Chapter 385: High-end hunters often appear in the form of prey

Library.

Xu Qingzhou spun the signature pen in his hand lightly. The hesitation from the previous minute vanished, and he stared at the four words "Riemann Hypothesis" on the draft paper, full of drive.

"This is what matches my status as a cheater. As for these..."

Xu Qingzhou glanced at the mind map on another draft paper—integral mean distribution of Hurwitz zeta-functions, function approximation theory, etc. —small stuff, meaningless.

"Starve the timid, stuff the bold."

He smiled and tidied up the draft paper on the table.

Although the goal was set, Xu Qingzhou wasn't in a rush. Just now, when the little girl asked for an autograph, he remembered what he had forgotten.

He hadn't shown off... no, he hadn't shared his situation with his fans.

Not even remembering such an important thing completely proved that he wasn't a show-off.

Xu Qingzhou nodded secretly, but his hands were fast, taking out his phone to edit a message.

#Xu Qingzhou: Graduated.

He also attached a photo of himself wearing the master's gown.

As soon as he posted it on Weibo, comments appeared one after another.

【Why don't humans hibernate】: "Badass!"

【Feng Yang】: "Holy crap, if I remember correctly, this guy just graduated from undergraduate a year ago."

【I love Xu Shen】: "Congratulations, Xu Shen!"

【halcyonn18】: "6666+."

【Love drinking plain water】: "This show-off is done well."

【Discovering good wool】: "To be honest, with the school god's achievements, even if Jingda directly issued Xu Shen a PhD graduation certificate, it wouldn't be too much."

【Koi fish in a daze】: "So the question is, Xu Shen initially said he was engaged in research on harmonic analysis. I remember what was said on the internet was the Local Smoothness Conjecture. How is the situation?"

【Downstream Pillar】: "Xu Shen: Don't ask, asking is impolite."

【Gratitude with heart】: "Probably waiting for the PhD stage research. After all, this thing can't be completed overnight."

Xu Qingzhou looked at the netizens' discussion and smiled faintly. These people were still too young. He just wanted to say now: "Sorry, I am a cheater."

However, he narrowed his eyes, his gaze stopping on a comment.

【Continuous Firepower】: "This is the content I just saw in the latest issue of 'Mathematical Invention'."

Attached below was a photo, the cover of "Mathematical Invention," and the content on it was exactly Xu Qingzhou's paper.

Xu Qingzhou was a bit surprised. The editorial department's speed was quite fast; it hadn't even been two weeks and the paper was already published.

What he didn't know was that after receiving the paper, Elton Prieto of the "Mathematical Invention" editorial department immediately put down all his work, quickly reviewed it, and sent the paper directly for external review.

Journals can make the publisher, but sometimes, the author of the paper also makes the journal.

After all, for a paper of this level, wherever it is published, that is the top journal.

The comment directly under Xu Qingzhou's post was topped to the front.

【Love drinking plain water】: "Regardless of anything else, what about that guy from the other day who was scamming food and drink? Hurry up and come out to perform a handstand while eating shit."

【Feng Yang】: "Doing things in three fields in one year, and all of them can be published in top journals—is this normal?"

【I love Xu Shen】: "New fans are still shouting 666, old fans are already used to it."

【Miserable science student】: "Ruined, ruined, sniped by Xu Shen again. Our research group has been working for a year, and with Xu Shen's paper coming out, 80% of our results are worthless."

【Lonely root of three】: "Sending comfort from afar."

【Miserable science student】: "My boss needs comfort even more; he's hiding in the bathroom crying. Funding in the math field was already low, and we crashed this time too."

【Lonely root of three】: "Brother, we are better off than you. As soon as we heard Xu Qingzhou was also working on this, we changed topics overnight."

Doing research is like this. Not to mention that research topics colliding in the scientific community happens from time to time, even within the same research group, collisions occur.

Xu Qingzhou browsed the netizens' messages happily. Regardless of anything else, it was quite effective for relieving fatigue during breaks.

Moreover, these wails were a bit pleasant to the ear.

Dorm 101.

Xu Zhengyang had just returned from the cafeteria. While sitting down, he muttered: "Strange, Old Xu graduated, and solved that Local Smoothness Conjecture problem, how come I haven't seen him come out to show off?"

"He just finished showing off."

Zhai Ziqiang said gloomily.

"Hmm?"

Xu Zhengyang took out his phone and sure enough saw a notification for a new Weibo message from Xu Qingzhou. He looked at Weibo and sighed: "This flavor is right."

"Old Xu is still Old Xu." Kong Xianbo was already used to it; not showing off would be abnormal.

Xu Zhengyang frowned, looking at someone in the comment section helping Xu Qingzhou post the cover of the SCI paper. After thinking for a moment, he said in a deep voice: "I discovered that this is the highest realm of showing off—letting others show off for you."

"Look, the fans have already said what needed to be said, and he himself just silently doesn't speak, acting like a master."

