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The AIME American Mathematics Invitational is held in winter, and there are still nearly two months before the start of the competition.

Although it is still far away from the official competition, the preparatory work can start during this period.

Such as reviewing, such as paying fees.

In the past two months, in order to make it easier to go to the United States to participate in the competition, Ji Ke worked a little harder on English and passed the TOEFL test.

Now he is a sophomore in high school, and the TOEFL certificate is generally valid for two years. It just so happens that his certificate can be maintained until he goes to college, and then he can concentrate on course study and competitions, without worrying about English.

During this period of time, as 520 said, because his degree of protagonistization within the school has reached its peak, no matter what he does, the degree of protagonistization will not change at all.

However, two months passed quickly, and he was about to embark on the journey of refreshing the main angle.

The night before leaving for America, Ji Ke was invited by Jiang Jingcheng to have dinner.

He is a high school student who just wanted to get a professional experience certificate. He is not even a serious intern. He was flattered enough to be invited by the director to have a meal. On the day of the meal, the director came to the school to pick him up. Ji Ke felt that he really saved the galaxy in his previous life.

The dinner is very down-to-earth, and they eat mutton boiled in an old Beijing copper pot.

What Jiang Jingcheng meant was that he was going to America for more than a week this time, and he was afraid that he might not be used to Western food, so he treated him to an authentic Chinese meal before leaving.

Ji Ke thought about it.

Coincidentally, his favorite food is boiled mutton.

As soon as he saw Jiang Jingcheng, the ridiculous idea popped up in Ji Ke's mind.

Especially when he was taken to a restaurant and saw that the dinner he was about to eat was his favorite food, he felt that his thoughts were justified.

So during the dinner, Ji Ke pretended to ask unintentionally: "Director Jiang, did we know each other before? Did you meet me before I entered the research institute?"

"I probably haven't seen it before." Jiang Jingcheng smiled, "I don't remember it."

"Oh..." Ji Ke took a sip of his drink, raised his eyes, and met the eyes of the man opposite him.

He asked again: "What position do you hold in the Quick Transmigration Bureau?"

Jiang Jingcheng looked at him without dodging his eyes, and asked with a smile, "What is the quick game?"

Ji Ke stared at his eyes carefully, and after confirming that there was no trace of lying, he slowly lowered his eyes again.

"It's nothing." He took a sip of his drink as if to cover up, "Just a casual question."

After dinner, Jiang Jingcheng sent Ji Ke back to school.

Watching his leaving back, Jiang Jingcheng's smile deepened, until Ji Ke turned into the school gate, he shook his head and drove away.

I knew what he could guess, but I didn't expect it to be so fast.

It's really Ji Ke.

Early the next morning, several members of the Mathematical Modeling Society, which represented China, set off from the school and went to the Capital Airport.

China is divided into five regions: East China, West China, South China, North China, and Central China, so there are five teams representing China in the invitational tournament.

However, AIME’s award-winning method is different from AMC’s promotion method. AMC will advance to a team from each country and region, while AIME only takes the top 1% of all participating teams as the winning team.

Calculated in this way, in fact, there can only be one winning team participating in the competition.

After more than ten hours of flying, Ji Ke and the others finally arrived at the venue of the Math Invitational Tournament.

Los Angeles.

The competition starts the day after tomorrow, so you can relax today and tomorrow to beat the jet lag.

The other contestants were very excited on the plane and didn't get much sleep, so they went to the hotel to catch up on sleep as soon as they landed.

Ji Ke was the opposite of them. He had slept enough on the plane, and after getting off the plane, he was not sleepy. He just wanted to take a walk around.

He is not curious about the customs of the United States. Rather than visiting the lives of Americans, he wants to see what American substations look like.

According to students who study electrical engineering in academic forums, China's high-voltage transmission system is the most powerful in the world.

As a country with a vast territory like China, the United States uses China's high-voltage power transmission system no matter how high-spirited it is.

Their electrical system devices are written in Chinese characters.

When he heard the news for the first time, Ji Ke's first reaction was, how cool!

Most of the subjects related to technology in China are things invented or discovered by foreigners, the most typical of which is programming.

In order to learn programming well, many Chinese students have to memorize words and remember those lengthy proper nouns.

Now they also have things for foreigners to learn, and they also have technology for foreigners to learn Chinese because they need to use it.

According to the map, Ji Ke came to the nearest substation by car.

High voltage is dangerous, and the substation is not open to the public for viewing, so he can only take a look at it from a distance.

He didn't know much about electricity, so he just came to see which country's characters were printed on these electrical equipment.

He was very happy to see that it was Chinese characters, and took out his mobile phone to take a photo.

Suddenly he was fortunate that he had a mobile phone with high resolution, otherwise he might not be able to take pictures clearly from such a long distance.

After taking the photos, Ji Ke put away his phone and was about to go back to the hotel. Before he could turn his head, he heard an old voice behind him.

"Chinese?" The voice spoke broken Chinese, "Look at the high-voltage system?"

Ji Ke turned his head and saw a slightly bloated old man standing behind him.

The old man's hair and beard are white, but he is full of energy and looks very energetic.

"Yes." Ji Ke replied subconsciously in Chinese, but thinking that he was abroad now, he switched to English and asked him: "Are you also looking at the high-voltage system?"

The standard pronunciation caused a flash of approval in the eyes of the old man, "Yes. You speak English very fluently. Are you an international student?"

"Not yet, it will be in the future if there is no accident, I am here to participate in the mathematics invitational competition."

