Chapter 7: The Flytrap (1)

(One can not believe in one's own abilities, but one cannot fail to believe in one's own beliefs.) - Cheng Mo)

Cheng Mo went to the office and accepted Tang Shuisheng's inquiry, but he didn't say anything, he went back to the classroom to clean up the things in the desk, from tomorrow onwards, this position where he can look up at the blue sky does not belong to him, compared to being demoted to the first (9) class of high school, Cheng Mo cares more about his learning points being deducted, and losing a lot of rights that should be able to be exchanged.

There was no one in the classroom, Cheng Mo packed his schoolbag, Cheng Mo looked at the watch on his wrist again, and began to think about whether he should go to the hospital to take a look at it, and find a way to get this watch down.

This also made Cheng Mo feel very strange.

Cheng Mo put down the sleeves of his school uniform and walked out of the classroom of the first (1) class of high school, the sunlight just jumped on his bloodless cheeks, and the sun at four o'clock was very strong, and this sudden moment gave him a feeling of dizziness.

Cheng Mo squinted his eyes and glanced at the playground, there were students after school playing football, the sound of shouting spread far away in the empty campus, he stood silently on the corridor and stopped to watch for a moment, and then turned around and walked towards the school gate, the oblique sun stretched his slender shadow very long, like a malnourished giant.

Walking out of the school building, the breeze is pleasant, and the eyes are full of emerald color.

Changya Middle School is at the foot of Yuelu Mountain, there are high school and junior high school, there are two playgrounds, six basketball courts, an indoor gymnasium, a swimming pool, a library, the campus area is very large in the middle school, not only large, because the children of the magnates of Hunan Province are studying in Changya, so the infrastructure is also comparable to the aristocratic school, looking at the high school teaching building that has some history is slightly old, and the other buildings are all very fashionable and modern beautiful buildings.

For example, the Changya Library that Cheng Mo passed by at this moment is a square structure covered with glass in a large area, like a radiant crystal box in the sun, it is a good place to warm books and take a nap, especially at noon in summer, the air conditioning and the sunlight pouring down through the glass form a subtle harmony, so that you neither feel cold nor hot.

The gymnasium on the right is a huge cylinder, the roof is flat, but this cylinder is not very high, as if flattened, and a little farther away, the back of the high school teaching building, at the moment out of sight, is the constant temperature swimming pool of Changya Middle School, this swimming pool can be regarded as a pioneer building, composed of three irregular triangles set up by the roof, a bit like the shape of the Xi Ni Opera House, but not so complicated, and far less .....

Changya buildings between the green shade forest, and close to the Yuelu Mountain into a piece, like surrounded by mountains, in fact, this is not remote, is also the sub-center of the Star City, the entire Yuelu Mountain belongs to the Xiangnan University City, and Changya is located on the edge of the university town, out of the school gate left is Xiangnan Normal University, across the road is the best university in Hunan Province Yuelu Academy.

There are many academic institutions here, which can be described as a place where the heroes gather, the streets and alleys, the corners and bridges, the copy shops, bookstores, stationery stores, and musical instrument stores, all of which shine with splendid humanistic plots, and intertwined with snack shops, roadside stalls, ice houses, and Starbucks, which are not only a tribute to the taste buds, but also the youthful youth of students who spend their leisure days in spring flowers and autumn moons.

Cheng Mo mixed in the crowd of threes and twos from the teaching building to the school gate, this time has passed the peak period out of the school, so the trail paved with diamond-shaped bricks is not crowded, but the school gate is densely crowded, you can see a lot of cars to pick up people from a distance, and there are also some students who live close to ride home on their own, of course, more people like Cheng Mo choose to take the subway and bus home.

The school is in Hexi, and Cheng Mo's home is in Dingwangtai, Hedong, and Cheng Mo generally takes 202 Road directly to the door.

Cheng Mo squeezed out of the school gate and walked about 300 steps to the right to the bus stop, at this time it was the rush hour to take the bus, some students wearing Changya Middle School uniforms gathered at the stop sign to wait for the bus, all of them were in twos and threes, and there were few like Cheng Mo.

Cheng Mo has long been accustomed to loneliness, and making friends has no meaning for him, and he can't participate in the activities that most high school students are keen on, but he is still good at playing computer games, but Cheng Mo is not particularly enthusiastic about playing games, basically, he has no common language with his peers, and it is reasonable that he can't pee into a pot....

But in the eyes of most of Cheng Mo's classmates, Cheng Mo is like an unsociable otaku, some of them are not transcendent aura, but the temperament of the middle two who thinks he is a savior after reading too many comics.

In fact, no one knows, and no one cares what Cheng Mo likes, what kind of illness he has and why he can't exercise.

