May's handle slid up the Liberian strip on the west coast of Africa, slid east across the Sahara Desert, and stopped on the border between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. It is the mouth of the Nile, the longest river in the world, and the most prosperous place in the whole of Africa. Now, the golden earth has been covered in red, and when the professor's finger clicks on it, the window data shows:

City: Egypt

Population: 22.8 million

Sales: 323089 units

Number of users: 792309

Mei Yiqiu, who had a pipe in her mouth, smiled, a statistic that is enough to be proud of most cities and regions in the world. In the beginning, everyone was not optimistic about the sales of space boxes in the Arab world and the Middle East, where strong religious overtones and national concepts would exclude all foreign and new things, not to mention that the dream guide set up an unrelated creator god who contradicted their beliefs. Later it turned out that sales were struggling in the rest of the Middle East, with the exception of Israel. Cairo, however, is an exception.

Mei Ziqing also felt very strange when she saw this data. She sighed: "They all say that Cairo is the headquarters of the Arab World League, but I didn't expect them to dream so much!" ”

Mei Yiqiu smiled and said: "The ancient Egyptian pharaohs cast a spell on that land, and the Arabs can't change anything. ”

"Professor, you're really kidding!" Mei Ziqing said.

"Maybe it's not a joke!" Mei Yiqiu seemed very happy, "The Egyptian president once wanted to tear down the pyramids, although the whole world was opposed, but how could they care about this poor public opinion pressure from the outside world? In the end, they didn't do anything, and I'm afraid there was some other reason besides the fact that the pyramids could really help them make money. ”

"What is the reason? Don't tell me that the man who went to tear down the tower fell under the curse of the Pharaoh! ”

"Then only they know."

Mei Yiqiu looked at the map seriously, reached out and operated on the interface again, enlarged the map where Egypt was located, and then clicked hard at the location of Cairo.

"You see, how amazing it is that the mouth of the world's longest river is just near the intersection of 30° east longitude and 30° north latitude."

He said to himself, then slid his hand over the map to the east, to the map of China, magnifying the location of the Yangtze River Delta.

"The estuary of the world's third longest river, well, although the position is a little off, it is roughly around 120 degrees east longitude and 30 degrees north latitude, and it is also the coordinate location of the Sanwu region."

Mei Ziqing didn't know why, and asked, "Professor, what do you want to say?" I don't really understand! ”

The professor said that he put his hand back to Cairo, and then he translated all the way to the east, and said, "Starting from the pyramids of Giza, moving along the 30th parallel of north latitude, moving eastward 90 degrees of longitude, and here we are—this is where we are now!" ”

"Is this a coincidence?"

"Coincidence? …… Oh, maybe. But what if we continue to move ninety degrees of longitude east? Guess where? ”

The professor's hand continued to move slowly along the 30th parallel, and Mei Ziqing had already mentally calculated the latitude and longitude of the place, and turned her gaze there—the North Pacific basin north of the Hawaiian Ridge, but there was nothing but a blue ocean.

Mei Yiqiu's hand only tapped there, and then suddenly turned south, and moved south along the 150°W line to the intersection of the 30°S.

"Ah, there is—" Mei Ziqing cried out in surprise, "where the underwater pyramid was found!" It is also the place where the research ship had an accident! ”

Mei Ziqing suddenly understood something, but she was not sure, and muttered, "Ninety degrees to the east, then ninety degrees to the east, and then sixty degrees to the south, what does this mean......

Mei Yiqiu did not answer her question, and her finger continued to move eastward, near 60°W longitude and 30°S, where she dotted and stayed for a while.

"What's that?" Mei Ziqing asked.

"The corner between the Salado and Paraná rivers." Mei Yiqiu held a pipe in her mouth, her eyes narrowed, and her fluffy white hair looked like a cloud in the smoke.

"Look at the location of these four points, do you find anything?"

Mei Ziqing fell into deep thought, "The four points are each 90° different in longitude, but the latitude is inconsistent, does it matter?" ”

Mei Yiqiu called up the software operation interface on the screen, and after a few clicks, the world map became a three-dimensional slowly rotating earth, and the four points he had clicked were still there, and the two were connected by dotted lines to form a rectangular plane. This plane is at an angle of 30° to the Earth's equatorial plane, dividing the Earth into two halves.

When the earth rotates, a projection band formed by the plane shadow composed of four points on the earth's surface covers a vast area from 30 degrees north latitude to 30 degrees south latitude, which is equivalent to wrapping the earth in a belt.

"Actually, it doesn't matter...... Mei Yiqiu said, biting his pipe, but his eyes looked east of the Bering Strait, north of Alaska, where the North Magnetic Pole is located.

……

Bian Ziyuan sat in front of the computer, wrote the last page of the report, checked it, and sent it out through the internal fuel tank.

Since the third generation of the Space Box came out, his job has become very easy. The game program has been basically perfected, and due to the high degree of intelligence of Kronos, the optimization of the game basically does not need to be operated manually. The reason why he still has something to do is because the original version of Kronos was invented by him, so Kronos's optimization program instructions for the game will be sent to him, and he will confirm it and then write a report, which can only take effect after being signed by Mei Yiqiu.

The fact that he almost lost his job by inventing a program may seem ironic to others, but it is a great encouragement to Bian Ziyuan. Those who can stand on the cusp of the trend of the times are the most successful, but how can they compare to those great men who personally push the trend forward with their hands!

He believed that Kronos was as good as any trend, and that he was the one who made and drove it.

The only thing Bian Ziyuan couldn't understand was why the professor refused to integrate DreamNet into the Internet. Although he also knows a little bit about the consciousness of the Internet, this is a great thing for him. In recent years, people have been discussing the future of artificial intelligence, but no one at the forefront of AI researchers dares to say that AI can generate autonomous consciousness, not even his Kronos.

What a great discovery it would have been if the Internet had developed to the scale it is today, and suddenly had an independent sense of autonomy and the ability to think and improve for itself. The fate of mankind may change forever!

In Bian Ziyuan's view, the evolution of human body and intelligence in the past few thousand years has obviously slowed down, indicating that evolution has entered a bottleneck period. When science and technology develop to this day, people begin to look at the sea of stars, the vast universe is the future of mankind, human beings will eventually give up the earth as a comfortable home, to find a broader living space.

But the current human body has evolved on the basis of adapting to the earth's environment, and once it is separated from the earth's gravity and magnetic field, human beings cannot survive at all. Therefore, all cutting-edge technologies, including spacecraft and manned spacecraft, must consider the environmental simulation suitable for the human body, including appropriate gravity, air pressure, and a circular ecology that can be used for a long time. These things have seriously hindered the progress of science and technology and blocked the pace of human beings towards the sea of stars.

"You know, our flesh is useless! Abandoning the body is inevitable for the future development of mankind! Only by attaching consciousness to the machine can we go further! ”

Bian Ziyuan was drunk at a meal, and said to Lao Yu, who was also drunk and his face was flushed.