Break out of the courtyard

How much brainpower does it take to dream?

Have you ever had several dreams in one night? Do you feel tired when you wake up the next morning? Do you feel as tired as after using the first or second generation brain-computer interface?

"I believe that the mental effort required for virtual dream games each night should not be more than the mental effort required for dreaming in one night, otherwise it will affect one's life and work the next day."

"Of course, if it's a mental weapon, the mental exertion involved is a different story!"

"Therefore, I currently have three research directions for the next generation of multi-level brain-computer interfaces."

"First, we will try to recover brainwaves through layer-by-layer diversion to see if we can achieve zero brainwave consumption; second, we will test the limit of mental power amplification by amplifying a small amount of brainwaves through layer-by-layer diversion; third, we will look for mental power frequency reduction modules to develop virtual dream game pods or helmets."

When Tang Xin came down to take Zhang Bei, Zhang Long, and Zhang Hu to a party, she happened to overhear her husband talking to their three sons about brain-computer interface research.

She stood at the door for a while, and only after Zhang Heping handed over the task of defining the quantitative units of brainwaves and mental power to his three sons did she ask them to come upstairs with her.

Zhang Bei and Zhang Long had just used the excuse of having a stomachache to temporarily escape, but now their mother had come to the basement to arrest them, and they couldn't resist.

After all, the gathering mentioned above was, in essence, a matchmaking event for the siblings.

After her three sons came out, Tang Xin stood at the door and looked at Zhang Heping, saying, "Husband, Elder Hua, Director Wang, and Second Sister have all left."

"Hmm!" Zhang Heping responded simply and began the attempt to overlay the brain-computer interface module.

……

Just as Mr. Hua got off the bus at the foot of the mountain, he received a call from Secretary Chen in Shenzhen, saying that Wei Chunqiao, the head of the Umbrella Security Company, had been admitted to Shenzhen Peace Hospital to prepare for the recovery of his severed arm.

Thinking of Wei Chunqiao's attitude last night, Hua Lao felt angry but knew he was in the wrong.

The key point is that Shenzhen Peace Hospital is, in the end, a wholly-owned hospital of the Peace Group. Although Mr. Hua can influence the decisions of some of the medical staff, it is not appropriate for him to teach Wei Chunqiao a lesson at the hospital.

Otherwise, it would be difficult to explain if the news got to Zhang Heping.

"Just treat them the same as ordinary wounded soldiers!"

As soon as Mr. Hua said this, Secretary Chen on the other end of the phone understood that there was no need to give Mr. Wei special treatment.

Secretary Chen knew a little about the matter of Yan Qun being removed from the security department of the protective umbrella company, because he was needed in Shenzhen to handle some issues related to the restoration of the identities of Yan Qun and his people. However, he did not know that this matter stemmed from Hua Lao's mistake.

Director Wang, who was sitting next to him, didn't hear the contents of the phone call. He only heard Old Hua say a few words before he hung up. Otherwise, he would have given Old Hua a few words of advice.

Although the members of the Wild Goose Flock have all returned to Shenzhen, they have been in Hong Kong for so many years. Regardless of how many local contacts they have developed, they still have some connections on the surface.

"Second sister, the New Year is just three months away. Where is your family planning to spend it?" Director Wang asked with a smile, looking at Zhang Pandi's back in the passenger seat. "We'll get together as usual and have a lively celebration!"

Director Wang was still thinking about how to repair their relationship with Zhang Heping. Although Zhang Heping did not pursue the matter of Yan Qun, Zhang Heping's indifferent attitude made Director Wang wonder.

While replying to messages on her phone, Zhang Pandi said without turning her head, "I might be coming to Hong Kong Island for the Lunar New Year. My mom wants to bring Xiaoxing's wife to Hong Kong Island to broaden her horizons."

"Oh!" Director Wang responded simply, a hint of disappointment on his face, but his mind was already racing, trying to figure out how to proceed.

She just explained to Zhang Heping that the reason for arranging those veterans to come over was to strengthen the security around Zhang Heping.

But Zhang Pandi made it very clear to her last night. Zhang Heping used the metaphor of ubiquitous surveillance to describe those people, which revealed their true nature.

……

Shenzhen Peace Hospital, Department of Regenerative Medicine Inpatient Ward.

"Why is it a triple room?" Wei Chunqiao's second son frowned when he saw the three treatment pods in the ward and looked at the nurse who had led the way. "I want to see your hospital director!"

"The dean should be in his office. You can go to the administration building to find him." The middle-aged nurse saw that these people didn't look like they were from the mainland. Although she didn't know Wei Chunqiao's identity, she didn't dare to say anything and wanted to take the opportunity to get rid of these problematic people.

