Chapter 654 - Chapter 654: 259 This Year's Top Scholar's Strength (Second Update)_1

Chapter 654: 259 This Year’s Top Scholar’s Strength (Second Update)_1

Today’s regular meeting is particularly buzzworthy because of Bai Lian, Ning Xiao, and a few others.

For this reason, Liang Wuyu decided to hold off on giving a lecture, willing to forgo this session’s points.

If they gave a presentation after Gao Yuan’s group today, there would be many rumors and speculations about their group, and the baseless gossip would never cease in the future.

Ding Wenyang and Liang Wuyu had the same thought.

But they hadn’t anticipated that Bai Lian would still dare to step up for her presentation at such a time, showing an exceptionally strong mindset. Recovering his senses, Ding Wenyang turned to Tang Ming, “Tang Ming, Bai Lian, she…”

“Lian has her own considerations,” Tang Ming said, looking at Bai Lian. He never doubted her, “Let’s just watch and see.”

…

Ning Xiao nodded.

The two had weathered many storms, and were composed even now.

But Ding Wenyang wasn’t as composed as them. He worried not only about the effectiveness of Bai Lian’s presentation but also about the loss of the usual points and what it would do to their final estimated scores.

Especially since the content of the PowerPoint presentation was almost identical, if not inferior to Gao Yuan’s group, he could almost imagine the reactions of the onlooking alumni.

At this moment, Bai Lian stepped up to present against the storm, and even Ding Wenyang felt her inner strength was too formidable.

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Bai Lian was already standing at the podium.

In University, Bai Lian seldom wore the school uniform; Ji Heng was keen on making all kinds of clothing for her.

Today she wore a long dress of celadon-colored silk with patterns outlined in crimson threads at the hem, which undulated with her movements.

Behind her, Kong Wei held a hand fan but hadn’t started waving it yet.

Merely tilting his head, he asked Yu Simin, “I remember her PowerPoint was on a flash drive, why did she bring her computer up?”

Yu Simin was also nervous, her eyes on Ding Wenyang’s group, sensing something wasn’t right.

With so many students watching and facing the cameras from the school newspaper, not to mention the Dean of the Physics Department, Huang Yushuo being present, the pressure was immense and not something just anyone could handle.

On the stage, Bai Lian had already connected her computer to the projector.

There weren’t many applications downloaded on her computer, aside from the video software from Jiangjing TV Station. The rest were social and learning applications, with only two PowerPoint icons on the left side.

One was named “1,” and the other was titled “2.”

Bai Lian reached out and clicked on the “2” icon.

Ding Wenyang had briefly looked up at Bai Lian, but upon seeing her open the “PowerPoint,” he didn’t dare to look up again, worried about seeing a title similar to the previous group’s.

Wang Xi sat on the far right, watching Bai Lian open the PowerPoint presentation with an expressionless face.

Meanwhile, Gao Yuan and others sitting near the front squinted their eyes when they saw Bai Lian step up to give her lecture.

Liang Wuyu and Xu Zhiyue watched Bai Lian without shifting their gaze, their hands on the table tensing slightly.

The opened courseware displayed a simple page in pale blue, with clearly divided colors and lines.

There were no fancy icons, just blue dots and dividing lines.

Zooming in on the image revealed seven blue brush-script characters—

“Real-Time Photonic Quantum Entanglement”

“The focus of our group’s lecture this time is on twin-photon digital holographic imaging technology,” Bai Lian held a red laser pointer, casually lifting it, the red light pinpointed on the section she discussed, her tone completely relaxed, “These scientists applied the more advanced digital holography developed over the years to the entangled superposition state of twin photons. This camera’s resolution is at the nanosecond level.”

This quantum entanglement paper was very new, and it was given to Bai Lian by Academician Ma, who told her to ponder it thoughtfully.

Nowadays, Academician Ma rarely sent papers to Bai Lian; it was usually He Wen who sent them, and Bai Lian needed to invest a lot of time to fully grasp each one that Academician Ma sent.

Bai Lian had spent basically all of the past ten days studying this paper.

She was accustomed to using the Feynman Technique, and her approach to explaining papers was the same. She interspersed explanations of quantum entanglement phenomena, so even the first-year students, Kong Wei and Yu Simin, understood the main content of her presentation.

The moment she mentioned “twin photons,” Ding Wenyang felt unfamiliar because it wasn’t their topic!

Ding Wenyang suddenly looked up.

