Book after book was piled up at the head of the bed, at least fifty of them. These were all science-related books in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, optics, and so on. Every book was very technical and difficult to understand. An ordinary person would need a few months, or longer to even finish comprehending one of the books, but Xia Lei only spent a fortnight to finish ‘gnawing’ through them. 

In these two weeks, Xia Lei’s head was like a ball-shaped sponge, soaking in the knowledge in the books. The quantity of knowledge stored in his brain had increased by several times in this period of time. Knowledge which others took a lifetime to acquire was obtained by Xia Lei in a fortnight. 

Rather than saying this was a miracle, it was better to say that his brain was a miracle. 

No matter what book it was, how complicated or profound the information was, his left eye just ‘scanned’ it and his brain would start operating like a huge computer, absorbing the information and understanding it from various angles. At the same time, this knowledge was constantly being arranged in...