Break out of the courtyard

158 people!
This is 108 more people than the number initially announced by the Peace Group!
On the day the list was announced, Zhang Heping also issued 108 additional prepayment cards for the Life-Saving Drug.

Among them, 135 were from mainland China, 6 from Hong Kong Island, 8 each from Northern Jiangsu and Europe, and the last one was from New Island.

One Lifespan Elixir Advance Card represents one Lifespan 120 Elixir worth 12 billion RMB!

Although these cards are registered cards and can only be used on the registered person or their family members, it doesn't stop unscrupulous people all over the world from having crooked ideas.

The most legitimate way is for the person in question, or their parents or children, to marry the holder of the Lifespan Potion Prepayment Card and become their nominal direct relatives!

This is easy to understand. If you want to get the other person's lifespan potion advance card, then you should marry them!
You could marry the other person and become their spouse, then you could legitimately use their Lifespan Potion Prepayment Card by following the rules for redeeming Lifespan Potion Prepayment Cards issued by the Peace Group.

It is worth noting that the Peace Group does not recognize same-sex marriage, and despite protests from many people in O-Mexico, it has been to no avail; the Peace Group completely ignores them.

The outside world had no choice but to look for loopholes in the rules set by the Peace Group.

As a result, all sorts of absurd operating methods emerged.

When both the schemer and the cardholder are male and both want the other's lifespan potion prepayment card, the schemer can marry his daughter to the cardholder and then use the cardholder's lifespan potion prepayment card as the cardholder's father-in-law.

If the schemer has no daughter, he can marry a woman with a daughter of marriageable age, and then have the stepdaughter marry the cardholder.

Even simpler, if the conspirator's mother is still alive, marrying her off to the cardholder and then posing as the cardholder's son would also allow them to pass the Peace Group's application review.

Some less ethical individuals might target the cardholder's parents, then apply for a lifespan medication prepayment card under the guise of the cardholder's stepparents.

The question is, if someone marries the cardholder's grandparents or children, can they apply to use the cardholder's life-extending medication prepayment card?
That's certainly possible!

However, such marriages must last for more than 5 years, and the cardholder must apply in person at the Peace Group headquarters to prevent the cardholder from being kidnapped or threatened.

It is precisely because of these exploitable loopholes in the rules that the Peace Group has not sold many doses of the Lifespan 120 serum.

It's not that such loopholes can't be plugged; looking at the longevity potion benefits applied for by long-term employees within the Peace Group, it's clear that there are no loopholes to exploit.

According to regulations, only blood relatives of long-term employees can apply for its use!

Blood relatives, of course, need to undergo genetic testing, which is much more rigorous than for direct relatives!
Of course, Zhang Heping is not an unsympathetic person. If he encounters someone who was indeed raised by adoptive parents, he will provide proof that they were raised by their adoptive parents for at least 10 years!

Rather than saying that the loopholes in the application for the Lifespan Medicine Prepayment Card could not be plugged, it would be more accurate to say that Zhang Heping deliberately left these loopholes unaddressed.

Because those who currently hold the Lifespan Drug Advance Card are basically top researchers in their respective fields!
Those conspirators really pushed those top researchers to the brink, forcing them to seek help from the Peace Group. Zhang Heping's ulterior motives and schemes were largely successful; all that remained was figuring out how to retain them with high salaries.

Based on this calculation, Zhang Heping gave 10 days off to the 158 so-called genius teenagers who had passed three rounds of assessments, allowing them to go back and experience the malice of this world, while also letting them consider whether or not to participate in the genius training camp in February.

The reason for asking them to consider this is that many of these 158 people copied other people's answers during the second round of assessments, and they may not be able to keep up with the progress in subsequent training.

After distributing the longevity potion advance cards and sending the teenagers from various countries back, Zhang Heping accepted an interview with RTV and answered a question of particular interest to various countries: the comparison between virtual dream game time and real time.

……

Governor's House, Central, Hong Kong Island.

[Zhang Heping: Here I need to correct something. The time players spend playing virtual reality games is the same as real-world time; they are not comparable.]

[Host: But people who have experienced virtual reality games say that time in the game is seven or eight times faster than real time!]

[Zhang Heping: This statement isn't accurate enough; the word "feeling" should be added. They feel that time in the game is faster than real time. And this is another powerful function of virtual dream games—they can create a perceptual difference in players, making them feel that time passes quickly in the virtual dream world…]

The Governor shifted his gaze from the wall-mounted television to the people on the sofa beside him. "Dr. Corian, Dr. Walker, do you think what he said is true?"

