The night before the college entrance exam results were released, I redeemed my Peking University ad

"Hmm!"

Ji Bai stretched.

It feels so good to sleep until I naturally wake up!

Sunlight streamed through a hole in the curtains and shone directly on his face.

He hadn't slept so soundly in a long time, without having to think about the college entrance exam, his grades, or how he would survive tomorrow.

[Ding! Upgrade requirements met. Upgrade now?]

"Um?"

Ji Bai was taken aback.

Is the shock level high enough?

He quickly opened the system panel.

[Host: Ji Bai]

[Level: Lv1 (Daily 10 Yuan Choice)]

[Shock Value: 18888/10000 (Upgradeable)]

[Shop: Not yet unlocked]

……

18,888!

The price surged by over 10,000 overnight—it's shocking!

"Upgrade! Upgrade!"

[Ding! System upgrade in progress...]

[1%...2%...3%...]

[Ding! System upgrade complete!]

The light screen suddenly lit up, and a brand new panel unfolded before his eyes.

[Host: Ji Bai]

[Level: Lv2 (Daily 100 Yuan Choice)]

[Shocking Value: 8888/100]

[Shop: Click to view]

……

Holy crap!!!

"A million experience points?"

Ji Bai didn't look at anything else; the first thing he saw was that the next upgrade would require a whopping 100 million shock points!

He was shocked!

Then, I noticed that the [Shop] had been unlocked.

Ji Bai quickly clicked into the online store.

The online store interface pops up, so simple it looks like a programmer who was lazy and only wrote a framework.

There are only three items.

[Energy Potion: Restores full energy and eliminates all fatigue. Price: 100 Shock Points/bottle]

[Option Reset Card: Resets all current options and generates new random options. Price: 1000 Shock Points/card]

【Option Designation Card: Specifies the option for the day as a specific category, such as: Science, Technology, Culture, Art, etc. Price: 10000 Shock Points/card】

……

These are all good stuff!

"Energy potion restores energy; reset card options allow you to specify a card category!"

None of them are cheap.

At that moment, Ji Bai finally heard that familiar notification sound:

[Ding! Daily activation selection: Use the specified card option?]

"Not using it!"

Ji Bai shook his head. He didn't have a particular analogy he wanted yet, and opening blind boxes was quite exciting.

Moreover, this was the first time he could choose 100 yuan after the system upgrade, and he wanted to see what good things he could get with 100 yuan without specifying a category.

If you had 100 yuan, how would you spend it?

1. Farts come with a custom-made fragrance that lasts for a week (NT$20)

2. Doctoral-level professional intuition in any discipline (30 yuan)

3. A complete restoration method for an ancient technique that has been lost (50 yuan)

4. Nobel Prize-level scientific inspiration (80 yuan)

5. Complete proof of the Kolas conjecture (10 yuan)

6. Your Weibo account gains one million followers (10 RMB)

……

Ji Bai scanned him from head to toe, then gasped.

"Wow! That's pretty intense!"

Farts have a built-in fragrance...

This option seemed a bit funny at first glance, but Ji Bai immediately saw the meaning behind it.

"A conceptual option!"

A concept-level option has appeared in a 100-yuan lottery!

The rewards for the ten-dollar tier remain at the practical level of "knowledge transmission" and "skill mastery"; while the rewards for the hundred-dollar tier have actually begun to touch on the level of rules.

The rewards after the system upgrade have jumped to a whole new level!

Suppressing the shock in his heart, Ji Bai looked at the options.

"I choose 4, 5, and 6!"

Nobel Prize-level scientific inspiration—what's there to hesitate about?

Even a small breakthrough in this area is enough to sustain one for a lifetime.

As for 5 and 6, they are just extras.

Ji Bai didn't even know what the Kolas conjecture was.

[Ding! Your transaction is complete. Please come back tomorrow!]

The next second, a torrent of knowledge poured directly into his mind.

