Chapter 2

"Professor X system?"

"Why not 'Doctor X'?"

Wang Hao quickly found a chair by the roadside and sat down to study the system that had appeared in his mind.

【Open the system!】

Two modules appeared in the system: one was the 'Personal Module,' and the other was the 'Task Module.'

【Open the Personal Module!】

After issuing the command, several pieces of information immediately appeared—

【Teaching Coins: 0.】

【You have obtained a new ability, 'Gift of Teaching'!】

【'Gift of Teaching' (Level 1): Your explanations will increase others' understanding efficiency by 20%. At the same time, your explanations will help others correctly understand and think about knowledge, which will be 100% fed back to you.】

【Ability Upgrade Task, Stage 1: Publish ten influential academic papers.】

(To obtain the next ability, you need to spend 10,000 Teaching Coins.)

"Gift of Teaching?"

Wang Hao read it several times carefully, doing a thorough reading comprehension before finally understanding it.

"Explanations can help others understand better, and their understanding and correct thinking about the content will be fed back to me..."

"Seems pretty powerful."

The ability of 'Gift of Teaching' to enhance others' understanding efficiency would definitely make his lectures more efficient.

At the same time, the feedback of understanding and thinking about knowledge would definitely deepen his own understanding of knowledge, possibly even expanding to multiple fields.

As the saying goes, a thousand people have a thousand Hamlets. For every matter, everyone's perspective will have some differences.

Being able to gather everyone's understanding and thinking, and filter out the correct parts...

Impressive!

He immediately turned to the first 'Teaching Coins.'

Teaching Coins have a simple description below.

【Teaching Coins: Used for yourself, enter a focused mode to increase thinking speed; designated for others, increase understanding speed.】

(Current daily acquisition limit: 10.)

"Can help others learn, and can also put you into a focused mode, directly increasing thinking speed, making learning and thinking more efficient."

"However, the daily acquisition limit is too low, right? Only ten per day? To get the next ability, you need 10,000?"

Wang Hao was still very excited about it.

Teaching Coins could increase thinking speed, which would definitely greatly increase efficiency in both learning and research.

'Gift of Teaching' could help him understand knowledge more deeply, and while explaining to others, deepen his own understanding of knowledge.

Teaching and learning, complementary to each other!

He issued another command to open the 'Task Module' and found only a simple description—

【Create research tasks to obtain inspiration.】

【Current number of tasks that can be created: 2.】

"Create tasks to obtain inspiration?" Wang Hao tried to understand, "That means research tasks are related to obtaining inspiration?"

"Personal Module for knowledge, Task Module for inspiration..."

With knowledge and inspiration, how could research not yield results?

Wang Hao was suddenly filled with anticipation for the future.

He didn't rush to create tasks but closed the system, planning to familiarize himself with the environment first.

Walking around the university campus, he felt the strong academic atmosphere, the bright spring sunshine, and the couples resting in the small woods and grasslands.

Unfortunately, it wasn't evening, and he didn't have a shiny flashlight in his hand.

Before he knew it, he had walked to the Comprehensive Office Building.

This building was located on the west side of the campus, the largest comprehensive building in the area, with a total of twenty-one floors. The first six floors were offices for faculty members of various departments, and the upper floors had computer rooms, faculty housing, and many vacant rooms.

People were coming and going at the building entrance, with many students entering and exiting.

Wang Hao's age was not particularly noticeable in the crowd. He quietly went up to the sixth floor, found his office by the number, and pushed open the door to a faculty office.

"Student, who are you looking for?" A female teacher at the desk opposite the door pushed up her glasses and asked.

Wang Hao waved a greeting, "Hello, teacher. I'm Wang Hao, just arrived at the school. Could you tell me which desk is mine?"

"Wang Hao?"

The people in the office collectively looked over, and some couldn't help but whisper, "He's Wang Hao?"

"The one who was in the news? The 23-year-old Ph.D.? What a pity, how did he make a mistake in a project, with data errors? Such a low-level mistake!"

"Probably because he's too young."

"I know, I know. Professor Zhou Qingsheng introduced him, replacing Professor Li. I guess he won't last long, just this semester."

"Having such a problem, it's hard to get by in the academic circle..."

The female teacher opposite was also somewhat surprised. She carefully examined Wang Hao for a long time, then pointed to a position by the door and said, "That's the spot reserved for you."

Wang Hao nodded and walked over, finding his desk to be the worst in the office—

By the door.

With people coming and going, there would definitely be some distractions.

He didn't mind, being the last to arrive, the good spots were already taken.

Wang Hao didn't pay attention to the others, just tidied up his desk. He then noticed there was no computer on the desk, which was why it felt very awkward.

The female teacher from earlier came over and kindly reminded him, "You don't have a computer on your desk. If you need one, you can go to the computer room upstairs and get one."

Wang Hao turned and said thanks, then asked, "I don't know your name yet?"

"Zhu Ping. Don't mind if I'm called 'Sister Zhu.' I teach the basics of computer science." The female teacher said cheerfully.

"OK, Sister Zhu."

Wang Hao chatted with Zhu Ping for a bit but didn't talk to anyone else. He continued to tidy up his desk, then opened his backpack and took out a textbook.

"Partial Differential Equations."

His course was "Partial Differential Equations," and he was teaching it to three majors and seven classes. Each class was for two or three classes together, with one regular class and one problem-solving class per week, plus course preparation, grading homework, exam preparation, etc.

