Xue Tao thought this little competition would just be a walk in the park for him. However, his invitation to team up with the Shanghai master was actually rejected, which completely took him by surprise.
So, he had no choice but to turn to his high school classmates for help.
Forming a team within his college class was simply too difficult; after all, everyone knew exactly what level he was at.
Over the past few days, no other classmates had come looking to team up with Xue Tao. This perfectly matched his inner expectations, even though the stubborn local would never admit it aloud.
Even during daytime classes, people would approach Xue Tao to ask if Su Bai was going to participate in the competition.
Upon receiving a negative answer, they felt a bit disappointed.
I thought I could use this opportunity to defeat Su Bai head-on for once. I lost during P.E. class last time, and I am still really bitter about it.
...
Looking at the guy's slightly edgy demeanor, Xue Tao found it hard to keep a straight face.
This guy's nickname was Grad-School Bro, and he was one of the eccentric legends in the class... wait, why did he say one of? Whatever, it did not matter. In short, Grad-School Bro viewed Su Bai as a direct competitor and cared immensely about Su Bai's daily whereabouts. Whenever he saw Su Bai skipping a class that did not take attendance to go goof off, Grad-School Bro would feel extremely delighted.
Who knows what he was so happy about...
As everyone knew, Su Bai had goofed off for the entire first half of the semester as well. However, his exam scores had already proven that the kid was quite smart. He was not as miraculous as Chen Yusheng, but he also was not someone who needed to attend class to learn things.
Attending class, for college students, was becoming increasingly a matter of pure formalism.
Furthermore, Xue Tao felt that Su Bai most likely had zero interest in getting a graduate school recommendation anyway.
Even though he would occasionally act incredibly sour about every aspect of Su Bai back in the dorm, whenever it came to students from other dorms, Xue Tao actually quite liked defending Su Bai.
Grad-School Bro had found teammates from God knows where. He frequently appeared in the study room at night with them, studying things related to the competition. The aura of his two teammates was strikingly similar to his own. One was male and the other female, jokingly dubbed by the class as Grad-School Little Bro and Sister Baoyan.
Birds of a feather flock together, as they say.
By the way, is not this Chen Yusheng from your class? Why is she showing up in the competition's Q and A group as a teaching assistant? Inside the classroom, Grad-School Little Bro asked this profound question.
Uh, I am not too sure either. It seems she started working for the professor really early on, so she has a lot of experience...
Huh? Does her family have connections?
I do not know, but rumor has it she has some background.
Recently, Professor Luo had been very perceptive. Under Su Bai's continuous sponsorship offensive, Chen Yusheng was already receiving the undisputed treatment of someone with connections. The upperclassmen who knew Chen Yusheng's true abilities naturally thought this was normal. However, the uninformed onlookers could only lean toward believing that her background was playing a role.
They were all undergraduate students, so why would the professor value her so much?
After all, at first glance, Chen Yusheng's most prominent feature was her beauty. But nowadays, professors would not dare try any unspoken rules with female students, so it had to be that her family had a powerful background.
Hearing this, Sister Baoyan frowned, I hate these people who rely on their families the most. For people like us who have nothing but our own personal effort, we are naturally born with a starting line far behind theirs. Therefore, we need to work even harder!
Makes sense. Sigh, I just hope we can rake in some pocket money this time...
Grad-School Bro complained with his two teammates for a while. Seeing that it was almost time, he reminded the two of them to stop gossiping behind people's backs.
It would not be good if the person in question heard them.
Tonight there was a Q and A session, attended by the teaching assistants in charge of the competition, to answer various questions regarding the event.
It had to be said that when the computer science department hosted even a small competition, it looked quite professional and did not seem like a ragtag operation.
After all, many of the participants were freshmen who were not very familiar with things like development environments and lacked experience. Therefore, the things they needed to prepare in advance or study beforehand required the teaching assistants to explain them in person.
Normally, teaching assistants were graduate students.
Or to put it more bluntly, these competitions might fundamentally be based on projects held by certain graduate students' advisors. In that case, dragging them over to act as free labor could not be more normal.
Among several graduate students whose hairlines looked to be in imminent danger, Chen Yusheng's image stood out as very unique.
She actually did not really like this kind of showy activity. However, according to Su Bai, she would definitely be leading projects in the future, so should not she get familiar with it in advance?
What was called scientific research often involved a larger component of project management, rather than just fighting alone to overcome some obstacle. This was an area many students lacked, and it was actually something Chen Yusheng lacked as well.
In terms of personal ability, her capacity to settle down and figure things out on her own was already strong enough. However, due to the limitations of objective conditions, she had no experience in leading a team... This was very normal; few freshmen had team-leading experience. Therefore, whenever a similar opportunity arose, Su Bai encouraged Chen Yusheng to adapt to it. Simply put, she was treating herself like a graduate student.
In another two years, she might even be able to treat herself as a young teacher at the school.
Chen Yusheng's potential was clear as day, and with Su Bai's invested resources supporting her, it was only natural that she grew much faster than ordinary students.
Actually, it was the same principle as with Lu Yuning. She had enough talent, and Su Bai was willing to invest money, so she could lead designs herself at a young age. If she had to continue grinding for seniority, who knows how long she would have had to play the underling to major designers.
However, regarding Chen Yusheng's appearance as a teaching assistant, the grad-school trio was clearly very unconvinced. They all had their own pride and would not easily admit for no reason that a student in the same grade was better than them!
Thus, Sister Baoyan took the lead, clutching her laptop, and went to find Chen Yusheng for the Q and A.
She wanted to see exactly how much real skill this person had.
Unconvinced as she was, she was actually also curious. The teachers in the department were full of praise for Chen Yusheng, which was not something a simple well-connected person could achieve.
As a result, in less than a few minutes, Sister Baoyan returned to her two teammates, her expression somewhat complicated.
Well?
Uh... no, why are you asking me? You are in the same class as her and you are asking me?? She was amused by Grad-School Bro.
...I have not even spoken to her. Grad-School Bro blushed a little. In reality, he did not dare speak to her. The aura of an S-tier goddess was ultimately just too strong. Moreover, Chen Yusheng naturally possessed an aloof halo. Even in a Q and A setting, the two guys could not quite muster the courage; only Sister Baoyan dared to confront her directly.
Alright, sigh... Sister Baoyan paused. This person is seriously so strong. It feels like she is familiar with so many aspects, like a skilled developer who has worked in a company. Some of the things she talked about, I could not even understand!
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