Chapter 68: Nuwa created humans from clay, you want to create humans out of thin air?

"He's lying to me!"

Inside the lecture hall of Kyoto University of Science.

Professor Li Ming's face was heavy; he could hear the deception in Jiang Zhe's words.

This directly proved that Jiang Zhe knew the truth and the answer, and once spoken, that answer would cause panic for some.

Especially for the families who had accepted brain transplant experiments.

He looked up at Professor Hua Yunfeng on the podium. "Professor Hua, what do you think?"

Professor Hua Yunfeng first glanced at Professor Feng. Since the audio was being played over the speakers, everyone had heard Jiang Zhe's answer.

Old Feng thought for a moment and responded, "'[Personal reasons, inconvenient to disclose]' directly indicates that he knows the answer; yes, he doesn't want to tell everyone the truth."

Professor Hua Yunfeng added, "On one hand, our Xia Country's medical technology is advanced, and many people have undergone brain transplants; if this answer is revealed, it will cause panic among those family members."

In this world, the medical and entertainment industries were relatively developed.

It was only certain areas that were relatively weak.

Professor Li Ming asked again, unwilling to give up, "Of those four answers, which one is the truth?"

Professor Hua Yunfeng looked at Professor Feng again, who said helplessly, "You're treating me like a microphone, aren't you?"

He chuckled. "Anyway, no one here will leak the answer, so just say it; I'm not quite sure about my own answer."

Professor Feng scanned the room and nodded. "The truth is A!"

As soon as this answer came out, the experts who didn't know the truth were in an uproar.

"A? It's actually A?"

"Why is it A? I don't understand."

"I think it's D, '[The surviving B and C are both A, just split individuals with different appearances, and both B and C possess most of A's memories]'."

"What you think is more emotional; you're looking at it from a humanitarian perspective. But the truth is indeed A."

"Damn, I realized it too late; because our surgery has already destroyed the continuity of Patient A—before, I thought destroying continuity meant destroying the data in the brain, but who the hell would have thought that as long as the surgery touches the brain and moves it intact to another patient's skull, it also destroys continuity; damn, someone in my family had a brain transplant, shit, I didn't expect him to already be dead..."

"..."

The truth was indeed quite cruel.

Especially for the families of people in a vegetative state; after they underwent surgery, they were actually already dead.

There was no survival inside another patient's head at all!!!

...

At this moment, in the live broadcast room, the audience was also discussing Jiang Zhe's behavior.

"Why doesn't he know anymore?"

"He's not omnipotent, how could he know everything?"

"If he doesn't know, why did he say it's for personal reasons and such?"

"He must be worried about something... but I always feel that he knows the truth, he just didn't tell us."

"My family member had a brain transplant... I really want to know if my family member is still living in someone else's body!"

"..."

In Su City.

The smart people who had been lurking and watching the screen already knew the truth and saw these comments.

Then, looking at Jiang Zhe's calm face, they smiled.

"If I were Jiang Zhe, I definitely would have let it slip just now."

"The moment the brain is moved, continuity is destroyed; even the person who receives the brain transplant later is just a person who inherited a strong resemblance to Patient A."

"Jiang Zhe, your approach is very smart. Some questions really don't need answers or the truth; just like how our future is actually fixed; you are like a variable, affecting the destiny that was originally arranged for us!"

"..."

Gradually.

Jiang Zhe's reputation rose spontaneously in the hearts of some smart people.

He understood the greater good, he understood the ways of the world, and he understood how to be a good person!

In front of the majority, he chose the majority.

This was a quality and excellent character that many people did not possess!

...

In the studio.

Jiang Zhe listened to the director's voice in his earpiece.

The director was saying that the leaders in the conference room were also desperate to know the truth.

Even the director, Old Zhao, Wang Guosheng, and others had been misled by him.

And in the leadership conference room, Wang Lin had not directly responded to Old Zhao, Old Wang, and others' repeated questions about whether Patient A was dead.

Jiang Zhe smiled, looked up at Wang Lin in the conference room, and nodded sincerely. "Thank you!"

Seeing this, Wang Lin nodded in return, signaling: "You did well!"

"What are you two communicating telepathically?"

Xiao Shiyi asked, completely ruining the atmosphere.

Wang Lin rolled his eyes at Xiao Shiyi. "Nothing."

"You guy, taking advantage of our stupidity and not knowing the answer; one day I'll get it out of you."

"Then why don't you try?"

Amidst the discussion, the second call came in.

"Hello, Host Jiang Zhe, my surname is Ouyang. I am a natural science worker, researching the matter, structure, properties, and laws of motion in the natural world."

"I'm not as famous as Professor Li Ming and Bronze Professor Hua Yunfeng."

"I serve as a lecturer at a university in a small city."

