Chapter 110: Awakening Super Brain
Most humans would occasionally feel fired up and full of ambition, but spend most of their time just muddling through life. Over the next three days, aside from going to Instructor Wang to fill out the application form, Yu Xian spent the rest of his time slacking off. All he could say was that slacking off felt good for a moment, and slacking off forever felt good forever.
During that period, Zhang Shou even contacted him to ask whether he wanted to go to Twin West Mountain with him to fight zombies. However, only a few days had passed since the battle with the Xingtian Zombie King. Yu Xian really had no interest in ordinary zombies, so he refused.
Nevertheless, he had to admit that Twin West Mountain was a blessed land in the strangest sense of the word. Zombies kept appearing there one after another.
They had only just dealt with a flying zombie, and now a whole group of hairy zombies had popped up. Qilin had no choice but to issue a group mission with extremely high rewards, which made both Bluebird and Zhang Shou run over to join the excitement.
More than a hundred years ago, Qilin had specially sent a research team to investigate the entire Twin West Mountain area. They had even conducted a detailed underground survey, yet found no human corpses at all. It had seemed as if the zombies appeared out of thin air. One researcher had even complained that this cursed place was basically like a monster spawn point in a game, constantly vomiting out zombies without end.
In the end, no one knew why Twin West Mountain kept spawning zombies. There were far too many mysteries in this world. Like everyone else, Yu Xian was curious about the answers behind those mysteries, but if he had to investigate them himself, then he wasn't that interested.
During the third period that morning, the math teacher, who had been running between several classes until he was practically going bald, was explaining a math problem. Yu Xian lay sprawled over his desk, eating snacks while reading the textbook Nora had given him. He had already finished the chapter on meridians and was now reading the section on the human body's acupoints.
Suddenly, the heart bearing the Perfect Lifeform ability tree thudded violently. Energy surged within it, coursed through his bloodstream, and converged in his brain.
Yu Xian felt as though his brain was glowing. Countless neurons were strengthened, and every brain cell became extraordinarily active. Memories he had long forgotten, along with everything from his past, all appeared vividly before him.
He could even clearly recall his memories from when he had still been in his mother's womb. Through those memories, he could also use clues he had never noticed as a child to deduce many secrets he had never known or had long forgotten.
When Yu Xian was little, his family had a puppy. One day, it had mysteriously disappeared. He had asked his father where it had gone, and his father told him that it missed its mother and had gone off to find her.
In kindergarten, he had a close friend he often played with. Then, one day, the friend stopped coming to school. When he asked the teacher what had happened, she told him that his friend had transferred to another school.
When he was five, he found a baby bird beneath a nest in the park and brought it home to care for it. But one day, it mysteriously disappeared as well. He had asked his mother where the baby bird had gone, and the answer was that the bird wanted freedom and had flown away.
Now, after awakening Super Brain, he used the clues in his memories to realize that the first time his family moved, it had been because the neighbor next door had killed his puppy. His parents had confronted the neighbor in private, and the argument had nearly turned into a fight. At the time, he had been taking an afternoon nap. His brain had automatically recorded the sounds of the argument, but after he woke up, he had forgotten it all.
As for his playmate from kindergarten, he had not actually transferred schools. Instead, he had accidentally walked in on the teacher and the principal having an affair. In the end, the principal had strangled the boy to death and hidden his body beneath one of the school's toilets.
That case was solved only after Yu Xian had entered primary school. It had even made the local news in Silver City. However, when the news was broadcast, he had been in his room doing homework, so he had never connected the two events.
As for the baby bird he had been feeding all that time, a stray cat had eaten it. The evidence was the blood his mother had failed to wipe clean from the balcony wall. There was even a trace of the baby bird's feather left behind. Back then, he had naively believed the bird had truly flown away.
A sense of clarity washed over Yu Xian's mind, sharper than anything he had ever experienced. Countless thoughts kept flashing through his mind.
Should I recite a poem or something? Something like, "Life is but a dream through passing autumns," or "Only today do I truly know myself"?
Nora definitely likes me. No doubt about it.
Given my current situation, Pangu Immortality has too poor a cost-performance ratio. I should continue activating Super Heart, Super Kidneys, Super Lungs, Super Liver, Super Spleen, Super Self-Healing, Photosynthesis...
He merely glanced at the math problem on the blackboard by accident, and his brain instantly calculated the answer. The answer is a = 1, b = 0... This brain is seriously a cheat code.
But Yu Xian felt that he had too many thoughts. If this continued, he would end up turning into a dazed goose just like Nora. That wouldn't do!
He worked hard to rein in his thoughts. Gradually, his brain began to regulate his various thoughts on its own while also constructing a massive memory palace. It traced every stray thought back to its source to uncover the deepest, most unvarnished truth of his inner self.
In reality, a person was constantly bombarded by a ceaseless influx of information, arriving from both the world outside and the depths within. This information would form all sorts of thoughts in the brain. People sometimes found it difficult to determine which thoughts were more important and which were less so.
For example, when someone saw a beautiful individual, their eyes would first convert the image into information and transmit it to the brain. As a result, they would become aware that a beautiful individual was standing before them. Then, that information would stimulate hormone secretion in that person's body, giving rise to an impulse.
When those two kinds of information were combined, a person formed the thought of pursuing that beautiful individual. After that, they would decide to put that thought into action. This was a complete chain of action. Not a single link could be missing.
Young children, who lacked the influence of hormones, did not possess such interest toward other individuals. Even if they occasionally mimicked adult behavior, it was merely the result of absorbing negative influences from society rather than actions stemming from genuine, internal desire.
By understanding the source of every thought, one could know what one wanted and what one ought to pursue. Yu Xian did the same.
The thought of reciting poetry comes from humanity's need to show off. But showing off is actually a low-level pleasure born from an unsatisfied need for recognition. The only reason I even had that thought was that I was influenced by societal conditioning. It isn't my primary need at all.
The thought that Nora likes me is good. I can continue believing in it firmly.
My analysis of my abilities is completely reasonable and correct. Next time, I should awaken Super Heart to allow my brain more oxygen and operate with greater efficiency.
The math problem is so boring. There is no need to calculate it next time.
Thoughts organized.
After taming every thought, Yu Xian felt his body relax. He let out a long breath of turbid air, then dismissed the spatial bubble with a solemn expression.
All kinds of scent information instantly entered his brain through Super Smell. However, his Super Brain operated at high speed, sorting the countless scents into categories. In the end, they formed a model of Silver City within his consciousness.