dognovel Chapter 21 The Living Hard Drive
Chapter 21 The Living Hard Drive
She paused for a moment, as if considering her words.
Then she read out those data that even she herself found unbelievable when she saw them.
"Jiang Yu's heart rate is 3 beats per minute at rest."
"A normal adult's resting heart rate is 60 to 100 beats per minute."
"Athletes who have undergone long-term training can have a lower score of around 40."
"Heart rate of 3 beats per minute..."
"This number should not exist in humans."
The old man's expression remained unchanged.
He just listened quietly.
Lin Wei continued speaking.
"Apart from his heartbeat, Jiang Yu's blood pressure, body temperature, metabolic rate, immune system, energy supply method... are all abnormal."
"According to data provided by the data department..."
"Jiang Yu's current physical condition is similar to that of an Arctic squirrel during hibernation."
"When Arctic squirrels are hibernating, their heart rate drops sharply from more than 200 beats per minute to 3 to 5 beats per minute."
"But that's hibernation, an animal's physiological regulation mechanism."
"Humans cannot hibernate..."
Lin Wei didn't continue.
The office was silent for a few seconds.
The only sound was the ticking of the clock on the wall.
The old man squinted and tapped on the keyboard on his desk.
The screen on the wall lit up.
A video is playing on a loop on the screen.
That was the surveillance video from the physical examination.
The video is playing on a loop of Jiang Yu turning a brick into a power bank.
Frame by frame, slow motion, from various angles...
The old man stared at Jiang Yu on the screen for a long time.
A glint of excitement flashed in those eagle-like eyes.
After a long pause, he slowly spoke, his voice low and deliberate.
"How do you think he did it?"
Lin Wei pondered for a moment and said, "He can turn the brick in his hand into a power bank from a distance, and then turn the power bank in Wan Jiayu's hand into a brick..."
"This is very similar to the capabilities of an 'engineer'."
Concept erasure, material recombination, causal reversal... these are all symbolic abilities of an "engineer".
That's probably the work of a master craftsman whose accuracy is less than 0.4% by the naked eye and whose precision far surpasses that of CNC machine tools.
The number of "engineers" in the entire coastal city planning department can be counted on one hand.
If Jiang Yu really is...
That wouldn't be considered a "treasure hunt" for the bureau today.
Instead, they "found a ore".
The old man smiled after hearing what Lin Wei said.
Are there any other guesses?
Lin Wei fell into deep thought again.
A few seconds later…
"Perhaps... he didn't actually rearrange the materials, but rather remotely swapped the positions of the brick and the power bank?"
"The coordinates of points can be interchanged..."
"That's still one of the 'engineer's' abilities."
Both "material recombination" and "coordinate interchange" fall under the scope of "blueprint surveying" capabilities.
After going around in circles, we still can't get around the conclusion that the other party is an "engineer".
Seeing that Lin Wei had nothing more to say, the old man said meaningfully, "It's understandable that you think that child is an 'engineer'."
"After all, the physical structure of an 'engineer' is completely different from that of an ordinary person."
"That child does indeed fit the physical requirements of an 'engineer'."
"What a pity..."
The old man's voice suddenly softened, becoming so soft it sounded like he was talking to himself.
"The truth I see is not like that."
Lin Wei looked at the old man with a curious expression.
She is not easily aroused by others' curiosity.
Having worked in the personnel department for so many years, she has seen more strange things than the average person would hear in a lifetime.
But at this moment, her curiosity was completely ignited.
"Director Zhou, what is the truth you've seen?"
Zhou Jingtian's abilities are very special.
He was so exceptional that no one else in the entire planning system possessed abilities similar to his.
It's not a matter of strong or weak.
Rather, it's a difference in dimensions.
He can store everything he sees completely in his brain and never forget it.
From birth to now, more than seventy years have passed...
Everything he saw with his own eyes…
He can bring out and revisit details that he didn't care about at the time and thought were worthless.
It's like a living hard drive.
No, it's more accurate and secure than a hard drive.
Hard drives can fail, but memories won't.
His eyes are the most impressive feature.
His eyes are like a top-of-the-line "high-speed camera".
He can slow down and replay any scene that his eyes capture indefinitely.
It's like putting a roll of film on a projector that can be slowed down as much as you want.
How slow exactly?
His eyes can reach a maximum of 256,000,000 frames per second, or 256 million fps.
What does this number mean?
This means that the trajectory of a bullet, which would require slow motion to see on a regular camera, could be slowed down to the point in his eyes like a snail slowly crawling along a 1000-kilometer-long highway.
If a scene is slowed down at the standard playback frame rate (e.g., 25 fps), the slowdown factor is 10,240,000 times.
That is, a 1-second real event is stretched to about 119 days of broadcast.
119 days.
In one second, it turned into almost four months.
The working class was overjoyed.
However, this is not his limit.
In other words, theoretically he could see even slower and in even greater detail.
It's just that the testing instrument can only measure this value; it can't measure anything higher.
The tester is a machine, and it has an upper limit on the number of pixels it can observe and an upper limit on the frame rate.
Zhou Jingtian's vision has no limit so far.
Therefore, Zhou Jingtian is essentially the "encyclopedia" of the planning bureau.
He would slow down everything and everyone he saw to the extreme, repeatedly examining the details, and thus gain useful information.
Those fleeting, meaningless images that pass by in the eyes of normal people…
He may be hiding crucial information that will determine the outcome of a battle.
The saying "determines success or failure" was vividly demonstrated in Zhou Jingtian's eyes.
But the prerequisite is that he must see it with his own eyes.
This is the only limitation to his abilities.
You can't watch pre-recorded videos, you can't watch live streams, you can't do anything through any intermediary...
Only what he sees with his own eyes at the scene can be stored and analyzed.
Fortunately, he had been watching from above during the physical examination.
That position was handpicked by him.
A simulated city observation deck, a glass room suspended in mid-air.
From there, you can overlook the entire simulated street.
He spent the entire afternoon there.
Jiang Yu's every move naturally did not escape his eyes.
He clearly saw what exactly happened at that time.
"The moment the brick turned into a power bank lasted about 0.3 seconds."
"I stretched that 0.3 seconds out of 100 days."
"These 100 days seem to be going smoothly, but what's interesting is..."
"At 99 days, 17 hours, and 32 seconds, the child disappeared."
Lin Wei's pupils suddenly contracted.
They've disappeared?
In the current context, these four characters have a completely different meaning from their everyday usage.
It's equivalent to Zhou Jingtian "losing track" of Jiang Yu.
That was right in Zhou Jingtian's eyes!
On a scene slowed down by 256 million times...
Disappeared? !
This is something that has never happened before.
Because no one can ever escape Zhou Jingtian's eyes.
"Disappeared...disappeared??" Lin Wei repeated incredulously.
"Yes, they just disappear from the screen."
Zhou Jingtian's expression remained calm, but the light in his eyes shone even brighter.
"Then, he reappeared at 99 days, 17 hours, and 32.01 seconds."
"The brick in my hand has been turned into a power bank."