Jiang Ye

Biodata

Power Progression

Jiang Ye advances through system-assisted enhancement states and technical mastery rather than named cultivation realms.

Background and History

Life Before the Broadcast

Jiang Ye had lived abroad for nearly a year as a university student. He had a small social circle, few friends, and no close confidants, but enjoyed his quiet, uneventful routine. Dragon Country’s investigation found nothing exceptional in his family background, academic record, or social connections 2 3.

The Ten Conglomerates selected him as one of six contestants for Racial Insight. Its premise placed each contestant in a separate evacuated island city, making them believe humanity had suddenly disappeared. Jiang Ye was kept uninformed through manipulated information, concealed cameras, and carefully staged surroundings. The organizers intended his behavior to undermine Dragon Country’s national and cultural confidence 1 2 3.

Apparent Disappearance of Humanity

Jiang Ye was the first contestant to wake. After breakfast, he noticed the unnatural silence outside and investigated a crashed car and an unlocked neighboring house. Unfinished food, a running faucet, deserted streets, unanswered calls, and apparently inactive social media led him to suspect that humanity had vanished 2 3 4.

The Survival Assistance System then activated and warned that a meteorite roughly the size of Neon Country’s territory would strike Earth in one month. After rejecting nuclear weapons as an effective solution, it proposed helping him build a spaceship. Jiang Ye accepted the plan and went to a library to acquire the knowledge needed to implement its technology 5 6 7.

Mathematics and Humanity’s Legacy

The system directed Jiang Ye to begin with mathematics and assigned ten major problems as a measure of his progress. His rapid reading initially convinced many viewers that he had suffered a mental breakdown, but his proofs soon attracted mathematicians worldwide 8 9 10.

After proving Zhou’s Conjecture, the Beal Conjecture, and Goldbach’s Conjecture, Jiang Ye decided that escaping alone was insufficient. Believing himself humanity’s last remaining member, he felt responsible for preserving evidence of its highest intellectual achievements for a future intelligent civilization. He recorded mathematical presentations for that imagined audience, unknowingly broadcasting them to the present world 23 25 26 27.

Interference and Protection

His achievements frustrated the show’s organizers, who wanted survival spectacle rather than mathematical breakthroughs. The Ten Conglomerates refused to replace him and later sought to steer him away from mathematics while turning public opinion against him. Accusations that he was a government-backed fraud spread across domestic and international platforms 13 29 31.

Dragon Country officials attempted to secure his return, while the International Mathematical Union advocated keeping him on the program without interference. When the production team brought a tiger near his university, mathematicians and other scientists successfully pressured the organizers to sedate it. The tiger was subsequently awakened in another attempt to disrupt his studies 28 30 34 40.

Preparing the Spaceship Base

After completing the mathematics assessment, Jiang Ye studied physics and began planning a construction base. He chose to reuse existing industrial facilities and prioritized renewable power stations that would require comparatively little human labor 39 40 41.

He later encountered the tiger and killed it using the Super Potential Activation State. After eating its meat and gaining additional study time, he investigated Kedar Industrial Park, repaired four power stations, and confirmed that the factories could operate again. By the evening of the second day, he had selected his construction site and begun the next phase: learning to program an intermediate artificial intelligence that would support robot construction 44 45 49 50.

Appearance

• Hair: Black 1.
• Eyes: Black 1.
• Age and presentation: Described as a young man; twenty years old when the broadcast begins 1 10.

Personality

Jiang Ye prefers a quiet life and is comfortable with a limited social circle. When confronted with the apparent disappearance of humanity, he investigates before settling on an explanation, testing phone calls, online activity, and physical evidence. Even after forming a theory, he recognizes that its details do not fully make sense 2 4 6.

He is practical and goal-oriented: his study of mathematics serves the larger purpose of understanding spaceship technology, and he asks the system how much knowledge is sufficient rather than pursuing the subject indefinitely. He also plans around fatigue, nutrition, power loss, and personal defense 9 15 29 41.

His survival effort develops into a sense of responsibility toward civilization as a whole. Despite believing that he must leave Earth, he wants future intelligent life to know what humanity achieved and perhaps benefit from its knowledge 23 26.

Abilities and Skills

Survival Assistance System

An internal assistant supplies Jiang Ye with guidance, enhancement states, proof verification, and technology beyond his existing knowledge 6 7 10 50.

• Communicates with him mentally, leaving livestream viewers unaware of their exchanges 7.
• Requires him to acquire enough foundational knowledge to understand and implement its technology 7 39.
• Verifies his mathematical proofs rather than initially providing their solutions 10 35 39.
• Displays artificial intelligence code on his left retina for him to copy into programming software 50.

