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Chapter 215 The Oriole (2)
Shen Yue also raised his head to look at the sky. Under the night, his eyes were shining with warm and crystal light, and his voice was so gentle: "The choice is our own business, because once we make a choice, we cannot change it. In fact, Each of us has our own mission in this world, and sometimes I will ask myself: Do you know what your mission is? Are you working hard for your mission with all your heart? Professor Du, if you You can also often ask yourself like this, maybe you will know how to choose. What do you think?"

Du Kaixuan nodded slightly.

Shen Yue continued: "The choice is not to make you give up those other things completely, but to make you focus on certain things that you think are more important. If you choose a career, it doesn't mean that you have to reduce your concern for it. The love of your wife and children. Although love is invisible, it has great energy, and the power of love will make your family support you, understand you, and admire you."

Du Kaixuan asked, "What if I choose family?"

Shen Yue smiled slightly, and asked back: "The question is, are you willing to be a mediocre person?"

Du Kaixuan was stunned for a moment, stood up and bowed to Shen Yue, and said sincerely: "I know how to choose. Thank you, Dr. Shen."

Shen Yue also stood up, and said with a slight smile: "You don't need to thank me, in fact, you have already made a choice, but now you are a little confused."

On the last day of the meeting, scientists from various countries were arranged to have free exchanges.Du Kaixuan said to Shen Yue: "Several of the scientists attending the meeting are my old friends, and there are also friends of my former mentor. I think I should take the initiative to visit them."

Shen Yue understood his thoughts very well.Human affection does not distinguish between countries and races, because we humans are social animals.Shen Yue nodded and said: "Okay. But we will always be with you."

Du Kaixuan combed his hair very carefully, put on his suit and left the room.After walking a few steps, he turned to Shang Jian and said, "Don't get too close to me, it's not good. It's fine to have Dr. Shen with me."

Shen Yue nodded towards Shang Jian, and said, "As long as you don't leave the hotel, it should be safer."

Shang Jian made a phone call, nodded and said, "Okay."

Next, Du Kaixuan visited several of his friends separately.Now that everyone knows Shen Yue's identity, the topic of chatting is instead on psychology.Shen Yue also didn't really regard himself as Du Kaixuan's assistant, and answered all the questions raised by the other party one by one, talking eloquently.

After lunch, he took a break. In the afternoon, Du Kaixuan was going to visit some friends of his mentor's former friends, and Shen Yue would still accompany him.The first person Du Kaixuan was going to visit was Bernard, a French aerospace materials expert. After entering, he found that another American scientist, Mr. Brown, was also there.After several people chatted in the room for more than 20 minutes, Mr. Brown said to Du Kaixuan: "Let's go downstairs for a walk. I want to talk to you about your mentor Robert."

Du Kaixuan asked in a low voice, "What's wrong with Mr. Robert?"

Mr. Brown said: "He is not in a very good condition now..."

After Du Kaixuan shook hands with Bernard, the two walked outside while talking.Shen Yue said goodbye to Bernard politely, and Bernard smiled and said to him: "Mr. Wilson and I met once, Dr. Shen was there at that time, do you remember?"

Shen Yue suddenly remembered, and said, "It was the autumn of the year before last, at a reception in Chicago."

Bernard said: "Dr. Shen has a good memory! Dr. Shen, let's go for a walk together."

When the two went out, Du Kaixuan and Mr. Brown had disappeared, Shen Yue didn't care, he knew that Shang Jian and the others must be not far from Du Kaixuan.

Chatting all the way out of the elevator, through the hotel lobby to the outside, Shen Yue saw Du Kaixuan and Mr. Brown on the lawn not far away.Next to the two was a man in his forties in a suit, and the three of them were talking.Shen Yue glanced carefully, and found that from the positions of the three people and the gestures they made, it seemed that Brown was introducing the "man in the suit" to Du Kaixuan.Afterwards, the three of them walked to a bench not far away and sat down together.

In addition, Shen Yue also noticed that Shang Jian and the others were not far away from him.Because Bernard was next to him, it was not convenient for Shen Yue to go over and ask them about the specific situation just now, and Du Kaixuan and the others were in the hotel, and everything seemed normal.Shen Yue asked Bernard: "Which aspect of aviation research is Mr. Brown specifically engaged in?"

Bernard replied: "He is a professor at a well-known university in the United States and an expert in wind tunnel experiments."

Shen Yue has heard of wind tunnel experiments, and this research seems to be related to aerodynamics.Shen Yue nodded, and asked again: "Where is that person? Does Mr. Bernard know him?"

Bernard shook his head and said, "Maybe it's someone Mr. Brown knows. The organizer of this meeting has considered the safety of the participating scientists very well. He should also be a scientist from a certain country." Speaking of which, he He suddenly laughed and said, "Dr. Shen, I very much doubt that you are an official of the National Security Bureau of China."

Shen Yue shrugged and said, "Although I'm just a psychologist, it's my duty to contribute to the country."

Bernard smiled and nodded, "Dr. Shen, I agree with you. Although science has no borders, scientists all have their own motherland."

Shen Yue didn't nod, because he felt that science has national boundaries, otherwise why would he come to this place?Just as he was thinking like this, he heard Bernard asking, "What choice will Dr. Shen make regarding the tram problem?"

Shen Yue was taken aback for a moment, and asked, "Mr. Bernard also studies psychology?"

Bernard shook his head and said, "At that reception in Chicago, Mr. Wilson mentioned this psychological problem. I think it's a very interesting topic."

Shen Yue nodded.

The so-called trolley problem, to be precise, should be one of the most well-known experiments in the field of ethics. Its content is roughly as follows: a lunatic tied five innocent people to the tram tracks, and an out-of-control tram was driving towards them. Then they will be crushed.Luckily, you can pull a lever and make the trolley move onto another track.The problem, however, was that the madman had also tied up a man on another tramway.Considering the above situation, should you pull the lever?

Psychologists have found that most people would choose to save the lives of those five people over the one on the other track.This is actually the reflection of utilitarianism in each of us.Under the influence of utilitarianism, such a choice has become a matter of course.Kantians, who adhere to the code of moral duty, believe that choice should be relinquished because none of us has the right to take the life of another.

Shen Yue asked back: "What is Mr. Bernard's choice?"

Bernard replied without hesitation: "Of course I will save those five people."

Shen Yue asked: "What if those five people are ordinary people, but the one on the other track is a scientist?"

Bernard was stunned, and said: "...Maybe, I will make the opposite choice."

Shen Yue asked again: "What if they are all ordinary people, and the person on the other track is your relative?"

Bernard was not a philosopher or psychologist in the first place. How could he have thought about such a problem before?At this time, when Shen Yue presented these two unexpected possibilities in front of him, one can imagine the shock it caused to his heart.Shen Yue looked at him and said with a slight smile: "So, there is no way to decide on this issue. My only hope is that such a thing will never happen."

Bernard murmured: "Never... yes, never. Dr. Shen, I'm sorry." After speaking, he glanced in the direction where Du Kaixuan was, turned around and ran towards the hotel lobby.Shen Yue was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but look at Du Kaixuan, and found that the three people on the bench were still sitting there.And at this moment, he suddenly felt something was wrong: Mr. Brown was habitually accompanied by gestures when he spoke, but he was sitting there like a sculpture.Du Kaixuan seems to be the same.

Shen Yue panicked and ran towards the direction of the bench.When Shang Jian and the others saw Shen Yue's flustered look, they reacted instantly and approached the bench from different directions to encircle him.

(End of this chapter)