Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 590 The Transhuman Scientist Project
Xu Shenxue has been in this world for twelve years. Through these twelve years of continuous use and exploration, he has gained some experience in using the scientific research system.

For example, you can add points to yourself to comprehensively enhance your physical fitness... and Xu Shenxue has not yet explored the limit of this point addition. Anyway, he has already added more than one million achievement points to himself, but he can still add more!

After the extra points were added, Xu Shenxue's physical fitness became stronger and stronger, even evolving in a non-human direction... In the past twelve years, he has never been sick, not even the slightest cold!
Furthermore, his strength, stamina, agility, and even immune resistance are exceptionally outstanding, completely surpassing human limits...

When Xu Shenxue was alone, he tested some of his physical fitness indicators.

Xu Shenxue can now run the 100-meter dash in under eight seconds. Keep in mind that Xu Shenxue has never had any professional sprint training; he just runs with incredible speed and effort.

He has also tested various other forces, and he has not conducted any extreme tests, but he can break the current human limit record in almost every test... For example, in the seated lift, the known human limit is a record set by a disabled veteran: 505 kilograms.

Xu Shenxue also tried seated lifts to see how much difference there was between him and the other person. He easily lifted 500 kilograms... and didn't feel anything at 600 kilograms. He then continued to increase the weight to 700 kilograms before feeling the pressure. His final challenge record was 750 kilograms.

In fact, Xu Shenxue felt that his strength limit was far more than 750 kilograms, but for safety reasons, he did not try it. After all, he was alone during the test and there were no safety assistants. He was also afraid that some accidents might happen and cause him to get injured.

This 750-kilogram sit-up has far exceeded the current limits of human strength.

In reality, the limit for normal humans is 460-470 kilograms. Anything higher, like 500 kilograms, is for extremely special and rare individuals, such as the disabled British veteran mentioned earlier!
Moreover, the strength of muscle fibers alone is not enough... after all, muscles also need bones for support!

As for bones, for example, the shoulder joint can only bear about 500 kilograms. Exceeding this range will cause irreversible damage to the joint...

This means that even if muscle fibers could provide greater strength, it wouldn't matter because the joints couldn't support it.

But Xu Shenxue can lift 750 kilograms in a seated press... This means that not only are his muscles different from those of normal humans, but even his bones are different from those of ordinary humans.

Xu Shenxue is not only strong, but also has excellent endurance, making long-term high-speed running easy.

Other aspects, such as reaction speed, are also very good!
Basically, in every test he could think of, his physical abilities had improved dramatically... How to put it, he was like a 'human'!
Because his physical abilities became superhuman, for a time he was quite interested in various forms of martial arts such as Sanda, boxing, and Muay Thai, and even hired a coach to teach him.

After learning it, the skills I actually mastered were only so-so.

However, during one practice session, I couldn't control my strength and accidentally used 50% of my power. After a few punches, the sandbag itself was fine, but the support pillar that was holding the sandbag in place broke.

After the initial shock, the martial arts coach earnestly advised Xu Shenxue, speaking tactfully but conveying the message: "Mr. Xu, you are exceptionally talented. In the future, please let the security personnel handle things as much as possible. Please don't do it yourself..."

Otherwise, if you, Mr. Xu, were to punch an ordinary person, they would be headed straight to the funeral home!
After that incident, Xu Shenxue never showed his strength to anyone else, not even 40% or 50% of it!
It's easy to scare people!
Besides possessing strength, endurance, agility, and other characteristics far exceeding human limits, Xu Shenxue shows no signs of aging!

Xu Shenxue is now in his thirties, but he still looks exactly the same as he did ten years ago... Outsiders all think that Xu Shenxue is a super rich man who takes good care of himself, but in fact, Xu Shenxue has never done any so-called health preservation or maintenance.

All of this is thanks to the system!

However, despite the enormous changes in his body, his genes remained unchanged.

From a genetic perspective, at least from the perspective of genes that can be observed with current human technology, his genes have not changed at all!

Furthermore, tests conducted using modern scientific instruments revealed no abnormalities...

He secretly provided the galactic life forms with some ordinary body tissues, such as hair and blood, but the galactic life forms have not been able to figure them out.

From the perspective of modern medicine, Xu Shenxue's body is a black hole... It's incomprehensible!
Xu Shenxue didn't bother to investigate further. As long as the system kept telling him to add points, he would just keep adding them and see what would happen in the end...

Perhaps I can still hope that by continuously adding points, I can achieve longevity and health?
It might even lead to some more mystical changes, like gaining superpowers...

He didn't know what would happen in the future, so he just kept adding points.

He even had a premonition that, compared to the role of the research system quota, the changes in his body were the biggest changes the system brought to humanity... and might even lead humanity to a higher level of evolution!

Of course... the premise is that human technology has developed to a certain level before we can understand the changes in his body, find the corresponding technical theories, and then apply them.

Besides bringing tremendous changes to Xu Shenxue himself, another major role of the research system is to drive the rapid development of Xu Shenxue's various enterprises and enhance their research and development capabilities.

