Just after breakfast that morning, Lin Guyuan received a call from the Tiger Soul Research Institute.
Dean Wang, the current head of the Tiger Soul Research Institute, warmly expressed his hope that Lin Guyuan would consider taking a position at the institute after graduation instead of heading to a frontline battlefield that did not match his abilities and specialties.
Faced with Dean Wang's invitation, he naturally did not dare to neglect him over the phone, but he had no intention of accepting.
He could only decline politely.
After arriving at the physical training room and changing into his combat uniform, he received another call from Dean Shi of the Spiritual Energy Research Institute before he had even begun training.
This left Lin Guyuan feeling quite helpless.
The reason Tiger Soul, Spiritual Energy, and Space Technology—the three major institutions—had their eyes on him mainly stemmed from a series of things he had done early on.
Having loved reading since childhood, his mind was filled with all sorts of bizarre ideas.
For instance, the year he graduated and entered Star City Academy happened to be when the Tiger Soul Cultivation Method Concept Competition was being held.
As an online keyboard warrior, he had made sharp and unconventional critiques of the ideas proposed by the competing concept teams. In particular, he had dismissed the hottest cultivation method concept at the time as utterly worthless.
The top-ranked team in that Tiger Soul Concept Competition had proposed building a Spiritual Meditation Space for defense. The specific approach involved constructing a defensive space on the spiritual level to resist invasions by external spiritual power, which would help humanity contend against racial factions with powerful mental abilities.
Regarding that concept, he had ruthlessly torn it apart with his keyboard, only to be furiously flamed by netizens telling