Chapter 229 Linjiang Province's Fastest Man
On the afternoon of May 5st, Dong Chengliang brought the two little geniuses to the examination room.

The examination room was set up in the gymnasium of Xin'an Middle School. Nearly two hundred computers were arranged on site, separated by partitions and with surveillance cameras hanging above them. The wooden floor of the gymnasium gave the feeling of various wiring walking out of a circuit board.

It still looks a bit shocking.

I heard that other provinces' competition systems were either divided into two days or only allowed about a hundred people to be shortlisted. Linjiang expanded the number of shortlisted candidates and arranged for the exam to be completed in the same half day. The exam venue was also set up in Xin'an City, which is known for its wealth.

The main focus is on being rich and powerful, right?
Li Yan still likes it. The more she does it, the more fun it feels to pretend.

However, when he actually started using the machine for ten minutes, he only operated it for less than a minute before stopping.

"It's boring..." Li Yan was still complaining to Chen Fan when they returned to the hotel, "Just look at the operating environment and software we were given. This topic is no different from usual. I'm afraid the topic of the final cooperation will be the same in a different way."

"What's the matter?" Chen Fan didn't understand.

"Informatics and computers are at the forefront of the times. I thought Linjiang had some ideas for holding the event in a trendy city like Xin'an, and that they could organize some competitions like speed-challenging competitions. But the format of such a fun competition is still very rigid. It's just answering questions, answering questions, and answering questions."

"I heard that... this time, the big screen on site will record the time taken by all contestants to answer questions in real time. Is this considered a speed race...?"

Before Chen Fan finished speaking, he saw Li Yan's eyes shining.

"Why didn't you say so earlier!"

"Who told you not to read the competition information properly... But the speed of answering the questions is not included in the score. Even if the total scores are the same, the league results are considered instead of the answering speed."

"Don't be afraid, as long as there is a stage."

Dinner was a simple buffet at the hotel's restaurant. Chen Fan picked and chose, while Li Yan took on a lot. Dong Chengliang was very nervous. He advised Chen Fan to eat more to avoid fainting from hunger tomorrow, and advised Li Yan to eat less to avoid getting a stomachache tomorrow.

While they were eating, several students from Xinbei Middle School and Xin'an Middle School sat next to Li Yan and the other two.

Li Yan was really tired of responding to their curiosity and couldn't help but yawn the moment they sat down.

Fortunately, these people did not continue to get to know this amazing first-year junior high school student in depth, but chose to exchange QQ numbers.

Li Yan took out the Chuangzu W8, which still surprised these students from well-off families.

After chatting for a while, Li Yan found an opportunity to leave the restaurant on the pretext that she "still had to practice with Chen Fan."

After all, the competition was about to start the next morning, so everyone was tactful and found a seat in the conference hall to study.

But Li Yan went straight back to the hotel room. Dong Chengliang was not surprised by this. He himself did not feel any pressure for the competition and felt that there was little point in cramming at this time.

Chen Fan thought so too, so he was chatting with Li Yan.

"Li Yan, didn't you say before that you wanted to meet some powerful people here so that you could work on the mobile phone system together?"

“So I added QQ.”

"Why don't you chat for a while? You're not going to study tonight anyway."

Li Yan is doing push-ups. According to him, exercising the night before high-intensity brain work to wake up the body will help one to be in better shape the next day.

In fact, it is just for the accumulation of physical values.

"Because I don't know who among them is worthy of us to join the team." He finished four groups of 100 push-ups, stood up lightly, and raised his arms. "If they are already high school students and their performance is not as good as ours, why should we bring them in? Maybe they will use their high school experience to point fingers at us two first-year junior high school students."

"That shouldn't be the case. He's in high school and his level is not as good as ours. How can he come to guide us?" Chen Fan was puzzled. "If it were me, I would be embarrassed to join the team."

Li Yan just smiled.

When you do an internship or even work, you will know Little Chen Fan...

"From the conversation at dinner, there is a freshman named Deng Yudi at Xinbei Middle School who you can keep an eye on."

"Why isn't it Rao Feng from Xin'an Middle School?" Chen Fan was puzzled again. "He participated in the national competition last year and won the gold medal. He just failed in the international competition and made a comeback in his second year of high school. Many people are optimistic about him. I saw that those people from Xin'an Middle School looked at him with a bit of admiration."

