Li Yao bulged his eyes and added some vinegar into his bowl. "Why do you say that?"
"Lei Yuqin is not a common crystal processor or algorithm specialist. Her main research field is' artificial intelligence ', or more specifically,' simulated artificial intelligence '," Long Yangjun said.
Long Yangjun said, "Instead of calling her a pure algorithm specialist, it would be better to say that she is a dual specialist who studies both the human brain and the crystal processor. The 'algorithms' that she studies are exactly how to simulate the thinking ability of human beings with crystal chips, artificial neurons, and spiritual energy circuits.
"To put it more straightforwardly, her research field is how to replace the human brain with crystal processors!"
Li Yao was getting more and more vinegar. "I don't know that much about it. At that time, my main target was Professor Mo Xuan. I only learned about her from the gossip. According to the gossip, the woman was a staff member of the 'grand-unified Spiritual Nexus Control Center'."
"Her work is indeed related to the grand-unified Spiritual Nexus," Long Yangjun explained.
"Replacing the human brain with crystal processors has a lot of applications in the Federation today.
"First of all, it is aimed at the patients with severe brain damage, such as epilepsy, schizophrenia, dementia, manic depression, and the atrophy, loss, and mutation of the brain tissue caused by accidents and wars. The treatment approaches of the Federation right now are either to inject certain active materials with the biochemical therapy of the Blood Demon Sector to make the brain cells proliferate and repair themselves, or to implant crystal chips or even part of the crystal processor into the brain to fill the damaged area with an 'artificial brain'.
"How to integrate the original brain of human beings and the artificial brain made of metals and crystals into the most solid 'fortress' and 'home' of the soul and to maintain the original personality, memory, thinking style, and soul is the work of the 'algorithm' that Lei Yuqin studies!
"Therefore, you may consider Lei Yuqin to be a specialist in the treatment of 'brain damage'. She is a 'brain doctor'!"
Li Yao slightly frowned.
Although he knew that replacing part of the brain was essentially the same as replacing part of the limbs and internal organs …
Emotionally speaking, he still felt that it was a bit awkward.
"Her research has a more important application field, which is the production of crystal processors for the ghosts."
"If we get to the bottom of it, the so-called 'spectral Cultivators' or 'soul' are nothing more than highly condensed spiritual waves. Under normal circumstances, their minds and self-awareness have been compressed to the minimum, and they are completely controlled by their 'obsessions' when they were alive. They have turned into 'brutal ghosts' that do not have any self-awareness but only have instincts, and they live by swallowing the brainwaves of living people.
"If they maintain their memories and self-awareness in the condensed state of their soul, their life cycle will be even shorter. They will completely collapse in half a day or even a couple of hours at most. They will not be able to maintain the condensed state and will be obliterated. This is the case for most people whose Cultivation level is not high.
"Even for the Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators such as Wu Suiyun and Meng Chixin, their Cultivation plummeted after they lost their brains. It took them decades before they finally regained their memories and self-awareness. They had to hide inside battle puppets and run their thoughts and self-awareness with the computational ability of the puppets.
"It was all thanks to the fact that their souls had left their bodies inside the Nuwa warship below the ground. The shell of the warship blocked most of the radiation and interference for them. If they were on the ground, the remaining souls of the two Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators would've been obliterated after a couple of years of exposure to the elements."
Li Yao nodded. "The brain is like the seawater, and the self-awareness and the soul are like a boat. Without seawater, the boat will be useless no matter how large and sturdy it is."
"Exactly," Long Yangjun said.
Long Yangjun said, "The soul can live inside a tiny storage chip, but such a living state is merely 'storage'. It is not a real 'self' or 'self-awareness'. It is like a telepathic thought that has not been activated yet.
"Yes."
Li Yao said, "In order to recover the thinking, self-awareness, and computational ability of their previous life, they will need the assistance of special crystal processors. I once studied some artificial bodies, too. The greatest difference between artificial bodies and Crystal Suit is the crystal processors. The crystal processors of artificial bodies are specially designed for spectral Cultivators. The precision of many key units is even ten times higher than that of the ancillary crystal processors of Crystal Suit. It is safe to say that more than half of the most advanced small crystal processors in the Federation were developed for spectral Cultivators."
"Crystal processors alone are not enough without algorithms," Long Yangjun said.
"Lei Yuqin has been studying the algorithms in that regard. She is studying the integration of the soul and the crystal processors!
"Her job in the 'grand-unified Spiritual Nexus Control Base' is a doctor who specializes in treating the brain damage caused by excessive surfing.
"You know that most of the staff in the 'grand-unified Spiritual Nexus Control Base' are specialists of crystal processors and the Spiritual Nexus. They are the people who spend the most time online and are most deeply addicted to the Spiritual Nexus in the Federation. Most of them are addicted to the Spiritual Nexus day and night. Once their computational ability is too high, their brain will be congested, their veins will explode, and their brain cells will atrophy and proliferate. Lei Yuqin's job is to treat them.
