Shaking his head, Chen Chen discarded all these thoughts from his mind. He no longer aimed too high.
After all, it was still early. With Chen Chen's current level of technology, he did not need to consider the problem of the brain's lifespan for at least two or three hundred years. Now, instead of thinking about countermeasures after the brain's lifespan came to an end, Chen Chen might as well consider technology to continue to extend human lifespan.
After all, whether it was stem cell technology, nanorepair technology, or genetic optimization technology, they would not be the end of the technology to extend human lifespan.
After completing body optimization, Chen Chen still did not leave the substation but continued to wait.
After all, in a sealed room in the center of the substation, there was a passage to another world, and on the other side of that passage, there was likely to be a danger that could cause the world to fall in an instant.
However, this time, Chen Chen's wait was a little longer.
Three days, five days, seven days...
When a whole week had passed, Chen Chen even felt a little restless. He was about to send a Black Knight to the other side to check the situation, but before he could give the order, a new USB flash drive was finally sent over by X-112.
"Sir Commander, I have an important report."
Just as the video was opened, X-112's voice came over. "I named the three statues the Big Ears Statue, the Big Mouth Statue, and the Big Eyes Statue, and cut them open..."
Following X-112's words, what came into Chen Chen's eyes were three white things.
They were three white brains.
He saw that these three brains were white and moist, with gullies spreading on them, and even blood vessels could be seen clearly. Moreover, the brain was still contracting rhythmically as if it was in a working state...
"This is what I found after I cut the three statues apart."
X-112 said, "According to my calculations, the volumes of these three brains are not uniform. The largest of them has a volume of 1,350 cubic centimeters, and the smallest one has a volume of 1,120 cubic centimeters, which is within the average range of humans."
"This is only one of the discoveries.
"I've taken cell samples of these three brains and confirmed that they are human brains. Moreover, the cells are active and even high-level neural thinking signals can be detected. This is enough to prove that they are not only alive but also retain the ability to think.
"In addition, I found that among these three brains, the cerebral cortex around the occipital pole and rectangular fissure of the statue representing the open eyes is very developed, the temporal transverse gyrus of the statue representing the big ears is very developed, and the frontal cortex of the statue representing the mouth is very developed..."
At this point, Chen Chen subconsciously pressed the pause button.
Then, he pulled the video back to the beginning and watched it again.
Brain?
Or a living human brain?
It was already strange that the light could not penetrate the three human-faced statues. Now that the statues were cut open, they actually found three human brains inside?
This matter had far exceeded Chen Chen's expectations.
The video continued to play, and X-112 continued to say, "After the three brains were removed from the statue, the internal brain cells began to die rapidly, but even so, the speed of their death is far longer than that of ordinary human brains."
"I've done all kinds of sampling tests, but I can't explain this phenomenon. I've even tried to put the three brains back into the statue, but the brains are still dying uncontrollably.
"Because there wasn't enough time, I didn't find a way to keep the three brains alive."
"After the three brains died, I dissected the brains and analyzed the DNA structure. The result is …"
"The DNA of these three brains all belongs to the genes of the Gross family. Among them, the DNA of the big-eared statue can't be found to match, but the big-eyed statue and the big-mouthed statue belong to Gross' son, Afederer, and Gross' grandson, Fedall, respectively."
"If I'm not mistaken, this is because when Gross died, Elysium had not yet been established, so his genetic files were not collected. The brain in the big-eared statue corresponds to Gross himself."
"In other words, the brains in the three statues correspond to Gross, Gross' son, and Gross' grandson, respectively?"
Chen Chen murmured in a low voice, his expression becoming more and more solemn.
X-112 continued to state. "In order to verify whether the brains in these three statues are really the brains of the three people, I looked up all the relevant information in Elysium, but the answer I got was that among the three people in the Gross family, Gross' son and grandson both live in Elysium, and both of them suffer from a strange disease that causes headaches.
"According to the Gross family, this strange disease is a family disease. Gross suffered from this disease when he was alive and eventually committed suicide because of the pain.
"And before his son and grandson died, they had already given birth to Medpod 3000 technology.
But this fully automated medical platform still couldn't detect the strange disease of the two people.
"In the end, the two people committed suicide in the same way in 2086 and 2122 respectively. The autopsy results were normal and the bodies were finally cremated."
Did they commit suicide by swallowing a gun?
Seeing this method, Chen Chen's heart stirred. One had to know that suicide by swallowing a gun was to stuff the muzzle into the mouth and press against the upper jaw. Once the shot was fired, the bullet would penetrate the upper jaw and directly destroy the brain.
In the future era where euthanasia was extremely popular, these three people chose this most drastic method. Could it be that these three people already knew that their brains would be locked in the statues before they died?
Thinking of this, Chen Chen could not help but laugh at himself. Although what he thought made some sense, it was too illogical.
If someone told him before that a person's brain could be stored in a statue and still live for decades or centuries, forget Chen Chen himself, anyone with an IQ of more than 80 would not believe it.
Moreover, if the brains of the three people had been destroyed, then where did these three intact brains come from?
Endless thoughts flashed through Chen Chen's mind and he continued to watch the video.
X-112 continued. "This is the only abnormal information in the Gross family. Until the death of Gross' grandson, Fedall, no members of the Gross family had the strange genetic disease of headaches. I've put all this information in the USB drive. You can access it at any time.
"At the same time, I operated an aircraft to explore Earth according to your request, but I saw the same scene as in Elysium..."
Following X-112's words, Chen Chen only saw a white scene.
It was a mountain of corpses far larger than in Elysium.
If the mountain of corpses in Elysium was just an ordinary mountain, then this mountain of corpses was the Himalayas.
The white bones stretched as far as the eye could see, filling the screen. The height even exceeded hundreds of meters and the vastness extended all the way to the sky.
"This is the closest location on Earth to Elysium."
X-112 said, "Because Elysium adopts a geosynchronous orbit, no matter how the Earth rotates, Elysium is always above the city of Los Angeles. In that catastrophe, humans on Earth were also affected by the three statues. They continued to move forward from all over the world and arrived in Los Angeles.
"Even if these people died, they wanted to die in the position closest to Elysium...
"Of course, only about 500 million people eventually made it to Los Angeles. Most of the tens of billions of people in Elysium died halfway.
"This is the scene on Earth in Elysium's dimension."
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