Brainoid

After being flirted with by Du Yalin at a "normal and casual" class reunion, Qi Min realized that this was probably why she specifically asked her to come to the class reunion.

But why did Du Yalin focus on her? And it was just a chance encounter at the shopping mall. Qi Min is self-aware and knows that her GEEK-looking personal charm in high school is not enough to make a social expert like Du Yalin miss her for ten years.

Although this had nothing to do with Qi Min, she was still a little curious. But asking Du Yalin directly would definitely not work, and they probably wouldn't know if she asked Zhang Songxue, so Qi Min sent a WeChat message to another friend of hers in high school, Sun Huihui.

Sun Huihui was Qi Min's high school social circle friend who also had a good relationship with Du Yalin and the others. It may be because she is relatively small and cute. This may be related to the fact that she used to be Jiang Wanghuai's deskmate in junior high school.

Sure enough, when Qi Min came out of Karaoke and took the subway home, Sun Huihui called us on WeChat: "Hey, Qi Qi, I was thinking about telling you something about Du Yalin."

"Ah, is this a big deal?" Qi Min was a little surprised.

"No, it's just an ordinary melon." Sun Huihui said briskly, "The version I heard is this: Du Yalin is in the School of Film and Television and Drama in her university. You know, there are many beautiful girls in their school and all kinds of big guys. The rich second generation and the like like to date girls there.”

"Well, so what?" Qi Min still heard about this rumor about the academy.

"It is said that Du Yalin found a rich second-generation boyfriend before she graduated, but - I also heard that - this man later deceived her into... having a threesome with another guy who should also be a rich second generation." Sun Huihui lowered her voice and said almost into the microphone of her mobile phone, "I don't know if they really had a threesome. Anyway, these two men are really wicked. After that, Du Yalin quickly changed her boyfriend several times. I guess Nothing good happened during this period."

"Damn it, it's really unethical to lie to people and do that..." Qi Min couldn't help but sigh.

"Yeah, but Du Yalin later found a business boss, and she should be married now. I heard that the man was okay, but he was a little older." Sun Huihui continued, "But these previous experiences are probably a good influence on her. The psychological damage was quite serious, and later I heard that Du Yalin started dating a girl... I also heard this from other classmates, and it seemed that her husband didn't know at all."

So this counts as...self-psychotherapy? But it was considered cheating anyway, not to mention that Du Yalin was already married.

But Qi Min never liked to meddle in other people's business. He just said half-jokingly: "So that's it. It really scared me today."

"Why, she went to find you?" Sun Huihui said with a smile, "Hahahaha, you didn't expect that, did you?"

Qi Min also laughed and joked a few words.

She knew rationally that Du Yalin's situation was actually a tragedy, but when she learned about this strange gossip, she still couldn't help but enjoy it.

In the final analysis, perhaps "human beings' joys and sorrows are not the same". It's just that for others' tragedies that are slightly rarer, unrelated people don't think it's "noisy" at this time, but instead deliberately watch it.

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After paddling for two days, Qi Min finally returned to the laboratory to seriously think about her brainoid project.

Now that animal experiments on 256×256×256 brainoids have made significant progress, it is actually possible to publish an article. However, Qi Min still feels that for important discoveries such as "memory storage", the evidence from rat experiments is still weak. Moreover, it was proved through the water maze that the 256×256×256 micro-brainoid body can store the memory of rats. In fact, it is impossible to distinguish the part of the memory that indicates the direction of the underwater platform. If memory storage experiments could be conducted using animals with more complex brains, such as cats or dogs, the evidence would be more convincing.

For this reason, Qi Min went to the "Nimbus" Supercomputing Center to find her collaborator, researcher Zhou Xiaoshan.

When Qi Min arrived at the "Nimbus" supercomputing center, Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan did not immediately start discussing business with her, but first took her to the ordering area on the top floor of the cafeteria for lunch.

During lunch, Qi Min was in a relatively relaxed state. At this time, Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan said kindly: "I have seen the current progress. In fact, I thought before that your project might have very important results. So don't worry, you need to prove the hypothesis about memory storage. Use Using cats and dogs is a bit... childish. I think you can try it with cynomolgus monkeys. There is a group in Yunnan that is working on cynomolgus monkey strains, and we are relatively familiar with it."

The cynomolgus monkey is a primate model creature that has been studied a lot now, but Qi Min has no idea how to raise a monkey: "The cynomolgus monkey... I don't know how to do this either."

"You can ask someone to do it, or even do it at Yuyun." Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan said, "Our biology laboratory here is relatively empty, and it will be more convenient to modify it."

Qi Min was a little hesitant. On the one hand, it was a matter of funding. On the other hand, if people from other research groups were invited to do experiments, then there would be too many joint works and joint communications with the publication of the article.

Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan seemed to understand her concerns and couldn't help but smile: "When looking for someone to do experiments, they must be outsourced to a company. There is no need to consider the issue of names. The group in Yunnan I mentioned also opened a special Cynomolgus Company.”

"Then...it will cost a lot of money..." Qi Min is even more afraid of spending money - the cost of animal experiments on brain-like bodies is now almost over the budget.

However, Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan said gently: "You don't have to worry about money. I really can't help with animal experiments, but I can write an application for project funding. Now that I have seen the results, this funding application will not It’s difficult.”

"Thank you very much!" Qi Min thanked him immediately.

Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan looked at her in surprise and couldn't help but laugh: "What can I thank you for? Isn't this a topic for our cooperation? Xiao Qi, you are also a PI. You should be more steady. Don't be like this. What the hell.”

Hearing what she said, Qi Min sat upright in his chair sheepishly and smiled shyly. Sometimes she feels that she has not even graduated yet, and that Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan is like her current mentor, or actually closer to the role of a college counselor.

However, if you think about it from another perspective, for researcher Zhou Xiaoshan, working with a newly graduated PI may be a bit tiring.

By the way, the MYN 3P incident at that time really ruined our outlook. Everyone gathered in the dormitory to eat food until around two o'clock in the morning...