The Goddess Shines on America

After a busy day, Alice jumped onto the bed the first moment she returned to the hotel, and immediately twisted her body like a soybean bug.

"Oh~ I'm exhausted~!"

Look at this posture, the girl's slender waist is twisted in two directions at the same time, the upper body is turned to the left, the lower body is turned to the right, and even the neck is turned back and forth. Furthermore, when James walked into the room with a smile, Alice immediately changed their directions again, with the upper body facing the right side and the lower body facing the left side.

"Ouch~ I'm exhausted~"

"Having a day of meetings with the staff has tired you out like this?"

James put his daughter's bag at the door, and took off his leather jacket at the same time, but did not hang it on the door of his daughter's bedroom: "Your father and I have at least three classes every day, two hundred and seventy minutes, The whole process is basically standing, isn't it more tired than you?"

"Well, that's exactly what I said."

As she said this, Alice's body didn't stop moving, she continued to whimper and roll on the bed, and covered her head under the pillow by the way: "But Dad, this is my room, When girls are lying on the bed, men have to avoid them!"

James hung the leather jacket on his arm, and seeing his daughter was about to bury her neck under the pillow, he shook his head and said with a smile, "You look like you now, if you get a boyfriend someday, don't let him see this casually." One scene, otherwise it would be too damaging to the image.”

Alice stopped whining, raised her head from under the pillow, and pressed it on top of the pillow again: "I don't want a boyfriend, dad, don't talk nonsense, go out, go out, I have something to do tomorrow."

Seeing that it was getting late, it was really inconvenient for James to stay in his daughter's room anymore, but before going out, he did not forget to leave a sentence: "What time will we get up tomorrow? Where are we going to eat?"

"Huangcheng Temple is very unique, but it's really expensive... Or just find a restaurant with excellent Shanghainese dishes. This is Nanjing Road anyway."

The action for tomorrow morning was quickly decided. When James closed the bedroom door, Alice was still lying on the bed, but she was too lazy to move for a while.

"Um……"

After half a minute, she let out a long moan: "I'm exhausted..."

Saying this, the girl rolling on the bed sheet twisted her body again, her limbs spread out in large characters, and her slender waist twisted vigorously again: "Oh, you can sit in the plane, you can sit in the car, after a whole day The office chair is so well done~ my old waist~ ouch~ so comfortable~"

In this way, when her waist twisted to the left and to the right, and completed several twisted figures, Alice sat up from the bed and at the same time did not forget to wipe away her tears. After this meal, I stretched my waist, and my eyes became watery.

But then, she didn't rush to wash up like an ordinary girl, but stepped on the wooden floor with socks, came to the bed first, and forgot about the slightly chilly night scene outside.

Well, back to Shanghai again.

In fact, even in her previous life, Alice only came to Shanghai once, and that was when she just graduated from high school in her previous life, and when converted to this life today, it was more than 20 years ago.

However, although she doesn't have much affection for the city itself, the so-called "Shanghai people's delicate temper" and other comments that have been widely circulated are spread all over the Internet, which can easily give people a bad impression. But having come to this city twice in this life, Alice is naturally in an extraordinary mood.

First of all, there is no doubt that it is the heart of a wanderer who was born and raised in the United States for more than ten years and suddenly returned to his hometown. This point is particularly strong in James. When Alice proposed to go to Shanghai again, he immediately dialed the number of his grandparents, wanting to ask the old couple if they want to go back to the motherland.

So at this moment, looking at the Xuhui District of Shanghai in the night, which has not yet become an international metropolis in the 21st century, but will become an extremely prosperous city center, Alice has a different emotion in her heart surging.

Even before landing at Hongqiao Airport, she hadn't thought about this issue carefully, but now looking at the bustling night scene outside, an unavoidable fact is constantly circling in her mind.

Grandpa and grandma are old.

It was a big rock that weighed heavily on Alice's heart.

Just like the father and daughter's trip this time, the reason why grandparents couldn't leave in the end was because they were troubled by the wind and cold. However, Shanghai in February is not as warm as Hainan, Guangdong. Under the premise of no heating, there is still the problem of "acclimatization". If you really come here rashly, something may happen.

Alice herself was born in 1972, James and Sophie were born in 1942 and 1945, and they are both in their early forties now. As for grandparents, there is no doubt that, as the first generation of immigrants in their family in the United States, they are now in their seventies.

