Tan Yan has no curiosity and is not good at socializing, so after memorizing the names of a few roommates, he buried himself in studying again.
In basic courses, subjects like human anatomy and psychology are good, there is not much requirement for personal foundation, beginners only need to work hard to memorize. But he was dumbfounded by the courses of English, advanced mathematics, basic physics, theoretical mechanics, basic computer knowledge and programming. When he opened the textbook, it was full of scriptures, and Tan Yan didn’t recognize any of the symbols flying around.
There is no time to exchange feelings with new classmates, Tan Yan quickly took out his mobile phone to send information to Qiao Zhixue. Because it is inconvenient to speak in the dormitory, and he is not familiar with the pinyin input method, he can only use handwriting input to write stroke by stroke.
Tan Yan: [Picture] [Picture] [Picture] [Picture] [Picture] [Picture] [Picture] These courses will not work.
If he said no, then he really couldn’t. He couldn’t understand a single word.
Qiao Zhixue: Come to my place during self-study at night, and I will give you extra lessons.
Only then did Tan Yan feel relieved, he heard from the research group that although Comrade Xiao Qiao is only in his early thirties, he was already a doctoral supervisor. He is said to be a genius, jumped to university at the age of twelve, graduated with a doctorate at the age of twenty, became interested in defense science and technology at the age of twenty four, studied from scratch, and became the top of the industry in two or three years, and was specially recruited by the Ministry of National Technology and Security to join the group.
Although he is not the team leader of the ‘void’ project, the main force is Qiao Zhixue. The existing knowledge base is unable to explain the ‘void’ phenomenon and requires bold and open thinking. Older professors tend to be limited in their thinking, but Qiao Zhixue, who has learned more complicated things, can think outside the box to think about various problems.
It is precisely because of his bold ideas that the research team was able to create a device that suppresses the spread of voids.
Qiao Zhixue personally help tutoring him, Tan Yan is still very relieved.
But the actual situation is when Qiao Zhixue put down his phone and immediately called Tan Yan’s several tutors to ask where he was at in his studies. When he heard that he just finished reviewing junior high school mathematics, and English can at most reach the level of the current senior high school entrance examination, and his head suddenly became dizzy.
“Why is learning mathematics so slow? Doesn’t he have a junior high school foundation?” Qiao Zhixue picked up the handouts specially prepared by the teachers for Tan Yan, “This questions…”
He started trying to remember how he used to learn math. It seems that when he was in the second grade of elementary school, he borrowed all the textbooks of the elder brother next door who was already in high school, read them all, and went directly to the high school entrance examination…
“Huh? Do these things still need to be taught? Shouldn’t you be able to do it after reading it once?” Qiao Zhixue flipped through the handouts, but he didn’t understand what Tan Yan didn’t understand at all.
The more geniuses they are, the less good they are at being teachers. They will never understand the plight of ordinary people, and where do they start to teach?
Meanwhile Tan Yan as in the past in the Security Management, after making up the bed, greeting each student and then concentrate on studying homework. If he don’t understand, write down what he don’t understand first, if he understand, he need to study more and recite frequently, so as to save time to study subjects that you are not good at.
Tan Yan is an orphan, after entering junior high school with the help of the state, he has no money for further study. He is also alone, without parents who expect their children to become successful, there is no pressure to study. Since he had no money, he chose another way out.
Therefore, although he has a junior high school education, it doesn’t mean that Tan Yan can’t study. Like his body, his brain has always maintained its youngest state. After two months of cramming, he has mastered a learning method that suits him.
While he was studying, the remaining five roommates who were very curious about the transfer students looked as if they were also studying for their homework, but in fact they were already chatting in the group.
Five Stars: The new classmate is so young, I’m sitting next to him, did you see his fingers? There is not even a callus, and the skin is so tender that it seems that water can flow out when pinched. Looks like a young master from a rich family.
Non-standard Military Posture: Why should the young master of a rich family come to our class? Looking for abuse?
Super-Looking Forward to Fly Aircraft: I can’t take it anymore, he’s too tender, you guys think it’s okay if I poke his face with my fingers? But I’m afraid I will poke through his face at once!
Thou Art Mortal: @Super-Looking Forward to Fly Aircraft Look down and turn over the 《Human Anatomy》 under your nose, study hard to see if you can poke it through!
Awe-Inspiring Righteousness: Everyone, don’t speculate. Getting to know a person doesn’t happen overnight. Only when you get in touch with them can you have a more specific impression. I think Tan Yan is a person with strong executive ability and a sense of self-motivation. You can see that he has written half a notebook for Civic Studies.
Non-standard Military Posture: @Awe-Inspiring Righteousness Squad leader, stop messing around, he’s madly memorizing the subjects of the open-book exam.
