After Lam and others arrived in Peking, under Wang's arrangement, they temporarily stayed at a hotel near the Bureau of Unknown and Advanced Research.
According to Wang, they may have to stay here for a few days. After completing the formalities in a few days, Lam and the others can move into the yard of the Bureau.
While Lam and others were going through the formalities, Wang and Han were waiting quietly beside them. After they had settled in, Wang said that she would take them to see Professor Zhou first, and they happily agreed.
Wang and Han led Lam and others through twists and turns in the alley, and finally came to an inconspicuous courtyard. After verifying their identities at the security booth at the door and completing registration, Lam and others followed Wang and Han into the yard.
"Is this the National Bureau of Unknown and Advanced Research? Why is it so shabby?" Zoe Sun was a little dumbfounded.
She thought it would be a very high-end place, but when she entered the courtyard, she found that there were only a few shabby little houses.
Wang smiled unconsciously when she heard this, and then led everyone into one of the rooms.
There was an elevator in the house. The elevator went directly to the underground. You can see the button to reach the 10th floor.
Lam and others got on the elevator and saw Han pressing the button for floor 2, but after about ten minutes, the elevator slowly stopped.
When the elevator opened the door, Lam found several passages outside the door. These passages were winding and forming a maze.
Wang walked out first, and led everyone around the maze with ease and walked to an elevator. This time the elevator button had 12 floors. Wang looked at Lam and the others specifically, and then pressed the 12th floor button.
When the elevator stopped, Wang did the same thing. She led everyone out of the elevator and walked around a maze before walking to an elevator.
This elevator showed a button for the 60th floor. Entering the elevator, Wang looked at Lam and the others with puzzled faces, chuckled and said, "Don't worry, this is the last time." Then she pressed the button for the 12th floor.
On the elevator, Wang explained that for the sake of confidentiality, the unknown and advanced research bureau was set up underground as a whole, and these mazes and elevator codes were also set up during the arrival process.
As for why the buildings on the ground were so dilapidated, firstly, the bureau was working underground, and there was no need to look good above. Secondly, it was also to confuse some people with malicious intentions.
"Did you see the reason why we pressed the elevator button just now?" Wang tilted her head playfully, looking at Lam and others who looked curious and asked.
Lam and Zoe Sun calmed down and thought about it. The first elevator button was for the 10th floor. Han pressed 2. The second elevator button was for the 12th floor. Wang pressed 12. The third elevator button was 60, but Wang still pressed 12.
"Is it a mathematical rule? The divisor of the first elevator times the divisor of the second elevator is equal to the divisor of the third elevator. You see, the divisor of the first elevator is 5, the divisor of the second elevator is 1, and the divisor of the third elevator is 5, so that makes sense." Sun was the first to give the answer.
After speaking, she looked at Wang and Lam with a proud look on her face, as if to say, praise me now! praise me now!
Wang was surprised by Sun's quick thinking and logic, and she could give a seemingly reasonable explanation so quickly, but the answer was wrong.
Wang shook her head and was about to tell a few people the answer.
However, at this moment, a timid voice suddenly sounded: "Hey, um, is it related to the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches?" It turned out to be Muzi in the corner who spoke, and everyone looked over.
Seeing everyone looking at her, Muzi was a little embarrassed, but she still met their eyes and continued: "The number of buttons on the first elevator corresponds to the ten heavenly stems, the number of buttons on the second elevator corresponds to the twelve earthly branches, and the number of the buttons on the third elevator corresponds to the twelve earthly branches. The number of buttons corresponds to one week of the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, which is exactly sixty-one years. The first elevator presses the number 2, which is“Yi”, the second elevator presses the number 12, which is “Hai”, and the third elevator presses It’s also 12, which happens to match “Yihai”. I don’t know if it’s right, I’m just guessing.”
Hearing this, Wang and Han couldn't help but look at Muzi a few more times. Now they finally understood why Lam was not enough, and Professor Zhou even asked Sun and Muzi to come over.
Wang Lu nodded towards Muzi and said that Muzi was right. This was the law.
Few people understand the chronology of the heavenly stems and earthly branches. She did not expect Muzi to know so much. As she spoke, she began to praise Muzi. The others also agreed.
Muzi glanced at Sun carefully, and then said with some embarrassment that she had just read a book before and happened to think of it.
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Wang explained that the password for the elevator changed every day.
Every morning before going to work, the colleague in charge of the password would tell them in advance what the password for today's Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches was, but often only told them the first two characters and the third number.
They needed to combine the first two characters themselves and then found the corresponding numbers from the heavenly stems and earthly branches.
Moreover, the passage maze outside the elevator they saw today was also movable. Those passage mazes would correspond to the daily passwords. If you pressed the wrong floor and open the door, it would only be dark, and you would not be able to find the way to the Unknown and Advanced Research Bureau.
After listening to the explanation, Lam and the others couldn't help but sigh that the confidentiality measures were indeed well done. If outsiders didn't know the secrets, they would only be blinded when they came in, and they couldn't get out. In the end, they could only be captured obediently.
When the elevator arrived, Wang led everyone out of the elevator door. Lam and others were shocked by the sight in front of them.