Hearing this, Jiang Zhe could tell the other party was a middle-aged man. Natural science could be said to involve the strengths of a hundred schools gathered into one.

It was a discipline encompassing physics, biology, mathematics, chemistry, earth sciences, and so on.

For an ordinary person to make a name for themselves in this field, the effort required was far beyond what people in general disciplines could compare to.

"Professor Ouyang, I respect you; this is a very difficult discipline, almost on par with quantum science. It's equivalent to others specializing in one field while you learn everything, and you have to learn it all well to achieve anything."

"But back to the topic, what is the question you would like to ask?"

Seeing Jiang Zhe's reaction, his face full of composure, the natural science students felt a blow.

"Wait, wait, natural science is so hard, don't tell me you know that too?"

"Holy crap, don't be so confident, okay? You're making me look really stupid!"

"I was a natural science major, then I switched. It's hilarious; the professor wanted me to reach excellence in chemistry, then excellence in physics, then excellence in mathematics, then excellence in astronomy, and then freaking excellence in high-energy particle physics. I came to school to study, not to suffer."

"I feel your pain. This discipline seems to be set up for geniuses. You can't master it in four years of university. At the very least, the country would have to extend university to 12 years with room and board included for me to barely learn it."

"But Jiang Zhe, you're only 24. Where does that confident and composed expression come from? You're really making us students look stupid!"

"..."

Ordinary viewers didn't realize how insulting Jiang Zhe's confident expression was.

But the students within the natural science major were indeed hit quite hard.

Soon, Professor Ouyang Baili's voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Mr. Jiang Zhe, the examples you gave earlier: duplication and Cloning."

"This content actually accounts for a large part of my natural science field."

"I have refined it based on your questions."

"Here is the question: If I use a pile of atoms to replicate a human body, what is the relationship between this new person and the original person?"

"Using you, Mr. Jiang Zhe, as the experimental subject."

"By the way: the molecules in the human body contain approximately 375 million hydrogen atoms, 132 million oxygen atoms, and 85 million carbon atoms."

"While there are only 1 cobalt atom and 3 molybdenum atoms respectively."

"The chemical formula of the human body is extremely long, so I won't give examples."

"Now, I use a machine to find the distribution behavior and motion rate of all the atoms in your body."

"Then I use other atoms identical to those in the human body to reassemble a [person] with the exact same motion rate as you."

The question ended there...

Professor Ouyang Baili showed his professionalism.

But to accommodate Jiang Zhe's audience, he still decided to simplify it a bit.

"The general meaning of the question is: I have a machine that can extract atoms from nature, and then I use another machine to put atoms like hydrogen and oxygen extracted from nature into a [combination machine], and finally I press the start button."

"Then..."

"In the [combination machine], an identical Jiang Zhe appears."

"My question boils down to just one."

"Can I create an extra Jiang Zhe out of thin air, without extracting your genes and cells?"

"I thought about it for a long time. If I were given this machine and spent some time, I could predict all the movements of the atoms in your body!"

"As long as I follow the movement patterns of the atoms in your body and then input all the data in your body, the atoms I extract from nature will then run according to the movement patterns of the atoms in your body, and a new you can be created."

"If I can create him, is this [extra Jiang Zhe] your clone? No."

"Is he your cut-and-paste copy? It doesn't seem so either."

"Is he some other version of you? It seems even less likely."

"He seems to be a completely new you, with your personality, your memory, and your everything."

The question finished, and Professor Ouyang Baili stopped speaking.

His question was extremely simple, so simple that even Jiang Zhe's brow furrowed.

It made Jiang Zhe doubt whether Professor Ouyang Baili was an expert or if he had never studied basic physics.

Yes, what Jiang Zhe was conflicted about was not the answer to the question.

Rather, was the other party actually testing whether he had basic academic literacy?

But Jiang Zhe's expression changed in the eyes of the audience.

"It's over, Jiang Zhe is frowning; he doesn't know either."

"I told you, how could he really be omnipotent!"

"This question is truly tricky; even I, who graduated years ago, can't explain it."

"But it doesn't matter, it's just a Q&A session; Jiang Zhe won't lose fans even if he can't answer."

"..."

But Jiang Zhe's next words completely stunned everyone.

"Mr. Ouyang, your idea is great. You seem to want to learn from Nüwa's creation of humans; Nüwa used yellow clay."

"And you directly want to extract most of the atoms of the human body from all things in nature."

"Extract hydrogen atoms from the air."

"Extract oxygen atoms from the water."

"..."

"Well, I must say, your idea is great and more ambitious than Nüwa's!"

"You are suited to be a Creator!"

"But!"

As Jiang Zhe's face became serious, the tone of his voice suddenly shifted.

"For such a simple question, where have you put Maxwell's Demon and Laplace's Demon? By the way, have you really been troubled by this question for a long time?"