Chapter Summaries

After leaving the Ultimate Learning State, Jiang Ye took the system’s advice to find a stable energy supply and choose a site for a spaceship construction base. He identified renewable power stations as the best options and began assessing locations for the base.

• William learned that experts thought Jiang Ye was too absorbed in his work to react to the tiger’s roar, and he grew angry over the contestant’s behavior.
• Jiang Ye finished 43 minutes in the Ultimate Learning State after studying most specialized areas of physics.
• Jiang Ye asked the system what to do outside his study time, and it advised him to locate nearby power stations and plan a spaceship construction base.
• Jiang Ye found city planning documents in the library and went to retrieve them.
• Jiang Ye reviewed blueprints showing 37 power stations in the island city, ruled out waste-incineration plants, and favored solar, wind, and hydroelectric stations.

Jiang Ye chose the Kedar Industrial Zone as a potential construction site and headed out to eat before going there. Meanwhile, a tiger escaped the production crew’s control and began heading toward Jiang Ye’s route, prompting alarm among viewers and the crew.

• Jiang Ye identified the Kedar Industrial Zone and set off southwest after deciding to get food at a nearby Hilton first.
• A tiger entered a pet shop after hearing caged dogs barking, then forced open one cage and killed a poodle before pursuing two others.
• Viewers recognized that Jiang Ye and the tiger appeared to be approaching one another and flooded the international livestream with panicked comments.
• Chief director William ordered the crew to tranquilize the tiger, while the production crew stalled urgent calls from Zhang Puze and the International Mathematical Union.

Jiang Ye encountered a tiger blocking his route to the Kedar Industrial Zone, while the production team and its superiors hesitated over whether to tranquilize it. The system revealed a Super Potential Activation State that could help him face the tiger, and Jiang Ye waited for it to finish eating before acting.

• The production team debated whether to tranquilize the tiger, escalating the decision from staff to Chief Director William and Representative Charlie.
• Jiang Ye hid behind a building and assessed the tiger, deciding that avoiding it would cost him hours and asking the system for advice.
• The system told Jiang Ye he could activate a ten-minute Super Potential Activation State, which would greatly enhance his physical abilities but leave him weak afterward.
• The system advised Jiang Ye to strike once the tiger had eaten its fill, and he agreed to wait while staying cautious.
• Viewers argued over Jiang Ye's decision to remain near the tiger, while people online criticized him for not taking a detour.

Jiang Ye activated his enhanced abilities and killed a charging tiger with six precise pistol shots, astonishing viewers worldwide. The production team suspected he was a Dragon Country agent, while Jiang Ye prepared to bring the tiger back to the hotel.

• Jiang Ye activated the Super Potential Activation State and shot the charging tiger six times, killing it.
• Jiang Ye reloaded his pistol and considered how to get the tiger into the hotel for a meal.
• Viewers and prominent observers reacted with shock as Chen Danni reported that all six shots had hit the tiger.
• William complained that Jiang Ye’s apparent special-forces-level skills undermined the show’s goals.
• Charlie suggested Jiang Ye might be an agent sent by Dragon Country, and William agreed.

Jiang Ye butchered a tiger and discovered that eating its meat extended his daily Ultimate Learning State, then rode into Kedar Industrial Park to inspect its factories. He entered one factory, believing its equipment could be adapted for use.

• Zhang Puze’s assistant reported that no special forces or security departments had records of Jiang Ye or his connections, and Zhang Puze considered whether Jiang Ye had trained overseas.
• Jiang Ye hauled the tiger to the Hilton Hotel, butchered it, stored most of its meat in the freezer, and cooked himself a tiger steak.
• The system told Jiang Ye that eating tiger meat extended his Ultimate Learning State, and he learned that lunch and dinner could add an hour to that day’s alert period.
• Jiang Ye left the hotel, rode a bicycle away from the libraries, and headed toward Kedar Industrial Park.
• Jiang Ye parked outside a factory and went inside to inspect its equipment.

