Chapter Three: Choosing the Nobel Laureate Scientist Wisdom Card!
[Because your defiance of fate was simply too incredible, you have received an extra reward.]
[You may choose one card from the three Bronze Reincarnation Cards below.]
[Note: The Reincarnation Card can be taken back to the main world and will remain effective in all future journeys.]
[Champion Athlete Physique Card (Bronze Quality)]: From a young age, you possess a robust constitution and the potential to become a world champion athlete.
[Nobel Laureate Scientist Intelligence Card (Bronze Quality)]: You are innately clever and eager to learn, with the potential to become a Nobel Prize-winning scientist. Wearing this card also allows you to bring knowledge of two disciplines from the main world into your simulated life.
[Ultimate Overachiever Energy Card (Bronze Quality)]: You are bursting with energy from an early age, with triple the stamina of an average person, requiring only three hours of sleep a day.
After reading the rewards, Lin Qiye, merely two years old, let loose all restraint and laughed gleefully, his laughter as radiant as the little sun from Teletubbies.
What wonderful rewards!
So wonderful that Lin Qiye could hardly believe it!
It must be known that Journey Points are the hard currency in both the Vast World and the Main World. Whether it’s resources or treasures, everything must be purchased with Journey Points.
And a thousand Journey Points landed straight into Lin Qiye’s lap.
His SSS-level talent—Genesis Deduction—required exactly a thousand Journey Points to deduce the next solution to break the deadlock.
Which meant that with these precious thousand points, Lin Qiye could truly defy destiny and change his fate!
At this thought, Lin Qiye rolled on the ground with delight, like a kitten catching sunlight.
His mother scooped him up and smoothed the wrinkles from his clothes. “What are you so happy about, my dear?”
Lin Qiye said nothing, his mind lingering on the extra reward.
He understood it well.
He’d learned about it in school.
Triggering an extra reward was extremely difficult; only by avoiding dead-ends in the simulated life could one activate it.
The teacher had said that extra rewards were rare and unattainable by seeking; even a seasoned Simulant who had completed dozens or hundreds of runs might never encounter one.
Who would have thought that, defying fate for the first time, he’d trigger such a rare reward?
Life is full of surprises, indeed.
Lin Qiye clicked his tongue in amazement, his gaze shifting among the three cards.
“But… how should I choose among the three Reincarnation Cards?”
He was troubled.
Both the Physique Card and the Intelligence Card were top-tier treasures—he couldn’t bear to give up either!
The Champion Athlete Physique Card would grant its bearer great strength from childhood, making early death unlikely.
The Nobel Laureate Scientist Intelligence Card would make its bearer clever and studious from a young age, with the potential to become a Nobel Prize-winning scientist.
Lin Qiye truly didn’t know how to choose.
He was caught in a dilemma.
Suddenly, Lin Qiye’s eyes lit up as he thought of a solution.
“I’ll deduce the perfect script for defying fate first, and then pick the Reincarnation Card according to the plan. Wouldn’t that be perfect?”
With this thought, Lin Qiye immediately spent a thousand Journey Points and activated [Genesis Deduction].
Seconds later, Lin Qiye had his answer.
Curing a terminal illness was a formidable challenge.
To deduce a cure outright would cost ten thousand Journey Points.
Lin Qiye was nowhere near that wealthy.
The plan he obtained was to master the world’s technology and become a titan in the field of biotechnology.
On one hand, the deeper his knowledge, the more ingenious his deductions would be.
On the other hand, he could mobilize the nation’s strength to tackle the terminal illness.
Lin Qiye understood. “I choose the Nobel Laureate Scientist Intelligence Card.”
The moment he made his choice, a refreshing clarity flooded his mind, and his thoughts began racing dozens of times faster.
His eyes shone with brilliance, sparkling with extraordinary intelligence.
“The intelligence boost is truly remarkable.”
“I can move on to the next step of my plan.”
Lin Qiye was quite pleased.
“The next important event: enrolling in kindergarten.
“In the tragic version of fate, I would have started kindergarten at nine.
“But now, with fate reversed, everything has changed.
“I must enter kindergarten at age two. That’s the perfect plan!”
“But to attend kindergarten so early, I must show my exceptional intelligence, or my parents won’t allow it, and the school might not make an exception for me.”
