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As soon as Ji Bai spoke, everyone in the High Intellectual Alliance stopped in their tracks.

Director Huang's back stiffened noticeably, as if someone had hit him on the back with a brick.

Several young graduate students subconsciously turned around, their faces displaying a variety of expressions: anger, embarrassment, shame, but mostly guilt.

Especially that guy with glasses.

His expression was worse than if his own mother had died.

He jumped out, pointing at Ji Bai: "Ji Bai, that's enough! I admit you're good! Okay?"

"But don't forget, it won't be long before you're in our circle too, going to university, graduate school, get a doctorate, and publish papers. I advise you not to push things too far!"

"Leave a way out for others, so you can meet again in the future!"

Ji Bai scoffed after hearing this.

First of all, I'm not interested in your circle!

"Secondly, you probably won't be qualified to see me again in the future!"

"Furthermore, morality is about self-discipline, not about manipulating others. A bet relies on mutual understanding; if you renege, I won't force you!"

The bespectacled man's face turned pale and then red, and his lips trembled for a long time, unable to utter a single word.

Ji Bai's three fingers tore away his last fig leaf, one by one.

Believe it or not, he might not even be qualified to meet Ji Bai again in the future.

"Then what exactly do you mean by stopping us?" The bespectacled man completely broke down.

Ji Bai looked at him and then said something that made everyone present gasp.

"It is impolite not to reciprocate!"

"You've finished setting the questions."

"Now, it's my turn to ask the questions!"

The bespectacled man was dumbfounded.

"What? You're going to give us a test?"

As if he'd heard the funniest joke in the world, he pointed at himself and then at the people behind him: "Do you even know who we are? Are you testing us?"

Ji Bai nodded.

"Do you dare to accept the challenge?"

"If you can answer my question, then all previous bets are null and void!"

The bespectacled man turned around and glanced at the teacher, Director Huang.

Director Huang and the others were all dumbfounded.

Is Ji Bai going to give them a test?

They acknowledged that Ji Bai was indeed a genius.

For high school students, there are very few with the ability to win a gold medal in the International Mathematical Olympiad.

But no matter how talented you are, you're still just a high school graduate!

Even if you have the ability to win a gold medal in the International Mathematical Olympiad, who here hasn't won a few gold or silver medals?

Aurora University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Zhejiang University, Nanjing University... Which of these universities' mathematics departments isn't a place that students in the national mathematics competitions would fight tooth and nail to get into?

How could a doctoral supervisor who has taught mathematics for twenty years be stumped by a question posed by a high school student?

They're like a newborn calf that doesn't fear a tiger, completely unaware of their own limitations!

Director Huang exchanged a glance with the people behind him.

Everyone nodded slightly, indicating that they could proceed.

What's wrong with accepting this?

What kind of questions can a high school student ask?

The most difficult ones were the math olympiad problems, and even if these people couldn't solve them easily, they certainly couldn't be unable to solve them.

The bespectacled man received the signal, turned around, raised his chin at Ji Bai, and his tone became arrogant again.

After all, in his mind, it was absurd to the point of being laughable that a high school student would set questions for a group of math PhDs.

"Okay, you give us your questions. If we can't answer them, I'll strip naked and run ten laps around your school!"

"But if we answer your question, not only will the previous bet be null and void, but I will also make you say in front of netizens across the country, 'No. 99 Middle School is indeed a den of snakes and rats.'"

"So? Daring to bet?"

He wanted to see what kind of challenge this boy would present to them!

Viewers in the live stream were also somewhat dumbfounded.

"What?! Ji Bai is going to set questions to test these experts???"

"Rebel against the Heavenly Gang!!!"

"An 18-year-old high school student giving a PhD thesis question?! Did I hear that right?!"

Ji Bai: You are now surrounded by me. Give up the fight and answer the questions honestly!

"I'm so curious, what kind of questions will Ji Bai ask?"

"No matter what the question is, I admire your courage!"

"That guy with glasses is so annoying!"

……

Ji Bai didn't dawdle.

He walked to the blackboard, picked up the chalk, and, under everyone's gaze, wrote a line on the blackboard.

The line was so short that it took him less than ten seconds to write it on the blackboard.

But the moment the last word of that line was uttered, it was as if all the air in the auditorium had been sucked out.

In the live stream room, hundreds of thousands of online viewers were completely silent.

What was written on the blackboard was:

Proof: Any even number greater than 2 can be written as the sum of two prime numbers.

……

boom!