"Mm, compared to Old Xu, we still have a gap." Kong Xianbo opened his phone, glanced for a while, and agreed with Xu Zhengyang's point of view. His and Old Xu's showing off was too direct, floating on the surface.

"Keep up with Old Xu." Xu Zhengyang said in a deep voice.

Kong Xianbo also said: "Keep up with Old Xu."

"Keep up with Brother Zhou... but... we are human."

Zhai Ziqiang scratched his head.

School of Economics.

Approaching 12:00 PM, the work was almost handled. Song Yao took her phone to look at Xu Qingzhou's Weibo.

"He's still quite handsome when he doesn't speak."

The school beauty admired her boyfriend's photo, her brows relaxed, and a faint smile appeared on her cold face.

Han Shiyi was organizing materials and looked up, preparing to relax. When she saw this scene, she was stunned. Song Junior Sister smiling... so beautiful... all the fatigue disappeared, just like... crashing into a spring breeze.

She must be looking at something related to Xu Xu Xu Shidi.

That's so good.

Song Yao naturally didn't know the inner drama of this senior sister. Her fair, slender fingers slid across the screen, browsing the news.

Hmph, this guy is still so childish.

The eloquent talking on the podium and such were all illusions; "cheekiness" was this person's normal state.

Song Yao couldn't help but rest her chin on her hand, thinking of the "perverted" behaviors of the last few times, and found that she had fallen for Xu Qingzhou's big trap again.

Showering together had almost become a normal state.

It was all a conspiracy.

Actually, she could see through this guy's routine almost every time, but she still couldn't help but fall for it, cooperating secretly.

Even she herself was sometimes strange...

Song Yao sighed softly, narrowed her eyes, and her teeth felt a bit itchy. It was all this guy's fault.

Han Shiyi finished the materials in her hand, walked over, and seeing Song Yao in a daze with her chin on her hand, asked with a smile: "Junior Sister, what are you thinking about?"

"Nothing." Song Yao shook her head, stood up, and went to eat with Han Shiyi.

The "shipper" asked: "Thinking about Xu Qingzhou, right?"

Song Yao nodded, not denying it.

"You two have such a good relationship." Han Shiyi sighed in her heart. Perhaps only Xu Xu Xu Shidi could make a person like this goddess have emotional fluctuations.

Usually, this Song Junior Sister was really too cold.

"Mm, it's always been quite good."

Song Yao didn't dare to say that she was thinking about Xu Qingzhou, but only that she was thinking about going back to beat this guy up.

In the library.

"Achoo~"

Xu Qingzhou sneezed, rubbed his nose, and thought secretly: "Could it be that the school beauty is thinking of me?"

It must be.

He smiled and shook his head, withdrew his thoughts, and focused his attention on the draft paper in front of him.

The Riemann Hypothesis states: all non-trivial zeros of the zeta function are distributed on the line with a real part of 1/2. The mystery of prime number distribution may be hidden on this line. Why is it important?

Part of the reason is that it is a problem about prime number distribution. Solving the Riemann Hypothesis means taking a big step forward in the study of prime numbers.

Another part of the reason is that more than a thousand mathematical propositions are based on the proof of the Riemann Hypothesis (or its generalized form), which means that once the Riemann Hypothesis is proven, the mathematical community will gain more than a thousand new mathematical theorems.

Conversely, if it is proven false, a considerable number of propositions will immediately become invalid.

It is rumored that someone once asked Hilbert, if you could be resurrected 500 years later, what is the question you most want to know? His answer was: I most want to know if anyone has solved the Riemann Hypothesis.

Xu Qingzhou figured out the research direction for next, and didn't waste time, immediately searching for the most cutting-edge papers on Riemann Hypothesis research.

The most cutting-edge paper is Professor Maynard's "New Large Value Estimates for Dirichlet Polynomials," which proves new bounds for the frequency of Dirichlet polynomials taking large values.

Dutch mathematicians Delune, H. Ete, D. Er, and others used electronic computers to conduct large-scale numerical verification of the zeros of the Riemann zeta function.

They tested the first hundreds of millions of zeros and proved that the positions of these zeros are consistent with the predictions of the Riemann Hypothesis.

There are also some studies on the Landau-Siegel zero problem, which is a weakened form of the Riemann Hypothesis.

Although these papers did not directly prove the Riemann Hypothesis, they provided new perspectives for the zero distribution of the Riemann zeta function.

Not a single word of the content was missed!

For the whole day, Xu Qingzhou was organizing papers related to the proof of the Riemann Hypothesis.

In the evening, Xu Qingzhou went home happily, and then... was ravaged by the school beauty on the sofa.

"Song Yao, I'm increasingly suspecting that you are the pervert."

Xu Qingzhou held his old waist and said resentfully: "Do you have an attribute where you feel uncomfortable if you don't beat your boyfriend?"

"You know what you did yourself." Song Yao pursed her lips and hummed.

"What did I do?"

Xu Qingzhou was a bit bewildered. Recalling the day, when he woke up in the morning, he couldn't help but pinch the school beauty's chest, but he had already been bitten by this girl, and then... he hadn't seen her all day?

