Chapter 15 (1/2)

CHAPTER 15: FINDING WALLET

There was quite a distance between the JiYuan hotel and the

school, although Zhang Yang had already borrowed 50 yuan from Liu Biao, but he

did not want to spend this lunch money to take a taxi so Zhang Yang walked for

more than one hour, although he ‘d eaten and drunk till he was full. Then Zhang

Yang sat on the train for several hours to reach his dormitory and went to

sleep.  In less than three hours, he woke

up to do the morning exercise, then came back and studied continuously for a

day. Up until now, Zhang Yang had not slept, although he wasn’t feeling cold or

hungry, obviously he did not feel any better than usual.

Back in the dormitory,

Zhang Yang was almost asleep in his bed, ignoring to take a bath.

All along, Zhang Yang had been sleeping until seven o’ clock

in the morning, and if it wasn’t for the urge to urinate, he wouldn’t have

woken up.

Although it was only seven o’ clock, the day was bright.

After getting out from the toilet, Zhang Yang kept tossing from side to side,

unable to fall asleep while on the other side his roommates, Zhang Yang

remembered that they were the seniors, and basically lying on the bed like

dead.

Followed by few days, Zhang Yang, except for occasional

partic.i.p.ation in a few professional courses and buying some food back, it was

almost like he never get out from the dormitory. Every day, he was immersed in

the Mathematics book unable to extricate himself. Xiao Yiran, the “basic

research on ideas and methods …” he had been reading the book over and over

again for several times but still he fondled the book admiringly, he’d never

thought that the boring numbers inside the book would be so interesting.

His several roommates inside the dormitory also did not pay

any attention to him, the senior life was rich and colorful, in fact, almost

everyone inside the 512 rooms except Zhang Yang had a girlfriend, and therefore

they naturally did not focus on slow-witted and carefree Zhang Yang who was

reading all day long in the room.

It is worth mentioning here that Zhang Yang was in the

Department of Fine Arts so the degree of freedom was extremely high. Usually it

was just carrying a drawing board on the back and wandering around, and Zhang

Yang was not interested on this field. Casually the volunteer work was also

already filled at this time.

Zhang Yang was now in a state of extreme excitement.

It was his first time in contact with mathematics, and also

the first time when he became really interested in one thing.

A new door opened for Zhang Yang, and by the time he had

stepped one foot, the secret of the mathematical world had been open for him.

And Xiao Yiran’s book was like a brick as a door knocker (idiom), this book was

exactly suitable for Zhang Yang. A lot of simple theory and computing patters

allowed Zhang Yang to feel like he had achieved the mastery of an advanced

knowledge.

However, Xiao Yiran’s book was already miserable, and on the

top Zhang Yang had scribbled a certain of notes, as a matter of fact, Zhang

Yang was afraid when regained consciousness for once in a while and

deliberately avoided his own traces of writing left in the book. Nevertheless,

the other side of Zhang Yang was invested to grab the pen, and the pen would

automatically leave behind his own opinions in his nahdwriting.

At present, Zhang Yang’s brain was very much like a

computer, a lot of knowledge was stored, he only needed to look for a search

engine, and the answer was “the basic research on ideas and methods. That was

enough for his mind to build a foundation to move forward.

Human thirst for knowledge is innate, but, because of

variety of external reasons, or innate ability, resulted in each person’s

knowledge to be different, for example, some people likes painting and have the

natural ability to do so but because the external environment would not allow

him, his talent gets buried and dies.

In this world, except the idiots, lunatics, fools, in fact,

everyone is likely to excel in a certain field, of course the degree if IQ and

efforts also determines the level of achievements.

Four days later, Zhang Yang finally woke up from the

obsession in the digital world.

“No more food?”

Zhang yang hold the bread bag between the finger and thumb, and

touched his stomach, a strong sensation of hunger made him unable to read the

book any longer.   The number of symbols on the book merely seemed

like a roasted chicken … …