Chapter 142: Open Card Game
U.S. Academy of Sciences, conference room.

Scientists from various fields in the United States have gathered together, looking serious and focused.

Dean Marcia stood at the conference table and displayed the intelligence and data currently collected on the big screen.

A string of eye-catching data is displayed on the screen:

On January 1, 10 crazy cultivators appeared in Florida.

On January 1, there were 11 people with rebirth delusions in Florida.

On January 1, 12 rioters appeared in Florida.

On January 1, the city of Washington found about 13 people falling into nihilism.

Tao stood next to Marcia, at the front of the conference room, took a deep breath, and looked stern:
"Everyone, the current situation is already very serious. This series of strange phenomena is by no means accidental. It is very likely caused by some extraordinary power that can control dreams."

There was a hint of chill in his voice, and his eyes scanned the colleagues present.

"As to why it was a dream, I won't go into details here. You all have the corresponding information in your hands."

A scientist in the field of brain science frowned and raised his own question:
"Dr. Tao, no one in our Academy of Sciences has fallen into nihilism. Does this mean that the other party can accurately screen the dreamers?"

Tao Zhexuan nodded, his expression becoming more serious:

"This is exactly the key point I want to emphasize. The other party can obviously choose the people who enter the dream independently.

“This means that the other party can tailor the dream.

“But if they target us scientists and weave a dream suitable for scientists, the consequences will be disastrous.”

As soon as the words fell, there was a murmur of discussion in the conference room.

Scientists are extremely smart people and they understood Tao's intention almost instantly.

A young mathematician couldn't help asking:

"You mean, we need to predict in advance the dream methods that the other party may use, so as to be prepared for any eventuality?"

Tao Zhexuan nodded and said:
"That's right. Just like in ancient times when an army was on the march and fighting, it was common for a general to be alienated by the enemy without knowing it.

“But if he knows the enemy’s plot in advance and knows that the enemy will use a strategy of alienation, then the probability of the strategy’s success will be greatly reduced.

“By the same token, if we can predict in advance what the dream might contain.

"Then even if the dream is real, we will still be on guard."

Tao paused and explained:

“The reason why those crazy immortal cultivators fell into the trap is because they didn’t know in advance that there are extraordinary creatures who can simulate an extremely realistic dream world.

“If you knew about this information gap in advance and experienced something unusual in your dream, such as a comet hitting the earth, no matter how real the dream was and how realistic your five senses were.

“You will also realize that you are in a dream.”

Terence Tao wrote the words "Methods for predicting dreams" on the whiteboard and then turned his gaze to the audience.

He said in a deep voice:
"If the other party wants to manipulate the scientists' dreams, there are only two possible results they want to achieve.

"The first is to incite rebellion, which maximizes the other party's interests. The second is to drive us crazy and make it impossible for us to continue working for the United States.

“What we need to predict are the scientists’ inner weaknesses and potential temptations, and speculate on the means they may use against us in our dreams.

"Only in this way can we use each other's dreams to concentrate on scientific research and not lose ourselves."

A psychology professor stood up and offered his opinion:
“The weaknesses of scientists are mostly concentrated on their curiosity about the unknown, their persistence in the pursuit of truth, and some even pursue fame and academic achievements.

“These are gaps that are extremely easy to exploit.”

Terence Tao nodded and said:

"That's right. The other party might take advantage of our desire for truth and obsession with exploration to create a dream that would make us lost."

A scientist who studies quantum physics said:
“If someone offers us a completely new theoretical framework, many of us may find it hard to resist.”

After a discussion, Tao proposed the next action plan:

"From now on, each of us must strengthen our resistance and increase our vigilance. No matter how real the dream is, we cannot be deceived." Everyone in the meeting room nodded.

In this invisible war, the U.S. Academy of Sciences has gathered the wisdom of thousands of scientists.

In just two hours, they imagined and sorted out two thousand possible dream scenarios.

Each dream generally revolves around two themes:

To incite rebellion or drive mad.

Possible dream scenarios:

Facing injustice and exclusion in the United States.

In dreams, they may be isolated by their own team, deprived of experimental qualifications, or even excluded to the point where they cannot carry out academic work.

This kind of situation will lead them to hate the United States and achieve the goal of inciting rebellion.

Other possible dream scenarios:

Endless scientific research failures.

In this dream, scientists may experience one experimental failure after another, with each failure pushing them closer to their psychological bottom line.

This makes them doubt the scientific research goals they have been pursuing for a long time.

Dreams create a real and hopeless sense of frustration. Through constant failures, scientists gradually collapse and completely doubt their lives.

Scientists have compiled more than two thousand possibilities for dreams like this.

In the final analysis, in Tao's view, the ultimate goals of dream designers are nothing more than two:

Or make them lose their minds and become crazy people like immortal cultivators.

Or let their faith be shaken and thus incite rebellion.

At the end of the meeting, Tao stood up and concluded solemnly:
"We must remember that no matter how real a dream may be, it is still essentially false. We must be able to see through its falsehood.

“Once you notice anything slightly out of place, immediately check yourself to see if you might be dreaming.”

The meeting ended.

This is a game of IQ.

Scientists in the United States want to use dreams to conduct scientific research over a long period of time.

Jiang Huai wanted to get rid of these scientists or incite them to rebel.

Both sides now have their cards open, and it depends on who has the better skills.

……

1 month 14 day.

Two o'clock in the morning.

Night fell over the U.S. Academy of Sciences and all the lights went out.

Only dense red surveillance lights remained.

However, beneath this apparent calm, a pair of tiny eyes are quietly observing this place from high in the sky.

Jiang Huai, a mosquito, was quietly suspended in the sky, far away from the U.S. Academy of Sciences.

He did not approach rashly because he knew that the National Academy of Sciences was one of the most important places in the United States and that its security measures were extraordinary.

As the world's most powerful country, the United States has a large amount of undisclosed black technology.

Jianghuai has never regarded the island country and the United States as opponents of the same level.

Until now, he still doesn't know what the US's trump card is.

In order to deal with him, what kind of black technology will the United States come up with?

(End of this chapter)

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