Frame rate 1314.
Researchers publicly measured the final value, and Jiang Wentao happened to be leading a few team members out of the hospital building.
Facing the chilly wind, everyone gathered outside the hospital gate. The reason they didn’t enter the hospital was that these researchers who hadn’t awakened their logic skills didn’t intend to gamble with their lives on the unknown probability of being captured by the logic skill. They were scientists, not fools; their minds were their most powerful weapons.
Jiang Wentao heard the final frame rate and was somewhat surprised, “1314?”
A researcher in protective clothing nodded, “Yes, it’s 1314. To be precise, completing a flashing action takes 657 frames. But completing a single full action is the 1314 frames that Dr. Xu mentioned.”
The users present all showed strange expressions.
This number… It’s a bit special.
1314, one lifetime.
Any Chinese person seeing this number will immediately think of this romantic homophone.
Xiao Jinyu was no exception.
But this homophone was almost meaningless.
“1314, the homophonic phrase in Chinese, means a lifetime.” After pondering for a moment, Zhao Hen analyzed, “But I think we don’t need to consider this homophone.” The burly man in black looked at Xiao Jinyu and seeing no objection from him, he continued, “This homophone only applies to the Chinese language. In English, French, Russian… and so on, it loses its meaning. So I believe that even if this user is Chinese, the frame rate of 1314 may not necessarily be his active choice. It’s very likely just the choice of the logic skill itself.
“The logic factors of this logic skill, it flashes at the rate of 1314 frames per second by default.
“Just like why leaves are green, they are originally green, so they are green. The logic skill doesn’t speak Chinese, so it chooses 1314, just a coincidence.”
Jiang Wentao nodded, “I agree with Mr. Zhao’s view. Leaving aside whether the user has the ability to make their logic factors flash at such a high speed, even if he can… this number seems deliberate, even…” a bit foolish.
Jiang Wentao didn’t say the rest.
What kind of deep-seated infatuation and resentment would it take for someone to deliberately alter their own logic skill causality just to associate it with a number like 1314?
Jiang Wentao barely knew one such deeply infatuated person, their team captain was a bit sentimental. But the captain was “Water Punishment,” not “Unmoved Water.” Luo Sheng couldn’t possibly tamper with her logic skill when upgrading causality for the sake of love. Upgrading and altering the causality of the logic skill was already an extremely dangerous matter, fearless of life and death, deliberately changing the flashing frame rate of the logic factors just to achieve an unswerving number homophone…
Jiang Wentao couldn’t do such a foolish thing anyway, and he couldn’t think of any advanced user who would do such a silly thing.
So most likely, the mysterious logic chain’s factor flashing frame rate had nothing to do with the user themselves, but was innate to the logic chain.
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Xu Siqing adjusted his glasses, “I also agree. The frame rate of 1314 is an inherent property of the logic chain itself. It’s like… hmm, the physical properties of the logic chain, such as metal’s ductility, or graphite’s density being 2.281?”
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Everyone turned to look at him.
A few seconds later, Jiang Wentao’s eyes widened, and he suddenly realized, “Wait, are you saying…”
“That’s right.” The young man nodded gently, “Of course, the logic chain wouldn’t know that 1314 signifies a declaration of love for Chinese people, it’s a romantic connotation. But there is something… that it does know.”
“Eating a piece of braised pork will bring sunny weather the next day. This logic chain is related to ‘eating meat,’ so it’s named ‘Meat King.’
“Manipulating the water molecules in the air, controlling the power of water, so it’s called ‘Water Punishment.’
“There’s also Holy Sacrifice, Pope’s Crown…”
Zhao Hen exclaimed, “Exactly! Pollutant 004! The logic chain may not know what special significance its flashing speed holds, but 004 does. It definitely knows, it can even select IDs like ‘Holy Sacrifice’ or ‘Pope’s Crown,’ proving that it has a good understanding of human culture. So if it notices a connection between a logic chain and ‘1314,’ it might give the other party an ID related to love!”
Jiang Wentao’s eyes also lit up. He immediately contacted the User Committee, “This must be a Level Five user, which narrows it down to 52 people. Excluding Piggy Shampoo and a few others who have already disappeared, the scope is even smaller. If 004 really notices the relationship between this logic chain and ‘a lifetime,’ and names it accordingly, we might soon find out whose logic chain this is!”
No one expected that the peculiar and malicious naming method of 004 would become the key way to find the culprit at this moment.
However, this doesn’t mean that the user ID of the culprit is necessarily related to love.
Perhaps 004 didn’t notice the special point of 1314, or perhaps it noticed but didn’t name it accordingly.
But it’s a good lead, at least now, they’re highly likely to have found the first clue.
Jiang Wentao and Zhao Hen both began contacting the User Committees in their respective cities, mobilizing more forces to search for this mysterious logic chain at a faster pace.
There are only 52 Level Five users, and excluding Piggy Shampoo, Luo Sheng, Wang Tao, and Huo Lanxu, there aren’t many left.
However, the IDs of most Level Five users are anonymous.
The User Committees across China naturally closely monitor the upgrade progress of every advanced user. Once a user reaches Level Three, dedicated staff will start tracking them. However, even in this situation, they still haven’t compiled a list of all Level Five users.
There are three main reasons for this.
Firstly, Pollutant 004 was only discovered by humans in 2031. It then refused human control and was unwilling to cooperate with humans. It wasn’t until 2035 that it finally relented and agreed to share its special abilities with humans, and the Grow Some Brains APP was officially established in China.
