Boy, I'm Galileo...
Just as Lin En was silently complaining in his heart, a voice sounded behind him.
"How do you feel? Are you satisfied, Professor Lin En?"
The person who spoke was Tik, the alchemist from the City of Wizards, who was stroking his beard complacently.
After Lynn ran away last night under the pretext of being drunk, a group of professors discussed how to record the shocking experiment this morning in the form of a sculpture.
This is one of the highest honors in the entire academy!
This means that every student who joins Yieta College in the future will be able to admire each other's deeds the moment they walk into the college gate.
He also made some small suggestions on the external form of the sculpture. With the help of the magic of several professors and the hard work of the goblins day and night, it was completed in just half a day.
“It looks... well... very shocking..." Lin En said against his will. In fact, he felt that the artistic level of this sculpture was just average.
Tik himself was very satisfied with this work. He did not hear any perfunctory tone in the other party's words. Instead, on the way to the O'Mathematics classroom, he explained to Lin En how to express a wizard's inner thoughts through sculpture.
Lynn kept a polite smile on his face the entire time, until he stepped into the classroom, when he put on a solemn expression.
After the class division, the number of students in the entire elite class was reduced a lot, with only forty-six people left.
No, from today on, I'm afraid it will become forty-seven people.
Because there is one more Lydia!
At this moment, the half-orc girl was sitting at the front of the classroom. Due to her short stature, her desk and chair were special and one size smaller than those of others. She looked very awkward. When Lin En entered the room, his first sight was focused on her.
Facing Lin En's gaze, Lydia did not tremble like other students. Instead, she held up a parchment scroll with great anticipation and said impatiently, "Professor, can we start the class now?"
Elroc, Pierce and the others looked at Lydia with a hint of pity and nostalgia in their eyes. They vaguely remembered that they were also so excited on the first day of the Olympiad class.
"Since everyone is so impatient, let's start the class now!" Lin En turned to look at the gray-haired witch and said.
"Johnny, collect everyone's homework..."
"I've given you a whole day. I believe you have already calculated the data of the Lookout?" Lin En said with a smile.
As soon as these words were spoken, there was a wailing in the classroom.
As members of the elite class of Olympiad mathematics, each of them has a good talent for arithmetic, but the structure of the Outlook airship is very complicated, and the easiest airship airbag to calculate is still elliptical.
Even though Lin En had taught the corresponding formula before and provided some data, it was still extremely difficult to calculate it accurately.
But no matter how reluctant they were, they had to hand over the calculation manuscripts, and Lydia was no exception.
In fact, during the more than half a month of making the airship, every time Lin En took the time to explain the blueprints to her, he would also explain many geometric formulas and theorems, so her learning progress was actually not slower than that of the students in these elite classes.
Lynn took the parchment rolls that Johnny had collected, and when he saw the first one, he couldn't help but frowned and said, "Debra, why are there only the volumes of the airbags and the cockpit, where is the tail wing?"
"But you didn't give the data of the airship's tail wing..." The red-haired witch stood up and said weakly.
"But it can be calculated, right?" Lin En looked at the wizards present and explained.
"The shape of the tail can be divided into a right triangle and a square. I gave you a proportional plane diagram. If you pay attention, you can find that one of the hypotenuses of the cockpit is parallel to the hypotenuse of the airship's tail, and the length is the same. Since we have the hypotenuse data, we can easily calculate the other data using the Pythagorean theorem..."
This is not easy at all... The red-haired witch had a sad face.
Lin En was merciless and said directly, "Go back and copy the corresponding formula fifty times! Also, before the get out of class ends, recalculate the data for me!"
The students in the audience couldn't help but shrink their necks. They were unable to calculate the area of the tail wing.
"What is this Pythagorean theorem?" Tik turned his head to look at Alok beside him and asked in confusion.
"It's an operation rule discovered by the professor. In a right triangle on a plane, the sum of the squares of the two right-angled sides will be equal to the square of the hypotenuse..." Alok looked at his notebook several times to make sure he was not wrong, and his expression was vaguely excited.
Having participated in yesterday's awarding ceremony, he naturally knew that he was in front of a three-ring wizard and alchemy master! Such a big shot was actually asking him questions!
Alok felt that this was probably the most glorious moment in his life!
"What is square?" Tik asked. These nouns were unfamiliar words to him.
"Squaring is just the product of the same two numbers..." Alok was so sure that he didn't even look at the formula in his notebook. He then introduced the area formulas of circles and polygons to the master alchemist.
A look of understanding appeared on Tik's face. When he was learning to draw magic array patterns, he did notice similar rules, but he did not summarize the rules of each shape like Lin En and formed an independent subject.
Some alchemists in the Wizard City like to ponder these things. I heard that someone even pushed the value of pi to the ninth decimal place, which is so accurate that it cannot be more accurate...
Alok glanced at Lin En on the stage, and estimated that it would not be too soon for him to talk about his homework. A bold idea suddenly emerged in his mind. He looked at Tik and spoke nervously.
"Mr. Tik, some time ago, Professor Lin En invented an interesting game. I wonder if you are interested?"
"What game?" Tik was somewhat curious.
Alok immediately became excited, picked up the quill, and casually drew a three-by-six square on the parchment. After thinking for a while, he crossed out the last square, and then explained the rules of the game again.
"Starting from a copper coin, the amount in the next box must be doubled compared to the previous box?" Tik repeated, and then wondered why Alok specifically crossed out a box.
