Reborn in 2000 as a scholar

With Lin Jinqi's opinion, Lu Xiaohua quickly reached an employment agreement with Jin Dongjun.Moreover, under the recommendation of Jin Dongjun, Lu Xiaohua also hired a programmer and an artist in South Korea. Since both of them can only be considered as newbies, the salary and benefits are not expensive.After signing the contract with these three people, Lu Xiaohua took them directly to Shenzhen.

Jin Dongjun is fine, someone in his family is in Huaxia, so he has some understanding of China's opening up situation, and also knows that Huaxia's current Internet entrepreneurship is in full swing.However, the programmer Park Eun-yi and the artist Li Zhenshu were a little worried. If the salary of the Horizon game was not attractive enough and the recommendation of the senior Jin Dongjun, they really would not come to China for employment.But when the plane landed at Shenzhen Baoan Airport, the two were moved by the youngest and most dynamic city in China.

And when they came to the company headquarters, they gradually felt relieved.According to Lin Jinqi's opinion, Lu Xiaohua would rather rent half a floor in the commercial area than rent a few floors in other areas.Quite simply, the location of the company's headquarters is also a symbol of the company's strength. In particular, Lin Jinqi's company will definitely recruit talents from all over the world in the future. If it chooses to be in an entrepreneurial zone or development zone that is still under development, it will definitely not be able to attract high-end talents.Since the place where it was built was originally an office building, the decoration of the half-floor building was very fast.

Lin Jinqi knows that it is impossible to imitate the style of Google and Apple with only half a floor, so he still adopts the general decoration method according to the trend, but chooses very lively colors for the decoration, and also uses a lot of green plants and flowers.Although Lu Xiaohua complained about the high cost of flowers and green plants, after seeing the final decoration results, Lu Xiaohua admitted that Lin Jinqi's idea was creative.

What's more, it is different from other companies in that the company used one-third of the area to build the so-called rest area. In the rest area, there are not only hosts of various game platforms, but also three game arcade machines. is provided free of charge.

After showing everyone around the company headquarters, Lu Xiaohua said: "This is the place where we are currently starting a business, but please rest assured that this is only our starting point, not our end point. Our recent goal is to have one of our Building, yes, this is only our latest goal. If you are interested in the land price here, you can go to know how grand our recent goal is. Other employees of the company will start working in the next few days, and We have also provided accommodation for everyone. We have directly rented a single apartment nearby, so that everyone can live together. I will take you to the apartment to collect the keys, and if you need anything, you can call our company’s administrative director Ms. Ma Wenshu. In addition to her good Chinese, she is also very fluent in English, Japanese and Korean.”

After Lu Xiaohua came back with the Korean team, she immediately called her friend Long Linfang.Long Linfang is Lu Xiaohua's colleague and close friend in the law firm. Unlike Lu Xiaohua, who is proficient in civil law, Long Linfang is a commercial lawyer, especially in company law, contract law, and copyright law.Therefore, when the company needed to recruit a legal director, the first thing Lu Xiaohua thought of was his friend Long Linfang.And Long Linfang was indeed a little unhappy in the law firm. Her professional ability was among the highest in the entire law firm, but she never received a partnership invitation from the company's senior management.On the contrary, a male lawyer with less ability and qualifications than her got a partnership offer, which made Long Linfang also recognize the "glass ceiling" for female lawyers in the law firm.So at Lu Xiaohua's invitation, Long Linfang submitted her resignation letter after only thinking for half an hour.

The company's chief financial officer, Qiu Ling, was recommended by a former client of Lu Xiaohua. Qiu Ling had worked in a foreign company in Shenzhen for three years, but she had to leave because her status as a single mother was coveted by her boss.On the recommendation of an acquaintance, Qiu Ling accepted Lu Xiaohua's request for an interview.Since the top executives of Horizon Company are women, and because they are relatively close to her house, Qiu Ling also quickly signed an employment agreement with Horizon Games.

