Chapter 107 Competition
The math competition was divided into two days, with only three questions each day. The contestants were five to six hundred contestants from more than one hundred countries and regions. Rong Yuan and his team's competition venue was not a small classroom with only , but a very wide hall with hundreds of students writing furiously at their desks. In this season, the weather in Tea Country is very hot, with the outdoor temperature often reaching over forty degrees. Although the air conditioner and fan were running at the same time in the competition venue, the room was still very hot, perhaps because of the poor sealing. The red-haired boy sitting in front of Yu Yizhuo was sweating profusely. He took out a tissue to wipe his sweat while doing the questions. The back of his short-sleeved vest was soaked with sweat, tightly attached to his back, and exuded an unpleasant smell.
Yu Yizhuo leaned back and frowned. Perhaps it was the nervousness or the hot and humid environment that made his thoughts tangled up and unable to concentrate. This was the second day of the exam. He only had some ideas for the first question on the test paper. He wrote an answer that he didn't know whether it was right or wrong. He had reached a dead end in the solution process for the other two questions. He subconsciously looked up at the others.
Gan Zheng had already written a thick pile of papers, at least seven or eight pages, and she was still writing, as if her thoughts were not stumbling at all. This girl was also sweating profusely, but she ignored other situations except when the sweat was about to block her vision.
Ni Zihao was writing with great joy. He was very happy whenever he encountered a difficult math problem and wrote with great concentration. During the training period, Ni Zihao had successfully surpassed Rong Yuan and became the person Yu Yizhu disliked the most. He found Rong Yuan's arrogant attitude annoying, and the fact that he could easily do things that he couldn't do even if he tried his best was also annoying. However, he seemed to always have many more important things in his mind, so he was extremely indifferent, but when you didn't provoke him, he wouldn't bother you in any way.
Ni Zihao is different. In Yu Yizhe's opinion, he seems to take it as an obligation for others to take care of him. But no one is his mother, so there is no need to tolerate him all the time. Moreover, Ni Zihao always can't remember other people's names and faces. There are only four or five people, but he always gets them mixed up. Yu Yizhe thinks that he is not face-blind as others think, but because he doesn't take others to heart. Because he has never looked at or remembered them seriously, he has never remembered them. Even his mother who has always held him in the palm of her hand, he has never cared about her health and preferences. Only mathematics can impress him. This seemingly cute big boy is essentially a more ruthless guy than Rong Yuan.
Yu Yizhuo decided not to contact him again after returning home after the exams, and turned his attention to Rong Yuan's desk.
——Huh? Where are the people?
All he saw was an empty table, but the person who should be sitting there was gone.
——Have you been to the toilet?
At this time, there was a slight commotion in the examination room, and everyone's problem-solving process was interrupted. They looked up at the person who walked past the front of the examination room. Although they could not talk, some people still made slight calls. Yu Yizhuo also followed the crowd and watched for a while before he realized that -
There were still two and a half hours left before the end of the exam, but Rong Yuan had already handed in his paper early.
Although he handed in his paper early yesterday, today's questions were more difficult than yesterday's, but he handed in his paper earlier than yesterday...
——Is this guy crazy?
Yu Yizhu dared to say that no one had observed his biggest competitor more carefully than he did. He knew very well that Rong Yuan would not have made such a move if he had not solved all the questions and was extremely confident in his answers.
He took a deep breath, looked at the messy process on his calculation paper, crumpled it into a ball and threw it aside, then started thinking carefully from the beginning.
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The rooftop - although it is called the rooftop, it is actually only five or six stories high. However, it is already the tallest building nearby. A slight breeze brings the sultry air through, and the water tank room provides a small shade, but it does not actually have any cooling effect. It is more of a psychological comfort.
Rong Yuan was still in a refreshing state. After his physical condition improved, the heat-resistant cells in his body—if any—were also activated. Although he felt that it was not as comfortable as in China, it was still bearable. He reached into his schoolbag, and it was actually Wandou who took out the "Book of Merits" and handed it to him.
The Merit Book has one more rule:
[Rule 18: If the contractor stops the harm before it happens, the contractor will receive merit points equal to 10% to 95% of the maximum damage caused after the event according to the probability of the event.] In the rules of the "Book of Merits", the fourth rule says: Merits can be obtained by helping a life in distress, and the amount of merit obtained is positively correlated with the degree of distress of the recipient. At first, Rong Yuan only thought that the amount of merit obtained was related to the difficulty of the distress people encountered. For example, the merit of saving a life is usually greater than that of feeding a hungry beggar, because the latter can be endured and will not immediately affect life and death.
But later he found that for the same thing, helping people with similar merits, the merits Rong Yuan received could be very different, sometimes several times or even dozens of times. Then he found that there was also a problem of the probability of loss.
For example, a car that lost control was about to hit a passerby on the street, and he helped the passerby in advance, saving the passerby from death. But if he had not helped, would the passerby really have died? This is not necessarily the case. Maybe the passerby was agile and quick to react, and could have avoided the accident by himself? Maybe the driver of the car noticed the problem in time and turned the steering wheel, so the passerby would have passed by even if he had not dodged the car? Maybe someone else would have helped him?
