Following Jiang Pingce’s instruction, Yue Xingwen and the other two continued to collect twin prime cards on their current floor. As new rooms were opened, the interference path of this floor gradually unfolded entirely on the maze map in Jiang Pingce’s hand.
Only when all the rooms had been searched did Jiang Pingce look closely at the map of the maze——
The drawing showed 48 rooms, with the main path arrange like a ‘十’, surrounded by many forks and four elevators at the top, bottom, left, and right ends of the rooms, which lead to other floors.
There were a total of 192 number cards on this floor, and all the twin prime numbers had been circled by Jiang Pingce. The number of twin prime number cards collected so far from these 48 rooms was 96 cards, which meant that each room had a pair of twin prime numbers.
Among them, Yue Xingwen took more forks, collecting 16 cards; The directions taken by Ke Shaobin and Liu Zhaoqing frequently encountered dead ends, and each of them collected 8 cards; Jiang Pingce collected 16 cards.
Assuming this three-dimensional maze had three-level, with the same structure of upper, middle, and lower levels, then Jiang Pingce’s reasoning would become much easier. But in case the structure was different for each floor, the path of the maze would be more complicated.
Three were 4 hours and 40 minutes left in the countdown. In other words, it only took 20 minutes for Jiang Pingce to check all the 48 rooms on this floor and calculate 192 numbers.
Since there was no instruction from Jiang Pingce, the three of them stopped to wait for news from the Research Group’s chat channel.
After a few moments, Jiang Pingce said: “Senior brother Liu, go back 5 rooms in a straight line, find the door no 11073, and take the elevator downstairs.”
“Young Ke, go out the door no. 13011, then go 4 rooms in a straight line to the right and take the elevator down.”
Both of them immediately followed Jiang Pingce’s instructions and quickly found the room.
After 20 minutes in the maze, Liu Zhaoqing had long been dizzy and unable to distinguish his direction, let alone remember which room had the elevator. However, after he followed Jiang Pingce’ instruction and returned back 5 five rooms in the straight line, he did see the no. 11073 pasted on the door on the right and pushed it open—— It was exactly the elevator room!
While they were bouncing around the maze like headless flies, Jiang Pingce seemed to be standing in God’s perspective, able to clearly see their path of movement and give the most accurate instructions.
Liu Zhaoqing was extremely impressed and could not help typing on the chat channel: “Awesome, I’m going downstairs!”
Ke Shaobin also went downstairs according to Jiang Pingce’s instructions.
Yue Xingwen asked, “What about me?”
Jiang Pingce said, “Xingwen, enter the door no. 12077, go straight ahead to five rooms, and take the elevator upstairs.”
Yue Xingwen was stunned. “Am I going upstairs? Not downstairs?”
Jiang Pingce explained. “To save time. You and I will go upstairs, senior brother and Young Ke go downstairs.”
From the three levels maze, they had already searched the middle one. Jiang Pingce arranged for Liu Zhaoqing and Ke Shaobin to go to the lower level, while he and Yue Xingwen went to the upper level, so the upper and lower levels could be searched at the same time.
In this way, not only four people and four paths, but also two different planes!
If it was not for his spatial imagination and three-dimensional geometry being strong enough, it would have been a complete mess. The three teammates clearly had confidence in Jiang Pingce and did not raise any questions.
Jiang Pingce divided two pieces of paper and began to draw maps of the lower and upper levels, while quickly typing on the chat channel: “Same old rules, report clockwise when you enter the room.”
Liu Zhaoqing quickly reported four numbers: “101277, 101279, 101281, 101283.”
Yue Xingwen could not help but feel dizzy just looking at these numbers—— Using his common sense in mathematics, the ones ending in 0, 2, 4, 6 and 8 were definitely not prime numbers, since they could be divided by 2. If the number at the end was 5, it could usually be divided by 5. Because of this, the simple cards that could be determined as not a prime number at a glance rarely appeared in the maze; All of them ended in number 1, 3, 7, and 9.
The four numbers listed by Liu Zhaoqing all look like prime numbers, and the difference between them was 2, which met the conditions of ‘twin prime numbers’, which two should be chosen?
In order to save time, Jiang Pingce just typed the end number, Pick 79, 81, and enter the door no. 81.”
Liu Zhaoqing felt that his IQ had been crushed!
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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Bf Vtjbylc fcmbecafgfv jii rlz vlular jr kfii: “107507, 107509, 107511, 107513.”
Jiang Pingce said: “Take 07 and 09, and enter door no. 09.”
Ke Shaobin stretched out his hand to take down the twin prime number cards from the door—— He was also a science student, but Jiang Pingce actually calculated so fast, he was really ashamed of himself.
