Chapter 34

Xiao Qiuye was extremely frustrated, truly incredibly frustrated. The excitement he had felt earlier had long since vanished without a trace.

The reason was simple: why was the man sitting next to him?

Where was the beautiful class monitor he had been hoping for?

Fantasies were just that—fantasies. If they could easily become reality, they wouldn't be fantasies.

He had deliberately put his seat ticket next to Zhang Xiaole's, but unfortunately, these days, who cared about seat numbers when watching a movie? People just sat wherever there was an empty seat. When the three girls plopped down together and Chen Yang also sat down, he had no choice.

So, tonight, he had lost both his money and his chance. He had paid for the tickets, but he hadn't even gotten a thank you from his crush. What was the point of all this?

Thus, after the movie ended, Xiao Qiuye was seething with anger.

As the crowd in the cinema gradually made their way to the exit, Xiao Qiuye sighed and was about to get up and leave when Chen Yang, the brother of the little devil, patted his shoulder. "Xiao, you like Zhang Xiaole, right?"

"You, how do you know... No, you're just making things up."

Xiao Qiuye realized he had spoken out of turn and hurriedly denied it.

"Don't deny it. As someone who has been through this, I'll give you some advice."

Chen Yang said earnestly, "To win a girl's heart, you need to be shameless. You have to be determined and persistent. Only then do you have a chance of success."

"You're still too shy. Tonight was a great opportunity. Why didn't you sit next to her? Why did you sit next to me? You're a grown man, aren't you embarrassed?"

Your sister, you're the one who blocked my way!

Xiao Qiuye almost jumped up when he heard Chen Yang's words.

"So, you need to be more shameless. You still have a chance. Follow us, and after we drop off Xiaorou, you can be responsible for taking the other two girls home. Dare you?"

Xiao Qiuye was about to argue with Chen Yang, but when he heard this, he immediately brightened up. "R-Really?"

"Of course."

Chen Yang finally smiled a little. "But there's a condition: you pay for the taxi."

"..."

Half an hour later, Xiao Qiuye willingly paid over fifty yuan for the taxi fare and happily escorted the two girls. Chen Yang, on the other hand, dropped Xiaorou off at her apartment building and waved her in.

"Wait!"

Xiaorou called out to Chen Yang, who was about to leave. She hesitated for a moment, seemingly making a decision, and then softly said, "Goodbye, brother."

Her voice was so weak it was almost inaudible, and her face turned bright red as she turned and ran into the building.

"Kids these days..."

Chen Yang sighed, "They really have money."

He touched the four or five hundred yuan in his pocket. The three girls and one boy had casually taken out hundreds of yuan, which made his face twitch. When he was in high school, his monthly allowance, after deducting living expenses, was less than fifty yuan. Compared to today's kids, he felt both pitiful and envious.

"Host, you had a lot of fun tonight, didn't you?"

A voice silently transmitted through his right hand to his eardrum.

Chen Yang's body stiffened. He took a deep breath and whispered, "Commander Luosi, you're awake?"

"I was never asleep."

Through tonight's observations, the right hand seemed to have gained a deeper understanding of human emotions. "I increased your brain activity to twice its normal level. How do you feel now?"

"Unprecedented comfort..."

Chen Yang clenched his fist and said seriously, "It feels like all my forgotten memories happened just yesterday. Even more incredibly, my mental calculation ability has improved by several times, and I can remember things at a glance."

He recalled how he had casually memorized the phone numbers of over twenty shops in the snack alley earlier. Now, he could clearly distinguish which number belonged to which shop, a truly remarkable skill.

"Is that so... It seems that with your current physical condition, increasing your brain activity by twice its normal level for a long time doesn't have much of an impact on your body."

After observing Chen Yang's blood pressure, liver glycogen, endocrine, and other changes for a few hours, the right hand gradually understood a bit more about the structure of human brain neurons.

It realized that its previous judgment of human potential was somewhat underestimated. The structure and operation of the human brain were so complex that even the right hand, with its vast knowledge, was amazed.

Suppose, just suppose, if it could significantly enhance the host's potential and then temporarily take control of the body, it might be able to engage in direct physical combat with other components!

Could it do that?

The right hand decided to try.

"Next, I will further increase the overclocking of your brain..."

As soon as the right hand spoke, the astrocytes near the capillary walls in Chen Yang's brain began to absorb a large amount of glucose from the blood and quickly convert it into a form that neurons could absorb.

The more the brain thinks, the more glucose the neurons need. Normally, the brain consumes about 0.1 calories per minute when idle, but when concentrating, it consumes 15 times more, reaching 1.5 calories per minute!

In comparison, walking consumes only about 4 calories per minute!

"Bang..."

Chen Yang's heart began to beat violently, and he felt dizzy. He couldn't help but squat down and take deep breaths.

What's happening?

My heart is beating so fast, and it's so hard to breathe...

It felt like he was suffocating. Even though he was breathing deeply, he still felt a lack of oxygen. His vision became blurry, and he couldn't see clearly, as if his eyesight was rapidly deteriorating.

This feeling lasted for several seconds or minutes. In this state, Chen Yang lost his sense of time, feeling that the world around him was hazy and suddenly became incredibly quiet.

"Thump... Thump..."

The first change was a rhythmic sound. Then, in an instant, that sound was drowned out by thousands of other sounds. Countless sounds of different frequencies vibrated and spread through the air, reaching Chen Yang's eardrums from all directions.

Countless sound waves hit his eardrums, causing them to vibrate. These tiny vibrations were transmitted through the three delicate bones to the cochlea, where a fluid in the inner ear stimulated some extremely sensitive nerves. The stimulated nerves produced electrical impulses that quickly entered the cerebral cortex.

Thus, Chen Yang heard sounds, sounds completely different from his usual state.

"So tired, working overtime tonight really wore me out..."

A man who had just finished his night shift was muttering to himself about a hundred meters away.

"Where did my phone go?"

A woman a few hundred meters away was searching her bag.

"Hello, this is CCTV News..."

A TV in a living room of a building was broadcasting the news.

"Scritch scritch..."

The sound of rats scurrying in the sewers.

"Buzz buzz..."

The sound of hundreds of mosquitoes flying in the air.

Such a vast amount of sound information continuously converged around Chen Yang, transmitted through his eardrums to his brain. Some cells processed the frequency of the sounds, some calculated the direction and intensity, and others analyzed the content.

At an unimaginable speed, these processed pieces of information were combined through the neural network. Without even opening his eyes, Chen Yang formed a complete picture in his mind based on the sounds from all around.

The man who had just finished his night shift was about 130 meters away, 1.7 meters tall, weighed over 60 kilograms, and was walking at a speed of 1.2 meters per second.

Within a 20-meter radius of him, there were three flies and 27 mosquitoes flying in the air.

Thirty meters away in a pipe, there were two rats, one large and one small, gnawing on stolen food.

Within the ten floors of the nearest building, there were 11 people speaking, three households had their TVs on, broadcasting news reruns, a Hunan TV variety show, and a love drama, respectively.