Chapter 99 Marshmallow
"It's very simple." Xiao Xiao said, "Because I made it myself, and I didn't buy even a single screw from the Merit Mall during the production process? "
"Even so, he is beyond the current level of technology, right? Can the Book of Merits allow his existence?" Rong Yuan asked. He needed a clear and affirmative confirmation, which was very important to him.
"So, how do you understand the "technological level of this world" mentioned in the rules?" Xiao Xiao asked. She paused for a moment, leaving time for thought, and then without waiting for Rong Yuan's answer, she continued: "What ordinary people think of as 'high-tech products' is completely different from what the military and the top leaders of the country think of, and the advanced technology that the latter are exposed to is completely different from that involved in world-class research centers. So, at what level does the Merit Book draw its line ?"
"It's the most advanced technology in this world, right?"
"More than that. According to my experience, the so-called [technological level of this world] refers to all the meritorious products of technological development that are about ten years beyond the world's most advanced level. This kind of product is completely harmless for ordinary people to touch or use. Think about it from another angle. If something is beyond the scope allowed by the rules, but you want to make it an item that can be used by others in reality, you only need to promote the level of real technological development and turn [super reality] into [non-super reality]. Although it is difficult, it is not impossible. Yan Ce was born in this way. But if it is a rule system that is completely incompatible with our world, such as magic products or magic weapons of gods, even the most ordinary small objects are strictly prohibited for people other than the contractor to understand and use them."
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Seeing that it was already one o'clock, Yu Yizhuo stretched, loosened his sore shoulders and wrists, and looked at the stack of draft papers filled with writing on the table, feeling a sense of accomplishment.
Among the four members of the national team, he is not the smartest, but he is confident that he must be the most diligent and has made the most obvious progress. He goes to bed at least until one o'clock every night, and gets up no later than seven o'clock in the morning even on his day off. He takes a 20-minute nap, eats breakfast, lunch and dinner at a fighting speed, and basically studies the rest of the time, even thinking about math problems when he goes to the toilet. With such efforts, he has surpassed Gan Zheng. Although there is still a gap compared to Rong Yuan and Ni Zihao, he believes that he will eventually surpass those two.
Yu Yizhuo is a rough boy. He doesn't have the habit of washing his face, brushing his teeth, or soaking his feet before going to bed at night. He would rather squeeze out that pitiful time to study and sleep. He rubbed his hair, pushed the books on the table casually, pulled out a chair and sat on the bed. He yawned and felt that his upper and lower eyelids were stuck together. He lay on the bed with his body tilted, then fumbled to take off his glasses with his eyes closed, turned off the lights, lifted the thin quilt and covered himself. When he was about to fall asleep, he suddenly opened his eyes and an idea popped up to disturb him. He couldn't fall asleep if he didn't do it immediately.
Yu Yizhuo rolled out of bed, turned on the light, put on his slippers, walked to the porch, opened the door, and habitually looked at the windows of the surrounding rooms.
To his left was Ni Zihao's room, further to his left was Rong Yuan's room, and across from him were the counselor's and Gan Zheng's rooms. Usually when Yu Yizhuo went to sleep, the windows on the doors of other rooms would have all turned black, but today, what did he see?
Yu Yizhe’s eyes widened.
Gan Zheng's window was still lit! Rong Yuan's window was also lit! Only the heartless Ni Zihao seemed to have fallen asleep.
Yu Yizhe thought to himself: Could it be that I have been making progress too quickly recently, causing them to feel pressured?
He couldn't help but feel something was wrong. No matter how confident he was, there was one thing Yu Yizhuo couldn't deny - the other three people here seemed to be a little smarter than him. Usually, when he gave the questions that he couldn't solve for a long time to others, Gan Zheng could spend a long time to solve the answers by his own efforts, Rong Yuan seemed to have a sixth sense skill and could get the correct ideas at a glance, and Ni Zihao could quickly derive different solutions and extend more profound questions. Yu Yizhuo was often discouraged by them and doubted his life.
Compared with others, he is better because of diligence, and only because of diligence. Now if all geniuses become diligent, then won’t the small advantage he has worked so hard to build soon disappear?
All the sleepiness flew away in an instant. Yu Yizhuo clenched his fists, returned to his room, washed his face with cold water, and continued to do the questions.
Ten minutes later, Gan Zheng walked out of the room, looked at the two windows that were always lit, turned around and continued to work hard.
Half an hour later, Yu Yizhuo walked out, took a look, gritted his teeth and went back to continue studying.
An hour later, Gan Zheng's light finally went out. Yu Yizhe rubbed his eyes and glanced at Rong Yuan's window with his messy hair, feeling that victory was in sight.
