Technological practice: leading the human race to the stars

Chapter 12 The "trash" that was auctioned off

"see this!"

Li Weiming stood on the high platform in front of the playground and raised his right arm. In the sunlight, the small square on the back of his hand flashed red light, and under the skin, there seemed to be a string of complex and mysterious data codes flowing along the entire arm.

He looked around, his face full of pride and arrogance, as if the whole world was at his feet.

"Look carefully, everyone."

He raised his arm deliberately to make the chip shine more brightly. "This is not the crappy stuff with side effects that you usually see. This is a top-level genetically programmed chip, worth more than 200 million! With it, I am invincible!"

As soon as Li Weiming finished speaking, his classmates cast envious glances at him. Some were amazed at the advanced technology of the chip, some were shocked at the financial strength of Li Weiming's family, and some lamented the gap between the poor and the powerful.

Amid the discussions of his classmates, Li Weiming felt extremely satisfied and proud. He enjoyed the feeling of being sought after and envied, and the sense of superiority that came from looking down on the common people.

Amid everyone's admiration and envy for Li Weiming, Yuanze always remains low-key.

Yuanze leaned against the tree beside the playground, watching Li Weiming showing off with interest, with a subtle smile on his face.

Yuanze shifted his gaze to his arms. He pulled open the sleeve of his left hand, which was still wrapped in tight bandages.

This reminded Yuanze of the surgery last month.

Yuanze was invited by Li Haisheng to a very hidden underground laboratory on the edge of the Mechanical City. This basement was built under the half-abandoned building.

"Come here and lie down on it."

"What are these?" Yuanze didn't rush over. He leaned against the glass and looked at the instruments.

"You look down on your master, don't you? Do you think I don't have genetic programming technology?"

"what?"

"Being a master in a martial arts school is just my hobby. This is my main job." Li Haisheng showed his smug "villain" face for the first time in a long time. His expression seemed to be provoking Yuanze and asking him if he had anything else to say.

This time it was Yuanze's turn to laugh. He originally thought that his master was joking with him, but he didn't expect that he would be the one to be slapped in the face.

However, Yuanze soon became a different person, and came over shamelessly: "My dear master, two months ago you promised me that you would make me one that is a million times better than the one at auction, right? My dear master, you are the one who keeps your word."

"Don't try this, it's really disgusting."

Li Haisheng pushed Yuanze away slightly, motioning him to lie on the operating table, and then the instrument by the window automatically popped out a piece of material that was slightly larger than the previous one.

"Is this the new model? It doesn't look much different from the previous one?"

"What do you know? Experts look at the doorway, while laymen join in the fun. I have been thinking about and perfecting this architecture for almost ten years, until I saw a paper some time ago that said there had been a breakthrough in the process theory, so I was able to come up with it."

“How’s the performance?”

"The overall performance of genetic programming is probably 3210% of what it was before, and the source power consumption is only 3.12% of what it was before. As for the processing speed..." Li Haisheng called up the holographic screen and read the data displayed on it.

Yuanze roughly calculated the data and exclaimed, "This is too powerful! It turns out that Moore's Law is effective here again!"

"If the technology hadn't lagged behind my ideas, Moore's Law would have been renamed Haisheng's Law." Li Haisheng smiled brightly. It's so happy to do what you like.

"Then you are still a martial arts master." "Something happened in the family." Li Haisheng put away his smile, but there was no other emotional fluctuation. "Be prepared, it might hurt a little."

"No anesthesia?"

"We need to connect the nerves, so we can't use anesthesia. This little pain should be nothing to you, but just in case, let's do it this way." Li Haisheng clapped his hands, and the surrounding instruments tied Yuanze tightly to the bed.

"Damn it!"

Then, the robotic arm began to operate skillfully. As Yuanze felt a sharp pain, the skin on the back of his hand was accurately cut by the laser into a square slightly larger than the chip. Then the blood vessels, muscles, and bones in the square area were peeled off bit by bit to create space for installing the chip.

The robotic arm placed the chip in the hole in Yuanze's left hand, perfectly embedding it into the back of Yuanze's hand. Then, light golden lines extended along the arm to the entire body, cleverly connecting with every nerve along the way.

Gradually, after the chip completed the connection with all the nerves, it began to automatically mobilize the source power in Yuanze's body to restore the stripped tissue. A little bit of flesh and blood, a little bit of bone gradually covered the chip inside. With the final recovery of the skin, the chip was completely buried in Yuanze's flesh and blood, and only the golden light could be vaguely seen seeping out.

Finally, the robotic arm tightly wrapped the surgical site with a special energy bandage.

"It seems that the surgical process still needs to be improved." Li Haisheng called up the holographic screen to record the surgical footage and took notes of his experience below the video.

"Okay, how do you feel?" Li Haisheng also released the restraints.

Yuanze was sweating profusely, which was a strong reaction to the severe pain.

He got off the bed, first swung his left hand around his wrist a few times, then jumped around his whole body a few times, but he didn't feel any discomfort at all. He looked at his master in confusion: "I don't feel anything, is there something wrong?"

"That means the operation was successful and the chip has been perfectly integrated into your body. During this month, the chip will collect and analyze your body data and make adaptive changes. This is its most powerful new function. After a month, the bandage will automatically disintegrate and you will find out what it is useful for."

Li Haisheng paused, and pulled up a piece of experimental data on the holographic screen: "Look, this chip can effectively alleviate the decline in your source power after using the amulet, and it can also greatly shorten the duration of the side effects. Combined with your training intensity, according to theoretical calculations, the decline in your source power will last for a maximum of two months, which means you have almost four months to prepare for the college entrance examination."

"So, the piece that was sold for 250 million is just garbage, and the person who bought it was a complete idiot."

Thinking of his master's words, Yuanze couldn't help but burst out laughing. This inappropriate laughter was so harsh in everyone's ears, and Li Weiming also turned his gaze to Yuanze.

Yiyang led the way and pushed aside the crowd around him, but the others were also tactful and took the initiative to make way for Li Weiming.

"You look so poor, yet you still laugh at me?" Li Weiming approached Yuanze, suddenly turned around, opened his arms and shouted at the crowd who had just gathered, "Don't be afraid of him. I, Li, have a piece of news for you. This guy's energy has been declining. He is no longer worthy of staying in our top class. He is just trash."

Then, Li Weiming suddenly turned his head and said to Yuanze provocatively: "Really?"

"But it's enough to deal with you." Yuanze said coldly, catching Li Weiming off guard.

"He's very courageous, but his lack of vision is obvious." Yiyang sighed silently beside him.

Li Weiming's other friends all looked at Yuanze and laughed until they cried.

"You are such a fool. I don't even need a chip to deal with you."

"What a big tone you have, you defeated general."

"I'm afraid you won't succeed?"

(End of this chapter)