There are more and more spots on the tree, and a substance like melted black oil wax is constantly flowing down from it.
Slowly, the tree man stopped struggling.
Chen Yun stared at the tree man in the distance for a while and found that it had become completely silent. It's like being dead.
"White team, have the Treants been eliminated? Should we report to the headquarters and stop preparing for the fire attack of the Eyes of Medusa?"
Four minutes have passed since Bai Ye requested fire support and the headquarters decided to activate the Eyes of Medusa. In less than a minute, the space-based weapon installed in outer space will launch a long-range beam weapon attack on the tree people.
The preparation time alone requires five minutes of space-based weapons, and the energy consumed by each attack is converted into electrical energy that is enough to supply City 18 for half a year of production activities.
Bai Ye looked at the tree man who was as silent as a sculpture, and frowned solemnly: "Wait a moment."
…
At this time, Cheng Haige fell into the biggest panic in his life.
I thought that after becoming a four-dimensional life, no one in this three-dimensional universe could harm me. Even those who are traveling the same way and at the same level as him cannot harm him.
Because the nature of life on both sides is different, just like people in the three-dimensional world can never harm the shadow, the dimensional barriers cannot be broken through with current human capabilities.
However, Ana Shen used spiritual power to erode him.
It not only eroded the tree man, but also eroded his four-dimensional existence.
It's like you are playing games on your computer, and then your computer is infected with a virus. Originally, you thought it was just a computer anyway, so you could just repair it. Even if it couldn't be repaired, you could just replace it with another one.
However, when you take your hands away from the mouse and keyboard, you find that the computer virus has been transmitted to you through your hands operating the mouse and keyboard!
This was more than just frightening, it directly subverted Cheng Haige's three views and made him question his own research.
He began to wonder if there was something wrong with his direction in studying four-dimensional life, and if his decision from the beginning was wrong.
Countless questions appeared in his mind, and past experiments on the study of four-dimensional life reappeared in front of him scene by scene——
"Human life is limited. Everyone will experience birth, aging, illness and death, and the controller that determines everyone's aging and death is DNA telomeres."
This was a meeting with a small number of people. The gray-haired old professor stood in front of the projection and spoke slowly, and his voice echoed in the small conference room.
“In 1965, Hafkli of Stanford University discovered that human cells can divide up to 56 times. Based on the cell division cycle, the human life span should be about 120 years old. This theory was called the Hafkli limit at the time. "
"This limit was overcome by Professor Ye from our institute 29 years ago, but they only extended the theoretical limit of human lifespan to 150 years. Once this limit is exceeded, the probability of human cells becoming cancerous will increase to 97.3%. .”
"And the task of our department is to extend this limit for another fifty years within five years!"
After the old professor finished speaking impassionedly, the people around him who couldn't remember their faces began to applaud fiercely.
Cheng Haige looked at everyone blankly, his thinking seemed to be sluggish.
At this moment, the old professor suddenly looked towards Cheng Haige with a smile: "Team Leader Cheng, this task is left to your team to lead, can you complete it?"
Mr. Cheng Hai subconsciously wanted to speak, but saw himself standing up with an arrogant look on his face.
"It's not difficult to extend the project by fifty years. Even extending it by a hundred or a hundred and fifty years is just a matter of several years for us."
Colleagues around him sighed, but Cheng Haige continued unhurriedly: "But what happens after that? Continue to conquer, continue to extend?"
Old professor: "What do you mean..."
"The lifespan of the human body, no matter how it is improved, has its limit. Minister, I don't want to continue working on this project."
Cheng Haige glanced at everyone in the conference room and said, "I am going to set up a new project to completely break away from the shackles of the body."
Ignoring the surprised or mocking expressions of others, Cheng Haige directly opened the door of the conference room and walked out.
Cheng Haige remembered that that was the last time he met the old minister. From that day on, he left the Saint-President Institute of Biology and this holy place worshiped by biology majors around the world.
Then, the scene changed, and he had found a new home, which was the mysterious laboratory.
The full name should be 'God's Scepter'. An institution that sounds more theological than scientific. Here, he once again met his mentor from graduate school to doctoral degree.
In a spacious laboratory surrounded by various instruments, a dozen researchers in white coats were busy at their respective posts.
The most eye-catching thing in the laboratory is not the instruments nor the people who operate them, but a sealed glass jar half a person's height in the center.
The cylindrical glass fiber reinforced plastic is filled with light green nutrient solution. In this nutrient solution, there is a naked brain floating!
