Deep Space Wandering Fleet

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Ye Kaifu thought of this and let out a long sigh. Forget it, forget it, better to look on the spaceship.

The gender ratio on the spaceship was strictly controlled at 1:1, and everyone had been genetically tested with no dominant hereditary diseases, so the girls were certainly not bad-looking!

Two hundred and fifty thousand young and beautiful girls... two hundred and fifty thousand, there must be one suitable for me!

Zhang Yuan took a bite of his fried noodles, bringing Ye Kaifu back to cold reality, "Falling in love is nothing to envy, reproduction isn't a compulsory course in life. Look at them drinking constantly, what's the point?"

Ye Kaifu retorted defiantly, "Isn't living all about mating and reproducing?"

Zhang Yuan said with a hint of disdain, "Of course not!"

"Living is for... learning!"

"Pfft?!" Ye Kaifu almost spat out a mouthful of noodles.

Zhang Yuan said seriously, "Let me tell you a story, there was a person named Wolf who planned to commit suicide at midnight because of a breakup."

"And then?"

"Because he was efficient, he finished writing his will by 10 o'clock, so at 12 he decided to read a mathematics book..."

"He saw Fermat's Last Theorem and started trying to prove it."

"And then, dawn came, and he hadn't proved it in the entire night."

"???" Ye Kaifu was a bit puzzled.

Zhang Yuan continued, "After a night of mathematical research, Wolf's mind finally became clear, and he decided not to commit suicide. Later, he became a successful entrepreneur."

"...When he died of old age, people discovered his revised will, leaving one hundred thousand yuan as a reward for the first person to prove Fermat's Last Theorem."

"In the late 20th century, the mathematician Wiles finally received this prize."

"???" Ye Kaifu blinked.

"What I'm trying to say is that love makes people foolish, and mathematics makes people happy. There's nothing worth talking about in love, you might as well go study hard instead of booking hotel rooms... Knowledge will never let you down or abandon you."

"So, living is for learning!"

With that, Zhang Yuan couldn't help but take out his phone and start swiping the "Super Brain" app, thoroughly enjoying the happiness it brought.

Ye Kaifu's brain almost crashed.

He wanted to forcefully argue, but the ancient aura from someone stronger made him nod.

Recalling his time as a sycophant, it seemed like he'd really become dumber, unable to distinguish right from wrong. A single word from the goddess could excite him for a week—it's simply foolish.

He said somewhat speechlessly, "What you say makes sense..."

Zhang Yuan continued to swipe math problems while silently praising his newly invented concept.

A daily good deed is better than building a Level 7 pagoda.

Young man, the sea of bitterness is boundless, turn back and find the shore.

...

After enlightening Ye Kaifu, Zhang Yuan returned to his dorm room, absorbed in researching his algorithms, unable to extricate himself.

What he had just been telling Ye Kaifu about variance and dynamic programming was basic knowledge in operations research. These things were still too elementary, things he could easily think of that experts had already considered.

Moreover, the mathematical model Ye Kaifu designed was not good, the foundation wasn't solid, and no matter how much optimization, it could only be optimized to that extent. Hoping to write an extraordinary paper this way was almost impossible.

As for his dad's idea, it was much more brilliant. It involved using a nonlinear geometric theory to solve nonlinearity and nonholonomic problems in robotics kinematics. Especially when two matching parts have symmetry, it could be easily expressed and reasoned through geometric Group Theory.

The entire process... how to put it, because the core algorithm had already been developed by his dad, it only needed to be understood. But expressing it was particularly cumbersome, as the human arm alone has 27 degrees of freedom, making the expression method unbelievably complicated.

"Maybe seeing something so cumbersome, Dad simply was lazy to do it?"

Zhang Yuan thought to himself, "It's very possible, after all, he has to design the various systems of the spaceship, which is even more complex and difficult..."

"Or perhaps, it was a special little gift prepared for me."

"The gap between people is really big..."

Thus, Zhang Yuan immersed himself in research and exploration, as time passed day by day.

One day, two days, three days...

A week passed.

After being infused with the notion that "living is for learning," Ye Kaifu also embarked on a liver-busting lifestyle.

On one hand, he had a mindset of envy, jealousy, and competition. Zhang Yuan's theoretical knowledge was evidently stronger than his by an unknown margin.

On the other hand, there was indeed a sense of wanting to "catch up" with the other through "hard work."

When Zhang Yuan went to the library, he went to the library; when Zhang Yuan slept, he slept, unwilling to miss a single moment.

It's undeniable that the academic atmosphere, although elusive yet truly existing, could easily spread on a dormitory basis. If an entire dormitory was filled with top students, it was likely the result of mutual cross-contamination.

But after a week, Ye Kaifu felt like he was about to explode!

He was really about to not be able to hold on.

It was driving him crazy, as day in and day out, at least 12 hours were spent studying. Apart from eating, drinking, and relieving himself, it was all about studying, studying, studying!

Even in his dreams, he could see those damned theorems—it was really driving him crazy.

"Why am I working so hard? I'm on vacation!" He had frequently asked himself like this, "I'm soon going to have no fun left, so let's take a day off."

"Hey, you, can you take a break... Ahhhhh!" He shouted in his heart.

He once thought of himself as a model of hard work and studiousness, but compared to real maniacs who take doing math problems as "leisure," he was like a small witch seeing a big witch.

The most crucial thing was, his roommate actually enjoyed it, unable to extricate himself, occasionally laughing joyfully...

What is this?

As he thought, Ye Kaifu began to breathe heavily, trying to suppress his pounding chest muscles.

"Persevere, keep going, fighting!"

"Only those who can stay calm are truly strong!" He cheered himself on, stifling his desire to go out and have fun with the girls.

But in the blink of an eye, Zhang Yuan's self-talk completely shattered Ye Kaifu's mental defense, "...Hmm, let's finish reading these papers too, since they can be read for free with the campus network..."

"In total it's 200 pages, not much."

Two hundred pages!

"Fuck!" in his heart.

A little person in Ye Kaifu's head was frantically pulling him to indulge.

"No, big brother, I really can't hold on. Once he finishes reading two hundred pages, another day will have passed. I want to play games, want to flirt, eating a big meal is fine too... Every cell in my body yearns for entertainment."

"I need to rest!"

Another little person shouted in his mind, "No, absolutely not! If someone is smarter, stronger, and even more diligent than you, then you have to accompany him to the end!"

"Ye Kaifu, you absolutely must not degenerate!"

"No, I want to degenerate!"

"...Absolutely must not degenerate!"

"Ahhhhh, Zhang Yuan, degenerate quickly, please, no, I beg you!"

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