Chapter 351: Advancing Toward the Starry Sky

For a long time to come, Jie Ming interpreted the four words "crazy learning" to the extreme.

Relying on his learning ability, which was far beyond that of ordinary people, and the foundation laid by the massive amount of knowledge before, Jie Ming absorbed a massive amount of real knowledge in this world.

And this exaggerated learning efficiency also allowed him to show a terrifying speed of progress on the academic path.

The university courses that originally required several years to complete were conquered one by one by him with astonishing efficiency.

Papers, projects, exams—all obstacles were like smooth roads in front of him.

In the end, he completed his physics studies ahead of schedule with the best grades in the school, achieving remarkable results.

He even attracted the attention of some senior professors in the school, who considered him an academic genius rarely seen in decades.

His "parents" were naturally "ecstatic" about this, their faces filled with flawless, proud smiles.

They held a celebration banquet for him, saying all kinds of encouraging and expectant words.

However, those overly perfect reactions and emotional expressions only made him feel a sense of falseness and discomfort deep in his bones at this moment.

Especially as his experience in distinguishing "real people" increased, the flaws in his parents in Jie Ming's eyes became larger and larger, as if he were watching a puppet show that was meticulously arranged but lacked a soul.

Over these years, Jie Ming did not limit himself to the campus.

After nearly two years of effort, he utilized the convenient global transportation network of this highly developed civilization to travel to almost every continent, every major city, and every natural wonder on the entire planet in his spare time.

He used his own eyes to personally confirm that the planet under his feet was real and undeniable.

Physical scale, geological structure, ecosystem, and other characteristics all conformed to the characteristics of a normal life-bearing planet.

The tens of billions of human individuals living on it were also mostly real, flesh-and-blood existences with independent lives and emotions, not simple background filling.

But the "depth" of Jie Ming's exploration stopped there.

Apart from that, he still gained nothing.

Seeing that the final deadline was getting closer, shortly after the graduation ceremony ended, Jie Ming proposed a plan to his "parents."

He intended to take an interstellar flight to the famous "Frontier Star"—a planet located on the edge of human territory, known for its unique interstellar port and emerging technology industries—to conduct a "graduation trip" and "career investigation," looking for inspiration and opportunities for his future development direction.

The "parents" agreed happily almost without hesitation, with supportive smiles as always on their faces.

They quickly prepared luggage for Jie Ming and booked tickets, the whole process going so smoothly that Jie Ming sighed, confirming the falseness of his parents once again.

A few days later, Jie Ming stood on the boarding bridge of the massive interstellar airport, looking back at the familiar blue planet behind him.

Then he turned and stepped into the interstellar passenger ship "Voyager," which looked like a silver giant whale.

The space inside the spaceship was far more vast than it looked from the outside, utilizing mature space expansion technology.

The passengers were of various forms, but most were human.

Some were business people in suits on business trips, some were families with children traveling or visiting relatives, and there were also young students full of curiosity like him.

They chatted, read, and admired the scenery outside the portholes, completely immersed in their respective lives.

Jie Ming found his room and waited silently for the spaceship to set sail.

There was almost no vibration when the spaceship set sail; only the port facilities rapidly receding outside the window and the scene gradually being replaced by the deep universe indicated that they were leaving the planetary gravity at an unimaginable speed.

After the spaceship stabilized, Jie Ming began to carefully observe the facilities inside the cabin and the screens displaying navigation data, and even parts of the engine structure that could be seen through specific observation windows.

Comparing the knowledge learned over these years with the knowledge accumulated before, Jie Ming quickly identified that the technology tree used by this spaceship was completely different from the elemental rune technology he knew.

It was also different from the technological path based on classical physics and relativity on his previous Earth.

It focused more on gravity manipulation, space folding, and some kind of special, efficient matter-energy conversion principle.

Although there was a considerable gap with the elemental system, it was sufficient to form a system of its own, with rigorous logic and high self-consistency.

The long interstellar voyage lasted for several months.

Jie Ming spent most of his time shuttling through every corner of the spaceship, verifying the knowledge he had learned based on the equipment on the ship.

Occasionally, he would come to the viewing cabin, staring at the boundless darkness outside the window.

The visual effects brought by cross-space navigation were bizarre, like shuttling through a river of colors.

During this period, the spaceship would approach other planetary ports.

Jie Ming would also take advantage of the few days the spaceship was resting to walk around on these planets.

This journey allowed Jie Ming to travel through several human-occupied colonial planets, from bustling commercial centers to remote mining worlds.

He stood in the deserts of alien planets, feeling the peculiar light and shadow and dry wind under the binary star system; he dived into the ocean planet covered by the global ocean, observing the architecture and life styles that were completely different from the main planet in the deep-sea city; he crossed the asteroid belt, witnessing giant industrial ships devouring mineral-rich rocks like whales.

He used his own feet to measure the land and his own eyes to confirm the starry sky.

In the end, Jie Ming was able to confirm that the galaxy was not a texture map and the planet was not a background board.

This ruled out the possibility that the world was a "small-scale simulation" or a "planetary-level illusion."

The true scope of this plane indeed encompassed several, or even dozens of galaxies the size of the Milky Way!

This was a truly super-giant cosmic-type plane!

Standing on the highest peak of a strange planet, looking up at the strange constellations scattered across the sky like broken diamonds that he had never seen before, Jie Ming had no traveler's romance in his heart, only the solemnity of facing endless unknowns.

In front of this real, boundless sea of stars, the power that could silently cover such a vast territory, suppress nearly two million wizards along with their original cognition and power, and perfectly embed them into its social operating rules, appeared increasingly unfathomable and terrifying.

It was like an invisible giant net, shrouding every inch of space and every living being in this plane.

But this vastness and terror did not make Jie Ming feel despair; instead, it was like a potent sobering agent, completely washing away the last trace of luck in his heart.

He took a deep breath of the thin and cold alien air, his eyes sharp as knives.

No matter how powerful the existence behind the scenes was, since it was "real," there must be "rules" and "logic" for its operation.

What Jie Ming had to do was the wizard's job.

Observe, understand, and then—control! ===== CHAPTER 352 =====