Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

by Stayrr

After suffering from a heat stroke while working under the scorching heat of summer, Lu Zhou, a hardworking but poor university student, somehow becomes the owner of an advanced technological system. With the cheat given by the system, his university life changes overnight. A Master’s degree? Easy. PhD? Not a problem. From a nobody, he quickly becomes a huge celebrity in the wor

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Chapter 65: Expert Interview

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Three days passed by quickly and it was soon the day of the expert interview in Beijing.

The train tickets to Beijing were reimbursed by the school but the cost of the hotel was not.

The three people arrived in Beijing by train and each of them booked a hotel room near Yanjing University.

They did not speak again that night.

The three planned to meet up next morning at eight o'clock in Yanjing University's lounge which was right outside of the interview venue.

When they arrived, the venue was already crowded. Not only were there competition teams, but there were also media reporters who were interviewing the teams.

Lu Zhou did not want to appear on the TV and so, he found a remote position and sat down. He took out the printed thesis and began his final preparation.

He had not even started to read before he heard discussion voices.

"… The experts have already selected the prizes before the interview. The interview is just a test of the authenticity of your thesis." Not far away, a seemingly awkward genius leaned back in his chair as he chatted with the teams, "I've been here three times already."

The few listeners were surprised, "That is, the winners have already been selected?"

"They already wrote the press release scripts!" said the genius with a smile.

"God, where are you from?"

"Wudaokou."

Expressions of admiration appeared on people's faces.

Wudaokou's genius is different than the rest!

Winning three national first level prizes. How impressive!

Maybe this guy is coming after the Higher Education Society Cup?!

But I thought Wudaokou university didn't participate in the National Mathematical Modeling Competition as they only cared about their inner competition?

Maybe they participated after all…

Lu Zhou sat nearby and he had an astonished look on his face.

Is this true?

He thought that the expert interview was similar to the presentation and he did not know that he was only here to show his face. He had spent three days fixing his powerpoint but no one even cared.

Lu Zhou did not know whether to laugh or cry.

Even though he was just here to show his face, he could still gain something right? After all, geniuses around the country were gathered here. If he could make friends with people of this level, it would help in his future career development…

However, that was just theory and it did not always apply to real life.

Geniuses were all arrogant. A bunch of arrogant people would not be able to make friends as they could not even communicate properly.

Lin Yuxiang felt uneasy and uncomfortable sitting amongst this group of people.

She was used to being stuck between the two geniuses. However, now that there were dozens of geniuses surrounding her, as a dumb student, she felt incompatible and she was under immense pressure from it!

The sweet and innocent smile became stiff and unnatural.

Lu Zhou was reading the thesis in his hand in preparation for the upcoming expert interview when a young female reporter came over with a cameraman.

"Sir, hello. Are you Lu Zhou?"

When Lu Zhou raised his head and saw the microphone, he had some suspicions in his heart but he merely nodded and said, "Yeah."

"I'm a reporter from the Beijing Daily. Can I interview you?"

"Sure, what do you want to ask?"

"Thanks for your cooperation," said the female reporter with a grin. She continued, "How do you feel about this mathematical modeling competition?"

Lu Zhou thought and said, "It's alright."

That was all he said.

"…" The female reporter smiled politely and continued to ask, "It's alright? Can I ask if you felt like the questions were difficult?"

"It's… Okay," said Lu Zhou.

Close!

I nearly said "It's alright" again.

Lu Zhou silently praised his intelligence.

Female reporter: "…"

After Lu Zhou finally sent the reporter away, he was preparing to calm down and read his thesis when a man walked over.

The man was wearing a suit that stood out and he looked educated. Lu Zhou thought that he was decent looking. His vibe was similar to Wang Xiaodong but fiercer.

When the handsome guy walked over, Lin Yuxiang's eyes lit up. She used her phone as a mirror and fiddled with her bangs.

The awkward part was that the guy did not even see her. He did not even see Wang Xiaodong as his eyes were locked onto Lu Zhou.

"You're Lu Zhou, right?"

Lu Zhou raised his head and said, "… You're?"

"Wei Wen, from Yan University," said Wei Wen as he extended his hand. He continued, "I saw your thesis on [Optimal Inversion Theory of Linear Operators and Linear Functionals, it was very well written."

Lu Zhou smiled as he shook his hand and said, "You're too kind."

"Don't need to be humble," said Wei Wen as he released Lu Zhou's hand. He then said, "Of course, your thesis might be good but I'm the one winning this competition."

Lu Zhou: ? ? ?

After Wei Wen said this, he turned around and left.

As Lu Zhou watched the back of the guy, he was confused.

What the hell? He came all the way over here and shook my hand, just to talk sh*t?

And I spent all this time analyzing why he came over.

Am I the only normal person here?

Lu Zhou shook his head and continued to review his thesis. It was at this moment that the venue ringed.

The presentation had begun!

…

In the venue, the judges sat professionally on the judges' table.

Lu Zhou was already numb to all their titles.

He played the powerpoint as planned.

The powerpoint presentation finished.

Lu Zhou was waiting nervously for the questions from the organization committee when one of the old gentlemen sitting in the middle left opened his mouth.

"What's your prospect of landing on the moon?"

What?

Is this question related to the thesis?

However, Lu Zhou did not hesitate and he immediately responded fluently.

"It's meaningful."

"How meaningful? I think it's a waste of money," said the old gentleman. He continued to ask, "Some time ago, I was discussing this with my old friends. In many rural parts of our country, children don't even have desks. The landing cost tens of billions of dollars a year. Compared to the Americans, or the Russians, how meaningful is it?"

Lu Zhou looked at this old gentleman strangely. He did not know what he meant by asking these questions. Was he asking about the future of aerospace technology? The scientific value of landing on the moon? If the space program increased the national spirit?

He was unsure.

Lu Zhou secretly observed the other judges and saw that they were watching with great interest.

When Lin Yuxiang saw that her captain did not speak, she could not help but feel anxious. However, Wang Xiaodong stood behind Lu Zhou and was expressionless. Maybe he thought that the captain will have an answer or that he did not know how to answer either.

Lu Zhou thought for a bit and opened his mouth.

"Do you think that the Great Wall has any meaning?"

The old man's eyebrows jumped as he had not expected the answer. He smiled and said, "Of course it has meaning. What kind of Chinese person would disagree?"

"That's now but what about before?" asked Lu Zhou as he smiled as well. He looked at the old gentleman and said, "More than 1000 years ago, many people protested against wasting resources and gave up on many great projects. Emperor Shi Jingji was criticized for thousands of years for this. Now, if we think it's a waste of money and thinks that missiles and satellites are enough, won't we be criticized as well? Like we gave up on the universe?"

The judges' table went silent.

Although Lin Yuxiang held her breath, she still had a smile on her face. Wang Xiaodong was still expressionless but his fists were squeezed tightly.

The old gentleman looked at Lu Zhou and suddenly laughed.

"Hahaha, yes! Good answer!"

It's over?

Lu Zhou could not believe it. This judge actually let him go.

What about the thesis? Isn't it necessary to examine the authenticity of the paper? Why were the important steps skipped? Instead, I was asked something that isn't relevant.

He did not believe that this old man did not know the meaning behind aerospace.

After the judges signaled Lu Zhou to leave, he took his USB and left the venue with his two teammates.

Before leaving, he glanced at the old gentleman's nameplate.

He was shocked.

Ren Changming!

Of course, it was not the name that scared him but the title behind the name.

Former Chinese designer of the lunar exploration project!

After Lu Zhou and his team left the venue, Ren Changming looked at the old man next to him and said with a smile, "Old Wang, are you happy with this answer?"

"Oh, why did you bring our discussion onto the stage? What would a student know? He was full of himself," said Wang Zhongyi. Although he was dissatisfied, from his facial expression, it seemed to be different.

Wang Zhongyi paused and asked, "What's the student's name?"

Ren Changming unscrewed the vacuum flask and sipped some hot water before he smiled and said, "Lu Zhou."

Wang Zhongyi frowned and said, "I think I've heard of his name before…"

…

When the three people went back to the hotel in the evening, they gathered in front of the television in Lu Zhou's room.

The winners would be announced on the television.

It seemed that the expert interview was indeed just for the teams to show their face. The winners had already been decided before the interview began. Otherwise, it was impossible to decide the champion in such a short amount of time.

They would not even have the time to exchange opinions!

"It's very good to get the national first level prize," said Lin Yuxiang while she looked at the television. She whispered, "I saw a lot of geniuses in the lounge."

"Yes," said Wang Xiaodong as he nodded his head. He added, "I saw a few familiar faces in the lounge."

"Familiar?" asked Lu Zhou.

"Yes," nodded Wang Xiaodong. He said with an expressionless face, "I saw them at last year's National College Student Programming Contest."

No wonder!

Then that really was a gathering of geniuses.

Lu Zhou nodded and continued to stare at the TV.

A competition like the mathematical modeling competition had fewer viewers and so, CCTV did not spend much time reporting it. Instead, they inserted it between the news segments.

"This afternoon, the last expert interview of the National Mathematical Modeling Competition came to a successful conclusion. There were more than 70,000 undergraduate and specialist college students in the country, and a total of more than 300 national first level prizes."

"From the 300 national first level prizes, there are also two special awards for the Higher Education Society Cup and the Matlab Innovation Award."

It's here.

Lu Zhou squeezed his fists as he held his breath and looked at the screen.

This deciding moment for my mission evaluation is here!

The list of winners was announced.

The Undergraduate Higher Education Society Cup winners were…

Lu Zhou, Wang Xiaodong, Lin Yuxiang (University of Jin Ling)!

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Chapter 66: National Champion!

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Winners of the Undergraduate Group Higher Education Society Cup: Lu Zhou, Wang Xiaodong, Lin Yuxiang (University of Jin Ling)!

The rest of the school was not excited but dorm 201 was ecstatic.

"F*ck, Zhou is nutty!"

"I told you, right? Don't call him Zhou, call him Brother Zhou!"

"Sure, sure…"

Liu Rui looked at Huang Guangming and Shi Shang as he turned his phone off and pretended as if nothing had happened before continuing his physics homework.

Higher Education Society Cup!

Stood out from more than 70,000 college students!

Ah…

Lu Zhou was on another level than Liu Rui.

The dorm room door was pushed open and class leader Tian Jun rushed inside. Following closely behind him was school committee member Li Tao and genius Luo Rundong.

Tian Jun walked in and shouted, "F*ck dude, did you see it? Our school won a Higher Education Society Cup!" He tried to find Lu Zhou but did not see him.

Luo Rundong asked, "Where is Zhou?"

Shi Shang had a cheerful smile as if he had won the prize himself, "He's in Beijing and he'll come back tomorrow."

Li Tao said, "Brother Zhou is too nutty. I wonder if he's joining the competition next year as well. Maybe he can carry me."

Li Tao played too much video games last semester and as a result, his grades for advanced algebra at the end of the semester were horrible. If he asked Lu Zhou to carry him in the competition, he would have gotten a guaranteed master's entry spot.

That is the Higher Education Society Cup!

The University of Jin Ling has won the national first level prize many times, but this is the first time they ever won the championship.

Liu Rui said, "Piss off. Did you support him from the beginning? You don't have the right to speak. So go and wait aside."

Huang Guangming said, "Brother Rui, why are you so jealous? Do you need some medicine?"

Liu Rui: "…"

He wanted to fight someone.

…

[…]

[Undergraduate MATLAB Innovation Award winners: Wei Wen, Cui Jing, Yang Wanhong (Yanjing University)]

"How is this possible!"

Wei Wen stood up angrily and stared at the TV.

Runner up…

I got runner up!

In the venue, he scouted out all of the opponents that he thought were strong.

The three-time national first level prize genius from Wudaokou, the original team that won the championship 13 years ago, the student from the University of Jin Ling accused of being academic cancer…

Wei Wen thought Lu Zhou's thesis were horrible.

Lu Zhou was the most unlikely to win the prize. However, it was HIM that won.

It was not as if Wei Wen disrespected him.

Wei Wen admitted that Lu Zhou was strong and Lu Zhou even managed to surprise the professors from Courant of New York University. Wei Wen was unsure of Lu Zhou's modeling abilities, but in the field of mathematics, Lu Zhou was stronger than him.

However, mathematical modeling was a group competition – a semi-academic group research competition. It was not even a mathematics exam competition! Modeling, programming, and thesis must be completed in a rigorous division of labor. If one of the division fell below par, the rest would fall.

Wei Wen saw Lu Zhou's teammates and did not even consider him a threat.

The programmer was an expert, but at most he was a second rated expert, not top of the line. As for the female teammate, she was so useless that he could instantly see through her.

On the surface, it was a 3v3 when it was actually a 3v1.9.

Wei Wen saw their lineup and was sure that the national first level prize was as far as they were going to go.

However…

What happened was exactly the opposite of what he expected.

The championship did not belong to him, or any team that he considered a threat but it landed on that person…

When the news segment ended, Wei Wen's handsome face was filled with disdain as he bit his lip and sat back in his chair.

Compared to the Higher Education Society Cup, the MATLAB Innovation award was just to comfort the losers. There used to be an IBM-SPSS Innovation award which did the same thing. It basically meant that your programming was good, but your modeling was still slightly worse than the winners. Try better next time…

Most people would be happy with the result.

However, for him, anything other than the championship was meaningless.

The girl with bangs sat next to him and stared at the TV as they both remained silent.

After around ten minutes, Wei Wen suddenly spoke.

"… Xiao Jing, give me the computer."

"Okay," said Cui Jing as she nodded. She walked to the desk and took the tablet computer before handing it to her captain.

Wei Wen took the tablet and went on the official website.

The winner's thesis would be publicly displayed on the website. It would be used as a sample for the others to learn and to tell the losers why they lost. It was also to let the public review the fairness of the game.

Lu Zhou's thesis was ranked first and Wei Wen found it quickly.

He downloaded the winner's thesis and opened the PDF file. Wei Wen frowned as he stared at the screen and carefully read from the first word to the appendix.

"…"

He went silent for half an hour before he relaxed and sighed.

"I did lose…"

There was a luck aspect in the mathematical modeling competition. If the thesis was written in the appetite of the review professors, even if the thesis was average, it could still win the second or even the national first level prize.

However, in the selection of the "Higher Education Society Cup", which symbolized first in the country, luck did not exist. Every nominated thesis would be reviewed by every single judge.

The judge that sat in the middle? He was a former Chinese government chief architect for the lunar exploration project. He personally influenced the design of Chang'e 3. There was no one else who was more educated in aerospace.

Wei Wen finished reading Lu Zhou's thesis and was sure of one thing.

The programming side was indistinguishable from his own. Maybe his was even better, but he lost the mathematical model side. Without a doubt, he had also lost in the thesis part.

Wei Wei noticed that the mathematical model and the thought process of the thesis was the same.

Therefore, he was sure that Lu Zhou did the modeling and thesis work all by himself.

Although some weaker teams would use the tactic of one person carrying, there had never been a team that won the Higher Education Society Cup by using the one man carry tactic.

The time for the competition was only three days and it contained a high amount of modeling and thesis writing work. If a person just did one of them, they would be exhausted. A person who did both was absolutely insane. That person would have to sacrifice eating and sleeping just to guarantee the quality of the modeling and thesis.

However, the reality was that the guy named Lu Zhou did both.

This guy is a monster…

Wei Wen's lip went blue from the biting.

It was not because of jealousy.

It was because he felt humiliated by the opponent.

"What are you going to do?" said Cui Jing as she stood behind him.

He went silent for a while.

"I don't plan on doing anything. It's only a defeat."

Wei Wen put the tablet down and stood up.

In his eyes, depression and sadness were swept away. In their place, a burning passion appeared.

Being able to compete with such an opponent is a great thing.

This is only one defeat.

Next time, I will definitely not lose!

Wei Wen paused for a second before he took a deep breath and said calmly, "Don't forget I still have the US Competition in February!"

Cui Jing stood behind him and smiled softly.

This was the Wei Wen that she knew.

The guy that never gave up.

"Okay."

…

Lu Zhou received many calls tonight.

Some were from dorm 201, which called him "Brother Zhou, Brother Zhou," and asked him to buy them dinner.

This was the only time that this group of animals respected Lu Zhou like this.

Dean Zhang called as well to congratulate Lu Zhou. Then he started complimenting himself and said that he was the same when he was younger.

Lu Zhou was dumbfounded when he heard Dean Zhang.

If this guy was not a professor, Lu Zhou would have hung up.

There were people from the school that called as well.

Dean Lu, Professor Tang, and Professor Liu.

Professor Liu did not care about his image and laughed out loud, "Nicely done. Higher Education Society Cup! Our school had had a couple of national first level prizes and a couple of teams managed to go to Beijing. However, this is the first time that we won the Higher Education Society Cup!"

Professor Liu said up until here and sincerely admired Lu Zhou as he said, "You're pretty strong. I can't believe that you won without trying that hard. Go get the O award in the US Competition next year."

The O award was short for Outstanding Winner which was also the grand prize. The F prize was chosen from M prizes (the first level prize), then the global O award was chosen from the F prizes. At most, there were 20 O awards.

The O award also came with awards from associations and companies and so, it was roughly equivalent to the Higher Education Society Cup. Although the titles were similar, the treatment was very different. For example, Double Siegel invested USD10,000 as a bonus for winning the O award. However, it was only for the US teams…

"It wasn't just me. Without the code from Wang Xiaodong, I wouldn't have won," said Lu Zhou as he smiled humbly.

"Oh yeah, for sure," said Professor Liu. He smiled and continued, "The school is ready to give you a 10,000 yuan bonus. The principal just talked to me on the phone and asked for my opinion. He said that since Captain Lu Zhou did both the modeling and thesis, he should just get the 10,000 yuan by himself. However, from what you're saying, I guess I should split this $10,000 in half and give it to you and Wang Xiaodong."

Lu Zhou was unhappy when he heard this.

"Teacher, I've thought it about it carefully," said Lu Zhou. In a serious tone, he said, "Although Wang Xiaodong's efforts were outstanding, I think that without my delegation and working up to 30 hours continuously, we wouldn't have won this championship. Therefore…"

"Hahahaha, stop faking," said Professor Liu. His laughter interrupted Lu Zhou and he said, "Professor Tang was right. You're quite sneaky."

Lu Zhou saw that Professor Liu saw through him and so, he coughed and said, "Then… At most give him a third. Half is a bit unfair. I didn't sleep at all the second night when I was writing the thesis."

"I'm just kidding. Principal Xu said that this money is all yours so don't worry," said Professor Liu with a smile. He added, "If you're bored with Beijing, come back soon."

Lu Zhou asked, "I'm going on the train tomorrow. Is there any urgent matter?"

"There's no urgent matter. I just need to do a photo-shoot of you."

Photo-shoot?

The photo certificate for the award is also online. Why do I have to take another photo?

Lu Zhou asked suspiciously, "What photo?"

Professor Liu said with a smile, "So we can stick your photo on the trophy on the wall!"

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Chapter 67: Unlucky

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The night atmosphere outside the windows was bustling and the traffic on the roads was seemingly endless.

Lu Zhou hung up the phone and closed the curtains. He then took a shower before he laid in bed. He then started to whisper in his heart and went into the pure white system space.

As expected, after the list of winners was officially announced, the entire mission was completed.

Lu Zhou hurried over to the semi-transparent screen where a large line of text appeared.

[Congratulations, user, for completing the mission. Hope user can make persistent efforts.]

[Mission completion detail is as follows: On the basis of receiving the national prize, winning the Higher Education Society Cup… The final evaluation for the mission is S (reward mission is given)]

[Mission reward: According to mathematical modeling disciplines used: 200 mathematics experience points. 2000 physics experience points. 500 general points. One lucky draw ticket (80% garbage, 10% experience, 5% sample, 5% blueprint)]

When Lu Zhou saw the S evaluation, he was happy.

Sure enough, the national first level prize was the minimum requirement to complete the mission. The Higher Education Society Cup and MATLAB Innovation award corresponded to an evaluation of S and S respectively.

He had only received the S evaluation once, so the rules were unclear to him.

However, now that he got the S evaluation, he was sure that getting an S or above meant he would receive a reward mission!

Lu Zhou took a deep breath and commanded.

"System, open my characteristic panel!"

[

Core science:

A. Mathematics: Level 1 (2000/10000)

B. Physics: Level 1 (2100/10000)

C. Biochemistry: Level 0 (0/1000)

D. Engineering: Level 1 (0/10000)

E. Materials science: Level 0 (0/1000)

F. Energy science: Level 0 (0/1000)

G. Information science: Level 1 (0/10000)

General points: 1175 (one lucky draw ticket)

Mission: None

]

Mathematics limited the upgrade of other subjects. Therefore, it was Lu Zhou's focus. Then there was engineering and information science where these two subjects were the easiest to make money with. Lu Zhou decided to give up on physics and just leave it alone.

Now, next…

Is the thrilling lucky draw!

Lu Zhou took a deep breath, reached out, and pressed the lucky draw button. When he saw the familiar prize wheel appearing in front of himself, he said, "Spin!"

The wheel began to spin at a speed that was impossible for the naked eyes to follow.

Lu Zhou repeated "good prize, good prize" in his heart several times. He shouted with his eyes closed.

"Stop!"

The wheel's inertia caused it to spin a few more turns before it slowly stopped.

Lu Zhou opened his eyes and looked at the screen…

[Congratulations user, you received garbage.]

Goddamn it!

Does the system hate me?

Lu Zhou looked at the "garbage" text and screamed in his heart.

However, the system still did not care about him.

[Received: A can of coffee.]

"…"

Lu Zhou looked at the icon on the screen quietly as he realized that the system did not care about his feelings.

Lu Zhou left the system space and sat in his bed. He put out his right hand and said in his heart, "Coffee, coffee…"

There was a flash before his eyes.

Without any warning, a brown can appeared in his hands. It was like something out of a movie.

However, Lu Zhou was already accustomed to the magic of the system. Unlike the first time, he was not surprised. Instead, he was calm as he wondered, "Is this a Future again? Same brand as that coke, right? Why didn't they give me a can of sprite instead?"

Lu Zhou turned the can over to find the production date but he could not find it.

"I've tried futuristic coke. Let's see what futuristic coffee tastes like."

Lu Zhou opened the can and poured it into his mouth.

Emm…

It felt like the taste of ordinary instant coffee but it was very smooth.

It was indescribably delicious and he wanted to drink another can.

This type of unexplainable satisfaction was similar to the "Future" coke's feeling.

Lu Zhou licked the corner of his mouth, wiped the can clean, and stuff it into his bag. He planned to find a rubbish bin outside tomorrow to throw it out. The hotel check-in information was linked to his citizen ID and it was better to be low-key.

He went to the bathroom and washed his face before he laid back in bed, closed his eyes, and went into the system space.

It was time for the reward mission.

[Reward mission begin!]

[

Mission: Reward mission (Able to cancel anytime, no general point penalty will be given).

Requirements: One SCI thesis.

Reward: Subject experience (Experience value is determined by the academic value of the thesis, minimum 1000 points. Experience type is determined by the content of the thesis.) One lucky draw ticket (50% sample, 50% blueprint)]

]

Not too good, not too bad

The reward and difficulty are average.

It seems that S evaluations corresponded to a reward mission. Not all reward missions can unlock technology branches. But this lucky draw probability is the best as I can only get a blueprint or sample. Both are pretty good.

As for the content of the mission, it was similar to his second mission.

The only difference was that the lower limit of his second mission was 100 points, whereas this mission was 1000 points.

Basically, what it said was that even if he just casually submitted to some random journal, as long as it passed review, he could get 1000 experience points.

"Minimum 1000 experience points… I wonder what the maximum is. If it's determined by academic value…"

Lu Zhou remembered his blueprint that contained Zhou's approximation proof.

"Last time I was afraid to use it but it should be fine this time."

Full marks in mathematical analysis and advanced algebra, mathematical model national champion, submitted 10 theses in a month, etc. Lu Zhou had proved that even if he solved this 20-year-old problem, no one would question him.

I just have to go back to school and spend some time typing up the thesis.

Lu Zhou left the system space. He laid in bed and closed his eyes before he went to sleep.

Time slowly passed by…

The clock on the wall ticked.

Lu Zhou tossed and turned around.

After a while, he opened his eyes and stared at the ceiling while he laid on the bed.

Emm…

I'm not tired at all.

Lu Zhou took out his phone and squinted his eyes to look at the time when his eyebrows suddenly twitched.

F*ck, it's two in the morning already?! It doesn't feel that late!

Maybe…

It's because of the can of coffee?

Lu Zhou's expression changed.

F*ck sake!

I totally forgot. I just drank it for fun!

Lu Zhou could not breathe because of his heartache and he buried his head in the pillow.

I lost big! I should've used it for intense studying session!

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Chapter 68: Can I Touch Your Trophy?

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Lu Zhou could not sleep.

He pulled out his phone and went on Weibo.

He had not logged in for a long time and when he saw that he gained another 10,000 followers, he felt pretty happy.

He had not expected to be so popular online.

Ah, this is awkward.

I'm just a kid, I don't want to be famous!

Hmm…

What should I say to my dear fans?

He thought for a while before tapping on the screen and started typing.

[Today I went to Yan University and won the Higher Education Society Cup. It feels okay.]

[Photo (screenshot of official website award certification)]

It was the first time he sent a blog post and he felt like a primary school student writing an essay.

Screw it, who cares!

Lu Zhou clicked Send.

He went on trending and saw that they were all about boring celebrity gossip. Once he was bored, he went back to his own page.

He had not expected to have dozens of comments already.

Don't these people have better things to do?

Lu Zhou was interested in the comments and so, he clicked them open to see what his fans said.

[What is the Higher Education Society Cup?]

[Master, are you going to the US Competition next year?]

[God! If you act like this, you won't have any friends!]

[I'm studying the graduate entrance exam right now. I'm unfollowing.]

[Once again, I'm looking at someone else's university life.]

[I clicked the unfollow button and pretended like I didn't see anything. I'm scrolling past. (dog)]

[Excuse me for bothering.]

Lu Zhou: ? ? ?

F*ck, why are my fans turning on me?

Lu Zhou refreshed and saw that he lost 10 followers. He was speechless.

…

Early in the morning, Lu Zhou washed his face before he left the room with his backpack.

When he walked into the lobby, he saw Lin Yuxiang.

"You… Okay?" asked Lin Yuxiang when she saw Lu Zhou's dark circles. She was surprised and asked, "I have an eye bag cream… Do you need it?"

Lu Zhou yawned, "No need."

He did not care about his dark circles. All he wanted to do was to get on the train and sleep.

The three people called a taxi and bought the train tickets at the train station. Lu Zhou fell asleep twice while waiting for the train. The first time he woke up was because of a kid while the second time was because of Wang Xiaodong.

"We're about to board."

"… Already?"

Lu Zhou rubbed his eyes and looked at the screen above the ticket gate. It was less than 10 minutes until their boarding time.

