[You have discovered a clue to Moon Island. Player Points will be awarded during a subsequent settlement.]
Yang Yi and Su Na both received the system notification.
By then, however, only a few dozen seconds remained on the countdown in the upper-left corner.
The two could only hurriedly enter various numerical codes to search for information, nearly tapping their phone screens hard enough to make them smoke. Amid their frantic scramble, time ran out-the screen froze, displaying a math problem, followed by a new one-minute countdown.
Yang Yi immediately tossed his phone to Su Na as though it were burning his hand.
She promptly began working out the answer, then submitted an incorrect answer just before time ran out...
Then came a second incorrect answer, locking the app again. A third attempt would force it to uninstall.
Yang Yi watched without saying a word the entire time, while Su Na's face and ears reddened visibly, possibly due to the prosthetic body's built-in emotional expression functions.
Silence hung in the air for several seconds before Yang Yi finally couldn't help speaking:
"Didn't you just guess right the first time?"
"Nonsense!"
Su Na bristled like a startled cat, speaking much faster as she immediately explained:
She said mathematics was purely theoretical, and guessing was also one approach to solving problems. Many proofs, for instance, were built on assumptions and derived step by step!
When there wasn't enough time, it was perfectly normal to skip the derivation and write down an answer you were relatively confident in.
She made a lot of sense.
People who understood mathematics were indeed more likely to guess the right answer than those who didn't understand it very well.
Still, the corner of Yang Yi's mouth twitched. Fortunately, he held it in, barely maintaining his poker