Having found the right line of thought, there was only one thing left to do.
After checking out the books he had not finished, Lu Zhou returned early to his home at Zhongshan International with the books and the printed papers.
As he did before every period of seclusion, Lu Zhou first took a ceremonious shower. Having bathed and changed, he went straight to the study, took out the ballpoint pen he had used for years, and began writing furiously on scratch paper.
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The feeling of inspiration striking was probably always the same.
The rush of ideas that erupted like a volcano even surpassed the speed of his writing.
Line after line of equations flowed like a trickling stream through a mountain ravine, washing over the unyielding rocks. His pen tip danced across the paper in a blur, and beneath those fluid strokes, silent notes were woven into a song that encompassed all phenomena in the universe and stirred the heart.
Lamenting that he could not instantly put all his thoughts onto paper, Lu Zhou suddenly wondered whether calculations would go faster if he were in a Virtual Reality System and could use his mind to input everything onto "scratch paper."
But after considering it carefully, he dismissed the idea.
Creative work required intense concentration, while the Neural-Interface Virtual Reality System was ultimately a process of simulating dreams. That was why the more relaxed one was, the easier it became to immerse oneself in it.
Perhaps a deliberately guided dream could make it seem real, and its memories would remain vividly afterward. But if one were doing creative work, there would probably still be times when one's brain simply could not keep up.
Weakening one's ability to think in order to write faster