From child prodigy to chief scientist

Ma Junfeng's classes are almost entirely devoid of fluff; the content he teaches consists entirely of the most essential and practical information.

However, this teaching style poses a huge challenge to students.

"Oh no... my concentration has automatically ended again."

After persisting for another two hours, Xu Xiao's attention began to wander.

He had already exhausted a lot of energy because of the diagnostic test in the morning.

Although his energy had recovered somewhat after his lunch break, he still couldn't withstand such continuous exertion.

Without the boost from focusing on key terms, Xu Xiao's brain worked noticeably slower, making it increasingly difficult for him to keep up with Ma Junfeng's train of thought.

Fortunately, Xu Xiao has a photographic memory, so he can at least memorize what Ma Junfeng said and then think about it later.

As the course progressed, the students gradually realized that something was amiss.

Normally, even for large classes, each class lasts a maximum of two hours, with a ten-minute break in between.

However, Ma Junfeng's class had been going on for more than two hours and still showed no sign of stopping.

Many team members felt tired, but out of fear of Ma Junfeng, no one dared to raise the question.

Only those who absolutely needed to use the restroom and couldn't hold it in any longer would temporarily leave the training room with Ma Junfeng's permission.

"It looks like... Teacher Ma's training session might last four and a half hours."

Xu Xiao quickly figured this out. Ma Junfeng must have arranged this long, continuous training camp so that the team members could adapt to the national finals exam schedule as soon as possible.

Although this will be very painful for students at first, it is definitely more beneficial than harmful for their preparation for the national finals.

Just as Xu Xiao had predicted, the training camp lasted for a full four and a half hours before it ended.

"That's enough for now, you guys go eat."

The team members felt completely drained after two consecutive four-and-a-half-hour sessions of intense mental activity that day.

Apart from Tao Kewei, who was able to keep up with Ma Junfeng's pace throughout, everyone else had some parts that they didn't understand.

After dinner, Ma Junfeng finally did not schedule another four-and-a-half-hour training session.

After all, it's already quite late. If this happened again, no one could withstand it.

After another two hours of intensive training that evening, Ma Junfeng let everyone go home to rest.

Because today's training was so arduous, everyone fell asleep as soon as their heads hit the pillow, and barely had any dreams all night.

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After several days of intensive training, the team members gradually adapted to the intensity and pace of the provincial team training.

Everyone has made rapid progress these past few days. At the beginning, they had no idea how to approach the national finals questions, but now they can find some solutions.

For relatively simple problems like algebra or plane geometry, there are still many students who can solve them, and even if they can't, they can still understand them after seeing the answer.

Xu Xiao's progress was also very obvious; his math level on the system interface was constantly improving every day.

Xu Xiao knew, however, that such a rate of improvement was far from enough.

Especially due to his limited energy, he still finds it difficult to endure four and a half hours of continuous training. His condition begins to decline noticeably around the third hour.

If one participates in the national finals in this state, it will be difficult to achieve outstanding results.

Fortunately, thanks to Xu Xiao's persistence, the task for the "energetic" entry is very close to completion.

"It's been twenty-nine days... If I continue to participate in the training as usual tomorrow, I should be able to get the new 'entry effect'."

Lack of energy is one of Xu Xiao's main problems. In this respect, he is even worse than an average middle school student.

However, if he could gain the boost from the "energetic" attribute, at least his energy level would no longer be a disadvantage.

The following day, Xu Xiao participated in the training camp as usual.

In order to complete the vocabulary task as soon as possible today, Xu Xiao deliberately skipped her lunch break and devoted all her normal rest time to studying.

This made Xu Xiao feel very sleepy all afternoon, and she almost fell asleep several times, but she gritted her teeth and persevered.

Finally, during free training in the evening, Xu Xiao received a message notification from the system.

[Host task progress detected has reached 30/30 days]

[Congratulations, host! You have obtained the entry "Full of Energy"]

[Initiating term fusion with the host...]

Seeing these message notifications scrolling through her mind, Xu Xiao couldn't help but put aside the questions at hand and her emotions suddenly became excited.

"Full of energy... I finally got that effect."

Xu Xiao is very grateful to himself for the past 30 days. Even while participating in the math competition league, he did not relax at all, but devoted his time to studying.

If you don't meet the required study time even for one day during this period, you definitely won't be able to complete this task today.

At this moment, Xu Xiao couldn't wait to experience the effects of this new entry, but considering that the integration of the entry would take time, he tried his best to suppress his excitement and waited patiently for a while.

After about ten minutes, feeling that the fusion of the entries was almost complete, Xu Xiao carefully felt the changes in his body.

"It seems... the speed at which my energy recovers has indeed increased considerably."

Xu Xiao wasn't sure if it was just her imagination.

In the dim light, Xu Xiao felt as if the surrounding energy was flowing into his body.

After maintaining this state of mental blankness for a while, Xu Xiao's mind became much clearer, and the fatigue accumulated from the high-intensity training subsided by most of it.

Refocusing her attention on her studies, Xu Xiao tried to see if she could get into a state of concentration.

Because of the enormous energy expenditure during the day, Xu Xiao had found it very difficult to concentrate at night for the past few days. Even when she could, she couldn't maintain it for very long.

This time, however, Xu Xiao not only quickly entered a state of focus, but also maintained it.

This state didn't end automatically even after evening class ended; Xu Xiao had to take the initiative to break free from it.

"Truly living up to its name of 'full of energy'!"

With this effect, Xu Xiao no longer needs to worry about not having enough energy.

Although this might not allow Xu Xiao to maintain a focused state for four and a half hours continuously, he can quickly recover his depleted energy by taking a short break in between, thus regaining focus in a short time.