Chapter 10: A Tsinghua Professor Joins the Call, Witnessed by the Entire Internet!
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Beijing, Tsinghua Garden.
In the Mathematics Department’s office, steeped in a century of scholarly tradition, the air was thick with the distinctive scent of aged paper and ink.
Professor Zhang Chengyan, nearing seventy, perched his heavily prescriptioned reading glasses on the bridge of his nose. Leaning forward, he was almost pressed against the computer screen.
On the screen was the frozen profile of a young man, set against a blackboard filled with complex calculations.
The video had been dragged back and forth, paused, and replayed more than twenty times by him.
The office door was slightly ajar, and passing students could occasionally hear stifled gasps of wonder and the muffled thud of a fist striking the desk in excitement.
“No... no... here... so that’s how it is!”
Zhang’s clouded eyes now shone with an almost fanatical light. He fixed his gaze on the masterful problem-solving steps displayed in the video, muttering to himself. His fingers gripping the mouse whitened slightly from the force.
“A genius!”
Suddenly, he pushed the mouse aside and rose from the polished rosewood chair, his chest heaving violently.
“This is an unparalleled mathematical prodigy!”
He could no longer stay seated, pacing excitedly back and forth in the cramped office, the old wooden floorboards creaking under his footsteps.
“This approach... it’s wildly original! It completely breaks free from the constraints of existing theoretical frameworks, yet fits perfectly with the axioms at the most fundamental level! How did he conceive this? Such a difficult problem, he solved it single-handedly... in front of millions!”
Nearby, his proudest doctoral assistant cautiously organized documents. Seeing his mentor’s obsessed state, he hesitated but finally spoke in a low voice.
“Professor Zhang, please calm down. The Jinling police contacted us through the university office, and they said... this young man named He Yu’s identity is suspicious. He is highly likely a core member of a large online scam ring...”
Before the words had finished, Zhang Chengyan’s pacing came to an abrupt halt.
He whipped around, his eyes behind the glasses blazing with furious anger.
“Nonsense!”
His shout made the teacup on the desk tremble.
“Utter nonsense! Tell me, how could someone with such pure, immaculate mathematical thinking—someone who immerses himself in logic to deduce truth—be a fraud?”
Zhang’s face flushed with rage as he pointed at He Yu on the screen, his voice trembling.
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“This is a blatant insult to scholarship! The vilest desecration of a genius!”
The assistant shrank back under the roar, his face laden with helplessness, and reluctantly handed over freshly printed documents.
“But, Professor... the police have investigated thoroughly. This He Yu has taken the college entrance exam three years in a row and failed all three times. His highest score didn’t even meet the undergraduate admission cutoff in Nanhe Province.”
“What?”
The anger on Zhang’s face instantly froze, replaced by overwhelming disbelief.
He snatched the documents and stared blankly at the black-and-white records.
After a long moment, he let out a deep, complex sigh.
“Nanhe Province... Has their college entrance exam really become this difficult?”
He muttered to himself, eyes full of grief and indignation.
“A talent like this... such a talent has been buried until now...”
His love for talent reached its peak at that instant.
The thought of such a rare gem in mathematics being sullied by worldly prejudice and police suspicion ignited a fierce fire within him.
No, this must not be allowed to happen!
He immediately made a decision that left his assistant dumbfounded.
“Prepare a car! No, no need for that!” He waved his hand, his gaze sharpening with renewed resolve. “Contact the Jinling police and tell them I want to connect live with He Yu myself! Right in his livestream! I will prove his innocence before the entire nation!”
This earth-shattering announcement spread like a shockwave through official police channels.
In an instant, the entire Chinese internet erupted.
[#TsinghuaProfessorFightsFakeCrazyStreamerLive#]
This dramatic and confrontational topic swept all social media trending lists with overwhelming force.
Countless netizens flooded into He Yu’s small livestream room like a tidal wave. Among them were those eager to see a fraud exposed, those curious about the mathematical prodigy’s brilliance, and many who simply came for the spectacle.
At exactly eight o’clock in the evening.
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Technicians from the Jinling Cyber Police Division personally set up a dedicated live connection for He Yu’s stream.
The viewer count in the livestream room, displayed in red, surged to an unprecedented and terrifying level—three million.
He Yu sat calmly in the creaking old chair, as composed as if facing not a titan of China’s academic world but just an ordinary viewer.
Meanwhile, in the city’s monitoring center, the atmosphere was taut and suffocating.
Liu Jie, captain of the cyber police unit, stared intently at the overly youthful face of He Yu displayed on the big screen, his palms sweaty. Behind him, dozens of task force members held their breath, afraid to make a sound.
The eyes of the entire internet were fixated here.
A popup appeared on the screen.
The ID was striking, bearing the golden official verification mark—[Tsinghua University—Zhang Chengyan].
The notification for a live audio connection request sounded, piercing the silence of the livestream.
Three million viewers held their breath.
Liu Jie and his team’s hearts seemed to have leapt into their throats.
Under the world’s watchful gaze,
He Yu in the camera frame suddenly curled the corner of his lips into a faint, teasing smile.
He extended a finger, unhurried and calm, with the poise of one who controls everything.
He lightly tapped the green button on the screen.
“Accept.”