Cheng Mo stood alone at some distance from the crowd waiting for the bus, it seemed that there was an invisible boundary between him and the noisy world, although it was too far away, so it was very likely that he would not be able to squeeze into the car, but he didn't mind, it would only take eight minutes to wait for one more trip.

There are not many college students who need to cross the river, and most of his competitors are people from their own schools, and when the school is gone, he can get a seat on the bus.

As the saying goes, good things don't go out, and bad things spread thousands of miles.

At this moment, someone pointed at Cheng Mo, Cheng Mo didn't have to think about it to know what they were talking about, after his feat of zero points in seven subjects was criticized by "Mediterranean Wu" in public at the midterm conference, it seemed that he became a celebrity.

"This is the guy in the first (1) class of high school who often got a perfect score on the exam! This time he got nine zeros, do you know why?"

"Why??"

"It is said that it is because I like Shen Mengjie, in order to let Shen Mengjie win the first grade once!"

"This confession is too chic and romantic!!"

"I think he thinks too much, how can a proud girl like Shen Mengjie like him like him.....?

"Actually, I think he's still quite bullish, and this way of showing love can also be thought of....."

"If Senior Du Leng does this, it will be called romance, but he ..... It's too self-conscious.... In case of the final exam, if you can't get back to class (1), it will become a joke!"

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Although Cheng Mo's health is not very good, his hearing is still quite good, these small and outrageous discussions all came to his ears, he was not angry at these words, but he was surprised that the rumors spread incredibly fast, and he didn't expect that at this moment the rumors that he liked Shen Mengjie had reached the point where everyone in Changya Middle School knew about it.

This makes him very helpless, he can understand the restlessness of adolescent boys and girls, but as far as he is concerned, he is not half interested in love, and Cheng Mo will not refute rumors, he knows that ordinary people like him can only be reduced to the edge without the blessing of good grades, so he does not have the qualifications to be talked about sustainably, and only occasionally appears in the mouths of alumni.

Cheng Mo knew that it wouldn't be long before they forgot about a thin teenager named Cheng Mo.

Just as the alumni pointed at Cheng Mo and laughed, the crowd waiting for the bus exclaimed, it turned out to be a silver Rolls-Royce driving in front of the bus stop, and the students of Changya Middle School immediately changed the topic, and Cheng Mo's name immediately disappeared with the wind, because the car was Changya's man of the year Xie Minyun.

Cheng Mo followed everyone's line of sight and saw inside the car window, a side face as bright as an iceberg in the sun, the green leaves of the street trees and the mottled points of light reflected on the smooth body, all the natural magnificence became her foil, this scene was as brilliant as a certain fragment of an idol drama, but there was no plot where the eyes of the two met in the air.....

The other party didn't turn his head, and Cheng Mo didn't look at it much, he clearly knew that the one in the car must be the heroine, and he was just an insignificant passer-by.

So Cheng Mo didn't follow the expensive Rolls-Royce with his eyes like everyone else, just glanced at it, and quickly turned his head to see if the No. 202 bus he needed to take was coming, and when others were still staring at the tail lights of the car with envy or admiration, he had already walked to the side of the road and occupied the most advantageous position to get on the bus.....

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After returning home, Cheng Mo's uncle Cheng Jidong had not come back, Cheng Mo took a glass of warm water from the water purifier and went directly into his room, turned on the computer, clicked and played Tchaikovsky's "Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor", and then entered Changya's internal learning software and began to brush the questions.

He must check the book to do the problem, so that although the speed is slow, he can still solve the problem completely.

After Cheng Mo fainted on the day of his father's funeral, he didn't find anything wrong, because he occasionally fainted suddenly due to severe lack of oxygen, although this happened very rarely, but it didn't happen unexpectedly, so he was not taken seriously by his uncle and aunt.

At that time, Cheng Mo woke up, raised his eyes and saw that the watch on his wrist was rotating normally, and his body was not abnormal, so he thought that he must have been too windy in the parking lot at that time, and he couldn't breathe well, so he fainted due to a lack of oxygen in his heart and lungs, so Cheng Mo himself felt that the feeling of some watches coming to life at that time was just an illusion.

However, later Cheng Mo found that the strange watch could not be taken off at all, and after studying it for a long time, Cheng Mo thought that it might be a high-tech watch that monitored his physical condition, so he ignored it.

As the exam approached, Cheng Mo found that his cognitive ability began to appear disordered, under normal circumstances, ordinary people think that cognitive impairment refers to memory problems, but in fact, the symptoms of cognitive impairment are very diverse, and memory impairment is only one of them.

Cheng Mo did not go to the hospital immediately, first he placed a set of questions to test cognitive impairment from the Internet, and his score was quite high, only one "associative learning" test score was very low, that is to say, he remembered another thing from what he was currently perceiving or thinking, which caused a disorder.

