Lin Xiaohe’s awakening stirred up quite a crowd.
School leaders, colleagues and teachers from the school, and former students all came to visit, bringing fruit baskets and gifts.
For a while, the quiet and cold hospital room was packed to the brim. In the end, Professor Liu stepped in and sent the crowd away.
No one mentioned the Lin family, and no one told Lin Xiaohe about everything that had happened after she fell ill.
Yang Lan buzzed around Lin Xiaohe like a little bee.
“Senior sister, want some milk? The doctor said you need to supplement protein.”
“Senior sister, do you want grapes or apples? Or maybe a bit of both?”
Lin Xiaohe rubbed her throbbing temples and put down her phone. “Alright, what do you want? No one’s this attentive without a reason—you’re either up to something or trying to steal something.”
Yang Lan rubbed his hands together, hunched his back, and gave an embarrassed grin. “Um, senior sister, I want the experimental plot you used for your graduation thesis.”
“That’s it?”
“Huh? That’s it.”
The two stared at each other wide-eyed.
Lin Xiaohe let out a low laugh.
Cosmic collapse, alien civilizations setting up conspiracies and traps, prehistoric civilizations awakening, swarm pursuers—having been through so many massive events, hearing Yang Lan ask for something as small as an experimental plot caught Lin Xiaohe off guard.
That made sense, though. Blue Star was a lonely, peaceful planet.
As an ordinary person, Yang Lan naturally thought about these practical matters.
Lin Xiaohe waved her hand and agreed readily. “Sure.”
“Thank you, senior sister! Senior sister, I am your most loyal servant.” Yang Lan raised both hands to the sky and cheered.
Senior sister Lin Xiaohe’s experimental plot had been cultivated extremely well by her—whatever was planted thrived, and the yields were high. It was the most sought-after land among the agriculture department students!
Hahaha, this divine plot had finally fallen into his, Yang Lan’s, hands.
Wonderful!
Lin Xiaohe looked at him affectionately and crooked a finger. “Did you bring your laptop? Can it access CNKI?”
“Brought it, and yes it can!” Yang Lan not only booted up the laptop but also dutifully fetched a laptop desk and set it on the bed.
“Senior sister, please go ahead. If you need anything, just tell this humble servant.”
“Go play somewhere else, I don’t need you for now.” Lin Xiaohe quickly browsed the CNKI pages.
The mouse wheel was practically smoking from all the scrolling.
Yang Lan, standing nearby, watched as his senior sister opened a paper, quickly scanned through it, then opened another.
He wanted to say something but held back, and finally decided to keep his mouth shut.
His senior sister just wanted to play with the mouse—what was wrong with that?
Play, by all means, play.
If the mouse broke, he’d just buy another one. He had to make sure his senior sister played happily and with peace of mind.
Actually, Lin Xiaohe wasn’t playing. Everything on those pages she scrolled past was memorized in her mind.
Back then, lying in the coffin, she had sensed a descending entity nearby. Thinking that she was at least a [Domain Lord], she decided to try descending.
Little did she expect that the descending entity was Lin Xiaohe herself. Her advisor Professor Liu and junior brother Yang Lan were right there by her side.
After descending, the body’s memories were absorbed. Lin Xiaohe compared them and found that the descending entity’s memories were exactly identical to her own memories from when she was on Blue Star—no discrepancies.
Now this was interesting.
She had transmigrated from Blue Star to the Federation, and after experiencing cosmic collapse, she descended back into herself, forming a closed loop.
Lin Xiaohe was, after all, a well-traveled cosmic being. She didn’t believe such a closed loop could exist!
So what she needed to do now was confirm whether Blue Star was the same Blue Star from before her transmigration.
Comparing Blue Star’s ecology, cosmic position, and major historical events, she found the two were identical.
But she couldn’t analyze from a more detailed perspective, so Lin Xiaohe still had her doubts.
She wanted to bypass the firewall and look at more professional cosmic research reports. But Xinbao wasn’t here, and her computer knowledge was only at an ordinary person’s level.
After thinking it over, Lin Xiaohe exited CNKI and started learning computer knowledge from scratch.
In less than half an hour, she could not only bypass the firewall but also hack into NASA’s database and look at whatever she wanted.
Yang Lan wasn’t quite at ease leaving his senior sister alone, so he kept poking his head in from time to time.
First glance: oh, NASA.
Huh?!
Not quite sure, let me look again.
Second glance: Holy crap!
Good heavens!
My senior sister is a master hacker! She’s browsing America’s classified database right in front of me like she’s strolling through her own backyard.
Family, can someone please tell me—should I pretend I didn’t see this, or should I pretend I didn’t see this?
Yang Lan’s face turned green and purple by turns. Finally, he weakly spoke up: “Senior sister, your computer skills are pretty high, huh.”
“Not bad.”
“How come I’ve never seen you show off this skill before?” With this kind of tech, hacking into the school’s exam question bank would be a piece of cake, wouldn’t it?
“Oh, I just learned it.”
“This ‘just learned’ means…?”
Lin Xiaohe: “Half an hour ago.”
Yang Lan’s mouth dropped open in disbelief. Seeing Lin Xiaohe’s expression—relaxed and casual, as if she were commenting on how nice the weather was today—
That stung!
Inhuman! The terrifying power of a genius student!
Knock knock knock—a knock came at the door.
Yang Lan walked over to open the door with a pale face, his feet feeling like they were stepping on cotton.
Professor Liu walked in carrying boxed meals and glanced at him. “What’s wrong? Why do you look half-dead?”
Yang Lan stared dead at Professor Liu like a zombie, his voice weak and listless: “Teacher, senior sister is a genius.”
Professor Liu couldn’t help but roll his eyes dramatically. “Did you really need to tell me that?!”
He took a few steps forward, then remembered that young people nowadays had weak psychological resilience, so he stopped and perfunctorily comforted him: “Yang Lan, even though you can’t compare to your senior sister, you’re still quite smart. You should put that cleverness to good use.”
Yang Lan’s face was expressionless, but inside he was screaming like a marmot.
Teacher, you don’t understand! Senior sister is a super-duper genius!
How can you tie a computer genius to the land and make her diligently farm?!
Do you even know that with senior sister’s computer skills, the entire world’s internet would have no secrets before her?!
Yang Lan looked at Lin Xiaohe’s calm expression, and a thousand words caught in his throat. He couldn’t say a single one.
Senior sister had her own plans and life path. He shouldn’t interfere.
If he didn’t interfere, someone else naturally would.
Professor Liu took out a boxed meal from the bag and placed it on the small dining table. He even thoughtfully opened the wooden chopsticks and handed them to Lin Xiaohe, his face smiling like a chrysanthemum, every wrinkle radiating kindness.
“You haven’t eaten in a long time. You need to eat slowly, chew carefully.”
“Okay.” Lin Xiaohe closed her laptop, the page left on “A Brief Discussion of Parallel Universe Theory.”
The food from the restaurants around the hospital was truly mediocre.
Lin Xiaohe’s tongue was like a precision analytical instrument—the cooking oil was transgenic soybean oil, the meat was frozen meat, frozen for no more than two years, the cabbage hadn’t been washed and still had traces of pesticide residue…
She chewed carefully and swallowed.
It’s fine. A little dirt won’t kill you.
Professor Liu loved watching Lin Xiaohe eat obediently, his eyes squinting into slits.
While Lin Xiaohe was eating, he rambled on about quite a bit of gossip.
Only after Lin Xiaohe finished eating did Professor Liu casually say: “Xiao He, I’ve found you a new job. It’s better than the previous one.”
