"The Sacred Sound of the Great Dao" [Part Two]

After Wang Qi appeared, Feng Luoyi and Turing voluntarily made room for him at the table, signaling for him to sit. This showed that they had already acknowledged Wang Qi's abilities as a Mathematician, regarding him as an equal fellow traveler rather than a junior. Turing even smiled at Wang Qi. "That manifested phantom of yours can't drink tea anyway, so I won't pour you any."

Feng Luoyi was the first to ask Wang Qi, "Has everything been settled?"

"Yes. I've finished dealing with Gou Dabao's loose ends, and there should be a report from that side as well. This time, over there..."

"You needn't tell me the particulars. I only need to know that nothing went wrong." Feng Luoyi spoke calmly. When Wang Qi and Gou Dabao had begun their empirical verification, many Heavenly Swords had already been trained on that hidden place. Given the circumstances at the time, even if Gou Dabao had escaped that space-station-like miniature Celestial Artifact, he would only have been caught by the Heavenly Swords and utterly vaporized.

Feng Luoyi first briefly told Wang Qi about the conversation he had just had with Turing. Wang Qi was first awestruck by what Turing had accomplished, then marveled at the wondrousness of this universe's physical laws.

In this universe, the concept of the Von Neumann machine had appeared earlier than that of the Turing Machine. It was an exceedingly marvelous thing. Feng Luoyi and Turing had first standardized the Von Neumann architecture by imitating the souls of living beings, then further mechanized it, arriving at a not-entirely-rigorous "Turing Machine."

Only a universe where technological black boxes formed especially easily could support such a phenomenon.

At present, Shenzhou cultivators understood calculating artifacts and abacuses like this—first, calculating artifacts were undoubtedly advanced versions of abacuses. But was there