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Chapter 63 On the Road
After takeoff, the plane flew north.
With Sun Fumin present, the cabin was far from boring. He always had something to talk about, keeping everyone engaged in conversation.
At first, Zhou Yunci maintained his composure and didn't want to talk to Sun Fumin, but after an hour's journey, he got bored and eventually joined the conversation.
They talked about many things, starting with the scenery along the way, which was mainly introduced by Zhou Yun, and everyone else listened.
Then they started talking about the current situation outside, with Zhou Yunci speaking and everyone listening.
Finally, when the conversation turned to the mission, Sun Fumin and the others looked at Jiang Ning.
Jiang Ning said, "I'm just cooperating with the emergency response team; the specific arrangements will depend on Political Commissar Zhou's command."
Helpless, Sun Fumin and the other three looked at Zhou Yunci again.
Zhou Yunci didn't mince words. He immediately opened a tablet computer in the cabin, pulled up a map, and began to explain the operation plan to everyone.
Jiang Ning listened for a while, then closed his eyes to rest.
He didn't need to worry about these specific arrangements.
He has always been self-aware and believes in leaving professional matters to professionals. His month-long stay in Taiqing Mountain has made him realize this even more.
Every staff member at Taiqing Mountain has at least a master's degree, making it a gathering place for top talents. Their professionalism and personal abilities are impeccable.
One can only say that he truly deserves to be called a national-level elite talent.
Faced with these talented individuals, Jiang Ning often thought that if he didn't have special abilities, he might not even be worthy of carrying their shoes.
Academician Zhao jokingly referred to them as having "clerical jobs," but that was just him being modest.
Every researcher in every position at Taiqing Mountain is like a highly capable elite soldier. They live in Taiqing Mountain, yet they are responsible for the research teams behind every dedicated line.
If they were just ordinary office workers, they wouldn't even understand the professional terminology, let alone the work itself. How could they possibly use a national treasure like the Luoshu?
This shows that Mount Taiqing is like a large information transfer station. The Luoshu has a super strong deduction ability. In order to save costs, various laboratories usually let the Luoshu simulate and deduce first.
Each data model behind this requires not only computer talent, but also corresponding professional skills.
For example, in the aerospace field, an ordinary person using AI might ask, "How does a rocket launch work?"
So, professionals might first establish a large model of Earth's gravity, then provide environmental data, rocket engine parameters, and detailed reference group samples, before exploring the principles of rocket launch.
That is why Jiang Ning chose to minimize his presence in Taiqing Mountain.
One is self-awareness of one's own capabilities, and the other is the understanding that this disaster is a common challenge faced by all of humanity.
He felt that he could not be a savior on his own, and he never had the idea of being a savior. At most, he could only occasionally play a supporting role.
The latter is because he has the ability to save data; if this ability were removed, he would just be an ordinary person on the street.
Jiang Ning took a few deep breaths to calm herself down.
Compared to this mission, helping Chen Xiao can also be considered helping the emergency response organization.
Jiang Ning was more concerned about the mysterious space in his sea of consciousness.
The Mysterious Space currently has two abilities.
One is for oneself: as long as one crushes the red bead representing oneself every day, one will not regress with the world, and at the same time, everything one comes into direct contact with that day will be preserved.
That's why I carry so many bags when I go out these days.
The bag contained mostly data hard drives, ranging from high-end quantum storage devices to low-end large-capacity USB flash drives. The latter mainly stored data on existing human civilization in a categorized manner.
Another ability is that, once you know someone's name, you can find the bead representing that person in the sea of clouds within the mysterious space.
You can take this bead out and give it to its true owner, so that the other party will not be swept away by the world and will remain anchored in the local area.
It was precisely this ability that led Chen Xiao to jokingly call him "Master Jiang".
Meanwhile, the nickname quickly spread internally, to the point that now all the scientists who know about this secret event call him Jiang Daxian when they meet him.
However, this ability has a major side effect: you need to retrieve the beads promptly after the world rollback. If more than half an hour has passed, you will lose the rollback opportunity and be permanently trapped in that day and place.
Cui Huaimeng is an example.
Thinking of Cui Huaimeng, Jiang Ning couldn't help but rub his temples. He had only met that woman twice, and his strongest impression of her was her composure—a composure that was neither overly sharp nor excessively low-key.
She stands in the crowd; you won't notice her at first glance, but once you spend some time with her, you won't ignore her.
In addition to that, he also possesses the meticulous temperament of someone who has long been involved in the system.
"I heard she's a single mother..."
Jiang Ning let his thoughts wander, and after much deliberation, all that remained was a strange sense of melancholy.
