Long Yangjun switched the light beam to a video of singing and dancing as a disguise. She continued what Li Yao said. "The Blue Sky Super Brain Hospital is a private hospital wholly owned by Lei Yuqin. It is also one of the best brain hospitals in the entire Xing Yao Federation. What it is best at is' Spiritual Nexus Sudden Death Syndrome ', also known as the' Dead Spirit Disease '.
"With the popularity of the Internet, especially the application of the immersive virtual cabins, the brain-scanning helmets, and the long-distance space ripple transmission technology, human beings are more and more closely connected to the Spiritual Nexus.
"At the beginning, it was just scanning the information on the light beam with their eyes and listening to the sounds from the crystal processors with their ears.
"However, in the neural interaction liquids of the immersive virtual cabins or the holographic game helmets that directly scan the brainwaves, tremendous information from a hundred lightyears away can be projected into the brain of the user through the entanglement of spiritual particles, gravitational waves, space-time ripples, and so on, creating a more vivid effect than the traditional 'Grand Illusionary Land'. One might say that it is 150% real!
"The supersaturated sense of reality created by the tremendous data certainly provides great convenience and pleasure for the user, but it is self-evident that it is a burden on the brain, too. In particular, many Grand Illusionary Land boast the effect of 'time extension'. One hour in reality can become three or even five hours in the virtual world.
"As long as the speed is constant, it is naturally impossible for time to be distorted. The reason why the users feel that time in the virtual world is flowing slower is because the virtual cabin and the gaming helmet have implemented a strong stimulation on their brain, increasing the activity of their brain cells and overloading their brain. That's all!
"The human brain is the most precise organ in the world, and it is also the most mysterious domain. To this day, a lot of unsolved mysteries remain. In the normal state, only 10% of the brain is active, and the other 90% is temporarily hibernating. However, it does not mean that the human brain is only 10% developed, but that the soul of human beings is too strong. 10% of the development is already close to the limits of the brain. The other 90% are all providing certain … ancillary and recovery functions to ensure that the human brain can function stably for a long time.
"The modern Spiritual Nexus, virtual cabins, and game helmets, on the other hand, can increase the development rate of the human brain to 15% or even higher through a series of stimuli. That is just for the ordinary people. For the Cultivators, the development rate of their brain will be even more terrifying!
"It is inevitable that there will be problems when the Spiritual Nexus is operated under such a high load. The most common symptom is the severe hemorrhage in the brain caused by the prolonged surfing of the Spiritual Nexus. In less serious cases, it may lead to epilepsy, paralysis, and nervous disorders. In more serious cases, it may lead to coma, vegetative state, or even sudden death. This is the 'Spiritual Nexus Sudden Death Syndrome' or 'Dead Spirit Disease'. It is the latest chronic disease that has emerged in the era of the new Federation after most of the traditional diseases have been resolved!
"According to the statistics of the specialists, in the past ten years, the incidence of 'Spiritual Nexus Sudden Death Syndrome' in the entire Federation is 7/100,000, or about seven million people. Most of them have mild symptoms and can be recovered after treatment. But one tenth, or about seven hundred thousand people, will be permanently disabled, vegetative, or even directly killed. I learned all these from the official website of the 'Blue Sky Super Brain Hospital'. Lei Yuqin is a specialist in treating such a chronic disease."
Li Yao was rather shocked. "The incidence and casualty rate are so high? Isn't the Spiritual Nexus too terrifying? How can such immature technology be listed on the market? "
"The casualty rate is not very high," Long Yangjun said.
"According to the files that I've found, eighty million people in the Federation are injured in traffic accidents every year. Eight million are permanently disabled, and about a million are killed.
"The culprits of traffic accidents, such as shuttles, flying wings, jet thrusters, and other vehicles of spiritual energy, were invented in the era of the Star Ocean Imperium and have a history of almost ten thousand years. Considering the technological gaps, they have been reinvented for almost a thousand years. They are very mature and 'safe' technologies.
"So to speak, virtual cabins and game helmets are at least more mature, safe, and reliable than shuttles.
"It is needless to say that on the resource planets with harsh environments and the narrow starship towns where it is very easy to suffer from claustrophobia, there is no place for them to go out even if they want to. They can only surf the Spiritual Nexus in their cramped rooms.
"The incidence rate is one in ten thousand, and most of them are mild symptoms that can be cured. Even the cerebral hemorrhage and sudden death can hardly be determined whether or not they are caused by the addiction to the Spiritual Nexus, or whether or not they have the hidden problems of cerebral hemorrhage and sudden death in the first place. Such accidents alone are not enough to make people give up on the Spiritual Nexus, nor are they enough to limit their means and speed of surfing the Spiritual Nexus to a certain low-level level.
"In any case, people have to surf the Spiritual Nexus. If the level of surfing the Spiritual Nexus for entertainment can be controlled to a certain extent, it is absolutely impossible for the Cultivators to control their level and limits when they surf the Spiritual Nexus for work and research!
