Qi Min took her little girl and Ke Li to the behavioral laboratory on the third floor, and the company's technicians had already brought the cynomolgus monkey No. 2 to the observation room isolated by explosion-proof glass.

Due to the isolation of the outside from the observation room, Ke Li, Qi Min, and Mimi did not wear lab coats or gloves. For the operation of cynomolgus monkeys, they need to pass the animal ethics audit, which should have been completed by the company's technicians, Qi Min and Ke Li are not qualified for relevant experiments, and yesterday's experiment is just a sideline operation of "the emperor is far away" - the sloppiness of the ethical audit can be regarded as a way to encourage "high-risk" innovation to some extent.

Luckily, the cynomolgus monkey that had been in the brain-like body for nearly six hours did not find any behavioral differences from the previous ones. It even retains memories of its early training, indicating that the cynomolgus monkey's memory has not been damaged by the lingering in the brain-like body, and it also confirms that the "consciousness" of the cynomolgus monkey 2 - if it really - enters the brain-like body, and what comes out is still the original one.

Qi Min looked at it for a while, and of course she subjectively thought that the conjecture of "consciousness entry" was correct, but objectively it was also necessary to prove that long-term connection with electronic devices did not damage the brain of cynomolgus monkeys. Eventually, she decided to do an fMRI.

When Qi Min was studying for his Ph.D., many laboratories with similar directions used electrophysiology and fMRI as the main research methods, but Qi Min's boss was a FRET. She had barely done an fMRI, and after a few discussions with the company's technicians, she found that it wasn't a difficult task.

It's just that researcher Zhou Xiaoshan is not present, and it is more troublesome to borrow magnetic resonance instruments from other laboratories in the "Nimbus" Center, at least Qi Min needs to come forward himself.

Now that the technicians have come, it is a certainty that they will be paid three times their wages if they are not good, and this experiment will not be done in vain. Qi Min first took Mimi to the cafeteria for dinner, and then called the administrators of other laboratories in the "Nimbus" center to borrow an MRI machine.

Mimi looked a little bored when she called, and the little girl probably couldn't understand why her mother kept talking to people on the phone and not talking to her. Mimi hated this situation a little, so she took the initiative to "abandon" Qi Min and go to Ke Li to talk.

Before fMRI, the integrated chip of the corpus callosum interface on the top of the cynomolgus monkey's head needs to be removed to avoid metal interference in the MRI machine. As the technician removes the chip, Mimi asks Ke Li what it is.

So Ke Li gave the little girl a rough idea of the callosum interface. It stands to reason that a little girl who is not yet four years old can't understand these things, but according to the saying "dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, and Hua Luogeng's students will make holes", Qi Min's daughter can cultivate it well, maybe she can also have talent in this area...... Of course, Ke Li didn't know that Mimi was not biological, but then again, the reason why Mimi was named "Meme" was not to show that memetic inheritance is heavier than genes?

Qi Min didn't pay attention to when Ke Li finished telling Mimi. Because it was a bit of a struggle to quietly push the awake cynomolgus monkey into the MRI machine, the company's technician tried it once and then asked Qi Min through the microphone in the glass compartment what to do.

Qi Min asked them if they could use some anesthetics or something, and the technicians discussed it for a while, feeling that the anesthetic would have an impact on the results. At this time, Ke Li also interjected, proposing that if the ordinary cynomolgus monkey using anesthetics was compared with the cynomolgus monkey No. 2, this effect could be completely eliminated. But technicians have empirically said that some important features may only be present in the awake state and may be almost indistinguishable in the unconscious state, leading to false-negative results.

However, Qi Min still believes that in order to carry out the experiment smoothly, it is still necessary to anesthetize the cynomolgus monkey No. 2 first. If the dose can be controlled, the amount of sedative can be reduced on the premise of using sufficient muscle relaxants, so that the cynomolgus monkey can be reawakened after anesthesia, and its normal brain activity can be maintained under the premise of inhibiting movement and reducing stress response.

It's just that it takes a lot of time to come and go. Because it is difficult for technicians to enter and exit at will in the sterile operation compartment, Qi Min and Ke Li outside have to help prepare narcotic drugs. After preparing the narcotic drugs, Qi Min simply put on a lab coat and a full set of protective equipment, and went into the glass compartment to watch them operate up close.

However, when she was trying to wake up the anesthetized cynomolgus monkey, a technician urgently patted Qi Min's theoretically sterile lab coat on his shoulder, which was not theoretically sterile, with his theoretically sterile gloves: "Dr. Qi, look at your daughter!" ”

Qi Min looked up at the outside of the glass door, Ke Li, who had been paying attention to the experiment before, also turned around, and to everyone's great horror, Qi Min's daughter, Mimi, a little girl with a cute mixed-race face but limping when she walked, had already fallen on the experimental table next to her at this time, and there was a chip with a callosum interface inserted above her head.

Qi Min took a breath of cold air and rushed out of the operation room without thinking about it. The technicians in the back also rushed out, and they didn't care about any experimental operation specifications - this was an experimental accident!

However, Ke Li was quite calm, neither rashly moving the little girl's body, nor pulling out the chip with the optical cable on her head. He first rushed to the display screen connected to the "Nimbus" supercomputer to check whether the brain-like body was connected.

But unfortunately, at this time, the brain-like body does remain connected, and Qi Min's monitoring code has shown non-random violent fluctuations, which means-

“Mimi…… It's in the brain-like body......" Qi Min was stunned on the spot.

The tragedy of nine months ago seems to be repeating itself at this moment. That day, Qi Min was standing on the fourth-story balcony where the guardrail was missing, looking down at Mimi who had fallen to the ground. SEEING IT FROM SUCH A DISTANCE WAS UNREALISTIC, AND SHE HAD THE ILLUSION THAT IT WAS JUST A BAD ENDING IN THE GAME BECAUSE OF THE WRONG CHOICE, AND THAT IF YOU REREAD THE FILE, IT WOULD BE OVERWRITTEN BY THE CORRECT SELECTION...... At this time, she was standing next to the fallen Mimi, and she was deeply aware that this wrong option could no longer be modified.

"When did this happen?" Ke Li asked the technicians, "Did anyone see when she put the chip on?" ”

The technician who first noticed said, "That's what I just saw...... Tell Dr. Qi right away. ”

"Don't panic, everyone." Ke Li barely maintained his composure, "If it's been connected for a while, don't move the interface." If it is disconnected now, it is estimated that it will ......"

He didn't say it, but everyone present knew that the cynomolgus monkeys that directly connected for a long time became "plant monkeys" after being disconnected. But even without the connection, there has never been a first, direct long-term connection of cynomolgus monkeys that has been able to wake up from a coma.