Li Lechen naturally wouldn't carry digestive tablets with him, but the "Chasing Wind Digestive Tablets" produced by Lai Haoren can now be purchased separately in the mall, which is a perfect remedy to counteract the effects of the satiety pills.

He quickly spent 500 coins to buy the antidote and handed it over again.

I had experience before. Although the dog wouldn't be interested in any food after taking a satiating pill, the digestive tablets were an exception. So the dog got excited as soon as it smelled the sweet and sour aroma.

"bouncing!"

Suddenly, a male voice came from behind.

Li Lechen was stunned for a moment, his hand trembled, and the antidote for the satiety pill fell to the ground.

The dog was also attracted by its owner's call and turned around to bark twice.

An elderly man with gray hair but a straight posture walked up from behind and opened his arms to the dog.

The obedient dog, upon seeing its owner, naturally jumped happily over.

At this moment, the old man's gaze fell on Li Lechen, who was squatting there. Receiving the attention he was being given, Li Lechen awkwardly withdrew his hand, which had been reaching out to pick up the antidote for the hunger pills.

It's something that fell on the ground, and it's food, so picking it up would seem strange. Besides, the antidote for the satiety pills isn't like the pills themselves—they won't explode if not eaten within 24 hours. Moreover, this stuff was originally meant for the dog, so leaving it here doesn't really matter.

So he got up, nodded and smiled at the old man, and said, "Your dog is so cute. I was just about to feed it something."

After saying that, he waved the slice of meat in his hand to show that he had just intended to feed the dog.

Just as I was about to turn away, thinking that was the end of it, the old man suddenly said, "My dog ​​hasn't eaten for three days."

"Smack!"

In his panic, Li Lechen dropped the slice of meat he was holding onto the ground.

Realizing she had gone a bit too far, she took a deep breath and turned around to ask, "Is the dog sick? If it hasn't eaten for three days, shouldn't we take it to the vet?"

"I've checked it, and they didn't find anything wrong."

Wang Jin didn't know why he was talking to the child about the dog. It seemed the dog's condition wasn't simply a matter of being sick. It hadn't eaten for three days, yet remained in excellent spirits, which was completely incomprehensible.

However, when Wang Jin saw Li Lechen, he felt a strange sense of familiarity, especially since his dog had gotten along well with him just now.

The two remained silent for a while.

Li Lechen felt it was about time and was about to leave when Wang Jin asked again, "Are you a student at Lingcheng University? Which department are you in?"

"I'm from Lingcheng Middle School, and I'm still in my senior year," Li Lechen answered truthfully.

Although the boy looked rather young, and one might assume he was a freshman in college, Wang Jin was somewhat surprised when he said he was still in high school: "You're interested in biological genes?"

"My classmate insisted on dragging me here, and I thought it looked interesting, so I came to listen."

Li Lechen brought up Zhou Mi to avoid being stumped by the professor who might be the main speaker today. After all, he was a terrible student. If Zhou Mi asked him a question, he could only ask the AI ​​assistant. But it was hard to say whether the AI ​​assistant's answer would exceed the knowledge range that a normal senior high school student should have. If it accidentally went too far, it would easily attract attention.

In particular, he had also "harmed" someone else's dog.

Wang Jin was a little disappointed. It sounded like the other person wasn't really interested in this. Perhaps the topic of cloning was just inherently attractive.

However, the disappointment was only momentary. Wang Jin then asked, "So what do you think of clones?"

"Do clones feel pain?" Li Lechen asked rhetorically.

Wang Jin was pleasantly surprised by this question: "Why do you ask that?"

"They must be able to feel pain, right?" Li Lechen muttered to himself. "Then can they think? I mean, in terms of their brains, are they the same as normal people? Can they think independently?"

Wang Jin hadn't expected that this high school senior, who had only come to listen to his lecture out of "interest," would ask such interesting questions. So Wang Jin explained earnestly, "Theoretically, it's the same."

"Then I think we shouldn't clone people, it's too cruel."

"cruel?"

Wang Jin found the term novel. The academic debate surrounding human cloning typically revolves around ethical and moral issues, specifically how to protect the human rights of two identical individuals.

Li Lechen became serious about this: "Cloning isn't just for show, is it? If it's used in medicine, wouldn't there be situations where, to save a normal person, an exact clone is created, and then the clone's organs are transplanted into that normal person?"

"!!!"

Wang Jin was somewhat shocked. Although Li Lechen's words did not contain a single academic term, such bold ideas are indispensable in academic research.

Seeing the shock in the professor's eyes, Li Lechen quickly apologized, "I'm sorry, I guess I've been reading too many novels. This is actually pretty far-fetched, isn't it?"

"No, no, no, your idea is very forward-thinking. In fact, from the perspective of the development trend of biological genes, this is the path we should take."

"!!!"

This time, it was Li Lechen's turn to be shocked.

“Of course, we don’t need to clone a complete person; we can clone only the organs we need. You see, many diseases are currently incurable because we haven’t been able to find a donor for transplantation in time. Transplantation can solve 90% of intractable diseases,” Wang Jin explained.

"Just clone the organs? Live ones? And usable ones for transplantation?"

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