169, whose underwear had been stripped by Zhuang Li, remained silent for a long time. He couldn't believe that such an intelligent being could exist in this lowly plane.
7480 also hid in the dark room, not daring to show its head. It once again deeply realized a truth: lying to the host was tantamount to humiliating oneself.
"Why aren't you talking?" Zhuang Li chuckled softly in his mind. The way he raised his eyebrows and curled his thin lips made him look like a complete villain, particularly hateful.
169 took a deep breath before speaking, "So what if I don't have a weapon system? You can't do anything to me. You just said that I came here through the turbulence of time and space, so my defense program can ensure that I will remain unscathed in this world. You know what an energy shield is, right?"
7480 covered his face silently. He thought of 367's tragic death.
Zhuang Li smiled and nodded. "I know. That thing can be thrown into a nuclear fusion reactor as fuel. What a coincidence, there's a tokamak in the lab next door. Would you like to try it? Oh, and if your main god were hit by a star, he would probably be seriously injured, right?"
169 fell into an eerie silence, the crackling sound of the electric current revealing its restless heart.
7480 shed tears of sympathy.
Xuan Ming put his fist to his lips and coughed softly, unable to hide the smile in his eyes. Every time he listened to the little curly-haired boy talking to these systems, he felt very comfortable.
A long silence spread in the operating room.
169 struggled to adjust his mindset and continued, "Even if you can sense my magnetic field reaction, so what? You can't catch me. I'm smaller than a brain cell, and my actuators are very flexible. I can leave Lin Yayan's brain and escape into the air. Catching me would be harder than fishing for a needle in the universe."
Zhuang Li curled his lips and smiled nonchalantly, "Your small size is indeed an advantage, but it's also your greatest weakness. Even with an advanced and flexible drive installed, you can only move at a speed several hundred times your own length. That's your limit. I've calculated for you, it will take you at least twenty-four hours to leave Lin Yayan's brain. Do you think I can catch you within twenty-four hours?"
169: “…”
7480, who couldn't bear to watch any longer, said: "...Brother, listen to me and stop struggling."
The two systems fell silent again, leaving only the soft beeping sounds of various instruments in the laboratory.
Zhuang Li raised his eyebrows and asked, "Why aren't you talking again? Keep going. I really enjoy chatting with you. You guys are so funny when you're silly."
7480&169: Damn, why doesn’t the rule that villains die because they talk too much apply to him?
The system didn't dare to respond, so Zhuang Li turned his gaze to Xuan Ming. He patted Lin Yayan's bald head like a watermelon and chuckled, "Mr. Xuan, do you know what I'm going to do next?"
"Open her skull and take out the chip?" Xuan Ming asked, frowning as he sat outside the sterilization area separated by a glass wall. "Are you the only one doing the surgery? How about I call a few assistants for you?"
"No need, I can do it alone." Zhuang Li began adjusting the parameters of a machine and said in a casual tone, "You guessed wrong. I won't open her skull. In fact, my ultimate goal is to remove the chip from this woman's head without any damage."
Xuan Ming looked at Lin Yayan's hair that was all over the floor.
Zhuang Li changed his words naturally: "My goal is to take out the chip completely without any surgery or bloodshed." At the end, he felt very unhappy and couldn't help but glare at Xuan Ming.
Xuan Ming almost laughed out loud, but he managed to hold it in. He feigned surprise, "How can you remove the chip without surgery and bloodshed?"
169 finally regained his composure and sarcastically said, "Yeah, human, how could you take me out without surgery? Do you think you're the Lord God?"
The smell of provocation spread once again, but Zhuang Li was not annoyed. Instead, he narrowed his eyes in comfort. He liked games of confrontation.
"Of course, it's by using nanotechnology." Zhuang Li placed a nanomaterial that had been successfully developed long ago under a high-power microscope, and projected the image observed by the microscope onto an LED screen.
"Did you see it? This is my latest research result, a particle with a diameter of only 1 nanometer." Zhuang Li said, pointing to the screen.
Xuan Ming carefully examined the image under the microscope, and his feigned surprise suddenly became incredibly real. He was certain that before this, Curly had no idea what the system looked like. Yet, the nanoparticles he had developed bore an identical appearance to the system: a disc-shaped disk with a ring of hairs growing around its perimeter.
"Why do they look the same as chips? What are these hairs?" Xuan Ming directly expressed his doubts.
Zhuang Li chuckled. "Because this is an inevitable choice for scientific development. These hairs are unstable defects made up of sulfur-containing molecules."
"Nano-scale robots must be able to adjust their direction when driven, otherwise they will be carried around the world by air or liquid like viruses."
"These hairs are like their fins, allowing them to constantly adjust their direction of travel. In addition, nanorobots also need to be able to grasp objects, and these tentacles are their arms."
"An even more important point is that nanorobots only possess the ability to transform or even create objects when connected together. After all, the original intention of humans developing them was to create nanoscale factories. A single nanorobot's capabilities are truly limited."
"So they have to be able to connect to each other. A smooth surface will allow them to move away more quickly, and the fine hairs will allow them to stick together firmly."
"You can imagine injecting a certain number of nanorobots into your blood vessels. They are densely packed together and can quickly absorb the toxins in your blood. If you only inject one, your health will not improve at all."
"The urgent need to maintain direction, grasp objects, and connect into a whole has determined the appearance of nanorobots from the beginning. So no matter who invented the nanorobots, their final form will become this."
As Zhuang Li spoke, he took out a remote control and fiddled with the joystick with his slender fingertips.