The entire underground structure was somewhat similar to that of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, but it had a larger area and more personnel than the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
It also had many more things that the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory did not have, such as various systems. In addition, a large amount of experimental equipment was also displayed. With a keen eye, Lam also discovered experimental equipment similar to a quantum collider.
Wang led Lam through the busy crowd and introduced the area where they were to Lam and others.
What Lam and the others saw now was the experimental area for advanced technology. It included the most cutting-edge theoretical technologies in various fields, including quantum, aerospace, artificial intelligence, etc.
There was another area in the entire bureau. Wang said as she lightly stepped on the ground with two feet, that was the unknown research area.
Wang told Lam and others that they would be exposed to it in the future, but their future work would mainly be in areas where advanced technologies were located.
While talking, Wang led several people to a house, knocked on the door and told Lam and others that Professor Zhou's office had arrived.
After that, she greeted Han and was about to leave. Before leaving, Wang told Lam and others that they could contact her at any time if they had any questions. Lam nodded and thanked her and Han.
As a sound came from the door, Lam, Sun and Muzi filed in, and saw Professor Zhou looking at them with a smile.
Seeing Professor Zhou again, Lam had a lot of emotions. The experience during this period of time made Lam more mature, and also gave Lam a deeper understanding of human nature.
Professor Zhou quickly asked everyone to sit down, and after greeting a few people without saying much, he went straight to the point and introduced the National Bureau of Unknown and Advanced Research.
The National Bureau for Unknown and Advanced Research was an agency set up by the state that specializes in studying unknown human phenomena and advanced technologies. Now every country had such an agency, such as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the US.
DARPA was established earlier than Bureau of Unknown and Advanced Research. It was established in 1958. Its original purpose was to formulate and implement projects that could expand the boundaries of science and technology.
At first, it was only aimed at the aerospace field. However, with the outbreak of the Cold War, DARPA gradually expanded its project areas to the ARPANET, which was the prototype of the Internet. Later, it also involved vaccines, artificial intelligence, lasers, stealth technology, etc., and continued to lead the development of global technology.
The Bureau of Unknown and Advanced Research was also established based on this need.
It was called the Advanced Technology Research Bureau at the beginning.
It was mainly to promote the development of science and technology in Hua country and to continuously explore cutting-edge technologies. However, in the process of exploring cutting-edge technologies, they gradually discovered some phenomena that could not be explained by humans at present, so it was finally renamed the Bureau of Unknown and Advanced Research.
As for why it was not called the Advanced and Unknown Research Bureau, in Professor Zhou’s view, humans were observing the entire world from their own perspective, so there would be many phenomena that humans could not explain.
However, it was precisely because of humans’ curiosity about these phenomena that prompting human beings to continue to develop technology in an attempt to interpret and interpret the world.
To put it simply, it was because the unknown arouses human curiosity, which would eventually lead to the advancement of science and technology, so it was finally named the Bureau of Unknown and Advanced Research.
Professor Zhou mentioned that in fact, such institutions in every country usually shared some information, because many things involved all mankind and could not be solved by one country, such as the exploration of the laws of the universe, such as the exploration of mysterious forces.
Therefore, these agencies had set up a liaison office under the current United Nations and would hold regular meetings and exchanges. However, everyone would also have reservations when communicating and sharing intelligence. This was normal.
"Professor Zhou, what is the Nuwa project you mentioned before?" Sun saw that Professor Zhou had been introducing the Bureau of Unknown and Advanced Research. Thinking of the project that Professor Zhou mentioned on the phone before, Sun asked curiously. .
Speaking of the "Nuwa" project, Professor Zhou introduced that this was a project aimed at research on advanced artificial intelligence technology, especially research on intelligent artificial intelligence.
The reason why it was named "Nuwa" was because in ancient mythology, there had always been the story of Nuwa creating humans.
If one day they really realized the intelligentization of artificial intelligence and let robots have the same consciousness as humans, then wasn’t it equivalent to creating a human being?
Now this project was ready to be launched, so Professor Zhou asked Lam and others to come over.
According to Professor Zhou's judgment, this project could not be completed by Lam and his generation, but since their generation could not complete it, then the next generation, or even the generation after that, could complete it. His only requirement for Lam and others was to endure loneliness, sit on the bench, and lay a solid research foundation for the next generation and even the next generation.
"Professor Zhou, my experimental data and experimental records are gone. Maybe everything has to start again." Lam told Professor Zhou in detail how Tom Zhang and Choi Man set up a trap to trap him in.
Professor Zhou patted Lam on the shoulder, then pointed at Lam's head with a smile.
Why panic? As long as he was still here, no one else could take away the things in his mind, and with the help of Sun and Muzi, he can get twice the result with half the effort. Thinking of this, Lam couldn't help but laugh heartily, sweeping away the haze in his heart.
After hearing Professor Zhou's entire research goals and research plan, Lam couldn't help but think of the amazingly talented Grand Wei. It would be great if Wei could join this research team.
So Lam mentioned Wei to Professor Zhou and expressed whether he should persuade Wei to join.
Professor Zhou pondered for a while and thought that he needed to think about it again, but Lam could test Wei's attitude in advance to see Wei.