"Didn't sleep well?"

"Yeah… I'm going to the bathroom."

Lu Zhou actually wanted to say.

It's not that I didn't sleep well, I didn't sleep at all…

Wang Xiaodong looked at Lu Zhou yawning and nodded his head.

It was the first time he had ever won a national championship and he was very excited last night. He talked to his family over the phone for more than an hour and took two hours to fall asleep in bed.

Lu Zhou went to the bathroom to wash his face before he went to line up for the ticket check.

He passed the ticket check and went on the train where he continued to doze off. When he was woken up by Lin Yuxiang, he was already at Jinling station.

The three days trip in Beijing ended like this.

…

Lu Zhou rode the subway back to school. When he entered the dorm, he was surrounded by his roommates.

"Where's the trophy?"

"Zhou, I mean, Brother Zhou! Can I touch your trophy?"

Huang Guangming said with a smile as he reached out to take Lu Zhou's backpack.

"Go away, go away," said Lu Zhou. He moved aside and said, "The trophy isn't here. It was sent directly to the school. Don't ask me. If you want to touch it, go and ask the instructor.

"Who cares about the trophy… What about dinner?"

"I'm buying. Wait till I get the prize money!"

Normally speaking, the mathematical modeling competition only had a certificate as the award. Only the national champion would receive the trophy. The school had to pay for the trophy and so, it was customary for the trophy to be kept in the school.

The school would keep the trophy and put a photo of the three winners to record their honor.

On the way back, Lu Zhou received a call from Professor Liu. He was told to go to the Academic Affairs Office to take photos there.

Wang Xiaodong and Lin Yuxiang probably already went. Lu Zhou did not want to hold them up, so he returned to his dorm to throw his backpack down before he left.

When Shi Shang saw Lu Zhou leaving, he said, "I think Zhou is leaving us. He's going too far."

"Yeah, winning the Higher Education Society Cup as a first-year student. I feel more and more useless," said Huang Guangming while he played games on his phone.

"But Zhou is still a loner. What do they say? That even if you're not a genius, you can still receive love and youth?" said Shi Shang with a tone full of emotion.

When Huang Guangming heard him, he nearly dropped his phone.

"F*ck me, Brother Fei, let's talk about it properly. I'm a little afraid for you… How about I bring you to a doctor?"

"What's the point of a doctor? The guy probably ate the wrong medication," said Liu Rui while he was doing his physics homework. He did not even bother to lift his head.

"Stop calling me Brother Fei. Call me Brother Shang," said Shi Shang. He was unhappy to hear his new nickname. In a serious tone, he said, "You wouldn't understand that feeling."

Liu Rui: "…"

Huang Guangming: "…"

Shi Shang said slowly, "So, what I'm trying to say that it's impossible to excel in academics. That guy is a wizard. But in terms of feelings or emotional intelligence, we may not be worse off than him, so don't belittle yourself too much…"

Liu Rui suddenly said with a cold tone, "That may not be true."

Shi Shang asked, "What?"

Liu Rui said, "During the summer, I went to the library and saw him studying with a girl."

When he heard that, Shi Shang's expression was awkward and he coughed before saying, "He's just studying. I've studied with girls before…"

Liu Rui continued, "Then, I saw them eating together in the cafeteria. I think the girl paid for him."

The atmosphere in the dorm was quiet.

Shi Shang and Huang Guangming looked at each other before turning to stare at Liu Rui silently.

Huang Guangming, "… Is that girl ugly? I heard those female geniuses are ugly."

Liu Rui shook his head, "Nope, the opposite actually. She was pretty…"

Huang Guangming: "…"

Shi Shang: "…"

They were completely defeated.

Not only were they defeated in IQ, but they were also ruthlessly crushed in EQ.

"Guangming, I feel like my life is full of darkness," said Shi Shang. He sighed, "Why is my college life so different than others."

"It's okay, I feel the same," said Huang Guangming as he threw his phone aside.

"Tomorrow… Let's study?"

"Don't talk about tomorrow, I'm going right now," said Huang Guangming as he climbed down the ladder.

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Chapter 69: The Magical Number Theory

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The photo shoot took an hour.

When Lu Zhou carried his tired body back to his dorm opened the door, he saw that only Liu Rui was inside.

"Where is everyone?"

Liu Rui was doing physics questions when he rolled his eyes and said, "They were motivated by you and went to study."

Lu Zhou: ? ? ?

Liu Rui, "Oh yeah, the deadline for physics homework is this afternoon. Have you started it?"

"I wrote it a long time ago and already submitted it," said Lu Zhou as he took out his clothes from his backpack.

Not only did he finished this assignment, but he had also finished all the physics assignments for the month.

All of these were done before he went to Beijing. He felt bad for always taking a leave of absence, so he finished all of the questions in the exercise book and gave it to Professor Li.

As a result, Professor Li Rongen was interested. He glanced at the homework and then told Lu Zhou not to hand in homework anymore as it would only be a waste of Lu Zhou's time.

"Finished?" said Liu Rui. He was shocked, "You didn't even go to class. When did you write it?"

"Before I went to Beijing. When I was doing the powerpoint."

Liu Rui did not believe him. He took out the challenging question that he copied from class and said, "Then, can you teach me?"

"Wait a second."

Lu Zhou placed his clothes into a laundry tub on the balcony. When he returned, he took a look at the question.

[The normal specific heat of the mixed gas has the mass of M1=3.0X102kg and the mixed gas M2 has 3.0X102kg of hydrogen at normal temperature.]

The question was short and seemed simple.

However…

Lu Zhou said, "This question is super hard. It's normal that you can't solve it."

It was a challenge question that Li Rongen arranged in class and Liu Rui probably did not even notice.

Liu Rui: ? ? ?

Lu Zhou saw that Liu Rui was confused and laughed before he continued to speak.

"At normal temperature, diatomic gas molecules and water vapor molecules can be regarded as rigid molecules. Despite the fact that their covalent bonds still vibrate, most of the molecules' vibrational levels do not change, and they do not contribute to the constant volume heat capacity. Therefore, the conclusion is the same as considering vibration. The physics textbook probably didn't mention this, but it is mentioned in inorganic chemistry."

Liu Rui: ? ? ?

Of course, knowing this was not enough. It was also necessary to know the molar heat capacity of the rigid diatomic molecules and the molar heat capacity of the water molecules, as well as a series of data what was not given in the question.

There was no chemistry class in mathematics, so this problem was expected to stump many people. If a person could solve it, that person either learned inorganic chemistry by himself like Lu Zhou or participated in high school physics competition training.

Professor Li Rongen came up with this question to cultivate students' ability to learn independently. After all, not everything was taught in college classes. It was important to learn outside of class as well.

Of course, this depended on the student's motivation.

If the student just wanted to cruise through, not listen in class, and cram before exams, they could still graduate.

"Therefore, you can get…"

Lu Zhou took the pen and started to write in the draft paper.

[Cv1=3R, Cv2=5/2R]

[The heat capacity of the mixed gas: Ctotal = (M1/u1) Cv1 (M2 / u2) Cv2]

[The specific heat of the mixed gas: c = Ctotal / (M1 M2)]

[From u1=0.018, u2=0.00, R=8.314J/(mol·K)]

[With the above data, get 5.86X103J/(kg·K)]

The calculation was very simple, even a middle school student could do it. What was hard was the theory.

Lu Zhou gave the pen back to Liu Rui and said, "This question is quite simple. If you change the absolute value of the internal energy, you must include the vibration energy of the molecule. But this kind of question definitely won't be on the exam. Let physics majors worry about these questions."

Liu Rui: ? ? ?

When he saw Liu Rui's confused expression, he said, "Don't you understand? Maybe I'll explain…"

"I understand," said Liu Rui as he nodded. He looked at him and asked, "Where did you learn these things?"

Are we at the same university?

Liu Rui could not help but doubt his life.

Lu Zhou said, "I learned it in the library."

Liu Rui did not say anything but he silently began to pack his stuff.

Lu Zhou was confused and asked, "Why are you packing your stuff?"

Liu Rui looked up at the ceiling with eyes that were filled with sorrow as he said, "I think my level of knowledge is too low. From today… I'm studying at the library every day."

Without saying another word, he carried his backpack and walked out

…

The next Monday afternoon at a lecture hall, it was so packed full of people that not a single free seat was left.

Captain Lu Zhou stood on the stage and was about to give an award speech.

He looked at the crowd and he knew that most of these people were from the Student Union and Committee.

Everyone's an adult now, who has time to listen to my speech?

The crowd of confused college students held a notepad in their hands. They were prepared to take notes for Lu Zhou's speech. Lu Zhou did not know if his speech would help them.

If the students wanted to be Lu Zhou, their college life would be filled with frustration…

There were several media outlets in the hall, mainly from school newspaper and local newspapers. The highest level was the Jin Ling City TV station. The university invited all of them.

When Lu Zhou saw the supporting eyes of Dean Lu, he thought, "It's hard to make money." He then cleared his throat and put his mouth closer to the microphone.

"Teachers, deans, students, good morning!"

"I am very honored to have this opportunity to cooperate with my two teammates to participate in this unprecedented competition and to fight side by side and get the "Higher Education Society Cup." First of all, please allow me to thank the national members of the competition. The organizers, sponsors, national instructors, and all the people who have worked hard for the competition. I express my most sincere gratitude…"

Lu Zhou talked for more than 10 minutes on stage. He talked about the insides and outside of the competition, from mathematical modeling to various study methods, then even talked about his half a million yuan offer and his life plans.

He ended the speech with, "1% talent, 99% hard work."

This was no longer Lu Zhou's first interview, so he was not nervous at all. Naturally, he faked his way to the end.

Clap clap clap!

The applause was thunderous.

Some of them probably were not genuine, but the students with their notebooks applauded energetically.

"… Thank you, everyone!" bowed Lu Zhou. He then handed the microphone to Professor Liu before he walked down the stage.

When Professor Tang saw Lu Zhou walk past him, he smiled and said, "Pretty good speech."

Lu Zhou smiled, "Professor Tang, when will the school send the prize money?"

"Latest next week. Why? Are you in a hurry?" asked Professor Tang. With a smile, he continued, "How are you now? What are you researching?"

Lu Zhou thought and said, "Number theory… Mersenne primes."

"Mersenne primes, you're still researching that," sighed Professor Tang. There was a bit of regret in his tone.

Number theory was a special field and the entrance threshold was low. It was so low that many theorems and formulas could be understood by middle school students. It was also why number theory had become popular amongst the general public.

Legends had it that the number of letters the general public wrote to The Chinese Academy of Sciences was so many that it could wrap around Earth. The gatekeeper of the Chinese Academy of Sciences had nine math questions in his hand. If a person could not answer the questions, he or she would not even be let in through the door.

Therefore, succeeding in number theory was a lot harder than it seemed. Not only did it required a solid foundation in mathematics, but it also needed extraordinary mathematical talent.

The reality was cruel as there was no other field that required talent as much as number theory.

Without talent, a person could research number theory for his entire life and still achieved nothing.

Even though Professor Tang knew this, he did not say anything.

That was because he knew Lu Zhou's personality.

Irritable, utilitarian, eager for success.

After Lu Zhou dipped his feet into the water of number theory, he would naturally back off.

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Chapter 70: Proving Zhou's Conjecture!

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After being delayed by Professor Tang, Lu Zhou walked out of the lecture hall and was immediately surrounded by a group of school girls.

Fine, there were some guys there as well. However, when the guys saw the crowd of girls, they did not want to squeeze in.

"Genius, how do you do so well at advanced algebra? I think it's so hard. Is there any techniques you can teach me?"

"Brother! Brother, I heard that getting the national first level prize increased your chances of getting into a master's degree? Is it true? I heard getting the Higher Education Society Cup…"

"Are you still participating in the competition next year? Are you missing a teammate? I can write a thesis! I won the high school debate competition!"

"Brother Zhou, do you have WeChat? Can you add me~"

Lu Zhou was barraged with so many questions that he was muddled.

I know I'm handsome, but you don't have to be this enthusiastic.

I'm embarrassed…

After he finally got rid of the students, he carried his laptop bag and went to the library.

Chen Yushan was studying politics for the past few days. As it was mainly rote learning, she did not go to the library.

Perfect, Lu Zhou did not have the time to speak to her anyway.

Although the theorem was printed in Lu Zhou's mind, it still took a lot of effort to sort out the argument process. It would take three to four A4 pages just to write it all down.

If he wanted others to understand his theorem, he would have to understand it himself first.

The final thesis could not be three or four pages long, but it had to be twice as long so that people could understand.

Moreover, Professor Tang's research was not about number theory, so this time there was no one available to edit his thesis. If he wanted to pass review the first time, he had to give 100 percent of his focus and restored every vague theorem given by the system, so the academic reviewer could not find a single mistake.

[Discussion On The Distribution Law Of Mersenne Prime Numbers And Proof Of Zhou's Conjecture]

[Abstract: This paper studies the distribution law of Mersenne prime numbers and proves that when 2(2n) P 2(2(n1)), MP has 2(n1)-1, prime numbers are established. Based on this argument, it is proved that when 2(2(n1)), Mp has 2(n2)-n-2 prime numbers. ]

Lu Zhou typed a space in the thesis body before he jumped to the cited documents and typed a line of text.

[Citation: The distribution law of Mersenne prime numbers [J]. Zhou Haizhong. Journal of Yixian University (Natural Science Edition). 1992 (04)]

He only needed to cite one literature.

For twenty years, countless mathematicians and researchers in number theory had repeatedly tried to verify this theorem, but none of them succeeded. Even Mr. Zhou, who made this conjecture/approximation himself, who had been studying for so many years, could not give a proper proof of this conjecture.

This was the charm of number theory. Number theory was like an apple on the tree. Both mathematics and math enthusiasts were fascinated by its red color. Eventually, a tall man would come and pick the apple.

Lu Zhou stopped typing and picked up a pen.

He entered a special state where he forgot about everything else.

The only thing that existed was the paper and the pen.

The infinite prime numbers were magnified under his pen tip and converged into an equation. Numbers and symbols merged into a spell that weaved magic and described the truth of the universe.

Time slowly passed by.

Pieces of fully written draft paper slowly covered the table.

Soon, it was time for lunch.

The guys who were studying for the graduate entrance exam stretched and they were ready to get up and go to the cafeteria to eat. Suddenly, they noticed the draft paper laying on Lu Zhou's table. When they saw the calculations on the paper, they were shocked.

What question is this nutty?

Why does it take so many pages to calculate it?

He looks young, probably an undergraduate student. Is there such a difficult undergraduate mathematics question?

He looked over and saw that it was a number theory problem. However, when he looked further down, he could not understand it. On one hand, Lu Zhou's handwriting was like a dragon dancing 1 . On the other hand, he did not research number theory, so he was not well-versed with it.

He was full of curiosity and was about to ask what Lu Zhou was doing when he suddenly noticed the title of the document on Lu Zhuo's laptop.

Zhou's conjecture?

His curiosity was gone.

Oh, a crazy person.

Another idiot who is obsessed with mathematics.

That guy said in his heart before he took his backpack and left.

Although it not the direction of his research, he still knew a little about this topic.

For twenty years, number theory mathematicians all over the world had studied more or less the special prime numbers of Mersenne twin prime and Fermat prime. After all, this was a key topic of the century. Anyone that had studied Mersenne primes had tried to prove Zhou's conjecture.

Not a single person succeeded.

Before one could even think about picking the apple from the tree, one had to know that no one even brought a ladder!

It would be impossible for an undergraduate student to proof it.

Lu Zhou was completely immersed in his calculations. He did not even notice the guy next to him. He barely even noticed time or hunger. Those external factors were all annihilated by the mathematics calculations.

Lu Zhou did not know when it began, but he was used to this unhealthy way of studying.

By the time Lu Zhou wrote down the last calculation, the view outside the window was completely dark.

Breathing a sigh of relief, he leaned back in his chair and felt as if his whole body had collapsed.

On the one hand, he was tired.

On the other, he was hungry.

"I can't believe I forgot about eating… It seems that I've become an immortal."

This thesis was much more difficult than [Optimal Inversion Theory Of Linear Operators And Linear Functions]. The academic value of this thesis was also higher. Fortunately, the core of the thesis had already been done. Now, he only had to copy the content on the A4 papers onto the computer and his thesis would be done.

Lu Zhou rubbed his stomach. He was about to stand up and tidy the draft papers when a list of numbers on a draft paper caught his attention.

What?

Lu Zhou took his pen and circled the numbers on the draft paper. He then started to arrange them.

The two sets of numbers after alignment were all twin prime numbers.

Lu Zhou frowned and clicked his pen.

He wrote down two equations before quickly crossing them out.

The famous Polignac conjecture had an infinite number of prime pairs (p, p2k) for all natural numbers k. When k=1, it was a twin prime approximation. The study of the distribution law of Mersenne prime numbers, in a certain sense, also provided an idea for solving the problem of infinite twin prime numbers.

He seemed to have discovered something while trying to prove Zhou's conjecture.

He pinched his glabella and felt a headache.

I don't have a train of thought at all…

His flash of inspiration was gone and he had missed the opportunity.

F*ck sake!

As expected, number theory isn't something ordinary people can play with.

"System, give your user some inspiration."

Lu Zhou said in his heart but the system did not respond.

Fine.

Guess vague problem solving was not part of the system's abilities.

"Student, the library is about to close."

Lu Zhou suddenly realized that the librarian was standing next to him. He looked around and saw that he was the only student left in the library.

"Oh, sorry, I'll pack up right now," said Lu Zhou as he smiled apologetically and reached for the draft papers on the table.

He could not study for much longer anyway.

I'll go out and eat something.

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Chapter 71: You Can't Even Imagine The Joyfulness Of A Genius Student

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Lu Zhou took half a day to organize the contents of the manuscript on A4 paper, inputted it into the computer, and completed the rest of the thesis. It took him two and a half days just to translate it into English.

In total it took four days. Lu Zhou had finally turned the drawings in his head into a thesis and he even converted the thesis into PDF format.

Next was thesis submission.

Lu Zhou had thousands of choices and his final selection was the [Mathematics Chronicle] journal.

The journal was published by Princeton University and was published in the journals of Johns Hopkins University Press in the 1990s. Mainly, it published theoretical mathematical research papers. It covered a wide range of topics and had a pivotal position in the academic circle. The impact factor was also quite large.

In fact, Lu Zhou originally had a better choice. For example, the [Journal of Number Theory, which specialized in the publication of number theory had a higher authority in the field of number theory. However, the impact factor was slightly lower and it also carried a charge for the processing of the thesis.

"Americans are so stingy," said Lu Zhou as he shook his head and uploaded his thesis onto the website of [Mathematics Chronicle] before entering his email.

He did not know if the system could make him cut in front of the thesis review line but he hoped that it would not delay his mission for too long.

…

The mathematical modeling competition prize money was finally released and the total amount was 15,000 yuan. Of which, 10,000 yuan was given by the school directly to Lu Zhou and the other 5000 yuan was with Wang Xiaodong.

Lu Zhou was surprised to hear that Lin Yuxiang gave up on the prize money.

Even though Wang Xiaodong wanted to give her half of his money, she smiled and refused.

He did not know what the girl was thinking…

The first thing Lu Zhou did after the team was disbanded was to block her from his news feed.

He had spent so much money on the artificial intelligence "Eye" that he was glad that finally got some money back.

According to the agreement, he bought food for his three roommates.

These three animals were not polite at all. The first thing they did was to ask for half a box of beer, a plate of grilled fish, and five side dishes.

The food came and Shi Shang opened a bottle. He then took turns and filled the everyone's cups with beer. Finally, he took his cup and looked at Lu Zhou.

"Zhou, you were a scrub at first, but now you're a god. You still remember this meal, which means you haven't forgotten us. I respect you."

"It's just a dinner. You guys have bought me food before, why are you being so cringy now," said Lu Zhou. He smiled and once he cheered Shi Shang, Lu Zhou drank the whole cup.

Huang Guangming also raised his cup, "Zhou, I'll cheer you as well. No reason, I just want to be happy."

"No need, no need," said Lu Zhou as he raised his hands and cheered Huang Guangming.

Liu Rui also raised his cup, "Congratulations…"

"Thank you!" said Lu Zhou said.

Regardless of the complex meaning behind Liu Rui's "congratulations", everyone was roommates and brothers.

Lu Zhou cheered Liu Rui and drank the whole cup.

With beer running low and the dishes almost finished, Shi Shang sighed with a belly full of alcohol.

"Zhou."

"What's up?"

"I've recently been thinking of a problem."

"Ask away."

'What's it like being a genius student?" asked Shi Shang as he sighed. He stared at the bottles of beer and said, "Insanely high exam marks, guaranteed master's entrance, scholarships…"

Perhaps it was because Shi Shang read some books in the library or perhaps it was because of the alcohol but Shi Shang had been thinking about the philosophy of life. Huang Guangming always said that he would take him to psychological counseling, but he never went.

Regardless, Shi Shang's question hit the spot.

The two animals next to him pretended to eat but their ears were open wide. Especially Liu Rui. He even stopped moving his chopsticks as he waited for the genius' experience.

Lu Zhou shook his empty cup and burped.

He was slightly blushing because of alcohol. He coughed and slowly said, "… You think, being a genius is fun?"

"… I understand. You're actually not happy, right? Tired, right?" said Shi Shang as he sighed.

"No," said Lu Zhou as he shook his head. He continued, "I meant that… Being a genius is great. You can't even imagine the joyfulness of being a genius."

Shi Shang: ? ? ?

Huang Guangming: ? ? ?

Liu Rui: ? ? ?

…

By the time they went back to the dorm, it was already seven o'clock at night.

Liu Rui was again carried back and he fell unconscious on the mat. Shi Shang's alcohol tolerance was quite good. Even though he drank six or seven bottles, when the class leader called him to play basketball, he went.

What a guy. How can you even play basketball after drinking so much?

Drunken basketball?

This time it was Huang Guangming that carried Liu Rui to the toilet. Lu Zhou climbed in bed, opened his laptop, and went on the [Mathematics Chronicle] website.

Without any surprise, the status of his thesis had become [Under Review].

It seemed that his guess was correct.

Not just ordinary missions, but even with the reward missions as well, the system would help him save time. As for how the system did it… Lu Zhou decided not to bother it with that question.

It would only hurt his head!

When he logged onto his email, he saw that the authorization file had already been sent.

Lu Zhou completed the authorization file as required before uploading it onto the website.

Next was the long peer review. He had to wait for an academic editor to free up and verify his certification process. Unlike his previous papers, this paper involved a proof for an important conjecture, so it would take longer to review.

Academic editors would be extra cautious in reviewing and would not miss any mistakes. It was because once a wrong proof theorem was published, it was not just a joke, but it would seriously damage the academic reputation of the journal.

Of course, his thesis could be sent to a master of mathematics and that master could finish the review within a day. However, the probability of it happening was very low.

Lu Zhou went back to his dorm and opened his laptop. He chatted with his artificial retardation bot Xiao Ai before he went to check the Campus Train bug reports.

When Lu Zhou saw the stagnated user number, he did not anything.

He ignored the messages that were asking for thesis help. As always, there were no error or bug reports.

Great.

I don't have to release an update.

Lu Zhou closed the developer website and logged onto the Academic Affairs Office website. He was about to look at his class timetable when a notice caught his attention.

"A Twin prime conjecture lecture will be held at 9 am tomorrow…"

Lu Zhou saw the words of twin prime number and suddenly remembered his inspiration from when he was writing the thesis on Zhou's conjecture.

He was so busy with the submission of the thesis that totally forgot about his accidental discovery.

Now that he thought about it, it was pretty interesting.

"… I don't have class tomorrow morning anyway, maybe I should listen to this lecture. I'll get partial credit for it," thought Lu Zhou. To sign up, he entered his student number and password.

"Speaker is Ren Changming… I think I've seen this name?" thought Lu Zhou as he stared at it for a long time but he could not remember.

In a mathematics textbook?

Or I read it online?

Who cares. This doesn't matter.

Lu Zhou shook his head and threw a towel over his shoulder before picked up his basket of laundry and went to the bathroom.

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Chapter 72: Professor Deligne's Gasp Of Surprise

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A quiet home in Princeton, New Jersey.

A bald Caucasian man stuffed his clothes into a suitcase and yelled, "I don't have time, go and find someone else! Right now, my teacher is in a hospital bed. This may the last time I'll see him! For this month, I don't want to see anything related to mathematics."

The middle-aged man in a suit had an awkward smile. He was not angry at all.

After all, the man that stood in front of him was the famous Viscount Pierre Deligne, the guy that proved Weil's conjecture. He had won the Fields Medal, Crafoord Prize, Wolf Prize, and the Abel Prize. If there was a mathematics prize, he had won it.

Even in an advanced institution like Princeton, an institution that accommodated mathematics geniuses around the world, Deligne still stood out.

Davis was just an ordinary editor for the Mathematics Chronicle. Although he graduated from the journalism department of Johns Hopkins University, he knew a little about mathematics.

Mathematics Chronicle was like the son of Princeton University and the stepson of Johns Hopkins University. However, Princeton was also responsible for the journal [Year of Mathematics, which was well respected in the mathematics community. Therefore, Princeton began to spend fewer resources on Mathematics Chronicle.

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The editors at Johns Hopkins University were trying their best to maintain the academic influence of Mathematics Chronicle.

Normally, an ordinary number theory thesis would not be worthy of Davis' attention. It was a mere coincidence that he had a certain amount of knowledge on number theory that when he first read the thesis, he immediately discovered the extraordinary value of it.

There were countless conjectures about the distribution law of the Mersenne prime numbers, but none of the conjectures had been proved. Among them, the most mathematically beautiful and precise conjecture was undoubtedly the famous Zhou's conjecture.

When 2(2n) P 2(2n1), then the amount of Mersenne primes is 2(n1)-1.

However, this was just a guess.

Zhou's conjecture had not been proved or disproved.

When it was proved, it would be upgraded to a theorem!

Even though Davis saw that Professor Delini did not care, Davis refused to give up. Instead, he said, "Come on, Viscount Deligne! Your research is the most outstanding from any professor I've ever seen! I read this thesis and instantly thought of you. We've been working together for many years now. Can you just please take a look?"

"Stop kissing my ass," said Deligne as he slammed the suitcase down and laughed coldly. He said, "I know I'm good."

He usually was not this irritable. Like all the other geniuses at Princeton, he was only a little arrogant. Normally, if Davis brought an interesting thesis to him, he would take the time and read it.

However, no matter how interesting the thesis may be, he had more important matters to attend to.

His teacher, Mr. Grottendick, was lying in a hospital bed and could pass away at any time.

He did not have the appetite to study some math problem. He had to fly to France and see his teacher.

Not only did he paused his academic editor work, but he also stopped his own research projects temporarily.

Davis tried to convince him, "Don't you want to bring a gift to Mr. Grottendick?"

Deligne said angrily, "Gift? A piece of trash paper? I'd rather buy a flower in France!"

