The Most Powerful Brain in the Interstellar Space

Chapter 597 Return
There are many outstanding students in the second class of the Combat Individual Soldier Department, and even with Jiang Hui standing out so prominently, their brilliance has not been overshadowed.

Clarence, Jaidi, Tader… any one of them would be considered outstanding in an individual combat training program. Now they're all gathered in this small class, and none of them are willing to concede to the others.

However, the student with the strongest self-esteem in this class was not Jiang Hui, who had always topped the list, nor the arrogant Clarence, but Jia Yidi, who had always buried himself in his studies.

He entered the university with the highest score. However, he gradually fell behind others in the class, and his path to success was long and arduous. He always seemed to be overshadowed, and his luck was really not good.

After all, with a prodigy like Jiang Hui above him, even the proud Clarence gradually began to accept his shortcomings and seek to surpass him.

However, this man is different from others. He admits that his natural talent may not be as good as some people's. But he believes that a person's success is not only due to innate factors, but also influenced by many more acquired factors.

Being inferior for a time doesn't mean you'll never be able to. The one who laughs last is the true winner—this is a concept that many ambitious people have always believed in and practiced.

Jia Yidi believed he was just as talented and hardworking as Jiang Hui, and that he might even surpass her someday. Therefore, he was always resentful of Jiang Hui and would often secretly compete with her, wanting to prove he was no less capable than anyone else. He believed Jiang Hui had more natural talent and luck than him, but in other aspects, she might not be superior.

Even though countless theoretical and practical exams over the past three years have proven that the other person's results were not due to so-called luck or talent, Jaidi still firmly believes that he will catch up with them sooner or later.

Until that day—on the chaotic shooting range, beneath the pitch-black ruins, in the fleeting glance back during his hasty escape… he suddenly realized that the contest he had always believed in was utterly meaningless.

Because he and Jiang Hui are two completely different types of people. In the face of death, he is just an ordinary person, while the other is an existence that can "transcend" death.

Suddenly, in that moment, he realized that he might never be able to surpass the other person, not in skill, not in achievement, but in something deeper that he himself couldn't explain. Something he knew but was powerless to change, because that was human nature.

No one knows what kind of torment he went through on that short journey from leaving that collapsed underground corridor to meeting the reinforcements, a psychological change that gradually made him realize that he was just a mortal.

For Jaidi, accepting her own inadequacy and ordinariness was such a painful thing.

He thought almost painfully that no matter whether that person survived or not, he could not go back to being the person he used to be, because his mindset seemed to have changed.

But he was also genuinely grateful and thankful that Jiang Hui had survived, because it made him feel that the world was still moving towards the light, and that Jiang Hui deserved to live more than any of them.

After returning from Atlantis, Jaidi thought a lot and looked back on his life over the past ten years. Suddenly, he felt that his past self was ridiculously naive. After resolving some of his obsessions from those years, he felt better than ever before.

On the day he welcomed Jiang Hui back, he felt so relaxed. Jia Yidi probably never imagined that one day he would be so calm and offer Jiang Hui his heartfelt blessings.

He finally reconciled with himself, acknowledging his own limitations, but he remained steadfast in his belief that anything is possible with effort, a belief that would never change. One day, he would show Jiang Hui the conviction he had always held dear.

However, he came here today not to say these things that he would probably never tell Jiang Hui in his entire life, but to return something.

Jiang Hui led the other person to her laboratory. After all, it would be impolite to leave a classmate waiting outside.

WALL-E was destroyed in that chaotic battle, and the laboratory was somewhat empty, with only some replaced parts scattered on the ground.

These items were originally made by Jiang Hui to replace various parts of WALL-E. At the time, she always felt that the mecha was not perfect enough, so she monitored the data and rebuilt it in various ways to adjust the mecha to the appropriate posture.

Unexpectedly, the main body was destroyed before the replacement parts could even be installed. It seems like throwing them away isn't an option, but keeping them is also quite sad, so we can only leave them there for now.

Jiang Hui poured water for the other person and then sat down on the other side of the lab table. This person was acting strangely; he didn't speak when he arrived, nor did he seem to be there for a visit. He was fidgeting and seemed unsure of what to say to her.

Jiang Hui didn't say anything, but quietly waited for him to sort out his thoughts.

The laboratory was quiet, with only the soft breathing of the two people.

The boy glanced at the person opposite him. The other person didn't look at him, nor was he bothered by his sudden appearance and silence.

She seemed very composed. This person has always been like this: calm, composed, like a deep lake, you can see right to the bottom but you can never truly touch it.

Even though his private space had been disturbed and invaded, the other person didn't show the slightest impatience. Instead, he saw himself reflected in their eyes... with such clear anxiety.

Just as Jiang Hui was about to fall asleep, she heard the person opposite her ask, "Is that swamp alligator snapping turtle scary?"

Jiang Hui was a little surprised, but after thinking about it, she answered seriously, "A little, but now I think it's a bit too stupid."

"Stupid?" The boy muttered a couple of times, not quite understanding what he was saying, then suddenly couldn't help but chuckle: "Is that so..."

Although I already knew, hearing it from the other person's own ears is different.

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"What is this...?" Jiang Hui shook her head. She came and went in a hurry, and her words were incoherent.

And she runs fast, does she think she can eat him?

He seems to have figured it out. As for what he figured out, that's open to interpretation; Jiang Hui never creates trouble for himself.

But this guy is really something. She never expected that what she was looking for would end up in his hands. No wonder she couldn't find it later…

Jiang Hui turned her gaze to the other side of the laboratory, where an item had appeared on the previously empty display stand.

It was much smaller than its former body, barely a remnant, but it was still it—Jiang Hui never expected to find a part of it again.

I'm back.

Welcome back, WALL-E.

The self-important, hypocritical boy, Jaidi, suddenly realized: you can't compare yourself to psychopaths or lunatics, or you'll either be driven to become a psychopath yourself or become an even lunatic... Just kidding—

In reality, it was a process for Jaidi to let go of his obsessions and even move towards a healthy competitive mindset. He understood not that Jiang Hui was insurmountable, but that his own petty calculations were utterly meaningless in the face of matters of life and death. He realized that he had only glimpsed a corner of the truth so far, while Jiang Hui had never strayed from it. That's why he felt that Jiang Hui and he were two different kinds of people, with different mindsets and choices.

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