Still quite relaxed!

Compared to the workload in his previous life, being a university lecturer was truly a dream job.

He opened the textbook and read it carefully, finding that everything was already in his memory. He just skimmed through it, and most of the knowledge points were clear to him, and he could think of a series of extensions, transformations, and deeper thoughts.

With so much knowledge in his mind and rich teaching experience, lecturing was not a problem.

While reading the content in the book, he also thought about research issues.

He had signed a one-year contract with the university, but the benefits were the same as those of other contracted Ph.D. holders.

Xihai University adopted a seven-year contract system for hired Ph.D. lecturers, incorporating them into postdoctoral management. Within the seven-year contract period, if they reached the academic level of an associate professor or achieved significant results in their field, they could be included in the faculty.

To stay at the university and continue teaching, research and academic achievements were crucial.

His previous self was a Ph.D. in mathematics from Donggang University, feeling that basic mathematics research was difficult to yield results, so he hoped to expand his research direction.

Therefore, he decided to join the materials laboratory project, hoping to combine basic mathematics with data modeling and analysis to achieve some results in the field of applied technology, for which he read many books on materials science.

Other directions were not suitable for now.

He couldn't participate in large-scale experimental projects, and even applying for a provincial youth project was difficult.

"The best direction is one that doesn't cost money." Wang Hao carefully considered and knew where to start.

Far away, yet right in front of him.

Partial Differential Equations!

His previous self had seriously studied a partial differential equation problem during his Ph.D. studies.

Partial differential equation analysis is a fundamental part of differential equation research.

Some mathematics professors spend their entire lives researching partial differential equations, and the results of such research are often small and rarely noticed.

In the field of mathematics, the study of partial differential equation analysis is still very meaningful, as partial differential equations have wide applications. Each small progress can reduce the difficulty of research that uses partial differential equations as an analytical tool.

"This is it!"

Wang Hao carefully considered and found it very suitable because his course was "Partial Differential Equations." According to the system's ability, explaining to students could also help him gain a deeper understanding.

Thus, teaching and research would be linked, possibly helping his research.

He didn't stay in the office for long.

His official start was next Monday, and he just came to take a look, with nothing to do.

After leaving the Comprehensive Building and walking around the campus for a while, he went to the rented house.

Since he was temporarily hired as a teacher at Xihai University, the university had not immediately assigned him a dormitory but rented a house in a nearby neighborhood.

At the building entrance, two girls were walking forward.

One was slim with braids, with two dimples on her face, a sunny disposition, and a smile that seemed to never leave her face. The other was short and plump, wearing glasses.

They were talking as they walked, "It's time to pay rent again, and my living expenses aren't enough."

"There's no way around it. The university dorms are terrible, six to a room, worse than my high school dorm!"

"Right, this lousy university doesn't treat graduate students like human beings!"

The plump girl suddenly looked at Wang Hao, who was entering the elevator with them, and asked hesitantly, "You... do you live next door?"

Wang Hao slightly opened his mouth, thinking, but had no related memory.

"I'm Li Qian, and she's Gu Youyou." Li Qian said cheerfully, "Do you live on the fifth floor?"

"501." Wang Hao nodded.

"I knew I didn't remember wrong. I saw you that day." Li Qian said, then suddenly asked, "How much do you pay for your place?"

"2,300 a month." This memory was there.

"2,300?" Li Qian was surprised, "That's expensive!"

"Maybe it's a bit bigger."

Wang Hao thought for a moment and continued, "My place is 20 square meters larger, fully furnished, and everything is brand new. It's normal for it to be 500 yuan more expensive than yours."

【Teaching Coins +1.】

"——?!"

The system notification made Wang Hao pause, then he heard Li Qian ask, "Do you live alone?"

He nodded thoughtfully.

"Rich guy!" Li Qian gave a thumbs up, and the elevator had already reached the fifth floor.

Wang Hao couldn't help but laugh and shake his head. He didn't say anything more, got off the elevator, and opened the door to go in.

Li Qian followed him, glanced inside, and was pulled back by Gu Youyou, who pouted and followed her back.

The two entered the room.

Gu Youyou, facing the door, frowned and said thoughtfully, "The place next door, I saw it when I was looking for a place to rent. It was very appealing, but a bit expensive, beyond our budget."

"But, it's strange!"

Li Qian changed into slippers and asked curiously, "What's wrong? What are you thinking about?"

Gu Youyou said softly, "In the elevator, when he said it wasn't expensive, I thought, the place next door is bigger, fully furnished, and more expensive, which is normal."

"Then, he said it out loud?"

"Moreover, he said it was 500 yuan more expensive than ours. How did he know our rent is 1,800?"

Li Qian's eyes lit up, and she exaggeratedly pointed, "Could this be the legendary telepathy?"

"Yoyo~~~"

"Your destined prince has already appeared!"

"Seize the opportunity, take the initiative!"

She clenched her fists and waved them forward, "How about this, I'll go next door and ask if he has a girlfriend?"

She was about to open the door and go out.

Gu Youyou quickly pulled her back, exclaiming, "Get lost!"

"You should be more concerned about why he knows our rent. Could he have investigated us...?"

"A bit scary!"

Li Qian immediately reacted, covering her face and saying shyly, "Looks like I need to dress up nicely when I go out."

"What if the handsome guy isn't interested in you?"

"(*+﹏+*)~@—!"