As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 171: Taking advantage of the popularity

Magic has a profound impact on the outside world.

For the general public, they want to master magic more. If you really ask them to read Merlin's forum, most of them will not be able to finish it.

In this era, deep reading is a rare skill. The rise of mobile Internet has led to a significant decline in people's deep reading ability.

Not to mention the magic treatise which contains an astonishing amount of information and has a very high reading threshold.

People would rather watch the interpretation videos on Bilibili than have the patience to read them carefully.

After realizing the difficulty of obtaining magic coins and then obtaining magic, everyone chose to give up.

There is no need to hide magic anymore. When business giants go to the mathematics and astronomy departments to recruit people, they can also say clearly that we are here for mining.

On the Internet, magic coins are jokingly called Merlin coins and magic stones. Mathematics departments that conduct research and mine magic coins jokingly say that they are going prospecting. As for whether they can find mines containing magic stones, that is another matter.

Fantasy games were selling well, and with the help of the magic craze, The Witcher 3 sold millions of copies.

The Harry Potter mobile game launched by a domestic gaming company three years ago has once again topped the IOS free mobile game list.

MiHoYo announced that it would make a magic role-playing game, and the project has already begun allocating personnel to form a project team.

It is difficult to truly gain the ability to cast spells, but it is easy to take advantage of the popularity.

Online novel fans finally understand why Qidian has been vigorously promoting fantasy novel writing competitions in the past two years.

Fantasy novels are generally popular, but they receive more recommendations than other novels with the same data but different genres.

"How can I see the Qidian fantasy essay contest with tens of millions of entries?"

This answer was put forward on Zhihu in 2021. By the end of 2023, a large number of people came to dig up the grave and add new answers.

One of the answers in 2021 said:
“It’s difficult to sell domestic copyrights for fantasy titles, and it’s probably even harder for Qidian to sell copyrights overseas.

The mature Hollywood assembly line does not need China's fantasy works.

What is the meaning of Qidian doing this? There must be information in the fantasy category that we don’t know. We can only wait for people in the future to answer it. "

This answer is closest to the truth. Two years later, grave diggers commented below:

"Brother, are you still there? Come out and see the magic."

"It turns out that magic really exists. Qidian probably follows orders from above."

“There is still information we don’t know.”

"If it weren't for Merlin's public appearance, we probably wouldn't know when we would have known the truth."

"I guess even Qidian's editors and top management are not aware of this level of secret."

"I have already saved the videos of Merlin in Stockholm from various angles on my computer and mobile hard drive, for fear that the Ministry of Magic will cast a spell of amnesia on me one day."

Warner Bros. has publicly announced that it will restart filming of the Harry Potter series.

Previously successful film series are generally not remade too quickly, especially such a successful commercial series as the Harry Potter series.

But unfortunately, magic is the hottest thing right now, and with the top magic IP of "Harry Potter", the most important thing is to make money first.

With current special effects technology, Warner Bros. is confident that it can achieve greater success.

Having had successful experience before, Warner Bros. still plans to conduct a global casting for the three young actors this time.

Warner Bros. announced on social media that it would do its best to invite Merlin to serve as Harry Potter's technical consultant and strive to provide the public with a visual feast that is closest to the real wizarding world.

This is just the wishful thinking of merchants. There is no similarity between the magical world of Harry Potter and the Wizards' League where Zheng Li is.

Magic is a science, a relentless pursuit of truth, and it cannot be learned quickly with just five years of education.

Zheng Li stayed in the Mage Academy for nearly thirty years. After graduating, he studied and worked in the Mage Tower for more than ten years.

Rowling tweeted:
“The magic that Merlin showed in Stockholm was just as I imagined it would be, and thanks to Merlin I know that the little boy I saw on the train that year really existed.

The magical world is all around us.”

"Merlin is more like Dumbledore than Voldemort. I think he's a good man who has power but is able to control himself and not abuse it."

Warner Bros. holds the top IP of Harry Potter, and other film giants like Disney, Paramount and others are following suit.

For those with magic-related IPs, magic is singled out. For example, the copyright owner of The Lord of the Rings took out the story of Gandalf and made a series of movies.

Even many film companies want to directly film Merlin's legendary life.

The fever of magic won't pass so quickly.

In addition to the official live broadcast of Merlin's performance in Stockholm, the audience present also took many different angles.

Every video received a huge amount of views once uploaded.

The official perspective video has been viewed over 100 million times on YouTube.

The credibility of the Nobel Prize has suffered a huge blow.

It turns out that even science and engineering awards can be manipulated, and a word from a big shot can make the Nobel Prize Committee compromise.

A fraud like Mirren could win the Nobel Prize, and even be the only winner.

The award committee knew this, but still gave it to him.

The loss of credibility has caused the Nobel Prize to become a second-rate award in the future.

As for Bill, he has completely lost all positive emotions and the meaning of life.

Every day I could only watch the video of the Nobel Prize ceremony before Merlin took the stage, and seeing myself so high-spirited on the stage, to try to make myself feel better.

This memory has been deleted.

