"In addition, after the birth of life, a slight accident may lead to the termination of evolution, so in fact, a galaxy as a whole may not have a civilization in the end, which is also a very likely result."

After listening to the words of his right hand, Chen Yang understood that, in short, the probability science conceived by human beings is not very suitable for calculating how many civilizations may exist in a galaxy and how many life planets may be born in this universe. No, to be precise, it should be that there are too few variables added to this probability calculation, and the calculation results are not accurate and have reference value.

Chen Yang and his right hand were guarding the humanoid concrete stones, and at the same time, they were still discussing problems in the virtual reality, while the underground real room of the pyramid was running as usual.

"Well, okay, okay, be obedient."

Somewhere on the second floor of the pyramid room, a middle-aged researcher in his thirties fed some food to the mice in the cage, and then took notes.

Immediately afterwards, the man pretended not to care, glanced around at random, and found that he was the only one in the entire room, so he came to the computer quietly, paused, took out a black USB flash drive from his arms, and inserted it into the USB socket on the table.

Soon, a progress bar for installing the driver appeared on the computer, and after a while, the driver was installed, and the program in the USB flash drive began to be installed in the computer under the operation of the man.

One by one, the windows are opened, and after being scanned by a specially made tool, the software automatically detects the vulnerabilities of the central server, and rows and rows of characters keep jumping on the screen. Hacking in reality is not as glamorous and cool as in the movies, on the contrary, the scanning and attack of vulnerabilities is often quite boring and time-consuming, and the man waits for a while. Seeing that time was running out, he simply stopped the software running, unplugged the USB flash drive and returned to his original position.

It's another picture of a mouse still being fed.

"Hey, Niko, are you fiddling with those little ones again?"

The sensor door to the real yàn chamber opened automatically, and another researcher in a silver-white uniform walked in leisurely. Said hello to Niko, who was feeding the mice.

"Hmm."

Niko answered and looked up, "Are you done with things over there?" ”

"It's done, and Dr. Hannah will have to wait a little longer to get back."

After answering Niko's question, the researcher went to the other side of the room to attend to his own business.

Niko fed the guinea pig for a while, and seeing that the man did not turn back, silently packed up the items on his table and walked out the door. Get to the elevator and get ready to take the elevator to the first floor of the base.

There were also several researchers in the elevator who were chatting, and Niko was seen walking in. I didn't care, and continued to study and discuss the problem with the tablet.

Niko stood at the back of the elevator and listened quietly for a moment, confirming that it was not consistent with his own research direction. There are more than 200 researchers in the entire underground pyramid room, which may not be comparable to the large schools and research institutes in the world, but not all of them are working on one topic.

Although the overall research direction has not changed, they are all committed to tackling the mysteries of the human body. However, it still produces a lot of branching lines.

For example, Niko's specific research is gene therapy, which uses genetic engineering to perform gene cutting, splicing, recombination and other technologies. Useless genes are extracted from living organisms and useful genes are added.

The future prospects of this research direction are very broad, and in the big picture, gene therapy can be used to treat human genetic diseases in the future, and it can also promote the perfect evolution of the human body itself. On the small side, new drugs can also be produced. New methods of diagnosis and treatment have been created.

In the past, Nico has been specializing in this research direction for a long time, but unfortunately, this gene therapy research has a history of several decades in the world, and the progress is not great every year. are all moving forward in small steps. And those who can move forward in small steps are either gifted geniuses, or large research institutes and real rooms with amazing financial resources.

On the whole, it is actually a combination of the two to get effective results.

First, important talents are indispensable, and secondly, a large amount of research funding is also indispensable.

The development of science has reached the present point, and it is no longer the time more than 100 years ago, when a person can make new discoveries by sitting in a simple real room with simple equipment, and entering the middle of the 20th century, especially after entering the 21st century, if there is no money, even if Einstein is resurrected, he can only stare dryly.

If you want to find a new discovery and go deep into the frontier of science, how can you do it without equipment? The research equipment of those real rooms can only be bought at a price of hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars, and it often costs tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars to make a top-notch real room.

