It was another sunny day, and on the side of the small building of the institute, a long-haired girl sat on a bench on the side of the road, basking in the sun with her head up.

Her skin is very white, her facial features are delicate and delicate, the sun dyes her face with a layer of warm jade-like luster, and her half-squinted eyes give people a lazy charm, which makes her posture of crossing Erlang's legs not rude at all, but has a harmonious beauty that blends with the sultry sunshine. Occasionally, passers-by can't help but pay attention for a long time, until their necks can no longer be twisted.

However, a man ruined the beautiful picture, and he sat beside the girl with a grin, and looked directly at the girl with unbridled care, taking in the beauty in his eyes.

The girl blinked, her long and thick eyelashes danced like butterflies, and she smiled slightly when she saw the people around her, and the sun dimmed in an instant.

"I'm sorry I didn't pick you up."

Although Tang Xiaotang was beautiful at this time, Xia Ming was a little distressed, this delicate painting style was completely wrong. Tang Xiaotang, whom he is familiar with, is the queen who is always "discriminating" against others and always looking at the world.

But he must ignore such emotions, and today is the time to face the truth.

Xia Ming said: "I thought you would carry my collar and spit out a lot of questions like a machine gun." ”

Tang Xiaotang shook his head: "The road is broken, what's wrong with the throttle, is there any point?" ”

"In your heart, I'm already such a thing as the throttle", Xia Ming chuckled softly.

"yes, from the beginning."

"Then, I, a liberal arts monk from a third-rate university, was selected by the institute at the beginning, not because of any virtue accumulated in my previous life, right?"

"Well, I picked your resume out of the paper basket, and I asked Professor Xu to come over for an interview."

"Really? Then why did you want to kick me out in the first place? ”

"I'm a little scared, do you just step on the gas pedal when you drive?"

“……”

Hearing Tang Xiaotang admit it in person, Xia Ming held down a somewhat accelerated heartbeat, and finally asked the question: "Is it because of Qianyan?" ”

Tang Xiaotang looked at him directly, and there was finally a trace of exploration of her true colors in her brown pupils: "Yes, it's because of Lin Qianyan." ”

She brushed her hair and was a little energetic: "Here's Truth or Dare, tell me, what happened to you and Lin Qianyan last summer?" ”

"Of course it was a relationship...... Well, it's not a relationship between men and women, but it's not just pure friendship. ”

At this time, Xia Ming mentioned this name, as well as the events of last summer, there was no psychological barrier.

In fact, it is a very ordinary story, last summer, he got a tutor job, the other party is a pair of twin siblings in the second year of high school, he tutored his younger brother in composition, and the elder sister was tutored by high-achieving students from abroad in English, mathematics, physics and chemistry.

There is no contradiction and no story, and the root of the contradiction is between sisters and brothers. My sister is talented and works hard, her goal is to be admitted to a super-first-class university like Yanda Ziguang, and her younger brother is not talented and lazy, and it is dangerous to go to a third-rate university.

The contradiction naturally extends to the two tutors, my sister's tutor is a beautiful and generous girl, named Lin Qianyan, at first I didn't look down on Xia Ming, a scumbag, and always felt that Xia Ming and his younger brother were a pair that completely lowered the average self-motivation of the people in the world, a typical example of all positive indicators such as happiness.

This not only aroused Xia Ming's competitive spirit, but also realized that if he continued to be so scummy, he would have no future like Xia Ming. So between sisters and brothers, between Xia Ming and Lin Qianyan, a hot learning competition was staged in the first half of that summer.

In the second half, the two tutors collided with a spark of their hearts, turning this inspirational drama into a sweet honey, and the students were thrown aside.

The end of the story was originally expected, Lin Qianyan returned to the United States to continue studying, and made an agreement with Xia Ming before leaving, and they would meet again after graduation, and then their future would be decided.

That summer, Xia Ming was full of expectations for the future, and he set the first goal he dared to think of in this life: to make a career and let Qianyan live a happy life.

However, this goal was shattered shortly after Lin returned to the United States, when he received an email telling him that Lin had died in a car accident.

At first, he absolutely did not believe it, and even planned to fly to the United States to find out, but the news about the car accident was also published on the Internet, and each martyr had photos. Xia Ming could only press her pretty face and all the memories of that short time into the depths of her heart, and she never dared to touch it again.

Xia Ming will never forget that night, after he saw Lin Qianyan's photo on the computer, he didn't shed tears, but buried his head in sleep, woke up and fell asleep, hoping that when he opened his eyes, it was all a nightmare. He slept for two and a half days in a row, until his roommates, thinking he was sick, called the teacher and the doctor, and made a big mess, that he accepted the fact.

The scene of that night unfolded in his consciousness again, and when Xia Ming saw Lin Qianyan's photo of smiling sweetly, he felt that his cheeks were hot and wet.

"You cried ......"

"That's the tears that owe her......"

Xia Ming didn't wipe it, this emotion has become a thing of the past, but he will still regard it as a treasure.

Then he saw something and said to Tang Xiaotang, "It's your turn." ”

In the consciousness space, the computer screen displays two photos, which are a middle-aged couple, the man is called Tang Hao, and the woman is called Xu Tang. The man is handsome, the woman is beautiful, and the strengths of the two are blended together, and it is Tang Xiaotang.