Yue Xingwen had completely given up thinking, and once he entered the room, he typed the numbers on the chat channel: “111117, 111119, 111121, 111123.”
Jiang Pingce replied quickly: “Take the end numbers of 19 and 21, and enter door no. 21.”
The exploration of the upper and lower levels had officially begun.
The Research Group’s chat channel kept swiping out messages—— All three of them were reporting the numbers, and Jiang Pingce was reporting the answers.
The surrounding area was extremely quiet, and the chat channel was brushed by a large volume of numbers, which was dazzling to see.
However, Jiang Pingce’s instructions were always clear and concise. He would tell his teammates which two twin prime number cards to take and which door to go through. Even if the three teammates were elementary school students, they would not make a mistake with such precise instructions from him.
After walking through several rooms in a row, the difficulty increased again.
Yue Xingwen reported four numbers: “147677, 147679, 147681, 147683.”
He thought that Jiang Pingce would tell him to take the pair of twin prime number cards like he did before, but to his surprise, Jiang Pingce suddenly said: “There are no twin prime number cards here, take the door with the end number of 77.”
Yue Xingwen walked into the door and found that two cards from this room had been taken out.
Two cards were taken out, which meant that he had been to this room before? Yue Xingwen immediately told his discovery to Jiang Pingce: “Two cards had been taken out from this room.”
Jiang Pingce: “Go back, go to door no. 79.”
Yue Xingwen: “Two cards from this room also had been taken out.”
Jiang Pingce suddenly fell into contemplation.
Yue Xingwen was a bit worried—— The complexity of this maze was beyond his imagination, he had clearly not gone backwards, but how did he walk and come to the room he had just been in? Like a ‘ghost hitting the wall’, it was like going around in a circle back to square one?
Yue Xingwen was puzzled: “What is the structure of this maze? I think I’ve been in all the rooms around this one?”
Downstairs, Liu Zhaoqign and Ke Shaobin saw that Yue Xingwen was in trouble, and stopped at the same time, giving Jiang Pingce a little time to digest information and clear his ideas.
The three people were waiting for Jiang Pingce’s response.
A few moments later, Jiang Pingce said: “The rooms on the upper floor are arranged in countless ‘田’ word, and the rooms are interconnected with each other. The room without twin prime numbers that Xingwen just discovered should be the center point of the entire floor.”
He paused and said: “Xingwen, stay where you are, I’ll come to you. Senior brother and Young Ke, wait for a while.”
The three of them obediently stood motionless in the room. After about half a minute, a door on the right side of Yue Xingwen was suddenly pushed open.
Jiang Pingce quickly walked in.
The boy was tall and wore simple, clean black trousers and a white shirt with a belt around his waist that accentuated his long, straight legs. The surrounding walls were like deep starry sky, they were dotted with stars, and when he pushed the door in from the side, it was as if he had come from the starry universe.
Yue Xingwen turned back and met his calm gaze, and he suddenly felt particularly relaxed.
No matter how complicated this maze was, what was there to worry about with Ah Ce in it?
Yue Xingwen greeted him with a wide smile, “Such a chaotic maze, and you managed to find me in 1 minute?”
Jiang Pingce’s lips curved slightly as he looked at Yue Xingwen with a gentle gaze and said, “It seems that my deduction is correct, this floor, should be a ‘田’ maze structure with 49 rooms in total, seven horizontally and seven vertically. The room we are in now is the most central room in the 7×7 gian square maze.”
Yue Xingwen seemed to understand, and gently patted Jiang Pingce’s shoulder. “Awesome ah! My brain has become a complete mess, how did you analyze it?” He looked down at the map in Jiang Pingce’s hand…
It was so horrible!
The three sheets of paper represented maps of the upper, middle, lower levels. The asterisks represented elevators, and the densely packed square rooms were linked together and marked with countless numbers and directional arrows.
Yue Xingwen found that he could not even read the map…
Jiang Pingce said, “The explanation is more complicated, so let’s find all the prime numbers first, hurry up and finish the exam, and then I’ll give you a slow analysis after we get out.”
Yue Xingwen agreed. “Yes! The time to clear the maze is definitely linked to the exam score. I guess that I won’t understand it if you explain it now. You tell me, what should I do next?”
Jiang Pingce pointed to the middle of the map and said, “Our current position is the center point of the upper maze, so we won’t miss any of the rooms by finding our way outwards in reverse from the center point. You take this door on the right, I’ll take the left.”
Yue Xingwen nodded, and Jiang Pingce continued, “After entering the door on the right, go through three rooms in a row, then turn left, and give me the numbers.”
