Chen Nan moved into the unfinished apartment, and at last his heart settled. At the same time, he continued using the dogs to gather intelligence for him.
Sure enough, that very night, someone came prowling around his residence. The landlord also appeared, leading a stranger into the building.
Even without seeing what happened next, Chen Nan could imagine it. The landlord would surely open his door and let that stranger investigate. After all, he was only a child. So what if they violated his rights?
The weak did not deserve any rights.
When the news that Chen Nan could not be found at his residence reached the Wang siblings and the Prefecture Office, both sides were shocked and furious.
They knew that the "child" they were facing might be far more formidable than they had imagined.
Chen Nan leaned against the window and watched those people leave. Then he sat on the dusty floor of the unfinished apartment and began pondering his own affairs.
The night had grown deep, and the danger had passed. At last, he had some peace and quiet to consider the AI System that had suddenly appeared.
There was one thing Chen Nan was fairly certain of: it must have come with him during his transmigration. In other words, the AI System in his mind had originated from the smart glasses he had bought on Earth.
The most likely possibility was that, amid the powerful electromagnetic storm, those glasses had fused with his brainwaves.
When he transmigrated, they had entered this body together with his brainwaves—his soul substance.
The reason it had not appeared from the start was obvious: insufficient energy.
At first, he had been severely malnourished and could not even eat his fill each day. That tiny amount of energy was not enough even to sustain his physical development, much less activate the AI System in his brain.
Now that he had begun eating his fill, his energy was steadily recovering. Once his body's needs were met, there would be some left over. Under ordinary circumstances, for someone as malnourished as him, that surplus would show itself as gradual weight gain.
But the AI System had presumably detected that excess energy and tried to start up.
It had surely made an error in calculation. His energy at the time had not been enough to activate it, yet the process still consumed a great deal of energy. That was what had caused his sudden fainting spell and the hypoglycemia afterward.
After two failed startups, combined with his body's recovery—perhaps under the double influence of the AI System's own regulation of energy intake and his body's self-repair—it had finally managed to fully activate this time.
But what did the warning after the AI System activated mean?
Could the electromagnetic waves and nuclear radiation here both be severely excessive? At that thought, Chen Nan looked at his phone and suddenly understood.
Right—this should explain the issue with the internet that he had noticed before.
First of all, he had discovered that there were no physical network cables for accessing the internet here.
Furthermore, his surveillance equipment could connect to the network automatically. On Earth, unless special equipment was used, that would have been difficult even to imagine, let alone achieve.
Yet it could be done on this planet, where technological civilization was still relatively underdeveloped. Then it was not a matter of technology. Rather, the electromagnetic intensity here was extremely high. Relying on such powerful electromagnetic waves, wireless networks could be realized to the point of being available anywhere and anytime.
Besides the electromagnetic waves, the nuclear radiation levels here were also high. If so, nuclear power might be even more widespread here than it was on Earth.
He thought of nuclear bombs and such. Since the lifeforms on this planet possessed bodies highly resistant to electromagnetic waves and nuclear radiation, would they find it easy to launch nuclear wars?
Just thinking about it was truly terrifying.
Shaking his head, Chen Nan cast those matters—which were not yet his concern—out of his mind and returned to thinking about his AI System.
If this AI System had originated from his smart glasses, then it was incredibly powerful. Once it could fully activate, the things it could help him do would simply be beyond imagination.
Moreover, this AI System could gradually upgrade and improve its configuration.
Hadn't he bought it in the first place because he hoped to slowly upgrade it to the very top? He knew those two women would only mock him for being poor and believe he lacked the means to upgrade it to its highest configuration.
On Earth, he truly might not have had that ability.
But he had transmigrated. It was as though he had been reincarnated after death. Could he now accomplish such a thing?
That was still hard to say. At the very least, he needed to understand this AI System better.
And to understand it, he first needed to be able to use it for an extended period.
It was like a phone. If it only had fifty milliamps of charge, it would automatically shut down after being turned on for a moment and used a few times. With so little time, how could he explore its functions?
