Hammer of Technology

"Professor Ning, we are really looking forward to it, and we also know that mathematics is definitely not as simple as it was learned in high school, especially after getting in touch with differential thinking, we will definitely work hard."

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The children scrambled to express their opinions, which was what Ningwei wanted to see the most.

The atmosphere also began to heat up, and it happened that the boxes began to serve food.Although there is no wine, the sweet and sour juices are still enough.

After a happy meal, several children began to search for the mathematical characteristics of the Y-shaped topology...

About a few years later, when the first batch of students in the Ning Class grew up, this could become a story that children in the future will hear from their teachers.Just like the story that Edison used countless materials to test out the light bulb filament, it became evidence that mathematics can also explain life.

Of course, it's only possible.

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The happy summer vacation has passed by.

In a blink of an eye, it was the beginning of school again, and Jiang was officially entering her senior year, with less homework and starting to think about the topic of her graduation thesis; similarly, Jiang Chenlu came to the capital again, this time she was a freshman in the School of Computer Science, Yanbei University. Entering Yanbei University as a freshman, yes, the Jiang family finally listened to Ning Wei's opinion on the issue of choosing a department.

Ning Wei's name was also quietly listed as the postgraduate tutor of Yanbei University's School of Mathematics. There was not much nonsense in the introduction to Ning Wei, but it was emphasized that there were only five places, and only consecutive masters and doctoral students were recruited. .

Yanbei University didn't make much publicity for these five places, but on the second day after Ning Wei was appointed as a tutor, it still became popular.

Students who are majoring in mathematics and preparing to take the postgraduate entrance examination directly ask questions on Zhihu: "Professor Xuan Ning, the official official website of the Graduate School of Mathematics of Yanbei University, will recruit five masters and doctoral students this year. I suddenly want to know who has become the youngest doctoral supervisor in history. What kind of experience is the student union? But I am afraid that Professor Ning's students will not be able to take the exam, so I want to hear everyone's opinions."

Yanbei University's research and admissions office can swear that this question is definitely not their masterpiece. In fact, if it is not in accordance with the regulations, the tutor's name must be listed. The school was going to directly digest the five qualifications directly with the opposite university.

Really, these five master and doctoral qualifications are still very popular, just like the analysis of the answer on Zhihu...

"Do you still need to ask? Ning Wei is such a mentor that you can't find it. Let's not mention Ning Dao's academic achievements and connections. You are destined to be a graduate student for Director Ning. You only need to think about studying hard and making progress every day. You don’t have to worry about being asked to do a lot of trivial things. Moreover, Director Ning probably doesn’t bother to take a look at the results and money you make. This has already surpassed a bunch of tutors in Huaxia... So, do you think it is easy to take the exam?"

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327 Talent Selection

Huaxia's youngest Ph.D. supervisor, without doing anything, became a hot search for no reason, which brought Ning Wei all troubles.

For example, the peaceful research life was finally interrupted, because the answer on Zhihu was correct, and the competition for five places had already begun when most students were looking forward to it.

For Ning Wei, the number of phone calls suddenly increased.

For example, Kong Mingde personally called him.

"Ning Wei, you should have participated in the summer camp jointly organized by the School of Mathematical Sciences and the School of Computer Science of Yanda University this year? Have you noticed a good seedling that Jiangda University signed up for this year? Ji Mingzhi from Hongyi Academy is also your junior. Yes, I should have some impression, right? He also performed well, and he has been confirmed to be sent to the School of Mathematics of Yanbei University for further studies. He is still a fan of yours, why don't you accept him as a student?"

Students who can be recommended by the old dean of several colleges in person are naturally excellent.

This is indeed an impression of his junior brother Ning Wei.

After all, he came from his alma mater, and his grades were indeed impressive.In the six semesters of Hongyi Academy, five semesters have been ranked first in the class, and among the 42 courses that have been completed, 26 courses have full grades, and the other 16 courses are all above 90 points. You must know this He is still a third-year student in Hongyi Academy. As Jiang University, the special general curriculum and exam difficulty are more difficult than other classes.

It must be no problem at all to get this kind of grades for undergraduates and recommend them to Yanbei University.When Ning Wei was a junior, he probably could only look up to this kind of genius.But even so, Ning Wei couldn't agree to the former dean immediately.

