Chapter 33
"The game begins! Ji Zhixing has defeated Fan Yongjie to win!"
"Really? Didn't I hear that you went to the wrong exam room for the first exam and barely had time to write anything?"
"An hour is nothing to mortals like you, but an hour is enough for Ji Zhixing to get full marks in three subjects!"
"Damn! That's impossible!"
"It's true! The counselor for the second-year students in the Physics Department even showed everyone Ji Zhixing's answer sheet. He really filled it out for all three subjects, and got them all right."
"I'm crying in the bathroom! If only I could get one point, I would have passed! Waaaaah!"
"Haha, I barely passed all of them this time, and even scored 60 points in two subjects. Luckily, I attended Zhixing Tutoring Class last season, otherwise I would have been in the same boat as the person upstairs!"
"Ji Zhixing's tutoring class is truly amazing; his predictions are incredibly accurate! I'd call him a top-notch instructor!"
"Are the top-tier instructors offering classes next semester? I'd like to catch up!"
"Upstairs, I remember you're a junior, right? Ji Zhixing is a sophomore."
"Too young, too simple!"
Then several third-year students from the School of Physics posted pictures in the comments.
Near the end of the Physics Department's general meeting, Fu Daoyuan, the third-year counselor, suddenly asked all the third-year students to stay for a short meeting to discuss something and receive a small gift before leaving.
Students from the other three grades couldn't help but look at their own grade's counselor, wondering why their grade didn't have anything. The third-year students, on the other hand, were somewhat smug about this unique treatment.
As students from other grades gradually rose and left, the third-year students remained in their seats to continue discussing Ji Zhixing's remarkable achievements. Fu Daoyuan sat on the stage, silently watching these innocent children.
"Old Fu, what brings you here?"
Fu Daoyuan shook his head silently, looking at the students from other grades who hadn't all left yet, refusing to say a word.
The third-year students thought he was afraid that handing out small gifts now would cause complaints from students in other grades who hadn't left yet, so they continued to jokingly review Ji Zhixing's great achievements this semester.
All the students from other grades had left the trapezoidal classroom.
The third-year students started shouting, "Teacher Fu, can we start handing out the small gifts now?"
"Old Fu, it's too embarrassing if only our grade gets the small gifts. It's not about having too few, it's about not sharing them equally." Then there was another burst of laughter.
Fu Daoyuan walked to the door, closed it, turned around, looked up and shouted, "I'm not worried about being miserable, I'm worried that I'm the only one who's miserable!"
ah?
After his impassioned appeal, Fu Daoyuan walked up to the podium with a heavy heart, opened the file bag he had brought with a heavy heart, and began to hand out "small gifts" with a heavy heart.
What is this?
Everyone received a printed answer sheet. Whose is this? Wow! 100! 100! 100! 96. Only a few points were deducted from the short answer questions in the policy section; the other three subjects are all 100!
"Old Fu, whose answer sheet is this?" Yi Deng, who won the first-class scholarship, asked in confusion. If someone got such a score, he shouldn't be the one to get the first prize. His scores for these subjects were 96+88+93+82.
"Guess!"
None of those present were fools. Seeing Fu Daoyuan's pained expression, a thought crossed everyone's mind: could it be…
"Ji Zhixing?"
“That’s right!” Fu Daoyuan swept his gaze across the room in exasperation, and all he heard was a chorus of “Damn it!”
"Wow! Old Fu, is this for real?"
"Why would I lie to you? I'm the one who wants to 'fuck'!" In fact, he had already 'fucked' many times after seeing the exam paper on the counselor's back-end system. "A bunch of third-year students! They can't even beat a second-year student! How pathetic! How embarrassing!" As the counselor, he was even more embarrassed!
Fu Daoyuan had hoped to see everyone lower their heads in embarrassment, but to his surprise, everyone excitedly picked up their phones and started taking pictures of Ji Zhixing's answer sheet.
Seeing Yi Deng also taking pictures, Fu Daoyuan said with pity, "Yi Deng, look at him, he's better than you academically, and even more handsome..."
