Needs Careful Thought
After chatting for a while, Xiang Kun finally managed to get Tang Baona to "forget" about the matter by offering her ten meals.
However, through chatting, he discovered that Tang Baona wasn't really angry; she was mostly joking. She wasn't even annoyed that he had accidentally played that line in the office, causing misunderstandings among her colleagues.
Finally, after "knocking" on ten meals from Xiang Kun, the emojis Tang Baona sent even made him feel that she seemed somewhat "smug".
Xiang Kun thought about it and concluded that Tang Baona still trusted his character and knew he wasn't the kind of sleazy person.
Yes, that should be it.
Around 9 a. m., Xiang Kun put the twelve Minion Wooden Carving in a supermarket plastic bag and went out. He planned to find a crowded place to test the effect of these sculptures and see if his idea of increasing influence through quantity would work.
Previously, it was believed that these wood carvings, Emotional Injection," could sense the emotions of the people closest to them to some extent when they came into direct contact with people or were close enough to them.
The effect on the emotions of those around him only works after they fall asleep. Xiang Kun suspects that the "power" of this effect is insufficient, so he wants to experiment with more wood carvings that have the same pattern of "Emotional Injection" to try to influence others while they are awake.
So Xiang Kun went to the subway station, waited for a while, and then chose the most crowded train to board. In this environment, he carried a plastic bag close to other people so that he wouldn't look strange.
However, after entering the carriage and starting to sense the wood carving, Xiang Kun was suddenly dumbfounded, and then couldn't help but want to slap his forehead.
He only just realized that he had no way of sensing two or more objects that had been "Emotional Injection" at the same time!
Initially, when he tried to sense objects with which he had established a "Super-Sensory Link," his brain didn't have enough "threads," so he could only focus his attention on one object at a time. Later, his brain got used to silently "multi-threading" processing, and the problem of sensing multiple objects simultaneously became much less significant.
If the "Super-Sensory Link" item is right at hand, there's no need for sensing at all; it can be used "as naturally as an extension of one's own arm." For example, when he's flipping Coin, he doesn't need to consciously sense it; he can control the Coin to land precisely on the side he wants.
So later, when sensing objects that "Emotional Injection," because there were only three samples and his attention was focused on the dream he was experiencing, he didn't consider sensing things simultaneously. He only learned about this function of influencing dreams: an object can only affect one person at a time, and this influence has a "cool-off period" for the same object.
But now, standing in the subway car, Xiang Kun suddenly realized that he had overlooked this important issue before carving 12 Minion Wooden Carving, and only now did he discover that only one Minion Wooden Carving could be sensed at a time!
Even if these wood carvings were all made with the same emotion Emotional Injection into them, they still cannot simultaneously sense the emotions of another piece!
If his previous deduction is correct—that the "Emotional Injection" items can only take effect when he senses them—it means that although his processor has 12 cores, only one core can be used at a time.
What's the point?
The idea that quantitative change can lead to qualitative change is simply impossible to achieve.
Xiang Kun was slightly annoyed. Hadn't he wasted his time creating the "Twelve Minion Formation"?
Is it because it involves "emotions" that it's impossible to establish multiple connections simultaneously?
What's even more frustrating is that he hadn't considered this beforehand. It was a very simple matter; he could have just sensed it. Before carving the "Twelve Yellow Men," he already had more than one "Emotional Injection" item.
Xiang Kun was secretly alarmed. He knew that after his brain underwent several blood-drinking mutations and evolutions through various training methods, he could almost "instinctively" come up with several plans and solutions at the first moment when encountering problems.
These plans and schemes were actually his own "thoughts," but they were "instinctive reactions" after his brain had been trained, so they were not "thought deeply" or "well thought out."
For most things, these plans and solutions are already comprehensive enough, and there's no need to waste time "thinking deeply" about them; all you need to do is consider how to "choose" them.
But now it seems that if the solutions and plans that my brain "instinctively" gives me are relatively simple or require an immediate response, then I can directly "choose" to use them. Otherwise, I still need to "think" more deeply.
Of course, Xiang Kun hasn't given up on his "Twelve Minion Formation" yet.
He began to sense these "Minions" one by one and number them, from "Minion 1" to "Minion 12".
After sensing them one by one, I could indeed vaguely sense the emotions of the people next to me. In terms of sensing emotions, all twelve Minions are currently functioning without any problems.
