Deep Space Wandering Fleet-Chapter 66 - : The Teacher Who Sets Questions Freely

Chapter 66: Chapter 66: The Teacher Who Sets Questions Freely

First up was a genius from Zone D named Wei Dongyi who liked to submit his exam papers early in order to disdain the intelligence of his classmates and the instructors.

“That clueless guy thinks he’s amazing just because he can solve a few problems! Today, I’m going to stump him for sure!”

Seeing Wei Dongyi still pondering at his desk, Guo Fan couldn’t help but chuckle.

He had once taught university physics to Wei Dongyi’s class, but the kid slept through every lecture and hardly ever attended a full class.

In the end, he still scored high on the test!

That incident really infuriated Guo Fan, and he finally seized an opportunity to embarrass his opponent.

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“Don’t say that, he’s actually a pretty good seedling. If your Deep Space University doesn’t take him, we won’t be polite about it.”

Professor Guo promptly said, “That… still depends on his own choice. You can’t just snatch someone away!”

Next up was a well-known genius from Zone B, named Fujino Junko, a girl from Mu Country who was a two-time gold medalist at the International Mathematical Olympiad.

Junko had a peculiar habit of spinning her pen and staring at the ceiling during her free time, as if her thoughts had entered a distant void.

Fujino Junko was already sitting at her desk, idly spinning her pen like a statue. For her, these mathematical problems were as simple as “1+1.”

From this angle, she seemed even stronger than Wei Dongyi from Zone A.

“Junko is a student who took the pure mathematics track. It seems there’s no teacher who can teach her. Why come to the spaceship? Aren’t there good teachers left on Earth…” Professor Guo was quite puzzled.

Both professors were worried; two mighty universities could not find an outstanding mathematician.

“…She says she wants to witness mathematics three thousand years from now.”

“That’s true. All of us boarding the spaceship want to witness human science and technology three thousand years into the future.”

Professor Guo could only shake his head: “Which university she applies to, let her decide.”

Then there was the genius from Zone C…

First was Li Cheng’s son, Li Zhendong, who was deep in thought at his desk.

However, compared to the accomplishments of the previous two geniuses, Li Zhendong was slightly less extraordinary, and there were only a few true students in the world.

“If we really can’t recruit students, Li Zhendong is also an option. His foundational knowledge is very solid. He has potential.”

And then there was Zhang Yuan, the son of Zhang Qiming, whose level was unknown; he had never been heard of before.

Since he came highly recommended by Professor Wang Zhong, one might as well take a look…

Damn, he’s actually asleep!

Professor Guo was slightly dissatisfied.

He walked over and glanced at the test paper filled with writing.

Then, he casually walked away.

“Zhang Yuan, like Junko, managed to solve the difficult problems… but Junko comes from a mathematics competition background, right?”

“Are all these geniuses so idiosyncratic?”

“I know why. This guy spends all his day studying robotics kinematics, so now is a good time to catch up on sleep. An ordinary teacher might not be able to handle him…”

They seemed to recall their own youthful days, when they were slightly smarter than average people and possessed a kind of arrogant and haughty air, and the professors found themselves understanding once again.

“It’s okay to be a little arrogant now. When they really stumble over tough problems, they will simmer down.”

After making the rounds, both professors were extremely satisfied with the pool of students and began to divide up the geniuses.

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But as they divided them, they started arguing again.

“I’ll take Zhang Yuan, and you can have Junko.”

“Junko is no use to me! Zhang Yuan is mine!”

“Li Zhendong is yours! Zhang Yuan is mine!”

“… ” Right when Guo Fan was about to agree, a jolt struck his heart: “Zhang Yuan and Junko are yours, the rest are all mine.”

“No way, absolutely not.”

They were just indulging in lip service, as graduate students and advisors go for a mutual selection, and one person’s word did not count.

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After taking three exams in the morning, afternoon, and evening, and sleeping three times, Zhang Yuan felt refreshed.

It was like the more he tested, the more spirited he became.

He was unaware that a proctor had passed by his side.

The next day, the last exam was on politics and history, not a science subject, so he couldn’t just sleep through it.

The test papers were handed out.

The questions at the front were regular political ones, nothing unusual.

But the questions towards the end became increasingly bizarre.

[The Phoenix Lights incident: On the night of March 13, 1997, about 700 people saw five white glowing spots arranged in a V-shape over the mountains south of Phoenix.]

[The five white glowing spots were set up like a carpenter’s square, and spanned a width of 460 meters. They flew slowly at low altitude, and when they passed in front of the moon, the moonlight could still shine through the flying object, showing that it was semi-transparent and silent.]

[If this event was true in history, what is your opinion?]

Zhang Yuan felt a jolt in his heart. What was this, a historical secret?

Or was it to say that aliens had really visited Earth?

He was somewhat perplexed by what the exam creator was thinking.

As for his opinion…

“Aliens exist, and they are more badass than humans.”

“There is no dark forest.”

“Superluminal interstellar travel technology might exist.”

“The aliens may have anti-gravity technology?”

“Aliens regard humans as if they were low-intelligence monkeys…”

A plethora of ideas jumped out of his mind.

First, skip over, write later.

Next question.

[For science, oftentimes, ethics and morals are like shackles binding our steps. On the edge between technology and ethics, certain controversial experiments garner significant attention.]

[If the development of science is truly constrained by ethics, how would you choose?]

What’s this, having left Earth Civilization, the exam creators let their self-will fly?

Zhang Yuan wrote in bold characters: “Scientific research must uphold the spirit of science and the baseline of ethical morals!”

But after some thought, he was not satisfied with this answer and sighed: “We should discuss it based on the situation. Survival is a key element for civilization; when the existence of civilization is affected, perhaps one can disregard the interests of the few…”

Next question.

[What should be the ultimate goal of a civilization? How do you build a better civilization? And what is the definition of ‘better’?]

Zhang Yuan sighed. What on Earth was all this?

He wrote boldly on the paper: “According to the New Civilization School’s view, a civilization can be considered a high-dimensional life form stretching across the four-dimensional axis of time, with each individual civilization being akin to a cell. Because cells have individual wills, the entire civilization has not produced a self will.”

“The ‘good’ and ‘bad’ of civilization can be defined by the physical concept of ‘entropy.’ This includes the minimum existence of entropy law, entropy proportionate to complexity law, entropy increase law, system chaos law…”

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