Ye Jin

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Ye Jin lost his parents in a car accident during childhood and entered an orphanage. He grew up facing poverty and disdain, eventually studying architecture at an ordinary first-tier university. Shortly before graduation, he disappeared during a school-organized architectural study trip to John Country. His school contacted the local embassy, but his whereabouts remained unknown until he appeared in the worldwide broadcast of Humanity’s Future 2.

Officials investigating his selection concluded that he was an ordinary person who had happened to meet the program’s conditions while overseas, rather than someone planted by a hostile party. Nevertheless, public exposure of his background prompted demands for his replacement, disclosure of his private accounts, and donation of most of his reported US$10 million compensation 2.

He was the first observer to awaken. His memories stopped during the architectural trip, and he initially wondered whether someone had brought him home for treatment. The production team used his tampered phone and fabricated news to convince him that humanity had emigrated from Blue Water Planet, leaving him behind before an alien invasion expected in one hundred days 3 4 5.

Appearance

• Face: Handsome, with features described as increasingly attractive upon closer inspection 34.
• Build: Lean and muscular, with eight clearly defined abdominal muscles 3.
• Weight: More than 130 jin during his cliff ascent 41.
• Notable outfit: A fiery-red wingsuit worn during his flight from Tainan Mountain 11.

Personality

Ye Jin is deeply affected by abandonment but refuses to surrender to it. Believing himself alone on the planet revives the loneliness of his childhood; after struggling with despair, he resolves to defend Blue Water Planet rather than destroy or loot his surroundings. His desire to reach the mainland also includes the hope that other people might have remained behind 5 17.

His extreme challenges combine a taste for danger with deliberate preparation. During the Twin Rocks flight, he explicitly wants to survive rather than commit suicide, using detailed calculations to choose his approach. He later increases the danger of his climb to accelerate calorie consumption, treating physical risk as a means of gaining Talent Points 13 37.

He continues to observe ordinary courtesies despite believing society has disappeared. He pays for supplies and his vehicle, feeds hotel goldfish, and returns a shared electric scooter to its designated location. His work ethic is similarly persistent: after completing the climb, he cooks dinner and returns to the library instead of resting 6 18 42.

Abilities & Skills

Talent Point System

Ye Jin uses a system that converts sufficiently intense calorie expenditure into Talent Points, which can purchase skills and knowledge 6 27.

• Rapid skill acquisition: Instructional videos can provide the basis for purchasing master-level athletic skills 6 34.
• Book learning: Briefly viewing a book’s contents is sufficient to trigger the learning mechanism; purchasing it supplies clear, detailed knowledge 26 30.
• Mental exertion: His highly concentrated driving burns 500 calories in twenty minutes and earns 500 points, despite involving little conventional exercise 9.
• Intensity requirement: Low-intensity activity such as walking does not generate Talent Points merely because it burns calories 27.
• Credit: His first advance purchase grants a 10,000-point credit limit. The system warns of consequences for failing to repay within thirty days without specifying them 27.

Human Body Shackles

Breaking the Human Body Shackles improves Ye Jin’s physical capabilities and supports his progression toward a Galactic New Human 14 38.

• After the first breakthrough, he notices substantially better stamina 33.
• His increased strength and balance allow him to maintain unusual positions against a cliff in strong wind 38.
• During the climb, he recovers from arm fatigue within a few minutes 39.
• The second breakthrough replenishes his mental energy, allowing him to continue studying without feeling fatigued 43.
• His documented progress reaches 20%, not the 100% transformation threshold 14 42.

Driving

His master-level skill supplies fully assimilated muscle memory and precise vehicle control 8.

• Executes an S-shaped drift at approximately 150 km/h, passing another vehicle with less than five centimeters of clearance 7.
• Pushes a heavily used Wuling Hongguang to approximately 200 km/h and drives it up an unfinished mountain road 7 8.
• Navigates obstacles with composure, drawing recognition from professional drivers who doubt they could reproduce the feat under the same conditions 7 8.

Wingsuit Flying

Ye Jin combines master-level flight control with rapid calculations of wind, humidity, temperature, air pressure, and body position 11 13.

• Exceeds 210 km/h during his descent 12.
• Rotates approximately 60 degrees to pass sideways through the Twin Rocks, whose opening is less than two meters wide 13.
• Weaves between city buildings before deploying his parachute at an altitude of thirty meters and landing successfully 13.
• Uses lung capacity developed through childhood swimming to regulate his breathing without an oxygen tank 12.
• The low-altitude landing strains his legs, requiring recovery exercises afterward 14.

Free Solo Climbing

His climbing combines master-level technique, enhanced physical ability, and extensive mental simulation of routes 34 36.

• Selects efficient holds and coordinates breathing with movement to minimize wasted effort 35 39.
• Performs a cliffside flip and negotiates a hold with room for only one finger 37 38.
• Pulls himself upward using only his arms where footholds are unavailable 41.
• Uses two climbing daggers to negotiate the final near-featureless rock face 41.
• Climbs without ropes or protective equipment; a lost grip or balance could still be fatal 35 37.

