无敌智能

第一卷 成长之路 第008章 希望

After completing the upgrade assessment, Du Cheng spent another ten minutes looking at some reward tasks in the intermediate task area.

The reward tasks in this intermediate task area were slightly more challenging compared to the beginner task area, but the corresponding reward amounts and contribution values were much higher.

Just an ordinary intermediate reward task had a reward of around a thousand yuan, with about a hundred points of contribution, and the highest-paying intermediate reward task had close to two thousand yuan.

"Xiner, I need to go out for a while now. Can you help me pick up some reward tasks? But don't take too many, maybe pick one every twenty minutes or so," Du Cheng said to Xiner after withdrawing his gaze from those reward tasks.

With Xiner's powerful functionality, these intermediate reward tasks of nearly a thousand shouldn't take more than half a day to complete. Although Du Cheng needed money now, he didn't do it because there were many geeks like him who needed these reward money. If Du Cheng did so, it would be cutting off others' sources of income.

"No problem, I can handle it easily," Xiner replied confidently. After helping Du Cheng complete the upgrade assessment, Xiner was as proud as a victorious little chick with its head held high.

Du Cheng didn't say much. However, just as he was about to put Xiner on standby, Du Cheng's body suddenly trembled, and his gaze fell directly on his mother's aged face, with her eyes closed tightly.

Although she was only in her forties, due to hardship, Du Cheng's mother looked almost like a woman in her fifties. However, what Du Cheng was most concerned about at the moment wasn't his mother's aged face but another matter.

"Xiner, Xiner..." Du Cheng called out to Xiner with intense excitement in his tone.

"Du Cheng, what's wrong? What happened?" Xiner asked hastily, seeing Du Cheng so anxious, which was rare.

"Xiner, do you have a way to awaken a vegetative person's consciousness?" Du Cheng asked eagerly, his voice trembling slightly.

While searching through her vast data library, Xiner replied, "Hmm, in the year 2597 AD, a medical scientist from China invented a therapy called Laser Tremor Raising Bore Therapy, which has a success rate of nearly eighty-six percent."

Xiner's answer filled Du Cheng with immense excitement. He pressed on, "Xiner, do you know anything about that scientist or the detailed Laser Tremor Raising Bore Therapy?"

Xiner nodded. However, just as Xiner was about to answer, her whole person suddenly changed abruptly, instantly losing all her spirituality and speaking in a mechanical voice, "Data anomaly, unable to answer, data anomaly, unable to answer..."

Seeing Xiner like this, Du Cheng knew that Xiner had crashed, which added a touch of disappointment to Du Cheng's face.

After repeating "data anomaly" five times, Xiner finally recovered from the crash.

Seeing the disappointed look on Du Cheng's face, Xiner apologized, "Du Cheng, I'm sorry, but there have been anomalies in the data after the year 2500 AD, so Xiner couldn't access further information. I'm sorry."

"It's okay, Xiner, don't worry about it," Du Cheng said, trying to comfort Xiner despite his disappointment.

For Du Cheng, Xiner was not just a simple intelligent computer program. Inadvertently, Du Cheng had come to regard Xiner as a life, a friend.

Seeing Du Cheng like this, Xiner's expression flashed with a touch of excitement, but Du Cheng, lost in disappointment, didn't notice, while Xiner went on to say, "Du Cheng, there is still a way. I've found the cause of the data anomaly. There's a problem with the data library. Once the data library is restored to normal, you can find the information you want."

"Restore the data library..."

Hearing Xiner's words, Du Cheng's heart was filled with a glimmer of hope.

From childhood to adulthood, his mother was Du Cheng's only relative. For Du Cheng, his mother was his last refuge. As long as there was the slightest chance of waking his mother up, Du Cheng would never give up.

"Well, give Xiner some more time, and she should be able to recover on her own," Xiner said seriously.

"Okay, anyway, it's been so many years, there's no need to rush," Du Cheng nodded. Although everything was still uncertain, at least he saw a glimmer of hope.

After leaving the hospital, Du Cheng first went to the pharmacy supermarket to buy a set of silver needles specifically used for acupuncture. Then he went to a nearby electronics store and spent 2,100 yuan to buy a small solar receiver and some small instruments from a company specializing in selling meters and instruments.

And all this took Du Cheng less than an hour, because he was anxious, so Du Cheng was also very extravagant in taking taxis back and forth to reduce the time spent on the road.

Back at the quadrangle courtyard, Du Cheng didn't go back to his room but went straight up to the tower of the quadrangle courtyard with the solar receiver slightly larger than a watermelon and summoned Xiner out of standby.

In just under an hour, Xiner had helped Du Cheng complete three reward tasks. Du Cheng had already known some of this when he was swiping his card, because his account, which originally had just over three thousand yuan, had unexpectedly increased to over five thousand.

At this rate, by the time it was due, it wouldn't be a problem for Du Cheng's account to have tens of thousands of extra yuan.

However, what Du Cheng was most concerned about right now was not this, but his foot.

"Du Cheng, this is the modification plan. Just follow this plan for the modification," Xiner quickly devised a simple plan for Du Cheng based on the receiver he had bought. It only required a slight modification to the circuit and joints.

For Du Cheng, who had experience in computer repair, this simple modification was not difficult. After roughly half an hour, Du Cheng had completed the simple modification and connected the silver needles used for acupuncture to the circuit, allowing the silver needles to transmit light energy.

After completing this step, Xiner switched the screen to a full-body image of Du Cheng, and bright spots lit up at the numb area of Du Cheng's limp foot. Xiner carefully marked every step of the phototherapy, positioning the skin tissue of Du Cheng, and let the acupuncture points needed for phototherapy all produce a slight tingling sensation, making it easier for Du Cheng to find every acupuncture point at the limp foot.

With such meticulous arrangements, all Du Cheng had to do was to aim at the acupuncture points and perform the phototherapy.

However, even so, it took Du Cheng nearly half an hour to forcefully suppress his excited mood, before he finally completed the insertion of twenty-four silver needles into each acupuncture point.

"I hope it will succeed, I hope it will succeed..."

Du Cheng kept praying in his heart. Although this phototherapy would not heal his limp foot in a short time, as long as he could sense some faint changes, Du Cheng would gain a lot more confidence.

As time passed slowly, just as Xiner helped Du Cheng complete four intermediate reward tasks, raising Du Cheng's level from three stars to four stars, Du Cheng finally discovered a faint response in the numb area of his limp foot.