Rebirth: Start to Save the Treasure Girl

Lin Ruoxi: [Sorry, can I not post this?]

Chen Tingting didn't reply for a long time, and her profile picture suddenly turned gray, it was unclear whether she had gone offline or gone into stealth mode.

Lin Ruoxi pouted and handed the phone back to Xue Rui, feeling very worried.

"Xixi, why are you apologizing to her?" Xue Rui asked with a wry smile.

Lin Ruoxi turned around, buried her face in Xue Rui's arms, and said in a muffled voice, "But... she wants to tell Mu Xue."

"Just tell me, why are you so nervous?" Xue Rui asked with a smile.

"I... I don't know why, but I'm a little afraid of Mu Xue," Lin Ruoxi said weakly.

Xue Rui patted Lin Ruoxi on the back: "Xixi, she won't hurt you."

"Mmm..." Lin Ruoxi responded softly, curling up into Xue Rui's arms.

"Xixi, what are you doing?"

"Ugh, I'm cold."

"Then turn off the air conditioner."

"No~"

Lin Ruoxi drawled out the last syllable as she hugged Xue Rui tightly, saying, "I want to hug you."

"Alright, alright." Xue Rui rubbed the back of Lin Ruoxi's head helplessly.

Well, she is a bit clingy.

But Xue Rui was very happy...

……

July arrived in the blink of an eye.

As summer vacation approaches, college students are leaving campus one after another, and the chirping of cicadas drowns out the students' laughter and playfulness.

From exam week to summer vacation, this period is the most enjoyable time for students, a bittersweet experience.

After studying a course all night, students have extra time, which allows them to spend more time playing games in their dorm rooms.

Some people even skipped class to give themselves a short vacation and go to other places to visit their girlfriends.

Unfortunately, this is the life of an ordinary college student, and has nothing to do with Xue Rui, nor with Lin Ruoxi, the "semi-dropout" genius girl. Gu Muxue, the only one still living on campus, has already entered the summer semester...

July 1st, morning, Jiaotong University.

As promised, Xue Rui came to Jiaotong University during the holiday to accompany Gu Muxue to class.

In class, Gu Muxue was diligently taking notes, while Xue Rui, sitting next to her, was secretly playing with his phone under the table, his other hand occasionally squeezing and playing with Gu Muxue's soft little hand.

Suddenly, a notebook was pushed in front of Xue Rui. Looking closely, she saw it was a note Gu Muxue had written to her: "If I weren't left-handed, would you still not let me write?"

Xue Rui put down his phone, picked up a pen, and added a sentence below: "If you weren't left-handed, I'd have to practice using my left hand to play on my phone."

Gu Muxue's eyes crinkled into a smiley face as she drew one in her notebook: (≧▽≦)
Xue Rui had just looked down when he noticed a message from Lin Ruoxi pop up on his screen:
I've arrived at Jiaotong University, are you free?

Xue Rui glanced nervously at Gu Muxue, wondering what was wrong with the little girl.

Are they here to cause trouble?
"Mu Xue, I have something to attend to and need to go out for a bit," Xue Rui said in a low voice.

Gu Muxue waved her hand, signaling Xue Rui to go do his own thing.

Xue Rui nodded, bent over, and slipped out of the classroom through the back door without making a sound.

However, the instant he stepped outside, he received a message from Gu Muxue: "Xiao Rui, I'm already so happy you're here with me. Go ahead and do what you need to do, don't worry about me."

Xue Rui glanced through the glass into the doorway, then left with a guilty bow.

……

As soon as Xue Rui stepped out of the teaching building, he saw Lin Ruoxi holding an umbrella and wearing sunglasses.

Xue Rui narrowed his eyes and asked, "Xi Xi, what are you doing here?"

“Hmm, a promotional platform.” Lin Ruoxi took a few steps forward and moved the parasol over Xue Rui’s head.

"There are so many schools in Chang'an, why come here of all?" Xue Rui asked, puzzled.

"Because someone is going to perform drinking water while standing upside down."

Hearing Lin Ruoxi say such unbelievable words in a calm tone, a huge question mark popped into Xue Rui's mind.

“Look, some people are saying we’re scammers because of the message I posted on their campus forum.”

Lin Ruoxi took out her phone, and on the screen was a post that had garnered considerable attention.

The theme is simple: it's an advertisement for Orange Computing on the Omnipotent Campus, aiming to use students in this major to indirectly promote it to professors who need computing power.

But reality is always far from what we expect:
First floor: [Sofa.]

Second floor: [Bench.]

Third floor: [If such a good thing really existed, why would anyone advertise it? Wouldn't it be better to sell computing power? Free things are always the most expensive.]

The image of Lin Ruoxi is on the third floor, and she's arguing with the original poster.

Lin Ruoxi: [It's true! I've been using it, and the calculation speed is dozens of times faster.]

