What Do I Need You For?

Chang Ye's gaze dropped to the coffee table. There had just been a small bottle on it—her latest research, "S13." Now it was gone.

Some furious little someone had swiped it...

At the training ground, Lin Xiaosu held an extremely cocky pose for about ten seconds.

It was the pose he had struck when his final shot blew Xinyue apart.

Did he think the pose looked cool and flashy?

Bullshit!

He had just twisted his waist!

This body really couldn't keep up with his reaction speed or visual standards...

Heavenly Dao Insightful Eye could perceive the tiniest details and see through any complex environment at a glance.

Humanity Orchid Heart could analyze and integrate information, rivaling even the most sophisticated computer. Those two abilities were why he could bulldoze his way through special combat training.

But this body was too weak.

It simply couldn't keep up with his reaction speed.

That intense exchange just now had actually twisted his waist. That was a little embarrassing...

Hopefully no one had seen it.

Lin Xiaosu left the Firearms Zone and returned to his room.

His assistant, Xiao Luo, hurried over and asked with warm concern, "Sir, what's wrong?"

"I twisted my waist... Do you have any way to treat injuries?" Lin Xiaosu lay down on the sofa.

Xiao Luo smiled happily. "I can use electrotherapy and acupuncture. You'll recover completely in just ten seconds. It is a medical art passed down by the ancestors of Great Xia."

"That's great. Treat me, then."

Xiao Luo said, "I'm sorry, sir. You have not unlocked that permission."

Lin Xiaosu glared at her. "So what can you currently do as an assistant? When your boss is injured, you just stand around making snide remarks and do absolutely nothing?"

"I can sing to ease your pain," Xiao Luo said.

"Come on, then. Sing me a song called 'What Do I Need You For'..."

As the sun set, Lin Xiaosu welcomed his first night after entering 101.

After dinner, he wandered around the little lake with a hand on his waist and ran into Zhou Zhen again.

Zhou Zhen stared at him in surprise. "Xiaosu, did you unlock your assistant's ultimate function?"

"What ultimate function?"

Zhou Zhen blinked. "She's a humanoid simulation, you know. That ultimate function... you get it."

Holy shit!

Lin Xiaosu understood...

But he had been wronged! His little assistant had extremely strong principles. His waist was twisted, and she clearly could have treated him with acupuncture and electrotherapy, yet she refused to do a damn thing. Did Zhou Zhen think he had unlocked her ultimate function and was holding his waist because his kidneys were weak?

Was this guy really a hacker, a Red Hacker?

Wasn't he afraid that all these dirty thoughts would turn him into a porn hacker?

Since getting injured during training was nothing to be proud of, Lin Xiaosu didn't mention anything to him. They chatted briefly before returning to rest.

Fortunately, by the next morning, his waist injury had gradually eased.

Lin Xiaosu went through a set of warm-up exercises, then headed to the Firearms Zone again.

This time, he set his sights on all kinds of vehicles.

Vehicles were also equipment, and a vast, profound field at that.

When Hidden Dragon went out on missions, transportation was unavoidable, so driving was an essential skill.

Lin Xiaosu didn't have a driver's license. Before this, he couldn't even drive.

There weren't many college graduates who couldn't drive these days, but unfortunately, he was one of them.

Why?

Lin Xiaosu had looked at his family's brick house and his mother's vegetable garden and figured he probably couldn't afford a car anytime soon, so he had given up on learning. But now, hadn't the opportunity come?

He couldn't drive in real life, but he could drive in the game. Not only could he drive cars, he could fly planes too.

Yes, Hidden Dragon's training system was incredibly powerful.

The moment you got into any vehicle, everything outside changed completely. The vehicle itself never moved, but once you got in, it generated all kinds of virtual scenarios around you. And the most incredible part was that every operation came with real visual, tactile, and sensory feedback.

When the car passed over a bump, it jolted.

When it sped down a sloped road, his body experienced a sense of weightlessness.

If the car flipped, even spinning through several 360-degree turns in midair, the vehicle beneath his ass really flipped too!

In other words, sitting in the driver's seat was no different from actually driving through all kinds of complicated road conditions.

Lin Xiaosu's learning ability was simply too strong.

In just half an hour, he drove like an experienced veteran.

An hour later, his car entered the highway, surrounded by countless other vehicles.

Suddenly, the window of one car rolled down, and a dark gun barrel pointed at him...

Lin Xiaosu was slightly startled and slammed on the brakes...

The car ahead sped past, while the gun barrel swung toward him at once...

Lin Xiaosu extended his hand, and a pistol dropped into his palm. The window opened, gale-force wind rushed against his face, and—whoosh!

One shot, straight through the other man's head.

That car lost control and crashed into a cluster of vehicles. Ahead of him, countless cars piled up in a chain collision, exactly like a real highway accident. Lin Xiaosu seized the timing, calculated the gaps, and floored the accelerator, speeding out from beneath countless airborne cars. In an almost impossible situation, he dodged the impacts of seven or eight vehicles in succession and smoothly tore down the highway, leaving everything far behind.

"Beautiful!" Chang Ye clapped in admiration in the small courtyard.

This scene had once again entered her sight.

In fact, all of Lin Xiaosu's training was under her control.

Including his injury.

She had not treated it because injuries were also part of the training. Everyone needed firsthand experience before they could truly develop. One day, two days, three days...

