Study Monster Cultivation System-Chapter 301 - 300 Little Genius’ XOR Gate!

Facing Li Zheng deliberately exposing his academic passion, Lin Yujing seemed to be well-prepared.

"Hmm, just like that." She imitated Li Zheng, feigning fierceness as she gestured, "Watching you want to surpass me, want to be above me, but in the end, you’re still stomped under my feet, that’s also a great motivation for me to study."

At this moment, Monster Lin Yujing circled back again.

[There’s a monster, every time you climb one level, you find she’s still above you.]

"Keep on bragging," Li Zheng shook his head dismissively, no longer dwelling on it as he strode towards the dining area, "I won’t bicker with you, I’m a man of action."

"Right, right, right, man of action~~" Lin Yujing followed him over, "Casually taking a biology test and adding a girl under 14 years old."

"She’s 15!" Li Zheng retorted angrily.

"You even know her age, Scum Chap!" Lin Yujing was even more furious.

Thus, the two each took a meal and headed in opposite directions toward either end of the cafeteria.

When there are experiments, there tend to be more people, and it’s impossible for one auntie to handle everything, so they usually prepare around a hundred servings of fast food in advance.

At this moment in the cafeteria, regardless of status or age, everyone was just eating the same boxed fast food.

However, those gathered at one table were mostly similar in some ways.

Lin Yujing’s first reaction was to look for her mom, but from a distance, she saw that those sitting with her mom were all high-ranking leaders; she immediately chickened out, turned her face away, and went to find Li Zheng.

However, Li Zheng had already forcefully squeezed his way to a table.

The moment he parted ways with Lin Yujing, he had spotted a conspicuously chubby and square face, then took his meal box and headed over.

"Hey, Wei, is it okay if I sit here?"

At the table, Chen Wei looked up, quickly got up and tugged the chair himself, nodding excitedly, "Please, God Zheng."

"You’re too kind, Wei," Li Zheng said.

And with that, Li Zheng took his seat, and with Chen Wei’s introduction, started chatting with Jiang Ning from the maintenance team who was at the same table.

Lin Yujing watched from afar as Li Zheng seamlessly integrated into the engineers’ ranks without so much as glancing back, almost enough to make her bite the meal box with frustration.

The scumminess of Scum Chap knows no age, gender, or status.

High EQ really is a double-edged sword!

But not everyone in the world is scum; there are always honest people.

Chen Wei, perceptively catching sight of the neglected Lin Yujing, called out, "Eh? Yu Jing, this way, this way."

Li Zheng quickly pulled him back: "Ignore her, let her stew."

"What’s up? You guys fought?" Chen Wei laughed, "Hey, let big brother help you make peace."

He got up and trotted over, forcibly coaxing Lin Yujing to join them.

As Lin Yujing sat down, the atmosphere suddenly turned icy.

The original lively banter died down, and suddenly no one spoke a word.

The most innocent must be Jiang Ning, who was simply having a meal with a colleague and had never witnessed such a scene.

After two minutes of forced eating, Chen Wei couldn’t stand it any longer.

"Speaking of which, today’s test is virtually conclusive," Chen Wei said delighted, "The rest is for The Sixth Institute to worry about."

"Is it about improving the engines?" Li Zheng asked casually.

"It’s not just about improving, their oxygen..."

Chen Wei was only halfway through his sentence when Jiang Ning suddenly coughed and, with forced bravado, dared not look straight as he asked, "Your mother is Chief Engineer Shen, right?"

After a long wait, Lin Yujing finally uttered a grunt.

"Me?" Lin Yujing nodded dumbly, "Yes."

"Oh, no wonder, you’re both beautiful." Jiang Ning said with a silly smile, "No, you’re even prettier... No, no, no... Chief Engineer Shen is more... Well, let’s just say equally beautiful..."

"..."

This conversation made the atmosphere that Chen Wei had finally brought up, fall cold again.

Li Zheng just smiled and shook his head, "I understand, the core issue with the fault is still highly confidential, I shouldn’t have asked so much, let’s talk about something else."

Chen Wei then realized that Jiang Ning’s forced interjection was actually a reminder to him.

As a subject of widespread societal interest in aerospace, it indeed shouldn’t be revealed too early to interns, not so much because of secrecy, but because blabbering and showing off prematurely can cause a lot of trouble.

"Hey, hey, hey, let’s talk about something good," Chen Wei hurriedly said, "Next is for The Sixth Institute to make improvements and retest the engines. Although we will also have to collaborate on some overall design optimizations, at least we won’t have to work so hard anymore."

"If all goes well, how long before it flies again?" Li Zheng inquired.

"Well... Now, with Secretary Zhao pushing everyone in the aerospace system to work together, the most favorable situation might be about half a year," Chen Wei mumbled with pursed lips, "There’s a chance that it could actually make it back into space within a year."