"Years ago, after Professor Mo Xuan's' Virtual Spirits Sector Project 'failed, Su Changfa's self-awareness disappeared in the broken Virtual Spirits Sector, and his real body became a' level-five vegetative patient '. He was judged to be brain-dead, or really dead in the legal sense.
"Professor Mo Xuan and Lu Qingchen luckily survived, but they suffered brain damage of different degrees and were sent to Lei Yuqin for treatment.
"I just found out that it was during the treatment that Professor Mo Xuan gradually fell in love with Lei Yuqin, which led to the so-called 'marriage scandal'.
"I didn't think much of it when I saw it just now, because it is perfectly normal for a doctor and a patient to fall in love with each other after a long time of contact. Besides, your teacher is' liquid metal '. The functioning mechanism of his soul must be different from that of ordinary people and spectral Cultivators. With Lei Yuqin's passion for studying the brain, thinking, and self-awareness, it is perfectly normal that she would be interested in your teacher.
"But from what I see right now … something is very wrong with the woman!"
Li Yao narrowed his eyes, with cold brilliance beaming out of them. He was deep in thought. "Well …"
"Here's your brain in red oil. Sorry for the long wait. There were too many people at noon!"
The waiter served a dish that was soaked in red oil and placed it in front of Li Yao.
Long Yangjun stared at Li Yao in silence without blinking.
"As an infiltrator in the darkness," Li Yao said, "we have to consider the tiniest detail. The brain in red oil in this restaurant is the most famous dish. Many people come here not for the noodles but for a dish of brain! Look around. Most people have ordered it. Wouldn't it be too strange if two customers in a row did not order it?
"Don't look at me. Turn around and eat the noodles!
"Don't bother yourself with the trivia. Let's continue. Now that you mention it, my teacher's mistress, Lei Yuqin, is indeed suspicious.
"However, if it is the 'grand-unified control center of the Spiritual Nexus', it should be a strategic location on the national level. It is even less likely that my teacher has played any tricks in it, right?"
"Lei Yuqin has left the 'control center of the Spiritual Nexus' for a long time. Decades, I think. She has opened a hospital right now."
Li Yao was slightly dazed. "A hospital?"
"Exactly," Long Yangjun said.
"The 'Deep Blue Super Brain Hospital', which specializes in treating brain damage, mental diseases, and maintaining the vitality of vegetative patients, is in Hundred Flowers City. It is a private hospital that is wholly owned by her. She can do whatever she wants. That's all I know just now."
Deep Blue Super Brain Hospital …
Li Yao and Long Yangjun looked at each other. The two of them unleashed highly-concentrated telepathic thoughts almost at the same time. "Investigate! Collect their public files on the Internet! I will investigate Lei Yuqin, and you will investigate the 'Deep Blue Super Brain Hospital'. Let's see if there are any more problems! "
Shua! Shua! Shua!
Shua! The two of them were sitting at an inconspicuous angle, which allowed them to block the surveillance cameras above and other people's gazes with their backs. Also, most of the white-collar workers who were eating noodles were browsing the light beams of their crystal processors quickly, too. Nobody noticed how astonishing their browsing speed was at all.
A moment later, the two of them finished collecting and analyzing the public files.
Li Yao said, "Lei Yuqin, a hundred and thirty-two years old, from the Flying Star Sector. Her public Cultivation is in the Jin Dan stage. She is a well-known algorithm specialist, psychologist, psychiatrist, and Meditation Healer in the Federation. She is particularly adept at the interventional therapy with crystal chips and crystal processors to treat brain damage, brain atrophy, and other brain diseases. She has also been involved in the production and upgrade of multiple crystal processors for the spectral Cultivators as an 'algorithm specialist'.
"When Professor Mo Xuan was working on the 'Virtual Spirits Sector Project', she was a doctor and a Meditation Healer specially hired by the control center of the grand-unified Spiritual Nexus. After the collapse of the 'Virtual Spirits Sector', she was responsible for the treatment of Professor Mo Xuan and other relevant personnel.
"Three years after the collapse of the Virtual Spirits Sector, Professor Mo Xuan officially withdrew from the development team of the game 'Civilization'. He bought out the 'Monument Plan' and renamed it 'Tinder Plan'. Lei Yuqin resigned from the control center of the grand-unified Spiritual Nexus at that time and founded Deep Blue Super Brain Hospital, too!
"There is a lot of gossip and gossip about the relationship between Professor Mo Xuan and Lei Yuqin. It is said that Professor Mo Xuan even divorced because of her. However, no matter how close the two of them were at that time, they did not seem to have much contact in the decades that followed. Perhaps it was because she was involved in Professor Mo Xuan's marriage, which made her bear the dishonorable title of 'mistress'. She was a reputable person herself. Naturally, she could not bear such rumors. Therefore, her relationship with Professor Mo Xuan soon turned cold. They did not talk to each other for decades, and they worked on their own businesses separately.
"Because of such an embarrassing past, Professor Mo Xuan's' Tinder Plan 'gathered the specialists of the soul, the Spiritual Nexus, the crystal processors, and the Meditation Healers in the entire Federation, but he simply ignored Lei Yuqin, who was right next to him.
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