The Law Of Virtual Body Energy And Its Medical Application: A New Paradigm For Diagnosis And Treatment Based On Virtual Reality Mapping Chapter 5

The Mind Palace memory method encoded and stored knowledge.

Mutations, laws of thought energy, expansion formulas…

“…With the help of microscopic receptors, we have been able to observe subtle pressure changes. Does this mean the energy generated by a biological organism’s electrochemical signals can act directly on non-contact objects?…”

“…Social psychology points out that the emotion of fear is extremely infectious, and its mode of transmission is, to some extent, similar to the spread of biological diseases…”

The dense text on the screen, which hardly looked like Chinese, formed complex and terrifyingly long sentences that made Qi Ruiqing’s eyes ache. He never would have imagined that this “thought energy science,” which had once seemed like a fantasy, was actually a cross-disciplinary field merging medicine, biochemistry, sociology, and physics.

The difficult task of picking apart these shredded and fused elements, understanding them one by one, and then reassembling them into a systematic discipline was likely something only a genius like Shen Molin could handle.

In any case, even with the ability to search for information at any time, Qi Ruiqing still couldn’t fully comprehend Shen Molin’s theories or the current situation.

He could only act as a porter of nature, organizing and transcribing these documents one by one, setting them aside to deal with later.

Next, he searched for papers on a common video-sharing site—specifically regarding the existing achievements of this new discipline.

Currently, aside from the special investigation team established by the government, no one else had the authority to access many theoretical results. The only official information released was too simplified and popularized, and it didn’t mention the terms “thought energy” or “ethereal entity” at all. What Qi Ruiqing could find were only documents made public before the accident.

He had actually searched this past month, but there had been an issue with his keywords, so he hadn’t found any useful information. This was actually Shen Molin’s fault; the guy hadn’t said a single word to him before the experiment…

Look at that, it blew up, didn’t it…

Qi Ruiqing wasn’t blaming Shen Molin; he had simply discovered another helpless fact: the scale of this experiment was much larger than he had imagined. Nearly half of the names on the casualty list were the primary authors of these highly-cited documents.

He really didn’t know who had the better connections here…

“Shen Molin, with this one explosion, you’ve blown away half the tech tree,” Qi Ruiqing muttered, rubbing his forehead with a mix of laughter and tears.

He leaned back in his chair and turned around, meeting the incredulous expression of the young female assistant who had come to help.

“Are you laughing?” The girl’s eyes widened. “Are you okay?”

“I’m fine, I’m fine. Can’t I just have a little laugh?” Qi Ruiqing saw the concerned look she usually reserved for patients.

“No, it’s just that you look much more energetic than before.”

“Isn’t it good to be energetic?” Qi Ruiqing asked back.

“It’s not. You look like you’ve gone from neurasthenia to depression to bipolar disorder.”

Wow, am I a centrifuge? How do I spin through phases so fast?

…

Right on time, Shen Molin arrived.

He arrived quite flamboyantly this time, flapping his massive wings as he descended directly from the sky.

“Good day.”

“You’re right on time.” Qi Ruiqing took a stack of bound materials out of his bag. “I brought something for you.”

“What is it?” “Data. Things you can’t find in The Library—the latest news from the internet and some of your previous research data.”

He was certain Shen Molin would like it.

The somewhat heavy documents were handed to Shen Molin. He saw Shen Molin’s hand hesitate for a moment before finally taking them.

“This isn’t some third-rate, sensationalist trash, is it?” “No, no. I know that’s your bottom line.”

Shen Molin flipped through a few pages, humming and nodding, before finally clearing his throat to snap back to reality. He held the documents to his chest and took a step closer to Qi Ruiqing.

“Did you review what I taught you yesterday?”

“I did. Do you want to test me?” Qi Ruiqing was prepared for anything.

“Never mind. I believe you.”

Like a vigilant hunter, Shen Molin raised his head and began to look around.

“Um, Qi Ruiqing. Would you be willing to…?” He leaned in slightly toward Qi Ruiqing and held out his hand.

“I’m willing. Let’s go.” Qi Ruiqing proactively took hold of his wrist.

Shen Molin’s hand immediately wrapped around his waist, then he realized belatedly that taking such a liberty might be improper. Qi Ruiqing didn’t mind, however, and reached out to wrap his arm around Shen Molin’s shoulder, waiting with some anticipation for Shen Molin to take him away.

Thus, Shen Molin no longer hesitated. Before the dust kicked up by his wings could touch Qi Ruiqing’s sleeves, he took his two favorite things in each arm and broke free from the shackles of gravity.

Thought is free, and at this moment, so was Qi Ruiqing. Night was gradually approaching, falling toward the ground like a collapse. The broken city and the dazzling spotlights sank toward the center of the earth, looking as turbid as sediment in a centrifuge tube.

