take a break

Behind Fang.

Thinking of Chen Shuhua's prejudice against Zhou Guangtong all the time, and now being criticized by Zhou Guangtong in a disguised form, he must be very unhappy. Li Xuesheng suddenly didn't know whether he was right or wrong in bringing Chen Shuhua here.

Chen Shuhua walked quickly to the bus stop near the community, and when he saw that the bus he was going to take had just entered the station, he immediately ran away.

Li Xuesheng stopped in his tracks, panted slightly and stood there, with white mist spraying from his mouth and nose.

Looking at Chen Shuhua's back disappearing into the bus and watching the bus go away, his eyes gradually turned cold.

A gust of cold wind blew by, and Li Xuesheng shivered uncontrollably.

He looked up at the sun high in the sky, feeling chilly both in his body and in his heart.

Los Angeles is sunny all year round, dry and rainless, with a mild and pleasant climate.

At the end of March, Beijing was still cold in spring, and Los Angeles was already so warm that only a shirt and a jacket were needed.

After more than 11 years, Li Xuesheng once again returned to his hometown in his previous life—Los Angeles.

How much he wanted to find relatives in his previous life according to his family address in his previous life, but he was worried that Li Xiaoyu and his family were not there at all.

In September last year, Li Xuesheng sent an e-mail to his e-mail in his previous life, but the system bounced the e-mail and was told that the e-mail did not exist.

What this means, he has been reluctant to think deeply.

This time he came to Los Angeles to participate in the ACM-ICPC Global Finals, and Li Xuesheng was in various conflicts.

After thinking about it for a long time, he finally decided to give up the idea of ​​looking for someone.

missing is worse than meeting.

Dad, Mom, Xiaoyu, I wish you all the best.

Noticing that Li Xuesheng, who had been frowning deeply and solemnly for two consecutive days, had finally returned to normal, Zhou Guangtong, who had been worried about him, heaved a sigh of relief.

He didn't know what was on Li Xuesheng's mind, and he didn't know how to persuade others, so he could only watch and worry silently.

If Yin Shengzhe had been in this absent-minded state on the eve of the competition, Zhou Guangtong would have added sarcasm long ago.

However, if it was Li Xuesheng, Zhou Guangtong was full of worries, and he would not bear to say any hurtful words.

This time he came to Los Angeles to compete, and the Department of Computer Science sent an associate professor - Fan Deqiang to lead the team.

In order to overcome jet lag and familiarize themselves with the environment, a group of four from Peking University arrived in Los Angeles two days in advance.

Fortunately, there were these two days as a buffer, otherwise, Zhou Guangtong was really afraid that Li Xuesheng would bring his previous state into the finals.

In this competition, Zhou Guangtong has the ambition to win the championship.

However, he is well aware of the strength of the teams from the United States and Canada, and knows that the road to the championship is quite difficult.

If Li Xuesheng hadn't been in good shape, with the strength of the remaining two people, I'm afraid they would have nothing to do but sigh.

The venue for the ACM-ICPC Global Finals is set at the basketball court at UCLA.

On the day of the game on March 3, the basketball hall that can accommodate tens of thousands of people was full of seats and crowded.

There are 5 desks in 6 rows and 30 columns arranged neatly and orderly on the bright basketball court. A desktop computer is placed on each desk, and 3 chairs are neatly arranged in front of the desk.

24 teams from 30 countries around the world entered the arena one after another, and took their seats according to the seats arranged in advance by the event organizer.

After sitting down, each team went to check the computer in front of them to make sure that nothing went wrong when the game started.

Li Xuesheng sat on the chair calmly, watching Zhou Guangtong and Yin Shengzhe busy with his eyes indifferently.

Inadvertently, in a blink of an eye, he suddenly found a familiar face sitting next to him.

Li Xuesheng stared closely at the young man with sand-colored hair and gray-blue eyes, and the floodgate of memory opened instantly.

"Derek, is that you?"

Li Xuesheng murmured softly, his originally sharp eyes became hazy because of being caught in memories.

Derek Alston felt that someone was staring at him, and he couldn't help turning his head to look for the owner of the gaze curiously.

When he found a delicate and beautiful little oriental boy like a doll sitting at the next table, he opened his eyes wide in surprise.

A child who looks so young is actually a college student?

The age of the Orientals is really elusive.

Seeing Li Xuesheng sitting on the chair with a confused expression on his face, Zhou Guangtong suddenly became nervous.

He stretched out his hand and shook Li Xuesheng lightly, and asked worriedly, "Xuesheng, what's wrong with you?"

Li Xuesheng came back to his senses, and patted the back of Zhou Guangtong's hand reassuringly.

Just as Zhou Guangtong withdrew his hand, Li Xuesheng immediately stood up and strode in front of Derek Alston.

