Break out of the courtyard

Since the Genius Training Camp is a global event conducted by the Peace Group, the Group's public relations department had already prepared for the press conference without any direct or subtle reminders from the various listed companies under the Group.

However, the media reporters who were able to enter the Hong Kong Island Peace College Library in the morning were all members of Peace Media Holdings. Foreign media that were not controlled or invested in by Peace Media could only wait on the open ground outside for an interview opportunity.

Fortunately, in order to expand its influence, the public relations department of the Peace Group had its own media film Zhang Heping assigning tasks and witnessing the 200 teenagers entering the learning pods. After that, the Q&A session was moved outside the library, leaving only two sets of cameras inside to record the first day of the genius training camp.

As the reporters and photographers left, the first floor of the library suddenly became mostly empty.

Mr. Hua, Director Wang, Chairman He, Chairman Bao, Chairman Guo, and other members of the management team of the Peace Group, along with representatives from Europe and the United States who came to gather information, were either quietly reading in the reading area or chatting quietly in the corners. None of them left, as if they wanted to wait for the people in the learning cabin to come out so they could understand the situation.

About 40 minutes later, the hatch of one of the learning pods was raised, and a thin boy with a pale face and sweating profusely was revealed.

Just as a male and female medical worker were walking quickly toward the learning pod, and a woman on the periphery was also trying to get closer, Zhang Heping's voice came from the loudspeakers all around.

"Cao Jian is too weak and cannot adapt to the subsequent training. Take him back for a year of training, and come back for reference next year!"

"Let his mother in!"

As Zhang Heping uttered his last words, the bodyguards who were blocking Cao Jian's mother made way.

At the same time, Mr. Hua and Director Wang also got up and went over.

Although Cao Jian has autism, Hua Lao learned from a conversation with Zhang Heping a few days ago that Zhang Heping has high hopes for the boy.

In addition, Cao Jian scored 85 points in the second round of the assessment by himself and was the third genius to finish the test. He was much better than the five Zhang siblings who slowly cooperated to answer the questions!
Just as Hua Lao and the others were looking after the eliminated genius boy, another learning pod opened.

However, this time, without the medical staff coming forward, Zhang Heping did not speak because after the Guo family grandchildren left the learning pod, they hurriedly ran to the toilet, which made the people on Director Guo's side laugh.

Then, the learning pods opened intermittently. Some people went to the toilet, while others went to eat chocolate or candy, or, at the suggestion of medical staff, drank some vitamin drinks or glucose.

The more people came out, the more silent the little boy named Cao Jian became. He clenched his fists tightly and refused to go back to the hotel with his mother to rest. He just sat in the reading area, staring straight at the learning pod that had never been closed after it was opened!
As lunchtime approached, Zhang Heping came out of the computer room, looked around at the people who hadn't left, and then went to Cao Jian and his mother's place first.

Cao Jian, the autistic child, did not recognize Zhang Heping, but his mother did. When she saw Zhang Heping approaching, she hurriedly stood up and didn't know what to say for a moment.

"When we get back, take the little guy for a run in the morning and evening, and make sure he eats plenty of food so he can gain some weight before we come back!" Zhang Heping said to Cao Jian's mother, while also patting Cao Jian's head.

Seeing the little guy's lack of response, Zhang Heping continued, "If he gains ten pounds before June this year, I'll give you a library in Suzhou and a set of virtual dream learning equipment!"

"Peace, is this really true?" Old Hua stood up excitedly.

The little guy didn't realize what this meant, but the adults around him who heard this realized one thing: Zhang Heping valued this little guy very much!
Of course, compared to the little guy's future, Mr. Hua and the foreign representatives valued the virtual dream learning device promised by Zhang Heping more.

“Mr. Zhang!” Alex, the head of the US embassy, ​​stepped forward and, under the watchful eyes of the surrounding bodyguards, asked Zhang Heping from a distance of five or six steps, “Could our country purchase a set of this virtual dream device?”

"Not yet!" Zhang Heping politely declined.

After all, the Americans had recently voiced their support for him, urging the Japanese government to provide an explanation for the attack on the Peace Academy.

Although Japan has not yet made a statement, the fact that the Americans have this attitude shows that they can still get along with Little K.

Zhang Heping did not answer Hua Lao's question, but instead invited a group of acquaintances to dinner.

"When has Heping ever broken his promise?" Director Wang replied to Elder Hua, smiling as he looked at Zhang Heping.

Zhang Heping smiled and nodded to Elder Hua and Director Wang, then said to Madam He, who was waiting for her grandchildren, "There's food in the rest area over there, don't worry about them!"

"What are you waiting for!" Chairman He pulled up his first wife and echoed Zhang Heping's words, saying, "Didn't you see how they rushed out to use the restroom? They were afraid of wasting even a second outside, so they rushed into the restroom without even glancing at us before diving back into the learning pod!"