The wind was no different than any other day, but Qi Ruiqing could hear the sound of it flowing through the giant feathers beside his ears. Shen Molin’s wings were powerful to a degree that almost defied biological logic. Perhaps this was the charm of the Third Law?

“The light!”

He spoke up to warn him, but the spotlights that usually exposed his hidden shadow beneath the curtains every night swept past uselessly, as if they couldn’t find any trace of Shen Molin at all.

“Yes, but don’t doubt me.” Shen Molin’s confident chuckle mixed with the wind. He specifically hovered in the air, waiting for the light to illuminate Qi Ruiqing’s face.

“They can’t see you.” “To be precise, they don’t believe they see me.”

They landed on the rooftop of the teaching building, and Qi Ruiqing’s feet returned to the ground.

“The human eye sees me because it sees the visible light I reflect. I have used three methods to avoid being discovered: first, through refraction or reflection, making the light rays bypass me while keeping the incident and exit rays in the same direction, achieving invisibility at specific angles; second, emitting electromagnetic waves opposite to the reflected waves to achieve destructive interference; third, directly changing my own refractive index, allowing ambient light waves to pass directly through my body.”

“So which method are you using now?”

Shen Molin stared at him intently, his eyes full of approval for his probing question.

“None of them, because I later discovered they couldn’t see me to begin with.”

“What? But before…” “I’m not sure what happened before. That’s why I came to find you. My density seems to be far greater than those life forms; they shouldn’t be able to perceive my existence.”

What kind of logic was that?

“Friend, think about it. When you walk through the air, do you see the water vapor in it? I can pass directly through them, just as you can walk through mist.”

After hearing this, Qi Ruiqing had only one thought: flawed logic.

But he had indeed done it.

Was this also the charm of the Third Law??

“However, I haven’t quite grasped the concept of ‘information’ yet,” Shen Molin shrugged, “nor why they can see me once you arrive.”

What else could it be? It’s because I am a kind of crisis to you…

“Since that’s the case, why didn’t you take me inside The Library?” Qi Ruiqing’s hair was a mess from the wind. “There’s still a risk of being discovered out here.”

His casual question successfully stumped the genius.

A rare expression of bewilderment appeared on Shen Molin’s face. He wanted to think, and his hand even moved to its habitual position, but he felt this question was a bit too erratic and nonsensical. He didn’t know if Qi Ruiqing wanted an answer or an attitude, and he certainly didn’t know if he had truly been inconsiderate.

“I want to go to The Library.” Qi Ruiqing knew that expressing his needs directly was the best way to communicate with him.

With a snap, Shen Molin clicked his fingers in front of Qi Ruiqing’s eyes. He saw a feather drift up and vanish, and everything physical around them began to disperse like mist, decomposing into molecules, atoms, and subatomic particles. Then, through various scientific relationships, causal logic, and formulas acting like threads, everything was reassembled.

Shen Molin muttered in his ear, “The environment isn’t that important. It’s not like we’re doing a sterile experiment.”

Despite his words, Shen Molin still held Qi Ruiqing by the waist and gently placed him on the ground.

Qi Ruiqing looked down, then up. A spiral staircase wound up from an endless abyss and extended toward an infinite sky, while the hollow circular center was like a giant eye, watching this outsider.

This… was not the school library.

This place was clearly open and lit, yet incredibly oppressive; it was minimalist and orderly, yet filled with eeriness. Endless bookshelves formed a cage on the ground, leaving them like trapped beasts with only books for company.

“I built this as a safe house.”

This doesn’t look like a safe house at all…

“…It doesn’t?” Shen Molin was choked up by Qi Ruiqing’s look, so he turned the lights up a bit.

“Just think of it as a visualization of my memory.” “Then your memory is truly terrifying.”

Qi Ruiqing stepped back from the edge of the concrete or stone stairs and leaned against a bookshelf. He hadn’t originally been afraid of heights.

Level 42. He saw Shen Molin walk over to a large number that seemed to mark the floor and tuck the materials he had given him into a shelf.

“Aren’t you going to look at them?” “I will, don’t worry.”

Shen Molin reached out to pull him closer, as if trying to reassure him. “There are only my memories and knowledge here. There are no hostile species for now. It’s better than the school.”

True, in this library, no one would suddenly barge in without following the rules and start screaming while holding a weapon.

“So, in your view, this is what knowledge is like?”

Endless, yet merely a frog at the bottom of a well?

He waited, but Shen Molin didn’t answer. The latter simply cast his gaze over, and Qi Ruiqing suddenly realized that the person in front of him was the original, un-mutated… Shen Molin.

There were no extra, non-human wings, no golden eyes that reflected light in the night—only the original, most ordinary and familiar… Shen Molin.