"Let’s hope so." Jiang Ning leaned back in his chair, running his fingers through his thick hair as he gazed out the window, "But if you think about it, so many test runs before, and the issues that weren’t caught during the thirty-thousand-second tests, can it really be that simple?"

"Jinx yourself, don’t jinx us," Chen Wei slapped Li Zheng hard, "Haven’t you heard? The failure was discovered by a brand-new version of the diagnostic software developed by God Zheng. It not only satisfies the simulation, but can also reproduce the fault during the tests, super stable."

"The new algorithm that Li Zheng and Institute No. 11 came up with is of course amazing," Jiang Ning propped his chin toward Li Zheng, "but it’s like AI playing international chess, it only knows that making certain moves will win, but doesn’t understand why those moves lead to victory."

Chen Wei disdainfully said, "What are you blabbering about? Try making one yourself!"

"This..." Li Zheng, chewing his food, looked up and said, "I agree with Jiang Ning’s view, I just reproduced the fault parameters, which led to the fault, but I don’t know why the parameters would be like that, it’s like... it’s like..."

Lin Yujing flicked her hair and said, "It’s like a scumbag having a bunch of girls’ WeChat but not knowing it’s because he’s a scum, just thinking he’s good at studying."

The atmosphere chilled once again.

"I... I’m done eating... you guys talk..." Jiang Ning swallowed hard and picked up his lunch box.

"I... I haven’t finished eating... then you guys talk, I’ll keep eating..." Chen Wei lowered his head and voluntarily faded into the background.

"You’re no fun like this..." Li Zheng frowned, "Clearly, I’m really because of my good studies, though of course, I can’t do anything about the bonus from my looks."

"Pfft, pfft, pfft." Lin Yujing turned her face and retorted, "Replace Lin Xiangye with a male drill instructor type, would you still be interested?"

"Let me think..." Li Zheng pondered seriously, "Hmm... indeed, I’d probably not bother with him at all..."

"Get it now!" Lin Yujing got excited, tapping the table as she said, "That’s double standards for you, only being nice to young and cute girls. When will the drill instructor type guys ever stand up for themselves?"

"Now that you mention it..." Li Zheng hung his head in shame, "I seem to be the scum here, even setting different problems for Zhang Xiaoke and Jiang Qinghua."

"Scum Chap!"

"Scum Chap..." Li Zheng struggled as he pulled out his phone, "I’m deleting Lin Xiangye right now."

"Forget it, forget it~~" Lin Yujing waved a dismissive hand, "Just don’t add people randomly from now on. I still want to see photos of Gu Jianfeng~"

"Hm?" It was Li Zheng’s turn to feel something was off, "What are you snooping around for?"

Lin Yujing blinked innocently: "He’s really cute, and his math seems to be even better than mine."

"Just because someone is good at math, you look them up? Should I get a Pulitzer Prize winner’s photo collection for you then?"

"That wouldn’t be out of the question~~"

"Scum!"

"~~~"

At this moment, Chen Wei looked up, surveyed the turbulent expressions of the two, and then blankly asked, "Does this count as making up?"

The two just lowered their heads to eat, ignoring him.

"As long as you’ve made up." Chen Wei finally breathed a sigh of relief, "There’s still some time before the improvement plan for The Sixth Institute. It’s a rare opportunity, so you two should quickly take the chance to systematically learn from Teacher Shen. As for the core reason behind this malfunction, if you have the right to know, Teacher Shen will tell you, it’s not my place to say... Right, isn’t IPHO coming up?"

"We’ve received the notice, training at Institute No. 11." Li Zheng said as he covertly looked at Lin Yujing, "If work isn’t too busy... maybe take a trip there?"

Lin Yujing also slightly lifted her head, tentatively glancing at Li Zheng: "Just... take a trip there, right?"

"But if it’s busy..." Li Zheng offered a deeper probe, "Is it possible that we can consider..."

"Mhm, mhm, mhm." Lin Yujing nodded repeatedly.

"What are you two doing here?" Chen Wei scratched his head, suddenly alarmed, "Are you saying you’re too lazy to even go to the IPHO?"

"Ah, I’m not..." Lin Yujing shook her hands frantically, "I can go. If Li Zheng wants to go, we’ll go."

"I can go too..." Li Zheng also started fanning vigorously, "If Lin Yujing wants to go, we’ll go."

Chen Wei clutched his head and cursed, "So do you guys want to go or not?"

The two quickly looked down again.

"All good."

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"All good."

"Ah..." Chen Wei rubbed his forehead and sighed, "I get it, you actually both don’t want to go... but considering each other, neither of you wants to say it, afraid of killing the other’s enthusiasm..."

"I don’t."

"I don’t either."

