Chapter 233: New Humans
By this time, Tang Jianping had left Hou Dalin's laboratory, and he was sent to a rehabilitation center set up specifically for him.
Here, hundreds of staff members revolve around him alone. And not only did he come, but his parents and his wife were all sent here.
As soon as he got up in the morning, Tang Jianping sat up with the help of his wife. It's also strange to say, he has no problem walking or anything now, but it is still very difficult to change from lying down to standing.
It's not that it can't be done, it's just that it's very strenuous. At first, he continued to practice getting up, and then Hou Dalin told everyone that it may be that his body still lacks a function similar to the vestibule, which cannot be solved by exercise, and the staff needs to further improve this equipment.
In this way, Tang Jianping will no longer do this kind of meaningless training. When he got up in the morning, he relied on his wife's help, and when it seemed like the training ground had collapsed, he relied on some special equipment to get back up.
Today's Tang Jianping is much more precious than the giant panda. As a new human in science, there are simply not too many people who pay attention to him. But anyone who is qualified to know about his existence can't help but come and take a look with curiosity.
In addition, the team of hundreds of people, around Tang Jianping's body, will design a lot of test items every day, and then carefully make records. It took tens of millions of years for humans to evolve into what they are now.
And Tang Jianping's body is full of calculations, and its history is only a few years. This also includes a series of processes from design to development. If you really want to say that the finished product is taken out, according to the timetable given by Hou Dalin, it will not even be a year.
Such a project was completed in a few years by Hou Dalin himself and a few assistants, which was simply a fantasy in the eyes of these hundreds of people at this time.
The current gang is basically divided into two factions. One is the worship faction, they feel that Hou Dalin is a genius, and even using genius is no longer enough to describe him, and it is more appropriate to use God. And the other is the disobedient faction, they feel that only if they have enough resources, they can also make more advanced biochemical bodies.
Although the two factions are not convinced, they can also live in peace. Everyone is in a frenzied learning period at this time, and this kind of technology, of course, cannot be possessed by Hou Dalin alone. And Hou Dalin didn't plan to hide it, but he stated in advance that they couldn't take this kind of technology out of this gate. Even if they really master it, then they will have to live under the strict supervision of the relevant units.
But it doesn't matter, who is engaged in scientific research, especially high-end scientific researchers, who has not had this awareness? Scientists like Hou Dalin, who have always been disgusted with being supervised, are in the minority, after all.
It's just that he now has this qualification, and besides, he is not completely out of supervision. It's just that in order to take care of his emotions, the scope of supervision has been expanded, and the means have been improved. It's a lot of work, but it's worth it.
Speaking of Tang Jianping, when he woke up, like a normal person, the first thing he did was to go to the toilet. This may be a fixed routine in his head, or it may be that while he is sleeping, his artificial digestive system is still working, and in turn, a large amount of waste has accumulated in his "rectum".
His toilet bowl is idiosyncratic, and his excrement is to be collected and studied. Like all animals, researchers wanted to determine if his digestive system was functioning properly by looking at his feces.
After going to the toilet, washing his face, brushing his teeth, and doing a set, Tang Jianping felt refreshed. However, when it comes to brushing teeth, many people find it very unnecessary. Everything in his mouth was artificial, except for one tongue that covered the epidermis on his original tongue, everything else was fake.
Not to mention anything else, just his two rows of steel teeth, ordinary canned luncheon meat can't stop him. Moreover, his teeth are made of alloy material, so he will not be bothered by tooth decay in his lifetime.
The next thing is to eat breakfast, which is also different from the average person. The reason for the difference is that he has two "stomachs". One of the stomachs is going to eat a synthetic food, and the essence of this kind of thing is pure nutrient solution. This nutrient solution was eaten into one of his stomachs in order to provide enough nutrients for his brain, skin, and hematopoietic organs.
This stomach is connected to this "digestive system", which can transport the nutrients in the nutrient solution to his bloodstream. Of course, there is currently a research institute that is working on the formulation of this nutrient solution. There is also a research institute that is also working on the more advanced "digestive system". Their ultimate goal is to allow this stomach and digestive system to meet their own physical needs by supplementing them with normal food.
