Break out of the courtyard

"Advisor Zhang, it's like this!" Director Tang of the Nanjing Museum hurriedly stepped forward and said, "We were assigned by our superiors to come here for two reasons: first, to personally experience the virtual dream game 'The Fall of Nanjing,' and second, to improve the game based on the information we have, making it more historically accurate."

Zhang Heping looked at his eldest sister, Zhang Zhaodi, with a silent gaze, as if to say, "You guessed wrong."

"More than half of the materials and photos in the Memorial Hall of the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders were donated by Hua Yingxiong Company," Zhang Heping said slowly.

"At that time, in order to reciprocate the donation to Hua Yingxiong Company and to make the Japanese people remember the crimes they committed, Nanjing also donated a batch of photocopies of historical materials to the Hua Yingxiong Exhibition Hall."

"You've all probably experienced virtual reality games. What aspects do you think need improvement?"

"Well, we..." Director Tang took off his glasses, rubbed his brow a few times with the back of his right hand, and delayed thinking for a moment before continuing, "It was our first time experiencing a virtual dream game, and it was so amazing that we didn't notice many details!"

“It’s not shocking!” Zhang Heping walked towards the car without turning his head and said, “It’s that your brains are too weak, and you can’t remember most of what happened in the virtual dream.”

"If you have any new information to add, just give it to my older sister and she can pass it on to me."

Director Tang followed closely behind, trying to get closer to the car, but was stopped by the bodyguard on the left.

"Advisor Zhang, we're just experiencing Virtual Dreams for the first time and have no experience," the old man said urgently, bending down to look at Zhang Heping as he got into the car.

"If you let us experience it a few more times, we can find out what needs to be improved."

Seeing that his elder sister Zhang Zhaodi had no intention of getting in the car, Zhang Heping had the driver start the car and ignored the little old man with glasses.

Zhang Heping had already said that their brains were too weak to remember what happened in the dream, but the old man still wanted to pester them.

Before the fall of Nanjing, the city had a permanent population of about one million!

As the Japanese launched their attack, many Nanjing residents fled in advance; by the time Nanjing fell in December, the city's population had plummeted to around 345,000.

The information that Director Tang of the Nanjing Museum could provide was limited to two sources: those inside and outside the city.

Most of the information from outside the city came from those who had fled in advance.

Information from within the city came from a small number of survivors, as well as Japanese islanders and other foreigners.

Most of the information about the city's channels that the Nanjing Museum possessed was collected by Hua Yingxiong Company at the expense of Ridao, and Zhang Heping had naturally seen this information.

This is also one of the data and material sources for Zhang Heping's virtual dream game, "Nanjing Has Fallen"!

As for information from sources outside the city, it's actually dispensable.

Zhang Heping is reconstructing historical events after the fall of Nanjing. What could those who fled beforehand possibly know?
They weren't even eyewitnesses to this incident!
Of course, if those who left early were to point out the problems, they would still be able to find quite a few issues.

For example, Zhang Heping did not seriously investigate how many stalls there were in the old Nanjing vegetable market, how many buildings there were near Jixiang Street, and how many floors each building had.

But so what? What he wanted to express through the virtual dream game of the fall of Nanjing was how brutal the Japanese invaders were, not how prosperous Nanjing was at that time!

Therefore, some people in mainland China have not found the right angle to approach the study of virtual dreams!

Zhang Heping speculated that the purpose of the Nanjing Museum's inspection team's visit was to use the pretext of supplementing and improving Nanjing's Fallen Virtual Dream to participate in Zhang Heping's virtual dream research and, in turn, to participate in brain-computer interface research.

After hearing what Director Tang had just said, Zhang Zhaodi had a similar guess.

Seeing Director Tang looking over, Zhang Zhaodi became less patient. "Advisor Zhang just said that your brains are too weak to help him!"

"If you collect any new information, you can give it to me first."

Zhang Zhaodi put her words more bluntly, so that the old man wouldn't misunderstand.

Seeing Zhang Zhaodi and the plainclothes woman beside her about to leave, Director Tang hurriedly followed, "Director Zhang, could you please ask Consultant Zhang if we could experience the Nanjing Fallen Virtual Dream a few more times?"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Zhaodi paused, frowned, and looked at the old man, wanting to ask if he couldn't understand human speech!

Zhang Heping just said it once, and Zhang Zhaodi said it again bluntly, that they just need to submit the documents, but this old man seems to be deaf, you say yours and I say mine!
Since the other party ignored their words, Zhang Zhaodi stopped paying attention and quickly walked towards the Peace Hotel.

During the journey, she also took out her phone and called Secretary Ye in Nanjing, briefly explaining the situation that had just occurred, thus fulfilling the other party's request.

