Chapter 154: Ye Chao's Mind Map

If the enemy made a move, 0177 would search the database and combine it with intelligent algorithms to project the enemy's possible movement trajectory into Ye Chao's eyes. It was much like typhoon path prediction, though naturally far more accurate.

A typhoon system was simply too massive with too many external variables, whereas a person's movements, stripped of optimal solutions and personal habits, left behind choices that, even if numerous, rarely resulted in direct, lethal threats.

Pressing the icons for Mirror Image, Duplication, and Projection, 0045 would immediately generate appropriate projections based on real-time combat conditions—with the database constantly expanding and replenishing.

Pressing the LED High-Illumination and Stun-Gun Arts, 0022 would immediately adjust the LEDs and stun guns to the most prominent positions for Ye Chao to retrieve.

If Ye Chao intended to use the flywheel drive, 0088 would adjust the flywheel's rotational speed according to his commands, and combining it with 0177's simulations, offer suggestions regarding direction and form...

They were literally nothing more than a bunch of mouse macros!

At most, they came with some auto-aiming lock-on features, but absolute cheat functions like invisibility, perspective, flight, earth-walking, or wall-clipping were completely nonexistent.

Alpha Ji let out a long sigh of relief. It seemed she wouldn't be out of a job just yet. Wonderful!

"Didn't you say you'd rather die than come back to this ghost place?" Ye Chao's voice suddenly rang out, giving Alpha Ji a fright.

It was the startle of a thief with a guilty conscience, as precarious as a mistress caught by the legal wife.

Turning around, Ye Chao—who had just been utterly exhausted and as limp as a piece of soft gluten a moment ago—had somehow entered and was currently tidying up his haphazardly arranged calculation chalkboards.

"I didn't! I wasn't! Don't talk nonsense!" Alpha Ji rattled off a triple-denial. "Since when do you have secrets here that people aren't allowed to see?"

Indeed, Ye Chao had never actually said that.

"No, there aren't any, feel free to look." Ye Chao returned a calm triple-denial of his own. However...

What kind of person was Alpha Ji? How could Ye Chao's pitifully negative interpersonal-skill deception possibly fool her?

In an instant, she picked out the exact chalkboard he truly wanted to hide from among the several others and clearly read the contents inscribed upon it, which were filled entirely with mind maps:

Why are the imprints of different people difficult to compatibility-match? Where does the fundamental difference lie? The soul? Or DNA?

Liu Xiaoyi and Liu Xiaoya can serve as mutual seed weapons, therefore... is it primarily DNA? Is incompatibility not absolute?

Therefore, seed weapons can theoretically... be standardized, regulated, and mass-produced?

If DNA is transplanted, is it feasible? Where should one begin... Blood? Organs? Brains? (Knowledge points on rejection reactions need to be supplemented!)

Yet... how should Alpha Ji, who possesses no DNA whatsoever, be explained?

Do those uncrackable quantum data originate from hardware, software, or... the soul?

If she is unwilling to let others tamper with her data, then... why not build a few artificial intelligences and test them out? (Knowledge points on the design and manufacture of artificial intelligences need to be supplemented)

(??í_ì??)...

So, Ye Chao hanging out with the twin sisters wasn't just to level up and farm experience, but also to test the compatibility of their seed weapons?

So, he actually intended to promote the standardization of seed weapons through DNA transplantation? And was even contemplating organ or brain transplantation?

Her previous suspicion that he was an evil scientist hadn't been wrong after all.

What on earth was he trying to do?

Oh, there was a small note in the margin—everyone will be able to use standardized, regularized seed weapons; everyone will be able to store seed weapons into imaginary space and retrieve them for use at any location; damage can be repaired through imaginary space, and supplies can be transshipped through imaginary space...

(￣口￣)!

So, not only did he want to act as the WeChat of the apocalyptic era, connecting everyone through information interaction and using games to train everyone's bodies and minds;

He also wanted to act as the Taobao, JD.com, and Henry Ford of the new era, turning seed weapons into standards, procedures, and assembly lines, complete with free shipping and after-sales service?

This was a single person trying to be everyone's founding father, leaving no opportunities whatsoever for anyone else!

In truth, the real reason Ye Chao came up with this plan was: Alpha Ji's imprint kept complaining bitterly about fatigue day in and day out, and she naturally possessed a personality devoid of endurance or perseverance. Doing such monotonous work was indeed as agonizing to her as murder.

