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Chapter 253 Are You Here to Compete for Second Place? (3.5 in 1)

As the calm elder brother in the team, Wu Zhijie possesses a steadiness and good mentality that ordinary people cannot match.

Moreover, it was not only the Shanghai Jiaotong team that noticed the Peking University NO.001 team on the scoreboard at the competition venue. Almost all the teams aiming for the first place paid attention to Xu Qingshan and his team.

"We have nothing to say about losing to Peking University in mathematics and physics, but if we lose in computer science, then Huaqing will lose all our face."

Huaqing's captain stared at the numbers on the scoreboard and spoke to his teammates with gritted teeth.

"Understood, full firepower immediately!"

The team members frowned, but were full of energy.

The other teams in the venue were not frustrated by Kyoto University's temporary lead.

Also.

How can a team participating in ICPC not have a bit of arrogance?

Even Jin Bin, under the leadership of Wu Zhijie, quickly came to his senses, gritted his teeth and continued to keep up with the pace. He was quickly arranged by Zheng Zhao's strategy and sat on the table to start thinking about the next questions.

ICPC is often referred to as a brainpower contest.

Essentially, it is seen as using the human brain as a computer, producing amazing programming and mathematical thinking in just five hours.

Anyone who can reach the finals and win a medal is no ordinary person.

For these teams, stress resistance training itself is also an important part.

Even though they know the importance of the five questions in two hours, they will not give up halfway or admit defeat.

Inside the gymnasium of East China University.

The ICPC competition is still going on in full swing.

Some teams have started rotating players and continue solving problems while eating lunch, while some teams that feel they have no hope of solving the problems stop and eat while discussing the direction of the questions.

But there are also some teams that are racing against time and have no plans to eat at all, but instead stay in front of their computers.

Xu Qingshan and the others took turns eating as normal.

After all, Jiang Huanxi could eat first, so she didn't need to sit in front of the computer. She just needed to take a ruler and draft paper to check whether there was any problem with the answer output by the program.

Xu Qingshan asked Yang Shu to eat first while he continued to solve the problem.

He would take a rest after Yang Shu finished his meal.

As time passed, the number of questions scored by each team on the board began to change.

However, in this kind of large-scale exam competition, the number of questions is limited, and the changes in numbers are not that exaggerated.

But the Kyoto University team, which ranked first on the list, really weighed on everyone's mind.

"How is it possible that there are 9 questions?"

Zheng Zhao clenched his teeth and stared at the conspicuous number on the scoreboard.

The Shanghai Jiaotong team has tried its best to catch up. Zheng Zhao can guarantee that whether it is himself, Wu Zhijie or Jin Bin, except for the fluctuations in the middle, they have already started to burn themselves in the second half.

That state of concentration and the speed of solving problems are not as extreme as when they usually train on their own.

In other words, this is their limit.

4 hours, 7 questions.

If you perform steadily in the last hour, you should be able to solve the eighth question. If you are lucky, you can solve eight or nine questions in a row.

But even if the Peking University team made no progress in the last hour, Shanghai Jiaotong University could only come in second place after trying its best.

Because of the problem-solving time.

"What kind of monster is Xu Qingshan?"

Jin Bin muttered.

He now knew that the man who had just lined up in front of him at the balloon point to receive the balloon was Xu Qingshan.

Although to him, Xu Qingshan's words were undoubtedly a slap in the face, very arrogant.

But at this moment, Jin Bin did not feel any resentment in his heart.

He just felt confused, and even thought that Xu Qingshan was quite right.

“It’s really beyond my comprehension.”

Jin Bin was a little distraught.

He was the one who solved the seventh question of the Shanghai Jiao Tong team just now. Originally, the ratio of the number of questions between Peking University and Shanghai Jiao Tong was 7:6. However, when he tried his best to solve the question in half an hour, the ratio became 9:7.

In all the ACM competitions over the years, whether it is the ICPC finals or the regional qualifiers, I have rarely seen a team that can answer double-digit questions.

Although sometimes it is because the number of questions is not enough, so only 9 questions are set.

But the question bank for today's qualifying round uses the maximum value of 12 questions.

The problem-solving speed of Team NO.001 was not actually 4 hours for 9 questions. In fact, it took 3 hours and 45 minutes for Xu Qingshan to solve the th question.

Judging from the average speed, Team NO.001 has the potential to solve all 12 questions.

This is an incredible legend in the entire history of ICPC competitions over the past 34 years.

