Void Jigsaw Puzzle

It was late at night, Zhong Chenmu was lying in bed, but he still couldn't sleep.

He opened his eyes wide, and in the silence he could feel the thoughts surging in his mind, loud and surging.

Like many nights in the past, he did not lock the door of his house, always fantasizing that the door would suddenly open and his parents would come back without his expectation.

Then they cried tears of joy and hugged each other, as if the past few months of separation were just a brief nightmare.

However, like many nights before, nothing happened until midnight.

Unconsciously, he felt his eyes moist again. He wiped them vigorously with his hands and forced himself to switch his thoughts to other things.

He still has a lot of things to worry about.

During the day at Guo Ling's house, he shared everything he could with his advance team, both about the Silicon Clan and the idea of ​​establishing a new organization. If he had previously been apprehensive, worried that they would retreat due to unknown risks, a few hours later, he was moved by their resolve.

Old Man Liu said, "You saved our lives, no questions asked!"

Even each of them agreed that when the time was right, the advance team should become independent.

"If we don't share the same ideals, we can't work together. If Pierce goes back on his original intention when he founded the Prophet Society, we'll start anew! I've worked for twenty years, and I never thought I'd have the opportunity to start my own business in middle age!"

This is what Guo Ling said.

Even Fan Ting, who had taken Zhu Tong downstairs to play, immediately expressed her full support after returning to the room.

Zhu Tong continued to shout in a clear childish voice: "A family must be together!"

They are naturally a solid backing, but Zhong Chenmu also has a tool he can rely on, which is the system in his body.

Although Zhong Chenmu could roughly guess the operating mechanism of this system from being completely confused at the beginning to having a partial understanding now, he still could not control its precise rules, nor could he independently exert its effectiveness.

However, after several months of continuous experience and thinking, he felt that he could have a good try tonight. Even if he still couldn't achieve complete control, at least he would be a little closer to this point.

He felt that perhaps he needed to slowly adapt to this system before he could thrive in it.

The system in my mind also emerged very appropriately.

The green number changes from "11001000" to "11110001".

The number before the change appeared on the night of his second contact with Hydrogen Thought.

What is certain is that every time you choose to face a challenge, or encounter difficulties and overcome them, the binary numbers of the system will accumulate at the beginning, end or during the process.

These numbers are a bit like reward points given to him for "not giving in to reality and not accepting the status quo". Let's call them "unyielding values"!

If the direction he chooses is the right one, his resilience will continue to increase.

The number of digits of the indomitable value has increased from three at the beginning to eight now, and there is a certain pattern to follow. This is because at the beginning, what you encounter is just a specific little thing in life. As time goes by, the problems, challenges or difficulties you encounter are all on a larger and more macro level.

He didn't know the upper limit of the number of binary digits. He learned from the book that computers always have upper limits in terms of processing power and storage capacity, such as 32 bits, 64 bits, etc. Although his system is not a computer, since it is presented in binary values, it should follow similar rules.

After initially mastering the qualitative numerical accumulation rules, Zhong Chenmu was not so concerned about the specific values. He felt that after the large number of digits was determined, the changes in the specific values ​​had a certain degree of randomness.

"I didn't expect my system to be so selective about the big things and let the small things go..."

Next is the consumption of indomitable value, which is the law of release.

What Zhong Chenmu can be sure of is that, up to now, the indomitable value in the system can be consumed or released in two ways. One is to be cleared almost instantly, and the other is to decrease linearly.

The first scenario often occurs in extremely urgent situations. Before his body has time to react, the strongest and most direct thought in his mind can trigger the release of his Unyielding Value. Therefore, he used this mechanism to successively save Guo Ling, Fan Ting, Old Man Liu, and Zhu Tong. If he happened to be outdoors with a clear view of the sky at the moment of the Unyielding Value's release, he could "split" a "crack" in the sky. This is why, out of the four life-saving attempts, only three cracks appeared. During the incident with Old Man Liu, he happened to be indoors, in a private room at the "Grasp Everything" massage parlor in Leyouting.

As for the effects produced after the release of the indomitable value, whether it is cutting off rivers, cutting down ancient trees, building invisible stairs next to houses, or causing the white area of ​​zebra crossings to quickly rise into stone walls, although the forms presented are different, there are still similarities, that is: they are all concrete manifestations of the real world of digital sampling, turning the continuous world of the target area into a discrete world in a short period of time.

Zhong Chenmu was not 100% sure whether his judgment was correct, but he could not think of any other possibilities for the time being.

Obviously, the more digits the unyielding value has, the higher the frequency of "digital sampling." So, when the unyielding value is only three or four digits, his system can only divide rivers and ancient trees into two sections, rather than three or four. When the unyielding value is increased to five or more digits, it can produce multi-section effects, such as multi-level steps and zebra crossing stone walls.

The second scenario is easier to understand, the only time it occurred was when he discovered Pierce secretly communicating with Hydrogen Thought. After releasing his Unyielding Value, he was able to "eavesdrop" remotely. Analysis suggests this is likely due to Hydrogen Thought's inherent ability to communicate telepathically, allowing the system to interface directly with it. If the conversation had been between two people from Wuming City, or someone lacking this ability to communicate, the system might not have been triggered.

Therefore, the function of the system is either to save lives - and save others, or to eavesdrop - and most of the time it can only eavesdrop on hydrogen thoughts.

Replaying this, Zhong Chenmu smiled bitterly in the darkness: You are really professional and focused...

He stared at the number in his mind that had just jumped to "11111000" and said softly, "Next time, where will you spend your energy?"

During the entire process, he had deliberately closed his mind to prevent it from being eavesdropped on by hydrogen thoughts. In addition, it was already late at night, and Zhong Chenmu felt fatigue finally coming over him. He fell into a deep sleep without realizing it.

Another night passed, and until morning, there was still no movement at the door of the house.