294: Mass liver overload

Standing up, Lin You swayed slightly. Wang Chun immediately stepped forward to support him, asking with concern, “Lin You, should I help you back to rest?”

At this moment, even if Lin You needed a shoulder, neck, and back massage, Wang Chun wouldn’t hesitate, even with people coming and going in the computer lab!

“No need, I just sat for too long, feeling a bit dizzy.”

Lin You stood up, picked up his personal belongings, and continued, “I’ve completed all the Mathematical Modeling parts. For the programming… uh, Sister Xinyue, you can check it later. As for the paper, Brother Chun and Sister Xinyue, you can both look at what I’ve done, and you can start writing the paper. If there’s anything that needs to be discussed, I’ll come back after I wake up this afternoon.”

“Okay, don’t worry, get some good rest first. We can talk about anything after you’ve had enough sleep.”

Lin You refused the breakfast they brought. He had been eating almost non-stop all night, finishing all the energy-boosting snacks Wang Chun bought last night. He wasn’t hungry now and could just go back and fall asleep.

After Lin You left, You Xinyue and Wang Chun sat there, looking at each other for a while.

They had actually arrived just after six o’clock and watched Lin You from behind for a while. Because Lin You was so engrossed, neither of them felt comfortable disturbing him.

While Lin You was programming, You Xinyue watched from behind. In her area of expertise, she could understand everything, but precisely because she understood everything, she felt a bit “hurt”… She had joked before that Lin You could form a team by himself for the National Competition, but now it seemed that wasn't a joke; it was the truth.

Lin You’s programming skills were definitely not inferior to You Xinyue’s, at least in Python, which he had studied.

And before Lin You joined the team, he hadn’t even started learning programming.

My teammate is not only too young but also too strong!

Terrifying!

Wang Chun patted the dispirited You Xinyue, “Quickly get to work, and work hard! Otherwise, by the time Lin You wakes up, there won’t be anything left for us to do!”

Ah, right. You Xinyue shuddered, reignited her fighting spirit, and immediately returned to the computer, fully immersing herself… When she woke up again, the headache Lin You had before sleeping was gone. He picked up his phone, feeling refreshed, and saw that it was almost six in the afternoon.

He had slept for a full ten hours, feeling very satisfied.

Lin You hadn’t had such a refreshing sleep in a long time. So, pulling an all-nighter with Comprehension could lead to perfect sleep?

Lin You realized something new; he had learned a lot.

Most of the competition tasks had been completed by Lin You’s excessive all-nighter last night. Lin You wasn’t in a hurry now and calmly took a shower in his room.

After asking You Xinyue and Wang Chun and learning they hadn’t had dinner yet, Lin You leisurely walked to the cafeteria, ate a bowl of potato and beef brisket rice, two beef patties, and a duck egg and meat patty soup. Feeling satisfied, Lin You packed two portions of braised chicken and rice, two beef patties, and two portions of the same duck egg and meat patty soup for his two teammates.

Back in the computer lab, it was still a lively but not noisy scene. Each team was busy, with no time to pay attention to other matters.

Out of a total of three days, for most teams, today and tomorrow were the busiest times.

But for Lin You’s team of three… what?

Heavy tasks?

If the competition ended tonight, we could still finish it if we pulled another all-nighter… Knowing Lin You was coming, You Xinyue and Wang Chun felt a strong sense of “crisis,” fearing that Lin You would find them too slow and decide to take over everything himself.

After Lin You arrived, he looked at the two of them and said with a smile, “You’ve been working all day, hurry up and eat, and take a break too.”

You Xinyue and Wang Chun both shook their heads simultaneously, saying in unison, “We’re not tired at all!”

Lin You put down the two boxes of food he was carrying and tilted his head to look at them. They had left at one last night and arrived at six this morning; they clearly had dark circles under their eyes now.

“Alright, but no matter how not tired you are, you have to eat, right?”

You Xinyue and Wang Chun exchanged glances, then awkwardly went to eat, not forgetting to say, “Lin You, we’re not as fast as you. Can you see if there are any problems with what we’ve done?”

“It’s fine, the three of us are working together to check for gaps and make improvements.”

Check for gaps and make improvements?

We can barely understand the Mathematical Modeling you did, and the program you wrote… is also flawless.

Where would we find anything to improve for you?

Lin You sat back down at the computer and quickly reviewed You Xinyue and Wang Chun’s daytime work.

The program Lin You hadn’t finished had been completely done by You Xinyue. Lin You carefully read through it once. You Xinyue truly deserved her programming competition awards; her skill was not at all inferior to his, even though he had only been learning for half a month.

If You Xinyue knew Lin You’s inner thoughts, she would probably say, “Junior brother, are you human?”

Wang Chun had also written part of the paper. There were no issues with the formatting, but some specific content had deviations. Lin You noted them down one by one, intending to discuss them with the team after dinner.

After all, Lin You hadn’t written or published a paper before. Discussing it humbly with the two of them also prepared him for publishing SCI papers later.

Fifteen minutes later, after You Xinyue and Wang Chun finished eating and took care of personal matters, the three team members sat together for the first time to discuss how to write and revise the paper.

Although Mathematical Modeling is certainly the most important part of the Mathematical Modeling Competition, no matter how well the derivations and calculations are done, they are ultimately presented to the judges in the form of a paper.

Therefore, to some extent, the step of paper writing is equally crucial.

This involves a perennial problem: not only do you have to know how to do it, but you also have to know how to express it.

All three of them were quite capable, and they had practiced specific paper writing multiple times together.

From six PM to midnight, Lin You was still the main writer, with Wang Chun and You Xinyue providing suggestions and ideas.

Abstract, keywords, problem restatement, model assumptions and notation, model establishment and solution, result analysis and visualization, model validation, references, appendix… one by one, Lin You precisely refined each section according to the template of excellent Higher Education Press Cup papers he had memorized.

And You Xinyue and Wang Chun provided excellent supplementary suggestions.

Of course, Lin You had completed all the Mathematical Modeling and half of the programming. He could also complete the paper writing entirely on his own, and there were still two days left, with ample time for checking and revising.

But with two teammates, real-time revisions could be made, saving a significant portion of subsequent work.

At three AM, after finally copying the code to the appendix, Lin You took his hands off the keyboard, turned around, met You Xinyue and Wang Chun’s gaze, and they high-fived each other.

Wang Chun mumbled for a bit, then said in disbelief, “It’s… finished?”

Lin You smiled and said, “We still need to convert it to PDF and then use the competition client to generate the paper’s PDF MD5 code.”

You Xinyue, whose face had been cool and aloof when they first met, now showed both fatigue and a smile. She glanced at the time on her phone, “A total of 33 hours since the competition started, and we’ve perfectly completed all the work!”

Lin You fulfilled his captain’s duty, “Let’s go! Save the documents and go back to sleep! Tomorrow at twelve PM, we’ll meet at the cafeteria for lunch. After eating, we’ll return to the computer lab for one final check, then upload it!”

The voices of Lin You’s trio were somewhat excited, and the computer lab was relatively quiet in the latter half of the night, so their words were heard clearly by those around them.

After the three disappeared from the computer lab, Chen Shao’s group was still pulling an all-nighter.

The one who had mocked the “freshman” last time wore a comical smile. “Are you kidding me? Done already? So arrogant? Truly a pure and foolish freshman junior brother…”