"No!" Yi Deng immediately protested, "I admit he's better academically than me, but I don't agree that he's more handsome than me!"
"Is this the important point?!" Fu Daoyuan almost spat out blood. "Students, what a disgrace! If I hadn't pleaded with you repeatedly, the dean would have just announced Ji Zhixing's test score!"
"Just say it, what's the big deal? Ji Zhixing is already amazing."
"Exactly, he's already gone beyond undergraduate and not in the bachelor's degree category. You should compare him to graduate students, don't make things difficult for us."
"Moreover, they can get full marks in three subjects in an hour and still manage to pass one. Their hand speed is on a completely different level from ours."
Ever since Ji Zhixing outmaneuvered a group of PhDs to solve a laboratory problem and led to the creation of earthquake prediction software, everyone has seen him as someone on a completely different level.
Not to mention he later won first place in the CUPT competition! That's a national competition, and top universities, including Yenching University and Tsinghua University, sent their elite seniors. If Ji Zhixing could win like that, what comparison did they have with him?
Therefore, upon seeing Ji Zhixing's answer sheet, all the third-year students, including Yi Deng, were initially surprised but then felt it was only natural. They busied themselves taking photos and uploading them to the school forum, contributing to the "betting" thread.
"Didn't Ji Zhixing go to the wrong exam room and spend more than two hours writing his junior year exam? He got full marks in three subjects and 96 in one of them!"
"Wow! I don't believe it! I don't believe it!" (shaking his head frantically.jpg)
"Are you sure? Where did you get this information?"
"Just now, our counselor pointed at us with great distress and said that we had wasted a year of study and not one of us could pass Ji Zhixing's exam."
"Look, (the picture) they even gave each of us a Ji Zhixing answer sheet, hoping that we would feel ashamed and then be brave and stand up for ourselves."
"How come he can get full marks on his junior year exam?"
“I know that Ji Zhixing often reads junior and senior year textbooks in the library. I’ve run into him several times, and I guess he’s basically finished reading them all.”
"Speechless. I was perfectly content being a couch potato, but now I suddenly feel like I need to try and turn things around?"
"The power of role models!"
"Honestly, doesn't anyone think he's very likely to have cheated? 10 perfect scores, it seems suspicious no matter how you look at it, right?"
"How could he cheat? Who could he copy from?"
"It's not plagiarism, but it's also possible that they stole the electronic version of the exam paper and answers beforehand."
"Hey upstairs, I remember you. You were always badmouthing Ji Zhixing's project last time. Do you have a grudge against Ji Zhixing?"
Fan Yongjie panicked for a moment when he saw this message, but then realized that this account was newly registered and no one would recognize him. So he calmed down and continued to guide everyone to think about cheating.
Just as he was passionately typing away, there was a knock on the Fan family's door. Who could it be? What a nuisance. Reluctantly, Fan Yongjie put down his keyboard and got up to open the door.
Meanwhile, the betting thread on the forum continues to be discussed.
"Guangling University is a 985 university, after all. The system that the government helped build is not that weak! It's not that easy to hack in and steal documents."
"I bet... the person upstairs isn't Fan Yongjie's alternate account, is he?"
"Why is it so quiet? Didn't you just start swearing?"
"Breaking news! Fan Yongjie has been arrested! Just now!"
"What? Who arrested him? And why?"
“I don’t know. I went to the faculty apartment to find my advisor and saw several men forcibly taking Fan Yongjie away from his home.”
"Are they from the school or the police?"
"They're definitely not from the school, but they're all in plainclothes, so it's impossible to tell if they're police officers."
"Could this be a kidnapping?"
"Absolutely not! The principal was watching from the side; if it were a kidnapping, he would definitely have stopped it."
Just as one wave subsided, another arose. The number of people placing bets had been decreasing since the results were announced, but now, due to this sudden change, everyone has gathered in the thread again to discuss what exactly happened to Fan Yongjie.
