Changye's gaze dropped and locked onto the coffee table. There had been a small vial there just moments ago—her latest research, "S13." Now it was gone.
Some puffed-up person had swiped it...
On the training ground, Lin Xiaosu maintained an extremely arrogant pose for about ten seconds.
It was the pose he had struck after blowing Xin Yue apart with the final shot.
Did he think it looked impressive 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 perceived the tiniest 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 through special combat so directly.
Yet this body was far too weak.
It simply could not keep up with his reactions.
That intense exchange just now had actually twisted his waist. It was a little embarrassing...
Hopefully no one had seen it.
Lin Xiaosu exited the Firearms Zone and returned to his room.
His assistant, Xiao Luo, ran over and asked with warm concern, "Sir, what is wrong?"
"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 combine electrotherapy with acupuncture. You will recover completely in just ten seconds. This is the medical art passed down by Great Xia's forebears."
"That's great. Treat me, then."
Xiao Luo said, "Sorry, sir. You have not yet unlocked that authorization."
Lin Xiaosu glared at her. "So the only thing you can do as an assistant right now is stand beside your injured boss, making sarcastic remarks and doing jack shit?"
"I can sing for you and ease your pain," Xiao Luo said.
"Go on, then. Sing me What Use Do I Have for You?..."
As the sun set in the west, Lin Xiaosu welcomed his first night after entering Unit 101.
After dinner, he wandered beside the small lake with a hand supporting his waist and ran into Zhou Zhen again.
Zhou Zhen stared at him in surprise. "Xiao Su, you unlocked your assistant's ultimate function?"
"What ultimate function?"
Zhou Zhen blinked. "She's a simulated human. You know, the ultimate function..."
Fuck!
Lin Xiaosu understood...
But I'm innocent! My little assistant has incredibly strong principles. I twisted my waist, and she could clearly have used acupuncture and electrotherapy, yet she did absolutely nothing. And you think I unlocked her ultimate function, then had to hold my waist because my kidneys gave out?
Are you even a Red Hacker?
With your head full of this kind of lurid nonsense, aren't you afraid you'll turn yourself into a Yellow Hacker?
Since getting injured during training was hardly anything glorious, Lin Xiaosu did not mention it to him. The two exchanged a few casual words before returning to rest.
Fortunately, by the next morning, his waist injury had gradually eased.
Lin Xiaosu went through a set of warm-up exercises, then headed to the Firearms Zone again.
This time, he set his sights on all kinds of vehicles.
Vehicles were also equipment, and a field both 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 nowadays, but unfortunately, he was one of them.
Why?
Lin Xiaosu had looked at his family's brick house, then at the vegetables his mother grew, and figured that he 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 reality, but he could drive in the game. Not only could he drive cars—he could fly planes too.
Yes, Qianlong's training system was simply too formidable.
The moment he got into any vehicle, everything outside completely changed. The vehicle itself had not moved, but once he entered it, the system fabricated all kinds of external scenarios for him. And the most incredible part was that every operation brought genuine visual, tactile, and sensory experiences.
Passing over a bump made the vehicle jolt.
Speeding down a slanted road gave his body a sensation of weightlessness.
If the vehicle flipped, even rolling through several 360-degree turns in midair, the vehicle beneath his ass truly flipped as well!
In other words, sitting in the driver's seat was no different from actually driving through all manner of complicated road conditions.
Lin Xiaosu's learning ability was simply too strong.
In just half an hour, he was driving like an old hand.
After an hour, his vehicle entered the expressway, surrounded by countless other cars.
Suddenly, the window of one of the vehicles rolled down, and a pitch-black gun barrel pointed at him...
Lin Xiaosu was slightly startled and slammed on the brakes...
The car ahead sped past, while the gun barrel swung around at high speed...
Lin Xiaosu reached out, and a pistol dropped into his palm. The window opened, gale-force wind rushed into his face, and—Bang!
One shot struck the other man squarely in the head.
That vehicle lost control and crashed into a cluster of cars. Ahead of him, countless vehicles collided in a chain reaction, exactly like a real expressway disaster scene. Lin Xiaosu picked his moment, calculated the gaps, and floored the accelerator, speeding out from beneath countless airborne vehicles. In a nearly impossible situation, he dodged the impacts of seven or eight cars in succession and successfully raced down the highway, leaving everyone else in the dust.
"Beautiful!" In the little courtyard, Changye clapped her hands in praise.
That scene had once again fallen within her sight.
In truth, every bit of Lin Xiaosu's training was under her control.
