ebonymovies Chapter 12 The Way of the Morning
Chapter 12 The Way of the Morning
"Alright, everyone's in the car, right? Huihui, is your seatbelt fastened?"
In the driver's seat, Su Zhe turned his head to check, his rough, large hands gripping the steering wheel.
From the rising tone of his father's voice, Su Hao could keenly sense a hint of barely concealed excitement.
It's unclear when exactly, but Su Hao's competition schedule, which was enough to cause a bloodbath in the national mathematics community, has turned into a heartwarming family trip.
Thanks to the subsidy from the county and the bread truck that the principal used his connections to borrow for them, their family was finally free from financial worries.
"It's all tied!"
Su Hui, sitting in the back row, raised her hands high and answered crisply.
Hey.
The engine roared, and the car started smoothly.
Su Hui couldn't hide her overflowing excitement and started singing the nursery rhymes she learned in kindergarten.
Su Hao smiled and praised her for singing well, which made the little girl so proud that she started wagging her tail and even added dance moves to her gestures.
Su Hao leaned against the car window, watching the scenery rushing past outside, his eyes gradually becoming deep.
This is the fourth match already.
He silently made a decision in his heart:
With this national competition held in Beijing as the final battle, I will never participate in such "noob-slaying" competitions aimed at ordinary students again.
Su Hao, who has won first place in the past three competitions with an absolute crushing victory, has become the center of a brewing storm in the eyes of the mathematics community.
But this only applies to those in academia who are terrified of him.
For the average person, dry mathematics is not something they care about at all.
In fact, Su Hao had also thought about participating in a few more of these "lower-dimensional attack" competitions so that his family could have a happy trip.
But then Shen Yuxuan's words suddenly came to mind, and he shook his head slightly.
"That's enough. Continuing any further would be a waste of time."
This was also an echo from his own heart.
At first, I found it very interesting to dominate and crush others, and I felt a sense of exhilaration, like a max-level player slaughtering a newbie village.
But later we found that these test setters used the same few tricks over and over again, which were so stupid they made people sleepy.
Now, he is more eager to solve problems that can truly make his cerebral cortex tremble and stimulate his desire for challenge.
......
"Bro! Do your best on the exam!"
Perhaps it was because the cold wind in the capital was too biting, Su Hui's cheeks were red from the cold outside the examination hall.
Su Hao smiled and squatted down, gently covering his sister's cheeks with his hands to warm her up.
The warm touch made Su Hui squint her eyes in comfort, and her little face, which had been a bit stiff from the cold, instantly relaxed, revealing a sweet smile.
"I'll come out as soon as I finish the exam, and then I'll take you to eat something delicious."
"Yes!" The little girl nodded emphatically.
The heavy doors to the venue were slowly pushed open, and Su Hao stepped inside.
The moment I stepped into the examination room, the air seemed to thicken, creating a strangely oppressive feeling.
Swish swish--!
Countless gazes, like a tangible breeze, swept in from all directions, silently landing on him.
"What happened?"
Su Hao frowned slightly, feeling somewhat uncomfortable, and looked inside to find his seat, meeting all those gazes.
With each step forward, one could hear undisguised whispers buzzing in the silence.
"Holy crap, is that the elementary school kid?"
"Taller than I expected! Judging by his aura, I thought he was just a middle school student..."
"Is he that monster who won first place three times in a row?! Why is he even here?! Is he trying to kill us?!"
Su Hao's lips twitched slightly.
The overwhelming results from the first three competitions have undoubtedly spread far and wide within the small circle of these top competitors.
The way these people looked at me was like they were looking at a wild Ultraman.
Su Haoqiang suppressed the discomfort of being watched and settled into his seat.
He methodically took out the little yellow duck children's pen from the pencil case, then gently twisted his neck and stretched his arms.
Just as he twisted his waist and casually glanced behind him...
"Well?!"
Su Hao's hand trembled, and he almost broke the pen. He quickly covered his mouth and swallowed his exclamation. He then turned his head to look at the blackboard in front of him.
Right behind him at an angle, a pale and terrifying face, like that of a vengeful ghost, was staring intently at him!
"Who is this woman?! Is she crazy?! Why is she staring at me with those creepy eyes?!"
A pale face, eyes sharp enough to kill.