Ji Zhixing was also very surprised and confused when he received the news. What had Fan Yongjie done? Judging from the commotion, it was probably not a big deal.
The news spread rapidly at Guangling University, and within half an hour, almost all the students knew that Fan Yongjie had been forcibly taken away from the school by several people.
Students continued to add to their eyewitness accounts, saying the men were burly and wielded Fan Yongjie like a chick. Upon arriving at the faculty apartment building, they were immediately shoved into a black, extended SUV. The car windows were all tinted, obscuring the view inside, and there were no markings on the outside, making it incredibly mysterious. The university president accompanied the entire arrest, his face so grave it seemed as if Guangling University was about to collapse!
The students were buzzing about it, and there were three or four posts on the forum discussing it, but in less than an hour, all of those posts disappeared without a trace.
"Moderator! Why are you deleting posts!"
"It's just gossip, it didn't smear the school, why delete the post?"
"Are you related to Fan Yongjie? Why are you so protective of him!"
"Be careful what you say! Be careful what you say! I didn't delete it!! That's all I can say... Be careful what you say!"
The students, who had been fiercely criticizing the moderator, realized something was wrong; the situation seemed more serious than they had imagined.
"Current Affairs and Policies" is a public course that all colleges at Guangling University have to take from freshman to senior year. Although everyone basically does other things in this course and relies on rote memorization before the final exam to pass the test, they still gain some understanding of the country's current situation and policies.
This kind of behavior—deleting posts and blocking information directly without going through the moderators—is definitely the work of the government.
Fan Yongjie is in trouble this time...
Although it cannot be discussed publicly, there is no shortage of private discussions. Some traces of discussion even began to appear on Weibo, but they were quickly extinguished as soon as they emerged, and all traces of discussion disappeared without a trace.
The students at Guangling University realized that this matter was probably no small thing, and they were so curious that they couldn't find anyone to gossip about it.
Ji Zhixing was so engrossed in studying for the Level 3 mission that he was too lazy to even eat melons. Unexpectedly, one day, a melon fell from the sky, and he was invited to the principal's office for questioning.
The person who came was wearing gold-rimmed glasses and looked very refined. However, before Ji Zhixing came up, he saw a car from outside the school downstairs in the administration building. The driver looked like someone who was not to be trifled with.
The person didn't say much, just gently asked Ji Zhixing about going to the wrong exam room that day, then checked the campus platform messages on his phone, and left in less than half an hour.
The principal politely escorted him downstairs, leaving Ji Zhixing, who was left in the principal's office, increasingly confused. What did this have to do with him?
Could it be that Fan Yongjie was behind the incorrect exam room information received by his campus platform?
In fact, he had suspected Fan Yongjie before. Although he had no evidence, Fan Yongjie had been secretly watching him for the past few days. How to describe the expression on his face? There was schadenfreude, smug satisfaction, and a kind of suppressed frustration.
Like villains on TV, when they think they have victory in their grasp, they always love to talk endlessly about their ingenious schemes. But Fan Yongjie looked like he was holding back his thoughts, his face almost contorted with rage.
Of course, without evidence, he couldn't convict Fan Yongjie solely based on his expression. But now it seems there really might be a connection to Fan Yongjie. However, is engaging in underhanded tactics on a campus platform really that serious?
Judging from the principal's reaction, the person just now was clearly from a government department. But would something like this really warrant the attention of a government department? He knew Fan Yongjie to some extent; he was hypocritical and concerned with his image, but he certainly wouldn't have the guts to do anything serious enough to endanger the country.
Ji Zhixing was completely baffled. The principal returned and sat down on the sofa, looking exhausted.
Ji Zhixing thought for a moment and then asked, "Principal, may I ask what happened?"
The principal shook his head wearily: "I can't disclose any information before the Ministry of State Security's investigation results are released. You can go back now. The announcement will probably be issued in the next couple of days."
Ministry of State Security? Did Fan Yongjie really endanger national security?
