CSGM - Chapter 24
Chapter 24: Expelled from the Fish Circle
Digital Huarong Road?
Wasn't this a game she had gotten tired of back in elementary school? Did it really need to be taught?
As for this thing having a principle behind it... Chu Xi had never really looked into it.
It was like how top students often didn't need to memorize formulas; they could deduce them instinctively in one go.
She opened her phone, spent a minute scanning the principles of the sliding puzzle on a search engine, and instantly understood.
Mission countdown remaining: 28 minutes, 32 seconds.
"Luo Yangtian, keep an eye on this pot for me. Turn off the heat in five minutes and serve it." Fortunately, there were few customers tonight, so the back kitchen wasn't busy. Chu Xi called her little brother over to take her shift.
Just as she was about to go out to find Ren Zhi, Ren Zhi, as if by telepathy, came to the back kitchen looking for her.
"Chu Xi, are you busy?"
Ren Zhi stood at the kitchen door, peering inside as she asked.
She was holding a 4x4 magnetic Digital Huarong Road board. A customer's child was throwing a tantrum by an adult's legs, refusing to eat until they finished the game.
The best person to quickly solve the Digital Huarong Road... Ren Zhi thought for a moment, and Chu Xi's arrogant face popped into her mind.
Chu Xi wiped her hands on a towel and came over.
Ren Zhi held up the magnetic board and asked her, "Can you do this?"
Chu Xi didn't speak. She glanced at the arrangement of the numbers, extended her fingers, and a clattering sound filled the air as the tiles were moved.
After about ten seconds, she asked in return, "So, can I?"
Ren Zhi flipped the magnetic board over and was instantly astonished.
The 15 numbers were already back in their original positions!
In just ten-odd seconds...
She could... she was very good...!
Chu Xi had once again exceeded her expectations.
But just as she was about to return the solved board to the customer's child, the toy was suddenly snatched from her hand by Chu Xi.
Ren Zhi froze and turned back.
Clatter, clatter, clatter.
Chu Xi's long, nimble fingers were like leaping musical notes. In a moment, she had restored the numbers to the same jumbled state they were in when Ren Zhi brought it in.
She handed it back to Ren Zhi and smiled. "To think you still like playing these kinds of children's educational games. Let me teach you."
Ren Zhi: "???"
Who said she liked playing this?
"Hurry up and solve it again! I'm doing this for the kid!"
She was just trying to get the child to stop fussing and eat properly.
So, to Chu Xi, she was just a tool.
The "tool" now heard the noisy cries of the child outside.
"I won't eat! I won't eat! Waaah... I want to play a little longer!"
Heh... a heartless woman who uses you and casts you aside.
Chu Xi said, "Want to learn or not? If not, I'm not giving it back. Let him keep crying out there."
Ren Zhi agreed. "Fine, fine, I'll learn. Just take this out to him first."
Chu Xi: "Tsk, you got your way."
The two of them took the game board to Xiao Abu's table. Chu Xi crouched down, pressed a hand on the little boy's head, and commanded:
"Alright, stop crying. Watch."
This time, it only took her ten seconds. She expertly restored the 15 numbers to their original positions.
The little boy's round eyes didn't blink as he stared blankly at his game board.
Huh...? How did it get solved? A-a master!
Chu Xi said, "Pretty amazing, right? This sister taught me the secret to beating it. If you eat your dinner now and finish it nicely, she'll teach you too." She pointed at Ren Zhi as she spoke.
The little boy immediately scrambled back into his chair, picked up his bowl and spoon, and looked up at Ren Zhi, shouting as if afraid she wouldn't see what he was doing, "I'm eating now!"
Ren Zhi had been sold out by Chu Xi just like that. Her face darkened, and she secretly pinched Chu Xi's waist.
She whispered, word by word, "I don't know how."
"It's fine, you'll get it once you learn." Chu Xi led her to the kitchen doorway.
This toy wasn't hard.
Plus, Ren Zhi's IQ was already a bit higher than the average person's; it was impossible for her not to understand.
"For this kind of sliding puzzle, there are only three stages to solving it."
Chu Xi lifted Ren Zhi's index finger and guided her through the motions.
It's a known fact that with the Digital Huarong Road, the earlier numbers are the easiest to restore.
The first stage is to solve the first two rows of the puzzle.
Chu Xi: "No difficulty. Anyone with normal intellectual development can do it."
The second stage is to arrange the last two rows into a specific pattern.
Chu Xi: "Very simple. Just requires a little bit of brainpower."
The third stage is the final solution.
Total tutorial time: two and a half minutes. Class dismissed.
Chu Xi: "That's it. Got it?"
Bullet comments: 【Thanks, teacher. I'm useless.】
【Eyes: Looks like it makes sense... ah, right, right, right... I get it! Brain: Huh? Huh? Huh?】
【So I'm the one with abnormal intellectual development...】
【Sister, can you teach a little slower next time? Your hands move faster than my brain!!!】
Unexpectedly, Ren Zhi looked at the game board thoughtfully and slowly nodded.
"I think I get it..."
Then she scrambled the numbers and went through the steps Chu Xi had taught her.
She quickly solved it perfectly.
Ren Zhi: "Like this?"
Chu Xi: "Correct."
【Huh?????】
【I have to ask, is this live stream playing at double speed? Am I watching at a different speed than Ren Zhi??!】
【How did Ren Zhi learn it??】
【My guess is, it's because Chu Xi was holding her hand, not yours. (manual dog head)】
【I finally understand why Chu Xi insisted on pulling Ren Zhi into the car with her. The two of them are truly in sync!】
【Let's not talk about the car ride... surely no one thinks what Chu Xi did was right?】
This was Chu Xi's black mark! Undeniable!