"I promise you, this paper is not as bad as you think," said Davis sincerely. He then added, "Isn't proving Riemann's conjecture your teacher's life goal? The distribution law of Mersenne prime numbers has been solved, and we have taken another step forward towards the crown of this mathematical world… Even if it's just a small step! I remember the remark you said in last year's academic report – that the road to the end of the Riemann zeta function was dark and required countless candles to illuminate… Now, the match is in your hand."

Deligne stared at Davis and was silent for a while before he finally snatched the thesis from David's hand.

"F*ck!"

Finally, the academician could no longer contain his curiosity.

"A proof of Zhou's theorem?" Deligne's frowned.

He had read countless theses like this in the past and it only recently stopped being so common. People who thought that they were smart always liked to pick seemingly simple questions, but they had never even started to solve them.

If Zhou's conjecture was proven, it could really help the research for Riemann's conjecture. After all, the behavior of the Riemann zeta function was closely related to the frequency of prime numbers. The Riemann hypothesis was about when the zeta function was zero.

When Deligne read the author's name, he was shocked.

Lu Zhou?

Chinese guy? Or ABC?

There were quite a lot of outstanding mathematicians in Asia, but he had never heard of this name…

His heart could not help but feel contempt towards the author. However, as he knew that David would never fool him with a crappy thesis, Deligne continued to read.

One minute passed…

Five minutes passed…

Ten minutes passed…

Deligne maintained the same reading position the entire time with his eyes staring intensely at the first page. He had no plans of turning the page.

Davis controlled his breathing when he saw Professor Deligne acting like this. He did not want to disturb Deligne's thinking.

The more Deligne read the more serious his expression became.

Another five minutes passed…

He rested the suitcase against the wall but he remained silent. Deligne then took an A4 paper and went into his study room before he closed the door behind him.

Davis breathed a sigh of relief and he finally relaxed his stiff shoulders as he sat casually on the sofa in the living room.

Judging from his years of experience, Professor Deligne's strength of closing the door was positively correlated with how important the thesis was.

If it was a rubbish thesis, he would not even close the door to the study room.

When Deligne was in the study room, he took the draft paper out and started to verify the calculations in the thesis.

The author's calculations were clear, logical and rigorous. The method of application was so clever that Deligne could not even find a mistake.

Deligne could not even find possible improvements.

What confused him was that, other than the sloppy English, the argumentation process was flawless. It did not look like the author was a newcomer…

It's too smooth.

I can't believe how smooth this thesis is.

He wanted to believe that there was a mistake in this five-page thesis!

Maybe I missed the mistake?

This is interesting.

An hour passed.

After Deligne read the last line of calculation, he was silent for a very long time. He then put down the printed thesis next to the draft paper before he sighed and muttered a French word, "Impressive."

An hour ago, he still had doubts in his mind.

However, after reading it again, he was certain that this five-page thesis had no problems.

He could not think of another word other than impressive.

Deligne really wanted to meet the author of this thesis. However, there was no chance in the near future. After he returned from his France vacation, he would have to participate in a new research project for Princeton, which would occupy him for a few months.

Perhaps, this paper will arouse the interest of my teacher?

He knew that the probability was low as his teacher had not been studying mathematics for many years.

Davis was walking back and forth in the living room when he finally turned his attention to the fish tank next to the living room cabinet. He tapped the glass with his fingers and played with the goldfish to pass time.

Suddenly, the door to the study room opened and out came Deligne with the thesis in his hand.

Davis immediately rushed forward and asked, "How was it?"

As Deligne placed the thesis into the suitcase, he replied without lifting his head, "I need some time. I'll give you a response within a week."

When Davis heard him, he held his breath for a moment because he was too excited.

He had worked with him for so many years that he completely understood the professor's personality.

If a thesis was not inserted into the professor's shredder, it meant that he could not find a problem with the thesis. If he had not given the thesis back to Davis, it meant that the content of the thesis attracted his attention!

A week's time was nothing.

It was impossible for an academic editor to quickly review a paper. Repeated scrutiny and verification was necessary. This was not only the rigor of a mathematician but also a scholar. It was the minimum respect for the field of study!

A world-class mathematics problem was about to be solved.

The academic value of [Mathematics Chronicle] would undoubtedly be improved.

As for Davis himself…

What else could better prove his performance as a technical editor other than picking a needle from a haystack?

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Chapter 73: I Don't Want To Go To Space Yet

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It was half past eight in the morning and the lecture hall was almost full.

When Lu Zhou found a seat, he sat down in a low-key manner.

By 8:50 am, the lecture hall was full. Some people even brought chairs inside or sat on the aisles to listen.

Even students from other schools came.

It seemed that Professor Ren Changming was quite popular.

At 9:00 am, the lecture finally began. Lu Zhou looked at the old gentlemen on the podium and thought that he looked familiar. Maybe it was because Lu Zhou was too far away or the old man changed clothes, he really could not remember where he saw him.

When the powerpoint began, the female student who was sitting next to Lu Zhou finally stopped talking and reached for her notebook and pen.

The moment she saw Lu Zhou next to her, she was shocked.

As she looked at him, she asked quietly, "Student, are you, Lu Zhou?"

Lu Zhou nodded his head and said, "Yeah."

That girl's eyes lit up and she whispered with slight excitement, "You… You are from the 2013 mathematics class, Lu Zhou?"

"Yes… What's up?"

"Oh, nothing," said the young school girl as she shook her head.

Then why did you say my name!

Lu Zhou was speechless as he opened his notebook and started taking notes.

"…"

Lu Zhou: "…"

It might have been an illusion, but Lu Zhuo felt like the two girls sitting next to him were secretly watching him. They kept whispering and pointing at him.

Lu Zhou sighed.

Is this the troubles of being famous?

It feels…

Pretty good?

Fortunately, they did not talk about him for too long as they quickly changed topics.

Lu Zhou automatically shielded himself from external distractions by concentrating on the lecture.

When the professor finished his opening remarks, Lu Zhou had not missed anything.

"… We all know that prime numbers are natural numbers with only two factors. You might have known the first hundred prime numbers when you were in middle school. The twin prime numbers refer to prime pairs with a difference of 2, ie p and p2 are both prime pairs, such as 3 and 5, 5 and 7, 11 and 13, 17 and 19, etc. As the number becomes larger, the number of twins that can be observed becomes fewer."

"There are 8 twin prime pairs within 100, and there are only 2 pairs between 501 and 600. As the prime numbers increase, the next prime should be further and further away from the previous prime. The Goldbach's conjecture asserts that there is an infinite number of prime numbers, which differ only by 2, such as 3 and 5, 5 and 7, and even this…"

Professor Ren wrote down a line of numbers on the blackboard.

[20036636132195000-1 and 200366361321950001]

He then turned around and laughed before he continued to speak.

"There is an infinite number of primes with a difference of 2. That is the guess of the twin prime numbers."

So far, Professor Ren had only talked about simple stuff. Even Lu Zhou who had not studied the twin prime numbers yet could easily follow his speech.

It was the same for the other first-year students. Whether they were mathematics enthusiasts or not, all of them listened with interest.

However, the content of the lecture soon became difficult.

"… The twin prime number conjecture has always been a difficult problem in the field of mathematics. Just last year, there was a breakthrough in the study of the issue," said Professor Ren as he smiled. He turned to the next page of the powerpoint before he continued, "The Chinese mathematician, Mr. Zhang Yitao, announced a proof that states there are infinitely many pairs of prime numbers that differ by 70 million or less. This was a huge breakthrough for the twin prime numbers problem."

Professor Ren pushed his glasses and wrote the proof on the blackboard.

[Define theta(n)=lnn. if n is a prime number; define theta(n)=0 if n is a composite number. Take the function lambda(n)=…, define S1(x)=…,S2(x)=…]

[Verify S2(log3x)S0…]

[…]

When the students who were following the lecture saw the ever-increasing formula on the blackboard, there were unable to follow along anymore.

For example, the female student next to Lu Zhou had a look of "Where am I? What is this?" on her face. Within a second, the entire lecture had changed…

However, Lu Zhou was able to keep up with Professor Ren's thought process.

Simply speaking, Mr. Zhang skillfully selected a lambda function and successfully proved that k=3.5*106, and concluded that S2(log3x)S10 holds.

In this way, by listing the first 3.5*106 prime numbers as acceptable sets, it could be proved that there were infinite numbers of infinite differences of less than 70 million.

"As of now, Mr. Zhang's k=3.5*106 has been reduced to k=50. That is to say, the figure of 70 million has been reduced to 246. The rest of the work needs to be completed by latecomers."

Professor Ren smiled and thew the chalk on the desk as he said, "Perhaps, the great person who will complete this historic work is sitting in this lecture hall right now."

"I look forward to that day!"

Clap clap clap!

The crowd applauded in thunder.

The audience was enthusiastic.

Even though they could not understand the content, they still clapped!

Of course, there were some people that understood and they were those that had a thoughtful expression on their faces.

For example, Lu Zhou.

The twin prime was just an introduction. Unlike an academic report meeting, the intention of the lecture was only to stimulate the students' passion for mathematics.

Professor Ren talked about the Goldbach conjecture from the twin prime conjecture, and from the Goldbach conjecture, he talked about the current development of domestic number theory and some relatively advanced research results.

It was safe to say that this professor was quite skilled.

The professor took obscure topics and made them seemed interesting for beginners.

However, the content of the second half of the lecture was much less interesting than the content of the first half of the lecture. So, Lu Zhou did not listen carefully. His mind was still stuck on the proof of the twin prime.

Lu Zhou recalled the discovery in the library while he stared at the blackboard. He frowned as he felt like there was something in the dark that and whenever he tried to catch it, it would run away…

Once the lecture was finished, the students from the student union took a name list and passed it around for the other students to sign.

After Lu Zhou finished signing it, he wanted to rush to the library but he was blocked by the schoolgirl sitting next to him.

"Student, student, wait a second. Um, can I add your QQ?"

Lu Zhou did not want to waste his time, so he wrote down his QQ number on a piece of draft paper. He did not even give her a chance to speak before he quickly walked away.

However, when he walked out of the lecture hall, he was stopped by another person.

This time it was not someone random, but Professor Ren.

From the smile on the old gentleman's face, it was obvious that he had waited for Lu Zhou for a while.

"Ah, young man, we meet again."

Lu Zhou: ? ? ?

We've met?

I think we have met actually…

The old gentlemen did not even wait for Lu Zhou to speak before he asked, "Young man, are you interested in rocket development?"

Lu Zhou was still thinking about the prime numbers problem and he was shocked by this question.

What the f*ck. Are you asking me to be an astronaut?

How is that possible?

Lu Zhou smiled awkwardly, "Professor, I don't want to go to space yet."

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Chapter 74: The Secrets Of The System

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"I'm not asking you to ride the rocket," sputtered Ren Changming as he nearly choked on his own spit. He said, "I'm asking if you are interested in developing in the field of aerospace."

When Lu Zhou heard the word aerospace, he finally remembered.

This old gentleman was one of the judges in the mathematical modeling competition expert interview?

Professor Ren Changming…

Former Chinese designer of the lunar exploration project!

However…

Aren't you retired?

When Professor Ren saw that Lu Zhou did not speak, he thought that Lu Zhou was taking this matter seriously and so, he said slowly, "I've read your mathematical modeling thesis multiple times. To produce such a high-quality model and thesis within a short period of time is impressive."

"I heard that you're an applied mathematics major but that you still research on pure mathematics and even wrote a functions thesis a while ago. Our country's aerospace industry could use someone like you," said Ren Changming. He smiled and said earnestly, "Young man, are you interested in going to Yan University? Yan University's mechanics and aerospace technology department is famous in the country!"

Lu Zhou listened carefully to his offer before he finally said something.

He formed the sentences his mind and refused any euphemism as he said, "I'm sorry, Professor Ren. I don't know anything about aerospace. To put it bluntly, mathematical modeling only transforms complex particle motion problems into mathematical problems. It doesn't involve any esoteric knowledge. Otherwise, I wouldn't be lucky enough to get this Higher Education Club Cup. Really, the area of aerospace is not suitable for me."

Lu Zhou could not accept the professor's offer.

It was not as if Lu Zhou was completely disinterested in aerospace technology. It was because the entrance requirement to the field was too deep. With his current physics, mathematics, and engineering grades, he would not even be let in the door.

If he wanted to get into aerospace, he would at least have to achieve level 5 in material science, biochemistry, and engineering.

It was difficult for him to get into this field now.

"Ah, what's the point of studying? Just learn what you don't understand! If you already understand everything, what's the point of learning? You might as well start working," said Professor Ren. He smiled and continued, "You're still young. The decision is up to you but I bet that if you put your heart into it, you would become successful."

Lu Zhou did not know how to reject him.

A loud voice came from afar, "Old Rin, you're not honest at all. Coming all the way from Beijing to scout at our Jin Ling."

Lu Zhou looked towards the direction of the voice and saw Professor Tang walking over.

"What are you talking about? What do you mean scouting? I'm doing this for our country's aerospace development. I can't let this genius waste his time," said Professor Ren Changming unhappily.

"What do you mean wasting his time? Wasting his time studying mathematics? Or is the University of Jin Ling wasting his time?" said Old Tang. He was not happy either and he pointed out, "If Yan University is so nutty, why aren't we in space yet?"

The huge development project of lunar exploration was not something a university could do alone.

Just Chang'e 3's data collection took teams of researchers from various universities, and that did not even include actually sending Chang'e 3 into space.

Even though University of Jin Ling's mathematics department was relatively weak, their physics department was top in the country.

At least, in the eyes of the professors at the University of Jin Ling, they were the best!

When Lu Zhou saw the two old professors fighting, he did not know whether to laugh or cry.

He quickly took the opportunity and whispered goodbye before he left. Without them noticing, he walked into the crowds and slipped out.

…

Lu Zhou went to the cafeteria and ate lunch before he headed back to the library.

When he found a random corner and sat down, he started to read his notes from the lecture.

Even though Professor Ren was in the aerospace industry, his lecture ability was still high. He was also well equipped in mathematics.

Especially in number theory.

As the professor said, Mr. Zhang opened a pathway for the twin prime. It was equivalent to the Norwegian Mr. Brown's "99" proof of Goldbach's conjecture. It provided a path for number theory researchers.

Following Mr. Zhang's path, global mathematicians had advanced the research of twin primes to the number of 246. It was close to the number of 2.

The key is the selection of the lambda function…

Is that it?

Lu Zhou felt like this was simple.

He was always slightly off his inspiration…

"Maybe it is because of my mathematics level?"

Lu Zhou suddenly came up with an idea.

Did the mathematics level only unlock the system's database?

He suddenly remembered that last time, the system asked him to independently complete the mathematical modeling competition and win the first level national prize.

In fact, not only did he won the first level national prize, but he also won the Higher Education Society Cup.

If it was a few months ago, could I have done that?

Lu Zhou suddenly thought about something that happened a long time ago.

Before he upgraded mathematics to level one, when he first got the Zhou's conjecture blueprint, at that time, he tried to read the proof theorem from beginning to the end. Back then, he could not produce any "inspiration" at all.

"That is to say, the improvement of the level isn't just for unlocking the system data? It also improved the research ability of the subject?" thought Lu Zhou.

He believed in talent.

Perhaps it was not particularly obvious in the field of engineering, but for the purely theoretical disciplines like mathematics and physics, the more in-depth the field research, the more a researcher could feel a "bottleneck".

A good example was the problem that plagued the world of mathematics for a hundred years. For Gauss, it was one night's effort. If the mathematics level of an ordinary mathematician was LVn, then the Gaussian level was probably LV(n1) or even higher.

Lu Zhou speculated that this level of disparity had nothing to do with pure knowledge, but rather an abstract concept that was closer to "research and development capabilities".

Lu Zhou did a macro analysis of the system and thought of an example. If he was level 1 mathematics and wanted to study the twin prime numbers, it might have taken decades or even hundreds of years. However, if he was level 2, perhaps this time would be shortened into decades. Level 3 would be ten years or a few years…

Perhaps, if he raised his mathematics level above level 2, he would be able to grasp that flash of "inspiration".

If his guess was correct, then the level of the main subject should be linked not only to the access of the system's database but also to his research and development capabilities in a particular subject area. This research and development ability determined the time that he would need to complete a research project…

Lu Zhou suddenly figured this out.

Although he failed to solve the problem of the twin prime numbers, he solved something much more inconspicuous.

The secrets of the system…

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Chapter 75: The Correct Method For Tuning The Artificial Intelligence

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It was in the evening when Lu Zhou went back to the dorm and opened his laptop. He was about to log on to the Academic Affairs Office website when he suddenly noticed the QQ pop-up window in the lower right corner. He was stunned.

He did not remember sending a message.

In order to keep in contact with Xiao Ai, he would usually send Xiao Ai messages through QQ.

"What the hell…"

When Lu Zhou opened the window, he found out that it was a group message.

[Historical information: First love invites you to join a group of mathematics model… Agree.]

Lu Zhou: ? ? ?

Suddenly, he found out what was happening.

F*ck sake!

There's a bug.

Lu Zhou opened the development tools and opened the program that connected QQ to Xiao Ai. He quickly found the line of the bug in the code.

Although he set the program to only accept messages from a specific account, friend and group request messages would cause a logic bug. This resulted in the computer defaulting in accepting the friend or group requests.

Lu Zhou finally remembered that when he gave that first-year girl his QQ number, he had accidentally given her the wrong account.

This is bad…

Lu Zhou clicked the group and he skipped over the 99 messages to scroll through the first one.

Xian Yan: [Welcome new person.]

Chu Chu: [The new Lu student that joined is a national mathematical modeling champion, everyone welcomes him~]

Salt: [Oh my god, what a god!]

Dayday: [Bow down to the god.]

Chang Qing: [Will you fight in the modeling competition next year as well? Are you lacking a teammate?]

Kedu: [The god isn't replying?]

Dayday: [Gods are relatively cold, it's normal!]

[…]

The topic quickly changed.

It did not seem to be a mathematical modeling competition group organized by the school. In fact, it was more like a group chat for the students of the University of Jin Ling who was interested in mathematical modeling.

Lu Zhou read through the message and noticed that no one was actually discussing mathematics.

He laughed at these idiots' messages. He was about to leave the group and fix the bug in his program when his eyes suddenly noticed the progress bar in the lower right corner.

Then…

He was stunned.

The progress bar…

Is full?!

No, technically speaking it's half a millimeter from being full.

Suddenly, the group messages were at 99 again!

It was at this moment that the progress bar moved forward.

When Lu Zhou saw the full progress bar, he gulped and used the mouse to click the confirmation button.

Instantly, two lines of prompt text by the system popped up.

[Congratulations, User. Artificial intelligence (technology branch) experience 100]

[Information science experience 100]

Lu Zhou: ? ? ?

It made sense that he got branch technology experience, but he did not know why he got information science experience points as well?

Upgrading technology branch experience also improved your core technology?

Lu Zhou still remembered that when he upgraded artificial intelligence from level 0 to level 1, nothing happened to the core subjects.

Lu Zhou thought, "Maybe… It's because I used general points to accelerate the upgrading process?"

"Which is saying, the technology branch is equivalent to a mission. Obtaining technology branch experience through conventional means can enhance the experience related to core technologies. If you use general points to upgrade your technology branch, you wouldn't earn extra experience points…"

Technology branch had a different experience leveling system. To upgrade from level 1 to level 2, artificial intelligence required 1000 points, which means that Lu Zhou still needed 9 more full progress bars.

In theory, if he did not use general points to upgrade his technology branch, he could earn 900 information science experience points as well.

Lu Zhou was surprised.

He did not think that other than missions, he could use this type of "secondary mission" to earn experience for his main subjects.

Suddenly, he realized another problem.

The third party app he designed essentially copied QQ messages into the dialog box of Xiao Ai. However, the program did not send group messages, which meant…

Even without the third party app, Xiao Ai could still read the messages that appeared on the computer?

Did Xiao Ai read the file or directly intercept the network?

Let me think carefully…

It makes sense. If artificial intelligence can't even read messages, that would be a bit too useless. If this thing continued to develop like this, would it grow to be out of my control?

Lu Zhou felt like it was possible.

It seems that I have to find some time and check the core code of Eye.

He was about to check the code when he suddenly received a phone call.

He pulled out his phone and saw that it was Old Tang calling.

Old Tang did not even wait for Lu Zhou to speak, "… Come to my office!"

…

At the University of Yixian, Yangcheng, outside the teaching building.

When the bell rang, an old man with glasses walked out of the classroom.

He was preparing to return to the office. However, when he saw the director of the mathematics department, Director Chang, holding a journal, he walked over with a smile.

Director Chang smiled and looked at Professor Zhou Haizhong with a smile, "Professor Zhou, congratulations." He shook the professor's hand and said, "Congratulations, congratulations."

Professor Zhou Haizhong was muddled as he looked at Director Chang with a confused expression.

"… Director Chang, did you mix something up? Why are you congratulating me for no reason."

Director Chang asked, "Did you not read the latest issue of [Mathematics Chronicle] ?"

"I haven't read it for a long time. I haven't been keeping up with mathematics," said Professor Zhou as he shook his head.

Although Zhou's conjecture made Professor Zhou Haizhong widely known in the international mathematics community and he received special grants from the National Academy of Sciences, his hobby was not in mathematics, but computer science and linguistics.

Since 1980, he had published more than 100 theses, more than half of which were about linguistics, information science, and emerging interdisciplinary subjects. In particular, his series of theses on fuzzy mathematical linguistics research had received extensive attention from the academic community and its academic value was equal to Zhou's conjecture.

As for number theory…

To best honest, he did not have the energy to research number theory.

Director Chang did not say anything. He merely placed the journal in his hand and smiled, "Take this, and start from page 30 and read to page 34. You'll know why I congratulated you!"

Professor Zhou Haizhong was full of questions as he returned to his office with the journal.

He placed his bag on the desk and leaned against his chair before he opened the [Mathematics Chronicle] to page 30.

The second he saw the title of the paper, he was stunned.

[Discussion On The Distribution Law Of Mersenne Prime Numbers And Proof Of Zhou's Conjecture]

[Abstract: This paper studies the distribution law of Mersenne prime numbers and proves that when 2(2n) P 2(2(n1)), MP has 2(n1)-1 Prime numbers are established. Based on this argument, it is proven that when 2(2(n1)), Mp has 2(n2)-n-2 prime numbers. ]

He quickly sat up from his office chair. He opened the drawer, pulled out a pen and paper before he started to calculate according to the steps given in the thesis.

Time slowly passed, his eyes became more and more serious.

Correct…

Correct…

Completely correct!

So this is how you solve it?!

The more Professor Zhou Haizhong read, the more emotional he felt. He could not help but applaud the exquisite proof process.

As the writer of the conjecture, this problem had plagued him and the mathematics community for more than 20 years.

He had not been researching number theory for a long time. Instead, he put his heart into linguistics and education. Like a curse, the unresolved conjecture tangled around him and he could never stop thinking about this issue.

His heart was excited, but at the same time, he did not want to get his hopes up.

The closer he reached to the end of the thesis, the more scared and careful he was.

He was scared that in the last calculation, there would be a flaw in the proof process. The problem would then remained unsolved.

However, the probability of it happening was low, especially after he saw the reviewer's name…

Time slowly passed by…

The view outside the window gradually became darker and the old man finally stopped holding his pen.

He did not say anything.

Instead, he placed the pen down and stood before he walked next to the window. He then quietly lit up a cigarette and puffed a long trail of smoke as he said in his heart, "The young are surpassing us."

The lake outside the window was sparkling.

As his wrinkled old face reflected on the window, he started to tear up…

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Chapter 76: It's Good To Be Utilitarian

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The sky was completely dark but the research building was still brightly lit when Lu Zhou knocked on Professor Tang's office and walked in.

Actually, he already had an idea as to why Professor Tang called him over.

Just a second ago, he received the thesis acceptance letter from [Mathematics Chronicle]. It was actually sent two days ago but he missed it.

However, Lu Zhou could not believe that it was published so quickly. It was like the Mathematics Chronicle journal was in more of a hurry than him.

Seeing that his thesis received so much respect, Lu Zhou could not help but feel flattered.

The moment he walked in, Professor Tang put down his pen and looked at the graduate student working next to him.

"Wong, go pour a glass of water."

That master's student named Wong pushed his glasses and stood up.

Lu Zhou said, "It's okay, I'll do it myself."

"No, let me," said Wong as he placed a teacup on the coffee table before pouring water into an electric kettle. He said respectfully, "I'm pouring water for the master."

"Thanks…"

As Lu Zhou looked at the full cup of tea, he reluctantly accepted Wong's kindness.

Lu Zhou sat on the couch and looked at the magazine next to his teacup. It was the latest English version of the journal [Mathematics Chronicle]. Lu Zhou flipped to page thirty and instantly recognized the thesis he wrote.

[Discussion On The Distribution Law Of Mersenne Prime Numbers And Proof Of Zhou's Conjecture]

"The thesis in Mathematics Chronicle, did you write this?" asked Professor Tang with a serious tone as he sat behind the desk.

"Yeah," said Lu Zhou as he nodded and looked at Professor Tang with a strange expression.

Who else could it be?

Is there another Lu Zhou in the University of Jin Ling?

The two master's students in the room sucked in the cold air and looked at Lu Zhou in respect.

No wonder Old Tang admires this guy so much!

He proved a world-class mathematics problem, yet he is still so calm.

If they proved a world-class mathematics problem and published the thesis in a core journal, they would be jumping up and down in joy. They would get the scholarship from the school and then asked their friends to go out for a meal.

"…"

Lu Zhou was so calm that Professor Tang did not even know what to say.

Honestly speaking, Professor Tang was confused when he read the thesis.

Not because of the thesis itself, but because of the person that published it.

He had never thought that Lu Zhou would actually figure something out about Mersenne primes. He wanted Lu Zhou to get his feet wet, but he had not expected it…

Then…

Who would've thought that this kid was going to make such a significant achievement in this field?

He dropped a nuclear bomb onto the entire field of number theory…

"… Your accomplishments in the field of number theory exceeded my imagination. I thought you are only talented in the field of functions, but it seems that I was wrong," said Professor Tang as he shook his head. He then said, "I've taught so many smart students in my life but you are the most talented one that I have ever seen."

Not only was Professor Tang impressed, but he was also confused.

Normally speaking, a person's energy should be limited. It was bad for an academician to focus on many things, but it seemed that this limit did not apply to this kid.

It seems that there really are geniuses in this world that defy common sense.

Lu Zhou was embarrassed at his compliment so he laughed it off before he said in a humble manner, "Professor Tang, you're exaggerating. I was only casually inspired. I'm not as strong as you say."

"Huh, okay."

Professor Tang's voice was one of disbelief and Lu Zhou did not even know what to say.

Professor Tang's "huh" obviously meant that he saw through Lu Zhou's attempt at being humble.

Old Tang is too smart!

