I Have A Super USB Drive

by <unknown>

  Moreover, this kind of nanorobot even had the ability to build new cells. It would recombine broken cells, thus reusing the waste to produce living cells.

  This was practically a miracle.

  Chapter 226: Medpod 3000 |

  With the technical data retrieved from Elysium, coupled with the help of Little X, Chen Chen finally succeeded in coming up with a way for the Medpod 3000 to access the network a few days later.

  Even so, Chen Chen later learned that, even if the Medpod 3000 was decoded and connected to the network, it was still useless. This was because this machine was only responsible for the end operation. The data calculation and username verification required for the treatment had to be obtained from the cloud database.

  In other words, the Medpod 3000 platform had a dedicated external database, where the user's disease would be analyzed and the optimal solution calculated. Then, the solution would be transmitted back to the platform and finally, the platform would start the treatment.

  As an analogy, the Medpod 3000 was like an online game client on a computer. To run the game, the client itself was not enough. One must be connected to the Internet and logged into one's account.

  Still, after Little X had obtained the database of the Medpod 3000's server, all of these problems were solved.

  Currently, a Black Knight was lying in the Medpod 3000. As the scanner in the platform spun around, the Medpod 3000 scanned everything within the Black Knight's body.

  "Warning, the user's brainwaves can't be detected. The user is brain-dead and cannot be treated!"

  When the Medpod 3000 finished inspecting the Black Knight, it sent such a message to Little X who was acting as the cloud server.

  Without Chen Chen saying anything, Little X sent an order for forced treatment to the Medpod 3000.

  Therefore, the Medpod 3000 was forced to begin its procedure. A group of invisible nanorobots was released. They burrowed into the Black Knight's body and began to repair the Black Knight's physical injuries on a cellular level.

  The Black Knight's injuries included muscle strain and multiple capillary tears, all of which were trivial injuries. These nanorobots only moved around for a while before coming out of the Black Knight's body.

  At the same time, the Black Knight's internal injuries that had been caused by training were completely healed.

  "There are no safety risks."

  Upon seeing this result, Little X said, "The internal wounds in A0012 have been successfully repaired. However, I've realized that when the Medpod 3000 is repairing the human body, there's a loss of nanorobots. Some nanorobots will be damaged during their work and thus leave themselves behind in the body. Still, because they are so small, these nanorobots in the human body will be excreted within a week."

  "That's normal. It's fine as long as it's harmless."

  Chen Chen nodded. After that, he took off his clothes methodically, lay upon the platform, and wordlessly closed his eyes.

  Seeing this, Little X controlled the Medpod 3000 to start operating. The scanner began to scan Chen Chen's body for internal injuries, hidden cancer cells, and other diseases.

  "Sir Godfather, you have moderate anemia and there are slight injuries in your knee joints and cervical joints. There are many signs of damage to the blood vessels in the nasal cavity. The brain once suffered from slight bleeding, but no compression injury has occurred.

  "Besides, the cells in your body are seriously damaged. Many of them have been damaged by rays."

  "So, my body has so many problems, huh?"

  Chen Chen suddenly understood that his cell damage and anemia were all caused by crystalline while the injuries at his joints had occurred during his training.

  As for the cerebral hemorrhage… Was it caused by prolonged usage of NZT-48 or his excessive use of "Field"?

  Chen Chen was rather uncertain.

  Nonetheless, it did not matter what the reason was. The Medpod 3000 could fix everything for him.

  With this in mind, the Medpod 3000 started to function again. Chen Chen only felt a scorching sensation slowly permeate through his body and quickly circulate in his body.

  Unlike those ordinary people who used the Medpod 3000 in the movie, Chen Chen sensed that the Medpod 3000 took a long time to repair his body. The burning sensation only gradually faded after ten minutes.

  This was followed by a peculiar feeling of comfort.

  Chen Chen suddenly opened his eyes and sat up. He stretched his waist vigorously and there was a crackling sound all over his body.

  "Sir Godfather, how does it feel when your body is optimized to a perfect state?"

  Little X asked.

  "It's like my body is floating as if I've just recovered from a serious illness."

  Chen Chen got off the Medpod 3000 platform and found that his voice had become clearer. The machine had even healed the strain within his vocal cords.

  Was this the power of nanotechnology?

  This magical technology could restore human beings to the peak state of their bodies at any time. In addition to certain health-preserving techniques, it was not impossible to extend the human lifespan to more than two hundred years.

  "Even so, there are still some flaws in the Medpod 3000's nanotechnology."

  Little X suddenly spoke, "According to the data, the Medpod 3000 cannot repair brain nerve cells because of the special nature of human consciousness. That's to say, minor ailments such as cerebral hemorrhage can be treated but if the brain suffers any trauma, no repair work can be done."

  "That's to be expected. After all, how human consciousness is formed is still a mystery."

  Chen Chen nodded. "If the brain dies and the consciousness disappears, even if the brain nerve cells are repaired, the consciousness probably won't return.