OP: [Tens of times? You're kidding. It's true, I can drink water while standing upside down.]

Lin Ruoxi: [It's true.]

Original Poster: [Is this boss an idiot? Giving away such powerful computing capabilities for free?]

Lin Ruoxi: [No swearing! Where are you?]

Original Poster: [If you're so capable, come work at Shanghai Jiao Tong University's School of Medicine...]

Lin Ruoxi: [You just wait!]

……

Xue Rui's lips twitched. He couldn't blame her. With comments like Lin Ruoxi's and a pretty profile picture that looked like it was taken from the internet, it was obvious that she was a paid online troll.

The other party probably never expected that casually giving out an address would lead to Lin Ruoxi coming to their door.

Lin Ruoxi is the type who is timid and submissive online, but strikes hard in real life, which is the exact opposite of online trolls.

Actually, the main point is that the other party insulted Xue Rui, and Lin Ruoxi really couldn't swallow this insult.

Before long, the two arrived at the entrance of the medical imaging laboratory.

Lin Ruoxi took a picture and sent it: 【Come out!】

Xue Rui frowned: "Xi Xi, how do you plan to embarrass him?"

Lin Ruoxi hurriedly waved her hand: "Hitting people is wrong. I want to show them the difference between their equipment and ours."

“Uncle Wu recently rewrote the GPU driver, and I also made a performance optimization tool. Now it can call up 30 nodes and 120 graphics cards at a time.”

"I'm still optimizing the distributed architecture, the gradient..."

"Stop, stop, stop, I understand, I understand."

Xue Rui quickly interrupted her, knowing that if Lin Ruoxi continued, he would appear to be a complete novice.

After waiting at the door for a few minutes, a male student peeked out from the stairwell and looked around at the door.

The male student scratched his head. He only saw a couple cuddling under an umbrella, and no one else.

"Excuse me, did you see anyone at the door just now?" the male student asked politely.

"No, what happened?" Xue Rui asked, suppressing a laugh.

"Ugh~ Some online troll was arguing with me and suddenly sent me a picture. I thought he was coming to find me."

The male student breathed a long sigh of relief.

"Who knows? There are all kinds of people these days." Xue Rui turned his head, gave Lin Ruoxi a meaningful look, and then winked at her.

Didn't you want to meet him "real" offline?
Why isn't anything happening?

Lin Ruoxi took a deep breath: "You are 'the one who has seen all the flowers of Chang'an'?"

The male student stood there, stunned, staring at Lin Ruoxi in disbelief. Then, his voice trembled slightly as he asked, "You are 'I Love Eating Oranges'?"

Xue Rui couldn't hold back any longer and started laughing, his shoulders shrug. The way these two were calling each other by their online nicknames was just too funny.

The male student blushed and said, "I thought it was a boy, but it's a girl."

"What's wrong with a woman?" Lin Ruoxi raised her eyebrows. She remembered that this woman had scolded Xue Rui and felt very unhappy.

"No, it's nothing." The male student's momentum weakened, but his doubts only grew stronger.

He and Lin Ruoxi were arguing about the advertisement. What did Lin Ruoxi want when she came to his door?
“We’ve come to watch you drink water upside down. Give us a performance,” Xue Rui said, bringing the conversation back on track.

These two are both incredibly dull; if they keep chatting like this, who knows when they'll get to the point.

"Come in, I don't believe anything can speed things up dozens of times." The male student made way for her, his gaze sweeping over Lin Ruoxi.

"Having seen all the flowers of Chang'an, what are you looking at? This flower is mine." Xue Rui put his arm around Lin Ruoxi's shoulder.

"Just call me Li Shuo." The male student looked embarrassed, thinking that the two of them were really a good match. Neither of them asked for his name, they just joked about his online name.

"Having seen all the flowers of Chang'an, does your lab have air conditioning?" Xue Rui pressed.

Li Shuo pleaded, "Please stop shouting, or all my classmates will know."

Xue Rui: "Having seen all the flowers of Chang'an, what an arrogant username."

Li Shuo: "Brother, I was wrong, I won't watch anymore..."

Lin Ruoxi looked bewildered. Her purpose in coming here was to get the other party to apologize to Xue Rui, but what was going on now?

Before she could prove anything to Li Shuo, he had already started apologizing.

Lin Ruoxi felt empty inside; she felt like she had come for nothing.

"Rui, why don't you call me by my online name?" Lin Ruoxi asked.

Xue Rui's smile froze on his face instantly.

What is Lin Ruoxi's online name?

Do I love eating oranges?

Xue Rui knew perfectly well who this "orange" was.

He wouldn't call Lin Ruoxi by her online name.

“Your online name is too normal, there’s nothing special about it,” Li Shuo said casually, then pointed around and said, “Let me show you around and then we’ll leave, there’s really nothing to see here.”

