Human on a Chip Project

The well-decorated conference room was as bright as day, making it impossible to imagine that it was almost morning outside.

The few people sitting around the round table were either irritable, sad, angry, or helpless.The atmosphere in the room was like that of an abandoned factory of flammable and explosive materials—tired and dilapidated, but a spark would explode.

"That's about it. What else do you want to say?" said the gray-haired man sitting at the head of the table.The signature in front of him read: Professor Xu Jingwei, President.

Except for one or two slight sighs in the conference room, no one spoke.

Professor Xu raised his head from his notebook and looked around, just in time to see Li Hai winking at Nan Yiming, who shook his head slightly.

"Lehi?"

"Oh, President, Nan Yiming has an idea recently."

"Oh? I haven't had a new idea for a long time. Let me hear it?"

The person named had no choice but to say: "It's too immature, don't say anything."

"It's okay to be immature. Several of you here are engaged in scientific research like you, and they understand what the initial idea is. It doesn't matter, it's just a good way to brainstorm." The president Xu Xu said.

Nan Yiming pondered for a while, before speaking: "Recently, several research papers suggest that the immune system may be weakened by the impact of chips. Two more papers directly pointed out that infectious diseases that are usually asymptomatic in natural People with chips are more likely to develop serious or even fatal illnesses, and their infectivity is significantly increased. Of course, there is no clinically large sample data to support these findings. So my idea has no basis.

"...However, if it proves to be the case in the future, we can consider developing and producing special vaccines for chip people, improving their resistance to common infectious diseases, and even fully stimulating and enhancing their immunity."

"You actually want to give chip people more benefits?" Qin Ruohua interrupted in disbelief.

"I don't think so." Ma Zheng said with a bit of sarcasm: "He wants to exchange the vaccine so that the chip people will voluntarily give up some rights, right?" He looked at Nan Yiming provocatively.

The corner of the latter's mouth twitched, and he didn't know how the following few words led to this follow-up.

"I didn't think so clearly. Also, the success of the kind of swap you're talking about depends a lot on demand—that is, how much the immunity of the chipped people actually drops, and supply—how big the envisioned vaccine will actually be. help."

Ma Zheng slapped down the table and said angrily: "The backside of your thinking is discrimination! It's inhumane! Using the physical weakness of chip people to restrain them is the beginning of a new type of genocide!"

Nan Yiming lowered his head and said to himself that your mind jumps non-stop for three stops at a time, and you also direct and act on your own, which is really unbearable.It seems that today I didn't run away from being a gas bucket.

He turned his head up again and faced Ma Zheng: "There are too few data now, and everything is speculation. If it is really necessary, it is also to better protect their health and life. Like you said, is it advocating children's health?" Is it discrimination for children and the elderly to receive the flu vaccine?

"I'm not an expert on exchanging vaccines for rights. There are indeed problems in legislation and implementation. However, isn't our association established to avoid such problems? Vaccines or others are just means, and the choice should be made by the chip people themselves In your hand, why is it inhumane?"

"You say that they have a 'right to choose', and that can be at the cost of a person's health or even their life, which is an unfair choice."

"Is it fair to give them the ability to surpass ordinary people, so that they can surpass other human beings without hindrance?!"

"Where is there no obstruction? Isn't the formatted code already being studied? The topic of the last meeting was to establish a comprehensive formatted emergency control center. Not enough!" Ma Zheng stood up excitedly.

"The formatting is so obtrusive, I'm not sure about the effect of using it. Maybe that would be inhumane."

"Nan Yiming is right. Ma Zheng, please calm down first." The kind woman sitting next to the president, Professor Susan Su, tried to ease the atmosphere, "We have not deliberately formatted examples. But there are already three cases so far. Trauma-induced chip failure is hypothesized to be consistent with the effect of formatting."

"Is the trauma caused by the attack of a natural person?" Ma Zheng asked sharply.

"That's the private part, I don't know. The bodies of the three subjects were successfully recovered. But the psychological trauma of losing the chip..." Professor Su paused, "It's very huge. And without big data or clinical experience, it's very difficult. It is difficult to clearly judge or predict the change trend of the subject's condition in the future. I still have guesses that the sudden loss of the chip also has a great impact on the brain nerves. At least in the short term, the subject has many neurological symptoms. Therefore, my opinion is temporarily, the format Restriction can only be used as a last resort and must not be used arbitrarily. If there are more moderate restrictions that allow the distinction of severity, it is still worth discussing."

Ma Zheng was still standing, his shoulders were stiff, his head was lowered, he was breathing heavily and thought for a while.

"What is the purpose of the chip? Isn't it to enhance the natural ability of human beings?" He shook his head as he spoke, the anger on his face slowly turning into frustration.

He paused, as if trying to calm down his emotions, but was unsuccessful, and said with a sob: "Every time I come here for a meeting, I talk about how to deprive chip people of their rights, how to restrain their abilities, and how to limit their abilities." Freedom. You go out and see, most of the major crimes in the past few months have been against chip people. How can anyone dare to disclose that they have a chip installed on their body now? When they were installed, no one told them that this would be the result! "

Then Ma Zheng turned back to Nan Yiming and said, "You implanted chips into their skulls one by one with your own hands, and now you are sitting here, treating them like a test object, thinking about how to lock them up. They are human! You don't have any psychology at all." burden?!"

Nan Yiming leaned on the table with his elbows, and buried most of his face in his hands.After nearly 24 hours of intense debate, he was too weak to face the accusation.

The president spoke calmly but majesticly: "Ma Zheng, we are one, it is not right or wrong of any one person. You have gone too far."