“Qi Ruiqing.”

Shen Molin had walked up to him at some point, his expression a bit strange. Qi Ruiqing opened his mouth to ask what he was doing, but his cheeks were suddenly cupped by both of the other man’s hands.

“Look at me.”

Qi Ruiqing didn’t know what he wanted. But Shen Molin’s eyes were like the magnified aperture of a viewing lens, leaning in as the coarse adjustment knob turned.

He’s not going to eat me, is he?

Qi Ruiqing nervously pinched Shen Molin’s sleeve.

“Uh, no.” Shen Molin returned empty-handed and scratched his hair. “That’s strange…”

“What? You were spying on me, weren’t you?”

Shen Molin didn’t explain; he looked guilty. He let go, giving Qi Ruiqing his freedom, his expression somewhat awkward.

“What did you see?” “Nothing, nothing. I wasn’t doing anything bad.”

…Whatever.

Qi Ruiqing casually picked up a book and flipped through it. The brick-like volume labeled “Brief Talk on Celestial Bodies” was filled with various notes.

“Since when were you interested in astronomy?” He turned to the spine and looked at the blurred publication date.

“Just boredom.” Shen Molin sat down on the steps, leaning against the wall. “Also? You too?”

“Just a hobby. This stuff can’t put food on the table.” He shoved the book back onto the shelf.

“So that’s why you became a doctor?”

“Looking at it now, being a doctor doesn’t make much money either.”

A card slyly slipped out just as he was putting the book back. Before he could even be surprised, Shen Molin stood up even more startled than he was.

“Don’t move!” Shen Molin snatched the card from near Qi Ruiqing’s feet before he could. He stepped back a few paces nervously, carefully examining this unidentified object that had intruded into his memory.

“It has your…” “Stop looking, it’s a library card.”

Qi Ruiqing was both annoyed and amused. “Weren’t you the one who just said there were no hostile organisms here? Now you’re scared of a card.”

“But this shouldn’t be here.” Shen Molin shook his head repeatedly. “Isn’t this yours?”

“Is it possible that you used my card to borrow books every day?”

Speaking of this, Qi Ruiqing was still a bit speechless. This self-righteous guy hated the complicated borrowing and returning rules of the school library. If Qi Ruiqing hadn’t taken over that task, Shen Molin would have been on the blacklist long ago.

“Some textbooks had to be returned within fifteen days.” “That is quite troublesome. Knowledge should be shared by all, not trapped in a place like this. No wonder fewer and fewer people borrow books now; the library might as well be turned into a study hall.”

Qi Ruiqing pinched the card and nodded, not wanting to argue with Shen Molin.

Looking at the card now, he could only think of the time he had brought some homemade jiuniang for Shen Molin to drink, which had directly opened a new world for him.

“Jiuniang?” Shen Molin beckoned, and a book flew out of the shelf, landing steadily in his hand.

“Mom Teaches You to Make Delicious Food?” “Yes.” “Wow, you really are hungry.”

Shen Molin filtered out the irrelevant information and began to look through the data. “The raw materials for jiuniang mainly include grains like glutinous rice and wheat kernels, as well as fruits like grapes and apples…”

“Yeah, it can also nourish the blood and energy…” “Wash the glutinous rice thoroughly, soak it in cold water for 4-5 hours, place a clean cloth on the steamer, and steam the rice directly on the cloth…”

Shen Molin suddenly slammed the book shut. “I understand.”

He gave Qi Ruiqing a start.

What was even more surprising was that as a gust of wind sent the pages roaring into the air, a bowl of jiuniang, identical to the illustration in the book, appeared out of thin air.

“Taste it,” Shen Molin pushed the bowl toward Qi Ruiqing. “Help me verify it.”

“Uh…” “The key to the Third Law is the dominant position of the ethereal entity. This also means that as long as the ethereal entity is pure and powerful enough, it can completely control the direction of a physical entity. By fully understanding the attributes and concepts of a definition, its raw materials, and its production methods, and then deepening the cognition that ‘I have fully mastered it,’ one can use the broad extensibility of the Third Law to create the object. This is the extended application of the Third Law.”

“Disclaimer: The above is just theory. I can do it, but the exploration of the principles is still in the speculative stage.”

That’s not how the law is supposed to be used.

Qi Ruiqing took a bold sip; it was warm, which was just right.

But… why was there no flavor at all?

“Uh… well… it didn’t describe the taste, and my imagination in that area is a bit lacking…” “The taste of jiuniang is similar to rice wine—mellow and fragrant, but lighter and not pungent, overall leaning toward sweet.”

Shen Molin took serious note of this. “Try it again.”

Qi Ruiqing tasted it and smacked his lips. “The alcohol taste is too strong.”

