…… As expected during the day, Mullen suffered from insomnia. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In order to ensure a quiet working environment, the living room was so well insulated that now Malen could not hear anything but the sound of his own heavy breathing. The aches in his body were telling of the fatigue he had accumulated from working hard during the day, and his head was also groggy, but strangely, Mullen just couldn't sleep. The brain, which has been working continuously and efficiently for a long time, seems to have taken the working state as the default mode, and one after another thoughts and ideas are jumping outward, and unlike when working, because of the deliberate relaxation of consciousness, most of it has nothing to do with work or high-precision calculations. The feeling of being unable to sleep took over Mullen's heart. Rolling over and getting up, deciding to find out if there were any sleeping pills left, he glanced at the alarm clock that had been on the bedside table: it was already half past one in the morning.

It's really annoying. Why can't my body sleep honestly?

With this in mind, he put on his slippers and walked with heavy steps like a study. The soft plush on the slippers made him feel comfortable, and he soon remembered that the slippers he liked so much had been given to him by Patrick three years earlier. At this time, his eyes fell on the computer in the study again.

"Gensokyo, ......"

I can't sleep now anyway. Patrick's advice should be seriously considered. Take a look at what he gave himself this afternoon.

Convincing himself, he pulled out his chair and pressed the start button with a very smooth motion, and a regular hexahedron precession around an axis appeared in front of him—but alas, the little thing was still flat rather than three-dimensional.

The two-dimensional filmless air holographic projection device has been commented by many critics as a flashy decoration, not to mention that it is destined to become the object of pursuit only by some special enthusiasts due to its huge and heavy facilities compared to traditional physical screens, high prices and extremely high failure rates. On the other hand, Mullen is particularly fond of the design for a simple and childlike reason: it is particularly interesting to have the window slide through the air with his fingers through the motion capture device.

"Gensokyo, ah...... Oh? Isn't that the name that? Orient...... PROJECT？ ”

The first thing that popped into Mullen's mind was the disgusting totalitarian state known as the "Dragon of the East". Shaking his head to drive away all the unpleasantness, he frowned slightly, and began to gradually go through the information Patrick had left behind. It can be seen that the original source is incomplete and messy, and in order to collect it, the old man really took a lot of effort, and even has a large number of notes written by himself. This level of rigor is probably not a problem if it is handed in as a graduation thesis of a college student in the social and cultural field.

"By the way, the words of the paper...... I remember where I saw this name before," stirred up a little bit of his memory, and Ma Lun casually threw out a search window, "ORIENT PROJECT...... Ah, there it is. ”

"A Brief Analysis of Typical Cases of East Asian Cultural Brands in the Early 21st Century" is written by Hodgson Alexander, a renowned sociologist, political commentator and historian of human culture. Mullen had read his book The Return of the Yellow Peril: The Expansion of the Central Empire, and felt that what he wrote was in some ways particularly appealing to his own appetite. Since such a well-known figure had mentioned this in his papers, perhaps Patrick was talking about it...... Is it really possible?

Anyway, it's better to watch first. Throwing the papers he found into the folder, Mullen began to read the words that had long been displayed in the holographic window, trying to chew on them repeatedly.

Most of the information given by Patrick is of a literary descriptive nature, that is, it is not as precise as the language of mathematics. Because he hadn't worked with this kind of written material for a long time, Mullen always read it with a deep sense of dissonance. Unfortunately, although the content has been forgotten, Mullen still remembers that Hodgson's article did not specifically involve the content of Oriental PROJECT, but only analyzed it at the cultural brand level. So, if you want to understand what Gensokyo is all about, that paper ...... Obviously not helping at all.

It's a shame. Obviously, it has a rigorous explanatory style, and the logic is clear, and the concept is concrete, and the article looks a little more comfortable......

"In other words, to sum it up......" After skimming through the general introduction of the first half, Mullen muttered to himself. To tell the truth, a large man in a white nightgown in a silent room in front of a glowing holographic screen mutters to himself, this scene is not disobedient to the horror movie, "Gensokyo, guarded by the Great Barrier and the Great Barrier of Hakurei, isolated from the world, lives those who cannot obtain faith or fear on Earth and survive......"

The non-human species was born out of human fears and beliefs. It seems that even the believers of idealism don't dare to say such a thing nowadays - the fundamentalist bunch of lunatics and those who have not thought deeply about it at all are excluded. Speaking of which, are you an idealist or a materialist......

Yumemi Okazaki is an idealist and a Christian. Most Chinese are materialists, atheists.

Two disgusting names immediately came to his mind. Trying to get himself out of this problem, Mullen began to try to construct a concrete picture of the so-called "Great Enchantment" in his mind. Well, Patrick's own understanding is "conceptual fragmentation", a common term in fantasy fiction, but it is a lot more problematic to use in practice. Who defines this concept? Who will judge? Forgotten, how can we judge as forgotten? Doesn't a certain percentage of the human brain have the knowledge or memory to do so? In this way, if the human race on Earth is extinct, won't everything in this universe be copied exactly in Gensokyo...... Is there a backup system for this universe?

Then, Gensokyo's place doesn't seem small...... Although it is not clearly written, it is clear that a separate ecosystem has been formed, according to the draft design of the European Union's lunar base...... With such a large place, it is obviously impossible to hide on the earth. So in space? Or is it not in this universe at all?

Hah, then there's no need to think about it. Human beings still need to understand the things of this universe before ...... It can't be said that even if we don't explore all of the earth, aren't we still in full swing on the moon and Mars?

