Splitting Limit

That afternoon, the computers Tang Shizhe had purchased were delivered to the entrance of the factory grounds.

With the help of Tang Yi and Tang Er, who had already returned, the three of them quickly finished setting up all ten computers.

As for the factory's broadband connection, Tang Shizhe had applied to the telecom company for a commercial line as soon as he rented the building.

Once Tang Yi and Tang Er began studying computer knowledge in front of the computers, Tang Shizhe returned to his room. He needed to begin eating frantically to accumulate the enormous amount of energy required for his next split.

Following Alien Gene's modifications, Tang Shizhe's cells now contained a crystalline tissue.

This crystalline tissue was a new way for his cells to store energy. This more efficient storage method meant that no matter how much energy Tang Shizhe took in, his body shape would not change at all! He would never again nearly turn into a dried-up husk like he had the first time.

Sitting on his comfortable sofa, Tang Shizhe casually grabbed several chocolate bars from the basket beside him and stuffed them into his mouth. To make eating easier for him, Tang Yi had already removed all the packaging from the food.

Truthfully, Tang Shizhe had once loved chocolate as a snack. But after crazily eating several large boxes of it in order to split off Tang Er, he had reached the point where even looking at chocolate made him want to vomit.

However, as a high-calorie snack with a reasonable price, chocolate was still one of his more ideal sources of energy.

As for methods like drinking cooking oil raw, he gave them some thought before deciding to abandon the idea. He would just keep eating chocolate.

A mouthful of syrup, a bite of chocolate. With a dead expression, Tang Shizhe kept sending them into his stomach to be converted into the energy needed for splitting.

Once he had more Splitters in the future, researching nutritional fluid would have to be put on the agenda. Ideally, he could develop a single tube of nutritional fluid that provided all the energy needed for a split.

As Tang Shizhe thought, he continuously absorbed the energy from the food. Before long, he felt a sense of saturation coming from the cells within his body.

Tang Shizhe knew he had stored enough energy for a split. Without hesitation, he immediately pressed the button beside his chair, turned, and ran into the Incubation Room.

Tang Yi, having received the notification, also put down the material in his hands and ran toward the Incubation Room. One of his duties was to protect Tang Shizhe's safety during a split.

Two weeks later, inside the factory now renamed Titan One.

Ten identical young men sat upright before neatly arranged desks, each staring intently at the computer in front of him as he studied with focused tension.

Huge amounts of text flashed past on the screens. An ordinary person might not even have processed the words before the next page appeared, but for the ten Splitters with Memory Sharing activated, it was as if the pages had been slowed down tenfold.

A massive amount of knowledge flowed into Tang Shizhe's brain like water. His modified brain seemed to have become a server, receiving information from every Splitter, combining it, and then transmitting it back into their minds.

This allowed the Splitters to learn all the knowledge at the same time, preventing them from encountering material they could not understand when studying later courses.

Over the past two weeks, Tang Shizhe had already asked Tang Yi to hire an agency to register a technology company jointly funded by several overseas shell companies. The technology company had a rather tacky name: "Titan Tech."

Under Titan Tech were subsidiaries such as Titan Minerals, Titan Pharma, and Titan Electronics.

Of course, the registered capital of every company was provided by the agency. Tang Shizhe only needed to transfer the registered capital into those companies' accounts within the next few years.

Like the companies run by protagonists in countless stories, Tang Shizhe controlled one hundred percent of the company's shares from behind the scenes by setting up shell companies in overseas tax havens.

But on paper, he was merely an agent holding one percent of the shares. Moreover, that one percent could neither be sold nor transferred, allowing him to hide himself even deeper in the shadows.

It was easy to see from the names of the subsidiaries Tang Shizhe had established just how ambitious he was.

When the agency staff first heard his request, they had looked at him strangely.

After all, few people in their right minds would register so many shell companies covering several completely unrelated industries.

If not for the errand fee, they would not have wanted anything to do with this fool who had more money than sense.

They did not know that after registering the companies for Tang Shizhe, they had already been placed on his blacklist. If the opportunity arose, Tang Shizhe would definitely deal with this potential risk personally. After all, they knew every detail of his companies.

Tang Shizhe might not kill them, but it was not impossible that he would use the hibernation devices from his memories to put them into permanent hibernation, only releasing these poor souls once he no longer feared anyone's scrutiny.

Back inside the factory, the ten Splitters had maintained this learning state for several days.

Over those days, they had already learned every bit of computer knowledge they could gather online.

Tang Shizhe had also purchased the remaining physical books through different websites and bookstores.

In just five days of study, Tang Shizhe had learned what an ordinary person would need more than five hundred days of concentrated study to master!

One had to know that the knowledge learned by the Splitters would not be forgotten as it would by ordinary people. It was now firmly imprinted in Tang Shizhe's mind!

It could be said that even five years of tireless study without rest would not achieve the results he had gained in these five days. After all, normal people forgot things they learned, while Tang Shizhe and his Splitters did not.

With their extraordinary memories, the learning foundation they built was several times more solid than that of ordinary people. That solid foundation further boosted their future studies. Moreover, Tang Shizhe would periodically integrate the vast amount of knowledge learned by all ten men, then feed the integrated knowledge back to every Splitter. As a result, their learning efficiency was not merely multiplied several times—it increased geometrically.

With Tang Shizhe's current computer skills, creating a virus would be effortless, and hacking into someone else's computer would be child's play!

Before long, as the screens abruptly stopped, Tang Shizhe knew that the Splitters had thoroughly mastered everything that could be learned online. All that remained was to improve through constant practice.

"Your first task is to enter that agency's server and delete all information related to our companies!" Tang Shizhe said as he paced back and forth before the ten Splitters, chewing on a chocolate bar.

"Understood!" The Splitters nodded and placed their hands on the keyboards before them.

The clattering of keyboards suddenly rang out. The displays before them instantly changed into programming interfaces; they first needed to write the attack software themselves.

Feeling somewhat bored, Tang Shizhe grabbed a comic book and sat down in a beanbag chair nearby.

He had already reached his splitting limit. If he wanted to continue splitting, he could only wait for the Alien Gene within his body to slowly expand his brain capacity. So, his snacking now was entirely for storing energy for the future.

Once his Mental Network could accommodate more Splitters exchanging data, the genes within his body would automatically unlock the next level. At that point, he would be able to control one hundred Splitters at once!