“Try again?” “Hmm… no, too light again. You added sugar to this; it needs to be sweeter to cover the taste of the rice.”

“Like this?” “Hmm… getting there. A bit lighter; this tastes like industrial sweetener.”

“Then… how about this?” “That’ll do. For a guy who never cooks, you’ve done quite well to get to this point.”

Qi Ruiqing finished his “poison testing” and pushed it back to Shen Molin. “Here.”

“Ugh…” Shen Molin stared at the thick, milky-white, eerie liquid, looked away, and quickly blurted out, “I don’t really want to drink it.”

Heh, that’s exactly what the Shen Molin of that day had said. Didn’t I end up forcing it down his throat anyway?

“I formulated this using sweeteners, thickeners, and other food additives. Although the amounts are within national standards, still…” “Ugh… what kind of chemical gimmicks…”

Qi Ruiqing pushed the bowl away in disgust, suddenly feeling a bit sorry for him.

“Is this how you’ve been living these days? Relying on this book to make things for yourself?” “Not really, I don’t need to anymore. Since I already know that humans eat to replenish energy, why wouldn’t I just ingest existing energy? There’s plenty of… energy near the black hole anyway.”

Black hole?

“The center of the explosion, that distorted space-time, is something akin to a black hole. Radiating outward from it as a center, it triggers distortion and mutation phenomena.”

He didn’t elaborate further, because he couldn’t be certain. He wasn’t one to make grand claims, nor would he indulge in wild, empty fantasies.

“I haven’t entered the black hole. I feel like that would be a death sentence. My research on black holes is still in the conceptual stage.”

“You always have such a thirst for knowledge…” Qi Ruiqing wasn’t exactly complimenting him.

“I’ll take that as a compliment.” But Shen Molin looked pleased with himself.

“By the way, last time, I saw you sending a message to your mother.” “Good eyes. I’m from a single-parent family. With me gone, my mother is all alone at home. I can’t let her worry.”

“What about me? I have a family too, right?” “Of course, you didn’t just pop out of a rock. Your father is a pharmaceutical CEO, and your mother is a researcher. You’re a second-generation academic from a scholarly family.”

Qi Ruiqing said with a smile, “I’m from the countryside, and you’re from the upper class. We were originally from two different worlds.”

“But in the face of knowledge, all are equal. The only ones I look down on are those who are stupid, ignorant, and self-righteous. You aren’t one of them.”

“But you said before that you hated me for no reason.” Qi Ruiqing leaned in, resting his chin on his hand.

“After all, you were with those people who broke in and pointed guns at me.” Shen Molin rested his hands on his knees and looked up at the sky where light was spilling out, then looked back down at Qi Ruiqing. “But, when faced with new knowledge and theories, with new things that can overturn common sense, your first reaction is to accept them, rather than to doubt or cling to your own views.”

“I like you very much, Qi Ruiqing.”

What Qi Ruiqing liked most was Shen Molin’s frankness.

Perhaps not telling him those things was the right choice. Because this way, they could start over.

“The human brain really is an interesting thing.” Qi Ruiqing remembered some funny stories. “I once had a patient who suddenly had an episode in the middle of the night. When he arrived, he spoke English the whole time. Things like ‘I can try,’ ‘pain,’ ‘only a little,’ ‘milk.’ I asked for his name, and he gave me his English name.”

“Haha?” Shen Molin indeed laughed.

“What was even more ridiculous was his family. They told us he was possessed by a foreign immortal that we couldn’t see, and that when he couldn’t control himself, he was fighting and gaming with the thing inside his body.”

“What a load of nonsense… in light of what we know now, that’s impossible. Ethereal entities can only transmit unprocessed energy, not information or consciousness. Unless it’s a special case, such a strange thing couldn’t happen.” “Right. In the end, I couldn’t take it anymore and called a psychiatrist over.”

Shen Molin loved hearing these stories—the stories that happened after Qi Ruiqing had parted ways with him.

Qi Ruiqing liked it too. He liked seeing Shen Molin’s little “smug” expressions, and he liked watching him effortlessly turn new concepts and rules that others couldn’t yet understand into his own power.

He knew that at times like this, Shen Molin would be as innocent as a child who had won a new toy.

“After all, I haven’t fully understood what the definition of ‘fully understand’ actually is, nor do I know its fundamental principles. That’s why I’m constantly practicing and summarizing patterns.” “Then how about I give you a problem to solve?” “Sure.”

Without realizing it, their knees were already touching. They sat side by side on the steps, chatting for who knows how long.

“It seems I should view you as an independent variable, rather than an environmental factor.”

He leaned on Shen Molin’s shoulder, enjoying the other’s touch as peacefully as if they were in the heat of a romance.

“Qi Ruiqing, we are definitely more than just classmates… I’ve known that for a long time…”