What Use Are You to Me?

Changye's gaze fell on the coffee table and locked onto it. There had just been a small vial there—her latest research, "S13"—but now it was gone.

Some puffed-up little someone had swiped it...

On the training ground, Lin Xiaosu maintained an outrageously swaggering pose for about ten seconds.

It was the pose he had struck when his final shot blew Crescent Moon apart.

Did he think it looked cool and flamboyant?

Bullshit!

He had just twisted his waist!

This body really could not keep up with his reaction speed or the standards of his eyesight...

The Heavenly Insight Eye saw into the finest details. No matter how complex the environment, he could see straight through it at a glance.

Humanity Orchidheart analyzed and integrated information, rivaling the most complex computers. Those two abilities were why he could tear straight through special combat.

Yet this body was far too weak.

It simply could not keep up with his reactions.

After that intense exchange just now, he had actually twisted his waist. That was a little embarrassing...

Hopefully, no one had seen it.

Lin Xiaosu left the Firearms Zone and returned to his room.

His assistant, Xiao Luo, hurried over and asked with warm concern, "Sir, what happened to you?"

"I twisted my waist... Do you have any way to treat injuries?" Lin Xiaosu lay down on the sofa.

Xiao Luo smiled happily. "I can use electrotherapy combined with acupuncture. You will be restored in just ten seconds. This is the medical art passed down by Great Xia's ancestors."

"That's great. Treat me, then."

Xiao Luo said, "Sorry, sir, you have not activated that authorization."

Lin Xiaosu glared at her. "So what you can currently do as an assistant is stand beside your injured boss, make snide remarks, and do absolutely nothing?"

"I can sing for you and ease your pain," Xiao Luo said.

"Come on, sing me a song called 'What Use Are You to Me?'..."

As the sun sank in the west, Lin Xiaosu welcomed his first night after entering Unit 101.

After dinner, he wandered by the little lake with one hand supporting his waist and ran into Zhou Zhen again.

Zhou Zhen stared at him in surprise. "Xiaosu, did you unlock your assistant's ultimate function?"

"What ultimate function?"

Zhou Zhen blinked. "She's a simulated human. You know what the ultimate function is..."

Fuck!

Lin Xiaosu understood...

But he had been wronged! His little assistant had incredibly strong principles. He had twisted his waist, and she clearly could have used acupuncture and electrotherapy, yet she insisted on doing nothing. And Zhou Zhen thought he had unlocked her ultimate function, that he was holding his waist because his kidneys had gone weak for a moment?

Was this kid even a hacker or Red Hacker?

With his head full of this kind of tabloid nonsense, wasn't he afraid of turning himself into a porn hacker?

Considering that getting injured during training was nothing to be proud of, Lin Xiaosu did not mention it to him. The two chatted briefly, then went back to rest.

Fortunately, by the next morning, the injury to his waist had gradually eased.

Lin Xiaosu did a set of warm-up exercises and headed to the Firearms Zone again.

This time, he set his sights on all kinds of vehicles.

Vehicles were also equipment, and the field was broad and profound.

When Qianlong went out on missions, transportation was unavoidable, so driving was an essential skill.

Lin Xiaosu did not have a driver's license. Before this, he had not even known how to drive.

There were not many university graduates who could not drive these days, but unfortunately, he was one of them.

Why?

Lin Xiaosu looked at his family's brick house, then at the vegetables his mother had planted, and felt that they probably could not afford a car anytime soon. So he had given up learning to drive. But now, had the opportunity not come knocking?

He could not drive in real life, but he could drive in a game. Not only could he drive cars, he could fly planes.

Yes, Qianlong's training system was simply too powerful.

The moment he got into any vehicle, everything outside changed completely. The vehicle itself had not moved, but once he got in, the system constructed all kinds of external scenarios for him. And what was most incredible? Every control he made came with genuine visual, tactile, and physical sensations.

When he passed over a bump, the vehicle jolted.

When he sped down a sloping road, his body felt weightless.

If the vehicle overturned, even flipping through several 360-degree rotations in midair, the vehicle beneath his ass really flipped too!

In other words, sitting in the driver's seat was no different from actually driving through all kinds of complicated road conditions.

Lin Xiaosu's learning ability was simply too strong.

In a mere half hour, he was driving like an old hand.

After an hour, the vehicle entered the highway, surrounded by countless other cars.

Suddenly, a window on one of the cars rolled down, and a pitch-black gun barrel pointed at him...

Lin Xiaosu was slightly startled and slammed on the brakes...

The cars ahead raced past at Speedster's pace, while the gun barrel swiftly swung toward him...

Lin Xiaosu stretched out a hand, and a pistol landed in his palm. The window opened, wild wind rushed into his face, and—Pssh!

One shot hit the other man squarely in the head.

That car went out of control and crashed into a pile of vehicles. Ahead of him, countless cars collided in a chain reaction, exactly like a real highway disaster. Lin Xiaosu seized the timing, calculated the gaps, and floored the accelerator, speeding out from beneath countless airborne vehicles. In an almost impossible situation, he dodged the impacts of seven or eight cars in succession and smoothly raced down the highway, leaving all others far behind.

"Beautiful!" In the little courtyard, Changye clapped her hands and praised him.

This scene had once again fallen into her eyes.

In truth, all of Lin Xiaosu's training was under her control.

Including his injury.

She had not treated him because that injury was also part of the training. Everyone had to undergo personal experience before they could truly develop. One day, two days, three days...

