The Strongest Brain in the Interstellar

With things to do and a sense of purpose, Jiang Hui has been getting along quite well in the Star Realm. Each day, she learns a little more about this world, bustling around to fill the emptiness of her home, and before she knows it, several days have passed.

The start date for Beska Intermediate Academy is also approaching, only about ten days away.

Following the usual habits of students from Blue Star, she prepared to buy her school supplies in advance. However, when she called the college’s consultation office, she learned that stationery, textbooks, and other essentials are included in the enrollment fees. The school will handle the bulk purchasing and send items directly to each new student.

This means Jiang Hui only needs to bring her light brain to the college for enrollment, and she doesn’t have to worry about anything else.

Sigh, she won’t even be buying stationery or snacks. This back-to-school experience has lost a lot of its fun. Jiang Hui feels a bit disappointed.

Since the model of the holographic pod she purchased is out of stock on Planet 732, it needs to be shipped from another location via interstellar freight. The smart system will be delivered together with the holographic pod as they are from the same brand. Therefore, Jiang Hui still hasn’t received either the smart system or the holographic pod.

Her initial excitement has dwindled, and she’s started to adopt a more normal mindset to go about her life.

In these past few days, Jiang Hui has bought many e-books, intending to move them all into her spiritual space. However, she still underestimated the deeply rooted habits of the people from Blue Star…

Although these e-books are inexpensive and easy to purchase—just a few clicks on the StarNet and they’re hers for reading—they are, after all, digital. Reading them lacks the tactile feel, and the visual experience is significantly diminished.

Some novels purchased specifically for entertainment aren’t worth reading word for word. If she spends too long on them and focuses too much, she begins to feel like an idiot for wasting so much time on such material.

On the other hand, many of the must-read books recommended by interstellar people are quite difficult to understand. Some of the ideas presented contradict Jiang Hui’s way of thinking, leaving her dizzy and confused. She quickly gave up on trying to read these types of books.

Then there are the professional or reference books. These are even worse. While she can read them, the electronic format cuts her memory retention and learning efficiency by more than half. Jiang Hui still feels that it’s better to read these kinds of books in paper format; otherwise, she might as well watch a video tutorial where everything is explained more clearly.

As a result, among the nearly a hundred interstellar books Jiang Hui had packed and purchased, only a dozen or so were actually readable, and most of them were historical in nature. For example, “History of Interstellar Evolution,” “Prehistoric Migration of Humanity: From the Mother Planet to the Nebula,” “Ninety-Nine Famous Battles,” and “Starting from the Ninth Stellar Era,” among others related to human development and military history. Jiang Hui found these quite enjoyable.

Thus, her spiritual space has been significantly enriched with these valuable historical books. With this knowledge about interstellar history, Jiang Hui feels much more secure about living in this world, bringing her a sense of stability.

As for the idea of buying paper books to read, Jiang Hui hadn’t even considered it. Those have now become high-priced items, with each one worth many times its original value, typically sought after only by scholars who need to study physical books.

If Jiang Hui didn’t have a spiritual space, buying a dozen or twenty books to delve into her professional knowledge might have been worthwhile. But with this peculiar spiritual space, buying books becomes a waste—not only of money but also of time.

After much inquiry and searching, Jiang Hui finally found a compromise: she could go to the book museum in the city center to read physical books. The knowledge she accumulates from these readings can then be manifested in her spiritual space, and she can refer back to them later.

So, in the days leading up to the arrival of her holographic pod, Jiang Hui spent her time at the book museum in the central ring of the city, often staying there for an entire day.

Today, she went out, but she wasn’t heading to the book museum; instead, she planned to participate in a hands-on mecha-making experience class.

This was strange… Jiang Hui hadn’t even received her holographic pod yet, and aside from the occasional flying objects overhead, she hadn’t come into contact with anything mecha-related these past few days. So why was she suddenly going to attend a mecha-making course? This story goes back to her visit to the book museum a few days ago.

The book museum is not a library; it is, in fact, a museum. It houses many famous selected books from human interstellar history, most of which are available for browsing.

The museum is divided into a main hall and sub-halls.

To be precise, the main hall of the book museum is the kind of museum people usually think of. It has a collection of original paper books, all rare editions that the museum acquired through external auctions. Naturally, these original books are not available for casual handling and are meant for viewing only. Instead, there are simulated browsing devices for people to look at them.

The sub-halls are divided into two parts. One part consists of commercial areas, such as leisure zones and shops selling related merchandise, all of which are directly affiliated with the museum.

The other part is where Jiang Hui always goes: the book recording room. This recording room is not limited to the books in the main hall; it contains various types of books that have had their copyrights purchased and are made into paper books for people to browse. This part is more like a library, but access requires a membership purchase. Jiang Hui decided to get a one-month membership to see if the books inside would be useful; if they were, she would renew for a longer term.

That day, she completed her “scanning” goal ahead of time and felt a bit tired. Remembering that she hadn’t visited the other side of the sub-halls lately, she decided to wander over there.

To her surprise, this whole setup had made its way to the interstellar realm. It was evident that no matter how much humanity developed, they still followed a set of rules; many things remained the same, and might not change even after millions of years.

However, the high-tech gadgets produced in the interstellar world were naturally more interesting than the industrial products on Blue Star. But for the interstellar folks who were used to them, these items probably felt like an IQ tax. Jiang Hui thought she might as well take a look around.

Next door, there was a well-reviewed snack shop, and Jiang Hui was just about to walk over to grab a bite when a giant poster on the wall next to her caught her attention.

The poster featured large, visually stunning mechas of various shapes stacked in layers, filling the entire promotional display and creating a spectacular sight. In the middle, there was a blank space with two rows of large titles: “Hands-On Mecha-Making Experience Class,” sponsored by Dongbo Group & the Book Museum…