Professor Xu looked at Lu Ran for two seconds, and then realized what he was asking, "Your brain, of course, in your own head! Why, do you think your brain has been taken out and put in that big vat? How can you have such thoughts?"

Looking at Professor Xu's puzzled eyes, Lu Ran let out a long breath.

Lu Ran only then thought that if his brain had been taken out, and he had ripped off all the induction wires on his body just now, it would be impossible for him to stand up and walk and talk normally.

Probably bewitched by the old ghost's words, he asked this question without thinking.

"Yes, you're right. It's okay, it's okay. But......" Lu Ran wondered again, "then why am I here? What have I experienced? ”

Professor Xu walked up to Lu Ran and said, "You'll remember." One thing you guessed correctly, the big vat you just wanted to see did have a brain in it, and we did call it the brain in the vat. ”

He pointed to the cylindrical instrument and asked Lu Ran to follow him to see it.

When he saw the contents of the glass cover, Lu Ran gasped.

Although he had seen it once, he was still deeply shocked when he saw a human brain that had been removed so realistically again.

"It's a person's brain, but not your brain. He belongs to a person who has no body, his name is Zhou Guilin, and he is the scholar who proposed this project.

He is an expert in cognitive neuroscience and has made significant contributions in the fields of psychology and brain science. Because of his outstanding ability and strange ideas, he was called a ghost genius by his colleagues at the time, and some people gave him a more ridiculous nickname, called Old Ghost. ”

Hearing the word old ghost, Lu Ran's ears immediately pricked up, "Old ghost, you mean, he proposed this project?"

"Yes, that's what it came up with. "When he first came up with this idea, many people opposed it, and most of the opponents did it out of ethical considerations, but there were also many more people who supported it, after all, when the technology developed to that point, it was impossible to stop."

At this time, the old ghost had an accident. ”

"He was in a car accident?"

Professor Xu looked at Lu Ran in surprise and replied, "That's right. It's a car accident. After that accident, he was confined to a wheelchair and lost sensation in the lower half of his body. As a result, he spared no effort to promote his proposal, and even proposed to dedicate himself as the first subject to dedicate his body to the experiment.

At his insistence, the proposal passed.

Research assistants and brain doctors successfully removed his brain from his head and placed it in this vessel containing the nutrient solution.

Since then, researchers have found a positive shift in his mood, and it can be said that he is having a good time in that virtual world.

However, as the research continued, the researchers found a problem.

That is, in this virtual world, the old ghost will not only not experience illness again, but will not really grow old.

This brain, under strict monitoring, is constantly being patched and renewed.

Even though his body is old and corrupted, his brain can still be active.

Everyone can't help but ask themselves, is he dead?

What exactly is life?

After his body died, the Institute sparked his body and held a funeral for him.

The terrible thing is that his brain is still alive, living in a nutrient solution.

The research continued, and they programmed to bring the news that his body had died.

Only then did the old ghost understand why he had not died, it turned out that it was all a dream.

The root of his immortality is here.

His mood fluctuated dramatically, and he fell to the bottom all at once.

He begins to doubt everything around him, rejects the false life, and longs for the truth. ”

At this point, Professor Xu paused.

"And then?" Lu Ran asked.

"Then, you showed up. ”

What do you mean?

Lu Ran was about to continue asking.

But at this moment, a man broke in at the door.

Lu Ran looked up, "Sissi." ”

Lu Ran was overjoyed to see her, but he didn't know what to call the other party for a while.

In the past, she was her quasi-girlfriend and the girl she was close to.

But now, he doesn't quite know what his real relationship with Sissi is, and he can't help but be a little embarrassed while being happy.

Unexpectedly, Sissi saw Lu Ran, and without saying a word, she ran over to him.

Then I hugged him.

"It's good you're awake. ”

For a while, a large number of memories of the past poured into Lu Ran's mind.

In the corridors of the campus.