And the food that the other stomach needs to replenish is simple, to put it bluntly, you can eat anything. He could digest grain, meat, even grass seeds. In the digestive system connected to the second stomach, there is an insect-like set of acids and enzymes that break down everything he eats and then convert it into nutrients for his body's muscles.
Tang Jianping knew that many researchers jokingly referred to his second stomach as a fuel tank. The meaning is very clear, it is used to refuel his body.
The feeling of eating is still very awkward. The first is that although his teeth feel when he bites, this feeling is not at all the same as when he has his own teeth. How to describe it? It's kind of like pinching something with your fingers.
This is also very easy to explain, because Hou Dalin did not prepare the gum nerve for him at all, and the pressure on his teeth came completely from the same neural network as the skin. For him, the sensation coming from his teeth is no different from that of his fingers.
It is already good that Hou Dalin can do this. This was specially developed by him in order to prevent the other party from biting off his tongue. In previous trials, such cases have indeed appeared.
The nutrient solution is contained in a toothpaste-like container, a bit like space food. Such a bag of nutrient solution, theoretically speaking, is enough for his body to use it for a whole day. Of course, the capacity of his first stomach was not that small. In order to prevent accidents, his first stomach was able to hold twenty tubes of such a nutrient solution.
However, once the nutrient solution is not sealed, there is also a risk of deterioration. Generally speaking, Hou Dalin generally asked him to keep the amount in his stomach for two to three days, and then replenish it every day. Then he drank it once every few days, for fear that he would forget the day.
Because although he also feels hungry and full, his brain can't tell which stomach is lacking food. To understand this information in detail, he also had to connect his socket to the computer cable.
Although this is very accurate, Tang Jianping assured that no one will be willing to do this. Every time he did this, Tang Jianping would feel bursts of weirdness and heartache. It was the pain of having to face the reality that he was not human.
After breakfast, Hou Jianping had a period of free movement. Generally speaking, he will stick to some physical exercises. It's a habit he's developed over the decades, and if he doesn't move, he feels very wrong.
Speaking of exercise, at the beginning he could only walk slowly, and that gait was like Parkinson's. As he continues to adapt, he is now able to run normally.
Although his 100-meter time easily exceeded the human limit in previous tests, he always controlled his speed during the morning run. The researchers who observed him discovered this phenomenon, that is, Tang Jianping was always consciously or unintentionally covering up the fact that he was a new human.
Psychologists will stare at almost everything about him, and then form stacks of reports and research materials. This research is very important, because the biggest thing that new humans and humans have in common is that they all have the same brain, the same consciousness, and the same psychology.
Once the psychology is different, then there will be a huge differentiation between the two "species". For this rehabilitation center, the importance of this work is actually above all work.
Technology can advance, but not at the expense of changing human nature. Once this Tang Jianping is determined to have anti-human tendencies, they will intervene as soon as possible. At that time, what will wait for Tang Jianping will be a fate that no one can predict.
After a simple five-kilometer run, he started by himself, and by the time he ran the second lap, his comrades had already joined his queue. The two of them finished the exercise with laughter and laughter, and Tang Jianping's feeling here is also different, in the past, he was very fond of sports. When he runs, he always tries to go as fast as he can.
But now it's different, he doesn't know when this feeling will be gone. How does that feel? It's a bit like a person who is losing weight, the brain tells the body to persevere, but the feedback from the body is that they don't want to move!
When this phenomenon was reported, many people felt that it was because his muscles came from the simulants of insects. Although the strength is huge, they don't want to exercise too much. They are not like mammals, and they are able to develop their muscles more through practice. Insects are born with muscles that can look like they are fixed as soon as they become adults, so they have no idea of exercising.
And exercise will have consumption, and as a genetic memory, they are always against meaningless activities. Although Tang Jianping's body is no longer the original insect muscle, after all, its genes are derived from insects, and this phenomenon is also enough for researchers to write a box of papers.