Zhang Han, the company's personnel director, was recommended by a headhunting company. He was originally the deputy manager of the personnel department of a local state-owned enterprise.The administrative director, Ma Wenshu, was introduced by Pony and is also a local.After all the company's employees arrived one after another, Lu Xiaohua held the company's first meeting.In fact, it is to let everyone get to know each other, and by the way, understand the company's current situation and future development direction.After the general meeting, Lu Xiaohua called Jin Dongjun to the office alone, and then communicated with Jin Dongjun about the company's first game.

"About the company's first game, here is a plan, I hope you can take a look." Lu Xiaohua handed the game plan written by Lin Jinqi to Jin Dongjun.

Of course, the current study is the simple case.If it is a complete case, it would be a thick book.This planning proposal is actually a version jointly launched by Lin Jinqi and the system. Lin Jinqi completed the outline, and other technical details were given by the system based on the current average game level combined with China's network status and computer conditions.This is Lin Jinqi's reward for entering the national training team.And the reward for the IMO gold medal made Lin Jinqi salivate even more, that is a game engine.

With the standardization and modularization of game development, the game engine was born.With a game engine, game developers do not need to do a lot of boring and repetitive basic development work.As for game engines, there are two types of developers. One is the game development engines of large manufacturers, such as the Blackfire engine of Sohu Changyou and the Athena engine of Perfect World.Usually, companies with their own game engines are less controlled by others in research and development, but there will also be problems of game homogeneity, such as the "perfect seven brothers" nicknamed in the game industry (meaning that the games of the perfect family are too similar).

The other is to specialize in game engine development, and then maintain the company's operations through licensing fee income.Most of these engines are stand-alone game engines, but with the improvement of network speed and the price reduction of computer hardware, many high-quality online games will also introduce this type of engine.Frost Engine (represented as the "Battlefield" series), CryEngine (represented as the "Crysis" series), and the famous Unreal Engine, such as "War Machine", "Medal of Honor", "Mirror "The Edge of the World" and the now popular "eating chicken online game" - "Jedi Survival" are all games produced by this engine.

Of course, an excellent game engine does not mean that games can be made. For example, Jiuyou Company used Unreal Engine to develop works such as "Legend of Shenbing".However, if a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools. Therefore, Lin Jinqi covets this reward very much.But before getting the game engine, Lin Jinqi still decided to launch an online game to make money.That's right, this game will take profit as the main goal, so there will be more "payment points" buried in the game.

"There is no big problem with the story background of the game." Jin Dongjun said after reading the plan, "In terms of the story background and setting alone, this plan is qualified even if it is handed over to big companies like Ubisoft and Blizzard. "

Lin Jinqi's game uses the fantasy knight background, which is a commonly used game setting in online games nowadays.The story is a bit borrowed from "The Lord of the Rings", but Lin Jinqi transplanted the whole story to the Nordic background, and at the same time implanted a lot of Nordic mythology settings.

"Western fantasy background is the mainstream setting of many online games now, so we will not make players feel unfamiliar when we use it. And a large number of Nordic elements make the game a little bit different. This exotic style is enough for us to open up the market in the early stage. But my question is, have we built too many payment mechanisms?"

Jin Dongjun was a little dumbfounded, because there are too many places to pay for the whole game.For example, the "fashion system", which does not affect the balance of the game, is fine; but the "gem system", "suit system" and "enchanting system" clearly force players to spend money to buy gems and materials to upgrade their equipment.Moreover, these three systems also have very complicated settings. For example, the combination of gemstones with the same attributes can obtain "superimposed bonuses", but the combination of gemstones with complementary attributes can obtain "complementary bonuses".

At the same time, as the level of enchantment increases, the failure rate of enchantment will increase greatly.In order to suppress the failure rate, it is necessary to purchase paid props "lucky charms"; as the level of enchantment increases, the demand for lucky charms also increases geometrically.If Lin Jinqi knew about Jin Dongjun's complaints, he would say that he hadn't introduced the baby system and pet system yet.In the future, to draw babies and battle pets is to draw cards and fragments, so let’s accumulate slowly.Especially the "treasure box opening" created by "Journey" back then has not been sacrificed yet!

