Chapter 411
She didn’t say the five words, just stood there very quietly, but her eyes said it all.
The girl was tall and slender and, from a distance, slightly thin.
Unlike those contestants from Ilan Public School, Ying was wearing the blue and white uniform of Qingzhi High School, with no extra embellishments.
But it was as if a lofty mountain, impenetrable and inviolable.
She was also using this silent way to tell all the Chinese players, the delegation and the professors and teachers present that as long as she was there, there was still a chance to win.
One could lose, but dignity could not be trampled on.
No one.
“Yes, this is our number one in the overall global ranking, Ying Zigui from one of the three top high schools in China, Qingzhi High School!” The host spoke fast and with excitement, “She is 18 years old, one year older than Irina.”
“I’m sure some of you who watched the team competition on the first morning knew her name, out of 50 teams in the team competition, the team she led was not only the only one to get a perfect score, but also got a time bonus.”
“Now, she is back in our individual tournament as the number one player in the overall global rankings, please welcome her.”
These words of the host were like a bomb exploding in the crowd of spectators.
Not just those watching live, but also the netizens watching the live stream.
[Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!]
[No.1 in the global overall chart!!!]
[Hua Guo, Ying Zigui!!!]
[I, Ying Shen, am too a… D*mn, my blood tank is empty!
[Ying Shen: I’m number one on the overall list too, didn’t you expect that?
[Reasonable doubt that Ying Shen accidentally became number one on the overall list because he was looking at the bonus [dog head]]
At this time, there was no need to tell the backstage.
Every single camera position, every single camera, was aimed at the girl.
The three words Ying Zidian and her face appeared on the screens of many people around the world at this moment and were firmly remembered.
Ying Yuexuan, who was also watching the live broadcast of the isc international finals at the old Win family residence, couldn’t believe what she was seeing.
Ying Zidian, who was the number one in the global ranking?
Are you kidding me?
Ying Yuexuan’s hands trembled, her ears perked up and all the blood rushed to her head.
Her nerves almost collapsed at the thought that she had sent her admiration to the number one on the Shark Live platform.
It was Ying Ziyi again!
It was funny that she still always thought that Ying Zidian was insignificant compared to the number one on the overall list.
Ying Yuexuan bit her lip and stared at the girl on the screen with a deadly gaze.
At that moment, the sound of a key turning came from the main door.
Ying Yuexuan’s expression changed and she quickly turned off the TV and immediately went back upstairs to her bedroom.
She pinched her palm, her gaze obscure.
Although she was not told what the reason for sending her back to China was, Zhong Manhua was already unhappy with her these days.
She should avoid it if she could.
Or, think of another way.
Ying Yuexuan pursed her lips, took out her mobile phone and started to contact Jing Hongzhen.
** The
The venue for the international final.
The host spoke again, “The rules for our final showdown are special, there are thirty questions in total, and whoever wins will be able to get the other side’s full score.”
“So, we need to ask Irna-san, do you accept, or not accept this special match?”
“Swish-”
The eyes of the audience were on Irna again, and the camera moved.
Irna gritted her back teeth, almost biting blood.
She sneered, “I’ll compete!”
It said she was being asked for her opinion, but in fact she wasn’t even given the chance to object.
This was the global general broadcast.
Not counting the organising committee’s own live broadcast, the number of people watching the live broadcast in each country, plus the live audience, was a whopping 1.5 billion!
This figure is already a third of the Olympic Games.
After all, academic competitions are still no match for sports, and most people can’t understand them, nor do they have the thrill of seeing their team win.
Those who watch the games, apart from the teachers and students of major universities and secondary schools, the rest are parents.
For most people, if they have the time to watch someone play physics and maths, they might as well go to Shake Shack and swipe a small video.
But 1.5 billion people, that’s a lot indeed.
Irna knew deep down that she would lose face if she dared to refuse.
“Good, our student Ilna has readily accepted this challenge.” The host said, “Then please take a break for a few minutes for the two of you, and our answer will begin immediately.”
“No need.” Ying raised his eyes, “There isn’t much time left, so let’s start straight away.”
The moderator was stunned and quickly returned to his senses, “Then Irina student ……”
“A direct competition is a direct competition.” Irna sneered, “I don’t need a break either.”
