Ming Dynasty, New Rome, and Infinite Divine Machine

This is something Zhu Xianfen is elusive. After all, he didn't stare at two people all day long, and it was difficult for Jin Yiwei to make judgments on such subtleties. Zhu Xianfen was relatively clear about Shangluo, but what he didn't know was what happened with Phaethon. So, he asked the right person for advice.

"Ah, that's not quite the case," the manager replied.

"A couple quarreling? Are they still strangers, or are they good buddies?"

"No," the manager hesitated for a moment, then replied, "I saw from the two of them an 'old married couple' state that they shouldn't have at their age. They didn't even remember that they liked each other. Into the grave of love - By the way, Your Majesty, the answer you want is whether the relationship between them is good or the relationship is bad?"

"Of course I like the relationship between them to be better, so that I have the opportunity to keep Phaethon. She is also a key part of the plan. As long as Phaethon is here, she will always be the link between us and Rome. A guarantee to establish deep cooperation. She is very important. It is not that we always want to keep her here, just if we can."

"Ah, I understand." Jingli suggested, "Then should I take advantage of my position to come?"

"I think there's no problem." Zhu Xianfen replied, "Just go with the flow, don't force it."

"Understood, then I will go and praise Shangluo first. It is best that he will be willing to work in the future."

The next morning, "Hey, Phaethon, did you know that I was praised by the store manager for cleaning the table last night?"

"Huh? He can actually praise you? Are you sure he is serious?"

"Of course, he also said that I'm welcome to continue working next time,"

"Huh? He actually took the initiative to ask you to work? The sun is really shining in the west. Did I offend him in some way? Why did he never praise my work efficiency? Gee, I don't know where I can be treated so well by you. Do you want to eat some more steamed buns for your treatment?"

"Thanks, please have some more. However, I have a request and I wonder if you can agree to it."

"Request? Like what?"

"Like quitting a small part of your job? Didn't I say that yesterday? I'm here to hire you to guide me. After all."

After all, Shangluo knew what happened to Phaethon. A miracle of time had just happened to her. He obviously only knows some rough communication skills in 'academic Sinian', but after studying in seclusion, he is now able to do almost everything. His level is enough to handle a very high-level exam.

Therefore, Shangluo needs her help, which is a cost-effective choice.

Chapter 596 Exam

"By the way, do you really need to study so much?" Phaethon asked, "In fact, you can pass the exam casually, right? After all, you won the formula car race, and the Imperial College has already planned to send you an invitation letter. . At this time, even if you don’t take the initiative to study, you can still enter the Imperial College directly. After all, for you, the most difficult part is over."

"That's the problem." Shangluo replied, "I'm not here for the admission itself. I want to get as high a score as possible. So I have to take some extra lessons."

"Tsk, tsk, tsk." Phaethon shook his head, "If you want to improve your grades, you don't necessarily need tutoring. What you learn from here can indeed be used to prepare for the exam. But... the people who take the exam are not just the ones who write. , and there are many people who use their brains."

"Huh? What do you mean?"

"I mean, have you ever considered any special measures?"

"Special means?" Shangluo was stunned for a moment, "Are you planning to cheat?"

"What's not allowed? Don't forget what you gave Gao Shiyu yesterday. You can even construct virtual vision, so it's not unreasonable to directly obtain detailed answers in the corresponding exam, right? ?At least it’s technically sound.”

"Technically reasonable does not mean that it is reasonable in terms of rules. Before deciding whether this thing can be done, I think you'd better think it through first. This is no joke."

"Oh, classmate Shangluo." Phaethon looked at him, "I think you may have missed one thing. Your opponents in the formula car are actually fighting for their skills, right? So with that It is acceptable for the imperial court to conduct a martial arts fight with high intensity. Who can be sure that the test itself is not a martial arts fight?"

"Wait a minute, wait a minute, something doesn't seem right. Those racing teams I mentioned before, they fight because this is the default, right?"

"Where is the acquiescence?" Phaethon asked from within. "There is no acknowledgment that fighting with magic is reasonable. And I don't think there is any place where it is directly stated that magic cannot be cast in the examination room."

"Wait a minute." Shangluo raised his hand, "Don't think so. Although what you see is true, is there any evidence to prove that other help besides one's own knowledge can be used in the exam?"

"What if there is?"

"I'll do it if I can." Shangluo replied simply, "I've always been a very realistic person. I want to get the first place because according to the current situation, it will be more in line with the big plan if I get the first place. . So as long as we can get first place in a reasonable way, I think it’s okay no matter what.”

