"What fourth place?" Gu Xi looked at Dong Mingming in bewilderment.
"It's this. The votes on the forum." Dong Mingming lowered his phone as he spoke.
At this time, the top post on the campus forum of University A's Affiliated High School was the votes of the student representatives of the art festival.
Dong Mingming clicked on the voting link and scrolled down to Gu Xi's photo. Sure enough, in addition to her name, class, and votes, there was an additional "4" tag under her photo.
"Hehe, I was just thinking about how to get votes for you," Dong Mingming said with a smile.
However, before she could do anything, Gu Xi's votes had already reached fourth place.
"You didn't ask for votes or buy votes?" Gu Xi raised her eyebrows, a little surprised by this result.
"Of course not!"
"These people who voted for you are your true fans. If you don't believe me, take a look for yourself. There are many people who support you below," Dong Mingming said as he scrolled down to the bottom of the voting post.
There were many comments below, and many of them were about Gu Xi.
[Gu Xi? Is she the legendary Gu Xi?]
[Nonsense, there's only one student called Gu Xi in our affiliated high school, okay? And her class information matches.]
[Then I have to vote for Xi Shen!]
[Believe in God Xi and you won't fail. Let's vote for her.]
[God Xi is also a god. Anyway, Gu Xi is my goddess. I won't accept any rebuttal!]
[I'll vote for her too. I hope God Xi will bless me and make it to the top 100 next month. Haha.]
…
In the forum, most people knew about Gu Xi and voted for Gu Xi because they were convinced by Gu Xi's amazing results in the Science League.
However, there were also people who did not pay attention to this.
[Those people who posted the videos on the campus forum didn't see clearly at all. With this photo, I can finally see Gu Xi's real face.]
[Is she really Gu Xi? She's also very good-looking.]
[High IQ, good grades, and good looks. She's too much.]
[With her looks, she must be a campus belle.]
[When all of you voted because Gu Xi is a prodigy, I want to say that I voted for Gu Xi's looks.]
[I'm convinced. I voted for Gu Xi. She deserves it.]
[Haha, if the person above didn't mention it, I would have forgotten that this poll is for the school belle.]
…
"Vote for the campus belle?"
Gu Xi scrolled down the comments and found that many people mentioned the words "campus belle".
"Isn't this a vote by the student representatives?" Gu Xi looked at Dong Mingming in confusion.
"Yes, this vote was originally cast by the student representatives. However, due to some historical reasons, this vote has been regarded as a 'campus belle vote'," Dong Mingming explained to Gu Xi.
A long time ago, this vote was only cast by the student representatives. It wasn't until one year that a senior student uploaded a very good-looking photo. Of course, she was also very good-looking in person. As a result, she became extremely popular and was voted in first place by everyone.
With this beginning, the next few years of classes also began to intentionally or unintentionally choose the most good-looking person in the class to sign up for the vote.
As a result, the "student representative vote" subtly became equivalent to the "campus belle vote" in everyone's minds.
"I see …" Gu Xi's eyes flashed with understanding.
It was no wonder that when she asked why they didn't let Sheng Xiuyan sign up when they were discussing the registration process, the faces of the Literature and Arts Committee members all twitched.
She took a closer look. Indeed, all the students who signed up for the "student representative" election were girls.
Gu Xi glanced in Sheng Xiuyan's direction and secretly muttered to herself, "However, with Sheng Xiuyan's popularity in the affiliated high school, she should be able to get first place if she signs up with a wig."
After all, this selection was a competition of popularity during the student voting stage.
On the other side, Sheng Xiuyan, who was sleeping, inexplicably felt a chill run down her spine and she shivered.
—
"Gu Xiaoxi, you're actually not that far away from third place." Next to her, Dong Mingming continued to hold his phone and study it conscientiously.
"No, I have to find a way to canvass votes for you." Gu Xi's votes were not that far away from the third place, and the second place's votes were not that far away either. If she worked hard, she might really surpass them.
However, there was no need to think about getting first place.