"This is the other person's choice. If you try to sympathize with them, that would be the greatest disrespect."
Jiang Ning sighed silently and stopped thinking about it, then looked up at Zhou Yunci.
Zhou Yunci was still explaining the upcoming itinerary to everyone, and Sun Fumin and the other three listened quietly.
According to Political Commissar Zhou, the five members of the Huitian Group will be traveling all over the country for the next month.
Commissar Zhou did not disclose the exact number of people to be "stranded," nor did Sun Fumin and the other three inquire further; their expressions were simply somber.
It was clearly the first time they had heard of this plan, and they hadn't quite figured it out yet.
However, Jiang Ning had a hunch that Chen Xiao had mentioned this matter to him last time, saying it was troublesome, but a month had passed before he finally informed him.
They must have been preparing a big surprise.
"That old Deng, he really doesn't treat himself like an outsider..."
Jiang Ning couldn't help but shake his head and sigh softly. He didn't resent Chen Xiao's earlier offer to help with a small matter, but now he hadn't even consulted with him before preparing a big move for him to deal with.
"As long as Lin Wei can come back, as long as this bottom line is still there, I don't mind completely siding with Chen Xiao."
Jiang Ning pondered silently, then turned to look at Sun Fumin and the other four, listening quietly for a while.
They suddenly started discussing the World Memory Championships that happened recently.
I really don't know how the topic suddenly changed?
However, seeing Sun Fumin speaking excitedly, Jiang Ning roughly understood what was going on.
Jiang Ning remembers this memory competition because Sun Fumin would mention it at the dinner table every day during the event.
Praising this contestant today, praising that contestant tomorrow.
He must have just heard Political Commissar Zhou say that the next step was to form the nation's own "Spark Class," which is why he suddenly changed the subject!
Jiang Ning didn't pay much attention to the World Memory Championships, only knowing that a girl named Zhou Yun won the crown in the end.
Jiang Ning vaguely remembered that this result had left Su Mian feeling dejected for several days.
In the end, Sun Fumin secretly sighed, "Why does Su Mian always seem to be competing with everyone..."
Thinking about it, Jiang Ning looked up at Su Mian.
Coincidentally, Su Mian also looked up in this direction.
Their eyes met in the air, neither of them looking away. They stared at each other for a second before looking away.
Su Mian turned to look at Sun Fumin, listening calmly as he continued to praise Zhou Yun: "Zhou Yun is so incredibly amazing..."
After listening quietly for a while, Jiang Ning chose to close her eyes again, and her consciousness quickly sank into the "mysterious space".
The mysterious space remains unchanged.
If you don't actively use your mind to change it, every time you enter, it will be a hazy gray, much like fog.
However, Jiang Ning knew that these were not mist; if you zoomed in a little, you could see that they were beads.
As usual, Jiang Ning first divided the gray and off-white areas into two sides.
Gray represents people sleeping around the world right now, while off-white represents people waking up around the world right now.
It is precisely because of this situation that
Jiang Ningcai has always been convinced that the global regression is likely related to sleep.
An elderly scientist once made a hypothesis about this, suggesting that this is a global consciousness space.
Each bead here represents a manifestation of consciousness. The scientist even gave an example, using an old science fiction movie as an example.
He said this mysterious space, like the Tree of Life on Pandora, is an aggregation of all consciousnesses.
This view is highly regarded in Jiangning.
Su Mian's current research direction is in this direction.
The eight research teams she leads are mainly researching how to infer changes in human group consciousness by observing whether bacterial consciousness undergoes aggregation changes, but so far they haven't made much progress.
Jiang Ning regained his composure and, as was his habit, first grabbed the bead representing his family. After examining it for a while and finding that his family was all normal, he began his routine observation for the day.
Despite coming here to observe every day, I haven't found anything.
However, Jiang Ning was still willing to keep trying, not only because a group of scientists led by Academician Zhao suggested that he do it, but also because he himself wanted to do it this way.
After all, this kind of mutation happened to him, and even if he didn't contribute to scientific research, he was eager to figure out what it all meant.
If I had to describe it, it would be a very mysterious feeling: if he didn't understand it for a day, he would always feel insecure.
He couldn't explain this feeling of unease; the only time he felt this way was on the day Lin Wei committed suicide.
"call……"
Jiang Ning quickly took a deep breath and regained his composure, not daring to let his thoughts wander any further. He remembered that he had spent the past year in such a state of mental and emotional turmoil.
"It must be changed now, it must be changed..."
After giving himself several repetitions of self-suggestion, Jiang Ning felt his mind clear and began to gaze again at the two clouds above his head.