In truth, most terrifying upright apes were creatures that were intermittently full of lofty ambition, but consistently just drifting through life waiting to die.
Over the next three days, aside from going to Teacher Wang to fill out the application form, Yu Xian spent the rest of his time slacking off. All one could say was that slacking off was great in the moment, but slacking off indefinitely was eternal bliss.
During this time, Zhang Shou contacted him and asked if he wanted to head to West Gemini Mountain together to fight zombies. But having fought the Xingtian zombie king only a few days prior, Yu Xian had virtually no interest in ordinary zombies, so he turned him down flatly.
Still, he couldn't help marveling at what a blessed land West Gemini Mountain was, producing an endless stream of zombies.
They had just dealt with the flying zombie, and recently a whole swarm of hairy zombies had cropped up. Qilin had no choice but to post an internal group mission with exceptionally high rewards, prompting both Qingniao and Zhang Shou to run off and join in the commotion.
In fact, over a century ago, Qilin headquarters had dispatched a dedicated research team to investigate the entirety of West Gemini Mountain, even conducting detailed underground surveys. Yet they never found a single human corpse; all the zombies seemed to appear out of thin air.
Back then, a researcher couldn't help griping that this godforsaken place was just like a monster spawn point in a game, endlessly spawning new zombies.
All in all, no one knew why zombies kept spawning on West Gemini Mountain.
This world held far too many unsolved mysteries. Yu Xian was just as curious as anyone about the true answers, but if he had to investigate them in person, he would rather pass.
During the third period of the morning, their math teacher—busy balding from running between several classes—was explaining a math problem.
Yu Xian sprawled across his desk, munching on snacks while browsing through the high school transcendent textbook Nora had given him. He had already finished the meridians chapter and was currently reading the human body acupoints chapter.
Suddenly, the heart within him belonging to the perfect creature gave a heavy thud. Surging energy burst forth from his heart, circulating through his blood across his entire body before finally converging in his brain.
His brain seemed to glow. Countless neural nodes were strengthened, and every brain cell became exceptionally active. Memories long forgotten and everything from his past surfaced vividly before his eyes.
He could even clearly recall memories from when he was floating in his mother's amniotic fluid.
Furthermore, through these memories and clues he had failed to notice during childhood, he could deduce many secrets he never knew or had forgotten.
When he was little, his family kept a puppy, but one day it mysteriously vanished.
He had asked where the puppy went.
His father replied that the puppy missed its mother and went looking for her.
In kindergarten, he had a close playmate. Starting from a certain day, that friend never came to school again.
He had asked the teacher why his friend wasn't coming to school.
The teacher answered that he had transferred to another school.
When he was five years old, he found a baby bird beneath a nest in the park. He brought it home and took meticulous care of it, but one day it vanished without a trace.
He asked his mother where the bird went, and the reply was that the bird wanted freedom and flew away.
Now, after activating Super Brain, through the clues in his memory, he realized that their first relocation was caused by the next-door neighbor killing his puppy.
Both his mother and father had privately confronted the neighbor, nearly coming to blows.
It was just that he had been taking an afternoon nap at the time. His brain had automatically registered the sounds of their argument, but upon waking, he had forgotten it entirely.
As for his kindergarten playmate, he hadn't transferred at all. Rather, he had accidentally stumbled upon the teacher and principal having an affair, whereupon the principal choked him to death and concealed his body beneath one of the school's toilets.
The case wasn't solved until he entered primary school, even making the local news in Silver City. But when the news aired, he had been doing homework in his room, never making the connection between the two.
As for the little bird he had cared for, it had actually been eaten by a stray cat.
The proof was the blood his mother hadn't wiped completely clean from the balcony wall, along with a wisp of down feather. To think he had naively believed back then that the little bird had truly flown off to freedom.
"Should I recite a poem? Something like 'Floating life is like a dream, how many autumns have passed,' or 'Only today do I know who I truly am'?"
"Nora definitely likes me, no doubt about it."
"Given my current situation, the value-for-cost of the Pangu Immortality Divine Ability is too low. I should prioritize activating Super Heart, Super Kidneys, Super Lungs, Super Liver, Super Spleen, Super Self-Healing, Photosynthesis..."
"The answer is a = 1, b = 0."
At this moment, Yu Xian felt his mind clearer than ever before.
Countless thoughts flashed continuously through his mind. A mere casual glance at the math problem on the blackboard was enough for his brain to calculate the answer in an instant.
This brain was ridiculously useful.
Yet Yu Xian felt there were too many thoughts firing off. If this went on, he would turn into a dazed goose just like Nora.
That wouldn't do!
And so he worked hard to rein in his thoughts. Gradually, his brain began disciplining and regulating the influx of ideas, constructing a colossal memory labyrinth and tracing every single thought back to its origin to understand his true innermost desires.
Humans were constantly receiving all manner of external and internal information.
This information generated myriad thoughts in the brain, and people sometimes found it hard to determine which were more important and which were less so.
For example, upon seeing an attractive woman, the physical eyes first converted the visual image into signals sent to the brain, informing you of a pretty girl or handsome guy. Then, that information stimulated hormone secretion in the body, creating an impulse.
Combining the two streams of information, the desire to pursue that pretty girl or handsome guy arose, and you decided to take action.
This was an entire chain of action—not a single link could be missing.
Just like children who, lacking the influence of hormones, had zero interest in the opposite sex; even if they performed actions that seemed adult, they were merely influenced by harmful social inputs rather than acting from genuine internal drive.
By understanding the root of each thought, one could know what they wanted and what they should pursue.
"The thought of reciting poetry stems from the human need to show off."
"In reality, showing off is just a low-class taste born from an unfulfilled sense of self-worth."
"The reason I had that thought was because I was influenced by low-grade information from society. It's not my primary need."
"The thought that Nora likes me—very good, I can firmly continue to believe that."
"My analysis of my abilities is completely rational and correct. Next time, I can activate Super Heart first to provide the brain with more oxygen and achieve even greater efficiency."
"The math problem—so boring, no need to calculate next time."
"Thoughts sorted."
Having tamed every single thought, Yu Xian felt his entire being lighten.
He exhaled a long breath of turbid air, then with a solemn expression, dismissed the spatial bubble.
Instantly, all manner of scent data flooded his brain through Super Smell. His Super Brain spun into high gear, categorizing the countless olfactory inputs until a full model of Silver City took shape within his consciousness.
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