"Yang Shu, why don't you try the last two questions? It seems like you're better at them. We still have an hour."

Xu Qingshan quickly looked at the titles of the last three questions, wrote down the stems, and gave his seat to Yang Shu.

Yang Shu did not refuse and sat down on it. With shining eyes, he began to work on the tenth question. His hands moved very quickly. Xu Qingshan could also see that Yang Shu's approach today was very bold and unrestrained, and had nothing to do with Pascal.

My goodness, another young man has been led astray by himself.

Xu Qingshan took two sheets of draft paper from the side and began to organize his ideas for the last two questions on the spot.

He has discovered that when Yang Shu's thinking is smooth, his speed of coding is one point faster than his own. This may be because the muscle memory is stronger due to long-term training.

So Xu Qingshan planned to show Yang Shu the ideas and process and let him finish them while he would take over the next step.

He really wanted to try out the feeling of solving all twelve questions.

If he had known there would be such an opportunity, he would not have slacked off in the meantime.

Xu Qingshan was a little annoyed.

Does this count as secretly letting the water out?
But when he looked up at the number of problems solved by other teams on the scoreboard, Xu Qingshan felt that he seemed a little cruel.

There was no doubt that everyone was slaughtered.

The team from Peking University, ranked first, has solved 9 questions, while the team from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, ranked second, has only solved 7 questions. The National Taiwan University, ranked next, has solved 6 questions. The teams from the remaining prestigious universities, including Huaqing University, have all solved 5 questions.

Not an exaggeration.

Xu Qingshan and his men are already extremely powerful.

The representative teams from those famous universities were very strong, including some world-class computer schools, but there was still a huge gap between them and Xu Qingshan and his team.

In other words, the Shanghai Jiaotong University and the National Taiwan University have left them with the last bit of fig leaf.

But that was almost twice the number, which silenced the contestants.

When there are 2 hours and there is only one question left, everyone will think it is just luck in choosing the topic and it is nothing to be afraid of if you try your best.

But at a time like this, look at other people’s numbers.

They completely lost the confidence to take on the challenge.

The reason why he could still persist in fighting was mainly because he had shifted his focus from coveting the first place and started to compare himself with his old enemy.

Hua Qing is the most miserable one here.

Theoretically speaking.

From the school's perspective, Huaqing's arch-rival is Peking University.

But to be honest, the Beijing University team ranked first is not even worthy of being accused of fraud.

From a competitive perspective, Huaqing’s arch-rival is Shanghai Jiao Tong University, which has won two championships.

But the Shanghai Stock Exchange, which is ranked second at this time, is obviously not an easy opponent.

No matter who Huaqing competes with, it will always lose.

This is a complete loss of face.

"Qingshan, I untied it!"

Yang Shu was very excited. He solved the problem very quickly. Without any external help, he completed the code accurately in just 26 minutes.

"Okay, here is the idea and process for question 11, you do it."

Xu Qingshan handed him a piece of draft paper, while he was still drafting question 12.

"Are you that fast?"

Yang Shu took the manuscript in surprise, and while reading it, he compared it with the answers. He did not think much about whether Xu Qingshan's solution was correct, but started to call it directly, converting the answer into fluent code and entering it into the command box.

"Well, I'll tackle question 12 now."

Xu Qingshan touched his chin with the pen cap.

"The last question was much more difficult than I thought."

Xu Qingshan said calmly.

"How much time is left?"

Jiang Huanxi immediately reported the exact time.

"42 minutes and 43 seconds left."

"There's still a chance, Yang Shu, speed up the code, and I'll take over after you finish this question."

"it is good!"

Xu Qingshan nodded, his brain began to work frantically, and the pen in his hand began to move.

This kind of ICPC math-intensive question actually has little to do with normal number theory and algebra, and requires more consideration of programming language logic.

Xu Qingshan was rapidly building his own code world in his mind.

Fluid, rich, mysterious.

Self-contained.

It was unknown how long it had been, but Yang Shu stopped swinging his fingers until they were almost smoking, stood up excitedly, quickly gave his seat to Xu Qingshan, and waved his fist excitedly.

“I feel like I’ve made a breakthrough!”

"19 minutes and 53 seconds left."

Jiang Huanxi quickly reported the time when Xu Qingshan sat down.

Xu Qingshan quickly opened the answer box of the last question and started typing the code without any hesitation.

He already had a draft in mind.

Xu Qingshan also felt that he seemed to have found a method of competition that was more suitable for him and Yang Shu, but it would require further testing.

"enough!"

