Song He's heart trembled, and he was overwhelmed by the honor.
It felt like he was a mere soldier, crouching behind the city wall and shooting at the charging enemy. Then, all of a sudden, the emperor himself leaped to his side, kept handing arrows to him, and even shouted instructions about which enemy to shoot!
He had never expected Teacher Xiang's hands-on instruction to come so suddenly!
His heart was pounding with excitement, but his hands still had to remain steady. Suppressing his wildly thumping heart, Song He operated the instruments in an orderly fashion. His movements flowed like water, displaying the composure of a seasoned laboratory veteran.
Data flickered across the instrument screen as master and disciple exchanged comments from time to time.
"Look at the mesoscopic brain-mapping data for container 101. The neurons have developed spatial topological projections!" Xiang Xiaotong poked the screen with her finger.
Song He was astonished. "How could this happen? Could it be..."
"I'm afraid some cells in your artificial brain have begun differentiating into all sorts of strange cells." Xiang Xiaotong said, "The neuron clusters in the accessory oculomotor nucleus of the midbrain can control the ciliary muscle reflex in their anterior region. That's the best-case scenario. The bad possibilities are too numerous to count."
"Do we gamble? Let it develop freely, or try to fix it?" Song He scratched his head.
"You decide."
After a brief moment of thought, Song He grabbed a robot beside him and entered the required materials on the touch panel on its back.
Sevoflurane, Tamoxifen, physiological saline, and GHSR Antagonist.
Xiang Xiaotong glanced at it and nodded approvingly. "You want to try suppressing the neocortex?"
"Yes." Song He enlarged the instrument screen with his hand and quickly explained, "This section mainly consists of Urocortin Neurons, CART+