There were a total of four victims in that car accident, and Xia Ming didn't pay attention to the other three people at all, but everything he saw with his eyes remained in his brain. If he dared to face the past earlier, he might have discovered the connection between Tang Xiaotang and Lin Qianyan earlier.

"Well, the story on my side has a sharp twist, I hope you can listen to it."

Tang Xiaotang's voice was low, with a straightforward rhythm.

The story begins with tragedy, her parents teach at a university on the West Coast, and Professor Xu's institute was established last summer, and they came to Yandu to help Professor Xu with some preparations. When I returned to the United States, I was on the same plane as Lin Qianyan.

Before this, Tang Xiaotang and her parents didn't know Lin Qianyan, but the school Lin Qianyan attended was Tang Xiaotang's mother's alma mater, maybe they chatted together on the plane. Tang Xiaotang's parents had a friend pick up the plane, so they took Lin Qianyan back to school, and then there was a car accident, and all four people were killed.

"My mother is still alive, and she is in the same condition as Professor Xu."

Tang Xiaotang's eyes were full of guilt: "I lived on the organs donated by Qianyan, and when I rushed to the hospital, Qianyan was still conscious." She told me about you and said a lot...... I don't understand, but she feels very happy and sorry for you. ”

Tang Xiaotang turned his face to the side: "She's a stupid girl, and she begs me not to tell you the truth, but to help her make up a story, such as not wanting to contact you anymore when she sees something different." ”

"So, you sent that email?" Xia Ming understood, he thought it was sent by Qianyan's family.

"I'm a scientist, I can't act."

"And then, what's the twist?"

Tang Xiaotang turned his head to look at Xia Ming, and asked with some hesitation, "You...... Do you believe in the soul? ”

Xia Ming felt that his scalp was cold, what did he mean?

"I don't believe it, but some of the things I've experienced firsthand are only souls that can be said to mortals, ghosts to be exact."

Sure enough, the style of painting in the second half of the story has changed greatly.

Lin Qianyan donated many organs to the hospital, and Tang Xiaotang's mother relied on some organs to maintain the condition of a vegetative person, which is still alive.

thought that this was the end of the matter, but Tang Xiaotang began to have nightmares, and even hallucinated during the day. Sometimes she heard Lin Qianyan talking to her, and sometimes she saw Lin Qianyan praying in front of her, all of them meant the same thing: "Take care of him", this "he" is, of course, Xia Ming.

If it were an ordinary person, first his parents were killed, and then he was possessed by a ghost, it is estimated that he would have collapsed, but Tang Xiaotang is different. After doing a lot of analysis and testing, and after confirming that it was not her own psychological problem, she thought of another possibility. So she came to Yandu and joined Professor Xu's research institute.

The research was launched, that is, after the R3AI was built, Qianyan's "ghost" disappeared, which proved Tang Xiaotang's conjecture. But Qianyan left too completely, so that her next plan had no progress, and at this time, the name Xia Ming appeared in the job resume.

"Wait......"

Although Tang Xiaotang was vague about her speculation, Xia Ming instantly had his own speculation, which made him have mixed feelings, and at the same time his hair stood up: "Don't tell me, that Qihui device actually contains Qianyan's ...... Cerebrum? ”

"How is that possible?" Tang Xiaotang's nature of discriminating against others at the height of science is alive again: "Although Princeton University still preserves Einstein's brain, and even has done slicing research, just like primitive people studying microwave ovens, they don't understand the principle and have no power supply, what can they study?" To study the active brain, you have to use the means of a brain in a vat, and you should know that the current technology cannot do this. ”

She lowered her eyelashes: "What is contained in the Qihui device is a clone of Qianyan's cerebral cortex tissue**." ”

Xia Ming's heart shook violently, when he accessed that Qianyan before, he came into contact with another consciousness, could it be Lin Qianyan's...... Soul?

No, no, that consciousness is very unfamiliar, Xia Ming intuitively thinks that it is not even a human consciousness, and it cannot be related to Lin Qianyan.

"The real function of the Qihui device is to stimulate the movement of artificial synapses through the neural quantum effect of cloning**, this resonance phenomenon Professor Xu and I still can't figure out the principle, but this can not only promote the research of artificial intelligence, but also greatly help the study of the human brain. For ordinary people, the study of human brain tissue, even if it is a clone, will feel that it is conducting human experiments, so Professor Xu and I have always kept the matter of the Qihui device secret. ”

What Tang Xiaotang said, Xia Ming has already practiced it, and he is more concerned about Tang Xiaotang's purpose: "So, you actually want to study the human soul through the neural quantum effect?" ”

Tang Xiaotang looked up at the sky and read out a poem.

"Whenever I think of death......

"I can't help crying, I can't help grieving."

"Behold, my beautiful ......"

"It was in the image of God."

"But he lay in a coffin......

"The posture is disfigured, discolored, and not humanoid."

"Oh, weird......"

"What a mystery we have suffered."

"Death is indeed the most feared."

"Harmonious ...... of Soul and Body"

"Divided by a raging force."

"Spirit and Body Grow Together......"

"By the most natural union."

"Heaven's Will Will Cut Off ......"

She looked at Xia Ming and said calmly: "That's right, Lin Qianyan let me find the true direction of the road of science, what I want to study is the soul of people." Sounds like I'm a devil working rationally for a crazy goal, right? ”