Son of the Stars

Chapter 94 The Superposition Joke
Yuan Siping and [-] colleagues were waiting in the review hall for the convoy to arrive at the scene. The consultant Tong Xinge stood in front of the curtain behind the rostrum and looked down at his watch.

"What's the matter?" Academician Sun, who noticed Tong Xinge's actions, asked, "Do you still have a meeting this afternoon?"

"According to the original schedule, no." Tong Xinge put on a mask and nodded politely to Academician Sun, "But after meeting the transitional officers and NO.14, I'm afraid I have to attend several meetings in a row .”

Academician Sun said with some sympathy, "You're quite busy too...it's not easy for anyone."

Originally, according to the normal schedule, if there are no special activities, the members of the academic committee can deal with their own affairs at three o'clock in the afternoon.But now it seems that the idea of ​​leaving get off work early is purely a dream.If nothing else happened, in the next week or two, the thirteen members of the academic committee would have to quarrel again.

"Academician Sun, you are an expert in the medical field." Talking about the later memories, Tong Xinge couldn't help asking curiously, "Do you think Mr. Watanabe is still alive in this situation?"

Sun Lin thought for a while, and then said, "For those of us in intensive care medicine, organ failure is serious, but it is not a disease that cannot be treated. All our work revolves around 'preventing brain death'. Because we You can't copy and then transplant a brain into a patient's body."

Sun Lin didn't answer Tong Xinge's question directly, but his meaning was clearly expressed.

"It makes sense." Tong Xinge nodded, as if he was just chatting casually and had no other intentions, "For clinicians, the most precious things are always those things that cannot be saved and irreplaceable."

"Yes, for clinicians, as long as the person is still alive." Sun Lin said with some emotion, "When Mr. Wenger was deprived of the title of academician, the most vocal protest was the Academy of Medical Sciences. In order to keep him , A total of more than 20 academicians of the Academy of Medical Sciences even resigned collectively."

"I still think it's a bit irresponsible to put the hope of curing the disease on the idea of ​​'it's impossible to change the body'." Tong Xinge spread his hands, "No matter how popular targeted training is, no matter how low the cost is, this is something that ordinary people can hardly afford. high costs."

In fact, the trend of "replacing people if they don't agree with each other" in the medical field used to be the same as "opening up to the virtual world".Before the big crash, it was once regarded as the most powerful channel to solve existing problems.

It's just that before the big crash, when Wenger Cheklavsky hadn't turned to the field of directional cloning research, the human body's organs really couldn't be "changed at will".Even many countries at that time had liberalized the service of "euthanasia for the unbearable poor".

As long as you feel that you cannot bear your poverty, or the pain caused by poverty, you can apply for euthanasia to the emergency hospital in your location.Since the issuance of euthanasia license can be exchanged for very generous bonuses and allowances, some doctors even recommend euthanasia to patients who cannot afford medical expenses.

These euthanized people were one of the leading sources of organ transplants before the crash.

Therefore, organ transplantation before the crash was still full of great uncertainties.Unlike the virtual world, people in most areas can buy a decent virtual space access device with three to five months' salary.

"You have to know that a lot of our understanding of the human body comes from the research on various diseases. The mechanism of proteins, various target antigens... If it is not for the purpose of conquering diseases, it is impossible to invest so much in research. "Sun Lin nodded and added, "When the human body becomes a building block, and the diseased and damaged organs can be picked off and thrown away, medicine will die—this is not a good thing for human beings."

The two chatted for a while, and after reaching the consensus that "medicine should continue to develop," the door of the review hall was opened into a spacious passage by several staff members.

The heavy trolley was slowly sent into the review hall, and a huge aluminum hood was buckled on the trolley. The spherical aluminum hood made this scene suddenly look familiar.

An abrupt tree about [-] inches in size stood in front of the cart, and four large white characters flashed across quickly, and then stayed on the screen.

