bayedsolid Chapter 279 The Legendary Material Star Rock
Chapter 279 The Legendary Material Star Rock
As previously announced, this competition is the first one organized by YunTu Company.
Lacking competition experience, they largely referenced the rules set by the Mathematical Modeling Competition.
Therefore, the organizers set up two sets of questions for this official competition, A and B.
Each participating team may choose one question as their target.
The competition lasts for a total of three days and 72 hours. The final paper must be uploaded to the official competition website before the deadline.
Therefore, once the competition started, the computer room was filled with discussions among the teams about choosing topics.
"Holy crap! Has YunTu gone mad? Is this a problem even within our capabilities?"
"Question A: Design a strategy for a drone-based express delivery sorting system... What is express delivery sorting? Has anyone worked for a courier company?"
"This is much more difficult than their example problems!"
"Stop thinking about this one, let's look at the next one: a drone swarm emergency supply delivery system... This seems like a good idea!"
"Wait a minute, look at the background of the question: an earthquake occurred in a mountainous area, and roads were cut off... This is an earthquake environment! Designing this will definitely require high-precision GPS technology. Does anyone here know anything about it?"
"Holy crap, it's true... we weren't prepared!"
"Hey bro, aren't you the head of the Computer Science department? You definitely have no problem with this!"
"I studied programming, but GPS requires surveying programming, which I haven't learned yet!"
The computer room was bustling with activity. It was clear that the questions in the main competition were not easy, and many people were completely baffled and didn't know where to start.
However, some experts among them quickly chose a topic after a brief moment of surprise.
Upon seeing the question, Lu Han and his group all frowned.
Having come through the preliminary rounds, they could see better than others that the difficulty of the main competition questions was a level higher than that of the preliminary rounds.
As expected of the main competition, they're really going all out now!
Lu Han looked up at Shi Jun and asked, "Third Brother, which one should we choose?"
With Lin Chen absent, Shi Jun, who studies artificial intelligence, became the backbone of the team this time.
"Choose question B," Shi Jun said after thinking for a moment.
“B? Nobody here knows anything about GPS?” Chen Hao frowned.
"Without GPS, this problem is actually the most suitable for us! Remember the Hive Consciousness strategy that the boss showed us before? That strategy is perfect for this problem!"
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Lin Chen, who was outside, was unaware of what was happening inside the computer room. After hearing the competition bell ring, he turned around and went back inside.
In the battles that followed, Lu Han and his companions would have to rely on themselves.
Just as he was about to leave, he suddenly saw Chen Xiaoxiao and Wang Heming running towards him, panting.
"Sorry, I overslept. Where are they?" Wang Heming asked.
"They've already gone in, the match should have started by now, right?"
"what?"
Wang Heming looked regretful.
"I wanted to cheer them on."
"To whom? Shi Jun? Chen Hao? Or Lu Han?"
Lin Chen's smile made Wang Heming blush.
"Okay, okay." Chen Xiaoxiao quickly came to her best friend's rescue. "Lin Chen, Lu Han, are they alright?"
Lin Chen glanced back at the server room: "Don't worry, with my guidance, there won't be any problems!"
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In the afternoon, after having lunch with Chen Xiaoxiao, Lin Chen went to Principal Xu's office.
He wanted the other party to introduce him to a teacher in the Department of Chemistry at the university.
The professor I know best is from the School of Mathematical Sciences, but the School of Chemistry and the School of Mathematical Sciences have very little overlap, so I can only ask President Xu to introduce him.
Principal Xu assumed that Lin Chen wanted to get a chemistry diploma next. While marveling at the energy of young people, he personally took him to the office of Dean Qian Runyang of the School of Chemistry.
Upon learning that Lin Chen actually wanted to learn about chemistry, Dean Qian didn't seem to care much.
Although Lin Chen was renowned, chemistry and mathematics were quite different, and he didn't think Lin Chen, who was about to pursue a doctorate in mathematics, could make any significant achievements in this field.
However, out of respect for Principal Xu, he still agreed to Lin Chen's request to audit courses in the School of Chemistry.
Just then, Dean Qian received a phone call.
After listening, he said to Principal Xu, "Principal, there's been a problem at the lab. I need to go take a look. That's all for today."
Before Principal Xu could nod, Lin Chen blurted out, "Dean Qian, could you take me to see the lab?"
Dean Qian didn't think much of it and nodded, saying, "Alright, I'll show you the way. Many of our chemistry courses are held in the lab, and not just anyone can go in there. I'll give you some pointers."
"Then thank you, Dean Qian."
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"Lin Chen, chemistry is a very dry and complex subject. If you mathematics studies the truth and laws of numbers, then we chemistry study the truth and laws of matter!"
"Unlike mathematics, chemical research cannot rely on talent alone; it also requires the ability to endure loneliness, because every new chemical discovery may be the result of hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of chemical experiments..."
On the way to the lab, Qian Runyang repeatedly and earnestly instructed Lin Chen.
In his opinion, Lin Chen's desire to learn chemistry was just a whim.
Chemistry is not like mathematics, a subject that requires inspiration and talent. Without a down-to-earth approach and step-by-step research, it is difficult to achieve success.
He didn't care that Lin Chen was wasting time, but as an elder, he still had to give him some advice.
"Thank you, Dean Qian. I can endure the loneliness."
Unfortunately, Lin Chen didn't seem to understand Qian Runyang's words.
Qian Runyang could only shake his head silently in his heart and ignore him.
However, Qian Runyang was unaware that Lin Chen's desire to audit the chemistry class was not to add another achievement to his resume.
It was for the Star Rock recipe that the system had previously rewarded.
While giving instructions to Lu Han and the others, Lin Chen took the opportunity to search for this thing called Star Rock online.
It turns out that this Star Rock has quite a history, as you wouldn't know unless you looked it up.
It's a legendary super heat insulation material!
In the 80s, a British teacher named Tony claimed that he was inspired by a plane crash and invented a super heat-insulating material called Star Rock.
To verify the authenticity of the material, the other party contacted the television station directly for verification.
Then, in full view of everyone, this teacher Tony wrapped an egg in star rock and subjected it to direct flames of thousands of degrees.
After the experiment, the eggs showed absolutely no signs of being cooked.
The military then conducted experiments on the star rock and discovered that the material could withstand lasers of a certain intensity!
The authenticity of this material was thus put to the test, and countries around the world have shown great interest in it.
Even Americans have tried to acquire Star Rock's formula.
However, for some unknown reason, Tony declined all the invitations.
Ultimately, after his death, Star Rock was also taken to his grave, becoming a material that only exists in legends.
And now, the formula for this material has fallen into Lin Chen's hands!