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My name is Qi Xiaobai, and I was admitted to the School of Life Sciences of Tsinghua University in 2015.

I still remember that lesson.

In a way, that class changed my life.

The subject of genetic engineering was taught to us by a very young lecturer, who was not a few years older than me, but compared to him, I was so overshadowed by the successful admission to the 985 key university.

His name is Luoyang, and he is an alumnus of mine, but he came from a junior class and received a double doctorate in biology and physics at the age of 23. When I first met him, he was wearing a black Tang costume with buckles, looking a little elegant, and there was always a hint of a smile in his eyes at all times, just like Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting, a very friendly person. In that class, after he introduced himself, he asked us a question that has nothing to do with the discipline of genetic engineering: from ancient times to the present, human beings have speculated and described ghosts and gods in an endless stream, there are angels and gods in the West, and there are gods and ghosts in the East, but do ghosts and gods exist?

I have lived for twenty-one years, I have never seen any supernatural phenomena, I am an out-and-out materialist, and most of my classmates are like me, so this problem in Luoyang has caused a lot of criticism.

However, Luoyang didn't care much about this, and said to himself: "The human genome contains more than 30,000 genes, more than 3 billion pairs of base sequences, even with the current level of human science and technology, there is no genetic information contained in each gene, but as long as a gene is slightly modified, or even just a base sequence, human genetics may undergo earth-shaking changes, and it is not impossible to achieve wings like angels, and there are even more possibilities, such as implanting a chloroplast gene in the human genome, So that the cells can absorb sunlight and carry out photosynthesis, human beings can survive by swallowing the 'essence of the sun and the moon' without eating the fireworks of the world, what is the difference between this and the gods in ancient times? ”

This brain-opening statement is difficult for most of the students in the class to accept.

But I have always had a big brain, and if I think about it carefully, Luoyang's words actually have a certain scientific truth.

"So from another point of view, it is very likely that ghosts and gods have existed in history." Luoyang said.

I believe in this because the possibilities for the future of humanity are endless, genetically speaking, and it makes me very interested in genetic engineering.

Interest is the best teacher, and I later made achievements in genetic engineering, which brought humanity back to the top of the food chain during the cataclysm, and this class inspired me.

In this regard, Luoyang is a good mentor.

But some people think that Luoyang is young and runs the train with his mouth, and a girl with glasses sitting next to me at the time, the lenses are as thick as the bottom of a beer bottle, so he disagrees with this remark and stands up directly to ask questions.

"Where has the ghost gone? Now that technology is so advanced, no evidence of the existence of ghosts and gods has been found. ”

"Life will not only evolve, but also degenerate with changes in the environment, more than 200 million years ago in the Carboniferous period, the oxygen content of the earth's surface was as high as more than 30 percent, when there were some creatures on the earth that now seem incredible, dragonflies with a wingspan of more than one meter, spiders the size of a human head, so the Carboniferous period is also called the age of giant insects, and now, is there such a huge insect? Spirits may also have been degraded by changes in the environment. Luoyang spoke his mind.

"Angels, monsters, and immortals may be explained by the theory of genes, but what about ghosts, how to explain them? Could it be that modifying genes can also make the physical body gaseous? So far, no gaseous life has been discovered in nature, right? The bespectacled girl asked again.

"Speaking of ghosts, you may think that this is feudal superstition, but I have always believed that there are ghosts in the world, but ghosts are not gaseous life. When the human brain dies, the hardware is damaged, and the software naturally ceases to exist, but there are some special circumstances, such as a complex electromagnetic environment, which can play a similar role to the brain, and the software is backed up, and some people with sensitive nerve endings, when they enter this environment, it is very likely to read the electromagnetic information left by the dead person, just like Bluetooth transmission. Therefore, seeing some things that normal people can't see, that is, the so-called 'ghosts', the formation of ghosts has little to do with genes, but some people can see ghosts, and some people can't, I think the difference in this gene is related. ”

"That's......"

"This is simply promoting feudal superstition."

I remember that the whole classroom was in chaos at that time, and Luoyang's words subverted many people's three views, and most people had a hard time accepting this idealistic argument.

But no one can find a flaw in this statement, just like the superstring theory in physics, which sounds ridiculous and too advanced, but has perfect self-consistency in logic.

Just when I was waiting for Luoyang to throw away the high theory with great anticipation, a group of policemen suddenly came to the door of the classroom, the high level was scary, one of them even carried two four-pointed star flowers and olive branches on his shoulders, and a colonel officer, a very strange combination, if the officer was an armed policeman, it was normal, but looking at the armband was the General Staff of the Liberation Army, who came to Luoyang. After the two sides whispered a few words at the door, and then Luoyang asked them for their documents, and after confirming it, they followed them.