"Could it be because... I stepped in with my left foot first?"

Song Yao didn't speak, leaning on the sofa and continuing to read the paper.

"I see you just want to find an opportunity to beat me up." Xu Qingzhou said bitterly.

Song Yao looked up, curled her lips and said: "Xu Qingzhou, don't think I don't know, you just want to keep eroding me, boiling a frog in warm water, and then let me help you..."

"How did you kno..."

Xu Qingzhou was shocked, but stopped instantly, his expression solemn, and he decisively denied: "Song Yao, you are slandering me!"

"Do you dare to say it's not?"

"It's not, I guarantee it with my character."

"You have one?"

Song Yao scoffed twice, revealing an expression of "I saw through you long ago."

"..."

Xu Qingzhou clicked his tongue. This girl really knew everything.

She was clever, just liked to watch him perform quietly.

He had always said that a hunter must have patience. Now it seems that high-end hunters often appear in the form of prey.

Song Yao saw Xu Qingzhou's guilty conscience. "Pervert."

Xu Qingzhou gave up on himself, not wanting Song Yao to dump all the blame on his head. "Little Song, let's be reasonable. If you don't cooperate..."

This guy was just saying this when he saw the school beauty clenching her fists again, and could only swallow the words he wanted to say.

Song Yao was very satisfied.

That's right, the pervert is Xu Qingzhou; what does it have to do with her, Song Yao?

Xu Qingzhou didn't dwell on this problem, pulled Song Yao's legs up, and asked: "How is your paper?"

Anyway, this girl said no with her mouth, but she would still cooperate when the time came.

"Professor Li said to modify it a bit more..."

Song Yao stuttered. Xu Qingzhou had already taken off her shoes. She wanted to shrink back, but this guy pinched them very tightly.

She hadn't even washed her feet yet!

However, thinking that Xu Qingzhou had always been like this, she continued her previous words: "One more modification will be enough. Defense on the 10th of next month."

"Congratulations, Junior Sister Song, you are about to graduate."

Xu Qingzhou's fingertips slid across her fair, tender calves.

Song Yao didn't want to entertain this guy. His titles like "Teacher Song," "Junior Sister Song," and "Little Song" were just to satisfy his strange interests.

"After a day of thinking, I have also determined the research content for the next period of time."

Xu Qingzhou leaned back on the sofa, and his whole body relaxed.

Song Yao moved her gaze away from the paper, looked up at her boyfriend, and listened seriously to his next arrangements.

"Riemann Hypothesis."

"Riemann Hypothesis?"

Xu Qingzhou nodded affirmatively.

Song Yao sat, covered Xu Qingzhou's forehead, and muttered: "Not sick, so you are serious."

Riemann Hypothesis—even if she wasn't a math major, she knew this thing. Anyway, it was super, super difficult.

"Very serious."

Xu Qingzhou said with his hands spread.

Song Yao nodded slightly, pecked Xu Qingzhou on the face, and encouraged: "Xu Shi, come on."

After saying that, she fell back and continued reading the paper.

"You believe in me so much, not even trying to persuade me?" Xu Qingzhou pinched her little white socks.

"Believe, after all..." Song Yao paused, her feet were a bit itchy, and she moved uncomfortably.

"You are a pervert."

"I'll take that as a compliment."

India.

The old man had a solemn expression and walked into the office.

Hearing the movement, Amir pulled his thoughts out, looked at the old man, and his tired face was full of excitement: "Professor, the progress is smoother than planned. Just now, I solved the problem of parabolic scaling transformation!"

Professor Yajier wanted to say something but stopped. Finally, he handed the journal in his hand to Amir: "I think you should take a look at this."

Amir took it, and when looking at the cover, his gaze couldn't help but freeze slightly: "Local Smoothness of Fourier Integral Operators and Related Research..."

He shouted out: "Xu Qingzhou?"

"It's him."

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

Amir's face turned pale instantly.

In another half a year, he would have finished his calculations. How could Xu Qingzhou suddenly publish a paper?!

He opened the magazine, his eyes staring fixedly at the content of the paper.

Professor Yajier waited quietly.

20 minutes passed.

Amir collapsed into his chair, an expression of disbelief on his face: "This guy went for a spin in the fields of physics, computer science, and economics, and finally solved the content of local smoothness?"

Professor Yajier sighed and said: "Amir, perhaps you can try researching something else."

This Xia Nation person was simply too weird; this had already exceeded the scope of human ability.

The enemy was too strong, strong enough to make people feel a bit desperate. Sometimes, appropriate abandonment is not a bad choice.

"Thank you, Professor."

Amir's gaze was dim, like a soul that had been drained, sitting numbly. Being crushed in his most specialized field, this sense of frustration was stronger than the previous two failures.

A few days ago, he was still full of confidence and issued a challenge to Xu Qingzhou in an interview.

Now...

Looking at the dejected Amir, Professor Yajier shook his head and exited the office, not disturbing his student. At this time, he might need to be alone.

(End of chapter)