The chilling hostility, as if being stared at by a venomous snake, instantly sent shivers down Su Hao's spine.
Ring ring—
The crisp ringing of the bell, like a sharp blade slicing through reality, signaled the official start of the exam.
Su Hao breathed a sigh of relief, his mood instantly improving.
All he had to do now was pour all the surging thoughts in his mind onto the exam paper in front of him.
rustling.
Su Hao's wrist twitched slightly, and the pen tip glided smoothly across the paper, producing a pleasant friction sound.
Lin Shuwan, sitting in the back seat, stared intently at that figure for a full half minute. She took a deep breath and forced herself to focus her attention on the exam paper.
At this moment, Su Hao's pen tip was already dancing and taking flight on the paper like a sprite in a storm.
The originally dry mathematical formulas came alive in his mind, as if they had come to life.
The curve of the function formula spread infinitely across his retina like exploding fireworks.
Parabolic arcs trace elegant arches as the dome rises into the air, then descends as softly as a feather.
The ripples of trigonometric functions crashed against his brain like a tsunami.
The exponential function initially crawls along the ground smoothly, but then at a certain critical point, it bursts into a breathtaking surge, soaring straight into the sky!
"Ah! I see."
Su Hao's eyes lit up; he had probably seen through the question setter's little trick.
By utilizing the properties of convex functions and combining them with the transformation of inequalities, this seemingly extremely complex formula can be neatly and concisely summarized in a single line.
But that was too boring, so Su Hao didn't do that.
The beauty of this problem doesn't lie in the convex function, but in its symmetry!
The invisible curves suddenly unfolded in the universe of his mind, extending infinitely and easily breaking through the narrow structure originally constructed by the question setter.
Ultimately, he painstakingly discovered the most exquisite cyclical symmetry hidden at the microscopic level within that extremely deep and dark underlying logic.
At that moment, a brilliant idea flashed through my mind, like a supernova exploding.
Why limit yourself to algebra?
Let's simply treat the inequalities as metric geometry in a higher-dimensional normed space!
A barely perceptible shiver ran through his fingertips as Su Hao began to write with extreme excitement.
When he transformed the dry algebraic expressions into pure geometric language, the essence of the problem was completely stripped away, revealing a completely different and grander side.
Line after line of proofs, which even the question setter could not have anticipated or even dared to imagine, unfolded like a miracle from Su Hao's pen.
What might be an exam for others is, for him, creating a universe!
……
Meanwhile, a senior professor from the mathematics community, who had been invited to oversee the exam, was supervising and inspecting the examination hall.
He carried an expensive purple clay thermos and swaggered over to Su Hao's side with steady steps.
As a leading figure in the Chinese mathematics community, this level of exam paper is nothing more than child's play to him.
He was simply curious and wanted to see how this legendary genius solved problems using standard convex functions.
A tolerant and benevolent smile, befitting a powerful figure, even graced his lips.
Then, just as he caught a glimpse of Su Hao's exam paper out of the corner of his eye, the mouthful of goji berry tea he was about to swallow got stuck in his throat!
"Pfft—cough cough cough!"
The old professor suddenly coughed violently, and then, disregarding his appearance, he frantically rubbed his eyes with the back of his dry hands, as if he thought he was having severe hallucinations due to presbyopia.
"Holy crap, what is he doing?!"
The old professor was internally screaming, and even blurted out a vulgar curse.
The trap in this question is clearly the convex function, but this kid didn't even look at it and went straight for the cyclic symmetry.
He's actually using multidimensional vector spaces to solve algebra?!
Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap!
What amazing mathematical talent!
Watching Su Hao's monstrous, uninterrupted brushstrokes, the old professor's lips parted slightly involuntarily, his chest heaved, and his breathing suddenly became heavy.
He felt that his forty years of mathematical research were a joke in the face of this young man's imaginative problem-solving approach!
The old professor sighed deeply in his heart.
In this sigh, there is a sense of relief at having wasted half a lifetime and spent studying diligently without ever reaching such a threshold, and even more so, awe at the emergence of a genius.
He seemed to age ten years in an instant, and straightened his spine as if he had just learned the Dao.
He stood quietly beside Su Hao, like a clay or wooden sculpture, not daring to even breathe loudly, for fear of disturbing the flowing strokes of the brush before him.