As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 193 Exposure
Magic has appeared in Blue Star for about three years.

In the past three years, countries around the world have gradually increased their investment in magic.

American's 2024 budget for purely magic-related research has exceeded [-] billion yuan, not including investment in high-end research and development fields such as aerospace and quantum accelerators.

In order to lead all countries on the brand new track, American even made a certain contraction in strategy.

Maybe they had to shrink too, but the emergence of magic gave them a better excuse.

Other countries are also similar, investing a lot of research and development expenses in magic.

"I mean, maybe, maybe Merlin's curse is due to the combined influence of the lack of organoids and the soul level, which makes people unable to feel any positive emotions.

This may not be possible on a biological level alone. "

"If this is the case, I believe that the already desperate mood of the big shots will become even more desperate.

There is still hope for the biological problems to be solved, but for the spiritual problems, we don't know when it will be solved. "

When it comes to diseases that do not make people feel positive emotions, depression is usually the first reaction.

And in recent years, depression is also well known to the public.

There are various causes of depression, including physical factors, environmental factors and so on.

For a detailed introduction to depression, see Dr. Aaron T. Beck's book "Depression: Causes and
treat".

After Merlin's curse happened, scientists naturally linked it to depression.

But even a depressed patient cannot be completely insulated from positive emotions.

The American government had previously approached Martin Seligman to participate in the treatment.

The psychologist, who is called the father of modern positive psychology by the media, can't do anything about Merlin's curse.

Cognitive therapy and cognitive psychology don't work.

Not to mention that Merlin's curse treatment had no effect, and American has never figured out how Merlin cursed the big shots one by one from the air.

Martin said bluntly: "Sorry, this has gone beyond the scope of medicine. If I can ask Merlin in person, there may be a solution."

"But in the current situation, I have tried everything I can think of, but it doesn't work."

After seeing Bill's state, Martin felt a deep awe of Merlin. Only by seeing it with his own eyes can he know what kind of pain it is.

Martin also knew the reason why American was so eager to find him, and those big men who were accustomed to being pampered could not bear Bill's pain.

However, Martin was really helpless against Merlin's curse, and American did not embarrass him.

If the magic is so easy to crack, then they wouldn't be unable to confirm Merlin's true identity now.

When science can't explain it, American side turns to metaphysics:

"Merlin may have directly attacked them at the soul level through a method we don't know."

After this idea was put forward, American became more afraid of Merlin.

At the same time, in Merlin's reward task, there are multiple chances to upload the question about the soul.

A magic coin means an opportunity to upload an answer.

Because of this, England has been trying to cheat the remaining magic coin from the neon and kangaroo country.

It's a pity that after the appearance of Merlin, the importance of magic coins in various countries has reached a new level.

England tried all means but failed to get another magic coin.

Officials from various countries speculate that the uploaded content is different, and there must be a substantial breakthrough compared to the first uploaded answer in order to obtain more magic coins.

Different answers to the same question require a breakthrough to satisfy the questioner, the basic logic of the reward mechanism.

The Alcor Life Extension Fund and the Cryonics Institute are now under the unified management of American officials.

All other countries or untrustworthy researchers in Alcor were "graduated".

"Professor Bedford may not be able to wake up in the distant future?"

"With all due respect, it would be very difficult for Professor Bedford to come back to life, not only because his soul may be damaged due to long-term freezing.

Moreover, his whole body blood was replaced with dimethyl sulfoxide before, which would cause certain damage to the human body. "

"No wonder Alk has been unwilling to thaw Bedford, they are afraid that the myth of human hibernation technology will be shattered."

James Bedford, a psychologist, was the first person in Blue Star to choose to freeze himself.

Frozen human beings have been imagined for a long time, and then brought back to life through more advanced technology in the future.

This is also time travel in a certain sense, but this time travel is irreversible.

In 1967, Bedford chose to freeze himself, hoping that future humans would thaw him out.

It is said that he died before being frozen, but in fact he was only dying before being frozen, so he chose this way.

His body is kept in the Alcor Foundation, and Bedford himself hopes to unseal it 50 years later, which is 2017.

There is no doubt that this time has been delayed. Until 2024, when American officially takes over all the research projects of the Alcor Foundation, he is still frozen.

"So our mission is to study the cryonics technology, help the big shots enter the frozen state, and thaw them out when humans can cure Merlin's curse."

Cryonics is a technique that is very common in fantasy literature.

How to ensure that human life is long enough to support long-term space travel, the solution given by many science fiction writers is human cryogenic technology.

You wake up to a whole new planet.

This type of technology is not recognized by the mainstream scientific community, but it still cannot stop the needs of a large number of rich people.

They need to have the vague hope that they will be brought back to life someday in the future.

For example, you can only live to be 85 years old now, and you choose to freeze when you are 80 years old. If human beings can realize life extension technology after being thawed in the future, then you only have five years left to extend your life to a longer period.

Many religious people in Blue Star think that cryogenic technology is unreliable, because they only consider the physical state, not the existence of the soul.

When the human body is frozen, the soul will leave. You can't freeze the soul together, can you?

Cryonics previously said: We can!The soul does not leave the body after cryonics.

After Merlin proved the existence of the soul, and this result became known to the public.

Religious figures who could not find evidence before questioned and even sued the cryonics company for false propaganda.

They said: You said before that the soul will not leave the body after freezing the human body, now there is a way to observe the soul, please prove it to us.

Now the cryonics company is pretending to be dead, they can't guarantee it.

This also led to the plummet of the cryonics business. The rich are afraid of death but not stupid.

I chose cryonics before because it would give them hope. Now that there is magic, I might as well use the money to chase magic.