Xu Qingshan was also about to swing his two fingers to show his anger.

The keyboard in front of the computer was clacking.

If the sound comes from another team's position, the nearby team will only sneer at it, thinking that the guy is just trying to attract attention and acting recklessly.

But if the name of this team is NO.001, the captain is Xu Qingshan, and the captain himself is starting to output violently in front of the computer, they will not think so.

When NO.001 has solved 11 questions.

The light was gone in the eyes of all the participating teams.

But what made them lose their luster was not the result of the game in front of them, especially the dim eyes of the players from the strong universities, and it was not for the flowers tonight.

It’s because everyone is participating in the competition from the same class.

Since Xu Qingshan and his team were able to achieve such results, how could they have a chance to compete with Xu Qingshan for the championship in the finals?
Are you all here to compete for second place?
For a while.

The team that had been chasing tenaciously just now, these arrogant young geniuses, were all deflated for a moment.

If NO.001 can solve 9 questions, then that may be the limit within the time limit for everyone, and perhaps even if you try your best, you will still fail at the 9th question.

But relatively speaking, the gap is not that big, and everyone can still see some hope of competing for the first place.

But now.

They had no doubt that Xu Qingshan would say something to everyone at the award ceremony later.

"Everyone, are you here to compete for second place?"

after all.

Everyone here is young and they are all surfers.

Almost no one didn't know Xu Qingshan. In addition, during this online qualifying round, when NO.001 emerged, everyone investigated and found out that this was a ragtag team led by Xu Qingshan from Peking University.

As a result, this ragtag team has been beating all the talented players since their debut.

If it were them, would they not laugh out loud if they had this opportunity?

To be fair, they can’t.

Don't be reckless when you are young. Do you have to wait until you are old and buried to be mourned?

However, the experience of being about to be the object of slights and harassment is different.

"There are still 1 minutes left."

"Qingshan, 30 seconds left!"

"10!"

"9!"

“3!”

"Take it!"

Before Jiang Huanxi counted out the last two digits, Xu Qingshan's fingers were almost out of nowhere and he had already heavily pressed the Enter key when the number 3 came out.

submit!

green!

Accepted! Passed all 12 questions!
"Brother Shan is awesome!"

Yang Shu stared blankly at the side for a while. After the end of the competition was announced on the spot, Yang Shu finally reacted. His usually expressionless face turned into one of ecstasy and he shouted loudly.

This was the first time he called Shan Ge.

Without exaggeration or understatement, in this game Xu Qingshan was completely like a god in his mind.

Pass all 12 questions in one go and hand in the questions on the last minute.

Jiang Huanxi also excitedly hugged Xu Qingshan's arm and began to massage his wrists and palms attentively. In her heart and eyes, there was only this man who exuded the top wisdom of mankind from head to toe.

The look of concentration is so charming.

As the time was running out, the other teams in the competition either submitted or gave up, and they all breathed a sigh of relief.

Many people seemed a little depressed and were about to breathe a sigh of relief.

As a result, he was so shocked by Yang Shu's loud shout of "Brother Shan is awesome!" that he stood up from his chair.

"What the hell, what's wrong?"

"My heart almost stopped."

"Alas, I submitted it at the last minute, but the result is still WA."

"What the hell! What the hell! Look at the board!"

The sound of Yang Shu seemed to have lit a fuse, and the noise in the gymnasium suddenly became lively. More people turned their attention to the scoreboard because of the noise.

In the ICPC competition.
During the 5 hours of the competition, the rankings will be changed in real time in the first 4 hours, but the rankings will be closed in the last hour and you will not be able to see them.

This is to prevent everyone from being too anxious.

Therefore, the data on the scoreboard has not changed much compared to the 4-hour period.

First place, Jingcheng University, Team NO.001, 9 questions.

Everyone stared at the number and were about to start sighing.

Some people were guessing whether Jingcheng University solved 11 questions or 10 questions, because there were so many balloons at Xu Qingshan's table, mixed with first-pass balloons, that for a moment others had no way of knowing the exact number of questions they had answered.

But at this time, during the discussion, someone discovered.

After the deadline, the last number quietly jumped under the watchful eyes of the public.

12 questions.

The hall suddenly became quiet.

It was terribly quiet. Even if a pin was dropped, you wouldn't be able to hear it because there was carpet.

"Brilliant!"

"Xu Shen is awesome!"

"Kyoto University is awesome!"

"champion!!!"

After a brief and eerie calm, a new wave of noise arose at the scene.

