After a period of preparation, Hou Dalin successfully set up a test environment in his world. In the virtual world, all the rules need to be redefined by people, and then rely on the computing power here to conduct simulation experiments.

Hou Dalin also didn't let Xiao Jiu be idle, he brought her into the experiment. As for why she pulled Xiao Jiu to do the experiment, it was just because her current form was a brain that worked independently. You know, such a sample is the only one. Due to strict restrictions, so far, in the Hall of Eternal Life, only Xiao Jiu exists in this form. The rest of the brain is all host parts that don't have any consciousness.

And like Lily, they have human bodies, and under such conditions, if they are space test subjects, then they are not the most suitable.

So from this time on, Xiao Jiu's daily routine became busy, one was to take care of the lives of Hou Dalin and the two of them. Although she doesn't have to do this at all, her insistence on this makes Hou Dalin, a husband, also helpless.

The second is learning, and many researchers outside have become teachers at this time, giving Xiao Jiu different types of courses. However, in the current state, Xiao Jiu's learning ability is still very fast, so the current progress is very stable. In addition, there is a difference in time and the outside world in the Immortal Palace system, and when the space program is really going to be implemented in two years, maybe Xiao Jiu will already be an expert in this area.

On the other hand, in order to expand the number of "souls", many surgeons have been deployed to learn to take brains. Although Hou Dalin has long designed and manufactured the equipment for taking out the human brain, no matter how good the equipment is, it has to be operated by a person, and in this process, if you are not careful, the brain will become a murderer.

It may be that for the time being, this work is more important than other work, because if this problem is not solved, then the Immortal Palace system will lose its greatest significance. The reason why this place is called the Hall of Eternal Life is to allow some high-level talents whose bodies are no longer able to survive normally to preserve their brains in the hope that they will have a longer life.

Therefore, improving the success rate of brain removal surgery has become the top priority of this work. Up to now, no one other than Hou Dalin has been able to increase the success rate of this operation to more than 50 percent.

The reason why this work is progressing so slowly is also because these people have not practiced enough. This surgery is different from other surgeries in that it requires a lot of practice and a lot of samples. Other surgeries can be practiced on the general teacher, but this work can be transferred to the human brain, and then the general teacher can't do it.

Because the state of the brain in the medulla of the dead and the living human body is very different, no one can achieve proficiency in the removal of the surgery without enough living samples for practice.

Because of ethical and legal constraints, live testing is a very strict experiment, and it is easy for these people to get no chance to practice at all.

At this time, some people with dark hearts even miss the war, because only in the war can such samples emerge in large numbers, and they are not bound by morality and law. And at this time, there is no way to perform such an operation except to expand the volunteer population.

Hou Dalin didn't take this too seriously, just rest assured, this is not a problem he can solve. He can't provide replicants to these people, and then his biggest secret will be exposed.

But the human body can't do it, and these doctors are not idle. The human brain can't be used for practice, but the monkey can, right?

In order to increase the success rate, Hou Dalin's biological company has not only bred a large number of mice, but also bred a large number of monkeys in the past two years, just to provide this group of doctors with samples for practice.

Xiao Jiu's learning continues, and a year later, Lily in the system has also grown to fourteen years old, and at this time, she looks no different from a normal child, so her cultivation has also been put on the agenda by everyone.

Although in reality, Lily's main body is a terrorist, after twelve years of observation, everyone agrees that their plan to transform their worldview has been a perfect success. At this time, in order to effectively use this spirit who has lived in the virtual space for twelve years, everyone plans to train her to become Xiao Jiu's most powerful assistant.

The spirit is a term for the virtual characters with autonomous consciousness in the system, and the opposite of him is the NPC based on computer program control, and these people are called blank ones in the Eternal Life Hall system.

Nowadays, the number of spirits is scarce, and if it weren't for the large number of researchers who are constantly connected, the system will not be too empty.

Since everyone decided to turn Lily into Xiao Jiu's assistant and focus on training, Hou Dalin has operated on Lily's body. Because according to the current regulations, no human being who is absorbed into this plan can no longer have an ontological body of its own.

It's not that everyone is perverted, they have to destroy other people's bodies. Rather, it is based on the tasks they will face in the future, and only by giving up their bodies can they be put into biochemical mecha to perform realistic tasks in the future.

