Rebirth 07: Start adding points from elementary school students

Chapter 546: The Shackles of Being a Human
"You, are you going to ascend?" Wei Yunzhi was stunned for a moment.

"Don't read too many novels."

"No, but your speech sounds really hard to understand."

Li Yan looked at the confused Wei Yunzhi, smiled and reached out to touch her head.

"I know, this sentence is indeed difficult to understand."

Li Yan meant "you don't know the existence of the system", but to Wei Yunzhi it sounded like "I have something on my mind but you don't understand."

When Li Yan realized that such words might make Wei Yunzhi sad, the girl had already found the right direction:
"So, can you tell me about it?"

“Maybe it’s not complete.”

"no problem."

“It may be difficult to understand.”

"no problem."

Seeing the girl getting more and more excited, something in Li Yan's heart was touched.

"Do you really want to hear it?"

"Of course I do!" The girl had completely forgotten what kind of clothes she was wearing, and her eyes were full of anticipation. "I've always been curious about what you think about."

“Don’t I always share with you?”

Li Yan didn't even realize how gentle her tone was.

"It's different," Wei Yunzhi moved closer to Li Yan, "I want to hear something... emotional. Or, something more 'personal'. Just like what we were talking about just now, life problems!"

"why?"

In fact, Li Yan asked the question even though he knew the answer.

"I want to be closer to you."

But he just wanted to hear the girl say it.

"If you could only tell me, I would be happier."

Sincerity is always the ultimate weapon, and the girl’s eyes made Li Yan unable to refuse.

But it's not that the little head can't refuse.

"Do you think...Is everything going well for me lately?"

This was a totally unexpected question, and Wei Yunzhi was unable to react to it.

Then answer from your heart.

"Shun."

"Yeah, it went very smoothly." Li Yan sighed, exuding a rare melancholy temperament, and even her voice changed. "In fact, since I won the first place in the Youth Xin Athletics Competition, everything has been going smoothly."

"Yeah." Wei Yunzhi resisted the urge to reach out and pinch Li Yan's thigh and sat obediently.

This man is damn attractive when he's sad.

But now is not the time to think crookedly.

"Especially in business, since I came up with the idea of ​​making a mobile phone system, every step... I can't say there were no obstacles, but in the end there were no major setbacks. The right time, right place and right people were all here for me. I know my ability, and I can develop something with just a little bit of grit. In fact, every step was based on ambition, and I was happy when I finally achieved it.

"Today, the tram has been built and the city of the future has taken shape, but I still find it hard to be excited."

Just when the beautiful girl thought that Li Yan was a little numb because of his achievements, he suddenly changed the subject:
“Because these achievements are not enough.”

Eh?
not enough?
Wei Yunzhi's words of persuasion were stuck in his throat and he couldn't utter them.

"After all, what's so great about building a tram?"

Wei Yunzhi really couldn't answer this question, she could only look at Li Yan with a "what else?" look.

Li Yan probably didn't need her response, so she continued to talk half to herself and half to herself:

"It's no different from developing an operating system at the beginning to making a mobile phone. Even making a photolithography machine is nothing special to me. They are all industrial achievements. I even gave China a whole set of methodologies and built an assembly line to improve the industrial level."

Li Yan paused and sighed softly:

"When I made the lithography machine, I actually had the mentality of 'this is it'."

Wei Yunzhi felt very strange. The person in front of him said something that seemed very pretentious in the eyes of others, but his tone was filled with a hint of disappointment.

Disappointed? Disappointed with whom? Disappointed with what?
The little beauty seems to have grasped the core issue.

"In the final analysis, all these industrial achievements cannot touch the "why" but are just a collection of "how". The so-called lithography machine is actually no different from a big toy made by assembling a few parts. The final technology is so powerful that it is even a bit primitive..."

Li Yan might have thought that this was a bit too much, so he added: "Although I can also feel the original power and the most original influence of wisdom."

As a result, the beautiful girl interrupted him, "What politically correct words are you talking to me about?"

Li Yan smiled, "Okay. This is why I'm not too excited about the construction of the future city, the manufacture of lithography machines, and trams. We can't use advanced laws, and the development of theory and industry is still too unbalanced. Some theories are far ahead of industry, and we can't even do experiments; some industries are ahead of theory, such as aerodynamics. We know that airplanes can fly, but we still don't understand why they can fly."