"Sixty percent of the victims of 'Spiritual Nexus Sudden Death Syndrome' are Cultivators, and eighty percent of those who are vegetative or dead are Cultivators. Considering the population ratio of Cultivators to ordinary people, it is indeed a shocking number, but it is also a number that is hard to avoid!"
"Cultivators …"
Li Yao mumbled, "The soul intensity of the Cultivators should be higher than that of the ordinary people. Why are the incidence and the death rate higher, too?"
"Because when the Cultivators surf the Spiritual Nexus, they often increase the activity of their brain cells to more than ten times that of the ordinary people," Long Yangjun said. "They burn their life, break the limits of their soul, and blow up a few of their cerebral vessels all the time. If they blow up a few of their cerebral vessels every day for fun, even a deity would not be able to stand it after a long time!"
Li Yao coughed and remembered that his brain was overloaded when he was studying, training, and refining. His cerebral vessels were often exploding, too.
Although the Cultivators' brains were much tougher than those of ordinary people, and they could usually repair their cerebral hemorrhage with their own spiritual energy, human beings were not made of iron after all. Even the super alloys had a certain level of fatigue!
If such a thing went on for a long time, there would indeed be problems with the brain.
"The past hundred years in the New Federation have been the golden years of rapid development," Long Yangjun continued. "However, 'rapid development' is not just for show but because countless people burned their soul and even sacrificed their lives for it.
"Except for the few years during the 'Uranian Ring War', the Federation has enjoyed almost a hundred years of peace, but the death rate of the Cultivators did not decrease at all. For most of the admin-type Cultivators, the research-type Cultivators, the creative type Cultivators, and even the culture-type Cultivators, their daily work is their battlefield, and the crystal processors and the Spiritual Nexus are their best weapons.
"All the Cultivators unleashed their vitality by burning their brains to the maximum on the battlefield, whether they were analyzing the primeval treasures from hundreds of thousands of years ago on Kunlun, managing a metropolis with a population of tens of millions of years, developing a brand-new Crystal Suit, crystal tank, or starship, or the culture-type Cultivators who created the most popular works of art to boost the morale of the entire Federation and unite all the people of the seven Sectors into a whole, or the battle-type Cultivators who polished their skills again and again in the virtual worlds to create even more powerful techniques. Everything made the Cultivators' brains break the limits time and time again until they collapsed at their posts in the end.
"Therefore, the odds of the Cultivators suffering from 'Severe Sudden Spiritual Nexus Death Syndrome' are much higher than that of the ordinary people because the Cultivators of the Federation have been overusing their brains without caring about their own lives in the first place!"
Li Yao was silent.
He then remembered the universal words of the cross in the old Federation.
Cultivators were not scared of death, and those who were scared of death would not be Cultivators!
"In order to cope with the scourge of the Imperium of True Human Beings, few Cultivators have slowed down their research progress. If they squeeze more of their brainpower today to develop more magical equipment and techniques, or to make the mines, cities, and shipping routes run more efficiently, they will be able to accumulate more strength and increase the odds of victory in the war tomorrow.
"Therefore, even though they knew of the existence of 'Sudden Spiritual Nexus Death Syndrome', no Cultivator would give up using the Spiritual Nexus. This is a war that will last a hundred years. In a war, the casualty rate of one in ten thousand is almost nonexistent!
"The Cultivators can take such risks, but the specialists of the Spiritual Nexus, the brain doctors, and the Meditation Healers still have to figure out a way to solve the global conundrum. In recent decades, the studies on 'Sudden Spiritual Nexus Death Syndrome' have become a prominent subject, and Lei Yuqin is one of the most skillful specialists, masters, and academic authorities in the field!
"Ever since her 'Deep Blue Super Brain Hospital' was founded, it has presented a lot of important research results in only a few decades. She has studied the mechanism of 'Sudden Spiritual Nexus Death Syndrome', the mechanism of its influence on the brain, and the treatment plans. She is particularly good at treating the cases of severe brain damage. There is also a very large 'Deep Maintenance Treatment Center', which is designed to receive the vegetative patients from all over the Federation, especially the Cultivators who are mentally deranged and fall into a coma because of overexertion during high-intensity work on the Spiritual Nexus.
"Of course, Deep Blue Super Brain Hospital is a private hospital. The cost of the Deep Maintenance Treatment Center is astronomical every day. Other than the high-level Cultivators who are very wealthy, the families of the low-level Cultivators and the ordinary people can barely afford to send their patients to this place for treatment.
"All in all, when the vegetative patients are sent to Deep Blue Super Brain Hospital, they will be sent to special 'recovery cabins'. On one hand, their body functions and intensity will be maintained through nerve stimulation and the cleansing of nutrition liquids. On the other hand, Lei Yuqin's secret arts will be used to explore and stimulate their brain that has fallen into a dead silence, helping them to wake up.
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