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Chapter 15 Number Relay
"Where...where did you learn math?!"
Lin Shuwan suddenly raised her head, her voice trembling slightly.
"Was it a math professor from a top university who privately taught you?"
The breadth of knowledge he demonstrated ruthlessly surpassed that of someone who had already completed university-level mathematics.
But what's most suffocating isn't how much he knows, but rather his unfathomable depth of knowledge that allows him to effortlessly crush everything with just a glance!
Faced with her frantic questioning, Su Hao simply scratched his head casually, looking completely innocent.
"No. Although someone sends me books regularly, I mostly learn by myself by flipping through them."
If everyone had someone directly point out the way, wouldn't mathematics lose its inherent charm?
Lin Shuwan felt a sudden dizziness.
Self-taught?!
Can you really learn to the point where Minkowski's inequality is ingrained in your very being through self-study?!
And at such a young age?!
But on second thought, it makes sense. It's said that he lives in a small, remote place with scarce educational resources, so where could he possibly find any famous teachers?
She had expected herself to be consumed by jealousy and to weep bitterly in resentment.
But strangely, when the gap became so large that she couldn't even muster the courage to catch up, she felt a strange sense of enlightenment.
"As expected, I am still that one-in-a-million super genius!" she silently comforted herself.
"And this monster in front of us... he's an alien! Humans can't compare to aliens!"
Gollum—
In this fateful silence, a loud rumbling sound suddenly came from Lin Shuwan's stomach!
Perhaps it was because my nerves, which had been tense all morning, had finally relaxed completely, that a belated feeling of hunger suddenly came over me like a tidal wave.
Lin Shuwan awkwardly clutched her stomach. Upon reflection, she realized that in order to keep her mind clear, she hadn't eaten anything except a cup of yogurt today!
Just as she was looking down, pondering whether she should swallow her pride and suggest going out for something to eat, a clear, childlike voice suddenly came from behind her.
"elder brother!"
Su Hui charged over like a heavy artillery shell, grabbing Su Hao's leg.
Immediately afterwards, the little girl turned around and, like a mother hen protecting her chicks, stood hostilely between Su Hao and Lin Shuwan.
"Have you been waiting long?" Su Hao rubbed his sister's head.
Su Hui shook her head vigorously, but her eyes remained fixed on the unfamiliar girl opposite her.
"No! Brother...who is this woman?"
Just as Su Hao was about to explain the complicated process of their meeting, Lin Shuwan suddenly bent down, placed her hands on her knees, and looked Su Hui in the eye.
In that instant, the academic fervor in her eyes vanished without a trace, replaced by a starry-eyed look of utter adoration.
Wow...you're so beautiful! Oh my god!
How can there be such a cute girl in this world?!
This wasn't flattery; Lin Shuwan's biggest dream since childhood was to have a cute little sister.
The little girl in front of me had chubby cheeks with baby fat, big round eyes, and small, cherry-like lips...
It hit all her cute points perfectly!
Su Hui was already prepared to fight back, ready to lash out at this strange woman who was trying to take her brother away.
But upon hearing that cheesy compliment, her little brain went blank.
"Someone who can speak such honest truths... can't be a bad person, right?"
Su Hui's puffed-up cheeks softened instantly, and she even twisted her body a little shyly.
"Hehe... My name is Su Hui. What's your name, sister?"
Just as the two freshmen were rapidly forging an unusual friendship, Lin Wan and Su Zhe, the elderly couple, were standing not far away, watching them with complicated expressions.
The exam had actually ended long ago, but the elderly couple were worried because their son hadn't come out yet, so they went to the entrance of the exam hall.
As a result, I saw my son, who was usually indifferent to everything except books, getting together with a beautiful girl who looked a few years older than him, and passionately discussing something.
Although she couldn't compare to her own prodigious son, the aura emanating from that girl far surpassed the precociousness of her peers.
The couple exchanged a glance and smiled with satisfaction.
"Anyway, my son finally has friends his own age, even though they look a little older than him."
However, the scene did look quite heartwarming, so the couple didn't feel comfortable disturbing them and waited in the wind until they finished talking.
"Well, since we've met, it must be fate! Let's go grab a bite to eat together!"
After they met up, Lin Wan greeted them warmly.
Lin Shuwan had never seen such a scene before, and she waved her hands repeatedly, declining in every way possible. But in this small, remote place, the older generation's "hospitality" was extremely domineering and unreasonable.
In their eyes, if they ran into their son's good friend on the street, there was absolutely no reason to let the child go home hungry.
In the end, Lin Shuwan was dragged to the restaurant by the enthusiastic couple, like a kidnapped chick.
On the way to the restaurant, the setting sun cast long shadows of the five people.
Su Hui skipped and hopped along in the middle, then suddenly pestered Su Hao to play that strange number game.
And so, under Lin Shuwan's slightly puzzled gaze, the game began.
"2." Su Hao casually gave a number as the starting point.
As soon as Su Hao finished speaking, Su Hui immediately chimed in excitedly.
"3!"
Su Hui turned her head, her big eyes sparkling as she looked at Lin Shuwan, signaling her to join the family battle as well.
Although she had never encountered this kind of bizarre street game before, Lin Shuwan's brain quickly guessed what the pattern was, thanks to her top-notch mathematical intuition.
"5." Lin Shuwan smiled and cooperated.
As the game continued, Lin Shuwan realized that this was not an ordinary number relay at all; it was a sequence of prime numbers!
In Su Hui's words, it means "reading out those isolated, inseparable numbers aloud in ascending order."
"47".
"53!"
At first, Lin Shuwan was playing with the mindset of a loving mother, "playing house with the children."
But gradually, she realized something was wrong.