The research quota ranges from the lowest level, D, to C, B, A, S, SS, and then there's an SSS-level quota that Xu Shenxue has never redeemed—a quota that requires tens of millions of achievement points.

These different levels of research opportunities all serve the same purpose: to comprehensively enhance the human brain.

According to Xu Shenxue's understanding, this promotion is not a fixed value increase, but a percentage increase. The percentage increase varies depending on the level of the research quota.

Furthermore, the effects of higher-level promotions are significant. For the same person, the difference in ability between those with one higher-level research positions is substantial.

This is even more evident in S-class and SS-class!

Another very important feature is that because it is a percentage increase, the more skilled the scientist is, the greater the increase will be!
Giving an SS-level research position to someone who is already mediocre is not very useful!

However, if an SS-level research grant is given to someone like Professor Lin Andong, the impact it can have is enormous.

According to Xu Shenxue's speculation, Professor Lin Andong's intelligence was already close to the human ceiling, and after being given an SS-level research quota, he directly broke through the upper limit of human intelligence.

Lin Andong had previously taken an IQ test... The results proved that the so-called IQ test questions were useless to him, because he scored full marks on the test with a maximum score of 200!

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The existence of research quotas allows Xu Shenxue to create superhuman scientists... This is the greatest function of the research system quotas.

This is also the core goal of Xu Shenxue's Thousand Talents Program: to select the most outstanding talents, then give them an SS-level research position, and cultivate superhuman scientists!
The current SS-level research quotas already have such a huge effect, and Xu Shenxue is also looking forward to SSS-level research quotas... If a top scientist like Professor Lin Andong could be given an SSS-level research quota, it might lead to a leap in human technology to a higher level!
Unfortunately, the SSS-level research slots are too expensive, costing a full ten million achievement points... more than Xu Shenxue has accumulated in the past twelve years.

Given Xu Shenxue's current immense prestige and vast career achievements, he only earned a little over 1.5 million achievement points last year. Even if he didn't save them all, it would take him several years to accumulate 10 million points.

However, in practice, it is difficult to save so many.

Because many of Xu Shenxue's companies and scientists need the support of research quotas... After all, while top scientists are crucial for scientific advancement, ordinary scientists are also very important.

After all, the modern scientific system of mankind is very large and complex... In China, industries have been classified into 41 major categories, 207 medium categories, and 666 minor categories.

The division at the theoretical research level is even more detailed... For example, the most advanced discipline for humankind, and the most core discipline driving human technological progress: mathematics!
Mathematics alone has six major categories, which can be further subdivided into sixty-three first-level disciplines. A top scientist cannot possibly know everything or be able to research everything.

Even someone as capable as Professor Lin Andong, whose abilities have surpassed human limits, primarily focuses his research on mathematics, and not just all areas of mathematics, but only certain areas.

Of course, for a superhuman scientist like Professor Lin Andong, what limits him is not his intelligence or learning ability, but time...

His time was limited, and he simply didn't have enough time to explore other areas of mathematics, let alone non-mathematical fields.

For businesses, for nations, and even for the development of humanity as a whole, what is needed is not just one Professor Lin Andong, but a large number, at least hundreds or thousands, of Professors Lin Andong!
Of course, this is unrealistic. Xu Shenxue searched the nation's top talent pool and only found one person like Lin Andong. Moreover, there aren't that many SS-level research positions available!

But if we can't get hundreds or thousands of Professor Lin Andong, then let's get a batch of a watered-down version of Professor Lin Andong.

And these second-rate scientists are also very important!

In the Smart Brain Integrated Computing System project, Professor Lin Andong, as the core figure, was only responsible for the algorithm level, while the hardware work was handled by other scientists.

The entire project cannot be handled by Professor Lin Andong alone; he needs the cooperation and assistance of dozens of top scientists to get the intelligent brain integrated computing system up and running.

As for the core technical personnel at the lower levels, they haven't even been included yet... If they were, that would be several thousand people!
This means that Xu Shenxue cannot invest all his achievement points in a few top scientists. He also needs to use some of his achievement points to exchange for S-level, A-level, and B-level research positions, and then allocate them to more regular scientists and core technical personnel.

As for the lower-level C-grade and D-grade research quotas, these two are very cheap, especially the D-grade research quotas which are only 10 points each. They are issued in large quantities and are directly issued and revoked by the research system, without Xu Shenxue's involvement.

The technical positions in Xu Shenxue's various companies range from W1 to W15. W1 to W4 are the levels of basic technical personnel, and research positions are no longer being offered... There are too many people. After all, Xu Shenxue's companies are not just Zhiyun Group, but also a bunch of other companies, and there are quite a lot of technical personnel of various kinds.

In addition, these grassroots technical personnel have limited skills and abilities, so giving them research positions would be a waste.

If you reach level W4, the system will automatically issue a level D quota; if you reach level W8, you will be issued a level C quota; and if you reach level W10, you will be issued a level B quota.

