I Just Want to Be a Quiet Top Student

Above the main entrance of the Huahan Gene Research Building, there is a line of eye-catching characters: "Cure several diseases and benefit all mankind."

Shen Qi and his group followed Dean Li into the lobby of the building, and what they saw was a giant wall screen. A Takashi Murakami-style face occupied half of the screen, which looked a little scary.

Microscopes, thermometers, stethoscopes, anesthetics, aspirin, kidney dialysis machines, oral contraceptives, endoscopes, cardiac pacemakers, etc. are all important inventions of Western medicine in the glass cover under the screen.

The giant face on the screen was speaking: "I will do my best to take medical measures that I think are beneficial to the patients, and will not cause pain or harm to the patients. I will not give poison to anyone, and I will never instruct others to use it. No matter what Entering someone's house is just to cure the disease, not to do whatever you want, not to accept bribes, not to seduce the opposite sex..."

If he hadn't heard this famous quote, Shen Qi really wouldn't have recognized that this giant face with a strong and violent cartoon style was Hippocrates.

Hippocrates was a doctor in the Perek era of ancient Greece, and was hailed as the "father of Western medicine" by the Western medical community.

Shen Qi asked with great interest: "Dean Li, did you find Takashi Murakami to design this Hippocrates face?"

"Yes, it's not expensive. It only cost more than 700,000 U.S. dollars. Mr. Lu gave me Takashi Murakami's hand-drawn drawings. In my office, it seems that Academician Shen also has a lot of research on art." Li Yuan Chang nodded and made a gesture of invitation: "Please come inside."

Everyone walked in along the corridor on the west side, and there were also wall screens on both sides of the corridor.

A bunch of faces on the screen are gazing at passers-by, they are Galen, Vesalius, Pavlov, Hartwell, Heymens, Landsteiner, Greengard... Passing through this corridor, it seems that the Went over the history of the development of Western biomedicine.

Out of the corridor, it suddenly became clear.

Here is a small hall with a tall solid statue in the center.

The three-meter-high busts of Watson and Crick are lifelike. Watson looks up with deep eyes, and Crick is smiling.

Between the statues of the two biologists stands a 5-meter-high giant noose-shaped color model, which is a very vivid DNA double helix structure.

Everyone has a double helix structure in the body, and the essence of DNA is actually a nucleic acid molecule.

When the double-helix nucleic acid molecule was magnified to the height of three people and appeared in front of Shen Qi and the others, they stopped in awe.

A voice like fire, electricity, and clouds sounded in the small hall: "The age of silicon is over, and the age of carbon is coming as scheduled. What is carbon? It is mice, viruses, genes, evolution, development, and life... This is the age of carbon." 1.0. We still need to work hard, we have to enter the carbon age 2.0, which is synthetic mice, artificial viruses, engineered genes, compound evolution, data development and artificial life... Gentlemen, the revolution has not yet succeeded, and we cannot stand still. I will I have been watching you all the time, watching your fiery and unrestrained imagination dissipate ignorance and stubbornness, and create a new era... The era of silicon is over, the age of carbon..."

The sound, played on a loop, is reminiscent of the school-wide announcements played by the principal over the loudspeaker during school hours.

Shen Qi closed his eyes and listened, while his five doctoral students looked around, as if trying to find the speaker of this voice.

Dean Li stared at the air with an extremely pious attitude. His right index finger and middle finger were closed together, and the fingertips were pressed against the navel. His body was straight, as if he was performing some kind of etiquette.

Shen Qi opened his eyes suddenly, and he asked Dean Li: "Carbon Age 1.0, Carbon Age 2.0, who proposed these concepts?"

Dean Li returned to normal, he said two words: "Boss."

Shen Qi asked again: "Isn't the boss of your company Mr. Lu?"

Dean Li said as a matter of course: "President Lu manages the company, and the boss guards the company."

"Oh, like this." Shen Qi said calmly, he felt that the boss mentioned by Dean Li seemed to be the spiritual leader of Dean Li? And Mr. Lu is just the administrative leader of Dean Li?

