On the live streaming platform:
“Holy crap, this guy scared the hell out of me.”
“Hahahahahahaha, I’m dying of laughter. This ‘2’ is truly incredible, absolutely incredible.”
“One word: amazing!”
“Don’t even say it, it’s quite funny.”
“Is this called schizophrenia? This is just being silly, right?”
“The user above is wrong, this isn’t silly, this is idiotic.”
“It’s over, I think I’ve been brainwashed. Now my mind is full of the sound of this ‘2’ being incredible or not?”
“Hey? You know what, among all numbers, it seems only ‘2’ is like this. The result of addition and multiplication is the same. Isn’t that amazing?”
“Otherwise, why would they say ‘2’ is incredible?”
“Turn off the bullet comments for peace of mind. Now, when I open the bullet comments, all I see is the word ‘incredible’. I guess this word is going to become popular.”
“Is Li Han playing a schizophrenic teacher? Or a schizophrenic idiot? Or an idiotic teacher?”
…
The live broadcast went eerily quiet for a moment.
Then, a burst of laughter erupted.
The entire venue was almost overturned.
People were laughing so hard they were doubled over, pointing at Li Han on stage and bursting into laughter.
And Li Han?
His face was flushed.
Standing on stage, he was incredibly awkward.
Yes!
That’s right.
This was something he had thought up himself.
Forced into a corner, he could only interpret a schizophrenic teacher in such a way.
Sure enough!
It was still funny, wasn’t it?
Li Han’s heart shattered.
It seemed he really wasn’t suited to be an actor.
If it really didn’t work out, he might as well go back and inherit his hundreds of billions in family assets.
…
In any case, Li Han’s performance ended.
Off-site voting began.
International Zhang also imitated Uncle Heitu, putting her hands together and bowing to all directions, soliciting votes.
She was campaigning for votes.
After Li Han left.
The stage was simply cleared, and a few more blackboards were placed on it.
The laughter at the live broadcast slowly subsided.
The host quickly went through the motions.
Now, everyone had a sense of anticipation.
Because Chen Feng’s acting was the only one everyone was looking forward to seeing.
Especially the topic for this final championship battle:
A genius with intellectual disability.
How exactly would he act?
A few minutes later.
Everything was ready.
Chen Feng was already standing in the center of the stage, right in front of the blackboard, with his back to everyone, not showing his face.
Soon, a prompt sounded.
The final performance officially began.
The live broadcast instantly fell silent.
Not a sound was heard.
Everyone stared at Chen Feng’s movements.
Including the judges and guests.
Even Xu Yao and Li Han, who had hidden in the lounge.
On stage.
Chen Feng remained still.
He just tilted his head, looking up at the blackboard.
His body was somewhat twisted.
One arm was askew.
Strange!
Just such a simple back view made everyone’s mind conjure up a single word:
Intellectually disabled.
Even physically disabled.
So, what was he observing?
Just observing this action linked him to a genius.
Intelligent.
In the judging panel.
Jiang Wen couldn’t help but give him a thumbs up.
His action had already drawn everyone in; everyone wanted to know what he was going to do next.
Thus, time passed.
Chen Feng stood in that posture for a full five minutes.
Just as everyone was getting impatient, Chen Feng finally moved.
He tremblingly stretched out his hand, picked up a piece of chalk with an extremely awkward posture, and then began to write and draw on the blackboard.
First, he wrote a ‘6’.
Then he used 6 / 2, getting 3.
Then he used 3x3+1, getting 10.
Then he used 10 / 2, getting 5.
Then he used 5x3+1, getting 16.
Then he used 16 / 2, getting 8, then / 2, getting 4, then / 2, getting 2, then / 2, getting 1.
He finished writing.
It was written with great difficulty.
Each calculation seemed to consume a tremendous amount of his energy.
This indeed looked like an intellectually disabled person learning arithmetic.
But, just this?
The audience looked puzzled.
This was acceptable for portraying intellectual disability, but what about genius?
How was that shown?
Everyone was confused.
