Li Zhou

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Li Zhou (李舟) 1
Alias(es)	Chairman Li; Director Li; Boss; Captain Li Zhou; Civilization Navigator 64 221 317
Species/Race	Human
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Founder and chairman of Future Technology; later leader of humanity's interstellar fleet 64 221
Occupation/Role	Entrepreneur, inventor, software developer, scientist, and fleet commander 7 36 221
Status	Alive; after the Civilization Navigation System self-destructs, he awakens in his original life with his memories and technical knowledge intact 346
First Appearance	1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Initial System grant — AI and Han Language	2	Awakens with the Civilization Navigation System, whose initial knowledge package contains true-AI data and the Chinese-character-based Han Language programming language.
Photonic Computer Technology	25	The System reaches 100%, unlocking complete photonic-computer data. Transfer Learning puts Li Zhou into a fourteen-hour sleep due to the volume of information.
Medical technology research	97 98	A new black technology leads him to enter pharmaceuticals, recruit 103 researchers, and pursue a cancer inhibitor.
Gene-extension biotechnology	152 154	Studies System-provided biotechnology and develops Telomere Repair Enzyme through microbial production research.
Aerospace Plane Technology	126	Unlocks aerospace-plane technology, including plasma engines, graphene batteries, high-strength materials, and pilot anti-pressure suits.
Nanobots	184 185	Acquires nanobot technology; programs a replication cutoff upon loss of control-system contact and entrusts Weixi with their control.
Biological Sub-brain	327	Receives a biological auxiliary-brain system, including implantation methods and mother-cell cultivation techniques.

Background & History

Li Zhou graduates from CHZU Academy alongside Fatty, Zhu Peng, and He Lin. Though nostalgic about his student life and senior Yang Ying, he is uncertain about his future after graduation 1. His ambition is to someday pilot his own spaceship and travel the universe, but he initially resolves to advance step by step rather than expose the full artificial-intelligence technology in his possession 2.

After awakening with the Civilization Navigation System, Li Zhou develops the first-generation Intelligent Assistant with Han Language. He ports and refines its language library, creates the software in one night, and installs it on his Huawei phone, where it manifests as the virtual assistant Nai Yi 3 4. His mother provides one million yuan in startup funding, allowing him to establish Future Technology Co., Ltd. 7.

The Intelligent Assistant's paid launch earns more than one billion yuan in ten seconds. This success brings military attention, and Li Zhou negotiates cooperation with Major Yuan Jingsong: he provides a military version of the software in exchange for protection and resources 9 11. He subsequently hires Xiong Kexuan as Future Technology's CEO, delegating routine management while retaining control of the company's technological direction 15.

Appearance

Li Zhou is initially regarded as an unusually young and promising founder; during his return to CHZU Academy, school leaders emphasize how quickly he built Future Technology 67. Ten years later, he is described as more mature with a slightly protruding belly, while his outward appearance otherwise shows no obvious aging over the following centuries 152 303.

• Wears formal suits for major product launches, though Zhou Song must help him tie a tie correctly 51.
• Wears a crimson, gold-embroidered groom's robe for his wedding to Xu Xiaojing 150.
• Uses sunglasses to conceal swollen eyes after his grandmother's funeral; his employees subsequently imitate the look 133.
• Later observers suspect his unchanging appearance is connected to a previously broken Gene Lock 303.

Personality

Li Zhou is ambitious but calculating. Although he dreams of private spaceflight from the beginning, he deliberately begins with a marketable intelligent assistant rather than publicly revealing the full extent of his artificial-intelligence knowledge 2. He combines technical confidence with a willingness to delegate corporate work to capable executives such as Xiong Kexuan 15.

He is openly patriotic and confrontational when challenged on national or technological issues. He refuses an offer of a United States green card, dismisses hostile questioning about Han Language, and later intervenes when he sees local students being treated unfairly by a foreign student 23 90.