Dong Mingming flipped to the first place's votes and glanced at it. Compared to the votes of the people behind, the first place's votes were far ahead.
"Last year, Gu Xueer was first place. It seems that this year, he will be the winner again." Dong Mingming muttered.
Gu Xueer?
Gu Xi found this name familiar. She glanced at the photo on Dong Mingming's phone.
The person in the photo was the third-year junior who had dragged them out of the library to take a photo of the smiling wall.
Gu Xi did not pay much attention to it. She retracted her gaze and continued to write and draw on the notebook in front of her.
"What's this?" Dong Mingming put away his phone, leaned over, and asked curiously.
She could recognize all the words Gu Xi had written on the paper, but she had no idea what it was when the words were connected to form a picture.
"I'm designing a smart companion device," Gu Xi explained.
"So awesome?" Dong Mingming's eyes widened.
She was still learning the quadratic equation, but her deskmate had already started to create a smart product?!
"Gu Xiaoxi, tell me the truth. Have you secretly learned all the university courses?"
"That's not right. Are you some big shot who transmigrated?" Dong Mingming narrowed her eyes and looked at Gu Xi. She did not care. Anyway, as long as it was someone like Sheng Xiuyan and Gu Xi, whose grades were much better than hers, they had all transmigrated! She did not accept any rebuttals!
Gu Xi did not know whether to laugh or cry at Dong Mingming's words.
Speaking of which, she did dream of some futures. Unfortunately, they were all about the melodramatic love story between Lin Yize and Song Kexin. Other than being shocking, there was no reference value at all.
"It's not that exaggerated." Gu Xi smiled and explained, "I'm only doing the design of the front-end product."
Simply put, it was the functional design of the product.
This was the division of labor between the three of them.
Gu Xi was responsible for the design of the final presentation, mode, function, and rationality of the entire product. [AAA] was responsible for breaking down Gu Xi's product design into the specific backend operating system. [Lin] was responsible for the technical design, and finally, their design was realized.
"Then why are there two pieces of paper? Are they different things?" Dong Mingming asked.
"No." Gu Xi shook her head and pointed to the two pictures and explained, "Our project design concept is to make this companion device have both the basic functions of a smart device and the functions that are suitable for individual users."
"These are the basic functions, such as basic music, academic, scientific information, as well as real-time data such as traffic and weather." These functions could be realized through general information collection and analysis, retrieval of the Internet and one's own database, as well as response information matching and output.
On the basis of the previous posts, Gu Xi specially marked out the entertainment, medical, learning, lifestyle, and health sections that the public paid the most attention to.
"Then what about this?" Dong Mingming pointed to another picture that was more complicated and asked.
"This is the design for the device to learn autonomously," Gu Xi said.
The pictures she drew were several methods and modes for the smart system to learn.
"Simply put, it is to learn and perfect according to the user's personal situation, so that the device will gradually have a simulated 'emotion.'"
This feeling was like finding yourself a butler or assistant. At first, the two parties didn't know each other and were strangers, but later on, they gradually got to know each other and understood each other. The employer would gradually get used to the employee's service, and the employee would gradually understand the employer's needs and provide corresponding feedback according to the employer's habits and personality.
Dong Mingming: "…" He didn't understand at all, but he felt that it was very impressive.
Well, he didn't understand it, but it was impressive.
"Yes, we have to add this." Gu Xi thought for a moment and wrote down [International Convention] on the picture and put an asterisk next to it.
Dong Mingming: "…" Anyway, I don't understand it. Whatever you say.
Dong Mingming silently retracted his gaze and took out his phone — as expected, voting was more suitable for her.
With that thought, Dong Mingming shared the voting link on his WeChat Moments and in all the large and small groups she was in.
— —
On the other hand, Gu Chenyi returned to his class with an expression that said, "I've suffered a huge blow, please do not disturb me."
It wasn't until he heard someone talking about something in the corner of the classroom that Gu Chenyi came back to life. He immediately got up from his seat and walked over.
"What are you guys talking about?" Gu Chenyi asked those people.
