Chapter 117: Poaching

Chapter 117: Poaching

Chen Feng stayed behind.

He divided his daily time into three parts.

He spent two hours each day instructing the warriors of the Escape Faction, helping them improve their Azure Dragon Armor control skills for free. Although this was meaningless in practice, it was the condition for Chen Feng living here and enjoying the Escape Faction’s supplies and provisions.

He spent four hours each day exercising, adapting to and strengthening his new physical condition after his Gene Awakening Level exceeded 31%.

And he spent ten hours each day obsessively learning the “outdated” knowledge from the Escape Faction’s knowledge base.

The Escape Faction was born about two hundred years ago. Its founder was a crazy fan of a certain Dr. Sergey.

At the same time, this person was also the principal of a comprehensive university.

This principal researched Dr. Sergey’s life and his many scientific achievements extremely deeply.

In the end, he believed that Sergey was never crazy, but was actually more clear-headed than anyone else.

When this principal broke away from the World Government, he copied a large number of scientific research documents from the university’s electronic library, which eventually became the Escape Faction’s core knowledge base.

Although the World Government let the Escape Faction be, it wasn’t generous enough to share its knowledge achievements.

After two hundred years of development, limited by financial and human resources, the Escape Faction hadn’t produced much innovation. Its core progress mainly came from obtaining products phased out by the World Government from recycling agencies, and digesting and absorbing the World Government’s achievements.

Chen Feng didn’t care about the scientific and technological achievements of the last century at all. What he wanted to read were precisely those outdated documents from two hundred years ago.

He didn’t expect to become a jack-of-all-trades by trying to swallow everything whole. He focused his main energy on materials science, energy science, and advanced development of Artificial Intelligence.

What he mainly studied were basic formulas and some core concepts. He tried hard to rely on his own power to sort out a usable technology chain for industrial upgrading.

This was very difficult, of course. Even the university historical materials from two hundred years ago were still like a foreign language to him.

It was only because the scientific and technological achievements in these historical materials could only be pushed back another two hundred years, to around the 27th century, and the gap compared to the 21st Century was still too large.

If it were before, Chen Feng would have been furious to the point of explosion and decisively given up.

But now he had learned his lesson and had become numb to such unfavorable situations. Having something to learn was better than having nothing at all.

One must be content to be happy.

He began to actively face difficulties that in the past would have made his scalp tingle just thinking about them, so he hadn’t wanted to face them.

This time, he found the historical materials from the 27th century, and he would learn as much as he could.

Maybe next time he would find historical materials from the 23rd or 24th centuries?

He was willing to accept this unprecedented challenge.

Using his own strength alone, to learn the progress of several subjects spanning a thousand years.

Coming back again and again, learning a little each time, he would succeed one day.

What prompted Chen Feng to change his mindset was his current high Gene Awakening Level of 31.77%.

He was more confident in his own memory.

Even if he still couldn’t understand, he could force himself to memorize it.

As he memorized more and more fragmented knowledge, one day it would become a complete system.

Apart from these basic tasks, Chen Feng also had about one or two hours of leisure time each day.

He allocated this leisure time to things he was good at and familiar with.

Copying songs, oh no, listening to songs.

Memorizing the plot summaries of successful movies from various periods in the 21st Century, carefully studying the names of people in the art history of the 21st Century, identifying which literary and artistic celebrities had real talent and which were merely products of capital manipulation.

After going back, he would organize all the newly memorized songs and hand them over to Meng Xiaozhou.

He would try to win over in advance all those genuinely talented singers, composers, lyricists, arrangers, and instrumentalists who had talent now or potential in the future.

If conditions allowed, start cultivating these people from childhood!

Then, before next month’s dream entry, he would formulate a long-term plan for Star Peak Entertainment, specifying which movies to shoot and which people to win over.

As long as he did these few things well, converting more resources into industrial value belonging to him personally, and laying a better foundation for Star Peak Entertainment, then in the next thousand years, Star Peak Entertainment would surely play a more important role and have a better pushing effect.

Chen Feng had already seen Star Edge Entertainment’s failed journey once, so of course he wouldn’t fall into the same pit twice.

Of course, one undeniable point was that he hadn’t realized these methods in the past because he was stupid, mediocre, and had no business talent.

Now he had finally thought of it, and had sorted out a complete implementation plan in his mind, because he had become a little smarter.

Happy times are always short. Two months later, a small Combat Ship appeared outside Freedom Town.

“Chen Feng, have you played enough?”

Tang Tianxin, wearing a neat military uniform, swaggered deep into Freedom Town. She caught Chen Feng red-handed in the AV room while he was watching a movie.

Chen Feng stood up and stretched. “Please wait a moment. Let me finish this movie.”

He wasn’t panicked at all; he had been mentally prepared for this scene.

After discovering that the nice guy strategy didn’t work on General Tang, Chen Feng changed his tactics, reverting to his past arrogant and carefree state.

Since she had a heart of stone, and until he got her pregnant, talking about feelings was pointless. Why waste the effort?