Everyone was in an uproar!

Ji Bai actually made them prove Goldbach's Conjecture!

After his initial shock and disbelief, Director Huang smiled.

He was smiling very happily!

He's just a child after all!

He was writing math problems on the blackboard with such confidence that he almost intimidated this seasoned pro, but then he turned around and made the most childish mistake.

They actually used a century-old problem that no one in the world could prove as a betting topic.

You're asking a group of professors with master's and doctoral degrees to prove Goldbach's Conjecture?

So what if we can't prove it?

No one in the whole world can prove it!

This isn't betting on something that can't be lost; it's betting on something that doesn't exist at all.

But that's alright.

Director Huang was still thinking about how to end this matter when Ji Bai came up with such an absurd ending.

"Alright, alright, it's getting late, everyone should go home."

After Director Huang finished speaking, he prepared to leave with his people.

Viewers in the live stream also felt it was a pity.

"He's just a child after all!"

"It was so exciting up to the beginning, but it faltered a bit at the end."

"Maybe they're upset but don't know how to vent!"

"Those people were deliberately making things difficult for him from the very beginning. Even after he won, they wanted a tiebreaker, and then they tried to cheat after the tiebreaker. Anyone would be furious in that situation!"

"But he really shouldn't have asked a question with no answer; wasn't that just giving the other side an easy way out?"

"Yes! The first three questions were answered so well, and the math Olympiad problem was solved on the spot. They were clearly winning, but this last move gave the other side something to say."

……

Director Huang and the others were preparing to leave.

"Oi——"

Ji Bai spoke again.

"You're not even going to act anymore, huh? At least admit defeat!"

Upon hearing this, Director Huang turned around. Far from being angry, he chuckled and said, "Alright, alright, we admit defeat. We can't answer this question, is that alright?"

The tone was like coaxing a child throwing a tantrum.

You wanted to admit defeat? Fine, I admit defeat, okay? Can you go home now?

Ji Bai pointed at the bespectacled man: "So, does his earlier statement about running laps naked still count?"

The man with glasses turned purple with anger.

I feel like my IQ has been completely crushed.

He never expected that Ji Bai would bring up Goldbach's Conjecture.

Who the hell could make this?

"Ji Bai, that's enough!"

"You're giving us an unproven conjecture to solve? This isn't a test! This is cheating!"

"You expect us to prove something that mathematicians worldwide haven't been able to do for over two hundred years in half an hour?"

"Even if we eventually prove it, will you be able to understand it?"

"If a high school student presents a century-defining conjecture to a group of math PhDs, and then asks them to demonstrate it to you in person, do you think that's reasonable?"

In the live stream, many netizens, while disliking the bespectacled man, also felt that what he said made sense.

"To be fair, while the guy with glasses is annoying, what he said makes sense!"

How can you prove a conjecture that hasn't been proven?

"That's utter nonsense! That bespectacled guy is just using a fallacy of equivocation!"

"It can't be proven, but it can be disproven!"

"To put it bluntly, the problem was that Ji Bai presented the wrong question!"

"Who can prove this?"

"Let's call it a day!"

"What a farce!"

"What's so farcical about it? I think it's hilarious!"

"Tonight's live stream was better than any variety show! A sect's prodigy battling a celestial being from the upper realm—it was exhilarating!"

"Finally, the prodigy produced a damaged supreme imperial weapon, which none of the immortals in the upper realm could withstand, and they could only retreat in disgrace!"

"A flawed Supreme Emperor Weapon is hilarious! Goldbach's Conjecture = a flawed Supreme Emperor Weapon?"

"You know what, you really shouldn't tell!"

……

The bespectacled man became more and more agitated as he spoke. He pushed up his glasses and took a step forward.

"You want me to admit defeat? Fine, but only if you can prove this problem!"

"If you can't solve it, don't try to argue. How are we supposed to solve a problem that doesn't have a standard answer?"

"If you can prove it, I'll strip naked right now, immediately, and run all the way back to Shanghai!"

That statement is truly scathing.

A high school student proving Goldbach's Conjecture? Are you kidding me!

The chat in the live stream went silent for a moment.

"That guy with glasses was pretty ruthless... giving him a taste of his own medicine."

"Ji Bai is still too young; he's given him a handle to use against him."

"This is really going to be difficult to handle."

In the midst of this silence, Ji Bai made a move.

He turned around, faced the blackboard, and picked up a new piece of chalk.

"Watch closely, I'll only demonstrate once..."