Dream Guide

Mei Yiqiu's hand slid up from Liberia on the west coast of Africa, and then slid eastward across the Sahara Desert, stopping on the land bordering the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. It is the mouth of the Nile River, the longest river in the world, and the most prosperous place in Africa. Now, that piece of golden land has been covered with a piece of red. When the professor's finger opened it, the window data showed:

City: Egypt

Population: 22.8 million

Sales volume: 323,089 units

Number of users: 792,309

Mei Yiqiu, who was holding a pipe in his mouth, smiled. This data is enough to disdain most cities and regions in the world. At the beginning, everyone was not optimistic about the sales of space boxes in the Arab world and the Middle East. The strong religious and national concepts there would exclude all foreign and new things, not to mention the settings in the dream guide and their beliefs. A conflicting and unrelated creation god. As it turned out, sales in the rest of the Middle East, with the exception of Israel, struggled. However, Cairo is an exception.

Mei Ziqing also felt strange when he saw this data. She sighed: "They say that Cairo is the headquarters of the Arab World League, but I didn't expect that they also love to dream so much!"

Mei Yiqiu smiled and said: "The ancient Egyptian pharaoh cast a spell on that land, and the Arabs can't change anything."

"Professor, you are really good at joking!" Mei Ziqing said.

"Maybe it's not a joke!" Mei Yiqiu looked very happy. "The President of Egypt once wanted to demolish the pyramids. Although they were opposed by the whole world, they never cared about the pitiful pressure of public opinion from the outside world. In the end, they couldn't do anything. I didn’t do it. Apart from the fact that the pyramid can really help them make money, I’m afraid there are some other reasons.”

"What's the reason? Don't tell me that the people who went to demolish the tower were cursed by the Pharaoh!"

"Then only they themselves know."

Mei Yiqiu looked at the map carefully, then stretched out his hand to operate on the interface, zoomed in on the map where Egypt was located, and then clicked hard on the location of Cairo.

"Look, how amazing it is. The mouth of the world's longest river is right near the intersection of 30° east longitude and 30° north latitude."

He said to himself, and then slid the map with his hand, all the way east, to the territory of China, and zoomed in on the Yangtze River Delta.

"The mouth of the world's third longest river, well, although the location is a little off, it is roughly around 120° east longitude and 30° north latitude, which is also the coordinate position of the Sanwu area."

Mei Ziqing didn't know why and asked: "Professor, what do you want to say? I don't quite understand!"

The professor said he put his hand back to the position in Cairo, and then moved all the way east, saying: "Starting from the Giza Pyramid, along the 30th parallel north latitude, moving ninety longitudes eastward, we are here - this is us This is where you are now!”

"Is this a coincidence?"

"Coincidence? ...Oh, maybe. But what if we keep moving ninety degrees of longitude east? Where do you think it would be?"

The professor's hand continued to move slowly along the 30th parallel of north latitude, and Mei Ziqing had already calculated the longitude and latitude there in his mind, and turned his attention to there - the North Pacific basin north of the Hawaiian Ridge. However, there was nothing but blue. There is nothing outside the ocean.

Mei Yiqiu's hand just clicked there, and then suddenly turned south, moving south along the 150° west longitude line to the intersection of the 30° south latitude line.

"Ah, there is -" Mei Ziqing exclaimed in surprise, "the place where the underwater pyramid was discovered! It is also the place where the scientific research ship had an accident!"

Mei Ziqing suddenly understood something, but was not sure yet, and murmured, "Ninety degrees to the east, then ninety degrees to the east, and then sixty degrees to the south. What does this mean..."

Mei Yiqiu did not answer her question. He continued to move his finger eastward, reaching around 60° west longitude and 30° south latitude. He clicked there and stayed there for a while.

"Where is that place?" Mei Ziqing asked.

"The angle between the Salado River and the Paraná River." Mei Yiqiu held his pipe in his mouth, his eyes narrowed, and his fluffy white hair looked like a cloud in the smoke.

"Look at the locations of these four points. Did you find anything?"

Mei Ziqing fell into deep thought, "The four points are 90° different in longitude, but the latitude is not the same. Does it matter?"

Mei Yiqiu brought up the software operation interface on the screen. After a few clicks, the world map turned into a three-dimensional slowly rotating earth. The four points he clicked were still there, and two of them were connected by dotted lines. rise up to form a rectangular plane. This plane forms an angle of 30° with the Earth's equatorial plane, dividing the Earth into two halves.

When the earth rotates, the plane shadow composed of four points forms a projection belt on the earth's surface, covering a vast area from 30 degrees north latitude to 30 degrees south latitude, which is equivalent to wrapping the earth with a belt.

"Actually, it doesn't matter..." Mei Yiqiu said while biting his pipe, looking towards the east of the Bering Strait and the north of Alaska, where the North Magnetic Pole is.

…

Bian Ziyuan sat in front of the computer, finished writing the last page of the report, checked it again and sent it out through the internal fuel tank.

Since the third generation of space box came out, his job has become very easy. The game program has been basically perfected, and due to the high degree of intelligence of Cronus, the optimization of the game basically does not require manual operations. The reason why he still has something to do is because he invented the original version of Cronus, so Cronus's optimization program instructions for the game will be sent to him, and he will confirm it and then write a report. It will take effect only after signature.

The program he invented almost made him unemployed. This may be ironic in the eyes of others, but it is a great encouragement to Bian Ziyuan. Those who can stand at the forefront of the trend of the times are already the most successful, but how can they compare with those great people who personally push the trend forward with their own hands!

He believed that Cronus was equal to any trend, and that he was the hand that created and pushed the trend.

The only thing Bian Ziyuan didn't understand was why the professor refused to merge Dreamnet into the Internet. Although he also knows a little about the Internet creating consciousness, he thinks this is a huge good thing. People have been discussing the future of artificial intelligence in the past few years, but no one of the most cutting-edge AI researchers dares to say that AI can produce autonomous consciousness, not even his Cronus.

If the Internet developed to today's scale and suddenly developed an independent consciousness and could think and improve itself, what a great discovery it would be! The destiny of mankind may change from now on!

In Bian Ziyuan's view, the evolution of human body and intelligence has obviously slowed down in recent thousands of years, indicating that evolution has entered a bottleneck period. When science and technology has developed to this day, people begin to set their sights on the stars and the sea. The vast universe is the future of mankind. Human beings will eventually give up the comfortable home of the earth to find a broader living space.

But human beings' current bodies have evolved on the basis of adapting to the earth's environment. Once they leave the earth's gravity and magnetic field, humans cannot survive at all. Therefore, all current cutting-edge technologies, including spacecraft and manned spacecraft, must consider environmental simulation suitable for the human body, including appropriate gravity, air pressure, and cyclic ecology that can be used for a long time. These things have seriously hindered the progress of science and technology and blocked mankind's progress towards the stars and the sea.

"You know, our bodies are useless at all! Abandoning the body is inevitable for the future development of mankind! Only by connecting consciousness to machines can we go further!"

Bian Ziyuan was very drunk during a meal, and said to Lao Yu who was also drunk and his face was red.