Chapter 645 Awakening

Outside this first-class hospital, there was a bustling crowd. Various media outlets heard the news and sent a large number of reporters to find out the specific situation.

It is impossible to completely conceal such a large number of casualties, and the new government has no need to conceal it.

"Mr. Li, do you know the specific casualties?"

"Mr. Li, why did such an accident happen?"

"Is it because the materials are unqualified? Or is it the negligence of the staff?" Faced with reporters who were frantically trying to break into the hospital, some soldiers with live ammunition quickly blocked the door, and then an expert in a suit personally accepted the interview.

"As far as I know, when testing the planetary electromagnetic railgun, there was an engineering accident due to operational errors... The detailed results are still under investigation."

"About 19 people were injured and are out of danger. One person is still in danger of life and is currently in emergency rescue... Don't worry, the whole thing has not been determined yet!"

This hospital is not just an ordinary hospital, but also a research center in brain neuroscience! Except for the family members of the patients, no outsiders are allowed to enter, of course, including this group of reporters.

In the emergency room, more than a hundred experts in charge of silicon-based transformation surgery also gathered together. Time waits for no one, and the person is about to die. They don't have much time to do targeted research. They can only discuss a few words casually, and then bite the bullet according to the usual research data.

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"There is no way. This body is definitely unusable. All organs are in a state of internal bleeding, and many parts have died of lack of oxygen. We can only transplant the most important brain..."

"Such serious damage must first be repaired with stem cells, and then try to install an auxiliary brain... Um, auxiliary brain, you know, this is a new technology."

"Then, after the brain is repaired, install a biochemical clone, that is, a mechanized human body... All the original ones are not needed. The surface of the clone is cell components, and it feels exactly the same, and there will be no difference from the original."

Several women have already cried into tears. What brain transplantation, clones, etc. sound a bit horrifying. So much so that the expert responsible for explaining turned pale.

He spewed out a series of special terms, which made the other party cry even harder. Obviously, this young expert also encountered such a thing for the first time, and he didn't know how to comfort the patient's family.

These women just kept crying, in a state of confusion, they didn't know what to do. One of them might be the patient's wife, another one should be the mother, and the other one who looked younger... should be the daughter.

The three people had an age difference, but they looked almost young, and it was impossible to tell their ages.

There was a zero mortality rate in Noah for so many years, how come the disaster suddenly came to her family? ! How could she not cry!

And because of the confidentiality agreement, this group of ordinary civilians didn't know that there were many successful examples of assisting the brain, and they didn't believe in this fantasy technology.

Finally, Yu Yifeng rushed over. He looked at the chaos outside and inside, frowned and said: "You know what the situation is. The head was flattened, and he would have died long ago!"

"This is the last way. It's hard to say whether the person can be saved... But if the operation is not performed immediately, the person will definitely die!"

Under the credibility of the leader, the patient's wife signed her name on the operation form in a daze.

Well, even if they didn't sign, the operation had already been carried out. This was a necessary procedure and also gave them a little psychological comfort.

Severe damage to the brain brought about a high complexity of repair. Fortunately, over the years, people have gradually figured out the function of the brain. A special drug can reactivate stem cells, allowing adults to grow neurons again like babies.

Of course, in this process, nanoworm transformation technology was also used to transform some parts into silicon-based ones, so that people and machines will be organically combined.

The whole operation took a total of 36 hours, and then this group of experts came out tiredly...

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A few days later.

Zhang Ruien suddenly opened his eyes, and his head was in a state of confusion...

"Zhang Ruien" is the specific name of this critically ill patient, and he is also a scientific and technological worker in the field of electromagnetic force weapons.

His eyes stared straight at the ceiling, twitching from time to time, as if rolling his eyes. This state seemed to be just a wake-up of the brain, but not alive. Except for blinking a few times occasionally, he had no stress response and no self-awareness.

The medical robot responded very quickly and automatically submitted the awakening report at the first time.

Soon, a group of medical workers walked into the room quietly. They were not particularly surprised to see Zhang Ruien awake.

They immediately operated the surrounding instruments and performed various tests.

The patient named "Zhang Ruien" looked quite scary now. He only had a bald head soaked in some light blue "nutrient solution", various catheters were inserted on the skull, and some mechanical parts were faintly exposed under the neck.

Below the head... there was no body.

In this head, except for some original brain cells, the rest is completely artificial.

For this reason, even Zhang Ruien's family members are not allowed to enter this intensive sterile ward. After all, most ordinary people are appearance-oriented. Seeing a lonely head with various tubes inserted, they will probably be scared to death.

This test lasted for half an hour in total. Zhang Ruien still stared at the ceiling stupidly, rolling his eyes, like a stupid robot.

Except for instinctive blinking, there was no movement...

He has no lungs at all now, and can't even breathe. But in the computer instrument display, his "brainstem" is always in an activated state, as if he wants to complete the breathing response.

The room was quiet, and more than a dozen experts were busy in an orderly manner, analyzing and comparing rows and rows of data.

At this time, Yu Yifeng also heard about this and walked in quietly. He was wearing a set of sterile isolation clothes and was very light-footed.

Yu Yifeng stared at the head for a long time, and frowned slightly when he saw him rolling his eyes. I have seen this kind of "human head" many times in recent years, so it is nothing strange.

"How is it? Was the experiment successful? Why is it so dull? Didn't other experiments wake up a long time ago?"

