Redemption from the Abyss: The School Beauty Insists on Pulling Me Out of the Mire

"This is impossible..."

Austin stared intently at the results on the screen, his face pale.

His prized elite education seemed like a joke at that moment.

He turned his head, looked at Su Qinghe, and gritted his teeth:

"You're guessing! That perturbation term... has absolutely no theoretical basis!"

Whether there's any basis for it or not, you know it in your heart.

Su Qinghe put down his pen, rubbed his wrist, and looked calm.

"Now that I've solved the first problem, according to the rules, Austin, it's my turn to ask a question."

Su Qinghe casually flipped over the draft paper from before and drew a seemingly simple circle on the blank side.

As Su Qinghe painted, he calmly said:

"The core of the double pendulum model we just discussed was the interference of nonlinear magnetic fields. Let's try something purer."

She marked several stress points on the ring and wrote down the parameters for the "superconducting ring" next to it.

"This is a superconducting ring model placed under the critical state of the Meissner effect."

Su Qinghe pushed the paper in front of Austin:

"Suppose that a theoretical perturbation of a monopole magneton is introduced at the center of this ring."

"Excuse me, Austin?"

"Without using any computer simulations, please deduce the critical time point at which this superconducting ring undergoes a quantum phase transition."

"Limited time offer..."

Su Qinghe glanced at the clock on the wall and held up two fingers:

"I used fifteen minutes just now, but to accommodate your skill level, I'll give you twenty minutes."

Austin stared at the thin piece of paper in front of him, and cold sweat instantly poured down his forehead.

Monopole magneton? Quantum phase transition?

Isn't this a cutting-edge topic in quantum mechanics and condensed matter physics?

He picked up the pen with trembling hands and tried to write out the first formula.

However, his mind went blank.

In American laboratories, observing data using expensive equipment is one of his strengths, as is running existing models with Python.

But this kind of purely theoretical derivation, this "hard bone" that requires extremely strong abstract thinking and mathematical foundation, directly shattered his knees.

"What's wrong? Not writing?"

Xie Wang added insult to injury with a cool, detached tone:

"Do you feel like something's missing? Like... a computer with emulation software installed?"

Austin's hands were shaking.

The formulas were stuck in his head; he had even forgotten how to write the Hamiltonian.

Five minutes passed.

Austin's paper was blank except for a few ink blots that had been smeared out.

Ten minutes have passed.

Austin's breathing became rapid, and his face turned a deep purplish-red.

He felt the air around him thin, and Justin's gaze felt like needles pricking his back.

Time is running out.

Su Qinghe tapped the table lightly, his voice cold and clear:

"Austin, is this what you call elite education? Without computers, you don't even have the most basic physical intuition?"

"That's enough!"

Austin slammed his pen on the table and roared in despair:

"This is impossible to calculate! This falls under the scope of theoretical physics! You're deliberately making things difficult for me!"

"Can't you figure it out?"

Su Qinghe sneered.

She took the paper, picked up her pen, and wrote three lines of formulas next to the circle in a flowing, elegant style.

Finally, a concise time parameter is added after the equals sign: t = ħ / (2Δ)

"That's the answer."

Su Qinghe threw the paper in front of him:

"This is just a basic variant of the Landau level. If you can't even see that..."

She stood up and looked down at the blond boy slumped in the chair:

"Then you really don't deserve to add me on WeChat, because your physics was probably taught by a PE teacher."

The first round was physics.

Su Qinghe won decisively, Austin suffered a complete defeat.

Austin looked dejected, like a defeated rooster.

And Justin, who always wore glasses, finally couldn't sit still any longer.

He pushed up his glasses, stood in front of Austin, and stared at Xie Wang:

"Wonderful! I didn't expect Chinese high school students to be so good at theoretical physics."

Justin closed his physics book, his tone icy:

"However, now it is the 21st century. No matter how beautifully a physics formula is derived, it is still just theoretical. Code is the language that rules the world."

He pushed the silver laptop to the center of the table.

"Now that the physical round is over..."

Justin looked at Xie Wang, his eyes burning with fire:

"Now, it's the computers' turn."

"In the second round, I'll start by asking the questions."

Justin points to the screen:

"This is the nine-layer dynamic firewall I just mentioned. Each layer is nested with different encryption algorithms, and even chaotic encryption is used."

"If you can break through it within 30 minutes and get the lowest level of ROOT access, you win."

After saying that, Justin looked at Xie Wang, a cruel smile curling at the corner of his mouth:

"Of course, to be fair, after you break through, you must also provide me with a defense system so that I can attack."

"But if I manage to hack into your computer, I might also accidentally plant a virus on it..."

Justin narrowed his eyes, his tone chilling:

"Then you will not only lose, but you will also have to pay the price for your arrogance just now."

Xie Wang looked at the confident, bespectacled man in front of him.

"A nine-layer dynamic firewall?"

Xie Wang chewed on the candy and mumbled something indistinctly, as if it were the most boring thing in the world.

He walked up to Justin's computer, rested one hand on the table, and leaned forward.

"30 minutes?" Xie asked.

"Yes, 30 minutes." Justin said confidently, "That's the standard time for international hacking competitions."

"It's been too long."

Xie Wang shook his head, a hint of disdain on his face:

"Teacher Su just managed to make that golden retriever withdrawn in just fifteen minutes."

"If it takes me 30 minutes, she'll complain that I'm 'too slow' when I get home."

Xie Wang looked up and flashed Justin a dazzling smile, revealing a set of white teeth:

"Since you guys enjoy playing 'attack and defense' games so much, then I'll show you..."

He stretched out a hand and placed it on the keyboard, his slender fingers hovering lightly above the Enter key:

"In less than 30 minutes."

Xie Wang glanced at the clock on the wall:

"Three minutes."

"If it's even one more second, I'll admit defeat."

Justin was stunned: "What did you say? Three minutes?! Are you kidding me? This is dynamically encrypted!"

Xie Wang did not answer.

next second.

Crackle!

The once impregnable code wall began to crumble like an avalanche—

Layer by layer, it crumbled!