Chapter 156: Progressive Regression Symbiosis Theory

"Yifening?"

"Bruce."

His eyes became bright immediately, and he looked around, confirming that there was no one beside Su Mian, before sitting here.

"What's your name?"

"Su Mian."

"Oh oh, my name is Huang Baien, majoring in veterinary medicine."

Su Mian guessed that he was probably here voluntarily, holding a promotional brochure for the lecture in his hand.

The volunteer signaled the people present to be quiet, and the lights dimmed. Not long after, a middle-aged man in a brown suit walked onto the stage, and the whole audience applauded.

Huang Baien looked very excited, the intensity of applause was a bit higher, and he covered his mouth to introduce to Su Mian.

"Academician Huang Wenchuang, a relative of my father's generation."

Su Mian nodded clearly. No wonder he was so excited, it turned out to be his own family.

Huang Wenchuang adjusted the microphone, and the microphone suddenly made a sharp explosion, and several students sleeping in the back were instantly frightened awake.

"Students, good afternoon."

"I am a researcher from the Fengjing Biological Research Institute, here to give a small knowledge popularization to all the talents of Jingda."

"They all say that Jingda is full of talents, so listening to a small lecture seriously is definitely not a problem. Come, let's look at this banner..."

"Really humble, obviously the Dean said he is a researcher."

Huang Baien held his face, his whole body seemed to be bubbling with stars, and he didn't know if he was talking to himself or to Su Mian.

Su Mian: No need to say the psychological activities out loud.

"We will focus on a more fundamental and broader biological proposition, in our human species, evolution and regression."

"How these two seemingly contradictory forces coexist in extremely complex ways and profoundly shape our current state, especially the immune system we rely on for survival."

"Evolution and regression coexist? Can I not do it, hello? Has the theory of evolution been evolved away, teacher."

The boy on the other side of Su Mian couldn't play games and started to pick up small talk again. He looked like his major was related to this lecture, and it was effortless to pick thorns.

"Can you shut up? If you don't want to listen, get out!"

Huang Baien crossed Su Mian and gathered his courage to roar at that side in a low voice.

"A tiny gene mutation may lead to a significant evolutionary improvement in defense capabilities through complex cascade effects, or it may trigger a catastrophic regression collapse. The threshold and critical point of this are far from fully understood."

"You are still arguing with me, do you know what people are talking about? Ignorant liberal arts student."

"Eh eh eh??? What's wrong with liberal arts students?"

Huang Baien hadn't spoken yet, but first ignited a row of female students sitting above.

"What era is it, and you are still doing this set? Are your braids not cut yet? Didn't the Qing Dynasty perish long ago?"

Obviously, the attack power of the girls was much stronger than that boy. The boy's face was blue and white.

Relying on the fact that someone was speaking above, they couldn't hear, rolled their eyes, and muttered in their mouths. It looked like swearing.

Those few girls couldn't sit still and stood up immediately.

"What are you saying? What quality!"

"Only you can scold?! Ah? Come out and scold with sister!"

"What are those students doing."

Huang Wenchuang on the podium frowned, his train of thought interrupted. He rubbed his eyebrows and rummaged through the manuscript.

Several volunteers took them away from here. The students whispered, and Huang Wenchuang also suppressed his temper. Finally, he patted the table, and the crowd was quiet immediately.

"Students... students!"

"I know science is always boring, but you listen carefully, maybe you can find the mystery in it? Maybe you can use it sometime in the future?"

He was a bit hating iron for not becoming steel, his eyes carrying deep regret and disappointment.

Su Mian tilted her head, crossed her arms, a bit puzzled.

If it was just to popularize knowledge, being interrupted by a small farce, the expression revealed should be irritability and anger.

And the starting point of emotional loss of control should be the chaos of order. This kind of look and emotion seemed a bit too heavy, as if seeing some kind of group destiny from them.

When the hall was completely quiet, he didn't look at the PPT that was still on the title, but started to tell a small story.

"When I was studying for my PhD, I raised a box of fruit flies."

"A very small box, to observe a very subtle gene marker."

"Record the frequency of their wing vibration, reaction to light, and mating habits every day, with data accurate to milliseconds."

"One morning, I found that all the fruit flies in the box were dead."

At this moment, all the students looked up, and they had to thank the farce triggered by those few people, otherwise the look-up rate of this lecture would not be so high.

"No reason, at least it seemed so at the time, just the night before, the air conditioning system failed, and the temperature fluctuated by 0.5 degrees."

"0.5 degrees, for us in the auditorium, it might just be the difference between 'a bit cool today' or 'a bit stuffy'."

"But for that box of fruit flies, that is the critical point of their survival curve."

He lowered his head, not knowing if he was looking at the manuscript or something.

"We are always very good at distinguishing 'us' and 'them', and we are also very good at feeling that some changes, as long as they don't happen in our box, will always be distant stories."

After a pause of a few seconds, Huang Wenchuang said it was too far away, and started to bring the topic back on track.

He pointed to the PPT, and the students lowered their heads again, but Su Mian listened very carefully. This might be a bit childish. She was touched by that story, perhaps because the ability to capture emotions was too strong. Su Mian noticed the crisis and hints in his words, making her unable to convince herself not to listen.

In the following time, Su Mian and Huang Baien sat there like dummies without blinking.

Huang Baien was purely because of worship, while Su Mian was because of other things.

Although she didn't understand many professional terms, she could understand this theory in common language, which is "evolution and regression coexist, but it is related to the immune system. People with specific immune systems will evolve, and humans without specific immune systems will regress. The symptoms of regression are unclear, because everything is a conjecture."

This person said "everything is a conjecture" many times, like a paragraph brought for scientific rigor, but also like some kind of retreat.

When the lecture ended, Su Mian blinked her dry eyes. She was startled when she turned her head. Huang Baien's face was as red as a monkey, looking like he was inspired by the lecture.

"Uncle Huang is too amazing! I must learn from him, I must also take a PhD, I must also enter the Biological Research Institute!"

Su Mian turned off the phone recording and looked at him with a smile that was not a smile, "Did you understand?"

"Uh..."

Huang Baien suddenly looked like he was extinguished by a basin of water, stuttering and unable to speak for a long time, but his eyes lit up again in the next second.