Break out of the courtyard

Hong Kong Island Peace College, Library.

Around noon, when Zhang Heping left the computer room to go home for lunch, he saw that Zhang Bei, Zhang Feng, Zhang Yi, and others had already left the learning pod and were preparing to go home with Zhang Heping.

"Peace!" Old Hua greeted him with a smile, "The vegetative patient from the neurology department who was in a car accident has woken up. Old Zhao and Director Xue would like to invite you to come and see him."

"Okay!" Zhang Heping replied, then looked at his children and nephews and said, "You all go back first, I'll just grab something to eat outside for lunch."

"Dad, has the person who received brain-computer interface therapy woken up?" Zhang Long asked with great interest. "Can we go and see?"

"If you want to see it, come along; if you don't want to go, go home first!" After Zhang Heping finished speaking, he asked Hua Lao if he was going.

Then Zhang Heping and Hua Lao led the way, taking Director Wang, Zhang Long, and Zhang Hu to the neighboring hospital, while Zhang Bei, Zhang Yi, and the others went home.

As soon as they left, the learning pods in the library opened one after another, and more than a hundred mainland teenagers walked out of the learning pods. Most of the teenagers went to the rest area or the toilet, while a small number of the leading teenagers met the teachers and assistant teachers who walked quickly towards them.

"Teacher Lin!" Fang Jing, the class monitor of Class 2, looked at their teacher and said anxiously, "We've run into a problem!"

Class monitor Zhuang Jun from Class 3 chimed in, "Teachers Zhang Bei and Zhang Yi are no longer leading us in the tasks assigned by Consultant Zhang. We've been working on this for over ten hours and we still have no clue what to do!"

The elderly man, addressed as Teacher Lin, frowned and looked towards the door. Recalling the scene of Zhang Bei, Zhang Yi, and the others leaving with Zhang Heping and the others, he finally understood why those young people had gone out for lunch today—they had abandoned their students!

“It’s not like the teachers Zhang don’t care about us!” a boy interjected. “They told us to go to the library to find them if we have any questions.”

"When we inquired about how to install flight devices on the mechs, Professor Zhang Bei suggested that we send some people to learn coding so that we could edit the flight control system."

"He also suggested that we split up and study mechanical design, materials science, mechanics, etc., but he wouldn't take us to the factory to make parts like he did in the previous days!"

Just then, several foreign teenagers also left the learning pod.

Swish!
Suddenly, most of the mainland boys and girls in the rest area stood up. When the leaders rushed towards the foreign boys, they could be heard questioning them loudly.

"Did you guys damage our mechs?"

"You guys have been avoiding us all day, you must have something to hide and are afraid to face us!"

"It was definitely those guys who dismantled our mechs! Catch them!"

"Stop!" the teacher in charge of Class One shouted, leading the other teachers forward quickly. "What do you want?"

"Didn't you see the library rules posted here? If you dare to assault someone in here, your library membership will be permanently revoked!"

The group of boys at the front passionately denounced the foreigners' appalling behavior, and the boys and girls behind them echoed their sentiments, demanding that the foreigners apologize!
In contrast, the boys from Meisu, upon seeing a group of mainland boys and girls rushing towards them, had already taken off running towards their entourage.

After listening to the students' fragmented account of what had happened, the supervising teachers and assistant teachers quickly discussed the matter and decided to send only one young assistant teacher to communicate with the foreigners, while the other teachers continued to learn about what had occurred in the virtual dream world that day.

Based on Zhang Heping's reply to the American teenager this morning, the teachers concluded that Zhang Bei and Zhang Yi probably didn't want to interfere with the training of these gifted teenagers anymore, which is why they didn't take them on missions.

"Today's task is to install flight equipment on the mechs!" Teacher Lin said thoughtfully, looking at the whiteboard behind the learning pod.

"If we guide them on tasks from outside, wouldn't that go against Consultant Zhang's original intention in establishing the Genius Training Camp?"

……

When Zhang Heping arrived at the neurology ward, the bodyguard captain came over and told him about what had just happened in the library, but Zhang Heping didn't pay any attention.

He didn't intend to cultivate talent by opening this genius training camp, because the virtual dream learning pods would be open to the public later, and wouldn't be limited to those gifted teenagers.

The reason for creating this virtual learning dream, besides inheriting the knowledge in his mind, is also to test whether the regenerative brain server could potentially develop independent consciousness and intelligence!
The experience at the virtual dream tiered classroom is an inclusive model that welcomes all.

Zhang Heping wanted to influence the regenerative brain server over there through various forms of human consciousness to see if it could generate intelligence.

