Chapter 91 Visit from Ma Zhao_1
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"Mr. Cao, I'm sorry to disturb you at this time after work."
Cao Ge looked at the several middle-aged individuals in front of him with some confusion, but seeing Tu Hengyu beside them, he still led the three people into the conference room.
"Who are you?"
"Hello, I am Ma Zhao, and we are all researchers from the Mount-Shift Project Implementation Center." A man of around fifty got up from his chair, with rimless glasses, and extended his right hand to him.
"Hello, Mr. Ma." Cao Ge looked at the familiar face and reached out his hand.
"So, have you come to see me about the Yuhang Star engine?" Cao Ge asked.
"I'm not quite clear about the matter Mr. Cao is referring to, and we are not here for that issue."
"Then what is it for? A medical issue?" Cao Ge glanced at Tu Hengyu, then looked back at Ma Zhao and asked.
Ma Zhao looked at his colleagues next to him, then looked back at Cao Ge and said, "Mr. Cao, we have heard that Mr. Cao has deep research in artificial intelligence, so we would like to ask for Mr. Cao's assistance."
"What do you need help with?"
"We've heard Mr. Cao has a highly intelligent artificial intelligence, so we wanted to ask if there is a possibility for cooperation between us."
"Is that what this is about? I'm curious, Director Ma, in what area do you wish to cooperate?"
"Mr. Cao, I won't hide it from you. We've heard from Tu Hengyu that you have mature technology for digital life here, so we wanted to take a look," Ma Zhao looked around, then turned his gaze back to Cao Ge and said.
Cao Ge glanced at Tu Hengyu, then said, "Is that right?"
After knowing their purpose, Cao Ge was no longer in a hurry. He leaned back slightly and then asked, "I wonder, Director Ma, after you take a look, what do you intend to do?"
"If there is research value, naturally, we would cooperate with Mr. Cao to develop it. Mr. Cao is also aware that research on digital life is banned worldwide. Representing the government, if we join in, it could save Mr. Cao a lot of trouble. Mr. Cao brought this up to Tu Hengyu with this intention, didn't you?"
"Director Ma speaks right to the point. Since that's the case, let's take a look at the item first, and after your conclusions are out, we can discuss how to cooperate."
"Good, may I know where Mr. Cao's equipment is?" Ma Zhao asked.
"The device to enter the digital world is at my home, not at the company. Mr. Ma, if you don't mind the trouble, you can come back with me right now," Cao Ge said.
"Mr. Cao, since we've come today, we naturally want to see the item. Since Mr. Cao has said the device is at home, then it's not too much to ask Mr. Cao to take us there."
"Alright." Cao Ge nodded.
The group left the office, descended the stairs, and finally arrived at Cao Ge's residential community by car.
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"Please come in." Cao Ge opened the door to the villa and walked in.
Under Cao Ge's guidance, Ma Zhao and his colleagues entered the house.
"Follow me." Once inside the house, Cao Ge didn't chat with them but immediately led them to the room equipped with the game capsules.
Ma Zhao and the others looked at the enormous equipment in the room, then turned to Cao Ge and asked, "Mr. Cao, is this the device for entering the digital world?"
"That's right." Cao Ge nodded.
After receiving a definite answer from Cao Ge, Ma Zhao, followed by his two colleagues, walked over and carefully examined the two game capsules one by one.
"Mr. Cao, perhaps I wasn't clear just now. I need to ask again, is this what Dr. Tu Hengyu mentioned, the device that can turn consciousness into digital life and also allow living people into the digital world?" Ma Zhao observed the game capsule and then turned back to look at him and asked.
Meeting Ma Zhao's gaze, Cao Ge was silent for a moment, then said, "Mr. Ma, actually, I don't agree that it's a 'digital world.' The digital world and digital life, that's Dr. Tu's terminology and the result of his research these past few months."
"If it's not digital life, then what is it?" Ma Zhao frowned slightly, glanced at Tu Hengyu nearby, then looked back at Cao Ge with a puzzled expression and asked.
"Maybe it's a parallel universe, or perhaps another micro universe dependent on the server. Although I developed this thing, it has started self-iteration, and now I'm not able to tell you exactly what it is."
"If you want to know, the best way is to experience it yourself. Maybe after you experience it, you will understand," Cao Ge thought for a moment, then said.
Ma Zhao pondered for a while, then looked at Cao Ge with a furrowed brow.
"Alright, then let's go in and take a look. Since it's my first time, I would ask Mr. Cao to accompany me."
"Of course." Cao Ge immediately agreed.
"Great, then please wait a moment, Mr. Cao, I need to make arrangements with my assistant."
"Mr. Ma, take your time," Cao Ge said nonchalantly.
Ma Zhao smiled slightly, then turned to his assistant and said, "Professor Wang, after I go in, you must keep an eye on my physical condition. This is important data for our subsequent assessments."
"Director Ma, rest assured, I will keep a record," a middle-aged man in his thirties nodded.
"Mm." Ma Zhao nodded, then glanced again at Tu Hengyu, but said nothing.
"Mr. Cao, let's start," Ma Zhao turned and faced Cao Ge.
Cao Ge nodded, then went to the computer and started a series of preparatory tasks. After verifying everything was correct, he opened the game capsule's hatch.
"Director Ma, once you lie down inside, you don't need to do anything. Just close your eyes," Cao Ge said.
Ma Zhao nodded, then followed Cao Ge's lead and lay down in another game capsule.
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It was still the same pitch-black darkroom.
Cao Ge was the first to wake up from the cloning chamber.
As it was Ma Zhao's first time, it would take him a while longer.
Cao Ge climbed out of the cloning chamber.
The figure inside the adjacent cloning chamber was blurred, the person indistinct.
Cao Ge only glanced at it, then went over to the computer in the laboratory, began intervening with Ma Zhao's clone, and accelerated the cloning process.
If the clone's lifespan were not considered, the cloning time could be reduced to half an hour.
When Tu Hengyu first came in, Cao Ge had done the same.
These people, entering for the first time with no data in the cloning chamber, had to go through this process.
Once they entered, Murphy would obtain their data, and then begin cloning new bodies. This way, when they entered the next time, their consciousness would be transferred into the flawless body, while the original body would be destroyed.
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