Mei Ziqing greeted the people. The beautiful woman was also taken aback when she saw Aoki, but the girl next to her was very happy and called "Uncle Aoki" sweetly.

Mei Ziqing said: "You know? ”

Aoki touched his head and laughed, "I guess I know." ”

Meimei's beautiful mother first bowed to Mei Yiqiu and shook hands, and said respectfully: "Professor Mei, it's been a long time!" My name is Situ Yuli, and I have wanted to visit you for a long time, but unfortunately I have always been on the same side, and today I finally got my wish. He nodded at Aoki again, "It's great that Mr. Aoki is here." ”

When Aoki saw her, he remembered Xia Wenyuan's daughter again, and the woman in that photo was really similar to Situ Yuli in front of him. However, he is not good at asking rashly, whether he admits his mistake or the other party has something hidden, it is very embarrassing to inquire directly.

And when Mei Ziqing heard this name, she remembered the unspeakably handsome man she met in Copenhagen, what is the relationship between this woman in front of her who also has the surname Situ and him? She knows that in Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Europe and the United States, it is very common for a woman to follow her husband's surname or her husband's surname after marriage, and the appearance and temperament of the woman in front of her are indeed worthy of that man.

She wanted to ask, but she didn't know how. Do you and Situ be husband and wife? It's also too abrupt. And she and Situ are not familiar with each other, but when they meet, except that she thinks that person is very handsome, she doesn't even know what people do.

Of course, Mei Yiqiu would not ask a strange woman who her husband was, but he took it for granted that such a young woman could not be the one who provided him with ideas for virus discovery, so he regarded Situ Yuli as an assistant to a scientist like Mei Ziqing, so he asked her: "Which laboratory does Ms. Situ work in?" ”

"I used to work at the Lawrence Berkeley National Experimental Center, but it's been a long time since I left. ”

"Oh, that's the best research center in the world." "I wonder which scientist's assistant you are?" Maybe I know each other. ”

"I'm not anyone's assistant, I'm in Lab 19." Situ Yuli said.

"Lab 19?" Mei Yiqiu and Mei Ziqing were both surprised.

The Lawrence Berkeley National Experiment Center, or L&BL, located in the mountains behind the University of California, Berkeley, is one of the most outstanding laboratories in the United States and the world, affiliated with the U.S. Department of Energy, named in honor of Berkeley's famous experimental physicist Ernest Lawrence.

In the scientific community, L&BL is equivalent to a synonym for "excellence", and the experimental center has won 15 Nobel Prizes, has more than 70 members of the National Academy of Sciences, and provided the most primitive and basic experimental and mechanical support for the development of the first atomic bomb and hydrogen bomb in the United States as early as World War II.

Today, L&BL has 18 laboratories and research centers, covering a variety of disciplines such as high-energy physics, earth science, environmental science, computer science, energy science, and materials science.

However, only a few people know that it also has a Lab 19.

It is a mysterious institution, where all research projects are highly classified, and at one point it was even rumored to be more important and pioneering than the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

"I really admire you, so young!" Mei Ziqing was greatly admired, they are also scientific research workers, and they are all women, looking at the beautiful and intellectual Situ Yuli, she unconsciously compares herself with her, and she is inevitably a little ashamed.

"Sister Mei Ziqing has won the award, and it is also enviable that you can become Professor Mei's chief assistant!" Situ Yuli replied politely.

Mei Yiqiu now believed that the email was sent to him by Situ Yuli, so he asked his own question: "Why don't you continue to study it yourself?" Now that the existence of virions and their properties have been assumed, coupled with the conditions of the Lawrence Experimental Center, it is not difficult to isolate virions! ”

"As I said, I'm no longer working at L&BL, and the hypothesis of this virion is not something I proposed. I'm telling you because it's related to a study I've done before. ”

Situ Yuli took out a USB flash drive and handed it to Mei Yiqiu, "This contains a piece of information about the computer neural network project that the No. 19 laboratory of the Lawrence Berkeley National Experimental Center once did, this project was originally intended to study the possibility of the existence of mechanical life, but it was later stopped because it was not humane." ”

"Inhumane?" Mei Yiqiu took the USB flash drive, but she couldn't help but wonder in her heart, the projects of the 19 good laboratory are all top secret, how can you take it out casually?

"Don't worry, I naturally have my own way to get this information." "Actually, this project has been going on for a long time, and I don't know exactly when it started, maybe it started before the birth of the Internet." And it wasn't Lab 19 at the earliest. The original intention of the project was to build a more intelligent interconnection, and later in the research process, the project team found that the development speed of interconnection is too fast, far beyond human estimates, so the question of whether the interconnection itself is intelligent and can evolve itself. ”

"I know about the subject." "This topic caused an uproar in the scientific community, but most people thought it was a false proposition, and it was later replaced by artificial intelligence research. ”

"You're right, no one talks about it anymore, but the Lawrence Berkeley National Experiment Center is not going to end the experiments, they continue to monitor and document the development of connectivity, and they have moved the project to Laboratory 19," said Stuart. The lab has taken a more radical approach – connecting the internet to the human body, that is, making people a terminal on a vast interconnection. ”

"It can't be." Mei Ziqing said, "The human nerve network and the interconnected information transmission mode is different, and the information cannot be interconnected, even if it can be interconnected, the two kinds of information cannot be translated into each other, and people will not follow the instructions of the interconnection, so how can it become a terminal?" ”

Mei Yiqiu also showed the same puzzled expression.

"Bodychip." Situ Yuli said four short words.

"Body chip?"

Mei Ziqing was surprised, Mei Yiqiu fell into deep thought, but Aoki unconsciously remembered someone.

Situ Yuli nodded and said, "This is what I just said about inhumanity. The laboratory has invented a very precise microchip that is implanted in the human spine and connected to the spinal cord. The chip can accurately sense the body's nerves and connect them through specific satellite signals. Of course, how it works is complex and far from as simple as I say it is. ”

Mei Yiqiu asked, "What is the purpose of the chip experiment?" ”

Situ Yuli said: "The experimenters want to realize the mutual translation of the human nervous system and the interconnected mechanical nerve network through this intermediate chip, so as to observe whether people and the interconnection will affect each other, whether the special terminal of the human will affect the local development of the interconnection, or the interconnection will affect the thinking of people, or there is no impact between the two." ”

"The result?"

"The result is—" Situ Yuli glanced at everyone, "the Internet has complete control over the person with the chip. ”