"No, I have to prove to you that we haven't made any false claims," ​​Lin Ruoxi said seriously.

"That's right, you haven't even drunk water upside down yet," Xue Rui laughed.

"Alright..." Li Shuo sighed, chatting with the two of them while giving them directions and introducing the medical equipment inside the glass windows.

Xue Rui peeked around and saw that there was some medical equipment from a hospital on campus, but he had been to too many labs lately and had even seen airplane engines, so he wasn't really interested in anything.

As they entered the office area, several students were gathered in front of a monitor, pointing and talking. When they saw Xue Rui and his group enter, they all looked up.

"Li Shuo, who are these two?" a female student asked.

"Oh, we're here to cause trouble," Xue Rui joked.

Li Shuo smiled and shook his head, raising his voice a notch: "They run a computing center, and they said they could speed up experiments by dozens of times. They even made a bet with me."

"Hey, what kind of bet?" a male student asked.

“Drink water upside down.” Li Shuo glanced at Lin Ruoxi with a grin, then looked at Xue Rui: “If I lose, I drink it; if they lose, they drink it.”

He had tried to persuade Xue Rui when he came in, but the two of them were exceptionally confident.

He was determined to get his revenge, however small, for Xue Rui calling him by his online name...

The reason Li Shuo was so confident was because Jiaotong University's equipment was very new, consisting of professional workstations that were much better than external equipment.

While not as advanced as top-tier laboratories, the gap isn't too significant.

Li Shuo firmly believes that he will not be proven wrong.

Lin Ruoxi took off her backpack, took out a laptop and a network cable from the bag, and scanned her surroundings.

"Find me a network port, and give me a copy of the project file you ran before. I'll run it again and show you the speed." Lin Ruoxi's tone was frighteningly calm.

The female student paused for a moment, then exchanged glances with those around her. After receiving an affirmative answer, she rolled her eyes at everyone and said, "I really don't understand what you boys are thinking."

These senior students are usually quite serious, but they become irrational when it comes to winning or losing.

Drinking water upside down?

Is this thing interesting?

However, seeing that everyone was in high spirits, she didn't say anything, but simply took out a USB flash drive from the drawer:
"This is a project I ran a few days ago. It ran on our computers for a whole day and night. If you're talking about speeding it up by dozens of times, it should be about an hour."

The female student glanced at her watch and said, "Yeah, I'll be there in time for lunch."

"You actually believe her?" Li Shuo snatched the USB drive in disbelief.

"I don't know anything about computers. What if the technology advances?"

……

A few minutes later, Lin Ruoxi found a spot, and a group of people surrounded her from behind.

Xue Rui placed his hands on Lin Ruoxi's shoulders, his gaze fixed on the computer screen.

Because there was no physical promotion before, only a small number of clusters have started trial operation in the last few days.

Xue Rui was also quite curious about the current state of the GPU cluster he had built with a futuristic vision.

With the guidance of several senior students, the project files were uploaded in just a few minutes, and then all that was left was to wait for the project to be uploaded to the computing center.

While waiting for the progress bar to finish, everyone started chatting.

"Junior Lin, you're so skilled at this, are you also a medical student?" Li Shuo asked curiously.

"Sigh~ You guys don't know." Xue Rui said regretfully, and he squeezed Lin Ruoxi's shoulder: "What a promising talent, she dropped out of school at such a young age."

“I didn’t want to study anymore, so I dropped out of school,” Lin Ruoxi chimed in.

"Ah?" Everyone looked confused.

"You actually believe him?"

Li Shuo grinned. He knew Xue Rui wouldn't say anything nice, but Lin Ruoxi was really something, believing everything Xue Rui said.

Husband and wife working in unison, they are born to commit fraud.

"Your lab's internet speed is pretty fast, with several hundred megabytes of upload speed," Lin Ruoxi praised.

“That’s right.” Li Shuo’s smile stretched almost to his ears.

He became more and more excited as he thought about it, and started looking for cups in the laboratory.

"No, the opening is too small, it's inconvenient to drink from."

"This is easy to tip over..."

"Old Zhang, where did you put your instant noodle bowl?"

Xue Rui looked back speechlessly, a hint of pity in his eyes.

The workstations here cost only tens of thousands of yuan, while his clusters are worth hundreds of millions, and he even has GPU architects optimizing drivers individually. The difference between the two is too great...

And since Lin Ruoxi said she could win, then she definitely can win.

"It's uploaded." Lin Ruoxi's murmur once again drew everyone's attention back to the computer screen.

A large pile of project documents scrolled continuously below, and Xue Rui stared intently at the overall progress bar at the top.

0 percent...

However, in the blink of an eye, the progress bar started moving.

one percent.

Xue Rui did not turn around, but he could faintly hear the breathing of the people around him, which had obviously become heavy.

Ten seconds passed, two percent...

"Hiss~" (End of Chapter)