Hearing this, the old man gave him a thumbs up, "This competition is very authoritative in the United States, and your qualification for the competition shows that you are a very good kid."

"Not bad, thank you."

The old man asked again: "I have almost finished my visit, and now I plan to go back to the city. What about you? Do you want to go back together?"

Ji Keben is not an acquaintance, and this is facing a foreigner in a foreign country, so it is even more impossible to walk with a stranger.

So he waved his hand and said, "No, I want to watch it for a while."

The old man didn't insist, just said hello and left.

Ji Ke waited for a while, guessing that he had already boarded the train, so he also walked towards the station.

Fate is a very wonderful thing.

In order to avoid the embarrassment of meeting again, Ji Ke waited for a while before leaving. He never expected that when he arrived at the station, he still bumped into the old man.

Ji Ke: "..."

The old man smiled at him, "Young man, have you finished your visit?"

The embarrassment on Ji Ke's face disappeared in a flash, and he nodded, "Yes."

"That's great, where are you going? Maybe we can go together."

Ji Ke reported a place name.

The old man was pleasantly surprised, "It really is a place! It seems that we are really destined."

Ji Ke: "..."

Hehe, he didn't really want this kind of fate.

The old man is a chatterbox, and since he knew that he and Ji Ke were going to the same place, he started talking.

He first told Ji Ke about his experience of going to China several times, including getting in the car.

After talking about his own affairs, it seemed that there was nothing to talk about, so he started to ask Ji Ke again.

"You said you came to participate in the mathematics invitational competition, and you plan to study finance in the future?"

Ji Ke shook his head, "I want to study physics."

"Oh?" The old man became interested, "Is your family doing business related to physics?"

"No, I'm just interested." Ji Ke asked him back, "How do you know my family is in business?"

"The cost of studying in the United States is not low, and those who can come here basically have some family background. Most of the students who come here to study here are in business, and they come to study in order to better go home and inherit the family business."

Ji Ke gave an 'hmm'.

This is true.

The old man asked again: "Since your goal has nothing to do with family business, what do you plan to do in the future when you study physics?"

"Do some research."

The old man nodded, "The treatment in the research institute here is very good."

Ji Ke smiled, "I should return home after school."

The old man was surprised, "Do you have no plan to stay in the United States?"

"No, I may still be more used to life in China."

In fact, what he said was very euphemistic. This is to say to an American. If he is facing a compatriot, he may say, "I just came to the country with the number one aircraft carrier to learn technology. Of course I have to leave after learning. Why don't you stay here for the New Year? 'Oh, sorry, there's no New Year's Eve in America yet.

However, the old man understood the meaning of Ji Ke's words, and he laughed, "This is what I like about Chinese people very much. You all have an energy in you, what should this be called... yes, it is cohesion."

"Many of you can give up your wealth and work hard for only one ideal. I am very envious of such qualities."

"Many, many years ago, countless Chinese people like this came to the United States with such a purpose. Up to now, China has become rich, but there are still many people like you."

Ji Ke was a little moved by what the old man said.

Yes, in that era many, many years ago, the conditions were so difficult that countless great men could go abroad to learn powerful technology regardless of discrimination.

Now, their lives are so rich, of course it is even more so.

The bus finally wandered into the urban area and arrived at their common destination.

After getting off the car, Ji Ke said hello and planned to leave, but the old man stopped him.

"Son, I'm very happy chatting with you." The old man showed a kind smile, "My name is Osmond, if your ideal university is Stanford, welcome to find me,"

Ji Ke agreed in a daze, and looked up Chaosmond's name after returning to the hotel.

The old man is a professor at Stanford, full of honors and high prestige.

The day before the competition started, all participating teams had arrived in Los Angeles.

Teams from several Chinese regions went to the examination room to check out the spots together.

The test papers of AIME are also different from those of AMC. AMC competition questions are multiple choice questions, while AIME is short answer questions.

There are 15 short-answer questions in the whole volume, and the answers are integers between 0-999. You don’t need to solve the questions, just fill in the answers directly.

Each question is worth 15 points.

The night before the exam was destined to be a sleepless night. Even Ji Ke, who was as calm as Ji Ke, didn't get much sleep all night.

Although AIME is mainly concerned by the circle of international students, it is not considered a large-scale competition that the whole people pays attention to, but Ji Ke still hopes to strive for the first place.

In order to have more advantages in applying for schools, but also to win a sigh of relief.

After the exam the next day, all the Chinese students who came out of the exam room had relaxed smiles on their faces.

At least Ji Ke's North China delegation is relaxed.

Results will be published on the official website after seven days.

After the exam, the participating teams from all over the world returned to their own countries and regions.

In the tense wait, the results were announced.

In the American Mathematics Invitational Competition held in the United States, the winners have always been the American teams, because there are still competitions in AIME before, and the competitions are only for Americans.

But this year something went wrong.

The teams that won the AIME Invitational this year are from North China.

When the results were found, Zhou Yang and the others were stunned. Only Ji Ke was slightly better, but he was pleasantly surprised.

When they came out, they checked the answers together. In fact, they still had expectations for winning the prize, but they never expected that they actually won the first place in the Yankee's territory!

Li Xuechun's voice was trembling with excitement, "Oh my God, why are we so awesome! We won the invitational tournament! Who won the award in the American territory before!"

But not long after they were happy, they were stunned by a trending search on Weibo.

[The American High School Student Competition Association said that the Chinese students participating in the invitational competition are suspected of cheating]