The brain is still alive; it was taken from the skull of a condemned prisoner.
Now it is contained in a tank filled with nutrient solution, the nerve endings are connected to various instruments, and the terminal is transmitted to the computer. The staff in these laboratories create a completely virtual environment through the cooperation of countless computers to continuously transmit information to the brain.
Let this brain think that he is still living in the prison before.
【Brain in a vat】
This is an experiment that Cheng Haige improved based on previous theories in order to determine the relationship between human independent consciousness and the brain.
The assistant fiddled with the culture chamber for a long time, then raised his head and said to Cheng Haige: "Professor, all the equipment has been connected, and the test can begin."
Cheng Haige clapped his hands excitedly when he saw his past self: "Let's get started! I can't wait to know the results of this experiment!"
The assistant nodded, and then the entire laboratory became completely busy.
"The EM bioelectric current is started, and the partition network method is used to block the cerebral lobe areas in sequence."
As the mechanized voice sounded, a blue grid appeared on the culture chamber containing the brain, and the tubes inserted into the brain lit up.
"Frontal lobe blockade is complete and the target's mood swings are reduced."
"The temporal lobe blockade is completed and the new number of the target language is lost."
"The occipital lobe is blocked and the target visual number disappears."
"Parietal lobe blockade completed..."
"Lobe blockade completed..."
The areas of the human brain that carry different functions are blocked one after another, and the brain waves that can be detected by computers begin to gradually weaken.
Cheng Haige looked nervously and excitedly at the screen that detected brain wave activity. Whether the theoretical cornerstone of the project team he wanted to establish existed would soon be revealed in this experiment.
He believes that human consciousness exists higher than the body. As long as the independent existence of consciousness can be realized, the human body will be dispensable, thus completely solving the problem of human lifespan.
If the human brain is the essence of human consciousness, then after blocking the brain, human consciousness will also come to a standstill.
It's like a person whose limbs are chained and his mouth is sealed.
And if the human brain is not the body of consciousness, but only the carrier of consciousness, after blocking various areas of the brain, although human conscious activities are restricted, they can still continue.
As time continued to pass, no information appeared on the screen that detected brain waves.
The assistants were a little anxious: "Professor... if the EM bioelectric current is blocked for too long, it will cause irreversible damage to the cerebral cortex. If the signal cannot be received for such a long time, it may be that the brain wave receiver is broken. How about we check the brain?" Wave receiver, let’s continue the experiment..."
"Not urgent."
Cheng Haige looked solemn, but still said confidently: "I have checked the equipment before starting the experiment, and I firmly believe that my theory is not wrong."
"Actually, the conjecture of the [brain in a vat] from the old era has already told us the real answer."
The assistant subconsciously asked: "What does the conjecture of the brain in the vat... tell us?"
Cheng Haige smiled and said: "What kind of world a person sees depends on the new feedback the brain gets. If we intercept and modify these feedbacks, we can let a person live in a completely virtual world. And he I don't realize this at all, just like the brain that was raised in the incubator."
The assistant nodded: "I know, this is [Brain in a Vat]'s initial guess."
"You know this conjecture, and our experiments also make use of this conjecture, but have you ever thought about it. Whether it is this conjecture or the experiments on the brain in history, the role of the brain is always to 'receive signals' and give feedback. But when the outside world When the stimulus disappears, there is some spontaneous activity in the brain, but no one has found the source of the stimulus for the activity?"
“Can’t it be a spontaneous activity?”
Cheng Haige smiled and shook his head: "Looking at the entire human body, every organ, and even every cell's activity, responds to stimuli. Even the division and regeneration of cells are carried out strictly according to a certain program. And This program, in itself, is a thrill.”
"what do you mean--"
"That's right, the 'program' that allows the brain to continue to function without external stimulation is the personal consciousness that 'lives' inside."
As soon as Cheng Haige finished speaking, a wave of undulating ripples suddenly appeared on the brainwave detector, which had been showing no change.
There was a cheer in the laboratory.
When all areas of the brain are locked by EM biocurrents, there is still a 'thing' that causes the brain to generate brain waves, which is enough to prove that the consciousness that Cheng Haige said exists above the brain is real.
If this theoretical basis exists, then what Cheng Haige said about the direction of independent survival of consciousness without the body is possible.
And just when everyone was celebrating the success of the experiment, Cheng Haige suddenly turned his head, looked at himself who was watching the show, and asked -
"Do you really understand?"
