Chapter 25 Chapter Twenty-Four

When the mobile phone in the inner pocket vibrated, Qing Jiang had a premonition.As he came to the corridor, he answered the phone. "I'm Tong Gong from Kaiming University." The other party said, "Is it Teacher Qingjiang?" "yes." "I'm sorry for the past few days. Is it convenient for you to talk now?" "Keep it short, class is about to begin." "Okay. I'll cut to the chase then. Do you have time tonight? About two hours." "What's the matter?" "If you talk about it in detail, it will take a long time."

"Can I understand it as a reply to what happened last time?" "Yes. Is it convenient for you? The specific time and place will be arranged by you." "I'm free after six o'clock in the evening. You decide the location." "Then seven o'clock, just in front of the 'Taj Mahal' last time." "Okay. Seven o'clock, right? Do you want to prepare anything?" "No, maybe your belongings will be checked, so it's best not to carry some troublesome things." "Check your belongings? Why?" "You will know when you come. Then, see you at seven o'clock tonight." The other party hung up the phone.

Qing Jiang stared at the screen for a while before turning off the machine.Turning off the phone during class is a rule, but few students follow it. The following class is about analyzing the structure of urban air pollution.Qing Jiang stood on the podium, with two buildings drawn on the blackboard behind him.He began to explain: "Like this, there is a street sandwiched between tall buildings on both sides, which is called 'Street Canyon' (Street Canyon). Everyone knows that in this case, a special kind of wind will form. But How this kind of wind will blow is subject to various factors, including building height, density, road width, weather conditions at that time, etc., so it is very different. Generally speaking, the most typical state is that the wind direction is at right angles to the road .” Qing Jiang added several arrows to the drawing on the blackboard.At this time, he suddenly remembered a scene.

White smoke flows like a snake. Now he still couldn't believe it, and always felt that it might be an illusion, or he was just dreaming.But that is an unmistakable fact.No gimmicks, pure physics. Why would that kind of thing be possible?Humans cannot predict how gases will travel.Even if there are predictions, they are very rough, just like the arrows drawn on the blackboard—— He came back to his senses all of a sudden, turned around and saw that the students were looking at him in bewilderment, and some were frowning in surprise. "I'm sorry." Qing Jiang said, "There was an accident near my house. An old lady was blown down by the wind between the buildings and broke her bones. On the way to send the old lady to the hospital, she kept complaining and crying. But who should she complain to?"

He named a few students and asked them to state their views.The opinions they put forward include the construction party of the building, the person in charge of urban planning and so on.Then everyone discussed, is the wind between the buildings a natural phenomenon, or is it caused by man?In the discussion, the term "numerical prediction" was brought up several times. The current numerical forecasting technology uses supercomputers, and if this technology is used, it is easy to predict what kind of wind will form.Therefore, the old lady's injury should be a man-made accident.

Yes, if you use a supercomputer—Qing Jiang was distracted again, remembering what happened that night.However, Yuan Hua definitely didn't carry that kind of thing. When I came to the agreed place, I found that the "Taj Mahal" had disappeared and was replaced by a castle-like building with an onion-shaped roof.Bright colors such as red, green, and yellow are used, which look gorgeous.This is "Saint Basil's Cathedral". Someone came behind Qingjiang, and the faint fragrance showed the identity of that person. "This building is located in Moscow's Red Square." Tong Gongling began to explain, "It is said to be the most beautiful among Russian churches. Indeed, it is full of solemnity."

Qing Jiang turned around. "have you been there?" "I only looked at it from a distance. Because I was on a business trip." She looked at her watch, "It's exactly seven o'clock." Qing Jiang looked behind her. "That companion of yours didn't come today." "He has his job. Shall we go?" "Where are you going?" "You just need to get in the car, I will take you there." Tong Gongling walked away. Like last time, she parked her car in the mall's parking lot.Or that little car.Qing Jiang sat in the back seat and fastened his seat belt.

