322: I can't even solve a linear equation!

“Have you thought of your answer? Don’t say I didn’t warn you, if you can’t answer within three minutes, the Knowledge Codex will default to you losing.”

The Goat Demon urged, as if everything was within his grasp.

“Haha.” Su Xiaobai chuckled a few times, “I was just surprised that you would use a book I wrote to test me?”

“You wrote it?” The Goat Demon was stunned for a moment, then shook his head frantically, “Stop trying to act tough, the author of that book is clearly someone named Black Abyss!”

“My apologies, that’s my pen name.” Su Xiaobai smiled slightly.

In the audience, the people from the Su Manor who came to watch the battle all looked at Black Abyss.

Black Abyss’s mouth twitched, and his molars were about to be ground to dust. This scoundrel, already so famous, still likes to use his name to swindle people everywhere!

One day, he would press him against a wall and rub him!

At this moment, in the Goat Demon’s astonished gaze, Su Xiaobai answered the Void Realm: “The protagonist’s initial residence was called Wutan City.”

The air was silent for a long while, then the artifact spirit’s deep voice rang out.

“Correct answer.”

A mysterious Law acted upon the Goat Demon, who immediately convulsed violently as if electrocuted.

Abba abba~

The Goat Demon lay on the ground, eyes rolled back, tongue hanging out, his body twitching occasionally.

Clearly, the process of absorbing power was very unpleasant.

At the same time, a part of his Aura plummeted, while on the other side, Su Xiaobai’s Qi was boosted.

Su Xiaobai felt the strengthened power, a hint of surprise in his heart; this Goat Demon’s power was unexpectedly pure.

He feared that if he didn’t use the Knowledge Codex, Zhao Tiezhu wouldn’t be able to defeat him in a head-on battle.

“Again… again…”

The Goat Demon stood up again, looking at Su Xiaobai with unwillingness.

He was just unlucky this time. Who would have thought that Su Xiaobai, that scoundrel, a dignified Commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, would neglect his duties and go write some storybooks!

The Great Zhou Empress was also incompetent, allowing such officials who didn't do proper work to go unchecked.

However, the loss of the first round did not discourage him.

He was confident that no matter what question Su Xiaobai asked, he could answer it.

Whether it was the various schools of thought in Great Zhou, or the Four Books and Five Classics, he had read them all and understood them thoroughly.

“Bring it on!” He looked at Su Xiaobai with full confidence.

Su Xiaobai pondered for a moment, then smiled: “Since that’s the case, my first question will be the simplest one.”

“There are a certain number of chickens and rabbits in a cage. Counting from the top, there are 35 heads. Counting from the bottom, there are 94 feet. How many chickens and rabbits are there in the cage?”

The Goat Demon was stunned; he had never seen such a question!

He usually read literary classics, and even if he encountered arithmetic problems, they were just simple accounting. How could he have encountered such a perverse problem?!

“Chickens have one head, rabbits also have one head, two feet, four feet, @#￥…%”

The Goat Demon felt his head was about to explode, his eyes spinning non-stop, beginning to babble incoherently.

He looked like his CPU was overloaded.

It wasn’t just him; the other spectators on the field also began counting on their fingers, their brows furrowed.

“This question is so difficult. Chickens only have two feet, while rabbits have four feet, and they still need to make up 35 heads… Ah! I really want to pull them all out and chop them up!”

“But Commander Su said such a difficult question is the simplest. How difficult will the later questions be!”

Although they were in different camps, everyone couldn’t help but sweat for the Goat Demon.

On the high platform.

The officials, who always prided themselves on their intelligence, were also sweating profusely as they calculated.

Some even pulled out scratch paper that reached the ground.

“Lord Su’s question is indeed a bit difficult for people. If given enough time, it wouldn’t be hard to deduce little by little.

But the key is that there are only three minutes to answer, so that Goat Demon won’t be able to do it.”

Chief Sun muttered while calculating on his scratch paper.

Everyone nodded in agreement.

The Empress put her fingers behind her back, quietly calculating, and soon got the answer.

The corners of her mouth slightly lifted as she looked at the ministers who were still sweating profusely, a hint of pride in her eyes.

“Such a simple matter that can be solved with a single linear equation, and it stumps you all like this? A bunch of incompetents!” she thought proudly.

When Su Xiaobai came to the palace to play with her before, he had taught her how to use linear equations.

She was stunned at the time; he solved such a difficult problem in less than ten seconds!

Besides that, he also taught her systems of linear equations, quadratic equations, and so on.

It got harder and harder as she learned, so she didn't want to learn anymore.

Of course, this was absolutely not because she couldn’t learn it! It was because it was too boring; how could it be as interesting as reading storybooks! Absolutely not because she couldn’t learn it!

The scene returned to the martial arts arena.

“Time’s up. No answer given. Punishment begins.”

The artifact spirit’s voice rang out again.

It was that mysterious Law again, acting upon the Goat Demon.

Abba abba~!

The Goat Demon convulsed again, lying limply on the ground.

And Su Xiaobai’s Aura grew stronger by another fraction.

But at this moment, his expression was very serious. He had put on a pair of glasses at some point, looking like a strict teacher.

“You can’t even do such a simple problem. Even elementary school students in our world can do it!”

“Zero points!”

He threw a piece of chalk at the Goat Demon.

The Goat Demon was stunned by the hit, but still said defiantly: “Your question is too difficult. It’s impossible to do it in three minutes. You’re cheating, you’re winning unfairly!”

“Heh.” Su Xiaobai sneered, adjusting the frame of his glasses, “Put away your pathetic self-esteem, open your eyes wide and watch how this official solves this problem!”

With that, he flicked his sleeve and turned around.

There, a blackboard had appeared at some point.

Su Xiaobai picked up the chalk and wrote down the steps for solving a linear equation on the blackboard.

And from beginning to end, the process did not take more than ten seconds.

Everyone stared at the steps on the blackboard for a long time, then suddenly understood.

“So that’s how it is, what a brilliant method!”

“As expected of Lord Su, such an ingenious solution, only he could have thought of it!”

“Now that Goat Demon should be convinced, hahaha!”

On the field.

Thump!

The Goat Demon knelt heavily on the ground, his pupils trembling violently, as if his worldview had been shattered.

“So… so it can be done this way, why didn’t I think of it…”

“Hey! Stop crying there, hurry up with the next question, this official is in a hurry to go home and eat.” Su Xiaobai urged.