Over seven consecutive days, Lin Xiaosu adapted to every kind of transportation, including cars, flying vehicles, planes, and even all manner of the latest models.

He drove through bustling cities and wilderness, piloted boats across the sea, and flew aircraft through blue skies. The enemies he encountered escalated from individual soldiers to squads, then enemy tanks and warships...

The weapon systems he used had already reached the missile level.

Lin Xiaosu himself felt nothing much about it. He was just playing a game...

But Chang Ye and Number 88 outside were both drenched in cold sweat...

"88, how long did it take you to reach his level?" Chang Ye asked a soul-searching question.

"There's something quite depressing, and I don't know whether saying it would be embarrassing..." Number 88 said. "The truth is, my current level still hasn't reached his. Asking how long it took me is completely meaningless."

"In just seven days, he reached heights others couldn't achieve even after seven months of training!" Chang Ye let out a soft breath. "I truly cannot understand why someone with his comprehension and learning ability failed his first civil service exam."

"Yeah. With his learning ability, even getting full marks on the civil service written exam would have been possible. Maybe it really comes down to interest and preference. He was born to enjoy this kind of intense confrontation, while dry textbook knowledge failed to interest him."

However, in the time that followed, Lin Xiaosu once again overturned Number 88's expectations.

Next, he entered the library.

And began indulging his intense interest in book knowledge.

The library was also divided into sections, and it had little assistants too, though they were virtual.

With the press of a button, a little assistant's holographic projection appeared out of thin air. Whatever kind of books you needed, she could bring them up. There were electronic versions as well as physical copies.

With physical books, Lin Xiaosu's fingers moved like lightning as he flipped through page after page. He took only half an hour to finish a three-hundred-page copy of the driest, most boring book imaginable, Principles of Genetics.

Then he switched to the next book, the even more boring Medical Encyclopedia.

Chang Ye and Number 88 looked at each other...

"What does this mean? If you say he's interested, he clearly isn't reading carefully. If you say he isn't interested, then why does he keep flipping through one book after another?"

"I'm starting to suspect that he memorized them!" Chang Ye said.

"He finished learning Principles of Genetics in half an hour? That's a myth, isn't it?" Number 88 said.

"It cannot be denied that certain mysterious genes may unlock the hidden doors of the brain. The brain has always been the most mysterious domain of the human body. Even Kelson, the greatest human brain of this generation of civilization, only developed eighteen percent of his brain. He once declared that if humanity developed the brain to twenty percent, unimaginable phenomena would appear."

Number 88 looked up at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle. "If his brain really has developed to twenty percent, perhaps his path truly needs to change."

"Yes. Hidden Dragon lacks no special combat operatives—there is no type of special combat operative it lacks—but it does not have truly genius-level researchers and developers. Yet researchers and developers are the key force capable of driving human progress through the power of a single individual."

No one knew that Lin Xiaosu's speed in reading physical books was merely the limit of his fingers, not the limit of his reading comprehension.

His fingers could only turn pages that fast. What else could he do?

But electronic books were different. He put on a pair of glasses, and the little assistant turned the display speed to maximum. To ordinary people, the words streamed past like running water, impossible to make out even a single character, but Lin Xiaosu still found it too slow. With this period of high-intensity training, his Heavenly Dao Insightful Eye and Humanity Orchid Heart had both entered a new stage...

The little assistant was not human, so she had no human surprise.

Naturally, she would not leak anything either.

Another seven days passed.

Lin Xiaosu looked like the laziest trainee, spending seven whole days in the library reading books.

But if anyone summarized what he had achieved in those seven days, they would be dumbfounded.

He learned seven languages, each to the point of fluent mastery. That was an essential skill for espionage.

He learned Principles of Genetics, Genetic Concepts, Medical Encyclopedia, Profound Emperor's Inner Canon...

In the cutting-edge field of genetics, he had already formed his own understanding and insight...

He sighed deeply. When he had first gained Humanity Orchid Heart, he had failed to value the skill properly. He had thought it less practical than Heavenly Dao Insightful Eye, but now it seemed that Humanity Orchid Heart was beyond comparison with Heavenly Dao Insightful Eye.

With Humanity Orchid Heart, his learning speed and comprehension had increased a thousandfold, ten-thousandfold.

His knowledge system, his horizons, and even his worldview had all been completely transformed.

He was especially interested in espionage knowledge.

So, after learning nearly everything else he needed to learn, he picked up a book on espionage to relax.

The tea had gone cold. Amid drifting music, he seemed to step into a vibrant and colorful world of espionage...

The book in his hands used pseudonyms.

The place names were also pseudonyms.

But he knew that everything recorded in this book was based on real people and real events.

One intelligence operative had personally killed his wife for the greater cause of his country.

One undercover agent had watched his own son be beheaded, then raised his arms and cheered.

One researcher had carried out the Trojan Horse Plan to mislead an enemy nation. He killed his superior, fled to the enemy country, and brought with him a pile of top-secret materials. The materials were all genuine, but they carried the most sinister purpose of all: to lead that enemy country down the wrong path, thereby buying Great Xia precious time.

One of the most promising genetic experts crossed the ocean to Europa State, infiltrated the notorious Europa branch of Hydra, and killed Hydra's White Bone Heavenly King. His entire body suffered comminuted fractures. After his teammates rescued him, his skeleton was reforged with liquid metal, and he became a legend of his generation...

"What do you think?" Five words came from behind him, accompanied by a faint, lingering fragrance.