[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-technology-invades-the-modern-world":3,"chapter-technology-invades-the-modern-world-technology-invades-the-modern-world-chapter-33":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Technology Invades the Modern World",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2269517,4430,"Chapter 33","technology-invades-the-modern-world-chapter-33",33,"\u003Cp>In the lecture hall of Xiangjiang University, sunlight streamed through the windows and fell upon Lin Ran’s lecture notes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Everyone, just now I called roll to get to know you all.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On his first night in Xiangjiang, Lin Ran attended a banquet hosted by the city’s elite; the very next day, he began the seminar without pause.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After taking attendance, cross-referencing the surname Chen with a photo of Chen Jingrun from the 2020 internet, and noting the man’s out-of-place aura among the fifty students, Lin Ran was certain: the person sent by the Huaguo side was Chen Jingrun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He exhaled inwardly—Huaguo had not underestimated him; they had sent a true genius.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ran had suspected as much: if Huaguo took him seriously, the delegate would almost certainly be Chen Jingrun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because at this moment, only Chen Jingrun was suitable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Excellent—all fifty are here. Since my time in Xiangjiang is limited, I specifically asked Xiangjiang University to prepare a written exam for me beforehand.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The purpose is to set a baseline so everyone can keep pace in this course.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Without a baseline, two months would be insufficient to cover my material step by step.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“For students without a mathematical foundation, what I intend to teach will be difficult.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Now, since all of you are accomplished students with solid backgrounds, I won’t explain calculus, linear algebra basics, or differential equations.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We’ll begin directly with functionals and function spaces.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And let me tell you upfront: the theme of this seminar is ‘On the Extremal Properties of Functional Spaces Under the Action of Symmetry Groups: From Harmonic Analysis to Algebraic Geometry’...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Shaoyuan had always believed he had a modest talent for mathematics, but he found himself struggling to follow—even though he listened intently, he gradually lost track and had no idea what Professor Lin was saying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He glanced at his attentive desk-mate, whom he remembered from roll call as Chen Dehui.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this era of Xiangjiang, the poor, especially refugees from the mainland, typically wore cheap cotton shirts produced by local factories—breathable but coarse, with plain colors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wealthy, by contrast, favored the trendy Hawaiian shirts popular in America, preferably patterned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Dehui wore a cotton short-sleeve shirt; Li Shaoyuan wore a Hawaiian shirt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hey, hey, can you understand what the professor is saying?” Li Shaoyuan whispered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Jingrun, posing as Chen Dehui, replied in broken Cantonese: “Of course.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he ignored Li Shaoyuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Shaoyuan poked him again with his pen. “What is Professor Lin talking about?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“He’s using the orthogonality of Fourier series to teach us the concepts of norm and inner product,” Chen Jingrun said, as if it were obvious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, functional analysis was child’s play to him—the foundational concepts were already familiar, but Lin Ran’s choice of examples and angles gave him a sudden clarity; internally, he marveled: this man truly is a master.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire teaching style felt like a heavy sword without a sharp edge—simple, unadorned, yet profoundly effective.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Chen Jingrun sensed Lin Ran’s urgency—he spoke clearly, but rapidly, and after each lecture, without asking if anyone understood, he pressed forward without delay.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Jingrun had heard lectures in Huaguo and taught students himself, but he had never encountered such a style.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Shaoyuan, meanwhile, began to doubt reality: his desk-mate, clearly a poor man from the lower class, dressed in worn cotton and radiating an aura of poverty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet he actually understood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After class ended, Li Shaoyuan felt a grudging respect: “Can you explain it to me? I’ll pay you.” He pulled a handful of Hong Kong dollars from his pocket.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Jingrun was tempted—but considering he needed to return and copy everything down, deliver it to the designated location, and transmit it back to the mainland, he had to refuse. It was a month’s salary in Huaguo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Li Shaoyuan returned home, his sister Li Huiling, who also studied at Xiangjiang University and went by the English name Helen, rushed to take his bag: “Brother, how was it? Did you get Professor Lin’s autograph for me?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Shaoyuan handed her the inaugural issue of *New Advances in Mathematics*, bearing Lin Ran’s paper on Fermat’s Conjecture. “Here—I asked Professor Lin to sign it on the title page.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Huiling opened it and saw the two large characters “Lin Ran” written clearly on the page; she shrieked in excitement: “Thank you, brother! You’re my real brother!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Now those bitches will be green with envy!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I told you to invite Professor Lin to dinner at our place—did you ask him?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Shaoyuan shook his head. “No. It’s only day one—why rush?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Shaoyuan and Li Huiling came from the Li family—not the Li Ka-shing family, but the family of Dongyayinhang’s founder, Li Guanchun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For them, marrying into Lin Ran’s circle was an absolute top-tier option.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And like old-line families such as Li Guanchun’s, they understood the prestige of being Professor Hokehaime’s final disciple, and the influence of the Frankfurt School across America, England, and the entire Western world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Professor Hokehaime himself had publicly acknowledged this in interviews.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether Lin Ran himself or the Frankfurt School he represented, both were enough to make Xiangjiang’s old families salivate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was the value.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the seminar’s enrollment dropped: fifty students on day one, forty-seven on day two, forty on day three.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a week, only twenty remained—more than half had dropped out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Shaoyuan, who considered himself a genius, couldn’t endure it either; the content was utterly incomprehensible, and he sat there all day, doing nothing but staring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was unbearable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ran had moved on to symmetry and extremal problems; Li Shaoyuan felt he was listening to celestial scripture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Chen Jingrun found it taxing—it had now entered the core of the calculus of variations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the surface, it was symmetry and extremal problems; at its heart, it was the calculus of variations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ran used string vibrations to disguise perturbation terms in aerospace dynamics.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wrapped Noether’s theorem in the idea that symmetry is nature’s mathematical law.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He analogized missile trajectories with the motion of pendulums.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The students in the room found it all obscure and impenetrable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Xiangjiang media covered the event extensively—but instead of criticizing Lin Ran, they praised him, saying: “A master is truly a master.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When your reputation is great, your difficulties are not flaws—they are proof of your ability.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The world is indeed strange.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the third week, as Lin Ran began teaching extremal problems combining calculus of variations and group theory, he seized his chance: when thirteen of the remaining fourteen students went to the restroom,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>leaving only Chen Jingrun—posing as Chen Dehui—frantically taking notes, Lin Ran quietly stepped beside him and whispered:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“All of this is related to ICBM trajectory optimization.”\u003C\u002Fp>",1120,"2026-06-19T21:37:46.551Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","c92e0897437eabb89a01d70c02e275df80437d41128d834677a24d1055e05db4","technology-invades-the-modern-world-chapter-34","technology-invades-the-modern-world-chapter-32",162,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Ftechnology-invades-the-modern-world-cover.jpg"]