After the exercise, Tang Jianping was ready to go to "work". He calls the daily rehab and various experiments going to work, because it's very much like that. In order to take care of his psychology, the experimenters here all let him take six days off.
Tang Jianping came to the training center, and today he is participating in several experiments, which are carefully designed by researchers from different departments. The purpose is also different, and through these experiments, they need to get the data on the front line and refine their research.
Tang Jianping tried his best to cooperate with this kind of experiment, and in his opinion, this is one of his jobs. He once thought about continuing to be a test pilot in the future, but his superiors told him that what he was doing now was a test pilot! It's just that the plane he wants to test has changed from a behemoth that can fly into the sky to the appearance of a human body.
Of course, Tang Jianping knew that his superiors were joking with him, for example, in order to let him treat the daily test work like an airplane test flight. Although he is also a little irritable with this kind of work.
Whenever he experimented, several connectors on his body would be plugged into wires. At first, he wasn't very disgusted with these wires, but as time went on, his dislike for these things became more and more intense. Although he never said it, if the psychologist couldn't even see this, then it would have been replaced a long time ago.
"Old Tang, the test plan has been canceled today, and an operation will be arranged for you temporarily. You go with them, go and get ready. ”
Tang Jianping was stunned, this situation had never happened before. Life here is very regular, and everything is done according to the schedule. Let's just say that today's test work may have been arranged half a month ago.
Such a temporary change will have a great impact on the subsequent experiments. But despite this, he still had no choice but to accept such an arrangement.
"Dean Ji, why do you have to have surgery temporarily?" Lying on the operating table, he turned his head and asked the doctor next to him who gave him the "chief surgery".
"Hehe, give you a change of equipment, don't worry, it should be a good thing for you." Dean Ji stopped what he was doing and said to him with a smile.
Tang Jianping's surgery did not require anesthetic, he had another sensory switch, which could disconnect part of the signal connection between his brain and his body at any time. So this kind of thing is a kind of thing for him that he can experience if he wants to, and he can turn off if he doesn't want to experience it.
It's just that generally speaking, he doesn't close. Turning off the sense of pain is, sometimes, a very dangerous act. Of course, it is necessary to close during surgery. Although he doesn't feel pain inside his body, his skin does! When a knife cuts through the skin, it hurts.
The operation went very quickly, Dean Ji cut the skin, another group of people separated the subcutaneous "tissue", and then another person came up to upgrade his body hardware.
After the upgrade was completed, the jacks that had grown in various parts of his body were gone, and the only one that remained was moved to the position of the belly button. It is said that he did not have a belly button eye in the past, but after today's surgery, he has succeeded in having such an inconspicuous external organ.
Of course, this organ just looks like it, and the real function is still an emergency jack. This jack integrates a lot of functions, not only can it supply his body with emergency power, but also connect to his internal computer.
In daily life, the data that used to be obtained by connecting wires was replaced by a new wireless device installed in his body. Henceforth, unless there are special circumstances, or his infinite device fails, he will not have to be plugged into all sorts of wires while conducting experiments.
After the surgery, his incision will also be restored. The process will be very fast, and it will be back to normal in four or five days. Although I have a scar, I will not be able to see it again if I have it repaired in the future.
A few days after today, Tang Jianping had to rest in bed again. Of course, he can do simple activities if he wants, and don't think about strenuous exercises. Everything has to wait for the skin to recover.
Lying on the hospital bed, looking at the cigarette technicians outside the window, several of them went out on vacation, and Tang Jianping was also envious in his heart. I didn't think that before, but now he really wants to be like a normal person, accompany his wife and children, and go to a crowded shopping mall together.
Ever since he knew that the jacks on his body had been removed, he had an urge to fit in with society, to prove that he was still a human being, a human being no different from everyone else.
What Tang Jianping didn't know was that his envious expression was seen by the people behind the camera for the first time. The psychologist immediately made a note in the notebook that the patient's desire for the outside world was gradually increasing, and he should be allowed to get out of this rehabilitation center as soon as possible.