Super God-Level Top Student

August 28th, an entirely ordinary day.

For Qiao Ze, today wasn't any different.

He got up in the morning, looked at some papers in his room, then after having the breakfast prepared by Lu Xiuxiu, he left home as usual.

Entering the school gates, he walked down the main road to the corner, where Su Mucheng was waiting for him, just like always.

"Qiao."

"Mm."

After a tacit greeting, the two headed towards the research group as per usual.

With the new semester approaching, the campus had become much livelier.

Especially passing by the intersections within the school, there were already early-arriving students setting up various directional signs and banners.

The university, through the establishment of a simple student union, was never short of volunteers willing to contribute earnestly on the front lines, a fact that was quite poignant.

"Qiao Ze, school is about to start, and the new students are coming," Su Mucheng said contentedly.

Talking about it, Su Mucheng did enjoy the bustle.

Although the campus was nice during the holidays, it ultimately lacked vitality. Only two canteens were open with limited hours. Even at meal times, there weren't many people around, and everything felt deserted.

"Mm."

"Speaking of which, if you had taken the college entrance exams, you'd also be returning next month. And then, if I happened to meet you at the School of Mathematics' welcome point, what kind of scene do you think that would be?" Su Mucheng began to fantasize.
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Qiao Ze replied seriously, "That scenario is impossible."

Su Mucheng pouted and asked, "Why?"

Qiao Ze patiently explained, "I looked at this year's exam paper, not a single question could hold my attention."

Su Mucheng blinked her big eyes, suddenly feeling somewhat relieved.

She had heard from Li Jiangao the story of how Qiao Ze came to school, so she just thought it was really too close a call...

If Li had not happened to go to Xingcheng, if it wasn't for Yu having a friend visit that day, if the two of them hadn't switched rooms just by chance, it's possible that Qiao Ze would not have come to Xilin University of Technology.

Su Mucheng didn't care whether Qiao Ze could help the college improve its ranking. The key was that if Qiao Ze hadn't come, who knows how many years it would be before she met him.

Thinking of this, Su Mucheng clung to Qiao Ze's hand even tighter.

Although Qiao Ze's imagination was rich enough to visualize the pattern represented by an equation in a coordinate system with a single glance, he could never have guessed that a couple of casual sentences could spawn a bunch of odd thoughts in the girl beside him. He only felt a change in emotional tension from the pull at his arm.

Curiously, he glanced at her sideways, thought for a moment, and naturally changed the subject.

"Does Hanna still want to join the research group?"

"Mm, she was asking me about it on WeChat yesterday."

"Then allow her, but tell her it's only on a trial basis."

"Huh? You really agree?"

"Mm."

"Why, Qiao? It's so sudden."

"Liu Chenfeng takes about half a month to fully digest a more in-depth paper with a foundation and detailed interpretation. I want to test how long Hanna takes for comparison. Also, my intelligent assistant is almost complete, and I need to test how much the paper-guidance feature helps others. Whether it can replace a human explanation."

"Er... so Qiao, you're treating Hanna as an experimental sample?"

"You can't really say that. The recent collaboration with the Optoelectronics Institute made me realize that having more assistants is useful, not just for looking up papers. The prerequisite is that they can keep up with the thinking."

"Oh... What about your AI assistant?"

"The function of the intelligent assistant is to find papers, to make mathematical proof statements in more standardized language, but for the time being I don't have the capacity to get it to do more abstract tasks. That is, it can't perfectly extract abstract concepts from specific information; these tasks currently still have to be completed by humans."

Su Mucheng nodded thoughtfully.

Mm, still a prototype, no wonder there's a trial period.

But Hanna should still be happy, right?

"Mm, when we get to the lab building, I'll tell Hanna the good news."

Pleasant conversation always makes the journey seem shorter, and soon they arrived at the building. Su Mucheng, with keen eyes, recognized the familiar Audi parked right in front of the building's entrance.

Walking forward a bit more, Su Mucheng saw a very familiar figure talking to Chen Yiwen.

"Huh? Why is my dad here?" Su Mucheng was surprised.

Qiao Ze had also seen Su Lixing, but he showed no surprise.

"Dad, are you here waiting for me?" Su Mucheng sped up a little, dragging Qiao Ze along, and called out from a distance.

Su Lixing raised his head and glanced at Qiao Ze, who was being pulled along by Su Mucheng, his expression unchanged.

Humans have an incredible capacity for adaptation; they get used to some things with time.

And besides, there's no changing it anyway.

"Hehe, there you are, Qiao Ze, Su Mucheng. Then, see you, Uncle Su, I'll head up first," Chen Yiwen looked back at the two, understood the situation immediately, and after saying a quick word, turned and left.

Since discovering that Qiao Ze was intolerant of dishonesty, Chen Yiwen realized that to thrive in the research group, you either needed discernment or you had to be like Tan Jingrong, working diligently and quietly every day. Chen Yiwen knew he wasn't the type like Tan Jingrong, so naturally, he had to be more clever.

For instances like this, where a family comes together to talk, he had to make himself scarce quickly to avoid being a nuisance.