As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 188 Opponents
The appearance of Magic and Merlin made Huaguo re-formulate its space strategy, and then proceeded steadily according to the plan.

To be precise, the state has increased investment in scientific research.

Not only Huaguo, but the whole world seems to have found its way again.

Previously, the entire Blue Star Civilization's climbing technology tree had reached the point where it could not find the way ahead.

I don't know which direction to go.

Virtual reality, controlled nuclear fusion, space mining and colonization, quantum computers
Waiting for these directions, no matter how much money you invest, you may not be able to see the splash.

The emergence of Merlin and the magic system behind him made Blue Star find his way again.

The magic coin system made the Blue Star civilizations flock to space.

Astronomy and mathematics have received a lot of attention and investment from the official to the private sector.

The existence of the soul is proved, subverting the existing basis of biology and physics.

A large number of unknown questions related to the soul are waiting to be explored.

Later, the reward task that Merlin published in the magic forum directly told Blue Star Civilization what issues could be studied.

The difficulty is even divided according to the magic coin.

If Blue Star's web lovers know the inside story, they will definitely realize:
Merlin has installed a system for Blue Star. The basic elements of the system are complete, including tasks and rewards, and there is even a chat group function.

There are various conjectures about Merlin's true identity, both folk and official.

The researchers have gone through so many years of scientific education, and the vast majority believe in science.

In other words, most of them want to use the scientific system to explain magical phenomena and don't believe in idealism.

Including the need to inject the magic brain in order to become a mage.

It made them think that mages are just different technology systems.

So this brings up another question, who exactly is Merlin?
Is it the assistant of King Arthur in history, the legendary mage in England, or an alien visitor.

Or the Blue Stars who have obtained the inheritance of alien technology?

All kinds of speculation are flooding social platforms.

Some people even speculate that the world is actually a virtual world, and everyone is just a piece of code.

Magic is also a piece of code, but code written in a different language from the Blue Star Cognitive System.

Most of the scientists in Huaguo believe that the magic system comes from aliens.

There is absolutely no such magic in the history of Blue Star, at least the magic is completely different from the magic in foreign legends.

Although whether it is foreign or domestic, history is full of legends about capable people and strange men.

The research institute under the Huaguo Bureau of Abnormalities has a research team dedicated to this problem.

"Merlin's magic is definitely not the magic in European and American legends. The key lies in language."

"Europe and America, whether it is magic in Nordic mythology or Roman mythology, or magic in American's modern mythology."

Due to the short history of American, there are not many myths and legends to speak of, and it is impossible for them to claim the mythology system of the Indians as their own.

Therefore, American adapted and reconstructed his own mythology system based on the mythology of Europa continent.

Decades from now, who can deny that this is their mythological system?

The most important thing about the myth system is not the story, but the consensus.

"The magic in these mythological systems has a key factor, and that is spells. There is no system of magic that does not need spells."

"Spells are an essential element of magic in Western myths and legends."

"Of course some people will say silent casting, but no matter how silent casting is, no wizard starts directly from silent casting, right?"

"But our mages, after gaining the ability to cast spells, because there are no spell learning materials, they can only move objects like telekinesis."

"However, after obtaining biological storage technology, the method of changing the properties of materials is still through silent casting, and all operations are completed at the brain level."

"No spells, no gestures, no rituals."

"So I absolutely don't believe that magic has anything to do with magic in Western legends."

"On the contrary, the magic effect that Merlin displayed in Stockholm is closer to the fairy in the myths and legends of Huaguo."

The Huaguo Bureau of Abnormalities governs several research institutes, and most of the research groups related to magic have the participation of mages.

There are currently only six mages in Huaguo, and each of these six mages basically participates in the work of three to four research groups in addition to the main research work.

Like the group that studies the relationship between magic and magic in Blue Star myths and legends, there are very few opportunities for Master Hua to participate in exchanges with them.

The meaning of this kind of group research is not so intuitive, and there are few resources available.

