Top Student: Wasteland Technology Invasion

Lin Chuan woke up with a slight feeling of weightlessness and found himself sitting on a hard wooden bed, with a faint musty smell in the air.

[Time Travel Countdown: 4:00:00 (Wasteland Countdown)]

[Can return to the real world at any time]

[Travel Cooldown Time: 24:00:00]

Looking at the prompts on the panel, Lin Chuan felt a little relieved, but he also discovered some secrets of the system.

The time travel countdown has changed from 1 hour to 4 hours. If nothing unexpected happens, the ratio of time conversion between the two worlds is 1 to 4.

The fact that the cooldown time for travel is still 24 hours of real time means that he at least didn't exceed the weight limit this time in the wasteland world.

After confirming that he could leave at any time, Lin Chuan looked around.

The room was small, only about ten square meters. The walls were made of rough metal panels, and many places were covered with discolored rust. Several exposed pipes were wrapped with tape.

A bed, a table and chairs, and a light source from a window with a diameter of forty centimeters. Moonlight shines through the window, confirming that this is a building that is about seven stories high.

There was a dim LED light on the ceiling, but it had long since gone out.

The door looked sturdy, and the door frame was welded firmly to the wall, with a heavy horizontal bolt across the back of the door.

The secondhand Geiger counter hanging on his waist didn't go off, and the reading was normal, which made Lin Chuan feel relieved, even though he was worried about the 1,100 yuan he had spent.

"Radiation is normal, and the air quality seems normal too."

"The system's provided crossing points can't be too bad."

"For now, it appears to be safe here."

After thinking for a while, Lin Chuan stretched his limbs and walked towards the door. Before he could even look out through the peephole, he heard a strange sound.

At first there was only silence outside the door, but soon strange sounds came in through the crack in the door.

It was a slow, sticky sound of footsteps, accompanied by a low groaning sound. The footsteps stopped not far from the door, followed by a rustling sound as if fingernails or something were scraping against the door panel.

Lin Chuan's heart skipped a beat, his mind constantly locking onto the system, ready to return immediately if things went wrong.

That thing outside is probably a cannibalistic zombie or something.

Right now, all he has is a broken little knife, and the system hasn't given him any fighting skills. It would be a miracle if he could beat the guys outside.

Fortunately, the door was sturdy enough, and after a while, there was no more noise outside.

Mustering my courage, I looked through the peephole. The corridor was dimly lit, and the expected zombies and monsters were nowhere to be seen.

Lin Chuan was penniless and had no means of self-defense, so of course he couldn't just open the door and run out to check.

"Try learning something new, especially a second skill."

Lin Chuan moved the chair aside, sat down, and took out his phone.

Just as I expected, my phone had no internet connection here, and even the time wouldn't keep up. Fortunately, the data stored on it could still be viewed normally.

However, Lin Chuan preferred reading paper books to electronic materials. He took out "Advanced Algebra", took out paper and pen, and then, with a thought, inserted 10 learning coins to activate the skill: Scientific Intuition.

In the wasteland world, he successfully activated the skill!

In an instant, the things around him became much clearer to his five senses, and when he glanced at the book of "Higher Algebra", he keenly captured the numbers one by one.

The objects in his field of vision began to change. Many details that Lin Chuan had never noticed before were now magnified infinitely in his eyes, and were filled with a mathematical beauty.

Objects are transformed into geometric images or arithmetic symbols.

"What a wonderful feeling!"

Is this what scientific intuition is?

Lin Chuan no longer hesitated and began to study "Higher Algebra".

[Your hard work has earned you +1 math experience point.]

[Your hard work has earned you +1 math experience point.]

You study hard...

Time passed by, and Lin Chuan acquired knowledge at an efficiency several times, even dozens of times, greater than that of the real world.

"So this is what real learning feels like."

Lin Chuan believed he had done a good job in his studies to get into Yueyang University, a prestigious 985 university. However, this was all thanks to his hard work, staying up late into the night and getting up before dawn to study textbooks and do practice problems.

Now, in the wasteland, through the skill: Scientific Intuition, he is experiencing a different feeling.

……

In less than four hours, and with an additional 40 learning coins, Lin Chuan finished reading the two books, "Higher Algebra" and "Mathematical Analysis," and he had completely mastered them.

When he looked at the exercises in the textbook again, he had at least three ways to solve each one.

The moment he put down his pen, he felt as if an electric shock had flowed through his entire body.

This is the joy of solving problems efficiently, the joy of learning.

In short, it's awesome!

After the four-hour countdown ended, Lin Chuan experienced a slight feeling of weightlessness once again. When he reappeared, he had returned to the real world.

I took out my phone and checked the time. It was running normally; an hour had passed exactly.

"That's the whole process of wearing it once."

"The phone didn't display anything in the wasteland world, but immediately jumped an hour upon returning to the real world. This seems to suggest that the time rules between the two worlds aren't simply a 1:4 exchange rate."

Additionally, in the wasteland world, you can activate skills such as Scientific Intuition, Accelerated Learning, and Gaining Inspiration.

Skills require learning coins, and currently the only way to obtain them is by diligently studying in the real world.

"The wasteland has many places worth exploring, but you need to be well-prepared beforehand."

……

Room 303, Building 2, Bifeng.

Yuan Qi lay on the bed, flipping through "Legends of the Past and Present: Martial Arts Edition" while glancing at the empty bed opposite him.

"Why hasn't Old Lin come back so late? What has he been doing?"

Sun Ang, who was listening to music on the upper bunk, didn't even look up. "Qiqi, it's rare for you to care about Chuan Chuan so much. Didn't he say he went to the library? He's not going to the internet cafe. I wonder what's wrong with him."

Zhu Lin sat in his chair, flipping through "Mathematical Analysis." "Maybe Old Lin has been brainwashed by Instructor Wang. If you ask me, what's so great about the 'Seeking Truth' class? What decent person would want to go there?"

Sun Ang glanced at the book in Zhu Lin's hand and said, "Tsk tsk tsk, Linlin, you're reading 'Mathematical Analysis' here. You have no right to speak."

Zhu Lin slammed the book on the table and argued, "I just want to get more points on the midterm exam, not to get into the Qiushi Class."

"Tap, tap."

Hearing the door open, Sun Ang exclaimed, "Chuan Chuan's back! The four of us are all here. Shall we play a game before the lights go out?"

By 2012, LOL had already taken over the mantle from DOTA and become an essential part of team building activities in male dormitories.

Even if the campus network isn't that great, it can't stop the students' enthusiasm for playing games together.

"I have something to do, so I won't play today. You guys play," Lin Chuan replied.

The group of people all turned their attention to Lin Chuan, who was taking out reference materials from his backpack and sitting down to read them.

Yuan Qi exclaimed in surprise, "Old Lin, when did you become so studious?"

Zhu Lin glanced at Lin Chuan, then at the book "Mathematical Analysis" on his own desk, and said nothing.

Lin Chuan smiled.

He couldn't tell his roommates that he had just used a cheat and taken a trip to the wasteland. Now he needed to study hard to earn coins so he could unlock skills and snowball his power.

After thinking for a moment, Lin Chuan said, "Instructor Wang said there's an exam next Tuesday. Regardless of whether I can get into the Qiushi Class, I have to pass. I just want to study hard and then play games with my buddies after this is over."