80: Chapter 80: Huaqing Boss Verifies Jiang Zhe's Xia Guo Brain

"Alright, that's enough for tonight!"

"Tomorrow night is Friday; we can talk about it in detail after you get off for the break."

Jiang Zhe stood up and walked back into the master bedroom.

The door closed gently.

Xiao Yu sat on the sofa, dazed for a long time.

Humans are not free.

These few words kept surfacing in her mind.

After a long while, she picked up her phone and glanced at it; scattered bullet comments were appearing.

"Oh my god, I can't sleep!"

"Me neither."

"Your brother's metaphor was so ruthless, it was ruthless enough to present a real theory!"

"So, the Earth's immune system is always working; it's always regulating, and plagues are even its fever reducers?"

"Hiss... I dare not think about it anymore."

Xiao Yu stood up abruptly, "Oh no, I didn't get my brother to say the final ad line!!!"

"That was 800,000!"

As she finished speaking, the netizens in front of their screens couldn't help but darken their expressions.

Good grief, 800,000 for one line of dialogue? What did you just reveal?

...

At this moment, in the principal's office.

Principal Fu picked up the remote and turned off the projection.

The final image was the back of Jiang Zhe walking into the master bedroom.

"Old Wang," he looked at Old Wang, "You've taught history for so many years, is there such a theory in history?"

Old Wang sat in the corner, deep in thought, and said:

"The dynastic cycle, the cycle of peace and war, population fluctuations, and resource pressure..."

"We've known about these for a long time, but decoding them as the self-regulation of a [larger life form]..."

"If Jiang Zhe is right, then all our summaries of history are merely studying the [physiological cycles] of this behemoth, the Earth!"

Beside him, Teacher Xiao Wang turned pale:

"Then what... exactly are we? Bacteria? Viruses, or parasites?"

After he finished speaking, no one answered.

Only the night outside the window remained quiet.

...

In the capital, at Qingfeng Temple.

The sandalwood incense in the room had burned out.

Zheng Ming stared fixedly at the darkened projection, unable to find words.

Beside him, Xu Mu closed his notebook, "Celestial Master Zhang, what do you think Xiaoyu's brother really meant?"

Celestial Master Zhang stood up, pushed open the window, and breathed in the cold night air of the mountains.

"The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon says: The superior doctor treats the illness before it manifests, not after it has already occurred."

He looked down at the city lights in the distance,

"If the Earth, as he said, has a self-regulating ability..."

"Then its most exquisite medical skill—is likely that we humans will never realize we are being [treated]."

"What do you mean?"

"It means!"

Celestial Master Zhang turned around, his eyes grave,

"As Xiaoyu's brother said, all our free consciousness, free will, historical choices, and civilizational progress..."

"Are nothing more than things the Earth allows us to perceive in order to maintain its own balance!"

As he finished, Zheng Ming wanted to retort, but realized his knowledge couldn't find any evidence to refute it.

...

Inside the master bedroom.

Just after closing the door, Jiang Zhe received his rewards.

[This tutoring session rating: A++]

[Touched upon the hypothesis of the essence of civilization]

[Xiao Yu's IQ +4, Horizon +3, Insight +4...]

[Rating: Exceeded expectations]

[Reward: 200,000 in cash]

[Extra reward: Physical function enhancement points +8]

[Automatically allocated!]

The notification slowly faded away.

A series of golden lights enveloped Jiang Zhe.

Within his field of vision—

Everything around him instantly froze.

The shackles in his mind seemed to have been unlocked.

He discovered he could trace the details of any moment in his past.

For example, clearly recalling the contours and features of his teacher's face when he went to school at age 3, as well as the molecular scent of garlic that wafted over when the teacher spoke.

Or clearly recalling that when he was 5 crossing the street, how many times the sparrow on the top of the second tree on the left side of the road flapped its wings.

He could even clearly recall the footsteps and eyes of a USA spy when his parents secretly took him into a biological laboratory at age 2.

His memory was never bad to begin with.

At this moment, his real-time thinking efficiency had increased by dozens of times.

It was as if he were reading long-dusty memories in his mind.

