Records of Mysterious Things in the Southern Dynasties

Chapter 371 The Power of Mathematics

"Zusima's biological father..." Ren Yuan tried hard to think, but still couldn't remember the name that was so familiar.

"It's Zu Chongzhi!" Chen Qingzhi was indeed amazing. He finally broke through the layers of confusion and revealed the name.

After saying that, something between heaven and earth seemed to shatter into pieces. Ren Yuan didn't know if it was an illusion, but he found that the scene in front of him became clearer.

In an instant, all the information about Zu Chongzhi that had been deliberately covered up returned to Ren Yuan's mind at the same time.

Only then did he remember that the Qianli ship was built by Zu Chongzhi, and that he had been living with this old senior in his dreams for nearly ten years.

And why did Zu Chongzhi hide at the junction of dreams and reality, and even erase the information about his own existence...

"Grandpa, why did you come out?" Ren Yuan was extremely surprised, just like when he was penniless, he suddenly found that he still had a savings book with 5 million yuan.

"If I don't come out, you'll die." Zu Chongzhi rolled his eyes at him and said, "Let's talk nonsense later. Let's go see how your little lover is doing first."

Then he sighed and said, "Alas, that little girl is good in everything except math. I wanted to teach her, but she never got on the boat again."

"Yes." Ren Yuanxin said that what I said was nonsense, and it doesn't count if you say it. He quickly flew over and dug his senior sister out of the rubble.

"Senior Sister, are you okay?" Ren Yuan quickly brushed the dirt off A Yao's face and body.

"It hurts more this time." A Yao laughed.

"Then why are you so happy?" Ren Yuan said.

"Because you're fine." A Yao said as a matter of course.

Ren Yuan then hugged her tightly in his arms and said, "Well, there is nothing to say. Just practice well and try to vent your anger for your senior sister as soon as possible."

"I know that old man. He used to draw circles on the boat all day long." A Yao raised her head and looked at Zu Chongzhi who was confronting Mo Zhe Tiansheng.

"That's called cutting a circle." Ren Yuan corrected him and laughed, "It doesn't matter whether it's cutting a circle or drawing a circle, as long as you can beat Mo Zhe Tiansheng, it's fine."

"Of course I can beat him." A Yao remembered more things than Ren Yuan. "He is a man who can become a god if he breaks through that layer of window paper."

Ren Yuan knew what A Yao meant, and he couldn't help but sympathize with Zu Chongzhi and said, "If he wants to cut the circle completely, then he won't be able to become a god in this lifetime."

"Boy, don't talk too much, everything is possible." Zu Chongzhi spat, raised his hand and drew a perfect circle, covering the dark golden cocoon.

"I'll cut it for you to see!" Zu Chongzhi said as he waved his hand and drew straight golden lines, cutting a regular hexagon out of the circle, and then continued to increase the number of sides, cutting all the way, and finally actually cut it all off!"

"This proves that this is a false world." Zu Chongzhi announced solemnly.

The time domain that Xiao Baoyin had worked so hard to maintain collapsed instantly. He was like being hit by a heavy hammer and flew back to Mo Zhe Tiansheng. He panted and asked in a rough voice, "Why didn't you take action?"

"I've been pinned down by him." Mo Zhe Tiansheng said helplessly, "He has injected a lot of inexplicable arithmetic problems into my brain. I have tried my best but couldn't solve them. I really can't solve them."

"Mathematics is something that you really can't solve if you don't know it. Even a god can't figure it out." Zu Chongzhi said with a smile, "This is the collection of all I have learned in my life, the Art of Combination. You are lucky."

"Get these ghost things out of my head!" Mo Zhe Tiansheng covered his head and shouted in pain: "I don't want to learn math!" It seems incomprehensible to outsiders. Isn't it just a math problem? What if I can't do it? But only the person involved knows the pain. If you have a head full of problems that you can't solve, it will really make your brain crash and become completely autistic...

Chen Qingzhi also came to Zu Chongzhi, looked at Xiao Baoyin and the others with a smile and said, "Now that the overall situation has been decided, you still don't believe in evil?"

"I believe it, I really believe it, take these math problems out of my head." Mo Zhe Tiansheng made only one request: "I will turn around and leave, and I will never meddle in your Han people's affairs again."

"It's a good thing to do a lot of math problems, but you are so miserable." Zu Chongzhi sighed, "Alas, it's really playing the lute to a cow."

As he spoke, he raised the bamboo slips made of abacus in his hand and extracted strings of numbers from Mo Zhe Tiansheng's mind.

Mo Zhe Tiansheng suddenly felt refreshed and relaxed as never before. He took a look at the "Art of Embroidery" in Zu Chongzhi's hand, but he was still frightened and didn't want to do another math problem in his life.

Then he said to Xiao Baoyin: "We are no match for him, let's go back."

"..." Xiao Baoyin was extremely unwilling, but he also knew that Mo Zhe Tiansheng was telling the truth. Zu Chongzhi had destroyed his divine domain with one move, and had trapped Mo Zhe Tiansheng without anyone noticing. This was no longer an ordinary demigod, so how was he different from a real god?
With the addition of Chen Qianzhi, who was particularly good at fighting, the two of them really couldn't resist.

"Let's go!" Xiao Baoyin made a prompt decision, picked up Xiao Zong and was ready to run away.

"You can leave, but he absolutely cannot." Chen Qianzhi shot out countless black and white pieces, trying to turn Xiao Zong into a honeycomb.

Xiao Baoyin had no choice but to wave his sleeves and push Xiao Zong away. "He has forgotten where that thing is. Now he is just a poor guy who has lost everything. Why does Chen Shuai have to kill him?"

"I cannot disobey the Emperor's order." Chen Qingzhi was determined to fight, and could not be shaken. "If he's alive, I must see him. If he's dead, I must see his body."

"Why are you talking so much? Let's just have a fight. The winner takes the people away, and the loser leaves his life behind!" Zu Chongzhi was the strongest fighter in the field, and he spoke with confidence. He was completely different from the shriveled old carrot head who had been hiding in the cabin for hundreds of years to avoid the dream god.

Who says mathematicians don't like violence? It's just that most mathematicians can't beat others.

"Don't come!" Seeing that Zu Chongzhi was about to hit him with the math book again, Mo Zhe Tiansheng was so scared that he raised his hands in surrender, left Xiao Baoyin and ran away.

He vowed to stay away from mathematics for the rest of his life and never wanted to be tortured by this terrible thing again...

Now Xiao Baoyin was helpless. If he could do it all over again, he would definitely accept the jade seal honestly and would never be greedy or try to fish for more.

Unfortunately, he is not the real God of Time, and cannot make the world go back to the past. Naturally, he has no regrets like ordinary people...

Seeing that if he didn't leave, he would only bring disgrace upon himself. He looked at Xiao Zong deeply and said, "Goodbye, my dear nephew."

"Sixth Uncle, don't leave me!" Xiao Zong hurriedly got up from the ground and stretched out his hands to grab the sky.

But how can I meet Xiao Baoyin?

"Alas, it seems that the destiny is still with the Southern Dynasty..." After Xiao Baoyin finished speaking, he disappeared into the dark night, leaving Xiao Zong howling to the sky.

"Okay, stop crying." Ren Yuan walked up to him and said, "Don't you understand now? He has been using you from the beginning."

"Oh, Heaven, oh, Earth..." Xiao Zong cried so hard that he fainted.

(End of this chapter)