Super Island Tycoon

In recent months, Jiang Cheng hasn’t been doing anything serious, just tagging along with his three women for fun and games.

The world’s top personal lab has been left unused for so long that if it weren’t regularly cleaned, it would be full of cobwebs by now.

This period has been quite carefree for Jiang Cheng, as he ignored everything, including his favorite research work.

After idling for a few months, Jiang Cheng finally realized he couldn’t keep being so lazy.

If he continued like this, Jiang Cheng feared he might even forget how to conduct experiments.

Of course, Jiang Cheng wouldn’t let that happen, so he decided to break free from such a decadent lifestyle and start getting back on track.

So Jiang Cheng returned to his long-abandoned lab, planning to start researching something.

The frustrating part for Jiang Cheng is the research itself because he found he didn’t have any great targets or know what to research.

It’s precisely because Jiang Cheng doesn’t know what to research now that he’s fallen into a state of confusion.

The awkward part for Jiang Cheng is that he doesn’t know in which area he should conduct research.

Before, the techniques Jiang Cheng researched were all aimed at solving problems he faced.

However, Jiang Cheng currently doesn’t have any problems that need new technology development.

Jiang Cheng’s biggest goal now is to establish a base on Mars, but it’s not the time for research yet since the Future Mars Rover hasn’t reached Mars.

Without detailed data from Mars, Jiang Cheng has no way to research the relevant technology.

So Jiang Cheng is now stuck in a state of having nothing to do, not to say there’s nothing worthy of research.

But the technical issues at hand are all relatively simple research projects, which have never been of much interest to Jiang Cheng.

Jiang Cheng likes challenging problems, ones that can truly get him excited.

These simple technical development tasks have all been delegated to his tech team.

There’s no need for Jiang Cheng to personally tackle these generally easier problems, considering he has over two thousand tech personnel under him, capable of solving those technical problems.

With all current work assigned to his team, Jiang Cheng found himself genuinely at a loss of things to do.

Continuing to idle wasn’t a solution, Jiang Cheng realized.

If he kept being idle, Jiang Cheng feared he’d become deranged.

That’s why Jiang Cheng is so troubled now; he wants to do something but can’t find anything meaningful to do.

Now Jiang Cheng just stays in his lab, blankly staring at his research notes.

Jiang Cheng flips through his research notes while muttering to himself.

This problem was already solved last time.

This technical issue is too simple, not challenging enough for me, I might as well let Xiao and the others handle it.

These research notes contain issues he encountered in the past. Once he discovered a problem, he would record it in the notes to avoid forgetting over time.

Jiang Cheng now wants to see if his research notes have any interesting problems that could occupy his currently dull time.

Indeed, Jiang Cheng’s current behavior is of someone bored and looking for something to do, a rather mundane act.

Right now, Jiang Cheng is bored to the point of needing to find work for himself.

Unfortunately, these research notes didn’t solve Jiang Cheng’s boredom problem.

Jiang Cheng flips through the notes while muttering to himself, with an increasingly unpleasant expression.

Most of the problems in these research records have been solved by him already, and the few unsolved ones have been passed on to his team.

So Jiang Cheng remains idly bored, unable to find anything that could lift his spirits.

”There’s really no interesting challenge at all, am I destined to continue being idle?

Honestly, I can’t keep being so idle; something’s bound to go wrong if I do.”

Jiang Cheng is well aware of his current state; he’s about to encounter issues due to idleness.

He’s accustomed to a constantly busy lifestyle, occasionally taking breaks is fine, but if he were forced to live like this indefinitely, he might as well be dead.

Is having nothing to do supposed to make me handle company affairs with Zhang Manlin?”

Jiang Cheng seemed to have found something to do—returning to the company to deal with trivial matters.

If Zhang Manlin heard this news, she would be overjoyed.

Too bad, Zhang Manlin is destined to be disappointed; even if Jiang Cheng gets bored, he wouldn’t do those tasks. He hates tedious work and wouldn’t return to the company unless absolutely necessary.

If he must handle those tasks, he’d rather remain idle.

Realizing his thoughts were dangerous, Jiang Cheng gave himself a slap.

”I’m really bored out of my mind, actually thinking about going back to the company. Better off just staying idle!”

Upon realizing his mindset was dangerous, Jiang Cheng quickly corrected his thoughts.

”Hmm, better off casually finding something to do, or else I’ll end up back dealing with company affairs.”

Jiang Cheng falls back into searching mode, looking for something to spark his interest.

What could pique his interest is unsolvable problems humanity currently faces, the more challenging, the more Jiang Cheng likes them. In some ways, you could call him masochistic, but you could also say he relishes challenging himself, depending on how you look at it.

Thus, Jiang Cheng set his sights on humanity’s unresolved challenges, intending to conquer those baffling scientific problems.

However, deciding which unresolved problem to tackle specifically became another issue troubling Jiang Cheng.

Human history has many unsolved challenges, across various domains, making Jiang Cheng’s chosen field too broad.

Though Jiang Cheng couldn’t figure out a direction, he knew the best choice was to ask someone. So, Jiang Cheng spoke to the floating little girl beside him, ”Lucy, do you have any good suggestions? Help me select a challenging problem that’s stumped humanity for ages, so I can use it to kill some time. Assigning this search-like task to Lucy the AI is certainly a perfect choice.

Lucy can search all human databases online, instantly finding all the historical enigmas faced by humanity.

For her owner Jiang Cheng, Lucy truly knows him well, able to sieve through the massive databases to identify the sort of challenges Jiang Cheng would most enjoy.