Chapter 14

Translated by boilpoil Edited by boilpoil

Bai Lianhua looks at the staff member with doggy eyes, “excuse me, can I ask who this Mr. Jian is?”

They seem to be quite surprised, “it’s Jian Yiguang Mr. Jian, how do you not know him?”

Bai Lianhua “…???”

Case closed! It is Jian Yiguang! But, is he so famous right now that everyone should know about him?

Bai Lianhua thinks this is quite the extraordinary development. If he recalls correctly, when he left this world, while Jian Yiguang can already barely live on his own as a normal person, he’s still a bit repulsive towards the idea of integrating into society or communicating with others. Other than when in front of him, Jian Yiguang is quiet most of the time.

Back then he thought Jian Yiguang would maintain a constant distance from society and become a hikikomori , to find a job on the celestial Internet that does not require one to physically contact others… With his exceptional psychic strength, Jian Yiguang was a really quick learner. With the wealth he has left behind before leaving the world, it’s enough for Jian Yiguang to have a good if solitary life.

Of course, there’s other possibilities, but all in all, in his imaginations, Jian Yiguang would never become like the person the staff member is talking about, becoming what is conventionally known as a successful person, to be… admired?

Bai Lianhua gives an awkward smile, and starts to lie, “I really am not familiar with this Mr. Jian… Please, can you tell me who he is? He seems to be an amazing person.”

Bai Lianhua looks both innocent and lost, perfectly illustrating someone who has never heard about Jian Yiguang’s name before.

“Mr. Jian is amazing, alright, he’s a priceless treasure of our empire. He’s an expert of psychic power, and the ideal inside the minds of us scientific researchers…”

Talking about Jian Yiguang, the other person is quite fired up. You can even say his eyes are shining, starting to list all these achievements of Jian Yiguang one after the other to Bai Lianhua.

So thanks to their storytelling on the way, Bai Lianhua finally learnt about how amazing the life Jian Yiguang has experienced after he left; it leaves one speechless.

Bai Lianhua links the information they’re telling with the situation on Jian Yiguang he has before chronologically, and finally comes up with the timeline Jian Yiguang has experienced afterwards.

——Speaking of which, he knew Jian Yiguang was smart already, and with his many years inside the institute as the object of experiment, people won’t specifically avoid him and, after nearly 10 years of first-hand experience, with his strong psychic power and learning abilities, Jian Yiguang is about as knowledgeable as and has a vision of the field comparable to the so-called experts. Rather, as the object of experiment, with his personal experience, he has an even deeper understanding on the fields related to this than those people.

Yet Bai Lianhua would never have expected that, while he was still in this world, Jian Yiguang, who was completely interested in, and even actively avoids scientific research, would walk on this road of his own volition after his departure.

Jian Yiguang stayed silent for a few years before dazzling everyone’s eyes. He quickly produced a large amount of research on psychic strength in rapid succession, where every single one of his finding would be on the level to be classified. There’s even a method in there that allows one to strengthen psychic power with a nonintrusive method. He has taken the methods the institute has used on him and combined it with the physical feedback he had and made multiple improvements to it.

These are of course all things that would benefit human society, but they’re all casually uploaded onto the celestial Internet by Jian Yiguang for all to see and all to check. And, he even used his unique SSS-grade psychic strength to make a special firewall for them that the celestial Internet main server had no authorisation to delete.

——In a world constructed solely with psychic power, he is the ruler that can decide what outrageous things can be allowed to happen.

This has shocked the whole empire, because it is directly challenging the authority of the research institute.

Especially as it appears as if Jian Yiguang were trying to pick on them, with his many areas of studies the same as the institute but with much greater progress along than them.

Everyone knows that the institute is the benchmark of the scientific advancements of the empire, but now, there is someone who, with their own capabilities, tramples all over the greatest achievements the institute can produce like trash underneath his feet.

Jian Yiguang explodes in popularity overnight.

At the same time, what is also made public alongside his research findings were… Jian Yiguang’s life experience up to then.

——In fact, it is only because his psychic power has been completely healed up after the hidden damages were fixed and he had no more weaknesses being held in others’ palms that Jian Yiguang dared to do so. Or if the institute were to attack him targeting his weakness, he doing so would have been a suicide.

As for the empire… Even if he made so much chaos, starting up a pandemonium, but with all these findings on him, even if he sundered the heavens, the empire would not have been willing to let him die.