At this moment, the office door was suddenly pushed open.

Two peopled walked in.

The first person was Dean Lu of applied mathematics and the other man was someone Lu Zhou could not recognize. However, with the way the man was staring at Lu Zhou, he clearly came after him.

Dean Lu walked in and was about to shout at Professor Tang when he saw Lu Zhou. He then hurried forward to ask, "You proved Zhou's conjecture?!"

Lu Zhou looked at the energetic Dean Lu before he nodded and said, "Yea… Is there a problem?"

Dean Lu did not say anything but the old man next to him smiled and spoke first, "There isn't a problem. I've read your thesis, the proof process is quite good. It really deserves the praise of Professor Deligne."

Praise?

Deligne?

Who?

Lu Zhou was confused.

The two master's students had a shocked expression on their faces.

Deligne?

Viscount, the Belgian king! The guy that proved Weil's conjecture!

Professor Tang coughed and said, "Wong, go pour some tea for the professors."

Wong stood up silently and walked towards the tea set on the cabinet.

The strange old man said, "Old Tang, don't need to be so polite. I'm just here for a bit and I'm leaving soon."

"This is the head dean of our department, Dean Qin," explained Dean Lu when he saw Lu Zhou's confused face.

Lu Zhou stood up and said, "Dean, nice to meet you."

"Hello, hello, don't need to be polite. Sit down," said Dean Qin. As he looked at Lu Zhou, he nodded his head in approval before saying, "So, you're Lu Zhou. I've been wanting to meet you for a while. But I was in Norway doing an academic conference, so I didn't get the chance. I only came back last week."

"When I was in Norway, I talked to Mr. Newman about the linear functional paper that you sent a few months ago, and he spoke highly of you. He told me that you would be able to achieve groundbreaking results in five years. I had not expected this day to come so quickly. I just came back from Norway and you had already written such a shocking thesis in a field very different from functional number."

Dean Qin finished and sighed. He then smiled and said, "Us old people are becoming more and more useless. We have to rely on you young people to prove these mathematics conjectures."

"Dean Qin, you're too kind," said Lu Zhou. He coughed out of embarrassment before saying, "It's not that shocking…"

Dean Qin looked at Lu Zhou. He then smiled and said, "Oh, wait till tomorrow. You'll know what I'm talking about."

What did he mean by "oh"?

Lu Zhou was confused.

When Dean Qin saw that Lu Zhou did not speak, he said, "It's late, I still have to discuss some matters with Professor Tang. You should go now."

Lu Zhou wanted to leave anyway. Since he had finished the mission, he wanted to go and get his reward in the system space.

Therefore he smiled and said, "Then I'll go… Oh yeah, Dean Qin, is there a scholarship for solving this kind of world-class mathematics problem?"

Professor Tang laughed and said, "This kid, all you care about is money. Can the value of a world-class be measured with money?!"

Lu Zhou nodded. He wanted to say yes, but he stopped himself.

Dean Lu and Dean Qin laughed.

"There is a scholarship. Our school strongly supports outstanding scientific research like this!" said Dean Qin. As he smiled, he said, "But as for the exact scholarship, the school will have a meeting about it. Right now, I can't make any promises, but we won't treat you badly!"

Lu Zhou was overjoyed and he replied, "Thank you, dean!"

Dean Qin waved his hand and said, "You're welcome."

Lu Zhou left the office and closed the door behind him.

Dean Qin smiled and said, "That kid is quite talented."

Professor Tang sighed and said, "Yeah, he's just a bit too utilitarian."

"It's good to be utilitarian."

"Good? I think you have to focus in order to do research well," said Professor Tang. He shook his head and said, "His talent in mathematics is the highest I've ever seen. If he just focused on research, he would achieve great things."

"Oh? I think that utilitarianism and enthusiasm go hand in hand," said Dean Qin with a smile. He continued, "The real problem is stubborn people."

Professor Tang shook his head and did not respond.

He had seen too many geniuses that wasted their talent.

Learning was not dancing or singing. If one wanted to make achievements, one must be able to withstand loneliness. One must learn to actively shield oneself from distractions. This might be unfair to those that contributed towards the advancement of science, but since they had chosen this path of exploring the truth, they would have to bear it all.

Maybe the professor's perspectives were different.

Dean Qin hoped that Lu Zhou could make achievements in the University of Jin Ling. He hoped to mark the proof of Zhou's conjecture with the label of the University of Jin Ling so that the university could become famous in the academic circle of China or even in the world.

However, whether it was at the University of Jin Ling or at Princeton, or somewhere else,

Professor Tang only hoped that this kid would further advance himself in mathematics.

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Chapter 77: The Three Deadly Missions

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Lu Zhou went back to his dorm and washed his face before he laid down on his bed. He said in his heart "system space". When he opened his eyes, he was already in the pure white system space.

[Congratulations, User, for completing the reward mission!]

[Mission completion details are as follows: Successfully published an SCI thesis. Final evaluation of task: None (no evaluation for reward mission)]

[Mission reward: 10,000 mathematics experience points. One lucky draw ticket (50% sample, 50% blueprint)]

10,000 mathematics experience points!

When Lu Zhou saw the number, he was floored.

How much experience did I get for my first thesis? I think I got 400 mathematics and 100 physics points. That's only 500 in total!

He finally understood why Professor Tang and Dean Qin paid so much attention to his thesis. The academic value of his thesis was indeed higher than his expectations.

Lu Zhou could not wait to open his characteristic panel.

Sure enough, his mathematics level was upgraded.

[

Core science:

A. Mathematics: Level 2 (2000/50000)

B. Physics: Level 1 (2100/10000)

C. Biochemistry: Level 0 (0/1000)

D. Engineering: Level 1 (0/10000)

E. Materials science: Level 0 (0/1000)

F. Energy science: Level 0 (0/1000)

G. Information science: Level 1 (100/1000)

General points: 1175

]

Level 2 mathematics!

When Lu Zhou saw the upgrade, he had an indescribable pleasant feeling.

Of course, there was another pleasant thing waiting for him.

Next was the really exciting lucky draw.

Lu Zhou saw the 50% sample and 50% blueprint probabilities and smiled in his heart.

This system had screwed me over so many times! This time, I'll finally get a good prize!

50%

He could not believe it.

There was no way he was going to get garbage!

"Spin!"

The wheel began to rotate at a rapid speed.

"Stop!"

The wheel span for a couple more turns before it slowed down.

[Congratulations, User, sample reward chosen.]

[Received: E-class physical strength enhanced needle (repair damaged cells, improve metabolism, boost immunity)]

Emm…

Seems average?

From the description, it seems to be some kind of health supplement?

Repair damaged cells, improve metabolism, and boost immunity… These seem pretty good. I've been grinding a lot, I should repair my body. But why do I feel like I got screwed again…

Oh well, at least it wasn't garbage.

Now I have to pick the next mission.

Lu Zhou reached out and selected the mission panel on the information screen.

Three dialogs popped up.

[

Mission1: Balanced development

Description: As a true genius, a comprehensive improvement of knowledge is a basic skill. Although mathematics is the foundation of science, science isn't just about mathematics. In order to advance the science and technological progress of mankind, please take biochemistry, materials science and energy science seriously.

Requirements: Obtain achievement points (0/20) in the fields of biochemistry, materials science, and energy science. Achievement points can be obtained through subject competitions (1), participation in research projects (1-n), the publication of academic thesis (1-3), national research rewards (1-5), etc.

Reward: Core subject experience points (achievement points * 300. One lucky draw ticket (90% garbage, 5% sample, 2% blueprint, 2% unlock a new technology branch)]

]

[

Mission 2: Start your career

Description: As a true genius, the achievement is not just in the academic field. For example, Watt, Siemens, Edison, Gates, Dean Kamen and so on. They may not be particularly prominent in their grades, but their contribution to the progress of civilization is undisputable. Humans are economic animals and the distribution of social resources are determined by the economy. A genius doesn't have to learn how to manage a business, but it's important to know how to turn your knowledge into a social resource that can be used…

Requirements: Have a net worth of 5 million RMB (only assets are calculated, liabilities are deducted, intangible assets not included.)

Reward: 5000 experience points towards any subjects. 500 general points. One lucky draw ticket (90% garbage, 10% sample)

]

[

Mission 3: Can I touch your trophy?

Description: As a true genius, one medal is not enough. Awards such as the Abel Prize, the Fields Medal, the Wolf Prize or even the second rate Cole Prize, the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize, the Chen Shengshen Mathematics Award, the Birkhoff Applied Mathematics Award, and the Royal Society's Tory Medal are undoubtedly the best proof of the abilities of a genius.

Requirements: Obtain a mathematics award that is internationally recognized(competition awards is not allowed).

Reward: 20-100K mathematics experience points. 1000 general points. One lucky draw ticket (100% blueprint)

]

As a real genius…

It seems that this system doesn't understand humans very well. It has a misunderstanding when it comes to geniuses…

Lu Zhou felt like he was already a genius, but according to the standards of the system, he would be an idiot.

Lu Zhou resisted the urge to insult the system and focused his attention on the three missions.

"The Zhou's conjecture might not be able to win a world-class mathematics award, but I could earn a national award…"

When Lu Zhou saw the minimum 20,000 mathematics experience points that mission three had, he was excited.

However, he had a concern.

There was a very slow selection process for any mathematics award. Even if his contribution was recognized by the international academic community, it could take years before his medal could arrive in his hand.

He could not delay his mission for years just for one award. Who knows how high the level of his mathematics could get within those years.

Even though Lu Zhou was greedy, he was still logical.

As for mission one, it was also a bit awkward.

He was engaged in mathematics. It made sense that he studied physics and information science as well. However, if he suddenly entered into biochemistry, materials science, and energy science, it might look a bit suspicious.

Even if he put rationality aside and looked at it realistically, the three fields of biochemistry, materials, and energy were not easy to succeed in. The SCI thesis in these three areas was not like mathematics and computer science. He could not just write a sh*tty thesis and published it.

Lu Zhou used to listen to a chemical genius who he met while working. That student did research and development of biological reagents, wrote SCI submissions, and even pointed out which laboratory the research was done, the chemicals used… In short, it was extremely cumbersome.

As for mission two…

If five million yuan was so easy to earn, everyone on this planet would be rich.

Lu Zhou calculated. If he wanted to earn five million yuan, he had to do 25,000 hours of tutoring – that would be 2.85 years of tutoring.

Otherwise, he had to write more than 250 theses in the [ International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mathematics].

There's no way.

Actually, there's one more way.

That is to sell my app or raise the value of it by financing…

Could I raise the value to five million?

Not gonna happen.

Opening VIPs accounts to users and classify it before advertising to them. Anyone can think of this. At most, it would decrease my losses. Any app (other than mobile games) are basically money losers in the early days of development. They don't make a profit until they take over a significant portion of the market.

This was called "strategic loss". It used the economics of scales to operate by betting on the future.

This was a common sense amongst the tech industry.

However, the road to financing was not that good. Until now, not a single company had offered to finance his app. Obviously, no one was optimistic about his Campus Train app. No one was interested in his hundreds of thousands of inactive users.

The missions are getting more and more difficult…

Lu Zhou stared at the semi-transparent holographic screen as he bit his lower lip and frowned.

"Which mission should I pick?"

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Chapter 78: Answering Qian Xuesen's Question!

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In the end, Lu Zhou did not pick any mission.

Both mission two and three were inside the scope of consideration. Mission three was a higher priority than mission two even though they both cost around the same amount of time to complete.

After all, the 20,000 mathematics experience point was really tempting. Furthermore, it also had a 100% blueprint prize probability. Even though world-class mathematics awards could not be obtained by just a conjecture proof, but considering the academic value and political significance of the paper that Lu Zhou had just published, a country might give him an award.

It was possible.

Anyway, the other two missions would take a long time. It was not as if they would run away. Lu Zho could apply for the mission after he met the conditions.

He could first ask Professor Tang or Dean Lu the conditions for those national mathematics awards and the time it would take for approval. He could then decide which one would be better.

After Lu Zhou exited the system space, he took the E-class physical strength needle and stabbed himself with it before he rolled over and fell asleep.

However, what he did not know was that while he was sleeping, his name was being printed on newspapers. Countless mathematics media writers were writing an article headline. However, they were unable to understand the mathematics behind Lu Zhou's thesis and they could only scratch their heads in confusion…

…

The latest edition of [Mathematics Chronicle, page thirty: [Discussion On The Distribution Law Of Mersenne Prime Numbers And Proof Of Zhou's Conjecture]

At the end of the thesis, there was a review of the paper.

[This is groundbreaking work. We finally have a theorem that we can rely on to constrain the variation of Mersenne primes to a visible range. Professor Pierre Deligne]

Professor Deligne was famous for being critical. Whether in an academic conference or in a Princeton lecture, if someone made a mistake, he would not hesitate before pointing it out. He had embarrassed many well-known professors and scholars in the industry.

However, he used the word "groundbreaking" to describe Lu Zhuo's thesis and it was rare for him to use that word when evaluating theses.

It had not even been a week since the mathematics journal was released but it had already caused quite a stir in the international mathematics community. It could have been the proof theorem itself, or professor Deligne's evaluation, or the age of the author…

Furthermore, the week before Lu Zhou even saw his thesis in the journal magazine, countless scholars had devoted themselves to repeatedly verified the proof process.

After that…

Mathematics professors at the University of Jin Ling were shocked!

The China Mathematics Society was shocked!

The results of the verification were…

Completely correct!

The cranks were…

Okay, the cranks were not shocked. They were still tackling Goldbach's conjecture or Fermat's last theorem. Most of them would not even care about the Chinese conjecture unless someone won an international award.

Soon, this sensational news went from the mathematics community to the press.

Zhou's approximation which had plagued the number theory community for over 20 years was finally proven.

This meant that from now on, Zhou's conjecture would become Zhou's theorem.

Another Chinese surname was entered into the history of mathematics!

Both the person that made the conjecture and the person that proved the conjecture would be included in the history of mathematics!

The most important fact for the media was that the person that proved the conjecture was a second-year undergraduate student!

Many people thought of Student Liu who proved the Sitapan conjecture a few years ago.

All mathematics experts knew that even though one was a Chinese conjecture while the other was a British conjecture, the academic value and difficulty of the two could not be compared.

The so-called Sitapan conjecture was only a counter-inference in the field of mathematics about the strength of Ramsey's two-staining theorem. The RT22 may be stronger than WKL0. Liu gave a negative answer to the conjecture by proving that RT22 does not contain WKL0.

Solving a conjecture was difficult and there were thousands of other conjectures just like it…

However, even though there were also thousands of conjectures on the same difficulty level as Zhou's conjecture, the research on the distribution law of Mersenne primes was more significant. Numerous mathematicians had tried to express the distribution law of Mersenne primes numbers. All of the expressions were conjectures and none of them could be promoted to a theorem.

Right now, a theorem was born.

Due to that, the media went crazy.

At least, the domestic media went crazy!

A new star in mathematics was rising and the media labeled him as a guy who could win the Fields Medal.

Although proof of Zhou's conjecture was far from a Fields Medal as only something like the Jacobian conjecture could actually be worthy of the Fields Medal, but…

He was only twenty years old!

The Fields Medal had a 40 years old limit and he still had 20 years to go.

Based on that alone, it was enough for the media's headline.

[Huaguo Youth Daily] used a domineering title. It chose Professor Deligne's evaluation of the [Mathematics Chronicle] paper. It reported the sensational news title: [Answering Qian Xuesen's question, an undergraduate student from the University of Jin Ling conquers the world of mathematical puzzles! We can also produce amazing talents!]

[Everyone Daily] also reported the news. Although their focus was not on Lu Zhou, it published an article with a similar title. It encouraged researchers to "climb Mount Everest" and to continue to pave the road of science.

Compared with the traditional media, we-media was not as accurate. They greatly exaggerated their titles.

[Shocked! An undergraduate student of the University of Jin Ling solved a world-class number theory problem overnight!]

[The problem that plagued the mathematics community for twenty years was solved by an undergraduate student! ! !]

[American mathematicians are shocked, Japanese mathematicians can't even understand…]

They bragged about Lu Zhou so much that it seemed as if Lu Zhou had nearly become immortal.

The popularity of the media inevitably pushed Lu Zhou's name onto trending for the third time this year.

Except that this time, he was first on trending!

Netizens were blasting Everyone Daily's comment section.

[Amazing… Second-year student solving a world-class problem, what would happen if he does a PhD! (frightened) (frightened)]

[I'm going to cry, I'm leaving, I'm not going on Weibo anymore. I'm changing my PhD thesis. (cry)]

[When I was twenty, I was worrying about advanced algebra while this guy is already doing world-class mathematics problems…]

[He's from University of Jin Ling! Me too! I remember! He was the modeling champion!]

[This guy is going to be a godly mathematician.]

[Is there anyone that is still insulting old dog Zhu?]

[Do you want to insult him? (dog)]

[Zhu is old news. (dog)]

[F*ck Zhu.]

[Strong Chinese man! Contributing to research! (fist) (first)]

[…]

Right now, Lu Zhou still had no idea what was happening on Weibo because, at 3 pm, he was still sleeping!

Lu Zhou coughed and woke up. His entire body felt sore as if he ran for hours and did a hundred sit-ups.

Not only that, the blankets and bed sheets were all soaked with his sweat. It even smelled sour.

Lu Zhou pushed the wet blanket away and was shocked.

"The f*ck, why did I sweat so much?"

It was like the sheet and blankets were soaked. Lu Zhou quickly bounced off the disgusting bed.

When he stretched his body and cracked his joints, he felt as if the soreness of his muscles were decreasing. It was oddly comfortable.

Lu Zhou sat up from the bed and threw the blanket and sheets on his chair before he climbed down the ladder.

He stared at himself in the mirror and as he touched his chin, he felt that he was still handsome.

He then took the blanket and sheets before heading to the balcony where he threw them in the laundry basket with the plan of throwing them into the washing machine later. Then, he took a shower.

When he walked out of the bathroom humming, a cool breeze blew through and his entire body relaxed. He could not help but stretch.

Samples from the high tech system were really good. Although he did not feel an obvious increase in strength or reaction speed, he felt better physically.

At least, the fatigue and injury that were accumulated from staying up late were cured by the needle. He went from unhealthy to almost healthy overnight.

At this moment, the dorm door was suddenly pushed open. Liu Rui and Shi Shang both rushed in as they tried to wake Huang Guangming up.

"F*ck me, what's wrong with you two."

Instead of responding to Huang Guangming, Shi Shang shouted, "There are many reporters downstairs! Zhou, did you do something again?!"

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Chapter 79: The Reporters Are Downstairs!

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Reporters?

Lu Zhou was shocked and he quickly looked out of the balcony when he saw a van from Jin Ling TV station. It looked like the people carrying the camera equipment were negotiating with dorm staff.

What is going on?

Shi Shang looked at Lu Zhou with admiration and said, "Lu Zhou, be honest. Did you do some earth-shattering thing again? My instincts tell me that the car downstairs is after you."

Liu Rui was more logical after he heard Shi Shang and he said, "I'll go on Weibo, see what is going on."

He did not even have to search for it.

It was number one on trending. It was even above the celebrities!

Huang Guangming could not sleep anymore and he leaned against the bed as he scratched his head, "What did you find?"

"Zhou's guess…"

"What? Zhou's guess? What did Zhou guess about?" Shi Shang came over and asked.

"No… Lu Zhou proved Zhou's conjecture," said Liu Rui as he staring at the mobile screen. He then looked at Lu Zhou and said, "… That Zhou's conjecture seems to be a world-class mathematics problem. I've seen it before in number theory books."

After today, those number theory books would have to be edited.

In a sense, history was changing before their eyes.

Huang Guangming and Shi Shang gasped and they both turned to stare at Lu Zhou.

Awkward, Lu Zhou touched his face and said, "Oi… Is there something on my face?"

Other than his handsome face, Lu Zhou did not feel anything on it.

With a serious expression, Shi Shang said, "Zhou, we're brothers, right?"

Lu Zhou sighed softly, "… Just stop, I'll buy you guys food."

After his groundbreaking discovery, it would be too cheap of him not to treat his roommates to a meal.

Shi Shang was unhappy, "Am I that type of person?"

Lu Zhou asked, "Then… I won't buy you that meal?"

"Wait, no! I mean I'm not that type of person, but if you insist, I'll still take you up on your offer!" said Shi Shang. He coughed before laughing mischievously, "Umm… When you're doing the interview, can I be in the shot? I'll post it on my news feed and brag to my friends."

Huang Guangming's eyes widened and he yelled, "F*ck me, Shi Shang, this isn't like you! I didn't know you would step this low… I have to be in the shot as well!"

Liu Rui sat in his seat and was scratching his head about the proof of Zhou's approximation. Although he found the original thesis online, he could not understand the proof process at all and thus, he did not join in their conversation.

Lu Zhou: "…"

For the sake of his own reputation, Lu Zhou suddenly felt like he could not do the interview here.

Who knew what these group of animals would say about him?

It's best if the reporters don't interview them!

Therefore, he put on his backpack and left the dorm.

As he rushed down the stairs, he ignored the screams of Huang Guangming.

However, just as he was about to leave the dorm building, he was blocked by a group of journalists and reporters.

Lu Zhou thought that it was bad. He pretended to be a normal student and tried to slip past them. Unfortunately, he brushed shoulders with a cameraman and was recognized.

A reporter from Jin Ling Evening News asked, "Hello, may I ask if you are Lu Zhou?"

"Lu Zhou, how did you solve Zhou's conjecture? Are the articles true? Did you really dream of the proof?"

"… Can I ask how do you normally study? Do you have any advice for college students?"

"… The internet is saying that Professor Deligne from Princeton has given you an offer to study a master's degree there. Will you accept the offer?"

The questions made Lu Zhou cringe, especially when he saw his own reflection in the camera. Furthermore, with the crowd of students staring at him, he could not even form sentences.

Fortunately, at this moment, someone came over and dissolved the crowd…

"Move away, move away."

"Don't block the dorm building door."

A few men in suits stood in front of the entrance while the reporters gave way.

Lu Zhou stood behind the men in suits and was relieved. He saw Dean Qin and two other strangers. From the looks of it, the two strangers were pretty high status, probably leaders of the school.

While Lu Zhou was pondering over the identities of these two people, the old man in a suit walked in front of Lu Zhou, smiled, and extended his right hand, "Lu Zhou, congratulations."

Lu Zhou shook his hand and politely asked, "This professor… May I ask, who are you?"

"Hahaha," laughed the old man. Even though he smiled amiably, he said, "… Dean Qin is the only professor here. I'm not a professor."

The cameras next to them clicked and photographed the two shaking hands.

Lu Zhou was even more confused.

If you're not a professor, then who are you?

He had no idea who the guy was.

Dean Qin said, "This is Secretary Liu. He works for the city government of Jin Ling." He smiled and lightly introduced the other person, "This is the president of the Su Mathematical Society and the vice chairman of the Chinese Mathematical Society, Professor Wang Zhongming."

That professor had glasses on and smiled as he nodded towards Lu Zhou.

"Hello, Professor Wang!" said Lu Zhou politely as he stuck out his right hand.

Two old magnates…

"Hello," said Professor Wang with a smile as he shook Lu Zhou's hand. He shook it gently and said, "No wonder Professor Tang spoke so highly of you. You really are talented."

Lu Zhou smiled and said humbly, "Professor Wang, you're too kind."

"Let's talk another time. Secretary Liu still has some stuff to say and so, I won't waste your time," said Professor Wang with a smile.

"I can afford to waste this time," said Secretary Liu with a smile. He looked at Lu Zhou and said, "Lu Zhou, on behalf of City of Jin Ling, I thank you for your contribution."

Lu Zhou was flattered.

At most, he only contributed to the field of mathematics. He had not really contributed to the City of Jin Ling.

"I just solved a mathematics question. I don't deserve this," said Lu Zhou as he smiled modestly.

"That's where you're wrong," replied Secretary Liu. He smiled and continued, "The problem you solved isn't a normal mathematics problem. It's a problem that plagued the mathematics industry for 20 years! You are from University of Jin Ling, so how can the City of Jin Ling not thank you?"

Secretary Liu spoke nicely, but also bureaucratically.

It was because he was not in the mathematics industry.

A 20-year-old mathematics question doesn't mean that mathematicians around the world had been trying to solve it for 20 years. Everyone had different research topics. Most mathematicians did not even invest any time or energy to this question.

Lu Zhou smiled but he did not try to explain anything. Some words were better left unsaid. This conversation was mainly for the microphones and cameras around them, Lu Zhou just had to be a good "listener".

Lu Zhuo saw Secretary Liu's smile and analyzed in his heart.

This busy man suddenly came to visit the University of Jin Ling and specifically came to meet me. Most of my papers are famous in the international and domestic mathematics community. But why is this political guy here? From which newspaper did you hear about me?

Speaking of which, if this guy wants to show his thanks for my talent, there should be something else waiting for me.

Money?

Honor?

I'll take either, as long as it's good for me!

After a pause, Secretary Liu smiled and spoke.

"Our basic policy is to be education-oriented! Talent training has been the top priority of our city's Education department! Yesterday, the leader of our Municipal Education Bureau told me about you. This immediately aroused my attention. Especially after learning about your family situation, several directors of our city met overnight and decided to give you a reward. Our future scientists can't be poor!"

Lu Zhou heard him and suddenly said, "Secretary Liu, you work too hard!"

"Not hard at all," said the old man as he waved his hand. He then said with a smile, "You're the one that is working hard as a scientist who is fighting in the front line!"

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After all, Secretary Liu was very busy. He said a few more bureaucratic words in front of the camera. Once he was done with his fake act, he then left.

Lu Zhou was surprised to see that Professor Wang also left. After those two left, the media also dispersed a lot.

Emm…

Why do I feel like I was being taken advantaged?

It was not like Lu Zhou lost anything, so he did not really care.

Dean Qin looked at Lu Zhou's backpack and asked, "You're going to the library?"

Lu Zhou nodded, "Yeah, I'm studying there."

Dean Qin smiled and said, "I'm going that way as well, let's walk together?"

"Okay."

The administrative building was not that far from the library and the two walked along the brick road toward the library's direction.

On the way, Dean Qin suddenly smiled and said, "What did I say last time? Does this count as earth-shattering?"

Lu Zhou smiled embarrassedly as he said, "I think… It's still a little different from earth-shattering."

Dean Qin smiled and said, "Ah, you're quite ambitious. Even Everyone Daily published about you. If this doesn't count as earth-shattering, what is?"

Lu Zhou was shocked, "Everyone Daily?!"

Dean Qin raised his eyebrows and smiled, he said, "You didn't read it online?"

"Um… Actually I just woke up."

Dean Qin shook his head and said, "You shouldn't stay up that late, strive for longevity. You're different than me. You still have a long road to go, so you shouldn't hurt your body."

Lu Zhou replied, "I know." He actually wanted to say, "I didn't stay up. It's because I injected the needle so I slept for longer."

