Break out of the courtyard

At the end of the corridor outside the conference room, Zhang Heping pondered for a while the possibility of implanting a micro-brain-computer interface into the skin between his eyebrows.

If he could implant the skin between his eyebrows to ensure that he could call upon his mental power at any time, the safety of him and his family would be greatly improved.

But there is a key problem that cannot be solved now, that is, after he and his family put on the first and second generation brain-computer interfaces, they are unable to withdraw their mental power on their own.

To be precise, after wearing these two brain-computer interfaces, the function of converting brain waves into mental power will be automatically activated. The overflowing mental power cannot be taken back, and the only way is to remove the brain-computer interface to interrupt this conversion.

Zhang Heping was wondering if the brain-computer interface he created could extend the time it could be used if it had the ability to recycle mental power and convert it into brain bioelectricity.

This issue is critical because subsequent research on virtual dream games requires not only external mental power to transmit brain information, but also to receive server information transmitted by external mental power.

Therefore, the conversion of mental power into brain waves is the key research project in the next stage.

With this problem solved, Zhang Heping's idea of ​​implanting a brain-computer interface into the skin between the eyebrows now has technical support.

But a new question arises: how much brain waves converted from the outside can the brain accept?
Just as Zhang Heping was having many thoughts and planning his next research project, Professor Hua walked over alone.

"What are you thinking about?" Old Hua came to Zhang Heping's side, looked out at the courtyard, and asked casually.

"I'm thinking about how to convert mental power into brain waves and let the brain receive them." Zhang Heping answered casually without hiding anything in this regard.

Old Hua frowned and thought for a moment, then asked, "You mean that the two brain-computer interfaces you made before could only convert brainwaves into mental energy, but not mental energy into brainwaves?"

"Yeah!" Zhang Heping nodded slightly without further explanation.

The two stood by the window at the end of the corridor for a while. Seeing that Zhang Heping didn't seem interested in the outcome of the discussion in the meeting room, Old Hua reluctantly spoke up, "We've reached an agreement!"

"One Ruomu brain-machine mask in exchange for your first-generation brain-machine mask and second-generation micro-brain-machine. No other strings attached. I just hope you'll be more cautious when disclosing this technology in the future!"

"The invisible spiritual power is difficult to defend against. Once it is controlled by the enemy, the consequences will be disastrous."

……

"Mom! Big sister!" The bride Tan Ying came to the lobby of the Capital Hotel and called out to Zhang Zhaodi and Chang Wen who were busy counting the gifts and cash.

"I was just looking for you and Xiaoxing." Zhang Zhaodi said, waving at Tan Ying.

After Tan Ying approached, Zhang Zhaodi whispered to her third daughter-in-law, "The gift money is 39 yuan. We'll take the bodyguards to the bank later and deposit the money into your bank card."

"Ah?" Tan Ying asked in astonishment, "How come there are so many?"

"Keep your voice down!" Zhang Zhaodi glanced at the waiter in the hall, pulled her daughter-in-law, who hadn't figured out the situation yet, closer, and then explained in a low voice:

"It's mainly because your third uncle's friends gave him a lot of gifts, including some jewelry."

"After the money is deposited into your bank card, you will be in charge of the accounts of your little family."

Tan Ying hurriedly shook her head, "Mom, this is too much money. I... you should take care of it!"

Zhang Zhaodi pulled Tan Ying, raised her chin, motioned her to look at the gift boxes, and whispered, "Those gift boxes are the big ones!"

"The money can only be kept with you. If I keep it in your father's or my account, we'll be held accountable for financial problems, and it won't be easy to explain. If I keep it with Changxing, I'm afraid he'll learn bad things."

"Don't keep this money in your bank account forever. When you have time, go out with your grandma to look at and buy houses, and spend the money as soon as possible."

Tan Ying was stunned again. "So much money, all used to buy a house?"

Zhang Zhaodi smiled and said, "If you go out with your grandma a few more times, you'll know whether you should buy it or not!"

Chang Wen zipped up a black handbag containing money and asked a male bodyguard to carry it.

"Mom, sister-in-law!" Chang Wen came over and said, "It's best to send those gifts to our courtyard. There are people there from morning to night."

"It's not safe to leave Xiaoxing and his family in that courtyard. It's easy for people to target them. What do you think, sister-in-law?"

Tan Ying hadn't recovered from the huge sum of 39 yuan. She didn't have the brain to think too much at this moment. She could only agree, "I'll listen to Mom and Big Sister!"

Chang Wen nodded and said, "Okay, I'll ask Chang Le, Chang Qing and the others to go with the bodyguards to deliver the gifts to Xiaoxing's room. You can deal with the gifts yourself when you are free."

