EBE Chapter 82 The Genius White-Haired Brother
Chapter 82 The Genius White-Haired Brother
From then on, the white-haired, white-browed young man stayed with Lin Yue's second daughter, Jingjing. You might think the two were a good match, but that's not the case. Jingjing always thought he was an old monster.
Quietly, through a combination of coaxing and deception, she lured the young man into the military laboratory, drew a vial of blood, and had scientists determine his true age. The blood test confirmed that he was indeed over five thousand years old. Not only was Jingjing so astonished upon hearing this news that her eyes nearly popped out of her head and her jaw almost dislocated, but even the scientists and leaders at all levels were amazed and found it unbelievable.
Now, all sorts of bizarre things have begun to happen in this world. First, this person has actually lived for over five thousand years. The nation invited him to join a special department, and after some investigation, they finally learned that this young man was once a wealthy young master who studied cultivation techniques with a sect. Due to his extraordinary talent, while others needed to undergo tribulations at the Golden Core and Upper Stages, he didn't need to, passing through directly. Throughout his five thousand years of growth, he consistently passed through these stages, reaching the highest level of cultivation on Earth. Even the highest-ranking Taoist master invited by the national leaders, after seeing him, said that his own level was not as high as his. Although this person possesses world-destroying abilities, he still has the mentality of someone in their twenties, something no one could have imagined.
Even more unexpectedly, the young man was not used to the constraints imposed on him by the state; instead, he preferred to wander around like a lost soul. Because he could disappear in the blink of an eye, the state put a tracking bracelet on him to find him, and he was put on it without even realizing it.
After putting on the bracelet, he became very interested in the advanced technology of today's mobile phones, computers, and code. He grabbed a young man in the army who was a highly skilled coder, ignoring Jingjing, and made the young man follow him around teaching him. The young man was dumbfounded, because this man couldn't even understand modern vernacular Chinese, so how could he write code? The white-haired, white-browed man said, "Just teach me, I'll be fast. I'm a genius. Do you know what a genius is? If you haven't seen a genius, don't talk. Now teach me one by one."
The young man received a mission from the government to take good care of this old ancestor, so he began to educate him. He even took the old ancestor to a museum next to the national army base, saying it was a library.
After taking him inside, the teacher explained the evolution of ancient Chinese characters to modern vernacular Chinese, step by step. The teacher complained that the explanation was too slow, so when he led him to the library, faced with a series of categorized books, the teacher didn't want the young man to follow him anymore and asked questions whenever he didn't understand. The teacher asked more and more questions, and the young man struggled to answer them. Because the teacher had explained the origins of the characters to modern vernacular Chinese, he quickly mastered it. After mastering it, he saw the young man's computer and asked, "You taught me vernacular Chinese, so what language does the computer use?" The young man replied that it was a foreign language called English.
The young man, named Xiaomeng, was a towering 1.82 meters tall. He said, "First, learn the three thousand basic characters of our country's writing system. Then I'll teach you English and some science and technology." The handsome man with white hair and eyebrows agreed and began flipping through the book at an astonishing speed. After mastering the three thousand characters, his speed in understanding five thousand years of history was even more astonishing. He would turn a page and scan it like a scanner. For the entire night, while Xiaomeng, who was in the military, stayed to write code, the handsome man with white hair and eyebrows kept reading. The library lights were left on all night because of his presence. This old man scanned through an entire bookshelf of books, about three thousand books in one night. He not only understood the historical evolution and the characters, but also the ancient scripts of the Chu and Qin states. Actually, he already knew them, but he was just familiarizing himself with the process of the script evolving into vernacular Chinese and also memorizing the five thousand years of historical evolution.
As dawn broke, Xiaomeng finished writing the code, stretched, and said, "Big brother, let's go! Are you hungry? Let's go eat together." The handsome man with white hair and eyebrows said, "I'm not hungry. I've been fasting for many years, I don't need to eat. If you want to eat, then go ahead." Xiaomeng said, "Think about it, you've been asleep for five thousand years. Our country is a culinary superpower, with so many delicious foods. Don't you want to try them? Come with me, our canteen is like a five-star hotel." The handsome man with white hair and eyebrows asked, "What's a five-star hotel?" Xiaomeng said, "I'll take you to see it, it'll definitely make you want to eat." "Are you sure you won't waste time?" the handsome man with white hair and eyebrows said. Xiaomeng said, "How could it be a waste of time? People have emotions and desires, they need to eat too. People are like iron, food is like steel, you need to eat to stay strong. Even if you don't eat, I still need to eat, my brother." Then Xiaomeng called him brother, and everyone called him White-Haired Brother.
