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The morning exam ended, and the afternoon session was scheduled to begin at 2 PM.

As time quickly passed, all the candidates re-entered the examination hall at 1:30 PM.

This time, the moment Xiao Yi appeared, all eyes immediately fell on him.

Xiao Yi shook his head helplessly, knowing this was exactly what he expected.

He was just an ordinary student who finished the exam in 20 minutes.

Why all the attention?

As he moved, heads in the examination hall turned to follow him, all the way until he sat down in his seat.

"Scholar Xiao, you're amazing!"

Ye Cheng, sitting next to him, looked on in admiration. "You'll definitely get first place this time! Maybe even first place among all the joint examinations!"

Xiao Yi chuckled. "That's a bit much. Maybe others will get a perfect score."

"That's true," Ye Cheng nodded, as if he himself had some confidence in getting a perfect score, though he wasn't sure if he'd made any mistakes in the specific details. He then added, "There's still one more exam. You should be able to get a high score in that one too, right?"

Xiao Yi said humbly, "It hasn't started yet. I don't know what questions they'll ask. Let's see first."

"Okay!"

Ye Cheng nodded and said no more, quietly waiting for the exam to begin.

Meanwhile, an online meeting room titled "15 Universities Mathematics Class Entrance Joint Examination Remote Proctoring" opened.

Soon, quite a few people joined the live meeting.

If their names were to be mentioned in the Chinese mathematics community, they would all be big names.

Almost all of them were academicians, with only a few professors.

Jingda University - Academician Liao Huan: "Yo, everyone's here."

Fudan University - Academician Chen Yaozhong: "The young people's exam should be starting soon, right?"

Tsinghua University - Professor Liu Min: "Yes, Academician Chen. The exam starts at two o'clock, and it's still 10 minutes away."

Fudan University - Academician Chen Yaozhong: "Good, I'm already looking forward to seeing how they perform."

Jingda University - Academician Liao Huan: "Where's Old Hu? Didn't you say your USTC has a really impressive candidate? Let's see if your USTC candidate is more impressive, or if our Jingda candidate is more impressive. Hu Guangde, speak up!"

USTC - Academician Hu Guangde: "Liao, I know you're in a hurry, but don't be. Just wait until they finish. Besides, in terms of overall quality, our USTC is indeed inferior to your Jingda. However, all your Jingda students combined aren't enough to match our one student!"

Jingda University - Liao Huan: "That confident?"

USTC - Academician Hu Guangde: "Why wouldn't I be? When the results come out, don't you dare get anxious. This student was actually almost poached by your university, but he chose USTC."

Jingda University - Liao Huan: "Then that's a shame. If he's a true genius, wouldn't he be led astray at your place?"

USTC - Academician Hu Guangde: "Let's wait and see. Don't get anxious later and cause trouble for your university's admissions office."

The two academicians started arguing as soon as they joined, and the other academicians in the meeting immediately started watching the show.

To be honest, the deeper reason why this joint examination was able to happen was because Academicians Liao Huan and Hu Guangde, these old rivals, had a falling out in the academicians' mathematics group. Thus, to prove their students' excellence, they instigated this joint examination.

These two have disliked each other for many years and couldn't be persuaded to stop.

Finally, an academician interrupted their bickering and changed the topic: "Alright, Old Hu and Old Liao, stop arguing. There are so many people here."

"Speaking of which, Peter Scholze suddenly posted on his blog today saying he might have found definitive proof that Shinichi Mochizuki is wrong, and it will absolutely be acknowledged by everyone. Do you have any news?"

As this topic was brought up, the academicians in the meeting room immediately became interested.

"This matter again? It's been years, and it's finally going to be settled? How did he find the proof?"

"I saw it too. I asked someone I know over there. It seems Scholze recently read a paper on Far Abelian Geometry and found the key in that paper, but it's unclear which paper it is."

Upon hearing their discussion, Hu Guangde stopped arguing with Liao Huan and asked, "On Far Abelian Geometry?"

He was a bit sensitive to those words now.

However, it was probably different from what he was thinking.

He shook his head; such a thing was impossible.

"Yes, Mochizuki's Inter-universal Teichmüller theory is based on Far Abelian Geometry. As long as the errors in his theory are found, it naturally means his method of proving the abc conjecture is flawed."

Hearing Hu Guangde's question, the academician answered and then asked, "Old Hu, do you have any news on your end?"

Hu Guangde smiled and waved his hand. "No, no. I'm not familiar with Scholze. I just heard 'Far Abelian Geometry' and it reminded me that one of my students recently wrote a paper on Far Abelian Geometry."

Hearing this, Academician Liao Huan from Jingda University burst into laughter. "Old Hu, Old Hu, you weren't just thinking in your heart that Scholze read your student's paper and got inspired, were you?"

Hu Guangde's expression immediately turned grim. "Liao, stop with the nonsense."

Liao Huan continued to laugh heartily, filling the entire online meeting with a cheerful atmosphere.

Finally, Professor Liu Min from Tsinghua, who had spoken earlier, intervened. "Academician Hu, and Academician Liao, let's not argue for now. The students' exams have already started. Let's watch their progress."

Liu Min's words made the two of them temporarily quiet down.

Afterward, the online meeting began to broadcast the examination sites of the 15 universities.

The USTC examination hall.

The exam papers began to be distributed.

There were two sheets of paper, and each sheet contained only one question, which were the processes from two mathematics papers personally selected by the academicians.

As the candidates in the examination hall received their papers, sounds of gasping for air began to echo throughout the room.

Clearly, they were already at a loss after seeing the questions.

Under such an atmosphere, Xiao Yi, upon receiving his exam paper, immediately looked at it with anticipation.

However, after seeing the first segment, his brow furrowed.

It read [Selected from Chen Jingrun's "On the expression of an even number as the sum of a prime and a number with at most two prime factors"].

Well now, the first segment was actually a selection from Chen Jingrun's research on the Goldbach Conjecture. In this paper, Mr. Chen proved the conjecture's validity in the 1+2 form, and this achievement became a major milestone in the history of the Goldbach Conjecture.

The selection of this paper was quite representative.

However...

He had already "accidentally" seen this paper before.

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