Cyber Heroes

In July 2036, a car stopped steadily in front of the new building of the McGovern Institute for Brain Science, Peking University.

Xiang Shan pushed the car door, then shook his neat suit, and then made a phone call.

Soon, a middle-aged man walked out of the building.

Xiang Shan extend the hand and shook hands with the middle-aged man: "Hu Senior Brother, long time no see. Since you fell to the Zhongguancun Academy of Arts and Sciences, your figure has been blessed. "

The man sighed: "Who said it is not. If it is not for living, why come to the next door to ask for life!"

The senior and junior brothers looked at each other and smiled, everything is done It goes without saying.

This is Xiang Shan’s brother Hu Zhengyu. He is called "Nonsense". In 27 years, he spent some time with Xiang Shan’s classmates. In 28 years, Xiang Shan left China to develop in an international research institution in the tropics. In 33 years, Mr. Hu Zhengyu came to the McGovern Institute for Brain Science through a cooperative project with Liu Liu and worked as a second in a laboratory. Boss.

Last year, Xiang Shan returned to Peiping. Hu Zhengyu heard that this Junior Brother is running in various directions, and seems to be preparing for a "big project".

Hu Zhengyu took Xiang Shan into the new building of the institute, and said as he walked: "Junior Brother, brother reminds you, just don’t say that. My Big Boss is a martial virtue. Energetic swordsmen are different from the weak liberal arts college students next door."

"Understand and understand. We can't look at the next door with colored glasses." Xiang Shan made an "OK" gesture.

Hu Zhengyu led Xiang Shan to an office, no one shrugged and said: "Maybe you are not at the right time now, the monkeys are not and the others. Big Boss is going to engage in monkeys now."

"Monkey?"

"Well, yes, a monkey can actually only do that many projects. Too much is done. If the monkey is not suffering, it is not good for the mental health of the experimenters. "Hu Zhengyu shrugged: "And the abnormal state of the monkey may affect the objectivity of the data. For some projects, you have to rush to do it when the monkey is in good condition."

Xiang Shan grinned: "Tsk tsk, mourn for the poor monkey for a second."

"Eat better than me, and as long as there is no misfortune to run into the craftsmanship, everyone will be treated in a big house after one or two years. Count them as lifespans, equivalent to retirement after graduation from college." Hu Zhengyu quizzed: "If it weren’t for the ethics committee that couldn’t pass the test, I’d like to go to work and live a retirement life early."

Xiang Shan took a look at this office. This office is a corner of the building, with floor-to-ceiling windows on both sides, which provides excellent lighting. But the office furnishings are very simple, a desk, a bookshelf, and a set of sofas. The office is a bit too tidy and there is no personal touch.

Except for the realistic mecha model more than ten centimeters high on the desk, and a steel feather fencing sword rack hanging in the corner.

And the pile of documents on the desk that looked like a pupil giving a briefing.

Xiang Shan nodded: "Sure enough, you are a talented person with plenty of martial arts in your school."

Hu Zhengyu asked Xiang Shan to sit for a while, and then go back to see the running data. Xiang Shan ate some snacks alone and waited for a quarter of an hour.

After Hu Zhengyu gave a few instructions to the master students he brought, he came over to accompany Xiang Shan and so on. After a while, he sighed: "Old Chen may still be busy. Or I will take you directly to the rest area of ​​the laboratory."

Xiang Shan this time is here to discuss cooperation . In 2035, after Xiang Shan returned to China, he began to prepare for the big project on "Human Prostitution". Although part of the "Rama Project" has not been disclosed to the public so far, Hu Zhengyu at least knows where Junior Brother has gone and communicated with who in the past few years.

He is very interested in the "big plan" mentioned by Xiang Shan.

Xiang Shan waved his hand: "Isn't this inappropriate?"

"There is nothing inappropriate, and there is nothing shameful about the project today..." Hu Zhengyu was taking it all, but remembering something, Immediately he said, “It’s just forbidden to take pictures. Also, don’t step out of the lounge and enter the experimental area.”

Unlike Lao Liu’s laboratory in the Basic Industry Training Center, the rest area of ​​this laboratory There is a glass curtain wall between the experimental areas. The rest area is very narrow. Xiang Shan and Hu Zhengyu stand behind the glass curtain wall, feeling like they are visiting a zoo.

The experimental area is not too big. Some messy electronic devices are piled on one side, and the wiring is messy. In the center of the laboratory is a special fixed table. A monkey surrounded by various instruments sits on a closed "throne" built with acrylic sheets. The head fixed by the steel frame is opened, and a group of white coats is surrounding it. What is it doing.

Around those researchers, several air projections are placing data in real-time locations that are easy for everyone to see.

Xiang Shan couldn't help but touched his head: "This monkey looks so painful, why is his head bloody?"

"Dental cement, just the color is pink In fact, the wound on the monkey’s head has healed a long time ago. They just cleaned a part of the head tissue, and then replaced a small piece of skull with a transparent material, so that the brain can be observed with a two-photon Microscope. And the monkey was anesthetized during the operation , Now there is no pain."