There is no other reason. The Artificial Intelligence Branch of the Mathematics Research Center has also been listed. Ning Wei is now the deputy dean, and the specially appointed dean is Yao Lao.Yao Lao had already discussed with Tian Yanzhen before he came, Ning Wei had five places, Yao Ban and Zhi Ban each had one.

This requirement is actually not too much, because although Master Jiang's grades are really strong, his personal research direction at the undergraduate level is weak.Although Ning Wei always teases that the other side is not serious, the students in the Yao class and the Zhi class are still very serious. During the undergraduate stage, they published papers in some high-level conferences and journals, and more than one paper was published. Selecting one from each class can only be counted. Guaranteed.

That's not to mention, Tian Yanzhen also talked to Ning Wei, his master's and doctoral students still have to focus on the School of Mathematical Sciences of Yanbei University.The School of Mathematics of Yanbei University is a first-class institution in the country, and there is an undergraduate research program in the training plan of Yanbei University. Specifically, the School of Mathematics will recommend a group of undergraduates who have enough energy to study at the undergraduate stage. With the help of a mentor, embark on a research path.

Of course, this training plan has performance requirements.At the end of the freshman year at Yanbei University, the grade will carry out a comprehensive quality assessment.On the page where you fill out the assessment, everyone will see their rank in the grade.Generally speaking, only those with top evaluation scores can enjoy this scientific research training program.There are exceptions, but not many.

Therefore, Yanbei University also has no shortage of excellent undergraduates with excellent grades. What's even more frightening is that these undergraduates have experience in scientific research, which also means that it is easier to get started at the graduate level, and it is easier to keep up with Ningwei's ideas.

More importantly, there are a total of five places, and two are given to the opposite side. So Yanbei University must guarantee two places, right?Ning Wei is also a professor at Yanbei University, and everyone said that if he is close to the water, he will get the moon first, so he can't be compared to the opposite.

In this way, although only four places are locked, in fact, Yanbei and Huaqing have already notified those outstanding students that Ningwei has five places for master and doctoral students in advance before the announcement, so Ningwei's mailbox has already received the basic information of many students and the honors obtained in the undergraduate stage.These are all outstanding undergraduates from the two major universities who wanted to learn from Ning Wei and felt that they still had the qualifications to compete.

But this is not over yet. Basically, those who can speak in front of Ning Wei are recommending students to Ning Wei.

For example, Lu Changbin recommended two outstanding undergraduates from Huaxia University of Science and Technology to him. The same resumes have been sent to Ningwei's mailbox; Huawei is fully responsible for the tuition and living expenses during the full-time study period. Of course, this kind of students will sign a good contract, and Ning Wei admits that they will return to Huawei to work directly after graduation.

Not only that, Professor Jiang University who taught Ning Wei before also sent him a lot of recommendation letters and e-mails, recommendation letters from academicians of other top universities, and even Chen Mingcai recommended several well-known teachers from all over the country to Ning Wei. Excellent undergraduate students of the institution.

Just like that, the freshmen are still in military training. Ning Wei will have to wait until March next year to officially confirm his master's degree. The resumes he has received have already exceeded three digits...

Moreover, every student's resume is very good, so it is a troublesome thing to choose who or not to choose.

This is not the only thing that worries Ning Wei.

Jiang Chenlu came back from the military training and told Ning Wei that she was only a freshman, and the counselor had already chatted with her, asking her which direction she would like to take as a graduate student in the future, and also introduced Jiang Chenlu to his tutor by the way.

This made the little girl suddenly feel a lot of pressure.Originally, the grades are not considered top-notch. Is it too early to consider the postgraduate entrance examination or the postgraduate entrance examination as a freshman?After complaining to Ning Wei, the pressure was passed on to Ning Wei...

So to be honest, the hot search on Zhihu is really late. When a group of people are discussing whether Ning Wei’s master’s and doctoral students are good for the exam, Ning Wei has already followed up with those who keep adding resumes every day. Come to say hello, my hair is almost white with worry.

So, after Ning Wei got the news that Google's first investment of 1.2 million US dollars had arrived, he finally couldn't help but rushed into Tian Yanzhen's office.

