Chu Fei hurriedly left the laboratory, went to the restroom first, then returned to the dormitory to drink his fill of Meat Porridge before finally heading back to the "temporary classroom."
Along the way, Chu Fei kept thinking.
Cao Liwen had actually said that humans possessed no will, then written the two large characters for "greed" across the big screen.
Chu Fei frowned, confused. He even felt a faint resistance to—and fear of—a certain thought.
While he pondered, Cao Liwen slowly walked over. Looking at the thoughtful Chu Fei, he smiled. "Have you thought of something?"
Chu Fei nodded slightly, but his words were somewhat muddled. "It feels like I've thought of something, but I haven't fully figured it out."
Cao Liwen opened a lesson plan and slowly said, "Before explaining the terms will and greed, let's start with a simple experiment."
Though he called it an experiment, it was really just a video.
It showed an experiment involving paramecia. There were two groups, both very simple.
In one group, clear water and unsalted beef broth were placed on opposite sides of a paramecium culture solution. The paramecia swam toward the beef broth.
In the other group, there was clear water and saltwater. The paramecia swam toward the clear water.
They moved slowly, yet resolutely.
A very simple experiment.
If Cao Liwen had not given him those earlier hints, Chu Fei would have naturally assumed this was some kind of stress-response experiment.
But now, he had gained a different insight.
Cao Liwen spoke. "What did you see in these two experiments?"
Before Chu Fei could answer, Cao Liwen wrote two new large characters on the screen: survival.
He continued, "Before discussing anything, one must establish a prerequisite.
Discussion without prerequisites is empty talk.
Paramecia are very simple lifeforms. They do