When Jiang Zhe thought about the Earth's immune system...

Biological immune mechanism comparisons automatically appeared in his mind...

Including—

Data on the correlation between the Little Ice Age in the 17th century and frequent global wars.

This was something he had seen in a thesis at Huaqing University in his previous life when he was 16.

And the statistical overlap rate between the years of abnormally enhanced El Niño phenomena in the last fifty years and the outbreak of regional conflicts in the same period...

As long as he had a thought, his brain seemed to automatically search through everything he had seen since childhood, as well as all associated fragmentary information.

"My brain seems to have unlocked more power similar to a quantum computer..."

"It was automatically unlocked when my body evolved to a certain level!"

He opened his eyes, his face full of confusion.

"But what use is this power to me? I don't participate in academic debates or various research and inventions."

"In this life, I just want to stay home and live forever!"

...

At this moment, the Dougu operations department.

Wang Shulin stared at the backend data, his eyes wide!

"Wang, Brother Wang!"

The young technician nearby said excitedly, "The data exploded, it completely exploded!"

On the computer.

Various indicators soared like rockets:

[Peak live broadcast concurrent viewers: 4.178 million]

[Cumulative views: 21 million+]

[New followers: 434,000]

[Total bullet comments: 2.747 million]

[Gift revenue: 870,000]

[...]

"What about the trending searches?"

Wang Shulin couldn't help but gasp.

"All of them, Weibo is full of them!"

The technician beside him switched pages,

"In the top fifty of Weibo, there are eight related topics—"

"[The Earth is alive], [xia country brain Experiment], [Who is Xiaoyu's brother], [1.4 billion neurons] whether it's truly possible to achieve... and so on."

"Very good!"

Just then, 1.6 million arrived in the account.

He picked up his phone and glanced at it; the sponsor left a message:

[Although there was only 1 line of dialogue, the traffic brought by Xiaoyu's brother has already satisfied the boss's needs. We have paid for 2 lines of dialogue; we hope to continue cooperating next time!]

[Happy cooperation!]

He sent a message, then contentedly transferred the 1.6 million to Xiao Yu.

...

As time passed, in the next few hours.

Most information related to superstition on the internet was banned by the authorities.

Only some news that could be revealed was kept.

[xia country brain, is it really feasible?]

[Do you have to be over 82% to be considered human? How many non-humans are among us?]

[Is the Earth really alive and conscious?]

The comment section below was surging with comments every minute and every second.

"I judge: This is the most cognitive-shattering unauthorized broadcast of the year!"

"Tch, just a conspiracy theory to attract attention, who can't do that?"

"To the person above, if you can, start a live stream, I want to hear your insights. Can you come up with an 82% human consciousness template?"

"That's right, can you propose that the global coherent field is the Earth's [consciousness]?"

"+1, my grandma, who has been sun-baked into a skeleton under the sun, lying on the rocking chair, her mouth clicking away, but as soon as I listen, I know grandma is saying: [Makes sense—]"

"Waiting for the authorities to make a move."

"To the person above, they already made their move; they didn't delete much tonight!"

"..."

At Huaqing University, on the playground.

Li Mo sat under a tree, ignoring several couples of men and women dating.

"Professor Guan, yes, that's the concept—1.4 billion nodes real-time communication, simulating a distributed neural network..."

"No, it's not a computer model, he raised a more fundamental question—"

"If this link could truly be realized, what kind of [emergent phenomenon] would it produce?"

"Could it truly create an artificial national soul?"

The other end of the phone was silent for a moment.

Soon, a steady middle-aged male voice came through:

"I have already applied for quantum computer time; it should be approved in an hour."

"You make the detailed simulation plan tonight; the variable settings must be rigorous; especially the delay in information transmission... and the data on individual differences..."

"Yes, Professor Guan!"

Li Mo's eyes lit up,

"By the way, Professor, do you think... is this possible?"

Professor Guan was silent for a few seconds.

"Li Mo!"

"All disruptive breakthroughs in science—before they happen, are considered impossible."

"We scientific researchers are not prophets, we are only verifiers."

"See you later!"