"Now, there are two ways." Phaethon replied, "The first way is that you go into retreat like me for seven to forty-nine days or even longer. I will tutor you and help you reach the same level of knowledge as me. . Or, let’s use some strange tricks to help you find your answer quickly. For example, let me tell you?”

"Hmm" Shangluo thought for a moment, "Wait a minute, let me ask."

When doing this, Shangluo actually had no psychological burden. Anyway, he just wants to take the Imperial Academy Exam. With his current conditions, it is very simple to take the exam. After all, everyone who should bother has already gone through the trouble. He has an invitation letter directly. All he needs to do is get similar results. can. But here, that was almost impossible, and he had to go one step further.

But when it comes to taking the exam, Shangluo still wants to think about it carefully. After all, this is an exam.

"Okay." Shangluo replied, "I'll ask, I'll give you an answer after I ask."

Soon, he asked about the result from Zhu Xianfen.

"turn out"

"what's the result?"

Shangluo shook his head: "The result is that he said that there will be real people to invigilate my exam."

"Real person?"

"In order to ensure the fairness of the exam, there will be a real person with far more power than me to invigilate the exam. It may be Zhenren Lan, or some other real person." Shangluo added, "He also emphasized to me once: He absolutely does not want to see I'm cheating here. Because he doesn't want me to leave such a karma here - he wants me to be certain and not accept off-site assistance in the examination room. This can even be said to be the bottom line. Never do this."

"Do you have any mental mysophobia? In Rome, we think this is reasonable."

"The imperial examination republic, do you understand how sacred it is?" Shangluo replied, "This is the only thing I don't want to touch. This is my persistence as a 'local'. I don't want to use my magic power. To challenge the rules of the exam - unless, I have to. Do you know why?"

"Because you don't want to?"

"No, it's actually not that big of a psychological burden. Sometimes I don't even think I'm a good person. But the point is -"

Shangluo emphasized: "If I get caught cheating on the exam, I'm done! It's really over! It's over for the rest of my life! I'm here to earn fame. What the hell is it if I get caught cheating on the exam? This is something I can't wash away in this life. This is the mental mysophobia of all of us. Being caught cheating on exams is absolutely intolerable."

"Ah, you mean, you would rather torment yourself, right?"

"That's it." Shangluo replied, "I would rather go into seclusion for seven or forty-nine days by myself than go to the venue to ask for support from the outside."

"Then, here's the question." She looked at Shangluo, "What if it's not me who asks for help, but yourself?"

"What do you mean?"

"Let me give you an analogy. Let me give you an analogy. Suppose there is a little person in your mind. There is a little person. This little person, he is telling you the answer. What would you do?"

"Is this little human connected to the Internet?"

"Definitely not connected to the Internet." Phaethon replied, "If you are connected to the Internet, you will definitely be caught. But I said, if there is a little person in your mind retrieving information for you, that's okay, right? This is insider Internet. Secondly, there are also people with multiple personalities or palace memory methods, or people with super memory. You can't allow people to have photographic memory, right? There are really so many people who have photographic memory, right?"

"Hey" Shangluo touched his chin, "You mean I want to build an intranet?"

"Doudou." Phaethon looked at him, "Put a search bean in your own head and let it search for what you have seen. Xiao Gao uses the guide bean to let him gain the vision of a normal person. And you Why not try retrieval beans and try to make yourself look like a super amnesiac with photographic memory. Is this reasonable? We are imitating a phenomenon that already exists in this world, not creating it out of thin air—— Because there are people who are born with the ultimate memory. Who can say that you don’t have hyperamnesia? They are not the little people in your head. Look, isn’t this fair?”

Chapter 597 Prosthetic Body

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Retrieve beans

hyperamnesia

A series of elements gathered in Shangluo's mind. Originally, he had no intention of actually cheating, but when he thought about it from this perspective.

"Eh? Why do I feel that this matter is not that simple?" He asked Phaethon, "Tell me your point of view first. My personal key point is that once I am caught cheating, I will be punished. It is very important to remember people for a lifetime. And for my exam, it is clear that there will be a real person from the Jindan stage who will specially monitor me, so I really can’t be caught. I would rather go into seclusion for seven, seven or forty-nine days.”

"No, I think we should think of it this way: hyperamnesia, a rare mental phenomenon that can be called a disease. The brains of ordinary people will selectively remember some things in life. But patients with hyperamnesia will Record all the scenes they have seen in detail, like a camera that is on but never turned off. If a patient with hyperamnesia takes an airplane and overlooks the city, he can take a panoramic view of the city he has seen like an aerial photography If you draw it, you can draw every detail that can be observed with the naked eye. Then..."

