Returning Home

After listening to Shi Huilan's introduction, Chen Yuanguang gained some knowledge that wasn't immediately apparent, realizing how powerful AI was at information blockade.

No matter how advanced China's GFW was in modern society, people could always get outside news immediately. No matter how strict North Korea's measures were, news still spread to the central areas.

But within AI's jurisdiction, anything it didn't want you to know, aside from word-of-mouth, left no trace on the internet.

Chen Yuanguang had a thought: perhaps he wasn't integrated enough into this world, didn't understand its slang well enough. It was very possible that the future internet, like the modern era, would spread information AI didn't want spread through slang and metaphors.

Chen Yuanguang planned to pay attention to online information later to see if there were such metaphors.

If not, that would be another suspicious point.

"In short, Lion City is not a fun place. Avoid it if you can. It's hell for ordinary people.

Of course, it's heaven for megacorporations. They can do many things there that they can't do elsewhere."

Chen Yuanguang still had questions: "Didn't you say the major shareholders behind megacorporations are all Alpha?"

Shi Huilan said, "That's right, but that doesn't mean it can manage everything.

In a place like Lion City, which is a no-man's-land, the branch offices of megacorporations there are only assessed on revenue and profit, these hard metrics. You need to abide by Lion City's regulations, not Alpha's."

Chen Yuanguang understood. This was like the world police being American, but within America's sphere of influence, there were orderly and stable Korea and Japan, as well as the turbulent Middle East.

He just didn't know if Alpha didn't want to manage it or couldn't.

He didn't ask any more questions. There would be plenty of opportunities to communicate with Shi Huilan later. From their simple chat, Shi Huilan knew no less than Samad.

The research topic Pangu found for Chen Yuanguang was a difficult problem in the field of biology, roughly studying why different components within a cell separate from each other and researching the underlying principles.

People observed this phenomenon hundreds of years ago, and new research has emerged over the years, but no one has been able to truly explain the underlying principles.

All along, people have only observed its phenomenon. Even AI only observes its phenomenon and then summarizes and generalizes the principles. Every time a version of the principle is summarized, new situations appear, and the original theoretical system cannot accommodate the new phenomena even with patches.

After humans migrated to Mars, cells developed new characteristics on Mars, and there were more phenomena of intracellular component separation.

If the underlying principles could be found, many diseases caused by incorrect separation and aggregation of intracellular components could be prevented in advance. According to AI's estimates, human lifespan would be extended again.

This topic was very difficult, and Chen Yuanguang had no clue. He didn't need to do experiments; just looking at the experimental data accumulated in the database was enough. But to find a theoretical framework and summarize the underlying principles, every time he had an idea, he would find that predecessors had already walked that path by checking the academic database.

It was precisely because this problem was so difficult that Chen Yuanguang hoped to improve his overall brain capacity. Perhaps becoming a super human was the solution.

As a result, he now found that Alpha was particularly wary of super humans, almost completely surrounding and intercepting them.

Chen Yuanguang felt he needed more ideas.

After returning to the real timeline, Chen Yuanguang planned to stay in the modern timeline for a longer period this time.

Chen Yuanguang realized there was a large amount of wealth in modern society that he hadn't utilized: the vast number of netizens.

Regarding the deductions about the future, he now had a lot of information. This information included information obtained through official channels and information gathered from people around him.

The part of the information he was interested in could not be directly asked about, and his own guesses were not necessarily correct.

Chen Yuanguang felt he needed to seek more guesses and then select reliable ones to verify.

"Doing this with my own identity is definitely not feasible. If I were to write science fiction novels again and ask netizens how to design the future better, it would attract the attention of those with ulterior motives sooner or later.

"Looking back now, I shouldn't have written Kuala Lumpur Affairs," Chen Yuanguang thought to himself.

After gaining fame rapidly within just one year by simulating virus evolution, he realized that with the future timeline as his golden finger, his rise to prominence was too fast. Every move he made was scrutinized under a magnifying glass.

Chen Yuanguang felt that if he were to write stories about the future again and openly encourage people to use their imagination, he would be suspected sooner or later.

"Doing it myself isn't feasible. What about online anonymity? Online anonymity won't make a big enough splash; it's too slow.

I estimate finding a puppet to do this is the most suitable," Chen Yuanguang mused internally.

While Chen Yuanguang was planning for his scheme, Lin Jia had already arranged her flight back to China.

Both of them knew that this return trip would likely mean not coming back to America. Lin Jia was a little reluctant: "You still have one year left to get your Doctoral Degree from MIT. Even if you only defend remotely, MIT couldn't possibly not award you the Doctoral Degree.

Columbia University might not agree to me not returning for the defense. But there's no need to worry too much. Given Columbia University's nature, as long as I'm willing to pay, getting a Master's Degree is still possible."

Lin Jia said this based on the premise that the virus pandemic in this timeline would end soon.

"Goodbye, America. I originally planned to be a Wall Street elite in New York for a while before returning to China.

Yuanguang, your growth rate far exceeds my imagination," Lin Jia said with considerable emotion.

Chen Yuanguang was also a focal point, especially during the current pandemic. As soon as he returned to China, the news media began reporting.

"Famous China Scientist Chen Yuanguang Returns to China Low-Key Today, Appears at Shenhai Pudong International Airport"

This kind of news was normal.

"Chen Yuanguang to Join Zhifei Biological Upon Return to China, Participate in Zhifei Biological's Latest Vaccine Research and Development Work"

"Really?"

"Yes, according to an insider, they've reached an agreement with Chen Yuanguang. He accepted the invitation for 5 million RMB in stock plus 2 million RMB in cash."

"Then Zhifei Biological is about to take off! With Chen Yuanguang joining, their advantage in broad-spectrum vaccines is quite significant."

"Yeah, Zhifei Biological is really generous. They didn't even bat an eye at a total annual salary of seven million."

After the news of Chen Yuanguang's return spread, a screenshot of a chat began to go viral on Weibo that afternoon.