Chapter 12: Bad Situation_2

"This attic is set up so solidly and is accessible from all directions. It's obviously a good place prepared for mice, but they would not be so kind as to not have any traps."

"The organizer intentionally didn't set up any clocks, and the wall clocks on the other floors are all huge and immovable, and they are only visible in especially exposed, open areas."

"This means that when the mouse is well hidden and loses track of time, to find out the time, they have to take the risk of leaving their hiding spot and go to an open area."

Su Lei said in confusion, "What's the point of that?"

Gao Xin shrugged, "People usually don't have a sense of time. In an enclosed space, without a time reference and in a state of high tension, they will feel like time is passing very slowly."

"Thus, inducing the mouse to leave their hiding spot before the right time, exposing themselves to the eyes of the cat, consequently increasing the risk."

Meimei looked at Gao Xin, "This is the 'slow clock effect.' Because under high pressure, a person's heart rate accelerates, blood pressure rises, thus making time seem to pass more slowly. Second, under high pressure, people produce more dopamine in their brains, which makes them more focused and sharply aware of the environment around them, slowing down their perception of time."

"Aren't you uneducated? How do you know this kind of knowledge?"

Gao Xin looked at Meimei in amazement, "Do you even need to learn this? Isn't it something you'd know if you just think about it? But I don't really understand the principles you're talking about."

Meimei scratched her head, "Er... well, if you have to put it that way..."

"But your previous plan, that's not something someone could come up with just by having a brain... If it weren't for your reminder, I'd still be foolishly trying to negotiate with the dog," she said.

Gao Xin calmly said, "I'm not smart at all. I just try to think of all possibilities and put myself in every perspective. Ultimately, it all boils down to being earnest."

"Earnest?" Meimei felt that the answer was evasive.

Gao Xin said earnestly, "Don't you know? It really is all about being earnest. In my opinion, you're actually very smart, quick-witted, but you just don't put in the effort and ignore some issues."

"Whereas I'm very slow, I have to think a lot, over and over, to understand things."

For a moment, Meimei didn't know whether he was complimenting her or criticizing her.

"What? You still can't figure out that I told you you could cooperate with the cat?" Gao Xin asked.

Meimei said, "That's not the case; I understood as soon as I heard it."

Gao Xin nodded, "There you go, you're very smart. It's just that you don't apply yourself."

"..." Meimei had nothing to say.

After thinking it over, she sighed, "Your definition of intelligence seems to be different from the normal one, isn't it?"

Hearing this, Gao Xin actually spoke with a bit of sadness, "Actually, many of the definitions I think of are different from others."

"From childhood to adulthood, the common sense that other children spit out easily often is something that took me a long time to come up with, or even things I never thought of..."

Seeing his distress, Meimei asked, "Why is that?"

Gao Xin sighed, "From childhood, my father, besides ensuring that I keep in mind and abide by some genuine human emotions and ethics, didn't teach me any knowledge, even basic common sense that everyone knows. He forced me to think about it on my own."

"Afterwards, he wouldn't even tell me whether I was right or wrong but just let me keep pondering and verifying on my own."

"If you can't figure it out, be earnest, be sincere, and keep thinking! So up to now, I've gotten used to silently observing, considering all the possibilities."

"But I'm truly slow, how could I possibly think of all the possibilities?"

"So this resulted in, when I later went to the community school, my grades were always at the bottom. I couldn't keep up with others at all. The teacher taught too quickly, every sentence seemed like gibberish. Whereas other students understood, as if they all had a secret code among them."

"But I was foolish and clueless, often needing to spend many times, even dozens of times the effort to understand what the teacher was talking about in class."

Meimei was dumbfounded; that was just too pitiful.

His beliefs and cognition were really different from others. From childhood to adulthood, he had lacked the common knowledge that humans have, and it seemed like everyone else spoke as if they had a secret codebook, except for him.

How much effort had Gao Xin put in to catch up, to be able to speak like a normal person now? Just the thought was heart-wrenching.

Then Meimei said angrily, "What kind of father is that! So irresponsible, to have a child and not properly educate them!"

"What do kids know? Don't they rely on adults to lead them? What does he do? Not teaching even the basics, no wonder you can't keep up with your studies."

Gao Xin said, "He was called a cyber wizard, the person with the most knowledge in the whole community."

"What? He's a cyber wizard?" Meimei was stunned.

The so-called cyber wizard refers to the people who are still upholding the human technological systems now, long ago they were called scientists.

Of course, Emperor Ran, the most powerful AI, invented product after product that humans thought were impossible, proving that human science had entered a dead end and that there was no future left to speak of for it.

Just take cold nuclear fusion: A group of human scientists researched it for decades, not even understanding the basics, which is quite telling.

Ran's technology is like a nameless thing, with principles so beyond human teaching that people simply cannot comprehend.

According to Ran, humans had reached their own limit, just as the thoughts of two-million-year-old ancient apes could not grasp advanced mathematics.

This fact caused many scientists to collapse, unable to accept that their pursuit of truth was confined to such bounds, beyond which they could not pass.