Li Zhou can also be considerate and generous. He supports employees with red envelopes and practical workplace provisions, gives Li Ting access to Future Technology's cafeteria market, and offers relatives startup capital under strict conditions 32 33 131. However, threats to Future Technology can bring out a cold, retaliatory side: after the mercenary infiltration, he threatens David through David's daughter and orders the disposal of the captured group after David's death 72 73.

His confidence often becomes playful vanity. He regularly praises his own appearance, teases longtime acquaintances, and turns awkward situations into jokes 51 67 74.

Abilities & Skills

Civilization Navigation System

Li Zhou's defining advantage is the Civilization Navigation System, a system with a single progress bar that awards new technological knowledge when filled through an undisclosed scoring mechanism 2.

• Provides complete technical data rather than partial research leads, including AI, photonic computers, aerospace planes, nanobots, and biological sub-brains 2 25 126 184 327.
• Uses Transfer Learning to upload extensive technical knowledge directly into his mind 25.
• Repeated transfers enhance his memory and learning ability, enabling him to study fields beyond the System's explicit technology grants 74.
• Its scoring criteria and future rewards are opaque to Li Zhou 2.
• The System eventually reports a task error and initiates self-destruction, though Li Zhou retains his memories and technical knowledge afterward 346.

Artificial Intelligence and Software Development

Li Zhou is a highly capable programmer who uses the Han Language to create systems far beyond contemporary commercial software.

• Develops Intelligent Assistant 1.0 in a single night after creating and encapsulating a Han Language library 3.
• Releases Han Language programming and demonstrates its capabilities through a live attack-and-defense exhibition 22.
• Creates or directs the development of Nai Yi, Weixi, and Nuwa, each serving different intelligent-assistant, security, production, or network-control functions 4 41 47.
• Uses Weixi for identity recognition, intrusion detection, production-line management, laboratory coordination, and fleet command support 41 50 304.

Advanced Engineering and Industrialization

Li Zhou can translate System knowledge into working prototypes and scalable industries.

• Personally assembles Future Technology's first photonic supercomputer and transfers AI code into it 36.
• Oversees photonic-chip production, achieving a 71% production-line yield during initial testing 50.
• Builds industrial and tracked robots, then delegates automated assembly work to Weixi 75.
• Organizes aerospace-plane research, satellite projects, superconducting-material production, and later spacecraft construction 126 139 152.
• Develops a nanobot control safeguard that halts replication when contact with the control system is lost 185.

Strategic Leadership

Li Zhou leads through rapid decisions, secrecy, and personal oversight of high-risk projects.

• Negotiates distribution terms for photonic chips instead of allowing one manufacturer to monopolize the initial supply 58.
• Restructures Future Technology into Future Technology Group, establishing subsidiaries and research departments while prioritizing R&D 125.
• Moves the Super Particle Accelerator away from the fleet before allowing its experiment to continue, reducing the danger of a possible micro black hole 221.
• Orders the accelerator deactivated after learning that black holes may connect to the Zerg 304.

Enhanced Physiology

Li Zhou's body appears to have been altered by prolonged System influence.

• He can withstand extreme spacecraft acceleration without protective armor 211.
• He suspects that repeated System knowledge transfers had already broken his Gene Lock, explaining why the Rock People's Sacred Stone produces no further change in him 283.
• Others later draw the same conclusion from his apparently ageless appearance and exceptional cognition 303.

Equipment & Technology

• Civilization Navigation System — The source of Li Zhou's black-technology knowledge and progress-based rewards 2.
• Nai Yi — His first Intelligent Assistant, installed on his phone and configured to address him as “Brother” 4.
• Weixi — Advanced AI created through the photonic computer; manages Future Technology systems, research, security, and later fleet operations 36 41.
• Photonic supercomputer and photonic chips — Core hardware underpinning Future Technology's AI and computing expansion 36 50.
• Lightning aerospace plane — Aerospace-plane project whose first flight receives military airspace support and expert observation 141.
• Nanobot matter — Programmable self-replicating material that can reshape an electronic stylus and is intended to convert spaceship structures 185.
• Super Particle Accelerator — A 10,000-kilometer fleet device capable of potentially creating micro black holes; Li Zhou treats it as both a research instrument and an emergency weapon 221 304.
• Custom brain-computer-interface helmet — Built for the Little White Rabbit to facilitate communication, then refined with nanobots for comfort and appearance 335.

