Chapter 41

"Shit, if that's really the case, he could actually win an Oscar. Fuck!"

Just then, the assistant hurried in with a report.

"Director, the psychology expert panel concluded that Jiang Ye was very likely too absorbed to be startled awake by the roar. They put the probability at 98%!"

William stared at the report as though he had seen a ghost.

But when he saw that the psychologist who had issued the report was Tom, one of the Sam Empire's top Harvard professors, he swallowed his words.

"Whether he's really studying or not, one thing's certain: he's deeply absorbed in what he's doing right now, just like when we thought he'd lost his mind before."

Just then, Tom walked in and spoke to William.

"Has he gone mad again? Isn't there a saying that geniuses are often madmen?" William asked in surprise.

"We can't rule out that possibility," Tom replied gravely.

"Shit!" William immediately looked deeply irritated.

"What the hell is he doing? Why did we pick someone like him? Why? Who picked him in the first place? Fire them! Fire them, and never hire them again!"

The assistant and Professor Tom exchanged a glance, then quietly slipped out of the room.

They understood Chief Director William perfectly well. Anyone planning a show who encountered a contestant who refused to play by the rules like this would be driven mad.

While the production team was still thinking of a countermeasure,

and while viewers around the world were guessing whether the team would have the tiger roar again or bring in a plane to crash,

inside the library,

43 minutes quickly passed.

At the system's reminder, Jiang Ye exited the Ultimate Learning State.

Chapter 41: Choosing a Site for the Spaceship Construction Base (On My Knees Begging for All Kinds of Support)

During those 43 minutes in the Ultimate Learning State, Jiang Ye had covered most of the specialized fields under the broad category of physics.

Tomorrow, he expected to spend another ten minutes studying physics, which would allow him to master all the latest cutting-edge knowledge in the field.

But how should he spend his time after studying?

[System, what should I do outside the two hours of study time?]

Jiang Ye's own thought was that he should perhaps build a safe place, preferably something like a basement, to guard against threats from the sky, such as artificial satellites.

Still, to be safe, it was better to ask the system.

[The host is advised to locate nearby power stations. Before formally beginning construction of the spaceship, a stable energy supply system is essential.]

[At the same time, the host may plan and select a suitable location for the spaceship construction base.]

Jiang Ye saw the light. That really was the case.

Today was the second day since humanity had suddenly disappeared.

He didn't know exactly how many more days the power stations could last without maintenance, but presumably it wouldn't be long.

There was also the matter of choosing a site for the spaceship construction base.

Building it from the ground up was impossible. The best option was to retrofit some existing industrial facilities.

After thinking it over for a while, Jiang Ye sat back down at the computer and opened the library's book catalog.

As he scanned it, he quickly found the documents he wanted.

A journal on the city's architectural planning and related types of blueprints.

They were in the third row of section B4.

After noting down their location, Jiang Ye immediately got up and headed upstairs.

In the international livestream,

host Chen Danni said, "Although the plan to disrupt him with the tiger's roar failed, contestant Jiang Ye unexpectedly stopped his crazy behavior of browsing websites."

"At this moment, he seems to be going to look for some books and documents. However, whatever the case, staying in the library all the time goes against the production team's original intentions and the viewers' expectations. Next, we'll soon arrange for the tiger to roar once more."

"That will alert him and make sure he maintains a sufficient sense of danger."

In the livestream chat:

"I'm pretty curious what he's going to do."

"Who cares what he's going to do? Whatever it is, as long as he's in the library, he's bound to be burying himself in academic research."

"That's right, he's a real bookworm. Why won't the production team replace him? He's the most influential mathematician in the world today, after all!"

"One of them, you arrogant Shina. He's one of the most influential mathematicians. There are still no definitive conclusions on the other six Millennium Problems."

"You little Jap, fuck your mother, it's only a matter of time! And here's another matter of time: sooner or later, we'll make your Neon Country mathematicians get on their knees and call God Jiang 'Daddy'!"

"Haha, that's right! If you've got the guts, tell your mathematicians not to study the mathematical results our God Jiang worked out!"

"Baka, you Shina pigs, you all deserve to die!"

Near Jiang Ye's university, the production team was making arrangements for the tiger to let out a second roar.

Meanwhile, inside the library,

Jiang Ye was walking out while looking through several architectural planning blueprints.

On the blueprints, the first thing he focused on was the information about power stations.

There were 37 power stations of various kinds in the island city, most of them waste-incineration power stations.

A smaller number were solar photovoltaic, wind, and hydroelectric power stations, among others.

Jiang Ye immediately ruled out the waste-incineration power stations first.

After all, they required manpower for operations such as generating and transporting waste.

The most suitable options were solar photovoltaic, wind, and hydroelectric power stations. Compared with waste-incineration power stations, they still needed people to operate them, but not as many.

When the time came, the system should be able to provide the relevant technology to modify them and automate their power generation.

The next step, then, was to choose a site for the spaceship construction base.