That night, the white-haired man went through all the books on that bookshelf; the table and the floor were covered in books. After he left, no one dared to help put the books back on the shelf, fearing the ancestor's wrath. They also didn't know which books he had read and which he hadn't. Fortunately, the books he had placed were arranged in a relatively orderly manner, so no one dared to touch them.
The handsome white-haired man followed Xiaomeng to the army's mess hall. The mess hall had two floors; the lower floor was for frontline soldiers, while the upper floor had a separate area for private meals, generally used for entertaining high-ranking officers and serving individual dishes—a more upscale area. Xiaomeng showed him around the various food stalls before leading him upstairs. Xiaomeng, a native of Chengdu, loved spicy food and ordered several of her favorite dishes, then asked the older brother what he wanted to eat. The older brother looked at the pictures of the delicious dishes on display and ordered two things as well: sweet and sour pork ribs, and squirrel-shaped mandarin fish and chicken stew with mushrooms, since Xiaomeng had ordered everything spicy. Xiaomeng ordered Mapo tofu, braised pork belly, spicy stir-fried chicken, spicy blood curd, and boiled beef—all spicy except for the braised pork belly. Xiaomeng asked, "Brother, can you finish all this?" The older brother replied, "I don't know, I haven't eaten in years." The amount of food they ordered was excessive by normal standards, but Xiaomeng wanted him to try it, after all, he hadn't eaten in five thousand years. Then the two ordered a bowl of rice. Xiaomeng asked, "Brother, do you prefer steamed buns, rice, or noodles?" The white-haired brother said, "I'll go with whatever you say." Xiaomeng was from Chengdu, so she ordered white rice. They each had a large bowl, almost half a jin (250 grams), and started eating.
The moment the white-haired man picked up his chopsticks, the air of a noble young master from a prestigious family was on full display. He ate with such elegance that it could only be described as graceful, a stark contrast to Xiaomeng's eating habits and demeanor. Xiaomeng, having spent a long time in the military, ate more heartily and casually.
Xiao Meng ate incredibly fast, while the white-haired man ate at a leisurely pace. His white hair and eyebrows, along with his light blue robe, made him stand out in the restaurant. But everyone knew not to question him, especially those in special departments who had seen people with different skin types or even aliens. For them, his unusual attire, while providing a contrast, wasn't particularly striking. They would just glance at him and continue eating and drinking as usual.
What's most intriguing is that one person is wolfing down their food, while the other is slowly and carefully eating, tasting each bite of everything before slowly enjoying it with rice. This left Jingjing, who was eating at a distance, completely dumbfounded. Jingjing had just finished her mission and was reporting to the army; she hadn't left yet, but she came here to eat as well. She saw the white-haired, white-browed Ancestor and Xiaomeng together. Ancestor had already seen her and smiled and nodded. After finishing her meal, Jingjing came over to say hello and then left to continue her work.
After finishing his meal, the white-haired guy was taken back to the library by Xiaomeng. With a wave of his hand, all the books on the floor returned to their original positions. Not only that, he also organized and categorized them, rearranging their order to make the row of books more structured. Following his logic would help him better understand the evolution of characters. Xiaomeng continued coding, while the white-haired guy looked at the books on the second, third, and fourth bookshelves. This series of bookshelves had about twenty shelves, with various categories, ranging from the evolution of characters to elementary school numbers like a, o, e, i, u, and then to middle and high school knowledge—everything imaginable.
Because the military base has family quarters, children, and even kindergartens, primary schools, middle schools, and high schools, and due to the classified nature of the personnel, many things are handled internally, this library serves not only the military personnel but also the children in the family quarters, including children's books. For the past few days since the white-haired, white-browed man came, the library has been closed, open exclusively for this ancestor. His reading speed is like laser scanning; having mastered Chinese characters during the day, he now seems to multitask, the books floating in the air, turning pages automatically, which he browses rapidly like a scanner. Soon, he has read all the books on the dozens of shelves on the first floor, categorized by subject. After that, Xiaomeng took him to the second floor, where the books are even more extensive, mostly university-level courses such as military affairs, politics, mathematics, and culture. They are diverse, not categorized, and he reads them one by one, absorbing as much as he can. On the third floor, there are even more advanced subjects like economics, calculus, and mathematics.