"I kept the agreement. I didn't tell anyone about what Arisugawa Park saw, including police officer Nakaoka." Tong Gongling looked ahead and nodded. "A wise choice. We don't think the teacher will act hastily. After all, you are someone Miss Yuan Hua can trust." "Is she good at seeing people?" "Better than anyone else, more accurate than anyone else." She spoke so decisively that Qing Jiang was a little puzzled. "Don't worry about it. I keep all the records. I also wrote down what happened that night. I can send the data to anyone at any time. Even if I don't send it on my own initiative, it has already been set. After a while After a certain time, it will be automatically sent to a few people by email. I don’t know where you are going to take me, anyway, just don’t forget this.” All the above are nonsense, but Qing Jiang still tried his best to make his words It sounds believable.

Tong Gongling seemed to want to laugh, and after a while, she said, "You don't have to worry, we won't kidnap you." "That's the way it is said, but there must always be insurance." "Yes, I remember." The car got on the capital elevated highway, and after a while, it drove on the ordinary road again.Qing Jiang finally gradually understood where the car was going. "Is this going to Kaiming University?" "Yes," she replied, "but not your average campus." "How to say?" "You'll find out after a while."

A few minutes later, the car pulled into the parking lot attached to a white building.Qing Jiang got out of the car and walked towards the main entrance under the urging of Tong Gongling.There is a small sign hanging on the door, which says "Institute of Mathematics and Physics". Walking through the automatic door, you are faced with a hall-like space with sofas and tables.However, the real entrance is still inside, and a security door can be seen. Tong Gongling quietly took out a card with a sling, which seemed to be a pass for visitors.Qing Jiang took it and hung it around his neck.