These people, who have lived in this system since the beginning, have no idea that their body is just a brain. Therefore, in future missions, as long as a launch process is simulated, and then they are sent into space in virtual space, then their ontology will not have too strong mental fluctuations after entering space.

Of course, there are also sober people among them, such as Tang Jianping, who knows what state he is in, so he naturally has to keep it strictly secret, and can't let the spirited know the truth of this world.

In this way, time passed day by day, and the space version of the Hall of Eternal Life was also being finalized little by little. Although at this time, China's manned space industry has just started, but Hou Dalin is familiar with this thing. Although he cannot directly participate in the construction of other projects, he can still cope with the difficulties that the human body will face in space.

Finally, in 98, Hou Dalin and the others ushered in the launch mission.

Tang Jianping, who carries a small virtual system and has undergone physical modification, will follow the test spacecraft into space on this day. With him was another spirit, Lily.

Originally, the above was intended to let Xiao Jiu go, but considering Hou Dalin's personal situation, coupled with a series of tests, Lily's performance was even better, and finally Lily got this quota and will follow the test spacecraft into space together.

When Xiao Jiu knew the news, he didn't seem too surprised and reluctant. After so many years of study and training, she is no longer the housewife who once didn't know anything. Her own child can become a space hero, and she, as a mother, is also worried, but more proud.

At this time, Lily is already a real spirit, and although she may not realize it herself, this situation will change unexpectedly as she goes into space.

For Tang Jianping and Lili, Hou Dalin designed the safest protection method for them. Their brains were now encased in a metal sphere over sixty centimeters in diameter and divided into two layers.

In the outer layer, it is a regular circle, and the internal sphere is ensured by elastic yellow and magnetic devices, even under the overload of dozens of gs, it still ensures the normal activity of the brain. There are also parachutes, thrust reversers, and even a small free movement system for emergency use.

The inner sphere is naturally their brain, and in this small ball, not only their brain, but also a miniature nutrient processing system is designed inside. In addition to the stored emergency energy solution that allows them to use it for half a month, there is even a miniature version of the digestive system, with which they can independently obtain food from the outside world in an emergency situation and survive at a minimum.

The surface of the ball is covered with solar panels, which can generate electricity through sunlight to ensure the power needed for its own survival.

The miniature version of the Hall of Eternal Life that followed them into space was named Yao Chi, which means a back garden for astronauts. In between missions, they were able to enter the place via a wire to give themselves a mental break.

The whole design of Yao Chi is a small valley, in this valley, there is a small lake with rippling blue waves, and around the small lake, there are some buildings, and they can enjoy everything they want here.

Tang Jianping naturally knew that all this was fake, but Lily didn't know, the information she got was just that she was transferred to a certain base for training. The scientific researchers on the ground will also connect every day to conduct some training for her.

The purpose of launching Lily into the sky is to test the impact of the outer space environment on the entire system. And the purpose of Tang Jianping's ascent is to truly carry out various experiments in manned spaceflight. Although his body structure has nothing to do with humans, it is inevitable that the necessary tests will be carried out before the actual manned space is carried into space.

Tang Jianping's body is now less than a meter tall, and the purpose of this is to allow him to have enough flexibility in a small space. Moreover, he has no plans to go on a spacewalk, and during this time in the sky, he only needs to complete the work he needs to do in the capsule.

As the launch time got closer and closer, Hou Dalin's heart became more and more nervous. For his own child, Hou Dalin's feelings are the deepest. Although Lily was not born by herself, she was "made" by herself, and this kind of relationship even surpasses the real father-daughter relationship.

Although they can still communicate online after the launch, the risk of sending her brain into space is still very large.

In addition to the risks they face when launching and returning, the radiation in outer space during orbit is also a huge challenge for them. Although foreign astronauts have previously confirmed that as long as there is strict protection, human beings can also survive healthily in outer space. But that only proves that the human body can survive, it does not mean that if you send a single human brain to it, it can still survive.

On the eve of the launch, Hou Dalin came to the secret laboratory of the launch center alone, where he connected with Tang Jianping, who was inside the spacecraft at this time.

"Old Tang, how do you feel?" At this time, inside the Yao Pond, Hou Dalin and Tang Jianping sat on chairs in an open-air restaurant by the lake, chatting together.