Originally, the Alcor Foundation was going to face a large number of lawsuits, not only the religious figures who questioned it before, but also the descendants of rich people who had purchased human body freezing services.

Later, American officially took over Alcor, and only took over all his research projects and research materials.

American officials are not going to help them clean up this mess.

Alcor Fund was stripped of valuable parts by American, and the shareholders behind it wanted to die.

"Human cryogenic technology is also an important basic technology for future interstellar travel, at least until superluminal travel is realized, human cryogenic technology is very important."

In the existing physical system, it is unrealistic to exceed the speed of light.

But it does not mean that after a major breakthrough in the basic system of physics in the future, super-light speed is still unrealistic.

"Now the competition between Huaguo and us in the aerospace field is becoming more and more serious.

I heard that Huaguo's space station orbiting the moon was successfully put into orbit and started working, but it made NASA's people very upset. "

Compared with two years ago, NASA has a larger budget, but its strength has not increased.

Not only Chinese people were suspected of being dismissed one after another, but some researchers who had suspicious relations with the Europa League were also dismissed.

Even outsourced employees exclude ethnic Chinese.

"It is said that Huaguo's space station around the moon has occupied the orbit planned by NASA, and they are very upset."

"No wonder, their budget is much larger than ours, but fortunately, there are no Chinese in our field to compete with us."

"In the words of the Chinese people, we have taken the lead."

"My idea is that the first thing we need to confirm is whether the cryonics technology will cause the human soul to be damaged or disappear directly."

"Tell me in detail what you think."

"We first use experimental monkeys to freeze, and formulate different plans and different durations of freezing plans.

The experimental monkeys were processed after thawing, and after processing, a soul observation device was used to observe whether the souls in their bodies still existed. "

The monkey has had a hard time in recent years. The soul now belongs to Xianxue, and not only the institutions under the governments of various countries are studying the soul.

University research groups, biomedical companies, and even Internet giants are all conducting soul-level research.

It is not realistic to use human beings to conduct research on the soul level. Even for death row prisoners, only state institutions can obtain such resources.

According to private and unofficial statistics, the number of human trade on the black market in South Asia has skyrocketed.

Most institutions and individuals can only use experimental monkeys, and monkeys have a hard time.

"Have you ever thought about a problem, a damaged soul and no soul are two different things, if only the soul is damaged, it is difficult for you to observe abnormalities."

"It takes time to freeze the experimental monkeys, at least a year, and there is a way to quantitatively analyze the souls at Oak Ridge.

If all goes well, we can just catch up with the soul quantitative measurement method and device over there. "

Like current, force, wave, etc., human beings have found units to measure them.

Blue Star also hopes to find a way to measure the soul.

The competition between Huaguo and American in the aerospace field is seen by countries all over the world.

It is well understood that NASA has always been a big player in aerospace, and CNSA has chosen a more radical space program.

Everyone can understand.

However, the Europa League also entered the field and spent a lot of money to carry out work in the aerospace field, which made other countries unable to understand.

Because you must know that most of the previous space projects of Europa Space Agency cooperated with other countries.

Including but not limited to American.

The Europa League also had a cooperation project with Neon before, but of course this project has been stranded now.

Everyone can't understand Europa's big money. After all, the Europa League has never been so rich before.

Even Russia, whose economy has always been poor, has increased its investment in aerospace, and has maintained a high degree of cooperation with China in aerospace.

Neon realized that something was wrong, and their loose alliance with England and the Kangaroo Country could get magic coins.

There's no reason other countries can't get it.

Neon will not be so conceited that they are the only ones who can find the cosmic coordinates that conform to Heber's algorithm.

Magic coin is essentially a work of computing power, and if you have enough computing power, you can definitely find it.

It's just that the optimization of the algorithm by mathematicians and the observations by astronomers can reduce the required computing power.

Neon Nation suspects that American, Hua Nation, and the Europa Alliance know something they don't, and that's why they have increased their investment in spaceflight.

Neon's ambassador deliberately found relevant people in American to inquire.

"Your country must have obtained magic coins, right? Don't rush to deny it. If you admit it, I will reveal some secrets to you."

".Yes, we got a certain amount of magic coins."

"The number of magic coins you get will never exceed two, and there are neon who have never used magic brains."

Ambassador Nihong was shocked, thinking that someone inside had leaked the secret, but after thinking about it, it was normal for someone from Nihong to leak the secret to American.

American's penetration in Neon is all-round, even if Neon itself does not want to be controlled.

"Sure enough, none of this can be hidden from your country."

"Don't be surprised, because your country cooperates with England and the Kangaroo Country. If you have used the magic brain, you must not know why we are going to space.

I can disclose the specific reasons to you, but Neon has to offer corresponding benefits in exchange. "

The price offered by American made Neon Ambassador dare not make a decision without authorization, and he broke into a cold sweat when he heard that it was too expensive.

American's asking price is really ruthless.

He said he had to go back and discuss it.

Neon knows the same news, American knows it, Huaguo and Europa League know it too.

As long as they are willing to pay in exchange, Huaguo and Europa's asking price is not so high.

Neon purchased the information contained in the magic brain directly from the Europa League and Hua Guofang.

Buy information from two parties so that they can be mutually verified.

Huaguo's offer was cheaper than American's, and they asked Neon to come up with a certain core technology in exchange.Huaguo is most eager for technology.

It was only after comparing with the neon that England had concealed very important information.

England did not disclose any of the magic forums that mages could enter, nor the rewards announced by Merlin in the magic forums.

The Europa League specifically revealed that there is a reward task that is easy to get magic coins, but anyone who answers can get at least one magic coin.

Nihong was even more furious when she found out. As a ruined noble in England, you, an outcast of the Europa League, dare to lie to me like this?

　Alas, I do suffer from serious procrastination.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)