Both said so, and the host went along with it, “In that case, I will now ask the two contestants to look at the big screen.”
On the big screen, the first question soon appeared.
The audience and netizens also watched with rapt attention.
[The question gave the process of proving Hodge’s conjecture, please fill in a few of the blanks.]
Once it came up, it was one of the world’s seven mathematical puzzles.
The world’s seven greatest mathematical problems have remained unsolved mysteries to the entire mathematical community.
So the International Mathematical Centre has offered a reward of one million dollars for each of these seven problems.
The Hodge Conjecture was only proved by a mathematician in China earlier this year, but it has not yet been made public.
This is how this mathematician’s family proved it.
Even if it is only missing a few blanks, it is still difficult.
So this was a question that the chief questioner had no intention of making anyone work out.
He happily poured himself a cup of hot tea and just watched.
Ying narrowed his eyes slightly and had already reported the answer just as Irina took out a pen and paper from the table and started to count.
“The number one in the overall list is indeed rich in learning in this area of mathematics.” The moderator was also stunned, but his clinical response was quick, “Here is the second question, a memory test for this one.”
[What is the one hundred and first decimal place after pi?]
Ying Zidian’s voice was smooth, this time answering in seconds, “8.”
“It seems that our student Ying Zidian also has a strong memory, it’s not bad for an ordinary person to be able to recite to the tenth place.” The host said as he showed the screen above, “This is the third question.”
The competition went faster than anyone could have imagined.
Every question, whether it was a scientific or cultural subject.
Even, a few of the questions had veered into many proper nouns many people had never heard of before.
But not once did Ying take more than ten seconds to answer the questions.
The chief questioner was sitting right in the professor’s chair, and he clearly heard the sound of his heart breaking.
[F*ck, I’m looking dumb once again, is this the real powerhouse?]
[I’ve only just finished reading the question, and Ying Shen has already given the answer.
I don’t want to talk about anything else, I’m so happy, how this Irina bullied our Chinese player in the beginning, now I have to pay her back tenfold and a hundredfold! Hahahaha, see, she scored zero!
After the 17th question was still answered by Ying Ziji first, Irina’s face finally sank.
Her fingers squeezed tightly, and cold sweat was falling down on her forehead.
It was true that the questions were not difficult, and she could make sure that she could figure them out within twenty seconds, but Ying Zidian was even faster than her.
How could a high school student be so fast?
In fact, for the participants of the isc international final, the difficulty of the questions was secondary to the time.
Ninety-nine percent of the questions they basically knew, they just lost out on time.
The questions in the individual competition were only one-tenth as difficult as those in the team competition.
It was with the use of time that Irina had been able to press the scores of dozens of Chinese players.
But she really didn’t expect that she would now be the one to be pressed for points instead.
“One more point for student Ying Zidian.” The host raised her right hand, “Our score is now 17:0, student Irina, you have to work hard.”
Irina pursed her lips, no longer in her previous overbearing pomp.
She looked at the timer that belonged to her and blushed slightly.
Zero points.
As if in mockery of something
But it wasn’t that she wouldn’t, it was that she hadn’t beaten Ying Zidian in time.
The live stream pop-ups were full of clear mockery.
[Look who’s the trash!]
[Prodigy Irina, you’re no better than that. Go ahead!
At this time, Ying raised her hand.
The host saw it and asked, “What is it, Ying Zidian?”
Ying Zidian looked unmoving: “I need a timeout at half-time.”
“Good.” The host didn’t ask why, and spoke loudly, “Time out at half-time.”
Irina also took out a tissue and wiped the sweat from her head, ready to take a drink of water and rest for a while, but Ying Zidian picked up the microphone.
She turned the volume of the microphone to the highest level and turned her head slightly sideways to Irna, who had just unscrewed the lid of the mineral water.
Her voice was cold and slow, without warmth.
“Rubbish.”
Chapter 412
It was also quiet because it was a halftime pause.
Those two words came clearly into everyone’s ears.
Ying spoke in English, which was largely understood by the audience present.
Irina’s hand still kept working on opening the bottle cap, the smile at the corners of her mouth froze little by little.
Her eyes were cold, she gritted her teeth and said, “What did you say?!”
Ying Zidian didn’t mind repeating it again, her eyes faded: “Rubbish.”