However, Lin Jinqi does not intend to use "open treasure chest", because he really needs to collect money quickly, but there is still a bottom line.For example, most of the props can still be obtained by playing dungeons or running special tasks, but it takes a lot of time compared to paying.But this game is an item-paying game, so as long as you have time, the game itself does not charge any fees.And "opening the treasure chest" is actually gambling in essence, and this game method was later banned by the management department.Lin Jinqi doesn't intend to open this Pandora's box by himself, let others do it.

"We are a game company, not a charity organization. I think Mr. Jin also agrees with this point of view?" Lu Xiaohua asked.

Seeing Jin Dongjun nodded, she continued, "Although we have set up a lot of payment points, if Mr. Jin carefully looks at our game settings, most of our paid items, except for fashion, can be paid." Obtained through dungeons or missions. Of course, I also admit that this method of obtaining is a bit boring and takes a lot of time, but the way our game will be operated in the future will be in the form of free time. That is, as long as the player has time, he can still Get our paid props for free.

As for the balance of the game, Mr. Jin should have noticed that there are so-called 'safe zones', 'neutral zones' and 'free zones' on our game map, right?In the 'Safe Zone', we forbid any form of player fighting, any behavior of killing players in the safe zone will lead to the pursuit of the game NPC.In the 'neutral zone', we prohibit players with a level difference of more than 5 levels from fighting, and also prohibit players below level 20 from entering this area.In this zone, a 'challenge' must be issued if combat is required.After the other party receives the 'challenge' request, there is a protection period of about 10 seconds.He can choose to flee the fight, or accept the fight.As for the 'free zone', this involves future game modes such as guild wars and national wars, so free fighting is naturally allowed.

And we also have a 'red name system', any killing a player without reason will lead to an increase in the player's crime value.The lower the level of killing players, the higher the crime value; killing players in non-combat areas doubles the crime value.When the player's crime value exceeds the threshold, he will not be able to enter any safe zone, because he will be hunted down by the game NPC.There is no crime for ordinary players to kill red-named players, and once a red-named player is killed, all his equipment will be lost, and 50% of the experience points will be directly deducted.

And if it is successfully hunted down by NPC, the red-named player will be exiled to a special copy.They have to fight high-level game bosses in the dungeon, and only by defeating these bosses can they gradually reduce their evil value.And if killed by these game bosses, although not all equipment will be exploded, 10% of experience points will also be lost.Therefore, the cost of fighting in a non-free combat zone is very high, and players will not lightly engage in conflicts, thereby protecting the interests of non-paying players to a certain extent. Lu Xiaohua explained to Jin Dongjun, "Mr. Jin, what do you think?" "

"This indeed protects the interests of non-paying players and maintains the balance of the game." Jin Dongjun agreed with Lu Xiaohua's statement, "Well, since we want to survive in the game industry, we have to compromise with the market. "

"It's not a compromise, but a balance." Lu Xiaohua corrected. "Game works are actually the same as film works, which have both commodity attributes and work attributes. Who can say that there are no artistic elements in commercial movies? Our goal is not to pursue high-level art, but to pursue art that the public can accept and love. And Mr. Jin, the game requires players to pay, which is respect for the producer. And the producer’s respect for the player is to make the player feel that his payment is worthwhile, and he is voluntary. Therefore, Mr. Jin, how to make the player willing to take It’s your responsibility to pay your bills and pay for it.”

"I understand what you mean." Jin Dongjun closed the brief case.

He reviewed the entire game setting in his mind. In fact, the world view of the game is very grand, and the playability is also very strong.Moreover, Jin Dongjun also proposed the so-called "expansion pack" after discovering the brief case, that is, after the success of this work, a sequel will be released like an excellent stand-alone work.However, the sequel will not be released separately, but will be released as an expansion of this department.In this way, the life of the game will be extended, and at the same time, new players will be encouraged to join the game.Since there is an expansion pack, it means that this game cannot be shoddy, but must be a boutique, or at least a work above the standard line.

"It seems that the work of forming a team is imminent." Jin Dongjun smiled bitterly, "Ms. Lu, I look forward to you bringing me excellent talents as soon as possible."

