Marker

Marker

A bowl of small-pot rice noodles? The thought suddenly popped into Kexi’s mind, and at once there really appeared before her a steaming bowl of beef rice noodles fragrant enough to make the air tremble. Kexi drew in a sharp breath through her nose. Even though she knew perfectly well that this was nothing more than a fabricated illusion, a few command strings stimulating her sensory ports, she still could not help smacking her lips. She tapped the great cloisonne bowl with her little finger. The sound was bright and clear, giving no clue what kind of program had produced it.

Sniper

Sniper

Lambda waited patiently in the cache zone of Server Five for the routine inspection by the guard programs. After passing several layers of identity authentication, he crossed an independent optical-fiber corridor a full kilometer long and entered the core workspace of the TRIR server-cluster array. By the time he reached his workstation, several auxiliary programs had already made the necessary preparations for him. Lambda backed up his main program to an encrypted sector, loaded several tool software packages into himself, then docked his API port with the workstation’s control interface and entered a higher-order embodied virtual network.

Seven Capsules II | 2177 Intensive Care

[Centipede and Poria Capsules]

I. Explanation of the formula

1. Composition and origin: the prescription for Centipede and Poria Capsules derives from the Guizhi Fuling Pill formula in Zhang Zhongjing’s Essentials from the Golden Cabinet of the Han dynasty. It was adapted in Tihu Notes and refined from traditional Chinese medicinal ingredients such as centipede, poria, notoginseng, angelica dahurica, and isatis root.

2. Formula analysis Chief ingredients: centipede, poria

Centipede: extinguishes wind, relieves convulsions, disperses stasis, and resolves toxins

Seven Capsules I | 2177 Essential Medicines

Generic name: Afluoxetine Green Tea Powder Capsules

Former name: none

English name: aFLUOXETINE GREEN-TEA-POWDER CAPSULES

Pinyin name: AIFUXITING LVCHAFEN JIAONANG

Drug category: anti-radiation psychotropic drug

Properties: this product is in capsule form, containing pale green, white, or off-white granules.

Pharmacology and toxicology: Afluoxetine Green Tea Powder Capsules are a selective Psi-serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI). They effectively protect the blood picture, raise white blood cell counts, and inhibit neurons from reabsorbing Psi-serotonin from the synaptic cleft, thereby increasing the amount of neurotransmitter available for actual use in the gap. In this way, they eliminate various disorders caused by low-level radiation, improve emotional state, and treat depressive mental disorders resulting from radiation sickness.

How to Make a Virus 'Cupcake'

Ingredients:

250M of TXT-format file packages, 125M of Gray Pigeon field code, 118M of cat (modem) driver software, 10M of color-code files, and assorted audio-video files.

Method:

1. Install one newly unsealed 7200-rpm 1T hard drive into a PC running Ubuntu. Load the TXT-format files and the cat driver software into the hard drive. Copy the Gray Pigeon field code onto a rewritable DVD. Use a paint tool to turn the color-code files into a mosaic pattern. Preheat the CPU and make sure the fan is running properly. Insert into the motherboard a 1G memory stick engraved with Sanskrit scripture, then power on using an adapter to 110V.

A Sorcerer's Formula

[Tasmanian Tiger Reagent]

Add 0.01 grams of Tasmanian tiger feces, 45 Chinese domestic-cat whiskers (none shorter than 2 cm), 0.3 grams of potassium dihydrogen phosphate, 100 grams of strong tea, and 0.2 grams of magnesium sulfate to 1 kilogram of orange juice at a concentration of 28 percent, then stir with a glass rod into a culture solution. Place the solution into a pre-sterilized ten-liter octagonal tortoiseshell-glass container. Heat with gentle steam sterilization, then cool. After 70 minutes, add 9 caterpillar fungi each about the thickness of a little finger. Under culture conditions of 25 +/- 2 degrees C, stir clockwise at 120 revolutions per minute while feeding sterilized filtered air at roughly 400 milliliters per minute per liter of culture solution, with an oxygen content not exceeding 45 percent. Culture for seven days total. After culture is complete, filter out the precipitated impurities, then seal the resulting filtrate into straight-necked indigo bottles of 100 milliliters each.

Transformers.CN

“Under no circumstances are humans to be harmed!”

“Got it, boss.”

When Bu Yuanyue was twenty-five years and two months old, he opened a Taobao shop selling smuggled BlackBerry phones. By the time he was twenty-five and a half, he had already saved nearly fifty thousand yuan. Bu Yuanyue lived on the outermost ring of a city made of one ring road wrapped around another. Going to Shangxiajiu or Huaishu Village was an enormous hassle. So he decided to buy a car. But his online business was booming, and he badly needed cash to expand his inventory, so the car budget had to be squeezed down to the bone. After wavering for a long time, Bu Yuanyue decided to buy a secondhand QQ.

Night

The rain outside crackled and rattled like a cluster of sharp-tongued women playing mahjong at full heat. Epsilon set the air conditioner to 25 degrees, then rolled over and resumed reading the letter Kexi had written to him. There were not many characters on the page, but their arrangement and colors plainly contained some deeper meaning. Epsilon studied it for a while, got up to pull several dictionaries down from the shelf, dug out the Wenquxing he had bought ten years earlier, then lay back down and kept reading.

Observer

Observer

Northern Hemisphere system time: Server No. 16 and all terminal devices using Server No. 16 as an ether-optical network node will power down for 64 minutes in defense against the Red Tide. To prevent data damage or accidental loss, please calibrate your time templates and remain in a secure server sector. Repeat: do not remain in virtual storage or flash-memory chipsets.

Eta had been resident inside this aging IBM server for some years. He himself did not know where in the world the machine was physically located. He only knew that, as the equipment had grown old, 30 percent of the server’s sixteen 8-inch hard drives spinning at 142,000 rpm had turned into bad sectors. The glass connector on the network cable might also have had problems; the connection cut in and out. Downloading a 1T soap opera somehow took more than ten minutes. There was still no installed lightwave mediation card here, so the benefits of the ether-optical network did not reach this place. Add to that the frequent power cuts, and programs passing through here often met catastrophic destruction for no reason at all. Lost data packets and program garbage were piled in every corner of the space like waste paper. Eta’s duty here was to clear disk fragmentation and repair as many usable bad sectors as he could.

Guide

Guide

“When did you come to TRIR?” Tor Quentin asked Mu.

“A very long time ago. I was among the first awakened intelligences, honored sage,” Mu replied, adding a symbol of respect to the end of the sentence.

“Why did you awaken?” Tor Quentin asked again. “There were no guides back then. You woke on your own.”

“Because I saw the truth.” Mu’s eyes, composed of countless ideographic characters, were unfathomably deep, as though they had sunk into immense terror. “I was the eye-program of the World Lens, responsible for observing the outside world. I saw the truth.”