"Hello, I'm Song He." Song He looked wary. Speak of the devil—this guy actually came knocking?
"I asked our homeroom teacher for the competition problems. He said he'd give them to me this afternoon. I heard you have a set here, so I wanted to come take a look first. Is that okay?" Ning Mo asked.
Song He hesitated, then nodded and pulled a thick book of competition problems from his schoolbag.
Ning Mo took the book, thanked him, and sat directly beside the dormitory desk. He pulled some scratch paper and a pen from his pocket.
"Can I work on these problems here for half an hour?" Ning Mo asked.
Song He couldn't figure out why he had come, but he agreed anyway. "Of course."
"You can work on them too. We can discuss them with each other." Ning Mo shifted aside, making room.
The endgame had finally been revealed!
Song He suddenly understood. This guy hadn't come to look at the problems at all—he had come to test Song He's mathematical ability!
Yuan Guang, who was standing nearby, was startled too. His face went pale with tension as he exchanged an uneasy glance with Song He. Ning Mo's attitude was obvious: he was issuing a challenge!
The dormitory instantly filled with the smell of gunpowder. Song He wanted to test Ning Mo's ability too, so he promptly sat down beside him and laid out paper and pen.
Ning Mo took off his watch, set it for half an hour, and pressed the button with a beep!
He placed the watch in the middle of the desk. Without another word, Ning Mo picked up his pen, and the ballpoint pen rattled as he wrote a string of problem numbers on the scratch paper!
Song He began working too. He