Luo Nan walked out from the lounge and immediately furrowed his brows. This was because Zhan Ji was smiling at him from outside the lounge. There was even a camera hovering on her shoulder. On the other side of the camera was the powerful attention of over thirty thousand ability users from every region of the world.
He Yueyin, who had followed Luo Nan out the door, took a step forward when she saw this. She requested Zhan Ji to step back. "Please don't disturb the lecture."
As a veteran anchor, Zhan Ji obviously wouldn't be like those stupid newbies who would cry and forcefully point the camera at Luo Nan's face. Even if she wanted to retort, He Yueyin, a B-rank power, could kill her in an instant at any time.
Zhan Ji stepped back in a practiced manner. She had a radiant smile on her face. It was as if she was talking to an old friend. She said to Luo Nan, "Do you want to guess the number of people in the live broadcast?"
He Yueyin didn't know about this joke, but Luo Nan understood. He gave her a glance and responded, "Around thirty-four thousand."
"Bingo!"
This was both praise for Luo Nan's judgment and encouragement for himself. Zhan Ji didn't ask Luo Nan how he guessed it. It didn't matter if it was his extraordinary strength or if he was secretly paying attention to the live broadcast. In any case, she had already struck up a conversation with Luo Nan.
She had to seize the opportunity! It took only two steps to walk from the lounge to the podium. Zhan Ji felt that she had already retreated to the podium. In fact, the majority of her body had already appeared on the podium.
The attendees, who had just sent her off with their gazes, let out low roars of laughter. But then, Luo Nan's figure reappeared on the inner edge of the podium. The thousand or so ability users in the circular conference room completed the complete transformation from clamoring and buzzing to absolute silence in the short span of three seconds.
Zhan Ji could feel this change extremely clearly from the podium. Over a thousand pairs of eyes pointed straight at her. Even if they weren't directed at her, even if she had experienced countless major scenes, she still felt a pressure like a dagger pressing down on her back in an instant.
Zhan Ji adjusted her breathing and seized the time to speak the real question. She didn't pursue any depth. She just wanted an exclusive influence. "Before this lecture, did you imagine the impact it would bring? What sort of self-evaluation did you have of the previous lecture? "
The moment the question left her mouth, Zhan Ji suddenly discovered that she had unknowingly given Luo Nan a title of respect. Was it the bad habit of interviewing too many Extraordinaries? Or was it the shock brought about by the previous lesson?
Luo Nan did not know of the subtle emotions in Zhan Ji's heart. He stood at the entrance to the stage, unable to see the entire situation within the conference room. But on the mental plane that could be explored, the gorgeous and orderly maelstrom manifested the deep trend of collective consciousness formed by over a thousand people.
Luo Nan was a lecturer who had just stepped onto the stage for the first time. Being able to accomplish this in a little over an hour was enough for him to be proud of himself. But the obsessive-compulsive soul buried in the bottom of his heart came out at this moment.
In his opinion, regardless of whether it was the atmosphere in the circular conference room or the reaction on the spiritual level, it was neat and tidy, but it still lacked a meaningful structural trend. This was like a teacher who had the ability to make his students listen attentively to his lessons, but did not give his students enough knowledge in class.
It was a lively talk, but it was worthless.
Of course, the Cage Theory was valuable, but most people in the venue did not know where its value lay and how it should be used and implemented.
This was the next mission Luo Nan needed to complete.
So he ignored the first of the two questions. He only answered the second one: "Lessons never only talk about true and wrong questions. The process and the result are equally important. Perhaps even more important than the result."
"Uh, you mean … …" Zhan Ji finally experienced Luo Nan's ability to jump in thought. She was stupefied for a short period of time, but Luo Nan did not have any intentions of taking things a step further. He simply walked past her and stepped onto the podium.
Luo Nan did not immediately open his mouth to teach. He just lowered his head slightly, debugging the drawing software's work area while referring to the structural changes on the mental plane within the conference room. He sorted out the train of thought in his mind.
