Mom Asked Why I Was Watching the Livestream on My Knees!

Although some people heard what he said, they thought nothing of it.

They watched him keep saying those inexplicable things out the window.

Yet he did not look focused.

There was a smile in his eyes, as though he were speaking casually.

Those who couldn't understand him instantly went into mockery mode.

"Has Ye Jin gone mad? What is he even saying?"

"Probably. Being alone drove him mad. Looks like reading really can destroy human nature and drive a person completely insane. Good thing I skipped school from a young age."

"I knew it. He only started reading on a whim. Did he get anything out of it? Not a thing!"

Waves of mocking comments and bullet chats swept past.

Suddenly, several big shots dissed them.

"Shut up, you ignorant, ugly people."

"Do you know what he's saying? You don't understand at all. Those words are from The Engines of Logic."

"Every passage is in order, and every word he says is almost identical to the original. He hasn't even paused in the wrong places."

The people who had just mocked him were instantly stunned.

How was that possible?

How could he get everything right from such a boring book?

Even a genius couldn't have a photographic memory like that, without getting a single word wrong.

They refused to believe it.

They began searching for the book on their phones.

Every time Ye Jin said a sentence, they checked it against the text.

But the final result sent chills down their spines. Every sentence Ye Jin spoke matched the original text in the book, word for word.

What kind of talent and memory was that?

Was there really someone in this world who was such an all-rounder?

Why hadn't a genius like that been born in their country?

Why wasn't it them?

Ye Jin spoke the last sentence.

He stretched.

Sure enough, being alone for too long could make a person gloomy.

But shouting like that made him feel much better.

His spirits instantly lifted quite a bit.

So he sat back down, pulled another book, Programming Pearls, off the shelf, and began reading.

He had to make good use of his time.

After all, he was going to face a life-or-death crisis.

What he faced was the survival of his home planet.

He couldn't afford the slightest carelessness.

He had to seize every moment. More time meant a greater chance of victory.

The viewers beyond the screen were so amazed by his performance that they prostrated themselves in admiration.

Was he a god?

That astonishing memory!

If he took the college entrance exam, wouldn't he be ready after reading the textbooks once?

Those who had just claimed he had no respect for knowledge and clamored for him to apologize to the original author

were stunned too.

With their memory, they might have been able to do roughly the same.

But Ye Jin had only flipped through it once.

Yet this year, he had actually memorized it all, word for word.

Where had this monster come from?

Their faces were being slapped with a resounding smack.

They were practically swollen from the beating.

But they were not convinced in the slightest.

"It must be a coincidence!"

They made excuses for themselves in their hearts.

If it had been anyone else, they would have used their authority in academia to force that person to bow their head and apologize long ago.

But now, not only could they not do that, their reputations in their later years were also at risk.

They refused to believe that such a monstrous person existed in this world. It all had to be a coincidence.

Ye Jin turned the pages faster and faster.

He glanced over each page only a few times before turning it.

The fourth book was done.

After finishing the fourth, he lit up another point of light.

Immediately afterward, he took out the fifth.

A few minutes later, he finished that one too.

The sixth book...

The seventh book...

The eighth book...

The ninth book...

The tenth book...

The eleventh book...

The twelfth book...

By the time he finished the twelfth book, nearly two hours had passed.

That meant that from the time he started the first book until he finished the twelfth,

apart from venting his frustration halfway through,

he hadn't taken a break at all.

He hadn't even glanced at his phone.

He had kept going for a full two hours.

Viewers from countries all over the world went from disdain to seriousness, then to admiration, and finally to utter reverence.

If he had been reading novels for two hours, they could have accepted it.

But he had been reading computer books for a full two hours.

They all had the same question.

How had Ye Jin managed to keep going?

Was he really human?

Was he sure he had a human brain in his head, not a computer brain?

Otherwise, how could he endure such a boring bombardment of information?

"Mom asked why I was watching the livestream on my knees. I could only tell him the guy in the livestream was too damn awesome. In the end, Mom got on her knees and watched with me."

"How did Ye Jin do it?"

"Is this the terrifying learning ability of the people of the Nine Domains Nation? He concentrated on computer books for two hours. If it were me, I couldn't last two minutes."

"My God Ye is freaking awesome!"

"He's absolutely invincible!"

"He's so damn awesome he could explode!"

Although Ye Jin's performance was flawless, there were still a few discordant voices.

"What's the use of reading so many books? He just rushed through them anyway. What's so impressive about that? I could do it too."

"Right! If he's so capable, let's see him recite them all!"

The moment they finished speaking,

Ye Jin, as though he had heard their voices,

walked over to the window.

Watching the slanting shadows of the trees,

he slowly began to speak...

"The Art of Unix Programming"!

"Introduction to Computer Science"!

"Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles"!

"Fundamentals of Data Structures"!

"Foundations of Algorithms"!

There was absolute composure in Ye Jin's eyes.

Everything was in his mind.

Every passage he spoke was the essence of those twelve books.

Everyone discovered an even more terrifying fact.

Every passage Ye Jin spoke came in the same order as he had read it.

And every passage was the essence of the essence.

Without a single word wrong.

They were practically ready to fall to their knees.

What terrifying memory and comprehension!

He had simply flipped through the books once, yet he could recite them word for word, and everything he recited was the essence of the essence, the core of each book.

This was on par with hell-level difficulty!

Countless eyes filled with shock!

What kind of monster was he?

There were people with freakish memories, but a freak like him was one of a kind.

And the most terrifying thing was his unparalleled comprehension.

Why had such a terrifying person only attended an ordinary first-tier university?

With such memory and comprehension,

even the world-leading Harvard University could not accommodate this great Buddha.

They were utterly baffled.

By the end, who knew how many people had begun watching the livestream on their knees!

He was too damn awesome!

So awesome he could explode!

He was a legendary figure!

He was bound to leave a bold, colorful stroke in human history!

Ye Jin had no idea what a sensation his attempt to relax had just caused.

To him, it was just an utterly ordinary little thing.

What he cared about

was how many points of light on the battleship had lit up.

Twelve books

had lit up twenty points of light.

The highest number lit by a single book was three!

He had originally wanted to stay longer.

But he actually had no Talent Points left.

He even owed ten thousand.

He was simply drowning in debt.

He packed up his things, washed the quilt, and threw the trash into the bin.

He walked out the door and got on his electric bike.

He felt it was more convenient to have his own vehicle.

Although everyone in the world had disappeared, and it would have been fine for him to drive any luxury car he pleased,

he... still had a vehicle up on the mountain!

He had to go get it back first!

And while he was at it... earn some Talent Points!

Thanks to the big shots Yongheng and Zongsong for the 300-book-coin tips, and thanks to the big shot ⊙∈xxx (I spent five minutes looking for the name and really couldn't type it) for the 100-book-coin tip.

Also, big shots, if you have any recommendation tickets left, could you spare a few? Thanks, big shots!