Chapter 399: Chapter 138: Mathematics? Nothing but a game of the Creator!

Huaxia people have a special feeling for the color red.

In fact, in other cultures, red is often used to alert people because it is eye-catching.

For example, in Western stock markets, red generally represents a drop, while green represents a rise.

However, for Huaxia, a newcomer in finance, although the stock market was established a hundred years later than those of financial powerhouses, from the outset, red was designated to represent a rise.

Because, Huaxia people believe red is festive.

At Beijing Airport, as soon as the players disembarked from the plane, they were greeted by a sea of red. Most of it was arranged by sponsors.

Many people are unaware that Huaxia has always been a platinum sponsor source for the IMO.

This is also why, even if the IMO management is not inclined to easily offend Qiao Yu.

After all, to some extent, many people already regard Qiao Yu as the future representative of Huaxia’s mathematics community.

Certainly, this time the Huaxia team won five gold medals with perfect scores and a historic third-best score of 248, which indeed deserved a grand welcome ceremony.

After the festivities, the team partially disbanded in Beijing.

Because the team members still had a few activities during the summer vacation, such as some media interviews. However, Qiao Yu did not need to attend.

This, of course, was not due to media demands but was a request simultaneously made by both Tian Yanzhen and Yuan Zhengxin.

Saying Qiao Yu to participate in the IMO was already a compromise made by the two big figures. It’s impossible to have him run around participating in various interviews and activities.

At least in the eyes of these two big figures, Qiao Yu currently doesn’t need such meaningless exposure.

Especially in their view, unnecessary praise from the outside world is unnecessary.

Qiao Yu also had no objections to this arrangement.

After all, he didn’t plan to go public… and also didn’t know what to say in interviews.

Hmm, playing games in the IMO competition circle every day, challenging participants from various countries, not only winning a perfect score gold medal at the IMO but also getting the most badass mental calculation game award?

But what Qiao Yu looked forward to most was not these, but the fact that Qiao Xi was coming to Beijing.

Qiao Xi had already sent the ticket information to him via WeChat. The high-speed train tomorrow morning, arriving at Jingxi Station at 2:30 p.m.

He could finally let his mother see his life in Beijing firsthand. To Qiao Yu, this was much more interesting than interviews.

So after a simple celebration ceremony at the airport and taking a few photos, Qiao Yu was picked up and taken back to Yanbei University by people arranged by Tian Yanzhen.

…

“Director Tian, I’m back.”

In the car, Professor Luo who picked him up said that Tian Yanzhen was waiting for him, so after putting away his luggage, Qiao Yu went to Tian Yanzhen’s office.

“Hmm, sit…”

Even without being instructed, Qiao Yu consciously walked in and sat across from his mentor.

“Did you have fun in Australia?” Tian Yanzhen asked.

“Yes.” Qiao Yu nodded honestly in response.

There was nothing to hide; every move he made in Australia would likely be reported to Director Tian and Elder Yuan by Professor Zhou and Professor Zhang.

This outing to the IMO he certainly let himself go a bit. But Qiao Yu didn’t see anything wrong with it; people always need to relax. The chord in his heart had been too taut recently.

The main issue was that man’s pressure on him was immense.

If he couldn’t promptly find the problems in the proof of the Geometric Langlands Conjecture, that man would steal the show at the World Algebraic Geometry Conference.

Of course, that was intolerable.

“Hmm, as long as you had fun. Now you need to refocus. Take a look at these first.”

As he spoke, Tian Yanzhen took out three neatly bound documents from his desk drawer and handed them to Qiao Yu.

Qiao Yu curiously took them and looked. They were offers from different companies.

All from big firms…

For example, Little Alibaba, a company Qiao Yu had interacted with before.

He casually glanced through them, they were preemptive job offers. If he were willing to accept, the other party would cover all his study expenses and even pay him a salary.

This way, after he graduated with his PhD, he could directly join their workforce. The offered terms were very tempting.

Qiao Yu, puzzled, looked at Tian Yanzhen.

Logically, these big companies should have his contact information, yet they hadn’t privately reached out and sent the offers directly to Tian Yanzhen.

“So, any interest?” Tian Yanzhen asked, observing Qiao Yu.

Qiao Yu shook his head slightly and said honestly, “No interest, I think when I graduate, if I really wanted to work for someone, they would bid even higher.”

“Haha…”

Tian Yanzhen laughed heartily, “Hmm, I thought so too. I’ll help you decline them, then.”

Qiao Yu nodded and casually handed back the offers.

He had no interest in working for someone else; consulting positions, on the other hand, were acceptable.

After all, if issues arose, they could send him one, and solving it meant earning some money.

However, as Tian Yanzhen said, Qiao Yu also thought it was too early for him to consider making money.

After all, he could only earn a little money now.

Since there were no worries about food, clothing, housing, and transportation, there was no need to waste energy in this area. Better to set a strong foundation for the future, enabling collaboration on big projects with companies like Microsoft and making significant money like Schulz.

Tian Yanzhen casually set the offers aside and looked at Qiao Yu, saying, “While you were participating in the IMO, Elder Yuan and I talked about your future twice.”

Qiao Yu’s ears perked up.

The two mentors don’t abide by the martial code, secretly colluding.

“I won’t detail the specific discussions. Since you are very interested in the Prime Number Distribution Problem, we both have full confidence in you solving the Riemann Conjecture.”