"Did Hua Xian disconnect?"
"Did you understand that move Hua Xian just used? Why did he suddenly become so powerful?"
"Hua Xian had always been a talent-type player, always at the forefront of the world. This World Boss was especially well designed; it happened to draw out his potential, let him break through his bottleneck, and comprehend a unique ultimate move of his own—that was probably it."
"I'm so jealous. I want to comprehend an ultimate move too. Hey, this boss design is just one word: brilliant! I feel like I'm in great form too. Maybe I can break through my limits as well!"
"I feel it too. My brain feels hot, like it's overclocking. Keep fighting the boss!"
The fierce battle resumed. This time, many players entered an inexplicable state of accelerated thought. The livestream viewers only felt that their idols were in godlike form, assuming they had exploded with potential after being squeezed by the boss and provoked by Hua Xian. But no one knew that this was actually a special effect of the Link Project.
In factories scattered across the world, the brains of players inside one tank after another were undergoing modification.
The human brain possessed unimaginable potential. With a mere few dozen watts of power consumption, it had created the splendid flowerbed of human civilization. But the human brain also had innate limitations: narrow bandwidth and signals that traveled far too slowly.
The narrow bandwidth stemmed from structural limitations, and altering the structure might improve it. Take Apocalypse-version Big Head Chu, for instance: his brain was enormous, his neural bundles exceptionally thick, and his bandwidth immediately broadened.
Slow signal transmission, however, was the truly fatal problem.
For nerve cells to transmit information, they had to open and close protein channels, triggering positive and negative ions