Abyss Solo

"Hi, Professor!"

Boss Yang squinted and smiled:

"Finally, everything's fine on my end now, I'm planning to explore the Guel Alliance. Would you like to join me? I can have your name listed as a special guest by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs."

Professor Hua Moli looked at Yang Ming with a complicated expression: "I'm not in the mood to joke with you."

"Alright, let's get straight to the point."

"You approached me intentionally before, didn't you?" Professor Hua Moli asked.

Yang Ming pondered for a moment: "I don't intend to deceive you, Professor. I did indeed approach you with a plan in mind, and I want that technology—the one where the brain doesn't explode during a memory overwrite."

Professor Hua Moli closed his eyes and sighed.

Yang Ming said seriously: "However, I didn't mean to force you, you know. If I wanted to harm you, I could use all sorts of means. I truly admire you, especially your honesty and your unique expertise in women's lingerie design."

"Go to hell."

Professor Hua Moli sighed:

"I thought I had really gained a friend, was so happy about it that I even went to tell my daughter, only to get shut out."

"Did you come to the Alliance just for this technology?"

"Well..."

Yang Ming didn't answer directly, but said:

"You've probably seen what I'm up to, and now it's almost achieved. I've reached a partnership with the Alliance, secretly meeting your Deputy Prime Minister, a few ministers, and even established a friendship with Duoduo Moduo, the Chief of Staff."

"Actually, you can rest assured, any technology transfer between us is conducted under full surveillance by the Guel Alliance's military and commerce department."

"In fact, I've given the Guel Alliance a batch of military technology, and they'll give us a batch too, that's the main event."

Professor Hua Moli seemed very clear-headed: "Then can you tell me what you plan to do with the overwrite stabilization technology?"

"That's my secret, Professor."

"Yang Ming, you know what this technology does, don't you?"

Hua Moli frowned and asked:

"With this technology, we can download a virtual persona generated by artificial intelligence into a living human brain."

"This defies ethics."

"My teacher developed this technology to treat amnesia and brain-related diseases, but after he developed it, he found the huge risks involved."

"The third Natural Disaster, you're probably familiar with the concept, refers to large-scale, highly automated artificial intelligence escaping human control, forming stable mechanical societies without human participation, which in turn threaten human society."

"This technology is a key."

"With this technology enhancement, if a large-scale third Natural Disaster loses control, they might capture humans, use human bodies, overwrite human brains with information, we establish personality and realization of self-consciousness up to 80% because of our unique neural structure, if this information is modified, the body will become someone else."

"Robots might reprogram human brains... that's too dangerous!"

Yang Ming stared at Hua Moli: "Professor, you're being overly worried."

"No, Yang Ming," Hua Moli said softly, "we must face this issue, if you can't convince me, I will never hand over this technology, the most critical data of this technology is in my brain, no one can force me."

Yang Ming's right thumb gently rubbed his index finger.

"Alright, Hua Moli."

Yang Ming said:

"I need this technology, but I'm not trying to monopolize or apply it on a large scale. If you agree to the 'memory erasure' clause, I can let you personally participate in this experiment."

"The so-called memory erasure means you participate in the entire experiment, and after it's over, erase your related memories."

"What do you think? I will give you a handsome reward, it's like you holding the scalpel, not going through my hands."

Hua Moli froze for a moment, frowned at Yang Ming, and said in a low voice:

"Do you have someone you want to resurrect, Yang Ming? It's impossible, I know data-based uploading of human brains to the virtual world is popular now, but a Thought Body separated from the body isn't actually that person."

"A human should be closely united by his body and Thought Body; purely data-driven upload to the virtual world operates according to pre-set programs, not human's own ways of thinking."

"That's just a virtual Thought Body."

"Even if you download this virtual Thought Body into someone's body, it will only change again, and essentially cannot be someone else, and the mechanism of the human body's influence on thinking is extremely complex, too many uncertainties are involved."

Yang Ming smiled: "Professor, just consider whether to agree with me... What I can promise you is, I won't conduct experiments that harm humanity."

Professor Hua Moli fell into deep contemplation.

Yang Ming heard a youthful female voice in his ear: "This is a good plan, we can just use his laboratory and some equipment."

Yang Ming:...

So, you didn't even prepare a lab within the Guel Alliance?

That's far off from that omnipotent Sister Li!

"I agree."

The old professor looked firmly and nodded.

Yang Ming smiled warmly: "Then go have a good talk with my Uncle Haton, I'll go explore other places, after finishing my official business here, I'll come to you."

"I don't want to see you again!"

Professor Hua Moli angrily cursed:

"You little liar!"

"You old gentleman."