In many cases, most ordinary people believed that a thick, insurmountable wall stood between themselves and geniuses. They assumed it was a barrier they could never cross in a lifetime. As for the gap between two geniuses, they figured it simply came down to ninety-nine percent sweat and hard work.
But in reality, the true, despair-inducing gap existed precisely between geniuses.
Watching Su Mo chuckle as he led Chen Shen down to inspect the work, Lu Kuan stood dazed on the hillside. Standing like a lone sentinel in the fields, he couldn't calm his racing heart for a long time.
Perhaps when Su Mo mentioned updating the consciousness upload system, he hadn't fully considered the positive impact such a technological innovation would have on those trapped in brain boxes. But for people like Lu Kuan, those casually spoken words utterly shattered his emotional defenses.
"So what he said about taking us out of the boxes wasn't a lie," Lu Kuan thought. "He's actually going to do it!"