To be honest, Ning Wei rarely took the initiative to go to Tian Yanzhen's office, and this time he was forced to do nothing.

Ning Wei can really ignore those people who have nothing to do with him, but many people who came to him this time have helped him before, so there is some kind of friendship, Ning Wei really can't directly treat everyone They all rejected this kind of thing.

Not to mention that these recommendations must be selfish, but to be honest, the students who dare to send their resumes to his mailbox must still have some skills.Even if you choose to go abroad for further study, each of you will only consider the level of the TOP20. This choice is indeed not easy to make.

So he hoped that Director Tian could teach him how to select students.

It is impossible to organize these people to take an exam like Ning Ban, let alone this stage. In fact, it is not an exam that can test who is more suitable for research.

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"A rare visitor, Ning Wei, why did you come to see me today?" Tian Yan asked Ning Wei happily.

In fact, this question should be changed to "Ning Wei, did you finally think of coming to me?", because Tian Yanzhen knows better than anyone the problem Ning Wei is facing now.After all, there are quite a few people who came to him directly and wanted to use his relationship to do research with Ning Wei.

To put it bluntly, when everyone recognized that the first batch of people who followed Ning Wei to do scientific research would definitely have a bright future, the five enrollment quotas became fragrant.Those who are qualified to reach out naturally want a piece of the pie.

This is really not just looking at Ning Wei's status as a billionaire, the key is that now the whole world knows the direction of Ning Wei's research, he himself is the leader, and the direction of application is the talent that is most lacking in the future. The metaverse, which capital has picked up again, will eventually bow to strong artificial intelligence technology. Just those data processing, without Ningwei's theoretical support, are almost impossible tasks.

To put it simply, the whole world is optimistic about the research direction of Ning Weiqiang's artificial intelligence, so whether it is Ning Wei's class or the master's and doctoral students under Ning Wei's leadership, as long as he has learned it well, he will be guaranteed to be ranked first in the world in the future. If a high-tech company is engaged in technology, if it decides to continue on the path of scientific research, Ningwei can provide even greater help.

"Don't mention it, Director Tian, ​​Dean Kong called me again today and asked me about the finalization of the enrollment of master and doctoral students. I have a headache, Director Tian, ​​what should I do about this matter? Do you have any ideas?" Ning Asked straight to the point.

"Haha, isn't this happy? The more graduate students who want to test you, the more options you have to choose. Isn't that good? The news should spread, and you let those tutors who are afraid that they can't find good students in the first year What do you think? There are really mentors who can’t run out of places every year. You should be happy!” Tian Yanzhen joked cheerfully.

Ning Wei nodded, and said: "Oh, I understand Director Tian, ​​so how about it, Huaqing promised Mr. Yao two places, it is not easy to change, I will choose one from Yanbei, and the old dean Jiang will lose face." Here, let’s count one, let him choose one to save face with Mr. Chen, and the five places will be allotted. That’s it, I’m going to work.”

After finishing speaking, Ning Wei stood up and turned around, intending to get out of the way, and then Tian Yan was really anxious: "Hey, hey, hey, Ning Wei, wait, what kind of arrangement is this? You only choose one from Yanbei?"

Ning Wei turned around, spread his hands and said, "There is no way, Director Tian, ​​you also said that I should be happy, and I am the happiest when I cut the mess like this."

"Sit back!" Tian Yanzhen couldn't laugh, and pointed to the sofa.

"Oh!" Ning Wei simply sat back, the performance was almost over, and Director Tian should do the real stuff next.

"Think about it, add a few places! Five is definitely not enough. You are right, you have to take care of the people recommended by Mr. Chen. Lao Yao is close. If you can't do what you agreed, If he can come twice a day, he can annoy you to death. You don’t recruit more from Yanbei University. How dare you stay in the research center every day? What do your colleagues think of you? Not to mention that you still want to take care of your alma mater. Old Kong also told me that the one he recommended is willing to sign a good contract with Jiang University. If you can graduate here, he will still go back to Jiang University to start classes. You really have to pay back this favor..."

Tian Yanzhen frowned and said.

Ning Wei said with a bitter face: "Add quota? I can't add more than a few dozen, right? I want to take classes from Ning's class, and I also have to take classes at the master's level. I still have my own research to do, so I'm really busy. Don't come."