He can only complete the basic word pairing associations, such as the simple association of silence-tacit understanding-contract, and the deeper, more complex associations cannot be carried out at all.

The next day after the weekend, he went to the hospital and did some routine check-ups, which were supposed to be MRIs, but because the watch could not be taken off, it could not be done, and the doctor also looked at his watch, saying that there was no such health monitoring equipment, and asked him to find a way to get the watch off and then do a complete examination.....

At this time, Cheng Mo began to wonder if this watch caused his cognitive impairment.

Because he couldn't take off his watch, he called Li Jiting, but Li Jiting's phone had been turned off for a long time and never passed.

Although the inability to contact Li Jiting made Cheng Mo feel that things were even more strange, he didn't tell anyone about it, Cheng Mo always felt that no one could rely on him, except himself.

In the face of all these difficulties, Cheng Mo did not intend to give up, in the days of fighting against the disease, he learned a little, even if he can't defeat the disease, but if you don't even have the belief to defeat it, you will definitely die faster....

He is not a person who gives up easily, before the exam, Cheng Mo memorized the formula for a night, but there is no luan, and he still can't think of the formulas he has memorized countless times during the exam, so he plans to change the way and change it to brush the questions.....

He doesn't care about grades, but he doesn't like people looking at his jokes.

Cheng Mo felt that even the illness could not hinder him, not to mention that he was not terminally ill, in order to defeat the illness, in order to return to class (1), in order to consolidate his associative ability, he planned to do at least a hundred questions today.......

Changya Middle School's internal APP,Students from other schools can't enter,Because registration must use the student number,This APP can be said to be the internal competition circle of Changya Middle School,Those who can rank in the top few on the brush list,All are good students who are among the best,Among them, the first place in the list of brushing questions and solving problems for a long time is an ID called "Queen from outer space",It is said that this ID is Xie Minyun's。

Xie Minyun was selected by the boring Changya students as the first talent and appearance of Changya, and the suitor can go around the Changya campus at least twice, she once participated in a high-rated variety show "Study Hard" in Hunan Province, and caused a sensation on social networks with her sharp words, profound knowledge and amazing beauty in the show, and was immediately named "Xiaoxiang Goddess" by netizens - this is why some people called her "Xiaoxiang Goddess" at the midterm conference.

But these gossips have nothing to do with Cheng Mo, he has been insulated from women since he was a child, this insulation may seem to be because he doesn't like to communicate with people, and the reason for his ordinary appearance is that at a deep level, it was doomed after his mother left him to return to the United States.

Cheng Mo's ID is called "Running Fat Man", and some data such as the number of brushing questions and the accuracy of brushing questions were set up and hidden by Cheng Mo, so he was not ranked on the list, and no one knew that the number of brushing questions he had was five times that of the first place "Queen from Outer Space", and the accuracy rate reached 98%.

As for the solution list, he is not interested in answering other people's questions, so the data is zero.

Once Cheng Mo enters the state of learning, he is isolated from the world as if an old monk has entered the meditation, and what is different from ordinary people is that for Cheng Mo, he can persist in boring brushing questions for a long time, because this is his way of sports and entertainment.

In fact, the reason why Cheng Mo was able to get full marks every time was not because his IQ was very high, his father Cheng Yongze's IQ was as high as 180 or more, and he was only between 130 and 140, which can only be regarded as excellent, and there is still a gap between him and genius.

He read The 10,000-Hour Genius Theory early on, in which Daniel Coyle interviews the world's most successful soccer players, bank robbers, violinists, fighter pilots, artists, and skateboarders to give readers an analysis of what it takes to become a "genius" in the professional field.

The book is based on the "myelin theory" (Note 1) derived from biology, which simply means that through "10,000 hours" of intensive practice, myelin wraps an insulator around the neural circuit, and the thicker the myelin is, the stronger the insulation, the more precise and agile our "movements" and "thoughts" will be.

Through scientific analysis, this book has come to the conclusion that there are only a very few geniuses in this world who have broken out of their spiritual senses, and most of the geniuses have been achieved through intensive practice and continuous strengthening of the myelin of neural circuits.

So, at any time, as long as you give yourself a goal, stick to it, practice it repeatedly, repeat and repeat, and you can also become a genius in this field.

Therefore, Cheng Mo's good grades are actually based on a lot of time studying and brushing questions, and his efforts have also verified the "10,000-hour genius theory", and a large number of brushing questions makes him a "genius" in learning or exams.....

Cheng Mo brushed the questions until half past six without distraction, until his uncle Cheng Jidong cooked a meal and called him to eat, he stopped, and only brushed twelve questions in an hour and a half, which is an extremely bad data for Cheng Mo, in the past, he could do at least more than 30 questions of this difficulty in an hour and a half, and flipped through the book to find matching formulas, which delayed him too much.

