Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 858: 449

"Well then, Academician Zhao, congratulations!"

After Wei Shiqing finished speaking, the others immediately followed with a round of enthusiastic applause, and then, before Zhao Yi had a chance to speak, they all bustled out of the dormitory door.

"..."

Zhao Yi and Li Renzhe were silent together. Holding the certificate in his hand, he showed it to Li Renzhe and said with a sense of helplessness, "Old Li, what you said was unreliable. I had just asked about it, and now I’ve even lost the chance to sign up!" freeweɓnovel.cøm

"..."

Li Renzhe looked at a stack of graduation and degree certificates, glanced at the bachelor’s gown on the table, and then at the tall stack of books beside him for his exam preparation, suddenly feeling a suffocating urge to cry.

To be human, the differences are just too great.

When he was still working hard on his exam preparation, someone else merely asked about postgraduate admission and had already obtained their doctoral degree certificate?

...

Zhao Yi was not discouraged by receiving a bunch of certificates all at once, and he still wanted to keep his student status. Since he couldn’t continue in science and engineering, he chose to study liberal arts subjects.

He looked into the school’s dual-major policy and discovered that several majors allowed for direct enrollment as long as one’s grades in their primary major were sufficient. The liberal arts majors included philosophy, psychology, and history.

Then he enrolled in philosophy.

After applying, Zhao Yi also went to ask the academic affairs office about the enrollment review and examination issues. He immediately headed to the library, found a pile of philosophy books, and planned to preview them first.

It was really just his usual reading.

Philosophy might not be directly helpful for research and development, but at the very least it could broaden his knowledge base, giving him insight into related theories and developments. It would be beneficial in expanding his horizons.

If it had been before, he would not have been confident about studying a liberal arts major because they often required memorizing a lot of content, and in terms of memory, the system wouldn’t be of much use.

But now it was different.

Zhao Yi opened the system to check the panel’s attribute data, becoming very confident—

[Name: Zhao Yi.]

[Brain Domain Utilization: 7.6%.]

[Wisdom: 101.]

[Energy: 231.]

[Study Coin: 52877.] freёwebnovel.com

[Research Coin: 481.]

[Abilities: Law of Cause and Effect, Connection Law, Supervision Law, Correlation Law (activate the next stage ability, requires 54000 Study Coins).]

The system panel’s data was very impressive.

His Study Coins had risen above fifty thousand, and with a little more accumulation, he could acquire the next ability.

His Research Coins had decreased a bit, mainly because developing the turbofan engine consumed too much, and there were no Research Coin earnings until the research yielded results.

What Zhao Yi focused on most was his wisdom attribute.

Wisdom is a comprehensive evaluation, with active brain memory being only one of the influencing factors. But a wisdom score exceeding one hundred was enough to show how good his memory was.

When encountering new content, Zhao Yi could feel the benefits of a high wisdom attribute. Once he understood the content in the books, he could almost completely retain it in his mind; if not verbatim, he could still recount it very accurately.

So his reading efficiency was extremely high.

Often in just two or three hours, he could fully digest a book of over a hundred pages, not just understanding the content but also able to articulate it from beginning to end.

The undergraduate knowledge base of philosophy, primarily focused on understanding the discipline of philosophy, posed no real difficulty. As long as he remembered the content of the books, there would certainly be no problem with the exams.

Zhao Yi actually enjoyed the process of reading, as some of the philosophical viewpoints were quite interesting.

Of course.

Some content was also very detached from reality, almost describable as a ’stream of nonsense.’

Such content was not worth deeper consideration.

After reading in the library for a whole day, Zhao Yi felt somewhat tired. After returning to the dormitory, he turned on his computer to play games to relax. Upon opening his web browser, he noticed a trending search—Boundary Theory and string theory elucidate the mysteries of the universe!

"What’s this?"

Zhao Yi clicked on it and found himself redirected to...

Weibo?

He browsed in astonishment, realizing Weibo had already launched, and could not help but be struck by how quickly time had passed.

At present, Weibo did not have as many users as it would in the future, but it already had a user base in the tens of millions. When he opened Weibo, he saw the trending search and only after paying careful attention did he realize that it was the powerful analytical paper he and Edward Witten had published that was fermenting.

Previously, Zhao Yi and Edward Witten had collaborated on research, mathematically analyzing the energy arrangement at particle boundaries, indirectly proving the unusual nature of positions at 2 to the Nth power. On this basis, they used Boundary Theory to mathematically analyze one of the four fundamental forces, the strong force.

The paper the two published had caused quite a stir in the physics community, but it hadn’t garnered much attention beyond that. The content of the paper was too arcane for the average person to understand.

In recent days, official media had praised the strong force analysis paper on Weibo to promote the importance of foundational theoretical research, instantly making the content of the paper popular.