I cultivate the Purple Mansion Golden Elixir Dao on Earth

The soft voice, like a bird gently pecking at a branch, rang out very close to Lin Yu.

Lin Yu looked up.

The girl, with headphones hanging around her neck, bent over and looked down.

Their eyes met.

Yang Xiyi's gaze was casual and relaxed, but deep within it lay a hint of curiosity.

But Lin Yu's eyes showed no surprise, as if she had known all along that she was standing quietly beside her.

His gaze was as flat as thin ice.

"This book?"

Lin Yu shook the book "Quantum and Life: Model Hypotheses" in her hand, the pages rustling. Yang Xiyi nodded.

"I studied biology in college and switched to the interdisciplinary field of biophysics in graduate school. This book is also within the scope of my studies."

"The model inside is well-designed and self-consistent, but that's about it. It believes that life has quantum effects at the macroscopic level, just like the uncertainty, entanglement, and even tunneling effects that occur in the particles that make up the human body in the microscopic world."

"However, in the macroscopic world, these quantum effects disappear."

"Therefore, 'Quantum and Life: Model Hypotheses' explores the causes of this phenomenon and proposes a 'life quantum effect model,' which suggests that as long as the instruments are designed according to the formulas in the book, the quantum superposition phenomenon that exists in macroscopic living organisms and is visible to the naked eye can be triggered... However, to achieve this quantum effect, according to the model formulas in the book, a circular accelerator 250,000 kilometers long needs to be built in geosynchronous orbit—this is just wishful thinking."

Yang Xiyi straightened up and said calmly.

To her surprise, Lin Yu did not show any astonishment.

In the past, everyone who heard that she had already pursued graduate studies would be surprised and full of praise when they saw her still youthful face.

But the middle-aged man in front of him just smiled, as if he didn't find it strange at all that a girl who looked sixteen or seventeen was pursuing a master's degree.

This made Yang Xiyi feel a rare sense of resentment.

While she had previously grown tired of the same old flattery and praise, she couldn't help but feel a little unsettled when she discovered that some people were indifferent to it.

The girl's gaze sharpened slightly, but Lin Yu, oblivious, patted the book in her hand and smiled:

"If it's just this problem, then it can't be said that there's a flaw... Insufficient experimental conditions and an inconsistent hypothesis are two different things."

"...There's one more question."

Yang Xiyi's words carried a subtle tone of resistance, though she was unaware of it.

"According to the theory of 'quantum decoherence,' there is no clear quantum boundary between the microscopic and macroscopic worlds. However, due to the ever-present entanglement effect of quantum mechanics in the environment, the interference phenomena that should occur in the observed objects themselves undergo behavioral changes. For living matter, its quantum decoherence leads to a large amount of quantum interference shared by both life and the environment... Even if a ring accelerator were built as described in this book, it would only fail due to a large amount of environmental quantum interference."

"Is that so?"

Lin Yu, however, continued to smile.

Yang Xiyi nodded, but the meaning in her eyes had faded.

The vague sense of resistance she felt had disappeared.

The process of writing long passages is also a process of sorting out her inner thoughts.

To tidy one's mind is like to correct one's demeanor.

This middle-aged man was like a mirror. After Yang Xiyi finished speaking in front of him, her mind returned to calm. Even the curiosity she had at the beginning had disappeared completely.

So she looked up, preparing to leave the side of this middle-aged man who rarely piqued her curiosity.

But then they heard the middle-aged man's next words.

"In that case, why not try biomolecules first?"

Lin Yu said.

Biological macromolecules?

Yang Xiyi suddenly lowered her head towards Lin Yu.

"for example?"

"For example... breviculin. Its molecular weight is 1882, and according to the model calculation, the interference effect should be quite obvious."

Yang Xiyi was as if she had been struck hard, and she fell heavily backward.

"Short-stem bacterial peptides, biological macromolecules... Yes, that's right... It is indeed a suitable candidate! But..."

"...No! Biomolecules are too easily broken down, causing them to lose their activity. There's also the issue of interference precision..."

Yang Xiyi murmured to herself, then turned her gaze back to Lin Yu.

But this time, it was no longer the casual curiosity of before; instead, it was a thirst for knowledge.

Lin Yu simply smiled.

"I was just suggesting an idea; why ask someone unrelated like me about the specific experimental procedures?"

Yang Xiyi was stunned for a moment.

Immediately, instead of showing any anger or disappointment, she nodded solemnly and said:

"Thank you... Indeed, sometimes an idea can drive scientific research forward, but the actual experimental process still needs to be carried out by ourselves. I was just being too wishful thinking."

As she spoke, Yang Xiyi seemed to remember something and took out her phone.

"What's your name?"

"Lin Yu, Lin as in forest; Yu as in the poppy flower."

Lin Yu's voice rang out in front of him, but it seemed to fall into empty space.

Yang Xiyi nodded, a strange feeling suddenly flashing through her mind.

Her favorite flower was the poppy, and Lin Yu, in front of her, happened to use it as an example when mentioning names...

But this doubt only lasted a very short time before she put it out of her mind.

Yang Xiyi turned on her phone.

"My name is Yang Xiyi, Xi as in 'sun' and Yi as in 'ritual'..."

"Could I please provide your contact information? I'm planning to go to the lab to test my ideas later, and if possible, I'd like to consult with you then..."

However, Yang Xiyi had just turned on her phone and hadn't finished speaking when a dull thud came from the main hall.

She immediately looked up and saw the Taoist priest named Jiang Songjing standing at the suddenly wide-open entrance of the main hall, confronting her brother and sister with a cold expression.

"...You two believers, we've talked so much already, do you still not believe in my intentions?"

"I am Qiu Jing from Baiyang Temple, my secular name is Jiang Songjing. My surname is not Ying, and I have no relation to anyone with the surname Yang. Please leave."

"Master Jiang Songjing... no, younger brother—"

Yang Ruixing stood in front of Jiang Songjing and spoke loudly and urgently, seemingly about to launch an emotional offensive, but was interrupted by Yang Wanyi at this moment.

"Hey! Since you're also annoyed by that old geezer, then we have something in common! I'll teach you how to get revenge on that old man who abandoned you decades ago."

"Listen to me, come back with us, act like a good son in front of that old man's bedside, then splurge him a fortune and unplug his ventilator. That's the best way to get revenge, don't you think?!"

Yang Wanyi jumped around, drawing the attention of everyone else.

Jiang Songjing's expression remained unchanged; he simply pointed to the entrance of the temple and said coldly:

"I've said enough, everyone please leave now."