Chapter 34: The World One Hundred Years Ago
A deep inferiority complex flooded from the bottom of her heart, making her cowardly and helpless. The only thing she can rely on is the man in front of her who protects her and treats her as her kind. She shook Ji Rong's hand again and called, "Professor, shall we go?" ā
Ji Rong nodded, glanced at this vague and long-ago residence in his memory, and said in a low voice: "Let's go." ā
The speeding car crossed the elevated lane like a meteor, and in the blink of an eye, it was gone, as if it were a human illusion.
Ji Rong looked ahead expressionlessly. It was already dark, and there were sporadic cars on the road, with dazzling shapes.
Yun Shu was silent all the way, and after getting out of the car, he followed Ji Rong silently into the house. Sensing Yun Shu's lost feelings, Ji Rong turned around and asked, "What's wrong?" ā
Yun Shu raised his head and asked, "Professor, why did human beings create us, but at the same time they hate us so much?" ā
Ji Rong sat down on the sofa and beckoned her to sit beside him: "The round fish tank, because of the refractive index, in the eyes of the fish, it is a complete world." However, which is more real between the world seen by the goldfish in the round bathtub and the world we see outside the fish tank? How do we know that we live in the real world, and even we ourselves may spend our entire lives looking at the world around us through a distorted lens. Human beings are like that sometimes, always thinking that they are right, that they are the ones who dominate the world. With the rapid development of science and technology, human concepts are stubborn and old-fashioned, and the ideological and social system cannot keep up with technological innovation, which may one day bring ruinous disasters to mankind. He paused, his gaze deepened, "Sometimes, I have deep doubts about the world I live in. Maybe it's just a scary dream that you wake up to one day and go back to the beginning. ā
"Where was it first?" Yun Shu was puzzled.
"Do you know the world more than a hundred years ago?"
Yun Shu shook his head: "I often hear you mention the world a hundred years ago, what kind of world is it, is it very different from now?" Do you also live in such a house? ā
Ji Rong inadvertently showed a slight smile: "The difference is not big, a hundred years ago, the property rights of the house in our country were seventy years, but it is more than thirty years more, a drop in the ocean, and the house is still the same as it was back then." It's just that household devices, electronic devices, and other things related to technology have all developed amazingly. A qiÄ technology that can free human hands and make human beings more comfortable is always the fastest developing. A hundred years ago, the population density was very high, and the holiday travel was always crowded. Today's population has plummeted, and it is far less lively than it was then. ā
"Was the medical technology of the time similar to that of today?"
"Although medicine has advanced now, the biggest progress is not the treatment methods, but the detection instruments and methods, as long as many diseases can be diagnosed at an early stage, the survival rate can be improved."
Yun Shu thought for a moment and asked softly, "Does the professor yearn for that era?" ā
Ji Rong's face was gloomy: "I hope I can go back to that time." ā
"But Professor, didn't you say that life is easier now?"
Ji Rong replied: "For me, there are more things that people can't let go, which are much more important than a convenient lifestyle. ā
Yun Shu was confused, how could the professor wish that he lived more than a hundred years ago? She looked at Ji Rong blankly.
Ji Rong had no intention of talking any further, so he got up and walked to the basement.
Life is calm again.
One day a week later, after lunch, Zhang Yue ran back to the real room in a hurry, shouting in a panic: "Professor Ji, it's not good, it's not good......
Ji Rong and Yun Shu were both taken aback by her.
"What's wrong?" Ji Rong put down the information in his hand and asked her.
Zhang Yue held up his mobile phone: "Professor Ji, just take a look." "Bring up the video and click play.
The video shows a group of reporters chasing and intercepting a woman with a thin face at the entrance of a hospital: "Miss Xia, you said that you are Professor Ji's ex-girlfriend, do you mean Professor Ji who just won the Carez Biomedical Prize not long ago?" ā
"Yes." Xia Lian looked extremely calm surrounded by many reporters, and replied with a blank face.
"Do you have any evidence that you accuse him of abandoning you because of a humanoid machine?"
"Evidence?" Xia Lian sneered, "Just go and check his background, his parents died when he was twelve years old, and he has lived in my house since then, until he became an adult." My parents regarded him as a parent and child, and raised and taught him carefully, but I didn't expect that after he became famous, despite the dissuasion of my parents, he would marry a humanoid ......"
Ji Rong didn't look any further, and handed the phone back to Zhang Yue: "What the outside world says, let them go." He bowed his head and studied the information in his hand.
Zhang Yue was excited, but he didn't expect the person concerned to care, and he didn't know what to say with his mouth open for a while. At this moment, Dean Wen rushed in, panting: "Professor Ji, why do you still have the heart to do research here, what is the chaos outside, and the reporters are blocking the door." ā
Ji Rong raised his head and said unhurriedly: "Then please trouble the dean to send them away." ā
Dean Wen paused, and then sighed: "Professor Ji, it's a matter of your reputation, it's better for you to give some responses, you don't even know what the outside world is like." Dean Wen persuaded.
"What's the need if you don't respond, let them go." Ji Rong flipped a page of the information in his hand and looked at it to himself.
Dean Wen was so anxious that sweat broke out on his forehead, and he persuaded gently: "Professor Ji, if it is inconvenient for you to come forward, you can issue a statement, and the hospital will come forward to clarify for you." He wiped his sweat, "This kind of thing is not big, it is not small, and if you don't handle it well, it can ruin your reputation." ā
Ji Rong put down the information in his hand, raised his head and said: "There is nothing to explain, and the rumors outside are not all fake, not to mention the so-called clear reputation, the clean person is self-purifying, why bother to tell others." If there is nothing else to do, the dean will go and get busy first. ā
Dean Wen was helpless, and secretly said that Professor Ji really didn't understand the world, and this matter could only be solved by himself. Thinking so in his heart, he turned his head and walked out of the real room, and suddenly sat on the ground, remembering what Professor Ji just said, "What is rumored outside is not all fake", and sighed in his heart, could it be that Professor Ji really wants to marry Yun Shu?
Dean Wen took a few steps back and glanced at the real room, Professor Ji and Yun Shu were busy with their own affairs, not to mention marriage, and they didn't even look like they had a private relationship. Dean Wen shook his head and secretly sighed that the world is declining, a person like Professor Ji who is pure-hearted and respectful, no one in the hospital knows who doesn't know, and the outside can be passed on like this!
didn't wait for Dean Wen to come up with a solution, and when he got off work, Ji Rong was bumped into by a reporter.
Watching the press group coming, Ji Rong whispered to Yun Shu behind him: "You go back to the real yĆ n room first and wait for me." ā
Yun Shu paused for a moment, seeing a large number of reporters menacing, she stood there with some concern and did not move.