After reading through the books on the third floor, the white-haired man hadn't touched the English section. He then went to the fourth floor, browsing through advanced mathematics, environmental science, biotechnology, chemistry, and other sophisticated subjects, but still left the English untouched. After finishing, he came down from the fourth floor, found Xiaomeng on the third floor, and asked her to teach him English.
Xiao Meng suddenly had a thought and asked, "Big brother, have you read them all?" The white-haired man nodded. Xiao Meng was astonished and wrote a calculus problem on her notebook for him to solve. After looking at it, he picked up his pen and wrote it down, and surprisingly, he got it right. Xiao Meng then gave him a chemistry problem and a calculus problem, which he also solved correctly. Xiao Meng secretly marveled, "Is this even human-made?"
Afterwards, Xiaomeng led him to the first floor, where there was a small children's picture book area that Baifage hadn't noticed before. Just around the corner was the children's section, filled with English picture books and educational materials like nursery rhymes from educational TV programs. Xiaomeng taught Baifage the letters one by one, but he said, "You only need to teach me once." Xiaomeng taught him as if reading gibberish, and after reading the English once, Baifage understood it. She taught him the pronunciation of words and phonics, which he also grasped in one go. Taking a CET-4 vocabulary book, Baifage said he had memorized the entire content after twenty minutes.
Xiaomeng didn't know how to teach spoken English, so she found several foreign films and played them in the children's classroom. At first, the white-haired boy didn't understand many things, such as cars, cell phones, and computers shown in the movies, as well as many English phrases, but he tried hard to remember them. The tenth film ended a day later. He spent three whole days in the library, during which he not only learned about five thousand years of history and culture and acquired five thousand years of knowledge, but also mastered English.
Three days later, the white-haired man asked Xiaomeng to teach him how to code and be a hacker, because the scenes in the movie interested him. Xiaomeng applied for three new things and gave them to the white-haired man, and then began teaching him based on the ID card and related procedures registered for him by the state.
A genius is a genius; even after five thousand years, he remains a genius. What we've studied diligently for decades, he devoured in just three days every book available in the library, from the first to the fourth floor, including English books. Unbelievable, isn't it? Inconceivable, isn't it? But that's reality; such an astonishing figure has emerged.
This seemingly mysterious white-haired man, though over five thousand years old, actually had the mental age of only twenty-five, which is why he and Xiaomeng got along so well. Xiaomeng showed him the training grounds and the five-kilometer running track they usually used. He followed Xiaomeng during physical training, during target practice, and even during skydiving. Moreover, he learned incredibly quickly. Xiaomeng taught this ancestor everything she could: flying airplanes, driving cars, trucks, tanks, even fighter jets and drones. He even tried driving large ships; while one person couldn't sail a large ship alone, he could manage small boats and speedboats. He was practically omnipotent. The white-haired man said, "We used to fly and teleport using our cultivation, but you can do it with technology too. Ordinary people have their advantages too."
Finally, the white-haired man spent three full months in the military. During those three months, he learned everything the army could teach him, and he truly learned a great deal. He expressed to his superiors that he wanted to travel. He learned about the relevant national regulations and systems, promising not to violate any rules or disrupt ordinary people's lives. Then, the white-haired man began his journey.
So, the funny thing is, the white-haired guy decided to go on a trip, but he ended up going to find Jingjing. Jingjing was on a mission at the border, which the white-haired guy didn't know at first, but he seemed to have a special way of locating her. How he did it is unknown, but he just knew. And he also discovered that Jingjing was in danger.
Unexpectedly, he immediately mounted his sword and streaked across the sky like a meteor, heading straight for Jingjing's location. His claim of not disturbing ordinary people meant acting under the cover of night, when others would hardly notice him. Like a meteor streaking across the sky—why a meteor? Because he had cast an invisibility spell, but his rapid movement created friction with the air, generating a spark-like effect. Normally, he would fly slowly on his sword undetected, but this time the situation was urgent; he was rushing to rescue someone.