"You are nuts, both of you. You fight so fiercely, and now you’re both acting all delicate. I can’t stand it..." Chen Wei shook his head, took out a piece of paper, tore it in half, and handed each of them a piece, "Here, you both write down if you want to go or not. If you want to, write a 1. If not, write a 0. If the results match, I’ll announce it. If not, I won’t say a word, and you should just go."

Li Zheng’s eyes widened, "An XOR gate, brilliant!"

This time, even Lin Yujing started lighting up, "Never thought you, Weiwei, with not such a high education, could come up with such a clever idea. You’ve gotten your degree!"

"Not high, your sister! I’m at least a master in aerospace engineering, although I haven’t got the degree yet..." Chen Wei said, pulling out two pens from his pocket and handing one to each, "You twisted guys and gals, you just need an XOR gate to set you straight."

What Chen Wei said was actually very true.

The situation between Li Zheng and Lin Yujing simply required an XOR gate.

As a very simple and basic concept in digital logic, it’s also just composed of 0s and 1s.

Here, this XOR gate has two inputs and one output.

If the signals at the input are different, one being 0 and the other 1, then they are dissimilar and it outputs a 1.

If both are the same, either both 0 or both 1, then it outputs a 0.

At present, both Li Zheng and Lin Yujing, considerate of each other, were afraid to reveal they didn’t want to go to the IPHO and wanted to focus on building rockets instead, lest they hurt the other’s passion for physics.

This created a logical conundrum, a dreadful chain of suspicion.

On one hand, neither would reveal their own reluctance.

On the other, neither could know the other’s thoughts.

Thus, the outcome would be that both end up unwillingly wasting time on rockets to attend a pointless IPHO.

This would lead to a lose-lose outcome.

But actually, for normal people, things aren’t this complicated at all; just express your true thoughts without overthinking it.

However, these two have to plan even when they fart, competing to see whose is louder.

If disloyalty to physics were to be discovered, they would probably be trampled for a long time.

Unless they’re disloyal together!

Now, Chen Wei has given them such an opportunity.

Although his education isn’t high, his brainpower is sufficient to act as the most basic logic circuit.

If both Li Zheng and Lin Yujing want to go, or neither wants to go, he would output a 0, announce both of their answers, and let them realize their ideals with clear consciences.

If one of them wants to go and the other does not, he would output a 1 and keep his mouth shut.

Act as if nothing happened, with no loss at all.

Chen Wei prides himself on thinking that as long as he perfectly plays the part of the logic circuit, the issue will be resolved perfectly.

Soon, he received two pieces of paper.

Both answers were 0.

"Ha, I really am a little genius," Chen Wei chuckled as he showed the slips of paper, "Clearly, neither of you wants to go, so forget about it and stick with your regular 996 schedule."

Upon hearing this, neither of them said much, and even seemed somewhat disappointed.

"Boring..."

"Crappy circuit."

"???" Chen Wei didn’t understand, "Isn’t this the result you wanted? Aren’t you happy?"

The two looked at Chen Wei as if he were an idiot, and then continued eating.

"Huh, not exciting enough, right? I get it," Chen Wei rubbed his hands together, "Let’s play a bigger game. Didn’t I say the XOR gate is perfect for fixing twisted men and women like you?"

Chen Wei said while arching his eyebrows.

"Let’s play one more time."

"But this time, the question is more thrilling."

"It’s ’Do you like each other?’."

"If you like someone, fill in a 1; If not, a 0."

"Old rules, I’ll only reveal if both like each other, or both don’t."

"If one likes and the other doesn’t, we pretend nothing ever happened."

"How about it? Dare to play?" Chen Wei said, slapping his thigh, "Let me, Chen·Neumann circuit, help pierce through this last layer of paper."

Upon hearing this, both glanced at each other, and then simultaneously extended their hands.

"Let’s play!"

"Haha, kindling and a raging fire, you both can’t wait," Chen Wei smacked his lips as he tore off another piece of paper, "Ah, I can’t stand it, always so nagging, and yet you need a little genius like me to solve your confession problems with an XOR gate."

"Less talking, hurry up."

"Come on, quick, quick."

"Look how eager you are," Chen Wei handed them paper and pens, then suddenly felt something was off, "Wait a minute... Aren’t I just causing trouble for myself... If you two get together, we’re the ones who are going to suffer..."

But the two of them didn’t listen at all, quickly wrote down their answers, folded the papers, and handed them back to Chen Wei.

Although Chen Wei felt like he was digging his own grave for dog food, the feeling of holding their fates in his hands by clutching the two pieces of paper was still pretty great.

Just imagine, making a man and a woman write down on paper whether they like each other or not is quite a youthful and romantic thing to do.

When this logic circuit reveals the result, they will surely be shy and awkward, but secretly holding hands, right?

Despite it being saccharine, it’s sweet for the brothers to share, and I’ll enjoy the sweet reward first.

Of course, if the final result is that one likes the other and the other doesn’t...