  "Plus, the movie's ending also mentioned this problem. To reboot Elysium, the protagonist Max is willing to choose brain death. The story has also told the audience that brain death cannot be reversed by the Medpod 3000."

  At this point, Chen Chen sighed inwardly. The essence of a person was their consciousness and consciousness was the product of the brain.

  Scientific research had found that human emotions were also influenced by the hormones secreted by the body but even if the secreted hormones were lost, at most that person would become somewhat emotionally apathetic.

  Thus, strictly speaking, as long as technology allowed the human brain to be taken out, then one could claim that this brain was the person himself. No matter how much space their body took up, it was just a replaceable shell.

  Consequently, in Chen Chen's view, no matter what strategies and technologies there were to optimize the human body, one's lifespan could only be extended to a certain point, for the human brain would eventually die.

  To pursue a longer life, Chen Chen would have to embark on an unprecedented path.

  The consciousness-transporting computer technology in Transcendence?

  The consciousness-replacement technique in Detective Pikachu?

  Chen Chen considered these before shaking his head.

  The consciousness replacement in Detective Pikachu was only temporary and required the support of a device. Once the device was taken off, this replacement was terminated. It was not Chen Chen's style at all.

  On the other hand, after finishing the movie Transcendence, Chen Chen could not determine whether the consciousness in the computer was the protagonist himself or was it just a computer program that simulated the protagonist's thinking?

  If it was the latter, it meant that the actual protagonist had died, so this technology was pointless to Chen Chen.

  After all, what Chen Chen sought was the preservation of consciousness. The cessation of consciousness was equivalent to the death of a person. Even if an intelligent program that contained your very thoughts and memories was replicated in a computer, it was useless.

  Chapter 227: Strange Phenomenon |

  Chen Chen shook his head and cast out all of these thought
s. He would not get ahead of himself.

  After all, it was still too early. With Chen Chen's current level of technology, there was no need to consider the lifespan of a brain for at least two to three hundred years. Now, instead of thinking about countermeasures against the end of brain life, Chen Chen should consider technologies that would continue to extend human life.

  In any case, whether it was stem cell technology, nano-repair technology or genetic optimization technology, it was not yet the ultimate technology for extending the lifespan of the human body.

  After optimizing his body, Chen Chen still did not leave the substation but continued to wait.

  After all, in a sealed room at the center of the substation, there was a passage to another world. On the other side of that passage, there was probably a danger that could destroy human civilization…

  However, this time, Chen Chen had to wait much longer.

  Three days, five days, seven days…

  When an entire week had passed, Chen Chen could barely sit still and was about to send a Black Knight to the other side to check on the situation when a new USB flash drive was finally sent over by X-112.

  "Sir Commander, I have an important report."

  As soon as Chen Chen played the video, X-112's voice quickly sounded. "As you ordered, I named the three sculptures Big Ears, Big Mouth, and Big Eyes, then cut them open…"

  As X-112 spoke, what Chen Chen saw were three white, glossy objects.

  These were three white, glossy brains.

  These three brains were white and moist, with gullies over the surface. A dense network of faint red blood vessels could be seen and the brains were still pulsing rhythmically as if they were still functioning…

  "This is what I found after cutting the three sculptures apart."

  X-112 said, "According to my calculations, the volumes of the three brains aren't the same. The largest one has a volume of 1,350 cubic centimeters and the smallest one has a volume of 1,120 cubic centimeters. This is all in the average range of human brains.

  "And this is just one discovery…

  "After cell sampling, these three brains are confirmed to be human brains. Plus, the cells are active and high-level neurological thinking signals can even be detected. This proves that they aren't only alive but they also have the ability to think.

  "In addition, I found that among the three brains, the occipital pole and the cortex around the rectangular fissure of Big Eyes are highly developed, the brain's temporal gyrus of Big Ears is highly developed, and most of the joint frontal cortex of Big Mouth is extremely developed…"

  At this point, Chen Chen reflexively pressed pause.

  Then, he moved to the beginning of the video and watched it again.

  Brains?

  Living human brains, at that?

  It was weird enough that the three human face sculptures could not be penetrated by X-rays. Now that the sculptures were cut apart, it was found that there were three human brains inside?

  This had gone far beyond what Chen Chen had expected.

  The video continued to play and X-112 said, "After the three brains were extracted from the sculptures, the internal brain cells began to die rapidly. Even so, their death rate was much slower than that of ordinary human brains.

  "After four minutes of hypoxia, normal human brain cells will undergo diffused apoptosis but these three brains have prolonged this period by more than ten times…

  "After various sampling tests, I still couldn't explain this phenomenon. Even when I tried to put the three brains back into the sculptures again, the brains were still dying relentlessly.

  "Because I didn't have enough time, in the end, I couldn't find a way to keep the three brains alive.

  "After the three brains had died, I conducted an anatomical investigation on them and analyzed their DNA. The result was…

  "The DNA of these three brains all belonged to the genes of the Gross family. Among them, I couldn't locate the counterpart for Big Ear's DNA, but Big Eyes and Big Mouth belonged respectively to Gross' son, Afederer, and Gross' grandson, Fedal, of the Gross family.