She paused for a moment: "If such a person takes the exam, is this considered cheating? Or is there a clear prohibition on people with hyperamnesia from taking part in the exam?"

"Obviously not." Shangluo replied, "There are many people in the world who are smart or sick."

"Then now, this second. Wow~~" Phaethon opened his hand, "Classmate Shangluo, the you this second are different from the last one. The you this second have hyperamnesia! You It’s painful, but now you can record everything you see. So, if you go to compete like this, is this considered cheating?”

"So, the crux of the problem is here." Shangluo emphasized, "What exactly is cheating? Where is the boundary of cheating? I suddenly felt that this was not just my problem."

He looked at Phaethon: "I'm asking you now: Is it cheating to have seven, seventy-nine more days than others? I think this is not only cheating, but it is also the biggest cheating, because this part of the time is Extra money out of thin air. What else is more precious than time? This extra time is infinite possibility."

"Doesn't that mean that even I will be punished?"

Shangluo shook his head: "I need to discuss this matter with them. But forget it in the morning, he is still having breakfast, and he has to go to court in the morning. I guess if this issue is raised, he may not even be able to eat breakfast. I will discuss this matter with him in the afternoon. I think this matter may be more important than I thought before. Because I seem to have seen this problem before. "

"Huh? Have you seen it?"

"Cyber ​​cyborgs are almost the same thing. This is the impact of cyber people on natural people. This is a quite, quite, quite complex issue. The foundation of the imperial examination republic may have been challenged."

In the afternoon, Shangluo arrived at the rest room of the racing department. Next to the big desk, each person was knitting a sweater.

"Did I go to the wrong door?"

"No, no, no." Han Xingzhi stood up with his back to the door, "Isn't it that our main work here is over, so before the new season starts next semester, our club activities here will be changed to sweating. Big brother Are you wearing a sweater?"

"It seems that it is not impossible. Wait, I will make a phone call and come back in a while."

He calculated that Zhu Xianxun should be free at this time.

He dialed Zhu Xianxian's phone: "Well, you're looking for me. Are you busy? Is it important? I just sat down here, and you seem to be waiting for me to talk when I'm free. So... let's talk. .Where do you want to start?”

"Let me tell you a story first. Our place holds the Olympic and Paralympic Games in the name of the Greek Olympic tradition. And there is one person among them - a white man named Oscar. According to our classification here, he is..."

"Red people," Zhu Xianene replied, "The Romans classified them as red people, and we called them that because those people were red."

This word continues the Roman saying, because the Ming Dynasty does not care much about the living conditions of the "red people" and does not need to care much.

"The red man has no calves due to a congenital defect. But he has a unique advantage that cannot be considered an advantage: his defect is congenital and very symmetrical. His knee joints are fully functional, but his calves and feet are underdeveloped. "After an amputation in childhood, he adapted to wearing prosthetic legs from a very early age. Because his knees are normal and indeed partially symmetrical, he adapted very well and was even able to participate in sports with his peers."

"I assume you're going to say but next?"

"Yes, but. But at the age of 17, he started running training because of an injury while playing rugby. From then on, he was out of control. After a short adjustment, he started professional training the following year. In just three months of training After that, he was far behind the world record in the same class because he started wearing anti-joint carbon fiber prostheses. His anti-joint carbon fiber prostheses were as thin and light as a blade, so we called him the 'Blade Runner'."

"Reverse joint, right?" Zhu Xianxian nodded, "This is probably also a limitation of human evolution. Just like the recurrent laryngeal nerve is misaligned, human knees actually still have a lot of room for improvement. .If it were changed to cat-like anti-joints, humans could run much faster than now. The reason why there are no anti-joints is that humans have evolved that part into the soles of the feet. So when running, if you can control the force of the soles of your feet, , you can improve your performance a lot. Then this person”

Zhu Xianxian paused for a moment: "So that Blade Warrior is really interesting. Because of his just-right disability, he got an anti-joint prosthesis with the help of technology. How does his performance compare with normal people?"

"Invincible in the field of disabled people. In another field, he has advanced to the semi-finals of the Olympic Games and won a silver medal at the World Championships in the team competition. Because his advantage is not just anti-joint problems - normal people have ankle And the ball of the foot, as well as the calf. Through the joint action of these parts, humans can gain elasticity when running. His carbon fiber prosthesis provides three times the elasticity of the normal human ankle joint. And "

Shangluo emphasized: "Moreover, there is no lactic acid accumulated in the body."

"Oh! Yes, there is also lactic acid. A body that exercises will accumulate lactic acid. So wouldn't he feel tired less easily?"

