Due to the high popularity of Bai Lian, Ning Xiao, and others, today’s regular meeting drew much attention.
Because of this, Liang Wuyu considered not giving a presentation and forgoing the points this time.
If they were to present after Gao Yuan’s group today, there would surely be many rumors and speculations about their group, leading to endless gossip in the future.
Ding Wenyang shared the same thoughts as Liang Wuyu.
However, they hadn’t expected Bai Lian to still dare to go up and present. Her mental fortitude was extraordinary. Ding Wenyang turned to Tang Ming and asked, “Tang Ming, Bai Lian…”
“Sister Lian has her own considerations,” Tang Ming looked toward Bai Lian. He had never doubted her. “Let’s watch first.”
Ning Xiao nodded.
Having weathered many storms together, the two remained calm.
But Ding Wenyang wasn’t as composed as them. He not only worried about the effectiveness of Bai Lian’s presentation but also about losing these regular points and how it would affect their final estimated scores.
Especially since their PowerPoint content was almost identical to or even inferior to Gao Yuan’s group’s, he could already imagine the reactions from the observing schoolmates.
—
Bai Lian was already standing at the podium.
In university, Bai Lian rarely wore her school uniform, as Ji Heng was keen on making various types of clothes for her.
Today she wore a cyan silk dress with red silk threads weaving patterns on the hem, flowing with her movements.
Behind her, Kong Wei held a hand flower but hadn’t started waving it yet.
She turned her head to ask Yu Simin, “I remember her PowerPoint was saved on a USB drive, why did she bring a laptop up?”
Yu Simin was also nervous. Her gaze fell on Ding Wenyang’s group, instinctively feeling something was amiss.
[Translation continues through multiple paragraphs describing the scene and events…]
The chapter ends with the realization about the top scholar’s capabilities: “So… while attending Tongfeng Class and discussing quantum theory literature with us, she still found time to research ‘Real-time Quantum Light Entanglement’ on her own?”
This was the true strength of this year’s top scholar.
Facing so many observing students, directly confronting the school newspaper’s cameras, and with Physics College Dean Huang Yushuo present, this pressure wasn’t something an ordinary person could handle.
On stage, Bai Lian had already connected her laptop to the projector.
Her laptop didn’t have many downloaded software programs. Besides the Jiangming TV video software, the others were just social and study software, with only two PowerPoint icons on the left.
One was named “1”, the other named “2”.
Bai Lian reached out to click the “2” icon.
Ding Wenyang had looked up at Bai Lian briefly, but upon seeing her open the “PowerPoint”, he lowered his head again, unable to face what he assumed would be the same title as the previous group.
Wang Xin sat on the far right, expressionlessly watching Bai Lian open the PowerPoint.
The group including Gao Yuan, sitting near the front, narrowed their eyes when they saw Bai Lian come up to present.
Liang Wuyu and Xu Zhiyue stared intently at Bai Lian, their hands tightening slightly on the desk.
When the presentation opened, it showed a minimalist light blue page, with clear and distinct line segments and colors.
There were no fancy icons, just blue dots and blue dividing lines.
The enlarged image showed seven blue characters in regular script:
“Real-time Quantum Light Entanglement”
“Our group’s focus this time is on dual-photon digital holographic imaging technology,” Bai Lian held the red laser pointer casually, the red light locking onto the area she was discussing. Her tone was steady as she continued, “These scientists used digital holographic technology, which has developed significantly in recent years, extending it to entangled superposition state dual-photons, with this camera having nanosecond-level resolution.”
This quantum entanglement paper was very new. Academician Ma had specifically sent it to Bai Lian for her to study carefully.
Now Academician Ma rarely sent papers to Bai Lian directly – usually He Wen would send them. Any paper Academician Ma sent required Bai Lian to spend considerable time to fully grasp.
Bai Lian had spent basically ten days studying this paper.
She habitually used the Feynman learning method, and when explaining papers, she would intersperse discussions of quantum entanglement phenomena. Even first-year students Kong Wei and Yu Simin understood the main content of her PowerPoint.
As soon as she said “dual-photon”, Ding Wenyang felt it was unfamiliar, because this wasn’t their topic! He suddenly looked up.