The people at New Taipei No. 1 High School look at you the same way.

However, Chen Fan was not good at saying such things, and deep down he was unwilling to say such things.

"Well," Li Yan opened his notebook, "They said that we failed to qualify for the international competition, but in fact, we didn't even make the top 30 for gold medals, and we didn't even make the national training team. We are still far from the top four selected to participate in the international competition."

"Um……"

"So he is definitely not the one with the best performance in Linjiang Province. He will be a hot topic this year, mainly because of his 'comeback', which has a bit of story." Li Yan's hands have already started typing at high speed on the keyboard. "In short, our focus is only on the top five."

"Didn't you say you wouldn't review?" Chen Fan's tone was much more relaxed. "Who told you I was reviewing?" Li Yan turned the computer towards Chen Fan, and it was a Word document - he was writing a novel.

Chen Fan covered his face and shook his head, but he laughed out loud with ease.

The next morning, Li Yan and Chen Fan entered the waiting area to wait.

Unlike other competitions, the atmosphere before the computer competition was relatively relaxed. There were many people discussing technical issues in the waiting area, but few were just burying their heads in books or notes.

The atmosphere in the examination room was not as serious as that of other competitions. The chairs for the exam had wheels and could slide. Li Yan observed for a few times before entering her own cubicle. Everyone was sitting in different postures. Some people were even swaying and spinning in circles. It was quite fun.

After everyone is seated, they have to listen to the host on the podium explaining a bunch of rules and regulations, introducing the guests attending the meeting, etc.

What’s funny is that since each person’s seat is a small compartment with a quite high partition, after sitting down, the candidates can basically only see the big screen in front of them, and the host and guests are completely blocked.

After listening for a while, Li Yan discovered that the most famous guest was the chairman of the Linjiang Computer Society.

"I really have to go to the national competition..."

While I was thinking, the written test papers had already been distributed by the staff.

As soon as eight o'clock arrived, the bell rang and the competition officially began.

“It’s really meaningless to take written examinations during the provincial selection.” Although he complained, Li Yan still adhered to one word when doing the questions - fast!

I just took the midterm exam, otherwise I would be a little unfamiliar with it.

What makes Li Yan speechless is that the answers to this so-called written test have to be entered on the computer... In a sense, this is also a kind of magical formalism, right?
In terms of problem-solving ideas and experience, Li Yan is definitely not the best one among this group of people.

But in terms of the amount of knowledge stored in his brain and the speed of calculation, he is confident that he can compete for the first place.

The crackling sound of the keyboards at the scene made Li Yan inexplicably excited. When solving the problems, it was as if she was being chased by these sounds. Her thoughts became faster and faster, and her concentration gradually improved to the state of "selflessness".

With a heavy press of the enter key, Li Yan completed the written test.

In the cyber version of the examination room, I was the first to throw my pen to show off.

However, probably no one here will care about the heavy keyboard tapping. After completing the written test, it is just a matter of entering the next stage of challenge.

Li Yan completed a simple cryptographic calculation that would be given after he finished the written test, and entered the secret key to unlock two personal programming questions.

He was just smiling knowingly at this interesting little formalization when he suddenly heard a "ding dong" sound and a piece of data appeared on the big screen.

"First person to complete the first stage of the test: E-12, New Taipei First High School, Li Yan, took 27:15"

There was an uproar at the scene.

Then the keyboard sounds became noticeably more rapid and frequent.

The guests on the podium looked at each other with very interesting expressions.

A young woman with curly hair covered her mouth and said to Director Jin beside her: "Is this the child you recommended?"

Director Jin sat up straight, smiled and nodded, "He is indeed extraordinary. I am also looking forward to his performance."

"So fast, can the accuracy be guaranteed?"

"We'll see."

Li Yan, who was sitting in the audience, naturally couldn't see any of this. He only had one thought in his mind:
Wow... If you had known about this thing earlier, I, Li, could have fucked you for 25 minutes!

His motivation surged again. On the one hand, if he could get his name on the list in the second or even third stage, and finally get a good result, it would be very refreshing. On the other hand...

Am I really the fastest?

He was confident that he could answer 99% of the questions with an accuracy rate - not to say % just to gain good luck, but based on the difficulty of the paper, half of the people present should be able to get full marks.

And among these people, he is the fastest.

That is to say...

None of you here are particularly awesome.

(End of this chapter)