The Heavens: A Qing, the Yue Girl at the beginning

Chapter 498: Widespread Influence, Cultivation Network (4K)

From a cost perspective, even if Zhao Qing can drill a deep hole in the earth's crust in the short term, it can be done by herself, but unless she focuses on mining rare metals, it will be difficult to make a profit. However, her main goal is to ensure self-sufficiency in mineral resources and not be strangled by outsiders.

The specific output is still unclear. Zhao Qing's small goal is to produce about 5 tons of gold annually after building 10 to 1000 wells. The locations will be distributed in Oregon, Nevada, and Wyoming, the areas that the Yellowstone hotspot has passed through in the past 1600 million years.

The total amount of magma close to the ground is at least tens of thousands of cubic kilometers. It is rich in mineral resources and may contain as much as 100,000 tons of gold, which exceeds the current global proven gold reserves and is more than ten times the gold reserves of Country M.

It has to be said that the mineral resources hidden deep underground are far more than those in the shallow strata, and are completely not on the same order of magnitude. The emergence of magma mining technology will completely reverse the situation where humans are digging less and less of various minerals.

Of course, large-scale underground projects will inevitably cause some geological fluctuations. Although it helps to release the pressure of the underground magma reservoir, it may also cause frequent small earthquakes. This is why, in addition to the transportation cost factor, she first considered mining in the western part of the United States.

……

After continuing to try using the sword energy carrying bubbles in the lava pool, Zhao Qing's heart moved slightly. She casually found a few spots in the surrounding rocks to prospect for minerals, and used the prospecting skills she had developed to further test the types and abundance of mineral resources.

Then, she leaped up and threw the luggage that Ronald Donald had left behind to lose weight before climbing the mountain, as well as a fallen angel gold coin from the tear pool, into the lava. This was because these things had long been secretly attached with positioning trackers and needed to be destroyed to show the corresponding attitude.

After doing all this, Zhao Qing flew towards the west coast of Oregon, bordering the Pacific Ocean, shrouded in smoke and fire. The temperature of the aura was maintained at around a thousand degrees, enough to be detected by satellites. He quickly escaped into the shallow sea and began to sneak.

Thousands of meters offshore, she deliberately separated out several fire lines with ever-changing trajectories, spreading out in all directions, making it difficult to discern their true whereabouts. In fact, it was a bait to make the dark forces believe more in the Fire Lord's awakening.

But the real situation was that Ronald Tang, the incarnation of Norton, had, under her cover and the guidance of the "old immortal", passed through several unknown abandoned volcanic lava tubes and sneaked into a pre-prepared RV silently.

By disguising himself as a tourist frightened by the eruption of the Three Sisters volcano and desperately running away, Lao Tang's behavior of evacuating the scene did not seem abrupt at all. After receiving and practicing the fool-like disguise, he did not reveal any flaws when checked along the way.

Unlike Zhao Qing who left from the west coast, Lao Tang will take a completely opposite route. He will first return to the east coast of Country M, then arrive in Asia via Africa, avoiding areas with well-developed surveillance networks, and finally come to China and enter the "safe zone."

During this period, the volcano-filled Hawaiian Islands will become the place where Zhao Qing will once again disguise himself as the "King of Bronze and Fire". In addition to continuing to attract attention, this mantle hotspot, which is more active than Yellowstone, is also one of the ideal locations for future mine excavation and is worth exploring.

Then, of course, she had to return to the original Templar headquarters in Scotland, rushing to lead the development and research of several recent projects, as well as discuss a series of cooperation plans with surrounding forces. Her work efficiency was so high that it was hard to imagine that Zhao Qing actually found the time to go out.

The cutting-edge medical technologies and drugs owned by the Temple were completely "black technologies" and "black drugs" because their experimental data involved numerous illegal biological experiments and could not pass the review of relevant international organizations. Therefore, they could only be circulated and traded on the "black market" in the short term.

Before "sharing" some technologies, Zhao Qing specifically studied their impact on cultivation compared to conventional testing items, including the toughness and patency of meridians, the initial capacity of Dantian Qi Sea, the intensity and consumption of mental power, the compatibility between soul and brain, etc., and planned to develop a new version that can degrade harmful ingredients.

In addition, she initiated a comprehensive and in-depth verification of the Human Genome Project, analyzed the functions of each gene, and initially carried out a plan to measure the surface genes of hybrids - the deep genes here refer to the extraordinary genetic inheritance that is difficult to detect at the spiritual level.