This was something that could never be changed, not even in a lifetime.

Yet... she was also the most vital material source of the imaginary space. If she were to strike, the entire space would grind to a halt, losing its income and remaining stagnant...

Ye Chao was simply not the type of person to coerce others. Thus, his first reaction was to find a way to liberate Alpha Ji.

How could he achieve this?

By broadly mobilizing the masses, uniting the masses, and relying on the masses, right? Weren't those principles written all over the chalkboard?

Alpha Ji continued reading the chalkboard.

So, those few blockheaded artificial intelligences were indeed meant to be her replacements?

Yet they weren't meant to usurp her position or her job, but rather... to act as test subjects in her stead? Because she refused to let Ye Chao study her...

There wasn't much text on the chalkboard, but the amount of information was truly massive!

So massive that... looking at this chalkboard intertwined with a scientist's evil mindset and a genius's creativity, Alpha Ji fell into shame.

It wasn't because her willful behavior had driven Ye Chao to manufacture Mikoto Misaka replicas—though there was a tiny bit of that too—the crucial point was...

It was different! The gap was simply too vast!

Clearly, they shared the same room every day, breathed the same air, and shared similar intelligence...

This deity, this deity has already worked quite hard! When busy, handling imprints; when idle, acting cool; sometimes collecting data, sometimes complaining about the apocalypse. She had never worked so hard before in her life. Why... why was it that the moment she looked up, even this guy's receding back was slipping out of sight?

"How can the gap between a human and a program be this enormous? This is truly: stop studying for a day, and you won't even catch up to the beep-beep-beeps..."

Alpha Ji plunged into deep self-doubt.

If this, if this continued, it wouldn't be long before she really did lose her job!

Even though he wasn't building those nice sisters to replace her, he was already figuring out a solution to the imprint problem, as well as the multiple-personality problem. As for the issue of insufficient reaction speed, judging by the current state, he had already resolved it rather well.

He was even making games... It was written right on the chalkboard that he was considering granting certain students higher-level permissions to perform rudimentary edits and processing on the maps, allowing them to create their own plots and battlefields...

Although it might take a relatively long time, gaming modes like Dota, League of Legends, Arena of Valor, and Tower Defense—which later swept across the entire world—seriously speaking, had all evolved from Warcraft custom maps.

If he were really allowed to implement all this, then besides idling away her days, it seemed... she really wouldn't have anything left to do.

Good heavens!

She was actually about to become unemployed...

Throughout the ages, has any guide-spirit ever lived as miserably as herself?

"Did you see it?" Even with his emotional intelligence of zero, Ye Chao could still sense the violent fluctuations in Alpha Ji's emotions. "Well, that saves me the trouble of explaining."

Glancing at Alpha Ji's dejected expression, Ye Chao couldn't help offering some comfort: "Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder isn't some incurable disease anyway; it's merely a psychological obstacle. It can be cured!"

(￣┰￣*)……

Alpha Ji's heart ached so fiercely she almost passed out: "Hyperactivity disorder? What hyperactivity disorder? Who are you calling hyperactive? You're the one with hyperactivity disorder, your entire family has hyperactivity disorder!"

With a burst of irritability, she fiercely deducted a wave of favorability.

Look, look, isn't she acting up again?

If this wasn't hyperactivity disorder, then this fickle, awkward, and twisted demeanor...

"Could it be... menopausal syndrome?!"

(╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻!

Ye Zichao, just how many chalkboards do you have hidden away? What on earth is written on them? Since I won't let you study my code, do you want to use psychological-doctor methods to analyze my mental state?!

I am a program, not some...

Suddenly, Alpha Ji froze.

Hyperactivity disorder, menopausal syndrome, manic depression, and anxiety disorders—she was naturally extremely familiar with all of them. After all, her primary focus was emotional intelligence; she needed to understand both normal and abnormal emotions, and assessment forms for various medical conditions filled her database to the brim.

However, physicians cannot heal themselves, so she had genuinely never taken any of these diagnostic questionnaires herself.

In this fleeting moment, she couldn't help but run through a few sets, and the results...

Her ADHD assessment score was as high as over eighty!

Her menopausal assessment, aside from the physical and somatic aspects, yielded a score of over seventy on the purely psychological evaluation!

And there was manic depression, anxiety disorders...

Could she, this deity, this old self... truly be mentally ill? Since when? How did she contract it?

Alpha Ji stood there in a daze, completely at a loss, her entire program falling apart.