A genius? I just love studying.

Chapter 338. No matter how slow a person is, they can still learn calculus by the age of 14.
When Chen Hui woke up, he felt refreshed. It was July, and the weather in the capital was unusually clear. He stepped out of his room to check on the progress of the Chaos Ring.

"elder brother!"

Before he could even leave the research institute, a joyful shout came from afar, and a little girl with a ponytail came bounding over, then bumped into Chen Hui with a thud.

The tremendous impact caused Chen Hui to stumble, but fortunately, his Level 5 athletic ability gave him a sufficiently strong physique.

"Brother, have you missed me?"

Li Qingrui wrapped her arms around Chen Hui's neck and asked with a happy expression.

Now she's in junior high school, and she's grown to be over 1.6 meters tall; she's already a young woman.

"Of course I do."

Chen Hui ruffled Li Qingrui's hair, then remembered that they were on summer vacation. Over the years, he had been busy with academic research and hadn't been able to spend much summer vacation with them. Now that he had solved a major problem, he could finally take a break and let the two little ones have some fun in Beijing.

"elder brother."

Li Qingshan stood to the side, a warm smile appearing on his serious face. He was already over 1.5 meters tall, practically a little adult. Especially with his unsmiling expression and composed demeanor, no one would treat him like a child.

If his classmates saw him like this, they would probably be so surprised that their jaws would drop to the floor.

"Qingshan, can't you smile more?"

Li Qingrui reached out and cupped Li Qingshan's cheeks as if she were scooping up a handful of water. Then she used her thumbs to pry open the corners of his mouth, forcing him to smile. "Look, how handsome you are!"

After saying that, she chuckled and let go of his hand. As if she had thought of something happy, she turned to Chen Hui with a bright smile and said, "When school started last year, everyone saw him in the classroom and thought he was a teacher. Some students even called him 'Hello, teacher'."

Chen Hui smiled. Qingshan was good in every way, but he was too composed and lacked the vigor that young people should have.

"The weather is so nice today, let me take you to Universal Studios."

Chen Hui has been in Beijing for so long, but he hasn't been there yet. However, he has heard about it before and thinks that the two little ones will like it, or at least Li Qingrui will.

"Yeah!"

Li Qingrui clapped along with great enthusiasm, jumping around as if it were Chinese New Year.

"Speaking of the cinema, bro, could you help me urge director Guo Fan to release more episodes?"

After deciding to go out, Dai Yafeng had already driven the car to the three of them. As soon as they got in, Li Qingrui suddenly remembered something and said with a face full of resentment, "The Wandering Earth 3 has been delayed for five or six years and still hasn't been released. It's really too much!"

"condemn!"

"I don't know Director Guo Fan either," Chen Hui said helplessly. He was confident he could get things done in academia, but he really had no connections in the film and television industry.

"No need to get to know him. You already have over 100 million followers on Weibo. Just leave a message on Director Guo Fan's Weibo, and he will definitely reply to you."

Li Qingrui had clearly planned this all along.

Chen Hui had absolutely no sense of what a Weibo influencer should be; he didn't even know that he had over 100 million followers.

He didn't know that this was still the data Weibo hadn't inflated for him; these were all real fans. If it were inflated like other celebrities and internet personalities, his fan base might have exceeded one billion. It wasn't just Chinese netizens who followed Chen Hui; many Western netizens even downloaded Weibo specifically to follow him.

After thinking for a moment, Chen Hui opened Weibo. After the last incident of smashing his phone, he had already asked Weibo staff to handle his messages in the background so that his phone wouldn't freeze and explode when he opened the app.

He received countless private messages in the background, but he didn't have time to read them. Although he already had over 100 million followers, he had only posted one Weibo post, which had already garnered over 10 million comments. Even Chen Hui himself found it somewhat unbelievable.

It's a pity that Chen Shen didn't go to Stockholm to accept the award. Two Nobel Prizes in one year—an unprecedented feat!

That's a loss for the Nobel Prize winners. Who told them to keep causing trouble every day? Westerners can't be trusted. I support Chen Shen and not going.

[Chen Shen didn't attend, so I don't know if the Nobel Prize was awarded to him.]

Upon seeing this comment, Chen Hui thought for a moment, then pulled out two photos of Nobel Prize medals from his album. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences had sent him the medals and certificates long before the award ceremony, along with a prize of over 20 million kronor.

