My Intellect System Evolves

Li Yun's greatest enemy in life wasn't poverty or a lack of talent. It was damn English and Chinese on the college entrance exam.

His two weak subjects dragged him, despite nearly perfect scores in math and the science subjects, into the accounting department of a second-tier university. Every day, faced with debits, credits, and journal entries, he felt like a robot with the wrong operating system installed: hardware capable of calculus, software that only let him crunch numbers. Then came the AI lecture. Professor Zhang Wei demonstrated an experimental project that used a large language model to break courses down into skill trees. Master a concept, and the next light would automatically turn on. “The hardest part of learning is not knowing how far you’ve come.”

That night, Li Yun sat on the top bunk in his dorm and cobbled together a prototype of the system. He broke mathematical analysis into four hundred skills and linked them together with dependencies. Two weeks later, he had completed every skill in the undergraduate mathematical analysis curriculum. He was learning three times faster than by studying on his own.

He thought he’d simply found a useful tool. Then the System gave him a prompt: Innovative proof detected. Submission recommended. Then the anonymous signature “L” began circulating in mathematical circles. Then Chen Boyan, a leading authority on number theory in China, came to see him in person, and Li Yun answered his question in four lines.

“Who taught you that?” “There was a similar problem in the System. I changed the conditions a little.” “You changed them yourself?” “Yeah.”

He was twenty that year. He had no idea that this rudimentary system would continue evolving, from a study aid into an independent research engine, driving him to solve Goldbach’s conjecture, propose a theory of faster-than-light travel, and eventually gaze out at the stars from the heart of the Milky Way. From a failing accounting student to a navigator of human civilization. It all began on a sleepless night, with a lecture notification he almost swiped away.