At the same time, Zhao Qing also gained a lot of inspiration from the fact that Deadpool and the Dragon Blood Squid supplied high-quality materials, and finalized a plan to cultivate mutant organisms that can directly produce batteries.

At present, she is starting from a protein in abalone that can force calcium carbonate molecules to align in a certain direction, and with the help of technologies such as dragon blood-induced mutation and phage gene editing, she has developed a research direction to allow a variety of soft shellfish to autonomously grow the main materials of calcium-ion batteries, making their shells highly ordered nanomaterials.

However, this is not the focus of Zhao Qing's research, but just one of the innovations she made casually after mastering countless mathematical knowledge.

In contrast, the decoding and encoding of neural signals, which is related to the promotion of Xuanbing materials and proton semiconductor chips, is the key to her future layout.

In the field of brain-computer interface, unlike the Temple, which has invested huge amounts of money but achieved few results, Zhao Qing, who has "telepathy", can directly perceive the thinking activities of ordinary people and analyze their thoughts in real time, which naturally makes rapid progress.

In just a few hours, she had rubbed out a miniature black ice chip and initially realized its parallel interaction with specific nerves, which enabled several experimenters to increase the calculation speed of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division by tens of thousands times, approaching or reaching the level of a calculator.

In fact, after reading the data information, the chip directly calculates the result, and then outputs it to "inform" the many neurons responsible for the task, allowing them to report the answer first, allowing the brain to have a "flash of inspiration" in an almost unconscious state, and produce a string of accurate data.

However, it is somewhat difficult to embed more complex calculations.

Because different people may have significantly different neural signals when thinking about square roots and square roots, which are not very direct calculations in nature or are more abstract concepts, they need to be redesigned to be compatible with multiple models.

As an acquired thinking model, it is completely different from the high similarity of motor nerve signals that already exist in nature. After all, the former belongs to the evolved higher intelligence, carrying human imagination, creativity and logical thinking ability, while the latter is merely an innate instinct of animals.

As the complexity of operational symbols continues to increase, the number of models will likely grow exponentially, no less than tailoring a pair of gloves for each unique snowflake. In the fields of cutting-edge mathematics and physics, I am afraid that tens of millions of bionic neurons will be needed to carry out normal information exchange.

It is worth mentioning that in order to improve this kind of rapid calculation ability, it is best to rely on "intuition" to give the answer on the spot, so that the accuracy rate is the highest. If you think slowly and "think carefully" as much as possible, it will increase the possibility of error. Behind this lies the basic mechanism of the neural network system.

As time goes by, the weight of the chip that answers first among many neurons continues to decline, and its results are likely to be distrusted, allowing the wrong answers given by other "stupid" neurons to prevail, making the correct answer drowned in a sea of ​​invalid information. Fortunately, according to Zhao Qing's speculation, when the chip repeatedly gives the most correct answers, the neurons will gradually increase their trust in it, automatically optimize synaptic connections, and make the chip's weight ratio higher, becoming a regional hub-like existence and a "leader."

As for implanting chips for external knowledge into the brain, according to Zhao Qing's assessment, it is still a long way off.

A single neuron is allowed to transmit a string of numbers, but it does not have the function of transmitting a specific language. It must be completed by the cooperation of a large number of neurons. In fact, the transmission of language by nerves is based on "sentences" rather than "words", which is why the order of words often does not affect reading.

However, the chip does not have the ability to make the surrounding neurons listen to the fragmented "dialect" that it is difficult to understand, and reassemble it "sentence by sentence" according to its imagined path.

A preliminary assessment requires establishing extremely complex network connections in the frontal and temporal regions of the target brain and performing thousands of surgeries with cellular-level precision. No one else can do this except Zhao Qing himself.

However, Zhao Qing also proposed two possible solutions:

First, the newborn baby's brain plasticity is utilized to implant the chip before its language center is fully formed, so that the relevant brain areas can gradually adapt to and analyze the knowledge information in the chip during the growth process;
The second is to refer to the experience of experiments on brainless people and implant the combination of in vitro cultured and trained neurons and chips into the brain to bypass naturally formed language barriers.

If it is just inputting visual neural signals, it would undoubtedly be much easier, but this is no different in essence from AR smart glasses. It does not involve the memory process. Simply providing fleeting visual information is not enough for the brain to truly remember and understand this information.