An hour and a half later...
Two hours later...
Three hours later...
At some point, Yu Yizhuo was writing when his pen fell out of his hand. He was so tired that he fell asleep on the table. In his dreams, he saw a tiger chasing him. He ran as fast as he could, but the tiger was getting closer and closer, almost swallowing him in one bite.
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In Rong Yuan's room, the sofa, desk, chair, etc. were all moved to the corner. In the middle of the room, a huge, pink object that almost touched the ceiling filled all the empty space. He pushed it, and his arm immediately sank into it, just like sinking into thick cotton. However, the resistance increased as he pushed deeper, and in the end, he could hardly push it at all.
"How did you do that?" Rong Yuan asked softly in distress.
Clearly, half a minute ago, this was just an oval-shaped hard candy the size of a fingernail. How could it have expanded to such an exaggerated size in an instant?
After the call with Xiao Xiao ended, he immediately came up with an idea, and for this reason he spent most of the night personally searching for suitable targets among the countless products in the Merit Mall. Because there were no specific characteristics, he could only roughly describe a few features to Wandou, screen out most of the products that did not meet the requirements, and he needed to find the most suitable one from them.
His requirements are: first, it must surpass the current technological level by less than 20 years; second, all production materials exist on the earth and are not cost-effective; third, it must have a high degree of universality and not be limited to a specific minority of people.
He searched for most of the night and eliminated many options until he found this candy, which made him fall in love with it for the first time.
[Puffy Marshmallow], worth 30 merit points, is a kind of marshmallow that can expand instantly. It is soft and sticky, has colloidal properties and good elasticity, is small in weight, high in calories, and rich in various nutrients. One marshmallow can provide the energy needs of an adult for three days.
Rong Yuan knew that it would expand under pressure, but he didn't know it would expand to such an exaggerated size. He couldn't help but wonder, could an adult really finish eating this "sugar kingdom" that was half the size of a room within three days?
Although Rong Yuan was surprised by its size, he was satisfied with the effect. He also had many ideas about the role this candy could play.
For example, if an earthquake occurs or you are trapped in a remote cave or desert, and food is scarce, if you carry a few fluffy marshmallows with you, they can expand and sustain your survival for a long time, so you may be able to wait for rescue. For example, in the event of a car accident, jumping off a building, or jumping off a cliff, the marshmallows will expand and wrap you up. The gaps between the sugar threads can provide enough air to prevent you from suffocating to death. At the same time, the soft and elastic layer of sugar threads forms a soft protective layer, which can keep the person inside safe under the huge impact force. For example, if an explosion suddenly occurs somewhere and all the buildings are destroyed, the humans wrapped in the marshmallow balls will be like riding on a thin bubble and will be blown away by the storm in an instant. Although they may be very frightened, their lives will be safe in the end. For another example, if the sugar threads are changed into some kind of fiber and a layer of oil is attached to the surface, if a person falls into the water, the entangled fibers will wrap up the air, making it difficult for water to enter. In this way, the marshmallow ball will become a simple boat on the water for people to ride. In this way, tragedies like the Titanic will not happen.
Of course, there are many fantastic parts in this. In order to fully realize it, many changes must be made to materials, production processes, waterproof and fireproof performance, pressure bearing capacity, viscosity and many other aspects. But it is conceivable that once this kind of product with both first aid and edible functions really comes out, then every time a person is rescued, Rong Yuan can get corresponding merit points. The longer it is used and the more people use it, the higher the benefits he can get. This is truly his "sustainable development strategy."
But first, he needs to figure out the production principle of this "puffy marshmallow".
The optical computer's built-in software includes a scanning and analysis software that can analyze the composition of this sugar at the atomic level, but when it comes to reversing its production process and the materials used, all become question marks.
Rong Yuan was in a dilemma for a moment.
He was very optimistic about the development prospects of this candy, but if he couldn't take the first step, all his ideas would be just fantasies. Could he only find another product to replace it?
It was almost time for class, and it would be bad if such a huge thing was left standing in the room. Fortunately, this marshmallow would dissolve when it came into contact with water. Rong Yuan quickly restored the room, picked up another fluffy marshmallow he had exchanged on the table, and observed it for a long time, but could not figure out what it was.
"It would be nice if I could see the structure and mechanism inside..." Rong Yuan muttered to himself. A high-power microscope can only see the surface, and cannot see the drastic changes inside it when it expands.
"I can see it." Pea said suddenly.
"What?"
"If you just become smaller you can see everything you want to see," said the pea.
"How... could it be that there is an item in the mall that can make people smaller?"
"Yes. Five hundred and fifty thousand merits can be exchanged for the Ant-Man Suit."
