Although Niyaguti rarely shows it, she actually belongs to the group of people with "good taste in music" – at least from the perspective of young Yawgmoth. During her university days, Niyaguti would help Yawgmoth with so assignnts that he didn’t want to do. Before Yawgmoth truly stood out, he, like most Harvard students, needed to be careful with his credits.
At that ti, Yawgmoth would share his Bluetooth earphones with Niyaguti.
Like Yawgmoth, Niyaguti couldn’t understand Xiang Shan and David’s preferences. In her view, "white noise" mostly referred to gentle sounds like the sound of ocean waves or rain.
But the white noise discussed by Xiang Shan and David is scientifically defined as random noise with equal energy density across all frequencies.
That is real noise, which theoretically only makes people feel annoyed and raises blood pressure.
Xiang Shan felt that perhaps Niyaguti secretly harshly criticized this little hobby of his and David’s.
"Music... it’s really an ancient topic." Niyaguti shook her head and sighed, "It’s been a long ti since anyone talked about it."
"I think after the Ninth Martial God, Heroes will pay more attention to the developnt of spiritual civilization... Hmm, I rember. You seed quite busy in the 21st century?"
Niyaguti was supposed to be one of the senior officials at the Superman Enterprise whom Xiang Shan felt most assured. Compared to other friends with more extravagant and outrageous hobbies, Niyaguti just very ordinarily improved her quality of life, funded so animal protection efforts very ordinarily, and also very ordinarily promoted the developnt of her hotown.
Perhaps it was Xiang Shan’s demonstrated ability when protecting the Scale-horn Gastropod Snail population that opened up Niyaguti’s thinking, making her recognize the "power" that drives human society. In her spare ti, she attempts to establish social influence just like her career.
This was the period when Benchmark Man modification technology had just been born, and humanity had not yet implented a universal modification plan.
From that ti, Niyaguti forgot about this small hobby.
No, perhaps even earlier. When she was younger, Niyaguti lived in a holand that was not safe. After graduating from university, she began to worry not only about her hotown but also about imminent extinction of species. Possibly, only those college years were relatively relaxed.
If she showed any signs of picking up music again during the Hero era, it would probably be for the sa reason Xiang Shan started to try to walk the road of song and dance—rely for "promotion".
Xiang Shan’s AI continued to retrieve the information provided by Niyaguti. He asked, "Can you disclose the source of this information? The amount is quite substantial... Could it be that there is so sort of social dia inside the Life Furnace Knights Order?"
Niyaguti nodded: "You guessed quite accurately. Targeting their online community is indeed one approach."
"Hmm, I carefully searched and found that the over there, who is actually the real Twelfth Martial God, performs relatively frequently." Xiang Shan’s AI contemplated, accompanied by the buzzing of the machine casing: "Hmm, this is sowhat... strange. The repetition rate of scenes is quite high. This far exceeds the need for data collection and modeling. For him, is there so extra benefit to this kind of attention-catching behavior? Think carefully..."
"Promotion?" said Tao Enhai.
"Not likely. I was performing solo infiltration, without contact with other informants; this way, it’s impossible to build an organization within the enemy. Besides, rely relying on music to sway the enemy is unrealistic; the real developnt of the enemy into allies cos from long-term construction work. You, who once fought side by side with Ninth Martial God, should know this all too well." Xiang Shan’s AI said, "Perhaps ’arousing an enthusiastic mood in the audience’ could be one of that ’s purposes, but not the whole purpose."
"If the goal is to ’build a team’, the frequency of public performances seems excessive. It might be more beneficial to cultivate a ’we’re a team’ group consciousness through small-scale music appreciation gatherings."
"What do you an?"
"I don’t know." Xiang Shan’s AI said, "I’m rely an AI playing Xiang Shan. My thinking organ is this old computer, which isn’t even connected to the internet. The information I have is not as rich as the over there currently executing the mission. I cannot predict all the movents of the over there."
Tao Enhai recognized this feeling as "speechless": "Then what’s the point of you being here?"
"I cannot know the main body’s thoughts, but the main body can know my thoughts. When we devise a battle plan, there will certainly be signs of convergence in the general direction. And the responsible for infiltration over there will certainly find ways to coordinate with the here. On the premise of having the sa personality, that possesses more information and stronger thinking abilities. Therefore, he can understand my thoughts."
"Will he coordinate with you?"
The computer monitor displayed the subtitle "#nod": "Exactly. When a tool can’t achieve the expected result, the simplest way is for the user to adapt to the tool."