Even if they live as long as Bush Sr., their grandparents will only delay their death until around 2000. Although that is already in their nineties, it is still not what Alice wants to see.

The prosperity and development of a country is difficult to promote on a large scale by individual strength. Although Alice can now enter the Chinese market with large capital to promote the development of the clothing industry, the promotion of a trillion-level GDP will ultimately depend on current events. propelled.

So, for her, who has always focused on the 21st century, time is actually running out.

If your grandparents can't watch their home country become the world's second largest economy, launch twelve high-tech destroyers for four consecutive years, and quickly realize major events such as the formation of aircraft carrier formations, they will really be blind to their high-level development. Big head gone.

If you really want to study technology seriously, Alice knows how efficient she will be. Except for the hardware cost, the difficulty is not much more difficult than her editing the Windows operating system. It's just that she has a specialization in art, and her life is so beautiful, unless there is some special reason, otherwise, of course she is not willing to lock herself in a white and miserable laboratory.

But if it's about giving grandparents, maternal grandparents, or even James and Sophie a longer life, it's a great motivator.

So at this time, while looking at the charming night Shanghai scenery outside the window, her brain hole started to work again.

"Extending lifespan mainly lies in repairing genetic defects, which requires the large-scale development of biochemical technology."

Seemingly elusive technology. In fact, Alice really has some ideas.

As far as she knows, not long after the London Olympics in the previous life, scientists in the United States fine-tuned two gene pathways in a certain worm in the laboratory, Caenorhabditis elegans, which increased the lifespan of this animal by five times.

Five times.

For humans, that is the difference between one hundred and five hundred years old.

One hundred years old and five hundred years old, what kind of concept is this?

Most of the long-lived people so far, even if they can live to be more than a hundred years old, they will eventually show their old age around the age of sixty, and their longevity is only the extension of old age. But if there are scientists who can extend the lifespan of the entire "human being" by five times by means of genetic pathway adjustments, that would be equivalent to five times the lifespan!

The old age of sixty can only be manifested at least three hundred years old!

Of course, that's how it works in theory, but it's just a nice idea after all. Just like an antimatter reactor, no matter how much sci-fi fans brag about its powerful power, antimatter must be produced and stored first, right?

Creating and preserving antimatter is extremely difficult, and the investment in the construction of any physics laboratory is not a small amount, so for this kind of advanced research, even if Alice has the brain, it doesn't cost that much. It is not her style to obediently receive the certificate of national researcher and go to the national laboratory to make contributions.

But it's much cheaper to study the genetic pathways of worms.

Even elementary school students know that the genetic differences between different species are not as huge as imagined. Of course, that is for elementary school students in the 21st century.

Judging from the human gene sequencing completed by scientists from six countries in 2001, the number of human genes is only about 26,000 to 40,000. If the median value is taken, it is only about 30,000 genes. The number is really not far behind other animals above.

Flies have 14,000 genes, while roundworms have 20,000, and even the plant Arabidopsis has 25,000 genes. Compared with mice, humans only have 300 more genes.

As for the difference between it and the gorillas, it is only 2%.

So here comes the question: Is the gene that makes the life of the worm fivefold also present in the human body?

Don't say that the probability itself is very high, even if it doesn't - can't it be studied by biochemical experiments?

Just avoid Resident Evil for a bit.

Therefore, for Alice, it is really not difficult to increase the life expectancy of human beings, as long as she is willing to use the energy of learning computer knowledge when she was a child and compiling Windows and routers in order to make a fortune.

Well, yes, smart people are often lazy too. The benefits of investing in Microsoft and the establishment of Cisco are obvious, and researching the mysterious virus in Caesar's body is obviously not a priority, so Alice threw her mentor Eaton into a thousand-year-old pit with a wave of her hand.

But if it is to study worm genes for the purpose of increasing the life span of grandparents, the motivation is "leverage".

"Well, it seems that there is another place to spend money."

In this way, after spending a long time in front of the window, Alice finally came to this conclusion: "But we have to wait until later, I still have a big business in Shenzhen waiting."

After finishing speaking, she hopped her legs, jumped two meters away from the spot, turned her body 180 degrees in the air, and fell face down on the bed sheet.