Bill could be said to be living a life worse than death. If he had not been monitored by American officials at all times, he might have committed suicide.

But he cannot die now. His value lies in cooperating with the researchers in their research on how to remove Merlin's magic.

You have to know that it was not just Bill who suffered this fate. Many big people who made decisions suffered the same fate as Bill - losing positive emotions.

We can't let big shots be the experimental subjects, and Bill is not the only one to be the experimental subject.

Until a means to remove the magic is developed, Bill will not die even if he wants to.

Zheng Li's approach was to kill the chicken and the monkey together, but he didn't expect that the monkey wanted to step on the chicken's corpse to resurrect.

“I suspect that the medium is gone. Bill’s dopamine, serotonin, norepinephrine and other substances are still secreted, but his brain cannot receive the signals transmitted by these substances.

So he can’t feel positive emotions.”

"The problem is that we don't dare to perform a craniotomy experiment on this one subject. If something goes wrong during the craniotomy experiment, the bosses will kill me."

“I’m afraid that we can’t find the key factor through blood tests alone. What substance is missing that caused Bill to change?

According to current human examinations, at least it is not due to tissue loss."

America has invested a lot of resources in Bill, and the big guys are now equally desperate, so they are willing to allocate large amounts of funds to the project.

In order to return to normal.

America was about to reach a cooperation agreement with the Europa League, but now the cooperation has fallen through.

The European Union is seriously considering the possibility of cooperation with China.

China and Russia purchased the biological storage technology and spent 10 magic coins. Anyway, you have spent the money, but I have the final say whether your biological storage server wants to enter the European market.

If I don't allow your biostorage products to enter the European market, you might as well sell the biostorage technology to me.

This is what the Europa League is thinking now. They plan to discuss first whether they can buy it with Euros.

If China does not agree, then consider using technology. The Europa Alliance has a lot of technology that China and Russia covet.

If the technology is not good enough, then propose to buy it with magic coin.

Instead of hanging yourself on a tree, it is better to consider other ways.

You can even negotiate with Russia and China at the same time, and buy from whichever side offers the lower price.

Europe has a good plan.

To put it nicely, England's position in Europe is a balancer of Europe, but to put it bluntly, it is a troublemaker.

They are no longer concerned with biological storage technology; they are only interested in finding Merlin.

Whether it is the name or Merlin's magic, the final Expecto Warding is obviously very similar to the Expecto Warding in Harry Potter.

They went straight to Rowling to investigate and asked her if she had really seen a wizard before writing Harry Potter.

Rowling still brought out her story in front of the media: when she was young, she saw a boy wearing round-framed glasses riding a broom flying past the window of the train next to her, and he smiled at her. "Madam, did you really see it, or did you dream about it?"

"It's been so many years, but I think I really saw a wizard riding a broom."

When England thought of its long history, they began to doubt whether there really were a group of magicians living in their country.

Merlin is just their representative.

"But the magicians didn't show up for thousands of years. What's their purpose in showing up now?"

"Maybe it's because the magic world is short of people, and they need to absorb fresh blood from the secular world in this way."

"Wiles hasn't received the admission letter from the magic academy yet, and the magic world hasn't sent anyone to pick him up."

"He's old, and magic organizations need to test new recruits, right? Have you ever thought that the secret testing of Wiles has already begun?"

"I feel like you've been reading too many fantasy novels lately."

“It’s not that I’ve seen too much, but that you haven’t used your imagination enough.

If magic appears, what is impossible?"

The intuitive magic show brought a huge impact to everyone.

Scientists like those who had obtained the magic brain before were all itching to get it.

Merlin can use magic to block bullets, but his magic can only move very light objects. The gap is too big.

Various investigations into population records in England have marked people as missing, and they suspect that some of these people have gone to the wizarding world.

As for Neon, they were envious after watching Merlin's performance and said they also wanted to have their own magician.

I was thinking of making some deals with the Kangaroo Country and giving them the other magic coin.

As for the Kangaroo Country, they are also envious. They also want to have a magician. The magic coin is jointly kept by three parties.

The password of the account is in the hands of three countries, and each country has a part of it. They all need to confirm it before they can access the account and redeem the Magic Brain.

Neon, Kangaroo Country and England are jealous. They think the magic brain represented by the magic coin should also belong to them.

So they had conversations between Neon and Kangaroo Country, one by one. In short, they had to play a role. Neither side was willing to give in to the other, and the right to use this magic coin was stuck here.

When the time is right, England plans to swallow it up directly.

They are professionals in stirring up trouble.

"What an unexpected disaster! Who could have thought that magic would appear on the 10th?

The cost of changing the press conference time is too high now.”

The launch of Ke Chuang Future's brain-computer connected VR is scheduled for December 12, ten days after the Nobel Prize ceremony.

No one could have predicted that something of this magnitude would happen on December 12th.

"How and why should we change it? Our press conference ads and release date were already advertised on major platforms in November.

It is impossible to change the time now.

And there is no need for us to change, isn't this the best opportunity?
We can now ask Tencent to urgently contact the producers of The Witcher 3 and reach a cooperation with them to transform The Witcher series of games and log them into our brain-computer connected VR.