Xuan Ming was fascinated by what he was saying, staring at the little curly-haired boy without blinking.
169 felt more relaxed the more he listened, and couldn't help but sarcastically say, "I admit that the nanoparticles you developed are indeed top-notch in the world, but their diameter is still too large to cross the blood-brain barrier. Furthermore, they have no propulsion system and can't travel through air or liquid, so how could they possibly catch up to me? I can dodge them with my eyes closed."
169 said proudly, "To capture me, you face two absolutely insurmountable technical difficulties. First, breaking through the blood-brain barrier; second, installing a driver for these nanoparticles."
"To break through the blood-brain barrier, you need to make your nanoparticles at least as tiny as mine. But given the current level of technology in this world, that's too difficult. You won't be able to do it without 40 to 50 years of development. Installing a driver for nanoparticles is hundreds of times more difficult than reducing their size."
"First, nanoparticles are already so tiny, so how much smaller would the actuators installed within them be? Your world simply doesn't have the technology to create molecular engines! It would take you two or three hundred years to reach that level of technology."
"Stop bragging, you have no way to deal with me!" 169 slowed down his running speed, his tone full of pride of winning.
Xuan Ming's heart was in his throat, but when he saw the calm face of the little curly-haired boy, he shook his head and laughed. He guessed that the little curly-haired boy would have a way to overcome those two so-called technical difficulties.
Zhuang Li was still fiddling with the remote control and did not respond to the system's provocation.
169 waited excitedly. He thought he would soon be able to admire the human's embarrassed expression. If his lie was exposed, he would be humiliated!
7480 couldn't help but remind him, "Brother, don't be too happy yet..."
Before it finished speaking, the nanoparticles projected on the LED screen began to move slowly, first from left to right, then from right to left, and then kept spinning in circles on the spot.
If only one nanoparticle were moving like this, it could be considered a coincidence. But now all the particles were moving in unison, which was very intriguing. They had suddenly transformed from a pile of dead matter into a group of well-trained soldiers.
Zhuang Li's fingertips were gently fiddling with the remote control, first moving the joystick to the right, then to the left, and finally making circles in place.
Seeing his actions and comparing them to the group of nanoparticles that suddenly came alive, 169, who had been so arrogant just now, was now speechless.
7480 covered his face and said, "Brother, I told you not to be happy."
Xuan Ming exclaimed: "You installed drivers for them?" Isn't it said that humans currently don't have this technology?
Zhuang Li shook his head and said, "It's not a driver. That technology is too advanced. Even for me, it would take more than ten years to develop it, and it would require an investment of tens of billions."
The fact that Curly has shortened the technological gap of two or three hundred years to ten years shows his intelligence level.
Xuan Ming silently suppressed the shock in his heart.
Zhuang Li continued, "I took a creative approach and implanted butyl methyl sulfide molecules into these nanoparticles, creating a device similar to an actuator. When stimulated by a flow of electrons, the butyl methyl sulfide molecules move in a specific direction. The remote control in my hand controls this electron flow."
"In fact, such molecular motors also exist in our bodies. Our cell membranes are distributed with many molecular pumps that transport ions in and out, carrying substances from one area of the cell to another."
Zhuang Li pointed to his brain and said with a smirk, "When I encounter a problem, I like to look for the answer in my body. You know, the reason humans possess intelligence is because we are the most ingenious creatures in the world."
Xuan Ming was fascinated by what he heard. After a long while, he raised his hands and clapped softly. The most exquisite creation? He liked these six words because they could perfectly describe the existence of Little Curly.
169 fell to his knees with a thud, then stood up again, roaring, "Even if your nanoparticles can move, what's the use? Their diameter is still too big! They can't cross the blood-brain barrier!"
Hearing these provocations, Xuan Ming immediately asked, "Then how do you get these nanoparticles into Lin Yayan's brain? It is said that the human brain also has its own protection mechanism."
Zhuang Li turned on another machine and said slowly, "It's too late to develop atomic-scale nanoparticles that can freely enter and exit the blood-brain barrier. Fortunately, nature already has the material I need: foam. Using ultrasound to break up the foam will cause it to split into smaller microbubbles."
"I can use microbubbles to penetrate the blood-brain barrier. To ensure that the microbubbles do not burst when encountering obstacles, I use fat cells to encapsulate single-component gases, giving them a stable structure. Their diameter can be as small as 0.1 nanometers, which is completely capable of penetrating the blood-brain barrier."
As he spoke, the microbubbles were ready.
Zhuang Li drew a few milliliters of fluid with a syringe and injected it into Lin Yayan's scalp. He continued, "I'll use ultrasound to guide the microbubbles to the blood-brain barrier. Microbubbles are soft and tiny, and they can naturally and harmlessly pry open the blood-brain barrier. Once the blood-brain barrier is breached, I'll inject nanoparticles equipped with molecular pumps into Lin Yayan's brain and use electron flow to guide them to capture the chip."
Zhuang Li pulled out the empty syringe, turned on the ultrasound guidance device, and said lazily, "Look, it's not difficult for me to remove this spy chip. But if you ask someone else to do it, they might not be able to figure it out even after fifty years of research."
169 is a complete failure.
7480 tried hard to shrink himself into a small black dot.
Xuan Ming wanted to offer his praise, but his throat burned as if a wildfire was burning. He raised his hands and clapped them gently, the admiration and respect in his eyes stronger than any words could have expressed.
The difficult problems that others have spent decades or even hundreds of years trying to solve were easily solved by the little curly-haired boy.
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