How should he deal with such a situation?
There were actually two possible paths. The first was to increase the phone battery's capacity—for instance, replacing a fifty-milliamp battery with a thousand-milliamp one.
The other was to keep the phone plugged into its charger, so it would have an inexhaustible supply of power.
Chen Nan estimated that, with his current physical condition, his AI System could only keep running for a few seconds. That would not accomplish much, while increasing his "battery capacity" was truly a very vague concept to him.
Because he did not know what this "battery capacity" corresponded to in his body. If it was simply glucose, there was no way he could store that much glucose to supply it with energy.
This was something Chen Nan needed to investigate in depth, but it was not the main issue he needed to address right now.
Since that option was unclear, Chen Nan could only consider another method to extend the AI System's operating time. That method was to continuously input glucose into his body from outside.
That way, his body would not become hypoglycemic, and the duration should be extended.
But how could he input glucose into his body from outside?
By eating?
That was not particularly reliable, because the food people ate was not glucose, but mainly polysaccharides. Those polysaccharides had to undergo digestion, absorption, breakdown, and conversion before becoming glucose that the human body could use directly.
By then, the time for supplying sugar might not be enough.
Therefore, to make absolutely sure, what he needed most of all was glucose itself.
Chen Nan knew that there was a glucose solution used in IV drips. Normal infusions contained 5%, while 20% solutions were used when energy needed to be replenished quickly.
It seemed he needed to try the 20% glucose solution.
This place was very close to Renxin Maternity Hospital, and wherever there was a hospital nearby, there would surely be pharmacies. He should go to a pharmacy, get the stuff, and see just what level his AI System was at.
Having made that decision, Chen Nan had to take a risk and go out once.
After having the dogs scout the situation outside for him, he immediately sprang into action. Before leaving, however, he needed to set up a small mechanism for himself.
He used a discarded silk cord to loop around and tightly tie the end of the inner door handle. When he closed the door, he left the other end in the gap, with its tip hanging outside.
That way, when he returned, he only needed to grasp the end and pull downward to open the door in one smooth motion. This method might not succeed one hundred percent of the time, so he also left the gray sparrow inside. It was merely to make things more convenient.
Chen Nan carried all the important materials on him. They were his greatest support and absolutely could not be lost.
After putting on his hat, he hurried toward the pharmacy.
Once there, he learned after asking around that there was no 20% glucose injection solution, only 50%. Naturally, that was even better, so Chen Nan bought quite a few of those injections.
Each ampoule held 20 milliliters, and each box contained five. Chen Nan bought twenty boxes at once. Though it was quite a lot, such ordinary medicine did not cost much.
After buying the supplies, he did not linger. He packed them up and left immediately.
Chen Nan deliberately did not take the route back. Instead, he made a turn and circled around before returning to his residence.
After returning, he gathered up the cord loop and began chewing instant noodles and eating ham and the like.
He first needed to fill his stomach with food, then wait for the AI System to activate again before opening the glucose and drinking it. That should provide enough energy.
Before that, he had also snapped open two glucose ampoules and set them aside. Since the narrow necks of the ampoules were already scored, the breaks were quite clean. At the very least, they would not cut his mouth too badly when he drank from them.
Once he had made these preparations, Chen Nan had almost finished eating. He then sat quietly and waited for the AI to activate again.
Sure enough, before long, Chen Nan felt his vision go black. It's here. This is great!
After the AI System activated, it no longer broadcast those warnings. Instead, it directly formed a neural connection with Chen Nan.
This was a process that had to be completed, because at that moment, the AI System was only attached to his cranial nerves and had not fused into the bioelectromagnetic field they generated.
That was why it activated on its own. Otherwise, it should only activate when Chen Nan requested it.
"Loading into the host's neural electromagnetic field. Please do not resist, and maintain an energy supply." After it said that, Chen Nan saw a loading bar appear in his pupils and begin slowly advancing.
He knew this process had to be extremely important, so he picked up an ampoule of glucose and drank it.
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