Tian Yanzhen glared at Ning Wei, and said, "Who told you to bring so many? Ten, isn't it too much? It's much easier to add ten places, and all aspects can be coordinated. And you are in the Ning class. I’m in my sophomore year, and I still have a year to prepare. There are only two classes a week. How can it be as difficult as you say? As for the postgraduate course, I think it’s okay. You have two big classes a week. , in addition to your graduate students, interested students can also come to attend. In this way, other professors in our School of Mathematics can also help you divert some."

"And don't just think that the students are in trouble, you bring out this group of graduate students, and you can select outstanding ones from them to work as teaching assistants in the Ningbo class to help you answer some elementary questions for the children. It saves you a lot of time."

Ning Wei thought about it, then nodded.

Ten master and doctoral students are still acceptable. An excellent resume represents excellent self-study ability. If you work hard in the early stage and can lead ten people into the door, you can indeed help him do a lot of things in the later stage.

But the problem is still not resolved. After nodding, Ning Wei frowned and said: "But even if there is a quota, I have received too many resumes, and at least half of them are recommended."

Tian Yanzhen smiled, and said: "Then you don't choose, let them compete. Including which ones are recommended, each of them will throw a paper in the past to test their scientific research ability. Outstanding students at the undergraduate stage should at least As far as Yanbei University is concerned, at least they all have certain research capabilities, and it depends on how much they can do based on the thesis. The topic of the thesis can be selected a bit more, and the difficulty is higher, and it is difficult to understand."

"On the one hand, this is your initiative to select and screen out those good seedlings suitable for scientific research; on the other hand, it is also to let these children know that if you really want to choose you as a mentor, how difficult the things to study in the future are, if you don't have the ability, don't make up your mind .You can determine who the quota will be based on the speed and quality of the students' response to you, so that some people recommend it, and it is easy to reject it. If some people are not easy to reject, you can also give some opportunities in moderation."

"In short, when it comes to mentoring students, you still have to hold the right to choose in your own hands. I'm just helping you out. There are many similar methods. You are just new to the post and you are not familiar with it. Especially You have no shortage of students who want to apply for the exam, so it doesn't matter if you are self-willed."

Ning Wei really suddenly realized what he said, patted his forehead and said: "Yes, and I can also create a special group for Sanyue to communicate with them in the group, and I can often post some questions in the group and pay attention to them The content and ideas of the discussion, and then let Sanyue communicate with them on my behalf, examine the breadth of their knowledge and then select the best, thank you Director Tian!"

Tian Yan was really confused, he never thought of leading Ning Wei in this direction, and asked in a muffled voice, "You asked Sanyue to help you review?"

"Don't worry, Director Tian, ​​Sanyue is very powerful. Its talents are not limited to some daily tasks, but it is also a good assistant in scientific research, including the selection of talents. That's it, I'll go first."

After finishing speaking, Ning Wei stood up, this time he really left, without any hesitation at all, leaving Tian Yanzhen sitting there in a daze for a long time...

Well, it is necessary to have a special lesson with the children of the mathematics academy, but the topic of how to make a good impression on artificial intelligence seems to be too advanced, and now I can't find a suitable person to teach it? !

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No matter what Ning Wei is researching now, he is mainly looking for masters and doctoral students in the direction of artificial intelligence number theory.

Ningwei has no shortage of papers in this area. For example, his doctoral thesis selected a small part of his own research results and passed it. Now it is estimated that his future students have studied it thoroughly, because in After the thesis was uploaded, Ning Wei chose to make his doctoral thesis public.It's just a proof of a theorem, and it doesn't involve too many things that need to be kept secret. Ning Wei also hopes that his paper can be helpful to future generations who want to enter this field. Of course, Ning Wei is not afraid that someone will learn from his Pick out what's wrong with the paper.

So it is really not difficult to find a few papers to assess your future students.Directly from the completed thesis manuscripts, intercepting some propositional argumentation processes is enough to test the breadth of thinking of these students in the direction of mathematical artificial intelligence.In addition, Ning Wei hopes to see who is more curious from the feedback.This is where Ning Wei and Tian Yanzhen have different ideas.

