My Simulated Road to Immortality

Chapter 842: Spin-off The Mystery of Longevity (To seek the Law of Longevity, one must enter this chapter!)_2

It wasn’t just birds and beasts; even insects such as mosquitoes kept their distance.

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“A thirty-thousand-word research report? How the hell am I supposed to write that?”

My head was pounding as I cursed inwardly.

After painfully composing just two thousand words, I could no longer resist the overwhelming sleepiness and dozed off in a daze.

I seemed to have had many dreams.

But for some reason, the line [Contrary to the Principle of Heaven and Earth, to prove Longevity] engraved itself deeply in my Spirit Consciousness. No matter the dreamscape’s vagaries upon waking, it remained unchanged.

The next day, when I woke up, my first reaction was to check my phone.

“Li Yang, don’t forget, tomorrow at noon at twelve.”

That old crook had sent another reminder message, as expected.

“I…”

Suppressing the urge to swear, I glanced at the time.

It was nine thirteen in the morning.

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“Only slept for four hours…”

“How come it feels like I slept for three days and nights?”

I moved my sore body slightly and dealt with breakfast quickly.

Then I began writing the research report.

“Twenty-eight thousand words left, twenty-seven hours to go. That’s over a thousand words per hour. With my typing speed, that should be more than manageable!”

I knew this was just a task the old thief had devised to cope with upper management, not some real topic for research.

So I tried my best to write empty words and clichés, steering the focus towards the concept of “auspicious signs.”

“Auspicious signs” are not just superstition.

They truly exist.

The most famous and talked about case was the profound declaration from the last century, “When the Five Stars rise in the East, the nation shall prosper.”

Shortly after this object was excavated, the decline in national fortune turned around. Soaring high, the nation stood at the apex of world powers.

“Since the Longevity stone carving has appeared, then an increase of three to four years in our national average lifespan shouldn’t be a problem,” I suddenly thought to myself.

My fingers danced on the keyboard, ideas flowing like a spring.

By ten o’clock that night, I had finished the report.

With a gentle click, an email sent notification appeared.

I couldn’t help but let out a sigh of relief.

In theory, after completing old thief’s task, I should be relaxing right now.

But for some reason, the thousand-mile stone carving kept shining in my heart.

Restlessly, I inexplicably opened the image of the stone carving again.

“Contrary to the Principle of Heaven and Earth, to prove Longevity.”

“What on earth does this mean?”

I lay back in my chair, staring at the full-screen display of the image, frowning deeply.

As my mind wandered with random thoughts, I fell into a heavy sleep.

“Ouch…”

When I awoke from the chair, I found that because of the improper sleeping position, I had kinked my neck.

Grimacing in pain, I endured the discomfort.

Attempting to stretch my head in the opposite direction to relieve the symptoms.

It was this movement that suddenly gave me a burst of inspiration.

“The opposite direction, to relieve muscle tension.”

“Isn’t this the concept of [Contrary]?”

Suddenly, numerous ideas began to surface.

“Modern people, due to incorrect office postures, often lead to many chronic diseases.”

“Cervical spine, lumbar spine…”

“The whole body is riddled with ailments.”

“And often, simple stretching exercises can alleviate these symptoms.”

I clicked on a small video site and after a quick search, I found many related videos instantly.

“One exercise to get rid of lower back pain.”

“A few simple moves to bid farewell to backache.”

…

My head swirled with all the information.

I could vaguely see that although the moves were not entirely the same,

the core idea was more or less similar.

That is to make the body assume a posture opposite to the rigid one of everyday life.

“Could this be what [Contrary to the Logic of the Human Body] means?”

The thought involuntarily emerged in my Spirit Consciousness.

But then I thought again, aren’t these exercises collectively just the broadcast calisthenics that the nation had promoted? Only because of the need for popularization, some of the more challenging moves were removed.

“If this set of [Contrary] exercises included all the muscles, joints, ligaments of the body…”

“What would happen then?”

I suddenly became intrigued.

I began opening fitness tutorial videos one by one, trying to organize and classify these exercises.

After toiling all afternoon, I had to give up in frustration.

The movements in these videos repeated too much and were too inefficient.

For instance, to alleviate pain inside the shoulder blade, it often took seven or eight sets of exercises.

And within these, there were some that conflicted with exercises meant to relieve neck pain.

It was utterly baffling.

“Forget it, why bother. If I’m really tired, I’ll just go for a massage,” I thought.

Closing the computer, I shook my head and went back to bed.

In my dreams,

the Nine-Syllable Stone Carving still lingered.

In my Spirit Consciousness, it seemed to emit a bizarre gold light.

When I woke up the next day, my eyes carried a trace of confusion at first.

After staying blank for quite a while, I returned to my computer and opened the image again.

Appearing somewhat dazed.

Eventually, I dialed an old classmate’s number.

“Lao Zhang, lend me the Celestial Inquiry for a day. Hey, don’t ask so many questions. Just one day, I’ll return it quickly.”

After hanging up, I sat down and began to wait patiently.

The Celestial Inquiry was the most recent generation of Quantum Intelligent Computer developed by the Immortal Science Institute.

It was said its quantum scale had already broken through the ten-thousand mark.

The exact outrageous extent was not made public.

Of course, what Lao Zhang could lend out was only the consumer-grade limited version of the Celestial Inquiry.

Before long, a circular icon in the bottom right corner of my desktop lit up.

I knew that the AI of Celestial Inquiry had taken control of my computer.