Super God-Level Top Student

"It has to be at Xilin."

"Alright, there's nothing else then."

"Goodbye."

The next moment, hearing the busy tone on the other end of the phone, Zhang Hongcai felt a sense of emptiness.

That young kid was still as stubborn as ever.

But inexplicably, Zhang Hongcai had a feeling of his faith collapsing.

Suddenly, he thought of Xu Changshu.

Professor Xu hadn't been in touch with him for a long time after going to Xilin, and had hardly participated in any academic activities.

Could it be that Qiao Ze's way of doing things was contagious?

Back when Xu Changshu was at Yanbei, he would often attend various conferences.

Thinking of this, Zhang Hongcai pulled up Xu Changshu's number on his phone and called it.

Soon, the call was answered on the other end.

"Hello, Director Zhang, what's up?"

"What, Professor Xu, is it the rule at Xilin University that you can't make a call to catch up unless it's for business?" Zhang Hongcai couldn't help but make a snide remark.

"Hehe, no, it's just that I have a lot of things on my plate here, a lot of work to do, and I haven't had an idle chat with anyone for a long time. Ah..."

"What, your research project is about to yield results?"

"Not exactly, I haven't been working on any projects recently. Mainly I've been doing some sorting work. Professor Qiao's office is producing results too quickly, and there's no supporting literature, which makes studying quite exhausting. I also have to compile textbooks and prepare lesson plans... Anyway, I'm really quite busy."

"What? You have to teach classes after moving there?"

"Not just me, all professors at the Mathematics Research Institute aside from Qiao Ze are required to teach a course for undergraduates. But I'm teaching Qiao Class, and there are only a few students, so it shouldn't be too exhausting."

Zhang Hongcai fell silent.

While Yanbei University had reached a cooperation with Xilin University, the existence of Qiao Class and Ze Class was still hurtful.

Although the two classes only planned to recruit thirty students.

Yet these thirty students were indeed fiercely contested...

The immediate effect was that many competition students, who would have been pre-recruited by the Yanbei Mathematics Institute, now considered the institute as a backup option.

When talking about signing contracts, they all expressed their desire to first participate in the entrance exams for Qiao Class and Ze Class at Xilin, and talk about alternatives only if they weren't selected...

Fortunately, the situation was even worse on the other side of the street.

Word has it that this year the Wisdom Class was prepared to face the prospect of not being filled up, choosing to prefer quality over quantity.

But what could he do about it?

He could only hope that the staff of the admissions office would have an exceptional year in eloquence, performing beyond their normal level.

However, Zhang Hongcai truly didn't dare to hold too optimistic an expectation.

With Qiao Ze at the helm, Xilin University of Technology was ultimately different from before.

The engineering disciplines were already dominant, and now the sciences were starting to exert strength. Not to mention the future, even this year, Xilin University of Technology had secured its place among the super universities. The only suspense now was how much the admission score line of Xilin University of Technology would increase this year.

With artificial intelligence as a strong presence, by the time of this event in June, as soon as the news that Qiao Ze had proved Qiang's conjecture spread, the gap with Yanbei University might not be that significant. If it could surpass the rival institution, things would really get interesting.

For a moment, a flurry of emotions flashed through Zhang Hongcai's mind.

If someone had told him before that one person could change the landscape of Huaxia's universities, Zhang Hongcai would have thought that person was talking about a myth.

And now that myth was unfolding...

"Um... well, Director Zhang, if there's nothing else, may I hang up first? I'll call you later when I have some free time?"

Hearing this, Zhang Hongcai was sure that Xu Changshu must have been influenced by Qiao Ze.

He was just getting off his pedestal, and was already planning to hang up the phone.

Professor Xu at Yanbei wasn't like this at all.

"There's a bit of something, you know about Qiao Ze proving Qiang's conjecture, right?"

"I do, Director Li polished the paper, and to make it understandable to everyone, we added a lot of content. The original paper had large leaps; you know how Professor Qiao habitually omits content he assumes everyone understands. Although he has made a lot of changes recently and consciously filled in many things, if it had been published directly, those not familiar with Qiao Algebra couldn't have understood it."

"No, even knowing how come you didn't discuss it with your old colleagues? Now Yanbei and Xilin are partners."

"Um... it wouldn't have made much sense to know in advance, right? After all, it's proven, and I think it's definitely correct. If you come over here, you would understand. Like the Super Helical Transformation I'm currently responsible for, it's so convenient.

Take, for example, the weighted factors used in Professor Qiao's paper; they utilize recursive tools from the Super Helical Transformation, which can solve many problems easily, such as the Discrete Logarithm. I'm telling you, it's just not widespread yet, but in two years, all processes involving solving discrete logarithms in the Discrete Logarithm Group will be greatly simplified.

Then there will be major innovations in cryptographic algorithms, including RSA encryption and the Elliptic Curve Cryptography Algorithm, and so forth. Otherwise, with this technology, designed programs could crack the code in minutes.

It just so happens that due to the uniqueness theorem based on the super helical structure, it can generate highly random and very secure keys over time to cope with it. Moreover, this kind of cryptographic design is also effective against quantum computing attacks.

Ah, but you wouldn't understand even if I told you. In short, this is the field I'm currently in charge of. Unfortunately, for security reasons, I can't publish papers on my research at the moment, nor is it convenient to share too much with you.

So something like proving Qiang's conjecture might seem like a big deal to you, quite an achievement, but internally at the institute, no one is particularly excited. Well... the School of Mathematics is quite passionate, but the School of Mathematics also doesn't have access to our research; they don't know much.

Let me put it this way, if Professor Qiao wasn't interested in this direction, and if I had more time when I'm less busy, I might also be able to prove Qiang's conjecture. I'm not bragging, but you might understand that the mathematics you are now dealing with is no longer the same as the mathematics we are researching. Yes, that's right!"