Anyone with a normal moral compass would probably get angry watching the clip of Chu Xi ignoring everyone's advice and insisting on taking the car.
It's wrong to lack team spirit on a team-based variety show!
It's wrong to act spoiled and pampered on a reality show!
Hmph, I refuse to let her whitewash this!
The topic of the bullet comments drifted for a while, but it was soon pulled back by a wave of "wows."
Chu Xi asked Ren Zhi, "Have you ever learned about inversion numbers?"
Hearing an unfamiliar term, Ren Zhi froze for a second, then shook her head. "No."
That was fine.
So Chu Xi first explained the concept of inversion numbers to her.
Then, she solved the Digital Huarong Road to the end of the second stage, pointed to a few of the tiles, and explained step by step, progressively: "'Not all arrangements of the numbers can be solved. If you were to pop the tiles out and put them back randomly, you might create an unsolvable state... Moving a tile doesn't change the parity of the Digital Huarong Road... At this point, if we set C as an n-by-n sub-puzzle... we can conclude that if the number of inversions is even, there is always a solution. Conversely, if it's odd, it's unsolvable.'"
This was the most fundamental principle behind solving the Digital Huarong Road.
Chu Xi was so serious, meticulous, and professional that if Ren Zhi hadn't been right there listening with her own ears, she would have found it hard to imagine these words coming from an actress in the entertainment industry.
If you didn't understand it yourself, you couldn't possibly explain such a subject so thoroughly.
Ren Zhi tilted her head and stared at Chu Xi, a little dazed.
She thought, so Chu Xi really has some substance to her.
The entertainment industry had truly wasted her talent before.
A bad student? A vase? A "Nine-Year Education Leaky Fish"? Those were probably just labels "arranged" for her in the past, right?
This wasn't the first time she had discovered Chu Xi's extraordinary intelligence.
She never expected that while this person's mouth was arrogant, she actually had the skills to back it up.
Chu Xi looked at her, read her expression, and chuckled. "What, Sister Zhi, you admire me too?"
Ren Zhi's expression changed instantly. She gave a dry laugh. "Stop being so narcissistic."
If Chu Xi's tail didn't wag proudly for a day, would the sun rise in the west?
Chu Xi was unfazed, only concerned with one thing: "Did you understand?"
She saw that Ren Zhi's IQ value hadn't changed yet.
But Ren Zhi said, "I think I mostly get it."
The next second, the System prompted: "Ding! Timed mission complete!"
It seemed she really did understand.
Chu Xi was slightly surprised.
She hadn't expected Ren Zhi's comprehension to be so high. She learned so fast. Chu Xi had thought she'd have to explain it at least twice.
It was a pity that learning this couldn't directly increase Ren Zhi's IQ, otherwise she could have killed two birds with one stone and earned some IQ points.
Still, she was very satisfied. She acknowledged, "You're not that dumb."
The audience had an epiphany.
They once thought that by following along in the live stream, they could be considered online students.
Now they understood. They were nothing! They were just part of the "teaching play"!
【Zhizhi: Enlightened; Cheese: Useless.】
【So Nuwa made me just to fill a quota.】
【Thanks for asking. I finished the lesson. Ren Zhi is the student, I'm just dead.】
【Their conversation is like it's encrypted. I heard everything, but it's like I heard nothing!!!】
【Who said Chu Xi only graduated from middle school??? That's false intelligence! Drag them out and behead them!】
【I don't want to see anyone calling Chu Xi a 'Nine-Year Education Leaky Fish' after today, or I'll be sad that the internet hasn't reached your village yet.】
【Have you ever seen a 'leaky fish' who knows about inversion numbers and algorithms? Please kick this fake 'leaky fish' Chu Xi out of the fish circle!】
【Wuwuwuwu, I watch a Chu Xi edit every day, and I fall in love with Chu Xi every day. Am I a lost cause?】
Although Chu Xi was truly mean for bullying the flying guest, her intelligence was also truly high.
And that cool, heroic face had the exact look of the dream 'top' for countless 'face dogs'.
She might not slay men, but she definitely slays women.
The sapiosexuals, the ones who stan for visuals, and the viewers with a secret admiration for the strong were all agonizing as they watched the live stream!
Most of them felt that Chu Xi's character was unreliable, a high-risk area for a collapsed house, while also being madly attracted to her.
On one hand, they were saying, 【I'd rather die than become a fan of Chu Xi, she's a disgraced artist!】.
On the other hand, a notification popped up on their phone: 【Successfully followed the Super Topic. Congratulations on becoming the 20,849th Milkshake!】.
Interestingly, two of Chu Xi's trending topics were on the Weibo hot search list at the same time tonight, ranked one after the other, right next to each other.
Number seven: #Chu Xi Are Your Legs Broken#
Number eight: #Chu Xi: Got It?#
Ren Zhi's assistant had seen both of these trending topics.
She was half-worried, half-pleased.
After some deliberation, the assistant still sent a quiet message to remind Ren Zhi:
【Sister Zhi, you should keep your distance from Chu Xi! Ask the director tonight if you can switch tents. Don't let the fans find out you're sleeping with her every day.】
This little nobody was too good at attracting hate. With so much controversy surrounding her, she's dangerous!
The assistant remembered very clearly that she had specifically reminded Ren Zhi not to let the fans know she was sleeping with Chu Xi every day.
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