"Yes, as long as you can fill all the grids, these ten gold coins will be yours!" Alok took out all his savings and then continued, "But any corresponding coins you put down will also be mine!"
Tik became more and more interested in this game. He calculated silently in his mind, and then picked up a pen to fill in the squares.
When filling in the last number, Tik exclaimed in surprise and said with interest.
“Interesting, really interesting!”
The seventeenth square is sixty-five thousand five hundred and thirty-six, so the sum of all the numbers is...
"The total is 131,071 copper coins!" Alok responded quickly.
Tik spent a dozen seconds simply adding it, and it was exactly the same.
He knew from the beginning that he would lose. After all, the wizard apprentice in front of him would not give him money for nothing. However, he did not expect that the addition of the small seventeen squares would increase the initial value by 130,000 times.
So, did the other party deliberately cross out a box because he was worried that the amount was too large and he would regret it?
Tik was at a loss whether to laugh or cry. Since he didn't bring any silver or copper coins, he simply took out four magic gold coins and placed them on the table. He always accepted defeat in a gamble!
"Three gold coins are enough!" Alok didn't dare to ask for more and quickly pushed one back.
The alchemist in front of him was not the first person to be tricked by him. After being defeated by Professor Lin En, he went home and immediately played this checkered game with his father Albert.
In the end, he theoretically won all the family property, and Albert still owed him tens of thousands of gold coins... But in the end, he didn't get a penny, and was severely beaten! From then on, he understood a truth: being too greedy will get you beaten...
Fortunately, this alchemist master is a man of his words!
Alok happily accepted the three gold coins, but the next second he heard a familiar voice on the stage.
"Alok, since you know all the Olympiad formulas like the back of your hand, why don't you come up on stage and explain them to everyone?"
The joyful expression on the face of the fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy suddenly froze. He shivered continuously and stood up tremblingly.
Lynn looked at him very "kindly".
Good boy, you are really good at using the knowledge I taught you to trick others! Under the gloating eyes of the students, Alok had no choice but to bite the bullet and walk to the podium, pick up a parchment scroll, and use his shallow knowledge of Olympiad mathematics to stumble and tell the story...
Alok had never felt that time was so long in his life. He had forgotten everything in his mind due to nervousness. There were bursts of laughter from the audience from time to time. In the end, he only stayed on the stage for more than ten minutes before being expelled.
Taking into account the learning progress of Tik and Lydia, Lin En reviewed the geometry formulas that had been taught before in the next class.
When the get out of class was over, Tik also presented his return gift, a book that was four fingers thick - "Rune and Alchemy".
Although there are some basic alchemy books in Yieta College, they can never compare to the gift from an alchemy master.
Lynn flipped through a few pages. In addition to the analysis of some basic alchemical runes, the book also had notes at the bottom of each page.
So many annotations could not have been written on the spur of the moment. They should have been a "textbook" used to teach a core apprentice.
Even so, it is still a very precious gift, which means that I can avoid many detours when learning alchemy.
Lin En made a few polite remarks and then put the alchemy book away.
Tik, who had just finished an Olympiad mathematics class, had all kinds of questions in his mind that needed Lin's answers. However, after glancing at the half-orc girl who had been hanging around since the get out of class, he tactfully said goodbye and left.
"Professor Lin En!" Lydia came up immediately, tiptoed and put the bulging bag of money on the podium, put her hands on her hips, and said proudly.
"Throughout the day yesterday, we sold 837 tickets, which is a total of 83 magic gold coins and 70 silver coins. They are all here..."
The half-orc girl kept talking about the grand scene in the square yesterday afternoon. The line of people taking the airships stretched all the way to the pier of the harbor. Everyone couldn't wait to fly up to the sky to take a look...
So many tickets were sold in just one day, and Lin En was a little surprised. It seemed that the charm of flying was even greater than he had imagined.
"By the way, there's this account book. Uncle Darren asked me to give it to you!" Lydia took out a small booklet and stuffed it into Lin's hand. It contained a list of all the people who had purchased tickets, and even clearly stated which batch of airships they were on.
Lin En asked the intelligent computer to record all the data, then took out the eight gold and thirty-seven silver coins belonging to the halfling in the purse and returned them to Lydia along with the account book.
"When you go back, tell Darren that you don't have to send this thing to me every day. Just show it to me every once in a while."
The half-orc girl's expression became a little confused, because Lynn's reaction was different from what Darren and the others had predicted. With such a huge amount of money, they thought the other party would definitely require an inspection every day.
Lin En did not explain. He deliberately loosened the control on money just to see if these halflings would do something secretly.
An airship is just the beginning. There will be many opportunities to earn gold coins in the future. For example, the wizarding land is still using very backward papyrus and parchment to record text. He can make a fortune just by selling paper.
But he couldn't do these things himself, so he definitely needed to hire some trustworthy people.
It depends on whether these halflings can resist the greed in their hearts.
The two were chatting when they suddenly heard hurried footsteps outside the door, and then the door of the classroom was slammed. Lynn turned his head and looked over. He didn't see anyone at first glance, until he lowered his head and found that it was Darren who broke in.
After not seeing each other for a day, the unshaven half-man looked much more haggard than before. He walked in and looked around. When he saw Lin En, he spoke in a panic as if he had seen a savior.
"Oh no, Professor Lynn, Ralph... Ralph is dead!"
Ralph? Who is that? Lynn paused, but before he could think clearly, Darren pulled him away by his sleeve.
(PS: Today is still a two-in-one chapter.) (End of this chapter)