Chapter 40

Jiang Ye turned to glance at the classroom behind him, then immediately headed for the school library.

At that moment, mathematicians around the world were still engrossed in Jiang Ye's Seven Millennium Prize Problems.

Meanwhile, viewers from other countries debated what Jiang Ye would do next.

"Where's he going? Is he going to study again, or keep solving math problems?"

"No way. Oh my God, can the production team wake that tiger up?"

"I acknowledge his contributions to academia, but if he's really going to keep pursuing it, could the production team please switch him out and bring another contestant on, so we can watch what we want to see?"

Amid the heated discussion.

Jiang Ye soon arrived at the library, found a computer, and logged on to the website.

[System, activate Ultimate Learning State.]

[Activated. 43 minutes remain until the warning threshold. Host, please take note.]

[Okay.]

Fixing his gaze on the screen, Jiang Ye clicked into the broad subject of [physics].

Then, the next moment, the same scene played out again.

As the mouse wheel spun rapidly beneath his hand, the waterfall-like speed at which he browsed the web shocked netizens around the world once again.

"I don't really know what to say anymore. This has to be fake, but then he solved the Millennium Problems. What on earth is going on?"

"Is he putting on an act for us? But that assumes he knows he's on a show. Whew, forget it. The logic's such a mess. Can someone sort it out?"

"Maybe it's like this: he has an extraordinary ability to learn. Compared with his ordinary life for the first twenty years, that's exactly why, after all humanity suddenly vanished, he threw caution to the wind and revealed it without having to worry about anything anymore."

"Your theory is only possible if he has absolutely no idea the show exists."

For a time, countless theories sprang up again, and innumerable viewers began speculating.

[Picking up the pace today. All ten chapters are out. More tomorrow. I won't keep padding things out with proofs of conjectures after this; the spaceship enters its next stage.]

Chapter 40: Could He Have Gone Mad Again? (On My Knees Begging for All Kinds of Support)

In the livestream, Chen Danni delivered an urgent announcement from the production team: "Contestant Jiang Ye's brilliant mind has earned our admiration, but if he continues pursuing academia, the show's content will become dull and boring, which goes against the production team's original intentions."

"So the production team plans to wake the tiger. After all, he'll have plenty of time to pursue academia during the long life ahead of him."

As soon as the announcement came out, many people voiced their approval.

"Agreed, hurry up! I can't wait to see the tiger scare the piss and shit out of him, haha!"

"Oh, come on. They'd be better off replacing God Jiang. Why hasn't our country taken action yet? If he stays on the show and something happens, the loss will be enormous."

"I think an accident is bound to happen sooner or later. The greater the talent God Jiang displays, the more likely the Ten Conglomerates are to make a move against him."

"Some experts say the Ten Conglomerates won't make a move against God Jiang, that he can bring them greater benefits alive. I hope that's true."

In response to the production team's announcement.

Dragon Country did not sit idly by. Its official daily promptly issued a statement: "Jiang Ye has made an enormous contribution to scientific progress for all humanity. The production team's arrangement of a tiger to interfere with Jiang Ye will create extremely serious, uncontrollable risk factors. We strongly condemn..."

Unfortunately, it didn't do a damn thing.

Meanwhile, the production team acted quickly.

Just near Jiang Ye's university.

More than five hundred meters due east of Jiang Ye's location.

A beast trainer carefully climbed out of an underground passage, then went over to the same tiger from before and injected it with a syringe.

Once he was done, the trainer took the syringe and slipped back into the passage he had come from.

At the same time, the production team split the first feed in two. As before, the tiger was on the left and Jiang Ye on the right.

The viewers didn't have to wait long, only about seven or eight minutes.

The tiger's eyelids twitched, and it climbed back to its feet, full of vigor, then shook itself.

"It's starting! This time it's really starting! Roar! Make him tremble, haha!"

"If anything really happens to God Jiang, it'll be a loss for all humanity. Production team, can you bear the responsibility?"

"There's no use saying that. The production team thinks it can keep things safe. Sigh, at the end of the day, our national strength just can't match theirs. If our motherland were strong, would the Ten Conglomerates dare do this?"

After the tiger got up, it first looked around.

At the same time, not far away, a staff member hidden in the shadows pulled the trigger of a silenced air gun, aiming at the tiger.

The plastic pellet brushed past the tiger, instantly putting it on edge.

Immediately afterward, another staff member deliberately made a noise in Jiang Ye's direction, drawing the tiger's attention over there.

As expected, under the production team's careful arrangements.

The tiger let out a roar toward Jiang Ye that shook the heavens.

"Roar!!"

Seeing the tiger roar, the viewers quickly turned their attention to the right half of the screen to see how Jiang Ye would react.

Only, inside the library.

To everyone's surprise, Jiang Ye was completely immersed in the world of academia and wasn't roused by the roar at all.

"Holy shit, is this for real? Is he putting on an act? He didn't even react to that? But why did the plane crash wake him up before?"

"Is he really that absorbed in studying? But who the fuck studies like that? He's a hundred times faster than someone reading ten lines at a glance. Is this a joke?"

"If he really is absorbed in studying, then it makes sense that he wasn't startled awake. After all, a tiger's roar is hundreds of times lower in decibels than the noise of a plane crash."

Backstage, chief director William was utterly baffled.

First of all, he certainly didn't believe Jiang Ye was studying.

So why hadn't he reacted when he heard the tiger?

Chief director William watched the livestream, frowning in thought.

Could he really know he was taking part in a show?