However, even the simple computing function that the Xuanbing chip has just achieved is enough to bring many changes to society and produce broad and far-reaching impacts. After all, almost all complex calculations are based on simple calculations, and its applications are ubiquitous.

For example, it can save primary school students from having to do tedious basic calculation exercises when learning mathematics, and more or less save time in many future exams, speed up the society's training of students, and shorten everyone's education cycle.

For example, when shopping, consumers can effortlessly calculate the discount and total price of goods in an instant. This unprecedented transparency makes shopping behavior more rational. Merchants have to re-examine their marketing strategies and shift from inducing consumption in the past to providing truly valuable products and services.

In the long run, it may even impact the trend of consumerism, change the entire market ecology, and guide people to pursue a more simple and sustainable lifestyle.

In addition to bringing some convenience in daily life, it can also significantly improve the efficiency of finance, accounting, data analysis and other tasks that require a lot of computing. The same is true in fields such as physics and engineering that require a lot of numerical simulations, thereby accelerating the research process and promoting the development of disciplines.

In general, it is by indirectly promoting the efficiency of more complex cognitive tasks, allowing people to devote more energy to work that requires creative thinking and advanced analysis, thereby promoting scientific and technological progress and cultural prosperity of the entire society.

Although the Mysterious Ice 0.10 trial version of the Xuanbing chip should not have a large market capacity and cannot make much money itself, the effect it can produce is far more than that. It is not impossible to complete the layout in advance and reap trillions of dollars in profits.

As for the method of chip implantation, minimally invasive craniotomy and needle injection are used to allow the black ice particles less than half a millimeter in size to cool down and condense at the designated location, assisted by electrostatic adsorption and patch clamp technology to form a fixed connection.

Later on, they might develop specialized micro-surgical robots with the help of the secret party’s ultra-micro nuclear decay batteries—this technology was probably the energy source used by the tracker hidden in the dentures implanted by Chu Zihang in Dragon 2.

Compared with the complexity and uncertainty of exploring deep into the brain and inputting information into it, the process of sensing and analyzing the brain's neural fluctuations and converting them into signals that can be recognized by electronic devices, although also quite sophisticated, is more direct and easier to implement.

With the support of telepathy and ultra-high computing power, Zhao Qing expects that he will be able to complete the task in a few days, with the only problem left being mass production.

The purpose is also to overcome the differences in thinking models of most people. The difficulty of the former lies in the difficulty in verifying and adjusting the effect of information input, while the latter only needs to go through repeated manual annotations to form a personalized neural signal translation mechanism and establish a unique language model for each person.

Considering that an external supporting intelligent information platform is also needed to fully realize its commercial value, and the level of information technology in 2004 was quite limited, mobile phones and computers were luxury goods and basically could not be promoted. For the time being, it could only take the route of high-end customization, auxiliary scientific research, etc.

……

Ten hours later, on a straight road and endless grassland, an ordinary-looking RV was driving automatically. Looking out of the window, the Rocky Mountains in the distance were layered, with peaks that were either steep or round and gentle, with golden outlines outlined by the sun.

In the carriage, the air was filled with the unique rich aroma of hot pot. On the folding table was a pot of steaming soup base, which was bright red and attractive, with a few green vegetables and golden mushrooms floating on it. Next to it were neatly arranged various kinds of meat and seafood, which were colorful and mouth-watering.

"Mysterious Ice 0.10? Mysterious Ice chips that can be implanted in the brain? No rejection, no risk of infection, and hot pre-sale? Isn't this the 'Diversified Supernatural Mutual Assistance Exchange Official Website'? Why would they insert an advertisement for a technological product, especially one that looks so unreliable?"

Ronald Tang casually stretched out his chopsticks, picked up a piece of tender beef and put it into his mouth. He sighed with satisfaction, and at the same time his eyes stayed on the hidden web page he had just opened, with many doubts in his heart:
"'Old Immortal', you asked me to register an account on this website. What should I do next?"

"Of course, after logging in, upload some information about your body on the 'Personal Status' page to complete the comprehensive modeling..."

In the headset, the "old immortal" instructed: "I have prepared the relevant files in advance. They are mainly the data collected by you during the period of electrodes and acupuncture. Just import them directly."

……

I've been busy lately, I'll update 6k later