The regenerative brain in the library is used to collect the consciousness fluctuations of elite humans.

After the bodyguards finished speaking and stepped back, Director Xue smiled and went to greet them, "Teacher Zhang, the car accident patient has been transferred to a regular ward. Please come this way!"

Zhang Heping casually inquired about the patient's condition. After arriving at the ward, he took the patient's pulse and examined his complexion before nodding in approval of the treatment results achieved by Director Xue and his team.

The patient's family member stepped forward to express their gratitude, but Zhang Heping waved him off, as he had no time to waste on such trivial matters.

But what he considered a small matter was a great joy for the patient's family!
As Zhang Heping walked towards the door, he casually asked, "How are the other two patients?"

"Those two patients had been in a coma for a long time, and they showed signs of brain and muscle atrophy," Director Xue explained to Zhang Heping, who was standing beside him, after a slight pause.
"They are still unconscious. We suspect it is due to long-term lack of nutrition to the brain and brain atrophy. We are currently considering whether to use a nutrition chamber to assist with treatment."

"We have two patients. We'll treat one in a nutrition pod and use the other as a control!" Zhang Heping made the decision directly. "Remember, we don't lack money for experiments; what we lack is time and talent!"

“Okay, Professor Zhang, we’ll start a case of nutrition chamber therapy this afternoon!” Director Xue replied with a smile. “Also, there’s a bed available in that ward, and we’d like to apply for a clinical trial spot. What do you think?”

"You decide for yourselves, don't ask me about such trivial matters!" When Zhang Heping passed by the room of the brain-dead patient, he stopped to take a look at the nutrient pod inside and the few teenagers guarding it, and then continued walking forward.

Director Xue asked again, "Teacher Zhang, we would also like to apply for brain-computer interface therapy this afternoon. What do you think?"

"Those two patients' mental state means they can only undergo brain-computer interface therapy once a day," Zhang Heping said casually as he entered the ward. "However, you can increase the number of patients for the clinical trial."

After finishing his speech, Zhang Heping began to check on the remaining two patients. After exchanging a few words with Director Xue and the others, he went to the Peace Hotel with Elder Hua, Director Zhao, and others.

After Director Zhao sat down and saw that no one was around, he leaned closer to Zhang Heping and asked in a low voice, "Heping, I studied the mental energy materials you wrote last night, and I have a question: can it be used to treat blood clots or eliminate cancer cells?"

“Theoretically, yes!” Zhang Heping replied in a low voice, “provided that the surgeon has the mental strength to support the entire operation, otherwise they’ll collapse from exhaustion first!” Upon hearing this answer, Director Zhao immediately perked up, “I heard your uncle has lung cancer. Have you considered using your mental strength to eliminate cancer cells?”

“No!” Zhang Heping shook his head and patiently explained, “Under mental detection, it is impossible to distinguish between normal cells and cancer cells unless an open abdominal surgery is performed and then mental power is used to assist in the removal of the diseased tissue.”

Director Zhao looked enlightened, then asked, "What about the blood clot?"

The sight of Zhang Heping and Director Zhao whispering to each other at the dining table was observed by Elder Hua, Director Wang, Zhang Long, and others. No one dared to disturb them. Even when the waiter arrived, it was Xiao Qin who went to the side to announce it.

However, this atmosphere didn't last long before it was interrupted by a phone call from Zhang Zhaodi.

When Zhang Heping heard that his eldest sister had convinced their parents and was planning to bring them and his uncle's family to Hong Kong Island that afternoon, he couldn't help but ask, "Is your company on holiday for the Spring Festival?"

"Business trip, haha!" Zhang Zhaodi laughed on the other end of the phone. "Our bureau chief asked me to go to your hospital to take a look at the equipment for treating vegetative patients."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Heping roughly guessed what the director of the Shenzhen Municipal Health Bureau wanted to do, so he didn't ask any further questions and just told them to call when they arrived.

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Heping called the hotel manager over to inquire about the availability of the rooftop suites, so that the Tan family wouldn't arrive without finding a place to stay at another hotel.

As for the eldest uncle's family, they naturally live in the villa on the mountaintop, after all, he is the eldest uncle.

……

While Zhang Heping was eating, the teacher leading the group from the library had already consulted with Vice Dean Qian of Shenzhen Heping College.

Like Zhang Bei and Zhang Yi, Qian Lao's intention was to only suggest what types of books, materials, or computer software these gifted teenagers should refer to when they had problems, without providing direct assistance.

