Chapter 351 Heading Towards the Stars
For a long time afterward, Jemin took the concept of "crazy learning" to its extreme.
With his extraordinary learning ability and the foundation laid by his vast amount of previous knowledge, Jemin absorbed a massive amount of real knowledge in this world.
This exaggerated learning efficiency also allowed him to demonstrate an astonishingly rapid pace of progress in his academic career.
He conquered university courses that would normally take several years to complete with astonishing efficiency.
Papers, projects, exams—all obstacles were like smooth roads to him.
Ultimately, he graduated from physics ahead of schedule with the best grades in the entire school, achieving remarkable results.
He even attracted the attention of some senior professors on campus, who considered him an academic genius that was a once-in-a-lifetime talent.
His "parents" were naturally overjoyed, their faces beaming with flawless pride.
They threw him a celebratory banquet, offering words of encouragement and expectation.
However, that overly perfect reaction and emotional expression only made Jemin feel a deep-seated falseness and discomfort.
Especially as his experience in distinguishing "real people" increased, the flaws in his parents became more and more apparent to Jemin, as if he were watching a meticulously choreographed but soulless puppet show.
Over the years, Jemin has not confined himself to the campus.
After nearly two years of effort, he used this highly developed and convenient global transportation network to travel to almost every continent, major city, and natural wonder of the planet during his spare time.
He used his own eyes to confirm that the planet beneath his feet was real.
Its physical scale, geological structure, and ecosystem all conform to the characteristics of a normal life-bearing planet.
The billions of human individuals living on it are mostly real, flesh-and-blood beings with independent lives and emotions, and are by no means simply background fillers.
But that's where Jemin's exploration "depth" ends.
Apart from that, he gained nothing.
With the final deadline fast approaching, shortly after graduation, Jemin proposed a plan to his "parents."
He plans 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 industry—for a "graduation trip" and "career exploration" to find inspiration and opportunities for his future development.
The "parents" agreed almost without hesitation, their faces beaming with their usual supportive smiles.
They quickly packed Jemin's luggage and booked his boat ticket. The whole process went so smoothly that Jemin sighed, confirming once again that his parents were a fraud.
A few days later, Jemin stood on the massive boarding bridge of the interstellar spaceport and glanced back at the familiar blue planet behind him.
He then turned and stepped into the interstellar passenger ship "Voyager," which resembled a giant silver whale.
The spacecraft's interior is much larger than it appears from the outside, thanks to the use of sophisticated space expansion technology.
The passengers were of various shapes and sizes, but most of them were human.
Some were business people in suits, some were families visiting relatives or traveling with their children, and some were young students like him, full of curiosity.
They talked, read, and admired the view from the porthole, completely absorbed in their own lives.
Jemin found his room and silently waited for the spaceship to take off.
The spaceship barely vibrated as it took off; only the rapidly receding port facilities and the gradually disappearing vastness of space outside the window indicated that they were escaping the planet's gravity at an unimaginable speed.
Once the spaceship had stabilized, Jemin began to carefully observe the facilities inside the cabin, the screens displaying navigation data, and even parts of the engine structure that could be seen through specific observation windows.
By comparing the knowledge he had learned over the years with his previous knowledge, Jemin quickly realized that the technology used by this spaceship was completely different from the elemental rune technology he knew.
It also differs from the technological path of his previous life on Earth, which was based on classical physics and relativity.
It focuses more on gravitational manipulation, space folding, and a special, highly efficient matter-energy conversion principle.
Although it differs considerably from the elemental system, it is self-contained, logically rigorous, and highly self-consistent.
The long interstellar voyage lasted for several months.
Jemin spent most of his time moving around the spaceship, verifying his knowledge using the equipment on board.
Occasionally, I would come to the observation deck and gaze at the boundless darkness outside the window.
The visual effects of trans-space travel are bizarre and wonderful, like traveling through a river of colors.
During this time, the spaceship will approach ports on other planets.
During the few days the spaceship rested, Jemin would also take the opportunity to explore these planets.
This journey took Jemin across several human-occupied colonies, from bustling commercial centers to remote mining worlds.
He stood in the desert of an alien planet, feeling the strange light and shadow and the dry wind under the binary star system; he dived into an ocean planet that covered the entire globe, observing the architecture and life in the deep-sea cities that were very different from the host planet; he traveled through the asteroid belt and witnessed giant industrial ships devouring mineral-rich rocks like whales.
He measured the land with his own feet and confirmed the starry sky with his own eyes.
Ultimately, Jemin was able to confirm that galaxies were not textures and planets were not background images.
This rules out the possibility that the world is a "small-scale simulation" or a "planetary-scale illusion".
The true extent of this plane indeed encompasses several, or even dozens, of galaxies the size of the Milky Way!
This is a truly colossal cosmic plane!
Standing atop the highest peak of an unfamiliar planet, gazing up at the strange constellations scattered across the sky like shattered diamonds—constellations he had never seen before—Jeremy felt no romanticism of a traveler, only a profound sense of dread in the face of the endless unknown.
Before 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 knowledge and power, and perfectly embed itself into the rules of their social operation, appeared increasingly unfathomable and terrifying.
It is like an invisible giant net, enveloping every inch of this plane and every living being.
But this vastness and terror did not make Jemin feel despair; instead, it acted like a powerful wake-up call, completely washing away the last shred of hope in his heart.
He took a deep breath of the thin, cold alien air, his eyes sharp as knives.
No matter how powerful the entity behind the scenes may be, since it is "real," it must have its own "rules" and "logic" for operation.
What Jemin needs to do is simply the job of a wizard.
Observe, understand, and then... take control!
(End of this chapter)
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