Otherwise, when walking down the street, a huge pile of useless information would appear in your field of vision—even the trash cans and flower beds by the roadside would display data panels. Wouldn’t that drive him crazy?

Moreover, William Carter also noticed that everyone’s personal intelligent system, strictly speaking, is just a guidance and assistance system. It’s responsible for directing you to do certain things or helping you handle some issues.

It seems very practical, but in reality, it won’t help you solve things or problems you don’t currently understand. It will even tell you that many of its functions are locked, and only when you acquire certain information will the corresponding modules be unlocked.

“So, after clearing the medium difficulty, did you unlock any new trials?” William Carter asked.

Grace Bennett shook her head. “No, but the personal AI did notify me that I’ve now unlocked the hard difficulty. After clearing hard, there’s still Despair and Insane difficulties. Completing those will grant new rewards.”

“Also, each difficulty has a completion percentage. My medium difficulty completion is actually only 69. If I increase the completion, there will be rewards as well.”

“All right, I’m going back to my room to challenge higher difficulties. Don’t get discouraged, keep it up!”

After saying this, Grace Bennett went back to her room, giving William Carter an encouraging look before leaving.

“Damn it…”

William Carter was feeling bitter. Damn, he’d only just jumped to the 35th platform, and the 100th platform was still a long way off.

But then William Carter suddenly thought of something—his own difficulty issue.

He couldn’t challenge the six regular difficulties from Easy to Insane, so how was he supposed to get the rewards for those difficulties?

According to Grace Bennett, she chose medium difficulty right from the start, and after completing it, both Beginner and Easy difficulties were also considered cleared.

Does that mean, as long as he completes the higher Developer difficulty, the previous six difficulties will all be considered completed?

Thinking this way, William Carter was full of motivation again. He quickly washed up, then lay down on the bed and continued to challenge the trial.

Early the next morning, William Carter got up and washed his face.

What shocked him was that he wasn’t tired at all—it was no different from having had a normal night’s sleep.

The reason for his confusion was that he’d spent the entire night doing the trial and hadn’t planned to sleep at all.

Since William Carter had no classes today, and his only task was to do some tutoring in the evening, he’d already prepared to pull an all-nighter and catch up on sleep in the morning.

But at 7 a.m., he actually woke up naturally.

And he felt completely refreshed, as if he’d slept for eight hours.

“So, during the trial, my real body is basically sleeping? It doesn’t affect anything at all—this is way too OP!”

This really leaves people with no excuse to slack off.

Back in school, if he stayed up too late, he could always find an excuse to go to bed early, like “staying up late affects my morning performance,” “I’m so tired, let me sleep a bit,” or “sleeping two more hours will make me more efficient at studying.” But now, you can complete the trial while sleeping—what excuse do you have not to work hard?

Still, William Carter had some complaints about this. If everyone is like this, then doesn’t my diligence become meaningless?

Of course, he only said this to himself, because if Grace Bennett heard it, she’d definitely retort, “Who was it that used to sleep eleven hours a day?”

Naturally, at that point, William Carter would stubbornly argue, “I sleep a lot to ensure my brain is always in peak condition. I’m a high-intensity mental worker—do you know how many brain cells I lose every day playing games?”

And the conversation would end with Grace Bennett rolling her eyes.

William Carter went to the living room and found that Grace Bennett had gotten up even earlier and had already prepared breakfast.

Grace Bennett looked very pleased with herself. “Let me tell you, with this body, even buying breakfast saves a lot of time. I can go up five floors in one go, no sweat.”

William Carter: “But our building already has an elevator…”

Grace Bennett said proudly, “I can climb the stairs faster than the elevator.”

William Carter: “All right, you win.”

Using such great physical fitness just to climb stairs and buy breakfast—what exactly are you so proud of?

Chapter 12: Some Enjoy, Some Suffer

William Carter and Lucy Bennett ate breakfast together while turning on the TV.

To their surprise, the morning news was actually reporting on the ring incident.

The news was very cautious, only mentioning that this was a global unknown event and that scientists around the world were working on countermeasures. As for the effects brought by the ring—personal AI, trials, changes in physical fitness—none of that was mentioned.

From this, it’s clear that countries around the world have a rather conflicted attitude toward this matter.

There’s no way to cover it up—everyone has this thing on their temples, how could you possibly block the news?

But obviously, they don’t want to make a big deal out of it either, to avoid causing panic, so they can only use this kind of news to calm public opinion.

However, William Carter seriously doubted whether this would have any calming effect. Soon, the whole world would know that completing the system’s trials could make you stronger.