The little girl spoke faster and faster, without even a moment's hesitation!
"Wait a minute, how old is this child? So skilled?!"
Lin Shuwan's gaze towards Su Hui changed.
This incredible speed can only be achieved through massive amounts of training!
At this moment, Lin Shuwan's innate genius and "never give up" spirit was instantly ignited.
Whether you're a genius boy or a little girl, even if it's just playing house, she has absolutely no intention of giving in to anyone!
Unbeknownst to many, the number has quietly surpassed the 100 mark, and the speed at which it is increasing is accelerating!
"173." Su Hao still had that extremely bored expression.
"181!" Lin Shuwan's brain raced, and she blurted out.
Just then.
"Ding! Sister is wrong!"
Su Hui suddenly stopped and held up a short index finger.
"179 was missed."
Lin Shuwan stumbled and almost bit her tongue, her brain racing to calculate.
179 is not divisible; it is indeed a prime number!
She actually lost a mental arithmetic game to a kindergarten kid?!
Lin Shuwan instantly felt an extremely strong sense of defeat, something that was absolutely unprecedented in her proud life of more than ten years!
"Oh dear, what a pity... When I played with my brother before, we both scored over 300..."
Su Hui sighed with a wronged expression, as if she felt that this new, mentally challenged person was dragging everyone down.
"How much?! Three hundred?!"
Lin Shuwan gasped, "You...do you usually play like this with your brother?"
"Mmm!" Su Hui nodded innocently.
"We don't just play this, we play even more difficult number factorization!"
And that... points train!
Before they knew it, the two girls, one big and one small, had become very familiar with each other and were walking behind each other hand in hand.
Lin Shuwan looked at the ordinary, simple couple with gentle smiles walking at the front, and her heart was filled with turbulent emotions!
"How...how did these parents raise their child?!"
She recalled how she was tutored one-on-one by countless famous teachers in a prestigious school district in Beijing, studying so hard that she went bald.
No one at such a young age has reached such an abnormal level of being able to talk about large prime numbers or even factorization so casually!
Looking at the couple, who appeared to be honest, kind-faced ordinary citizens, Lin Shuwan felt a chill run down her spine!
I was almost fooled by their extremely deceptive appearance!
This is no ordinary person!
The two kids are a monster who can tear Minkowski's inequality apart with a single glance, and a prodigy who treats prime factorization like a match-3 puzzle!
Who would have thought?!
This couple may seem ordinary, but behind the scenes they are definitely early childhood education experts who are hidden in the city and have mastered some kind of terrifying core theory!
"The Su family... they're absolutely terrifying!"
.......
Night falls.
The combination lock made a crisp beeping sound.
Click.
Pushing open the door, Lin Shuwan finally dragged her weary and battered soul back to her familiar home.
The familiar smell of disinfectant and the spotless, tidy desk quietly greet their tired little owner.
My parents will probably finish work very late and come home very late; the house will be empty.
Lin Shuwan walked into the bedroom expressionlessly and slammed her schoolbag hard on the ground with a "thud".
Then he fell straight down in a starfish shape.
boom.
The soft mattress groaned softly, accepting her utterly exhausted body with remarkable tenderness.
The patterns on the ceiling gradually blurred in my eyes, and in my mind, the events of today flashed by like a revolving lantern:
The way she blushed and covered the table
The moment I slipped and fell face-first into the mud on the auditorium floor,
The embarrassment of being surrounded by a crowd
The despair of being completely outmatched by Su Hao in every aspect of intelligence;
And the humiliation of being publicly executed by a little girl in a prime number game...
Lin Shuwan suddenly grabbed the blanket and covered her head tightly.
"Aa ...
A piercing howl, like that of a groundhog, echoed mournfully in the empty room.
"This is so embarrassing!! I might as well just die!!!"
She writhed wildly in bed, kicking her legs erratically like a dying fish, making a mess of the blankets.
If I go to school next week, those gossip-loving freaks might spread some shocking rumors like "a genius girl publicly offered herself to a man but was rejected and fell down in shame!"
Boom!
She punched the pillow twice more.
After a while, she stopped moving.
Then, with a "rip" sound, the blanket was suddenly pulled off.
Lin Shuwan sat up abruptly, as if she had risen from the dead, her hair a mess like a bird's nest.
She was breathing heavily, her chest heaving violently.
The panic and shame in his eyes vanished in an instant.
"No way. I don't have time to deal with this messy stuff right now!"
Lin Shuwan rolled out of bed, not even putting on slippers, and sat down barefoot at the large desk.
The bookshelf in front of her was densely packed with various competition materials and advanced textbooks far beyond her age, all traces of her hard work accumulated over countless sleepless nights.
Lin Shuwan took a deep breath, and the arrogance and madness that belonged to a genius student, as well as the ruthlessness in her bones that said "even if I die, I will die in the sea of questions", were rekindled!
"Let's review the entire proof that kid did on the bench today, from beginning to end!"
She reached out and pulled out the textbook on mathematical analysis from the deepest part of the bookshelf—a book that struck fear into the hearts of countless people even in university mathematics departments.
Turning the pages of the book, she began frantically searching through the vast question bank for similar questions that could verify that line of thinking.
Time passed by, second by second.
The only sound in the room was the scratching of the pen tip on the paper.
Three hours later.
"call……"
Looking at the densely packed, perfectly closed-loop derivation formulas on the draft paper, she let out a long breath, and her expression finally relaxed.
She finally succeeded in absorbing the monster's thought process and perfected her own problem-solving framework.
Lin Shuwan turned her head and looked at the deep night sky outside the window.
"Heh, Su Hao, is that it..."
A cold, battle-ready smirk curled at the corner of the genius girl's lips.
"We'll see what happens on the field next year!"