"It's okay, I'm a little nervous to be honest. But if you look at it now, I can't get nervous in the face of such a scene, so I'm very entangled now. Tang Jianping told about his troubles, in the past two years, Tang Jianping and Hou Dalin have had a close relationship, and they have become real good friends at this time. In the face of his good friend, he also spoke his heart.

"Haha, Old Tang, you don't know how to be blessed in the midst of blessings, people go to the sky on rockets, they are all tied to chairs, and they are facing an extremely harsh environment. And you? In such an environment, drinking coffee and fishing, people fly to outer space, where do you find such good things? ”

Hou Dalin's stability made Tang Jianping even more uneasy. He is a man of action, and he cannot afford to be indifferent in the face of such events. In his mind, he should sit in the cockpit and handle all the work he should handle as much as possible.

"Dalin, you tell your superiors, let me sit in the cockpit, compared to this situation where I don't know anything at this time, I would rather face the real external environment."

"Old Tang, this launch is controlled by the ground control center, even if you sit inside, you can't do anything, but you may have misoperated because of nervousness."

"Dalin, it's precisely because of this that I should sit in the cockpit, you think, this is a test, and when the real astronauts sit in one day, will it be difficult to tie their hands too?"

I have to say that Tang Jianping's suggestion is reasonable. But this matter has been decided a long time ago, and at this time, he has no power to change anything.

So Hou Dalin turned to another question: "Old Tang, I will talk to the commander-in-chief about this suggestion in a while, but don't report too much hope, after all, it will be launched in a few hours." Now I'm going to tell you another question. ”

"Say, what's the matter?" Tang Jianping was very curious about what Hou Dalin would explain to him at this time.

"None of us knows what problems the human brain will encounter in the space environment. What I want to say is that once there is an unpredictable situation, you are the only person on the scene who has the ability to act, and when the time comes, in case there is a dangerous change in the Yaochi system, you must immediately make a decision to destroy the system directly, and you must not let it return to the ground. ”

"What? Will it be that serious? "Tang Jianping knows, this system is a treasure, what makes Hou Dalin so decisive? You know, Lily is also in the Yaochi system, and if she destroys Yaochi, won't she be ruined along with Lily?

"If it's going to be that serious, I don't know. But this is the first time we've conducted an experiment in outer space, and it's hard to say if something will happen that we can't even predict. Of course, what I'm talking about is only a way to deal with this situation in the most extreme cases, when the time comes, everything is up to you, or at my command. ”

The reason why Hou Dalin was worried about this was because the computer system of the test spacecraft used the computer computing power of the Yaochi system. This means that the operation control system of the entire spacecraft coincides with the Yaochi system.

At the beginning, Hou Dalin was also against this. But the Hall of Eternal Life has been running stably for so many years, and people up and down are very superstitious about the computing power of this supercomputer. And in fact, its computing power is really very powerful, especially the computing power of the mold lake, which is simply the sum of the computing power of computers in the world. So far, there is no theory of modulo lake operation that can reach 1/10,000 of the real human brain. This gives this biocomputer an unbeatable advantage.

But Hou Dalin still has a kind of worry, he is worried that something unexpected will make the biological computer in Yaochi awaken some natural skills, and then it will become a kind of computing killer, which can attack any system on the earth at will through the network. All electronic systems are vulnerable to it.

Although he also expressed his worries, no one would believe it, and everyone didn't say it, but they must have felt in their hearts that Hou Dalin wouldn't be stupid for research, right? This situation is theoretically impossible for him.

It's a pity that these people have forgotten that most of the theories they are studying now have been developed under the leadership of Hou Dalin. It's not that no one doesn't pay attention to Hou Dalin's worries, but when asked about Hou Dalin's specific questions, Hou Dalin can't say one, two, or three, so the last compromise can only be Hou Dalin.

Based on this situation, Hou Dalin still told Tang Jianping the plan for dealing with the emergency before the final launch. The biggest guarantee this time may be him. In space, he is the only person with the ability to act. Even if these people's brains have mutated and become outright traitors, as long as Tang Jianping unplugs the other party's power, these guys will lose their lives in minutes due to lack of oxygen to their brains.

After explaining Tang Jianping, Hou Dalin withdrew from Yaochi. He has done everything he can do, and the rest of the time can only be left to the endless unknown. Hou Dalin felt a deep sense of powerlessness at this time, although in terms of human brain research, he could be said to be the top person on the planet. But in the face of the vast universe, he still felt a sense of powerlessness, and he still knew too little!