The subject of the first competition was mathematics.
The three contestants, Gu Xi, Gu Chenyi, and Sheng Xiuyan, entered the venue.
Before entering the venue, Gu Xi passed the security check and handed the paper and pen to the invigilator.
The invigilator quickly flipped through the paper. This kind of competition was different from the exams organized by the school. Even if one brought in an entire textbook, they would still not be able to answer the questions, let alone copy the answers on their behalf.
"Go in." The invigilator handed the draft paper back to Gu Xi and told Gu Xi her seat number.
Gu Xi quickly found her seat.
The layout of the venue this time was similar to the one Gu Xi had participated in last year. Everyone's seat was arranged in an S shape, and each seat was surrounded by a circle of partitions. The contestants could answer the questions on their own without disturbing each other.
However, the difference was that the competition this time was paperless. Therefore, there was no competition paper on the table in front of Gu Xi. There was only a display device and a selection device that was probably specially used for the contestants to enter their answers.
The operation was very simple. After selecting the corresponding question, one had to select the "abcd" option on the button.
—
The competition began. After a countdown popped up on the display screen on the table, the questions popped up.
Although there were some changes to the way the questions were answered, it didn't affect Gu Xi much.
After adapting to a few questions, Gu Xi's answering speed quickly improved.
In fact, Gu Xi did not even need to use the draft paper to calculate the answers for some questions. After a simple mental calculation process, she could determine the answers.
Vaguely, Gu Xi felt that her speed of answering the questions seemed to be faster than the previous test questions.
…
After an hour, Gu Xi finished answering the questions.
However, because there was still time, Gu Xi checked all the answers twice just to be safe.
When the competition was about to end, Gu Xi clicked on the button to hand in the paper.
At this time, there were still many people in the venue who had not finished the questions. They were holding the draft paper and burying their heads in their calculations.
Gu Xi retracted his gaze and prepared to leave the arena. However, he was surprised to find that Gu Chenyi and Sheng Xiuyan were still in their seats.
Gu Xi raised her eyebrows in surprise. She had thought that the two of them should have left an hour ago. She didn't expect them to still be there.
Gu Xi walked out of the arena and waited for the two to come out.
When it was almost time for the competition, the two of them waited for the system to automatically submit their answers and walked out.
"Is it difficult?" Gu Xi asked nervously when she saw the two of them coming out.
With their speed, it didn't make sense for them to only come out now.
However, Gu Xi didn't think that the test questions were difficult …
"It's quite simple," Gu Chenyi said in a relaxed tone.
Gu Xi: "Then you …"
Gu Chenyi: "I checked it twice."
This was definitely the first time in his memory that he was checked after completing a question.
It wasn't easy for him to get a high score and not be a burden to Gu Xi.
Gu Xi looked at Sheng Xiuyan. "You too?"
"More or less," Sheng Xiuyan said. He simply didn't want to be suppressed by Gu Xi again because he accidentally missed a few questions.
"Let's go and eat. You still have another test in the afternoon," Gu Chenyi pulled Gu Xi over and said.
Gu Xi participated in two tests in the first two days, and both tests were on the first day.
The difficulty of the first test in the afternoon was normal. Gu Xi successfully finished all the questions.
—
After completing the first day of the competition, Gu Xi was relieved to be a spectator in the resting area the next day.
However, to Gu Xi's surprise, Lin Anxin didn't participate in any of the four competitions in two days.
Apart from Lin Anxin, Li Ming and the other first-year junior high students didn't participate either.
This was too much of a joke.
Gu Xi couldn't help but complain.
In Principal Li Ming's words, the main team of the competition was composed of second-year and third-year juniors. As for the first-year juniors, they would be the seeded contestants in the future.
Li Ming had no choice but to do this. Although there was no hard and fast rule about which grade students had to participate in the competition, every school had always tacitly agreed that there should be students from every grade.
However, compared to the second-year and third-year juniors, the first-year juniors' knowledge reserves were … not very good at fighting.
Last year, there was "Lin Xi". This year's first-year junior high student was first in the grade. Compared to the other grades, she was still a little behind.
The competition only stipulated that each school could form a team of eight people, but there was no specific restriction on the arrangement of the participants. Therefore, Li Ming took advantage of this loophole and let the two first-year juniors practice and not participate in the competition.
