They really had misunderstood Shen Bing. As far as he was concerned, there truly was no such thing as a predetermined research direction.
Cancer Cure No. 1 went without saying; its creation had been a coincidence. As for the current ClearSight Artificial Eyeball, Yun Xue, Yuan Wei, and the others had developed it. Shen Bing had not set any direction beforehand.
Suddenly, Shen Bing changed tack. "Although I haven't set a research direction, I do have an ultimate goal in mind for the development of medicine."
Everyone's eyes widened as they waited for Shen Bing's answer.
Shen Bing said unhurriedly, "My ultimate goal is to give humanity a longer life, perhaps even to reach the point described in mythology—living as long as heaven and earth."
A clamor of discussion immediately erupted below. Quite a few people felt that Shen Bing was not announcing his ultimate goal at all, but preaching theology.
A longer life was something they could look forward to. Even an extra day or two counted as longer.
But what the hell did living as long as heaven and earth mean? Anyone saying that clearly hadn't thought it through. Didn't he know that this universe had existed for over ten billion years? How long was human history? Even including prehistoric humans, it amounted to only a few hundred thousand years. That was a difference of four or five orders of magnitude.
According to current scientific research, the human lifespan did, in fact, have a limit, constrained by the number of times cells could divide.
Countless scientists believed that, faced with this limit, all humanity could do was gradually approach it, minimizing the effects of external conditions on human longevity as much as possible. Breaking through that limit was something they did not even dare contemplate.
Now that Shen