Wei Chunqiao raised his left hand to stop his son, who wanted to go to the hospital director, and said calmly, "When the boss set up the hospital, he made a requirement that no private or special wards are allowed in the hospital."

"The private room we saw last time we brought someone here for treatment was because the regeneration and repair solution had just been developed for clinical use, and the boss needed to train some medical staff on how to use the regeneration and repair solution."

"I'll stay here, you guys go check in!"

Wei Chunqiao's second son couldn't persuade his father, who had decided to stay in a triple room.

However, this guy had the idea of ​​swapping out the other two treatment pods in the ward.

In his mind, if two empty treatment pods were brought over, wouldn't this three-person room become a single room?
Therefore, he asked his sister and brother-in-law to handle the check-in procedures for their father, while he went to the administration building.

Although Wei Chunqiao's second son found Dean Lu of Shenzhen Peace Hospital, Dean Lu did not agree to his idea of ​​changing the treatment pod, but only told him to communicate more with the doctors in the regenerative repair department.

Wei Chunqiao's second son did not understand the deeper meaning behind the last "communication," and only thought that the other party had refused and was not giving face to the Wei family!

This was a bit frustrating, but the second son of the Wei family didn't dare to cause trouble here.

Even disregarding the fact that this hospital belongs to Zhang Heping, the sheer number of guards here exceeds the combined number of bodyguards and security personnel at the Peace Hospital on Hong Kong Island. How could he possibly dare to cause trouble?

If this guy backs down, that's fine. Anyway, his father, Wei Chunqiao, doesn't care about staying in a 3-person room, since all the wards at Hong Kong Island Peace Hospital are 3-person rooms.

After leaving the administration building, the second son of the Wei family felt increasingly aggrieved and, refusing to believe it, went to check out the other wards.

If all the rooms are for three people, Wei Lao Er will have no choice but to give up.

But he didn't believe that all the rooms here were triple rooms, because last time he came, he saw single rooms not only in the orthopedic ward, but also in other departments, as well as double rooms. After Wei Lao Er returned to the inpatient building, he took out his phone and started searching floor by floor.

And you know what? In the end, this kid managed to photograph 32 single rooms and 112 double rooms with his phone.

The single and double rooms he photographed actually had three beds in each room. He had previously tried to replace two empty treatment pods to turn the wards into single rooms, leaving the other beds empty.

However, since the hospital director disagreed with his method but allowed other patients to do it, he couldn't be blamed for causing trouble!
After making the decision to expose the bed shortage problem, Wei Lao Er spent some time consolidating evidence and did not expose it immediately because his father was still receiving treatment at the hospital, and he was not foolish enough to invite trouble for himself.

……

After Mr. Hua and Director Wang returned to Shenzhen, they asked Vice President Qian and Vice President Deng to find reasons to invite Zhang Heping to Shenzhen to provide guidance, but Zhang Heping refused each time.

Even though the launch of the first phase of the Tiangong space station in the northwest was imminent, Zhang Heping did not agree to go and take a look. He only asked Heping Aerospace Company to send technicians to assist with the final pre-launch inspection.

Zhang Heping's repeated refusals were interpreted by Elder Hua and the others as a sign of non-cooperation, leading them to believe that Zhang Heping still harbored resentment towards Yan Qun and his group.

For this reason, Director Wang would visit the Zhang family in Hong Kong Island every few days.

But she could only see Zhang Heping during lunch and dinner. Although she knew that Zhang Heping was busy with brain-computer interface research in the underground laboratory, she could not understand why he abandoned all his research projects on the mainland.

Whenever Wang Sumei asked Zhang Heping about his research progress, Zhang Heping would not answer, treating her as an outsider.

Wang Sumei couldn't understand Zhang Heping's change of heart; it was as if he wanted to distance himself from her and Hua Lao.

In particular, after Peace Properties recently purchased villas, castles and other residences in Taiwan, New Taiwan Island and Europe, Mr. Hua and Ms. Wang Sumei felt a sense of urgency, feeling that Zhang Heping and his group were preparing for the return of Hong Kong Island and looking for a way out for themselves!
The changes on Zhang Heping's side were naturally reported to the capital by Elder Hua, because this involved a very crucial research project: mental power!
Since Zhang Heping's third-generation glasses-based brain-computer interface was developed, experts from Sanxingdui and Shenzhen Peace Academy gathered in the capital to discuss the news brought back by Elder Hua. They emitted mental energy from their left temple and withdrew it from their right temple.

They weren't questioning the veracity of Hua Lao's information, but rather discussing whether they could replicate this third-generation brain-computer interface.