Ma Zheng's eyes moved away from Nan Yiming, glanced at the other people at the table, and finally looked at the president, then turned around and slammed the door out.

The room was quiet for a while.

The chairman said in a deep voice: "We have always known that using chips to change human beings is definitely not a trivial matter, and it certainly will not be overnight, let alone simple and easy. Whether you have implanted chips or not, and no matter what position you stand on , Don’t forget the original intention: for human beings, for human nature. This is far beyond our own emotions and interests, and we need to put aside our differences and move forward in unison.

"Okay, everyone is very tired, and it seems that they don't have any constructive ideas. This time it's here."

When the people in the room were almost gone, the president stopped Nan Yiming.

"Write down your ideas, as well as the information and data currently available, to me carefully." He said to the woman who had been with him all the time: "Susan, please send him back first. I still have some things to deal with .Apologizing to the kids for me and saying I promise I'll be home for dinner today."

Professor Su's car drove through the last dark night before dawn.

"Don't take it too seriously." The driver's gentle voice sounded, "You know Ma Zheng's temperament very well, any words in his mouth will become gunpowder."

Nan Yiming nodded.His eyes were half-closed, struggling with sleep.

"I heard that he and his wife were suddenly fired for no apparent reason last month. It should be because of the chip. He is different from you. He has to repay the mortgage and support the elderly on both sides of the family. His children... also Very worrying.

"Did you know? Since they moved to S City three years ago for chip research, the children have been excluded at school, and they were even beaten a few days ago. They couldn't bear it in the end and returned the hand. But because of the supernatural power, the school didn't know How to deal with it, we have to suspend them from school. With such a record, it is tantamount to exposing them as chip people, or the kind who have the urge to attack natural people, and other schools will definitely not accept them. Sigh..."

"I know. I helped them raise donations at the university. There are a few graduate students who are looking for jobs. I used some tricks to get Ma Zheng to search for them on the tutoring website and give them a free trial class for one semester."

Professor Su turned his head and smiled at him. "You are so busy, save yourself—the president will take care of it. What about you? Do you feel the drop in immunity you said?"

"Not yet, but I've always been very tired recently."

"You're too stressed, of course you'll feel tired. Take a vacation as soon as possible. Robots have to be charged, too?"

Nan Yiming didn't answer.Of course it needs to be charged, but which thing can you put down?

"Well, my favorite crepe shop is up ahead. You don't mind waiting for me? The kids woke up to see them, and hope they forgive their parents for not being home last night."

After Professor Su got out of the car, Nan Yiming bent down and pressed his forehead against the glove box, not wanting to move.

He heard footsteps outside the car, but his exhausted brain was too lazy to think.Then, the door next to him opened.

Nan Yiming woke up suddenly, and was helped so that he did not fall out.The cool wind of the early autumn night woke him up.Outside the car was the man he had only met a few hours ago.

No, it's not counted as acquaintance, met.

"Here we are." Chen Xuan looked at him and said, "It seems that you are very dissatisfied with reality?"

"..."

"Can you go by yourself?"

The adrenaline subsided, and the effects of the operation and beatings appeared. Nan Yiming's whole body was painful, stiff and limp.He was still struggling to step out with one leg, but after leaving the chair with his whole body, he fell forward uncontrollably.

"Tsk." Chen Xuan stretched out his arms to support him, and then simply hugged him horizontally. "Just to be clear, I just can't wait to get back to sleep."

He closed the door and locked the car smoothly, walked to a residential building, opened the door, went upstairs, unlocked, entered the house, and put the person on the bed, basically as if he didn't have any weight on him.

Nan Yiming was dizzy, and felt that he hadn't reacted at all, and everything was over.

"Is the wound not open?"

Shaking his head.

"Okay, try to rest as much as possible, and we'll talk about other things tomorrow. I'm next door, and I have something to knock on the wall." Chen Xuan pointed to the back of the bed.

Nan Yiming stared at the dark ceiling, not feeling sleepy at all.

Through the wall above his head, he could hear the people next door entering the room, turning on the lights, undressing, lying down, turning off the lights, and then taking out their phones and tapping the screen constantly.

It should be sending a message, right?he thinks.Who is that man?What is this place?How did I get here?

But he couldn't think clearly, his mind was like a large railway station, one after another trains roared past, some didn't stop at all, some stopped for a while, and soon disappeared without a trace.

Finally, his thoughts returned to that early morning that should not have been far away.

It was two masked men who opened the car door, and one of them stabbed him in the side before he could react.

The cut was deep, and his cries turned into gasps of pain.He swung his arms and struggled, but the one holding the knife missed it, and the knife fell into the car.Seeing this, the other dragged his companion away, stepped forward and slapped him on the back of the neck.

His body softened, but it was strange that his mind was still clear.

"How did you kill him?"

Um?What's the meaning?

He could hear Professor Su paying his bill and saying goodbye in the pancake shop.

don't come out!Please chat for a while longer.

"I, I just woke up yesterday, who knew that I have such a strong hand?!"

"No! Someone is coming!"

"How to do?"

A stream of liquid splashed on his body, and the smell of gasoline entered his nostrils.

"Come on!"

"What about business?"

"Never mind! The chip is in our body anyway. With supernatural powers, who are we afraid of? Hurry up! Ignite!"

Professor Su's call came to his ears from the store door.Something fell from her hand.She ran over here.

do not come!do not come!

The flames add to the skin, burning and stinging the nerves.

The car will explode!run!

"Wake up! Wake up!"

Nan Yiming opened his eyes, the sky was bright, and a naked|naked chest appeared in front of him.