Five Stars: I just noticed that he is so good-looking that he can become a star, the few young people who are popular now are not as good as him.
Super-Looking Forward to Fly Aircraft: That’s the ones who all look like a girl, only those little girls like it, the big old man who are not bent won’t like it. The new classmate is young and tender, but he’s not girly, looks quite sunny.
Non-standard Military Posture: Come on, he has enter door for so long, except for answering a few questions from the squad leader, he just said his name, and didn’t say half a word more, I almost suspect that he has autism, what kind of sunny?
Thou Art Mortal: His Mandarin is not bad, but his accent seems to have been forcibly corrected recently. He should not speak because he is afraid of exposing his accent if he speaks too much. I just recorded the audio of his speech, put it in the software for comparison, and initially determined his area of residence to be in Northeast, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Shandong provinces, these few cities.
Five Stars: What software is so godly?
Non-standard Military Posture: Our god wrote it himself, right?
Thou Art Mortal: I have checked these provinces and cities, there are 1378 people with the same name, including 213 people aged 16-20, wait a minute, I’m still narrowing down the range.
Awe-Inspiring Righteousness: Can you checked the names of several provinces and cities? Is the Internet so advanced now?
Five Stars: You hacked into the national household registration system again! What did I tell you just now?!
Thou Art Mortal: No, I invaded the Ministry of Railways, their broken system is like a sieve, easier to get in compared to the public security system.
Awe-Inspiring Righteousness: That’s not okay, if you continue like this, the computer will be confiscated!
Thou Art Mortal: Wait, wait, wait. Hm? His ID number is not recorded on the network of the Ministry of Railways? How can a person of this age never take a train? Emmm… I’ll check the registration system too.
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“Cui Heyu!” Qiu Qizheng slammed the table and got up, startling everyone, only Tan Yan was still concentrating on his writing his thoughts and writing notes, completely unaffected by them.
Cui Heyu quickly closed several open interfaces, and smiled at Qiu Qizheng: “Squad leader, I have a permit issued by the Ministry of Public Security to monitor the Internet, if you want to confiscate my computer, you have to find real evidence, and then report to the superior, and the school and the Ministry of Public Security needs to negotiate before confiscation. My computer is here, you are free to check it, if you find any traces, then count me as lose.”
Qiu Qizheng simply can’t controll Cui Heyu at all. This kid is nicknamed Cui Bold, since childhood can make trouble, he has not cared about anything for so many years, but once his interest roused, he can’t wait to poke a hole in the sky. When carrying out a mission a year ago, he took the sword and took the lead, disobeyed orders, and changed the plan on the spur of the moment. Although the mission was completed successfully, in the end, he was punished for disobeying orders. Even so, he continued to do what he wanted to do, without any intention to change.
However, Cui Heyu is not only smart, he can learn everything. His physical fitness is also top-notch. He is an all-rounder, crushing his peers in every aspect. It is also this kind of extraordinary talent that makes him disobey everyone. He has always acted according to the principle of ‘I am the boss, the sky is second’, and he is so crazy that he’s about to go to heaven. Such a person, I don’t know what kind of officer will control him in the future
Anyway, Qiu Qizheng has never been able to deal with Cui Heyu.
There is a lot of noise here, but Tan Yan is unmoved, he doesn’t even give Cui Heyu a glance.
Cui Heyu has always been arrogant, and he is still very interested in Tan Yan, the transfer student. He is trying to find ways to investigate his identity. Yet the person who had attracted his full attention did not notice him at all.
The little genius who has always been the center of the crowd was a little dissatisfied. He took the initiative to walk in front of Tan Yan and slapped his textbook: “Are you stupid? An open-book exam still worth wasting so much time?”
The palm of his hand blocked the book, Tan Yan raised his head to look at Cui Heyu, and said lightly: “Since this course has been arranged and made compulsory for all university students, it deserves to be studied seriously.”
“Ha? Is existence means truth? Put it down, subject such as Civic Studies and Marxism, are all political tasks, just things on the table.” Cui Heyu shook his head, “The school doesn’t take it seriously, why are you more serious?”
Tan Yan was not angry because of Cui Heyu’s attitude, in his eyes it was just a child throwing a tantrum.
After studying the first chapters of all the courses, Tan Yan focused on the Civics textbooks because he felt that these ideological and political courses are to help students correct their attitudes, and they should be the top priority as basic textbooks. He can’t say that morality is more important than ability, after all, a person with good moral character but mediocre qualifications will certainly not make much contribution to the country. But he has been in the industry for so many years. A criminal with a high IQ poses a far greater threat to the safety of people and the country’s life and property than ordinary criminals.