"Thank you, Director Zhang!" The middle-aged man on the other end of the phone was very polite. "I will report the situation you described to our superiors."

Zhang Zhaodi frowned as she held her phone and said, "Secretary Ye, I have a suggestion. Next time you send someone out on business, it would be best to choose a more shrewd person to lead the team."

"It's not like everything has to be said in front of the person directly! Giving a heads-up beforehand won't violate any confidentiality rules!"

"He only thinks of finding someone else to fix things after he's already messed things up. Why didn't he do that sooner?"

"Yes, yes, yes! We'll definitely be more careful next time!" Secretary Ye on the other end of the phone hurriedly replied with a smile, "Thank you so much for your help this time, Director Zhang. When you come to Nanjing next time, we will definitely welcome and entertain you with the highest standards!"

Zhang Zhaodi said a few more words and then hung up the phone.

……

After conducting a routine inspection of the computer room next to the Virtual Dream Lecture Hall, Zhang Heping returned to his villa on the mountaintop.

He had just gotten home when Zhang Bei and Zhang Yi dragged him to the basement.

“Dad, these two biological brain servers have started to reject our mental intervention, and we can’t receive any mental feedback from them. Can you check if they’ve developed a confused consciousness?” Zhang Bei said as he led his father into the small dark room inside the training room.

"Is there any spiritual energy dissipation?" Zhang Heping asked casually, wearing gold-rimmed glasses.

Zhang Bei hurriedly replied, "After we discovered something was wrong, we immediately cut off the contact between the biological brain and the brain-computer interface. We don't know if their mental energy will dissipate."

"You guys step aside first!" Zhang Heping said while waiting for Zhang Bei and Zhang Yi to retreat, "If the biological brain experiences confusion, mental energy will definitely dissipate when connected to the brain-computer interface."

"You did a great job of cutting off the contact between the biological brain and the brain-computer interface immediately."

"No matter what kind of experiment we are conducting, safety is always our top priority."

As he spoke, Zhang Heping's mental energy had already reached into the small dark room and found the two malfunctioning biological brain servers.

“The brainwave activity of these two bio-brains is very high, which doesn’t seem like chaotic consciousness. They must have been stimulated by something!” Zhang Heping frowned and said, “Tell me about the experience of these two bio-brains after they were taken out.”

As Zhang Heping finished speaking, two glass containers containing biological brains floated out of the small dark room and landed on the long table in the middle of the underground training room. At the same time, a half-empty bottle of red nutrient solution flew over from the corner where the nutrient solution was kept.

"A total of four biological brains were taken out today. After being packed in boxes here, Xu Ning and Li Tong will take two of them, while Yi Ge and his wife will take the other two. There were no abnormalities on the way."

"After arriving at the hospital, in the first ward, I used the monkey brain server that my sister-in-law brought. After treating three patients, everything was normal."

"Next are the three patients in the second ward. I had Yi Ge and his wife use the dog brain server that Yi Ge brought, and it worked normally."

"The third ward uses the pig brain server that Xu Ning brought. It worked fine when treating the first patient on the left, but it malfunctioned when treating the second patient in the middle."

"The doctor and my family said that I couldn't enter a dream while wearing the gaming helmet. When I heard this, I immediately extended my mental energy. After discovering that I couldn't access the pig brain server, I cut off its contact with the brain-computer interface."

"Then, we took out the cow brain server that Li Tong brought, and the same thing happened again."

"We thought it was a problem with the patient or something else, so we skipped the middle bed and used the dog brain server to treat the patient in the right bed before putting the dog brain server in the middle bed. After that, there were no more abnormalities."

"Information on the patient in the middle bed!" Zhang Heping stood by the long table, sensing the brainwave activity of the pig brain and cow brain servers while using his mental power to retrieve the dog brain server.

Zhang Bei hesitated for a moment, then took out his phone, wanting to log in to the official website of Heping Hospital to check the clinical trial patient information in the neurology department.

"Luo Chen, male, 17 years old!" Xu Ning, a member of Zhang Yi's brain-computer interface research team, announced the information of the patient in the middle bed. "The patient suffered a blunt force trauma to the brain and has been in a coma since then due to excessive bleeding and lack of timely treatment."

"The family said that the patient was beaten by several classmates; he had no previous medical history, did not smoke, and did not drink alcohol."

Zhang Heping looked at the dog brain server, remained silent for a while, and then suddenly called out Xu Ning to come forward.

"I retrieved the memories of patient Luo Chen during his treatment from the dog brain server. Take a look," Zhang Heping said, then glanced at his eldest son, Zhang Bei, who was still looking at his phone.

Zhang Bei took the biological brain server to the hospital. Before the attending physician could finish speaking, he packed up the biological brain server and went to the next patient to make arrangements. Zhang Heping had heard feedback from the bodyguard, but he hadn't said anything.

