Tuesday, May 27.

At six o'clock in the morning, Evan opened his eyes on time, and the busy day began.

Put water, brush your teeth, wash your face, greet your classmates, and meet up with Rick and Werner for breakfast.

At the breakfast meeting, Werner asked, "Evan, I heard that you have published another paper, right? This time it was published in Science!"

Seeing Evan nodding silently, Werner showed a look of envy and sighed: "You are really amazing! I wonder when I will be able to make a result worthy of publication in Science?"

"It's not easy, it's not going to be easy to join Evan's lab," Rick said. His field of research is still an unexplored fertile ground, and there is a lot of research that can be done...... Am I right, Evan?"

Evan's mouth was stuffed with egg yolks, and he couldn't speak, so he could only nod his head and signal that Rick was right.

Werner was momentarily moved by Rick's proposal, but he was still firm and said, "Forget it, I'm more interested in the vast universe than materials." ”

When Werner said this, Rick remembered that Werner had said that he wanted to study astrophysics at the observatory, so he didn't persuade him to go any further.

After breakfast, the three of them dispersed.

At eight o'clock, Evan put on his school bag and prepared to go to class. On the way, Evan suddenly felt that something was strange, and looked left and right, but he didn't understand.

When he arrived at the classroom, Evan was stunned.

The huge lecture hall was empty, including the lectern.

After standing for a moment, Evan suddenly made a right fist and left palm, and said to himself, "I remember, this is the legendary Ditch Day." ”

"No wonder I find it strange, it turns out that there are too few people on the road. ”

"Now they are probably still in the dormitory, no, I have to go back. ”

Truancy Day is a tradition at Caltech, which originated in the spring of the 1920s, when a group of seniors who wanted to take it easy decided to let go of themselves and give themselves a day off.

At first, truancy days were only popular in senior years, but later the younger students took the tradition and combined it with the school prankster tradition. After the seniors skip school, the younger students take the opportunity to go to their dorm rooms to make a difference. For years of truancy, seniors' dorms were piled with sand, styrofoam, parked in a car that had been dismantled and reassembled, or a working cement mixer truck. Bedroom furniture was also hung from the ceiling, moved out of the yard or hung from trees.

Of course, seniors do not sit still, and often try their best to prevent the junior students from succeeding, such as keeping the specific date of the truancy day secret until the day of the truancy, which catches the junior students off guard. In order to make it difficult for the younger students to start, they also blocked the entrance aisle with large cement blocks.

Evan returned to the dorm building to find that most of the junior students were there.

In the communal dining room of the BlackerHouse, Rick stands at the table and arranges tasks loudly. He had gathered a large number of people and was preparing to overcome the obstacles on the second floor.

Almost all of BlackerHouse's seniors live on the second floor, and now, I don't know when, the second floor is blocked by a bunch of tables and chairs.

A student in his pajamas shouted his solidarity to Rick, who lived on the second floor, and never thought that he would just come down for breakfast, and in less than ten minutes, there would be no way back.

After the mobilization was completed, Rick led the army to the battle.

Werner, who was also in the group, saw Evan watching from the sidelines and beckoned to him.

Evan thought about it and blended into the group.

Werner said, "Evan, how about we go to Orville's dormitory later?"

Evan shrugged indifferently.

The group first worked together to clear the tables and chairs down the stairs. When I came to the second floor, I found that the entire corridor was blocked by dense and thin lines.

A sign often hangs at the entrance of the hallway that reads: "Warning, these wires are connected to high voltage, and if you touch it, you will die." ”

Next to the text, one on the left and one on the right, there is a shelf of skeletons that have been struck by electricity.

After reading the text on the signboard, a student sneered: "How can there be high-voltage electricity here, it must be fake." ”

As he spoke, he was going to tear the thread off at the moment.

At this point, Rick reached out and stopped the man.

He pointed to the bell tied to the thin wire and said, "Of course there can't be high-voltage electricity, so this is a question from the seniors." Violent solutions to problems are not our style. ”

After saying that, Rick moved his hands and feet, ready to brave the "high-pressure array".

After carefully observing the direction of the high-voltage line, Rick bent down, leaned sideways, carefully raised his foot to cross the first line, and then slowly moved forward.

Second, third......

Rick walked smoothly, and when he walked almost two meters, he didn't touch a single line.

Soon, Rick arrives at the door of a dormitory, sees a new prompt on the door, and then asks the crowd waiting at the entrance, "Guys, who likes word puzzles?"

A man in the crowd raised his hand aloft.

"Good," Rick said, peeling off the piece of paper that had been attached to the door, crumpling it up, and throwing it over, "Hurry up and untie it." ”

The man picked up the paper ball and replied within a few minutes: "The words that have been circled are 'key', 'password', and 'answer'. ”

"This should mean that if you answer the right question, you will get the key. ”

Rick thought for a moment and said, "The key should be with the administrator." ”

"I'll go on, any of you together, more people can be faster. ”

As soon as the words fell, the one in the pajamas said, "I'm coming!"

However, he hadn't taken a few steps before he touched the thin line, only to hear the bell ring, and the next second, the door of the room not far from Rick opened, and a man stood in the doorway, throwing a small ball at Rick and the one in his pajamas.

Rick subconsciously wanted to dodge, but he couldn't do it because he was too close. I saw the ball hit him with a "bang", and then he got wet.

It's a water polo.

The man in the pajamas was not spared.

Rick said angrily: "Orville, it wasn't me who was electrocuted, why did you hit me?"

That's right, it was Orville, the chairman of the BlackerHouse, who threw the water balloon.

Orville smiled: "No way, I can't see it inside, so I can only sit down." ”

With that, Orville slammed the door shut.

Rick had no choice but to let the pajama man go out in order not to be smashed by the water balloon.

"The body came in flexibly. ”

After several twists and turns, the questions posted on the doors of each dormitory were taken one by one.

There are many questions, such as chemistry:

"Who knows what the number of hybrid orbitals of C2H2 is?"

The answer is: 4.

For example, astrophysics:

"What is the ratio of the diameter of the Sun's largest planet to the smallest planet (rounded to the nearest sage.) ）”

The answer is: 1"

There are a total of twelve questions, and Evan did not participate in the level, but contributed one answer.

The twelve answers are the passcode, and the coordinates converted from numbers indicate a location on campus, where the administrator is located, and the administrator has spare keys to all the rooms.

In the end, all the seniors' dormitories were left to the "fiddling" of the junior students who had successfully made it through.

This morning, Evan watched a good show.

Well, Evan still prefers this kind of intellectual flow to the physical flow in other dorms.