Chapter 598 Cyberman Shangluo

"Yes. In fact, although he will fall behind at the start because he lacks physical explosiveness, he is almost unbeatable after 200 meters because he does not tire so easily. If his knees are not so easy If it’s worn down, he might still be able to run in a marathon and beat the marathon record.”

"." Zhu Xianfen over there was silent for a while:

"I know what you mean. Has this technological singularity reached a point? Will the equipment originally used to assist disabled people affect fair competition for normal people?"

"Yes. After actual use, I found many similar situations. For example, I would like to ask Phaethon to go into retreat. Isn't this illegal?"

"Someone mentioned this to me, and I agreed. Because first of all, Phaethon is not a native Chinese speaker, so it would be okay to give her more time to study. Secondly, and most importantly, no one is competing with her. The quota in the Imperial College They are all admitted independently without ranking. As long as they pass the cutoff, they can be admitted, and most of them are not satisfied. Her study can only improve herself and will not take up other people's opportunities. So I think that it is not only okay for her to retreat, but also It’s worth encouraging.”

"But there is another situation - for example, the 'Guide Bean' assembled for Gao Shiyu can actually function far more than a guide. He can actually record video and then use it to achieve the effect of photographic memory. Again For example, I actually plan to equip myself with retrieval beans to speed up retrieval of the knowledge I have learned."

"Wait a minute." Zhu Xianwen asked, "It is reasonable for you to assemble a guide bean for Gao Shiyu. But what is the reason for you to assemble a search bean for yourself?"

"I don't have to pretend, I just ask from an ethical point of view - because I think this principle can be explained in this way. In this world, there have been hyperamnesia patients who never forget, right? Although indiscriminate memory can It brings a lot of trouble to patients, but their memory is enhanced. For another example, there are people in this world who are born with very good memories, right? If the exam can accept their talents, then if I use Doudou to improve my memory To the same level as them. So, does this count as a violation?"

"Huh?" Zhu Xianfen was stunned for a moment, "They are born with it."

"Then my memory was born from Doudou, right? I'm not saying that I have to use it. But, senior brother, I think it will obviously affect the fairness of the exam. This is related to ethics, so I will Seeking your judgment.”

"This is indeed my scope of responsibility. It is also my business scope to make the final ruling on ethical issues. And the people affected are not large, so I can just make my own decision, and there is no need to hold an enlarged meeting - okay .”

Zhu Xianfen took a sip of tea: "You asked me, can I use the search bean in the exam, right? Then, as the emperor, my answer to you is: yes."

"Okay? Why?"

"I think about it from many aspects. First of all, the purpose of the exam itself is to select talents, and in the selection process, talent and hard work are both important. Not all questions can be passed by relying on memory. Questions that require understanding and thinking They are the majority. As far as I know, Doudou’s people have not yet gone deep enough to write policy papers. Secondly.”

He paused. "Secondly, you won't affect the fate of others. After all, you're only attending the Imperial College. Even if you score high, it won't affect the admission of other candidates, because the Imperial College's enrollment is never full. Also, remember why I allowed Formula One racing to be a battle?"

"Isn't that because we need to break through the technology?"

"There is also a reason that after entering the finals and completing the competition, the rewards are actually quite different. Although they can't get the invitation letter from the Imperial College, if the records of the finals are used for interviews, there is quite a lot of room for choice. So. I just think, if you want to fight, just fight. You see, although everyone wants to win, they are not so depressed after losing. We have enough teachers to provide a good place for all contestants, so there is really no need to fight for one. You die and I live."

"Except me, right?"

"Yes, after all, you are different. Here, you are different too. So I think you can try - as long as it does not violate the current regulations, and as long as you are not caught by the real people in the Jindan stage, I think you can use any means to do it. Improve your own grades. After all, everyone is not at the same starting point during the exam, so it is reasonable for the Eight Immortals to cross the sea. And you do not affect other people's admissions, you just want a reputation, so I will decide: I decide, you can try No matter how hard it is, this decision will not change. However, it will not be the same next time."

"Then the next arrangement is..."

"Meeting." Zhu Xianfen replied, "You woke me up. I didn't expect that the technological singularity would come so quickly. Some people can gain advantages through the help of noble Tianyi, and some can directly use the time This has begun to impact the foundation of the imperial examination republic. If Zhu Ling wants to retreat and endorse, just tell him directly that I won't agree. Don't let others use it for the time being. I checked the schedule, and I have to call a meeting for a meeting, Shangluo You should also attend."

"Okay." Shangluo replied, "I will explain the technical details at the meeting."

"This actually reminds me of what happened over there - that is, cybernetic bodies replacing natural people. Oh, by the way, is this a literary work? Or is it a real thing?"