Never Seen Such an Outrageous Beginner's Gift Pack! (Seeking Follow-ups and Collections)

"Yao'er, watch the livestream for a moment, I'm going to help your dad bring in the groceries."

"Friends, my husband is back with the supplies, so I need to go help him. My son will be watching the stream for me, so if you have any questions, just tell him!" Sun Xiulan said to the livestream, which only had a handful of viewers.

Sun Xiulan ran a small restaurant in a town, and these days, she had been forced to learn how to livestream just to make ends meet.

Usually, there were only about a dozen people watching her cook, but Sun Xiulan was satisfied with that. Since she had to cook for customers anyway, the livestream was just an incidental task for her.

The town's foot traffic was limited, so she had to squeeze every bit of potential out of every possible customer acquisition channel; Sun Xiulan racked her brains to make money.

Otherwise, relying solely on old regulars without any new customers coming in, a small restaurant could never last long.

This small restaurant was the only source of income for the Luo family, so Sun Xiulan was particularly attentive to it.

The only thing that worried Sun Xiulan was her two children, Luo Zhu and Luo Yao.

Luo Zhu was older than Luo Yao; she was a normal, filial child who would help out after school. However, being a girl, Sun Xiulan often worried about her being bullied.

As for Luo Yao... his grades were excellent, but he didn't like to talk. Sometimes, when he finally did speak, it felt like he was trying to shock the world with his words.

For instance, when Wang Ergou, who ran the restaurant next door, came over to boast that his son had scored an 80 on his junior high math exam, Luo Yao, who was still in elementary school at the time, took the test paper, glanced at it, and said with extreme indifference, "If you can't get a perfect score on such simple questions, you should go get your IQ checked."

The Wang Family and their own were already in competition, and Wang Ergou had often used underhanded tactics to steal customers. Now, Luo Yao's single sentence had left Wang Ergou fuming with frustration. Unable to take it out on Luo Yao, he had vented his anger on Luo Yao's parents, frequently finding excuses to pick fights.

As it happened, Luo Yao was smart; not long after that, he skipped from fifth grade directly into the same class as Wang Ergou's son, crushing the other boy intellectually once again.

Whenever Wang Ergou gave Luo Yao's parents a hard time, Luo Yao would torment his son in school, including, but not limited to, calling him an idiot in public.

Wang Ergou's son's grades were already worse than Luo Yao's, and with Luo Yao being only ten years old, the boy suffered a double blow to his self-esteem and could only go home crying. Over time, Wang Ergou realized that Luo Yao was standing up for his parents.

To keep his son from being bullied at school, Wang Ergou had no choice but to rein in his behavior.

Sun Xiulan hadn't had much schooling and didn't know what was wrong with her son. She had taken him to the city hospital, but the doctors couldn't find anything wrong, only suggesting that he might have issues with emotional intelligence or some sort of emotional deficit.

Sun Xiulan couldn't understand what "emotional intelligence issues" or "emotional deficits" meant, and since the doctor said he didn't need medication, she eventually just attributed the cause to their poor family conditions.

Years ago, Luo Yao's father, Luo Xingguo, had an accident at a construction site that left him disabled. Unable to work as a laborer anymore, the couple borrowed money from everywhere to open the small restaurant.

With two children to raise, they were just barely scraping by. Luo Xingguo felt guilty toward his children and rarely communicated with them, preferring to just keep his head down and work.

At this moment, hearing Sun Xiulan's call, Luo Yao answered and walked slowly into the kitchen with a book in his hand.

After seeing him arrive, Sun Xiulan had him sit on a stool in the kitchen, reminded him not to talk too much, and then went out to receive the goods.

Once seated, Luo Yao didn't greet the people in the livestream; he simply started reading his book.

As soon as he appeared on camera, the viewers became curious.

"I didn't expect it, Sister Luo's son is so refined!"

"Oh! How studious! He's actually reading a book!"

"Is he really that diligent? What a pity, growing up in a family like that, he'll only ever be a small-town test-taker!"

"Who cares if he's a small-town test-taker? He's so young, as long as he works hard, that's all that matters!"

"Wait, is that a book on Algebraic Topology in the kid's hand? That's a graduate-level math textbook!"

This discovery left one netizen stunned, and he immediately asked, "Little kid, do you actually understand what's in that book?"

Luo Yao didn't look at the livestream interface; he was focused on the book in his hands.

As long as he finished reading this book, the system would reward him with a technology.

That's right, Luo Yao had a system.

When Luo Yao first arrived in this world, he discovered he had become an infant. While he was anxiously flailing his arms, the system made its grand entrance.

Detected that the host meets the standards for the National Technology System. Binding in progress...

Host information verified. Binding successful!

Host: Luo Yao

Mathematics: LV0 (0/100)

Physics: LV0 (0/100)

Chemistry: LV0 (0/100)

Computer Science: LV0 (0/100)

Language: LV1 (30/100)

Biology: LV0 (0/100)

Technology: None

Talent: None

Points: 10 (System gift)

Having become an infant, Luo Yao's consciousness was still clear. Knowing he had obtained a cheat code, he stopped crying and fussing.

A translucent panel appeared before Luo Yao's eyes, visible only to him, listing his personal information. It was only after reading the small print at the bottom that Luo Yao understood what this suddenly appearing National Technology System was for.