The middle-aged bearded man called Kirian frowned as he watched the television, replying without turning his head: "Based on differences in brain perception, it is theoretically possible for people to feel that time is passing very quickly or very slowly!"

"Shut up, Kirlian!" Dr. Walker, with his gray hair, snapped, leaning forward as if to hear what Zhang Heping was saying.

After a moment, Dr. Walker looked at the others and asked uncertainly, "Just now, he said he wanted to open up the virtual dream game experience to the public?"

“Yes, Dr. Walker!” The blonde secretary behind the Governor smiled and said, “If you would like to experience it, I can help you apply to the Peace Group.”

Dr. Walker immediately stood up and urged, "Quick! Quick! Quick! Apply now!"

"No matter how much you hear about it, nothing beats experiencing it for yourself!"

“Dr. Walker, don’t rush!” the Governor said with a smile. “Given our good relationship with the Peace Group, we can book you an experience for tomorrow morning!”

Dr. Walker's expression froze. Pointing at Zhang Heping, who was still talking eloquently on the television, he asked the Governor of Hong Kong, "Didn't he say he would start the experience today?"

“It’s today!” The Governor glanced at his left wristwatch. “But in an hour it will be dinnertime, so perhaps we should…”

"No! Apply now! I can't wait!" Dr. Walker said, then strode out with his cane.

When the blonde secretary saw the Governor looking over, she smiled slightly and said, "I previously went to the Economic Section of the Chief Secretary to discuss the virtual dream experience with Ms. Zhang Nian in person, and she promised to help us make it happen."

"If I call her now, I should be able to get a few spots to experience the virtual dream game tonight!"

……

The interviews on TV were all recorded in the morning.

Zhang Heping wasn't at the TV station at the moment, but in the computer room next to the Virtual Dream Lecture Hall, explaining to his children how to change the random character identity mode of the Regenerative Brain server to a one-sided faction mode where characters could only be randomly assigned to either NJ citizens or the garrison.

It sounds simple, but the actual workload is huge, especially for people who aren't very bright.

"Even with hundreds of thousands of Japanese soldiers, possession needs to be restricted. Only Dad's mental strength is strong enough to restrict possession quickly and in large numbers." Zhang Long took off his gold-rimmed glasses, rubbed his temples, and said with a hint of helplessness:
"It's so exhausting to impose restrictions one by one; even if we had a year, we still wouldn't be able to change it!"

Zhang Bei chimed in from the side, "When making virtual dream games in the future, we must set up the NPCs and character operation modes from the very beginning, otherwise it will drive people crazy when we have to make changes later!"

Seventh daughter Zhang Nuo interjected, "Dad, is it because these game characters are too intelligent that we're having so much trouble making changes?" "That's part of the reason!" Zhang Heping nodded slightly and said, "When players create a new character and enter the game, it's the simplest operation mode."

"Because this model only requires addition, the only thing to consider is the brain capacity limit of the regenerative brain server."

"The operation mode of possessing a game NPC involves competing with the regenerative brain for NPC authority. You must first communicate with the regenerative brain to cooperate; otherwise, the player's mental energy will be rejected after it is transferred in."

While Zhang Heping and his children were communicating with the regenerative brain server using their mental powers, Director Wang, along with Xie Wan, Xie Ting, and others, were in the adjacent lecture hall with several cleaning staff, laying plastic tablecloths on the desks to prepare for the vomiting of people who would come to experience the virtual dream game in the coming days.

Because this place is going to be open for a 10-day trial, after seeing off the group of teenagers and their teachers from the mainland, Director Wang didn't even check out of the Peace Hotel room, and instead called in those brain-computer interface researchers from Shenzhen.

With the addition of Zhang Yi, Luo Yi, and the people from the Sanxingdui underground base, a total of 270 people were gathered, which shouldn't significantly affect other people on Hong Kong Island applying for the experience.

After Zhang Bei, Zhang Feng, and Zhang Long experienced how to prevent Japanese NPCs from being possessed by players, Zhang Heping took over the subsequent modification tasks and sent his children outside.

To quickly subdue hundreds of thousands of Japanese NPCs, Zhang Heping had to refine his mental energy into countless threads and then distract himself by communicating with the regeneration brain.

An ordinary person would have suffered a mental breakdown long ago with his kind of distraction technique, which is why Zhang Bei and Zhang Hu couldn't master this brain server imprinted with complex dreams.

That being said, if Zhang Heping didn't know this extreme distraction technique, he wouldn't be able to quickly create dreams for the regenerating brain.

The virtual dream game "Nanjing Falls" not only involves a city with hundreds of thousands of people and their food, clothing and daily necessities, but also the different personalities and behaviors of hundreds of thousands of people.