"It's not Bernoulli..." Wei Yun said subconsciously, and then immediately covered her mouth, "Just pretend I didn't say that."

How could Li Yan not know?
"Including current life science research, in fact, it is also through various experiments to try your luck to find the direction. If you are lucky and find the right one, it will be an amazing new discovery; if you are unlucky, it will just be a waste of time."

Wei Yunzhi also frowned, "Yan, but humans have always been exploring scientific laws like this... Of course, in the field of physics, there are some cases where theories are ahead of practice, but doing experiments is not a waste of time in any case. I think that since you have established a life science research center and are also raising project funds, you should know the importance of experiments and hope to have more power to help you, right?"

"I know, but I'm not satisfied." Li Yan slumped in his seat, as if he had encountered some great difficulties.

The girl didn't quite understand. "Yan, do you hope to... directly understand the direction of certain technological developments? Through some special learning, understanding, and effort? Then give a direction, and then verify it through experiments?"

"That's what I mean." Li Yan said.

I really don’t know how to respond to that.

Li Yan hesitated for a moment, then said, "This is what makes me uncomfortable. In every aspect, I feel the shackles of being 'just one person'. I cannot escape the limitations of being an individual no matter what, and I don't even have enough freedom."

"Um……"

"I still have to follow human rules. Even if I improve my abilities to this level, I still can't understand things at a higher level. Just like you said, in life science research, no matter how capable I am, I am still constrained by experiments, by human experience and knowledge, and by the current level of instrument technology. Although I haven't reached the ceiling yet, the mere fact of seeing the ceiling makes me lose motivation."

Wei Yunzhi could catch up with this point. "For example, a universal special medicine?"

"From human experience, if we want to tackle the problem of specific drugs directly from the bottom-level logic, we can first try a broad-spectrum cancer eradication program. We know what we need to do: identification, starvation of cancer cells, removal of residual cancer cells, defense against metastasis and recurrence, immune enhancement... I know, your teacher knows, and you know too. We all understand the difficulties, whether it is specific identification of cancer, multi-mechanism synergistic treatment, or intelligent immune sentinels, we all know."

"Yes."

"We even have a direction for what to do at each step. Again, I'm not the only one who knows these things. Everyone actually knows them. But how to achieve precise positioning and synchronous release of drugs, no one knows, including me. Making metabolic shackles is certainly a feasible direction, but what substances can degrade carcinogenic metabolites produced by various mutations, and what can point-to-point block the specific metabolic activities of cells, you don't know, your teacher doesn't know, and I don't know either." Wei Yunzhi gradually understood what Li Yan meant.

"At this point, no matter how good the ideas are, humans can only verify them through continuous testing and research." Li Yan sighed, "It is impossible to accelerate the source, eliminate wrong routes in advance, and even guarantee the availability of experimental results. Humans cannot understand the underlying genetic coding logic, and cannot use a common method to kill the "cancer" itself. So the so-called "broad-spectrum cancer eradication program" is just an exhaustive idea. No matter how advanced the vocabulary is, it cannot cover up this fact."

He drank half a glass of juice in one gulp. "And I am also a human being. I am also limited by all the limitations that humans have. No matter how much better I am than others, no matter how high I stand in this field, it is the same. I cannot directly tell you that there is actually a formula that can tell you what kind of substance can resist cancer. I cannot directly solve cancer from the perspective of gene editing through my own study and research."

"I can't say I understand you."

"I don't expect anyone to understand me." Li Yan finished speaking and drank the juice in one gulp. "Yunzhi, if, I mean if, everyone's ability in this world has a numerical value, and the full score is 100, how do you think I would score?"

"99 points!"

Li Yan smiled and said, "What about those famous scientists in history? Those scientists who made mankind take great strides forward, how do you think they would rank?"

“It’s about the same score, but not 100.”

In fact, you are being conservative. Judging from the current scores, Li Yan is 100% superior to those famous scientists in history in terms of ability alone.

"We should not judge a person's intelligence only by his achievements. Although most of the great achievements in the history of science came from smart people, with the great strides forward in science and technology today, it is hard to say that people today with more complete knowledge reserves are not as smart as those in the past. Humanity does not move forward by luck. Without Newton, there would soon be another person who would research mechanical results. For humans, if Newton's achievements were divided among a hundred people, it would not affect the development of science."