Simply put, it required Luo Yao to study continuously and accumulate basic knowledge; the system would then reward him with technology based on the knowledge he had accumulated!

Luo Yao realized that the system was forcing him to study!

According to the system's rules, he couldn't acquire any skills without studying!

Furthermore, the skills obtained through the system had to be put to use; the higher the recognition he received, the more points the system would reward him. These points could then be used to purchase whatever he needed from the store.

Luo Yao casually browsed the system store and discovered that it was filled entirely with talents.

These talents were categorized into permanent and temporary ones. As the name suggested, permanent talents remained effective forever once purchased, but they were defined by one word: expensive.

Take "Super Learning," for example. The system explained that it allowed for photographic memory, enabling him to understand and retain everything he saw. His entire brain would essentially become a Memory Palace, and from that moment on, he could bid farewell to the Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve.

This permanent talent was expensive to purchase, costing one million points.

If he bought it as a one-time use, it only cost five points, though it was limited to eight hours; if he wanted to buy it again, the cost would double.

During those eight hours, he could rapidly understand and memorize any knowledge he laid eyes on.

Luo Yao thought this talent was excellent; he would purchase it the moment he decided what type of knowledge he wanted to learn.

Just as Luo Yao was calculating how to reasonably spend the points gifted by the system to purchase talents, the thoughtful system informed him that he could receive one talent as a newcomer's gift package.

Luo Yao silently wished for the Super Learning talent in his heart, but the system, perhaps mishearing him, granted him the Sherlock Holmes-like Talent instead.

Host is about to inherit: IQ: 300, EQ: 20

Sherlock Holmes?

Wasn't he the epitome of high intelligence and low emotional intelligence?

He had never seen such an outrageous starter pack!

Luo Yao vaguely remembered that in his previous life, he had managed to get by well enough by nodding and bowing to his superiors. Now that he had arrived in another world, were they expecting him to be the kind of person who "has the leader rotate the table while he serves the dishes, or sits while the leader stands"?

This was practically asking him to crash into his superiors!

Wait!

As an equivalent exchange, the system will take something from you...

Take something away?

Luo Yao recalled his past life and thought there was indeed something he no longer wanted.

Luo Yao's thoughts stirred slightly, and he soon drifted off to sleep under a sudden wave of warmth.

When he woke up again, he gradually noticed a difference in himself. It felt as if something in his brain had been wrapped up; some things seemed impossible to recall, yet that inexplicable sense of annoyance toward pretentious people remained as familiar as ever.

After his hardware was forcibly upgraded by the system, Luo Yao's thinking became sharp and incredibly clear. From childhood on, he never needed to look at anything twice to memorize it; every piece of knowledge he had ever learned and every experience he had undergone was stored clearly in the depths of his mind.

This was a tremendous benefit, but correspondingly, as he grew older, he became less inclined to speak—or, to be more precise, less inclined to speak nonsense.

Before doing anything, he would quickly weigh the pros and cons; if it wasn't worth doing, he wouldn't do it.

For instance, facing the phone camera right now, the only thing Luo Yao felt worth doing was finishing the book as quickly as possible.

In a place he hadn't noticed, the number of online viewers in the live stream was gradually increasing.

"This kid looks like he's only in high school. Can he even understand Algebraic Topology? He's definitely doing this for attention!"

"Parents these days are really desperate for traffic; they'll even come up with tricks like this!"

"The social atmosphere is really bad. If a kid acts like this, others will just follow suit!"

"Are they using the kid as a money-making tool? It's disgusting!"

While flipping through the book, Luo Yao inadvertently looked up and caught sight of the barrage on the screen. For once, he paused for a few seconds.

Seeing him look up, the people in the live stream became even more energized.

"Hey kid, did your mom make you read that book on purpose?"

"How could you possibly understand Algebraic Topology? Hurry up and switch to a comic book; that would be normal!"

"You're so young, why are you reading Algebraic Topology? At least try to make the act look convincing!"

Remembering his mother's instruction to speak less, Luo Yao still didn't say a word.

Everyone had come to the live stream looking for some entertainment, and seeing that Luo Yao remained silent, they immediately became more interested.

One man even sent a barrage: "Kid, if you can prove you understand anything about Algebraic Topology, I'll gift you a rocket!"

The people in the live stream didn't even know what Algebraic Topology was, but seeing that the man was willing to gift a rocket, they started egging him on. They had expected Luo Yao to react, but to their surprise, he continued to ignore them.

Damn, is he a fool? He won't even take a rocket!

Just as the people in the live stream were speculating, someone suddenly walked in.

① Some readers have noticed that while the protagonist has a high IQ, others sometimes think there is something wrong with his brain. This is actually due to the fact that everyone values different things; for example, ordinary people care about the opinions of their superiors, while the protagonist does not. Ordinary people know some common knowledge, but the protagonist does not want to memorize useless things, so ordinary people think the protagonist is not smart or wise, but the protagonist knows those things are inconsequential.

② This is not a typical transmigration novel; the protagonist's memories involve future plot points, so I won't spoil them.

③ The author is a newcomer with a background in computer science. All theoretical knowledge involved in this book has been verified against relevant papers. Everything serves the plot; I won't pile up data throughout the text, so you can read with confidence! (I hope some authors won't label me as a studio-written work; who writes studio works while spending all day on CNKI?)

By the way! There is no female lead in this book, only a character like "Watson."