A few days later, Mike’s people delivered boxes of handwritten manuscript paper. The limited electricity had to supply the experintal equipnt, and electronic devices were extrely valuable, so they preferred to spend ti and manpower copying complex experintal results and formulas instead of providing an electronic version, just to save a single portable hard drive.
Lin Yan and Li Xianping’s team spent two weeks carefully studying the research results from the Human Cradle Foundation. Lin Yan was very puzzled: why could they create a virtual world with only the White King’s lower half? After studying these materials, Lin Yan discovered that the virtual world constructed by Mike’s team was not based on dreams, as no one — not even the White King — could dream with their lower body.
However, the White King itself symbolizes "fiction"; even without its brain, its intrinsic abilities can be used to create a world with specific conditions by setting paraters in a program. This principle is akin to the early AI technology from 100 years ago that generated images, videos, and articles.
It’s just that with the White King, so technical principles beco vague and fantastical.
In the early days, they could only connect disks to the White King’s body to read physiological signals. Later, through United Pharmaceuticals’ bioengineering technology, they discovered the essence of the White King’s power is not ti alteration but the ability to change and create space.
This actually doesn’t conflict with ti.
Ti is not a real entity; the universe doesn’t contain a particle called "ti." It’s rely a phenonon of all things continuously progressing forward. This phenonon is irreversible for humans — people can rember but cannot return to the past. Humans call this experience of things flowing the "passage of ti."
And the White King’s ability is to carve out a tributary within the flow of all things.
However, they did not have the White King’s main body and could not communicate with the White King, so they did not understand the characteristics of this virtual world.
This tributary runs parallel to the mainstream, but the flow speed of the tributary cannot exceed or match the mainstream. Once it matches, the tributary will rge with the mainstream, which is what the White King refers to as "Ti Stranding."
After Spencer’s death, Mike’s team privately continued researching the White King’s abilities, coinciding with the period Spencer II was forming the United Army.
They developed a prototype system to attempt interference with the virtual world created using the White King’s power. After countless trials, they finally found the current thod.
However, maintaining this virtual world requires a huge amount of energy. When the world was still normal, this wasn’t a problem, but now, maintaining the electricity consumption for experints is often more challenging than the experints themselves.
Lin Yan generally understood Mike and his team’s research direction and results, but the materials they provided did not include the program for generating the world.
This is only human nature — at least they were open about their research. If the world hadn’t reached this point, such openness would have been unimaginable.
To Lin Yan, this custom virtual world creation is actually aningless since she can communicate directly with the White King without needing this system. However, Mike’s team’s next technical design was impressive. They could send humans into the virtual world in physical form, which Lin Yan couldn’t currently achieve.
If it were possible to traverse in physical form... Lin Yan thought of many possibilities. She might be able to let the research team enter the virtual world, rebuild the foundation there, and use that world’s power to train a superpower army...
But after so thought, she still shook her head — it was simply impractical. Regardless of whether physical traversal was possible, ultimately, the extraordinary powers in that virtual world would turn back into ordinary people when they reached reality.
They would eventually face God King Sun, and no matter how strong the army was, it couldn’t defeat a false god.
However, if this system could continually simulate different worlds and allow entities similar to God King Sun to erge among them, observing how humans respond could also be aningful.
Mike also revealed that the ti flow in the virtual world was different from reality. Outside, 3 seconds could be over ten minutes inside. If adjustable, increasing the ti flow rate could an that in just a few days, multiple worlds’ rises and falls could be observed.
Compared to Lin Yan’s current observation thod, Mike’s system was undeniably more practical and convenient. But expecting Mike to hand over this system shortly was unrealistic.
However, Mike’s research thod gave Lin Yan a new way of thinking.
In a blink, Lin Yan arrived at the Dream Hub, where the White King was resting and recuperating.
"Big guy, maybe we’ve all been trapped in a fallacy," Lin Yan said.
"Did you change your mind?" the White King asked.
Lin Yan shook her head and said, "No, I haven’t accepted Mike’s ideas. It’s just, I think we can do sothing similar: create a world, let it develop rapidly, and then observe the results."
"Accelerating the flow of ti will consu a lot of energy. Controlling the flow of things is not without cost," the White King said.
"More than the previous cost?" Lin Yan asked.
The White King nodded and said, "When I fall asleep, the dream worlds evolve naturally, and the ti flow is comparable to reality. For , this is just dreaming, and dreaming requires no consumption. But now, you’re asking to create a world and accelerate the flow of ti, which involves using my subjective abilities. In human terms, it’s like an exam."
"Oh... I see, but how did Mike and his team do it? They only have your lower half," Lin Yan asked.
"Mike and his team don’t have my subjectivity; they are rely borrowing my abilities. They need to consu more electricity, which on its scale is a cost we cannot afford. It’s not sothing a few small generators can solve," the White King said.
Hearing this, Lin Yan suddenly realized that perhaps the electrical consumption could be a lead to estimating Mike and his team’s hiding place.
If such massive electricity consumption is necessary, their hiding place must be near the power station of this abandoned city.
"There is a middle ground. Use that system to set paraters, then I go into deep sleep, effectively using the system to mobilize my subconscious to reshape the dreamscape. While this approach isn’t without cost, the energy consumption might be much lower," the White King said.
"They won’t give us this system unless we know the principle and can develop it ourselves," Lin Yan said.
"I don’t like prolonged sleep and want my other half back. Lin Yan, we should take back what’s ours," the White King said.
"Take it back..." Lin Yan was stunned.
"That’s my other half, not their tool. We can do it," the White King said.
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