With a chuckle, the shipping magnate tentatively asked, "Mr. Zhang's virtual dream device should be ready for commercial use by now, right?"

"Not yet!" Zhang Heping said as he and Elder Hua walked out, "Whether the regenerative brain server will develop its own consciousness is a big question. I must figure it out before I can decide whether to launch the regenerative brain server for commercial use."

The foreign representatives followed closely behind, and when they heard Zhang Heping reveal the matter of brain regeneration, they quickened their pace. Fortunately, Zhang Heping did not lower his voice and continued to explain the reasons for the delay in the commercialization of the virtual dream device.

"In addition, the cost of virtual reality equipment is very high. I am still trying to find ways to reduce the cost, otherwise not many people can afford this kind of equipment."

“Building virtual dreams is also very troublesome, which restricts the mass production of regenerative brain servers. If mass production is not possible, I will consider building a central regenerative brain server to connect users all over the world, starting with a single point and expanding to a wider area.”

……

Outside the library, a number of foreign media outlets were also gathered.

When they saw Zhang Heping and his group come out, they forgot the discomfort they had suffered from the electric shocks and swarmed back to press the buttons.

As a result, the bodyguards on the perimeter did not hesitate to raise their stun guns and fire several stun shots at the reporters running in front, instantly immobilizing more than twenty people!
With a push from the reporters behind, the more than twenty people in front all fell to the ground and convulsed!
"I protest!" shouted a short Japanese reporter hiding in the back. "We reporters have the right to interview, and your actions are illegal. I will..."

The bodyguard didn't give the Japanese man a chance to continue babbling; a bolt of electricity knocked him unconscious.

Zhang Heping and his group continued walking, when they heard the bodyguard captain's voice from behind, "Who knows if you're really reporters?"

"Did you report to the Peace Group before coming here for this interview?"

Have you considered the safety of the interviewees?

"You have the right to conduct interviews, but don't we have the right to refuse interviews?"

"Open your dog eyes and see clearly what's written on the warning signs around you: Confidential Area, Do Not Enter Without Permission!"

Hearing the impolite words of the bodyguard captain behind him, the eldest son of the He family said disdainfully, "These foreign reporters love to make up stories. They not only falsely accused Mr. Zhang of having hidden bullets at home, but also said that Mr. Zhang has more than a hundred concubines in his harem!"

"Hehe!" Guo's eldest son laughed, "If those media outlets had reported the facts truthfully, they wouldn't have been unable to even enter the library."

Amidst laughter and conversation, the group took a detour through the school's internal roads behind the Peace Hospital to reach the Peace Hotel.

The Japanese observers who witnessed this scene quickly relayed the information back to the Japanese Embassy in Hong Kong, and then back to Japan.

Even after obtaining the four viral culture media, the Japanese islanders still couldn't discover anything special about them. Even though they maliciously speculated that these four viruses were synthesized by Zhang Heping to combat them, and conducted related tests on death row inmates in Japanese prisons, they still found nothing unusual.

These four viruses are not fatal; to be precise, they cannot kill people on the Japanese islands. At most, they can cause cold symptoms and are somewhat contagious.

However, this type of cold is treatable, and no long-term effects have been found so far.

The Peace Group's reaction didn't seem fake. In addition, the United States sent people to Japan to request samples of the virus, which made the Japanese people, who were about to give up their research, increase their investment again, hoping to cultivate more viruses to confirm why they were valued by Zhang Heping!
The simplest way to ask Zhang Heping about this kind of thing would have been to ask him, but ever since Zhang Heping was killed in a car bombing, the relationship between Ridao and the Heping Group has plummeted to a freezing point.

Even with subsequent compensation, the cooperative relationship could never be restored to what it was in the 1980s.

Moreover, these viruses were only identified by Zhang Heping after the Japanese attacked the Peace Academy's teaching building and ambushed the Zhang family's convoy at the foot of Taiping Mountain!

The people of Japan are in a dilemma!

Some have proposed repairing relations with the Peace Group in order to acquire their advanced technology.

Another group of people felt that as long as Zhang Heping was killed or kidnapped to Japan, they, the people of Japan, could say "no" again and become number one in the world!

Although the two viewpoints are contradictory, the Japanese believe that they can be implemented simultaneously.

Zhang Heping didn't care what the Japanese islanders thought or how they studied those four ancient viruses.

Because those viruses had already been taken to Japan, India, and New Japan by the black-clad men from Japan who infiltrated the lab that night.

Japan Island will definitely experience a flu outbreak, while in other areas, it depends on whether the Japanese men in black who fled to India will spread the virus.

Years later, as Japan's population ages, marriage rates decline, and the number of newborns decreases, some observant people may notice something amiss.