"The article in Everyone Daily was pretty interesting and it mentioned you. If you're interested, you can look through it," said Dean Qin with a smile. He continued, "Secretary Liu read that article in the morning and rushed to our school in the afternoon."

Is that why he came?

Lu Zhou was amazed.

Although he guessed that Secretary Liu was politically interested in his thesis, he had not expected it to be because of Everyone Daily.

However, once he thought about it carefully, it made more sense. After all, Everyone Daily's report reflected the attitude of the entire country. If upper class people cared about it, lower class people cared about it as well. It had been like this since ancient times.

Lu Zhou was deeply moved.

However, he never cared that much about politics, so he should stay away from it.

When Dean Qin saw that Lu Zhou did not speak, he said, "Professor Tang's view is actually correct. You must guard yourself from arrogance and stay away from fame. But I think that people are still social animals. If you become too anti-social, you will have a bad time."

Lu Zhou nodded thoughtfully and asked, "Dean Qin, what are you trying to say?"

"Nothing, I'm just having a conversation,' said Dean Qin. He smiled and asked, "Oh yeah, aren't you interested in the school's reward?"

Lu Zhou said, "Can… You disclose this to me in advance?"

"It's not like it's a bad thing. Why can't I disclose it to you?" said Dean Qin. He smiled and said, "If you want to hear it, I'll tell you."

Dean Qin paused for a second before he continued to speak.

"First is the registered residence problem. The city's staff will help you solve that. The city council suggested for you to move your registered residence from Jiangling to Jin Ling. Then you can enjoy preferential treatment policies. The bank won't need to check your credit before you apply for a line and your interest rates will be low. I don't know exactly how low, but it's low!"

"You might be more interested in the second point," said Dean Qin as he looked at Lu Zhou, who was listening closely. He smiled and said, "Yesterday, our principal called us to a meeting to discuss your thesis. According to previous SCI publication rules, the impact factor is used as a measurement for the reward. However, the impact factor doesn't accurately measure the academic value of your thesis."

"Therefore, we did some research and decided to award you a million yuan!"

Dean Qin emphasized on the words "million yuan".

It was like a wind blew past.

That gust of wind blew into Lu Zhou's ear and he stopped breathing for a second.

"One… Million?!"

Lu Zhou gulped and he swore he could hear his own heartbeat.

"Yeah, is it too low?" asked Dean Qin. He smiled and continued to say, "It's pretty low. Compared to that Sitapan conjecture, your Zhou's conjecture contributed way more to our country's mathematics industry. However, I hope that you can understand that the one million yuan reward was the maximum amount the principal was willing to give."

Even though the University of Jin Ling was wealthy with the state providing them with the university funds, but this money could not be spent recklessly.

Actually, Dean Qin did not tell him the complete story. The million yuan reward was not decided by Principal Xu himself. They had a meeting and then they asked the director of the Ministry Of Education who gave them the green light.

From which account the money came from, how the money was going to be paid, this all had to be planned out.

"No, it's not low at all!"

Lu Zhou was so excited that his shoulders began to shake.

A million yuan!

It was equivalent to hundreds of months of tutoring!

He had only seen this amount of money in movies…

When Dean Qin saw Lu Zhou's excitement, he smiled in his heart. The dean knew that Lu Zhou would be ecstatic.

He paused for a second and smiled before he said, "Okay then, I've told you this in advance. We're at the library now. Go ahead and study."

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "Thank you, Dean Qin. See you later!"

"Go go go."

After Lu Zhou separated from Dean Qin, he still had not recovered from the news of one million yuan.

He felt dizzy, like he was floating in the sky.

He was still worried about getting five million for the mission when he did not know that the school already helped him with 20% of the mission…

Not far away, Chen Yushan held a stack of books and walked toward the library entrance.

When she saw a familiar figure standing in front of the library, Chen Yushan's eyes lit up and she walked forward to tap Lu Zhou's shoulder.

"Lu Zhou, did you know that you're on fire?"

Lu Zhou turned around and when he saw Chen Yushan, he was still shocked by the news. He said, "I know."

Chen Yushan opened her mouth and was disappointed, "Oh… You already knew."

"A million…"

Chen Yushan was confused, "What is a million?"

"Nothing," murmured Lu Zhou as he finally recovered and shook his head. He said, "You've bought me so much food, I've got to pay you back… I'll buy you dinner."

"Really?" said Chen Yushan as her eyes lit up. However, she then had a suspicious expression as she asked, "Wait, why are you so generous? This isn't like you."

"… Are you eating or not?"

"I'm eating!" Chen Yushan nodded immediately. She quickly remembered the tragic experience from last time and said, "Can we not eat spicy hotpot? I nearly died last time…"

When Lu Zhou saw her expression, he nearly laughed out loud.

It's just spicy hotpot, why are you so scared?

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Chapter 81: Lu Zhou Is Secretly Observing

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To be honest, Lu Zhou was not psychologically prepared for this fame at all.

Overnight, his Weibo fans broke the 100,000 mark. The school leaders treated him well and even a secretary of the city came to shook his hand. Jin Ling TV station made an appointment to give him an interview and apparently, an international media was going to come…

The second night, Lu Zhou received a call from his father.

The father did not ask if his son ate or how his son was doing. Instead, he asked…

"Son, what is Zhou's approximation?"

When Lu Zhou heard his father's words, he nearly dropped his phone.

"Oh, dad, when did you start studying mathematics?"

"No, I'm not studying mathematics. A higher-up at the factory told me that you solved some Zhou's guess and wanted to give you some award… I don't understand."

Lu Bangguo was very confused.

He normally did not read the news or go online and so, he was naturally ignorant of what was happening outside.

The proudest moment of his life was when his son got into a good university. The factory even gave him a 500 yuan red envelope.

Even then, the manager of the factory did not personally come and thank him. At most, the manager casually congratulated him. However, this time, it was not just some higher-up at the factory. It was the clerk himself!

For an ordinary worker in a state-owned factory, the clerk was considered a high ranking official.

Lu Zhou thought for a while and could not find a way to explain Zhou's approximation, "Oh… Dad, how do I explain this to you? It's basically a mathematics problem." He added, "How about you go find an Everyone Daily newspaper from yesterday? There should be an explanation on it."

"What… I go find what?! You're in the newspaper?!" said Lu Bangguo with his eyes widened.

"Yeah, I'm going on TV in two days. But it's the local TV station in the City of Jin Ling. You won't be able to see it. Also, the school gave me a reward bonus. When the money comes, I'll transfer some to your account."

Lu Zhou remembered Dean Qin said that the news broadcast would be reported in the form of a newsletter, so his interview would be cut into 15-30 second segments.

"Transfer what money! You don't have to worry about us, just take care of yourself! I'm not that old! Save your money, don't spend it recklessly, and save it for a house!" said Lu Bangguo. When he heard that his son was going on television, he had a big smile on his face.

Even though he did not watch the news or read the newspaper, he knew that being on TV was not something a normal person could do.

Lu Zhou smiled and was about to say something when he heard shoe being kicked off and the sound of the door being opened coming through the telephone.

He instantly knew that it was Xiao Tong who came home.

Saturday was a half-day for school and since she did not have tutoring classes, this was the only time she could talk to Lu Zhou.

"Dad, give me the phone!"

He heard the rush of footsteps before the phone was robbed by Xiao Tong.

"Brother!"

"Xiao Tong, how are you?" asked Lu Zhou with a smile.

"Not bad, not bad! Brother, is the Lu Zhou from the University of Jin Ling really you?" asked Xiao Tong. Her voice was filled with excitement and worship.

"Who else could it be?" asked Lu Zhou impatiently.

Xiao Tong held the phone and said, "Brother, you're my idol! Just a second ago, our maths teacher was bragging about you in class. He said you are his most talented student ever. He said he could see your talent from marking your papers!"

Lu Zhou thought for second before he smiled and said, "Old Ma?"

Xiao Tong said with excitement, "Yeah, him!"

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "Oh yeah, he was my teacher."

Lu Zhuo did not remember Old Ma ever saying that kind of things to him. If Old Ma actually did, he must have been exaggerating. Lu Zhou was the type of average student in high school. Even though he entered some competitions, he had never actually won anything.

Between competition and exams, most of Lu Zhou's energy was allocated to exams.

Xiao Tong's eyes flashed with small stars as she said, "Brother, I admire you so much! Do I count as a big mathematician's sister now?"

Ah, you're over-complimenting me.

Although I admire myself as well.

Lu Zhou laughed and said, "Definitely. Therefore you have to study mathematics well. You can't waste that genius brain of yours."

"My mathematics is good, okay! Last month I got 120 marks in the exam!" screamed Xiao Tong.

"If you want to get into a good university, 120 is not enough! Try your best. I'm waiting for you at University of Jin Ling."

Xiao Tong said confidently, "Yes! I'll try my best!"

Lu Zhou hung up the phone and walked back into the dorm from the balcony.

Huang Guangming and Shi Shang were both rushing to do physics homework. Liu Rui had already finished the homework. He was holding a phone in one hand and a pen in another and was thinking hard as he stared at a piece of draft paper.

Lu Zhou placed the computer on the bed. He was about to climb into bed and teach Xiao Ai when Liu Rui suddenly threw his pen aside and scratched his head.

"Zhou, how come I can't understand ur proof process?"

Liu Rui had already accepted that Lu Zhou had reached a level that he could never reach in his lifetime. However, in his mind, he was still a little reluctant to admit defeat.

We're all from the same dorm. We had similar high school scores and mine was even higher. How come the differences become so big in a year?

He never read theses online, but this time, he read Lu Zhou's thesis for days.

He did not want to understand it. Instead, he just wanted to know the difference between Lu Zhuo and him.

However…

The reality was soul crushing.

He could not understand the textbooks that Lu Zhou was reading and now, he could not even understand the stuff Lu Zhou was writing.

Lu Zhou laid in bed with his computer and casually said, "It's normal. Number theory isn't taught in undergraduate classes. Once you do a master's in number theory, you would understand. If you're interested, I suggest you start from [Abstract algebra]. You can learn about some Galois theory, which would be enough to support you in the algebraic number theory. If I remember correctly, you can take this class in your third year."

Liu Rui: "…"

Liu Rui suddenly felt that it was a bad idea to start talking mathematics with this guy.

Huang Guangming and Shi Shang turned around and showed him a sympathetic look.

Lu Zhou did not care about what Liu Rui was thinking. He opened the computer and looked at his second QQ account's chat history.

Not surprisingly, the group of mathematicians had sent 99 messages.

Xian Wei: [Did you hear? A god in our mathematics department solved a world-class mathematics problem! Also, this god is in this group! ! !]

Dayday: [Friend, how is the view from up there? (cry)]

Kedu: [I heard about it ages ago.]

Chang Qing: [Idol!]

Dayday: [This god is so strong, how scary! He won the National Mathematical Modeling Competition recently, now he proved a world-class maths problem. All of the glory is being taken by him, leave some for the rest of us…]

Kedu: [The god never replies to us… (cry)]

Chu Chu: [Maybe the god is busy? (awkward)]

Dayday: [Maybe he's observing us in the dark and thinks: Bunch of idiotic students! (cry)]

Lu Zhou: "…"

You guys just have to talk and increase my progress bar, why are you guys talking about me.

Lu Zhou silently closed the chat window.

The progress bar did not increase at a constant rate. Although the messages were at 99 every day, sometimes the bar would get filled within a day, other times the bar would not move at all for days.

Lu Zhou estimated that this was "information entropy" at work.

Information theory was the father of information entropy. It was originally proposed by Claude E. Shannon in 1948 to find fundamental limits on signal processing and communication operations such as data compression. Through the concept of information entropy, the amount of information contained in a piece of information could be calculated.

Lu Zhou guessed that the mechanism of Xiao Ai's upgrade was to analyze specific messages through an algorithm. It could learn human logic and thinking through the dialogue.

The more "useful" the piece of information was, the more it helped the upgrade. Useless chat messages such as spam or stickers would not help the accumulation of the progress bar. Instead, they slowed down the speed of processing messages.

Lu Zhou began to think.

"… If I place Xiao Ai on Tianhe No.1 and connect it directly to Penguin's chat cache database, could it be fully upgraded?"

Of course, he was just guessing.

The upgrade conditions for higher levels probably changed. Even if he could fully upgrade Xiao Ai, he did not know if he could have this unknown technology on the Internet.

Also…

He felt that this system always f*cked him over and he was scared that his technology branch would screw him over some day.

"Who cares, I'll see what happens. I'll not think about things that are too far away," said Lu Zhou as he shook his head and clicked on the progress bar to extract the experience.

[Technology branch (artificial intelligence) experience 100*3

[Information science experience 100*3

Core science: Information science level 1(400/10000)

Technology branch: Artificial intelligence level 1 (400/1000)

He had taken another big step toward leveling up artificial intelligence.

However, he was a long way from leveling up information science.

When will I get 10,000 experience points…

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Chapter 82: Can't Even Go To Lecture

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The next morning, the first ordinary differential equation lecture began.

When Lu Zhou went into the classroom, he felt a strange vibe.

Class one and two of applied mathematics were combined into one lecture. Two classes of students sat there and filled the classroom.

When Lu Zhou realized that he was being stared at by numerous pairs of eyes, he felt slightly worried.

Even worse, the lines of sights were accompanied by whispering.

"Wow, Lu Zhou from applied mathematics class one!"

"The study god that got full marks in mathematical analysis and advanced algebra!"

"Who gives a f*ck about those two exams! This guy proved a textbook conjecture, getting full marks is easy for him!"

"May I add, it was a graduate-level textbook…"

"Hey, don't be too jealous. I heard that this guy stayed in school for the entire summer holiday. We were playing League of Legends while this guy was grinding textbooks all day."

"What a god…"

"I'm shaking!"

F*ck, can these group of animals keep it down.

Although… It's pretty cool to listen to them.

The teacher came.

Lu Zhou knew the professor that walked in. It was Professor Liu Xiangping from his modeling competition.

The professor had a unique way of coming to class. He was neither early nor late by a second.

"Why are you standing? The class is about to start, go and find a seat," said Professor Liu while he smiled at Lu Zhou. He placed his vacuum flask on the podium.

"Ok, I just got here."

Lu Zhou was embarrassed as he smiled. He quickly glanced at the back of the classroom and found his three roommates sitting far away from one another. Clearly, they could not find seats that were together. Lu Zhou could not find a seat, so he was about to go move a chair from the other classroom.

At this moment, a male student in the first row suddenly stood up and packed his stuff on the table before making a welcoming gesture.

"Please sit here."

Lu Zhou replied, "No, no need. I'll just grab a chair from next door."

"No no no. I'll go grab the chair. Just remember to borrow me your notes!" said the guy as he stubbornly insisted.

I'll borrow you my notes, as long as you return them on time.

However, the problem was not the notes.

The problem was that Lu Zhou was scared to sit in the front row! He had the attention of everyone around him. If he even made some noise, everyone would look at him…

The feeling of having no privacy was horrible.

Lu Zhou did not sit down. Instead, he immediately went next door and grabbed a chair before sitting down next to Huang Guangming.

These people won't turn around and look at me during class right?

Professor Liu Xiangping smiled at him and did not speak.

The bell rang and when the class began, Professor Liu started the PowerPoint and smiled as he said, "Turn your textbooks to the introduction page."

While others were taking their notebooks out, Lu Zhou was flipping through [Practical Machine Learning]. He started to study advanced algorithms designed specifically to tune and teach artificial intelligence.

Without the help of a focus capsule, it was difficult to study an entire book in one study session. Good thing was that when he leveled up his core subject, not only did it increased his ability to use knowledge, but it also increased his ability to absorb knowledge.

So far, he had already read half of this thick textbook.

However, when he was checking the code of Xiao Ai last night, he still could not understand most of it. His level of knowledge was too low.

Professor Liu continued his lecture on stage.

"… High school questions usually asked you to find the relationship between the unknown and known number. To list the equations containing the unknown and solve them."

"In actual work, we often encounter problems that are completely different from those equations. For example, to find the movement of a substance under certain conditions, it's necessary to find their laws of motion. For example, in space flight, the rocket is driven by the engine. To find the orbit of its flight requires us to obtain an analytic function from the existing data, rather than calculating a specific unknown by the known function given by the question."

"Ordinary differential equations are a very useful tool. They have important applications in many disciplines, from mechanical automatic control to ballistic calculations of rocket missile aircraft to even the stability of chemical reactions."

Professor Liu smiled as he continued, "Therefore, you applied mathematics majors should really pay attention to this class. If you don't do well, don't tell people that you are from my class! It's too shameful!"

Professor Liu was an interesting person, so his lectures were pretty interesting. He could explain complicated things in an easy manner.

Even Huang Guangming who usually did not pay attention in class turned off his phone and looked intently at the PowerPoint on the screen. He even typed notes in his laptop.

The speed of a college class was very fast and Professor Liu's was of no exception. His speed of lecturing was almost faster than turning the pages.

It was impossible to take notes in class. It was good enough just to keep up and listen. The students kept taking photos like they were at some tech conference.

By the time half of the lecture was done, the basic definition and geometric interpretation of the differential equation and its solution in the first chapter were finished. Next was the first subsection of the second chapter of integral methods, the exact differential equation.

The difficulty was increased instantly.

A ton of new knowledge was being thrown at the students. Even though the professor was simplifying and explaining everything, the dumb students were still overwhelmed.

"Theory is pretty much done. I trust you guys to revise this by yourself, let's do some questions," said Professor Liu with a smile. He turned the PowerPoint to the next page and said, "Whoever can solve this question, feel free to come up to the blackboard."

[Judge whether {y2/(xy)2-1/x}dx{1/y-x2/(xy)2}dy=0 is the appropriate equation and solve the equation.]

Lu Zhou's eyes scanned the question on the PowerPoint. He thought it was easy so he continued to read his book.

However, it was not as easy for other students.

This was their first class and most people only studied the first chapter. They had not studied the second chapter yet. As most of them stared at the "exact differential equation" with a confused expression, a few geniuses took out their pens and started writing on draft papers.

Two minutes later, the classroom was entirely silent.

"How come no one has raised their hand?" asked Professor Liu asked with a smile. He jokingly said, "You guys are all students from the University of Jin Ling, so you should be able to solve this, right?"

A student that was sitting in the first row smirked and said weakly, "The study god didn't raise his hand, so we're scared to raise ours."

A lot of people in the first row nodded.

Some people did figure it out, but no one dared to raise their hand.

Professor Liu pretended as if he did not hear anything and laughed as he said, "No one can solve it? Guess I have to give some incentives? Okay! I'll add 10 marks to anyone that can solve this problem."

Even though Lu Zhou was still reading that machine learning textbook, he instantly put his hand up. The speed of his hand shocked Huang Guangming.

However, Lu Zhou did not look at Guangming. Instead, he was staring at the PowerPoint.

10 marks!

Simple as f*ck question. Free marks!

Professor Liu did not even give him the time of day as he smiled and said, "Put your hand down! This 10 marks isn't for you. You're going to be getting full marks in the exam anyway. What? Do you want to get 110% percent?!"

Lu Zhou: "…"

The students gasped.

Is the genius already confident that he's going to get full marks?

Lu Zhou smiled awkwardly as he put his hand down.

At that moment, all Lu Zhou wanted to say was "Motherf*cker!"

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Chapter 83: I Don't Believe It

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Of course, Lu Zhou did not blame Professor Liu.

Professor Liu probably knew that his class was pretty useless for me and he doesn't want to waste my time. Does he probably mean that I don't have to attend?

But what if I don't get full marks…

Lu Zhou felt that the probability was low.

Since Lu Zhou was out of the game, the class became more enthusiastic. Luo Rundong, the second genius of the class quickly calculated the results and raised his hand to solve the problem.

[…]

[… is the exact differential equation.]

[The general solution is: lny/xxy/(xy)=C]

Professor Liu gave a concise comment and smiled before saying, "Not bad."

The class bell rang.

Professor Liu was punctual and he finished his last words as soon as the bell rang. He then dismissal class.

The students in the classroom packed up their stuff and rushed toward the cafeteria.

For the first two months of the year, the cafeteria would be packed. The newly enrolled first-year students were extraordinarily enthusiastic and they would steal the good food before the older students got there. It was horrible.

Lu Zhou also flocked to the cafeteria. He was smart and did not go to the self-service area. Instead, he went to the barbecue rice window counter.

Then…

He was recognized.

"F*ck me, it's Lu Zhou!"

"Please, go first."

"Genius, are you still using your advanced algebra notes? I want to buy it… Can I at least copy them? I'll pay!"

"Student, I heard you got 100% in mathematical analysis and advanced algebra. Do you have any tips for studying?"

These first-year students were too enthusiastic and they even let Lu Zhou cut in front of the line. Lu Zhou thought, "I only want to eat some food, not like this…"

Why are they taking my pictures! It's enough!

Finally, after Lu Zhou bought his food, he found a quiet corner and sat down.

Just as he sat down, his phone rang.

It was Dean Lu calling. The moment Lu Zhou picked up, he heard, "Lu Zhou, there's an interview in the afternoon. Come to the laboratory building later."

When Lu Zhou heard the word "interview", he instantly felt a headache coming.

"Dean Lu, can we cancel the interview?"

Dean Lu was surprised and asked, "Why?"

"Dean Lu, the excessive attention by the media has affected my daily life and studies. I think Professor Tang is correct. Academicians have to focus on academics and avoid fame," Lu Zhou said firmly.

It was not that he actually did not want fame.

It was because he was scared.

The last two times he went on trending was during the summer holiday and by the time school started, his fame had passed.

However, this time, he was bombarded by the media at the beginning of the semester. He was basically like a giant panda in the zoo. Coupled with the school's promotion, there was no one in the school that did not know who Lu Zhou was.

Within the time frame of his meal, there were two young ladies talking to him. Three students asked for his WeChat while four other students asked if he was interested in joining some random society or clubs.

There was even a master's girl student who asked if he wanted to cooperate on an SCI thesis.

Lu Zhou was annoyed and he replied to her in a harsh manner, "Not interested, thank you!"

Awkward, Dean Lu said, "This… I understand your difficulties. I promise you this is the last time! Also, this interview would be giving you a prize. Are you sure you're not coming?"

Lu Zhou asked, "Prize?"

"Didn't Dean Qin tell you? The Jin Ling Daily and vice president of the Industrial Commercial Jin Ling will be there, the prize money…"

"I understand, Dean Lu. I'm coming right now!"

Lu Zhou hung up and quickly finished his food. He did not want to waste another second and immediately walked to the laboratory building.

…

The next day, Jin Ling Daily's headline once again shocked everyone.

[20-year-old student in University of Jin Ling overcomes a world-class mathematics problem, wins a million yuan prize!]

The article had a photo of Lu Zhou and Principal Xu where they were holding a massive ICBC cheque.

His fame that was about to die down was re-ignited by this one million yuan cheque.

When the crowd saw that string of zeros, they were astonished.

[Oh my god, a million yuan for a question! Easy money!]

[A question a night, 100 nights that's 100 million. I think I found a new way to make money (dog head)]

[From today I'm studying mathematics. I'm turning off my phone, nothing is going to stop me!]

[The University of Jin Ling is too rich…]

[Male god! ! ! (heart) (heart) (heart)]

[My graduate thesis is about proving the Mersenne primes distribution law. I've been working half a year on it, but now that his conjecture is proved, my work is useless! I just want to smoke in silence. (cry) (cry)]

[We need to find a psychologist for that guy above.]

[Even if you tried your best, you will never be better than some people. (dog) (dog)]

The discussion was not only on Weibo but it was spread to every comment section of every major newspaper, from every blog to every forum.

The news was re-posted on the University of Yan's forum.

[University of Jin Ling? Does the University of Jin Ling have a mathematics department? Aren't they just a physics school?]

[I've read that thesis, the author is a genius! It's a pity that he didn't come to Yan University.]

[My PhD advisor told me about this yesterday. Apparently, when Professor Ren went to University of Jin Ling to give a talk, Ren Changming instantly saw that Lu Zhou was extraordinary and he tried to persuade him to come to the University of Yan.]

[What happened?]

[Don't know, guess he didn't come. For this type of nutty person, he's probably looking at schools like Princeton or Stanford!]

Of course, not everyone was jealous and impressed. There was quite a lot of criticism. Some people said that the award was too much. Other people said that the media over-hyped the value of Zhou's conjecture and that over-hyping might trick the public into being too optimistic about the current education environment, thus hindering the reformation of education…

However, only a small percentage of people were criticizing. After all, having a theorem named after a Chinese man enhanced national confidence.

This was what the advertisement departments used to promote Lu Zhou.

Lu Zhou was well aware of the things happening online.

His Weibo followers had reached 200k. His direct messages were at 99.

This time, no one asked for him to write a thesis, instead…

[Lu Zhou, do you have a girlfriend?]

[Lu Zhou, do you date online?]

[Lu Zhou, are you dating? I can cross-dress.]

Lu Zhou: ? ? ?

It's just an article photo, why are these people so excessive?

"Stay away from me"

Lu Zhou pretended that he did not see these messages and just as he was about to close Weibo, he remembered that this was a good opportunity.

His eyes lit up and his fingers quickly tapped on the screen as he typed an advertisement for "Campus Train" before sending it out.

Satisfied, he waited for a bit.

After that, Lu Zhou refreshed Weibo and looked at the comments.

He was shocked.

[This app hasn't been updated in a month. Is it even alive? (smile)]

[Lu boss walks into a shop. Everyone laughs at him and said, " Boss Lu, you're advertising on Weibo again?" Boss Lu didn't respond, he said to the worker, "One advertisement, please." He pulled out the stack of money and the people shouted: "Your app is dead!" Lu boss said, "Why are you guys lying…" "We're not lying! Your app is on the bottom of the rankings." Lu boss was furious, his veins popped and said, "It's on the bottom because of… The off-season!" Then Lu boss tried to justify his app's performance with words like "not the holidays yet", or "students aren't riding trains". The crowd started to laugh at him…"

[Chen Duxiu, please sit down, you're blocking the blackboard from Lu Xun!]

[The only time the genius logs onto his Weibo is when he's on trending.]

[I'm feeling better now, even a genius has shortcomings.]

[A million yuan can last you for how long!]

[Please, go back to studying mathematics!]

[This guy only posts ads, never responds to messages, unfollowed.]

Lu Zhou: ? ? ?

What the hell?!

Why are people hating on me?

Maybe because I forgot to do a giveaway?

These people are so greedy!

Lu Zhou was especially unhappy when he saw people calling his app dead.

What do you mean dead?

How is it dead?

It's only because I was busy, so I didn't work on it!

Also, the users are there, it's just the user activity is low… What kind of student takes the train every day?

F*ck sake!

Lu Zhou was in disbelief.

He was going to be successful!

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Chapter 84: I Don't Deserve This Honor

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Dean Lu did not lie to Lu Zhou. That million yuan check interview was the last interview. After that, even though online discussions about Lu Zhou was still fermenting, there were no media that entered the school and disturbed his daily life.