Cooking and Knife Work

After mastering five cookbooks, Ye Jin demonstrates precise carving, ingredient preparation, and recipe execution 18 19 21.

• Carves a carrot sculpture that impresses viewers, then shreds it because he considers it only a side ingredient 19 20.
• Uses rapid, rhythmic chopping that attracts attention even from musicians 20.
• Prepares Dongpo pork, mao xue wang, and water-boiled live fish with refined technique and improved recipes 21.
• Later makes Yanjing noodles with soybean paste for dinner 42.

Computing and Warship Development

Ye Jin’s purchased computer knowledge contributes directly to the simulated Shanhai rather than merely providing memorized text 29.

• Recites The Engines of Logic word for word and accurately reproduces essential passages from twelve computer books 32.
• Studies programming, code quality, refactoring, computer systems, and regular expressions to develop the command section 43.
• Writes an information-transmission function using converted advanced-civilization code. Contemporary programmers mistake it for meaningless text because they cannot understand its underlying system 50.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Wuling Hongguang — A tenth-hand vehicle purchased for 5,300 yuan; used for his high-speed drives and initially left on Tainan Mountain after his flight 6 14.
• Fiery-red wingsuit and parachute — Purchased for his mountain flight and low-altitude landing 6 11 13.
• Climbing shoes and two climbing daggers — Equipment used during his unprotected cliff ascent 35 41.
• Shared electric scooter — Used for travel between the hotel, harbor, library, and mountain; later transported back in his vehicle and returned 24 32 42.
• Phone — Tampered with by the production team to deliver the false account of humanity’s departure; also used by Ye Jin to photograph the sunset 3 4 42.
• Shanhai blueprint and simulation — A system-provided design for a small Deep Sea Civilization star-cruising warship, rated firepower grade A and carrying no more than one hundred people. Its seven sections contain more than ten thousand foundational knowledge points in total. The simulation is not a completed physical ship 27 28.

Relationships

• Parents — Both died in a car accident when he was young, leading to his upbringing in an orphanage 2.
• Li Hu — Author of the interstellar cruiser theory book that unlocks Ye Jin’s access to the Shanhai blueprint. Ye Jin wants to meet him; Li Hu watches the broadcast and regards Ye Jin as an idol and kindred spirit 27.
• Kelis — World-class wingsuit athlete impressed by Ye Jin’s technique. Offers to invite him onto his team if he succeeds at passing through the Twin Rocks 11 12.
• Brian — Broadcast host who repeatedly frames Ye Jin’s reading and programming negatively. Ye Jin remains unaware of the commentary 26 30 50.
• Dong Wending — Defends Ye Jin during the ranking debate and votes for him 46.
• Nine Domains Nation’s chief decision-maker — Protects Ye Jin’s interests in disputes over scoring and insists that Ye Jin should decide for himself whether to accept the project’s proposed control chip 46 48.
• Andrew — Fellow observer and rival for first place in the representatives’ disputed vote 46.

Story Role / Major Arcs

The “Last Human” Scenario

• Ye Jin’s resolve to protect the planet contrasts with the destructive, escapist, or despairing reactions of the other observers, drawing a large share of the program’s audience 5.
• His unfamiliar surroundings briefly make him suspect a parallel world, but he sets the doubt aside. The hosts assure viewers that the replicated city and the program’s countermeasures will prevent premature exposure 9.
• He identifies his system as his principal advantage against the supposed cosmic invaders and seeks strategic weapons on the mainland 17 24.

Escape Planning and the Interstellar Blueprint

• At the harbor, he finds only small oar-powered fishing boats and a badly damaged ocean liner. He rejects repairing the liner and considers reinforcing and combining fishing boats instead 24 25.
• His search for shipbuilding knowledge leads to Li Hu’s cruiser theory book, redirecting his efforts toward constructing an interstellar warship 25 26 27.
• The blueprint’s extensive knowledge requirements create a cycle of intense exercise to earn Talent Points and library study to develop the ship 27 32 34 42.

Public Challenges and Recognition

• Western chefs turn his private lunch preparation into an online culinary challenge without his knowledge. His knife work and cooking impress the audience, while attempts to discredit him provoke a backlash against the challengers and Michelin restaurants 18 20 21 23.
• Accusations that he is merely pretending to read collapse when viewers verify his recitations against the original books 30 32.
• His programming attracts renewed ridicule despite his earlier demonstrations; he completes the transmission function while experts still dismiss the code as gibberish 50.

The God-Making Project

• An eighteen-vote ranking gives Andrew nine votes and Ye Jin four, but Nine Domains Nation’s leader vetoes the outcome, leaving the result invalid 46.
• The program’s hidden purpose is revealed to the decision-makers: selecting a person compatible with alien gene serum and creating a controllable “god” through an implanted chip 48.
• Nine Domains Nation’s chief decision-maker demands respect for Ye Jin’s performance and personal choice. The nations agree to revise the scoring system; Ye Jin is not shown learning the project’s true purpose 48.