"Do you want to check your belongings?" Tong Gongling looked at him strangely. "is it okay?" "Uh, it's not that you can..." "Then omit it." She said, raised her legs and walked away. Through that door is a corridor.There seemed to be several rooms in the corridor, and people like researchers came in and out from time to time.Everyone was busy, no one gave Qingjiang and the others a second look. "What kind of research is being carried out here?" Qing Jiang asked as he walked. "It's hard to explain all kinds of research in one sentence. If I have to generalize, it's research related to intelligence." "Smart? Artificial intelligence?" "Yes." Tong Gongling said bluntly. She stopped before a door flanked by a panel with speakers.She touched the panel, and a man's voice came from inside: "Who is there?" "I'm Tong Gong." She said.Not long after, there was the sound of the door lock opening. The door opened, Tong Gongling walked in, and Qing Jiang followed behind her.The first thing that catches the eye is a huge screen, probably a hundred feet (about 30.48 meters).It displays a graph composed of countless thin lines, which is not only like a three-dimensional map, but also like a map of cosmic celestial bodies. There is a man standing in front of the screen.Thin, with a long face, a slightly wider forehead, and a little silver in the front hairline. The man walked over with a smile. "Welcome to our research institute," he stretched out his right hand, "I'm Habara." "Are you Dr. Habara Zentaro?" "That's right, Professor Qing Jiang." The two shook hands.Habara's hands were very soft. "Do you want something to drink?" Tong Gongling asked. "No need." Qing Jiang replied immediately, "I just want to talk to you earlier." Habara smiled wryly. "Yes. But first, please sit down. It is inconvenient to talk standing up." There are tables and chairs next to the screen, which are suitable for sitting opposite each other.Habara gave up his seat and sat down himself.Tong Gongling sat a little further away. "First of all," Habara said, "My daughter has caused you a lot of trouble, I'm really sorry." He bowed his head slightly. "It's more confusion than trouble. I don't know what's right and what. She says I don't know best, but I can't." "I understand your feelings very well. It's just that Mr. Qingjiang, Tong Gong should have told you that this matter really has nothing to do with you. Therefore, we think it's best for you not to get involved. This kind of view , and it hasn't changed now." "Do you think I'll take it? After what I've seen?" After hearing Qing Jiang's words, Yu Yuan said with a bitter face, "You are talking about Bai Yan, right?" "I was taken aback. You could manipulate the smoke so well." "You must have been frightened. But, as you know, it's not manipulation, it's just selection." "Even if this is the case, how can it be done? I still find it incredible." Habara rested her elbows on the table and crossed the fingers of her hands in front of her. "You've read Amakasu Saisao's blog, right?" "Read." "Since this is the case, you should have some understanding of Amakasu Kento-kun's misfortune and his subsequent situation." "I only read about when he started showing signs of a quick recovery." Habara nodded, stood up, picked up a tablet terminal from the side of the huge screen, and sat down again.He was operating on the terminal, and the screens on the screen switched accordingly. It shows a teenager sitting at a table rolling something around.Qing Jiang was startled when he saw the boy's face. "This is... Amakasu Kento-kun?" "Yes," said Habara, "about three years after the surgery." "It's only been three years..." Qing Jiang looked at the screen again and held his breath. The boy on the screen can't see any flaws at all.Although only his upper body can be seen, his movements are effortless.Because he had appeared in Chixiong Hot Spring before, Qing Jiang also expected that he should be able to act like an ordinary person now, but he was very surprised that he could recover to this level so early.He expressed his opinion, and Yu principle said, this is a miracle. "I didn't expect it at all. Although I expected some kind of effect, I never dreamed that I would recover completely." "It's really amazing. It should be publicized." "Well, I thought so too, but things have changed. Indeed, such a resurrection is a miracle; but the real miracle is yet to come." "A real miracle?" "Look carefully. Then listen carefully." Habara swiped his finger on the tablet terminal a few times.The screen changed, and now the picture is of Qian Ren's hand.What he rolled on the table was a dice slightly larger than usual, with a side length of about three centimeters. There was a voice. 3, 5, 1, 6 - read the number on the dice. "What is this?" Qing Jiang asked. "Please listen to his voice and watch the picture carefully." Hearing what Habara said, Qing Jiang turned his gaze back to the screen.Qianren continued to roll the dice, read the number, and rolled the dice again.so repeatedly. no, no— He is not reading the dots on the dice.When he spoke, the dice hadn't stopped.He called the numbers while the dice were still spinning, and hit them every time. Qing Jiang looked at Yu Yuan, opened his mouth, but couldn't speak. "You seem to have noticed." Habara said. "He is predicting the number of dice..." Habara shook his head slowly. "That's not a prophecy, it's a prediction. Please look carefully, Mr. Qianren said the number after the dice left his hand. On the other hand, when the dice is still in his hand, he still doesn't know what points will appear. In the hand, what makes the dice move is gravity and almost negligible air resistance. After falling on the table, it is dominated by factors such as the falling angle, moment of inertia, repulsion coefficient with the table, and