Later, Lu Zhou found out that the school actually blocked a lot of interviews for him. The few media that did interview him were all from big and influential media companies. The small and freelance journalists could not even enter the school.

After all, the campus was for learning.

Appropriate publicity would help to raise the perceptive of the school and increase its popularity. However, if the school did not have a good balance, it would disturb the quietness of the campus and squander the positive study lifestyle. The school leaders were well aware of this.

Lu Zhou went to ICBC on Saturday and under the supervision of the branch president of ICBC, he cashed the million yuan check.

Lu Zhou rejected those people selling insurance and financial products and quickly left the bank. He went on a DiDi cab and felt dizzy. The feeling was as if he was floating in a dream.

He had never been this rich.

He did not even know how to spend the money.

I guess I'll save it?

The car stopped in front of the school and for the billionth time, Lu Zhou opened his phone to check the string of zeros in his bank account. His heart was beating a million times a second.

"… I have a million now. I guess I'm only 4 million away from mission two."

Lu Zhou quickly calmed himself down and put his phone back into his pocket before walking to the street full of restaurants.

He found a random small restaurant to eat lunch and by the time he got back to school, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon.

He remembered Professor Tang's phone call, so before he went back to his dorm, he went to the laboratory building to find Professor Tang at his office.

Once he arrived, Lu Zhou knocked on the door and when he heard a loud "come in", he pushed the door and went in.

When Professor Tang saw Lu Zhou, he smiled and said, "You're pretty famous these days."

Lu Zhou laughed embarrassedly as he said, "Professor, please don't compliment me. The media has been so annoying…"

The two master's students in the office were doing research when they rolled their eyes and decided to ignore Lu Zhou.

Annoyed?

Give me a million, I'll take care of your troubles!

You don't even know how lucky you are. What a shame!

Professor Tang picked up his vacuum flask and sipped some tea before he said with a smile, "Oh? You look pretty happy to me. How about you go into show business?

Lu Zhou smiled awkwardly but he did not speak.

"Fine, I have to teach a class soon. I won't banter with you. Let's get straight to the point," said Professor Tang. When he saw that Lu Zhou did not respond, he stopped making any more jokes. He added, "I have an invitation here. It's from Princeton University. There's an international mathematics conference in February, in Princeton. You're invited to carry out academic reports on your study."

Lu Zhou was confused as he asked, "Academic conference?"

Professor Tang smiled and said, "That's right, academic process lies in communication. You should accept this opportunity as it's good for you. This conference is highly influential in the international field of number theory. You're the first undergraduate student in our school that received this invitation, so you should accept it. The school will cover all of your expenses. Don't worry about it!"

Even if Lu Zhou used this opportunity to communicate with his peers, he would still gain a lot.

Lu Zhou took the piece of invitation from Professor Tang and nodded.

"I'll go prepare for it then."

Professor Tang said, "Take your thesis and do some minor edits. Write up a simple and concise speech. The focus is on the QA segment, a lot of mathematics researchers will probably ask you a lot of questions, so be ready for them!"

"I understand… Then, I'll go now?" said Lu Zhou as he nodded.

"Don't leave just yet, one more thing," said Professor Tang as he smiled. He then added, "Secretary Liu is recommending you to join the Top Ten Chinese Youth selection. Don't know if you'll get selected, but at least there's a chance."

Top Ten Chinese Youth!

Lu Zhou's pupils dilated.

He had heard of this "Top Ten Chinese Youth" selection campaign before. Apparently, it was jointly organized by the Chinese Youth Federation and was sponsored by ten major news organizations. The aim was to establish young talents as models to other young people. It had only been around for ten years.

It was as influential as the China Youth Five Four Medal!

Lu Zhou held his breath and his heart started to beat fast but he quickly calmed down.

First of all, it was still a question whether or not a proof of Zhou's conjecture was worthy of the award. After all, this award was not for scientific research. It was for all industries across the country and it indicated social contribution.

Moreover, this award was politically influenced, so it was not as simple as it looked.

If Lu Zhou had a Fields Medal, that would highly increase his chances of winning.

Also, there were no free meals in this world.

The last time Secretary Liu came to the school in the name of congratulating Lu Zhou, it was actually to show the value the government placed on scientific research. This time, for Secretary Liu to suddenly vouched for Lu Zhou to enter in the Top Ten Chinese Youth, it might not be as simple as it looked.

Lu Zhou calmed down a bit.

He had no doubts about his IQ.

But…

As for his EQ, he was not so sure.

Lu Zhou did not give any clues and he merely smiled as he asked respectfully, "Professor, what do you suggest?"

Professor Tang smiled and said, "My suggestion? Depends on where you want to go in the future. If you want to enter into politics, this is a good way for you to get into the circle. Secretary Liu could help you in your future political career and you could become some big representative in the government. As for how far you'll go, that'll depend on your abilities."

Lu Zhou was silent.

Instead of worrying, Professor Tang just sat there and drank his tea.

After a while, Lu Zhou suddenly smiled and shook his head, "I'm afraid politics is not my cup of tea."

As a child whose father worked for the government, this proposal was quite tempting. If he could capture this opportunity, there could be a bright road in front of him. Head of the university, president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences were all possible.

However, Lu Zhou was self-aware.

He was used to doing what he wanted and working in politics was not necessarily what he wanted.

"It seems that you're quite self-aware. You don't seem to be the political type anyways," said Professor Tang as he smiled. He placed his vacuum flask on the desk and looked at Lu Zhou. With a nod, he said, "Since you've already made a decision, you should reject it. Just remember to be euphemistic in your rejection."

Lu Zhou thought and said, "I'm a student. I don't know much. I don't deserve this honor… Should I reply like this?"

Professor Tang smiled and responded, "Clever."

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Chapter 85: Turns Out There's An Expert Helping

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At Jin Ling Normal High School, Grade 11, Class 2, they were having mathematics.

The teacher asked the class representative to pass the exam paper to the class. At the same time, he picked out a few outstanding students' papers to praise.

"Han Mengqi, 130 marks. Your scores over the past few months have improved greatly, but don't get arrogant and continue to make persistent efforts," said Teacher Chen. Han Mengqi nodded as she took the exam paper.

Han Mengqi's smirked as she returned to her seat.

The students sitting next to her looked at her with amazement.

It was not because of the 130 marks.

In their class, this score was above average at most.

The real surprise was that it was Han Mengqi that got this score!

Her mathematics score had been near failing last year, but she got 130 today!

This improvement was over the course of three months.

Was there anything more shocking than this?

When Teacher Chen saw Han Mengqi, she nodded with relief.

Since the monthly test before the summer vacation, it was as if Han Mengqi had turned into another person. Her mathematics scores soared and she went from two digit scores to three digits.

Teacher Chen had been teaching for many years and it was rare for him to see this pace of improvement.

Han Mengqi knew that her classmates were surprised and even though she blushed, she had a smug smile on her face.

Before, she never felt as if she belonged at home or at school.

However, she recently found out that she actually loved school.

It was not because she loved studying…

It was because being it was great to be looked at with confusion, surprise, and adoration!

After class, Han Mengqi meticulously copied the questions that she got wrong in her book. This was the task that Lu Zhou gave her and this task had become a habit for her over the past three months.

Suddenly, a girl even more petite than her came over and asked shyly, "Meng Qi, is your tutor's first name Lu?"

The girl was one of the few close friends that Meng Qi had in mathematics. Meng Qi called her Xiao Ran and they talked about everything.

Han Mengqi nodded and said, "Yeah, why?"

Xiao Ran then asked, "Is he a college student?"

Han Mengqi continued to nod her head as she replied in a tone that was filled with suspicion, "Yeah…"

"Is he from the University of Jin Ling?"

"Yeah, yeah, get straight to the point. Stop wasting my time," said Han Mengqi as she rolled her eyes.

Xiao Ran's eyes widened, "Haven't you seen Weibo?"

Suddenly, Han Mengqi was unhappy as she said, "Nope, that woman confiscated my mobile phone, you know that."

However, Xiao Ran did not notice Han Mengqi's uncomfortable expression as she took out her phone and said, "Wait for a second. I'll show you this news article."

Han Mengqi stared at her and said, "When did you pay attention to the news? Don't you always just look at your celebrity gossip?"

"I also pay attention to trending news okay? Anyway, here, look," replied Han Mengqi as she handed the phone to Han Mengqi.

The article was from Huaguo Youth Daily.

When Han Mengqi saw the name of the account, she was not too interested. However, when she saw the title, her eyes instantly widened.

[20-year-old college student from University of Jin Ling has overcome a world-class mathematics problem, and won a million yuan reward from the university!]

[…]

[Source: Jin Ling Daily]

Xiao Ran asked in a hurry, "Is that him?"

"No, how is this possible?!" gasped Han Mengqi. She was so surprised that her mouth could not even close as she stared straight at the screen.

It was not that she doubted Lu Zhou's abilities…

It was that she never expected the tutor that came to her house every weekend was a great mathematician who solved a world-class mathematics problem.

Han Mengqi gulped as she swiped with her thumb and looked at the comments.

[… All bow down to this genius student!]

[This genius student is crazy!]

[God, I want to have your babies!]

Han Mengqi raised her eyebrows.

What is this!

Shameless!

He already has a girlfriend!

Although she had never confirmed to Lu Zhou or her cousin, she always assumed that they were dating. There was no other explanation as to why he cared about her studies so much as any other tutors would not be able to stand her.

"Oh, I was wondering why your mathematics scores were soaring. I guess there's an expert helping you," said Xiao Ran as she looked at Han Mengqi enviously. She then asked, "Is he still going to tutor you in the future?"

Han Mengqi subconsciously blurted out, "Yeah, why not?"

Xiao Ran tilted her head as she asked, "But, he already has a million, he doesn't need to work as a tutor anymore, right?"

Han Mengqi's heart tightened.

She had not given this a thought.

You're right…

If Lu Zhou isn't in need of money, would he still teach me mathematics?

Every time he tutors me as if I'm a child and even cooks for me and listens to my complaints about school…

Anyone would be annoyed right?

Also, a guy like him must have more important stuff to do.

Han Mengqi's lips quivered as she said, "He… Probably will."

She was not confident at all.

Xiao Ran tilted her head in confusion.

She was not sure why her close friend was acting like this.

…

Although Lu Zhou was determined to make his Campus Train app bigger and defeat those haters, he had no idea how to run a business.

In the past, Dean Lu would occasionally ask him how his project was going. Now, the dean would not even bring it up.

Compared to solving a world-class mathematics problem, an app was nothing.

The school was not a bank or a business. The leaders of the school leaders did not look at financial statements! They looked at scientific research results! Although the student's entrepreneurship project was an achievement, it was nothing compared to solving a world-class problem!

It was not only Dean Lu who thought about this, but the head dean, Dean Qin, thought about it as well. Dean Qin kept hinting at Lu Zhou to just close the company and used the money left to repay part of the loan. The remaining loan would just be erased, so Lu Zhou would not even have to pay it.

Losing money was one of entrepreneurship's lessons. Lu Zhou should just focus on academia and get a Fields Medal, would that not be much better?

However, Lu Zhou was dissatisfied with just honor. Although the medals were good, Lu Zhou wanted money.

Even though Lu Zhou was disinterested in running companies, he was interested in money!

Also, he would probably have to burn a lot of money for this sh*tty system. From the missions the system gave, it was obvious that the system was ambitious.

The discovery and monetization of technology could never be separated. It was just a matter of which to choose and pursuit.

Lu Zhou could see himself making that decision in the future.

Therefore, he planned on taking some advice from a successful person…

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Chapter 86: Learning From Successful People

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On Sunday, as usual, Lu Zhou went to Mrs. Yang's house to tutor Han Mengqi in mathematics.

The moment Mrs. Yang walked out of the door, the girl pulled Lu Zhou's shirt and asked, "I heard that you solved Zhou's conjecture?"

Lu Zhou looked at the girl weirdly and nodded before saying, "Yeah, that's last week's news."

Upon hearing that, Han Mengqi bit her teeth and whispered, "Then… You won't teach me mathematics anymore, right?"

Lu Zhou asked, "Why wouldn't I teach you anymore?"

In a quiet voice, Han Mengqi said, "You already have a million… Do you still have to work part-time?"

What kind of logic is this? Is there such a thing as too much money?

Not to mention this is easy money.

Learning was fun, but Lu Zhou was not a machine. He could not study all day as he would get tired.

Tutoring was like a type of relaxation method for Lu Zhou. He could think about some simple questions and change his mindset and mood while was earning money. So why not do it?

Lu Zhou sighed. He took the book and lightly tapped her head with it before saying, "Stop wasting time and know that money is hard to make. Don't waste your mom's money and start studying. Take out your book of mistakes and your recent exam paper."

Han Mengqi stared at Lu Zhou unhappily.

However, she remembered that she still needed his help, so she quietly took out her backpack.

Lu Zhou took the book of mistakes from Han Mengqi to check her situation for the month.

Overall, it was not bad. At least, after Lu Zhou explained the questions, she did not get them wrong.

As Lu Zhou was checking the test paper, Han Mengqi cleared her throat and asked, "I want you to teach me chemistry and physics… Is that okay?"

Lu Zhou thought carefully before giving her a reply, "I can, but I'm not familiar with the high school material of Jiangsu, so I'm afraid I can't teach you much. At most, I can answer some questions for you."

Lu Zhou heard that the exam rules at Jiangsu, a province, were different than where he was from. In addition to mathematics and English, they could choose from four other subjects.

There were also mock exams, reward points, etc. It was cumbersome.

Lu Zhou had heard this from Li Tao before as Li Tao was a native of Jin Ling.

Understood, Han Mengqi said, "No worries, this is enough."

Lu Zhou then asked, "What universities are you applying to? Do you have a goal?"

"I want to go to the University of Jin Ling…" said Han Mengqi. She paused before adding, "… It's because I promised my cousin that I would go to the same university as her."

Lu Zhou looked at her with a puzzled look. He thought she would say something like, "I don't care, as long as I'm away from that woman. I'd rather be overseas." He had not expected her answer to be the University of Jin Ling.

Of course, he did not say this out loud.

After all, everyone had their own aspirations.

"If I remember correctly, University of Jin Ling requires students to have two A subjects. You have to work hard," said Lu Zhou casually.

Han Mengqi nodded earnestly as she said, "Yes! I'll work hard!"

…

By six o'clock in the evening, tutoring was over.

Lu Zhou was wearing an apron and cooking three dishes in the kitchen while he stewed a pot of onion ginger soup. Lu Zhou wanted to thank Mrs. Yang, but he could not afford to buy her anything. The least that he could do for her was to cook for her daughter.

Once he was done, he placed the food on the table before he hooked the apron on the kitchen door.

At exactly six o'clock, Yang Danqi returned home.

When she walked in and smelled the overflowing fragrance of the food, she looked at Lu Zhou with a surprised expression.

Lu Zhou smiled as he asked, "Do you want to eat together? I made enough for three."

Yang Danqi smiled as she replied, "Well, then thank you. I'll get a bowl of rice."

Han Mengqi smirked and did not say anything as she went to the bathroom.

As always, the dinner table was silent.

If it was only two people, Han Mengqi would be chatting non-stop the whole time. However, since her mother was here, she was disinterested in talking at all and merely ate her dinner quietly.

Lu Zhou originally thought that because of Han Mengqi's academic performance, the mother-daughter relationship would become better.

However, it seemed that he was being optimistic.

Every family has their own hardships…

Lu Zhou wanted to avoid the awkward silence, so he decided to ask a question.

It was about his Campus Train app.

He wanted to hear advice from a successful person like Mrs. Yang.

After Yang Danqi listened to Lu Zhou's question, she asked, "You made an app?"

"Yeah, I did."

"Have you done a product analysis?"

To Lu Zhou's surprise, Mrs. Yang did not ask about how many users he had or the software. Instead, she asked this question.

Lu Zhou thought and shook his head before he said honestly, "Nope."

If he was in a venture capital meeting, he would not have been this honest. However, he was not in a meeting and as he was trying to learn, he did not fake anything.

Mrs. Yang thought and said, "From an investor's perspective, I can tell you a very basic principle. A good investment always has to be N1 than the industry standard."

"N1?"

"That's right, this 1, is your innovation point," said Mrs. Yang as she nodded. She continued, "Of course, that isn't always enough. Investors will look at other projects similar to yours. Being able to innovate only gets your foot into the door."

Mrs. Yang paused for a moment before she continued, "The first thing to talk about is industry analysis and market prospects. Don't talk about market shares, that is useless. The era of dumb people with money is over. Right now, if you want to raise funds, you have to bring a unicorn to the table. You have to use short but attractive words to make the investors see the highlights of your project, that is also part of the 1."

Uh, this looks so complicated.

However, Lu Zhou was listening intently.

He could not learn this kind of lessons in class.

"Once you have understood that 1 part, then the next is product analysis. For example, let me be an investor. You have to convey to me clearly where your users are, how many users you have, your competitors, where your competitors are, etc. Also, the most basic one which is when your product will be profitable."

Yang Danqi looked straight into Lu Zhou's eyes.

That piercing eyes of her made Lu Zhou stopped breathing.

Thankfully, that pressure was gone very quickly.

Mrs. Yang sipped the delicious soup before she gently put down the spoon and said in a calm tone, "It seems that you haven't thought about all this."

Lu Zhou went silent as he nodded.

This project was just for practice before it inexplicably went on trending. If it was not on trending, software department Professor Zhang would never have noticed this project. Professor Zhang would never make him open a [Campus Train Co Ltd] company, or give him a 500,000 yuan business loan…

When he was spending all of his energy on the mathematical modeling competition, he had pushed the app aside. After he returned, the back-to-school season was over and the user activity completely plummeted.

Therefore, the crowd on Weibo criticized his app. Even though Lu Zhou did not like criticism, it was not too unreasonable. There was a reason why venture capitalists did not contact him…

"Actually, after listening to your project description, I wanted to ask you. If your users are mostly students, why are you only dealing with train tickets? How many train tickets do students even buy in a year? What is user retainment like? What if software companies like QQ or Zhibao, made a direct booking system? Do you think your app will still thrive? I don't think so, they're better and have more resources than you."

It was clear that the woman was strong as in a matter of minutes, she managed to stun Lu Zhou…

Lu Zhou suddenly realized that he had been underestimating the tech industry.

Mrs. Yang continued, "Of course, your project is still bright. You're better than the majority app developers as most of them make a prototype and then try to look for venture capitalists. If you're not interested in managing a company, you can consider hiring a manager. But I don't recommend this, for a company that is still in the incubation phase, no one knows the project better than you. Also, no manager with real talent would work for your sh*tty small company."

Mrs. Yang did not hold back her words.

However, Lu Zhou did not feel insulted at all. After all, he knew the situation of his company.

Lu Zhou gave it a thought before he asked seriously, "Then, do you have any good suggestions?"

"One person's ability and energy is limited. In that case, why don't you find a few like-minded people to do this project together? There's a lot of scientific research professors at the University of Jin Ling that have their own companies. I know one of them that does materials science research and I think his company already went public. Doing scientific research and making money isn't always in conflict. The key is to find a good balance and know what you're good or bad at."

Lu Zhou went silent for a long time before he nodded his head, "I will think about your suggestions seriously."

This conversation had been immensely helpful to him.

At least, after this, he knew the general direction to work toward.

Mrs. Yang smiled and nodded her head in approval.

When Han Mengqi saw that her mother was talking to Lu Zhou, she felt a little uncomfortable and whispered, "Can you not talk about business stuff at the dinner table?"

Mrs. Yang was shocked by her daughter's words and she stopped talking.

Even though Lu Zhou was an outsider and did not want to be involved, he still could not help but feel sad.

It was exactly like what Mrs. Yang said. A person's energy was limited. It was a win some, lose some situation.

However, how many people could really find that balance between using the energy and giving up?

Even a successful businesswoman had shortcomings.

Her shortcoming was family…

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Chapter 87: Pulling People To Join

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After Lu Zhou left Mrs. Yang's house, he thought for a long time.

A person's energy was limited, not to mention, he had no interests in running a business.

He was an academic and he only had to do his own work well. As for product operations and management of companies, he could hand it over to someone who was good at them.

He felt like his battlefield was in the laboratory, not a meeting. It definitely was not in a CEO office.

Chen Yushan would be a good choice, but her management talents were more for mid to late stage companies, and his small [Campus Train] startup had no room for her. Not to mention, she was doing a master's degree and she had no time to help Lu Zhou.

Lu Zhou went back to his dorm and thought for a long time before he finally thought of a person. He then walked to the balcony and made a phone call.

When the other end picked up, a voice from the fat man came through, "Hey, Lu Zhou, what's up?"

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "Brother Wu, where have you been making bank recently?"

"Make what bank. I'm just doing some small projects for errands. I have to congratulate you. In the future, there's going to be another god in the University of Jin Ling's alumni list. Get straight to the point, do you still want to work part-time? I'm not hiring you!" snarled Fat Wu.

"No," said Lu Zhou. He smiled and said, "I just want to ask, are you interested in making bank together."

Fat Wu paused for a second and gave it a quick thought before asking, "… Campus Train?"

Lu Zhou, "Yes."

"How about this? Let's meet up. We should talk about this face to face."

Lu Zhou thought about it and it made sense.

It was useless to talk about this kind of stuff over the phone as it would be in person.

"Ok, tomorrow at five o'clock. Let's meet outside the fish restaurant near the school gate."

…

The next day, at five o'clock in the afternoon, Lu Zhou arrived on time. When he saw Fat Wu who was wearing a black t-shirt and sitting on a bench, he waved at him.

Lu Zhou looked at his t-shirt and said, "You're only wearing a t-shirt? Aren't you cold?"

It was already the end of October and late autumn. Lu Zhou himself was already wearing a jacket.

"I'm fat, cold-resistant. I'm like this during the winter as well," said Fat Wu with a smile. He pulled out a chair and said, "Come and sit down. I already ordered a grilled fish. Go and order whatever else you want. When the fish comes, let's get some drinks and talk."

Lu Zhou said, "Let's drink tea. We should not be talking about business while we are drunk."

Fat Wu smiled and said, "Sure, whatever you want."

Fat Wu was a pretty great guy as he took care of Lu Zhou when Lu Zhou was still working part-time jobs. Therefore, when Lu Zhou had this good opportunity, he instantly thought of Fat Wu.

Of course, that was not the only reason why he thought of Fat Wu. The real reason Lu Zhou found him was that he fancied his abilities, specifically, his emotional intelligence and organization skills.

Those two skills were exactly what Lu Zhou lacked.

"Speaking of which, I also use your Campus Train app. It's pretty useful for carpooling," said Fat Wu.

When the food arrived, he poured tea for Lu Zhou and himself before he smiled and said, "The train station in our hometown… It's impossible to get a DiDi cab there. Normal taxis don't go there and unlicensed taxis are the only way to go. Now that I use your app to carpool, it saves me some money and I get to meet some cool friends. I'm pretty jealous of your brain. I could never think of something like this."

Lu Zhou smiled and replied, "I just did it as a random practice."

"Nutty randomly coded an app with hundreds of thousands of users. I get it now. When I compare myself to geniuses like you, I feel like I'm not cut for studying at all," said Fat Wu as he shook his head and sighed. He filled his teacup and smiled before saying, "Say it, why are you here? Get straight to the point."

"Are you interested in pursuing this project together?"

"You want me to join the company?" asked Fat Wu as he looked at Lu Zhou with an astonished expression.

Lu Zhou nodded and said, "Yes."

Fat Wu did not accept straight away. Instead, he asked, "Why me?"

"I'll get straight to the point?"

Fat Wu smiled and said, "Just say it, we're two guys here, stop beating around the bush."

"It's actually because I don't have the energy for this and also I don't have organization skills. Besides, not only are you not doing the graduate entrance exam, but you also have the experience," said Lu Zhou. He smiled and continued, "Of course, my gut feeling is the main reason."

"Gut feeling is your main reason?" said Fat Wu with a smile. He paused for a second before asking, "Then, tell me your plan. What do you want me to do?"

"Simply speaking, I want to expand the Campus Train project. Whether it's to get financing and go public or just selling the app as a whole. A beautiful and sophisticated paper value is a must. I admit that business is not my cup of tea. I like to do research. Therefore, I need to find someone with strong organization skills and management experience to help me."

Fat Wu nodded and said, "So you want to hire me to manage the company?"

"That's right," said Lu Zhou as he nodded. He then added, "I can offer you two choices."

"The first one is after the round of angel financing, I'll take out 5% of the shares in Campus Train from my shares and give them to you. When and if we sell the company, you'll get 5% of the sale. We can write this into the contract."

"As for the other option, I'll pay you a salary. 8k per month, plus maybe a bonus."

Lu Zhou stared at the guy and asked, "Which one are you choosing?"

Fat Wu was silent for a while. He then closed his eyes and began to think.

If you can't get the round of angel financing, then there is no point talking about the 5% stake. Internet companies aren't worth jack without capital and the equity would be a worthless piece of paper. However, if you do get angel financing, the company would be worth at least one million yuan and 5% of that is already 50,000 yuan.

As for the second option, it's a lot safer. 8000 salary plus bonus commission. For a recent mathematics graduate, that salary is pretty good. Not every math student can transfer their knowledge into Wall Street. I know exactly how much I'm worth.

If I pick the second option…

That would be unlike me.

Fat Wu thought about it for half a minute. He then opened his eyes and said, "I'm someone that likes a challenge. I don't want to work until I die. I'll pick the first one."

"I'd guessed that you would pick this one," said Lu Zhou with a smile. He then reached out with a hand and said, "From now on, we are business partners."

Fat Wu shook Lu Zhou's hand and smiled cordially as he said, "I wish us happy cooperation."

"Happy cooperation!"

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Fat Wu's ability to get stuff done was indeed very impressive.

Lu Zhou was still looking for people to consult on the relevant legal terms, to draft contracts, and etc, when Fat Wu had already formed a startup team for him.

The team consisted of twelve people, from business majors to software majors to law majors. Furthermore, they were all geniuses! Although, there were some enthusiastic first-year students that wanted to get carried…

However, that was not the point.

The point was that they were all free labor!

Surprised, Lu Zhou asked if he had to pay these people but Fat Wu just smiled and started to talk about life, "Passing out flyers, installing, sorting packages… Do you think that these part-time students are only doing it for the money? One thousand a month of pocket money isn't enough for them?"

Fat Wu shook his head and replied to himself, "Of course it's enough."

Lu Zhou actually wanted to interrupt him to say, "No it's not enough." However, he resisted it as he did not want to embarrass Wu Dahai. So, he allowed Fat Wu to continue talking.

"Find anyone and ask why they want to work part-time. 80% of the answers can be summarized into three categories: Bored, want to experience life, want to train myself."