After Chang Wen called her second brother Chang Le and fourth brother Chang Qing, she split up with them, one to deliver the gifts home while the other to accompany them to the bank to deposit the gift money.

When Tan Ying came back from outside, holding a black bank card tightly in her hands, she still felt like she was dreaming. The huge balance on the card made her feel it was unreal!
With her salary, she would have to save for at least 150 years without eating or drinking to earn that much money!

While she was in a daze, Zhang Zhaodi had already taken Tan Ying to her biological mother Tan Fang, and then went to greet friends and colleagues.

"Xiaoying? Xiaoying..." Mother Tan shook Tan Ying several times before she finally brought her second daughter back to life.

The eldest sister, Tan Tan, squatted beside her and asked with concern, "Second sister, what's wrong with you?"

Tan Ying subconsciously looked at the black card tightly held in her hand, not knowing how to answer for a moment.

Tan Fang, the school accountant, noticed something was wrong with the Huifeng bank card. "Xiaoying, where did you get this bank card?"

Although Tan Fang had a vague guess about the origin of the bank card, she still found it hard to believe.

Because, after she pried open her second daughter's fingers and saw that there was indeed a golden star on the bank card, she became more certain of her judgment that this was Huifeng Bank's VIP black card!
Although this VIP black card only has 1 star, the unsecured loan limit of this card is as high as 1000 million!
Tan Fang first learned about this card from casual conversations among several colleagues. Later, at a class reunion, she heard a classmate talking about Huifeng Bank's black card again, and she remembered it vividly.

"It was Changxing's mother and elder sister who took me to do it. They said that the gift money and Changxing's salary would be handed over to me to manage in the future." Tan Ying was cautious and did not tell the amount of the gift money in front of the aunts and uncles who were listening to the gossip.

When Tan Fang heard the word "gift money", she immediately thought of the gifts piled up in the hotel lobby.

There were so many relatives around listening to them talking, and Tan Fang was not stupid enough to ask in public how much the gifts were. There would be plenty of time to ask later anyway, so she only asked what to do with the gifts.

After hearing that the gifts had been sent to the Zhang family's old house, Tan Fang felt a little regretful that she could not help unpack the boxes, but she did not show it.

Just then, Li Guodong, the uncle who had facilitated the relationship between Chang Xing and Tan Ying, came over with a teacup and asked, "Xiaoying, have you found your third uncle?"

When asked this question, Tan Yingcai remembered that she went to the hotel lobby to inquire about the whereabouts of her third uncle Zhang Heping.

The most convenient person to ask about this would be her third aunt and the others, but she wasn't familiar with them, so she went to her mother-in-law, Zhang Zhaodi. However, she ended up forgetting everything else because of the huge dowry.

"Uncle, I forgot to ask just now." Tan Ying stood up hurriedly. "Wait a moment, I'll go ask my mother-in-law right now."

……

Many people came to today's wedding banquet just to see Zhang Heping.

Therefore, Zhang Heping did not stay in the conference room for too long. After negotiating the two exchange terms, he was sent back to the Capital Hotel.

Old Yang and his friends wanted to exchange the first-generation brain-computer mask, the internal structure diagram of the second-generation micro brain-computer, and the manufacturing process, but they did not want to exchange any technology or items that would satisfy Zhang Heping, so naturally the deal was not reached.

Zhang Heping returned to the hotel and greeted everyone. It was almost time for lunch, which also meant that the busy day was coming to an end.

However, those young people are still planning to make a fuss in the bridal chamber later, and they don’t know how late it will last.

After the dinner, it seemed as if all the taxis in the capital had been called over, and a long line of taxis lined up outside the hotel.

Because there were so many guests, the Zhang family couldn't see them off one by one. They could only keep responding to the guests who were saying goodbye and telling them that taxis outside were free and the drivers would settle the bill with the Capital Hotel front desk and add it to the wedding bill.

Zhang Heping did not participate in the young people's wedding night prank, but sent a dozen bodyguards to follow them to avoid encountering any ignorant guys.

As the domestic economy gets better and better, some people who make money through illegal means are starting to emerge again.

Fortunately, Zhangbei and his group had many people and cars, so no one was so blind as to dare to bring bad luck upon them!
The next morning, Old Hua, accompanied by his guard Xiao Qin, entered the Zhang family's courtyard carrying a black briefcase.

Not long after, they were seen leaving with the black suitcase.

Inside the Zhang family compound, Zhang Heping was sitting in the public lounge area on the third floor, carefully examining the unresponsive Ruomu computer on the table.

Hua Lao said that this Ruomu brain-computer interface only works when it is close to the Fusang Divine Tree. When it is more than 100 meters away, it does not show any strange behavior, as if the power has been cut off.

Although Zhang Heping didn't know the principle behind it, he used the gold-wrapped Guanyin under his neck to release his mental power to check the complex structure inside the golden mask.

