Genesis: Starting with Growing Mushrooms

Chapter 5: The Smart Brain Store – Giving Life?

Rehe City.

Liu Jun turned into a Rehe Heavy Industry specialty store and walked easily to the smart brain counter.

Inside the shop at this moment.

Occasionally, I see a few beautiful women clinging to rich men's arms, acting coquettishly, wanting to buy the latest limited-edition luxury smart devices, making their low-IQ, stinky sisters green with envy.

A series of advanced intelligent computers are displayed in glass cabinets.

There are various classic smart brain styles, including bracelets, anklets, headbands, and bibs.

There are also some special, uniquely shaped designs, such as the "brain pouch" style that is worn in a special position, allowing even a small head to possess amazing wisdom.

It is evident that this era still retains the old-fashioned literati spirit, emphasizing the supremacy of wisdom.

Liu Jun's gaze fell on a prized possession of the store, with a large sign hanging on it that read "This Year's Leader".

【Name: Yu Nian Ting】

Model: PB186

【Origin: Rehe Sect】

[Rank: Third-Tier Thunder Realm]

[Introduction: This AI was created based on the brain of the Lord of the Hot Carp seventy years ago, at the third tier. Purchasing it grants you trial qualifications, allowing you to become a direct disciple of a great Confucian scholar of the Hot River Sect.]

[Exclusive Book: Cultivation Memories Before the Third Tier, Hot Carp's Personal Autobiography.]

Price: 9988 million Nian Dao

"Unfortunately, I don't even have a fraction of my savings." Liu Jun looked away.

The leadership of the Rehe sect is quite particular.

Each codenamed character is a product of the Rehe River.

Re Li, the head of Rehe Heavy Industry, is one of the city's leaders today.

Therefore, the title of best-selling item for business leaders is well-deserved.

As for the books in the AI?

Reading is essential for spiritual growth.

The "thought-provoking" classes in school consisted of reading extensively.

Liu Jun's cloud storage memories are mostly filled with school textbooks and learning materials.

In addition to downloading external books, the AI ​​usually comes with a copy of the original person's life memories.

Of course, the "personal memory autobiography" carried by the AI ​​itself has been beautified. Although it is claimed to be a video memory without any omissions or censorship, after all, would the big boss let you see these things when he goes to the toilet?

Those who know, know, things like "celebrity autobiographies".

However, the life lessons, experiences, feelings, and insights contained within are genuine. Although one cannot grasp the whole picture, one can still gain some understanding.

Confucianism and Taoism cultivate one's essence, energy, and spirit through reading countless books.

Don't think of reading as torture; reading is a pleasure in this world.

Who still acts like a pedantic scholar like in ancient times?

He speaks in classical Chinese, using only dry and tedious classical Chinese phrases.
We live in a new era; we read e-books now.

And it was during the era of the great Confucian sages who cultivated through wish-fulfillment novels!

Immersing yourself in the memories of these powerful figures and experiencing their growth and life is like personally experiencing a thrilling novel, sweeping through the villains and enjoying life to the fullest.

However, reading too much about other people's life experiences can easily cause some people to lose themselves and develop schizophrenia.

Liu Jun suspected that Li Chengshan, the class monitor, had a mental illness. Perhaps he had been reading too many autobiographies of powerful figures lately and was projecting his own life onto the life of a domineering CEO.

The class monitor may seem to improve quickly, but if he becomes completely immersed in the stories and lives depicted in the books and fails to recognize himself and return to his true self, then his life will remain just that.

The essence of reading is:

Cultivate your spirit and energy, wash away the dust and impurities, and a bright pearl will suddenly appear.

"Sir, what kind of AI do you need?" A beautiful female shop assistant approached.

Liu Jun took out the voucher card and said very politely, "I'm here to pick up the smart brain I rented out."

This is the legacy left by his parents: a first-order AI.

Later, when I advanced to the second tier, I no longer needed it, so I rented it out.

Li Feng and Zou Anmeng each possess a first-order brain inherited from their parents.

The three of them are now second-tier mind masters, sharing a second-tier brain left by their fathers and taking turns cultivating.

As for the first-order AI in front of us?
He plans to retrieve it now to use for cultivating mushroom soup and to conduct some small experiments.

"As a bacterium, I dare not infect humans, but I do have some courage to infect a clone's brain."

Liu Jun subconsciously exhaled, his face expressionless.

Clearly, he dared not bully living people, so he humbly set his sights on the AI.

"Please wait a moment." The clerk took the voucher and scanned it gently.

Liu Jun waited quietly.

Occasionally glancing at the various smart devices on the counter, I noticed that many new models have been released, each with its own unique and precious books built-in, which is quite eye-opening.

But we can only feast our eyes on it.

A moment later, the shop assistant returned.

"What you rented is a classic model from the first-level AI, the Amber Swallowtail."

The clerk smiled and said, "Because you made an appointment a few days in advance to redeem this smart device, I have brought it to you now."

Name: Amber Swallowtail Butterfly

Model: PC001

【Origin: Rehe Sect】

[Rank: First-Tier Wind Realm]

[Introduction: The first-generation machine, the most basic civilian model of the AI, and a great milestone in human history.]

[Exclusive Book: The Complete Life of the Amber Swallowtail Butterfly] [Price: 6 Spirit Knives]

Because their level is too low, powerful individuals would not use themselves as a model to engage in the business of creating such a first-tier general-purpose AI.

They will be looked down upon by their peers and are easily targeted.