"The concept proposed by your boss agrees with my academic thinking to a certain extent. What is your name?" Shen Qi asked curiously.

Dean Li: "Boss."

"Oh, it's like this." Shen Qi became more and more curious, this boss is quite mysterious, could it be that the boss's last name is old?

Shen Qi raised an earnest wish: "Then can I meet your boss?"

"I'm sorry, Academician Shen, our boss is not here." Dean Li shook his head to express his apology, and then said: "Let's go upstairs, there happens to be an experiment on XT80 today, I hope you can be satisfied."

Dean Li led Shen Qi and others to the second floor. Before entering the sterilization cabin, everyone put on one-piece protective suits, masks, and hoods.

"Dean Li is young and promising, you are not yet forty years old this year, right?" Shen Qi was deeply impressed by this man the first time he saw Dean Li.

Dean Li has thick hair and ruddy skin, and looks only a few years older than Shen Qi.

It is very powerful for someone under the age of forty to become the dean of the Huahan Research Institute.

"I'm not that young. I've already passed the age of knowing my destiny." Director Li smiled, and guided Shen Qi and his group of customers into the sterilization cabin for disinfection and sterilization.

After the necessary sterilization process was completed, everyone came to the experimental research area of ​​the building.

The doors of one laboratory after another were closed, and there were a few researchers in white or blue jumpsuits and masks walking around in the corridors, and they could only be judged from their figures to see whether they were male or female.

The temperature in the corridor area was around 15 degrees, which was much warmer than the snowy outside, but it made Shen Qi and the others feel a bone-deep cold.

A door opened, and cold air swished into the corridor.

Shen Qi and the others' bone marrow cold intensified, and the room that opened the door was the human embryo freezing storage room.

A researcher came out carrying a cylindrical container, and the cylindrical container was emitting white gas.

The researcher nodded to Dean Li, Shen Qi and the others as a greeting, and then walked quickly to another room without saying a word.

The door of the human embryo freezing storage room closed automatically, and Shen Qi couldn't see the specific situation inside.

"Every fertilized egg is a potential person. We have more than one million people here." Dean Li followed the researcher carrying the human embryo container to the door of laboratory 028, and the researcher had already entered.

"You have an army." Shen Qi said something, and followed Dean Li into the No. 028 laboratory.

Laboratory No. 028 is much colder than the corridor. The researchers operate various instruments and conduct various experiments quietly.

Delicate manipulators disassembled and assembled samples in the billowing white mist, which were DNA, bone marrow, umbilical cord blood and other samples.

A robot the size of a little thumb is receiving samples in the transfer window, and a row of gene sequencers are working at high speed and precision, emitting a faint green light, reminiscent of fireflies at night in a cemetery.

Ah Choo!

Han Meng sneezed. He bent slightly, folded his arms tightly and observed everything in the laboratory. This posture made him feel warmer psychologically.

Very advanced laboratory.

This is Han Meng's intuitive feeling.

Han Meng, who has studied and worked in the Canadian National Biological Laboratory at the P4 level, feels that the laboratory of Huahan Gene is no worse than that of foreign countries.

Only from the evaluation of hardware, Huahan Genetics Laboratory has the strength of P4 level.

Miniaturization, automation, and digitalization are fully utilized here. Before sequencing, samples are first entered into the text library, then read, and then mass-produced genetic codes. These precise experiments are programmed by researchers, and the remaining operations at the molecular level are completed by highly automated and digital robots, manipulators and various instruments.

The researchers here test everything, corgis, British shorts, domestic pigs, wild boars, alpacas, penguins, rice, okra, Escherichia coli, lactic acid bacteria, influenza virus, HIV... and DNA samples of various patients, including Children with autism, women with diabetes, middle-aged men with tumors, elderly people with dementia, and even dead people.

Ah... Ah Choo!

The gesture of folding arms to keep warm made Han Meng feel even colder.