"Starting tomorrow, there will be interviews one after another, you and I and the HR director will screen talents together!"

At the same time that Lu Xiaohua established the Horizon Game Company, Lin Jinqi also spent the first week of training in the national training team.In fact, the courses of the training team are not entirely about brushing questions, but also include the consolidation and connection of some basic knowledge points.Even if it was not for the International Mathematical Olympiad, Lin Jinqi felt that participating in such a training camp would be of great help to the improvement of mathematics knowledge.The reason for such a conclusion is that Lin Jinqi saw in the system that his professional scores in various subcategories under the mathematics category increased very quickly and obviously. Lin Jinqi even suspected that if he went out from here, he would be able to reach the level of an outstanding mathematics undergraduate major. .

But as the weekend approached, everyone started to get nervous.According to the selection plan announced by the training team, there are a total of five mock tests before the announcement of the list of players for the national team. The results of the fifth mock test account for 50% of the final score; 40% of the final grade; 5% of the CMO final grade; 5% of the training team attendance, classroom performance and homework grade.Therefore, it can be said that every simulation test is very important.

Moreover, the mock test is completely in accordance with the IMO standard. The test is divided into two days, with 4.5 hours of continuous testing every day, and the number of questions per day is 3 questions.The score of each question is 7 points, and there is no so-called finale question in the domestic exam.Each question does not necessarily involve a specific field of mathematics, and usually involves the intersection of two fields and involves multiple knowledge points.Therefore, for candidates, it is not enough to be familiar with high school mathematics, and they must fully understand high school mathematics.Therefore IMO is also known as the "God's Field" of high school mathematics.Students who pass the IMO test do not necessarily have great achievements in mathematics in the future, but mathematicians who will make great achievements in the future are more or less connected with IMO.

At around 60:12 on Saturday, everyone gathered in the classroom where the training camp usually takes place. The team leader stood on the podium and said: "Since this is the first time for everyone to take part in the mock test, I will explain the details of the mock test here, and I will not repeat it in the future. Yes. This training team is a total of 30 people, who will be randomly distributed in three examination rooms for the examination. Except for the necessary stationery and the prescribed standard calculator, no books, test question sets, exercise books, etc. are not allowed to be brought in. The test will last from [-]:[-] a.m. to [-]:[-] noon. Students who finish their answers beforehand can hand in their papers in advance, and they can leave the test area after handing in their papers. During the test, you can apply to go to the toilet, drink water and Replenish snacks, but the time consumed by these things is also counted in your exam time. Finally, cheating is strictly prohibited! Once cheating is discovered, you will be disqualified from the training camp! At the same time, corresponding punishments will be added depending on the nature of the cheating. Alright, I now Come and read the names of the candidates in each examination room."

Lin Jinqi was assigned to the second examination room, which is the third floor of this teaching building.Starting from the second floor, there is an examination room on each floor, next to the examination room is the toilet, and next to it is a drink vending machine and a snack vending machine.Thanks to the organizing committee's trouble, vending machines are really not common at this time, so they even bought six vending machines for the training team to use.There are four rows and five rows in the examination room, and the leftmost and rightmost seats are not against the wall.Since the examination rooms are all large classrooms, the distance between seats is very far. It is estimated that clairvoyance is required to see clearly.After Lin Jinqi found his seat, he sat down.

Not long after, the examination room was full of people, and the time came to [-]:[-].At this time, the invigilator has not entered the arena, but the examination room is extremely quiet.Some people are in a daze, some are chanting words, and some are gesturing on the desk.In short, even a big heart like Lin Jinqi also felt great pressure, the kind of pressure that pinches the heart and makes it hard to breathe.

At 55:[-], the invigilators entered the venue and checked everyone's examination equipment for violations.And at [-]:[-], the invigilator handed out the test paper with three big questions and two pieces of draft paper.

"You must write your name on both the test paper and the draft paper." The invigilator reminded, "If the draft paper is not enough, you can apply for more; after the exam, the draft paper is not allowed to leave the examination room. At eight o'clock, start answering questions." While the invigilator was speaking, the bell rang, and everyone began to answer questions.