friction with the table. The rolling gradually stopped. The relevant elements of this series of physical phenomena are all measurable. Therefore, what kind of points will appear is determined the moment the dice is released from the hand. Mr. Qianren just said it." "How is this possible..." Qing Jiang's eyes returned to the screen, "How can this be done?" "But he did. Do you think this video was fabricated?" "That's not true," Qing Jiang shook his head, "I just can't believe it." "I didn't believe it either. Until Mr. Qianren confessed to me that he could do such a thing recently. I still wondered if he used some tricks, but it was not magic, and he didn't use any tricks." "How did he do it..." "Mr. Qianren said, that's nothing." "Huh? Is this nothing?" "Please try to imagine. First, suppose there is a dice with a side length of 30 cm, and the material is wood. Hold the dice with both hands, with the six o'clock facing up, and let the dice fall on the ground at a height of one meter. On flat sand. How do you think it will turn out?" "Let the dice with a side length of 30 cm fall on the sand?" Qing Jiang frowned, thinking, "If the ground below is sand, the dice cannot roll. Since it is falling straight, it should be 6 o'clock upwards. Half buried in the sand." "Yes, you see, as long as the conditions are met, you can also make predictions." "But, this is not the same as that—" "Same. Although the phenomenon is more complicated, as long as it is based on the laws of physics, predictions can be made. Of course, this requires huge data support. Before shooting this video, Mr. Qianren has tried hundreds of times. At the beginning of the prediction Not very well, but after more than fifty times, the hit rate has improved significantly. Probably because enough physical data of the dice and the table have been collected. Therefore, if another dice is used, it is still necessary to correct it from scratch .By the way, the smaller the dice, the lower the hit rate. Qian Renjun said that because of the subtle difference in the repulsion coefficient of the table, it affects the prediction." Let me show you another episode, said Habara, and started to operate the tablet again.The screen switched, and what appeared to be a sports field appeared. A muscular man stands on the field, wearing archery equipment, holding a bow in his right hand with several stabilizers attached to the bow. The screen is suddenly divided into three, with the man in the center and the left and right ends of the target.The bullseye is yellow, surrounded by concentric circles of red, green, black and white.The target on the right appears to be real, while the one on the left is just an LCD screen. "What is this for?" Qing Jiang asked. "Look down and you'll know." Habara smiled. The man raised his bow and set an arrow, took aim for a while, and then let go of the bowstring.The arrow immediately disappeared from the screen. Then, a hand appeared in the picture on the left, and with its index finger, it tapped a green dot on the archery target.Almost at the same time, the arrow hit the real target. The arrow hits the red circle, at two o'clock.On the LCD screen, the position of the green dot on the target is almost exactly the same. The man bowed again.In the picture on the left, the hand reappears, touching the target.This time the green dot appears at six o'clock, on the green circle.The real arrow also stuck in the same place. "The distance is 90 meters, and the diameter of the target is 122 centimeters. This man is an athlete of the national team. We asked him to shoot the arrow right in the middle." Habara said, "Do you understand? The hand in the picture on the left is Kento-kun's. After the athlete opened the bow, he immediately predicted the location where the arrow will hit. Of course, this also needs data support. Before the experiment, we asked the athlete to try shooting several times. Through observation, Mr. Qianren determined the trajectory of the arrow Inclination, wind influence, etc. are input into the brain." Qing Jiang stared at the screen for a long time, and sighed: "Although I can't believe it, I can't believe it." "Even if it's a miracle, it's not necessarily so amazing, right?" Habara operated the tablet, and the screen disappeared. "Why is this happening? Is it really the effect of the surgery?" "I can only think so. But before that, please allow me to talk about other topics. This matter is related to the Expert Brain project that my laboratory has been working on." "Expert... sounds difficult." "It should be easy for you to understand. I was conducting a research at the time, analyzing the high-level functions of the brain from the molecular and cellular levels, and successfully explained the relationship between brain neural activity and memory and learning. Next, I will focus on Focused on the field of handicrafts and material processing, I studied the brains of famous artisans who displayed amazing skills in manual work. With the assistance of several artisans, I discovered amazing facts. In one sentence, they Possesses several brains." Qing Jiang leaned back: "How is it possible..." "Of course, this is a metaphor." Habara nodded and said, "Anatomically, the brains of ordinary people will not change. However, once they enter the field of work, the distinction is very obvious. No matter how complicated the work is , they all use only part of their brains. When cutting, bending, and assembling parts, ordinary people have to expand the scope of their brains to complete them. If the process is more complicated, they have to use almost all of their brains. Even if someone follows I can’t even hear my own words. I can still hear them. The most important thing is that the information processing ability has reached the limit. In this respect, the intelligence