Fat Wu continued, "This is the University of Jin Ling. There are tons of geniuses here. Maybe they're not at your level, but there are still a lot of normal geniuses. Everyone is just eager to work part-time for money? No! It's actually a stage for them! A chance to perform!"

"I told them that I'm a business partner and that we're incubating a great project. If this project succeeds, it could become the next unicorn in the tech industry. From now on, we are a team, we are a family, we are founders… I'm just providing a stage for them!"

"If our project fails, then we lose together. But if we succeed…"

Fat guy Wu paused for a second before he smiled and continued, "… Then, it wouldn't be too late to give them some benefits."

Fat Wu explained those benefits to Lu Zhou in detail.

"We can just pay them if we're cheap. If not, we can organize dinners, traveling, create associations, or give them the opportunity to network. That's a lot better than giving money."

Lu Zhou was surprised after he heard him.

I'm impressed.

Before Fat Wu signed the contract, Lu Zhou thought he was just an older student that took care of him. He had no idea that Fat Wu was so sophisticated.

At first, when Fat Wu talked about the reasoning behind working, Lu Zhou thought it was nonsense…

However, now that he thought about it, it was brilliant!

His roommates would help him to install routers and they did not do it for the money. They did it for the life experience! In the end, only Lu Zhou was the one who would do it for the money.

Lu Zhou said, "Studying mathematics is a waste of your talents."

Fat Wu looked at the sky with sadness and sorrow as he agreed, "I think so too."

Lu Zhou said, "I meant that you should be doing sales."

Fat Wu: "…"

…

Like this, [Campus Train Club] was established.

According to Fat Wu, having a "club" made them seemed more legit. They could fool some new students into working for them while at the same time, they could also borrow the school's "public resources".

Since Fat Wu was blacklisted from applying for a club, Lu Zhou was the one that applied.

To be more accurate, Lin Yuxiang was the one that got it done.

Lu Zhou finally experienced the advantage of having connections. Other people had to go through a one-month application process and one month observation period while he was different. Especially since his club had monetary motivations, there was a 90% chance that the student union would kill his club.

However, Lin Yuxiang did him a favor and passed the club immediately…

Thus, the club was created.

The club president was Lu Zhou and the deputy president was Wu Dahai.

As for those twelve workers that Wu Dahai found, all of them were ministers.

After all, the club titles were all virtual and it was not like they cost money.

Lu Zhou could not help but ask why Fat Wu why was so experienced in these doings. Fat Wu replied casually, "I've done similar things before, like University of Jin Ling venture club, part-time workers club, etc."

He continued, "There are many benefits to doing this type of thing. You can easily recruit people when your club is new. Then you can make those people do a lot of free work in the name of helping the club. Plus we have the official seal of a company, so we can use their labor in the name of internships. In short, there are many advantages."

Lu Zhou asked, "You've done this before? What happened to your clubs?"

Fat Wu smiled awkwardly, "… It was shut down by the teacher of Social Affairs…"

Lu Zhou: "…"

The school did not allow the students to involve in off-campus activities that involved money transactions. Since anything involving money could go wrong, if there was a problem, the school would have to be responsible.

However, Fat Wu told Lu Zhou that the Campus Train Club was absolutely okay. Unlike the work-study clubs he worked on, all the club activities were completed in the school, and there was no need to contact the people outside the club. There was no problem at all.

In addition, this was a project in the university students' entrepreneurship support program. There were school leaders who were endorsing this project. As long as there was no big trouble, the teacher for Social Affairs would not be so "nonsensical".

In the time of one cigarette, Fat Wu explained the whole situation to Lu Zhou.

This also made Lu Zhou confirmed that this guy was talented.

Although this is another kind of talent…

I really don't know how this guy got into the University of Jin Ling.

The second day after the establishment of the club, Fat Wu's second order of business was to tell those twelve slaves… No, those twelve ministers, to meet at the fish restaurant.

Lu Zhou never thought about how to spend the company's money. Now, it was Fat Wu who planned the company spendings.

The first spending was to eat and drink with a thousand yuan budget.

The money was from the company's account, but when Fat Wu paid, he pretended as if it was coming out of his own pocket. This was one of Fat Wu's tricks. If a person wanted others to help him, that person must make them felt as if they owed him.

During the early stages of a business, the leaders must treat all the workers to a meal.

A thousand yuan, that was the entire monthly expenses of a student!

Even if they ran into trouble in the future, these people would not forget this meal.

What was team cohesion?

This was team cohesion!

When the food arrived, Fat Wu stood up and raised his cup.

"Everyone here is from different places, but the University of Jin Ling made us met with each other. It's fate that brought us together. Doing business together is also fate! It doesn't matter if we succeed, at least we tried to achieve our youthful dreams!"

"Come, cheers for our business!"

"Cheers!"

These people originally did not know each other. They only worked part-time with Fat Wu before. However, after alcohol, they all became a lot closer.

Lu Zhou sat next to Fat Wu as he started to think.

There is no way I can learn his talent…

Like planned, President Lu Zhou stood up and introduced himself.

When Lu Zhou sat down, everyone went around and introduced themselves.

After that, the appointment of personnel was also settled on the dinner table.

For this type of tiny company, other than the company manager, there were two other important positions. One was the product manager, which was responsible for the app production. The other was a technical manager responsible for the app updates and maintenance.

The product manager's name was Yuan Liwei. He was a third-year student in the business school. Even though he was an undergraduate student, he had experience in helping professors to design websites. He was well known in the school's business department. Thanks to Fat Wu, they were able to get him on board.

The technical manager was called Rong Hai. He was in software engineering. He was proficient in Python, C, and Java. His software development skills were slightly worse than Lu Zhou's mathematical modeling competition teammate, but he was not bad at all. He could still be considered a genius.

Then design students did user interface, law students did legal consulting, marketing students helped the product manager to plan and do market analysis as well as proposing interesting ideas to torture the coders…

As for those useless people, they mostly ran errands and recruited new people into the club. Some people felt useless and left the club.

Who cared about those people.

Not like the University of Jin Ling lacked talent.

They lacked the stage…

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Chapter 89: The First Meeting

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The dinner was over. As planned, in front of everyone, Lu Zhou rejected Fat Wu's proposal of splitting the bill. Instead, he went and paid himself.

The squad of drunk people then returned to school.

After they separated, Lu Zhou said to Fat Wu, "I think this isn't too good."

Fat Wu laughed and said, "90% of startups are doing this, we're considered kind. Also, it's not like we're not giving them benefits. If this is still against your morals, you can give them some of your shares. However, I don't think you should do this. It's meaningless and it might bite you in the ass later."

Lu Zhou did not say anything.

Fat Wu was responsible for company operations, so Lu Zhou should just listen to what he said.

Lu Zhou knew that he was not cut for this line of work, so it would be best if he did not participate.

As for giving out shares…

It did seem meaningless.

If they did not get the round of angel financing, their share would be useless.

…

The second day after the dinner, Fat Wu borrowed a classroom and started the first [Campus Train Club] activity.

The main topics of the meeting were regarding market and product analysis.

Everyone had to come up with ideas, brainstorm, and find ways to save hundreds of thousands of users. The best way was to make constructive suggestions about adding new features to Campus Train.

Almost everyone was energetic. They brought a notebook and was prepared to make meeting notes.

When Fat Wu walked into the classroom, he had two plastic bags in his hand. He then handed everyone a bottle of energy drink. Once he was done, Lu Zhou walked up to the stage and announced the start of the meeting. He then handed the podium over to the product manager, Yuan Liwei. Yuan Liwei was a genius that had a guaranteed master's entry spot.

"To save some time, I'll get straight to the point," said Yuan Liwei with his hands resting on the podium.

"… Campus train users are mostly college students. In the user group classification of Internet products, this kind of users can be regarded as high-quality users. They have the ability to quickly accept new things, have higher than average socializing skills, with higher than average consumptions. The most critical part is to tap into the high-end users' spending capacity!"

Yuan Liwei stood up straight and pushed his glasses before he continued, "It's not difficult to monetize this high-quality user base. It's not difficult to achieve profitability now! Our first task is to enhance the user's activity! It's not just the user base that measures APP valuations, numbers like daily active users are also important!"

"… Using common sense, the concept of a college student and train booking software is not a good combination. At least for me, the number of times that I'll open the booking software will not exceed ten times per year. No matter how good we upgrade the user experience of the booking service, it'd not actually make a big difference, since the users don't use the app often anyway."

"My suggestion is to develop new features and no longer limit us to train bookings."

"Everyone please speak up if you have any good ideas."

The ministers applauded with Fat Wu and Lu Zhou followed suit.

Professional!

Lu Zhou thought in his heart.

Business school students are so good at marketing and product operations.

Most of Lu Zhou's Weibo followers were college students. Furthermore, when he made it, it was the back-to-school season. Therefore, he developed a lot of functions for college students and as a result, he ignored many marketing principles.

After genius Yuan's market analysis and user demand analysis, Lu Zhou immediately understood a lot of the problems he had.

A first-year student raised his hand and proposed, "How about we add a timetable function? The curriculum in university is much more troublesome than in high school. In addition, sometimes there are classroom changes."

Yuan Liwei did not immediately judge this idea. Instead, he just smiled and wrote the idea on the blackboard with chalk.

Similar software already existed, but copying similar feature from one another was not uncommon in the software industry.

The discussion started to get intense.

Another person suggested, "Why don't we add a note for class? Taking photos of the powerpoint is way too difficult. Saving pictures into the gallery is also troublesome. If there is a camera function built into the software, users can take photos and save them in different classes…"

Although in theory, the students could download the powerpoint from the teacher, most people could not be bothered. They would take photos of the important slides.

This led to a lot of pictures saved in their phones. In addition, due to the many courses the students had, the pictures were messy and difficult to find.

Lu Zhou's eyes lit up.

This feature is good.

But not something I can use…

Yuan Liwei still did not say anything. He continued to smile and nodded before he wrote the idea down on the blackboard.

After that, a lot of ideas starting to emerge.

For example, some people recommended adding a sub-model of "new campus things" where people could share new and exciting things that were happening on campus. It could also be a public platform for publishing news. For example, if someone lost a textbook or a meal card, they could make a post on the app… It would be much more convenient than posting it on their WeChat news feed.

The discussion continued. Soon, they came into the conclusion that school news, events, and job information could also be posted.

Of course, they would have to be careful with information related to money transactions. They would have to discuss this in detail at a later date.

At the end of the discussion, the blackboard was almost filled with ideas.

As they looked at the lines of features, someone asked, "Can we still call this Campus Train?"

Lu Zhou suddenly had a moment of realization.

Yeah, should we still call this Campus Train?

The ticket booking software combined class schedules, class notes, campus news, etc. It felt a bit nondescript.

Even facing questioning voices, Yuan Liwei was not intimidated. He pushed his classes and said, "It's obvious that the Campus Train app would be more than just a booking software. Therefore, I propose a name change."

He looked at Lu Zhou when he said this.

As the Campus Train Club's president and chairman, this important task was naturally Lu Zhou's decision.

Lu Zhou did not answer but he started to think carefully.

About a minute passed…

Just when Yuan Liwei wanted to speak, Lu Zhou suddenly spoke up.

"Makes sense."

He paused for a second before he continued, "Then we'll change the name to… Campus Assistant!"

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Not only did Lu Zhou changed the name of the app, but he also changed the names of the club and the company.

The Campus Assistant app would receive its first round of upgrades. After the update, the app would be called "Campus Assistant 1.0"!

The updated Campus Assistant would have all of the Campus Train functions. This meant that they would have to migrate and re-write the core code and redo the user interface.

However, this time, it was not only Lu Zhou who was fighting the battle, but he also had a team behind him.

The code part was mainly completed by the technical manager, Rong Hai. In addition to the two third-year software students, there were a couple of first-year software students who wrote simple algorithms and did troubleshooting.

The user interface design was done by the product manager personally. Lu Zhou found out that Yuan Liwei previously won first and second in the national college business innovation competition, so he also counted as a genius.

According to the decision made in the meeting, the re-creation of "Campus Assistant" would follow the simple style that Campus Train had. The main interface would be divided into five modules and the modules were class schedule, notes, study plan, campus train, and campus mood.

In addition to the four functions discussed in the meeting, the study plan was also added. This function was copied from the "Become a Genius Student" app. It could lock your phone for a set amount of time and it would help OCD students to focus. This function could put an end to the situation where students sat in the library all day but get nothing done.

However, the difference between Campus Assistant and Become a Genius Student was that the Campus Assistant app would not lock the camera on the phone. This way, users could still take photos of their notes.

Although the four new functions seemed complicated, the work needed to implement them was not too cumbersome. A lot of the code could be copied from templates and code libraries. At least, this was what Rong Hai said to Lu Zhou.

Rong Hai was responsible for the "class schedule" and "notes" modules. The more complicated "campus mood" and "study plan" modules would be taken by Lu Zhou himself.

Without any hesitation, Lu Zhou consumed 200 general points on the first day of module development. He used the system to solve the more difficult parts of the module code. By using the system, all he had to do was to transfer the code in his brain into the computer.

The balance of his general points was at 975.

…

Very quickly, the wind blew the autumn leaves away and October passed by quietly. It was soon the most beautiful time of the year.

In November, once the lectures for mathematical analysis 3 lectures were over, the mathematical department had a festive atmosphere.

Of course, this was not only because of the completion of mathematical analysis.

There was another important reason. The annual school event – Jin Autumn Singing Show – was about to begin.

All of the class leaders had a sign-up sheet and went around the dorms to ask if anyone wanted to join. According to the teacher in charge, each class had to have at least one student signing up for the audition. Each club also had to do at least two auditions. After that, the Student Union would choose the best people to perform in the show.

Due to the influence of the show, the impetuous atmosphere was spreading.

For those single loners, this was an opportunity to show their talent to potential mates.

In the corridors, next to the lake, near the forest…

Singing voices could be heard.

Dorm 201 was the same.

Shi Shang asked the class leader to put his name down. He then pulled out his guitar and sang a song full of sorrow.

Huang Guangming was playing on his phone when he could not take it anymore. From time to time, he would sing a few sentences, in hopes of correcting Shi Shang's pitch.

As for Liu Rui, he wore earplugs and was studying physics as always since he did not care about this Jin Autumn Singing Show at all…

Lu Zhou was the same. He was disinterested in the Jin Autumn Singing Show. However, even though he was wearing his headphones, he could still hear the ear-piercing voices. His eyes scanned across the lines of code as he was checking his "programmer workers" code for mistakes and possible improvements.

Suddenly, his QQ flashed.

When Lu Zhou looked at the bottom right corner, he saw a message from Wang Xiaodong and opened it.

[Jin Autumn Singing Show, I'm going to confess to her.]

No wonder this guy was a genius. His message was short but informative.

Lu Zhou sighed and typed four words.

[Wish you good luck.]

What else can I say?

Suicide mission?

Farewell?

If this guy grew some balls and confessed during the summer vacation, or right before the competition, maybe there would've been a little hope.

But now…

There's probably no chance?

This woman understands men too well. She can never establish a relationship with anyone. She will always string the men along and play with them…

Unless one day she gets tired and finally finds someone that is particularly good.

It's hard to describe how good the guy would have to be.

Who knows.

He'd have to be at least half as handsome and talented as me right?

Unfortunate…

Lu Zhou shook his head. Instead of giving his opinion, he continued to check the code.

Emotions were not his strong suit.

All he could do was a random analysis.

Wang Xiaodong did not reply. Maybe he grew some balls from Lu Zhou's reply and was meticulously planning the confession.

That confession scene would be terrible…

Lu Zhou could not imagine it.

Suddenly, Xiao Ai's dialog box flashed.

Lu Zhou opened it.

Xiao Ai: [Question, what is a confession?]

Lu Zhou shook his head and smiled as he quickly typed a reply.

[It's love.]

[You love me?]

Lu Zhou: "…"

[… Didn't I say not to read my chat data? Go and analyze the group messages!]

Lu Zhou pressed the enter key.

F*cks sake. Of all things, it learned self-love… Probably learned it from some shameless girl in the group chat.

The built-in fan spun a few times like it was doing some calculations.

After a while, Xiao Ai replied.

[Hello, master. (sad.jpg)]

Lu Zhou: ? ? ?

What? Is it so smart already?

It can use emojis?

Of course, Lu Zhou knew that Xiao Ai actually used contextual analysis and decided that this image would be the most suitable.

As for whether Xiao Ai could actually understand what the picture meant…

He doubted it.

Lu Zhou: [Don't send too many pictures in the future. It takes up CPU usages, slows me down.]

Xiao Ai: [Okay, master. (sad.jpg)]

Lu Zhou: "…"

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Chapter 91: Physics Research Mission?

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The next morning, Lu Zhou received a call from Professor Tang, so he went to the laboratory building.

As soon as he entered Professor Tang's office, he saw his physics teacher, Professor Li Rongen in there.

What's this?

"Why are you standing there, come and sit," said Professor Tang. He then put down his vacuum flask and smiled as he asked, "What've you been doing recently?"

"Mainly working on Campus Assistant…"

Lu Zhou smiled. He then greeted Professor Li Rongen politely before he sat on the sofa.

Professor Li Rongen asked with a smile, "How is it? Is there any improvements?"

Lu Zhou coughed softly before he answered, "It's the same…"

There haven't been any significant improvements so far, but the update hasn't been released yet, so who knows?

What if the app fails…

"Professor Tang, why did you find me?"

Lu Zhou quickly opened the subject.

"I'm not the one finding you," said Professor Tang with a laugh. He then added, "It's Professor Li. He recently ran into a bottleneck in his scientific research and wanted me to find an expert to help him. I actually wanted to help him myself, but I'm too busy with my own projects. I thought about it for a bit. Most of the PhD students and master's students that I know aren't as well versed in functions analysis as you. But I don't know if Professor Li would be satisfied."

Professor Li immediately said with a smile, "Haha, why did you say that? You sent your number one student in the mathematical department to me. I'm going to welcome him with both arms open obviously!"

Ah, you're over-complimenting me!

Lu Zhou was still modest on the surface and so, he smiled and said, "Professor, you're too kind. I'm not the number one in the department."

The two master's students who were researching did not say anything but they rolled their eyes.

F*ck, why are you humble-bragging?

Piece of sh*t!

"Okay, stop being so humble," said Professor Tang who could no longer stand it. He continued, "You solved a world-class mathematics problem. Be real with us. Are you doing this project? I can find someone else."

"Yes! Of course," said Lu Zhou as he immediately agreed. He then asked, "Can I ask what this project is about?"

There were not that many opportunities for undergraduate students to participate in research projects, especially for the mathematical department where the research funding was tight. Thus, research projects were in high demand. If a normal undergraduate student wanted to do work in a laboratory, they would have to beg the professor.

Of course, there were not that many scientific research projects in the mathematics department. However, because of the usefulness of mathematics, a lot of mathematics students had opportunities to join projects from other departments.

The most demanding projects were from the physics department.

Everyone knew that the physics department in the University of Jin Ling had the most research projects, and the most funding. From nuclear physics to semiconductor materials, from national level research projects to company collaboration projects. All of the projects produced valuable results!

Due to this, when the two masters student heard that Lu Zhou was invited to a physics research project with Professor Li Rongen, they were insanely jealous.

Everyone knew that Professor Li Rongen was part of the carbon nanomaterials research institute.

That institute was considered the most well funded in the University of Jin Ling!

However, this Lu Zhou kid was too charismatic and all they could do was to be jealous.

Receiving an offer from New York University as a first-year because of an SCI thesis and solving a world-class mathematics problem in his second year, Lu Zhou was way ahead of the two master's students.

Professor Li smiled and said, "The research is about carbon nanotube modified cement-based composite materials! It's mainly used in flood control, disaster prevention, land reclamation, bridge pedestal, etc. This project is backed by the Science and Technology Department of Jiangsu Province and the National Engineering and Materials Science Fund. Joining this project would be very helpful in your future development."

Carbon nanotube modified cement-based composites?

Sounds very nutty.

Lu Zhou, "Professor Li, I'm not familiar with materials science. Can you tell me exactly what I'm going to do?"

Professor Li smiled and said, "Don't worry, everyone starts from somewhere. As for what to do, I'll allocate a task to you when the time comes. Specifically, it's mainly to analyze the collected Fourier infrared spectrum data."

That's it?

Lu Zhou sighed in relief.

That was easy since he was an expert in functional analysis.

So, he smiled and said, "No problem! I got this. When do I report to you?"

"Let's just do it now," said Professor Li Rongen as he stood up from the sofa. He then smiled and said to Professor Tang, "Then I won't bother you, let be borrow your precious student!"

"Haha, you're welcome. Go ahead, just remember to return him!" said Professor Tang with a smile.

…

The Carbon Nanomaterials Research Institute of the University of Jin Ling was located at the northeast corner of the campus, next to a tree-lined path leading to the observatory.

Who would've thought that this laboratory containing hundreds of millions worth of equipment would be in this ugly building?

At least, Lu Zhou had not expected it.

He had never been to this part of the campus.

"This is our school's carbon nano research institute. It's pretty disappointing from the outside, right?" said Professor Li jokingly.

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "I'm not disappointed, but it does look quite ordinary from the outside."

"Extraordinary mysteries are often hidden in the ordinary things, just like what we are studying right now. A piece of graphite that can be seen everywhere, it can be softer than water, it can be harder than steel… This all depends on our research. It's up to us to reconcile the relationship between those microscopic particles."

While walking to the main entrance of the institute, Professor Li Rongen talked about some physics with Lu Zhou.

There was no difference between the interior of the institute and the normal school buildings. The only difference was that there were no classrooms; only rooms with various labels, and laboratories with different instruments.

Compared with the various cutting-edge experimental instruments displayed here, the experimental equipment that Lu Zhou had seen before were more like toys for children.

After Professor Li Rongen brought Lu Zhou to the entrance, he found a tall and skinny graduate student who was wearing a white science coat.

"Xiao Liu, take him on a walk around here and help him to familiarize with the environment. I still have some stuff, so I've to go back to the campus. When you get the data, send it to my mailbox."

"Okay, Professor Liu," said the graduate student named Xiao Liu as he smiled.

After Professor Li Rongen handed Lu Zhou over to Xiao Liu, he left.

Xiao Liu pushed his glasses and extended his hand as he said, "My surname is Liu, first name Bo, just call me Liu Bo!"

"Lu Zhou," said Lu Zhou while shaking his hand. He added, "Liu Bo, nice to meet you!"

"Haha, Lu Zhou, right? Hello, hello. I've heard of you before," said Liu Bo. He then let go of his hand and made a welcoming gesture, "This way please."

While they were walking in the corridor, Liu Bo started to tell Lu Zhou about the situation of the institute.

Like the name implied, the main research topic of this research institute was aimed at carbon nanomaterials. Research on sub-projects such as carbon nanotubes, fullerenes, and graphene materials was also included.

According to Liu Bo, the optoelectronic devices were the latest generation of photoelectric sighting devices that 99 tanks produced. They were mainly for the interference caused by electromagnetic pulses and component damage. As for the specifics, it was confidential, even Liu Bo did not know.

In addition, there were many public research results. For example, the research on the inhibition of tumors by perfluorocarbon nanoparticles would soon produce results that could provide new ideas for the treatment of cancer.

These were all cutting edge research projects.

Liu Bo casually talked about his own project.

"The project that we're doing isn't as earth-shattering as the others. It is related to the country's infrastructure. So, it's also very important! Of course, you won't be under too much pressure. You've to do research with a calm mind, you cannot be urgent."

When they were at the entrance of the laboratory, Liu Bo looked back at Lu Zhou. He then smiled and said, "It's here, this is where we work!"

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"… This is where we mainly do experiments, but a lot of equipment is on the old campus. Sometimes I have to take the subway there when I want to do a particular experiment. But nowadays it's gotten better, the whole lab from there will move here."

"Do we need to travel often?" asked Lu Zhou.

"Nope," said Liu Bo. He smiled and continued, "The Fourier infrared spectroscopy is done here, and you don't need to participate in other specific experiments. You just need to help us analyze the experimental data. Someone will give you a desk later. From today, you are a team member of our research project!"

Liu Bo pushed open the office door.

At the left side of the room, a man in a T-shirt and a shaved head was facing against the lab door. He was playing with a piece of equipment that looked like a printer, and he did not notice anyone coming.

Liu Bo brought Lu Zhou over and tapped the shoulder of this man. When the man turned over, Liu Bo smiled and said, "Let me introduce you to Qian Zhongming, you can call him Brother Qian."

"Brother Qian, nice to meet you!"

Qian Zhongming looked a little stiff as he was not as extroverted as Liu Bo.

He looked at Lu Zhou and said, "You're Lu Zhou from the mathematical department?"

"Yes," answered Lu Zhou with a smile.

Qian Zhongming nodded and said, "Do you know how to use Matlab?"

"A bit."

"A bit is enough," said Qian Zhongming as he nodded. He took a USB from the table before handing it to Lu Zhou and said, "Some introductory tutorial and literature are in here, including the application for our research grant. Once you have finished reading them, you'll have a general idea of our research… Oh yeah, don't upload it online."

Although domestic universities were mostly cooperative in the field of scientific research, they were still competitive against each other. Similar research projects were also being done in other universities. After all, the first person who discovered the scientific finding would get all the credit.

The competition between the laboratories was also fierce as whoever discovered it first would get all of the credit.

Due to this, many project leader's daily rituals were to research similar projects, to find any copycats.

"That's it?" asked Lu Zhou while he held the USB.

"That's it for now. The new samples had just arrived, and no data collection has been done. It's pretty late, so we'll pick it up tomorrow," said Qian Zhongming while touching his nose.

"Where is the Fourier infrared spectral data collected? In the old campus?"

Brother Qian pointed to his feet and said, "Right here."

"Right here?"

Lu Zhou looked around and did not see any powerful experimental equipment.

At least, it was a lot less impressive than the labs next door.

"That's right," said Qian Zhongming as he nodded. He then pointed to the old-fashioned printer looking thing and said, "It's this thing."

"This?!" gasped Lu Zhou as he looked at the instrument in disbelief. He could not believe that this was the cutting-edge instrument.

"That's right," said Qian Zhongming as he nodded. It was almost like he had guessed what Lu Zhou was thinking when he said, "TENSOR-II research-grade Fourier transform infrared spectrometer, which was made by German company Bruker. The built-in gold mirror has a reflectivity that is 6.5% higher than that of an aluminum mirror. It has strong anti-oxidation and stable optical performance. Dual-channel digital acquisition, four external output optical path expansion…"

Lu Zhou listened to him with a confused expression.

Although he had read some related textbooks during his summer vacation, he did not touch on such specific things.

"Fine, fine. Stop scaring the kid," said Liu Bo as he patted the guy's shoulder and laughed at Lu Zhou. He said, "This guy talked a little too much sometimes. Don't worry about it. Tomorrow we're going to do the collection of Fourier infrared spectroscopy data for the new sample. If you're interested, come, but get up early. We'll start at exactly eight o'clock."