"Oh, we're talking about the student representative voting. God Xi is also participating."
"Gu Xi?"
"Yes." Those people nodded and muttered, "God Xi's votes are quite high."
"Nonsense, think about how shocking the final results of the league yesterday were. God Xi is also very good-looking."
"Yes, with her looks, she's at least in the top five."
"I think she's in the top three."
Hearing their conversation, Gu Chenyi's eyes lit up. He quickly took out his phone and clicked on the voting page on the forum.
…
When Gu Chenyi returned to the classroom with the people sitting in front and behind him, he saw Gu Chenyi holding his phone and concentrating on something.
"Boss, you said you would come early to play a game, but where did you go so early in the morning?" Those people who came in asked as they walked over.
They had just agreed to come to school early yesterday to play a game together, but when the others came, they couldn't find Gu Chenyi anywhere.
"Boss, what are you looking at?" Those people curiously came over.
They originally thought that their boss was focused on watching some "educational short film" or something, but they were surprised to find that Gu Chenyi was actually browsing the school forum.
"Damn, Boss, am I seeing things? You're actually browsing the forum too?!" Those people exclaimed.
— — Gu Chenyi was the kind of person who wouldn't go to the school forum for hundreds of years, and it was even more impossible for him to care about the voting of the student representatives for the art festival. Now, not only was this person on the forum, but he was also browsing the voting page.
"Boss, don't tell me you're still planning to vote for someone?" someone asked.
Gu Chenyi rolled his eyes. "Yes, why wouldn't I vote?"
"Didn't you say that this kind of brainless voting is boring?"
"When did I say that?"
Everyone: "…" Last year.
Last year, many people in school were helping Gu Xueer to get votes. Even a few of Gu Xueer's little fans in their class were helping Gu Xueer to get votes.
In the end, Gu Chenyi impatiently and rudely said in front of those people, "What kind of brainless voting is this? Isn't it boring? I'm not voting. "
After that, no one dared to trouble Gu Chenyi with this "boring" matter.
Unexpectedly, the person who complained that voting was boring last year was actually enjoying it this year.
They just wanted to ask Gu Chenyi, "Boss, does your face hurt?"
"Alright, what are you mumbling about? Did you bring your phones? Hurry up and vote," Gu Chenyi said.
The few of them were stunned. "Vote for who?"
"Nonsense, of course I'm voting for Gu Xi."
"Gu Xi?" The few of them thought of what they had heard from others: Gu Chenyi and Gu Xi seemed to have a good relationship when they attended the competition together. Their expressions instantly became interesting.
"Boss, what's your relationship with Goddess Xi?" someone couldn't help but ask with a gossipy expression.
Not only did he vote for Gu Xi, but he was also helping Gu Xi to get votes!
"Bro …" Sister.
Gu Chenyi paused halfway through his sentence, and his expression became a little conflicted.
"Just a brother-sister relationship …" Gu Chenyi quickly muttered.
It was so fast that the people beside him couldn't hear him clearly.
"What? What relationship? "
"Anyway, Gu Xi belongs to my family," Gu Chenyi said. He then said to the few of them, "Hurry up and vote. Why are you talking so much nonsense?"
After watching the few of them vote for Gu Xi, Gu Chenyi shared the link to get votes on his WeChat Moments and added a sentence: [Vote for Gu Xi. Send me a screenshot.]
— —
Gu Chenyi received a call from Old Master Gu less than five minutes after he posted this on WeChat Moments.
"Grandpa?"
"Why can't I click on that vote?!" Old Master Gu asked over the phone with a questioning tone.
Originally, Old Master Gu had wanted to vote for Gu Xi when he saw Gu Chenyi's post on WeChat Moments. However, when he found Gu Xi's photo, he clicked on the button that said [Vote for me], but it didn't work.
At first, Old Master Gu thought that there was something wrong with his phone. However, when he switched to another phone, it still didn't work.