When Zhang Heping was constructing this dream, not only was he distracted, but he also took his multi-species gene regeneration brain with him, dividing his consciousness into countless small parts.

In other words, this multi-species gene-regenerated brain has no facial features, no tactile nerves, and cannot perceive the outside world; from the moment it was created, it was forced to adapt to this state of living in a fantasy world, and there is no such thing as individual thinking.

The problem is that it is indeed an independent regenerated brain, and it is very likely to have individual thinking abilities, especially after being subjected to the mental impact of countless players!

Therefore, the next 10*24 hours of open access is less about fully testing this virtual dream game equipment and more about testing whether this multi-species gene regeneration brain will develop independent thinking.

Those silicon-based servers and intelligent models need to be fed countless amounts of data in order to interact with humans and thus be called intelligent.

This kind of biological brain server is inherently equipped with the foundation of biological intelligence!

However, after this regenerated brain is created, there is no brainwave activity; it can only be said that its brain cells are alive, nothing more.

Although Zhang Heping imprinted dreams onto the regenerating brain, bringing it back to life.

However, Zhang Heping was unsure about the risk factor of brain regeneration and could only seek the answer he wanted by continuously intensifying testing.

After Zhang Heping finished modifying the player random mode, he had the bodyguards outside let people in to experience it.

The first group of people to arrive were naturally all people with connections.

Those who apply on the Peace Group's official website must have their personal information verified, as well as the information of their family members.

People with no relatives or friends have no ties to them. Their application priority is the lowest, and they will be pushed to the very end by other priority groups.

Those people will only get a chance to try it out if no one else with a higher priority applies.

The reason for setting the priority in this way is mainly for safety.

Anyone with attachments will consider the consequences before doing something wrong.

In particular, when facing the Peace Group, one could easily be retaliated against by their financial power!
"Mr. Zhang, you must be having a tough time lately!" Chairman He walked up to the podium and extended his right hand to Zhang Heping, who was drinking water.

"It's alright!" Zhang Heping shook the other person's hand and explained, "I was busy with the talent recruitment for a while and couldn't let you experience it, which is why it was delayed until today. Please forgive me!"

Walking behind, Bao Chuanwang extended his right hand and said with a smile, "Mr. Zhang, you're too kind. Your business is important. We only suggested to General Manager Chen that we come and experience this place on a whim."

Chairman He looked at the desks on the steps and the Zhang family children sitting in the back row waving to a group of rich kids, and said in a deep voice, "We heard from the younger generation in our family that this virtual dream game recreates the Nanjing Massacre, so we want to go in and take a look!"

"Remember history, cherish the memory of our martyrs, peace is hard-won!" Chairman Guo strode onto the podium and extended his right hand to Zhang Heping.

After shaking hands with Zhang Heping, Chairman Guo Hongliang said, "Every year on the morning of September 18th, when I hear the air raid siren sounding from Heping College, I always think of Mr. Zhang's words!"

"I heard a few days ago that Mr. Zhang created the virtual dream game 'Nanjing Falls,' and I've been wanting to bring my family to experience it so they can know how hard-won our current life is!"

Zhang Bei, who had originally gone to sit in the back row, saw that his father Zhang Heping was surrounded by many acquaintances, and that Zhang Nan and Zhang Nian were guiding their respective acquaintances to their seats. So Zhang Bei decided not to sit down anymore and hurriedly called Zhang Long and Zhang Hu to guide the others to their seats.

Zhang Feng is rather introverted, and Zhang Nuo is still studying and doesn't have many ideas, so Zhang Bei didn't invite them.

Director Wang sat in the back with Xie Wan and Xie Ting. Only when a few executives from China Resources and CITIC came in did Director Wang nod and greet them.

Before long, all 600 seats were filled with men, women, and children.

"Welcome everyone! Next, I'll briefly mention some important points!" Zhang Heping stood on the podium and slowly spoke to the people in the tiered seating area:

"When this virtual reality game device is in speed-up mode, one minute outside will feel like five or six minutes, or even seven or eight minutes, in the game. This is a difference in brain perception, not a difference in the dimension of time."

"So, everyone, don't worry about time travel. I haven't developed such high-tech time travel devices yet."

These words drew laughter from everyone present.

After the classroom quieted down a bit, Zhang Heping continued, "The advantage of speeding up the game is that it allows you to play for a longer time. But the disadvantage is also obvious: it will accelerate the consumption of nutrients in your body by your brain."

"Therefore, when you feel tired, please stop voluntarily and do not force yourself to continue, so as not to damage your brain."

"Exiting the game is simple. Just quickly repeat 'exit' twice, tuck your head down, and don't touch the helmet!"

...(End of chapter)