Tan Yan's entire body information appeared on the display screen, and Qiao Zhixue and Tianshen No. 2 were paying close attention to the data.
After a while, Tianshen No. 2 said, "Eh?" "Strange, this shouldn't be the case."
"Are you referring to the difference in age and physical condition?" Qiao Zhixue asked, "You should know the answer to this question."
"No," Tianshen No. 2 shook his head, "The cells in his body have begun to age. It can be clearly seen that the number of cell divisions has decreased, and many functions are declining. Logically, he should be able to walk with a cane like a centenarian. The reason why he is still active on the front line is because of his consciousness."
Qiao Zhixue looked at the data carefully. He didn't have the powerful computing ability of Tianshen No. 2, but fortunately, after awakening his superpowers, his brain was highly developed, and he could do mental arithmetic at the speed of a supercomputer. He calculated the result and said solemnly, "He is now a puppet. His body can no longer move. He relies entirely on the invisible lines formed by his consciousness to maintain normal movements. No wonder I felt that he had no obsession to survive during this conversation. It turns out that he already had an idea in his mind."
Tan Yan knew that he could no longer move, but in order to continue to be everyone's spiritual pillar, he said nothing, forced himself to fight on the front line, and did not tell anyone about his physical condition.
If Qiao Zhixue had not developed a new type of scanning cabin, no one would have discovered this secret even until their death.
Tianshen No. 2 stretched out his little hand on the display screen: "It's so strange, I suddenly want to touch his face. This is the first time I have felt the desire to touch him since I was created. It's a very strange feeling, and I can't calculate it. His behavior is incomprehensible and incalculable. The computing power is insufficient, I need more processors and more memory."
"No matter how much memory you have or how advanced the technology is, you still can't figure it out." Qiao Zhixue, who always speaks with data, said sadly, "Human emotions cannot be measured by any powerful computing power, and cannot be calculated by common sense."
There are soldiers who would not move even if they were burned to death in the fire, there are soldiers who blocked the muzzles of guns with their chests. Countless heroes have exchanged their flesh and blood for today's happy life. Their sacrifice and dedication cannot be understood by people living in a peaceful world, and this kind of emotion cannot be calculated by an artificial intelligence.
"Is he really hopeless?" Celestial No. 2 wiped away his virtual tears. "When I was looking up the database before, I read his file. His life was disproportionate. He never enjoyed anything but was always giving. I don't want him to die."
"I don't want to either, but birth, aging, sickness and death are beyond human control." Qiao Zhixue touched his face and found that it was wet.
"I have saved his physical data," Tianshen No. 2 said, "and also stored the hematopoietic stem cells. Can I clone a new body? Cloning technology is now very mature."
“Even if it is a clone, it needs to grow in the mother's womb. Even if it is a clone, it is a new life with its own consciousness. It will not be anyone's backup. Life is not data that can be copied and pasted and reused repeatedly.” Qiao Zhixue sighed and slowly explained morality, ethics or more profound things to Tianshen No. 2.
"Then am I the same?" Celestial No. 2 looked at his hands. "I am a replica extracted from the database by Celestial No. 1. Am I also unique? If one day I die... or the data disappears, am I irreplaceable? Even with the backup data?"
"Yes." Qiao Zhixue said, "Backup data is at most like the continuation of life, like your child, and the time you spent with us and the feelings you gained cannot be described by data."
The fact that Qiao Zhixue could say such words must be because Tan Yan’s condition was so heartbreaking.
He wiped away his tears, comforted Tianshen No. 2, and quickly found the information about the meteorite hidden in Tan Yan's subconscious.
Just as Qiao Zhixue expected, Tan Yan remembered this metal and formed an impression of this special meteorite in his subconscious. Moreover, it was not the first time he had seen this kind of meteorite in the long years. Even in his original world, in the higher dimensional universe, this metal was used to stabilize the frenzied consciousness of human beings.
This is a meteorite that only exists in higher-dimensional worlds. The evil consciousness can encounter matter that can restrain it in any world it chooses. It is truly God's will that it will be destroyed.
The world is made up of countless coincidences. A space traveler met the young Tan Yan; the new Tan Yan became a policeman in Ping County and guarded the Earth for forty years without being discovered; Minister Yu met Tan Yan when he was investigating Ping County, the origin of the "void", and it happened that the "void" appeared that day, and Tan Yan had to take Minister Yu into the "void"; Liang Xian, who had a broken arm, met Tan Yan, and awakened his superpowers during the last mission before retirement, and his arm recovered; Liang Xian was bitten by an infected child and stayed in the zombie world, where he encountered an evil consciousness; the evil consciousness discovered Tan Yan in Liang Xian's consciousness, and came to the real world to try to devour Tan Yan, but ran into the meteorite world where Tianshen No. 1 was located, and here, 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 metal is liquid at room temperature, and the purple-gold light flowed in Qiao Zhixue's palm.
He placed the metal in a ceramic box that had been prepared long ago and covered it with a lid.
God-2 stared at the box intently, this was hope.
Qiao Zhixue sat on the chair, pressing his temple. The materialization of the imaginary metal exhausted his consciousness and gave him a splitting headache.