After chatting with Tian Yanzhen, Ning Wei felt that it is not important whether he has scientific research experience at the undergraduate level. The important thing is that after graduating from the undergraduate course with excellent grades, he can still maintain a strong thirst for knowledge, so he wants to study for his master's degree. life, rather than simply wanting to fight for a better future.

It’s not that the latter type of people are more selfish, but that with similar talents, whether the thirst for knowledge is strong or not is directly related to the level of effort and the upper limit of future achievements, which is determined by human nature.Under the strong thirst for knowledge, doing research is a happy thing. If you can think and do scientific research to make yourself feel happy, it will become a matter of course to achieve results.

Soon, Ning Wei finished sorting out the thesis, and then summoned March. Naturally, replying to the students’ emails was left to March, and the work of examining whether the students’ thirst for knowledge was strong was also handed over to him. March.

State the requirements, and then build a mathematical model within its capabilities in March, and the students' answers and speeches may trigger the model to give a scoring standard, and the final interview determines the final quota, which is perfect.

"March, are you clear about your tasks? After you return the email to them, leave a WeChat, and then you add all these people's WeChat, and tell them that they can send a message to discuss with you if they don't understand. You can come to me when you encounter a proposition that you don’t quite understand. This matter is very important, especially for you. Whether your ability can be stronger in the future may require their research results..."

"Meow……"

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328 March assistant

An important way for people to simplify complex things is to hand over what they should do.This is also the principle that Ningwei has always practiced. Everything that can not be done by himself is left to others.This is something Ning Wei thought about when he was in Jiang University, that is, no matter how many days he is now, it is impossible for him to finish everything by himself.

So at that time, he would package the finished EDA software and turbulence algorithm to Huawei; so after coming to Yanbei University, he would take the initiative to cooperate with Chen Mingcai, and use the strength of others to build a laboratory he needed; so he He would invite Brother Lu to study artificial intelligence with him, and let Yu Xingwei follow him all the time; so he resisted the pressure and asked Lucy Ron to be a teaching assistant, responsible for giving the students in the Ning class...

In short, let the right person do the right thing, he can be freed from the tedious things, and focus on solving the main contradiction.For example, he solved the chip problem in the shortest time, designed and produced a three-dimensional silicon-through-tube chip, which once broke the shackles of chips on China's high-tech industries.

This time Ning Wei did not expect to find someone to solve these problems, because he and Tian Yanzhen had the same views.To choose students for oneself, of course the initiative must be firmly in one's own hands, so Ning Wei never planned to find someone to replace him to choose students from the beginning, which is equivalent to entering a blind spot in thinking.

After chatting with Tian Yanzhen, Ning Wei realized that this matter could be handed over to March.It is true that these undergraduate graduates cannot be assessed like high school students, but there is still nearly half a year between now and March next year for March to perfect a mathematical model to determine who is more suitable. The thirst for knowledge is stronger, and most importantly It is March's choice that can definitely be impartial, and maybe it can solve the common problem that almost all human societies have faced for thousands of years-the problem of human relations.

Well, in fact, Ning Wei didn't think so far, he just simply thought that this embarrassing thing for him could be done in March.

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Jiang University, Fengyuan Building 3, Dormitory 108, four people are sitting at their desks for self-study. Since the dormitory is equipped with air-conditioning, everyone is less willing to occupy a seat in the library or classroom.People need that kind of learning atmosphere to occupy a seat in the library, but it doesn't exist in Xueba's dormitory.

The four people in the dormitory have already confirmed that they have obtained the exemption qualification.Two of them have already decided to study in this school, and even their supervisors have already expressed their intentions. There are two more, one has roughly decided to go to Mingzhu Jiaotong University, and Ji Mingzhi has preliminarily decided to go to Yanbei University for further studies. A mentor has not been selected yet.

Even so, the four of them did not relax their demands on themselves.Although no-examination students do not need to take the initial test, they still have to pass the interview.Especially Ji Mingzhi, he was already interested in artificial intelligence, so he very much hoped to be admitted to Ningwei as a graduate student, which must make him have higher requirements for himself. It is not easy, after all, there are too many declarations.

