Orion Crest, Series_1

Chapter 50: A World of Inspiration

　　Grabbing two pieces of bread as he passed the food truck and rushing back to his room, Orion dropped two small books on the table.

　　Everything was ready.

　　He took a deep breath, entered the system, and activated the "Inspiration Time".......

　　Unlike the feeling he had during "Deep Learning", and very different from the feeling he had when he took the "Focus Capsule", Orion didn't have the feeling that all the impatience had been cut off, and only pure rationality was left.

　　Instead, a warm current travelled all the way up his spine, and the moment it merged into the back of his head, it was like a fire that had burst into a woodpile, setting his mind ablaze.

　　"...... Strange feeling."

　　With his index finger and thumb pinching his brow, Orion squinted his eyes, only to feel everything in his vision, shaking slightly.

　　At the same time, a steady stream of inspiration from the depths of his mind washed over his cerebral cortex like a trickling of water flowing through a valley.

　　It was hard to describe that feeling in words.

　　It was as if in this instant, the tentacles of all the nerve endings in his entire body stretched outward by more than a metre, breaking through the bonds of the physical body and connecting directly with everything in the universe.......

　　The interlocking and overlapping rings on the curtains were like loops of elongated Möbius strip.

　　The scaled texture at the end of the bedsheets is interpreting the Fibonacci series counterclockwise.

　　The paper cup on the bedside table, moved a finger's breadth to the right, and the distance between the electric lamp and the telephone, just constitute the 'golden trisection' proportion in the spatial composition.

　　These small details that would not have been noticed by him at all were so annoying at this moment.

　　It was as if all the graphics in his eyes were reverted to pure geometric images in the depths of his mind, and the data was turned into pure numbers and arithmetic symbols.

　　This feeling, for an artist, is a dream come true.

　　Of course, at the same time, it's also hell for OCD sufferers ......

　　Moving the cup on the bedside table roughly centimetres to the right, Orion returned deeper to his chair and sat down, taking a breath, trying not to notice the incongruity of the room, and focussing his full attention on the question on the paper.

　　That is, whether there exist infinitely many pairs of prime numbers (P, P+2)!

　　......

　　The system has been very user-friendly.

　　The 'Inspiration Time' was 24 hours in total, and could be activated and paused at any time. However, after each pause, there will be a short period of time, the symptoms of "inspiration exhaustion". Specifically described as slow thinking, decreased reaction, tasteless ...... and so on.

　　After several attempts, Orion was finally familiar with the use of this function.

　　The effect brought about by this made him, who had already been troubled by the twin prime number conjecture for half a year, ecstatic in his heart.

　　Thus, Orion almost forgot why he came to Princeton and the presentation on the afternoon of the fifth day, and even left the system tasks behind in his mind without even realising it.