For Chen Hui now, money is really just a number.

After uploading the photos to Weibo, Chen Hui posted another update, saying that it was a very happy thing to be liked by so many people, and he decided to do more for them.

Thank you to the Nobel Committee for this recognition. I will continue to make more contributions to human civilization!

The accompanying image is a photo of two Nobel Prize medals.

[Wow, what did I just see? I've caught a fresh Chen Shen alive!]

[Chen Shen has finally remembered his Weibo password! Hooray!]

As is customary, every time Chen Shen emerges from seclusion, he produces a groundbreaking result. Tell me, Chen Shen, what is it this time? I'm ready.

[Chen Shen, between the Fields Medal and the Nobel Prize, which award do you think is more meaningful to you?]

Upon seeing the question, Chen Hui thought for a moment, then typed on the keyboard and replied, "Medals are just the past. I will continue to strive on the path of seeking truth. The medal that is most meaningful to me will always be the next one!"

As soon as Chen Hui posted the update, countless comments flooded in. Chen Hui could feel their enthusiasm and simply replied to a few questions. His replies immediately caused the comments to explode, creating a huge thread of replies.

【Chen Shen, Chen Shen, what do you think of the claim that even the most slow-witted person can't learn calculus by the age of 14?】

Soon, some mischievous netizens started stirring things up, and countless laughing emojis appeared under this comment.

Chen Hui smiled wryly. Clearly, with his current fame, everyone should know about his childhood.

After thinking about it, he decided to reply to the comment, "The reason why Mr. Qian thinks that way is because he hasn't met me."

[Hahaha, Chen Shen is also the idiot that Qian Lao talked about, hilarious!]

If Chen Shen is an idiot, then there are no smart people in the world.

This shows that no one can escape the information cocoon. This was true for emperors throughout history, and it was also true for great scientists. Qian Xuesen's colleagues, at the very least, were academicians, and his students, at the very least, were from Tsinghua and Peking Universities. His wife, Jiang Ying, was the beloved daughter of Jiang Baili, a renowned general known for his literary and military talents and encyclopedic knowledge. She had a disappointing cousin who tried to curry favor with Qian Xuesen and his wife, but he never succeeded.

This cousin's name is Jin Yong.

The "stupid person" that Qian Xuesen talked about is not the same kind of creature as the "stupid person" we talk about.

Of course, Chen Shen is not the same kind of being as us. [Recently, I've been studying calculus, linear algebra, and advanced mathematics in depth, and I've discovered that calculus is all pronounced with a first tone, linear algebra with a fourth tone, and advanced mathematics has all four tones. Mathematics is truly amazing...]

Seeing netizens chatting happily in the comments section made Chen Hui feel much happier too.

Of course, he also knew that Qian Xuesen had never said that, but had only mentioned a similar idea when discussing education, and that the two should not be confused.

After interacting for a short while, Chen Hui did not forget his original intention. He went to Guo Fan's Weibo and left a message after a little thought: "Director Guo, when will The Wandering Earth 3 be released? If it is not released soon, I will go on a trip to outer space."

[Does Chen Shen also watch The Wandering Earth?]

Wow, Chen Shen and I are both fans of "The Wandering Earth" (小破球), so basically I'm Chen Shen's brother!

[Catching Chen Shen alive]

[Director Guo, open the door quickly...]

With hundreds of millions of active users, whatever Chen Hui does will immediately attract a large number of responses.

……

In the conference room of Guo Fan Film Industry Co., Ltd., more than a dozen people were having a heated discussion and argument. Everyone looked grim, clearly caught in a huge disagreement.

"Director Guo, you should see this message."

Suddenly, the assistant handed Guo Fan his phone and showed him Chen Hui's message.

Guo Fan was both amused and exasperated. "Brother, you've turned my sci-fi movie into reality. How am I supposed to release it now?"

"From science fiction to documentary?"

"Hey, you know what, that's a great idea! Let's just make a documentary about it!"

Suddenly, a screenwriter's eyes lit up.

……

In Hengyang, Hunan, stargazing enthusiast Zhang Nan sat on his rooftop, constantly watching the telescope he had already set up. He would check the sky from time to time and his mobile app from time to time. According to the data provided by the stargazing app, there would be a meteor shower that night, and his home happened to be one of the best places to observe it.