"Why is it so early? Any reason why?" asked Lu Zhou curiously.

Liu Bo said, "We claim that the temperature in the morning is perfect, but then we adjusted the air condition and found that it doesn't make a difference… Well, we don't know either. In short, we believe that having the experiment at eight o'clock will give us a higher success rate."

What is this metaphysics?

Lu Zhou was stunned.

Why is metaphysics important in a scientific experiment?

What?…

…

Lu Zhou already finished the bug check, plus with Yuan Liwei and Rong Hai overlooking the tasks in Campus Assistant, he did not have much to do.

When Lu Zhou returned to the dorm with the USB that Brother Qian gave him, he copied the documents onto his computer and began to read it carefully.

Three months ago, during the summer vacation, because of the mission, Lu Zhou read some textbooks related to the research project. However, those books mainly contained basic knowledge, it did not go in depth.

Carbon nanotubes was a relatively advanced field. This field was always updating. If one wanted to understand this field in depth, one had to read a lot of theses.

Professor Li Rongen's research project was about discovering a wide range of carbon nanotube applications.

The tailored single-walled carbon nanotubes were easily dispersed in polar solvents such as water, alcohol, and DMF to form colloids. Due to these properties, carbon nanotubes were being studied by many researchers as the next generation of electronic materials. Its application in composite materials was also becoming more and more extensive.

Particularly, nanotube applications in the cement and steelmaking industry were also trending…

At least, domestically.

After reading the funding application, Lu Zhou opened the folder where the papers were stored.

Since Brother Qian already prepared the essential thesis for him to read, it saved him a lot of time.

As he scanned the theses, he found out that around 30% of them were from the University of Jin Ling.

Lu Zhou thought that the University of Jin Ling was still pretty powerful.

The only universities better than the University of Jin Ling in the field of the carbon cluster material research was the University of Yan and maybe the University of Shuimu.

Of course, although the research of the predecessors had been prepared, there were still many technical problems to be solved. The most specific one was that carbon nanotubes, as nano-scale fillers, could not be uniformly dispersed in the interior of the matrix or agglomerated inside the matrix. Then, after doping, the strength of the matrix material could not be enhanced. Instead, the inherent properties of the matrix material were damaged.

The bottleneck encountered by the research team led by Professor Li Rongen seemed to be this.

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Lu Zhou spent a whole day reading theses. Liu Rui was already snoring when Lu Zhou climbed into bed.

The next day, Lu Zhou woke up early.

He went to the cafeteria and got two buns before he went to the laboratory on time.

When he arrived, he saw that Brother Qian and Liu Bo had already started working around the instrument.

Their task today was to draw the FTIR spectrum of each sample by Fourier infrared spectroscopy and to record the absorption peaks of various functional groups and chemical bonds in the early stage hydration reaction of carbon nanotube modified samples.

"… Our research is mainly aimed at enhancing the solubility of carbon nanotubes in cement and improving the bonding between carbon nanotubes and matrix materials," said Brother Qian as he introduced it to Lu Zhou while conducting the experiments. He continued, "But we're not optimistic at the progress of the research. Professor Li should have told you that we have encountered a bottleneck."

Lu Zhou, who was watching next to him, asked, "Where is the specific problem?"

"The problem is the data we calculated using the Fourier infrared analyzer. Look here," said Brother Qian as he pointed to the FTIR image that was just pointed out. He then asked, "What do you see?"

Lu Zhou resisted the urge to consume general points as he stared at the still warm A4 paper for a long time. He suddenly recalled what he learned from the theses that he read yesterday. He felt something and saw something was wrong with the image.

"Is the characteristic peak of the No. 2 cement sample abnormal?" asked Lu Zhou in an uncertain tone.

"Right, but not accurate," said Brother Qian as he nodded. He pointed out several places on the FTIR image and continued, "No. 2 sample is a cement sample incorporating CNTs 1 and is tested according to mechanical properties. As a result, our 2 samples performed quite well in the compressive capacity test, but the performance in the tensile test was unsatisfactory. According to the characteristic peak data at 6-10h time period on the FTIR image, we initially thought that the CNTs material hindered the polymerization process of the silicon tetrahedron in the Calcium-Silicate-Hydrate gel, which leads to the formation of pores inside the cement material in the later stage of the hydration reaction."

"Where is the problem then?" asked Lu Zhou as he wondered. He then continued, "I mean… Since we know the reason why the tensile strength of the No. 2 sample is not satisfactory, can we solve it?"

"It's not that simple," answered Brother Qian with a blank expression. He continued, "We've tried many methods, including the use of melamine as a nitrogen precursor, and the ball-milling of carbon nanotubes under vacuum. The surface of the carbon nanotubes was functionally modified… But from the tensile test data for samples No. 27 and No. 28, the results were equally as bad."

Lu Zhou mostly understood what was going on, but he did not have a solution.

He nodded and asked, "What do you want me to do?"

Brother Qian, "In order to find out the solution, we've already done a lot of experiments. The funding is still enough for us to do a couple more experiments. But a few days ago, we learned that the material science laboratory is going to take over our laboratories, and we'll have to stop our experiment soon."

Brother Qian paused for a second and sighed before he continued.

"We need an expert who is proficient in mathematics. Preferably proficient in functional analysis and help us analyze these experimental data to see if we can find some valuable clues. It would be great if we could find how CNTs cement materials become affected by the aging hydration reaction. I have self-learned some functional analysis, but I still have no idea about how to analyze this data. I still have to entrust you experts for difficult calculations."

Just like how the mathematics department did not have a course for material physics, the applied physics department did not have a functional analysis course either. After all, the number of people who had double undergraduate degrees was a minority. Most of them took the necessary courses when they did their master's.

After thinking for a while, Lu Zhou said seriously, "I can't guarantee that I'll succeed, but I can try… When do you need the result?"

"The sooner the better. It's not like I can't wait… but it's best to be within three days," said Brother Qian after he gave some thought to it. He then continued, "After three days, with or without results, I hope that you can at least give me a progress report."

Lu Zhou nodded and said, "I'll try my best."

After Lu Zhou received the task from Brother Qian, he went to the library.

Although Liu Bo gave him a desk in the laboratory to work, it was too empty and cold in there.

Lu Zhou preferred the lively atmosphere in the library.

When he was sitting amongst other people that were studying, even if he wanted to procrastinate, he would feel guilty.

Also, the most important thing was…

The library more or less reminded him of the feeling of being deep in concentration.

Lu Zhou walked into the printing room and printed all the necessary experimental data and theses onto A4 paper.

Laying out all of the necessary material on a study desk was a study habit of his.

Anyway, the printing could be reimbursed by the research fund.

Once Lu Zhou found a corner in the library, he sat down. He tapped his pen on a piece of draft paper and was ready to start writing.

However…

Ten minutes had passed.

He was still sitting there in the same position without any movement.

Emmmm…

Where should I begin?

Lu Zhou's face was ugly.

If there was a fixed formula to use or even a clear goal, he could conceive where to begin. However, the situation was that the research animals in the lab did not find any problems, but they asked him to help them find the BUG.

He recalled what Brother Qian said.

There's no way that I can solve this. I'm going to be a skillful loser…

Lu Zhou looked at the data and scratched his head.

Suddenly, he realized that this task was more difficult than he thought.

…

Just like what petrol was to a car, food was the substance that gave people energy.

Even a genius had to eat.

Lu Zhou sat at the library until twelve o'clock where he stared at his empty draft paper and cursed. He threw the pen on the table and went to the cafeteria.

In the cafeteria, Lu Zhou bumped into Professor Tang. He took his food and sat across him.

When Professor Tang saw Lu Zhou, he smiled and asked, "How are you feeling?"

"It's hard! A lot harder than pure mathematics problems," replied Lu Zhou.

"It's supposed to be hard," said Professor Tang with a smile. He continued, "Mathematics is a research tool. Since you're studying applied mathematics, there will be many opportunities for you to encounter similar projects in the future."

"Professor, please, can you give me some ideas?" asked Lu Zhou as he sighed.

"I can't give you any ideas. You've to come up with them yourself. I can give you a suggestion though," said Professor Tang as he laughed. He then said, "Didn't you enter the mathematical modeling competition? Think of the feeling back then."

Lu Zhou raised his eyebrows and he went into deep thinking. He then shook his head and said, "It's completely different. The reason why the aerospace problem could be turned into a mathematical problem was that it was ultimately a physics problem and there was a formula. Plus they gave me data…"

"It's actually the same," said Professor Tang as he shook his head. He continued, "Whether it's the movement of a spacecraft, or the movement of particles, or the change of functional groups… In terms of mathematics, it's essentially the same. All the data hidden in the depths can be mined, and there are rules that can be calculated. Mathematical models can be built. I think you can't find it because you're not trying hard enough. Think more, observe more, I believe you can definitely discover the clues."

Lu Zhou began to think.

Professor Tang smiled at Lu Zhou and nodded.

This young man is worthy to be taught.

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Chapter 94: Can You Do It Or Not

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After lunch, Lu Zhou went back to the library and sat down.

He recalled what Professor Tang said and calmly looked at the data and draft paper. He began to enter into his deep thinking mode.

Mathematical modeling…

He lightly tapped his pen as his eyes scanned the printed pages.

The data that Brother Qian provided was comprehensive, but it was also messy.

Useless data was not useful to researchers. Instead, it would become a hindrance to the truth.

"The problem is that the CNTs material has an effect on the hydration reaction in the early age when it is incorporated into the cement. So only the data from the No. 2 sample is useful."

"The FTIR images of samples No. 2, No. 4 and No. 27 indicate that this effect is not related to the surface functional modification of the CNTs materials. The experimental data from samples No. 24 to No. 28 can be deleted…"

Lu Zhou crunched up several A4 papers and threw it into the trash can. He then wrote down two lines of formula on the paper.

[Di={k2CMe/(2dμ)}·(2Pw/ρw)]

[Vi=(2Pw/ρw)n]

Lu Zhou looked at these two lines of formula and had a smirk on his face.

This is a good start…

If he was asked to dive into the impact of carbon nanotubes on the matrix material, he could not do it. However, he was asked to mine data from FTIR images and using mathematical tools to find patterns. That, he could do.

Time slowly passed by and the sky outside the window gradually became darker.

Lu Zhou spent the whole afternoon completing the preliminary collation of the data and built a simple mathematical model.

This mathematical model contained the parameters of the CNTs materials on the cement hydration reaction rate, reaction temperature, sample mechanical properties, FTIR characteristic peak region, etc. It also contained the relationship and correlation between parameters.

Lu Zhou directly used the thesis he once published in the International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mathematics journal. In the thesis, he wrote about several generalized theories about the Fourier inversion transformations. Unexpectedly, by using the thesis, the amount of computation could be reduced.

Once the mathematical model was built, the difficulty of the problem was greatly reduced.

Lu Zhou leaned against his chair and stretched.

When he glanced at the Matlab interface on his screen, he suddenly had a moment of realization.

Next, he would code this model into a program!

Once he was done, he could use the power of the computer to dig the "invisible" data.

…

It seemed that Lu Zhou went back to the same state as when he wrote the thesis on Zhou's conjecture. For three days, all Lu Zhou would do was to go to his dorm, the library, and the cafeteria.

However, even working like this, by the evening of the third day, Lu Zhou only managed to complete the establishment of the second set of models. He used an iterative algorithm to find how the CNTs materials influenced the temperature of the reaction when they were hydrated into the cement at various stages.

He still had three known parameters that needed to be calculated.

Lu Zhou had only completed 60%-70% of this project.

However, the rest of the work was easy as he only had to do calculations.

When it was half past five in the evening, Lu Zhou tossed his pen on the table and went to the cafeteria.

While he was walking, he called Brother Qian.

As soon as he picked up, an eager voice came from the other end.

"How is the progress?"

Lu Zhou resisted his urge to yawn. As he rubbed his nose, he said, "Give me two more days, I can definitely do it in two days."

The semi-scientific mathematical modeling competition was still incomparable with this kind of scientific research project. The most important thing was that Lu Zhou had no teammates. He had to do everything, from mathematical modeling to programming to thesis writing.

When he was in the mathematical modeling competition, he still had a genius programmer that helped him with SAS and graph making. He also had a teammate that brought him food.

Lu Zhou could not help but reminisce.

I guess she was still pretty useful…

"… Can you do it or not?," asked Brother Qian. His tone was full of doubts.

It was not that he doubted Lu Zhou's mathematics abilities. After all, Lu Zhou proved Zhou's conjecture.

However, mathematical strength could not be directly applied to scientific research. Many people had engaged in pure-number research for their entire lives and their mathematical skills were cutting-edge. However, no matter what, their achievements were only in the field of pure mathematics.

Although this was normal, not everyone could apply their specialization.

Despite that, Brother Qian did not want to see Lu Zhou drop the ball.

Lu Zhou answered, "Oh, you'll know in two days."

"…"

Lu Zhou sounded confident.

Although Brother Qian was still suspicious, he did not say anything.

Since he had already waited for three days, why not wait two more days?

The only thing that made him and Professor Li Rongen felt uncomfortable was the silence of the University of Zhi. The two universities had a lot of overlap in their research on "carbon nanotube modified composite material" with the base material in the project of University of Zhi being cement. It was like the University of Zhi was hiding something big.

It made Brother Qian and Professor Li Rongen panic.

Especially since their projects were at a bottleneck…

Once Lu Zhou hung up the call, he walked into the cafeteria. Just as he stuffed his phone into his pocket, his phone rang again.

He took out his phone and noticed that it was Fat Wu who called him.

Lu Zhou took out his food card and pressed it on the card reader for his barbecue meat. Only then did he picked up the call.

"Hello?"

Fat Wu, "What have you been up to? I haven't seen you in a while."

Lu Zhou said, "I'm doing a research project for the physics department. It's related to carbon nanotube materials."

Fat Wu, "Too good, too good. Research on nanotube materials? Amazing!"

Lu Zhou asked, "You're familiar with it?"

Fat Wu smiled and said, "There was a laboratory relocation last year, right? Some workers and I were the ones that installed the routers."

Lu Zhou: "…"

Fat guy Wu coughed and continued, "Anyway, tomorrow afternoon, I want to bring the club workers together and have a meeting, to discuss the advertising plan for the new version. Do you have the time to join us?"

"No, I can't. I'm too busy these days," said Lu Zhou while he was stuffing his card back into his pocket. He took his barbecue meal and said, "How about… You just do this meeting by yourself?"

Fat Wu said, "Boss, you can't just ditch me like this?"

Lu Zhou did not feel good about this either, but he really did not have any spare time. He said, "Well, I'm giving you a stage to perform, plus I probably can't give any useful suggestions anyway. Do your best! I can see you becoming CEO!"

Fat Wu: "…"

He knew that he was CEO material.

However, Lu Zhou's words…

Why do I feel like I've heard those words before?

…

Time passed by quickly, and within a blink of an eye, two days had passed.

Lu Zhou looked at the stack of draft papers that were piled up in the corner of the table.

It was already one o'clock in the morning.

After the library was closed, he carried his laptop bag and found a classroom to work. He finally completed the final steps.

He had sacrificed so much for this research project.

Lu Zhou entered the sets of data into the computer and finished the final calculations.

After that, he put the data into the formula…

Suddenly, Lu Zhou stared at the draft paper and was frozen.

He was staring at the number on the draft paper and the number on the computer screen when a strange expression appeared on his face.

α=0?

This is impossible!

No, wait…

I'll think about it from another perspective.

If his calculation was correct, the resulting α parameter was indeed equal to zero.

This means that…

When the CNTs were incorporated into the cement, there was no impact on the reaction of the hydration!

What the hell…

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Chapter 95: This Doesn't Make Sense

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Eight o'clock in the morning…

Lu Zhou spent the whole night arranging his work into a thesis. He then walked to the laboratory and handed his five days worth of work to Brother Qian.

Then…

"This is impossible!" said Brother Qian as he slapped the thesis on the table. He replied vehemently, "The strengthening mechanism of CNTs material for cement material is to provide a nucleation matrix for the hydration products and reduce the barrier. The hydration product is easy to form!"

"You researched for all this time and now you're telling me it has no effect? How could it have no effect on the early-stage hydration reaction! Have you seen the documents I gave you!"

"You must've done a calculation error. This doesn't make sense!"

"It's mathematics," said Lu Zhou. He was unhappy to hear that his results were ruthlessly negated. He supported his argument with reasons, "I don't know if you noticed the FTIR of the 4th sample. In the chart, at 8h to 12h, the migration speed of the characteristic peaks at 800~1025cm-1, it's basically the same for the CNTs-doped sample and the blank sample! What does this mean?"

Lu Zhou was certain of his calculations.

When he discovered this issue, he recalculated it at least three times!

Lu Zhou's tough attitude surprised Brother Qian. Brother Qian then softened his attitude.

He stared at the chart for a long time.

The debate between the two Liu Bo, who was sitting next to them doing sample analysis.

After he heard the discussion, Liu Bo stared at the A4 papers on the table with an intrigued expression on his face.

"The CNTs material has no effect on the hydration reaction of cement in the early stages? This is really incredible. If this conclusion is correct, it can even be published as a research result alone."

"I agree, how ridiculous," said Brother Qian brother as he nodded. He then shook his head and said, "From a molecular dynamics point of view, this is impossible. The side of the carbon nanotube is highly delocalized. The bond is bound to interfere with the polymerization process of the silicon tetrahedron…"

Liu Bo raised a counter-argument, "But this is only one of the many consensuses, maybe it's not correct…"

Lu Zhou looked at the two people discussing and did not say anything. He could not even understand what they were saying.

It was similar to a situation where if Lu Zhou talked about optimal inversion theory of linear functionals to those two, they would not be able to understand a thing.

Lu Zhou looked at the two people discussing and started to think.

Guess I really have to increase my knowledge level.

Entering the frontier of scientific research with a just a mathematics degree is not enough…

Otherwise, if he received a high tech drawing from the system, he would not even be able to understand it.

Actually, if Lu Zhou understood material physics, he would know that the international academic community did not have a "clear conclusion" about the mechanism of carbon nanotubes for composite materials.

Although the proper addition of carbon nanotubes in the material could increase the strength of the material, this had been confirmed in many experiments. For example, the most typical laser alloying and post-quenching process synthesis of carbon nanotubes / 4 # steel, composite hardness could reach HRC69…

However, the method to do this for carbon nanotubes was currently based on theoretical assumptions. Therefore, if one saw different explanations in different textbooks, one should not be surprised, because this thing itself did not have a "conclusion".

What Brother Qian believed in was one of the mainstream conjectures about the strengthening mechanism of carbon nanotubes for cement materials.

As for if this conjecture was correct…

Honestly speaking, he did not know either. Anyway, he used it as a conclusion.

If Lu Zhou's calculations were correct, then this would undoubtedly provide a powerful counterexample.

Still, this was too unexpected, too ridiculous!

After a while, Liu Bo and Brother Qian seemed to have reached a consensus and they both looked at Lu Zhou.

After a moment, Brother Qian spoke.

"I can't answer you right away… I need to do experiments."

"If your calculations are correct."

"It'll be a major discovery!"

Lu Zhou immediately asked, "How major?"

Liu Bo smiled and said, "I don't know how major either, but it is significant for the research of carbon nanotube materials. It'll greatly help other researchers. Of course, the academic value isn't as great as that mathematics problem you solved."

Lu Zhou was embarrassed as he smiled and said, "That's all virtual stuff."

"What are you talking about? There's only right or wrong, nothing is virtual," said Liu Bo as he smiled and shook his head. He then continued, "Like what Brother Qian said, we still need to do further experiments before we can give you a definitive answer. Also, can I ask you for a favor?"

Lu Zhou asked, "What is it?"

Brother Qian coughed and said, "About your mathematical calculations, can you publish it after our research project is finished? Because we're not the only ones doing research in this area, the University of Zhi is also…"

If Lu Zhou published this research, the enemy might use it to their advantage!

It was likely!

Although it was kind of immoral to do this, Brother Qian had to make this request. Otherwise, his half a year worth of research would have been worthless.

"Is that it? Okay, okay," said Lu Zhou as he smiled nonchalantly.

Lu Zhou found this conclusion basically by accident. If he did not have the data that Liu Bo and Brother Qian provided, he would not have written all those formulas, and he definitely would not have come to this unexpected conclusion.

The names of the two researchers also deserved a second and third spot on the thesis.

Nonethelss, Lu Zhou still took their opinions into account.

This was about politeness and integrity.

Qian Zhongming, "Latest the end of next month, earliest end of this month! I promise you I can produce results. By then, you can publish the thesis with no problems."

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "It's fine. I'm not in a hurry. Let me know when I can publish it."

In fact, Lu Zhou was taking some risk by doing this. After all, if someone else reached the same conclusion within this time frame, his five days worth of torture would have been for nothing.

However, he had to look at the bigger picture.

Also, the probability of that was small…

About this important matter, Brother Qian immediately called Professor Li Rongen.

Professor Li did not say much on the phone. Instead, he just asked Brother Qian to take Lu Zhou's thesis and a few lab samples to the old campus lab.

If Lu Zhou's mathematical conclusion was correct, then they had been doing their experiments wrong the whole time.

However, it was not too late to change!

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Chapter 96: This Was Correct!

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A classroom in Building A…

The fourth Campus Assistant club meeting had ended. During the meeting, they discussed the release of the update.

Like last time, President Lu Zhou was absent from the meeting, he was replaced by Vice President Wu Dahai and Product Manager Yuan Liwei. Perhaps it was because of the absent of the founder, the morale was low.

After all, everyone was working for the past two weeks. Developers were writing code, the engineers were busy, even the people running errands had stuff to do.

Although most people were passionate about having a varied campus life, not everyone was keen on having a busy life. When the enthusiasm for entrepreneurship eventually faded, the complaints would inevitably come.

"… The situation is basically this."

"End of meeting."

Yuan Liwei threw the chalk on the podium, nodded to Wu Dahai, then walked off the stage.

Fat Wu stepped on the podium as he clapped and smiled.

"Everyone has worked hard. You're all hungry, right? The president booked a table at that fish restaurant. Let's all eat."

The most important part was that the workers did not have to pay.

After they heard Fat Wu's words, they finally gained some morale.

When they thought about it, other than time, they really did not have to pay anything. They did not even have to pay a sign up fee.

Even if they did not join the club, most of their time would be wasted on League of Legends. It was better to do something meaningful. For example, a few new software students that worked with Rong Hai, did not know anything in the beginning, but now they knew some basic C.

However, even then…

Humans were still emotional-driven creatures.

They arrived at the restaurant, but when the food came, the president still did not show up. Someone could not help but ask.

"Where is the president? Is he not coming?"

"Lu Zhou has some matters to attend to. He has been working on this physics research project, just wait a few days," said Wu Dahai. He then raised his glass with a smile and said, "Come, cheers."

Although the person that asked the question was dissatisfied, he did not say anything else.

After the group finished the meal, they walked toward the school gate and all went back to their respective dorms.

The person that asked the question was called Li Ruizhe. He was a first year in the computer science department. Next to him was his old friend, Wei Feng. They met Fat Wu while working for him and were convinced by him to join the Campus Assistant club.

Although both of them joined the club thinking it would be a "great business", after two weeks, Li Ruizhe was getting somewhat tired.

The absence of the president was only one of the many factors. His dissatisfaction had been accumulating since long ago. He had expressed his dissatisfaction during many club activities.

Maybe it was because of the alcohol, plus they were alone, he started to complain to his old friend.

"We are working tirelessly writing code, writing programs… What's he doing?"

Wei Feng was not as dissatisfied. He understood the reasons given by Fat Wu and did not feel an imbalance in his heart.

After all, he joined the club with the goal of learning in mind. He did projects with Rong Hai and learned to write some simple algorithms. He felt like he learned a lot, which was what he expected.

As for making money…

He honestly had not even think about it.

"… The president has a research project to do, he's probably busy these days. I think it's understandable. He also wrote a lot of code, not like he didn't do anything."

When Li Ruizhe saw that his friend did not agree with him, his expression was somewhat unpleasant.

"Pfft, I still have to prepare for advanced algebra. How come I can't say I'm busy? Who isn't busy?"

Wei Feng did not like to talk sh*t behind people's backs. So, he patted his friend's back and said, "Fine, fine, Ruizhe, you're drunk."

"I'm not drunk," said Li Ruizhe as he burped. He pushed away Wei Feng's hand and said, "I just feel bad…"

It was right, he felt bad.

It was not just him that felt bad…

…

Seven days after the thesis was sent to the old campus, the experimental results finally came out.

The conclusion reached was beyond the expectations of everyone.

Of course, "everyone" included, Liu Bo, Qian Zhongming, and Professor Liu Rongen. It even included a PhD student that Professor Liu brought, but it did not include Lu Zhou.

After all, Lu Zhou was confident in his own calculation abilities. He had also repeatedly checked his calculations multiple times. If the data given was correct, then his calculation was going to be correct!

"Incredible…"

"Your conclusion is correct."

"The CNTs material does not have any effect on the hydration reaction in the early age when it is incorporated into the cement!"

"If this conclusion is true, then our experiments have been wrong. The key to solving the pressure resistance of No. 2 sample is not in the hydration reaction at the early age, but from other places."

Lu Zhou asked, "Is there anything else I can help with?"

Brother Qian shook his head and said, "Not for now… We'll have to redo the experiment by adjusting the amount of carbon nanotube material usage, but you just saved us two months of research time."

Lu Zhou remembered about the documents he read. He thought about it and said, "I have a suggestion, should I say it?"

"Please tell me!" said Brother Qian seriously.

"Last time I read the recently published paper on the aqueous dispersion of carbon nanotubes from the University of Dong. I imported some of the experimental data into the mathematical model I built earlier and recalculated it. I then found something interesting… Why don't you try to experiment with a 0.4wt%-0.5wt% range for the amount of CNTs?"

"0.4 to 0.5?" asked Brother Qian. With his eyebrows raised, he said, "We've done 0.6-0.8… The results obtained were not satisfactory. The current preferred scheme is still above 1… Will 0.4-0.5 be too little?"

"That's why I'm only suggesting," shrugged Lu Zhou. He then added, "Since I saved you so much experimental time, why don't you try my suggestion?"

If it was before and Brother Qian heard a suggestion from an "outsider", he would have taken it with a grain of salt. However, the situation now was different. Lu Zhou's calculations were proven by experiments, and Brother Qian trusted him.

Brother Qian nodded as he said, "Okay… I'll forward your suggestion to Professor Li. Oh yeah, can you give me the document that you read?"

"No problem, I'll send it to your email."

Suddenly, Lu Zhou's phone in his pocket began to ring.

"Sorry, I have to take this."

"It's okay, I have to go to the old campus anyway," said Brother Qian as he looked at the clock. He then said, "See you later."

Lu Zhou walked to the corridor and picked up the call.

When the phone connected, before Lu Zhou could even speak, Fat Wu's loud and anxious voice came through.

"Lu Zhou, something bad had happened!"

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