However, on stage, Chen Feng never turned around, continuously trying to write and draw on the blackboard with effort.
He kept writing numbers and then performing simple calculations.
He filled an entire blackboard.
Then, he laboriously moved to another blackboard.
Still writing?
At this moment, the prompt sound on the stage rang out.
Time was up.
Everyone only had ten minutes of performance time.
When the time was up, you could only stop.
So, the host walked onto the stage and waved at Chen Feng: “Chen Feng, you can stop. Your performance time is up.”
Chen Feng was unresponsive.
He had already struggled to move to another blackboard, laboriously holding the chalk in his hand, and laboriously began to write.
But this time, he wasn’t writing numbers.
He was actually writing derivation formulas.
Such as 2k, 2k / 2, 4k+1, 4k+3…
Then followed by continuous iterative derivations.
12k+4, 6k+2, 3k+1…
Next came 12k+10, 6k+5, 18k+16, 9k+8…
Seeing him write non-stop, without end, the audience below was already shouting loudly.
They were all telling him to stop.
The host rushed to Chen Feng’s side, patted his shoulder: “Chen Feng, Chen Feng? Your performance time is up, Chen… Oh my goodness.”
The host exclaimed in surprise, backing away repeatedly.
At this moment, a camera overhead tracked him, finally capturing Chen Feng’s front.
On the big screen.
Chen Feng’s face seemed distorted.
His mouth was open.
Drool was constantly flowing.
This image truly resembled an intellectually disabled person.
His eyes were staring intently at the blackboard.
He was oblivious to the host’s words, just kept writing on the blackboard, desperately writing, exerting all his strength to write.
One blackboard wasn’t enough, he moved to another.
The host was dumbfounded.
What was going on?
Was he so engrossed in the role?
Couldn’t he get out of it?
The host looked at the general director below.
And at such a critical moment, the general director was actually on the phone?
Was that appropriate?
Director, we are live streaming here?
Give us a word?
Should we force him to stop?
Seeing that the director’s expression while on the phone was quite surprised and serious, he probably had something urgent, so there was no choice but to save the situation himself.
The host once again tried to go over and stop Chen Feng.
But just then, the general director below suddenly shouted at him: “Don’t move, don’t mind him, let him continue.”
The host was stunned.
Don’t mind him?
Just waste time like this?
Soon there wouldn’t be enough time left.
Going over time would result in a fine.
What was the director doing?
Although the host couldn’t understand, since the director had spoken, he didn’t bother to argue.
He stepped aside.
Just watch!
Let’s see what kind of trouble Chen Feng could stir up?
So, the scene was noisy.
The live broadcast continued.
Everyone watched Chen Feng writing and drawing on the blackboard, as if he was deriving an extremely complex mathematical formula.
After he had filled five blackboards in a row, he finally stopped moving.
He stood there blankly, staring at the ceiling.
As if deep in thought.
The host finally breathed a sigh of relief. This time, it could finally end, right?
But just then, the director suddenly jumped onto the stage from below, quickly rushed to the host’s side, took the microphone from his hand, cleared his throat, and said something to everyone.
“Ahem, ladies and gentlemen, audience members here and on the live streaming platform, a sudden situation has occurred. A special audience member called from outside the venue, directly reaching me, and told me something.”
“First, let me explain the identity of this audience member.”
“He is a professor from Tsinghua University, in the Department of Mathematics.”
“The old gentleman is very famous in the field of mathematics and is a leading mathematics expert in China.”
“He just called me and told me that what Chen Feng wrote on the blackboard was not random scribbles.”
“That is, in today’s world, a very famous conjecture in the field of mathematics, called the Collats conjecture.”
“To this day, no one has been able to fully prove this conjecture.”
“But what Chen Feng wrote on the blackboard, it seems he has… he has already discovered something.”
After the general director finished speaking, the entire live broadcast went completely silent.
Everyone: “…”
What was he talking about?
So Chen Feng participated in a variety show, played a genius with intellectual disability, and then used a very famous mathematical conjecture in the Global mathematical field for his performance?
And…
And he discovered something?