The Most Powerful Brain in the Interstellar Space

Chapter 202 Being a Human Being
Everyone here hasn't eaten all day, bro... She's hungry too, but she's not as expressive as you are; her stomach is growling too.

Ugh, I'm so hungry! I didn't realize it until I heard someone's stomach rumbling, and now I'm even hungrier.

Strangely enough, she ate quite a lot in the mental space, yet it had no effect whatsoever on quenching her thirst. Even though she slept in the mental space, she couldn't fall asleep in the real world. Why couldn't her appetite shift between the mental and physical worlds like sleep?
Jiang Hui naturally didn't voice these thoughts. Seeing Zhou Xiuwen take out several vials of nutrient solution, she couldn't help but feel a headache coming on: "This should be the last one, right? I have a few more here too, but they can probably only last for one time."

But there are still more than twenty stars and hours left until the end of the competition, which is more than twenty hours, a whole day and night. How uncomfortable would it be if she couldn't eat or sleep? Just thinking about it gave Jiang Hui a headache.

Zhou Xiuwen was clearly starving and didn't care about the supplies. He just pulled off the caps and started stuffing the vials into his mouth, muttering, "What kind of lousy nutrient solution is this? It's so different from the ones outside. I've been drinking half a bottle at a time and it's not working. I'm still starving..." He wondered if the school would give them the diluted solution.

Of course, he didn't say the last part aloud. He was worried that if the sound were broadcast and the school leaders heard it, wouldn't that be embarrassing?

Upon hearing this, Jiang Hui, who was slowly uncorking the nutrient solution, paused, realizing the same thing. Yes, she didn't take nutrient solutions very often. After all, Jiang Hui hadn't been in interstellar space for very long, and she had only taken them a few times. She remembered taking one vial of meal replacement a while ago, and it was indeed quite filling.

No matter how many teams you get into the competition, even if you win by several or even half a team, it won't help.

Actually, she didn't realize it at first, but after taking it for the first time, she had to take it every few weeks, and the frequency of taking it was getting higher and higher. So, was it because the product was wrong or was there some other reason?

"These are Vitality Organic Nutrient Solution, developed to combine the effects of replenishing physical strength and satiating hunger. Although the effect of replenishing physical strength is relatively weak, in order to achieve this effect, the effect of satiating hunger has also been reduced. In addition, you have consumed a lot of physical energy along the way, so no matter how much of this nutrient solution you take, it will not be able to satiate your hunger."

"If there were regular nutrient solutions, the hunger-satisfying effect would be better."

There was no such thing as ordinary nutrient solution; finding any at all was a feat in itself. She hadn't even clearly seen what it was; she just grabbed whatever she could. Later, during the competition, her luck wasn't great as she fought for resources, and she didn't get much, especially not much nutrient solution. The few she had left were given to her by Zhou Xiuwen.

To everyone's surprise, Zhou Xiuwen shook his head upon hearing this, and said with some astonishment, "There's a distinction between these? I'm not quite sure, I just use whatever I find. But all the ones I've found are this kind, there aren't any others." He picked up an empty tube in his hand and shook it.

Huan Xian glanced at the nutrient solution tube in his hand and said with some surprise, "You're quite lucky to have found all of these organic nutrient solutions that are good for stamina. Although they're not very effective at filling your stomach right now, they're actually more needed on the field."

Jiang Hui looked at the nutrient solution in her hand and smiled wryly. If they weren't so hungry, they would probably be more accepting of this as good fortune.

The next moment, Huan Xian took out two rows of what looked like nutrient solutions from his pack and generously distributed them to Jiang Hui and Zhou Xiuwen.

"I don't have anything to give you, just this... although it's just ordinary nutrient solution." The other person seemed a little embarrassed about what they had given.

"This..." Jiang Hui wanted to say no, because this wasn't a resource that everyone had picked up, so wouldn't it be taking other people's things for free? But reason told her that she really needed this, because she was starving, and if she didn't eat something to fill her stomach, she didn't know when she would faint from hunger.

"Take this. I can't repay what I owe you along the way." This is all I can give you now. Huan Xian sighed deeply. He felt somewhat dejected, as if he had been suppressing his feelings ever since the start of the competition, and he just couldn't get over it.

He never took this competition seriously.

Of course, it wasn't because he was confident of victory. Even at his most proud, he wouldn't be so arrogant as to think he could outshine all the outstanding first-year students at Besca Intermediate Academy. He just found it boring.

Everything is meaningless, utterly meaningless.

Huan Xian was a wandering soul, a rootless duckweed, drifting in this world, without a home, and nowhere willing to accept him.

Perhaps it happened before, after all, he couldn't have just sprung from a stone, so there must have been some kind of kinship.

In his almost nonexistent memories, there was once a family, though only a few gray images remained, the figures in them were blurred, and everything was just a faint shadow.

But he could still vaguely remember a strange, indescribable emotion lingering in his chest. However, he could no longer discern what it was, because Huan Xian had long lost the ability to recognize emotions. He only felt a sour, astringent, and inexplicably stifling feeling, adding a faint touch of color to his barren heart.

But it was only a little bit, and as time went by, this little bit of legacy was about to be completely erased, replaced by the situation of the last ten years or so.

White walls, white people, a white world… His world had been so cold, devoid of any warmth from the living, and he had never been considered human. He had no hope for this world.

He was later rescued and brought to a colorful world that was completely different from the place he had lived in for nearly ten years.

He no longer had to participate in those tedious and strange "activities" every day, and he also had his own identity, and came into contact with many warm people who were different from those white-clad men... He learned how to be a person.

Yet beneath this shell of a person named Huan Xian lies emptiness—an empty soul, an empty heart. He still doesn't understand humanity, but in order to blend into his surroundings, he pretends to be a normal person, disguising his behavior, speech, personality, and thought patterns, and even feigning the emotions a normal human being should have.

It seems he really did fool those people.

Then, on an ordinary day, he was sent here. The person who brought him here acted like any ordinary parent, handled the formalities for him, told him to study hard here, and then left—Huan Xian was completely free, truly.

But does he really still have the ability to be a human being...?

(End of this chapter)