"His actions must have been quite successful, obtaining so things we don’t know about, maybe intelligence or technical data." Tao Enhai remarked.
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——Still too careless. Back then, I didn’t know a damn thing.
Xiang Shan looked at the pile of data in front of him, sighing softly.
During these days in the Life Furnace Knights Order, Xiang Shan has been humbly learning. He had always been deceiving people, except for so Six Dragons Sect technology, he only ca into contact with relatively low-end knowledge of this era.
The Six Dragons’ Holy Lord made up for this shortcoming of his. However, it was still not comprehensive enough.
The Ninth Martial God didn’t conduct research, but his mory, as well as those hidden thinking approaches and perspectives inside, directly ca from the top scientist Yawgmoth Voigt.
While the Six Dragons’ Holy Lord was a manager of a research vessel, he himself lacked research abilities. Moreover, he was originally a pseudo-personality mask without a biological brain, doing real work wasn’t as good as a professional research support AI. And the team led by the Holy Lord also focuses on a specific direction of research on "chanical Ascension", exploring the origin and formation of wisdom by "enhancing the intelligence of lower organisms."
Regarding "cell-level modification technology", the Holy Lord lacked relevant materials.
Whereas the Life Furnace Knights Order was the cutting-edge team in this field.
Xiang Shan was desperately learning here, while simultaneously concealing his true capabilities. He needed to learn but couldn’t let people see his actual level.
This did indeed cause him a bit of trouble. But it didn’t matter, "pretending to be sophisticated" and "feigning ignorance" are fundantal skills of a leader. At least Xiang Shan grasped that degree. Those Vice Captains were aware that "Knight Frey doesn’t understand this research as well as he claims," but didn’t know how ignorant he actually was.
The more Xiang Shan delved into learning, the more he realized one thing.
Two hundred years ago, the initial Heroes were really quite hasty in making modifications to themselves.
"In actuality, the early glial cell modifications didn’t even follow the standard of ’reversible’... Of course, they couldn’t concern themselves with research at that ti. Not many people considered this issue. As the urban battles beca increasingly fierce, we first realized that the Benchmark Man’s basic anti-damage ability was no longer sufficient, so we additionally developed glial cell enhancent."
But astrocytes aren’t what people initially thought as unimportant. In more traditional research, most scholars believed thinking was done by the massive network of neurons occupying the upper part of the cranial cavity.
To so extent, this view is correct. Approximately 86 billion neurons are responsible for most cognitive abilities but are not all of it. Microglia, oligodendrocytes, and astrocytes also have their roles.
Microglia are the network’s maintainers, constructing connections between neurons to optimize the neural network. Oligodendrocytes were once thought to just insulate the neuron axons, but they truly play a role in adjusting axon signals. And astrocytes participate in thinking too. They adjust synaptic information flow, turning synapses into the body’s "transistors."
And the modification of these cells, which didn’t know if it was reversible, was crazy enough.
In fact, at the beginning, Tao Enhai was firmly against this technology. Aside from the unclear parts of astrocytes that hadn’t been researched, just the fact they "create an active environnt for neurons" is enough to show their importance.
In fact, the "Brain-Machine Interface" might not have as much impact on personality as glial cell modification technology does.
Many ntal illnesses start with glial cell malfunction, leading to neurons losing their most active working environnt.
This includes depression, anxiety disorders, and degenerative diseases such as Alzheir’s disease.
Xiang Shan also commissioned knights under his command to help him find information related to early Hero modification technology.
While learning, Xiang Shan also intensified the research on his own cells.
However, the research on this side began to encounter more setbacks.
The more Xiang Shan studied, the more he suspected that the synthesis pathway of such special protein fraworks was not included in the cell’s genetic information.
And this ans this modification technology might not involve genetic information. He might have chosen the wrong direction.
Of course, this is not inherently significant, but from his standpoint, it is undoubtedly dangerous.
He shouldn’t have gotten the most basic direction wrong.
"Hmm, records need to be submitted weekly, and so applications are kept by that Devinia fellow." Xiang Shan pondered, "Such fundantal errors, if exposed directly, an I know nothing about these cells at all. Those Vice Captains, even if they’re dumb, should realize sothing is amiss. I need to find a way to fake it..."
Hmm... perhaps Vice Captain Parmion might be a good breakthrough.
Xiang Shan had a passing thought about this recently made "friend."
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