He nodded secretly, then cupped his small hands around his mother’s face. “Books! I want to read! Mommy, I want to read!”
The childlike voice startled his mother.
“What did you say, sweetheart?”
“Books, I want to read books!”
His mother was a bit stunned. For a two-year-old to speak so clearly, and to ask for books right away—wasn’t that a bit odd?
But then she remembered the strange incident when he vomited after drinking a sip of tainted infant formula, and, considering her son was already as tall as a four-year-old, she decided not to be surprised.
She placed Lin Qiye on the floor bed, took out a picture book, and opened it before him.
Lin Qiye: “…”
To a genius, this was unbearably childish.
He didn’t mind; without waiting for his mother to read, he started flipping the book himself, uttering the name of each animal as he turned the page.
“Lion, tiger, bear, crocodile… Too easy, I don’t want to read this.”
His mother had no choice but to put away the animal recognition book.
She brought out a number recognition book.
Lin Qiye flipped through it, reciting all the numbers fluently.
“Still too easy, I don’t want to read this either.”
His mother was dumbfounded.
“My darling, could you be a genius? Are you really only two years old with this level of intelligence?”
Lin Qiye was undisturbed; he casually recited the multiplication table.
Then, standing with his hands on his hips, he struck a pose full of swagger.
“I want to go to kindergarten! I want to go to kindergarten and study!”
His mother hesitated.
Kindergarten was for four- and five-year-olds.
Could her child really go at age two?
Wasn’t it too early?
But…
Her darling was already as tall as a four-year-old, so sending him to kindergarten wasn’t too outrageous.
More importantly, he was so smart that he could recite the multiplication table flawlessly!
Multiplication tables were second-grade material, weren’t they?
Where did he learn that? From TV?
Her thoughts were a jumble, but more than anything, she felt excitement and pride.
Her precious child was truly a genius!
Overjoyed, she grabbed her phone and quickly contacted the best kindergarten nearby.
Red Sun Kindergarten.
Thirty thousand per term.
She paid the fee without hesitation.
Thus, Lin Qiye smoothly “snuck” into kindergarten.
Because he was especially cute and handsome, with a cool and aloof personality, and being so young, the kindergarten teachers doted on him.
They treated him like a little darling.
But none of them expected that, within half an hour of behaving himself, Lin Qiye would reveal his true colors.
First, he made friends with the other children, then, among the crowd, he shouted: “Our parents won’t come to pick us up! They don’t want us anymore!”
“It’s because our parents don’t want us that they left us here!”
With that, Lin Qiye burst into loud, heart-wrenching sobs, his cries echoing throughout the building.
At first, the other children were bewildered.
But within seconds, it was as if a line of dominoes had fallen—soon, all the children were crying.
A few more mature kids didn’t cry immediately.
Lin Qiye went up to them: “Our parents have abandoned us, haven’t they? Haven’t they? Haven’t they?”
With his relentless prodding, what four- or five-year-old could hold back their emotions?
Soon, there was not a single child in the entire kindergarten who wasn’t sobbing.
And collective weeping was no easy thing to soothe.
Calming a few only led to more breaking down in tears moments later.
It took the teachers two hours to get the children from wailing to merely sniffling.
But then…
Lin Qiye, standing aside, stirred up their emotions again, and the children who had barely stopped crying fell into a second wave of breakdown.
Even the children in the neighboring class joined the chorus of wailing.
The teachers were on the verge of collapse!
Even the principal was at her wit’s end.
She hurriedly called Lin Qiye’s mother.
“Hello, is this Lin Qiye’s guardian? I’m sorry, but your child is just… too extraordinary.
“Mrs. Lin, please, we beg you, come take him home! The school is willing to refund double the tuition!”
Lin Qiye’s mother: “…”
She did her best to apologize and make amends, but the principal pleaded through tears.
And so—on his very first day of school, Lin Qiye was honorably expelled from kindergarten.
But he returned home with an extra thirty thousand in “tuition.”
Back home, Lin Qiye looked innocently at his mother.
“Mom, I want to go to elementary school. I want to attend classes there.”
He didn’t wish to waste any time, for his terminal illness would fully manifest at eighteen.
He had to race against the clock to carry out his plan to defy fate…