Chapter 2: Jiang Chen

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Name: Jiang Chen
Race: Human (Earth)
Tier: Zero-tier, Level 3
Attributes:
Strength 37, Agility 36, Constitution 37, Intelligence 49, Spirit 49, Mystery 48
Free Attribute Points: 0
Knowledge:
Mathematics Lv.9, Physics Lv.8, Chemistry Lv.8, Informatics Lv.7...
Specializations:
[Heightened Focus: When you concentrate on learning, your comprehension, memory, and understanding are significantly enhanced. The extent of the enhancement depends on your Intelligence, Spirit, and Mystery attributes.]
[Telekinesis: Your mental power gains the ability to 'interfere with matter.' The specific effects depend on your Spirit and Mystery attributes.]
Specialization Points: 12
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At the top of the clean panel interface, there were several conspicuous buttons, but only the first three—[Knowledge], [Blueprints], and [Specializations]—were legible.
The row of buttons behind them was all greyed out and unselectable, their functions unknown.
This was the "cheat" Jiang Chen had awakened several years ago.
Its function was simple: within the [Knowledge] option lay almost all the "truths" of the world, available for Jiang Chen to learn and master.
The contents were vast and categorized according to Jiang Chen’s understanding, covering all natural sciences, engineering, medicine, and even philosophy and the arts.
Once a discipline was mastered to a certain degree, it would be reflected on the panel—for example, "Mathematics Lv.9" indicated that Jiang Chen had reached the ninth level in mathematics.
Moreover, when his accumulated knowledge became sufficiently rich, he could access the [Blueprints] interface and obtain all technical data for unique technologies developed by some civilization somewhere in the universe, perhaps even from other worlds.
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The technologies Jiang Chen had previously traded with the military, including the project currently being tested, all came from this section.
Of course, each blueprint required different kinds of "knowledge," and the more advanced the blueprint, the broader the range of knowledge involved.
As for [Specializations], this interface’s sole purpose was to exchange specialization points for various unique abilities.
Of his two current specializations, [Heightened Focus] was granted automatically upon awakening the system. It was largely thanks to this specialization that Jiang Chen had managed to master a tremendous amount of knowledge—some of it even beyond Earth’s current technological level—in just three years.
— The system’s [Knowledge] was all-encompassing, but it still had to be studied and understood to become one’s own.
Without some extraordinary talent, the average person couldn’t even master university-level content through self-study, let alone the even more abstruse and recondite material that followed, especially those profound mathematical formulas and physical laws.
Without [Heightened Focus], Jiang Chen could never have achieved what he had.
The other specialization, [Telekinesis], endowed Jiang Chen with abilities akin to a "psychic."
He had specifically redeemed this specialization to ensure his own self-defense, spending a total of seventy-eight specialization points.
To advance in "tier," one had to accumulate enough complex and profound knowledge at sufficient quantity and level.
Each tier promotion awarded thirty-three specialization points; to date, Jiang Chen had accumulated only ninety-nine. Spending eighty-seven points just for [Telekinesis] was indeed a significant investment.
Nevertheless, after acquiring [Telekinesis], Jiang Chen conducted a series of tests.
Judging by the psychokinetic [Object Manipulation] effect alone, Jiang Chen’s current level was almost that of an intermediate battle general, making the investment well worth it.
Still, Jiang Chen’s goal in improving his strength was solely self-protection.
He had no intention of personally braving the wilderness and hunting monsters—at least not at this stage.
He glanced at the numbers on the interface, his gaze pausing briefly on the experience bar for leveling up before tapping the [Knowledge] button.
The scene before him shifted again, and an immense library appeared before him.
Rows of bookshelves were filled with volumes of various thickness, organized by category.
At the entrance, a sign read [First Floor].
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This meant that even the knowledge here, far surpassing the technological level of Earth, was by no means the system’s entirety.
However, until Jiang Chen fully mastered all the knowledge on this floor, he was not qualified to access the second floor and naturally had no idea what lay beyond.
He casually took a book titled "Hypergeometric Functions" from the shelf marked [Mathematics], sat cross-legged on the floor, and began reading.
Since awakening the system, no matter how busy he was, Jiang Chen had made it a core habit to devote at least a few hours each day to reading.
Most of the time, he had no specific goal; he would simply choose a book according to his mood and study it. Only when he urgently needed a particular blueprint did he seek out the relevant knowledge in the corresponding section.
Over the years, Jiang Chen had accumulated an astonishing wealth of knowledge.
In most fields, he was already at the top level present on Earth, and in some areas, he had even surpassed the current limits of Earth’s technology.
As his Intelligence, Spirit, and Mystery attributes grew, and the effect of [Heightened Focus] became ever more impressive, Jiang Chen’s speed in learning and mastering new, more profound knowledge actually increased compared to when he first awakened the system.
A book like "Hypergeometric Functions," representing the pinnacle of Earth’s mathematical achievement, took him less than a week to fully grasp its principles and formulas.
The experience bar representing his progress edged forward, bringing him ever closer to level four.
Meanwhile, Jiang Chen in the real world was hardly idle.
The precision components previously ruined by interference had been remade, and together with the already prepared parts, he assembled everything in his workshop.
What he produced was a gun of astonishingly exaggerated design, brimming with a science fiction aesthetic.
Its white body was covered with intricate azure lines, and the barrel alone was over two meters long, with the entire weapon exceeding three meters in length.
Even without a magazine, the gun weighed more than two hundred kilograms. Even a battle general-level marksman would struggle to wield it.
Given its extravagant cost, even mid-level battle generals might not be able to afford it.
Yet Jiang Chen’s expression showed deep satisfaction with the weapon.
“Let’s test it and see if it can achieve the performance described in the blueprint!” Not wanting to wait a second longer, Jiang Chen immediately contacted the military, booked an exclusive testing ground, and then eagerly carried the extravagant weapon out of the basement.
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