Over seven consecutive days, Lin Xiaosu adapted to every kind of transportation, including cars, hovercars, planes, and even all sorts of latest-model vehicles.

He drove through bustling city streets and the wilderness, crossed the sea by boat in Speedster fashion, and flew through blue skies in aircraft. The enemies he encountered ranged from individual soldiers to squads, then enemy tanks and warships...

The weapon systems he used had already reached the missile level.

Lin Xiaosu himself did not feel much about it. It was just playing a game...

Yet outside, Changye and Number 88 both had sweat streaming down their backs...

"88, how long did it take you to reach his level?" Changye asked a question that struck straight at the soul.

"There's something rather discouraging. I don't know whether saying it would be embarrassing..." Number 88 said. "The truth is, my current level still has not reached his tier. Asking how long it took me is completely meaningless."

"In just seven days, he reached a height that others could not reach even after seven months of training!" Changye exhaled softly. "I truly cannot understand it. With his comprehension and learning ability, why did he fail his first civil service examination?"

"Yeah. With his learning ability, even getting full marks on the civil service written exam would have been possible. Perhaps it really comes down to interest and passion. He was born to enjoy this kind of high-intensity clash, while lacking interest in dry knowledge."

However, in the time that followed, Lin Xiaosu once again overturned Number 88's prediction.

He next entered the library.

And began indulging his intense interest and passion for knowledge.

The library was also divided into sections, and it had little assistants too—virtual ones.

At the press of a button, a holographic projection of a little assistant appeared out of thin air. Whatever type of book one needed, she would retrieve books in that category. There were electronic editions and physical copies.

With physical books, Lin Xiaosu's fingers moved like lightning as he flipped page after page. He took only half an hour to finish a three-hundred-page copy of the driest and most boring Principles of Genetics.

Then he switched to the next book, the even more boring Complete Medical Compendium.

Changye and Number 88 looked at each other...

"What does this mean? If you say he was interested, he clearly wasn't reading closely. If you say he wasn't interested, then why did he flip through one book after another?"

"I'm starting to suspect that he remembered it all!" Changye said.

"He finished Principles of Genetics in only half an hour? That's a myth, isn't it?" Number 88 said.

"It cannot be denied that certain mysterious genes can unlock the mysterious doors of the brain. The brain is already the most mysterious domain of the human body. Even Kersong, the most formidable human brain of this generation of civilization, has only developed his brain to eighteen percent. He once declared that if humanity developed the brain to twenty percent, unimaginable phenomena would appear."

Number 88 gazed up at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle. "If his brain has truly developed to twenty percent, then perhaps his path really needs to change."

"Yes. Qianlong does not lack special combat personnel—there is no kind of special combat personnel it lacks—but it does not have truly genius-level research and development personnel. Yet such researchers are the key force truly capable of driving humanity's progress through the power of one person."

No one knew that Lin Xiaosu's speed at reading physical books was merely the limit of his fingers, not the limit of his reading comprehension.

His fingers could only flip pages that fast. What could he do about it?

Electronic books were different. He put on a pair of glasses, and the little assistant adjusted the screen speed to its highest setting. To ordinary people, the words flashed past like flowing water, too fast for them to make out even a single character. But Lin Xiaosu still felt it was too slow. After this period of high-intensity training, his Heavenly Insight Eye and Humanity Orchidheart had entered a new stage...

The little assistant was not human, so she had none of humanity's astonishment.

Naturally, she would not tattletale either.

Another seven days passed.

Lin Xiaosu looked like the laziest trainee, spending seven whole days reading in the library.

But if anyone summarized what he had achieved during those seven days, they would be left dumbstruck.

He learned seven languages, each to the point where he could use them with effortless fluency. Those were essential skills for espionage.

He learned Principles of Genetics, Genetic Conception, Complete Medical Compendium, Mysterious Emperor's Inner Canon...

On the cutting-edge track of genetics, he had already formed his own understanding and insights...

He sighed deeply. When he had first obtained Humanity Orchidheart, he had failed to attach sufficient importance to the skill, believing it less useful than the Heavenly Insight Eye. But now, it seemed that how could Humanity Orchidheart possibly be compared with the Heavenly Insight Eye?

With Humanity Orchidheart, his learning speed and comprehension had increased by thousands, tens of thousands of times.

His entire knowledge system, his horizons, and even his worldview had all undergone a complete rebirth.

He was especially interested in knowledge related to Spy Warfare.

Once he had learned more or less everything else he needed to learn, he took a Spy Warfare book and relaxed with it.

The tea had gone cold. Amid the curling strains of music, he seemed to enter a rich and colorful world of Spy Warfare...

The book in his hands used aliases.

The place names were aliases as well.

But he knew that everything recorded in this book had actually happened to real people.

One Spy Warfare operative, for the great cause of the nation, personally killed his own wife.

One undercover agent watched his son get beheaded with his own eyes, yet raised his arms and cheered.

One researcher, in order to mislead an enemy nation, carried out the Trojan Horse Project. He killed his superior, fled to the enemy nation, and brought with him a pile of top-secret information. All that information was real, but it concealed the most sinister purpose: to lead the enemy nation down a crooked path, thereby winning precious time for Great Xia.

One of the most promising genetics experts crossed the oceans to Luoba Prefecture, infiltrated Hydra's notorious Luoba branch, and killed Hydra's White Bone Heavenly King. His entire body suffered pulverizing fractures. After his teammates rescued him, his skeleton was reforged with liquid metal, and he became a legend of his generation...

"What do you feel?" Five words came from behind him, accompanied by a faint, lingering fragrance.