“I want to study.” He didn’t argue with Cui Heyu, but simply answered that there is no reason that can compare with subjective initiative, all the reasons that Cui Heyu had prepared could be dissolved with one sentence.
“You…”
Just as Cui Heyu was about to say something, Tan Yan’s cell phone rang. It was the special cell phone given to him by the Ministry of State Security, and it was even more confidential than the cell phones of his classmates.
He immediately picked up the phone, Qiao Zhixue’s voice was urgent: “There is a void in Ping County, the device has been turned on, a car will come to pick you up soon, we will set off immediately!!”
“Okay!”
Tan Yan immediately put on his shoes and walked towards the door, Qiu Qizheng frowned and said: “It’s already ten o’clock in the evening, and the curfew is about to come. Tomorrow is the opening ceremony and military training, where are you going?”
“Someone will give me a leave of absence.”
Tan Yan hurriedly dropped a sentence and left.
After he left, the dormitory became very quiet. It took a long time until Qin Li’s loud voice to break the silence: “He is going to stay out at night. Is our school management so loose?”
“Full closed management, same management model as the army.” Yan Yongfeng said lazily, “Stricter than when we were in high school.”
“Then how does he get out?” Ke Hao asked.
Qiu Qizheng glanced at the information on his phone and said to his roommates: “Instructor Qiao sent a message that the matter of Tan Yan going out tonight is confidential, someone will come to ask us to sign a non-disclosure agreement in a while. In the future, Tan Yan will go out irregularly at night, and he will be back the next afternoon at the latest. Let us not discuss this matter to outsider.”
“Why does he live in a dormitory when he has to go out so often? Who is he?” Ke Hao was puzzled.
“Since it is confidential, the organization has no obligation to explain it to us.” Qiu Qizheng said, “Don’t listen, don’t look, don’t be curious, just do the mission.”
“Yes!” Qin Li, Yan Yongfeng, and Ke Hao answered in unison
“What about you?” Qiu Qizheng looks at Cui Heyu, “This is an order.”
“Heh,” Cui Heyu flipped through his mobile phone, “Did you notice the cell phone he was using just now? Remember what we learned in our Intelligence class? What is the security level of that mobile phone?”
Yim Yongfeng thought back carefully and said with surprise: “Special level? It’s at the same level as the giant panda!”
“With the technology I have now, it will take at least a year to decipher that phone. There are nine layers of protection when it is turned on, and there are countless encrypted hidden files inside. The cost of the phone alone is tens of millions. And the shoes he was wearing just now are low-quality counterfeit products, a pair for tens of dollars, this person is too contradictory.” Cui Heyu stroked his chin, staring closely at the pen Tan Yan put on the table.
“You are not allowed to collect his fingerprints, blood, hair or any other personal information.” Qiu Qizheng holds Cui Heyu down, “One more disciplinary action and you will be expelled.”
“Just get expelled, I didn’t want to go to this school myself, it was all forced by my family.” Cui Heyu didn’t care.
All the roommates know that Cui Heyu’s family has a background, but no one knows the identity of his parents due to confidentiality. They also remember that Cui Heyu was bound to go to school since he was in elementary school, and Tan Yan was the first transfer student in his class.
“Qin Li, lock his computer in your suitcase; Yongfeng, tidy up the room, wipe off all the traces left by Tan Yan, don’t let Cui Heyu collect information; Ke Hao keeps an eye on him.” When Qiu Qizheng’s advice was not heeded, he took tough measures.
Cui Heyu didn’t care, anyway, the days still long, he would definitely find a way to find out Tan Yan’s identity.
After a while, several people came to their dormitory to sign a non-disclosure agreement. After carefully reading the terms of the agreement, Cui Heyu obediently signed.
That night Tan Yan didn’t go back to the dormitory, but the next morning when the assembly start, he was already standing downstairs of the dormitory, wearing a newly issued training uniform, looking as if he had just walked out of the dormitory.
Several roommates glanced at each other and kept their doubts in their hearts.
The author has something to say:
Minister Yu (Hating iron for not being steel1恨鐵不成鋼 hèn tiě bù chéng gāng: lit. to hate iron for not becoming steel; to feel resentful towards sb for failing to meet expectations and impatient to see improvement.): You are here to pick the team, you have to build a good relationship with your peers!
Tan • Fifty Eight • Yan: Minister Yu, this advanced math problem…
Minister Yu: Don’t ask me, Comrade Xiao Qiao, you come to explain.
Qiao Zhixue (Read the textbook once): Do you understand?
Tan Yan: …
Qiao Zhixue: Don’t understand? Then I’ll read it again, the book is very clear.
Tan Yan: …
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