This is simply not a financial pressure that an individual can bear.

Coupled with the explosive growth of science and technology in the past century, countless technical knowledge has been rapidly generated, and it is simply an impossible task for a person to learn these technical knowledge. Human beings have limited energy and mental power, and they can only devote themselves to choosing one of the branch disciplines as their lifelong research direction, and they can only make some achievements. (Not very likely)

More importantly, it is necessary for dozens, dozens, hundreds, and thousands of people to work together to share the work, so as to weave their own thread in the increasingly complex scientific web.

As a result, the threshold for the scientific community has never been lowered, but has grown rapidly, and the era of a single person who could make a sensational result in the world is gone.

What's more, researchers are also human beings, in order to get a better research environment, as well as better returns, many people choose to invest in those powerful large companies, which can not only get a superior environment, but also get a lot of remuneration, and everyone is willing to do things that kill two birds with one stone.

Earlier, when someone approached him and asked Niko to join a research project, he was immediately tempted.

I have to be tempted, an annual salary of 250,000 US dollars, the temptation is really great!

You must know that the average salary of a professor in a university in the United States is only about 100,000 yuan, and it is difficult for a professor in a good private university to earn more than 150,000 dollars. Those senior researchers who work for large international companies earn only about $200,000 a year. That is to say, being able to offer a salary of 250,000 US dollars is definitely treating Niko as a senior researcher, how can this not make Niko tempted.

After signing a series of non-disclosure agreements, Niko joined a private research studio owned by the Frost Foundation. I thought it was a real yàn room located on the outskirts of a big city, but Niko didn't expect that this real yàn room was not only not located on the outskirts of a big city, but was also in a desolate forest with no human figures.

What's even more incredible is that when Niko arrived at the underground chamber called the pyramid, he was completely stunned.

How could he have never heard of such a large underground building, such a tight defense, so many high-grade and valuable research equipment, and a super-first-class real room?

If it was just that, he would only sigh at the huge strength of the Frost Consortium, but after he had actually worked here for a while, as he learned more and more about the truth here, Niko felt more and more chilled.

This real yàn room, which is not known to outsiders, is actually experimenting with living people!

Yes, it turned out to be a live test! And it's not an ordinary test drug, but an even more brutal brain transplant!

How cruel and horrific it is to use humans for brain transplants......

Niko, who learned the truth by chance, almost had the urge to run away at that time, it was simply terrifying, and once this kind of violation of international law was exposed, the whole world would be in an uproar.

But this is not something he can leave if he wants to, after signing those confidentiality agreements, it means that he must obey any arrangements of the company within two years, otherwise it will be an illegal agreement and a huge amount of liquidated damages will be compensated.

But if he was able to escape, Niko believed that the terrible truth that would be exposed would be enough to make the company no longer have the energy to seek compensation, because even the law would not be on its side.

As long as he could escape, Niko was victorious.

However, as Niko envisioned, the premise was that he could escape...... If you can't escape, it's all empty talk.

Niko, who has been here for two months, often sees heavily armed people patrolling by, and in front of every important gate, there are surveillance cameras and iris and fingerprint recognition, and people who do not have permission cannot get out of the real room under the pyramid at all.

and tried to flee without permission...... Niko is not a stupid person, just think about the fact that this company dares to test brain transplants on healthy human beings, and understand that fleeing without permission must be an act of seeking death.

The most terrifying thing is that Niko, as a bachelor, has not been in contact with his divorced parents for many years, and no one will care and call the police for fear that he will die here.

For this reason, Niko forcibly suppressed the idea of escaping, and prepared to work for a while before looking for an opportunity to escape.

Speaking of which, the people who knew about the forbidden experiment must have been a few people in the entire base, and Niko found that many of the researchers were unaware of it, and were all immersed in the superior conditions of the real room, doing their own work.

Seeing that his colleagues were unaware, he sometimes wondered if he should tell them about his discovery. But after much thought, Niko gave up on the idea.

First, he didn't know if any of these colleagues had someone planted by the other party.

Second, he was afraid that once he sued others, he would inevitably be implicated when others were accidentally exposed. (To be continued......)