"According to what you said, why does Merlin have a magic wand? There has never been such a thing as a magic wand in the ancient legends of Huaguo." Huaguo mage asked back.

Hua Guo is very greedy for the magic wand obtained by the Europa League.

In private, he has repeatedly expressed the hope of working together on research, and is willing to exchange half of the right to use Huaguo Tianyan.

The Europa League's refusal is also very simple: you can exchange it with unused magic coins.

Hua Guo said, then let me participate in the joint research first. If the research results are worth the price, we will accept the magic coin.

The Europa League has been researching for several weeks without any results, except to determine the material of the wand.

The Europa League naturally disagreed, and the two sides were at a stalemate and neither would compromise.

But the Europa League confirmed one thing, the number of magic coins that Huaguo obtained is definitely not a small number, otherwise it would not be so generous.

Wand material is Scotch pine.

This secret that only the Europa League knew did not deepen their suspicion that Merlin was from England.

Because Merlin's true identity is not known, all kinds of clues point to England, which is probably just a means to cover up his true identity.

"Blinding the eyes, the magic wand in Merlin's hand is just blinding the eyes. He absolutely does not need a magic wand to cast spells. The crows hovering in the sky are the key point."

"The magic wand is just a way to cover the eyes, and the need for spells really shows that he is not the so-called mage in the European and American mythology system."

"Merlin's true identity can only be a blue star who has received an alien inheritance, or simply an alien."

"I even have doubts about his own form. It is very likely that the other party has no entity, or no fixed physical existence."

Of course, these are just guesses, and a report with complete arguments will eventually be formed, and then passed to the above as a reference for decision-making.

But no one knows whether it will be used in the end.

"Affected by the super lithium battery produced by Kechuang Bio, Tesla's sales in China have experienced a double decline from the previous month, but the decline is within an acceptable range."

"After Kechuangbiology made a breakthrough innovation on the lithium metal cathode material, the energy density of the lithium battery using the new lithium metal cathode is three times that of the traditional lithium battery."

"Huaguo's super lithium battery technology is currently only open to Huaguo car companies, and even joint venture car companies still have not been able to obtain super lithium battery technology."

"The reason for this is that the new lithium battery technology is in its infancy, and the production capacity is still unable to supply super lithium battery technology to all car companies.

After the subsequent expansion of production capacity, super lithium batteries will be provided to all car companies.Super lithium batteries will also be used in all electronic devices in the future. "

"At present, besides new energy vehicles, the only application scenario of super lithium battery technology is the brain-computer connection VR under Kechuang Biotech."

"Due to the blessing of super lithium battery technology, the brain-computer connection VR named futureverse has a battery life of more than ten hours."

Considering the weight of brain-computer connection VR, Kechuangfu has reduced the size of the battery.

If the super lithium battery is configured according to the battery volume of other VRs, the battery life of Futureverse can reach 20 hours.

"However, after the author interviewed people in the industry in China, the other party made it clear that Kechuang Biotech did not want to open its technology to companies outside China."

"The attitude of the Europa League is ambiguous, but American took the lead in raising the banner of imposing tariffs."

"In the face of products with new lithium battery technology entering the American market, American will impose a 5.00% tariff."

"Currently affected products include brain-computer connected VR and some Huaguo new energy models."

In the past, it was almost impossible for auto companies in Huaguo to enter the American market.

American's auto market is too mature, and Neon, Deutsche, and American's local products are flooding the entire market.

American's per capita car ownership rate is 0.9, while Huaguo's is 0.23.

For such a mature market, Huaguo Automobile's several attempts to enter American all ended in failure.

However, new energy has become a new trend, and with the support of super lithium batteries, Huaguo new energy car companies once again have the idea of ​​​​entering the American market.

It's also good to test the waters with a small amount of product.

Musk didn't pay much attention to Tesla's decline in China sales:

"We just need to maintain communication with Huaguo battery suppliers."

"They will supply us with super lithium battery technology sooner or later."