Super Learning State

This state raises Jiang Ye’s mental capacity to ten times that of an ordinary person, allowing rapid comprehension rather than merely faster reading 8 9.

• Enables mastery of advanced mathematics and technical maintenance documents 9 46.
• Is sufficient for learning how to repair power-station machinery 46.
• At the beginning of the second day, has an eight-hour warning threshold and a ten-hour limit, provided he maintains adequate sleep and nutrition 29.

Ultimate Learning State

This state raises his mental capacity to one hundred times an ordinary person’s and consumes substantially more mental energy than Super Learning State 8.

• Allows him to absorb extensive research literature and work through difficult mathematical problems 18 23.
• Covers most specialized fields of physics during one 43-minute session 41.
• Initially has a two-hour warning threshold and a four-hour limit on the second day 29.
• Shares his available mental-energy reserve with Super Learning State: using either reduces the remaining duration of the other 29 46.
• Can exhaust or overdraw his mental energy. The system shuts it down for safety during his first day; exceeding the stated time limit risks a coma 23 29.

Super Potential Activation State

A temporary physical enhancement increases his bodily capabilities by several to dozens of times, depending on the function 43.

• Enhances strength, explosive power, endurance, speed, agility, jumping, reaction time, and dynamic visual tracking 43.
• Can initially be maintained for only ten minutes 43.
• Makes the world appear to slow down, allowing him to adapt and fire six accurate shots at a charging tiger 44.
• His performance resembles that of an entry-level special-forces soldier, despite official records showing no military training 44 45.

Mathematics

Jiang Ye develops original mathematical methods and completes every problem assigned by the system 9 23 35.

Engineering and Infrastructure

Jiang Ye applies accelerated learning to establish the industrial foundation for spaceship construction 41 49.

• Studies city-planning documents covering 37 power stations 41.
• Selects Kedar Industrial Park because its factories can be adapted with limited equipment modifications 45.
• Repairs one solar photovoltaic station, one wind station, and two hydroelectric stations 49.
• Checks the factories afterward and confirms that their machine tools can operate with restored power 49.

Programming and Artificial Intelligence

After twenty minutes of study, Jiang Ye masters the programming framework, tools, and software needed to transcribe the system’s intermediate-AI code 50.

• The intended AI will support the construction of robots to assist his spaceship project 49.
• Its design follows the direction of thinking and acting like a human, rather than the rational-agent approach described as dominant in contemporary research 50.
• Observing experts cannot copy his work in real time because of his typing speed and the code’s unfamiliar complexity 50.
• The supplied account ends while he is writing the code; a completed AI or spaceship is not yet documented 50.

Equipment and Items

• Police pistol — Obtained for self-defense from a police station; later used to kill the tiger 29 30 44.
• Recording camera — Used to preserve explanations of his proofs for a future intelligent civilization 25 35 39.
• Library computers and academic archives — Uses viXra, arXiv, and bioRxiv to study advanced research 14 15 18.
• City-planning documents and blueprints — Used to locate power stations and assess potential construction sites 41.
• Bicycle — Transportation between the university, hotel, industrial park, and power stations 45 49.
• Tiger meat — Provides nutrition that increases his strength, energy, and available learning-state duration 45 49.

Relationships

• Survival Assistance System — His principal guide and technical partner; supplies the escape plan, enhancement states, and advanced technology 6 8 43 50.
• Zhang Puze — Leads Dragon Country’s special department handling Jiang Ye’s situation; negotiates for his protection and organizes responses to threats against him 3 17 28 47.
• Elder Yang and Elder Wang — Senior mathematicians who recognize his importance. Both initially caution that returning him to ordinary society could expose him to distracting fame and wealth 12 28.
• Pierre — Verifies his early mathematics and later urges intervention when the tiger threatens him 11 34.
• Francis Beal — Confirms his solution to the Beal Conjecture, promises prize money, and praises his dedication to mathematical discovery 19 20.
• Carlos and the International Mathematical Union — Validate his work and advocate for his ability to continue studying without interference 28 29 34.
• The Ten Conglomerates — Organizers of the deception. Seek to damage Dragon Country’s confidence through him, then attempt to reverse the prestige generated by his achievements 3 29.
• William and Charlie — Production figures who monitor and attempt to redirect him. After the tiger incident, they suspect he may be a Dragon Country agent, although the official investigation finds no such connections 40 44 45.

Notable Quotes

“Then there's no time to lose. Let's start now!” 7

“Hello, new intelligent civilization. My name is Jiang Ye. I'm from Dragon Country.” 25

“I am Jiang Ye, a Dragon Country citizen and an insignificant member of humanity. Thank you!” 27