The participants below the stage all displayed an enormous amount of patience. They did not even cough. The environment of the circular conference room actually transformed from "silent and soundless" to an even more extreme transformation. It had almost reached the point where a pin drop could be heard. Luo Nan tapped on the flexible e-ink screen. The subtle electronic sound appeared abnormally clear, so much so that Zhan Ji, who was beside him, had to deliberately tiptoe off the stage to avoid becoming the focus of everyone's attention.
The reason why the venue was able to maintain such an atmosphere, aside from Luo Nan's extremely subversive lecture in the first half of the lecture, had to do with the snowflake-like external information that came flying in during the break.
In the end, Luo Nan's theory teaching was a bit cryptic. Truthfully speaking, there were not many ability users present who could completely understand what he was saying. If the outside world's reaction was merely the clamoring and mutual explosions in the live broadcast room and the forums, everyone would just go back to what they were doing after the novelty and shock wore off.
But the communications of the majority of people in the venue practically never stopped during the past ten minutes of break. The information was like a swarm of bees. Practically all of them were related to Luo Nan's Cage Theory. A considerable portion of the messages were from friends and acquaintances present, asking questions on their behalf, or helping to record … … Xia City's Psychic Wave Network could record information on the mental plane. This was the most valuable content that the audience watching the live broadcast from thousands of kilometers away wanted to know.
Under such circumstances, the live experience of a thousand people quickly yielded to the collective consciousness of thirty thousand people or even greater. Many people suddenly came to a realization in these ten minutes or so:
Oh my, the Cage Theory is this amazing?
So I'm the one who got the big advantage?
Could it be that I'm witnessing history?
As the center of the storm, all the relevant information from the entire world converged here. The ten minutes or so of information washed over them, completely correcting the collective cognition of the one thousand four hundred and seventy-seven ability users present in the venue. Even though there was an extremely small portion of people who disapproved, they were intimidated by the indescribable and inexplicable pressure of the group. They held their breaths, calmed their minds, and sat in silence, waiting.
Luo Nan tidied up the details on stage. When he raised his head once more, he was greeted by over a thousand gazes from the audience, seeking answers to their doubts, striving for progress, and striving for superiority.
Well, now there was some significance in terms of structure.
In Luo Nan's eyes, the scene on the mental plane right now was like an enormous tornado descending from the wasteland. Above it was a chaotic thundercloud that was borne by electromagnetic waves. Colored lines from various regions of the world converged within, and as time passed, they expanded at an astonishing speed. Their density increased substantially as well. This represented that the Cage Theory he released was rapidly spreading throughout the inner world and its related domains. It attracted more and more attention, discussion, and contemplation.
This was an astonishing power. It was chaotic and berserk. Kindness and malice interweaved and rubbed against each other, bursting forth with malevolent and fierce electric flames. It originated from countless consciousness cages. It was the convergence of the thoughts and emotions of tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of people. It was projected onto a corner of the planet using modern advanced communication technology as a medium.
It was just a shadow. It was chaotic and nothingness, and it involved the complex mechanisms of the abyssal region and the polar region. It was extremely difficult to utilize.
But it was precisely because of this terrifying dark side storm, the powerful group consciousness, and the corresponding communication technology that the material and mental planes worked at the same time. It caused an incorporeal yet powerful pressure to flow back to this circular conference room that could be called its source.
The circular conference room became the eye of the storm. It acted as the hub, continuously radiating information to affect the consciousness of the outside world. The thundercloud also received the correction of the powerful reaction force of the thundercloud, becoming more and more orderly.
And in a higher dimension, the Human-Faced Arachnid Sign was coldly looking down on everything.
It was shameful to say that ninety-nine percent of the ability users in the conference room were flying insects on the spider web woven by the Wraith Sign. They were pierced through by Luo Nan's great benefits that pointed directly at the core of their lives. They became the fulcrum or the end of the Enemy Against Ten Thousand framework.
