Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 179: Chapter 159: What a Great Spirit This Is!

In the past six months, Zhao Yi’s activities had made a significant impact, particularly with the Rubik’s cube calculator, the Effective and Irrelevant Carry Filtering method and his solution of the Collatz Conjecture.

The Rubik’s cube calculator had considerable influence, but to the average person, it was just another calculator software.

That seemed pretty normal.

The computer industry was rapidly developing, and all sorts of software were emerging constantly. One more software for solving Rubik’s cube wasn’t particularly noteworthy.

The impact of the Effective and Irrelevant Carry Filtering method was mainly felt in academic circles. Most ordinary people didn’t care about it. Lots of scholars published papers all the time. Even if it had influence in academia, it was still considered ’niche’ on media platforms and the internet.

However, the Collatz Conjecture was different.

Many middle and high school students knew about this conjecture, it could be found in extra-curricular mathematics reading materials. Solving such a conjecture had tremendous influence.

The primary purpose of CCTV’s interview team visiting was to conduct a comprehensive interview with Zhao Yi. Although they were official media, they still considered viewer ratings. The main content of the interview would focus on the Collatz Theorem. frёeωebɳovel.com

Moreover, Zhao Yi himself was quite a topic of interest.

He was just a senior high school student, but because of his research, academics and academic achievements, he had become an internet celebrity and was highly sought after by top universities worldwide. Both Zhengyang and Nanjiang’s Education Departments promoted him as a successful example of ’Quality Education’. He could be considered the most well-known high school student in recent years and was certainly worth interviewing.

The CCTV interview team consisted of three people, and they had just arrived in Zhengyang City. Their plan was just to pay a courtesy visit to the school today and start the interview tomorrow.

In addition to interviewing Zhao Yi, they also planned to take some photos and videos of various scenes for their video report. Whether they could get onto CCTV was another matter, but they would definitely have to conduct the interview and record some footage.

Wu Wensheng was the team leader of the three-person interview crew.

Along with the reporter, Zheng Nana, and a cameraman, Zhu Chunlai.

Zhao Yi saw Wu Wensheng and Zhu Chunlai when he and Principal Wang Chengmin walked into the principal’s office. Zhu Chunlai was continually tinkering with his camera, ready to shoot at any time.

Wu Wensheng came over to shake hands with Zhao Yi, "Hello, Zhao Yi, I’m Wu Wensheng from the interview team."

"Hello."

After the initial pleasantries were exchanged, Wu Wensheng began discussing the interview plan. They planned an extensive shoot, covering scenes from the school as well as Zhao Yi’s home. As for the personal interview with Zhao Yi, it wouldn’t take more than an hour.

They would also spend time interviewing Zhao Yi’s classmates, schoolteachers, and so on.

Upon hearing this, Principal Wang Chengmin was delighted.

The extensive coverage was indicative of a feature special. The school was guaranteed significant airtime.

Zhao Yi agreed to it.

He couldn’t find a reason to refuse the personal feature by the CCTV interview group. His discussion with Wu Wensheng mainly focused on the requirements for the scenes.

For example, "Do we have to make it seem like we’re very poor when filming at home? The place I used to live in wasn’t great, and the current house wouldn’t be suitable."

Of course.

A student from an average home who continues to achieve success through hard work is always inspirational. His new house wouldn’t be suitable.

It was an upscale flat that any rich person would live in, filled with astronomical telescopes, robots, and various computers. Filming there wouldn’t be inspirational at all. The audience would probably think, "His success is due to his superior educational environment."

Also, "Should we film me walking around the school to show how busy my study life is?"

Zhao Yi made several such suggestions.

Wu Wensheng just listened in a daze, even taking out a notebook to record everything. Then he looked at Zhao Yi, perplexed and said, "Zhao Yi, I think you should consider applying for a directing major and become a program planner in the future."

"You’re quite talented..."

Zhao Yi just laughed it off.

Personal inspirational features on television shows are generally like this. It felt different when it was about him, so he considered more details.

After the discussion in the principal’s office, Zhao Yi took the interview team to his parents’ place instead of attending evening self-study. They tidied up the house a bit before letting the cameraman inside to shoot.

Liu Jing and Zhao Zhenxi were very excited. They had met quite a few reporters before, but never any from CCTV. Upon hearing that the interview team was from CCTV, they immediately became very enthusiastic and even cooperated with the cameraman to shoot many life scenes for half a day.

Liu Jing was too nervous.

Even just shooting a ’coming in through the front door and changing shoes’ scene, she had to redo her actions several times because they seemed too stiff. With so many people watching, on top of the cameraman following her, she couldn’t act naturally at all.

Zhao Zhenxi, on the other hand, performed much better.

He had a lot of experience dealing with people and had seen quite a few grand events. He acted very naturally in front of the camera.

The interview team spent about two hours shooting at the house, then went with Zhao Yi to his new house. Once they got inside, they finally understood why Zhao Yi said his new home was unsuitable.

The house was overflowing with a sense of science and technology!

The first thing they saw was an astronomical telescope, with five computers (four of which were high-end laptops) both inside and outside the house. The most eye-catching item was a high-tech robot by the dining table. It was wielding mechanical arms, making... coffee?

"This is amazing!"

"This..."

Wu Wensheng moved around the robot, a little speechless.