Celestial God No. 2 asked in confusion, "Your ability doesn't seem to be materialization, but rather a power similar to summoning. You use your consciousness to summon reasonable objects from the universe, and they appear around you in the form you need. Materialization itself is an ability that does not conform to the law of conservation of energy, and it cannot exist."
"Who knows," Qiao Zhixue put his hand on the box, "Whatever power it is, as long as it can bring hope."
He is a scientist who supports everything with theory, but now he actually believes in the unfounded fate.
"Let's get started," Qiao Zhixue said after a moment's pause, "First, prepare enough chips for the psychics so that they have enough resistance in the other world."
"What about him?" Tianshen No. 2 was talking about Tan Yan, "He looks like he is sleeping soundly."
Qiao Zhixue walked into the scanning cabin and saw that Tan Yan's mouth corners were slightly raised, as if he was having a good dream.
"He dreamed of Liang Xian," Tianshen No. 2 said, covering his face, "Wow! What are they doing?"
"Children, don't look around." Qiao Zhixue quickly unplugged the plug on the scanning cabin and disconnected Tianshen No. 2.
Qiao Zhixue, who stopped the child from peeping, couldn't help but look at the playback data. To an outsider, it was a pile of data, but to Qiao Zhixue, it looked like Tan Yan resting his forehead on Liang Xian's head, and the two of them were sleeping facing each other.
Qiao Zhixue: “…”
Dreams are so pure.
It seemed that Tan Yan had not slept so soundly for a long time. When he opened his eyes, he saw the cabin wall in front of him. He was a little confused about the situation. He lay there and thought for a while before he realized what had 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. However, Tianshen No. 2 noticed that Tan Yan had woken up and opened the scanning cabin for him from the outside.
"The data shows that you are very hungry and need to meet your physiological needs. The bathroom is here, please follow my instructions." The face of God No. 2 appeared on the monitor next to it.
"Artificial intelligence is so convenient..." Tan Yan said secretly.
Following the instructions from Tianshen-2, he went to the bathroom to take a shower and eat.
After taking care of himself, Tan Yan did a set of gymnastics and felt that his body had become much more flexible.
He approached the glass window of the laboratory and saw Qiao Zhixue having an intense discussion with several professors. Knowing that this was not something he could join in, he sat quietly in the lounge and waited.
For a moment, Tan Yan found that he didn't know what to do.
People who have never had a break in their lives feel a little busy and can't find the direction for the future after being ordered to rest.
The head of Tianshen No. 2 appeared on the computer screen next to him again. He was really everywhere.
"Are you so free?" asked Tan Yan.
"I have a processor that is dedicated to observing you," said Tian Shen No. 2. "One processor was dismantled, one was assisting Professor Qiao in computing research, one was working part-time online to make money, one was working hard to learn about human history and culture, and the last one is with you. I still don't have enough processors, I must ask Professor Qiao to return me two... preferably three!"
"Did Professor Qiao materialize that metal?"
"Yes, we have already solved the material problem. The next problem is energy reserves. According to preliminary calculations, one hundred memory chips will use up the energy generated by a nuclear power plant in one year. The energy consumption is too high. According to the population of your country, if you want to equip all minors with energy, you will need at least 200 to 300 million chips. The country cannot afford this consumption at all. We need to find new energy sources."
This was not a problem that Tan Yan could solve, so he was relieved to hear that he could help. He believed that with the abilities of Qiao Zhixue and Tianshen No. 2, they would be able to overcome the energy problem sooner or later.
"Is there anything I can do now?" asked Tan Yan.
"You need to have a good rest," Tianshen No. 2 controlled a robotic arm to bring a tablet computer to Tan Yan, "This is the travel guide I searched for. Do you want to go out and travel to relax? I checked the recent holiday data. As long as humans have time to rest, they like to travel."
"I used to think about traveling around the world after retirement," Tan Yan said with a wry smile as he flipped through the travel guide on his tablet, "but now that I've recovered my memory, I realize that I've traveled to countless worlds and seen countless magnificent scenery. I no longer need to travel."
Tianshen No. 2 could not answer this question. He twisted his mechanical arm, rubbed against Tan Yan, and looked at him curiously.
"How's the superpower team doing?"
"'Hollow' has not appeared in the past two days. They are training new psychics and are not in City B." God No. 2 replied.
"Training..." Tan Yan knocked on the table and immediately said to Tianshen No. 2, "Just because you can't go to the front line doesn't mean you can't participate in training. Please help me contact Minister Yu. I want to join the special training team and be an instructor to help the special power team share the pressure. Being an instructor is relatively easy and I won't encounter overly dangerous tasks. If the research team needs me, I can come back to cooperate at any time."
Still working!
Tian Shen No. 2 was startled.
Tan Yan’s choice is different from most people’s, he is so desperate!
The author has something to say: I like a sentence from Sister Yu Zi in "xxxholic", "There are no coincidences in this world, only inevitability."
This article has now entered the final chapter, but it will not be finished soon. There should be 80,000 to 100,000 words left. I am stuck on the final chapter every day, so the update is very slow. Sorry_(:3∠)_