However, St. Petersburg State University has always scored well, and like Ding Yue's Mist City Arts and Science University, California Institute of Technology has never won first place, but they have always been consistently in the forefront.
Sometimes, they even perform better than Ding Yue's Mist City Arts and Science University.
45 minutes had passed.
In the end, only 25 out of the participating universities managed to solve [Problem C]. This roadblock of a problem directly thwarted nine universities, suggesting that the subsequent problems would be of a higher difficulty.
"Yue, all the problems coming up are going to be even more challenging, right?" asked Huang Youjie, sitting next to Ding Yue.
"Absolutely, each subsequent problem is going to cause one university after another to fall behind. If we fail to solve even one problem, we can basically say goodbye to winning the competition," Ding Yue nodded and replied.
