"Ah? It's over? So quickly?" The three of them, Lu Chao, hadn't even felt sleepy yet, and the match had already ended.
Under normal circumstances, a match usually lasted more than an hour before it could end. How long had it been?
The three of them took off their blindfolds one by one, pretending to high-five Fang Jueyu, infuriating the other teams' members with gritting teeth.
Jiangnan University, with the highest total score, undoubtedly advanced to the second round. The team that scored two points actually ranked second, while there were seven teams that scored one point. They never imagined that their advancement would be decided by the order in which they were eliminated.
The four of them walked to the center of the stage, bowed to the audience below, then left with cheeky smiles.
Next, the second match began. Oddly enough, everyone seemed uninterested in this match, still heatedly discussing the previous one that was jaw-droppingly lopsided.
The attendees of this venue were all masters in the information security field, even including some legendary figures. If they revealed their IDs, it would definitely shock the place, but no one knew what they looked like.
Kai and Jok, two legendary figures in the information security world, had no outsiders knowing their true identities. However, in the international online competition spontaneously held last July, these two ranked fourth and sixth internationally!
"How did he do it?" Kai had been staring at Fang Jueyu's operation.
His hand speed was just too fast. Kai's operational speed was absolutely top-notch, but estimating by the frequency of key strikes, Fang Jueyu's hand speed was definitely more than three times his!
What did that mean? Human hand speed could be very fast, but as we know, human body endurance has its limits. When the finger speed reached a certain level, the muscles, bones, blood vessels, etc., in the fingers couldn't withstand such a burden.
Kai could maintain a five to ten-second operational time at extreme speed. If he exceeded this speed, his hands would surely suffer irreversible damage. But Fang Jueyu completed the entire match at a speed more than three times the limit. Were his hands made of iron?
"This... this is beyond my knowledge!" Jok also realized what Fang Jueyu's operations represented.
But hand speed was just one indicator. Even with a hand speed three times the limit, countering attacks from so many people could be effortless, and even returning some attacks wasn't difficult. However, the attack intensity and number of attack targets were absolutely limited.
And Fang Jueyu? Under such immense pressure, he broke through hundreds of nodes in just a few minutes. Not a single node could withstand even one attack from him. What kind of massive data amount did this require?
Either his hand speed was extremely fast, or his code was exceedingly exquisite. He seemed to possess both abilities.
"Well, there's nothing to see in this year's competition. Even if that guy Liu Yiren and Su Miao team up, they're no match for him. The champion is definitely Jiangnan University."
"Yeah, no suspense." Kai nodded in agreement. Even if the two of them joined forces, they weren't confident they could gain any advantage over Fang Jueyu.
"Are you going to watch the international competition in Singapore this year?" Jok asked.
"Of course, we have to watch it. Maybe this year, the university student team from Huaxia can break the curse of no championship. I actually want to see whether he or Fei Ke'er is stronger!"
"Fei Ke'er?" Jok's mouth twitched.
Fei Ke'er was a woman, more accurately, she was just a girl. She was definitely a computer genius, starting elementary school at five, getting admitted to the Hatan University in the United States at 13.
She was only 15 this year, but she had been participating in the national university network information security skills competitions for three years, leading her team to victory every year, and ranked first internationally in personal rankings! A so-called genius must be someone like her.
Jok and Kai also faced Fei Ke'er several times, but the best result was only breaking four nodes in their team, showing her formidable strength. The most terrifying thing was that her power was still rising!
"What do you think, how do they compare in strength?"
"Hard to say, their strengths far exceed ours. Probably only a face-off will provide the answer," Jok said. "In the afternoon, there should be the second-round eliminations. We can take a closer look!"
The four morning matches ended, and Yanjing University and Qingbei University advanced to the next round without any suspense. After today's matches, 14 teams would remain, so there were two more matches in the afternoon.
After watching the morning matches, almost every school was anxious, fearing they'd face Jiangnan University's team in the next matches.
How would they compete? They basically couldn't contest. Whether they advanced completely depended on the order in which Fang Jueyu attacked!
It seemed they wanted to keep the suspense until the final match. Yanjing University and Qingbei University were placed in the same group and finally advanced with the same score along with five other teams.
When Jiangnan University's team took the stage, only Fang Jueyu walked up!
"Where are the other three?" The audience below immediately stirred.
"Forget it, he's enough by himself. What's the difference if the other three come or not?"
"True, let's just see how many minutes this match takes to end, haha!"
"Jiangnan University team, where are your other three players?" the referee asked.
"Oh, they're not coming. The match doesn't require all four players to be present to start, right?" Fang Jueyu asked back.
"Uh..." The referee was left speechless. Indeed, there were no rules stating all four players must be present to continue. As long as one was there, the match could proceed.
"Then there's no problem. We want to go to eat Haidilao tonight. The business there in Yanjing is so good, we're afraid if we wait until the end and go, we can't get a number, so the other three went to get numbers first!" Fang Jueyu said nonchalantly.
"What? The other three went to get numbers?"
"Hahaha, is Fang Jueyu a devil? If it were me, I'd be too embarrassed to play again!"
"Isn't he too arrogant?"
"Arrogant? If you have this skill, you can be arrogant too. The guy's unbeatable; you've got a problem with his arrogance? If you can, go show off yourself?"
"That's right! Haven't you seen enough of the dean's slick moves? He's just that kind of person. If he's ever humble, then his brain must be broken!"
"Then let's get started." The referee seemed to know a bit about what kind of sensationalist Fang Jueyu was.
"Clap, clap, clap!" This time, Fang Jueyu did not hold back and launched a fierce attack immediately. All the teams completely gave up attacking Fang Jueyu. Surround him? That would just be foolish. By then, they wouldn't have any points, leading to nearly certain elimination.
Their only hope of advancing was to abandon defense and frantically attack other school teams to get as many points as possible!
"What's going on? Didn't he wait until just one node was left before counterattacking in the morning? Why was he so agitated in the afternoon?"
"Dunno, could he be in a bad mood?"
"Buzz!" The final node extinguished, with the match timer stopping at one minute and twenty-seven seconds!
Fang Jueyu didn't even wait for the referee to announce the results, jumping directly up from his chair.
"Players from Jiangnan University, I haven't announced the results yet!"
"I, I, I... I couldn't hold it. I need to pee!"
The audience erupted. In less than a minute and a half, you wiped out over a hundred nodes from thirteen schools all because you needed to pee?