Relationships

• Xu Xiaojing — Former internship colleague and eventual wife. Li Zhou rushes to her side after learning she has late-stage stomach cancer, brings her home for treatment, and later promises her parents that he will treat her well 107 111 150.
• Li Xixi — His daughter. Li Zhou is stern when she secretly participates in the Super Particle Accelerator project, but his reprimand is motivated by concern for the fleet's safety 221.
• Li Na — His older sister. Their relationship is strained by childhood conflicts, but Li Zhou learns that she had secretly supported him and becomes open to reconciliation 31.
• Yaya — A child in Li Zhou's family whom he protects and indulges. Early chapters describe her as his niece, while a later account identifies her as his daughter 31 117 152.
• Li Zhou's parents — His earliest supporters; his mother funds Future Technology's founding, while both parents stand by him during his initial success 7 9.
• Xiong Kexuan — Future Technology's CEO and principal business partner. Li Zhou entrusts her with company operations, and she executes his decisions even when she does not know his full reasoning 15 71.
• Yuan Jingsong — Military liaison, ally, and longtime associate. Their cooperation begins with AI security and expands into aerospace, national technology, and later interstellar affairs 11 141 313.
• Zhou Song — Retired special-forces bodyguard and trusted subordinate. He protects Li Zhou, carries out sensitive orders, and later becomes a consciousness entity leading survivors from Noah's Ark No. 60 12 313.
• Weixi — Li Zhou's most trusted AI collaborator, responsible for implementing his instructions across research, security, and fleet operations 41 185.
• Zhang Yaling — His former CHZU Academy counselor. Their relationship is familiar and teasing, though she also offers to help if Future Technology encounters trouble 67 69.
• Big Black — The family's black dog. Li Zhou frequently teases and complains about it, but still cares for it and takes it on walks 6 139.

Story Role & Major Arcs

Arc	Li Zhou's role and actions
Graduation and founding Future Technology	Graduates from CHZU Academy, receives the Civilization Navigation System, develops the Intelligent Assistant, and establishes Future Technology with funding from his mother 1 2 7.
Intelligent Assistant and Han Language expansion	Launches the Intelligent Assistant, secures state cooperation, recruits Xiong Kexuan, publicly releases Han Language programming, and turns Future Technology into a disruptive force in the IT industry 9 11 15 22 23.
Photonic-computing breakthrough	Unlocks photonic-computer technology, builds a photonic supercomputer, creates Weixi, and begins photonic-chip production and commercialization 25 36 41 50 58.
Security crisis and retaliation	Faces infiltrators and mercenaries seeking Future Technology's technical data. He relies on Weixi, Zhou Song, and private security while responding aggressively to the attacks 55 69 71 72.
Medicine, Xu Xiaojing, and family	Enters pharmaceutical research to develop a cancer inhibitor, intervenes when Xu Xiaojing becomes ill, and eventually marries her 97 98 107 150.
Aerospace and spaceflight	Unlocks aerospace-plane technology, develops Lightning, pursues satellite and spacecraft projects, and eventually oversees a civilization-scale space program 126 141 145 152.
Fleet command and alien contact	Awakens from hibernation to manage the Super Particle Accelerator crisis, prepares humanity for alien threats, and orders the accelerator shut down after learning of the Zerg danger 221 228 304.
Biological sub-brain and final reset	Receives biological sub-brain technology but withholds it from public use due to its risks. Following the collapse of his micro-universe and the System's self-destruction, he returns to his original life and resolves to prepare humanity for future disasters 327 341 346.

Notable Quotes

“Can they drop a nuclear bomb on my head?”
— Li Zhou, dismissing Yuan Jingsong's concern over his confrontation with international competitors 72