Yue Xingwen turned around and walked over, separating himself from Jiang Pingce.
Jiang Pingce typed on the chat channel: “Young Ke and senior brother can continue.”
The two people on the lower floor continued to explore, and soon, Liu Zhaoqing also encountered a room that appeared with four numbers that looked like prime numbers, but were actually not prime numbers at all.
Jiang Pingce said, “The room where senior brother is also does not have a twin prime, so it should be the central point of the lower level. Young Ke, go out the door directly in front of your current room, take three rooms in a row, then turn left and see if you can meet up with senior brother.”
Ke Shaobin did as he was told.
After a few moments, the two did indeed type on the chat channel: “We meet!”
Liu Zhaoqing: “…Awesome! How did you make us both meet in the maze?”
Jiang Pingce did not have time to explain and simply said, “The upper and lower structures are the same. Now, let’s start looking for the fastest way. Senior brother, go to that door no. 171083.Young Ke, you take the door no. 171081. Each of you go straight ahead to three rooms and report along the way.”
After both of them walked through three rooms, Jiang Pingce continued: “Senior brother, turn left. Young Ke, turn right and report the numbers.”
“Senior brother, you take 192191 and 192193, and go seven rooms straight ahead to the right.”
“Young Ke, you turn left and go straight ahead seven rooms…”
The three of them almost turned into ‘finding card tools’, and Jiang Pingce could even get a precise idea of how they were facing!
Liu Zhaoqing walked straight through 7 rooms and found a dead end ahead, so did Ke Shaobin and Yue Xingwen. They wondered how Jiang Pingce calculated that the end of the 7 rooms was a dead end?
If there was a God-perspective camera at this time, it would reveal that the massive three-dimensional maze, like a three-story structure filled with square rooms, was moving in four directions in an S-shaped motion under Jiang Pingce’s command…
No room would be missed by searching in this way.
After a while, Yue Xingwen suddenly said: “I saw a room in which an elevator appeared and it could only go up.”
Jiang Pingce said: “Xingwen, what you found is the exit.”
Yue Xingwen: “……”
They found the exit, at least they could pass this course. He glanced at the countdown in the upper right corner; They’d only used up an hour and twenty minutes out of the 4 hours exam.
Jiang Pingce said, “Senior brother, you can go three rooms forward, turn left and go two straight two rooms, take the elevator up two floors, go five rooms forward, and turn right.”
“Young Ke, go three rooms to the right, four rooms straight, take the elevator up two floors, go forward four rooms and turn left.”
It was almost like a tongue twister for him to say this, and it was evident that Jiang Pingce already had a complete three-dimensional maze map in his hands to be able to instruct his teammates on their route accurately.
A few moments later, Jiang Pingce once again came to the room where Yue Xingwen was.
Not long after, Liu Zhaoqing and Ke Shaobin, actually came to rendezvous in this room precisely as well.
The three people looked at each other, they were shocked and did not know what to say for a moment.
Yue Xingwen asked, “How many pairs of twin prime numbers are collected in total?”
Jiang Pingce did not need to count the cards in his teammates’ hands and just reported the number. “144 pairs, all together. Let’s go.”
He pressed the button and his three teammates followed him into the elevator. The elevator could only go up. Soon, there was a ‘ding’ sound. At the moment the elevator stopped, a mechanical voice rang in their ears at the same time, “Congratulations to the C-183 Research Group for successfully leaving the <Prime Numbers Maze>. It took 1 hour and 30 minutes to collect 288 twin prime numbers. The exam is over, the points will be calculated…”
Research Group: C-183
Faculty of Mathematics’ Course: Prime Numbers Maze
Credit: 3
Clearance Score: 100 points (Perfect Clearance)
Additional Question: 30 points (All Twin Prime Numbers are all collected)
Overall Score: 130 points
Final Point: 3×130 = 390 points
Research Group Bonus: Group C points bonus x 1.5 times. Each person gets 585 final points.
Course Failure Rate: 65%
Click on the [link] to see the course performance ranking
Opening the link, and their C-183 Research Group was impressively ranked first.
With a clearance score of 100 out of 100, no one could surpass it!
Remembering Yue Xingwen’s jokes with Jiang Pingce the night before, when he said, “With Pingce here, just be a salted fish and get a perfect score.”
Unexpectedly, this joke would come true——
Jiang Pingce literally took his three teammates to an amazing score of a perfect clearance on his own!
Amazing!
Full clear!
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Perfect clear 🤯
The brain is sexy, but I’m a little scared
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Amazing
Thanks for the chapter
Jiang Pince the goat 🐐
I do not understand the prime thing anymore 😭