All the contestants present knew very well what this represented and meant.

This means that the ICPC event has welcomed their new god!
Over the years, the gold medal team in the ICPC finals has basically secured victory by answering more than 7 questions. As for the first place champion, the team usually answers at least 8 questions and at most 9 questions.

Few people can answer all 10 questions.

There aren't many competitions like today that have 12 questions prepared. Since the overall difficulty is a bit lower today, I use the number as a backup.

According to the organizing committee, the limit for this round of questions is for everyone to solve 7 or 8 problems.

This is just the qualifying round, not the finals or a life-and-death battle.

Normally, apart from the team competing for first place, other teams will not spend too much energy and exhaust themselves, after all, there are still many qualifiers and invitational competitions to come.

But who would have thought that today a troublemaker like Optimus Prime from Kyoto University would appear.

A batch of fierce.

Unreasonable.

It also broke the record slightly.

Fortunately, this is the qualifying round and not the finals, otherwise it would surely amaze countless ACM members.

Well, actually, the current strength is already astonishing enough.

Xu Qingshan calmly nodded and waved to the other contestants who sent them congratulatory messages and blessings, indicating that he received everyone's enthusiasm.

But he didn't have time to enjoy the collective gaze for too long, as Jiang Huanxi couldn't help it and dragged him to the dinner party for dinner.

Yang Shu was also hungry. He had spent a lot of mental and physical energy today.

The three of them ate to their heart's content, but at the dinner they met many contestants and volunteer ladies who came to take photos with Xu Qingshan.

Under Jiang Huanxi's dangerously narrowed smiling eyes, Xu Qingshan gritted his teeth and took many photos with everyone and signed many autographs. In the end, he didn't even get to eat much of the meal before he was dragged backstage at the award ceremony to go on stage to receive his award.

"Alas, there were too many people. I didn't get to eat much."

Xu Qingshan sighed and spoke to Yang Shu and Jiang Huanxi beside him.

Yang Shu nodded woodenly.

In fact, he has not yet accepted his team's performance. This is completely beyond his ability.

This wave, this wave is the top-level Tongtian generation.

"Hey, I know you're famous, so stop showing off."

Jiang Huanxi pursed her lips, and the little ostrich rarely confronted Xu Qingshan, but even though she said that, she took out an egg and a bun from her pocket.

"Leader, I am innocent!"

Xu Qingshan naturally saw the jealousy in the little ostrich's eyes and quickly explained.

"I don't want to take a photo with so many people, but since you're right next to me, I have to support you."

Xu Qingshan smiled playfully.

Jiang Huanxi rolled his eyes.

"Now welcome the champion of the 34th ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest Asia Qualifier Shanghai Division, Team NO.001!"

"The regional champion will directly qualify for the live finals. Let us congratulate No. 001!"

Followed by the passionate and loud noise of the teacher on the stage.

Xu Qingshan and the other two went on stage together.

Xu Qingshan was the captain and the only e-man in the team. Jiang Huanxi immediately took a step back to sell out Xu Qingshan and half-hidden behind Xu Qingshan. Yang Shu realized it later and after watching for a while, he shrank behind the host.

"Uh, handsome, I can't turn around and give you the award if you're like this."

The host teacher whispered awkwardly.

"oh oh."

Yang Shu touched his head and stood up again.

The host teacher asked Principal Huadong to present awards to the three of them.

After the award ceremony, there was an interview. Fortunately, the interview did not require three people to be together. Xu Qingshan asked Jiang Huanxi and Yang Shu, two socially phobic people, to go down the stage and wait.

"Xu Qingshan, I'm glad to be able to interview you. I saw you on the news broadcast a while ago. Can I be considered a news broadcast reporter now?"

This kind of interview at the post-match award ceremony is relatively less serious.

Xu Qingshan also smiled.

"If you want to say so, it's not impossible."

"Hahaha, okay, I'd like to ask Qingshan-san how he feels about winning the regional championship this time?"

Xu Qingshan looked at the group of fans in the audience whose eyes were shining but nervous.

He had just heard about this at the dinner party.

Since Xu Qingshan is so awesome this time, he must act big.

I've watched all of Xu Qingshan's previous interview videos. If Xu Qingshan didn't act cool, I would do a handstand.

This kind of words.

But in fact, Xu Qingshan did not have any intention of making any outrageous remarks or being ridiculed by the group today.

Because the numbers on the screen wall behind him said it all.

When the results and achievements have come out.

Sometimes, not pretending to be cool is the best way to pretend.

