nyslfriends Chapter 185 The Most Hardcore Romance
Chapter 185 The Most Hardcore Romance
The atmosphere instantly reached its peak.
Both of them stared intently at Su Hao, waiting to see what trump card this "001" would play.
Su Hao was stunned for a moment.
Involuntarily, the image of the five high-quality admission notices, each bearing its own school emblem, floated into his mind.
He scratched his head, his tone hesitant, even a little embarrassed:
"Well... how should I put it? Besides here, I also received offers and full scholarships from Caltech, Harvard, Stanford, and Princeton."
However, I think it's just so-so.
"..."
"..."
The moment the words were spoken, the air in the corridor seemed to freeze.
Upon hearing this, Ellie and "Backpack" froze instantly, their expressions of subtle rivalry vanishing.
The two men stared at Su Hao with undisguised shock and disbelief, as if they had seen a ghost.
"Wow! You've got a clean sweep of the top STEM universities in America!"
The backpack immediately broke down, its eyes practically popping out of their sockets.
Ellie swallowed hard, and her gaze towards Su Hao completely changed:
"This level of experience... no wonder he's been leading the pack all day!"
Thinking about it this way, it suddenly makes a lot more sense...
Although Su Hao's use of the words "just casually" and "it's nothing special" sounded a bit stiff and even somewhat irritating...
However, considering his status as an international student, the two automatically excused him, feeling that the "Versailles incongruity" in his wording was entirely reasonable.
After all, there are always some geniuses who are unaware of the hardships of ordinary people.
"drop--!"
The moment the countdown reached zero, the monitor suddenly lit up with a blinding light, as if a seal had been broken.
"Time's up! Warriors, are you ready to accept our ultimate challenge?"
"Of course! We've been waiting for this for a long time, our swords are ready to be drawn, we just want a good fight!"
The "backpack" instantly got into character, his expression solemn, and he spouted lines with an off-the-charts level of cringeworthiness.
Ellie rubbed her hands together, excited: "Looks like today is my day to get a top-of-the-line graphics card for free."
Looking at the two people beside him who were eager to try and seemed to have victory in their grasp, Su Hao revealed a smile of satisfaction, like an old father looking at his mentally challenged children.
"Then, I'll confirm."
Su Hao stepped forward and placed his fingertip steadily on the center of the screen.
[Final Level - Should you rescue the "Beaver"?]
The instant after pressing the "Yes" button.
"boom!"
An extremely solemn and grand symphony, as if performed live by a hundred-person symphony orchestra, suddenly exploded in the narrow corridor!
Su Hao remained outwardly calm, but inwardly he was filled with admiration:
"Holy crap, these guys who have nothing better to do are really hardcore gamers!"
In that short hour of waiting, they managed to re-choreograph such a perfect transition performance!
That's incredibly dedicated!
drop--
With a dull thud as the air pressure was released, the heavy automatic door in front of us slid open to both sides.
Behind the door was complete darkness. The three hesitated only briefly, exchanged a glance, and then strode inside.
.....
Has the solution boiled?
In the control room, the hacker codenamed Root pushed his experimental goggles up to his forehead and asked urgently.
Another voice came from the shadows:
"93 degrees, that's about right. Damn, this temperature-controlled heater is absolutely terrible, it sounds like an old lady breathing! Next time we apply for funding, we have to get a better one!"
On this bizarre stage, forcibly pieced together by them using professional experimental equipment, these tech-savvy hackers used the most hardcore romance of science students to reconstruct the "witch's iron pot" from the fairy tale!
"Watch out! They're coming in!"
A low shout came from the monitoring console.
"Lights up!"
"drop--"
The three of them stepped into the room at the same time, and a spotlight suddenly shone down on them.
Upon seeing the scene before them, everyone was instantly frozen in place, as if under a spell!
On the ceiling, a super cute and huge beaver doll was suspended by a thick rope.
Directly below it, in an extremely exaggerated giant beaker base, a boiling solution with an eerie fluorescent green color is being frantically simmered!
As the bubbles burst, wisps of white smoke even rose from them!
"What... what kind of bizarre setting is this?!" The backpack was completely in disarray.
"Wow, boiling this stuff with lab equipment and reagents? That's really hardcore!" Ellie muttered to herself.
Su Hao stared at the bound mascot, his lips twitching slightly: "The... the beaver's about to be boiled!"
Looking at the genuinely shocked reactions on the faces of these three top freshmen, as if they had swallowed a fly...
The three hackers in front of the monitor were extremely happy, experiencing a profound sense of satisfaction.
With a buzzing sound, the blood-red text on the big screen began to flash:
The ultimate challenge lies on the screen. Listen carefully to the rules:
Every time you ask us for a hint, the rope suspending the beaver will drop a little further!
The maximum credit limit is five.
If the limit is exceeded, the beaver goes to the pot, and it's Game Over!
By the way, we really have the latest top-of-the-line graphics card ready, it's just sitting there!
If you're so capable, take it with your own merit!
Immediately afterwards, the screen flashed, and the actual exam questions began to appear line by line.
We have constructed a mysterious "antiderivative" here.
Unfortunately, at this moment, only the output data generated by this function remains in the system.
Your task is to reconstruct the original function expression using only these output results!
No initial boundary conditions are given, and there is no domain.
As soon as he finished speaking, the three data channels lit up side by side, and the dazzling data stream poured down like a storm!
[Original Output Value] A massive amount of random numbers;
Scatter plot of the approximate first derivative of f'(x);
Dynamic graph of the cumulative integral of int f(x)dx!
Three sets of completely disordered, massive, garbled data, resembling cryptic text, unfolded sequentially on the screen.
Unsurprisingly, faced with this extremely abstract reverse engineering—a process that would make even doctoral students curse—...
The three men, who had just boasted about getting the graphics card for free, instantly lost their relaxed demeanor, their faces now displaying a serious expression that seemed to say, "Are you kidding me?"
[Timer begins!]
This is a dance on the edge of a knife.
To solve this crucial puzzle within the allotted time, they must, like the most ruthless gamblers, use the game of strategy to precisely determine the timing of their intervention to request hints.
Too early; without enough clues, it's a dead end.
It's too late; even if you run out of time, you'll still be done playing.
"drop--"
Inside the control room, Root casually pressed a button to turn off the external microphone.
"I said, although I structured this script according to your ideas, isn't it a bit too torturous to use this as a welcome question?"
This is definitely not something a freshman could understand, is it?
Entropy crossed his arms over his chest, his gaze sharp as he stared at the monitor, and gave a cold laugh:
"No, that's not true. You have to understand, people who can get into this school have already maxed out their regular exam math scores; they're generally pretty good."
But the core competency required for our research project is not simply solving problems step by step!
She paused, then her tone suddenly became more forceful:
What we need are mathematical geniuses!
He is a genius who can instantly extract patterns from massive, disordered, and garbage data and structure them!
It's a monster that, no matter how chaotic or distorted the raw noise we throw at it, can forcibly establish a solid system of rules from the most fundamental logic of mathematics!