3:30 a.m.
The entire city was still asleep. Only the cleaning robots that operated around the clock continued to roam through the streets.
Inside Hope Residential Area in Star City South.
A bespectacled man of around twenty-five was still awake. Leaning over his desk, he wrote continuously in a notebook by the light of a desk lamp.
From time to time, he looked up at the screen, then hammered away at the keyboard to search for information related to Art Method Studies.
His name was Hu Boyuan, and he had not come from a formal Art Method Studies background.
His entry into the field of Art Method Studies had been entirely accidental.
About four years ago, after graduating from an ordinary middle school, he had fallen just short of the required score and regrettably failed to enter his ideal Galaxy Academy.
At the time, he had only two choices before him.
He could attend an ordinary academy for further education, but he would never receive the same abundance of resources as students from prestigious institutions.
Many research ideas would even require him to spend his own money to develop, and after graduation, his chances of entering a renowned research institute would be extremely slim unless he achieved something extraordinary while studying.
The other choice was to enter society and become a cog in human civilization.
Neither choice was ideal in his eyes.
Considering that his parents were already getting old, continuing his education would undoubtedly increase their burden. In the end, Hu Boyuan gritted his teeth and chose to abandon his studies. At the recommendation of his middle school teacher, he joined a resource transportation company as a resource auditor.
The dull, repetitive days had long made him forget the ideals he once held.
Sometimes, he would recall in his