Dead.

The wilderness of a small mountain village is exceptionally peaceful.

The sound of dripping raindrops, and the occasional north wind passing through the mountain forest.

In the bedroom on the second floor, Li Qingye, who was half-lying on the bed, closed his eyes and meditated next to the dim and bright yellow lamp.

The past is vivid.

Father......

Mother......

Eldest brother......

Figures, pages and pages, echoes, filled his mind.

……

Near Jiangcheng University, Li Qingye opened a cosmetics company here with the help of more than 20 million yuan sponsored by his mother.

In fact, this company is just a brand, but in order to avoid the problem of private application for a biochemical laboratory, Li Qingye used the company's shell to facilitate the establishment of a research institute.

However, the laboratory of the cosmetics company has spent about 22 million yuan to purchase a lot of scientific instruments in the biochemical laboratory.

He studied biochemistry and molecular biology at Jiangcheng University, completed his master's degree in 15 years, and then studied for a doctorate with a supervisor.

This laboratory is 15 years, and his mother gave Li Qingye a graduation gift.

After that, while studying for a PhD, he studied something he was interested in in his own laboratory until July 16.

An old classmate who had gone to the University of Copenhagen to study for a PhD sent him a genetic sequence test report, saying that it was the genetic sequence detected from the remains of an ancient human body excavated from a glacier in the Alps.

Li Qingye was very interested in this, and according to his analysis, this ancient human was very likely to be a Neanderthals.

During the research of forgetting to sleep and eat, Li Qingye suddenly had a whim, took out the genetic samples collected before (collected in the surrounding towns through free physical examinations), and analyzed the 300 genetic samples in his hand.

In the process of analysis, he extracted all the genetic fragments about the Ni people from the genetic samples.

After comparing and piecing together the gene fragments of the Ni people in these samples, there is a large amount of overlap with the gene sequences of the Ni people sent by the classmates.

Li Qingye is very excited about this, if these patchwork of Ni gene fragments can be combined again, is it possible to restore the Ni people?

In the process of further research, Li Qingye used gene editing technology (third-generation technology: CRISPR-Cas9) to insert these gene fragments into the stem cells of mice, hoping to combine these genes.

It's just that this kind of gene editing experiment is more difficult than I imagined, after all, the genetic fragments left in the gene sequence of modern Homo sapiens are too broken and rare.

Soon the mouse stem cells in the lab were consumed.

Seeing that the experiment was making no progress, Li Qingye also felt that he was whimsical.

There is no stem cell material, so we can only choose other materials as the matrix, and carry out boring and complicated gene editing in more than a dozen kinds of animal stem cells.

Time came to October of 16 years before I knew it.

As usual, the first thing I did every day was to look at the edited animal stem cells, and I thought it was another day of nothing, until medium 57.

Under the microscope.

The lighthouse jellyfish stem cells in medium 57 have redeveloped into the form of a hydra, and what is even more surprising is that the hydra has some changes.

After further testing and assays, a new enzyme was discovered in the lighthouse jellyfish.

Li Qingye studied this enzyme while doing repeated experiments.

A month later.

Looking at the aquarium, hundreds of gene-edited lighthouse jellyfish, swimming slowly, and the light blue liquid in the test tube in the hand.

"This thing can actually turn some genes into fake genes, but it's just ......" Li Qingye looked at a few cages not far away in surprise and joy.

Inside the iron cage, there are several domestic pigs, all of which have varying degrees of aging, organ lesions and genetic diseases.

If this is the case, then Li Qingye may not be too interested in this enzyme, and more importantly, this enzyme can also activate some recessive genes.

"If this enzyme can be made more controllable and the side effects are reduced, it may be ......," he said, assessing the value of the enzyme in his heart.

Thinking of the huge potential in this test tube, Li Qingye was so excited that he couldn't sleep at night, and he continued to study this enzyme without sleep or food, and at the same time began to try to adjust the gene sequence of gene editing to see if he could synthesize new enzymes or compounds.

In fact, for the hobby of scientific research, Li Qingye is quite a contradictory person.

Since he was a child, he has lived under the protection of his parents, and at the same time his eldest brother's ability is also very strong, originally his parents hoped that he could go to Peking University to study law, and later pass the public examination, while the eldest brother continued to develop in business, and the brothers could complement each other.

It's a pity that Li Qingye is very reluctant to this arrangement.

For the first time, he disobeyed his father's arrangement and enrolled in the biochemistry and molecular biology major of Jiangcheng University, just to prove himself.

After all, in business, he may not be able to surpass his father and eldest brother in his life, and the deceit in officialdom makes him feel very annoying and uncomfortable.

After thinking about it, only the choice of science remained.

Although with the help of his mother, achievements, talent and hard work in the field of science are also very important.

This unexpected discovery made Li Qingye feel very excited, because he could finally prove himself to everyone.

In order to improve this special enzyme, he did not even go back to Pengcheng to see his parents on the New Year of the 17th year, but continued to stay in the laboratory in Jiangcheng and buried himself in research day and night.

Until......

That day, a phone call came with terrible news.

The grief made him burst into tears.

At that moment, his life became gloomy, and what scientific achievements that shocked the world, what milestones in the history of human evolution, and what proved himself to the world became meaningless.

If he could, he would rather give up this achievement in exchange for the peace of his parents.

Maybe that's how people make a mistake.

Only when you lose it will you feel cherished.

Li Qingye, who was like a walking corpse, returned to Pengcheng, only to see the cold corpses of his parents, and remorse, despair, and grief were entrenched in his heart, making him lose his soul.

The night is getting deeper.

Outside the window, the rain stopped, and the north wind was much quieter.

Li Qingye, who had nightmares, slept until noon the next day in exhaustion.

For half a month, except for a village aunt who delivered food, he didn't see anyone, and he was closed in the house alone.

Until the afternoon of April 13.

The tutor's phone rang, and Li Qingye, who was full of stubble and had dull eyes, looked at the constant ringing of the ring, and pressed it weakly to answer:

"Hey ......"

"Aoba, the festival mourns and changes, I plan to go to America for an academic visit in the near future, do you want to go over together, it's good to change your mood."

But Li Qingye, who was like ashes, had no idea of going abroad: "Boss, I plan to suspend the doctoral entrance examination......"

"What? Aoba, your talent is very good, isn't it a pity to give up like this? You have to think about it! Don't regret it then. The tutor said with concern.

"No, it doesn't make sense."

......The mentor on the other end of the phone was silent for a while, and then continued: "That's it! Anyway, you are still young now, so you should rest and adjust your mentality for half a year, and then make a decision after half a year. ”

"Thanks, I'll think about it." Li Qingye replied perfunctorily, then hung up the phone, ready to continue lying on the bed.

Suddenly, a headline pops up in your phone's browser.

He subconsciously prepared to clean up the ......

It's just that in the next second, Li Qingye was stunned, and then clicked on the news.

After watching the news, his whole person was not good, and his eyes were even more cloudy and flashing: "What's going on?" Could it be...... It couldn't be ......."

Li Qingye, who couldn't believe it, continued to search for relevant news on the Internet, and soon hundreds of related news appeared on the mobile phone page.

After browsing one by one, his face became more and more gloomy, and at the same time, a terrible thought also came to his mind.