This approach was actually set from the first and second rounds of the talent recruitment assessment, but Zhang Bei and Zhang Yi interfered and disrupted the rhythm.

Those gifted teenagers had no choice but to start working together from that day on, researching, designing, finding raw materials, and then going to the factory for trial production.

In contrast, the few teenagers from the magnesium-rich region began frequently entering and leaving the learning pod, whispering to their companions in the rest area.

Zhang Heping ignored the matter, but Hua Lao and his colleagues took the foreigners' unusual behavior very seriously.

Two days later, two lip-reading experts were sent from the mainland. Only then did Hua and his colleagues realize that the foreign entourage had been sending the foreign teenagers to look up information in the virtual dream library.

The higher the floor of the library, the greater the perceived difference in the superimposed base acceleration multiplier.

So, don't be fooled by those young people from the US who frequently enter and exit the learning pods. For them, they may have already spent several hours researching in the virtual dream library before returning to the real library to provide feedback.

Hua told Zhang Heping about the foreign teenager's research, but Zhang Heping didn't take it seriously and told Hua and the others to relax.

At first, Hua Lao didn't know what Zhang Heping was up to. Two days later, after the American boy and four Soviet boys collapsed in the learning pod, Hua Lao belatedly remembered what Zhang Heping had said: the higher the acceleration rate, the more brainpower is consumed.

In other words, the higher the teenagers climb and the longer they stay in the virtual dream library, the more nutrients their brains consume in a short period of time.

Zhang Heping designed this dream library with the intention of helping people learn efficiently and accurately find relevant information, rather than allowing people to access related technologies for free.

Therefore, frequently viewing information about high-rise buildings in a short period of time can lead to mental exhaustion.

When only one listless teenager remained in the Northern Soviet Union, these people realized the seriousness of the problem; they had been almost entirely eliminated!
As always, Zhang Heping paid no attention to them!
Zhang Heping lost interest in the foreign teenagers after they gave up on the mecha missions.

As the Lunar New Year approached, Chang Sheng, Chang Wen, Tan Ying, and others, who were far away in the capital, finally managed to coordinate their holiday schedules. On February 8th, they flew to Shenzhen and then boarded a cruise ship arranged by Chen Shuting to arrive at the Hong Kong Island Peace Academy.

Tan Ying's family had a large number of guests, including her parents, her older sister's family of three, and her aunt's two grandsons.

So, after Zhang Zhaodi and Zhang Pandi picked them up, they arranged for them to stay at the Peace Hotel, ostensibly because they were staying there as well.

Although they couldn't stay at Zhang's house, Tan Ying's family was still very excited and couldn't help but want to explore the place as soon as they arrived.

However, since they were going to have dinner at the Zhang family's house on Victoria Peak that evening, Zhang Zhaodi did not agree to let them go out. Instead, she took Tan Ying to the Hong Kong Island Peace Hospital for a check-up, and then went to the library to have Zhang Heping take her pulse.

After confirming that Tan Ying and her unborn child were both fine, it was already 5 p.m., and they were just waiting for Zhang Heping and Chen Shuting to get off work.

The intelligence gathered by the Zhang family has attracted the attention of intelligence agencies in many countries.

Therefore, news of the Zhang family having relatives visit quickly spread to embassies of various countries on Hong Kong Island.

However, an incident that occurred that night silenced all the intelligence agencies.

The matter is simple: the group of Japanese attackers who previously stormed the virtual dream lecture hall at the Hong Kong Island Peace Academy were fighting with other prisoners in the prison when they were accidentally killed by a group of anti-Japanese prisoners!
After this incident, most people associated it with Zhang Heping, believing that he had ordered someone to do it.

This was especially confirmed the following day when news broke that the Peace Law Firm would provide legal aid to convicts who accidentally killed people!

When Elder Hua and the others heard about this, they all felt somewhat helpless.

Zhang Heping's previous retaliations were somewhat concealed and delayed to save face and allow room for wrangling.

Although this incident was covered up and the perpetrators were not from the Peace Group, the prisoners' families all went to visit them the next day with smiles on their faces.

Those who investigated their accounts more closely discovered that the accounts opened by the prisoners' families at HSBC Bank were all at the highest level of security!
Is it reasonable for a group of people with low incomes to have the highest level of confidential membership accounts?
This is clearly sending a dangerous signal to the outside world: if you dare to take action against the Peace Group, then you should expect their retaliation!
Although this retaliation had many flaws, the criminals' crimes were clear, and they showed a good attitude in admitting their guilt.

What difference would it make if they were sentenced to another life imprisonment when they were already serving life sentences? (End of Chapter)