Li Ming was not the first to do this, nor was he the only one.
Therefore, even if some people noticed these students who didn't participate in the competition, they didn't say anything.
—
The first two days of the competition ended.
When they returned to the hotel, the three lead teachers of A University's Affiliated High School gathered the eight students together.
At this time, the three teachers were very happy.
"The scores of the first four matches are out," the lead teacher said.
Through some personal channels, she roughly knew the current score ranking.
"After two days of hard work, our school is currently in first place. Moreover, our overall score is more than 30 points ahead of the second place. Not bad," the lead teacher said with a smile.
This time, their performance in the first four matches was better than before.
These two days, this group of students seemed to have been injected with chicken blood. Not only did they study seriously and prepare for the competition, but even Gu Chenyi and Sheng Xiuyan could seriously check their books before coming out.
The three teachers clicked their tongues in wonder.
"Tomorrow is the last match, and it's also the most important one. We have to play it safe, okay?" The lead teacher looked at Gu Xi and Sheng Xiuyan and said.
Secretly, he was looking forward to the performance of these two prodigies.
"Okay." Gu Xi nodded seriously and agreed.
At the side, Sheng Xiuyan also gave a rare response.
—
After they were dismissed, on the way back to their rooms, the students of The Affiliated High School were still very happy.
Including Gu Chenyi, who was next to Gu Xi.
"It's more than 30 points lower. Li Ming and his gang can climb up now," Gu Chenyi said leisurely. He couldn't wait to see those people, especially the moronic Gao Zifan and Lin Anxin's dejected expressions.
As he spoke, Gu Chenyi thought of something. He lowered his head and looked at Gu Xi, who was next to him, and asked, "Yesterday morning, when Li Ming and his gang were present, what were you going to say?"
"Was it about his family background?" Gu Chenyi asked, choosing his words carefully.
He remembered that Gu Xi was interrupted by Lin Anxin yesterday.
Gu Chenyi didn't know much about the Lin family. He only heard that it wasn't a good family and that it was very melodramatic.
It wasn't difficult to publicize the Lin family's dark history. However, if it was that easy, he, Gu Yanlin, and Gu Yanxiao would have done it long ago, without waiting for his grandfather and second uncle to do it.
Publicizing the Lin family's affairs would definitely affect Gu Xi, which was what they didn't want to happen the most.
Gu Xi shook her head. "Of course not."
She just wanted to scare Lin Anxin.
Compared to her, Lin Anxin and the entire Lin family were the ones who were most afraid of the exposure of those things.
Gu Xi wasn't afraid that the exposure of the Lin family's affairs would affect her. She didn't care about Lin Yize and Song Kexin anymore. She didn't say anything because she didn't want Gu Shao to be affected.
Gu Xi didn't care about how Gu Shao was in the novel. However, after interacting with Gu Shao, she knew that he was a very good person and a very responsible father. Although he was a little fierce and serious, it couldn't hide the fact that Gu Shao was an upright person.
Gu Xi didn't want Gu Shao's reputation to be tainted by the novel's male and female protagonists.
He raised her, so she had to protect him.
Thinking that she hadn't reported her safety to Gu Shao today, Gu Xi took out her phone and sent a message to Gu Shao and Aunt Mei at home. She also mentioned that they were now number one.
— —
On the other hand, in a reception room in the teaching experiment area.
Gu Shao, who received the message, took out his phone and quickly glanced at it. A touch of tenderness flashed across his eyes. He thought for a moment and replied, "Not bad."
"Continue." Gu Shao put away his phone and looked at the people in front of him.
At this moment, sitting across from Gu Shao was the organizer of the Science League.
"The adoption of the paperless examination model this time was very successful. At present, the system is operating steadily, and the feedback from the contestants after adapting to it is very good …" said Director Zhou, the main person in charge of the league this time. There was a trace of respect in his attitude towards Gu Shao.
Professor Gu had a high reputation in the education field in City B, and he was one of the initiators of the reform of the Chinese National Competition. The equipment and system for the paperless exam this time were also provided by a research institute under NTN. Therefore, Director Zhou's respectful attitude towards Gu Shao was reasonable.
