Brainoid

However, since it was a holiday, Qi Min and Yelena were not prepared to stay up late for the experiment. However, when they were making up for their late dinner, it started snowing again outside, and the wind was so strong that it could make the billboards rattle. They didn't expect to be able to brave the wind and snow to walk to the subway station in this damn weather, so they had to go again. Get out of the way when you return to the laboratory.

Ke Yue is still there in the laboratory, sitting in his seat, running the code and watching the new show.

Seeing how bored he was, Qi Min couldn't help joking: "Oh, you are so unlucky, you are on duty during the New Year's Day holiday."

"What's the point? I asked for it myself." Ke Yue said with a smile.

"Oh, why?" Qi Min asked.

Ke Li just said: "There is no one in the laboratory, and the Internet speed is extremely fast."

Qi Min also remembered that for a homebody like him, having a quiet place with internet access to hide and relax is better than anything else.

"Why, aren't you leaving either?" Ke Li asked again.

"It's snowing outside and the wind is very strong." Qi Min explained, "Let's stay here for a while."

Ke Yue shrugged, looked around, pointed to the computer on another table and said, "This is the server of our laboratory website. You can play with it without a password."

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Qi Min originally thought that playing games on Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan's server was not a very solemn thing, but it was snowing outside, so she borrowed the SWITCH from Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan's laboratory and used the server screen to play games with Yelena.

After losing five games in a row, Yelena put down the controller, went to the water dispenser in the laboratory to get a glass of water, and changed the subject: "Uh... has the snow stopped outside?"

Qi Min stood up, took a look, and said, "No." He then teased Yelena, "You didn't play video games very much before, right?"

"Of course." Yelena defended somewhat unhappily, "Isn't this just something boys play with?"

Qi Min couldn't help but laugh a few times. No matter what the reason was, it was the fact that she just couldn't play with herself.

"Hey, do you want to take a look at that monkey again?" Yelena suddenly suggested. The cynomolgus monkey whose "consciousness" was trapped in the brainoid body should still be in a coma in the animal room.

"Hmm... OK." Qi Min nodded, "I think... if it hasn't woken up yet, we can disconnect it and give time for the cleaning process. Let the technician do the rest. "

Qi Min said hello to Ke Li. At this time, Ke Li was looking at them in fascination and did not follow them. Qi Min took Yelena back to the animal room and walked to the cage of the No. 2 cynomolgus monkey. He was surprised to see that the animal with the socket on its head had woken up, but was still very weak.

This is really shocking.

Qi Min quickly went to adjust the video of the animal room. Although the non-dedicated camera is not very accurate in capturing a single cage, it can indeed identify the time when Cynomolgus Monkey 2 woke up, which was almost three hours and 18 minutes after the end of the experiment, which is equivalent to the time when it was awakened. It took about six hours to connect to the brain-like monkey.

In previous experiments with the original corpus callosum interface chip, the longest connection lasted three days. The cynomolgus monkey didn't wake up after being connected to the brain for three days, so they assumed it couldn't wake up. Unexpectedly, this cynomolgus monkey woke up spontaneously after nearly six hours after using the modified interface and connecting it to the brain-like body.

Qi Min quickly called Ke Yue, and then disconnected the interface between the brain-like body and Cynomolgus No. 2. The poor animal was finally freed from the supercomputer and huddled weakly in its cage. Ke Yue fed it some water and immediately asked it to do a memory test, and found that the short-term memory of the cynomolgus monkey was not affected.

"It's amazing." Ke Yue couldn't help but say, "So the problem is actually solved? Using the new chip, the animal's 'consciousness' can come out of the brain-like body even if it is connected for a long time."

Qi Min immediately used the monitoring code to check the operation of the brain-like body, and found that the previous violent fluctuations had indeed disappeared, replaced by uniform and calm fluctuations similar to the initial state of the brain-like body. It seems that there is no such thing as "consciousness" in today's brain-like bodies - if the special data flow in animal brains can really be called "consciousness".

"It seems... there seems to be no problem." Qi Min couldn't believe it, but then he said, "Of course, we still have to do repeated experiments - we have to wait until the holiday is over."

Yelena couldn't understand their Chinese, but she could see that this was an important development, so she suggested: "Hey, let's go out for a drink?"

Qi Min, who knew Yelena was addicted to alcohol, was a little hesitant, but seeing that Ke Yue also looked excited, and it was a holiday again, he still smiled and said: "Okay, let's go!"

Last time Ke Li and I did an all-night experiment because we were too sleepy and didn't go out. Let's just celebrate it together this time.

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The consequence of going to the bar with Yelena is to wake up from the bar table the next day.

Qi Min's first thought after waking up was that he was lucky to have sent Anton a WeChat message in advance to tell him that he might not be able to go back. Otherwise, there would be a more serious punishment for "offending again" this time - it would be very fatal if he really couldn't go back home.

Ke Li stood up from the sofa in the bar and had to hold on to the wall before walking to the bathroom and washing his face. But Yelena was fine. She washed her face and mouth, tidied her hair, and the guy in charge of the bar ordered a glass of lemonade.

I don’t know whether it was because her accent was too strong or because there were very few foreigners coming to the bar here. The guy at the bar asked her several times before he understood what she wanted. The three of them drank lemonade and were mostly sober. Qi Min paid the bill, and then took Ke Yue and Yelena out to find breakfast.

At the breakfast stall, Ke Yue had no appetite because he drank too much yesterday, so he just made a bowl of tofu. Qi Min ordered a bowl of wontons, and ordered a large table of things for Yelena, letting her try everything.

"Yesterday was so high." Yelena said while eating fried dough sticks, "This... something is really good. Is there any sugar to dip it in?"

"Dip it in soy milk. Soy milk is sweet." Qi Min said while scrolling through the messages on WeChat. Suddenly he received a call from Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong, "Hello, mom?"

"Lele, what are you...doing?" I wonder if it was her misunderstanding, but I felt that Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong's tone on the phone was a bit cautious.

"Having breakfast, what's wrong?" Qi Min asked.

"What do you want to eat?" Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong asked next.

"It's a breakfast shop on the roadside." Qi Min was a little strange, "Why do you ask this?"

"No, I just want to ask..." Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong paused for a moment, and then said, "Your Aunt Sun told me that Fu Zheng said you found a... partner."

Fu Zheng is Qi Min's high school classmate. His mother, Ms. Sun Youwen, works in the same unit as Qi Min's mother. Although Qi Min and Fu Zheng are not close friends, Ms. Sun Youwen and Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong do have a good relationship.

However, Qi Min felt that Fu Zheng was a bit nosy. She didn't know how Fu Zheng knew that he had found a partner. She speculated that Songsong probably told Da Yue, and Da Yue had a good relationship with Fu Zheng and probably said it casually. But as a grown man, Fu Zheng still spread this ordinary news to others that could not be called "gossip". It was too damaging to his image.

"What does this matter have to do with Fu Zheng?" Qi Min said somewhat unhappily, "How can he be so good at spreading the word!"

"Oh, you... just look for it." Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong's voice sounded like she had to compromise with reality. "Since the target is here, let's take it home and take a look."

Qi Min felt strange. She felt that Zhang Songxue should not have been able to tell that Anton was not a pure Chinese at that time, and she would never spread the news about adopting her daughter. So what exactly was Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong "distressed" about? Qi Min felt that since he was already a married woman, finding a boyfriend based on his own wishes wouldn't offend his parents so much, right?

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