After receiving the information provided by the coach, Lin Chi immediately opened the document and read the contents.

This time, what appeared in front of me was not those highly professional academic reports, but a private letter.

With the help of automatic translation software, this email written in English was converted into Chinese. However, some of the abbreviations cannot be converted:

"To the dear"

"Who is it?" Lin Chi asked the coach.

"I don't know." The coach answered Lin Chi's question with the speaker of his mobile phone: "It's not important, please keep reading." ”

Lin Chi stared at the slowly scrolling text on the screen, and the contents of the letter began to enter his brain.

He soon realized that the letter he was reading could be described as unusually "heavy":

Long time no see, my dear friend. How are you doing?

Maybe in your eyes, I'm still the frail boy I was back then. Now if we can meet, you will be absolutely shocked, my body is more healthy than ever, and my legs, which I couldn't move, can now run to my heart's content.

All of this is thanks to the exoskeleton developed by the Cold Mountain Laboratory, and thank you for introducing me to this institution at that time. Although you failed the assessment, and ...... This letter of mine should never be read by you.

There is no way to send this letter.

I live in the lab, like everyone else here, and I am not allowed to leave the lab and cannot send any emails.

Pretty strict rules, right? I used to feel the same way, but when I think about our research, it doesn't matter at all.

It is no exaggeration to say that the work that my colleagues and I are doing in the lab can definitely be described as "great"!

Cold Mountain Laboratory can be called an institution that can change the fate of mankind. Because what we want to do is to break through the shackles of birth, old age, sickness and death, so that the human beings living in this world can usher in true eternity!

A long, long time ago, when my legs were still unable to move, I once watched an anime at home, which was a very esoteric work, in which the so-called "third magic" was mentioned.

I know you're going to laugh at my naivety, but the "third magic" really appealed to me at the time, and I still remember its content clearly:

- By materializing the human soul, human beings can achieve true immortality, which is the so-called "third magic".

At that time, as a disabled person, I was pessimistic and misanthropic, and in my opinion, I should never be able to stand up, so I could only sit in a wheelchair and drag my useless legs with atrophied muscles for the rest of my life.

However, the concept of the third magic gave me a glimmer of hope.

As Arthur . Mr. Clark said, "Any technology that is sufficiently advanced is nothing like magic at first glance." The speed of human technology is changing day by day, and if one day, I can live to see the emergence of technology similar to the "third magic", then not only my disabled legs, but I will not even need to use this disgusting body anymore!

Let me tell you the truth, what we are working on right now is the method of "materializing" the human soul.

Of course, unlike magical magic, our approach is more complex. To be precise, we are studying human consciousness.

Now, biologists, neurologists, psychologists, and even philosophers who spend their days in the library. Everyone is bothered by the same problem, which is also the "ultimate problem" of humanity.

- What is the reason for the existence of human consciousness? Does the "soul" really exist?

Biologists who study the structure of the brain swear that the so-called soul is just a lie in the fantasies of ignorant old humans.

In their view, once the brain dies, human consciousness, like all other life functions of the body, ceases to exist.

They have conducted brutal experiments on living people, stimulating certain parts of the brain with electric currents, which can cause subjects to produce all kinds of hallucinations, including even the common "out-of-body" hallucinations.

Someone feels themselves floating up and sees their body through a "third-person" perspective. Some people feel that they are passing through a tunnel full of light, and even see a dead loved one.

The biologists successfully simulated the near-death experience of a human before death, and then proved their theory that the so-called "soul" was nothing more than an illusion, something that could be created by an electric stimulus.

But, unlike theirs, our research doesn't deal with "how to change consciousness through external means" and goes to another field – at least it stolen.

Reading this, you probably think it's funny, right? After all, the Cold Mountain Laboratory can be called a pioneer of civilian intracerebral imaging technology, which is a strong proof of changing consciousness through external means. But......

You're wrong.

Intrabrain imaging techniques and devices are just a small episode in our research. There's only one reason we're announcing this technology in 2029:

For us, this technology is completely irrelevant. It's like the microwave oven that engineers occasionally invented in the last century when they were doing radar experiments, but it's just a useless little thing.

No, to be exact, the intrabrain imaging device is not completely useless, and it nevertheless confirms the research goals of the Cold Mountain laboratory. It's just that the way it works is too simple and it doesn't touch the deeper realm.

Reading this, you're probably starting to complain, right?

Sorry, I'm not going to sell it anymore. What I'm going to say now is what we're really looking at:

- As you know, Cold Mountain Labs was supported by a mysterious consortium to complete a secret project. In fact, the so-called "mystery conglomerates" appear in the headlines of the media every day, and their names are known to everyone around the world who has access to the Internet.

That's right, almost all the well-known Internet technology companies you can think of are investors in Cold Mountain Labs.

As for why they didn't do their own research, but instead invested in such a dubious-looking research institution, the reason is very simple:

The scientific research direction of Cold Mountain Laboratory sounds too ridiculous. No "brain-sanitary" investor would invest a penny in this project.

For this ridiculous-sounding, even "crazy" project, Internet technology companies also need a closed institution like Cold Mountain Laboratory to conduct inhumane and dangerous experiments.

As for the project we are working on...... Now, I'll name the project:

- Editing and control of programs built into the human brain.

I know you're probably laughing right now, and saying it's completely impossible. But what I'm going to say is that what sounds impossible, actually exists!

You might say, "Consciousness is nothing but dependent on the brain, and the brain is like a computer, and consciousness is a computer program." Once the computer is destroyed, the program will cease to exist. ”

So I ask you: who exactly wrote these programs?

How did a baby whose brain is like a newly bought computer, and the system has not even been installed, how did it begin to become conscious?

According to the research of the Cold Mountain Laboratory over the years, we all have something similar to a "program" built into our brains. It is because of this that consciousness exists.

For example, we are all robots made by some "programmer", and in order for our bodies to function properly, each of us is born with some pre-installed programs in our brains.

What the Cold Mountain Lab has to do is to parse these programs and ...... Find out how to control these programs, or transfer them.