Obtaining Again

"The library at Imperial Industrial University? The collection must number in the tens of thousands."

The amount of reading that would take an ordinary person a lifetime to finish... if it were me... Gallo thought to himself, then shivered.

The sheer volume of content in a library, even if it were all digitized and stored on hard drives in his previous life, would still be a massive scale of data.

Although the Imperial Industrial University library was not open to the public, it shouldn't be a problem to have a student like Stur help borrow a few books from the library management and bring them out.

Gallo flipped through the last book Stur had brought with astonishing speed.

As he closed the back cover, the contents of this stack of books were all branded into his mind.

The range of books Stur brought this time was very broad, from Advanced Engineering Mathematics to A Brief History of Continental Trade.

However, what surprised Gallo even more was that after finishing these books, the available points in his attribute panel had increased by another 1 point.

He had obtained two available points today in total; the first was just after reading the box of Professor Jeffrey's research materials that Professor Vanason had brought.

This time, it was after reading the stack of books Stur had brought.

Gallo thought to himself, "This stack of books consists of seven volumes in total. Added to my previous reading volume, it has just exceeded fifty books. It should be that this quantity is the requirement for satisfying knowledge acquisition, which is why I obtained 1 available point.

Judging by this logic, the reason for the 1 available point obtained earlier must lie in the materials brought by Professor Vanason. If my guess only had a fifty-fifty chance at the beginning, then now it is one hundred percent."

This gave him a clearer direction on how to obtain system available points: currently, it is through reading, with both quality and quantity being equally important.

"As expected..." Gallo whispered to himself.

"Expected what?" Stur asked curiously, "You finished them again?"

Gallo did not answer Stur's curious question. He bundled the stack of books back up and said to Stur, "Finished. You shouldn't have any other books there, right?"

"Just these. You already finished most of the ones I brought before. Most of these books are related to my major, and the remaining few are just for occasional reading to kill time."

"As expected, a poor student at a university wouldn't have many books, prioritizing those related to their major and those needed to complete their studies," Gallo said.

Stur gave an awkward smile. There was nothing wrong with what the other party said, but it just felt strange to hear.

Gallo continued, "Do me a favor. Could you trouble yourself to help me borrow a few books from the university library? Any category is fine."

"Sure, but I can only borrow up to three books from the library at a time. If you don't have any requirements for the category, I'll just bring you three random ones."

"Thank you."

After getting the answer from Gallo, Professor Vanason hurried back to the professors' office building.

In the hallway, as he was about to reach Professor Jeffrey's office, he heard the angry voice of a colleague coming from inside.

"That was what I let him take... I don't care at all whether your affairs need to be kept secret... Do you really think anyone would believe it if it were leaked?"

Professor Vanason listened to the intermittent sounds, not quite understanding what Jeffrey was saying or who he was angrily questioning.

He hesitated in his steps, but eventually knocked on the door of Jeffrey's office.

The sound inside went silent instantly, and then the door opened from within. It was opened by the young woman he had seen in Jeffrey's office that morning.

Vanason still remembered her name was Sacia Taylor, from a prestigious family.

"Thank you, Miss Sacia. Could you give Professor Jeffrey and me some time alone?"

"Of course, Professor." Sacia slipped past him, her voice like a mountain stream oriole, though her tone remained as calm as a mirror.

Closing the door behind him, Vanason placed the box of materials on the side of the other man's desk.

Jeffrey looked down, his haggard eyes staring straight at Vanason as if scrutinizing him, and asked, "Why? Aren't you very interested in my research this time?

They are even quite dissatisfied with you taking the research materials from me."

Vanason recalled the beautiful figure that had just left, then leaned his hands on Jeffrey's desk, leaned in, and stared at him sternly: "It's absurd!

Are you a professor at a university! Or a priest in a church?"

"What?"

Then, Professor Vanason relayed everything he had obtained from Gallo to Jeffrey, word for word.

After Jeffrey finished listening, he was completely stunned, stammering as he asked, "You... how... how did you finish reading it so quickly."

If Vanason had only seen Jeffrey's deductions from occasional loose pages of notes, he might have just dismissed them as Jeffrey's delusional jokes.

Moreover, Jeffrey believed he had only recorded a very, very small portion of his true thoughts on these papers; after all, these research materials all had to be archived with the university later.

He wouldn't write his inner thoughts down completely; this wasn't his diary.

And for Vanason to be able to deduce his true thoughts from these scattered materials in such a short time did indeed surprise Jeffrey very much.

After a brief silence, Vanason sighed: "I think there must be disagreements and conflicts between you and the sponsors of this research activity.

After all, if you insist on such absurd ideas, if I were the sponsor, I would definitely be driven mad. I would certainly complain to the school, and then the school would punish you.

You would lose all face in the academic world."

Jeffrey looked at Vanason and breathed a sigh of relief. He laughed at himself: "There are some things you don't know, and you don't need to worry about whether the school will punish me. Those people won't complain to the school about me.

Besides, I haven't written any publicly available academic reports, papers, or journal articles based on this research."

Even if it is circulating in the outside world, it can be dismissed as a mere rumor."

Vanason said, "You should really take a good rest for a while, or perhaps..."

He hesitated for a moment before continuing, "Go see a psychologist."

Jeffrey remained silent for a long time, then said, "Don't worry about my affairs; I won't be making any of my thoughts or opinions public."

"It's just that there are some things right now that truly need to be done as soon as possible."

"As for the investors..."

He paused briefly and continued, "They won't have any objections to my ideas, let alone file a complaint with the university, but it's better if you don't ask for the specific reasons."

Seeing him in this state, Vanason didn't know what else to say if he stayed. He had originally thought that after Jeffrey returned from the Southern Continent, the two of them would be able to spend a long time discussing Jeffrey's new discoveries.

Vanason hadn't expected things to turn out like this.

However, before leaving, he asked Jeffrey for the research notes on the hieroglyphic symbols from the rubbings.

Jeffrey asked, puzzled, "You've already sent back all the materials from this expedition, including the rubbings brought back this time, which are all in this box."

"Without the content of those rubbings, what do you need my research notes for?"

Vanason had originally wanted to share information about Gallo with him, but in the end, he changed his approach, "Can't it just be for academic research?"

"I happen to want to study the ancient hieroglyphs of the Askia Dynasty further, and you are indeed better than me in this regard."