Cyber ​​Heroes

Chapter 118 Cooperation

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

Xiang Shan pushed open the car door, then shook the sharp suit on his body, and then made a phone call.

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

Xiang Shan stretched out his hand and shook hands with the middle-aged man: "Brother Hu, long time no see. Ever since you fell into the Zhongguancun College of Arts and Sciences, your figure has gained weight."

The man sighed: "Who says it's not? If it's not for living, why bother to come to the next door to beg for a living! Life in Feila is miserable, and I don't know if I can work for the motherland for 50 years."

The two brothers and sisters looked at each other and smiled, everything was kept silent.

This is Xiang Shan's brother Hu Zhengyu, nicknamed "Nu Shuo", who was a classmate of Xiang Shan in 27 years. In 28 years, Xiangshan left China to go to an international research institution in the tropics. In 33, Mr. Hu Zhengyu came to the McGovern Brain Science Institute through Lao Liu’s cooperation project and worked as the second boss in a laboratory. .

Last year, Xiang Shan returned to Peiping.Hu Zhengyu heard that this junior was running around in many ways, and seemed to be preparing for a "big project".

Hu Zhengyu led Xiang Shan into the new building of the research institute, and said as he walked, "Brother, brother, please don't say what you said just now. My big boss is a swordsman with abundant martial arts. Weak liberal arts students are different."

"Understood. We can't look at the neighbor with colored glasses." Xiang Shan gestured "OK".

Hu Zhengyu led Xiang Shan to an office where there was no one there. He shrugged and said, "Maybe you came at the wrong time, monkeys wait for no one. The big boss is now messing with monkeys."

"monkey?"

"Well, yes, a monkey can actually only do so many projects. If you do too much, the monkey will suffer, and it will be bad for the mental health of the experimenters." Hu Zhengyu shrugged: "And the monkey's state is abnormal, and It 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, a second of silence for the poor monkey."

"Eat better than me, and as long as there are no unfortunate craftsmen, everyone will have a big house for retirement after one or two years. Calculated according to their life expectancy, it is equivalent to retiring after graduating from college." Hu Zhengyu curled his lips: " If it wasn't for the failure of the Ethics Committee, I would have been a bit tempted to make a fuss and retire early."

Xiang Shan looked around the office.This office is a corner of the building, with floor-to-ceiling windows on both sides, providing 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, with no personal atmosphere.

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

And the pile of documents on the desk that looked like elementary school students giving presentations.

Xiang Shan nodded: "Sure enough, they are talents with abundant martial arts virtues in your school."

Hu Zhengyu asked Xiang Shan to sit for a while, and then went back to check the running data by himself.Xiang Shan ate some snacks by himself and waited for a quarter of an hour.

After Hu Zhengyu gave some instructions to the master students he brought, he came over to wait with Xiang Shan.After a while, he sighed: "Old Chen may still be busy. How about I take you directly to the rest area of ​​the laboratory."

This time, Xiang Shan came to discuss cooperation. In 2035, after Xiang Shan returned to China, he began preparations for a major project on "human prosthetics".Although part of the "Rama Project" has not been disclosed to the public, Hu Zhengyu at least knows where his junior has been and who he communicated with in the past few years.

He is very interested in Xiang Shankou's "big plan".

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

"There's nothing inappropriate, and there's nothing shameful about today's project..." Hu Zhengyu was taking care of everything, but when he remembered something, he immediately said, "It's just that taking photos is prohibited. Also, don't step out of the lounge and into the experimental area."

Unlike Lao Liu's laboratory in the basic industry training center, there is a glass curtain wall between the rest area and the experimental area of ​​this laboratory.The rest area was very narrow, and Xiang Shan and Hu Zhengyu stood behind the glass curtain wall, feeling like they were visiting a zoo.

The experimental area is not very big, some messy electronic equipment is piled up on the side, and the wiring is spread out on the floor.In the center of the laboratory is a special fixed table. A monkey surrounded by various instruments sits on a closed "throne" made of acrylic sheets. The head fixed by the steel frame is opened, surrounded by a group of monkeys in white coats. what is it doing.

Around those researchers, several air projections are projecting data in real time where everyone can easily see it.

Xiang Shan couldn't help touching his head: "This monkey looks quite painful, why is his head bloody?"

"Dental cement is pink in color. In fact, the wound on the monkey's head has healed long ago. They just cleaned a part of the tissue on the head, and then replaced a small piece of skull with a transparent material, so that they can observe the brain with a two-photon microscope." .The monkey was anesthetized during the operation, but now it has healed early, and there is pain from the beginning to the end."

