding will definitely bring up Xu Jiqing's name and advise us not to waste time working hard when we're young and then regret it when we're old."
She spread her hands and pointed at her solar plexus with her index finger. "Teacher Ding, don't you think about it? This is not a matter of hard work, but a matter of brains."
Su Xia returned the phone to her, her lips tightened again and again, and her heart was in turmoil.
"...If you want to cry, go ahead," He Miao held up his face and looked at her carefully, pulling out a tissue from the hole in the table for her. "The king doesn't cry easily, but he hasn't gotten along with the Prime Minister yet."
Su Xia shook her head vigorously, and the light in her eyes was about to pop out.
She forced a smile, a little funny, but full of sincerity, "I won't cry anymore."
Before the blue whale became a blue whale, it was once a small fish that swam into the ocean.
Xu Jiqing's biggest wish since his rebirth has finally come true.
She was happy for him and was unwilling to be outdone.
She had to calm down and move forward step by step to meet him in the distant place as agreed.
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Spring came early this year.
As April arrives, the magnolia flowers are reduced to their last bloom.
At the invitation of teachers from Tsinghua University, Xu Jiqing and Lin Lang returned to Beijing and lived in student apartments. In addition to their daily training with the national training team, they began to adapt to university life four months in advance.
As soon as that astonishing number theory exam paper came out, Xu Jiqing became famous among the early-admitted freshmen of the Yao Class:
He ranked first in the National Mathematical Olympiad this year. His abstract thinking is so good that even without the foundation of information competitions, his potential in algorithms is immeasurable.
The School of Information, which has gathered the strongest resources in the country, provided him with a fertile ground for rapid growth.
Xu Jiqing has planned his college life——
Four full years to complete his undergraduate studies was too long for him.
This time must be compressed to three years or even shorter.
After arriving at National Tsing Hua University, Xu Jiqing did not indulge in networking with teachers in the department, and his schedule was fully filled with classes on non-training days.
He sat in on classes during the day, and after evening classes, he worked on projects for seniors who had shown interest in him.
In addition to Lin Lang, there is another boy from the same dormitory who was recommended from the city due to an information competition.
The boy's name is Chen Zhiheng. He usually walks with his hands in his pockets and wearing headphones, and doesn't pay much attention to people.
Both of his parents are engineering professors at the University of Science and Technology. From programming to various games, he has always been a talented player since he was a child, and he plays even crazier than Lin Lang.
This time I arrived at school early, not so much because I wanted to learn something, but rather just to escape the discipline at home and find a place to take shelter with a good environment and fast internet.
Every time Xu Jiqing and Lin Lang went out to class, the curtains on the boys' side of the bed were still there.
When I came back at night, I could barely speak a word and could only hear the crisp sound of the gaming keyboard and mouse.
The game is played day and night, the bedtime is unknown, and the waking time is also random.
In addition to gaming chairs, the most common place they appear is the Bauhinia Garden Canteen, which is closest to the dormitory.
I don’t know how many times we’ve met in the cafeteria, but he still pretends not to see me, just passes by and ignores me.
Lin Lang was disdainful, "What the hell?"
"Sure enough, the halo is all made up for outsiders to see. If I had known that Yaoban was full of people like this, I wouldn't have bothered to come here at all."
“He really has an aura.”
Xu Jiqing put down his chopsticks and said calmly, "I won first place in this year's high school information competition. I also won first place in junior high school. I never lost."
Lin Lang was speechless for a moment, "... Damn, it's annoying to begin with."
The boy was not far from them, sitting at the same table, and he didn't even want to turn his head.
The TV high up was tuned to the financial channel.
The female anchor's voice was unclear. Lin Lang glanced at the news briefs scrolling below and repeated to Xu Jiqing, "A startup company received a 20 million yuan investment from Google, and now it's going bankrupt and liquidating."
He sighed, "It's so nice to give you this money. You must pay him back tenfold or eightfold."
Xu Jiqing didn't tell him much.
But Lin Lang knew that his friend had a strong desire to start a business.
This was also one of the reasons why he gave up a good six months of lying down and came to Beijing so early to suffer.
There is a bit of metaphysics in it, but he is always right in judging people:
With a brilliant brain, an inhumanly calm personality, and an obsessive desire for success, he has been following Xu Jiqing closely for the past two years. He may say goodbye to work completely in a few years after graduation.
After he said this, Xu Jiqing didn't react at all and stood up to return the plate.
Chen Zhiheng, who was two stools away, laughed first.
Lin Lang sat up straight and turned away, "Are you crazy? What are you laughing at?"
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