It is also fortunate that Ningwei did not open the recruitment of foreign graduate students. There have been rumors among the student circle that many graduates from Harvard, Columbia University, and even Princeton hope to apply for Ningwei's graduate students.At least on Zhihu, many international students are speaking, saying that their professors are encouraging them that if they really want to engage in theoretical research on artificial intelligence or the metaverse in the future, going to Yanbei University is the best choice.

So Ji Mingzhi knew very well that he was now competing with the best undergraduates in all of China, so he didn't dare to relax at all.One thing Kong Mingde didn't lie to Ning Wei was that Ji Mingzhi chose Jiang University because Ning Wei was his idol.Otherwise, he could have had a better choice. Although Yanbei and Huaqing, two super-first-class universities, are still a bit short, it is not a big problem for him to go to Nanjing University or Fudan University with his grades.

At this time, he was studying Ning Wei's doctoral dissertation. If he just read the thesis, he would not be able to understand it, but he had a copy of Jiang University's internal reference materials. It is said that many of the reference materials came directly from Ning Wei's back then manuscript at the time of writing this paper.

It's just that it is said that Ji Mingzhi is not sure if it is true, after all, the materials sent to him are only printed materials.But Jiang University is Ning Wei's alma mater after all, and it is said that they have a good relationship with their dean, so it is not very unusual to get the manuscript.However, Ji Mingzhi believes that this information is the brainstorming result of the professors who specialize in the study of artificial intelligence.

However, Ji Mingzhi really believes that only Jiang Da can produce this material, because not everyone can have a fixed time every month to contact Ning Wei to discuss some academic issues. As we all know, Professor Ning is He is very busy, even so busy that he does not accept invitations from major universities in Huaxia to give lectures. Now Jiang University is probably the only one in Huaxia universities that has this face.

Anyway, this special relationship made Ji Mingzhi feel that he made the right choice during the college entrance examination, otherwise he would not dare to think that he would have the opportunity to study with Ningwei in the future. After all, it is really too difficult, especially when it comes to university The part of machine classification and learning in the data, those abstract correspondences, if there is no reference material to explain the ideas in detail, it will really make people confused.

Really, even a top student, when he saw these papers for the first time, he could only feel that this frankly is the realm of gods.In addition to going to Yanbei University to participate in the summer camp this summer, Ji Mingzhi spent almost all his time researching this thesis. Even with the help of reference materials, he only understood about half of the content, but for him It's like opening a door to a new world.

Whenever he is tired of researching papers, what Ji Mingzhi likes to do most is to find those old posts on the Internet, those descriptions that when Ning Wei gave reports at the two World Conference on Computer Algorithms two years ago, countless foreign academic masters posted on Facebook. , Tucao and crying posts on Twitter, and the very long name they gave Ning Wei...

Every time he reads these, he feels full of immersion, as if he was sitting in this world's top conference to give a report, throwing out a proposition, and the young and promising academic masters in the audience were all confused Looking at him obsessively, completely clueless...

Ji Mingzhi didn't know what Ningwei felt like at the beginning, but he thought that feeling must be very cool, people don't pretend to be a teenager!In particular, this is the pure crushing of IQ, and the pretentiousness of knowledge, which invisibly elevates this kind of compulsion.

My generation should be like this!

Finally figured out the idea of ​​proof of a lemma again, Ji Mingzhi stretched happily, and was about to pick up his phone and go to the favorite forum to read the evaluation of Ningwei on the Internet to wash his brain, but the result was Seeing that the phone prompts that there is a new email in his mailbox, and the sender is...

"Wow! Professor Ning replied to my email!" Ji Mingzhi exclaimed in surprise.

The exclamation broke the quiet atmosphere in the dormitory. The other three raised their heads almost at the same time and turned around to look at Ji Mingzhi. After a moment of confusion, there was the sound of chair legs rubbing against the floor. Behind Ji Mingzhi.

"Why are you still standing there, open it and have a look?!" Someone urged.

"That's right, old trick, if you are really selected by Professor Ning, you will really be prosperous, don't forget about riches and honor!"

"Hey, Professor Xu said that Professor Ning will definitely be selected as an academician this year. It is almost a certainty. Old Kong is the youngest academician student, and he is also the first generation of Academician Ning. You will probably be able to walk sideways when you go back to school in the future... If our mentor treats us badly in the future, you have to speak for us!"

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