From Singapore, you can take a public bus directly from Larkin Bus Station in Johor Bahru to the bus terminal via the highway. It will take about a week to reach Kuala Lumpur, the Southeast Asian city closest to Singapore.
For Zheng Li, the biggest advantage of Southeast Asia is that local governments have virtually no presence and there is no ubiquitous surveillance.
In a Chinatown like Kuala Lumpur, no one would notice the presence of a dark-skinned, ordinary-looking middle-aged Chinese man.
Zheng Li found a place to stay at random and, relying on his strong physique, found a job as a security guard in a shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur's Chinatown.
Kuala Lumpur is the capital of Malaysia, and even security guards there are relatively well paid. Their monthly salary is about 2,000 RM (the exchange rate between RM and RMB is about 1 to 1.6).
After spending two days in a shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur, Zheng Li manipulated the perceptions of the mall's management personnel, transforming them directly from a security guard at the entrance into a security manager who spent most of his time sitting in the office and only needed to go out for a patrol once a day.
Furthermore, they changed their perception, making Zheng Li believe that he had been working there for some time.
The physical body in Kuala Lumpur is merely a tool to store the soul and memories; Zheng Li mostly controls the clone body in Singapore.
Cloning intelligent life forms will encounter a problem: they lack a soul.
Even dogs that possess a soul cannot be cloned without one. The mages discovered that cloning can only replicate the physical body, but cannot create a soul.
This is a problem that the Mage Alliance has been unable to solve for many years. It is precisely because they have not been able to understand the mysteries of many souls that the mages have always felt that there are higher-dimensional beings in the dark.
Zheng Li's true form went for a stroll in the public experimental area as usual in the morning. After recovering his magic power, Zheng Li was able to multitask and control both bodies at the same time.
Not to mention, the jobs in Kuala Lumpur don't require physical or mental exertion.
"What is the progress of research and development on brain-computer interfaces for other language systems?" Zheng Li asked.
Li Wanqing glanced at his boss and had a strange feeling. Zheng Li was already fair-skinned, but Li Wanqing felt that he was even fairer and his skin was much smoother.
Neuralink had offered him a high price to poach him, but Li Wanqing considered various factors and ultimately chose to stay.
Li Wanqing suppressed the strange feeling in his heart: "The experiment has been progressing step by step according to our schedule."
"However, there were still many unexpected situations. We outsourced the brain-computer interface experiments for white English-speaking students and black English-speaking students to Quintiles respectively."
Quintiles is one of the top three biomedical research outsourcing companies in America, with R&D bases all over the world. Therefore, Kechuang Bio simply outsourced its orders to Quintiles as well.
"Quentai has a research and development base in South Africa, but we did not expect that due to the impact of the pandemic, we would not be able to recruit enough experimental subjects."
Kechuang Bio's brain-computer interface is non-invasive, and its human trials do not require FDA approval.
Zheng Li asked, "Our brain-computer interface test is very simple and will not cause any harm to the human body, so why can't we find anyone to do it?"
Li Wanqing explained, "The reason why most of those willing to be human test subjects in America is the lower class is that the government is now giving money so that the lower class can live well without working."
“Even white people who used to take temporary jobs are unwilling to work anymore, and Quinty said we have to raise the price.”
For the lower classes in Europe and America, working won't necessarily improve their lives. With ever-increasing welfare benefits, not working won't make their lives any worse, so they might as well not work.
Zheng Li: "What's the situation in South Africa?"
“The situation in South Africa is similar. Quinte’s research institute required that the experimental subjects be free of the epidemic, but the epidemic in South Africa is too severe, especially among the lower-class black people, who are almost all potential carriers.”
"We simply couldn't find any qualified individuals to participate in the experiment; they couldn't pass the nucleic acid test."
Zheng Li: "Perhaps we can raise the price appropriately, around 30%, I agree. You go and talk to Kuntai."
"Furthermore, they have relaxed their COVID-19 control measures in their South African laboratories, and the brain-computer interface tests are unrelated to whether the participants are positive."
Kechuang Bio is about to go public and has plenty of money.
Li Wanqing had no choice but to agree, but he thought to himself: The problem is that Kuntai's researchers are afraid of being infected.
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A month has passed since Zheng Li regained his spellcasting ability.
The krill swarms that Zheng Li previously released into the Pacific Ocean have gradually entered the bodies of various marine organisms.
These krill are like seeds; they induce changes in some cells of marine organisms, causing certain functions to be allocated to act as storage, central processing units, or signal receivers.
Each cell can be understood as a tiny "processor," and Zheng Li aggregates all the processors at the logic layer through a honeycomb structure.
This creates a massive resource pool and a virtualized central processing unit with powerful computing capabilities.
Using the concept of the Blue Planet, this should be called a biological cloud.
Zheng Li was fortunate that one of the lucky "seeds" successfully entered the blue whale's body indirectly.
If an ordinary fish is equivalent to a basic x86 server, then a blue whale is equivalent to the Tianhe-1 supercomputer.
Currently, the computing power and storage capacity of BioCloud are no less than the combined total of AliCloud and Tencent Cloud.
That said, there are only three companies in China that are truly good at cloud computing: Huawei, Alibaba, and Tencent.
Many large domestic companies claim to be developing their own cloud services, but in reality, they are just buying cloud services from Alibaba and Tencent and then rebranding them as their own.
(I know of a major company that mainly provides B2B application services. When Tencent Cloud experienced a failure and shut down, its cloud service also stopped working. Only after being pressed by users did it admit that it was using Tencent Cloud.)
Zheng Li's brain is directly connected to a biological cloud that spans the entire Pacific Ocean via biosignals, and he can use this storage and computing power to his heart's content.
Directly connecting the brain to a computing device can enhance a mage's abilities in a way that is comparable to how computers enhance a person's.
Calculation, thinking, and purely theoretical experiments can all be handled by the biological cloud.
Zheng Li built a system in the biological cloud that would become a potential source of artificial intelligence for giants, and then implemented a series of information security measures for the conversion between biological signals and electrical signals.
The system here only has the potential for artificial intelligence. If it is to become true artificial intelligence, it will require time and data to nurture it.
Zheng Li's physical body is in Kuala Lumpur, his consciousness spends most of its time in the Lion City, and his biological cloud is in the Pacific Ocean. This is a very simple topological architecture, but the technology used to achieve it far exceeds the imagination of Earth.
Zheng Li knew that his plan could officially begin.
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