Xu Qingshan smiled, put the microphone to his lips, and spoke kindly.

"First of all, I am not a cross-border researcher. As everyone knows, I have written papers in the computer field and published articles at ICML, so I am also a computer scientist and information scientist. We are all colleagues."

"As for my feelings, it's that everyone has worked hard these past two days, and everyone has been great. Go home and have a good rest, eat well, and cheer up. This year, we must work together to bring the championship to China. I'll be waiting for you in the finals."

After saying that, Xu Qingshan put down the microphone.

There was a lot of noise from the audience, and there were a lot of unexpected discussions, as if some people were not expecting such a simple speech by Xu Qingshan.

"Then thank you Aoyama-san."

The host teacher felt a little regretful.

In fact, he really wanted to hear what kind of tricks Xu Qingshan could come up with with such a record-breaking result.

"You are doing well! You are doing well! You are doing well too much! Uh, burp."

Got off the stage.

Mei Hong grabbed Xu Qingshan's arm with a flushed face and spoke excitedly, but she choked on her breath.

Mei Hong had just finished the competition and wanted to go find Xu Qingshan and the others, but he was stuck at the dinner party in the evening. Everyone came to inquire about Xu Qingshan's situation inside Peking University, and many people also wanted to cooperate with Xu Qingshan on some projects.

"Meiyuan, don't get too excited. This is just a regional competition. Won't you have a heart attack when you are eliminated in the finals?"

Xu Qingshan let Mei Hong take his breath away and said speechlessly.

"Oh, happy! Happy!"

Mei Hong continued to speak cheerfully, not affected by his previous state at all.

"It's been a long time since our Beijing University has won the ACM championship. Even if it's the regional championship, it's still a championship!"

"Let's go, I'm happy tonight, I'll treat you to a midnight snack!"

"Forget it. I'm quite full after the dinner, but I'm quite tired. I want to go back to sleep. I have to catch a flight tomorrow."

"Then I'll treat you tomorrow night when we get back to school!"

"Do we have to have a midnight snack?"

"How about we make a breakfast appointment? I'll treat you to the most authentic landlord's breakfast in Beijing at 8 o'clock in the morning?"

"Then let's have a midnight snack."

Teachers and students laughed and chatted.

This trip to the Shanghai stock market made Peking University very proud.

In the corner, the Huaqing team and the coaching staff looked at each other in silence, feeling dejected.

Seeing the villain Mei Hong in power, I feel uncomfortable no matter how I look at it!

"Oh, if only Dean Qiu could have gotten Xu Qingshan back then."

Wu Wenhu looked at Xu Qingshan and the others' departing backs with envy, muttering softly.

"What do you say?"

The other coach turned around, expressionless.

"nothing."

Wu Wenhu sighed again.

"you're right."

Today's game.

Beijing University won the regional championship.

But no one thinks that this is due to the good teaching of Peking University.

The consensus among everyone is: this is all because the shameless Peking University snatched away Xu Qingshan when filling out the college entrance examination application form.

Huaqing made it very clear.

Huaqing lost to Xu Qingshan, not to Peking University. Given Peking University's training system, they simply cannot cultivate talents that can surpass Huaqing's highest combat power!

After hearing this gossip, Mei Hong just laughed.

I have Xu Qingshan, what do you have?
No matter how the general comments, I, Mei Hong, only need to say lightly "I have Xu Qingshan" or "So? Xu Qingshan is from Peking University" to break the general's defense and make him never return!
After all, Xu Qingshan and his friends were unable to have a good time in the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

After all, the game lasted so long.

It is a big test for the body, mind and bladder.

Plus, after the game, I attended a dinner, socialized with people, and there was an awards ceremony.

After returning to the hotel and washing up quickly, Xu Qingshan and Jiang Huanxi hid in bed again to replenish each other's love energy.

However, only poor Yang Shu was arranged to sleep in the same room with Mei Yuan. He had to listen to Mei Yuan making phone calls to announce the good news late at night. He was so proud, so conspicuous!
On the return flight, Xu Qingshan, Jiang Huanxi, and Yang Shu successfully got into the first class cabin.

Mei Hong upgraded them.

The reason is that they won the championship this time and the school has sufficient funds and they can give them as rewards.

And there were only three of them in this first-class cabin.

so.
Is this the reason why I was arranged to eat dog food?
Yang Shu was in tears as she looked at the young couple sleeping in each other's arms across the aisle.

Don’t you two find the armrest in the middle annoying?

(End of this chapter)