The lower the probability that the proposition "rescued because of Rong Yuan's help" is true, the higher the probability that the passerby escapes alone, and the less merit Rong Yuan gets. On the contrary, if the car is very close and the speed is very fast, the passerby is unable to move, and there are no other people nearby, then Rong Yuan's help is a necessary condition for his rescue, and the Merit Book will give more merit.
The incident on the plane this time also fully proved this point. Rong Yuan only gained 300 merit points when he replaced the gunpowder in the pistol, because these bullets would not necessarily be used to kill others.
When the hijacking incident really happened, the Merit Book would give him a lot of merit points for not defeating any of the gangsters. When the last gangster was defeated, the Merit Book gave him nearly 100,000 merit points for protecting the safety of the plane. If the safety officer on the plane did not master the driving skills at the time, and the weather conditions at the Tea Country Airport did not allow automatic landing, then Rong Yuan would definitely get more merit points for saving everyone on the plane if he personally operated the plane to land.
The accidental incident of Liang Zhanqiang also indirectly confirmed Rong Yuan's idea. He planned to drag all the people on the plane to death, and it would also cause unpredictable damage to the ground, and the number of casualties was difficult to measure. But his plan was stopped by Rong Yuan just as it was launched. If it weren't for Rong Yuan, maybe his various drug ratios were not completely correct, maybe he would accidentally blow himself up, maybe the safety officer on the plane would find something strange when he was acting, maybe he would have a change of heart and give up the plan... Because there are various variables, although Rong Yuan's obstruction can be regarded as saving a plane of people, the merit he finally got was only 220,000. Compared with the 100,000 merits brought by those robbers who only targeted the wallets of first-class passengers, these 220,000 are too little.
——Occurrence probability... I don't know if such a rule is to encourage the contractor to prevent crime or to remind the contractor to indulge in crime. If the purpose is to gain more merit points, theoretically, watching the incident happen and then taking action is the only way to gain the maximum merit points.
Thinking of the captain and co-pilot who died on the plane, they were both named heroes and countless people praised their bravery, but death is death, and it will not become easier to accept because of people's praise and admiration. As for the co-pilot, he saw Pea, and letting him die was the best choice for Rong Yuan. At that time, when he saw the co-pilot bleeding, Rong Yuan felt relieved in his heart. He was even a little grateful to the dead bandit leader, because if it wasn't for him, Rong Yuan didn't know if he would have been the one to cut the knife. But maybe one day in the future, he will have to face such a dilemma.
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After the test, the team leader would gather them together. According to the convention, everyone would compare their own problem-solving process and answers and estimate each other's scores. However, this convention has now become that Rong Yuan would repeat his solution, and then the team leader would let him do whatever he wants without any comments, and the others would check their own problem-solving process against his answers.
All the results will be out on the third day at the latest after the exam. Each country will discuss and debate the scores and draw the cut-off points for gold, silver and bronze medals. Sometimes, if a country gets one tenth of a point more, it will get an extra gold medal. The awards will not be presented until the fourth day.
The few days after the exam were the most relaxing time. Gan Zheng was very interested in visiting the famous attractions in XL City. Sometimes he would discuss questions with other national teams and make some foreign friends. Although they had never met before, they had basically heard of each other's names before the exam and were not strangers to each other. The earth is very big, but the cutting edge of a certain field always seems very small. Many people here can be said to have "spiritual connections" for a long time, and you can often hear conversations like "Wow, so you are xxx".
Rong Yuan had no interest in visiting ordinary man-made buildings, and there was no one among the contestants that he felt he needed to get to know. So he spent most of his time deducing the chemical formula of fluffy marshmallows in uninhabited places like rooftops.
When he returned to the dormitory at night, before he even entered the door, he heard an excited voice saying, "...Fifty thousand dollars a year! The money will also be funded for all his expenses for studying at HF University in the United States! The family doesn't have to spend a penny on food, clothing, housing and transportation! The Whit family also said that after he graduates from university and enters the research lab, it is not impossible for him to have an annual salary of one million dollars! He also said that a genius like our Haohao..."
They lived in an apartment-style dormitory with a large shared living room, a bedroom for each person, and separate bathrooms. When Rong Yuan pushed the door open, he saw a group of people gathered in the living room. Ni Zihao's mother was holding the leader's hand and talking excitedly.
When Rong Yuan came in, several people were stunned for a moment, and then Gan Zheng was the first to say, "Congratulations, Rong Yuan. You got first place in the total score!"
Before Rong Yuan could speak, Ni Zihao's mother rushed to say, "Do you know? The Whitt family in the Nut Country—the Wheat family—does you know? Someone from their company signed a contract with our Haohao, and Haohao will work !"
Her eyes were full of pride and showing off, and it clearly said - if you are better than our Haohao, why didn't they look for you?