Bai Lian had already moved on to the next page, half-leaning on the podium, pointing at the image with the laser pointer in her right hand, gently tapping on the image in the PowerPoint, “This image displays the interference pattern left behind by a pump beam through a yin-yang shaped stencil. Another image is that of entangled photons which have reconstructed the amplitude and phase structure of the image…”

Bai Lian stood on the stage, clad in a blue attire, unflustered by the changing situation.

With a gentle lift of her hand, the slide changed to the next.

Sitting below were professors and the dean of the Physics department; members of her class from Tongfeng were seated, and a crowd of other students stood at the back, there to watch the excitement.

The lecture hall, which had been bustling just moments before, was now silent as a grave.

All eyes were focused on her, her demeanor clearly mild, but with every move, there was an unrestrained elegance exuding from her, soft yet with a trace of fierceness.

Bai Lian spoke slowly and calmly, starting from the front and moving to the back.

Until she reached the last page.

All PPT presentations usually end with a “Thank You” or “Thanks for Watching” to conclude the session.

But it was already quite polite of young master Jiang to share his scientific research results with others. His signature style for the last page of his PPTs was always just one word—

END

Not even a punctuation mark was included.

For the “Quantum Theory” PPT, Bai Lian had changed the last slide to a thank you page, but she didn’t plan to present this PPT, so she left it unchanged.

She looked up, slowly staring at the blue English word, pondering for a while.

After a long pause, she turned casually to the first row where professors like Zhou Wenqing were seated and politely said, “My presentation ends here. Thank you for watching.”

In the first row, Zhou Wenqing stared at the watermark in the bottom left corner of the last PPT slide with the words “CRFS Dark Matter Research Institute” and didn’t dare to speak right away.

Even Dean Huang fell silent for a moment.

Bai Lian switched the PPT back to the cover page. She didn’t wait for a response from Zhou Wenqing or Dean Huang, paused briefly, and looked questioningly at the more familiar Dean Huang.

As the class advisor for Tongfeng, Zhou Wenqing had seen some reputable projects and heard summaries of Jiang Fulai’s projects. His project reports always featured PPTs he made himself, a template ever unchanged among science students.

He was no different.

Almost immediately, he and Dean Huang recognized where the template came from.

Professor Zhuo Lan, sitting beside Zhou Wenqing, didn’t recognize it; he simply looked up at the words “Real-Time Photonic Quantum Entanglement” and then his gaze became very gentle when it landed on Bai Lian: “So the purpose of these few diagrams is to analyze the wave function?”

Bai Lian looked towards Professor Zhuo Lan who had posed the question and answered with poise: “It indeed portrays a wave propagating along the positive X direction with angular frequency…”

As she spoke, Professor Zhuo Lan couldn’t help but nod along, the smile on his face barely concealed.

It was all admiration for her.

“Professor Zhou, Dean Huang,” said Zhuo Lan, turning his head after she finished answering, “I think Bai Lian’s analysis is very good. ‘Real-Time Photonic Quantum Entanglement’ was published less than a month ago; very few people in the country truly understand what this paper is about. I give an A+.”

Zhou Wenqing’s gaze finally moved away from the PPT and settled on Bai Lian.

After a few questions, they confirmed the capabilities of the girl before them. “A+ it is.”

The professors had no objections at this point; after all, Gao Yuan’s group had received a B+, and Bai Lian’s report exceeded theirs in both quality and depth, making a simple A seem insufficiently low.

“Dean, what do you think?” Zhou Wenqing looked towards Dean Huang, previously expecting an average performance from the new students, yet the outcome surprisingly exceeded expectations, “It’s not easy for this group of students to achieve this level.”

Dean Huang looked in Bai Lian’s direction.

Zhou Wenqing thought that this PPT was made by Ding Wenyang’s group, but Dean Huang knew that this paper had been given to Bai Lian by Academician Ma; it was not likely to be a topic from Bai Lian’s group, which meant—

This high level of completion was achieved by Bai Lian alone.

He delivered the verdict, “A+.”

Once Dean Huang spoke, he finally set off the previously quiet crowd in the back; the silent lecture hall began to stir.

And at this moment, Ding Wenyang’s group finally realized—having barely interacted with Bai Lian—that this was their first experience witnessing her miraculous approach, and they all turned to look at Tang Ming.

Having been published less than a month ago meant that Bai Lian had completed this PPT in recent times. “So… while she was in the Tongfeng class, discussing quantum theory literature with us, she also took the time to study ‘Real-Time Photonic Quantum Entanglement’ on her own?”

Is this the strength of this year’s top scholar of the college entrance examination?

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