Chapter 25 Li Tai’s Report
When the night watchman struck the fourth gong, Yun Ye was woken up from his sleep by Li Tai. He reluctantly put on his clothes and tiptoed outside the academy walls.
Li Gang and the other teachers were also sitting on large chairs, staring intently at a white circle made of lime outside the wall. Their usually serious faces were full of childlike curiosity.
Zhao Yanling was whispering to Li Ke, and they were talking about something, but it was hard to tell what. They looked like they were about to try something.
All the students from the academy were here, everyone was very energetic, staring at the ground with their eyes wide open, as if they were expecting gold ingots to pop out of the ground.
A banner hung on the wall, reading: Yushan Academy Li Tai Mathematics Exchange.
Li Tai, who looked indifferent, asked, “Who came up with such an arrogant idea? How dare they steal my idea?
“No, it’s just that you all love me so much, and I’m ashamed to accept it.” After saying this, he made a four-way bow, which attracted a lot of low cries.
Li Gang waved his hand in dissatisfaction, signaling for him to shut up.
A crescent moon cast a silvery light, and the dark peaks of the mountains could be faintly seen. The sound of a night owl could be heard from time to time, and occasionally a howl of a wolf could be heard. The people of the academy hid in the shadows at the foot of the wall, with only a dozen guards under the leadership of Liu Xian, their bows strung and their swords drawn, on guard, adding a bit of tension to the eerie and gloomy environment.
Push Li Tai: “How confident are you?”
“Hmph, he’s just a grave robber. I’m 90% sure he’ll escape at this hour. I asked Liu Xian, and any thief with a modicum of common sense will always think that the best time to escape is at four o’clock in the morning. Yesterday, when it was almost dawn, he stopped digging a foot below the surface and returned to his cell to rest and recuperate. He even secretly hid some food, thinking that the guards hadn’t noticed. He’s fooling himself. He’s dreaming if he thinks he can escape from me!” His tone was full of confidence, and he made a fist to show that everything was under control, which was very heroic.
Yun Ye discovered that Li Tai had a new change, which was a strong sense of self-confidence.
This discovery made him somewhat depressed, and he hoped that it would not create the most formidable obstacle to Li Chengqian becoming emperor.
He was about to ask a few more questions, but Liu Xian stopped him. He pointed at the white ash circle with his finger.
A lump of earth in the circle bulged up, and a black hand penetrated the earth and reached out of the ground, opening and closing in the air, like the hand of an aggrieved spirit from the depths of the earth demanding a life. Such a sudden change caused everyone to take a long breath. If it weren’t for the many companions nearby, it is estimated that there would not be a small number of people who would turn and run away.
Liu Xian laughed and stopped the commotion, and when he raised his bow, everyone immediately quieted down.
This guy’s archery skills are so good that it’s an understatement to say he can shoot an arrow through a willow tree at 100 paces. When he’s around, there’s really a ghost, and he’ll tear the ghost apart again.
His hand retracted again, and from time to time, clods of earth were thrown out of the hole. The hole gradually grew from the size of a bowl to the size of a washbasin. Suddenly, a head wrapped in cloth poked out of the hole, and a long, wheezing sound came from it, as if a person who was about to drown had just put his head out of the water.
Before he could catch his breath, a low laugh came from the mouth full of mud, accompanied by heavy breathing.
The ecstasy of a demon escaping from hell is the current state of mind of Huang Zi. However, when he encounters Li Tai, a demon of the imperial family, any action is superfluous. Even the respected and virtuous Li Gang, who hates evil as much as he hates evil, looks at him with sympathy.
After laughing, the weasel let out a low, muffled cry. For him, the academy was a real hell on earth. He wasn’t afraid of being beheaded. He knew from the first day he became a tomb raider that he would be beheaded one day. He wasn’t afraid of torture either. He had dealt with the authorities for many years and had been tortured many times. made him feel fear from the core of his bones. Blood slowly flowed out of his body, and his body gradually became cold. Death gradually spread from his toes to his whole body. He wanted to cry but couldn’t make a sound, and he wanted to cry but couldn’t make a sound. The most terrifying thing was that no one was watching him die. At that time, he was the only one in the cell, and the only sound was the crisp sound of blood dripping into the copper basin.
It turned out that dying alone was the most terrifying thing in the world. He had to marry the woman who sold fermented rice wine so that when he died, he would have someone by his bedside, and not be a lonely ghost wandering in the cold underworld. Hope gave him strength, and he sped up his movements, completely ignoring his hands that were digging up the earth and turning over the flesh.
The naked weasel emerged from the ground, with a cloth bag tied around his ankle. When he turned to untie the cloth bag around his ankle, he froze. His heart sank, and he saw nearly a hundred pairs of eyes looking at his naked body with interest.
The strength drained from his body in an instant, and he collapsed on the ground, no longer caring that he was naked, closing his eyes and resigning himself to fate.
Lanterns and torches were lit, and the black night sky was torn open in an instant.
No one paid any attention to the weasel lying on the ground. Li Tai walked over to a blackboard hanging on the outside wall and drew a diagram of the weasel’s escape.
“From this escape diagram, we can see that the weasel is sensitive to direction and accurate. He almost reached his destination along a 35-degree diagonal line, which is amazing. We must know that he has not learned any arithmetic knowledge and knows nothing about geometry. He only used his eyes and thumb to complete three-point positioning, and the accuracy is amazing.
“Look at this white circle. I know the approximate location of this circle only after rigorous calculations. The weasel came out of this circle almost without a difference, which involves trigonometric calculations, the application of elementary physics, and the expansion of the concept of density.
Yun Ye stood in his shadow, holding his head and squatting on the ground. He simply ignored Mr. Yuan Zhang’s comforting words. Wave after wave of strange thoughts, which could not be described as pain or embarrassment, and even a trace of pride, were pounding his brain. He had no idea what attitude to use to face everything in front of him.
“Is this how the teacher taught it to be used? Li Tai’s reasoning is very sound, and the theorem he used is also very accurate. The analysis method is correct and interlocking, and the entire report is almost flawless, but I just feel something is wrong. Where is it wrong?”
Li Gang came over and kicked Yun Ye in the butt hard, which saved Yun Ye from his deep thoughts and made him look at Li Gang blankly.
“You have taught a demon, a demon who only sees the changes in things and has no humanity. The hole that the weasel dug with great effort and almost bare hands in a month’s time is just a 35-degree slash in his eyes. It is estimated that in the future, everything in the world will become piles of boring and cold numbers in his eyes. He has learned to see the world through the eyes of mathematics. The difference between him and you and me is the difference in height, weight, and age. There will be no more concepts of teachers, friends, or loved ones. He will only take the path that leads to his goal, and will not choose the right path. He will be immersed in the sea of numbers and unable to extricate himself. Is this the goal you want to achieve?