The advanced AIs they created based on their own prototypes all established their own schools of thought, recruited Confucian and Taoist disciples, and built up their power.
If you adopt the Confucian and Taoist principles of the other party and accept their teachings, you are naturally a member of their lineage.

This world is already clearly divided into classes.

How can you climb the ranks if you don't kneel down and join a faction?

In today's era, the prototypes of first-order AI on the market are basically all found through archaeological discoveries.

Obtained through well-preserved ancient remains from amber, ancient fossils, tombs, mummies, and various supernatural means.

In that ill-fated era, these exceptionally gifted geniuses served as pioneers, constantly researching and exploring the future.

They were born at the first level, but they didn't know how to cultivate, so they remained at the first level until they died.

Even after a scientist's death, his wisdom and talent were envied, and his brain was soaked in a solution and even sliced ​​up and sold for exorbitant prices. Today, it is also one of the classic first-level intelligent brain models.

The Amber Swallowtail, a first-level AI, has an even more unique origin!

Because it was unearthed from amber fossils hundreds of millions of years ago, it was a unique giant butterfly with telekinetic abilities from the Jurassic period.

That was an ancient era before the birth of humankind, a time filled with ferns and conifers.

Some even say.

This giant butterfly may be the first telekinetic life form in history.

All life forms that possess psychic abilities in later generations are its descendants, inheriting a portion of the psychic gene, including present-day human civilization.

Of course, besides the "Origin of the Amber Giant Butterfly," other theories circulating today include the "Origin of the Fossil Trilobite" and the "Origin of the Crystal Skull," among others.

Long before the birth of humankind, the gift of telekinesis was prevalent among animals.

After a while.

Liu Jun left with a black briefcase.

The lowest-priced model of the Tier 3 AI behind him starts at tens of millions, which is beyond his current means.

If I follow the steps and break through to the third level, I can indeed find new sources of income, which will be ten or even dozens of times greater than my current income.

But that would still be the same old path of taking out loans, joining the faction of Rehe Heavy Industry, becoming a third-tier brain powerhouse, and continuing to study and grow.

In the terms of the cultivation world, Rehe Heavy Industry is a large sect, and its various high schools are its training bases.

Liu Jun decisively chose to become a rogue cultivator.

Because he was not clean, he dared not meet important people.

Furthermore, rather than spending one's life subservient to others using the AI ​​products produced by the Rehe regime, and cultivating their lineage's spiritual reading philosophy and methods, it would be better to try raising a completely new series of AI products.

It's just a brain, isn't it?
Just throw in the mushroom broth, stir it in the big pot, and your brain will grow like crazy.

night.

Rental housing.

Liu Juncai took out the PC001 smart brain and examined it carefully.

This is an exquisite rectangular metal headband with a soaring butterfly on it, exuding an unusual beauty.

After checking it over, he took out a blue reagent.

After leaving the store, I took a side trip to the black market.

He used his first-tier AI as collateral to engage in usury, in exchange for resources worth 10,000 Nen Blades and a reverse engineering potion for AI No. 8 worth 30,000 Nen Blades.

Yes.

One consumable potion costs as much as half a smart brain!
What are brain reverse engineering agents?

Many companies secretly purchase the AI ​​products of competing companies, reverse engineer them, and reverse engineer the carbon crystal circuit boards into a flesh-and-blood brain. Then, they clone this flesh-and-blood brain and mass-produce it again.

This is what people often call a pirated smart brain, or a second-hand water brain.

However, the security of these pirated smart devices is inherently problematic.

Furthermore, because it is a replica of the original AI, its effectiveness is greatly reduced, and due to copyright issues, it is basically only circulated in the black market.

And now, what Liu Jun is going to do is this kind of reverting flesh experiment.

After all, how could he infect his own AI if it didn't revert to its flesh-and-blood clone form?

Gulu!
Bubbles churn, and the PC001 AI regenerates flesh and blood, its structure being replaced by fungi.

"As a walking plague, the king of fungi that destroys the world, the culprit of epidemics, and a possible king of zombies, the first life I ever infected was actually a cloned assembly-line AI. I've really embarrassed my peers!"

Liu Jun murmured softly as he threw his flesh-and-blood brain into the mushroom soup.

thump!
The colorful bacterial liquid in the mushroom soup surged and churned, and the intelligent brain also began to be transformed and activated, regaining its vitality.

Liu Jun kept observing the pot of soup, even stirring it back and forth with a broom with the head removed.

"Sure enough, the AI ​​was instantly infected by bacteria and parasitized by fungi."

"It's not even a brain; it appears to be a complete fungal life form called a brain."

"interesting."

"A first-tier AI is useless to me now, but this brain has been infected with fungus. If I place it in a fungal soup to cultivate, it might be able to become a second-tier or third-tier AI through cultivation."

"This script is indeed flawless."

As various pieces of information collided in his mind, Liu Jun couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth slightly, and a hint of anticipation appeared in his eyes.

"There is still one last element missing: the AI ​​is a clone, and it has no soul."

"Using the [Low Intelligence] talent mushroom on myself might turn me into someone with low intelligence, but if I give it to an AI, it should be able to completely come back to life from the dead fungus."

"This is... giving life!"

Although it is a somewhat unbelievable guess, the focus is on the experiment.

He wants to plant a mushroom of wisdom in this intelligent brain!
If "low intelligence" can truly be achieved, then this is the strongest hidden talent.

(End of this chapter)