Bai Lian had already moved to the next page. She half-leaned against the podium, her right hand holding the laser pointer at that diagram, gently pointing at the image on the PowerPoint: “This diagram shows the interference pattern left by passing the pump light beam through a yin-yang shaped template, while the other shows the entangled superposition photons, reconstructing the amplitude and phase structure of the image…”
Bai Lian stood on stage in her cyan dress, completely unperturbed.
With a casual raise of her delicate hand, she switched to the next slide.
Below the stage sat the Physics College professors and dean, the Tongfeng Class students, and behind them stood crowds of students who had come to watch.
The previously bustling lecture hall had fallen completely silent.
All eyes were focused on her. Though her countenance was gentle, there was an air of unrestrained grace in her every movement, soft yet carrying an intense determination.
Bai Lian proceeded steadily through her presentation from beginning to end.
Until she reached the final page.
All PowerPoint presentations usually end with “Acknowledgments” or “Thank You” as a conclusion.
But the Young Master Jiang was already being polite enough to share his research results with others. His PowerPoint’s last page always had just one word:
“END” – without even any punctuation.
For the “Quantum Theory” PowerPoint, Bai Lian had changed the last page to acknowledgments, but she hadn’t planned to present this one, so she hadn’t modified it.
She looked up, slowly staring at the blue English word for a while.
After a long moment, she turned casually and politely addressed Professor Zhou Wenqing and the other professors in the first row: “This concludes my presentation. Thank you for watching.”
In the first row, Professor Zhou Wenqing stared at the watermark reading “CRFS Dark Matter Research Institute” in the bottom left corner of the final PowerPoint page, not daring to speak immediately.
Even Dean Huang remained silent for a moment.
Bai Lian returned the PowerPoint to the cover page. When she received no response from Professor Zhou Wenqing and Dean Huang, she paused briefly and looked questioningly toward the more familiar Dean Huang.
As the Tongfeng Class homeroom teacher, Professor Zhou Wenqing had heard quite a few project summaries from Jiang Fuli, whose project reports all used his own PowerPoint templates – the unchanging template of science students.
He was the same.
He and Dean Huang almost immediately recognized where this template came from.
Professor Zhuo Lan, sitting beside Zhou Wenqing, didn’t recognize it. He just looked up at the words “Real-time Quantum Light Entanglement” and his gaze fell very gently on Bai Lian: “So the purpose of these diagrams is to analyze the wave function.”
Bai Lian looked toward Professor Zhuo Lan who had asked the question, and answered calmly: “It indeed describes waves propagating along the positive X direction at angular frequency…”
As she spoke, Professor Zhuo Lan nodded continuously while listening, the admiration on his face barely concealed.
His expression showed nothing but appreciation for her.
“Professor Zhou, Dean Huang,” after hearing her response, Zhuo Lan couldn’t help turning his head, “I think Bai Lian’s group analyzed this extremely well. Real-time quantum light entanglement was published less than a month ago, and very few people domestically truly understand what this paper discusses. I give them an A+.”
Professor Zhou Wenqing finally moved his gaze from the PowerPoint to Bai Lian.
After several questions, they had confirmed the capabilities of the young woman before them. “A+ it is.”
The professors had no other opinions at this point. After all, Gao Yuan’s group had received a B+, and Bai Lian’s report surpassed their group in both quality and depth – giving just an A would seem too low.
“Dean, what do you think?” Zhou Wenqing looked toward Dean Huang. He had originally thought these new students’ performance would be mediocre, but hadn’t expected results exceeding expectations. “It’s quite remarkable for their group to achieve this level.”
Dean Huang looked in Bai Lian’s direction.
Zhou Wenqing thought this PowerPoint was done by Ding Wenyang’s group, but Dean Huang knew that this paper was sent to Bai Lian by Academician Ma. It couldn’t be Bai Lian’s group’s topic, which meant—
This high level of completion was achieved by Bai Lian alone.
He gave his verdict: “A+.”
Dean Huang’s single statement finally ignited the crowd behind them, and the quiet lecture hall began to stir.
Meanwhile, Ding Wenyang’s group finally realized what had happened. They hadn’t interacted much with Bai Lian before, and this was their first time experiencing one of the goddess’s divine operations. They just looked toward Tang Ming.
Published less than a month ago meant this PowerPoint was also completed by Bai Lian during this period. “So… while attending Tongfeng Class and discussing quantum theory literature with us, she still found time to research ‘Real-time Quantum Light Entanglement’ on her own?”
This was the true strength of this year’s top scholar.
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