"I wonder if Merlin can swallow this insult. Merlin acts more like a scientist, but being a scientist doesn't mean you won't strive for fame and fortune."

Many great scientists throughout history had a strong desire for fame and fortune.

"Probably not. If Merlin dares to show his face, he'll probably be stuck in Stockholm."

"If Merlin could teleport, he could just teleport here and there."

"Impossible. Merlin himself wrote in his paper that the soul, body, and memories cannot be transferred as a trinity."

"The Americans are really ruthless, trying all sorts of ways to force Merlin to show up."

But what if Merlin didn't care about any of that? However, they hadn't suffered any real loss; it was just the loss of a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, which meant nothing to them.

"Everyone always suspects that Merlin is a person, but have you ever thought that Merlin is not a person at all, but just a string of signals that lives on the Internet in the form of a soul?"

"Impossible. If Merlin is a ghost on the internet, then who created the Brain?"

"Perhaps Merlin is a code name for a group of people. Merlin is just a ghost on the internet, who then controls a group of people to work for him through means unknown to us."

"That's not realistic either. If that were the case, the more people Merlin controls, the easier it would be to expose them."

"Have you ever considered that those who work for Merlin are unaware that they are working for Merlin?"

"Who Merlin is is not our concern; that's the job of the Bureau of Abnormal Events."

What we need to do is help China take the lead in this technological race.

America's questionable tactics didn't stop at hiring someone to impersonate Mirren; they also had Mirren appear on various TV shows to promote how difficult it was for her to discover her soul.

"On one occasion, while I was examining a patient at the Mayo Clinic, an X-ray gave me the inspiration..."

They fabricated a story; America gave Millen the identity of a doctor at Mayo Clinic and a PhD from Harvard Medical School.

In fact, Mirren was indeed a PhD from Harvard Medical School, but after graduating, he was recruited by the American government and became a researcher at a secret research base.

After the existence of the soul was confirmed, many research teams at home and abroad began to focus on the soul as their research topic.

Because this topic belongs to a completely new field, it means a blue ocean, meaning that many unknowns are waiting to be discovered, making it easier to publish articles.

Doing research is, in a sense, like picking fruit from a tree; each sub-field is like a tree.

As a pioneer in this field, he always knew which fruits were shorter and easier to pick, and then he and his students would pick all the shorter fruits.

Then, those who come later, with a little effort, manage to pick the less tall fruits in the middle. Finally, when the sea turns completely red, only the tallest and hardest fruits remain.

Therefore, the direction you choose is often more important than your talent and hard work.

Since AlphaGo defeated Lee Sedol in 2016, artificial intelligence has become the hottest field in computer science in recent years.

If you graduated with a master's or doctoral degree in artificial intelligence around 2016, those five years were like being on the cutting edge of a booming industry—it was incredibly rewarding.

If you were a master's or doctoral student in the field of artificial intelligence 20 years from now, you would just think, "Why is this so complicated?"

Direction is important, but timing is also crucial. A blue ocean can turn into a red ocean, and even the best direction can wipe you out.

This year has been hailed by the media as the "Year of the Soul," with articles related to the soul appearing in almost every issue of Science or Nature.

The confirmation of the soul led to a shortage of people willing to take on cemetery caretaker jobs, resulting in continuous increases in compensation.

Houses where someone has died unexpectedly need to be sold at a much lower price than similar houses in the surrounding area.

So much so that now, if you want to rent a house, the landlord must require a physical examination report.

For high-risk professions like programming, not only is it necessary to increase the rent per unit, but also to pay for a special insurance policy so that landlords can receive compensation in the event of an accident.

Programmers jokingly call it "Programmer Accident Insurance," and everyone is saying they've never seen anything like it before—the first time they've seen a landlord be the beneficiary of an accident insurance policy.

But there was nothing they could do, because all the landlords were making this demand, and the sellers' market had united.

The landlord naturally has his reasons. If something unexpected happens, not only will all the current tenants have to terminate their leases, but it will also affect my future rentals.

A startup company plans to develop small-scale soul detectors, specifically for corporate use.

It can be used to observe whether there are any souls in the area.

It's a rather pointless direction, because the soul dissipates quickly after a person dies, unless you observe the matter that dissipates, but no one has yet found a way to observe this matter.

The result was that this outrageous plan secured 50 million RMB in venture capital as soon as it was unveiled.

Investors believe this direction has great potential, and starting a business with a PhD in laser physics is definitely worthwhile.

Of course, this 50 million was not without conditions. The investors added many restrictions, including that the financial officer needed to be appointed by the investors, each payment was 5 million, and the investors had the right to stop at any time, among other harsh terms.

This is completely different from the time Zheng Li took 50 million from Lei Jun in half an hour. Lei Jun's 50 million was subject to almost no restrictions.

The United States and the Western countries that cooperate with them are trying to force him to show himself.

Zheng Li felt both amused and annoyed. "Since you always want me to show up, it wouldn't hurt to show up and play with you."