Jian Yiguang generously indicated on the celestial Internet that he can hand in all findings of his to the empire at no cost and can even continue to produce research results, and put his SSS-grade psychic strength to use for the empire.

Just… he wants an answer to what has happened to him.

People have become angry. What Jian Yiguang has experienced then is certainly tragic. He, who was a kid, against his uncle and the institute, was undoubtedly the weak side without any retaliatory capabilities. This is already a sympathetic situation without considering how genius he is that without having had any sort of formal education after age 10, he has used his findings to prove himself and stand atop the entire institute.

Plus, all the findings Jian Yiguang produced, each and every one of them, if applied, would be a real life-changer for everyday life. Especially the method for raising psychic strength that could be applied far and wide. It is a maddening prospect.

When people picture how such a brilliant genius might have been hampered, they can feel a lingering sense of fear in their minds.

Jian Yiguang thus secures the initiative with the power of public opinion. As for how the top brass in the parliament decided afterwards, it was as expected.

At least his good uncle has been exiled to an ore deposit far away, never being allowed to return from forced labour. All the members of the institute were fired and replaced.

The next time he stepped into the place that formed his nightmares when he was young, Jian Yiguang had a new identity to boast.

Then Jian Yiguang showed everyone his capability with all the work he’s done, and accrues a greater and greater amount of reputation. He has become a legendary figure rebelling against injustice in everyone’s mind. His contributions to the field of psychic power are also insurmountable.

He has become a highly respected figure. Like that previous remark of ‘he’s a priceless treasure of the empire,’ Jian Yiguang is known to each and every person in the world.

Bai Lianhua is bedazzled. With how powerful Jian Yiguang is now, he sure can into space! How did he not notice this before… It’s like a seal has been removed or something and he’s then started loading up a special attack.

Then what use would this white lotus here have to play? He did save Jian Yiguang but he also had no power against the institute. He could only do his best to soothe him and relieve the negative emotions inside him… Compared to Jian Yiguang’s own glorious achievements, he’s such an insignificant speck.

Tch. What a white lotus terrible in fighting power he is.

The staff member also enthusiastically suggests that because Bai Lianhua has appeared in such a shocking manner related to psychic power, the field Jian Yiguang is most familiar with, so he might even have a chance to meet Jian Yiguang himself.

Bai Lianhua “…” Uhh, isn’t the tone off? Is that some kind of enviable good thing?!

The system also finds an excuse to cheer up Bai Lianhua, and says awkwardly, “look, host, the bonus surprise didn’t turn out so badly. At least through this, you might be able to meet our antagonist.”

“Or with Jian Yiguang’s current position high on the social hierarchy, you would have had a hard time getting in touch with him, right?”

Bai Lianhua “…” Yo, ain’t this a mer・ry・de・ve・lop・ment.

He does cheer up, though, not for the system’s ridiculous remarks, but because he felt his mission was certainly quite successful in this world. Look, didn’t Jian Yiguang become a good person by the end? And such a remarkable person too.

Even the method he used to take revenge is so justifiable and not reprimandable. He didn’t take any of the shortcuts that would have meant he would have strayed from righteousness.

Bai Lianhua originally also felt the antagonist might most easily have become mentally perverted in his revenge phase. He could only try to tell Jian Yiguang to let go of his grudges as much as possible then, but he couldn’t resolve them himself. This was a hidden risk. Who can guarantee they’d forget it forever?

Even if his mission was a success, it didn’t make him feel particularly safe. Or he wouldn’t have unexpectedly suggested giving his own psychic power to Jian Yiguang in the first place.

After returning to this world, he feared that Jian Yiguang might have used inappropriate methods that also harmed innocent people because of his hurry to take revenge that led to his white lotus mission failing.

Now, Jian Yiguang is practically a model exemplar for an inspirational life. He did worry over nothing, after all.

Hehe, is his dream of hugging golden thighs going to be fulfilled this time around?

Having understood Bai Lianhua’s thoughts, the system innocently, quietly remarks, “eh, wake up. If the antagonist really did become a good person, you wouldn’t have reappeared in this world.”

——A wet towel slapped right onto Bai Lianhua’s face.

“Shut up. Nobody would think you were mute if you didn’t say anything, system.”

Bai Lianhua again, again one-sidedly shuts off communication from the system without explanation expressionlessly.

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