Since Zhang Bei didn't study medicine, it's normal that he's not interested in what doctors say; there's no need to force him to listen to what doctors have to say.

However, the anomaly that appeared in the biological brain server today is related to the patient.

Although Zhang Bei and Zhang Yi had guessed this, they couldn't determine the specific reason. Therefore, it was necessary to use this incident to help Zhang Bei learn more about the experimental information in future experiments, rather than learning what he wanted to know based on personal preferences and rejecting information he didn't want to know.

"He..." Xu Ning was about to speak when Zhang Heping interrupted her.

“Everyone else, line up and come over to take a look. We’ll discuss your opinions later!” Zhang Heping said, then looked at the others.

Zhang Yi's brain-computer interface research team currently consists of only 16 people. Zhang Heping has not given Zhang Yi or Luo Yi any special training; instead, Zhang Bei and Zhang Feng are the ones teaching these people.

He would occasionally come over to check on their progress in mental training.

If it weren't for sending Zhang Bei to Shenzhen Peace Hospital, Zhang Yi and Luo Yi wouldn't have been sent to this hospital to be responsible for the safety of brain-computer interface usage.

Of course, Zhang Heping could also send his other children to Hong Kong Island Peace Hospital, but that would slow down Zhang Yi and Luo Yi's growth and thus their promotion.

After the last member of the brain-computer interface research team, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, stepped forward and examined the memory images in the dog's brain server, Zhang Heping allowed them to share their opinions.

"The patient was very agitated before the doctor and family entered the dream state!"

"I feel like there are dark shadows around the patient, but I don't know if it's just my imagination?"

"I also thought it was my imagination. Those dark figures only appeared for a few seconds and then disappeared!"

"I think the relationship between the patient and the family is not right! The two didn't exchange a single word the whole time!"

"The patient's family told the doctor that they wanted to speak a few words to the patient alone, and then they lost their memory! This is probably because we cut off the biological brain from the brain-computer interface in reality, which is why they couldn't say it."

“Strangely, after the patient’s family woke up, they didn’t ask us to give them more time to communicate with the patient.”

While listening to the opinions of these young people, Zhang Heping used his mental power to communicate with the cow brain and pig brain servers.

The shadowy figures in the dog brain server could confuse these young people with weak brains, but they could not stop Zhang Heping's investigation. It was clearly a scene of several people killing another person with knives!
The so-called patient, Luo Chen, was not the one who was beaten to death, but one of the perpetrators.

As for why he was injured, the dog brain server failed to record it; Luo Chen's consciousness was drawn to the light from the small clinic.

At the request of a neurosurgeon at the hospital, Zhang Heping unified the dreams of the four biological brain servers into a black world, plus a small clinic with light.

Because those doctors said that fancy dream games can easily distract doctors, family members, and patients, making the treatment less effective.

Just as the group of young people gradually quieted down, Zhang Heping patted the pig brain server and laughed, "Who said the pig is stupid? It remembers a lot of things. Take a look at its dreams."

Perhaps it was because Zhang Bei and his team used the pig brain server on patient Luo Chen today that, under the influence of Luo Chen's strong emotions, the pig brain server completely recorded the secrets deep within Luo Chen's brain.

The first to check the dream of the pig brain server were Zhang Bei, Zhang Yi, and Zhang Hu.

Zhang Hu, having read half of it, couldn't help but take off his gold-rimmed glasses, look at Zhang Heping, and ask, "Dad, is this dream a figment of the patient's imagination, or a real event that actually happened?"

"We'll have the Hong Kong police check it out later!" Zhang Heping said nonchalantly. "Take your time looking at it, then call the police. I'm going downstairs to take care of my business."

"Third Uncle!" Roy asked hurriedly, "Are those two biological brain servers alright?"

"I just suffered a severe mental shock, nothing else," Zhang Heping explained before heading out to the third basement level.

About half an hour later, Zhang Bei, Zhang Yi, and Zhang Hu took off their gold-rimmed glasses one after another, and all of them made a frowning motion as if rubbing their temples.

Although Zhang Bei and Zhang Hu had been training their mental and spiritual abilities for some time, they still felt somewhat exhausted under the stimulation of such intensely emotional dreams, let alone Zhang Yi, who had only just begun his training.

"Xu Ning, are you sure the patient's medical record in the middle bed says he was beaten by several classmates?" Zhang Yi stared at the pretty woman in the team with a grim expression. "The situation in the dream is different from what you described!"

"What's different?" Roy stepped forward and called to Xu Ning and Zhang Feng, "Let's go in and take a look!"

"Wait a minute!" Zhang Bei pointed to the corner where the brain-boosting liquid was kept and said, "Before you go in, each of you should drink a bottle of brain-boosting liquid!"

...(End of chapter)