As he said, the white coats were all concentrated in front of a large number of screens on the other side of the experimental area, and the monkey and the glass curtain wall around the instrument suddenly became impenetrable. The state of light. Hu Zhengyu explained: “This is the beginning of the experiment. In order to ensure the quality of the neuronal fluorescence signals collected by the Microscope, the experimental area is strictly protected from light when working. When the experiment is over, I will be responsible for the fresh and warm neuronal activity. The data runs on the computer."

While waiting, Xiang Shan glanced at the electronic bulletin board outside the laboratory. He looked at it twice and was a little strange: "Well, brother, ask, is the composition of this laboratory a bit weird?"

"en? Oh, this huh? You mean laboratory assistants. Hu Zhengyu said: "Chen Boss really hates things that allow students to fight, so he would rather buy professional technicians."

"Non-staff personnel?"

"A few majors People do professional things." Hu Zhengyu pointed out: "The old Wang over there is a veterinarian who retired from the zoo. He takes a part-time job here and occasionally takes care of animals. That is, the conditions are limited, otherwise he can outsource the chores. He wants to outsource."

"It's a man!" Xiang Shan was very moved.

Although the relationship with Lao Liu is quite good, Xiang Shan knows that he is still an "individual phenomenon." At this stage, the "laboratory" system is closer to a small workshop in the Middle Ages. A lot of unskilled chores are assigned to the students at the bottom. Generally speaking, the apprentices of the lower grades can be taught by the apprentices of the higher grades within two weeks. It is also a qualified and good leek.

For an apprentice Master, the training cost of this kind of leek is almost zero.

There is such a joke that has spread through the ages. A thief ran to the laboratory to steal something, but before a while the researcher returned. Then the lab turned around for a week, and the thief pretended to be a researcher and mixed with him for a week, and finally found a chance to slip away after a week. The accomplice asked him if he had any gains, and the thief said: "I have learned to run electrophoresis!"

In many cases, the manual labor in the laboratory is without skills.

However, please ask people for money, and squeeze students without spending money.

Boss who are willing to spend money in this area are all ideal people!

It seems that the experiment has finally entered a stable operation stage. The atmosphere in the experimental area relaxed. Most people stood up from the screen and walked out while moving their muscles and bones.

The headed person seemed to see Xiang Shan and Hu Zhengyu, raised his hand and waved, and then walked out of the laboratory. This middle-aged man is tall and thin, wears masks and gloves, and is covered in a dirty white coat. After he came out of the experimental area, he took off his gloves and mask, put aside his white lab coat, and carefully washed his hands before he walked over with a smell of disinfectant: "Fortunately, you are Professor Xiang? Young and promising! I am Chief-In-Charge Chen Feng of this laboratory."

At this time, Xiang Shan has just arrived, and for ordinary scholars, they are generally only at this age. lecturer. If everything goes smoothly, it would take about 40 years old to be considered a full professor.

Xiang Shan turned a deaf ear to this self-introduction, but frowned and stared at Chen Feng's face: "'Ling Yu' Old Brother?"

Chen Feng was stunned. He had only heard Hu Zhengyu mentioned this Junior Brother before, and knew that he was an influential figure who led an interdisciplinary research institute at the United Nations University at a young age. However, the research fields of the two are very different, and there seems to be no chance of intersection.

But it was didn't expect, and the other party called out his common screen name.

Chen Feng looked at Xiang Shan for a few times, and his discoloration changed: "'Xiang Shan'? Turns out to be yours! Ha, I can remember the water friends competition at the "Nuclear Fission" game show a few years ago. It was you brat who eliminated me!"

"Hey!" Xiang Shan was startled: "'Lingyu' Old Brother, do you remember such a thing? By the way, you are not a science writer! "

"Nonsense!" Chen Feng said: "I have to go there once in ten years! I successfully registered for the Water Friends Tournament, before I had time to be happy, and then I was beaten for a round trip. I You can bear grudges! And after the fight, I disappear from the face of the earth for a few months, and I can’t find a place! In addition, the science writer is just my amateur hobby, my job-after all, you brat is a science fiction Writer, right?"

"hahaha...I was later taken to study extraterrestrial technology because of the good science fiction writing."

The four hands are held together tightly. .

"Fate and destiny."

"Yes, yes."

Xiang Shan looked at his formal clothes, regretfully said: "I must know You, then what am I doing in such a formal shirt? Just walk away. It’s so hot."

"Let’s go to the office and say that the air-conditioning is strong there."

entire group Back to the office. Only then did Hu Zhengyu know that Xiang Shan and Chen Feng were actually netizens for many years.

But it's not too coincidental. They are all locals, hardcore gamers, sci-fi hobbyists, and it's normal for the circles to overlap.

After entering the office, Chen Feng snapped his fingers, and a melodious tune immediately sounded in the office-this is a cyberpunk game BGM developed by the famous game studio "Platinum" 15 years ago. Xiang Shan has eaten this Old Brother's Amway many years ago and can roughly distinguish this classic track.

"If you are all your own, you can let yourself go."