The point is whether the so-called foundations, physics, will be shaken. At least in the data, classical physics still works......

The Great Enchantment, the Great Enchantment. It seems to belong to two different things. This is also clearly stated in the information. But an almost intuitive impulse told Mullen that the two were actually the same thing. This congenital inexplicable intuition has always been proven correct in his past work...... Wait, isn't this equivalent to acknowledging the existence of Gensokyo in disguise?

No way, no way. That's just a bunch of crap crap. Patrick knew that, too, and he invited himself just to relax. Definitely, don't think too much about it.

After a moment of thought, Mullen flipped the page back to the table of contents. This is his own reading habit, first read the introduction, and then go to the catalog to find what interests him. The holographic projection, which had just had some minor problems in the afternoon, was a little difficult to use, and the picture symbolizing the precession of the company's hexahedron around its axis fluctuated slightly. Swiping lightly over the words, Mullen's finger suddenly stopped at one of the names in the character introduction column: Yumemi Okazaki.

Is...... A cursed name that doesn't make people feel any good - if you say that in college, you'd be beaten up by that kid at Locke. I had an unpleasant encounter with him at the previous REUNION party. That guy is one of Yumemi Okazaki's staunchest supporters, both in terms of theory and personal character.

Even now, such people are everywhere in the academic field. One of the reasons why Einstein's dream was so appealing and that theory was the most likely to make it come true was one of the reasons, but I have to admit that Yumemi Okazaki's great charisma also played a big role......

Forget it, whatever. I was never a physicist myself. Physics matters, electronic engineers should not meddle.

I don't know when.,The page has been turned to the part of the entry of "Yumemi Okazaki". There's not a lot of content.,It's simply introduced.,A seemingly shoddy anime-like image.。 That being said, with those few characteristics, anyone who knows Yumemi Okazaki will be sure that the painting is her, although, it must be emphasized, is very shoddy. According to the description, she seems to have gone to Gensokyo...... Fight went?

No way, no way. Physicists are not warriors, how can they go to fight. If it was a fight, the most that Yumemi Okazaki and Chiyuuri Kita-Shirakawa could achieve was the conflict with Willis Owen and his students at the April Physics Society in the United States. In the end, it also caused a fire in the venue, and under the pressure of public opinion, the Physics Society had to expel all four people......

That's right. The words of Yumemi Okazaki are nothing more than that. No big deal.

Mullen suddenly remembered the scene where he and the red-haired genius met for the first time. At the time, he was seven years old and she was seventeen.

It was at Cambridge University, where I gave a general lecture on physics. It was evident from Yumemi Okazaki's expression at the time that she was quite impatient with the event, as it had always been her opinion that she did not like to do science work (although all of this changed dramatically since then—a disgusting change). Even so, Okazaki appeared on the podium amid a round of applause. There are many people who come here, because in a sense, Yumemi Okazaki should be regarded as the person who has made the most full use of the "idol effect" of scientists in history, even if she herself did not deliberately do such things. And at the end of the speech, Mullen, who was present, was lucky enough to be given the right to ask a question. Holding the microphone nervously, I was worried that the question I was asking would be too childish and make the other party angry......

Hehe. This act in itself is naïve enough.

The unpleasant experience that has passed away is let it pass quickly. There's a lot more to see. Unconsciously brewing a cup of coffee according to his habits, Mullen let some hot liquid in the cup run down his throat, thinking so.

There is a lot of information, some of which is beyond his imagination. To make matters worse, even after Patrick's systematic organization, the information represented by the text and images is still quite fragmented. As for the few small programs that are said to be at the heart of this cultural brand, they are honestly nothing compared to the European Union's military network firewall that Malen has to check every day. Of course, a game can't be judged by the complexity of the programming language, but he doesn't have the time to play it one by one - not to mention the obvious effort to get those antiques up and running.

And the amount of text in the data takes up a larger storage space than the game itself. It's ridiculous. But the music sounds pretty good...... Well, it's not bad. The layman can't evaluate anything either.

After half an hour of browsing, Mullen finally gave up on reading all the text materials that night. It was a stupid act of suicide, and there was a must-attend video conference at 6:30 a.m., the main point of which was that he had been planning a counteroffensive against China's cyberattacks for a long time. Just pick a few more and read them in a hurry, at least to fool around when Patrick asks.

"Aha, Lingwu Lukong? Nuclear reactor...... No, uranium rods aren't used as cannons......" Looking at the text on the screen at a glance, Mullen muttered to himself as he sipped his coffee, "And it's actually the right arm?" Does she have to keep her right arm in the reactor......"

Tengu. Kappa. What do these two words mean? Ah, vampire, this one can be understood...... Wait, this is a vampire? Even if it is a woman, a vampire should be a seductive image...... What's going on with these two little kids? Was it crippled by the legendary vampire hunter? The witch's name is, uh, Pache Norregi...... What a strange surname......

More and more, I feel that this is made up by a group of people. Why on earth would Patrick invite himself under the guise that it was real? Even if it's an excuse, find a better one......

A cup of coffee has bottomed out. Slightly puzzled by the question he had asked, Mullen refilled his glass and waved his hand again. I'll see most of it here today, so let's finish reading the things that are more suitable for me first......

As the reading image disappears, a line of 36 black and bold words appears on the screen:

"A-Brief-Analusis-of-Typical-Culture-Brand-Cases-from-East-Asia-in-the-Beginning-of-21st-Century" by F. Hodgeson Alexander