After receiving the information provided by the coach, Lin Chi immediately opened the document and read the contents.

What appeared in front of us this time was not those highly professional academic reports, but a private letter.

Under the action of automatic translation software, all of this email written in English were converted into Chinese. However, some of the abbreviations cannot be converted:

"Written to my dear"

"Who is it?" Lin Chi asked the coach.

"I don't know." The coach answered Lin Chi's question with his cell phone speaker: "This doesn't matter, please continue reading."

Lin Chi stared at the slowly scrolling text on the screen, and the content of the letter began to enter his brain.

He soon realized that the weight of the letter he was reading was extremely "heavy":

Long time no see, my close friend. How are you doing recently?

Maybe in your eyes, I was still the weak boy back then. If we could meet now, you would definitely be shocked. My body was unprecedentedly healthy, and my legs that were unable to move were now able to run.

All of this is a blessing for the exoskeleton developed by Lengshan Laboratory. Thank you for introducing this institution to me at that time. Although you failed the assessment, and... my letter should never be read by you.

This letter cannot be sent.

I, who live in the lab, are not allowed to leave the lab and cannot send any emails, like everyone else here.

Very strict rules, right? I used to think of this, but when I think of our research, it all doesn't matter.

It is no exaggeration to say that the work being carried out by my colleagues in the laboratory can definitely be described as the word "great"!

Lengshan Laboratory can be called an institution that can change the fate of mankind. Because what we need to do is to break through the shackles of birth, old age, sickness and death, and let the humans living in this world usher in true eternity!

A long time ago, when my legs were still unable to move, I once watched an animation at home, which was a very profound work, in which the so-called "third magic" was mentioned.

I know you intend to laugh at my childishness, but that "third magic" really attracted me at that time. Until now, I still remember it clearly:

——By materializing the human soul, humans can achieve true immortality, which is the so-called "third magic".

At that time, as a disabled person, I was pessimistic and world-weary. In my opinion, I should never be able to stand up and could only sit in a wheelchair and spend my whole life dragging my useless legs with my muscles atrophy.

However, the concept of the third magic gave me a glimmer of hope.

As Mr. Arthur Clark said: "Any technology that is advanced enough will be no different from magic at first glance." The speed of human technology development is changing with each passing day. If one day I can see technology similar to "third magic" appear alive, then not only my disabled legs, I don't even need to use this disgusting body again!

Let me tell you the truth. What we are studying now is the method of "materializing" the human soul.

Of course, unlike magical magic, our methods are more complex. To be precise, we are studying human consciousness.

Now, whether it is a biologist, a neuroscientist, a psychologist, or even the philosophers who stay in the library all day long, everyone is troubled by the same problem, which is also the "ultimate problem" of mankind.

——Why does human consciousness exist? Does the "soul" really exist?

Biologists who study brain structures have sworn to show that the so-called soul is just a lie in the fantasy of ignorant old humans.

In their opinion, once the brain dies, human consciousness, like all other life functions of this body, will no longer exist.

They once conducted cruel experiments on living people, stimulating certain parts of the brain through electric currents, which could cause subjects to have various hallucinations, including the common "soul out of body" hallucinations.

Some people feel themselves floating up and see their bodies through the "third person" perspective. Some people feel that they are passing through a tunnel full of light, and even seeing their dead relatives.

These biologists successfully simulated the near-death experience before human death, and then used it to prove their theory: the so-called "soul" is nothing but hallucinations, something that can be created through current stimulation.

However, unlike their research direction, our research does not involve "how to change consciousness through external means", but goes to another field - at least as it was.

After reading this, you might find it funny? After all, Lengshan Laboratory can be regarded as a pioneer of civilian intrabrain imaging technology, which is a proof that the intrabrain imaging technology changes consciousness through external means. But...

You are wrong.

Intrabrain imaging technology and equipment are just a small episode in our research. There is only one reason why we announced this technology in 2029:

This technology is completely irrelevant to us. Just like engineers occasionally invented microwave ovens during radar tests in the last century, it was just a useless little thing.

No, to be precise, the intrabrain imaging device is not completely useless, it still confirms the research goals of Lengshan Laboratory. It’s just that its working method is too simple and does not touch deeper areas.

After reading this, you might start to complain, right?

Sorry, I won't keep it aside. What I want to say next is the real content of our research:

——You also know that Lengshan Laboratory is supported by the mysterious consortium to complete the secret plan. In fact, the so-called "mysterious consortium" appears in media headlines every day, and everyone in the world who can access the Internet knows their names.

That’s right, almost all the famous Internet technology companies you can think of are investors in Lengshan Laboratory.

As for why they don’t do their own research, but instead invest in such a suspicious scientific research institution, the reason is very simple:

The research direction of Lengshan Laboratory sounds too ridiculous. No investor with a "normal brain" will invest a penny on this project.

For this project that sounds ridiculous and can even be said to be a "crazy" project, Internet technology companies also need closed institutions like Lengshan Laboratory to conduct inhumane and dangerous experiments.

As for the project we are working on... Now, I will name the project:

——Editing and control of built-in programs in the human brain.

I know you are probably laughing now and then saying that this kind of thing is completely impossible. But what I want to say is that what sounds impossible actually exists!

You might say: "Consciousness exists only on the brain, the brain is like a computer, and consciousness is a computer program. Once the computer is destroyed, the program will no longer exist."

Then I ask you: Who wrote these programs?

The born baby has a brain like a newly purchased computer, and even the system has not been installed yet. How did he start to develop consciousness?

According to the conclusions drawn by Lengshan Laboratory over the years of research, all of us actually have something similar to "programs" built into our brains. It is precisely because of this that consciousness exists.

For example, we are all robots made by some "programmer". For the normal operation of our bodies, everyone has some programs preinstalled in their brains when they are born.
Chapter completed!