The Most Powerful Brain in the Interstellar Space

Chapter 554 Shocking Change (Part 2)

This antique bookstore was just as special as I had imagined, with a green facade, red walls, and dim lighting. The overall decoration had a Rococo style... Stepping inside gave me a mysterious and extravagant feeling, as if I were in a palace in the old days of the Western world on Earth.

It was larger than I had imagined, with rows of bookshelves filling most of the store's space. On the other side, there was a small area designated for customers to use electronic reading. However, most people come to this antique bookstore to buy physical books; if they want to use electronic reading, they don't need to come here.

Furthermore, for antique books like these, which are mostly unique copies or published in limited quantities, digitizing them would diminish their value. Therefore, the reading room here only offers on-site reading; a fee allows you to read a short period or chapter, and if you find it suitable, you can choose to buy a physical copy.

Of course, many people will choose to just pick it up and flip through it, but it's rather bulky and the print is small, which is obviously not suitable for the reading habits of interstellar people. It's more suitable for use as a reference book.

Jiang Hui is fine with either. However, perhaps due to the customs on Earth, she prefers paper books. Especially for those that are more difficult and require repeated study and careful reading, paper books are more convenient for going back or marking and organizing.

Online reading is indeed possible, but with so many books piled up on his personal computer, he can't even remember which one he's looking for. So, for some good books, Jiang Hui still chooses to buy them all and use them at home.

She came to the antique bookstore today, naturally, to buy a rare book.

The sales assistant was quite responsible and didn't try to sell her anything. After asking about her needs and learning that she preferred to look at the books herself, she simply pointed to the designated category section and then quietly left, letting her find what she wanted on her own.

Over the past three years, apart from studying and self-studying at school, Jiang Hui has spent most of her time visiting various libraries, bookstores, and bookshops. She feels that her need for knowledge is increasing, and she has begun to move beyond a particular field or industry, systematically acquiring everything she can access.

This may sound exaggerated, like bragging, but it is indeed Jiang Hui's current situation.

It wasn't obvious before, but now she increasingly feels that her brain is like a mutated computer, with unlimited capacity, capable of recording every piece of knowledge that appears in her life.

Her body has limits, but her spirit seems to have no end to its exploration.

For Jiang Hui, learning is not about containing and filling, but about expanding and building.

Jiang Hui had a premonition that if she could keep learning, perhaps... in the end, she might actually achieve some kind of immortality.

Of course, this kind of thing is still too mysterious to talk about. Even Jiang Hui, who has learned so much and is truly on this path, can't say where he can go.

In short, keep striving and learning without end, and one day you will know the answer.

Back in reality, Jiang Hui found two interesting books at the antique bookstore. One of them was called "The Hypothesis of the Star Era World Engine," written by a visionary from the Second Star Era. It contained a series of ideas about mecha engines, as well as some assumptions and structures about future mecha designs. The ideas were quite imaginative and the perspective was unique.

There's a reason he's called a visionary rather than a mecha scientist. While his era had the rudiments of mecha and some groundbreaking designs, the technology was still immature. Many were derived from older machines from his home planet, and much of the technology needed improvement. The ideas he envisioned in his books were simply impossible to realize; they were more like wild fantasies than hypotheses or conjectures. Although many of them were later realized, they were achieved in a completely different direction and from a different angle. Or perhaps due to the rapid changes and transformations of the times, some of his ideas became obsolete, preventing him from achieving true mastery. Therefore, he has yet to be recognized as a true mecha scientist.

However, he wasn't without a chance. Some of his ideas and theories, even now that this star era is almost over, still haven't been realized. If they can be proven valuable for research in the future, then he still has a chance to be recorded in history.

The book that Jiang Hui had his eye on contained a rather exaggerated and outlandish hypothesis about the engine, which was considered heretical and even considered a cult classic by mecha pilots of countless Star Eras.

However, after flipping through it, Jiang Hui found the other person's conjecture quite interesting. It wasn't that it was particularly reliable or feasible, but rather that the other person's line of thinking was very different from the current mainstream thinking, possessing a kind of bizarre quality. Jiang Hui had studied and read a lot, and even this kind of thing could be found somewhat interesting. Having read through more than half of the book, and still having more than half left, she decided to simply buy it and study it further.

Then there was a reference book on the hard specifications of mechanical joints. Jiang Hui had been collecting books on this subject for years, but she hadn't found many, and her learning had been quite stumbling. Finding one unexpectedly today instantly lifted her spirits to the highest level.

As for the other things at the bookstore, there were many interesting items, but Jiang Hui had no desire to buy most of them, as they were optional. Some were too expensive for her to afford even if she wanted to. Seeing that it was almost time to leave, she grabbed her books and headed towards the self-service payment counter.

After taking only a few steps, I suddenly felt the ground shake beneath my feet.

what?
Jiang Hui was stunned for a moment. What was going on...?

An earthquake? That's impossible!
After arriving here, she specifically studied the geography of this place. Atlantis is a solid-structure planet with a very simple internal structure, making it almost impossible for things like earthquakes to occur—this is determined by the planet's geographical structure.

Could it be a problem with the building? Jiang Hui's mind raced with a flurry of guesses.

It turned out that this was not her imagination. Sensing something was wrong, the dozen or so sales assistants who were serving customers came out one after another to check the situation.

Jiang Hui overheard them discussing whether to contact the mall's headquarters, which meant they also found the fluctuations unusual and strange.

As they spoke, Jiang Hui finished the calculation, quickly stored the books in her spatial storage, and was about to leave. For some reason, she felt a pang of unease, a sense that something terrible was about to happen.

Jiang Hui thought for a moment, and as he was about to leave, he dialed the quantum communication on Man's side, intending to ask them how things were going on there and whether they had noticed any unusual vibrations.

She had a bad feeling about it; she wondered if those guys were still in the downstairs corridor, and she should tell them to leave quickly too.

(End of this chapter)