Gene Evolution

Lin Jia frowned tightly. "Let's go back to China. A gentleman doesn't stand under a crumbling wall.

This atmosphere of confrontation has spread through public opinion from Washington to the rural areas of Tennessee.

Here, the personal risk is very high, especially if you really achieve something remarkable.

Purely from the perspective of high-tech, the domestic entrepreneurial environment is also good. For top talents like you, there are many institutions in China willing to invest in you. At worst, I can give you some seed funding.

It's just that you need to think carefully about the specific direction."

Chen Yuanguang teased, "I didn't expect you to consider this angle. Didn't you always want to study abroad in America before?

Why are you suddenly bringing this up again?"

Lin Jia raised an eyebrow. "Someone like me who studies finance is like a walking gold coin bag for America, waiting for me to drop gold coins. It's definitely not a problem for me to come.

And it's in New York. The safety factor in the rich neighborhoods of New York is guaranteed.

You are different. You are currently a white-named NPC. The research results you are producing are theoretical, so there won't be any risk for now.

If you really achieve some groundbreaking results that can be implemented, then you will become a yellow-named NPC. Once you reveal your intention or desire to return to China, you'll instantly become a red-named NPC, and the danger level will skyrocket.

Don't act on any recent inspirations or ideas yet. Wait until you get your doctoral degree from MIT and then graduate and return to China before talking about it.

As the saying goes online, 'develop stealthily, don't show off'."

Lin Jia sighed, "Yuanguang, I really didn't expect you to be so talented in scientific research. If I had anticipated your talent in scientific research earlier, I would have preferred to stay in China for graduate school rather than come to Columbia.

Now, let's both keep a low profile and just wait to graduate."

Chen Yuanguang nodded first, then shook his head. "Hmm, I still have a paper to publish about the virus. I'll keep a low profile after that paper is published.

It's just that that paper will have a very big impact and is likely to cause pharmaceutical companies to lose a lot of money. It's not about making them lose money, but about preventing them from earning the money they were supposed to earn."

Lin Jia was puzzled. "Can't the virus be quickly controlled by a broad-spectrum vaccine? When I was in China, I saw that the domestic media gave it a very high evaluation. I also saw that the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg gave your research results a very positive and active evaluation.

They believe that the virus pandemic can be fundamentally contained in a short period of time.

Including the Nasdaq Index, S&P 500, FTSE 100, DAX, etc., these indices saw astonishing growth and a full recovery on the second day after the news of your Science paper fully fermented.

Why is there still a paper to publish?"

Chen Yuanguang explained, "Because the countries capable of designing and producing broad-spectrum vaccines are nothing more than major countries like Europe, America, and China. They can design and produce broad-spectrum vaccines according to my research results.

For the vast majority of countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, they do not have the ability to design and produce them themselves, or even if they do, it will take a very long time. Their markets will be occupied by multinational pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and AstraZeneca.

This will lead to not everyone in these countries being able to afford the vaccine.

What I want is to rely on vaccines to guide the virus to evolve in a general direction, gradually weakening its toxicity, so that even if only some people can get vaccinated, the toxicity of the globally circulating strains is gradually weakening, until its toxicity is reduced to a level even lower than that of the flu.

If this result is achieved, the interests of pharmaceutical companies will be severely damaged."

Chen Yuanguang felt that his previous achievements only benefited a portion of people, and he hoped to have more achievements that would benefit everyone.

Lin Jia felt a stirring in her heart, a feeling of not having misjudged him. The compassion Chen Yuanguang showed for the world deeply moved her.

Achieving this level was already enough, but considering that many people could not afford the expensive broad-spectrum vaccine, he hoped he could do more.

Chen Yuanguang didn't think this was about benefiting the world; he just felt that since he could gain the ability to go to the future, with greater ability comes greater responsibility. He should do what he could, rather than produce results that only benefited these multinational pharmaceutical companies.

Lin Jia took a deep breath to calm herself, then said, "Even if you succeed, pharmaceutical companies won't design vaccines according to your plan.

They will still focus on broad-spectrum vaccines. As for the vaccine you hope for that directs viral mutation, they will say they are researching it verbally, but in reality, they will delay the research progress as much as possible, or even not research it at all.

If you want to pursue this, you need to return to China and cooperate with the Chinese side, letting Chinese state-owned enterprises assist in this matter.

For China, ending the pandemic and returning to an era of global circulation of resources, population, and information is far more important than the profits from vaccines."

Lin Jia continued, "Since you have this idea, we can start preparing to return to China. I will arrange a charter flight and contact the Chinese side. We can start after we get back.

It's not safe to achieve results here right now."

After talking with Lin Jia, Chen Yuanguang realized it wasn't safe in America. Lying in bed that night, he silently thought about going to the future.

In the blink of an eye, he arrived in Kuala Lumpur several hundred years later, lying in a student dormitory at the University of Malaya. The texture of the blanket, the style of the room's decoration, the computer and VR headset on the desk, and the virtual imaging screen by the bed all told him that this was already the future.

Chen Yuanguang glanced at the timestamp in the lower right corner of the virtual imaging screen by the bed, 12:30. "I went back for three months, but only about twenty minutes passed here.

The difference in time flow is too great."

He had come to the future in between to look up some information and find inspiration. After finding a direction, Chen Yuanguang left the future and spent three months in the modern timeline.

Chen Yonglin, Shi Huilan, Samad, the Chen family, who would know how humans evolve themselves? Chen Yuanguang thought.

He spent about half a year in the future timeline. Chen Yuanguang discovered that in the future, four hundred years from now, the average human lifespan had extended to 120 years. Why was there no news of genetic evolution or human genetic leaps?

Logically, humans have been conducting research at the genetic level in modern times, and in the future four hundred years from now, with the support of AI, or even a super AI like Alpha, humans should have made rapid progress at the genetic level.

He found that there were undercurrents beneath the surface in America. Chen Yuanguang hoped to obtain some technology to use in the modern timeline, to strengthen himself and at least have basic self-preservation capabilities.

Why hadn't he seen any related content in the public news?

Chen Yuanguang thought for a moment, sat down at the desk, opened his computer, and entered the Pangu website, planning to ask the AI first.