That would be awesome!

As a qualified logic circuit, of course, I wouldn’t disclose that result either.

At most, I might occasionally tease the one playing the loyal dog, and enjoy the happiness of being part of the upper class among single dogs.

It’s a win-win situation either way.

Suppressing his excitement, Chen Wei unfolded Li Zheng’s note like a card sharp revealing his hand, gently, ever so gently...

Do you like the other person?

Li Zheng’s answer was...

0.

He doesn’t like her!

Chen Wei was immediately shocked.

He looked back and forth between the two.

Wow, wow, wow!

What a delightful turn of events!

I originally thought that even if it didn’t work out, the bootlicker would still be on Li Zheng’s side.

But now it seems I was mistaken.

Ha, look at you, Jingjing, calling him Scum Chap out loud, but deep down you want him more than anyone.

Without giving it much thought, Chen Wei then unfolded Lin Yujing’s note.

It was also a zero.

"Bang!"

Chen Wei slammed his palms on the table, "How is that possible? You two are playing me!"

"Sigh..." Lin Yujing let out a sigh, "As expected... Scum Chap wouldn’t make such a dumb mistake."

Li Zheng also felt disappointed, "So my glaring hints and calling it ’brilliant’ weren’t enough to fool you... It seems I can only fool the likes of Chen Wei, the drop-out master’s student."

"What do you mean ’drop-out’? My studies are going just fine!" Chen Wei clamored, clutching the note, "Why wouldn’t you play with the XOR Gate, you two are too cowardly."

"Silly..." Lin Yujing shook her head helplessly, "You lost your degree not because you upset me this time, but purely because of your stupidity."

"I also suggest you go back and hit the books again," Li Zheng patted Chen Wei, "This XOR Gate was flawed from the start, you underestimate our chain of suspicion."

"????"

Chen Wei began to rack his brains.

From probability theory to mathematical statistics, from linear algebra to fuzzy mathematics.

Is there a problem? Is there something wrong with my XOR Gate?

For couples too embarrassed to speak out, isn’t my logic circuit the perfect solution to your communication woes?

Li Zheng had finished his meal, and seeing Chen Wei’s plump, candid face still deep in thought, couldn’t bear it and finally dropped a hint, "Stop thinking about the XOR Gate, approach it from a game theory perspective."

"Game theory?" Chen Wei widened his eyes, then shouted, "Damn, that’s it!"

Actually, the principle is very simple, it’s not that his education was insufficient, he was just temporarily fixated.

It may also be because he never had more than a brief exchange with any girl his age, and he simply didn’t understand the scenario.

But once it came to game theory, he understood immediately.

Purely from a logical standpoint, the XOR Gate could indeed solve the predicament of Li Zheng and Lin Yujing.

It could even work for many men and women playing the game of hard-to-get.

However, anyone with a bit more complex thinking than Chen Wei could spot the bug in this circuit—

From Chen Wei’s output, both parties could deduce the other’s answer.

Do you like the other person or not?

If the answer is yes, and Chen Wei announces the result, and the other person also likes you, then naturally, that’s great.

But who is the other person? It’s Li Zheng (Lin Yujing).

Would this Chap (Monster), be so honest?

Just imagine.

If Lin Yujing decided to play dirty and put down a zero, indicating ’dislike.’

And Li Zheng honestly filled in a one, indicating ’like.’

Then, in the end, Chen Wei would not announce the result.

But this result in itself has announced the outcome!

Lin Yujing knows she filled in ’dislike,’ and since Chen Wei didn’t announce it, it means their answers don’t match.

Therefore, Li Zheng’s answer could only be ’like’!

That would be the end of Li Zheng!

Wouldn’t Lin Yujing just dance triumphantly on his face?

Similarly, Li Zheng could also play this game.

If he happened to get a ’like’ from Lin Yujing, he’d probably roll on the table and go home to cry in Li Yi’s arms.

It can’t be helped, game theory is just two intelligent freaks using strategies without regard for the means, to obtain the maximum benefit.

Without doubt, when your opponent is Li Zheng (Lin Yujing), choosing ’like’ is akin to suicide.

Zero, is the inevitable answer.

You can only gamble that the other party hasn’t thought it through and honestly filled in ’like.’

Not surprisingly, the other party also filled in a zero.

"You guys... are crazy..." Chen Wei grabbed his face, his voice breaking, "Just fill in ’like’ and be done with it... Why make it so hard on yourselves."

"Is that all?" Li Zheng glanced at Lin Yujing, "Dislike."

Lin Yujing was even more shocked, "No way, no way, can someone really be that Chap?"

"I... I’m done with this!" Chen Wei stood up in anger, took his lunchbox, and left, "Serves you right! Both of you deserve it, just wait until I’m holding my baby’s Full Moon Wine, I’ll infuriate you both."