Chapter 15

This made him slap his head at once.

In his eagerness for quick results, he had actually forgotten something as important as the internet.

Thinking of the situation he was in, Jiang Ye hurriedly found a computer and logged onto arXiv.

When he saw the arXiv homepage, his eyes lit up, as if he had found a treasure trove.

First came the broad categories: physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, and many other major subjects.

Under those major subjects, mathematics, for example, was further divided into more than a dozen or twenty specialized fields: set theory and logic, algebraic topology, analysis of PDEs, category theory, classical analysis and ODEs, combinatorics, commutative algebra, and so on.

"Unfortunately, if events unfold as the production team planned, the power station and the internet should go offline in a week."

"Jiang Ye could print out the materials from these websites," a Dragon Country viewer suggested.

"Are you kidding? Do you know how much material is in there!?"

Viewers from other countries said, "Once the internet goes down, he won't be able to study anymore. He wasted all this time at the start building a shelter. I don't think he'll be far from death by then."

"Fuck that bullshit. Get lost!"

In front of the computer.

Jiang Ye first gave the arXiv website a cursory look.

Then he logged onto viXra and bioRxiv and looked through both sites.

He had to admit that the materials on those three sites were extremely comprehensive, and included the most advanced research results in every field.

Those three sites alone were enough to let him advance to the cutting edge of human civilization's current technology.

But he had also thought about his current situation: once the power went out, the servers storing the material on those sites would shut down.

Naturally, he would no longer be able to continue learning.

Jiang Ye fell into thought, searching for a solution.

Generating power was relatively easy to solve, but the servers for those websites were probably all located in the Sam Empire.

If he went to the Sam Empire now and tried to find the servers,

it would probably be very difficult and a huge waste of time.

There was no telling what other problems or difficulties he might encounter along the way.

Finally, Jiang Ye let out a long sigh. People, where did you all go!

Looks like I can only activate [Ultimate Learning State] and learn as much as I can before the internet goes down.

The next moment, as he silently invoked it, [Ultimate Learning State] activated in an instant.

His mouse began clicking rapidly, and the middle finger of his right hand kept scrolling down.

Jiang Ye stared intently at the computer screen, instantly digesting information line by line.

His actions immediately stunned a whole group of viewers in the outside world.

A roar of laughter followed.

"He didn't go looking for the servers for those websites, which I think was a wise choice, but flipping through web pages that fast—is he covering his ears while stealing a bell!!"

"This is killing me. Does he take us for idiots?"

"I could understand him flipping through books before as quickly refreshing his memory, but with this much information, and academic material at that, does he really think he's artificial intelligence?"

"Even artificial intelligence probably can't learn as fast as he does!"

"Jiang Artificial Intelligence Ye?"

Chapter 15: Reclaiming the Honor That Belongs to Us for Him (Please Support Me in Every Way)

The ridicule Jiang Ye received from other countries left Dragon Country netizens feeling aggrieved once again.

The main problem was that Jiang Ye's actions were simply too mind-boggling, too outrageous, too over the top!

If he had been even a tiny bit more normal, they could have argued back against netizens from the other countries.

Everyone knew that a genius's ability to learn would surpass that of ordinary people.

But Jiang Ye's was just too outstanding!

Frighteningly outstanding.

In the international livestream, Chen Danni spoke up at just the right moment. "According to the conclusion sent over by the panel of psychology experts, contestant Jiang Ye's current mental state is very likely a case of covering his ears while stealing a bell, comforting himself with the illusion of learning quickly. His mental state may already have become abnormal..."

Sam viewer: "God is fair. He gave him a genius brain, but also a psyche that crumbles at a single blow."

Nihon viewer: "Perhaps he'll take a knife and hurt himself?"

Korean viewer: "I can't wait to see what the madman does!"

The foreign viewers' jeers and mockery went without saying.

Viewers back home were also fiercely divided over the matter.

"Could Jiang Artificial Intelligence Ye have gone mad?"

"Could a mental health expert come forward and analyze this?"

"What's there to analyze? He's definitely lost his mind. No matter how much of a genius he is, he can't flip through web pages like that!"

In the viewers' sight, in the first feed.

Jiang Ye could be seen scrolling down the web pages at a swish-swish-swish pace, reaching the bottom in just a few seconds before moving to the next page.

Inside the Dragon Country Institute of Advanced Mathematics.

The group of leading figures in Dragon Country's mathematics community, who had originally gathered there after Jiang Ye caught their attention, all sighed in dismay.

"What a pity. The timing was against him. Dragon Country finally produced a promising talent, only for some damned show to drive him mad."

"Why don't we ask Minister Zhang to speak with the Ten Conglomerates again and have them let Jiang Ye come back?"

Someone shook his head and sighed. "The Ten Conglomerates said that if we put up fifty billion US dollars, they could consider it!"

"That's just a pretext. Even if we really put up fifty billion, they'd refuse for some other reason."

At the Eight Ivy League Schools, inside a huge lecture hall.