But by then, what's done is done, and there's no going back!

Most importantly, those viruses were stolen by the Japanese islanders themselves; they brought it upon themselves!
……

After lunch, Zhang Heping parted ways with the others and went straight to the Virtual Dream Lecture Hall to check on the status of the regenerative brain server there.

After finishing, he returned to the computer room on the first floor of the library to continue refining the dream of the regenerating brain.

Because of Zhang Heping's promise to Cao Jian and his mother, Hua Lao did not go to the library in the afternoon. Instead, he took the mother and son to Shenzhen Heping College and invited many doctors from the neighboring Heping Hospital to consult on Cao Jian's case.

Hua Lao had only two requirements for the doctors: first, to ensure the little guy's health; and second, to develop a scientific exercise and weight gain plan.

When Vice Presidents Deng and Qian heard that Elder Hua had returned with Cao Jian, they rushed to the hospital to inquire about the situation.

When Mr. Qian heard that if Cao Jian gained ten pounds, he would give him a library and a set of virtual reality learning equipment in Suzhou, he couldn't help but laugh and joke, "Our Shenzhen Peace Academy doesn't have that kind of learning equipment yet."

"Most importantly, I, the vice dean, haven't even experienced the simplest virtual dream device! Elder Hua, you have to have a good talk with Dean Zhang on our behalf!"

"Has Professor Hua ever experienced that virtual dream learning equipment?" Vice Dean Deng asked seriously. "What's it like inside?"

“I haven’t been inside to experience it yet!” Old Hua frowned and pondered. “However, I’ve heard people from Zhang Yi’s brain-computer interface research team talk about what it’s like inside.”

“At the center of this learning dream is a towering library that reaches into the clouds. Because there are no stairs inside, they have never been to the second floor of the library.”

"Although there is a lot of information available on the first floor of the library, it is all very basic knowledge. Therefore, they speculate that more advanced information is hidden on the second floor and above."

"We can build a ladder to get up there!" Cao Jian, the little guy, suddenly blurted out.

If there weren't several people in the ward, just looking at the little guy looking down at his phone, one might think that what he just heard was a hallucination.

Cao Jian's mother explained from the side, "Xiao Jian just told me that he built a ladder, went upstairs to read for 10 hours, and then woke up hungry!"

"Mr. Hua, is there something wrong here?" Cao Jian's mother looked at Mr. Hua and asked, "Mr. Zhang said this morning that it would be 10 times faster, but Xiao Jian was only in there for about 40 minutes. How come he felt like he was in the virtual dream for 10 hours?"

Old Hua frowned and remained silent. Vice Dean Qian, who was standing next to him, chimed in, "Perhaps Xiao Jian is mistaken..."

“I did nothing wrong!” Cao Jian spoke again, which greatly excited his mother, who no longer cared about his previous question.

Because she could sense that her son wasn't as withdrawn as before!

In the past, no matter what people around him said or did, it wouldn't elicit the slightest reaction from Cao Jian.

Even as a mother, she needed to patiently keep talking and asking questions to get any feedback from Cao Jian.

So, after noticing her son's improvement, the mother hurriedly squatted down beside his bed and asked him in a low voice, even though there was no response.

Vice Dean Qian not only taught this group of gifted teenagers, but also tutored Cao Jian for a period of time, so he knew about the little guy's situation.

So, he didn't waste time asking the little guy what he saw in the virtual dream, but continued to analyze: "If the perception is correct, then it's possible that the perception speed on the second floor is faster than that on the first floor!"

Vice Dean Deng glanced at the time on his left wristwatch. "Should we call Dean Zhang directly about this issue?"

"He might not be available right now!" Old Hua explained from the side, "He Ping is still working on the materials in that study dream, and you can't get through to him on the phone until mealtime!"

Vice Dean Deng continued, "Professor Hua, besides the library, what else was in this dream?"

Old Hua gathered his thoughts and was about to continue describing the laboratories, factories, and so on he had heard about, when Cao Jian's mother suddenly stood up as if she had discovered something, looked at Old Hua, and asked:
"Mr. Hua, if my son can really gain 10 pounds by June, can he use the virtual dream learning equipment that Consultant Zhang gave to Su Cheng?"

Before Hua Lao could answer, Vice Dean Qian, who had dealt with Cao Jian and his mother for some time, laughed and said, "The library and that set of learning equipment are ostensibly given to Su Cheng, but who are they actually given to? Haven't you figured it out yet?"

Cao Jian's mother quickly shook her head and explained, "I just wanted to confirm!"

"Because I suddenly remembered that after I told Xiao Jian that Consultant Zhang was going to send a set of virtual dream learning equipment to Suzhou, he started looking at his phone to study!"

...(End of chapter)