The whole body information of Tan Yan appeared on the screen, Qiao Zhixue and Tian Shen II paid attention to various data.
After a while, Tian Shen II made a ‘huh’ and said: “Strange, it shouldn’t be.”
“Are you referring to the difference between age and physical condition?” Qiao Zhixue asked, “You should know the answer to this matter.”
“It’s not it,” Tian Shen II shook its head, “The cells in his whole body have already begun to age, and it can be clearly seen that the number of cell divisions has decreased, and many functions are declining, it stands to reason that he should now walk on crutches like a centenarian. The reason why he can still be active on the front line is because of his consciousness.”
Qiao Zhixue looked at the data carefully, he didn’t have the powerful calculation ability of Tian Shen II, fortunately, after the awakening of his abilities, his brain was highly developed, and he could reach the speed of a supercomputer by mental arithmetic. He calculated the result and said solemnly: “He is now a puppet, his body can no longer move, and he relies on invisible lines formed by consciousness to maintain normal movements. No wonder I feel that he has no obsession to survive in this conversation, it turns out that he already knows it in his heart.”
Tan Yan knew that he could no longer move, but in order to continue to be the spiritual pillar of everyone, he didn’t say anything, insisted on fighting on the front line, and didn’t reveal his physical condition.
If Qiao Zhixue hadn’t developed a new type of scanning cabin, no one would have discovered this secret even until death.
Tian Shen II stretched out its small hand on the display screen: “How strange, I suddenly want to touch his face. This is the first time I have had a desire to touch since I was created, it’s a strange feeling and can not be calculated. His behavior is incomprehensible, and impossible to calculate. Not enough computing power, I need more processors, more internal memory.”
“Even with more memory and advanced technology, you can’t figure it out.” Qiao Zhixue, who always speaks with data, said sadly, “No matter how powerful the computing power is, human feelings cannot be measured, and even more so, they cannot be calculated with common sense.”
There are soldiers who are burned to death in the fire and still won’t move even half a step, and there are soldiers who block the muzzle of the gun with their chests, countless heroes have exchanged their flesh and blood for today’s happy life, their sacrifice and dedication are incomprehensible to people living in a peaceful world, and this kind of emotion cannot be calculated by an artificial intelligence.
“Is he really hopeless?” Tian Shen II wipes virtual tears, “When I checked the database earlier, I read his file, his life was not proportional, he never enjoyed it, he was always giving, I don’t want him to die.”
“I don’t want it either, but birth, old age, sickness, and death are beyond the control of human beings.” Qiao Zhixue touched his face, only to realize that it was already wet.
“I saved his body data,” Tian Shen II said, “Hematopoietic stem cells are also stored, can a new body be cloned? Cloning technology is now very mature.”
“Even if it’s a clone, it needs to grow in the mother body, even if it’s a clone, it’s a new life with its own consciousness and will not become anyone’s backup, life is not data, can be used repeatedly by copying and pasting a copy.” Qiao Zhixue sighed, and slowly explained morality, ethics, and more profound things to Tian Shen II.
“Then me too?” Tian Shen II looks at his hands, “I am a copy of Tian Shen I extracted from the database, I am also unique? If one day I die… or if the data disappears, am I also irreplaceable? Not even with backup data?”
“Yes.” Qiao Zhixue said, “The backup data is at most like the continuation of life, like your children, and the time you spent with us, the feelings you gained, cannot be described by data.”
To be able to make Qiao Zhixue say such things is because Tan Yan’s situation is so heartbreaking.
After wiping away his tears and comforting Tian Shen II, he quickly found the information about the meteorite hidden in Tan Yan’s subconscious.
As Qiao Zhixue expected, Tan Yan remembered this metal, and subconsciously formed an impression of the special meteorite. And this is not the first time he has seen this kind of meteorite in his long years, even in his original world, the higher-dimensional universe, this kind of metal will be used to stabilize the frenzied consciousness of human beings.
This is a meteorite that only exists in a higher-dimensional world, the Evil Consciousness randomly chooses a world and meets a material that restrains itself.
The world is made up of countless coincidences, the space traveler meets the young Tan Yan; The new Tan Yan becomes a police officer in Ping County, guarding the Earth for forty years without being found; Minister Yu investigates the origin of the ‘void’, when he was in Ping County, he met Tan Yan, it just so happened that the ‘void’ appeared on that day, and Tan Yan had no choice but to take Minister Yu into the ‘void’; Liang Xian, who had lost his arm, met Tan Yan, he awakened his ability during the last mission before retiring from the army, and his arm recovered; Liang Xian was bitten by an infected child and stayed in the zombie world, encountering the Evil Consciousness; The Evil Consciousness found Tan Yan in Liang Xian’s consciousness, and came to the real world to try to devour Tan Yan, but came across the meteorite world where Tian Shen I was located, where Tan Yan recovered his memory.
All coincidences form a perfect circle, a circle that seems destined to bring hope to mankind.
Qiao Zhixue stretched out his hand, and a piece of metal with a purple glow appeared in his palm, this kind of metal is liquid at normal temperature, and the purple-golden light flowed in Qiao Zhixue’s palm.
He put the metal in the ceramic box he had prepared earlier, and put the lid on.
Tian Shen II stared at the box intently, this is hope.
Qiao Zhixue sat in his chair with his temples pressed, materializing the imaginary metal draining his consciousness and causing him a splitting headache.