However, once you reach Level A or even higher Level S, Xu Shenxue will personally distribute them... After all, so far, Xu Shenxue only has about thirty Level S slots and over two hundred Level A slots, and each one needs to be used for top talents, so he can't just mess around with them.

As for the SS level, it is done with utmost care, selecting top talents from across the country.

Because Xu Shenxue currently only has four SS-level research slots, three of which are permanently used, and the remaining one is used on demand. Xu Shenxue selectively uses these slots based on the needs of each project. Therefore, some S-level scientists sometimes find that their minds work even better when working on key projects, which is because Xu Shenxue has temporarily assigned them an SS-level research slot.

Xu Shenxue currently has over 800,000 achievement points in hand. He plans to save them for a few months until he reaches one million points, and then exchange them for an SS-level spot... to use temporarily as needed.

If Dr. Wang Dehai proves himself in the future, he may become a regular user of this SS-level system.

Of course, it all depends on him... especially now that he's being given S-level resources, whether he can unleash his potential and achieve outstanding results.

Only if he proves himself can he become the fourth scientist under Xu Shenxue to regularly use SS-level positions.

Xu Shenxue is really looking forward to it!
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Besides Wang Dehai, Xu Shenxue will also make special arrangements for the other dozen or so people selected from the first batch of the Thousand Talents Program who are selected for the fourth round. They will be given A-level resource support, fixed use of A-level quotas, and then rotated use of S-level research quotas to see what happens.

If a few more outstanding talents emerge from among them, they may become regular users of the S-level slots.

After finalizing the follow-up arrangements for the first batch of the Thousand Talents Program, Xu Shenxue reviewed the progress of the second and third batches of the Thousand Talents Program. The overall progress was quite good... However, no one else emerged from among these people who was a top-tier talent with overflowing talent, just like Wang Dehai.

After all, Xu Shenxue wasn't looking for ordinary top talents, but rather top talents who were already close to the limits of human potential... such people are very rare.

The Thousand Talents Program is, in a sense, a project to cultivate superhuman scientists.
However, there are quite a few slightly less capable ones. With continued investment of resources in their training, it shouldn't be a problem for some S-level scientists to emerge.

After all, the Thousand Talents Program selects talents from the top universities in China. Being selected for the Thousand Talents Program already puts them among the very elite. Even without Xu Shenxue's Thousand Talents Program, if they follow the established path, they will most likely become top technical talents in their respective industries in the future.

With Xu Shenxue's support, the pace of progress will be even faster, and the potential will be even greater.

Xu Shenxue had a premonition that perhaps in three to five years, as some of the people in the Thousand Talents Program gradually devoted themselves to technological research and development and began to use A-level and S-level research quotas, the overall capabilities of his top talent team would be raised to another level.

After Luo Yinian took Xu Shenxue out to handle the Thousand Talents Program, Xu Shenxue rested briefly, had a simple lunch, dozed off for a bit, and then looked at some recent reports.

In the afternoon, Xu Shenxue went to Building B to check on the robot's research and development.

The development of robots is progressing quite smoothly, with continuous advancements in hardware. New materials and components are being gradually introduced into applications, making the hardware performance of robots even better.

Furthermore, while Xu Shenxue was reviewing the research and development testing of the new robot, he learned some good news: the supply of the robot's core components had been localized.

Next year, the robot products launched by Zhiyun Group are expected to be 100% domestically produced!
Although the core components of the robot, mainly the computing system and sensor system, are developed by Zhiyun Group and provided by a few core domestic supply chain companies, many high-tech parts are still provided by foreign suppliers.

The robot has a large number of parts, and its technology is much more complex than that of Hailan Auto's intelligent electric vehicle.

Moreover, since it is Zhiyun Group that makes the products, they have always focused on high-end products, which have very high technical requirements for various components. Some components can be made by domestic suppliers, but some cannot and need to be imported, especially from Japanese and German companies.

In order to continuously reduce costs and ensure the stability of the supply chain, Zhiyun Group's robotics division is promoting foreign component manufacturers to set up factories in China for local supply, while also supporting domestic suppliers of similar components.

After several years of effort, the localization rate of the robot supply chain is now very high, and by next year, it will be able to achieve 100% localization.

This means that Zhiyun Group can truly and comprehensively control the robot supply chain, preventing production stoppages due to changes in the external environment.

Ensuring the security and stability of the supply chain is something Xu Shenxue attaches great importance to.

This was true for the smart terminal industry chain in the past, for the smart electric vehicle industry chain, and for the emerging robot industry chain and the production of virtual equipment!
After watching some new experiments and conceptual robot demonstrations, Xu Shenxue returned to Building A's office building and held a small meeting, mainly to discuss the situation in the field of smart terminals.

After the meeting, he also met with several senior managers who had returned from other places to report. Xu Shenxue has many companies and many senior managers under his management. Meeting with several senior managers every day to understand the situation is part of his daily routine.

After a busy day, Xu Shenxue finally got into his car and headed home, but instead of going back to Zhihai Garden, he went to the seaside villa area, where Xi Wanqing was waiting for him.

(End of this chapter)