Divine Diary Ch 05 The Joy of Learning

Luo Shengrong, Huang Shujun, and Su Hao sat around the table for an important formal family meeting. 

The topic was “The Matter of How Should Young Friend Luo Chaohui Return to School.”

After a fairly heated discussion, the family council determined that Su Hao’s future study plan was this: To skip grades, first was getting a student personnel file, half the time would be spent in self-study, half the time he would be sent to school to find teachers to answer his questions. 

After negotiating with the school and Su Hao had passed the school’s tests, they agreed to Su Hao entering the school. In fact, the school even offered to waive the tuition fees. A mutually beneficial plan was agreed upon by both parties. 

At 5 years old, Su Hao had become a glorious middle school student. 

But the difficulty of middle school material wasn’t worth mentioning to him. After just a bit of review, he began to consume high school material. The slightly more difficult subjects were just history, politics, and other liberal arts subjects. But it still wasn’t too difficult. He could just directly use the marble room to record all the material. 

But when it came time to actually use the history knowledge, Su Hao discovered a problem. The marble room could record all the knowledge, but essentially wasn’t recorded by him. If he wanted to find the information again, he needed to spend a bit of time to search for it. The extraction efficiency was incredibly low. 

So Su Hao came up with an idea. Could the information he recorded be separated into various categories? Once he needed to use it, he could directly look for the category. 

Think it, do it. Through the inexplicable connect, Su Hao’s consciousness entered the marble room. It was a barren place that looked like it had nothing, but it had unlimited information. 

The first step to take was to classify information. 

How should that be done?

The information in the room had begun from his first birth up until the present. It was a big mess. Wanting to categorize all this information seemed like an impossible to complete project. 

But after going through these years, Su Hao had come to a deeper understanding of the marble room. He discovered the information stored in the room was arranged based on chronological order. That was to say, recent information was easy to find, but older information required a deeper search through the room before being able to find it. 

Su Hao thought for a moment and came up with an idea. 

He only needed to mark each small period of time with a serial number and he would be able to lock into place what had happened or the information from that time. Then he could classify those serial numbers and that would be the same as having classified all of the information. 

For example, a minute was divided into 60 seconds. Each second is marked with a serial number, 1, 2, 3… 60. In this minute, the first ten seconds Su Hao recorded a piece of history. From 20-30 seconds, Su Hao sneezed. From 30-40 seconds, Su Hao recorded a math formula. From 40-50 seconds, Su Hao scratched an itch. From 50-60 seconds, he recorded another math formula. He could then classify the things that occurred into the following classification “History”, “Trivia”, “Math”. 1-10 was classified as history, 20-30 and 40-50 were classified as trivia, and 30-40 and 50-60 were classified as math. Like this, he could completely classify all information. 

But classifying things like this needed a lot of time and energy and definitely wasn’t something that Su Hao could complete. That would also mean that he couldn’t ever be distracted and had to categorize everything he encountered.

So, Su Hao thought of a different way — intelligence. 

The human brain had never been great at dealing with trivial information. So humans invented computers to help process and store vast amounts of information.

If he could turn the marble room into something like a supercomputer that could automatically process information for him, then its use would be like having an AI system with him. 

To construct this kind of system would be very difficult. 

The difficulty was mainly Su Hao’s time and Su Hao’s knowledge base.

Time was ok as long as he could wait. He could always eke it out slowly. But right now, he was missing the most vital pieces of information, including how to accurately filter, classify, search, extract, as well as how to make comparisons, transmit back and forth, automation, etc. 

Su Hao withdrew from the marble room and slowly sorted out his plans. 

For now he didn’t need to think too much. Just study more. First take in all the scientific knowledge from high school. With the assistance of the marble room, studying was abnormally fast. 

At 7 years old, Su Hao finished learning all of the scientific knowledge from high school, participated in the college exams, and tested into a top-class college. Causing sensations across the country, he was publicly recognized as a genius, the future of the country.

If nothing unexpected happened, Su Hao could really rely on the marble room in the future and become one of the foremost scientists or researchers. 

9 months after entering college, his parents quit their jobs and came to the same city as the college — Shangzhou City. They found new jobs and accompanied Su Hao as he learned.

Four years later, he finished learning math, physics, chemistry, biology, IT and other undergraduate major materials. 

Of course, there were many difficulties while learning, but he was surrounded by helpful big brothers, big sisters, and old professors who had infinite patience and gave Su Hao the greatest help. This was the main reason why Su Hao could complete these courses in four years.  

Without help from people and if he just studied by himself, twenty years still wouldn’t be enough to succeed.

During these four years, in order to help relieve the financial pressure of his parents, Su Hao had also worked as a plagiarist and had copied a few books and songs and became famous for them for a bit. Hailed as China’s youngest and most versatile genius, he was more popular than the number one superstar. 

(TLN: I guess this is parallel world China, not just a China look-alike anymore)

Of course, copying books and songs wasn’t Su Hao’s goal, only studying. So once he earned enough money, Su Hao stopped doing that. 

But after thinking about how this world didn’t have the four classics, Su Hao felt like it was a pity. They were such classical works that this world’s people were missing out on. In order to give back for the help he received, Su Hao decided to take time to bring the four classics out and let everyone know about Brother Monkey’s style.

Thus, once he graduated, “Journey to the West” was published.

That year, “Journey to the West” became China’s most popular book, bar none. 

Su Hao’s parents used the money he earned and bought a luxury villa in Shangzhou.

In the luxury villa, Luo Shengrong and Huang Shujun held a graduation party for Su Hao and congratulated him on passing his post-graduate exam. 

“I wish our precious son a happy graduation and for entering a new stage of his life!” 

“Pa!”

Party poppers exploded out. 

 Luo Shengrong and Huang Shujun cheered and picked up Su Hao and tossed him into the air and caught him. 

Luo Shengrong had already become a rotund fatty, his former handsomeness was nowhere to be seen. 

On the other hand, mother Huang Shujun had begun to dress up. Her old age was nowhere to be seen. Her whole person was glowing, like she was a 27-28 year old young lady. 

Sure enough, wealth could change a person. 

Huang Shujun said to Su Hao: “Little Hui, is there something you want? Papa and I can grant you one wish each.”

Luo Shengrong nodded in agreement with a smile. 

Su Hao nodded and said: “There actually is. I want to study source code development and system software programming.”

Luo Shengrong and Huang Shujun had question marks pop up over their heads, but they were too embarrassed to ask for clarification. They could only smile like nothing happened and say: “Okay. We agree. What else?”

Su Hao thought and said: “I want a younger brother or sister.”

“Huh?”

Luo Shengrong and Huang Shujun were bewildered. Then they looked at each other and blushed.