Tang Tianxin’s breathing became slightly heavier, but this emotional fluctuation vanished instantly.

“No. My time is precious. I don’t have time to waste with you any longer.”

Chen Feng took out a stack of documents from the satchel he carried with him and handed them to Tang Tianxin.

“General Tang, these are the gains from my mission outside this time. Please take a look.”

Tang Tianxin said irritably, “I know what your Gene Awakening Level is. Why do you think I came?”

Chen Feng shook his head. “These are my self-measured parameters, done by myself behind closed doors, the only copy in the world. Take another look.”

Tang Tianxin snatched the documents and at the same time picked up her communicator to summon all the guards outside to seal off the area.

But Chen Feng put his hands behind his back and walked out.

“Where are you going?”

“Since you won’t let me watch a movie, I can only use this time to handle some private matters.”

While looking at the documents, Tang Tianxin grabbed Chen Feng with one hand. “What private matters?”

“How about recruiting the second-best S-class Armor Knight in the entire Military to go back with you?”

“The second-best in the entire Military?”

Chen Feng nodded. “Hmm, second only to me.”

“You’re talking about Lin Bu?”

Chen Feng was puzzled. “You know?”

Tang Tianxin nodded. “Of course I know. Do you think the Military’s intelligence system is for fun? Someone already talked to Lin Bu. He wasn’t interested, just said that those with different paths cannot make plans together.”

Chen Feng ignored her pouring cold water and went directly to the security department office building.

“Why haven’t you left yet?”

Lin Bu asked, somewhat surprised.

Chen Feng sat down in front of him. “Teach you something before I leave for good.”

“What?”

Chen Feng looked at him.

“The core belief of the Escape Faction is that humanity has a problem. If you completely side with the World Government, there is absolutely no hope, right?”

Lin Bu was very surprised that he was suddenly discussing such a profound issue with him. He thought for a long time and nodded. “Yes.”

Chen Feng narrowed his eyes. “But including Dr. Sergey and all of you, you can only treat this view as an inference, you don’t have a definitive answer, right?”

“Correct.”

“I can tell you, your guess was correct. This is indeed the truth.”

Lin Bu shook his head blankly. “How can you be sure? Can you prove it?”

Chen Feng thought for a moment and shook his head. “You are still in this game, a piece on the board. You think you have awakened, but it’s just your piece flipping over. You still haven’t jumped off the board.”

“Although my thinking has jumped out, my body is also on this board. I can’t pull you out. So I cannot convince you, I cannot prove anything to you. I can only tell you my answer. Whether to believe it or not is up to you.”

Lin Bu thought for a long time and shook his head. “I don’t believe you.”

“Is this the conclusion reached by your rational thinking and logical analysis, that my words are not credible?”

“Yes.”

“Then let me ask you another question. Your blind charge, trying to rush out of the Solar System, is a meaningless act. The only hope for preserving the spark of humanity lies with me. You should break away from the Escape Faction and return to the Military with me. What is your answer?”

Lin Bu shook his head again. “Those with different paths cannot make plans together.”

Chen Feng smiled.

He pointed at Lin Bu and said, “You think you have defeated logic and gained emotions. But you are still deeply trapped in it. Because on a piece of pure white paper, you can never use the same pure white paint to color it. These two consecutive decisions of yours were both made from rational judgment, which again conflicts with your highest ideal.”

“If you want to jump out, you must go against your rational logic and make the opposite decision. That is, believe me, and come with me! I don’t care about anyone else in the Escape Faction, but why am I so determined to take you away? Because my intuition tells me you will be very useful to me! Look at how I do things; I don’t follow logic at all, I only go by feeling.”

Lin Bu’s thinking crashed on the spot.

After a long time, he asked, both puzzled and slightly excited, “Where does your feeling even come from?”

Chen Feng said quietly, “I am the most special person in this world. You are at least the second or third most special person in this world. Do you believe that a person’s body can be blown to pieces, leaving only a head that can still be alive?”

Lin Bu continued to shake his head. “No.”

“But I believe it, because I’ve seen it. That person is you.”

“Ridiculous!” Lin Bu slammed the table and stood up abruptly.

Chen Feng shrugged. “See, I’ve provoked another emotional reaction from you. Alright, I’m leaving. Follow.”

Ten minutes later, Chen Feng and Tang Tianxin walked side by side to the outside of Freedom Town.

A long ramp extended down from the Combat Ship.

Tang Tianxin stepped onto it first.

She wasn’t in the mood to talk to Chen Feng, just frowning and sinking into deep thought.

She was making a decision.

Chen Feng slowly raised his foot.

He began to count down in his heart.

“Three.”

“Two.”

“One.”

A shout came from behind.

“Wait!”

Chen Feng slowly turned around. It was Lin Bu, who had already changed into casual clothes.

“I’ll go with you.”

Chen Feng asked in return, “Made up your mind? The reason?”

Lin Bu: “No reason. I just want to do something unreasonable.”