When Gu Shao heard Director Zhou's words, he nodded.
"Will there be parents watching the competition tomorrow?" Gu Shao asked. He remembered that Gu Xi mentioned this before.
Director Zhou nodded and said, "Yes, to be precise, they're here to watch the award ceremony in the afternoon."
Director Zhou paused for a second and explained to Gu Shao in detail. The Science League was open to the public, so every year, many parents would come to watch or pick up their children. Many of them would arrive early, so the organizers simply prepared a waiting area in the teaching experiment area for these parents in advance.
Not only would there be parents, but there would also be people from some universities and training institutions. Their main purpose was to find some students with potential among these students.
After hearing the explanation, Gu Shao looked down and thought for a moment.
"If this is the case, then install a connected device in the waiting area and the resting area to announce the competition in real-time," said Gu Shao.
Director Zhou paused for a second.
Installing a real-time announcement device was of course not a problem.
However …
"What's the point of installing this?" Director Zhou asked. This was just a science competition between schools, so there was no need to announce the competition in real-time.
Gu Shao glanced at Director Zhou and did not explain. He just said in a serious tone, "It's a device test."
Director Zhou and the others immediately understood and said, "Oh, you want to do a test? No problem, Professor Gu, what test do you want to do? We'll cooperate."
Gu Shao nodded and asked, "How many years has it been since the Science League started?"
Director Zhou thought for a moment and said, "It's been more than 30 years since it started. At first, it was just an academic exchange between a few schools. Then, it slowly became a science league system. It has been 11 or 12 years since the competition officially took shape."
"The results of the Science League aren't public?"
"Well, they aren't." Director Zhou paused and said, "After all, it's just a junior high school competition. The attention of the society is definitely not as high as the international and national Olympiad. Therefore, the results of each school are generally only announced internally."
"There are no individual results?" asked Gu Shao again.
"There are, but our league is quite special. The purpose of the competition is based on team competition, so generally, only the total score of each team is announced. The individual results are only archived."
"Can you check the previous results?"
"Yes, we can check it at any time." Director Zhou said and immediately connected to the intranet. He quickly pulled up the scores of each school and individual.
Gu Shao's eyes quickly fell on the score of "Liming High School – Lin Xi". It was a beautiful score, especially in the last round. It was much higher than other people's scores.
"Not bad," commented Gu Shao.
Director Zhou and the others did not notice the subtle pride in Gu Shao's eyes. They thought that Gu Shao was affirming their work, so they quickly nodded and said humbly, "There's still a lot to learn and improve. Professor Gu, please give us your suggestions. "
"There's no harm in releasing the previous competition results, including the individual results," said Gu Shao.
Hearing this, Director Zhou and the others were stunned. Is this really okay?
However, the few of them also considered Gu Shao's suggestion seriously.
— —
According to the competition rules, only two people from each school could participate in the last round of the competition.
Gu Xi and Sheng Xiuyan were the contestants from A University's Affiliated High School. The others went to the waiting area to wait for the end of the competition and the award ceremony.
— —
In the waiting area, the people who came in were surprised to find that there were two large screens on the wall at the front of the waiting area today. On these two screens, one showed the name of the competition, and the other showed the countdown to the start of the competition as well as some other data.
"I haven't been here for one night and the waiting area has become more advanced," said someone with a sigh.
"That's true."
"What's that?" asked someone as he pointed at the data at the bottom of the screen on the left.
"I think it's the serial numbers of the various schools. Look at the number A-002 at the back of No. 6 High School. It's the number we got from drawing lots this time." Another person pondered for a moment before he asked in confusion, "But why are they hanging it up?"
"Is it good?"
"I don't know …" The person next to him was also puzzled.
— —
At this time, Gu Shao went directly to the backstage surveillance office.
Director Li from the organizer was surprised to see Gu Shao. However, she quickly remembered what Director Zhou said on the phone yesterday about the NTN test.
"Professor Gu," said Director Li politely. She smiled at Gu Shao and said, "Are you here to check on the equipment and system?"
Before Director Li could finish her sentence, she was about to tell Gu Shao that everything was running normally. However, Gu Shao said, "No."
"I'm here to watch my daughter compete."