[Hahahahahahaha! Rubbish! I’m talking about you!
[I know why Ying Shen came back to the tournament as number one in the overall ranking, she wanted to say that word to Irina.]
[I really, don’t know what to say, I just want to cry.
For three days of the tournament, I watched from the beginning to the end and I heard Irna say rubbish dozens of times in total.
She was targeting our national players and humiliating our players’ dignity, and several little sisters were crying, but we couldn’t do anything about it.
[Do you know why we like Ying Shen? She knows a lot, but she doesn’t deliberately try to show off and suppress others, but she also doesn’t stoop so low as to let others step on her head.
At this moment, all the black people in the live stream with rhythm also disappeared.
Offstage, Teng Yun Meng covered her mouth and tears flowed out of her eyes.
“Don’t worry.” Ying Ziji’s right leg was slightly flexed, standing in a loose stance as she seemed to smile, “One point, I won’t even let you get it.”
Irina jerked her head up, “Don’t talk such big words, you’re dreaming!”
There would always be a question that she could solve faster than Ying Zigui.
But the next answer was simply a torture for Irna.
After five questions, she still didn’t get a single point.
The speed of Ying Zidian’s work made her feel fearful for the first time.
“Ah, this question is a fun question with an easy topic, just in time, let’s relax a bit too.” The host smiled, “Please ask the two contestants to look at the question.”
On the big screen, the screen rotated and a new question appeared.
[Ghostbusters chose two numbers from 2-99.
Told the sum of the two numbers to Pang Juan and the product to Sun Bin.
But the two did not know each other the numbers they got.
The next day, Pang Juan said to Sun Bin, “Although I don’t know what the answer is, you must not know it either.”
A few seconds later, Sun Bin said, “I know.”
Half a second later, Pang Juan also said, “I know.”
May I ask, what are the two numbers?]
Zuo Li: “……”
He had always felt that the question team was sick, otherwise they wouldn’t have specifically used the 18 bell language to come up with questions for the team competition.
[???? What the hell kind of questions?]
[Did Ghostbusters really do this? I’d hammer him if I were Sun Bin.
[Don’t be fooled by the question, it’s really simple, I’ll give you a little bit of information, the question uses Goldbach’s Conjecture ……]
A number of viewers and netizens have already followed and started to solve the problem.
The science team also did their duty and started to popularise the science on the pop-ups.
But it was only five or six seconds after they finished reading the question.
On the stage, Ying Zidian had already pressed the answer button and said indifferently, “The two numbers are 4 and 13.”
The chief question writer, who was proud of his ability to survive 10 seconds: “……”
Wasn’t his question sick enough?
[I’m really down on my knees for you, do you think you can get the answer to all the questions at once?
[Look at the question writer’s face, he’s cracking up.
“Shady shady shady!”
Some of the audience below shouted again, especially the students of Ilan Public School.
One boy was excited: “The people in this question are all oriental, Irna doesn’t even know them!”
If Irna lost, all the points Irna had won would go to China.
Then when the time came, it would be them at the bottom.
“This audience please take your seats.” The host smiled lightly, “The questioner has considered every student, and will definitely not be biased.”
[Laughs, saying the organising committee is biased towards China? What’s wrong with that? There are questions from all countries, and I think there’s even a myth from O. What, Ying Shen knows your O’s and you don’t know China’s, so you’re saying that?
[Rubbish is rubbish, you only make excuses for yourself.
Irina’s face was even whiter, and she couldn’t even stand still.
From the time she became a prodigy until now, she had never been mocked like this before.
“Now for the last question.” The moderator took a card from the chief questioner, and after he glanced at it, “This question has to do with one of our genius scientists, Simon Brand, who, too, was the reason we held the isc in the first place.”
Ying Ziji’s eyes twitched slightly, her eyelashes dropping.
It could be said that of the many teachers she had had during her last trip to Earth, Simon Brand had taught her the most.
Only Simon Brand’s life had not been very peaceful either, except in terms of scientific research, which could be called tragic.
Irina’s eyes were suddenly cold, and her fingers creaked.
Naturally, Ying Zidian noticed it and his eyes narrowed.
Irina’s reaction was a little too loud.