【Meal cart】

Several academicians looked at me and I looked at you, everyone fell into subtle confusion.Didn't it mean that Watanabe and that No.14 came, why did it come with a food cart?

The academic committee, which usually eats in the cafeteria without even a subsidy, has a rule for extra meals?
Lu Chen's head was recorded from the back of the cart. He politely nodded to the confused academicians on the rostrum, and then stood aside.

Academician Mary, who had dealt with Lu Chen before, broke the silence. She frowned and said to Lu Chen, "What are these things? Dr. Lu, if you were forced to participate in this farce, quit now. You still have time."

Lu Chen, who was turning his head to look for Mu Zhiran, was so frightened by this sentence that his life almost collapsed.He turned his head to look at Academician Mary with a terrified and bewildered expression, and asked tentatively after a long time, "What?"

"This is a farce, Mr. Lu." Ms. Mary, who was standing on the stage, was passively condescending, her brown curly hair trembling slightly as she asked, "We are gathered here to see with our own eyes Mr. Watanabe's state. . We are about to start a long meeting to decide whether Mr. Watanabe, and possibly thousands of brains like him that will appear in the future, can be called human beings. Mr. Lu, this is a very serious matter!"

To be stared at by a woman with a serious expression, a high skull and a typical "Dean of Academic Affairs" hairstyle, which in itself makes people unconsciously tense.Coupled with this paragraph of criticism that was directed and clearly angry, Lu Chen, who was standing still, even picked his toes.

But... what kind of farce is it?Lu Chen glanced at the heavy-duty cart in front of him, and then at the huge light-shielding aluminum top cover on it. For a while, he was not sure whether he should lift the cover first, and asked several academicians to confirm Watanabe's brain with their own eyes. What does it look like.

[I was just joking, don't be so nervous. 】Two new lines of writing appeared below the words on the screen, and Watanabe explained, 【Dr. Lu has been pushing me away from behind, and he has never seen the words on the screen.Ms. Mary, please relax a little.Always frowning is prone to wrinkles. 】

Lu Chen opened the light-blocking cover in the silent and heavy atmosphere at the scene, and showed the two brains that were still connected to the surprised whispers of more than a dozen committee members.

To be honest, Lu Chen is somewhat dissatisfied now.I am particularly dissatisfied that, Ms. Mary, you clearly do not understand medical knowledge, but you arbitrarily regard this cover as some kind of joke.Don't ask yourself what's the situation, just open your mouth - what's the difference between this and those trolls lurking on the Internet?

After using two brains to show the attitude of "I put the lid on, it will work", Lu Chen put the lid back on again.He was going to briefly introduce the meaning of his actions to these academicians so that he would not be scolded again.

Although it seems okay to be scolded by the academicians of the academic committee for a doctoral candidate, it is better to avoid this uncomfortable feeling.

Lu Chen walked to the front of the cart, pointed to the screen in front of him, and was about to speak when he saw the three lines on the screen.

"Ah?!" Lu Chen's throat, which was about to be transformed into the word "I", became turbulent, and his normal speaking voice turned into a scattered air current - this movement probably sounded like this to other people's ears: "Uh...ah? !"

The gazes of the thirteen academicians at the scene "swish" turned to Lu Chen, but Lu Chen, who didn't know this, stretched his neck and said angrily to the screen, "Watanabe, are you out of your mind? You are joking right now." Timing?! Even if you have a good relationship with Ms. Mary, can you check the occasion before joking?"

【I don't have a good relationship with Ms. Mary, we are not even familiar with each other. 】Watanabe's words knocked out the words "additional food cart" on the screen, 【To be honest, I used to be quite afraid of her.So of course it's time to make a joke -- even if it's inappropriate.A sense of humor is the evidence that a person is alive.Then again, I am afraid of this when everyone is dead? 】

Lu Chen looked at Watanabe who thought he was in a superimposed state of life and death in front of him, and began to fall into deep confusion.

Watanabe...was he such a character before?
(End of this chapter)