A genius student? Ha, they're nothing but ants at your feet!

Chapter 182 Burning Battle Spirit

Meanwhile, in the control room behind the scenes of this challenge game.

The atmosphere, which was initially relaxed and carefree, gradually became somewhat eerie.

"Entropy, are the questions you set too difficult? Far fewer people have passed than we expected..."

The hooded boy frowned as he looked at the dismal data stream in the background.

They had originally thought that, taking advantage of the popularity of the freshman registration event, at least half of the freshmen would participate in this grand hacking game.

To everyone's surprise, these students, who were all talk and no action, had such poor stress tolerance that they gave up faster than dogs!

After the dust settles, only a few dozen people truly took this as a test and were determined to see it through to the end.

And so far, the number of students who are still making rapid progress in each level is extremely small.

"There's nothing we can do. The math department's geniuses aren't interested in our project at all; they won't even bother to glance at it..."

We can only hope to find a needle in a haystack among this batch of new students and pick out the promising ones.

If we can't acquire readily available combat power this time, all our hard work putting on this grand show will be completely meaningless and a pure waste of funds.

"That's true, Entropy is right." The hacker codenamed Cipher Fox nodded solemnly.

"But then again..."

Cipher Fox suddenly stopped what he was doing, pointed to a rapidly rising point of light on the edge of the screen, and his tone became somewhat strange.

"Isn't that guy in the lead going a little too fast?"

On the monitoring screen, the green dot representing No. 001 just flashed once!

Just now, the third extremely tricky level was forcibly destroyed in an almost overwhelming manner!

Root, who had been silent all along, lowered his head, glanced at the watch on his wrist, and his pupils suddenly contracted.

"Holy crap? Am I seeing things? Less than twenty minutes have passed, and I've already cleared the fourth level?!"

They looked at each other, both seeing disbelief in each other's eyes.

It's important to understand that although this was just a hacker game for recruitment, they also wanted to maintain the goal of helping new students "get familiar with the campus" during orientation...

The path of the question was designed to be extremely difficult, almost running through all the teaching buildings in the school. Just running around the map would take a lot of physical effort.

According to their initial simulation, even a genius freshman would need at least four hours to complete the entire process and solve the problems!

These self-important hackers deliberately set the difficulty level precisely according to the entire day-long registration process!

"drop--!"

Just then, a blinding red light suddenly burst out on the monitoring screen.

"Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap?! I beat level five too?!"

Entropy, who was previously slumped in the chair, suddenly seemed to have springs under his buttocks...

He abruptly overturned his chair and stood up, staring intently at the monitor screen, frantically rubbing his eyes as if he had seen a ghost.

"Damn! What kind of speed is this?! Should we start preparing for the final stage immediately?!"

The progress bar on the screen is advancing at a frantic, hair-raising speed—it's just too outrageous!

From the backstage monitoring perspective, the dot representing first place looked like a child's game...

With a devastating and irrational ferocity, they relentlessly crushed all the checkpoints and defenses they were so proud of.

At this insane speed of breakthrough, that guy might not even need thirty minutes to single-handedly reach the final level!

At that moment, Cipher Fox felt a tingling sensation on his scalp, but what followed was a long-lost feeling of excitement and trepidation rushing straight to his head.

He had an extremely strong premonition:

Some utterly unreasonable, monstrous being is approaching them at a terrifying speed!

"Don't just stand there! Everyone get ready to serve the customers!"

In order not to make the final stage look too shabby in front of this monster, the three of them hurriedly got up and frantically ran to adjust the equipment of the final level.

.......

"This is interesting! It's really good, much more fun than I expected."

At this moment, Su Hao was standing in the corridor, watching the level completion animation on the screen, and nodded in satisfaction.

Thanks to the team's exceptional technical skill and dedication, the transition scenes were produced to a high standard.

Su Hao, who was initially just casually solving the puzzles, unknowingly became completely immersed in this high-quality puzzle game.

Whenever he solves a puzzle decisively, the system will not only immediately play an extremely beautiful animation, even with a touch of dark humor, but will also conveniently point out the precise coordinates to the next route.

What Su Hao appreciated most was that the questions in each level were not randomly generated junk questions, but perfectly covered completely different mathematical and algorithmic themes.

From signal processing to matrix theory, it's clear that the team behind the scenes has truly put in a lot of effort and resources.

[Should we proceed to the next stage?]

A prompt appears on the screen.

【Yes】

Although on the surface, it was just a welcome entertainment program packaged as a game.

But Su Hao was well aware that the academic depth of its core was by no means ambiguous, and could even be described as extremely hardcore.

In any closed axiomatic system, there is no absolutely complete solution.

Su Hao raised an eyebrow upon seeing the guiding message displayed before the final level.

"Ha, they're directly applying Gödel's incompleteness theorems to their underlying logic. Quite ambitious."

Su Hao merely stood there for a moment to ponder.

The next second, his brain went into overclocking mode, operating at high speed, and began an extremely fierce brute-force cracking of this proposition.

This is a problem with an extremely high academic threshold, one that would leave even the average doctoral student scratching their head.

Unfortunately, it encountered Su Hao.

In less than thirty minutes, Su Hao had completely dismantled the several levels that had taken the three hackers countless hours of effort, turning them into a pile of parts.

[Congratulations on clearing the level! You have reached the final stage. Please proceed to Room 203, Building 2.]

"All done, that's a wrap." Su Hao stretched and strolled out of the teaching building.

Just as he stepped out the door, preparing to head to his final destination, a woman's voice, full of hostility, suddenly called out to him from behind.

"Hey! You over there! You're number one in line, right?!"

Su Hao turned around and saw a stunningly beautiful blonde girl pointing at him, panting heavily.

Although he was somewhat puzzled, he nodded honestly.

Seeing him admit it, Ellie stared intently at Su Hao, her beautiful eyes instantly igniting a fierce fighting spirit that seemed to devour him!

"You just wait! Don't think you've got it all figured out. I'm coming after you right now! I absolutely won't lose to you!"

Su Hao stared at the aggressive white girl in front of him for two seconds, feeling puzzled.

This girl looks pretty, why is she so angry?

Could it be that she is also a passionate "beaver rescue enthusiast" and is frustrated because she couldn't save the beaver hanging on the pot?

"Alright."

Faced with Ellie's fanatical determination, which seemed to be a fight to the death, Su Hao simply tilted his head helplessly and shrugged indifferently.

"Young people these days, they're so incredibly empathetic."

Su Hao turned around and continued walking leisurely towards the final checkpoint with an air of indifference.