Song Tianxing was seriously ill and was hospitalized. Although he was not seriously ill due to timely rescue, the doctor at the Air Force General Hospital still recommended that he should not have any contact with work matters in the short term.
"He needs to rest now."
The cardiovascular and cerebrovascular doctors at the Air Force General Hospital very seriously explained to Zhang Xingyang, who came in the same helicopter as Song Tianxing.
"Although the patient's current condition is relatively good, it still depends on the subsequent recovery. However, the high intensity and altitude as before cannot be continued."
The doctor didn't look at the thick pile of reports on his hand, but he was very familiar with the patient's condition.
After giving a lot of instructions, Zhang Xingyang asked helplessly:
"Doctor, will General Master Song have any sequelae?"
The doctor had also learned about Song Tianxing's identity during the rescue just now. Naturally, he was very careful about his situation and did not dare to tell the follow-up situation too well:
"Professor Zhang, Chief Master Song suffered a cerebral blood vessel rupture due to high blood pressure. Although he was lucky, there was no high-risk area, only in the basal ganglia area.
But even if we treat it, we can only gradually eliminate the cerebral hemorrhage, and there will definitely be sequelae.
Because brain cells destroyed by cerebral hemorrhage cannot regenerate, Master Song may be unable to move his limbs or even be unable to speak.
You must be mentally prepared for these. "
Zhang Xingyang was already prepared, but he was still shocked by the news.
Song Tianxing's wife, who had just arrived from the side, could not accept this fact, and slowly slumped down on a chair in the corridor, silently wiping tears.
"Teacher Luo, we will do our best to treat Master Song."
After Zhang Xingyang thanked the doctor, he comforted Song Tianxing's wife, Luo Min, a little.
Although Song Tianxing's choice to work overtime was his own choice, it was largely influenced by what Zhang Xingyang said in the previous night's conversation.
Zhang Xingyang feels that he should take certain responsibilities.
"Doctor, tell me.
Can our old Song recover? "
Luo Min raised her head with tears in her eyes, looked at the doctor in front of her and asked.
“Based on our current experience, the location of Chief Song’s brain bleeding should not involve important functional areas.
If the follow-up treatment is ideal, it should not have much impact on daily life. "
The doctor explained patiently to the patient's family.
"But Teacher Luo, you should also know that the brain is the most mysterious part of the human body, and our experience and research still have many shortcomings.
Therefore, we cannot guarantee that there will be no problems in the future. "
Luo Min is also a doctor, but she specializes in pediatrics.
But Luo Min also knows something about cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, which are the most complex of all diseases.
Zhang Xingyang looked at the silent people in the hospital corridor and was also lost in thought.
In fact, if Mr. Song is in a situation like this, if he wants to get healthy again, there is still a way in the future.
And there’s more than one.
The first method is consciousness uploading, which is commonly known as canning.
Although this method can preserve human consciousness, after living in this way for more than ten years, most people will lose their human emotions due to losing their physical bodies and become like high-performance artificial intelligence, leaving only rationality. computing power.
The body that humans have evolved over millions of years, although not perfect, is certainly qualified as a container for human thinking.
Although the designed mechanical body can have a longer lifespan than a natural person, after losing human emotions, can it still be regarded as a human being?
Or can it only become an automatic machine with the title of human?
Such a debate is necessary because it involves the ultimate question of mankind - who am I?
Therefore, Zhang Xingyang doesn't really want to adopt this method because the disadvantages are too great.
And people in this era may not realize such disadvantages.
They would only see such technology as enabling immortality.
The second method is much more troublesome, but the side effects will be smaller.
The treatment process of this method is extremely complicated.
The main principle is not complicated. Simply put, it is to simulate the early development process of the human brain through special means, so that necrotic brain cells can re-develop.
This kind of treatment can complete the regeneration of most brain cells, but the requirements for patients are higher.
It is required that the brain remains basically active during the treatment process, otherwise the original memory content cannot be maintained during the birth of new brain cells.
This leads to the fact that after some patients complete the treatment, although the brain repair is completed, the memory is almost completely lost and they become a conscious baby.