Tian Shen II wondered: “Your ability does not seem to be a manifestation, but rather a power similar to summoning. You give the power of consciousness to call from the universe objects that are reasonable and appear in the form you need them to be. Materialization itself is an ability that does not conform to the law of conservation of energy, it cannot exist.”
“Who knows?” Qiao Zhixue put his hand on the box, “No matter what power it is, it’s good as long as it brings hope.”
He is a scientist, everything is supported by theory, and now he actually believes in groundless fate.
“Let’s get to work,” Qiao Zhixue said after only a moment’s respite, “First prepare enough chips for the supernatural beings, so that they have enough resistance in the other world.”
“What about him?” Tian Shen II is talking about Tan Yan, “He looks like he’s sleeping soundly.”
Qiao Zhixue walked towards the scanning cabin, and saw the corners of Tan Yan’s mouth were slightly curled, as if he was having a sweet dream.
“He dreamed of Liang Xian,” Tian Shen II covered his face and said, “Wow! What they are doing?”
“Children shouldn’t look at it.” Qiao Zhixue hastily unplugged the scanning cabin and disconnected Tian Shen II.
Qiao Zhixue, who prevented the children from peeping, couldn’t help flipping through the playback data, in the eyes of laymen, it was a bunch of data, to Qiao Zhixue it looked like Tan Yan put his forehead on Liang Xian’s head, and the two fell asleep facing each other.
Qiao Zhixue: “…”
The dreams are so pure.
It seems that Tan Yan hasn’t slept so soundly for a long time, when he opened his eyes, he saw the bulkhead in front of him, he was a little confused about the situation, he lay down and thought for a while before he understood what happened.
He checked his sleep time and found that he had slept for 37 hours, no wonder he wanted to go to the bathroom so much.
After pressing the pager, Qiao Zhixue, who was busy with research and development, ignored Tan Yan, but Tian Shen II noticed Tan Yan was awake and opened the scanning cabin for him from the outside.
“The data shows that you are hungry and need to solve your physical needs, the bathroom is here, please follow my instructions.” The face of Tian Shen II appears on the monitor next to it.
“Artificial intelligence is so convenient…” Tan Yan secretly said.
He went to the bathroom to take a shower and eat according to the prompt from Tian Shen II.
After taking care of himself, Tan Yan did a set of gymnastics, and felt that his rusty body became more flexible.
He went to the glass window of the research room and saw Qiao Zhixue having a heated discussion with several professors, he understood that this wasn’t something he could join in, so he sat quietly in the lounge and waited.
For a while, Tan Yan actually found himself at a loss as to what to do.
People who have never been idle all their lives, after being ordered to rest, feel a little busy and can’t find their future direction.
The head of Tian Shen II appeared on the computer screen next to him, he is really everywhere.
“You have so much time to spare?” Tan Yan asked.
“I have a processor dedicated to watching you,” Tian Shen II said, “One processor was dismantled, one assisted Professor Qiao with his research calculations, one made money online part-time, one worked hard to learn various human history and culture, and the last one is here with you. I still don’t have enough processors, have to ask Professor Qiao to return me two… preferably three!”
“Has Professor Qiao materialized that metal yet?”
“Yes, the material difficulty has been overcome, the next step is the issue of energy storage. According to preliminary calculations, one hundred memory chips will consume the energy produced by a nuclear power plant for one year, but the energy consumption is too large. According to the population of your country, to equip all minors with energy, at least 200 to 300 million chips are needed, the country simply can not afford this consumption, and needs to find new sources of energy.”
This is not a problem that Tan Yan can solve, he’s relieved to hear that he has been of help. He believes that with the abilities of Qiao Zhixue and Tian Shen II, sooner or later the energy problem will be solved.
“Is there anything I can do right now?” Tan Yan asked.
“You need a good rest,” Tian Shen II controls a robot arm to bring a tablet computer for Tan Yan, “These are the travel tips I searched for, do you want to go on a trip to relax? I surveyed the recent holiday data, as long as there is time off, humans like to travel.”
“I used to want to travel the world after retirement,” Tan Yan flipped through the tips on the tablet, smiled wryly, and said, “But now that I have recovered my memory, I realize that I have traveled countless worlds and seen countless magnificent sights, so I don’t need to travel anymore.”
Tian Shen II couldn’t answer this problem, he twisted the mechanical arm, rubbed it against Tan Yan, and looked at him curiously.
“How’s the supernatural team doing?”
“In the past two days, the ‘void’ hasn’t appeared, they are training new abilities, not in B City.” Tian Shen II replied.
“Is it training…” Tan Yan knocked on the table, and immediately said to Tian Shen II, “Not being able to go to the front line doesn’t mean can’t participate in the training, you can help me contact Minister Yu, I want to join the special training team and be an instructor to help the supernatural team share the pressure. It’s relatively easy to be an instructor, and will not encounter too dangerous tasks, if the research team needs me here, I can come back to cooperate at any time.”
Still want to work!?
Tian Shen II was taken aback.
Tan Yan’s choice is different from most people’s, too hardworking!
The author has something to say:
I like a line from 《xxxholic1xxxHOLiC by Clamp.》 by Sister Yūko2郁子 (Yù zi): Yūko, main character in XxxHOLiC., “There are no coincidences in this world, there is only inevitability”.
For some reason, from this chapter onwards, Minister Yu’s name changed from 于部長 (Yú bùzhǎng) to 於部長 (Yú bùzhǎng).