We can even launch a series of magic wand devices to simulate real spellcasting in the VR world."

"The problem is that magic now attracts too much attention in public spaces, and if our brain-computer connection VR is launched at this point in time, the attention it can attract will be greatly reduced.

It is likely to affect sales immediately after release.”

“Our products are definitely the best on the market, and they are several levels ahead of other similar VR products. Even if the sales volume is not as good as expected for a while, it will not affect the general trend.

We can still create momentum, but we have to change our marketing strategy.”

Tencent and Dami have high hopes for Kechuang Bio, and are full of confidence, especially after the finished products come out.

This will be a groundbreaking product, and brain-computer connected VR will be the true first year of VR.

Compared with the VR currently on the market and the brain-computer connection VR that has not yet been released by Kechuang Future, the difference between the two is like the difference between feature phones and smartphones.

Therefore, Ke Chuang Future's original plan was to launch a large number of advertisements after the release on December 12, inviting a large number of self-media in the digital and gaming circles to hype up brain-computer VR.

With the popularity of brain-computer connection mobile phones in the past two years, the concept of brain-computer connection has become deeply rooted in people's minds.

Neither brain-computer connection nor VR is new technology, but the combination of the two is enough to be amazing.

The original plan was to hype up the product, attract the first wave of customers, and then win subsequent customers through word of mouth.

A large amount of paid marketing plus tap water can achieve the best results.

They are confident that they can gain word-of-mouth among users.

But man proposes, God disposes. The emergence of magic has made all attention focused on magic.

The sudden emergence of magic during this period has caused all discussions to revolve around magic.

If we launch brain-computer connected VR now, we may not be able to get the expected traffic.

“I think magic is just a temporary hot spot. It will have a profound impact on society, but the hot spot will always pass.

We cannot change the launch time of brain-computer connected VR. The product strength is sufficient to gain recognition from players, because the attention lost due to unexpected events will still come back.

What’s more important is that Tencent has its own traffic, so brain-computer connection VR will not lack traffic.”

Executives only offer their own views and opinions, but the final decision is made by the directors.

After certain personnel changes, Li Miaomiao, who was previously the representative of Kechuang Biotechnology at Kechuang Future, has now directly become the chairman of Kechuang Future.

She finally made the decision: "Stay true to the original plan. Human and material resources have already been invested, and the advertisements have been placed in major countries around the world. There is no need to postpone it.

Now is the best time.”

The mainstream players in the VR field are still FB and ByteDance. ByteDance mainly focuses on the Chinese market, while FB occupies a large overseas market except China.

They are wary of brain-computer-connected VR.

In order to resist brain-computer connection VR, FB has reached a deep cooperative relationship with Neuralink, hoping that Musk's brain-computer connection company can make a breakthrough in the field of brain-computer connection VR.

ByteDance chose to acquire a Chinese startup brain-computer connection company, whose entrepreneurial team came from Ke Chuang Biotechnology.

They were the R&D personnel at the beginning of the establishment of Kechuang Bio. Their biggest gimmick in attracting investment in the market is that the founding team all came from Kechuang Bio's core R&D team.

However, the outside world still has no clear understanding that Zheng Li is actually the only R&D core of Ke Chuang Bio. People always think that Zheng Li only plays a directional role and the R&D team is equally important.

After ByteDance acquired the brain-computer connection company, progress was slow and failed to achieve their expected results.

The VR system jointly developed by Tencent and Dami will soon be released, and at least there will be no problems with entertainment.

The biggest use of VR is entertainment.

If VR wants to become a productivity tool like computers, current technology has too many limitations.

In addition to entertainment, a more promising direction for VR is online education, and VR-based online education is more realistic.

Currently, no company is working in this direction because compared with tablets and computers, VR online education does not show any significant advantages.

During internal discussions at Tencent, there was a discussion that VR could be specifically used for interest-based remote training.

Teachers can directly educate students through brain-computer connection VR and provide hand-to-hand guidance.

However, this requires further strengthening of the brain-computer connection function of VR.

Ke Chuang Future's brain-computer connection VR conference was held in Shenhai.

After comprehensive consideration of cities such as Suzhou, Pengcheng, Jinling, Yanjing, and Shenhai, we finally chose Shenhai.

Brain-computer connected VR is released simultaneously around the world, including products for speakers of multiple languages ​​including English, German, and Japanese.

The momentum is building not only in China but also abroad.

After signing a confidentiality agreement with well-known foreign YouTubers, game anchors, etc., we provided them with a sample of brain-computer VR.

The stand-alone masterpieces that come with the brain-computer connection VR shocked these knowledgeable bloggers.

The benefit is that during the live broadcast, they touted the brain-computer connected VR that will be launched by Ke Chuang Future.

A Youtuber made a special video praising the renderings of brain-computer connection VR.

"This is the best brain-computer connection VR I have ever used. It is an absolutely epoch-making product in the VR industry and the epitome of brain-computer connection in the entertainment field."

If I write too much about international politics, my post will be blocked, so I can only say a few words below. Sorry.

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