I am weak and friendly

Chapter 420 [Flow Code] Eight Times Speed! ON!

Xu Songnian sighed.

So, Hirako, you really aren't blind, are you?

He explained, "Actually, I was indeed reading the screen just now, but at a very high speed. I was at about 8x speed, so to untrained people like you, it sounded like a series of piercing noises, but to my ears, it was just normal screen reading..."

Tang Yiping: ? ? ?

You mean that long string of sounds, like sharp electronic noises, is it screen reading?
Eight times the speed?
I do not believe!
When Tang Yiping watches videos, he sometimes turns the speed up to 2x, and at most he turns it up to 3x.

To be honest, at this point, Tang Yiping stopped listening to the audio altogether; he relied on the subtitles in the videos.

He never imagined that humans could hear sounds so quickly.

"Really, it's just like how a normal person reads ten lines at a glance. With training, it's easy to do."

"Easy to do? I don't believe it!"

He planned to test it out.

Tang Yiping looked down and saw a message in the group chat. He casually clicked on it and asked, "What is this about?"

"A sophomore, is that really okay?" Xu Songnian read the text on the screen, then said, "This was sent by my teacher, I'm sorry, he didn't mean any harm, he was just curious."

"Your teacher?"

“Yes, my teacher’s name is Du Qiming,” Xu Songnian said. “He is the teacher who taught me to adapt to life as a blind person, and he is also my teacher on the road of life. This group is named after him. In fact, most of the people in this group are his students.”

"They're all his students?"

Tang Yiping glanced at the group; there were 57 people in it.

Tang Yiping was shocked and immediately became extremely curious about this "teacher".

and……

Taking advantage of Xu Songnian's distraction as he was about to speak, Tang Yiping pointed to another one:
"Old Xu, don't be fooled. Kids these days are so clever... Hahaha, this is Old Zhao. He's a bit... well, a bit negative. Don't mind him."

"No way, can it really be done?"

Tang Yiping was truly convinced this time.

Tang Yiping could barely hear anything; all he could hear was a sharp electronic sound.

“Not everyone is that fast,” Xu Songnian said. “Normally, everyone is four or five times the speed, but I’m a little faster.”

Is this what you call being faster?

A normal person speaks at a rate of about 200-300 words per minute. A faster broadcaster, like Hua Shao, speaks at about 450 words per minute.

At eight times the normal speaking speed, that's almost 2000 words per minute.

Tang Yiping can't even read 2000 words in a minute.

"This is like a superpower!" Tang Yiping exclaimed.

“We blind people have a slightly different brain structure, so we have compensatory mechanisms,” Xu Songnian said with a smile, taking his phone from him.

He thought to himself, "You still claim to be blind? See, you know nothing about blind people."

“Do you know why a white cane is so important to blind people?” Xu Songnian said. “On the one hand, a white cane can help people find their way, which is the most direct tactile sensation. On the other hand, the sound produced by a white cane is also very useful. Many people can actually use the sound of a white cane for echolocation. There is one person in our group. Even if they can’t echolocate, they can still roughly perceive the surrounding environment… This is one of the superpowers of blind people.”

"However, a white cane can only explore the real world. Now that people are almost all online, with the widespread availability of accessibility features on mobile phones, we will have another new superpower."

"The unusual sounds you heard—that's how we read the world."

So this is the ecology of blind people?
Tang Yiping felt that if he wanted to complete the FORK-Cane project, he might need to do more to understand blind people.

Blindness cannot be understood simply by closing one's eyes.

“Come on, let me try!” Tang Yiping said.

"Pfft, this requires a lot of training," Xu Songnian said.

Over there, Tang Yiping had already closed his eyes.

then……

Acquired blindness, activated!

Before Tang Yiping's eyes, everything turned into a chaotic gray again.

“Let’s go!” Tang Yiping said.

Fine.

Xu Songnian chuckled.

He reached out and tapped his own screen.

"Squeak—" A short, sharp squeak.

Xu Songnian said with a smile, "He was saying..."

Tang Yiping said, "This must be that old Zhao. Tell him that I'm just an ordinary college student, very weak, but there are many powerful people online."

Xu Songnian: "???" This time it was his turn to not believe it.

He then pointed to the next sentence:
"squeak--"

"Xiao Zhao, don't talk nonsense! Xiao Xu, apologize to that child... Hmm, this is a message from Grandpa Du, right?"

Xu Songnian: ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Now he really didn't understand.

No, could Hirako really be blind?

Xu Songnian suddenly became less confident in his guess.

"Pingzi... are you really blind?" Xu Songnian felt he could no longer pretend to ignore this question.

“Uh…” Tang Yiping said helplessly, “In essence, no… but right now, I really am.”

Xu Songnian: ? ? ? ?
What's this called, Schrödinger's blind man?
"Stop dwelling on this, come on, give me a few more lines!"

Tang Yiping himself was extremely excited.

Indeed, talent can be a weakness, but a weakness can also be a talent!
The weakness of "Acquired Blindness" not only activates the talent "Flow Code," but also comes with the talent "Eight Times Speed ​​Hearing"!
This is a wonderful surprise!
Tang Yiping suddenly wondered if he should get to know that big shot who could use echolocation and learn how to use his blindness.
……

That night, Xu Songnian and his companions chatted in the group chat for a long time, unable to fall asleep no matter what.

Judging from how lively this group is, many people in it probably had a sleepless night.

When Xu Songnian got up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night, he found that Tang Yiping across the hall was also awake, and he could hear the sound of typing on a keyboard coming from inside.

"Pingzi?" Xu Songnian knocked gently on the door and said, "Stop busying yourself and go to sleep. Tomorrow is the first day of school."

“Okay, I’ll review this PR document again!” Tang Yiping said.

"Stop the investigation. This can't be done in a day. Go to sleep, go to sleep."

In Tang Yiping's bedroom.

Tang Yiping stared wide-eyed at the screen in front of him.

Then I rubbed my eyes hard.

After the promotion on L station, someone quickly submitted a PR, but unfortunately, Tang Yiping was completely at a loss this time.

This was a field he knew absolutely nothing about.

Let alone reviewing the other party's PR, he actually has a hard time even understanding it.

He hasn't even finished reviewing one PR application in all this time.

After staring at the screen for a long time, his eyes are now sore and dry, and he can barely see clearly.

Tang Yiping looked up at the time; it was already 2 a.m.

He'll have to get up and wash around 6 a.m. tomorrow. His first class is at 8 a.m., and that first class is an extremely difficult course like "Data Structures".

The second section is "Mathematical Analysis," which is also extremely difficult.

No, I need to go to sleep quickly.

But... Tang Yiping really doesn't want to sleep until he finishes reading this PR.

Tang Yiping discovered that he had developed a condition where he couldn't sleep once he started working on an open-source project.

Ok……

Got it!

Tang Yiping suddenly had a flash of inspiration. He opened the screen reader software, turned on eight times the speed, and then...

Acquired blindness activated!
In an instant, the sharp cry transformed into countless lines of code, flooding into Tang Yiping's mind like a tidal wave, and then appearing in his field of vision.

I go I go I go!

It's here! ...

[Flow Code] 8x Speed!
Hahaha, this is so awesome!
Come on, come on, come on, more and more and more!
Tonight, I'm going to finish reviewing all the PR requests!
completely fine!
Eight in the morning.

First lesson.

Classroom 302.

Zhou Siyuan stood at the door, gazing longingly at the end of the corridor.

The school bell has been ringing for a long time.

But he never came.

As expected, the big shot still disdains to attend my class.

Zhou Siyuan thought wistfully.

(End of this chapter)