With the application of controlled nuclear fusion, air pollution has been effectively controlled, and now even in the city at night, you can see a sky full of stars.

The night was as dark as ink, draping Hengyang, Hunan, in a deep blue velvet blanket.

Zhang Nan sat alone on his rooftop, his fingers unconsciously stroking his loyal companion beside him, an old but well-maintained astronomical telescope. He would occasionally look up at the sky, then look down to refresh the interface of a professional astronomy app on his phone, the screen's dim light illuminating his expectant face.

A cool evening breeze blew, and time ticked by as they waited. Zhang Nan adjusted the telescope's angle, aiming it at the sky area predicted by the app. The distant city lights framed the horizon with a blurry golden edge, but the starry sky above remained clear.

Arrived.

Just at the time predicted by the app, a clear shooting star pierced the silence of the night.

"It's here!" Zhang Nan was overjoyed and subconsciously moved closer to the eyepiece, wanting to capture more details.

But then came the second, the third... They appeared far more frequently than natural meteor showers, more like a grand, well-organized parade.

These points of light were not fleeting; they moved steadily with a calm and resolute posture, leaving long trails of light behind them, like melting platinum. It was not burning, but the glow of the engine's energy.

Zhang Nan frowned slightly and subconsciously glanced at the mobile app again.

Almost simultaneously, the app popped up a prominent notification, indicating that the meteor you observed was the Dawn-7 formation of the Earth-Mars regular cargo fleet, whose orbit coincided with the predicted meteor shower area. The current space visibility is excellent, and you may also be able to observe reflected light from the Star Ring 1 space station and the Moon Palace lunar base.

He froze, then looked up again.

Once the eyes adjusted to the new constellations, more details emerged.

The brightest and most stable stars are not natural celestial bodies, but giant space stations and orbital docks.

Like diamonds carefully set on a black curtain, they slowly rotate, reflecting the distant sunlight. One of them, in particular, is marked on the app as the starport at the Earth-Moon Lagrange point, the Dawn transfer station.

Against the backdrop of the deeper night sky, he could vaguely see some unnatural, constantly flickering points of light on the moon's outline—the ever-burning lights of factories and cities scattered across the lunar surface.

The expected natural meteor shower did not arrive as scheduled, but Zhang Nan witnessed an even more spectacular sight: a starry sky that was lit up by humankind itself and was violently active and expanding.

He stopped looking down at his phone and just sat there quietly, tilting his head back, letting his pupils reflect the endless stream of spaceship lights and the artificial celestial bodies that resembled newborn constellations.

At this moment, he no longer felt the eternal tranquility of the universe, but an unprecedented and surging vitality.

Humans are no longer bystanders in the starry sky.

Suddenly, a faint star in the direction of Serpens, located at the edge of the screen, caught his attention.

Its brightness is about magnitude 15. In the vast star map database, it has no corresponding label and is a completely unfamiliar star.

"Another background galaxy or a dark star?" Zhang Nan muttered, casually marking it with a "to be investigated" tag. He didn't pay much attention to it, recording the coordinates and brightness, planning to verify it again in a few days.

When he was just starting out, he would have studied it carefully. If he discovered a new star system or a dark star, according to the current Chinese star management regulations, he would have the right to name the star. But now, having experienced countless disappointments, he no longer feels excited about it.

As an astronomy enthusiast, he knew that strange phenomena often occur in space due to weather or other reasons, but most of the time they were just cosmic dust or light pollution, not worth his time.

Three days later, Zhang Nan returned to the rooftop.

Ever since he last saw a corner of Tiangong, he has fallen in love with this activity. He even finds watching the spaceships bustling around the space station like worker bees more interesting than looking at the stars.

They brought life to the once desolate starry sky.

Suddenly, he remembered the coordinates he had discovered a few days ago. Since he had some free time today, he decided to study them again.

When he pointed the telescope at the same area of ​​the sky again, the spot of light was still there, but its position... seemed to have moved by a tiny arcsecond.

"It's moved?" Zhang Nan's drowsiness vanished instantly.

Background stars or galaxies wouldn't move so obviously!
He immediately became excited; this could very well be a new asteroid!

(End of this chapter)