Tesla's suppliers in China have clearly told them that there is still at most one year before super lithium batteries will be supplied to foreign car companies one after another.

"We need to consider the platform for the super lithium battery technology in advance, and it can only be used on our high-end models."

"Tesla, which costs tens of thousands of dollars, now has a battery life that can meet the needs of users."

Consumers have too many considerations when buying a car, and the advantage of battery life alone is not enough to win consumers.

Therefore, Tesla's price reduction of [-] in the Chinese market is enough to smooth out the disadvantage of battery life.

Musk continued: "The most important thing we have now is the brain-computer connection."

"Tesla's operations are on the right track, so I don't need to worry too much."

"According to the current development trend, Tesla must be the most important player in the global new energy market."

"But in the field of brain-computer connections, we are catching up."

"The accurate recognition rate of the brain-computer connection to the mobile phone has not caught up with the level of Kechuangbio three years ago."

"Not to mention brain-computer connected VR and brain-computer connected prosthetics."

"neuralink will receive more resource support, and we need to march towards brain-computer connection VR."

The global success of Futureverse has stimulated FB deeply.

You must know that Quest, which FB spent a lot of money to acquire, was the leader of the global VR industry before.

But in just three months, sales of brain-computer-connected VR were on par with Quest's full-year sales last year.

This makes FB feel panic.

As early as 2021, FB made up its mind to fully transform the Metaverse, and even changed the name of the company to META.

At the same time, FB is also the first company to fall behind among the four American Internet giants FAAG.

Falling behind is not only due to the failure of the issuance of Libra, but also many external factors such as the global economic downturn.

If the transformation of the metaverse fails again, although it will still not hurt the fundamentals, the future is gone.

There is no story to tell in the capital market.

The scale of FB will be limited to influential social media on a global scale.

This is unacceptable to Zuckerberg.

Therefore, in order to resist the impact of brain-computer connection VR, Zuckerberg has only one choice: Neuralink.

FB acquired more than 30.00% of Neuralink's shares in the form of swap shares plus cash.

Become the largest shareholder of Neuralink.

But Musk is still Neuralink’s largest individual shareholder.

And he is also most optimistic about the future prospects of Neuralink.

"As long as our technology can reach 80.00% of that of scientifically innovative organisms, I am sure that the gentlemen in Washington will shut out scientifically innovative organisms."

"Zhang, I believe in you, and I hope you don't betray my trust."

The previous president and founder of Neuralink, Hodak, has been swept out.

His progress cannot satisfy Musk, even the founder will face the situation of being swept out.

There are many cases of founders at home and abroad being swept out by investors.

Ari in China especially likes to do this kind of thing. After investing, they emptied the founder team.

Musk's first choice is Li Wanqing. Li Wanqing has worked in Neuralink before, and then he has been the R&D director of Kechuangbio Lion City R&D Center.

To put it bluntly, Neuralink is also a scientific research-oriented enterprise, and it needs a person in charge who understands technology very well.

Therefore, Li Wanqing is the first choice in Musk's list.

Reluctantly, after the launch of brain-computer connected VR, Li Wanqing had no idea of ​​returning to Neuralink.

The second choice in the final list, Zhang Weimin, the vice president of Kechuang Biotech in charge of brain-computer connection, became the new president of Neuralink.

Musk catches the scientific and technological innovation to poach people, the purpose is very simple, to copy the successful experience of the other party.

Zhang Weimin is a classmate of Cheng Gang, a Ph.D. in the field of brain science. He was a professor at Massachusetts State University before, and was invited by Cheng Gang to return to China to become the vice president of Kechuang Bio.

Originally Zhang Weimin was hesitant, but after knowing that Cheng Gang was leaving, he decided to join Neuralink.

Neuralink helped him pay more than RMB 2000 million for breach of competition agreement.

To be honest, 2000 million is too much for Neuralink.

　I had something to do last night, this morning make up last night
　　
　
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