004 detects human logic chains at the moment of awakening. So if a user’s logic chain awakened before it started the Grow Some Brains APP, then this user’s logic chain is anonymous from 004’s perspective right from the start. It can only vaguely sense the existence of the other party but cannot understand their basic attributes.
In other words, all logic chains awakened before 2035 are inherently anonymous.
Secondly, most advanced users have a consciousness of hiding themselves. These users possess powerful abilities that surpass ordinary humans. Not every user is willing to be controlled by the authorities and may even consider the Grow Some Brains APP as a shackle imposed on them. Therefore, they may hide themselves around the world and change their identities.
If such a user reaches Level Five and exceeds 004’s detection range, they become anonymous users outright. The committee cannot be completely certain of their ID because they cannot find the user themselves. They cannot determine whether the user disappeared from the Grow Some Brains APP for three days or ascended to become an anonymous Level Five user.
As a result, some Level Four users form a special mutual assistance relationship among themselves.
The upgrade from Level Four to Level Five is not difficult. If several Level Four users notice signs of their impending upgrade, they may choose to upgrade together. At that point, the Grow Some Brains APP leaderboard suddenly loses many Level Four users and gains several Level Five users, making it even harder to determine their identities.
Jiang Wentao sighed, “What’s even scarier is the third type, those who directly leap from Level Three users to Level Five to conceal their identities. These users have extremely powerful logic chains; they could have upgraded to Level Four long ago but always held back. They’re extremely confident in themselves, waiting to ascend to Level Five in one go and become anonymous. Of course, such formidable users are rare, but they definitely exist. The committee wouldn’t think they’ve become Level Five users; they would assume they’re dead. And they become ghost users.”
With a sigh, Zhao Hen added, “Yes, that’s why although there are 52 Level Five users in total in Huaxia, currently, only 36 are officially recorded. There are 16 users without official records. And it’s hard to say which type of these three successfully hidden Level Five users is more prevalent.
“The first type is naturally anonymous users; they awakened too early, and there were quite a few survivors over a decade ago. Three years ago, the last anonymous Level Four user was confirmed dead. Since then, no one knows if there are any old users among the anonymous Level Five users who awakened before 2035; they’ve completely vanished. As for the second and third types, let’s not even mention them.”
Xiao Jinyu’s gaze flickered. He lowered his eyes, quickly typing on his phone.
Zhao Hen looked at him, “Oh, Xiao Jinyu, you were just on your phone. Did someone contact you?”
The young man calmly put his phone back in his pocket and shook his head, “Just a university classmate reaching out to me about something.”
“Oh.” Zhao Hen didn’t think much of it, assuming Xiao Jinyu was really just replying to a classmate. He scratched his head, chuckling, “I almost forgot, you’re still a junior in college.”
Xiao Jinyu nodded, “Yeah, I almost forgot too.”
The two didn’t dwell further on the topic.
Of course, Zhao Hen didn’t know that Xiao Jinyu didn’t actually reply to any fictitious classmate’s message; he went directly to 004.
【Dad, it’s really hard. There are actually fewer Level Five users that I know of compared to the rest of these stinky humans.】
【These stinky humans, upgrading and hiding, always so troublesome.】
【I’m not like those humans who specially calculate which Level Four user’s ID suddenly disappears, and then an anonymous user appears. So, I only know of 25. Just 25 normal users who upgraded from Level Four to regular Level Five, and then from regular Level Five to anonymous Level Five.】
【As for the other stinky humans, I can’t be bothered to remember╭(╯^╰)╮】
[So, out of these 25 people, is there anyone related to love?]
【Hmm…】
【Yes, there is ( =·ω·= )m!】
【There’s one named “Cupid.”】
【The others don’t seem to have anything to do with love.】
[What’s the logic chain of this Cupid, do you remember?]
【Of course, I remember. It shoots a little arrow of love~~】
【Because it’s strange, just shooting arrows, but it’s also about love, so I remember it quite well.】
【（○｀ 3′○）】
【Haha, stupid humans, love only affects 004’s arrow-shooting speed!】
Xiao Jinyu: “…”
In the pitch-black night, hurried footsteps suddenly ran from the hospital garden.
Xiao Jinyu looked up.
Several young team members were running towards them, panting heavily. Leading them was a slightly older Mediterranean team member. He caught his breath and said, “Jiang-Ge, we found people without logic factors on them!”
Everyone froze in astonishment.
Even Xu Siqing, who was arranging the researchers to pack up equipment, paused and looked over curiously.
Jiang Wentao exclaimed urgently, “Did you bring them over? Where are they?”
“They’re already here, right here.”
Jiang Wentao stretched his neck to look around but only saw his own team members. He was about to ask where the people were when suddenly, he snapped back to attention, puzzled, “You mean your own team members don’t have logic factors?”
The Mediterranean team member replied, “It’s Qian Wang and Sun Ling who don’t have logic factors!” With that, he pushed forward a male and a female team member towards Jiang Wentao. “After I checked everyone in the hospital, I suddenly realized that we hadn’t checked our own people yet. So, I used the detector to check everyone, and then I found… there were no traces of logic factors on them!”
Why does the chapter named deep seated resentment? It is some kind of related to logic skills?
Is this skill going to push MC and ML together? 😂
That’s creepy! Someone’s really gotta find this person no Matter what, thank you for the chapter
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Is it the guy that was washing his hands next to Xiao Jinyu? Is he obsessively in love with our MC? Random speculations, nothing more. Thanks for picking this up! I’ve been binge reading it and it’s so good!