The difficulty of the questions on the IMO test paper is actually the same. If you use the college entrance examination method to do it, you will definitely suffer.Because the difficulty of the college entrance examination questions is gradual, the final final question is often the most difficult.But IMO is not like this, so everyone quickly scans through the three questions and finds a familiar question to do.If you encounter a topic that you don't know how to do, it is also common to give up.

This situation is common even in the real IMO arena. Even in the United States, Russia, and Germany, the players of their teams often get zero points or abstain from a certain question or several questions.Regardless of the fact that the IMO test paper has a full score of 42 points, the vast majority of contestants score less than 10 points, and those with more than 20 points are strong contenders for the gold medal.Therefore, it is conceivable how difficult each question is, so everyone is not ashamed to give up.

By the time Lin Jinqi finished answering the first question, almost an hour had passed, which is considered a relatively fast problem-solving speed.You must know that even for the questions that you are good at, you can often only sort out the problem-solving ideas within an hour, and it is rare for someone like Lin Jinqi who can complete the answer.Lin Jinqi raised his hand to indicate that he wanted to drink some water, so the invigilator accompanied Lin Jinqi to get a bottle of pure water from the vending machine, and Lin Jinqi also took a piece of chocolate.

After eating chocolate and drinking water, Lin Jinqi closed his eyes and relaxed for a while, and then began to answer the second question.Due to the systematic teaching of checking for omissions and filling in vacancies, Lin Jinqi has no obvious shortcomings in mathematics, which gives him an advantage in IMO test papers.Because IMO's favorite topic is the intersection of several mathematics fields, if you don't have enough knowledge points and successfully understand them and sort them out, then every IMO test question is very painful.

The second question was a question that Lin Jinqi had encountered in the Sea of ​​Questions Tactics, so he answered it very quickly.But after finishing the answer, Lin Jinqi suddenly remembered what he had gained from the recent training camp, so he wrote a simpler solution below.Lin Jinqi, who finished answering the two questions, found that it was only a little over two hours, so he had enough time to think about the third question, so Lin Jinqi stayed in his seat for a while after asking to go to the toilet.The invigilator was actually a little curious about Lin Jinqi's eyes-closed contemplation and daydreaming.However, seeing that Lin Jinqi had finished two questions in the test paper, while other students in the same examination room were still thinking about one question painfully, the invigilators could only sigh, maybe geniuses have some eccentricities.

Although the third question caused Lin Jinqi some trouble, Lin Jinqi answered it very smoothly after thinking for half an hour.After answering all the questions, Lin Jinqi found that he still had about an hour.Lin Jinqi checked his answering process to make sure that there were no low-level mistakes, and then he raised his hand to indicate the submission of the paper.After the invigilator sealed Lin Jinqi's test paper and draft paper separately, he signaled Lin Jinqi to leave.

Lin Jinqi had to return to the dormitory temporarily because he had to leave the examination area to hand in the papers in advance.In the dormitory, Lin Jinqi received an email from Jin Dongjun.Since Jin Dongjun joined the company, Lu Xiaohua also explained the company's current actual management structure.Jin Dongjun understands that Lin Jinqi is only a nominal assistant to the president.And Lin Jinqi will become the producer and chief planner of the company's first game, and Jin Dongjun has no objection.After all, after reading Lin Jinqi’s detailed planning of the Western fantasy knight online game “King of Gods” based on the background of Norse mythology, Jin Dongjun really felt that maybe Lin Jinqi could make a game by himself as long as he was assigned a senior programmer and artist. Out.

At the same time, after Jin Dongjun watched the detailed planning of "The King of God", Jin Dongjun suddenly felt that he had been in Nexon for five years.He now feels that he is very lucky to be able to sign on the planning column of this work.Even if the Horizon game no longer needs him in the future, Jin Dongjun feels that the rest of his life will be guaranteed just based on the signature of the game's planning.

Jin Dongjun's email mainly had some questions about the setting and balance of the professions in the game, while Lin Jinqi analyzed the basic profession setting of later online games with Jin Dongjun, so that he could understand the setting of "God King".To put it simply, almost all MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) career settings are derived from Blizzard's classic RPG game "Diablo", and then completed after optimization of online games such as "Legend".

