With the hype from yesterday's drone sprinting into space laying the groundwork, follower counts surged, and the number of netizens watching the live stream today clearly experienced a qualitative leap.
Chen Yi opened the system interface to check the consciousness waves harvested tonight.
[Consciousness Waves: 183,2661↑]
After these past few days of observation and summarization.
Chen Yi had already discovered some properties of consciousness waves.
Due to quantum anchoring or observation intensity reasons.
Only when conducting a live broadcast did the consciousness waves collected by the system reach their maximum.
If no live broadcast was conducted, quantum anchoring diminished, and there was no direct observation behavior.
With the same popularity, the consciousness waves collected were only one-tenth to one-percent of those during a live broadcast.
As events passed and time ticked on, quantum anchoring diminished further, and the consciousness waves collected by the system would plummet even more.
Unless there could be some events that continuously sparked discussion and heated debates, constantly prompting netizens to voice different opinions.
Otherwise, according to Chen Yi's estimation, after 24 hours, an event's consciousness waves would drop to one-thousandth or even one-ten-thousandth of those during the live stream, which was barely better than nothing.
Now, a single live stream had successfully gathered and earned 1.83 million consciousness waves, so Chen Yi felt quite satisfied in his heart.
Logically speaking, the best way to use this system is to become an internet celebrity or a star.
A star posts a pay-per-view photo and can make millions in less than a day.
* Driving public opinion to collect consciousness waves is even easier than a tiger eating grasshoppers, a piece of cake.*
Pity that being a celebrity or internet celebrity is not my strong suit; I only know how to buy and sell drone model aircraft and tinker with some black technologies to manage to make a living.
Now, with so many consciousness waves, it is just the right time to upgrade the drone's control method and simultaneously patch up the loopholes of these past two days.
Thinking for a moment, Chen Yi walked into the adjacent study.
In the study, three large bookshelves were set up, each packed to the brim with at least a thousand books.
Among them were books representing cutting-edge technology such as model aircraft and drones, turbine engines, radar avionics, aerospace rocketry, and artificial intelligence, some basic physics and basic mathematics books and literature, as well as second-hand science magazines purchased in recent years.
These were all tools Chen Yi had bought to build up his persona back when he filmed videos and managed his self-media accounts.
Only, as the traffic of his account stabilized over the past two years, Chen-Self-Taught-Yi transformed into Chen-Boss-Yi, and these collections of books had never been touched again.
"Old friends, congratulations, you are coming in handy once more."
Looking at these fully stocked books, Chen Yi bent down and began searching the bookshelves.
For over four years of entrepreneurship, Chen Yi had always maintained a strong sense of crisis.
Do not look at how wildly and thrillingly he played these past two days with drones sprinting into space and intercepting white powder traffickers at supersonic speeds on the ocean.
Behind this, however, lay an obvious loophole.
Namely, the origin of the technology.
After all, he was previously just a junior college graduate.
Although he majored in a drone-related field and engaged in drone manufacturing, sales, and operations after graduation.
When it came to technology, though, he was just a rookie holding an intermediate certificate, and having graduated several years ago, he had long returned all the relevant technology to his teachers.
Under such circumstances, where did the drone technology broadcasted over the past two days come from?
How were high-definition, uncensored radar photography technology, space-sprinting engine technology, and microsecond-level avionics control technology researched and manufactured?
These questions were simply impossible for Chen Yi to explain clearly.
Even worse, professional drones were considered a semi-military field.
If these questions could not be explained clearly, there was no telling what kind of major trouble might arise.
Finally, after much deliberation.
Chen Yi thought of a solution to the problem, which was to build a virtual learning machine to patch up his own knowledge shortcomings.
Manufacturing items could read technical information; his current understanding of model engines was already at an expert level.
However, this was knowledge of a single technology, not systematic, holistic knowledge.
He was an expert only in the field of model engines, while remaining a rookie in other areas, including foundational knowledge.
This way, as long as he built a virtual machine to assist learning and filled in the missing foundational knowledge, all problems would be resolved.
Of course, the virtual learning machine was the covert truth.
On the surface, if anyone asked, Chen Yi would definitely pat his chest and declare.
He had successively bought over a thousand books, numerous literature pieces, and science magazines, with study materials piled across three large bookshelves, and was entirely self-taught.
The book purchase records from the past few years could prove that his words were not false.
As for how to realize the virtual learning machine.
Chen Yi's preliminary idea was brain-computer interfaces and virtual technology.
With such technology, he could learn in his sleep.
Others sleep while I study.
Skillfully mastering the time-management techniques of an academic high-achiever.
"Found it!"
After rummaging through the bookshelves for a while.
Chen Yi found an EEG mind-control toy he had bought previously.
He planned to use this EEG consciousness-control toy as a foundation to step-by-step forge a true virtual consciousness machine.
When the virtual consciousness machine was completed.
Not only would the learning problem be solved, but he could also manufacture true interstellar drones.
He had already touched the energy limits of drones currently propelled by chemical fuels as an energy source.
To further manufacture interstellar drones, he had to replace chemical propulsion methods like aviation kerosene with more advanced propulsion modes.
The control methods for such interstellar drones would definitely need to be changed as well.
Operation could no longer be done through control sticks, rudder pedals, and buttons; it required an immersive, intelligent control method.
Otherwise, that would not be called an interstellar drone, but rather an interstellar rocket.
A rocket that could only fly along preset programs and orbital paths.
A more advanced propulsion method should be a Hall thruster.
Thinking about the mechanism of a Hall thruster, Chen Yi did not stop the movements of his hands at all.
Pulling out a screwdriver, he dismantled the EEG toy into parts.
Then, he omitted two screws and reassembled it back together.
Thus.
A hand-assembled and manufactured EEG toy with adjustable attributes was completed.
[Item: EEG Control Toy] [Attributes: Energy x2.8, Intensity x3.2, Information Computation x2.1, Information Processing x0.1, Signal Transmission x0.1, Aesthetics x3.2] [Consciousness Waves: 1833169↑] [Adjustable Attributes: 0] [Note: This is a bamboozling toy with almost zero technical content that can only roughly sense brainwaves]
"These attributes are truly appalling."
Looking at the three shockingly low attributes—information computation, information processing, and signal transmission—Chen Yi could not help but complain.
If his analysis was correct.
Information computation referred to the computational power of this EEG toy.
Information processing was the processing of brainwave information.
Signal transmission was the forward-sensing and reverse-input capability for brainwave signals.
Without a doubt, these were the core attributes of the EEG virtual machine.
Aside from information computation being slightly better, the rest of the information processing and signal transmission were trash, entirely living up to the name of a bamboozling toy.
"This gadget has zero value for adjustment; it's way too low."
Chen Yi calculated that to read technical information, the highest attribute could not exceed the sum of the other attributes, and simultaneously could not exceed ten times the lowest attribute.
However, with those two 0.1 attributes of information processing and signal transmission sitting right there, there was simply no way to read any good technical information.
"Tomorrow, I'll have Xiaoyu purchase a batch of top-tier conscious brainwave control toys and order some high-strength titanium alloy casing accessories; otherwise, there's no way to handle this."
Tossing the trash EEG toy in his hand aside, Chen Yi took out his phone and sent a WeChat message to Qin Xiaoyu.
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