The teacher of the No. 1 High School was only responsible for bringing the students into the hall, and then he would leave. After that, there was going to be special personnel to take care of these students.
Qin Li looked at the figure of the teacher walking away, but was not interested in communicating with other people. Instead, he lightly punched Zhi Ying in the arm, "Are you a genius?"
Zhi Ying just wrote the last number on the back of her hand, raised her head to look at Qin Li, and sighed inexplicably, "Have you ever seen a genius fail in essay composition?"
Qin Li thought about it carefully and comforted her, "I think your math is pretty good."
Zhi Ying nodded, "I also think that you are good at math."
At this time, a boy leaning against the wall let out a sneer, probably because he heard what they were praising each other of.
Both Qin Li and Zhi Ying were not curious people, and the only thing that attracted their attention the most in this world was mathematics. Neither of them even looked at the boy.
Or... young boy.
He wasn't even 1.6 meters tall, and his face looked very immature among the group of high school students. He was probably some young genius.
And obviously his reputation has spread to various places, at least at the moment, the students were gossiping about him the most.
The other four students from No. 1 High School probably grouped together because they had been friends before this. The four of them had stuck together the entire time, making Zhi Ying and Qin Li independent of the group.
Fortunately, the two of them didn't care. Zhi Ying found a corner and sat down. Qin Li took out his phone and probably found a good question. He didn't pace around anymore, so Zhi Ying had to drag him to sit down.
"This question is interesting." Qin Li showed Zhi Ying the phone to take a look at the question.
"It does seem good." Zhi Ying nodded.
Qin Li frowned, "I just looked at it for a while, but I don't have any clue on how to solve it, you try."
"Hold the phone, I'll take a look." Zhi Ying told Qin Li to hold it steady, and the two sat on the steps in the corner and began to study.
When they came, they only had a change of clothes and no scratch paper in their bags. They only had the pen because Qin Li didn't put it back into his pocket.
Zhi Ying crossed her legs and pinched the hem of her coat. The coat was black on the outside, but off-white on the inside.
Zhi Ying directly grabbed a corner of the inner hem of the coat, turned it over to her lap, and started to calculate on the clothes with the ballpoint pen.
There were many formulas that needed to be used in this question, and they went around and around with the numbers. Zhi Ying wrote a whole lot on the inside of her coat.
"You can do that? What is your theorem?" Qin Li had never seen it before, and looked down at it for a long time.
"I saw it on a website before?" Zhi Ying would occasionally use her father's computer and go over the wall to research foreign periodical websites.
Qin Li didn't have this kind of opportunity, and he didn't even know what going over the wall was.
"Let me tell you." Zhi Ying also knew about Qin Li's situation, so she pulled on her coat again, revealing more of the off-white insides, and buried herself in it to explain the principle of the formula.
In a room in another building, a group of well-known domestic mathematicians were discussing fervently.
"What's the point of coming every year?" A slightly older scholar sat on a chair. "The current students are not good enough. They all come here only for the competition, they all come here to gain points."
"If there are no points, why come to participate in this stupid competition?" The young man who spoke at the entrance earlier just now curled his lips, "Students are also working hard. You're always saying, this can't work, that can't work."
"You! It's because of you people that the academic world needs dedicated talents, not the ones like you who have to dress up when you go out." The scholar was so angry that he wanted to get up and leave immediately.
"What's wrong with the way I dress? Can't there be good-looking people in math class?" The young man flicked the latest windbreaker on his body, "Last time, I don't know who said behind my back that I am the face of the domestic math circle."
"You..." The scholar's face turned red and he pointed at the man speechlessly.
"Okay, okay." The people next to him couldn't stand it any longer, "Wang Li, your apprentice gave you a good face, and Zhou Cheng did the same, stop arguing."
The person who spoke was not a professor of mathematics, but simply came to join in the fun and feel the atmosphere of students majoring in the sciences.
"I heard from Professor Zhang that several children came here this time." The gray-haired scholar smiled kindly, "It should be selected from these few children."
In recent years, domestic players participating in the IMO tended to be younger, and most of them were going to end up in the junior class.
"It's true that we have to choose from among them. There are not many talented high school students nowadays, and they only have a bunch of standard tactics." Wang Li's facial expression was not very good-looking.
He admired talented students who were purely interested in mathematics, not the students who wanted to be valued by colleges and universities by doing well in the math competition. Only with this reason was why they were desperately squeezing in.
After all these years of judging, Wang Li didn't have a good impression of high school students of the normal age of sixteen, seventeen, and eighteen. He usually came just for the sake of coming. The focus was on the younger students. They couldn't see the other benefits from the winter camp now, but later, it does prove one thing:
In terms of mathematics, the bunch of standard students aiming for results were no match for talented and passionate students.
Wang Li looked out of the window feeling a little disappointed, that was, the current students were led badly by their parents. You have to make money in everything, and you also make money by studying. They thought that mathematics was useless in the real world, they couldn't make money from mathematics, and that it was difficult to learn. Many students choose to major in finance and business.
That was right, mathematics was boring, and now the outside world was so tempting, who wanted to study these numbers so wholeheartedly.
Before Zhi Ying finished explaining the theorem to Qin Li, an amiable teacher walked over.
"Hello everyone, I know that many of you have just arrived in the capital, so I will be taking you to your own accommodation, get a good rest, and then get up bright and early and have a meal." The teacher said kindly, "As for the exam, don't worry about it yet."
Zhi Ying went with the crowd, and because there were not usually any girls, only a few, the teacher specially assigned another assistant teacher to come over.