Super Gene Optimization Fluid

That night, Xia Fei invited Moon Song, Chen Dong, as well as Beihai, Manjun, Bosingwa, and Ye Xiaohan to share a meal, bidding them all a simple farewell before he immediately set off for the Alliance capital in Khanid Star Region.

Vampire slowly lifted off into space; after Xia Fei switched the warship to autopilot, he retired into his cabin to carefully study and research.

The journey from Endaro Star Region to Khanid Star Region would take at least twenty days, and since Xia Fei had nothing to do during this time, he got ready to study how he could get Quantum Holdings to carry out a large-scale industrial-upgrade as soon as possible, from a small company that could only produce the cheapest products to a medium-size business that could compete with others in the Alliance.

From his video calls with Charlie, Xia Fei learned that Quantum Holdings had not only managed to survive and become a fierce competitor on the market but also achieved a net profit of 1.5 billion star coins.

This bit of money was nothing to Xia Fei, but to Quantum Holdings, a company that had just taken the first step in establishing themselves, it was a critical sum. After all, every money earned was from the pockets of extraterrestrials, and it was the first time in history that an Earth-based company had profited from interstellar trade. This was not only good for Quantum Holdings but also a great encouragement for the whole planet.

The facts proved that as long as humans put their heart to it, they too could compete for their position within the Pan-Human Alliance. They were all humans, so there was no reason Earthlings would not be up to par against extraterrestrials.

Now, Andre had already taken a backseat and was managing everything as an aide, only participating in board meetings when pertaining to important decisions that Quantum Holdings would be making. The burden of being the chief executive officer (CEO) had already befallen on the young Charlie’s shoulders.

Most importantly, the book even provided many practical cases of robot manufacturing, enabling readers to form a series of scenes, as if they were watching a movie, on how ore could be smelted into metal, creating the robot’s appearance, until finally the installation of an AI system, which would let a robot possess intelligence and emotions, just like humans.

Xia Fei voraciously read page after page, deeply absorbed in every word in the book.

As he read the cases of research and development failures of the robots, Xia Fei shared in the sadness of these researchers, and when reading about the successful development of robots, Xia Fei also shared in their excitement.

Xia Fei had completely lost track of time and space. He was like a plant that was rapidly growing at that moment, continuously absorbing the nutrients found in the book as he immersed in that robot world, unable and unwilling to extricate himself.

The Beast Spirit Codex had given Xia Fei superhuman vision, and his keen nervous system allowed him to register ten lines at a single glance. His completely opened seventh region of the brain made it so that he could understand the problems raised within the book exceedingly fast, and Xia Fei took only three whole days to completely finish reading the tome with over ten thousand pages.

Turning off the screen, Xia Fei closed his eyes and tried to rest for a while; despite his fatigue, his brain managed to retain the memory of what he had just read, and a feeling of extreme excitement made it hard for him to fall asleep.

“I might as well read it again,” Xia Fei muttered to himself.

He had no words to describe that excitement he felt inside him. It was like each freshly minted robot was being placed in front of him, and Xia Fei could even see these robots interact with one another, working busily. Though they appeared cold and emotionless, he could see the indubitably human heart in them. Happiness, anger, sadness, and joy, the myriad of emotions under the sun; all these feelings uniquely humans could all be found in the robots’ expression and words.

Xia Fei did not receive the indoctrination of how robots had wiped out humanity. Though it was a reality that nobody could change, Xia Fei was ultimately unable to feel any aversion or antipathy toward the robots.

Since robots were capable of the range of emotions humans possessed, then the qualities, which had once defined them, had essentially gone well past the scope of basic machinery, becoming completely human in the process. War was human nature, and Xia Fei felt perhaps there was some yet unknown catalyst that triggered humans and robots to clash, which ultimately devolved into war.

He continued to read on with great enthusiasm, and by doing so again and again, he was inadvertently repeatedly absorbing the many high-tech theories found within, which had been developed by the ancient civilization.

Meanings could be discovered after reading a thousand times; concepts and portions of the book that Xia Fei could not make sense of the first time he read it began to make sense after he did so a second and a third time, persisting until he could comprehend all that what was written.

Xia Fei’s reading style was not like those geniuses out there; repeated reading was actually a very clumsy method, yet Xia Fei had never once solved this problem. He had no other options, for his foundation was way lacking compared to others.

The Earth Federation’s education standard itself was fairly limited, and since Xia Fei was essentially someone who hardly had any education to speak of, the difference in terms of his reading techniques and knowledge retention could hardly compare to the top students from more advanced planets.

Fortunately, Xia Fei was resolute. He was like a foolish man moving a mountain, using the most rudimentary method to study and dissect the profound knowledge in the text bit by bit, not once giving up or complaining about how arduous this was.

Time passed very quickly, and Xia Fei, who had spent half a month living on his ship, would be arriving at the Alliance capital in five days’ time.

Xia Fei had not rested for even a minute in this half month. He would casually eat mouthfuls of cold rice whenever he was hungry and drink tap water from the bathroom whenever he felt thirsty. He did not even spend time showering or shaving, dedicating all of it to reading, unaware of the passage of time.

Nine times. This was the number of times Xia Fei had read the introduction to robot coding when inspiration struck when, suddenly, an idea flashed across his mind.

Just like how when a rainstorm began, the water droplets would gradually gather to form puddles before finally becoming a river that flowed on a path of its creation.

Xia Fei knew that when inspiration came to him, he needed to hold onto it tightly in order to develop this idea into a complete plan, which could be put into practice.

Hopping off his bed, Xia Fei was in front of his desk in a jiffy, rapidly formulating and fleshing his idea out.

That blank screen began to be filled out via the utilization of the thought-assisted composition program as several complex lines were conjured unceasingly. In a handful of hours, a complete drawing of a mechanical composition appeared on the screen.

This was a design that came as a result of Xia Fei’s knowledge and inspiration—an original creation that he came up with, which borrowed the technological accomplishments of the ancients.

A creation was like an inventor’s child, and Xia Fei of course loved it very much. What he must do now was nurture this child into a man, to breathe in a complete personality and life to it.

The drawing was repeatedly amended and revised, every detail needing improvement. Furthermore, the ideas that kept coming to Xia Fei’s mind fueled him with further inspiration as he made progress on this design toward perfection, step by step.

Three days later, Xia Fei lit a cigarette and admired the design diagram on the display screen with satisfaction. He was in a surprisingly calm mood, almost as if this was not the first time he had done such a thing.

“What is this?” Phantom finally could not resist asking this question.

Xia Fei smiled. “A product—something that can be sold all over the universe.”