With the 3D model of the internal structure of the brain-computer interface fragments that Zhang Heping had deciphered in the early stages, and the clear patterns of the functional modules, experts at the Sanxingdui underground base believed that they had found a way to make a brain-computer interface, but it would still take some time to put it into practice.

This is also why the capital city is not in a hurry to exchange the first-generation and second-generation brain-computer interface manufacturing technology with Zhang Heping. Since they can develop their own brain-computer interface based on those functional modules, why should they be subject to others?

To put it bluntly, they still didn't consider Zhang Heping, this capitalist, as one of their own.

In their eyes, a good scientist should be like Qian Xuesen, giving up everything to serve the country!
However, before they could come to a conclusion, the Peace Group dropped a bombshell on the world: they had made a major breakthrough in the virtual reality game console!
"The Peace Group announced that it will showcase its first-generation virtual reality game console on December 12th this year. It claims that the console can currently only perform two-player dream interaction and hopes that people from all countries interested in participating in this research will attend to hear about the relevant technology!"

As soon as Mr. Qian finished speaking about the news he had just seen on his mobile phone in the conference room, everyone who was arguing about the internal structure of Consultant Zhang's third-generation brain-computer interface fell silent!

Yes, they haven't even figured out Zhang Heping's third-generation brain-computer interface, or even know the complete manufacturing technology of the second and first generation brain-computer interfaces, yet Zhang Heping has already announced the new brain-computer interface to the public!

One attendee took out his phone to check the news and then exclaimed, "That first-generation virtual reality game console is definitely the fourth-generation brain-computer interface developed by Consultant Zhang. We must send someone over there to get the relevant technical information in advance!"

Someone in the room immediately retorted, "Advisor Zhang didn't even give you the technology for the first three generations of brain-computer interfaces, so why should he give you the technology for the fourth generation?"

"Everyone!" An elderly man in a black cotton-padded coat stood up and said loudly, "Take a close look at the announcement from the Peace Group. The meeting on December 12th is a technology sharing session! Does this mean that Consultant Zhang is going to make our brain-computer interface research, which we have been keeping secret, public?"

"We have to get to the bottom of this!" someone immediately chimed in. "If it involves our brain-computer interface research, this meeting must be called off!"

"Look, everyone!" A young man wearing glasses in the back row of the conference room stood up excitedly and said, "Advisor Zhang has released a new paper, which is a supplement to the previous paper on the principle of stargate teleportation!"

"In his paper, he mentioned that the stargate teleportation experiment being conducted by the United States has a fatal problem: there is no quantum jump coordinate for the other stargate!"

"If the United States persists in conducting its aimless stargate teleportation experiment, it may very well bring unknown quantum states from the universe into reality!"

"Hey! Young man!" A middle-aged man in a black woolen coat shouted at the excited young man, "Please be mindful of meeting discipline. We are discussing brain-computer interfaces!"

"I haven't finished yet!" The young man said excitedly, ignoring the official's opinion. "Besides this paper on the principle of stargate teleportation, Consultant Zhang has also published papers on quantum chips, optical brain chips, and biological brain-computer interfaces."

"There's also the brain-computer interface we're discussing, as well as the application and dangers of mental power. He also advocated on the forum's homepage that all countries sign a peace agreement to jointly develop high-tech technologies and advance human technology into the interstellar age!"

Before the young man could finish speaking, most of the experts were already looking at their phones. Even the administrative staff who were serving the conference, who didn't understand what it meant for those technologies to be presented at the World Internet Forum, quietly moved closer to peek at the contents of the experts' phones.

"Poverty in my eyes is not about the amount of wealth!" someone couldn't help but read aloud from their phone. "Wealth in my eyes is the unequal distribution of knowledge!"

“Some people love to learn and are very knowledgeable, but people think they are poor because they don’t have money.”

"No! I will tell everyone in the world!"

"The moment the virtual reality game console was born, money became unimportant!"

"What I want to tell you is that the future is here. Production will be handled by drones and smartphones, while we humans..."

"It could be an explorer who spends all day immersed in dream games!"

"One could be a scholar who swims freely in the ocean of knowledge!"

"You can also do what I did and explore the unknown universe with real actions!"

"I want to share my various research findings, but the world is not at peace!"

“I worry that my sharing will create a group of devils who fight their own battles and treat us ordinary people like ants!”

"Therefore, I ask all peace-loving people to help me promote world peace, eliminate wars in various places, cooperate in the research and development of high-tech technologies, and together advance human technology into the interstellar age!"

"Stop!" a young man suddenly shouted, "Quickly look at the pinned post on the forum homepage, the United States has been attacked by a mushroom bomb..." (End of this chapter)