After discovering the dense patterns within and realizing that his mental energy was being rapidly depleted when he probed into it, Zhang Heping decisively took out the first-generation brain-computer mask and the second-generation micro brain-computer and exchanged them for the golden mask brought by Elder Hua.

At this moment, Zhang Heping really wanted to find someone to cooperate with him in research to see whether when his mental power penetrated into Ruomu's brain-computer and was consumed at an accelerated rate, whether the Ruomu brain-computer mask would convert it into brain waves!
However, this research involves many unknown risks. After Zhang Heping returns to Hong Kong Island, he will first have monkeys wear Ruomu brain-computer masks to cooperate with his experiments.

Although Zhang Heping was anxious, there were still many things to deal with here, such as President He who came from afar, Wang Baochuan and others, as well as several difficult and complicated cases at Harmonious Hospital and Xuanwu Hospital.

Zhang Heping directly rejected the open class at school yesterday, as well as some economics conferences, mechanical conferences, etc.

On this day, after Zhang Heping put away Ruomu's computer, he started to get busy, trying to finish all the tasks that day.

For this reason, Tang Xin and Chen Shuting are responsible for handling all household affairs.

The next morning, Zhang Heping flew back to Shenzhen with Chang Le and others. The bride, Tan Yingcai, asked Chang Xing anxiously whether his third uncle had any objections to her and her family.

Before this girl approached Chang Xing, her family had already discussed it with her aunt's family. The ultimate goal was to establish a good relationship with Zhang Heping.

However, Zhang Heping only spoke a few words to Tan Ying during the few days since he came back, which made her suspect that Zhang Heping did not like their family's close relationship with him.

"You think too much!" Chang Xing said as he opened the lunch box, "If my uncle has any opinions about you, he won't say a word to you."

"That Zhang Xin, do you remember him?"

Tan Ying thought for a moment and asked, "Is it the sloppy guy wearing glasses and reading a novel while eating?"

"Yes!" After Chang Xing divided half of the rice from their unit's canteen into a bowl, he asked his wife to start eating.

Tan Ying took the bowl and chopsticks and asked, "What happened to him?"

"His grandfather and our grandfather are brothers, and his father is the eldest cousin of my mother and my third uncle..." Chang Xing briefly explained what he knew and concluded:
"Grandpa has always wanted to ease the relationship between them, but my third uncle disagrees, and even the relatives from my hometown are not liked by my third uncle."

"On the day of the wedding banquet, my third uncle didn't say a word to the relatives from his hometown, but it was the relatives from your Tan family who actually spoke to him."

"When your great uncle came here, your third uncle asked him to take over Grandpa's security job? And he didn't even take his salary?" Tan Ying couldn't believe it. "Without Grandpa's salary, how would Grandma and the others eat?"

"Hehe!" Chang Xing laughed and said, "Next time I go back to the old house, I'll find the photos of my third uncle when he was little and show them to you."

"If you saw the wild boars he hunted and the fish he packed in sacks, you'd know what they ate back then!"

Tan Ying said dissatisfiedly: "The more you talk, the more confused I become!"

Chang Xing explained with a smile, "To put it simply, after my third uncle gave up my grandfather's job, he started making a living by hunting!"

"He didn't want to work, but went hunting?" Tan Ying's doubts grew. "How old was he at the time? Wouldn't the prey he caught be confiscated?"

……

Zhang Heping didn't know that Chang Xing's new daughter-in-law was gossiping about his past in order to integrate into the Zhang family.

After they arrived at Kai Tak Airport on Hong Kong Island, they separated from Chairman Ho, Charter King and others.

Chang Le was sent back to Dapeng Peninsula by a driver and a bodyguard to continue his studies there.

Zhang Heping and his family went straight back to their home on the top of Victoria Peak.

As soon as Zhang Heping returned to the community, he asked Wei Chunqiao to deliver the experimental monkey he had requested yesterday so that he could study the Ruomu brain-computer interface.

His first step of the experiment was very simple. He stuck a gold-wrapped Guanyin on his forehead and put a wooden computer mask on the monkey's face.

The experimental monkey naturally would not wear the golden mask obediently, and it was also necessary to prevent it from breaking the Ruomu brain-computer mask that was obtained with great difficulty, so Zhang Heping removed its limbs and stuck its head between two thick wooden boards, leaving only its forehead and cheeks exposed so that the mask could fit.

Zhang Heping remained silent throughout the entire experiment. He had been using his mental power to probe into the Ruomu brain-computer mask on the monkey's face, trying to use his mental power to make the monkey move its tail or bark.

Unfortunately, whether it was frightened or the mask itself, the monkey was now as docile as a schoolchild, not making a sound or moving an inch… (End of Chapter)