Chapter 32

"Is it not too boring if it’s just a test like this?"

Chen Yang stopped in his tracks, his gaze lingering on the faces of the three girls. "Why don’t we make a bet?"

"A bet?"

The three girls looked at each other, unsure of what Chen Yang meant.

"Yes, a bet."

"The rules are simple. You each come up with ten questions. If I can’t answer them, then I will let you do whatever you want to me."

"Haha, then you’re bound to lose."

Xia Yue Rou burst into laughter before Chen Yang could finish speaking. "Ten questions, that’s twenty questions from two people. Do you think you can answer them all?"

"If I answer all of them, then you lose and have to follow all my orders tonight."

Chen Yang closed his eyes for a moment before opening them again.

The atmosphere suddenly turned cold. Xia Yue Rou, Zhang Xiaole, and the other girl, Ren Xuanxuan, exchanged glances and nodded slightly.

Then, Xia Yue Rou stopped laughing and said seriously, "Do you mean that each of us, including me, can come up with ten questions?"

"You?"

Chen Yang’s expression was indifferent. "Given your intelligence, it doesn’t matter to me if you participate."

"What did you say?"

Xia Yue Rou bristled. "What do you mean by my intelligence? Are you looking down on me?"

"People don’t look down on each other; they prove themselves with results."

Chen Yang used the same words to mock her, "A foolish person can only enjoy the contempt of others."

"You..."

Xia Yue Rou was almost driven to the brink of anger by her cousin. Her teeth clenched, and she glared at Chen Yang, wishing she could pounce and bite him.

Of course, she wasn’t a puppy and didn’t act on impulse.

"Brother, may I ask a question?"

Ren Xuanxuan, who had been silent, spoke up. Her voice was gentle and pleasant to the ear.

Chen Yang’s gaze shifted to her.

"Are there any restrictions on the questions? Can they be from subjects like Chinese, math, etc.?"

"Do I need to say this? Of course, the questions should be limited to high school subjects. Otherwise, if you ask me something like, 'What is my neighbor’s name?' I would have to admit defeat, right?"

Chen Yang’s mind was clear and sharp. How could he fall into Ren Xuanxuan’s verbal trap? Chinese culture is profound, and with a word like "etc.," Ren Xuanxuan might dare to ask questions about astronomy, economics, management, and other random topics.

With the internet being so advanced, information and knowledge are easily accessible. Even though Chen Yang’s memory of high school and junior high was clear due to the stimulation of his right hand, he wasn’t careless enough to think that others’ knowledge was limited to high school.

"Alright, I’ll ask the first question."

Ren Xuanxuan, not minding that her trap was seen through, immediately asked, "At a certain temperature, if an equal volume of H2SO4 with a pH of 3 is mixed with ammonia water with a pH of 9, and they react completely, what is the degree of ionization of the ammonia water at this temperature?"

"1%."

Almost as soon as Ren Xuanxuan finished speaking, Chen Yang blurted out the answer.

"14 grams of a copper-silver alloy reacts with a sufficient amount of nitric acid of a certain concentration. The gas released is mixed with 1.12 liters of oxygen and then passed through water, where it is completely absorbed. What is the mass of the copper in the alloy?"

"3.2 grams."

Chen Yang thought for a moment and answered.

This shocked the three girls. They exchanged glances, hardly believing it.

If Chen Yang had just happened to see Xia Yue Rou’s first question, that would be understandable. But for Ren Xuanxuan’s next two questions, it was impossible that he had seen them before.

"Brother, are you a teacher?"

Ren Xuanxuan couldn’t help but ask.

"Teacher? No, I’m a chef."

Chen Yang ran a noodle shop, so calling him a chef was reasonable.

A chef? What chef has a college degree and still looks at high school questions? Is there such a person?

Ren Xuanxuan glanced at Xia Yue Rou, who nodded, confirming that Chen Yang was telling the truth.

"Then I’ll ask a history question to test you, brother."

Zhang Xiaole stepped forward. "When and by whom was Australia discovered?"

She noticed that Chen Yang seemed to be quite capable and deliberately asked a non-serious history question.

This question was actually covered in high school history, but many people didn’t remember it clearly. However, at this moment, Chen Yang’s sealed memories surfaced, and he quickly found the answer: "In 1606, Spanish navigator Torres sailed through the strait between Australia and New Guinea. In the same year, Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon’s Duyfken reached Australia and made the first recorded landing by a European. In 1770, British navigator James Cook arrived on the east coast of Australia and claimed it as a British colony."

"So, to be precise, Australia was discovered by Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon, but James Cook is widely recognized as the first discoverer. According to unverified records, ancient Chinese people may have discovered Australia before, but without concrete evidence, the truth cannot be determined."

Chen Yang’s mind worked like lightning, combining various pieces of knowledge he had learned to give this answer.

The three girls were stunned. Xia Yue Rou, who had no idea when Australia was discovered, was speechless. Zhang Xiaole and Ren Xuanxuan, though they knew the answer, only knew that it was discovered by British navigator James Cook in 1770. They had no idea about the other details.

Xia Yue Rou complained, "Xiaole, Xuanxuan, ask him some harder questions. Don’t ask such simple ones."

Zhang Xiaole and Ren Xuanxuan smiled bitterly. Just by looking at how Chen Yang answered this question so accurately, it was clear that regular history questions wouldn’t stump him. The speed at which he answered the chemistry questions was already impressive.

Then, the two of them took turns asking Chen Yang questions from physics, biology, politics, and geography. Without exception, Chen Yang answered the hardest questions after thinking for only half a minute. Zhang Xiaole and Ren Xuanxuan, who initially didn’t take him seriously, gradually became more serious and eventually almost admired him. Their thoughts had completely changed.

After all, who had ever seen someone so capable, who, even two years after graduating from college, still remembered countless high school problems? The scariest part was that many of the difficult questions were deliberately altered by Zhang Xiaole and Ren Xuanxuan. Even they would have to recalculate with pen and paper, but Chen Yang could give the answers immediately.

This made Zhang Xiaole skeptical, so she took out her phone calculator to verify. In the end, she had to admit that Chen Yang’s answers were correct.

This made it clear that Chen Yang wasn’t just guessing the answers; he was calculating them in real time.

Ren Xuanxuan bit her lip. This guy, how can he be so capable? Is he even human?

Impressed by Chen Yang’s mental calculation ability, for the last question, Ren Xuanxuan thought for a moment and asked, "The last math question: 594265 divided by 23 equals what?"

"25837.608695."

In just five seconds, Chen Yang gave the answer to six decimal places.

"You... are so amazing."

Ren Xuanxuan and the others had to admit that they had met a true scholar today. What a waste to be a chef with such abilities? Such skills could be used for anything better than being a chef.

"Such questions are not that difficult; they are just simple division. If you asked me to quickly calculate integrals or other complex problems..."

Chen Yang thought of the advanced math problems that even calculators struggle with and felt a chill.

"Is this not amazing?"

Xia Yue Rou looked at her cousin as if she were meeting him for the first time. Despite her tone, her eyes were filled with admiration. As a poor student, she knew how difficult and painful studying could be, and she genuinely admired those who excelled academically.

Moreover, seeing her two classmates, who were known as scholars in their grade, now showing such admiration, Xia Yue Rou felt a bit proud.

See? Don’t think you’re so great just because you’re scholars. Now you’ve met my cousin, and you know what it means to be a true scholar.

Humans are such strange creatures. One moment they hate someone, and the next, they might look at them differently, even developing complex emotions.

The extraterrestrial being in Chen Yang’s right hand observed everything, finding humans increasingly interesting.