Chapter 45

Charlie nodded. "At this point, no matter what, even if he wasn't one before, he is now!"

"What should we do next?" William asked.

Charlie pondered for a few seconds, then let out a long sigh.

"I'll ask the higher-ups. It's probably too late to replace him now, and even if we did, the meaning of the show would be greatly diminished. It wouldn't achieve its purpose at all."

Meanwhile.

At a special department in Dragon Country.

Zhang Puze was also busy dealing with Jiang Ye's sudden, abnormal display.

Soon, his assistant came over with an armful of documents. "I checked with the special forces in all the major military regions and the special departments under national security. None of them have anyone named Jiang Ye."

"None of his connections are involved either—not his relatives, friends, classmates, close friends, or childhood friends."

Zhang Puze flipped through the documents. "Then did he acquire those skills after going abroad?"

The assistant said quietly, "Minister, could he have joined some special organization overseas and undergone special military training?"

The assistant's speculation made Zhang Puze pause. After a long silence, he said, "We can't rule out that possibility."

In the island city.

Jiang Ye found a cart in a workshop behind the hotel, then put some effort into dragging the tiger onto it.

Then he hauled the tiger all the way to the hotel.

The viewers, who had only just recovered from their shock, stared in astonishment again.

"Holy crap, is he going to eat tiger meat? Can he cook too?"

"Damn, that's tiger meat! Tigers are a first-class nationally protected animal. I'm so jealous. I wonder if he eats tiger penis. If he doesn't, he can save it and bring it back for me. I want to give my body a boost."

"You think you'd get a share? Even if he brought it back, you'd be breaking the law the moment you took a bite. The country forbids eating tiger meat, unless you go abroad to eat it."

"I'm crying with envy."

"Envy +1."

Jiang Ye labored to get the tiger into the back of the Hilton Hotel, then took a knife and began skinning it and cutting off the meat.

Seeing the bloody scene, the production team hurriedly slapped a mosaic over it.

It took Jiang Ye a full half hour to butcher the tiger.

Then he found the hotel's freezer and made several trips to put the tiger meat inside.

He kept only a piece of tiger meat half the size of a washbasin for lunch.

"How many days can the freezer keep running? Why go to all that trouble to put it in there?"

"The Hilton Hotel should have a backup generator, right? I just don't know if there's any diesel."

The public relations department of the Hilton Hotel's global chain naturally wouldn't pass up such a good chance to advertise. It soon released a statement saying that every hotel had a generator on standby, fully stocked with diesel.

The viewers also had their eyes opened by the way Jiang Ye cooked the tiger meat.

"Everyone else pan-fries beef steak, but good lord, God Jiang went straight for tiger steak."

"That's not so strange. People studying abroad, aside from second-generation rich kids, usually know how to do some simple Western cooking, right?"

Ten minutes later, Jiang Ye was quite satisfied with the result.

A tiger steak cooked nine-tenths through.

He dipped it in some sauce, and once he took the first bite, he couldn't stop.

Pretty darn good!

He ate for over ten minutes, and the viewers outside drooled for just as long.

[Host, if you eat tiger meat every day, the alert period for your daily Ultimate Learning State can be extended to three hours.]

The system's sudden notification in his mind made Jiang Ye pause, then his face lit up with wild joy.

[What about today?] he asked impatiently.

[Eating tiger meat for lunch adds thirty minutes. If you also eat tiger meat for dinner, another thirty minutes will be added.]

[Very good!]

That meant he had another hour of Ultimate Learning State today.

All at once, he ate with even greater relish.

Afterward, when Jiang Ye walked out of the hotel, he could clearly feel that his physical strength and energy had both increased considerably.

"He's not going back to the library again, is he?"

"If he goes back to the library, I'm taking a nap."

"Don't rush. From the direction he's going, it doesn't look like he's headed to the university library or the city library. I just don't know what he's going to do!"

They noticed that Jiang Ye's route was clearly not leading to the library, and that he was even heading in the exact opposite direction from the university.

In an instant, the anticipation of viewers around the world shot through the roof.

Everyone was curious about what this genius contestant would do.

After all, what ordinary people would do had already been shown by the other five contestants.

They hoped the genius would do something a little different.

The midday sun was a little scorching. Jiang Ye found a hat and put it on, then found a bicycle and got on it, picking up considerable speed.

Chapter 45: Repairing the Power Station. Did That Man Have a Learning Ability? (Extra Chapter)

Under the gaze of countless viewers.

Jiang Ye rode into Kedar Industrial Park.

Looking at the silent factories on either side, a faint smile appeared at the corners of Jiang Ye's mouth.

When he had looked at the architectural plans, he had paid particular attention to this: almost all the factories in the industrial park could be put to use, as long as the equipment inside was modified a little.

Jiang Ye parked the bicycle in front of a factory, then went inside specifically to take a look around.