"Teacher Luo, Chief Master Song Jiren has his own destiny, and he will definitely be safe."
Zhang Xingyang comforted Luo Min, who had calmed down from the initial collapse, and had other words in his words.
The technology that just flashed through Zhang Xingyang's mind is basically impossible to achieve in this era.
Whether it is consciousness uploading or consciousness rebirth, it requires a lot of equipment and personnel that are considered cutting-edge even in the 22nd century.
This is just like trying to make a chip by rubbing your hands in the era of the first industrial revolution. It was impossible.
Therefore, Zhang Xingyang finally determined that the only thing Song Tianxing could use was probably prosthetic technology.
This technology is still in the realm of science fiction now, but after the 1970s, with the in-depth research on brain science and biotechnology, humans finally lit up this technology tree.
It has saved a large number of people who lost limbs due to various accidents. In the 22nd century, it was evaluated as one of the ten greatest technologies of the 21st century.
Also on this list are controllable nuclear fusion, deep space manned bases, million-ton star ports, etc.
Zhang Xingyang frantically searched in his mind for related technologies that needed to be illuminated for prosthetic technology.
It is not an easy task to select the technological route that can be completed the fastest among the numerous technologies in the brain.
Under the condition of high-power operation, Zhang Xingyang's brain began to heat up.
First there is sweating, and then with the continued high temperature, the sweat turns into gas.
So much so that in the eyes of others, it seemed as if Zhang Xingyang's head was smoking.
Luo Min, who was lost in memories, also noticed something was wrong. He looked up and saw Zhang Xingyang, who was smoking above his head, and was also startled.
"Xingyang, what's wrong with you?"
As a doctor, Luo Min first paid attention to Zhang Xingyang's health problems.
"Um?"
Zhang Xingyang didn't react at first. He was still thinking about the problem of prosthetic limbs and seemed a little dazed.
Then I saw Luo Min staring at the top of his head, and then he realized that his situation was still a bit difficult to accept for people of this era.
In fact, at the end of the 22nd century, protein chips and the latest silicon crystal chips have become so tiny that they can be woven into tiny bundles and then implanted into the scalp.
The long silver-white hair looks very beautiful, especially the micro heat dissipation unit incorporated in it, like streams of light moving within the hair.
Zhang Xingyang currently does not have such an external thinking unit, so he can only dissipate heat through the sweat glands on his skin, which is why such a strange scene occurs.
"It's nothing, I was just overthinking a little bit."
Zhang Xingyang gathered his consciousness back from the vast technology library, took a long breath and said.
"Teacher Luo, Mr. Song will be left in your care."
"There are still a lot of things to deal with at the base. Please forgive me for not being able to stay here."
Luo Min also knew that Song Tianxing's sudden collapse would definitely cause a lot of problems, and Zhang Xingyang was going to clean up his mess now.
So he said slightly apologetically:
"Old Song has caused trouble for you."
"It's nothing, this is what I should do."
After giving a brief answer, Zhang Xingyang left the Air Force General Academy.
These days, professional medical helicopters are not particularly common in hospitals, so the helicopter parked in front of the hospital with a red cross painted on its fuselage attracted a lot of people's attention.
The helicopter caused huge waves on the spot. Zhang Xingyang made a loud phone call and asked Qiao Yang about the current situation in the base while getting on the helicopter.
After getting on the helicopter, Zhang Xingyang hung up the phone.
It's not that there is no mobile phone signal on the helicopter, but the noise of the helicopter is so loud that no matter how loud Zhang Xingyang speaks, the person on the other side cannot hear him.
The straight-line distance between the base and Beidu is nearly 500 kilometers.
Although this helicopter was modified from a military helicopter, because there is a lot of medical support equipment on board, the speed is not very fast and can only reach 200 kilometers per hour.
It was still late at night when Song Tianxing fell ill, and now it was already three o'clock in the morning.
Looking out the window of the helicopter is an almost unchanged grassland. Only the occasional herd of cattle and sheep can add a touch of color to this world.
During this short period of time, Zhang Xingyang continued to think about prosthetic technology.
In fact, in the early 21st century, simple brain nerve control of limbs has been possible.