After eating, Cheng Mo continued to start his journey of brushing questions, and it was not until half past eleven that he finished the 100 questions in the plan, but before he went to bed, he looked back at the first question he had brushed, and he was still at a loss.

This made him a little frustrated, because the 100 questions he brushed today were all about the application of the same formulas.

Cheng Mo turned off the lamp and lay on the bed, the black of the skyline outside the window was like an undercurrent, the two bright lights on Renmin Road illuminated the shadow of the night, the city traffic at midnight was still crowded, the prosperity of the city had nothing to do with him, he became humble from small, and maybe disappeared......

Since he was a child, he has been thinking about what he is living for, and he has not found the answer to this day, but he does not want to leave no traces, only an epitaph.

Cheng Mo thought to himself, a hundred questions are useless, then I will brush ten thousand....

If you really have no choice, you can only find a way to forcibly open this watch, even if you want to break your father's relics, there is no way to do it.

He flipped the switch, closed the electric curtains, and plunged the bedroom into darkness, he looked up at the white watch on his wrist again, and in the darkness the three silver hands rotated like ordinary clocks, and when he pressed the knob on the side, the genetic chain in the shape of a nine-pointed star reappeared on the dial like a monitor.

But the strange thing is that this time the nine-pointed star composed of three equilateral triangles, two of which are diagonally drawn equilateral triangles, one of them has changed from the original rotating multicolored gene chain to a clear blue like the sky, and the other has two edges and becomes black and gray.

Only the upright equilateral triangle in the middle has not changed at all, and it is still a rotating multicolored gene chain......

Cheng Mo was shocked, he let go of the knob and sat up against the head of the bed in the dark, and then looked down, the watch returned to normal pointer mode, and when he pressed the knob, the white surface was still the picture he saw just now, a nine-pointed star that had changed color.

Cheng Mo repeated it a few more times, it was still like this, he tried to rotate the knob while pressing the knob, and the result of the previous attempt was the same, there was no response, he tried to pull the knob outward again, and the knob that couldn't be pulled at all the first few times easily "snapped" this time.

At this time, a strange scene appeared, and in the middle of the dial, a middle finger high, composed of green, blue, and gray light points, stood up with the light and shadow of the human body standing flat on both hands, and the human body was only hovering below the waist in the shape of a gene chain.

These green, blue, and gray points of light floated in the darkness, like dust in the sunlight, no, to be precise, like a galaxy flowing in the deep universe.

Cheng Mo looked at this beautiful scene, opened his mouth wide and was simply stunned, he didn't believe that the current technology had reached this level, and a small watch could create such a beautiful holographic projection.

He subconsciously touched those beautiful points of light like flying fireflies with the middle finger of his right hand, without any touch, but those points of light seemed to be tangible and twisted and splashed in the air, like fireworks that suddenly exploded, but they returned to their original state in a moment.

Above the head of this wonderful human body made of light is a green and shining progress bar that reads: Gene identification, sequencing, and DNA reading are 55 percent complete.....

Below the green human light and shadow is another red progress bar: 37% completion of the carrier (Note 2.......

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Note 1: Myelin theory: The more ingrained the habit is in the human nervous system, the deeper the myelin is enveloped. A person's behavior is similar to a line, and myelin is the insulating material that wraps around this line. With the persistence of intensive practice, this wrapping will become thicker and thicker, and eventually become the talent of "genius".

Myelin grows throughout life, and although it gradually disintegrates with age, it is maintained with constant practice. If we don't re-harden a circuit for three months, then it will be like it never existed, and your previous efforts will be in vain.

For example, playing the piano, even the best pianist on the planet will say that if you don't play the piano for a day, you will know, if you don't play the piano for two days, your wife will know, and if you don't play the piano for three days, the whole world will know.

And myelin doesn't care who you are, only what you do. The way to increase myelin, then, is through intensive practice.

Myelin formula: 10,000 hours of intensive practice × = world-class skills.

The key to the 10,000-hour rule is that there are no exceptions. No one can reach a world-class level in just 3,000 hours, not 7,500 hours, and 10,000 hours — 3 hours a day for 10 years — whoever you are.

But the most important thing is not time, but method, not that you will become a genius if you practice for 10,000 hours, but to "practice deeply".

"Deep practice" – not a simple struggle, but a purposeful struggle: choosing a goal, striving for it, assessing the gaps, and getting back to the beginning.

"Profound practice" - you need to have the spirit of "nitpicking and stumbling to the end".

(Note 2) Vector: A tool that sends a useful target DNA fragment into the recipient cell for reproduction and expression through recombinant DNA technology is called a vector.