This incident caused quite a stir in the class at that time, and everyone was speculating about what Luoyang had committed that deserved such a stirring up of the military and police.

Some people say that he is a hidden Taoist hero, and some people say that he is the leader of a certain cult and preaches feudal superstition in class, which is the best evidence.

I haven't seen Luoyang since.

A year after hearing about Luoyang again, he was condemned as a traitor, and wanted notices about him were plastered all over the streets and alleys, as if the entire state apparatus was digging into the ground to find him.

But the strange thing is that no media at home and abroad reported what exactly he had done, and there was no follow-up news about him, and I don't know if he was finally arrested.

A few years later, the cataclysm struck, and the world fell into unprecedented turmoil, which was gradually forgotten by human society.

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A Land Cruiser with a military license plate sailed into a compound on the outskirts of Gyeonggi City, and from the gate, which had only a house number and no unit nameplate, Luoyang knew that this was the territory of the military, not the police.

The vehicle was cleared after several minutes of interrogation.

The sides of the street are planted with thick French plane trees, and the buildings are all old buildings from the 80s, giving the whole place a solemn and solemn feeling.

The car stopped in front of Building No. 2, and Luoyang got out of the car with the colonel-mounted officer with the armband of the General Staff.

The meeting was held in a closed room, there was not even a window, only a huge one-way mirror, and cameras were installed in the four corners, Luoyang felt very uncomfortable as soon as he entered, like a criminal suspect who was brought into the interrogation room, and there was an old man with thinning hair sitting opposite the cold iron table, with a little hunched back and a pair of reading glasses, from that look and temperament, Luoyang could guess that he was engaged in academic research, and he had seen too many such people.

The old man didn't introduce himself, thinking that his identity was top secret to ordinary people, and after shaking hands politely, he said straight to the point: "I invite you to come, I want to ask you something." ”

"Thank you." Luo Yang turned to the side slightly, took the disposable water cup handed by the colonel officer from the side, and then said to the old man, "You ask." ”

"Do you often see something unclean?" The old man asked a question that would be inexplicable to any normal person.

"What do you mean by that?" Luoyang didn't show obvious astonishment, but frowned slightly, as if he was secretive about this issue.

"I won't go around the bend anymore, it's what ordinary people call ghosts." The old man raised his hand and brushed his thinning hair, and his words were more direct.

Luoyang's expression became complicated, he took a sip of the paper cup, trying to hide his heart, but he was stared at by the old man's torch-like gaze, which didn't play much role, so he generously admitted: "Yes, I often see some things that normal people can't see, but I don't think it's a terrible thing, and it's not a ghost as ordinary people understand, it's just some hallucinations caused by external electromagnetic signals interfering with their own brain waves." ”

"I've read your paper on ghosts and gods, and I have a very unique insight." The old man had obviously done a lot of work in advance and was well aware of the situation in Luoyang, "But are you sure that your inference is correct?" ”

"I can see it myself, so I believe, and genetically, it's entirely possible for God to exist." After Luoyang finished speaking, he hesitated a little more: "It's just that there is a lack of experimental results as a basis, and there is no conclusive historical evidence." ”

The old man finally brushed the scattered gray hair to the top of his head, and said, "The end of science is philosophy, and the end of philosophy is theology, which is actually true. ”

"Do you agree with me?" Luoyang heard the meaning of the old man's words.

The old man did not make a clear statement, and said, "If you were given a chance to reach the hub that connects science and theology, would you be willing?" ”

Luoyang knew what this sentence meant, but he couldn't resist this huge temptation, and asked tentatively, "Why me?" ”

"If you want, you'll know later, and if you don't, there's only so much I can tell you." The old man took the disposable paper cup in front of him and drank the water, and said no more.

Luoyang thought for a moment, but he was not an indecisive person, and before the old man put down the paper cup, he nodded and replied.

Then a document bag was handed over by the colonel's officer, he said: "This is a confidentiality agreement, if you want to see this project, you will sign this, the content of the agreement is a bit harsh, but there is no way, this project is listed as top secret by the central government, if you can't accept it, I will send you away, today's incident you should treat as if it never happened, don't talk nonsense everywhere after you go out, if you sign it, you must strictly abide by it, otherwise we will take relevant confidentiality measures." ”

"What are the secrecy measures?" Luo Yang took out the confidentiality agreement printed on the red-headed paper from the file bag and asked casually.

The colonel-officer did not reply, but stood behind him as if he were a wooden stake.

This kind of cold silence made Luoyang feel a chill on his back, and he immediately understood something.