Ji Zhixing left the principal's office with a belly full of questions, but there was no point in thinking about it further, and it wasn't worth wasting time on Fan Yongjie. Ji Zhixing had lunch in the cafeteria and then went to the library.
Winter break has arrived, and students are gradually leaving school to go home, but Ji Zhixing is staying on campus as usual. However, this time, he's not staying to work, but to study.
Learning without external pressure is pleasant, and he thoroughly enjoys the feeling of having complete control over his time.
Previously, the competition ended right before the final exams, and he was busy preparing lessons for the tutoring classes, so he didn't have time to complete the Level 3 tasks until after the final exams.
In the third stage, the tasks change, and the points are adjusted accordingly. Each completed task earns 3 points. If Ji Zhixing can successfully complete 5 tasks each day, he will earn 15 points, resulting in a daily income of 1500 yuan!
However, after looking through the creativity questions, he felt that with the difficulty of these questions, just this one task would take up a lot of time, and he probably couldn't get the full 15 points every day.
However, the system sent by his great-grandchildren was certainly not meant to make things difficult for him. The system prompted him to look at the other tasks, and Ji Zhixing then discovered that in the third stage, the three tasks of attention, memory, and integration were combined together.
He opened the task list and saw words like "Jungle Adventure," "Underwater Exploration," and "Aerial Rescue." What are these?
In the past, Stroop diagrams, cryptographic matrices, and multidimensional projections sounded very scientific and technical just from their names, but this time the mission names look like they're from a game.
Ji Zhixing tried clicking on "Jungle Adventure" and was instantly placed in a dense primeval jungle.
Wow! Towering trees, tangled vines, and knee-high wild grass filled the view. Ji Zhixing couldn't help but take a deep breath and even smell the earth.
"Is this the system space? Didn't you say last time that the stored energy was only enough for one adjustment per year?" Does this mean he'll only be able to do this task from now on?
No, the experimental space is a real space, and everything inside is a real object. This is just a virtual space, like a holographic environment; everything here is built from data, so it can be changed flexibly.
"I see. So, how can I complete the task?"
The current "Jungle Adventure" is a beginner's mission; it's very simple. All you need to do is successfully exit the jungle and reach the sea.
Ji Zhixing tried clicking "Start" and was observing the environment to find a route when a monkey swung upside down from a tree and swiped at his shoulder. Ji Zhixing was startled and looked up to find the tree full of monkeys.
The meeting of their eyes was like a signal to attack; the monkeys raised their hands and threw the fruit in their hands at Ji Zhixing.
Ah! Ji Zhixing clutched his head, no longer caring about finding a route, and started running in any direction he could find. After running for more than ten minutes, tripping over weeds, vines, and tree roots countless times, he finally escaped the monkeys' territory.
During the second-level mission phase, Ji Zhixing often ran for several tens of minutes at a time, and felt relaxed afterward. However, in the complex environment of the jungle, after only ten minutes of running, he felt like his lungs were about to burst.
After resting against a tree for a good half hour, Ji Zhixing stood up again, carefully chose a direction, and began to explore again.
"Bang!" A fruit hit him on the head. Ji Zhixing looked up and exclaimed, "Damn it! I'm back in the monkey's territory again!"
After another round of escapes, Ji Zhixing realized that in this mission, identifying and memorizing the seemingly monotonous jungle environment and avoiding backtracking were training exercises for memory; avoiding attacks from monkeys and other animals along the way were training exercises for attention; and as for coordination, in addition to physical training, it also included using the knowledge learned to analyze the direction of the estuary without any tools.
After figuring things out, Ji Zhixing threw himself into the task wholeheartedly.
Over several hours, he was attacked by monkeys, chased by cheetahs, and entangled by pythons... After many hardships, he finally stumbled upon the sea outlet by chance.
When his consciousness returned to reality, Ji Zhixing collapsed onto the ground, panting heavily. His entire body, from head to toe, was drenched in sweat, as if he had been pulled out of the water.
Good heavens, this is supposed to be an "extra simple" beginner quest, so the quests that follow must be even more difficult!
