Activation Energy Barrier

Zhou Huan died once. He suffered sudden cardiac death and collapsed in front of the fume hood he was most familiar with. He didn't even have time to save the data. Then he wakes up in a strange world. Strangely, he could see chemical bonds. The carbon-carbon single bonds are silver-white thin lines, the carbon-oxygen double bonds glow with a bluish halo, and the hydrogen bonds are floating in the air. He thought he was crazy until he discovered that everyone in the world could see it. Zhou Huan soon learned that people with "mental power" are called bonders - they can choose the path of chemical reactions with their own will. Observation is choice. As a modern man with hundreds of years of chemical accumulation in his mind, Zhou Huan thought this was a dimensionality reduction attack. Until a mining accident occurs, he uses textbook deductions to save people, but the chemical rules of this world are not exactly the same as those of the earth. His knowledge is just a limited set of empirical formulas. It was at that moment that he truly began to understand the world. He meets Su Muqing, a girl who can see electron clouds. She is so talented but for some reason she hates her ability. Lin Wanhe, a slum pharmacist, and Fei Yunzhou, a mentor, each explore the world in their own way. The three major forces, the Carbon Ring Society, the Orbital School, and the Entropy Increase Church, are tearing apart over the nature of chemistry, and Zhou Huan begins to doubt everything. When the truth of the old era emerges, a more cruel question lies ahead. The price of understanding the world is losing the ability to choose.