I really just want to be a scholar

Chapter 263 The much-anticipated math competition, start!
Fernando's pupils shrank. He has experienced dozens of math competitions, so he naturally knows the weight of the word "guidance". "Ebba has only top math coaches.

Could it be that this "QIN KE" is much more powerful than the beautiful "NING" in front of you?

Although Fernando is arrogant, but who can win the IMO gold medal with full marks, who is not calm and thoughtful?He quickly regained his composure, and turned his attention to Qin Ke again: "Are you sure it's just the two of you who will challenge the five of us?"

Qin Ke smiled lightly: "Actually, one is enough for me. I mainly want her to increase her confidence and experience in doing questions under great pressure. This will be very beneficial for her to participate in IMO in the future."

Fernando looked at Qin Ke for a long time, and a serious smile appeared on the corner of his mouth again: "Very well, your arrogance successfully aroused my fighting spirit. To be honest, even in the face of the challenge of your three Olympiad training teams , I didn’t take it seriously, but at this time, I decided to go all out.”

He looked at Ning Qingyun again, his eyes full of sarcasm: "I believe that you two should be the high school students with the highest mathematics level in Xia Country. If we beat you, we are equivalent to defeating a country, which is really interesting."

For Fernando, he once stood at the pinnacle of the world's Mathematical Olympiad strength through the IMO gold medal, but what he actually defeated was only a few hundred national teams from all over the world.Compared with tens of millions of high school students openly challenging a huge country like this, and smoothing out all dissatisfaction, the latter is obviously more refreshing.

A crowd of foreign audiences cheered and cheered.

Qin Ke also smiled, and said to Ning Qingyun: "School Committee, he reminded me. There are two IMO gold medals, one silver medal from the US, and two gold medals from the US Mathematical League. If we beat them, it can be regarded as defeat." We have saved countless high school mathematics masters in the world, and we are less troublesome than them, and we don’t need a visa and don’t have to pay for air tickets. Thinking about it this way, don’t you think it’s even cheaper?”

The Xia Kingdom audience around them were already full of anger and depression. Just now, Ning Qingyun's performance in the warm-up match greatly boosted their momentum and confidence. Hearing Qin Ke's witty words at this time was even more heart-warming. They all applauded.

"Come on, God Qin, this competition will also be broadcast live on the live broadcast platform of the United States. You defeated them, and you can be regarded as a mouthful of bad breath for our Xia State for ten years!"

"That's right, God Qin, we are optimistic about you! Teach them a lesson!"

Qin Ke raised his hand, and the surroundings soon became quiet.Qin Ke said: "Each prepare for 1 minute, and then officially start at 15:30."

Fernando had no objection. After communicating with his companions in a low voice for a while, he carefully selected five questions from the bottom of the prepared question bank and put them on the large and long marble table.

Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun also quickly took out their own five questions.

As the hands of the huge wall clock in the lobby turned to 15:30, this math competition, which attracted the attention of countless high school students, college students and ordinary people from both countries, officially began.

Both questions are written in English, which is actually a little disadvantageous for Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun, but their English proficiency is very high. My English level is also between CET-[-] and CET-[-]. It seems that the questions are not difficult.

For a while, everyone in the lobby held their breath, for fear that making a little noise would affect the thinking of these seven people.

To the surprise of almost everyone, Qin Ke took the questions and scanned around, then selected one of the questions and handed it to Ning Qingyun, picked up one of the questions himself, and wrote it directly on the official answer sheet.

Countless people's eyes widened, and they almost wanted to remind Qin Ke that it was not a draft paper, but a formal answer sheet at that time, but seeing Qin Ke's concentration, the audience forcibly held back their words, only expecting the next one Ning Qingyun reminded Qin Ke.

But Ning Qingyun just glanced at Qin Ke's actions, without any intention of interfering, so she picked up her draft paper and started to work on the topic Qin Ke gave her, which made the audience watching the live broadcast live and online I was sweating all over, but in this situation, I can only comfort myself, probably Ning is also afraid of interrupting Shen Qin's thinking, right?
On the contrary, some foreign viewers watched this scene with great interest, with mocking smiles on their lips, apparently thinking that the high school student from Xia Guo was too nervous and mistakenly took the official answer sheet as a draft paper.

The five American high school students facing each other frowned after getting the questions. Fernando looked at them for nearly 2 minutes before carefully assigning the other four questions to his partners.

Seeing the dignified expressions of the five American high school students, they were not at all as relaxed and arrogant as the previous two days, and it took a while before they each picked up their pens and started writing on the draft paper.

Everyone was shocked and surprised, and at the same time confused.

Although the camera captured both questions, so that everyone can see Yangliu clearly through the screen, this question is in English, and the difficulty is too high. I was dumb, unable to explain at all.

Everyone can only speculate that the questions Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun gave to the five American high school students must be very difficult.

Looking at Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun, they both looked focused and calm.

The girl with a single ponytail has been calculating on the draft, while Qin Ke next to her continues to write non-stop on the official answer sheet of "wrongly taken".

The audience at the scene was even more impatient. They couldn't read it, and they didn't know that even if they had the upper hand, someone suddenly pointed to their mobile phone and wrote "Station B" in the void. Headphones, open the phone's B station APP.