Including his injury.
She had not treated it because the injury was also part of the training. Everyone had to experience such things firsthand before they could truly develop. One day, two days, three days...
Seven days passed in succession, and Lin Xiaosu adapted to every type of transportation, including cars, speedsters, planes, and even all kinds of the newest vehicles.
He drove through crowded city streets and across the wilderness, piloted boats at high speed over the sea, and flew aircraft through the blue sky. The enemies he encountered ranged from individual soldiers to squads, 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 Changye and Number 88, watching from the Outside World, were both drenched in cold sweat...
"88, how long did it take you to reach his level?" Changye asked a soul-searching question.
"There's something rather discouraging, and I don't know whether saying it would be humiliating..." 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 cannot attain even after seven months of training!" Changye let out a soft breath. "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. Maybe it really comes down to interest and preference. He was born to enjoy this kind of high-intensity clash, while lacking interest in dry knowledge."
However, over the next stretch of time, Lin Xiaosu overturned Number 88's prediction once again.
He entered the library next.
And began indulging his intense interest and passion for knowledge.
The library was also divided into sections. There were little assistants inside too, and they were virtual.
With the press of a button, the little assistant's holographic projection appeared out of thin air. Whatever type of book he needed, she would bring up books in that field. There were electronic editions and physical copies.
With physical books, Lin Xiaosu's fingers flashed like lightning as he flipped page after page. A three-hundred-page copy of the driest, most tedious Principles of Genetics took him only half an hour to finish.
Then he moved on to the next book, the even duller Complete Medical Compendium.
Changye and Number 88 looked at one another...
"What does this mean? If you say he is interested, he clearly isn't reading carefully. If you say he isn't interested, why does he flip through one book after another?"
"I'm starting to suspect he memorized it all!" Changye said.
"He finished Principles of Genetics in half an hour? That's a myth, isn't it?" Number 88 said.
"It cannot be denied that certain mysterious genes may open the mysterious gate 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's civilization, had only developed his brain to eighteen percent. He once declared that if the human brain were developed to twenty percent, inconceivable phenomena would emerge."
Number 88 gazed up at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle. "If his brain really has developed to twenty percent, perhaps his path truly needs to change."
"Yes. Qianlong does not lack special combat operatives—no matter what kind, it has plenty. But it has no truly genius-level research and development personnel. And those researchers are the key force truly capable of driving humanity's progress through their own power."
No one knew that the speed at which Lin Xiaosu read physical books was merely the limit of his fingers, not the limit of his reading comprehension.
His fingers could only turn pages that fast. What else could he do?
But electronic books were different. He put on a pair of glasses, and the little assistant adjusted the screen speed to its maximum. To ordinary people, the text flowed like water at a glance, impossible to make out even a single character. Yet 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 as well...
The little assistant was not human, so she had none of a human's surprise.
Naturally, she would not tattle either.
Another seven days passed.
Lin Xiaosu looked like the laziest trainee of all, spending seven whole days reading in the library.
But if anyone summarized what he had achieved during those seven days, they would be dumbstruck.
He learned seven languages, each to the point of fluent mastery. This was an essential skill for espionage.
He studied 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 give the skill the attention it deserved. He had thought it less practical than the Heavenly Insight Eye, but now it seemed that how could Humanity Orchidheart possibly be compared to the Heavenly Insight Eye?
With Humanity Orchidheart, his learning speed and comprehension had increased by thousands, even tens of thousands of times.
His entire knowledge system, his worldview, his field of vision—all of it had 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 picked up a book on espionage and relaxed with it.
The tea had gone cold. Amid the curling strains of music, he seemed to step into a colorful and richly varied world of espionage...
The book in his hands used aliases.
The place names were aliases as well.
But he knew that everything recorded in the book had truly happened to real people.
One Spy Warfare operative had personally killed his wife for the sake of the nation's great cause.
One undercover agent had watched his son be beheaded with his own eyes, then 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 materials. The materials were all genuine, but they concealed an utterly sinister purpose: leading the enemy nation down a crooked path, thereby buying Great Xia precious window time.
One of the most promising genetics experts crossed the seas to Luoba Prefecture and infiltrated the notorious Luoba branch of "Hydra." He killed Hydra's White Bone Heavenly King. His entire body suffered shattered fractures, and after his teammates rescued him, Liquid Metal was used to rebuild his skeleton, turning him into a legend of his generation...
"What are your thoughts?" Five words came from behind him, accompanied by a faint, lingering fragrance.
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