As he said that, the white coats gathered in front of a large number of screens on the other side of the experimental area, while the glass curtain wall around the monkeys and the instruments suddenly became opaque.Hu Zhengyu explained: "This is the beginning of the experiment. In order to ensure the quality of the neuron fluorescent signal collected by the microscope, the experimental area is strictly protected from light when working. After the experiment is over, I will be responsible for the fresh and hot neuron activity. The data runs in the computer."

While waiting, Xiang Shan glanced at the electronic bulletin board outside the laboratory.He looked at it twice, a little strange: "Well, brother, let me ask, isn't the composition of the laboratory a bit strange?"

"Huh? Oh, this? Are you talking about the number of experimenters?" Hu Zhengyu said, "Boss Chen really hates having students do the work, so he would rather hire professional technicians."

"Non-staff personnel?"

"A small number of professionals do professional things." Hu Zhengyu pointed his finger: "The old Wang over there is a retired veterinarian from the zoo. He takes a part-time job here and occasionally takes care of animals. That's the condition, otherwise it can be outsourced." He wants to outsource all the chores when he goes out."

"He's a man!" Xiang Shan was greatly 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 the small workshops of the Middle Ages.A large number of non-technical chores are assigned to the bottom students.Generally speaking, apprentices of lower grades can get started in two weeks under the guidance of apprentices of higher grades, and they are also qualified and good leeks.

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

There is such a joke that has been passed down through the ages.A thief ran to the laboratory to steal something, but the researcher came back after a while.Then the laboratory continued to rotate for a week, and the thief pretended to be a researcher for a week, and finally found an opportunity to slip away after a week.The accomplice asked him if he had gained anything, and the thief said: "I have learned to run electrophoresis!"

In many cases, the manual work in the laboratory is unskilled.

However, asking people for money does not cost money to squeeze students.

Bosses who are willing to spend money on this are people with ideals!

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

The leader seemed to see Xiang Shan and Hu Zhengyu, raised his hand and waved, and then walked out of the laboratory.This middle-aged man was thin and tall, wearing a mask and gloves, and a dirty white coat.After he came out of the experimental area, he took off his gloves and mask, put his white coat aside, washed his hands carefully, and walked over with a smell of disinfectant: "It's a pleasure to meet you, you are Professor Xiang? Young and promising! I am Chen Feng, the person in charge of this laboratory."

At this time, Xiang Shan had just arrived in his thirties. For ordinary scholars, they generally became lecturers at this age.And if everything goes well, it will take about 40 years old to be rated as a full professor.

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

Chen Feng was taken aback.He had only heard about this junior from Hu Zhengyu before, and he knew that he was leading an interdisciplinary research institution at the United Nations University at a young age, and he was a famous figure.But the research fields of the two are very different, and there seems to be no chance of intersection.

Unexpectedly, the other party called out his usual screen name in one go.

Chen Feng took a few glances at Xiang Shan, and his face changed suddenly: "'Xiang Shan'? So it's yours! Ha, I remember that you were the one who eliminated me in the Water Friends Competition at the 'Nuclear Fission' game exhibition a few years ago!"

"Hey!" Xiang Shan was shocked: "Brother 'Zero Yu', you still remember such a thing? By the way, aren't you a popular science writer!"

"Nonsense!" Chen Feng said: "I have to go to the game exhibition once in ten years! I successfully signed up for the water friends competition, and I haven't had time to be happy, and then I was beaten for a round. I can hold a grudge! And fight After finishing it, I disappeared from the world for a few months, and I couldn’t find a place! Besides, being a popular science writer is just my hobby, my job——by the way, you’re a science fiction writer, right?”

"Hahaha... I was later taken to study alien technology because I was so good at writing science fiction."

The four hands are tightly clasped together.

"There is a destiny."

"Yeah yeah."

Xiang Shan looked at his formal attire, and said regretfully, "If I had known it was you, then why would I still be wearing such a formal shirt? I just walked up in a cultural shirt. It's too hot."

"Let's go to the office and say that the air conditioner is very windy there."

The group returned to the office again.It was only then that Hu Zhengyu knew that Xiang Shan and Chen Feng had been netizens for many years.

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

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

"If you are all your own people, then you can let yourself go a little bit."

　Special thanks to my many years of online friends, consultants on biological knowledge, outstanding young science popularization writers, Zhongguancun sword fighters with abundant martial arts, and dog abuse lovers who occasionally chat with each other and say "my wife finds me sleepy, so I will see you later" for their friendly guest appearances

　　PS: This is currently the only custom-made costume that appears in a designated BGM

　　

　

(End of this chapter)