Sure enough, there is a big promotional picture on the most conspicuous part of the homepage:

"This site specially invites Chen Licheng, the most famous talented college student in the mathematics field of Xiaguo, and a doctoral student majoring in mathematics at MIT, to explain the mathematics competition of Qin Ke, Ning Qingyun VS Fernando and other five American high school students on the spot!"

Probably afraid that audiences outside the academic circle would not know who Chen Licheng is, there is also a brief introduction of Chen Licheng in the promotional pictures:
"Chen Licheng, a mathematics genius, won the IMO gold medal 13 years ago. During his study at Qingmu University, he won four individual gold awards and two silver awards in the 'Grandmaster Qiu Mathematics Competition' including the individual all-around gold award, and has been awarded for two consecutive years Received a special scholarship from Qingmu University, and was recommended to MIT to study for a master’s and doctor’s degree without examination. He has already obtained a master’s degree in mathematics from MIT, and will complete his doctorate studies next year and return to Qingmu University to teach.”

MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology!The world-renowned top university for science!

Countless people were pleasantly surprised and excited, and clicked in without hesitation.

Sure enough, I saw a young man with short hair cut and in good spirits explaining the current situation in the live broadcast room:
"Hi everyone, I'm Chen Licheng. It's a great honor to be invited to explain this much-anticipated high school mathematics competition between the two countries. I haven't paid much attention to Fernando and other American high school students, but I am familiar with Qin Ke. I watched his last academic live broadcast at Station B and had a brief exchange with him. Later, I invited him to join my research team at Qingmu University next year. Unfortunately, he declined. But overall, I treat him very much. appreciated."

"Okay, let's not talk about gossip, let's take a look at the situation on the scene. After the warm-up match just now, the two sides have officially entered the '2VS5' competition. The rules of the competition are very simple. Within half an hour, whoever the two teams Whoever makes the most questions will win, but here I want to explain that according to international practice, the correct rate of answers is also very important. A small mistake that does not affect the final result will be judged to increase the answering time by 10%. Three small mistakes, or one mistake that will affect the result, the answer to this question will be invalid."

"Let's take a look at the five questions from both sides. The questions from the US side are very difficult. Everyone should know that IMO is divided into DAY1 and DAY2, right? DAY1 and DAY2 have three questions every day, and they can be completed within 4.5 hours. ——Of course, I heard that this year’s IMO will carry out reforms. It will be changed to 1 questions on DAY2 and DAY5, and the time limit will become [-] hours, which will undoubtedly increase the difficulty—here we will follow the old rules before the reforms in previous years. analyze."

"How difficult is the IMO? Let me give you a rough level of difficulty. It may not be very accurate. The difficulty level of our Xia Guo Mathematical Olympiad is around 9 after the reform this year, while last year's IMO DAY1 topic was at 12. The difficulty level of the DAY2 questions is around 15. The five questions given to Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun by the US just now have a difficulty level of around 15. I guess these should be selected from the difficult question bank in the US IMO special training Yes, they asked five of the most difficult questions at a time, and it seems that they really regard Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun as rivals."

Hearing that the difficulty level reached 15, countless viewers who watched his live commentary were dumbfounded. Even if they don't know the Olympiad, this superficial number can still be understood.

The difficulty of this year's Mathematical Olympiad National Competition is only about 9, and now the difficulty of the questions given by these five American high school students has almost doubled!

Did you make a mistake? It's too shameless, isn't it?Five such big questions in a row?You must know that in IMO, it takes an hour and a half for one question. How can it be done in just half an hour?

Even if Qin Ke broke the historical record of the national competition, he would be helpless in the face of such five problems, right?
Some viewers immediately left a message anxiously asking: "What about Qin Ke's questions for American students? Is it difficult?"

Chen Licheng replied: "I looked at Qin Ke's five questions just now, and the difficulty level is definitely not so exaggerated. There are about three difficulty levels around 13, which are slightly harder than DAY1. The other two difficulty levels are both Around 15. These questions are quite exquisite, but I don’t know where Qin Ke got them. I checked the Internet just now, but I didn’t see similar questions. If he came up with it himself, it would be quite remarkable.”

The audience didn't bother to care about Chen Licheng's later comments. Hearing that the difficulty level was different, which was a little lower than the questions provided by American high school students, they became anxious.

Originally, 2VS5 was at a disadvantage in terms of numbers, and now the questions to be solved by one's side are a little more difficult than those of the other side—although it is only a little bit, it will undoubtedly further widen the comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of both sides.

But suddenly someone asked: "Huh? Master Chen, that's not right. According to you, it should be Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun who are working harder on the questions. Why do I see the expressions on both sides? It's obviously from the side of the United States." Be more cautious and think longer?"

Chen Licheng replied: "As I said just now, the questions provided by Qin Ke are very delicate, even if the level of difficulty is slightly lower, but if you don't have flexible and careful thinking, it is very difficult to find the point to solve the questions... Hey, wait a minute, Please, the big cameraman at station B, move the camera to Qin Ke’s answer sheet and adjust the focus, I want to see clearly what he wrote on it.”

(End of this chapter)