Due to the most basic HP (health) and MP (mana) settings, all characters can be simply divided into two camps: "physics" and "magic".Combined with the three basic attribute settings of "physical strength", "agility" and "intelligence", the two camps can be divided into six sub-camps.For example: in the "Physics Department" camp, high stamina is generally a fighter; high agility is generally an assassin.Of course, with the improvement of the professional system of later generations, under the six professional systems of the two camps, there are so-called short-range attack (warrior or assassin) and long-range attack (mage or hunter); output occupation (warrior or mage) and auxiliary professions (cleric or knight) and so on.

Since "God King" is derived from Norse mythology, the overall occupations are biased towards physics-based occupations, and the legal-based occupations are relatively only three: mage, priest and warlock.According to the DND (Dungeons and Dragons) professional camp, mages belong to the neutral camp, but players need to choose whether they are lawful neutral, absolute neutral or chaotic neutral; at the same time, due to the player's choice, they will gradually favor the evil or good camp.The priest is originally set to belong to the good and lawful camp, but can also enter other camps due to the player's choice; as for the warlock, it is the evil and chaotic camp, but can also enter other camps due to the player's choice.Lin Jinqi saw that the division methods and balance principles of various occupations were explained in detail in the email, and then sent to Jin Dongjun.

When Jin Dongjun received this email, he had completely become Lin Jinqi's little fan.In Jin Dongjun's view, the games he has been working on for so many years are actually done for nothing, and he has not even entered the door.Compared with Lin Jinqi's analysis, Jin Dongjun can only lament that there is a difference between "geniuses" and "ordinary people" in the world.After understanding his position, Jin Dongjun became Lin Jinqi's best assistant and support.Even if there are other major game companies that promise to assume the position of "president" in the future, Jin Dongjun will still stay by Lin Jinqi's side and appear as his "first assistant".

However, Lin Jinqi did not expect his email to be so tempting. After talking with Jin Dongjun now, he wanted to get in touch with Japan's Softbank Group through UBS.Although the names of UBS and Softbank look similar, Softbank Group and UBS Group are completely companies in two industries.SoftBank Group started as a communication company, but in the Japanese communication market, SoftBank has never been able to surpass the local NTT and KDDI.But in the Internet market, SoftBank has successfully become the leader in Japan.

Softbank is the major shareholder of Yahoo and Alibaba. At the same time, even though Yahoo Group has declined, Yahoo Japan operated by Softbank is still a large portal website in Japan.The purpose of Lin Jinqi looking for Softbank is naturally to hope to jointly develop the Japanese blog market with Softbank. Although blogs were born in the United States, they finally flourished in Japan.Even in the 2010s, when the blogging market in the U.S. and the rest of the world had completely died down, blogging in Japan was still thriving.

It has become a trend for Japanese people to love to write blogs. Even the kind of housewives will write a blog for fun.So the blog industry in Japan gave birth to so-called "blog stars" and "blog writers", earning enough money for Japanese blog service providers.Moreover, in the age of social media, neither Twitter, Facebook nor Line pose a threat to blogs, and even Line had to launch a blog service to meet the needs of its users.The only thing that can have an impact on Japanese blogs is Instagram. After all, Japanese people are famous all over the world for taking selfies.

The blog was basically born in 2000, and it will continue to operate in Japan in 2020. A product that has lasted for 20 years, do you think Lin Jinqi can not be tempted?And the important thing is that the Japanese blog management is actually not very good. If Lin Jinqi introduces the experience of later generations, Lin Jinqi completely controls the entire Japanese online entertainment market through blogging.However, Japan's xenophobic style forced Lin Jinqi to find local snakes. Softbank will be Lin Jinqi's ally, and then just find a few partners.

