The Golden Age of Pay-to-Win Players

Chinese students have a hierarchy of academic snobbery, and universities in Da Ma are undoubtedly at the very bottom of that hierarchy.

No matter how high universities in Kangaroo Country rank on the QS World University Rankings, it's hard to hide their reputation as "watered-down" schools in the eyes of Chinese students. It's the kind of situation where you spend hundreds of thousands of yuan to study in Dirt Australia and still have to defend them.

Students who go to Da Ma to study abroad won't defend themselves. If it's a watered-down school, so be it. I'm already studying abroad in Da Ma, does being criticized a little bit still matter?

As a 985 university in China that isn't top-tier but is definitely not at the bottom, Chen Yuanguang had never heard of any senior students going to Da Ma for further studies.

Chen Yuanguang could already imagine that if he told Lin Jia he was going to study abroad in Da Ma, even if Lin Jia was aloof, she would stare blankly and ask him if he was sick.

The University of Malaya is the best university in Da Ma, but it's still a university in Da Ma.

However, this was in the future. After finishing the general education courses, Chen Yuanguang had no resistance, because all universities were the same.

When you look for a job, people won't think highly of you because you're from Harvard, nor will they reject you because you graduated from the University of Malaya.

This is like before World War I, when German universities were at the pinnacle of world academia, but after World War II, the status of German universities plummeted.

English media firmly held onto the right to interpret the status of universities and refused to let go.

Time has the great power to change everything, and universities became historical terms.

A large number of majors lost their meaning. For example, in fields like political science and law, AI can give you a result for various prosecution cases in five seconds. What do you need human lawyers for?

After the concept of nation-states disappeared, politics also lost its meaning.

No aliens have been discovered yet. When aliens are discovered, people will need alien political science.

After Chen Yuanguang walked into the University of Malaya, he had only one feeling: dilapidation. The buildings had been renovated, the greenery was beautiful, and the area was large, but there was no one.

Chen Yuanguang noticed that outside the car window, there were no more than ten real people.

It was hard to imagine a university having so few people.

"Yuanguang, remember that calmness is more meaningful than anger. I will also do my best to find the real culprit behind the Yongqi Car Accident Case."

Chen Yonglin left quickly after dropping Chen Yuanguang off at the University of Malaya.

Chen Yuanguang arrived at the student dormitory assigned to him, a single apartment about forty square meters. It certainly couldn't compare to his home environment, but it was much better than the four-person dorm rooms by Donghu Lake at Jiang University.

Moreover, it was fully equipped with various appliances. He had brought his own virtual helmet.

There was no need for enrollment procedures, and there were very few in-person classes. These in-person classes were set up solely to give the professors something to do.

Only then did Chen Yuanguang understand how much change a lighthearted sentence in common sense education, "Highly developed information technology has led to the full popularization of a digital society, and countless mental problems have arisen after human material worries were resolved," would bring when it came to reality. The immense changes of over four hundred years were slowly being unveiled before Chen Yuanguang.

There were no administrative staff, no unified enrollment time, and no such thing as required or elective courses.

The graduation standard was to complete the required courses. Each course would have a final exam, and passing it meant you had completed the course.

It didn't matter whether you learned by reading books, watching videos, or finding a real person to teach you.

The school would provide you with some standard textbooks.

Chen Yuanguang chose everything he was interested in. With the huge sum of one million New Yuan given to him by Chen Yonglin, plus the inheritance he received from his father, it was enough for him to download knowledge in three sub-fields, pushing the boundaries of knowledge to the current cognitive limits of human civilization.

Chen Yuanguang could get a university diploma in a week through Knowledge Download.

After gaining some understanding of the university setup, Chen Yuanguang thought to himself, No wonder universities are evaluated online as a rich person's game of house.

Even in China, where the competition for academics is the fiercest, no one cared about university diplomas anymore.

The power of culture was so strong that the direction of competition for Chinese people had shifted to becoming scholars. The number of people in China attempting academic certification was the highest in the world.

While booking a Knowledge Download, Chen Yuanguang planned to exchange his entire share of the family trust for this year for a deep dialogue opportunity with Pangu after the download.

He chose many subjects for Knowledge Download. Besides chemistry, his old profession, he also chose cybersecurity.

Going back to the modern era to stir up trouble, having top-notch cybersecurity skills to prevent anyone from finding his real information was even more important.

Shaping a ghost on the internet could sometimes achieve miraculous results.

If I were to publish a paper on the internet cracking the 1024-bit RSA algorithm, it would probably cause turmoil throughout society.

Based on Earth's current computing power and the RSA algorithm cracking method deciphered by Alpha, the 2048-bit RSA algorithm can also be cracked.

Just this point alone sparked countless ideas in Chen Yuanguang's mind.

This kind of cross-era dimensionality reduction strike feels really good.

Except that each time he went to the university's knowledge center, he had to put on a helmet, first monitor his brainwave signals, and then spend half a day debugging before he could start downloading.

After downloading, the knowledge wouldn't all appear in his mind. He needed to read some related books or course videos for the downloaded knowledge to slowly emerge in his mind.

His brain felt overly full. Every night when he slept, Chen Yuanguang felt his subconscious mind was stuffed, with various ideas emerging endlessly.

Even so, the feeling of learning in one day what others took twenty years to master was truly wonderful.

Chen Yuanguang could roughly understand why everyone was lying flat. The gap between RMB players and civilian players in this world was far greater than in his previous life.

In his previous life, no matter how much RMB players spent, they were only more materially abundant and had more opportunities to make mistakes. They could fire countless shots, while civilian players only had one chance.

This world was different. In this world, RMB players could improve their aim. Not only did they shoot more, but they also shot accurately.

How could civilian players win?

Fortunately, I'm a pay-to-win player. Chen Yuanguang felt lucky. I haven't spent money now, but I can go to the future to spend.

On the third day after he enrolled at the University of Malaya, he walked back to his dormitory from the Knowledge Download Center as usual, thinking about what he would do after returning to the modern era and how he could stir up trouble to change the world as quickly as possible.

"Excuse me, I'm sorry I bumped into you." As soon as Chen Yuanguang finished speaking, he realized he had bumped into Shi Huilan, the only classmate he had met in this timeline.

Shi Huilan's delicate face was clouded with gloom, and the dissatisfaction in her downcast eyes was palpable: "Why didn't you answer my calls or reply to my messages?"

Chen Yuanguang rummaged through his memories and found that the other party was his predecessor's childhood sweetheart, a classmate since elementary school, and Lin Ran's daughter, who was determined to help Chen Yuanguang send Lin Ran to prison.

"I forgot."

There will be another chapter updated tomorrow morning. Also, just a quick note, I'm signing the contract tomorrow. After signing, everyone can vote with their monthly passes. If you have monthly passes, please give them to Ya Shang Shang~