HPDBC Chapter 34 Despair? Not a chance.
Chapter 34 Despair? Not a chance.
The air in the entire room seemed to have been sucked out at that moment.
Everyone held their breath, staring at the boy sitting in the seat with interest and a little nervousness.
It felt like watching a solemn ceremony about to witness a miracle, or like watching some absurd and entertaining variety show.
"Don't feel pressured, just treat it as a game. It's normal if you can't solve it."
Zhang Wei patted Su Hao on the shoulder to comfort him.
He said it was just a joke, but the gazes that were gathering from all directions were so intense they could set the paper on fire.
Su Hao remained silent.
He simply and calmly reached out and took the book of questions that contained the despair of countless geniuses.
He didn't start writing immediately, but just stared quietly at the jagged geometric shape.
One second. Two seconds. Ten seconds.
About a minute later.
Su Hao picked up the pencil with the little yellow duck on top.
sand--.
Without any hesitation, without even using a ruler, the pen tip swept across the complex shape, drawing an auxiliary line with remarkable naturalness.
"hiss--"
Zhang Wei felt as if his heart was being gripped tightly by an invisible hand, almost leaping out of his throat.
What the hell?!
They immediately identified the core key to solving the problem?!
Rustle, rustle.
Su Hao's expression didn't change at all, as if he were playing a connect-the-dots game.
The second line.
Next is the third line.
Each seemingly light and casual stroke of the pen tip appears to the onlooker as a thunderbolt that cleaves the heavens and the earth!
The originally chaotic and seemingly misleading graphic structure is transformed by these mere three lines...
Like being precisely dissected by a scalpel, it underwent a complete deconstruction and reconstruction!
The logic chain that was originally hidden in the dark was suddenly exposed as if it had been stripped naked!
Lin Shuwan covered her mouth tightly, completely holding her breath.
She had seen the Caltech professor's answer.
She knows the final solution, but she still can't understand how that Caltech professor came up with the idea of drawing those lines.
But looking at Su Hao's pen strokes, she actually had the absurd illusion that "this question is so simple!"
Under the horrified gazes of everyone, Su Hao didn't even touch the draft paper, and hardly did any complicated calculations in the conventional sense.
He casually marked a few specific corners with symbols, and then wrote a few very brief lines of proportions in the blank space next to them.
Finally, he drew a smooth circle at the conclusion, completing the proof.
"It's done."
A deathly silence fell.
An extremely oppressive silence.
In the quiet study room, where you could hear a pin drop, the only sound was the heavy, rapid breathing of a few people.
Xu Lan, Wang Shuo, and Pan Xun slowly and stiffly turned their heads to look at Zhang Wei, frantically trying to confirm with their eyes whether this was correct.
"Yes...yes."
Zhang Wei stared intently at the extremely simple three-line formula on the paper, his voice trembling slightly.
"Absolutely correct. That's the standard answer!"
boom!
Everyone's scalp tingled and exploded in that instant!
My worldview shattered like broken glass!
The mathematical faith he had built up over decades, and the pride and arrogance of being a genius, were all easily crushed into dust by this little yellow duck pencil!
In the midst of a shocking silence, Xu Lan was the first to break it.
A bitter smile escaped his dry throat:
"My former high school teacher often said this."
"If you can't solve the geometry problem, your paper is a blank sheet of paper; if you can, it only takes three lines."
I always thought that was just bragging, but today... I actually met a living god!
Xu Lan looked Su Hao up and down with an incredulous gaze, as if he were looking at an alien creature.
Even Lin Shuwan, who usually prided herself on being very familiar with Su Hao, looked at him differently at this moment.
She knew he was strong, but she never dreamed that he would be so strong as to reach such a terrifying level that was completely unreasonable!
However, Su Hao, who was at the center of the storm, was completely unaware of the psychological defenses of those around him that were on the verge of collapse.
He even felt that there was nothing to brag about.
In Su Hao's pure mathematical perspective, the Olympiad math system was not the "mathematics" he loved, which was full of symmetry and ultimate beauty.
The people who set the questions are all scoundrels!
The question stem was deliberately described in an extremely long and complicated manner using obscure expressions;
They maliciously mixed in a large number of distracting conditions that are completely useless in actual problem-solving to create logical smoke bombs;
The initial shape was deliberately drawn to be distorted and complicated in order to conceal its essential structure;
They even disguised the most crucial condition for breaking the deadlock as something else, hiding it deep in the shadows...
Su Hao, relying solely on his god-given mathematical intuition, saw through all these ridiculous tricks the moment he saw the problem.
"A scam that can only rely on trickery, skill, and deception to confuse people."
This is Su Hao's view of IMO.
Rather than a math problem, it was more like a quirky puzzle game between the examiner and the examinee.
"But thinking about it, there's probably nothing we can do about it."
After all, you can't expect a group of high school students to write a paper in a top-tier journal during the Olympiad, can you?
The organizers must have their own reasons for having to put people through this ordeal.
Su Hao pondered to himself,
"However, truly capable people would never be fooled by such a trivial trick."
Just as Su Hao was lost in thought, defining the IMO in his mind...
The people around seemed to have just woken up from that huge shock, bursting out in suppressed gasps.
Holy crap!!! That's amazing!
"In the past, the coach would always talk to us about what 'mathematical intuition' was, and I always thought it was a metaphysical concept."
Today, I've truly had my eyes opened!
"Sigh, I thought I would be jealous, but now I realize..."
The disparity in strength is so great that I can't even muster a single thought of jealousy; all I want to do is kneel down and kowtow to him!
"I told you so! This kid isn't even human!!"
despair?
nonexistent!
As long as this monster is one of our own, then it's others who will be filled with despair!
Once they figured this out, everyone's faces lit up with a fanatical look of "it's good to cling to the powerful for support"!