“We have bid farewell to one genius and now we have two geniuses of the new century.” The moderator continued, “Okay, now both of you, please listen to the question, it’s a giveaway question -”
“Simon Brand left behind numerous manuscripts, which are now kept in the O Continent Museum, and our organising committee has photographed these manuscripts and displayed them on the big screen.”
On the big screen, a yellowed piece of paper soon appeared.
It was drawing, a very complex drawing, the sky was the limit.
The title also came out.
[Excuse me, what is the name of this drawing drawn by Simon Brand?]
The audience and the netizens were a bit confused.
[Is this a giveaway question???]
[If you haven’t seen it in a museum, you wouldn’t know it, would you?
I’ve been there, and there are several drawings of Simon’s manuscript that look basically the same, but they’re just called different names.
Ying’s gaze stopped on the big screen for three seconds and he slowly spoke, “sc-300-v, the fifth generation machine.”
As soon as this answer came out, Irina’s expression changed in an instant and she abruptly looked at the girl.
The presenter froze for a full half minute before coming back to his senses, still in a trance: “The answer is the sc-300-v, an aircraft designed by Simon Brand, but it didn’t exist at that time, it was his idea.”
When he finished explaining, he couldn’t help but give a sigh of admiration, “It seems that student Ying Zidian has the ability to never forget.”
Ying Zidian paused, “Not bad.”
Of course, she remembered things quickly.
But not this drawing.
It was a drawing that she had watched Simon Brand draw with her own eyes before, and she was very impressed.
“The thirty questions are over and our scores are in.” The moderator eased over to take a breath, “Please look at the big screen.”
The big screen scrolled for a moment and the scores for both sides appeared.
It was red, big and conspicuous.
30:0!
A big score!
A real crushing!
Feng Yue took a big breath, all sweaty: “We won, Meng Meng, we won!”
Teng Yun Meng choked out a sob as she kept wiping tears from her eyes, “Yes, we won.”
Zuo Li stared blankly at the score on the screen, his eyes also red.
He had been prepared to be at the bottom of the table.
But now someone was telling him with their actions that they had turned their defeat into a victory.
On the stage, the girl came down and stood in front of him.
“Professor Zuo Li.” Ying Zigui bowed slightly, “I’m honoured.”
The four words made Zuo Li’s eardrums vibrate, as if shocking waves were sweeping in and hitting his heart and soul.
Zuo Li’s throat rolled and his voice trembled, “You’re good, you’ve done well, no one has done better than you.”
Not for personal glory, but for the country.
“I’m going to rest for a while.” Ying rubbed her head, “Give me the overall results when they come out.”
Although she had learnt a lot of new knowledge, she was also highly concentrated during the question-answering process, and had consumed too much.
On the side, Fu Yunshen picked up her jacket and draped it over her body, holding a thermos in his right hand: “Have some light salt water.”
Ying Zidian nods.
The two of them go to the big lounge backstage.
Ying Ziji takes a sip of the water and is silent for a while: “Actually, I didn’t think about it that much, I just didn’t want to see them being bullied.”
Fu Yunshen stroked her head and smiled lowly: “I know.”
“Want to eat chocolate.”
“It’s ready.”
The two of them went out through the side door of the venue.
On the other side, Irina suddenly woke up and ran out with her, quickly standing in front of Fu Yunshen and Ying Zidian.
Fu Yunshen raised his eyelashes.
Irina’s expression was frantic, her fingers trembling: “It was you, wasn’t it? It must be you!”
“Only you, who would know so much!”
Ilna stepped forward, her voice growing louder, “I remembered, you remembered, and I lost to you again! I’m not happy about it!”
Ying coughed twice and didn’t look up, leaning his head sideways against Fu Yunshen’s right chest.
“This harmful trash is crazy.” Fu Yun Shen’s eyes were slightly deep and faint, “Please take her away.”
The guards hesitated for a moment, but still gradually leaned over, but did not move.
Irna was, at any rate, a prodigy protected by Helga University.
If anything happened, they couldn’t afford it.
The confrontation between the two geniuses attracted quite a few people.
There were also more and more people backstage, all a little surprised and wondering what was going on.
“It must be you! I can’t be mistaken!” Ilna simply could not bring herself to calm down as she hissed and snarled, “You’re Gwen!!!”
Simon Grand, the genius scientist of the 17th century, and his most prized pupil.
Gwen Brown.