Chapter 3

If you aren't envied, you're a mediocre person.

Xu Zi'an didn't mind at all that people were jealous of him.

The more people who are jealous, the more it proves how awesome he is.

Except for the extremely slow increase in Bio-Energy, Xu Zi'an was always at the level of the school's number one in both academic subjects and virtual star warfare classes.

Bio-Energy increases slowly...

That's just something that can't be helped.

His family conditions had been very ordinary since he was a child.

After his parents had an accident, he was the only one left in this world.

Even though the Federal Welfare Home provides some benefits every month, how good can things provided by welfare be?

Ensuring he doesn't starve to death is the best they can do.

But these classmates... especially the resentful youth Chang Chang Shaokong, whose mother is a Bio-Frigate captain, and whose father is a Bio-Assault Ship captain, and is also a school board member of Hucheng No. 3 High School.

Having lived in luxury since childhood, with the assistance of large amounts of precious natural treasures and sufficient time to cultivate, his Bio-Energy is currently the highest in the school, having reached 100 last month.

After another month of consolidation, the possibility of awakening his Bio-Energy is almost over 80 percent or even higher!

Xu Zi'an, of course, cannot compare to him.

Fortunately, he has his own fortuitous encounter; he can blast Chang Chang Shaokong to pieces now, and on the day he awakens his Bio-Energy, he still will be able to!

Naturally, he wouldn't care about the other party.

The senior year curriculum in this era is completely different from his previous life.

There is no distinction between liberal arts and science.

Both liberal arts and science have been classified under liberal arts.

In this era, there are only liberal arts and star warfare subjects!

Liberal arts teaches—

"How to Avoid a Million Dangers in the Universe";

"Evolution and Reasonable Matching Schemes for Bio-Starships";

"The Correlation Between Wormholes and Space Jump Technology";

"The Three Great Overlords of the Universe: Human Race, Alien Race, and Insectoid Race Relations and War History"...

And so on and so forth.

The star warfare subject is even simpler and more direct.

All students enter the virtual metaverse to learn the piloting of spaceships and starships, as well as starship combat!

In the morning, Xu Zi'an conscientiously reviewed the liberal arts and consolidated his knowledge.

At noon, he took advantage of the lunch break to sleep for a while to make up for his sleep.

In the afternoon, he entered the virtual metaverse to fight against AI.

The reason he chose to fight against AI...

It's very simple.

None of these classmates are willing to fight; it's purely bullying the weak.

But the AI is much more awesome; with Xu Zi'an's current strength, he can only fight to a draw with the AI on hard difficulty.

As soon as the afternoon class ended, Xu Zi'an wasted no time and drove his Wuling Mini Ball spaceship straight to the Xingfuli residential area.

Xingfuli is a very ordinary civilian residential area, not a slum or anything like that, but the house is not big, only about fifty square meters, with two bedrooms, one living room, and one bathroom.

One of the bedrooms was converted by Xu Zi'an into a tool room, specifically for repairing good things he found while scavenging.

Ever since he transmigrated to this world, he has had an incredibly strong interest in starships.

He even thought... even if he couldn't awaken his Bio-Energy, becoming a spaceship designer or even a Bio-Starship evolutionist would be a very good path.

Bio-Starship evolutionist.

A profession with an incredibly noble and rare status.

Its ability is very simple: to design and plan exclusive evolution schemes for Bio-Captains' starships!

Everyone's Bio-Starship is different.

Each has its own focus and differences, and the directions of evolution are also strange and varied.

Therefore, how a Bio-Starship should evolve to become more powerful, and how to evolve it so that its quality doesn't regress, its combat power doesn't drop, or even turn into a pile of scrap metal...

Has become the most headache-inducing problem for every Bio-Starship captain.

Every year, incidents where combat power not only fails to improve but drops significantly due to imperfect Bio-Starship evolution are everywhere.

And that's still considered good; every year, many people, because they can't afford a powerful evolutionist, or because that evolutionist is incompetent...

Suffer from hull damage, hull breakage, or even explosions during the evolution process, and there are many, many such cases.

Evolutionists are rare, and powerful evolutionists have an incredibly noble status; plus, Xu Zi'an loves starships, so before the system was bound, he had been learning knowledge about starship repair, modification, and evolution.

Over these years, although Xu Zi'an is still far from reaching the level of a registered evolutionist...

He believes he has no problem repairing a small seventh-generation God-Calculator star-crystal brain.

The next two days.

Xu Zi'an didn't go scavenging anymore.

There was no need to go anymore.

He went to school to study during the day and repaired the star-crystal brain at night.

An ultra-high-precision object like a star-crystal brain is not easy to repair, especially without professional repair tools.

It took a full two days to finish repairing it.

"Four hundred thirty-four..."

"Four hundred thirty-five..."

"Four hundred thirty-six..."

In the living room, Xu Zi'an was shirtless, carrying a 50-kilogram sandbag on each shoulder, doing squats while drenched in sweat.

Uninterrupted daily training can help improve the Bio-Energy index in his body.

Although the system will reward him with 50 points of Bio-Energy after selling the star-crystal brain tomorrow.

But Xu Zi'an will not slack off just because the system is there.

Instead, he will work even harder to cultivate.

Years of training have also given Xu Zi'an a very even, not overly exaggerated, set of muscles.

Combined with his height and appearance, the title of school heartthrob is truly well-deserved.

The day after tomorrow is the most important Bio-Energy activation and awakening ceremony of the Earth Federation; tomorrow the school is giving a day off for students to rest and adjust their state.

Everyone can undergo the awakening ceremony multiple times in their life.

But usually, the effect is best and the probability of awakening is highest before the age of eighteen, and during the first activation.

Subsequent awakening ceremonies not only require huge expenses but also have a probability that drops by at least 98% from the original base.

That is to say...

If you don't awaken the first time, the probability of wanting to awaken again is infinitely close to zero.

Early the next morning.

Xu Zi'an ran 20 kilometers as a warm-up exercise as usual.

After taking a shower, he headed straight to the familiar shop.

As he expected, this repaired second-hand God-Calculator star-crystal brain sold for 7,200 credits.

This is definitely the most money Xu Zi'an has earned in all these years.

And the moment the money arrived in his account—

[Novice Mission complete!]

[Congratulations to the host for obtaining...].