It was under this framework that Luo Nan and the thousand or so participants in the conference room had an unimaginably close connection. And through these thousand or so people and the diffuse influence of the Cage Theory, Luo Nan was able to form a somewhat distant yet continuous connection with everyone who was paying attention to this lecture from all over the world.
Luo Nan experienced the complex relationship between the various parties and corrected his somewhat excessively harsh judgment standards from before. There was still some meaning to it. At the very least, the overall structure had been shaped. The direction was okay, and the effects had already manifested. This was more or less an achievement.
Next was the time to accumulate the details.
He looked at Assistant Number One, which was still cut into two pieces. He shook his head and clicked the rollback operation in the work area, restoring it to its original state. Then he spoke, "For the sake of illustrating, Number One's configuration thought wasn't presented accurately enough."
No one expected that Luo Nan's first words after he took the stage would be to correct what he said in the first half of the lecture. But the conference room was still extremely quiet. They had enough patience to understand his meaning.
In comparison, a certain person's reaction was much more intense in the distant Deep Blue Base. "See? He's already denying himself. He doesn't have any confidence in what he said just now!"
None of the investors paid attention to Yan Hong's neurotic behavior. Bald Jeff only shot him a glance and continued to seriously watch the live broadcast from the circular conference room.
Luo Nan nodded at Assistant Number One, who was still wrapped in a bubble. He spoke with a steady tone, "We talk about the Tower of Babel and Mount Buzhou. They are used to describe the difference in ability and realm from the bottom to the top. But in reality, it should be from the inside to the outside. From the 'I' to the 'not I'. It's a process of internalization and then diffusion. Here's a better diagram that can be used to express … … "
As he spoke, Luo Nan took out the visualization diagram that had already been engraved into the depths of his soul. It was the structure of a tetrahedron, its inscribed sphere, and its circumscribed sphere.
Since Assistant Number One had a layer of bubble outside its body, Luo Nan only needed to use this foundation to make a tangent tetrahedron and add the circumscribed sphere. It was enough.
The diagram was very simple, but the meaning behind it was extraordinary. If Luo Nan remembered correctly, this was the largest demonstration of the Formatting Theory system that he had ever done in his hands.
Over thirty-five thousand ability users were listening, comprehending, pondering, and even nitpicking and attacking. Here, Luo Nan used a rather restrained attitude to narrate the following contents. He didn't give the ability users present a long lecture on the philosophical speculations of the Self Format, the Social Format, and the Heaven and Earth Format. He just used this diagram to continue the topic of the first half of the lecture.
"If we use this diagram as a configuration train of thought, I believe it's quite appropriate. We can consider the inscribed sphere in the center to be the fundamental unit that mobilizes the functions of the human body. It involves every layer and every system of the human body. Muscles, bones, nerves, internal organs, and it's even possible to probe down to the genetic level.
"This part involves a great deal of knowledge. It's extremely complex and precise. I'm afraid that every step forward will be very difficult. Now that I think about it, Gym Master Xiu, who taught me body techniques, once described this part of knowledge as a 'spark'. If I can make a breakthrough in this aspect, it will be like Suirenshi of the East or Prometheus of the West. I can bring about a historical change to the human race …. But unfortunately, as far as I know, we still haven't made a decisive breakthrough. The military, the government, and Quantum Corporation are all using human body modification technology as well as the transfer and conversion of external energy to forcefully surpass this stage.
"There are records of success in this aspect in the fleshly side of the martial legacy lineage, but it relies too much on talent. It has extremely high requirements for willpower. It's very difficult for it to be universal."
Luo Nan shot a glance at Xue Lei as he spoke, and Xue Lei grinned. Luo Nan laughed as well, "What's worth rejoicing about is that as ability users, we've already used various methods to skip this step. This isn't the focus of today's lecture."
Luo Nan spoke quite a bit, but the conclusion he reached in the end was more or less disappointing. A few voices of discussion began to rise below the stage.