"It's hard to say... It's in the memory recovery stage for the time being." The one who answered him was Professor Nakatamura, a biologist.

He pointed to the big screen and said, "In the previous experiments, the brain was at least intact, but this time it's different. For the sake of being conservative, this experiment did not use the most advanced technology, but just a more reliable plan."

Yu Yifeng took a closer look and distinguished the functional standard patterns of each brain area. According to his current knowledge, he could barely understand it.

"Look, the simple physiological functions are handled by the artificial brainstem. I just promised that there will be no problem with this part. The brainstem is responsible for breathing, digestion, heartbeat and other functions. After testing, it fully meets the standards."

"In fact, I don't think these functions are necessary. Since we are going to use an artificial body, heartbeat reflexes and so on can be completely removed. Using an artificial water pump... wouldn't it be better?"

This professor Nakatamura is a complete advocate of the bionics school. He advocates the transformation of all useless things in the human body, including the digestive system, circulatory system, etc.

With the advancement of science and technology, this bionics school has also become popular in recent years. They believe that things such as the stomach and small intestine that have not evolved completely can be replaced by an incinerator. The epithelial cells of the small intestine are replaced every 3-6 days, which is very troublesome and very easy to get sick. Incinerators don't have this problem.

You can also use nutrient solution and nanoworms to replace blood, ventilators to replace lungs, etc.

Well, the things advocated by the bionics school involve a series of ethical issues and have not yet been passed by law. The mechanical bionic body in this experiment still cloned a large amount of human tissue, but it was not purely mechanized.

When Professor Nakatamura saw Yu Yifeng, he explained in great detail: "Our current auxiliary brain only has a simple physiological system, and there is no complete dominant logic system. It can assist people in thinking, but it cannot dominate people's thinking. After all, we have not yet figured out the logical boundaries of people. Blindly designing one will only limit people's creativity."

"Logic still depends on the original brain to execute..."

"Also, we installed electronic eyes and mechanical noses for him, which will make his perception more sensitive. But all these functions can be turned off."

"Okay, just tell me, can the person wake up?" Yu Yifeng asked directly. He saw that the head was still stupid, and thought of the scene of the family members crying and shouting, and he felt a little anxious.

This incident, under the media's report, even triggered heated discussions among the general public. If such a serious injury can be saved, there is no doubt that it will be a huge encouragement to the people. But if it fails, it will also be a big blow.

The original safety inspection procedures are being fully investigated. It is not terrible to have a bug in the system. Just find it and prescribe the right medicine.

Professor Nakatamura shook his head slightly: "It's hard to say. The patient's hippocampus has suffered a series of damages. After the brain was repaired, some of the memory was lost. Now it depends on whether the patient's memory can form an effective self-logic. Otherwise, the memory must be cleared and relearned like a child. Isn't this a different person..."

"Clear memory? What will happen if the self-logic cannot be formed and the memory is not cleared?" Yu Yifeng asked again with a frown.

Nakatamura spread his hands: "You will become a fool. Think about it, if there are a bunch of useless things in your head and they can't be connected, what's the difference between them and garbage. If there is no human self-logic, you can only be like an animal, with only instincts... maybe even no instincts."

"In this case, it is better to clear the memory and relearn."

"Okay... I'm still not sure."

Yu Yifeng nodded. After understanding the specific situation, he could only turn around and walk out of the intensive care unit.

After meeting the patient's family, he selectively conveyed some of this information. Anyway, the operation was not successful, but it was not a failure either. People can only do their best...

Time passed day by day.

In Zhang Ruien's mind, various memory fragments jumped randomly.

Sometimes it was a child playing, sometimes it was a scene of the earth exploding, and sometimes it went to Nix to mine. Anyway, there were all kinds of memories from childhood to adulthood, many of which were already blurred, and some were relatively clear.

These memories must be connected through a logical main line, otherwise they are just simple fragments and cannot form a real personality.

Perhaps it was because of the tenacity of life instinct, or perhaps it was the superb skills of the new human experts, or perhaps it was the role of the auxiliary brain... I don’t know how long it took, but this part of the memory fragments was finally slowly sorted out.

Zhang Ruien’s brain activity became stronger and stronger, and his brain waves became clearer and clearer.

"I..."

"Is he dead?"

He remembered it!

He remembered the last second before the explosion!

A series of brain wave data changed from being flat to shaking violently. The moment he regained self-consciousness, a large number of scientists rushed to the intensive care unit like rabbits.

The leaders were Roman and Professor Nakatamura, who were simply beaming with joy, smoking all over, and couldn’t be more joyful!

Some even trembled with excitement... What does this mean?

"Not just a life..."

"Or...a leap over a weak barrier?!"

This technology has been successfully promoted to the new humans. How could they not be excited and happy!

Soon someone called Yu Yifeng to report the incident. "What?" Yu Yifeng immediately put down his work in the office and hurried to the hospital.

Of course, the final result remains to be verified. Whether Zhang Ruien has become smarter or more normal remains to be investigated.

"I..." When Zhang Ruien saw such a large group of people, he wanted to speak, but found that he was soaked in a light blue liquid and was just opening his mouth.

This is because he only has one head and no trachea, so he can't make any sound.

"Don't panic, we have repaired your brain, but we haven't installed the body yet. Whatever you want to say in your mind can be directly reflected on the computer screen." A young professor said calmly in a gentle voice.

Two-in-one chapter, no update at night.