Upon hearing Old Master Gu's question, Gu Chenyi was speechless. "Grandpa, this vote is an internal vote in our school. You're not from our school and don't have an account. Of course, you can't vote."
"So, as long as I'm a student from your school, I can vote?"
"In theory, yes," Gu Chenyi replied. Then, he said, "Don't worry, Gu Yanxiao and I are helping Xixi to get votes."
He thought that it was already ruthless enough for him to pin a post on his WeChat Moments every ten minutes. He didn't expect Gu Yanxiao to be even more ruthless. She actually created a system where one vote for her would give her a top-grade game equipment.
When he thought of this, Gu Chenyi suddenly felt a little unhappy.
He didn't expect that he would lose in the matter of canvassing votes.
On the other end of the phone, Old Master Gu didn't care about this. Upon hearing Gu Chenyi's words, Old Master Gu snorted and said in disdain, "After canvassing for so long, you're still in third place."
With that, without waiting for Gu Chenyi to explain that it was normal for Gu Xi to lag behind because she had just been enrolled, Old Master Gu had already hung up the phone.
— —
After Old Master Gu hung up the phone with his grandson, he immediately dialed Old Master Shen's number.
Without waiting for Old Master Shen to speak, Old Master Gu asked, "Your child is also studying at A University's affiliated high school?"
"Yes, what's the matter?" Old Master Shen asked.
"That's good. I'll send you the link later. You can send it to your child."
…
Five minutes later.
In the classroom, Sheng Xiuyan looked at the voting link sent by his grandfather on his phone. He was dumbfounded.
He couldn't understand why his grandfather would send him a message asking him to vote for Gu Xi in their class.
Gu Xi, who was also sitting in the classroom, had no idea that while she was focused on preparing for the 'Heavenly Creation Competition', her voting link had already circled more than half of B City.
She also didn't know that her registration for the 'Heavenly Creation Competition' had already been sent to Gu Shao.
— —
NTN Technology Center.
Gu Shao had just finished a work briefing and was about to leave.
At this moment, Wang Huazhou, who was behind him, quickly stepped forward and called out to Gu Shao.
"President Gu."
"Is there anything else?"
"It's about the registration for the 'Heavenly Creation Competition' this time. I didn't have time to talk about it at the meeting just now," Wang Huazhou said.
He was one of the co-founders of the 'Heavenly Creation Competition' and the overall person-in-charge of the organizers of this competition.
Gu Shao nodded. "Come to my office."
The two of them arrived at Gu Shao's office. Wang Huazhou first handed a document to Gu Shao.
"President Gu, this is the registration for this competition. The total number of people who have signed up from all over the country and overseas has reached more than 3,000. There are also more teams who have applied. However, because many of the teams' applications and materials did not meet the standards, after review, there are currently a total of 122 teams participating in the competition … "Wang Huazhou explained to Gu Shao.
This number greatly exceeded their previous expectations.
"So, President Gu, do you think we can add another round of screening? In other words, we can organize a team of experts to review the preliminary design plans submitted by each team and select the works with more feasibility and design potential?" Wang Huazhou asked.
Gu Shao considered it for a moment and nodded. "Yes."
After a pause, Gu Shao emphasized, "Try to shorten the time for this round of screening as much as possible. This can increase the investment of the experts, but it can't affect the arrangements for the competition later on."
"Okay, I'll go back and arrange it," Wang Huazhou agreed.
"Also, there's one more thing …" Wang Huazhou hesitated for a moment before speaking.
"What is it?" Gu Shao asked.
"That's right. President Gu, do you think your group will continue to advance to the next round?" Wang Huazhou asked.
According to the conjecture that they had reached after a discussion, Gu Shao had most likely signed up for the competition as a test. However, if it was a test, they did not know which round Gu Shao intended to participate in.
— — It was not easy to guess the thoughts of the big shots.
Hearing Wang Huazhou's words, Gu Shao's expression froze. He looked at Wang Huazhou and asked, "Are you talking about my team?"
"Yes, it's this," Wang Huazhou handed Gu Shao's team's registration information to Gu Shao.
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