320: Simulated Universe Youth Edition

The laboratory was silent, everyone speechless with shock at the sudden appearance of Amber King.

Xia Er took a deep breath, trying to remain calm, and began to report the situation to Chen Hao.

"Chairman," Xia Er's voice held a barely perceptible tremble, "we've encountered a problem in the memory modification experiment. All experimental monkeys that underwent memory modification exhibited self-destructive behavior, with a 100% mortality rate."

Chen Hao nodded slightly: "Elaborate on the experimental design and results."

Anderson quickly pulled up the experimental data and projected it onto the shared screen: "We first trained the monkeys to establish a stress response to a specific pattern, then used a memory extraction device to modify their memory, transferring the stress response to another pattern."

Dr. Li Shan seized the opportunity to interject: "The modification itself was successful; the monkeys indeed showed a new stress response. But the problem is, all experimental subjects began self-mutilation within an hour and eventually all died."

Chen Hao listened quietly, his eyes behind the mask shifting. After a moment, he asked: "What about the scan results?"

"There were no abnormalities in any tissues or organs throughout the body," Dr. Zhang Ai replied, "Aside from the injuries caused by self-mutilation, no pathological changes were found."

"Also, we compared the distribution of death times and individual data."

"Individuals with stronger willpower lasted longer, which indicates that consciousness resilience is an important factor."

Hearing this, Chen Hao basically had his conclusion. He turned to Xia Er and said: "I understand. The optimal solution is human experimentation, but none of you dare to suggest it, or there are some other objective reasons, right?"

Xia Er was stunned; he hadn't expected that the Chairman would know what happened next even before they spoke.

Chen Hao smiled slightly: "Coincidentally, I recently completed a new project that might solve your problem."

He waved his hand, and an icon of a cube-like structure appeared on the projection: "This is the 'simulation village' system, a program that can perfectly simulate the real world."

A stunning virtual world was displayed on the holographic screen. Villages, fields, rivers, and even virtual residents living and working within it, everything was lifelike.

"This system," Chen Hao explained, "is built upon a ternary neural network and a million-bit quantum computer, capable of simulating various physical rules of the real universe."

"The simulated life forms are no different from real life, the only distinction is that they are composed purely of code."

A chorus of exclamations filled the laboratory. Several senior researchers stared at the flowing code and the realistic simulated scenes on the screen, their eyes wide with amazement.

"This, this is digital life!" Dr. Chen murmured, "Our team has been researching this topic for fifteen years and has never been able to break through the barrier of realism..."

...Just a few days ago, in a laboratory somewhere in Pierpoint, Chen Hao was completing a seemingly impossible project with two special partners.

"Silver Wolf, check the stability of the algorithm." Chen Hao said to the petite figure not far to his side, his fingers rapidly operating the control panel.

"Very stable." A vibrant yet somewhat 'deadpan' girl's voice came, "The error rate is infinitely close to 0%. Bronya, how are things on your end?"

Bronya responded: "Neural network synchronization complete, consciousness mapping algorithm running normally. Hao, we can begin the final test."

The project they were completing was called "Simulated Construction," a virtual software designed to perfectly simulate the physical rules of the real universe.

"To be honest," Chen Hao said with a laugh while adjusting parameters, "at first I was just bored, but it ended up getting more and more complex."

Bronya giggled beside him: "And then you dragged us into it? But this project is indeed interesting!"

A rare hint of excitement appeared in Silver Wolf's usually deadpan expression and tone: "I have to say, although it's really not up to par compared to 'Aether Edit,' considering it can allow ordinary people to experience 'modifying reality' to some extent..."

"It's not bad."

The initial concept of the project indeed had a playful nature.

One day, while reading web novels, Chen Hao had a sudden idea. With the company's existing technological level, could they create an intelligent assistance program similar to the 'system' in novels?

Creating something as buggy as the "Starfall Honkai Impact 3rd MOD" on him was unlikely, but creating a low-level system that would allow the protagonist in a book to become the strongest scientist on a certain planet should not be a problem.

For example, a program that could ignore real-world conditions and directly conduct various scientific experiments in a virtual world.

But as the research deepened, the scale of this "small project" grew larger and larger, and the final product far exceeded the initial conception.

"The test data is out," Silver Wolf reported excitedly, "The simulation accuracy reached 99.9999999%, almost identical to the real world!"

"Although the consumption is huge, given enough energy, the system can stably simulate a digital world the size of a small village."

Chen Hao looked at the code on the screen, his eyes gleaming with excitement: "Let's see the simulation effect."

On the holographic projection, a complete digital village gradually generated. Virtual farmers were cultivating fields, residents were conversing in the village, and there were even virtual animals running and playing.

"It's too realistic!" Bronya exclaimed, "Look at that virtual resident, he's actually wiping sweat! Even such details are simulated!"

Chen Hao looked at the physiological monitoring data and stroked his chin: "All virtual life forms exhibit complete physiological functions. They get hungry, need to eat; they get tired, need to rest. They bleed when injured, and even feel pain."

"The only difference is that they are all composed purely of code. But from behavior patterns to physiological responses, there is no difference from real life."

A small incident occurred during the testing process, fully demonstrating the astonishing realism of this system.

"Wait," Bronya suddenly noticed an anomaly, "Virtual resident number 35 is showing an abnormal physiological response, he has a fever."

Silver Wolf was somewhat surprised and immediately retrieved the data: "Simulated pathogen infection? Did the system automatically generate a disease transmission model?"

"It's probably the concept of 'world stability' at work." Chen Hao observed with interest: "Let's see how the virtual doctor handles it."

To their surprise, the doctor in the simulation village indeed reacted. Diagnosis, prescribing medicine, advising rest.

The entire medical process was identical to the real world.

"This has gone beyond simple simulation; this is practically a digital world. If it continues to simulate like this, perhaps they might even develop independent consciousness."

"Although the probability is very, very low, it is not zero."

Silver Wolf said excitedly: "How about we give it a name? How about 'simulation village'? After all, for now, it can only simulate a village scale."

Chen Hao nodded with a smile: "Good idea."