Chapter 12: Heavenly Revelation

"Then, let's take this time to train. Besides twofold speed and threefold speed, other multiples should also be trained until they become instinctive."

Su Xin took out his phone, opened the timer, and then his mind stirred:

"Godspeed! Five-fold speed!"

While silently counting the seconds, he compared them with the time on the timer, constantly fine-tuning the intensity of his Godspeed Ability.

The entire test did not end until the afternoon.

After several hours of practice, the precision of Su Xin's control over his Godspeed Ability had improved significantly.

After saying goodbye to his homeroom teacher, he left school and returned to his rented room to continue staying busy.

Yet, at school, this day was not peaceful.

Because the test results came out during the fourth period in the afternoon and quickly spread throughout the entire senior year, especially in Class 1 and Class 2, the two key classes.

"Full marks on the test? Su Xin?"

"Are you kidding? Although his grades are good, he's only at a normal top-five level. How could he suddenly get full marks?"

"Besides, the difficulty of this test was clearly greater than usual. Even Wang Xiang, who previously dominated the top spot, only scored 676 points this time."

"As far as I know, apart from Su Xin, no one scored over 680. This gap is too absurd. Could Su Xin have done this test paper in advance? Or did he have the answers? Or did he cheat?"

Various speculations and doubts spread among the classes, especially the two key classes.

After all, for ordinary students, Su Xin was a top-tier academic genius; regardless of whether he cheated or not, his grades were not something they could compare to.

However, the top students in the key classes did not want to see someone achieve a high score that surpassed everyone else through cheating, even if the other person's grades were already very good.

But when multiple teachers publicly stated that there was no problem with Su Xin's grades, the voices of doubt finally diminished a lot.

……

The days that followed.

Su Xin took orders to earn money every day, developed his Tiantian Smart Phone Assistant, went to the library to read, and even bought many professional books not available in the library from bookstores and online to continue his in-depth studies.

His knowledge became increasingly rich and broad.

His savings grew more and more.

The Tiantian Smart Phone Assistant was also nearing completion.

Until this day, the preliminary round of the Programming Competition was finally about to begin.

The purpose of the preliminary round was to screen out programming geniuses with a certain level of strength from the vast number of contestants, so the process was set up quite simply; one only needed to answer questions online.

Su Xin sat in front of his laptop, entered the competition's official website, logged into his account, and proceeded step by step.

Soon, after turning on the camera to verify his identity, he began answering the questions under the full monitoring of the camera.

The questions were all basic theory, along with some common bug solutions. For Su Xin, there was no difficulty at all; he finished answering all the questions in ten-plus minutes and then submitted them.

Next, he only needed to wait for the organizers to review and grade them, and finally notify him whether he could enter the main competition.

The third day.

He received a station message notification that he had passed the preliminary round, and not long after, he received a call from Li Tongtian.

"Su Xin, the results for the Programming Competition's preliminary round are out. Did you pass?"

"Of course I passed. How about you?"

"I... In any case, I will wait for you at the final venue."

"Alright, then good luck!"

"You too."

"Goodbye."

After hanging up the phone, Su Xin continued to immerse himself in the world of code, adding bricks and mortar to the soon-to-be-completed Tiantian Smart Phone Assistant.

In the blink of an eye, a few more days passed.

Su Xin typed the last few lines of code on his laptop, started a trial run using an emulator, finally installed it on his old phone, and clicked start.

After a brilliant opening screen, the system popped up permission prompts, and Su Xin clicked allow one by one.

"Hello, Master, I am your Tiantian Smart Phone Assistant. This is your first time using me; would you like to record your voiceprint for binding?"

Su Xin put himself in the perspective of a first-time user and asked:

"Can I change it later?"

Tiantian's voice immediately sounded: "Yes, you can unbind it after verifying your identity and re-record someone else's voiceprint."

"Hmm... let's do it next time."

"Okay, next time you need to bind a voiceprint, just call Tiantian and make the request. Do you need to enter the beginner's guide now?"

The short exchange of two sentences between the person and the phone fully demonstrated Tiantian's powerful and rapid language analysis ability.

First, Su Xin did not call Tiantian's name throughout, yet Tiantian still answered fluently.

And in the first question, he deliberately did not say something like "Can I change it after binding?" but instead did not mention the word "binding" at all.

But Tiantian still quickly understood Su Xin's words and immediately gave a complete answer.

The second question was more complex; Su Xin deliberately used relatively vague words to express his meaning.

He even deliberately used the tone particle "Hmm," which seemed to represent agreement, to interfere with the smart phone assistant's judgment, before saying "let's do it next time."

The whole sentence contained both interference and misleading elements, and yet it did not have a single word indicating a negative; without a set of powerful language logic and a strong ability to understand context, it would be impossible to answer.

Yet Tiantian was able to answer fluently.

For humans, such an exchange is very common, but for a smart program, this performance is absolutely stunning.

Su Xin nodded with satisfaction and then began to try out the various functions of the Tiantian Smart Phone Assistant.

The main competition and the finals of the Programming Competition were both ten days away. Although the various functions of the Tiantian Smart Phone Assistant were already tending toward perfection, he still had time to continue optimizing it, striving to launch it while the iron was hot after winning the finals, so as to ensure maximum profit.

"Right, I also have to apply for software copyright in advance, register a company, and file the Tiantian Smart Phone Assistant for the record, so that it can be directly launched on major application markets at that time."

The so-called applying for software copyright and filing for the record was not about registering a patent by making all the source code public, but merely providing a portion for national registration, which was equivalent to applying for a legal identity for the software and also declaring ownership of the software for himself.

Su Xin did as he thought, finding an agency to help him register a technology company named "Apocalypse," and he himself held all the company's shares by contributing the copyright of the Tiantian Smart Phone Assistant plus 300,000 in subscribed capital.

In the blink of an eye, another nine days passed.

Su Xin and his mother boarded the high-speed rail together, heading to Jianghai City to participate in the main event of the Programming Competition.

At this time, Su Xin already had 400,000 in funds on hand, so he was not stingy about spending money to improve their quality of life; not only had he moved into a large three-bedroom, two-living-room rental half a month ago, but for this trip, he had specifically spent over two thousand to buy two business-class seats, causing Zhang Chunhua a bout of heartache.

"Clearly a second-class seat only costs four hundred, and two would only be eight hundred; you spent over a thousand extra for nothing, it's truly such a waste."

Sitting in her seat, Zhang Chunhua looked at the environment of the business-class cabin and couldn't help but complain in a low voice.

"Mom, since it's already bought, spending a few hundred extra to sit more comfortably is still very worth it."

Su Xin smiled, then opened his computer, accessed the code crowdsourcing platform website, and said to his mother:

"Besides, in such a comfortable and relaxed environment, I can work with peace of mind; the money I earn in these few hours on the way will be far more than a thousand."

Zhang Chunhua thought that was true as well.

During this period, she had also learned of Su Xin's ability to earn money; by spending two hours every day, he could earn about ten thousand, and in just over a month, he had earned more money than she had earned in her entire life.

In the three or four hours on the high-speed rail, wouldn't he be able to earn around twenty thousand?

Thinking of this, she no longer felt heartache over that thousand-plus, but instead felt that her son was truly too hardworking, having to shoulder the heavy burden of the family at such a young age.

Zhang Chunhua patted Su Xin's hand and said:

"Xiaoxin, why don't you stop working for now? It's not easy to get out for a trip, so you should rest a bit; don't put too much pressure on yourself."

Su Xin shook his head, his attention already focused on the computer screen, and smiled:

"I'm not tired; this is my hobby, and I actually quite enjoy doing these things."