  "If my guess isn't wrong, this is because when Gross died, Elysium had not yet been established, so his genetic files were not collected. Thus, the brain in Big Ears corresponds to Gross himself."

  "In other words, the brains in the three sculptures correspond to Gross, Gross' son, and Gross' grandson?"

  Chen Chen murmured as his expression became increasingly solemn.

  X-112 went on to narrate, "To verify whether the brains in these three sculptures are really the brains of those three men, I consulted all relevant information in Elysium. However, the answer I received was that, out of the three men from the Gross family, Gross' son and grandson both lived in Elysium, and both suffered from a strange disease, similar to a migraine.

  "According to the Gross family, this peculiar illness was a family disease. Gross suffered from this disease when he was alive and eventually committed suicide by shooting himself through the mouth because he could no longer bear it.

  "Before his son and grandson died, the Medpod 3000 technology had been born, but this fully automated medical platform still couldn't treat the strange disease that plagued the two men.

  "Finally, the two killed themselves with a gun in the same way, in 2086 and 2122 respectively. The autopsy results showed no anomalies and the bodies were finally cremated."

  Did they all commit suicide by putting a gun through the mouth?

  When he saw this was the method they used, Chen Chen's heart pounded. Putting a gun through the mouth entailed plugging the muzzle into the mouth, against the upper jaw. Once the shot was fired, the bullet would penetrate the upper jaw and directly destroy the brain.

  In that future era when euthanasia was extremely popular, these three people still opted for such a brutal method. Could it be that these three men already knew their brains would be stored in the sculptures before they died?

  As he thought of this, Chen Chen could not help but laugh at himself. Although there was some coherence to his thinking, it was too illogical.

  If someone had told him that a person's brain would be packed into a sculpture to live for decades or centuries, anyone with an IQ over 80 would not believe it, let alone someone like Chen Chen.

  Plus, if the brains of all three men had been destroyed, where did the three intact brains come from?

  Endless thoughts flashed through his mind. Chen Chen continued watching the video.

  X-112 continued. "This is the only abnormal data in the Gross family. After the death of Gross' grandson Fedal, no member of the Gross family suffered from any genetic migraine. I've stored all these data in the USB drive. You can look through it at any time.

  "At the same time, I controlled an aircraft to explore Earth according to your request, but observed only the same scene as Elysium…"

  X-112's words were accompanied by an image of a vast, white stretch.

  This was a mountain of corpses much larger than the one in Elysium.

  If the corpse mountain in Elysium was just an ordinary mountain, then this corpse mountain was the Himalayas.

  The white bones were endless and they filled the screen. The height exceeded more than a few hundred meters and the vastness even extended to the horizon.

  "This is the position on Earth that was closest to Elysium."

  X-112 said, "Because Elysium has a geosynchronous orbit, no matter how the Earth rotates, Elysium is always above the city of Los Angeles. In that catastrophe, humans on Earth were also affected by the three sculptures. From all parts of the world, they marched onward incessantly until they reached Los Angeles.

  "Even if they were to die, they wanted to die as close to Elysium as possible…

  "Of course, only about five hundred million people ended up in Los Angeles. Most of the tens of billions of people on Earth in the Elysium's dimension died halfway through their journey.

  "This was the scene on Earth in Elysium's unive
rse."

  Chapter 228: Summary of the Second Form |

  After watching the video sent by X-112, Chen Chen fell into deep thought.

  He seemed to have discovered something incredible, all of which was more complicated than he thought.

  In Elysium's dimension, the owners of these three brains had been dead for many years. Even their corpses had been cremated. Why did their brains appear in the three sculptures?

  Moreover, these three brains even corresponded to the sculptures. Human vision was controlled by the occipital pole and the cortex around the rectangular fissure of the brain. Therefore, the cortex around the rectangular fissure of the brain in Big Eyes was very developed.

  The same applied to the other two sculptures.

  What exactly did the three men of the Gross family discover before they died? Why did the three of them put a gun in their mouths to end their own lives?

  Could it be that they had anticipated that their brains would be stored within the sculptures after their death and because they could not bear the pain that was worse than death, that they wanted to end their own lives?

  Who was it that buried these three sculptures in 2111 Basin? Why did they suddenly activate one day, drawing in humans around the world to die alongside them? What methods did they use to achieve this?

  After studying the three sculptures, Chen Chen's puzzlement did not diminish at all but became even more muddled.

  Still, X-112 had dismantled the three sculptures. Not only was the outer shell of the sculptures destroyed, but the brains inside the sculptures were also dead.

  Although it was a shame, if Chen Chen had to make a choice again, he still would not hesitate to order the destruction of the three sculptures.

  Surely he could not possibly bring the three sculptures into reality…

  Even more outrageous was the fact that, other than the brains within, the three sculptures were made of the most common stone. After being cut open, the stone was even ground into dust by X-112, but nothing strange was found.