"Just like the era of the development of nuclear physics and quantum mechanics, there was a burst of masters." Wei Yunzhi nodded, "Because they discovered a new continent, the current level of quantum physics must be higher than that time, but the heavyweight original theories are far less than before, which is also because there are no new theories to explore."

"I want to do this." Li Yan said.

Wei Yunzhi felt like his heart was hit and was beating very fast.

"But obviously, at least so far, in today's scientific research environment, I don't have this ability."

Li Yan swallowed the second half of the sentence "Even if I am the most powerful brain in the world today" back.

"The environment is an influencing factor, but who knows, maybe one day you will have a flash of inspiration and suddenly have a completely new understanding of the world, which will directly overturn the existing knowledge system of mankind?"

Li Yan smiled, very sincerely.

He really wanted to do this, but this was exactly where his pain point lay.

"A flash of inspiration".

Countless geniuses in history have created achievements that have pushed humanity forward, all relying on flashes of inspiration.

If after improving my abilities to this point, I still need a flash of inspiration, it would be... disappointing.

What Li Yan didn't dare to tell Wei Yunzhi was about the system.

He smoothly pushed his various stats past 90% of the progress, but he was completely lost.

The experience of this breakthrough was no longer as violent as before. It was as if the system was telling Li Yan that you were almost reaching your limit.

90 points means there is no qualitative change, so there is naturally nothing to expect from 100 points.

What Li Yan expected was a complete transformation, and now it seems that it may be an upgrade to the ultimate plus version.

Ceiling? He hopes there is no ceiling, or a ceiling that will allow him to see a new world.

Unfortunately, the throne is man-made after all.

What kind of feeling is it?

For example, you are playing a game of leveling up and fighting monsters, and suddenly one day a miracle sends down a god-level weapon and you work hard to upgrade the weapon and feed it materials tirelessly. It also works very hard and is always a little more powerful than weapons of the same level.

As a result, one day, you have trained your weapon to the top, and the dungeon you are facing has also reached its top. The most powerful weapon in the hands of the strongest boss is just slightly worse than yours.

But, that’s all.

You do not have a mechanism that can kill instantly, and you cannot break the barriers of this world. Your weapon is not from another world, it is not a key to a hidden world, and it does not have a cross-dimensional effect that can break the fourth wall.

Unsatisfied is inevitable.

This is the slight disappointment that Wei Yunzhi felt.

Disappointed with the system, disappointed with myself, disappointed with the world.

Li Yan is convincing herself to accept the moment of "waiting" when the inspiration comes.

But suddenly, the little beauty asked, and his eyes lit up: "Have you ever thought that you could have the ability you have now?"

"I thought about it... No, I didn't."

I thought about it. Since I got the system, Li Yan had set the goal of "the top of humanity" long ago, so today's level is just "at least"; I didn't think about it. Before I got the system, who the hell could have thought that he would be reborn and have the system?
"We don't know how high our potential is, so don't talk about the ceiling so easily." Wei Yunzhi patted Li Yan, "You said the full score is 100, and I gave you 99. I just want to say that people should believe that there is no limit to themselves."

Damn, his mental ability is so high now, chicken soup should be useless.

Why is the little beauty’s chicken soup so delicious?

"Besides, the full score of 100 is set by you, not the rule of this world."

"You are really good at persuading people."

"No, my husband...I, my boyfriend, this..."

"It's all right."

Wei Yunzhi's head was about to smoke. Why did everything in his heart come out when he relaxed? "It's rare to see you, a god-like person, surrounded by emotions. I must persuade you well."

Yeah, I started to feel disappointed before I even reached 100% progress.

Ultimately it's a fear of difficulty, a fear of being really disappointed, so one simply sticks in disappointment and doesn't take the initiative.

Li Yan did not have too many "I shouldn't be like this" emotions this time. The improvement of his mental ability did not turn him into a robot, but helped him better accept the "human" part of himself.

Li Yan understands the importance of emotional cognition.

If you want to have emotional cognition, it is impossible to be without emotions. Emotions are not poison.

After soaking for a while and then getting up again, you will feel more open-minded.

"It's like it's a big deal." Li Yan smiled and said, "It's okay, I just thought too much."

“It’s a big deal.”

Li Yan looked at Wei Yunzhi, whose blush had not yet faded and whose eyes were misty.

"Just in case a new entry is spawned, right?"

The girl didn't understand, but nodded solemnly, "Yes!"

(End of this chapter)