After recovering and taking a shower, Ji Zhixing wolfed down a bowl of instant noodles before he could even think about the task he had just completed.
As he thought about it, he realized it was actually quite interesting, almost like playing a game.
Whether it's mobile games or online games, single-player games or RPGs, Ji Zhixing had never played any of them. Before, he lacked both money and time; later, after acquiring the system, he became engrossed in studying and lost all interest in games. Looking back on his embarrassing ordeal just now, it was actually quite amusing.
Thinking about it carefully, the reason he was so flustered and spent so much time was because he lacked experience. In fact, he could have found the way to the estuary by observing the changes in the direction of plant growth and the sun's trajectory; if he had been focused enough, he could have detected the movements of monkeys, cheetahs, and pythons before they attacked him and avoided them; and if his memory were good enough, he wouldn't have kept going in circles in the same place.
Therefore, if previous attention and memory training was relatively static, then the current training in these areas is dynamic. Previous integration training only focused on physical exercise, but now it also includes the flexible application of knowledge in the brain.
This upgrade is certainly more beneficial for improving his abilities, and in the virtual space, he will not feel any pain. Even if he is hit, bitten, or entangled, he will only be startled.
After figuring it out, Ji Zhixing began to look forward to tomorrow's "underwater exploration." He really needed to go into the sea; he hadn't had much opportunity to swim since starting high school.
Just as Ji Zhixing was tirelessly trying out various game-like tasks, Fan Yongjie's matter had been fully investigated, and the school issued a notice about it.
Although most students were enjoying their holiday at home, they were still thinking about this juicy gossip they hadn't quite figured out yet. So, after the school issued the announcement, the first student to notice it quickly posted on the school forum.
"Fan Yongjie colluded with foreign forces to endanger our school's information security!"
"Really? You can't just say things like that!"
"It's true, the latest announcement on the school's website clearly states it!"
"I just finished reading it. It turns out that Ji Zhixing going to the wrong exam room was all his doing!"
"He even stole the final exam paper and answer sheet! No wonder he did so well on the test!"
"The thief cries 'Stop thief!' No wonder he accused Ji Zhixing of stealing the answers!"
"Actually... I think he's a bit wronged. His original intention was just to find a hacker to cause trouble, and he never expected it to be a foreign force."
"Did you even read the announcement? He was tricked by a hacker into revealing the key password to the school's research project team! That's a nationally coordinated research project! Isn't that serious enough?!"
Some students learned more information from other channels and began to recount the ins and outs of the matter in the posts.
Two months ago, the nation launched a research project on new energy, breaking it down into many tasks and assigning them to various universities with research capabilities. It can be said that the entire country is pooling its resources for this project. Guangling University, as a 985 university, naturally received a portion of the tasks.
To protect scientific research achievements, the national security department also dispatched professional technicians to Guangling University to set up a multi-layered encrypted security system for the school.
Fan Yongjie hired a hacker to infiltrate the campus platform, but the hacker said it would be difficult without a key and password, and it would be easy to leave traces. So, Fan Yongjie obtained the information from his father and gave it to him.
The hacker bypassed the first layer of security and entered the campus platform.
The school investigated Ji Zhixing's case, but the school's technical staff found no problems. However, the national security department noticed something amiss and, after careful investigation, traced it back to Fan Yongjie.
"Wow! That's terrible! Has our school's research been stolen?"
"No! Our country's security agencies aren't pushovers either. The hackers only bypassed the first layer of security with the key password; there are second and third layers to come!"
"Thank goodness! Thank goodness!"
"If Guangling University is breached, then all the country's efforts in developing new energy will be in vain!"
"Therefore, it is not unjust at all that Fan Yongjie was imprisoned for endangering national security!"
...
Ji Zhixing rarely browses the school forum. Lin Lang specifically called him to tell him about this, and he never expected that the matter would involve foreign forces.
After hanging up with Lin Lang, Ji Zhixing's phone rang again. It was Professor Yan calling, asking Ji Zhixing to come to his office.
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