"?!" Director Li's jaw almost dropped when she heard this. Was she hallucinating? Why would someone like Gu Shao come here to watch his daughter compete?
No, the point was, Gu Shao actually had a daughter?!
Director Li finally found her composure. She was about to say something when she saw Gu Shao walk in front of the surveillance screen and stare at one of the areas.
— —
On the other side, Gu Xi and Sheng Xiuyan entered the competition venue together and found their seats. Because this competition was a collaboration between the two of them, the two students from each school were arranged to sit together.
Coincidentally, Gao Zifan and Li Ming's seat was right next to theirs.
Gu Xi and Sheng Xiuyan buried their heads in arranging the draft paper and pens. They did not even pay attention to Gao Zifan next to them.
Gao Zifan, on the other hand, glared at Gu Xi before he sat down and secretly gritted his teeth. Yesterday, there was a rumor in the group chat that University A's Affiliated High School was not only the first in the first four rounds, but also more than 30 points higher than the second place. This was really hard for Gao Zifan to accept.
However, he still had one last chance. As long as his personal score was better than Gu Xi's in the last round, it did not matter how high Li Ming's ranking was. After all, it was not his fault that the total score was not as good as the others'. He could only blame his teammates for not doing their best.
With this thought, Gao Zifan felt a little better. He returned to his seat and began to prepare nervously.
On the other side, after getting ready, Gu Xi looked at Sheng Xiuyan and asked, "How are we going to split the questions later?" After all, it was a set of questions that required two people to do, so it was necessary to divide the work.
Sheng Xiuyan said almost without thinking, "You go forward, and I'll go backward." Gu Xi was going to do the questions from the front to the back, while Sheng Xiuyan was going to do the questions from the front to the front.
"This way, we won't affect each other," Sheng Xiuyan said again.
He was not sure how many questions Gu Xi could answer, so this was the best way. It would not affect Gu Xi's performance and would leave enough space for Gu Xi to answer.
Upon hearing this, Gu Xi was stunned. "But, it's not convenient for you to do this …"
In terms of habit, it was normal to do the questions from the front to the back, but it was uncomfortable to do the questions from the back.
Sheng Xiuyan waved his hand, indicating that it did not matter.
"It won't affect me at all." His arrogant tone made him seem like a prodigy.
"Also, aren't you going to compete with the person next door in terms of points?" Sheng Xiuyan said.
"…" That was true, but Gu Xi wanted to say that she did not feel that there was much competition between the person next door and the person next door.
"Okay then." Gu Xi nodded and said, "Then, when we start in a while, we'll try our best to finish the questions as quickly as possible. If we're not sure, we'll leave the questions empty and do them later."
Sheng Xiuyan glanced at Gu Xi and nodded. "Okay."
— —
The time limit for answering questions began. Gu Xi and Sheng Xiuyan quickly entered a state of quiet answering. One of them went from the front to the back, while the other went from the back to the front. They did not disturb each other.
At the same time, in the waiting area and the resting area, the original pages on the two huge screens were removed and suddenly switched to two lists.
The numbers of the 26 participating schools were listed in the leftmost column, followed by the numbers 1 and 2.
"What's going on?" Many people asked curiously.
"Every school is on there. Don't tell me they're going to directly announce the scores later." After all, after the change to a paperless competition, the scoring speed was much faster than before.
"So, the corresponding numbers 1 and 2 are the two people participating in this round?"
"Then, what's the empty space at the back?"
Everyone was talking at the same time.
At this moment, a green dot of light began to light up behind each row of numbers. These dots of light corresponded to the numbers 1, 2, and 3.
"F * ck! Don't tell me that everyone is answering questions on the spot! "someone exclaimed.
Every time a dot lit up, it meant that someone had answered a question, and the number on it should be the corresponding question number.
"Oh my god, isn't this a live broadcast of a competition?!" They could see everyone's answers at any time. It was even more exciting than a live broadcast of a basketball league!
Not only was it exciting, but it was also terrifying.
Not only did the screen show green dots, but red dots also began to appear.
If the answer was correct, it would light up green, and if the answer was wrong, it would light up red.
Not only could they see the number of questions each person answered and their answering speed, but they could also tell if they were right or wrong.
This …
This was completely a public "execution."
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