Chapter 5: The Joy of Learning |
After the incident, Luo Shengrong, Huang Shujun, and Su Hao sat around the table for a serious family meeting.
The topic was 'Discussion on How 'Luo Zhaohui' (Su Hao) Should Continue His Education.'
Following a rather heated debate, the family decided on a unique learning plan for Su Hao: he would skip grades and enroll in school, creating a student record file. He would split his time between self-study and attending school to consult with teachers when he had questions.
After negotiations with the school and a series of tests on Su Hao’s abilities, the school gladly accepted him. They even offered to waive several fees. A mutually beneficial arrangement was quickly settled.
At just over five years old, Su Hao became a proud middle school student.
However, middle school subjects like math, physics, and chemistry were no challenge for him. After a bit of review, he began tackling high school content.
The only tricky part was the humanities subjects like history and politics.
But even this didn’t faze Su Hao; he simply used the Marble Space to record all the content.
However, when it came time to use the history knowledge in exams, Su Hao discovered a problem: the knowledge stored in the Marble Space wasn’t directly his own memories. To retrieve information, he had to go through a lengthy search process, making extraction highly inefficient.
Acting on this thought, Su Hao’s consciousness connected with the Marble Space. The space appeared barren and empty, yet it contained an infinite amount of information.
The first step was to categorize the information.
But how?
The space stored everything chronologically, from the moment of his birth until now, creating a jumbled mess of data. Categorizing all this information seemed like an impossible task.
However, Su Hao had learned over the years that the space arranged its stored data in chronological order. This meant that the most recent information could be found quickly, while older data required delving deeper into the space, searching through past records.
After some thought, Su Hao came up with a plan.
He needed to label each tiny time segment with a corresponding number, allowing him to locate the events or information from that period. By organizing these numbers into categories, he could effectively classify all the stored data.
For example, in a one-minute timeframe with 60 seconds, each second could be labeled with a number: 1, 2, 3… 60. Within this minute, let’s say the first ten seconds recorded a history lesson, from 20 to 30 seconds, Su Hao sneezed, from 30 to 40 seconds, he recorded a math formula, 40 to 50 seconds, he scratched an itch, and from 50 to 60 seconds, another math formula was recorded. This minute could then be categorized into “History,” “Miscellaneous,” and “Mathematics.” Segments 1-10 would go under History, 20-30 and 40-50 under Miscellaneous, and 30-40 and 50-60 under Mathematics.
With this system, information could be categorized efficiently.
However, manually categorizing all this data would require immense time and effort, far beyond Su Hao’s capabilities. He couldn’t constantly divide his attention to categorize every single event he encountered.
Thus, Su Hao conceived of another solution—Artificial Intelligence.
Processing vast amounts of trivial information has never been a strength of the human brain, which is why computers were invented to help humans store and manage massive data sets.
If the Marble Space could be transformed into an automated super processing center, it would be invaluable to Su Hao—essentially a personal AI system with him.
However, building such a system would be incredibly difficult.
The main challenges were Su Hao’s time constraints and his current level of knowledge.
Time wasn’t a huge problem; if he had the patience, he could gradually piece things together. But he lacked the most critical information technology (IT) skills, including how to accurately filter, categorize, search, extract, and even compare, communicate, and automate the data.
Exiting the Marble Space, Su Hao carefully laid out his plans.
Next, he needed to focus on learning—starting with all the high school science subjects. With the assistance of the Marble Space, his learning speed was extraordinary.
By age seven, Su Hao had completed all high school science courses and took the college entrance exams, securing a place at a prestigious national university. He became a nationwide sensation, hailed as a genius and the future of the nation.
If everything went smoothly, Su Hao was on track to become one of the top scientific researchers, leveraging the Marble Space.
In September, he enrolled successfully. His parents, Luo Shengrong and Huang Shujun, quit their jobs and moved to the city where the university was located—Shangzhou City—finding new employment to stay close to Su Hao.
Four years later, he completed undergraduate courses in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, information technology (IT), and more.
Of course, his learning journey was not without challenges, but with the help of kind-hearted senior students and patient professors, Su Hao received immense support, allowing him to complete his studies within four years. Without their help, relying solely on self-study, he might not have succeeded even in twenty years.
During these four years, to ease his parents' financial burden, Su Hao also dabbled as a content creator, plagiarist a few books and songs. He became a prominent figure, celebrated as the youngest and most versatile prodigy in the Nation, even more popular than current celebrities.
However, Su Hao’s true goal wasn’t to write books or songs, but to learn. So after earning enough money, he stopped.
Yet, every time Su Hao thought about the absence of the Four Great Classical Novels in this world, he felt a sense of regret. Such classic literature wasn’t available to the people of this alternate world.
To repay the world for its kindness, Su Hao decided that one day, he would write the Four Great Classical Novels, allowing everyone to witness the glory of characters like the Monkey King.
As for whether a little kid writing classic novels would arouse suspicion…
So what if it did? Even if they were suspicious, they couldn’t find any evidence. Earning money was more important—why worry about anything else?
Maximizing his time and energy to learn was the priority.
And so, when Su Hao graduated from his fourth year, his adapted version of 'Journey to the West' was released.
At first, 'Journey to the West' didn’t gain much popularity, but with intentional promotion and Su Hao’s reputation, it quickly became a sensation.
In that year, the adapted Journey to the West became the best-selling book in the entire country, with no close second.
Though not everyone bought the book to read it, the “Genius Glow” associated with it made many believe owning the book could somehow connect them to the prodigy.
With the money Su Hao earned, his parents bought a luxurious villa in Shangzhou City.
Inside the villa, Luo Shengrong and Huang Shujun threw a graduation party for Su Hao and congratulated him on passing his School Graduate exam.
“Congratulations to our beloved son, Little Hui, on his graduation and on entering a new stage of life!”
“Pop~!”
A confetti cannon burst open.
Luo Shengrong and Huang Shujun cheered and lifted Su Hao, tossing him into the air before catching him securely.
By this point, Luo Shengrong had become a chubby man, far removed from his former handsome self.
In contrast, Huang Shujun, with her stylish looks, no longer showed the signs of aging that once plagued her; she now appeared vibrant and youthful, like a woman in her late twenties.
Indeed, wealth had the power to change a person.
Huang Shujun looked at Su Hao and asked, “Little Hui, do you have any wishes? Your father and I can each grant you one wish.”
Luo Shengrong nodded with a smile.
Su Hao nodded and said, “I do. I want to learn about Source code development and system software programming.”
Two question marks popped up in Luo Shengrong and Huang Shujun’s minds, but they were too embarrassed to ask for clarification. They simply smiled and said, “Sure, we’ll make it happen. Anything else?”
Su Hao thought for a moment and said, “I want a younger brother or sister.”
“What?”
Luo Shengrong and Huang Shujun were stunned, then glanced at each other, their faces unexpectedly blushing.
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