Qian Qian looked at Lu Ran in front of her affectionately, "Brother Lu, it's okay, you were the first in the first three exams, but you failed this time, you are already very good." ”

Lu Ran was a little frustrated, "However, I once vowed to take the first place throughout the year and then officially associate with you." ”

"I don't care about that. ”

"I'm going to keep trying, you deserve the best. ”

One sentence warmed Sissi's heart and worried again.

Since then, Lu Ran has been studying very hard in academics, hoping to achieve higher grades.

In this process, Lu Ran's mother became more and more worried.

She began to wonder if she was right to support Lu Ran to study this subject in the first place.

When Lu Ran was still a graduate student, his thesis was published in key journals, and he was favored by Professor Xu Jianfeng of the Institute of Psychological Science.

Professor Xu contacted Lu Ran, introduced him to the project they were currently working on, and invited him to join.

During the introduction, Professor Xu reminded Lu Ran that there were certain dangers in this project.

The mother knew about this and resolutely disagreed with Lu Ran to go again.

"You're already addicted to it, I won't allow you to put your life in it anymore!"

She even found Lu Ran's enlightenment teacher, Zhang Xiaoming, but she still couldn't persuade her persistent son.

Lu Ran is full of curiosity about this project, and he has higher requirements for himself.

He knew that once this experiment was successfully completed, he would become an important subject leader.

Regardless of his mother's dissuasion and worries, Lu Ran walked into the door of the laboratory, and the day he walked in the door was the 13th of the month.

The technology of the experiment has been developed in a new way than the original, which can allow another person to connect the consciousness of the brain with the old ghost, and exist in the same virtual world as the old ghost.

Lu Ran's task is to connect the consciousness of the old ghost, see if he can complete the co-construction of the consciousness of many people, and understand the current state of his thoughts in the interaction with the old ghost.

Because at the beginning of entering the virtual world, the memory of the past will be lost, and the old ghost's mind is very unstable at the moment, for the sake of safety, Professor Xu and others have developed a program that can guide Lu Ran's true consciousness awakening, which is the book, to ensure that when Lu Ran encounters danger, help him resist the crisis.

Unexpectedly, Lu Ran fell into a coma after a period of time.

Thinking of these, Lu Ran completely understood all the intentions of the old ghost.

Why did he guide Lu Ran into the No. 5 prison cell, why did he let himself see his past life again, and finally, why did he break the mirror himself.

The reason is that the old ghost has already discovered Lu Ran's existence, and in this virtual world, their consciousness is connected.

The old ghost is trapped in a virtual life and wants to return to reality, and now, there is a real person who has entered his world, and he wants to kill Lu Ran and then take Lu Ran's body.

However, Lu Ran will not die easily in the virtual world, and only when Lu Ran cuts off the connection with the past will he really cause a shock of consciousness and create a chance for the old ghost to give up.

Lu Ran was not killed by the image of his previous life, so the old ghost guided him and asked him to walk to the mirror.

If Lu Ran's mouth was silently chanting "break it" at that time, maybe he would have been in a permanent coma by now, and when he woke up again, it would not be himself.

After reviewing all the dangers he had experienced, Lu Ran hugged Sissi tightly.

In the past, I was too anxious to pursue achievements, but I neglected the care of my loved ones.

He wanted to see his mother as soon as possible and express his deep apologies to her.

"It's okay, don't worry, let's go home. ”

"Good. ”

Lu Ran took Qian Qian and said goodbye to Professor Xu and Xia Lan.

When he was about to go out, Lu Ran saw a little boy who was also wearing a white coat at the door.

The little boy, with short curly hair and slightly brown skin, said towards the door, "Lu Ran's mother is here. ”

Lu Ran was anxious to see his mother soon, but he stopped, he looked at the boy, and asked him, "Where are you from, can you tell me?" Also, your mother, what is her name, can you tell me?"

The boy looked at him a little blankly: "Why do you ask about my mother and my hometown? It's my secret, but I can tell you that I'm from South Asia, and I lost contact with my mother when I was very young, and my mother's name is Ira."

Have you seen her?"

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