processing ability of artisans is very easy. While working, they can observe, think, Correction. And they themselves are completely unaware. Many information processing is carried out subconsciously. This is where the staff's 'feeling' lies." Qing Jiang hummed.He knows how powerful professional craftsmen are, but once it is scientifically explained, it has a completely different appeal. "Is this achieved by training?" “Training is essential. But I think genetics is also a factor. Repeated training allows the brain to create more efficient neural circuits, but the speed and results of it vary from person to person.” This point, Qing Jiang can also understand.It's similar to sports talent.Even if you put in the same effort, you may not get the same return. "Now let's move on to Kento-kun," Habara said. "In him, the formation of new neural circuits is very fast. When the brain needs to process some kind of information, it will take a while at first, but after a few times , the processing speed will rise rapidly. Through research, I found that the range of the brain used by this processing is limited to a minimum. Just like craftsmen, his brain has room to spare. Therefore, the remaining part, just It can be used to process completely different information. This is why he miraculously came back from a vegetative state. So, how far can this information processing ability be improved? This has intrigued me. So, Qianren Jun Lived at the Institute of Mathematics and Physics. We have conducted various researches, such as what is intelligence, etc. Qian Renjun has been subjected to various tests, of course, all of which are voluntary. Finally, we gradually understand What is happening in his brain. Simply put, he can predict the future situation almost perfectly. He can instantly analyze the information obtained through the five senses and predict what will happen in the next moment. After repeated many times, he can predict The number of dice, the trajectory of an arrow, and so on." Listening to Habara's narration, Qingjiang recalled several scenes.He himself had witnessed a similar phenomenon.Not just white smoke, but also bowling balls and claw machines... No, he shook his head, he had seen it before, in the lobby of Chikuma Hot Spring Hotel, he predicted the spread of the liquid spilled on the table .However, it was not Amakasu Kento who predicted these, but another person. "Habara Madoka-kun also..." "Let's talk about this later." Habara stretched out a hand as if to stop, "You asked me just now, why didn't you announce it to the public? First, please let me answer this question. One of the reasons is that the Institute of Mathematics and Physics It does not belong to Kaiming University, it is a national research institution. Of course, I have informed the Ministry of Labor, Labor, Science, Technology, and the Police Department about Qianren-kun." "Police Office?" "Current informatics is closely related to criminal investigation." Habara said, "The ministry has instructed that whether to announce the matter of Mr. Qianren should be discussed after the research progresses and the technology is established. Before that, it was all top secret." "Top secret..." "You can understand it when you think about it. After all, this kind of technology may produce a class of geniuses. If it is not properly announced and human experiments are carried out everywhere, it will be troublesome. But, of course, the most important point is that our country Want to monopolize this epoch-making research.” "How far has the research progressed?" Habara shrugged and slightly raised his hand. "That's exactly what I want to say. When Mr. Qianren first came, we were not sure whether his ability was the effect of the operation, or he possessed it himself. There are other patients who have undergone similar operations, but There was no case like him. Later, we finally got a few clues and confirmed that it was the effect of the operation. The problem came again: how to reproduce it? To reproduce it, we need to overcome many difficulties. In a word, we need to fully The same part of the brain, the exact same operation. But the possibility of such a patient happening by chance is too low. As a solution strategy, an idea is proposed. But it will inevitably be held accountable ethically, and it is a forbidden experiment. Can you Can't guess, what was that idea?" "Could it be... to perform surgery on healthy people?" Habara sighed and nodded. "As you said. It is to operate on the same part of the damaged brain as Mr. Qianren's on the child whose brain is not injured and whose brain cells are extremely capable of regeneration. Of course, if there is a mutation, we will immediately reset it, but In any case, the brain will never be the same as before. Also, the risk of serious injury from surgery is not zero." "But you did, didn't you?" Qing Jiang said, "to your own daughter." "You can call me crazy," Habara smiled faintly, "I am indeed crazy, I am crazy, and everyone around me is also crazy." "No, it's not like that." A voice suddenly came from the side.Tong Gongling stood up from the chair. "Isn't that...?" Qing Jiang asked. "Tonomiya-kun," Habara said reproachfully, "Stop talking." "No, I just want Teacher Qingjiang to know this." Tong Gongling walked over slowly, "The operation on Miss Yuan Hua was not proposed by Dr. Habara, let alone someone else. The one who wants to lie on the test bench, It's Miss Yuanhua herself." Qing Jiang sat up straight and called out: "How could it be..." "It's absolutely true. She once told me why she had to undergo surgery." Tong Gongling's chest rose and fell, and she seemed to be breathing evenly.As if making a major confession, Tong Gongling continued: "She said that she wanted to be Laplace's witch." "Laplace?" "What moved her was a tornado."