Naturally, a certain neurotic had already replaced the function of a certain paid guest. With emotions that were a hundred times more intense than a normal person's, he spat out saliva and germs: "See? See? I told you. He doesn't have any real results at all. He's just flaunting his eloquence. I can say these words even if I'm on stage. I can't compare to him …. "
“Shut
up！”
Jeff glared fiercely. Yan Hong's current performance made him suspect whether or not letting this fellow continue to be the person in charge of Team Four was a serious insult to his intelligence and leadership. One moment he said he wanted to cut the weeds and eliminate the roots. The next moment he said it wasn't worth mentioning. Did he have any basic logic?
"Is this your evaluation of the competitor's project as the person in charge of Team Four? You're going to use this as the final result and put it on file? "
Yan Hong was stupefied for a moment. Before he could reply, Wang Yu looked at him and said, "Team Leader Yan can go calm down."
And then … … There was no then.
Luo Nan was able to feel some particularly negative threads within the surging thundercloud. But he didn't split his energy on them. He just used his finger to trace across the edges and corners of the tetrahedron that had just taken shape: "I'm done talking about the 'basic unit'. If we extend outwards, it's the 'central unit' that is maintained by the extraordinary power extracted from our bodies. It's weak, but it also possesses strong plasticity … …"
His finger continued to trace outwards, cutting across the arc of the external sphere: "If we continue to walk outwards, there's also the high-end operational 'expansion unit'. The Condensation Ring, or perhaps I should say the Dripping Sword. The majority of the structure belongs to this layer. But the portion that only exists in the 'central unit' is enough for us to enjoy endless benefits. "
Luo Nan's finger hooked back: "Everyone should have already thought of it. Today we're going to talk about the central unit. And the domain it is used in is basically what we call the mental plane. This is also the domain we are most familiar with. It's the domain we are most suited to use. "
Many people were nodding their heads at this moment, including Deep Blue Base's Baldy Jeff: "A very pragmatic consideration. And the division is very clear … … Just from this point alone, we can see that he already possesses the basic thinking of configuration design."
This sort of evaluation was quite complicated for all the investors present.
Luo Nan's current state of mind was more calm and unhurried than everyone who was listening to his lecture. He didn't pause at all as he directly spoke: "I've already made the Cage Hypothesis, and I will continue to proceed according to this hypothesis. It is precisely because of this that we must first resolve some understanding problems caused by our previous hypothesis …. "
"I've seen the questions everyone has sent me. Quite a few of them wish for me to bring out sufficiently convincing experimental data. This is truly a bit difficult for me. I haven't even truly started on the path of scientific research. It's just that I've cultivated in accordance with Formatting Theory all year round that I've obtained some rather special observation and clairvoyance abilities. Rather than saying that I've proven something, it's better to say that I've seen something … … I'm different from the vast majority of people. Yes, this is precisely the original intention of Her Majesty Empress Wu in forcing me onto the stage. "
Soft laughter rang out below the stage, followed by a buzzing discussion that was difficult to suppress. Many people were able to understand the meaning behind Luo Nan's words by now.
"Yes. Right now, I will share the results of my observations and clairvoyance with everyone. According to the requirements of Cage Theory and Formatting Theory, I can confirm that what I see is the result of the active exploration of pure supernatural power. It is the greatest limit of abandoning the various illusions formed from passive reception of external information. This is my understanding of this world at a certain stage. I hope it will be of some help to everyone. "
The venue was no longer calm, but nearly one thousand five hundred pairs of eyes were still focused on the stage. Not only that, but their minds were highly focused as well. They used all forms of perception to grasp the somewhat cryptic and abstract speech of the young man on the stage.
However, Luo Nan's formal lecture began with a figurative metaphor: "In my eyes, the mental world is a vast ocean."
The circular conference room was in an uproar once more. Why did he go back?
Luo Nan didn't stop. He continued speaking: "We are a part of it. Every single one of us is a bead of water. Perhaps there are quite a few lifeforms that we have yet to understand within, such as the Mutants. And so, beads of water are beads of water. From one to ten thousand, from ten thousand to a hundred million, to a trillion, to infinity. Everything comes together to ultimately form a boundless ocean. "
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