After Lin Jinqi finished typing the last word on the computer, he felt a little hungry, so he looked at his watch and found that it was already past one in the afternoon.The roommates who had finished the exam and had dinner also came back one after another, but everyone had a tacit understanding and didn't mention the exam.Lin Jinqi said in embarrassment that he hadn't finished his meal, so he turned off his computer and rushed to a dumpling shop in front of the school to eat dumplings.The mutton dumplings in this dumpling shop are very delicious, and Lin Jinqi said that he is addicted to eating them.

The exam on Sunday was similar to that on Saturday. It took Lin Jinqi about 3 hours to finish this time. Including the inspection time, Lin Jinqi handed in the paper about ten minutes earlier.After handing in the papers, Lin Jinqi went to meet Professor He, which surprised Lin Jinqi.But Professor He said, "Come on, I'll take you to meet someone." Lin

Jin Qi hurriedly followed Professor He into the Tsinghua campus from the east side of the Tsinghua University Affiliated East, and after walking for half a day, they arrived at a somewhat quaint two-story building.Professor He directly took Lin Jinqi into one of the offices, and said to an old man in the middle, "If you want to find that little devil, I'll bring it to you. In other words, you need to find someone to go directly to the training team and tell it. Are you still What are you afraid they will say about you? You have retired for so many years, what are you afraid of?"

The old man was a little bit dumbfounded, and said helplessly: "Yes, I am not as chic as you, Lao He. Seeing through the world of mortals is just short of comprehending this world of flowers. If you have nothing to do, you can go outside to understand the world. One day you want to spend the day Remember to tell me when you have ascended, and I will follow you to realize Zen, maybe I can solve a math problem when I get old."

"It's people like you who are talking about killing the donkey!" Professor He pointed at the old man and turned to leave.But before leaving, Professor He said to Lin Jinqi, "Meeting this old ghost is considered a blessing for you, I hope you don't miss this fate." After speaking, Professor He left the office with his hands behind his back.Before leaving, he actually sang a piece of "Liao Song" from "A Dream of Red Mansions".

The old man shook his head, then smiled and said to Lin Jinqi: "Is Lin Jinqi right? Please sit down, let's talk slowly."

Lin Jinqi sat down on the sofa next to him, and asked, "Have you asked your surname yet?"

"What is the surname Gao not Gao? You are young, don't learn that set of vain social rhetoric." The old man said, "But my surname is really Gao, you can call me Teacher Gao, and Professor Gao Cheng, even if you call me Lao Gao, I have no objection."

"Then I'll call you Professor Gao." Lin Jinqi said hastily. "Did you come to me for something?"

"Actually, I heard Lao He talk about your math results, and I am a little interested in you. I just read your math test paper in the CMO finals. As far as you young people are concerned, your talent is indeed the best. I I want to know, do you plan to come to our Tsinghua University to study mathematics in the future?" Professor Gao asked very kindly, "Because good talents also need good training."

"If I have enough grades, I certainly hope to be able to apply for Tsinghua University, but I never thought of majoring in mathematics." Lin Jinqi replied truthfully, "I learned mathematics because I am interested in computers. Because mathematics itself is computer science. At the same time, learning mathematics well is very helpful for exercising logical thinking, but I never thought of specializing in mathematics.”

"Mathematics is the mother of natural sciences. Not only computers, but also finance and other applied subjects are based on mathematics." Professor Gao said, "If you don't want to learn mathematics, I have no objection. But our Tsinghua University allows and encourages Students who are able to study are studying for a double bachelor’s degree, so is student Lin interested in studying our mathematics major outside of computer majors?”

"Uh, Professor Gao, will you be angry if I say that I have confirmed my minor?" Lin Jinqi asked.

"Oh? Are you thinking about your future major now?" Professor Gao suddenly became interested, "Generally speaking, children of your age are not good at thinking about the future direction, so I would like to know what major you want to minor in. "

"A major in economic management." Lin Jinqi said, "Actually, I own a small software company."

"How old are you when you start a company?" Professor Gao was really shocked by Lin Jinqi, "No wonder you want to major in computer and minor in economic management. It turns out that you plan to run a software company. But you don't think you Is it wasteful to waste your mathematical talents on this aspect? Business giants often have them, but math tricks are not common."

"Professor Gao, I