"Atoms...quantum..."

Ji Bai frowned, as if he had grasped something but didn't know how to proceed.

This feeling is so itchy!

It's so itchy!

I want to huddle on the edge of the kang (heated brick bed)!

The second information stream follows, providing a complete proof of the Kolas conjecture.

"So this is the Kolas conjecture..."

Any positive integer, even numbers divided by 2, odd numbers multiplied by 3 and added by 1, repeated operations will eventually result in 1.

Even elementary school students can understand the question, but mathematicians around the world have been struggling with it for decades without finding a solution.

The proof path that appeared in Ji Bai's mind only used an extremely ingenious transformation to convert the Collatz map into a problem of rational point distribution on an elliptic curve. Then, it used the modular Fourier coefficients to accurately describe the global ratio of odd and even steps in the iteration process, and finally proved that the Collatz orbit of any positive integer must converge to a trivial ring.

This proof is much shorter than Goldbach's conjecture, and it doesn't require algebraic varieties or automorphic forms, but its cleverness in construction made Ji Bai himself want to applaud himself in his heart.

Just then, my phone rang.

An unfamiliar number.

"Hello, is this Ji Bai?"

"it's me."

"Hello, Ji Bai. I'm Lin Boqian. We met yesterday."

"Oh, hello Dean Lin."

"Ji Bai, this is what happened..."

Lin Boqian cleared his throat and then relayed the meaning of the statement from the International Mathematical Union.

"Get ready here, we're going to the United States..."

Ji Bai raised an eyebrow: "Wait, wait, wait, Dean Lin, do you mean the foreigners aren't coming, and we should go over there?"

That's what I mean.

"Oh, I'm not going."

Lin Boqian was clearly taken aback by those words. He remained silent for two seconds, then his speech quickened considerably, appealing to reason and emotion:

"Ji Bai, I understand how you feel. I wouldn't want to go either."

"But you're still young. You don't know how ruthless the rules of academia are. If you don't actively seek recognition, no one will fight for it for you."

"Oh, I'm not going."

Lin Boqian became anxious: "Ji Bai, the ICM is the highest-level event for mathematicians worldwide, held every four years. The Fields Medal is awarded at the ICM."

"To be able to give a keynote speech on this stage is an opportunity that countless mathematicians dream of!"

"Just imagine, the world's top mathematicians are sitting in the audience listening to you explain your proof. Every line you write on the blackboard is being filmed by dozens of cameras. After you finish, they stand up and applaud."

"This is not submission, this is conquest!"

"Oh, I'm not going."

No matter what Lin Boqian said, Ji Bai only said two words: "I'm not going."

Lin Boqian became anxious.

"Ji Bai, you need to know that the international recognition of Goldbach's Conjecture is not just about your personal honor, it's about the international standing of the entire Chinese mathematics community."

"But if the international mathematics community doesn't recognize it, they'll keep bringing it up!"

Ji Bai smiled faintly: "Don't worry, they will come!"

After speaking, I hung up.

"Feed? Feed? Ji Bai?"

Lin Boqian stood there dumbfounded, listening to the busy tone on the phone.

Academician Wang, Director Zhang, and a group of other bigwigs immediately surrounded them:

"Old Lin, how's it going? Did Ji Bai agree?"

Lin Boqian shook his head, looking both amused and exasperated: "Ji Bai said he's not going, so whoever wants to go can go!"

"Sigh! They're just young people, too hot-tempered!"

Academician Wang sighed and frowned: "What should we do? We can't really give up on international recognition, can we? Should we try to persuade him again?"

At this moment, Lin Boqian added, "But Ji Bai said at the end that they would come."

"What?"

"What does Ji Bai mean by this?"

"have no idea!"

Academician Wang and his group looked at each other, completely bewildered.

What does he mean?

Would those high-and-mighty foreigners from the International Mathematical Union really put aside their airs and come to China to participate in the verification conference?

How is that possible?