However, most of this type of technology is achieved through "targeted muscle nerve transplantation".
This technology requires that the functional areas of the user's brain are intact.
For example, in 2006, a research institute completed such an operation on a woman who lost her arm in a car accident. The functional area of the cerebral cortex that controls the arm was not damaged in the car accident and still retained intact nerve endings.
Medical staff worked by redirecting the nerves that control the woman's arms to muscle groups that could work normally.
When her brain commands her left arm, it can control the normal muscle group, and then control the robotic arm through the myoelectrodes on the surface of this muscle group.
This can be regarded as an indirect brain-controlled prosthetic limb, but it cannot be compared with the completely brain-controlled prosthetic limbs of the future.
And this technology is not very useful for the current situation.
Because Song Tianxing's limbs were not unable to work due to accidental injury, but because of damage to his cerebral cortex.
This means that if you want to use this technology, you must first repair the other party's cerebral cortex functional area.
If this technology really existed, Zhang Xingyang would not have to think hard about prosthetic technology.
"So the most important thing now is to develop brain-computer technology?"
After considering various technical routes, Zhang Xingyang found that no matter what kind of technology, it is inseparable from this key technology.
This technology is not that easy to use, even though Zhang Xingyang has countless technical information in his memory.
But the most critical level of human experimentation still requires personal testing in this world before it can be confirmed.
After all, most of the original data came from the 1970s and 1980s. Although it takes less than a hundred years, the human body will not undergo huge changes.
However, the growth environment and even nutritional levels of the two sides are very different.
At this point in time, the country has not completely solved the problem of food and clothing, and many people still have serious insufficient daily intake of oil, sugar, etc.
In the 1970s and 1980s, with the maturity of industrial starch and sugar preparation technology, the annual output of 10,000-ton starch production lines was able to meet the needs of tens of thousands of people.
Since the raw materials produced are mainly carbon dioxide, and the energy source is mainly space power stations, the efficiency and cost of such a starch production line are much higher than that of traditional farmland planting.
Of course, the starch produced by this technology in peacetime is not eaten by the people and is basically used as various feeds.
During war, such technology is mainly used to prevent the enemy from using genetic weapons and to still produce enough food after causing irreversible blows to one's own agricultural production areas.
This has also led to the fact that although the cultivated land area has shrunk compared to now, the Dragon Kingdom has still become a food exporter.
Tens of millions of tons of starch products can be exported every year to areas where food problems still have not been solved.
The roar of the helicopter continued to reach Zhang Xingyang's ears even with headphones on.
Time flew by so fast. As soon as Zhang Xingyang finished thinking about the technical route of the prosthetic limb, he could already see the outline of the base in the distance and the white condensation clouds on the cooling tower of the thermal power plant in the center that almost never dispersed day and night.
At the entrance of the hospital at the base, jump off the helicopter.
Zhang Xingyang saw a somewhat unexpected person:
"Mr. Sun, why are you here?"
Sun Hongtao didn't know when he came here, but it looked like he had just arrived, and he was still tired from a long journey.
However, the old man still asked in a loud voice:
"Song Tianxing, how is the situation?"
"I just had surgery and am still recovering."
After Zhang Xingyang briefly talked about Song Tianxing's condition, he said in a low voice:
"There may be certain sequelae later."
"I caused all this."
At this time, Sun Hongtao also basically understood the causes and consequences of Song Tianxing's illness. Although he didn't know what Zhang Xingyang said to Song Tianxing that day, Sun Hongtao had no intention of blaming Zhang Xingyang:
"This is all Lao Song's own choice."
Sun Hongtao patted Zhang Xingyang on the shoulder:
"Don't blame yourself too much."
Then Sun Hongtao changed the subject:
"Lao Song fell ill. Now the design work of new fighter jets has almost stopped, and new people need to be in charge."
When saying this, Sun Hongtao stared closely into Zhang Xingyang's eyes.
Although Sun Hongtao didn't say it clearly, Zhang Xingyang still understood what he meant, which was to let him serve as the new chief designer.
"I will take my responsibility."
However, Zhang Xingyang did not refuse, but took over this important task.
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