Then Xiang Kun reached into the bag and touched several Minion Wooden Carving, trying to sense more of them at once through touch, but the attempt failed.
He then tried to sense the "emotions" on one Minion as a basis for another, trying to "connect" them, but the attempt still failed.
Then he started thinking again: was there a way to combine the twelve Minion Wooden Carving into one whole?
After thinking for a long time, I only had some vague directions, but I hadn't figured out any specific operational methods.
So he changed his approach, thinking that he could "delay" his own senses, or delay the activation of the wood carving's functions. By delaying the activation by different amounts of time, he could find a way to make them be "activated" at the same time and take effect simultaneously.
Even if a sensory connection cannot be established simultaneously to perceive emotions, as long as all twelve wooden carvings are "activated" at the same time, their ability to influence the emotions of others may be activated.
But a solution still couldn't be found...
Xiang Kun didn't leave the subway. Since he was already there, he still wanted to do some experiments. However, he changed to a more spacious and less crowded train and found a seat.
He took a Minion Wooden Carving and held it in his hand, then closed his eyes and pretended to sleep. After a while, when a girl who looked like a college student sat down next to him, he let go of the sculpture, causing it to fall to the ground and land right at the girl's feet.
The girl glanced down, picked up the Minion, patted Xiang Kun's arm, and after he opened his eyes and looked at her with a confused expression, she handed him the wooden carving. "You dropped something."
"Oh, thank you! Thank you!" Xiang Kun was taken aback for a moment, then accepted it with a grateful expression.
In fact, the moment the girl's hand touched the wood carving, Xiang Kun began to establish a connection and could sense a very faint hint of "curiosity" in her.
Xiang Kun focused his attention, exerting his "effort" at the conscious level, wanting to see if concentrating could enhance his "sensing" and allow the wood carving to better "stimulate" its ability to influence emotions, assimilating the target's emotions when she was awake rather than asleep, making her feel "happy".
However, the girl's emotions did not change until Xiang Kun reached out and took the wood carving. In the fraction of a second that the two of them were touching the wood carving at the same time, there was no difference between them.
"Did you make this Minion Wooden Carving yourself?" the girl asked suddenly after returning the carving to him.
None of his twelve wood carvings were finely polished; after all, they were just "tools," and all that was needed was to Emotional Injection." So they looked obviously very rough and didn't resemble finished products, which is why it's normal for girls to ask this question.
Xiang Kun glanced at her and quickly assembled her basic information in his mind:
Judging from her age and style of dress, she's likely a college student or a recent graduate working independently, given it's a weekday during working hours. The stop she boarded suggests a university is the most probable location. She had just showered, applied light makeup, and carefully painted her nails, but there's still a faint smell of oil paint on her. The painting on her white canvas shoes is likely her own work, indicating she's probably an art student or related professional. While sitting next to her, she watched several Douyin videos related to handicrafts and dance, showing her interest in these areas. At this time, dressed up and going out alone, she's likely meeting her boyfriend on a date. Judging from her actions and tone when she picked up the wood carving and woke Xiang Kun, she seems to be a polite girl.
Xiang Kun had already instinctively collected most of the information after the girl entered the carriage. Now he was just retrieving and summarizing it. Of course, he couldn't guarantee that all his speculations were correct, but at least it was enough for him to use as a basis for the next conversation.
"Yes, I made it myself. I wanted to give it as a birthday gift, but I feel like something's not quite right, so I wanted to take it to a friend to see if they can take a look and suggest some modifications or make it again."
Xiang Kun spoke with a somewhat shy expression and a low voice, taking out the other Minions from his plastic bag to show the girl.
The girl picked it up with great interest, examining it as she said, "Actually, you carved it quite well. It just needs some polishing; at least to me, it looks fine. You're giving it to a girl, right? I think she'll really like it."
Every time the girl picked up a wood carving, Xiang Kun would immediately change the target of his perception. However, no matter how he changed it, his perception of the girl's emotions did not change much, and he did not find any signs that the wood carvings could affect the girl's emotions.
Clearly, a wood carving imbued with a single "Emotional Injection" has almost no emotional impact on a person in a conscious state.
"Do you like Minions too?" Xiang Kun decided to change his strategy and try to guide the girl's emotions in a "happy" direction, to see if the wood carving could be more effective when the target emotions were in the "same direction".
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