"Hello, my name is Li Xuesheng, my English name is Hubert, and I am from Peking University in China."

Li Xuesheng stretched out his right hand and introduced himself in pure American English.

Derek Alston was stunned for a moment, stood up and held Li Xuesheng's right hand, and replied politely in English: "Hello, my name is Derek Alston, and I am from Stanford University in the United States."

Li Xuesheng frowned and smiled lightly.

Derek Alston suddenly felt a gust of breeze blowing on his face, carrying a faint scent of flowers.

"Derek, what is your greatest hobby?" Li Xuesheng asked softly.

"Computer," Derek Alston answered honestly.

"What's your favorite fruit?"

"cherry."

"Which singer do you like the most?"

"Bon Jovi."

"What's your favorite sport?"

"I don't like sports very much, and occasionally I watch live TV broadcasts of NBA games."

50

50, bucket...

Sure enough, it's you!

Li Xuesheng stared into Derek Alston's eyes, a sunflower-like smile slowly bloomed on his exquisite face.

Derek Alston felt his eyes light up, as if his whole body was bathed in the brilliant sunshine of summer.

"I wish you good results in the competition." Li Xuesheng wished sincerely.

"Thank you." Derek Alston said with a smile, "I also wish you good results."

Li Xuesheng nodded with a smile, turned around and walked back to his seat.

Seeing Li Xuesheng walking back with a smile on his face, Zhou Guangtong glanced at his neighbor in a strange way.

Noticing that the foreigner who shook hands and talked with Li Xuesheng just now was staring intently at Li Xuesheng's back, he frowned slightly, and a shadow quickly passed through his deep Danfeng eyes.

Li Xuesheng glanced at the watch on his left wrist and saw that the game time was approaching, so he said to Zhou Guangtong and Yin Shengzhe, "I'm going to play the main game today, and you will help. Believe me, the Champions Cup is waiting for us to win."

Zhou Guangtong and Yin Shengzhe nodded at the same time, full of confidence in the calm and composed Li Xuesheng.

There are a total of 9 questions in the global finals, all in English.

Li Xuesheng browsed through all the questions with his teammates, and instructed Yin Shengzhe to answer the 8th question, and Zhou Guangtong to answer the 9th question, and then he started answering the first question with all his fingers.

It took Li Xuesheng only 85 minutes to answer the first 7 questions correctly.

At this time, Yin Shengzhe and Zhou Guangtong had completely written the answers to the remaining two questions on white paper, discussed in a low voice, and checked each other's answers.

Li Xuesheng stood up and gave Yin Shengzhe the seat in front of the computer.

Yin Shengzhe immediately followed the answers written on the paper to type on the keyboard.

Zhou Guangtong was in charge of staring at the computer screen, in case Yin Shengzhe accidentally made an input error.

Li Xuesheng quickly browsed the answers given by Yin Shengzhe and Zhou Guangtong, in case the two of them missed anything in their answers.

Finding that there was nothing he needed to add, he satisfactorily put down the paper with densely written programs in his hand.

When it was Zhou Guangtong's turn to answer the questions, Li Xuesheng was responsible for staring at the screen in case Zhou Guangtong made mistakes.

Because of the tacit cooperation of the three and the reasonable use of time, they only took 115 minutes and 48 seconds to correctly answer 9 questions.

When the red "Congratulation!" popped up on the computer screen, joyful smiles bloomed on the three young faces at the same time.

When the computer screen at the judging table of the competition showed that the Chinese team had completed the competition with a 115% correct rate and a time of 48 minutes and [-] seconds, all the judges present were dumbfounded.

They never expected that the Champions Cup of the ACM-ICPC Global Finals would be snatched away by the Chinese team participating for the first time.

The judges looked at each other in amazement when they saw three oriental boys in suits and leather shoes stand up from their seats and walk out of the competition scene so quiet that only the sound of keyboard tapping could be heard.

Seeing Li Xuesheng, Zhou Guangtong, and Yin Shengzhe walk out of the game, Fan Deqiang, who had been sitting in the audience watching the three-person game, immediately stood up.

The four met in the square outside the basketball hall. Fan Deqiang couldn't restrain his excitement and joy, and said in a trembling voice: "Congratulations! You won the championship this time, breaking the situation that the European and American countries have always occupied the championship. Not only for us China has won glory, and it has also won glory for the whole of Asia. You have proved with your practical actions that the computer skills of our Chinese college students are definitely not inferior to those of foreign countries!"

Li Xuesheng smiled lightly, but rolled his eyes in his heart.

Comrade associate professor, can you not speak other words besides Mandarin?

With a decent smile on his face, Zhou Guang put his head down and listened, but his lowered eyes were full of disdain.

Yin Shengzhe was trembling with excitement and his face was full of joy. He seemed to have seen the admission letter from a famous American university beckoning to him.

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