Jiang Ye went to an industrial solar power station and studied its equipment before attempting repairs, while viewers debated his motives and suspected he had an extraordinary learning ability. The chapter ended with him working on the machines, leaving the outcome of the repairs unknown.

• Jiang Ye found that the industrial district had lost power and headed to a nearby solar photovoltaic power station.
• Jiang Ye inspected the workshop and activated the Super Learning State to study documents about the machinery.
• Viewers around the world debated Jiang Ye's rapid learning, and a scientist argued that an extraordinary learning talent was the only plausible explanation.
• Jiang Ye finished studying, fetched a toolbox, and began repairing the machines.
• Viewers eagerly awaited the result, while some questioned why they were excited about Jiang Ye's personal ability.

As Jiang Ye neared the end of repairing the machine, governments and the Ten Conglomerates began searching for hidden superpowered people. Dragon Country prepared to protect Jiang Ye and deter attacks, while viewers waited to see whether the repair would prove supernatural powers existed.

• Zhang Puze ordered Dragon Country to search for superpowered people, enforce secrecy, and protect Jiang Ye from the Ten Conglomerates.
• Zhang Puze told his team that Jiang Ye might possess two supernatural powers and was invaluable to the country.
• Zhang Puze distributed a strategy proposing that Dragon Country stage a superpower revelation involving foreigners to deter the Ten Conglomerates from targeting Jiang Ye.
• Dragon Country and other countries began taking action as global tensions grew.
• Jiang Ye continued working on the final machine, and viewers estimated he would finish in about seven minutes.

Jiang Ye successfully started the repaired machines, convincing viewers worldwide that he had a supernatural learning ability. The production team decided to keep him on the show for profit and leverage, while a report revealed Dragon Country had taken in a suspected white ability user.

• Jiang Ye powered on the machines, and their indicator lights came on as the international livestream audience erupted.
• William asked Charlie whether they should remove Jiang Ye from the show, but Charlie argued they should keep him alive and use his popularity and significance to recover their investment.
• Charlie received a report that Dragon Country had found and taken away a suspected white ability user.
• Charlie left to discuss matters with the boss and told William not to make plans for the production team.
• The chapter described the Kedar Industrial Zone’s four power stations: two hydroelectric, one solar, and one wind-powered.

After repairing the power stations and checking the factories, Jiang Ye learned that building a spaceship would require an intermediate AI, robots, and advanced materials. He began studying artificial intelligence, prompting viewers to fear he might build Skynet, while experts argued that rapid learning did not equal rapid innovation.

• Jiang Ye repaired a solar, a wind, and two hydroelectric power stations, then confirmed the factories could operate again.
• Jiang Ye asked the system how to begin building a spaceship, and it told him to program an intermediate AI, build robots, and study materials science.
• After dinner, Jiang Ye’s learning states lasted longer, so he rode to the university library to study artificial intelligence.
• Jiang Ye activated his Ultimate Learning State and began studying computational linguistics, alarming viewers who suspected he planned to build robots.
• Artificial intelligence experts reassured viewers that Jiang Ye’s learning ability would not let him innovate or develop technology at extraordinary speed.

Jiang Ye mastered programming and wrote the core code for an intermediate artificial intelligence while experts around the world failed to copy or understand it. The production team prepared to cut off the island city’s outside connections, and Jiang Ye’s AI remained unfinished.

• Carlos and other mathematicians defended Jiang Ye’s abilities, arguing that his learning talent strengthened his logical thinking and mental processing.
• The production team warned William that a powerful artificial intelligence could expose the people hiding outside the island, and the Ten Conglomerates ordered undersea cables severed and two-thirds of the commercial satellites shut down.
• Jiang Ye mastered the programming framework and tools in twenty minutes, then began copying code displayed by the system on his left retina.
• Experts at internet companies tried to copy Jiang Ye’s code but could not keep up or understand it, and one expert explained that Jiang Ye had solved the field’s problems in his head before writing the code.
• Jiang Ye finished the core code for an intermediate artificial intelligence, which followed a human-like thinking and acting approach rather than the rational approach favored by current research.