The rise of nanometers

It was dim outside the window, and the snowflakes that fell at an unknown time last night left a layer of silver on the bare branches of the oak tree.

Putting his cell phone on the bedside table, he resisted the headache, sat on the bed, picked up a pillow and put it behind his back. He leaned against the wall and gently rubbed his temples to relieve the headache.

For patients with hyperamnesia, it usually causes more harm than good.

This is especially obvious in Huang Xiuyuan. Countless irrelevant memories are simply and crudely piled up in the brain, and patients often fall into uncontrollable memories.

For example, during an exam, you need to recall exam-related memories, but you recall memories of playing with mud when you were five years old and eating watermelon when you were eight years old. This is a disaster.

However, this situation will accompany patients with hyperamnesia throughout their lives until they die.

When he was in elementary school and middle school, Huang Xiuyuan was called a child prodigy by people around him because of his hypermemory disorder.

At the beginning, due to my relatively young age, the side effects of hyperamnesia were not too obvious. After graduating from high school and entering college, the related side effects began to become obvious.

Domestic research in this area lags behind compared with Western countries.

After three years of undergraduate study at Harbin Institute of Technology, he applied to study abroad in the United States at his own expense and studied for a master's degree at Harvard University. After coming to Harvard University, Huang Xiuyuan realized that he had hyperamnesia through some papers and library materials.

Mark Benjamin, Huang Xiuyuan's graduate tutor, commented on him: an ordinary person with no memory.

This shows that Huang Xiuyuan is not a genius, but an ordinary person. Even due to the influence of hyperamnesia, as time goes by, he will become more mediocre and suffer from mental problems.

As soon as he calmed down, the messy memories in his mind emerged one after another, as if a group of demons were dancing around.

At this time, there was a hint of brightness outside the window. He glanced at his watch, and the time was fixed at 6:53.

Dawn has arrived, and the sun in the east is rising slowly.

After struggling for most of the night, Huang Xiuyuan didn't feel sleepy at all. He now needed to solve a problem, about hyperamnesia.

In fact, the problem of hyperamnesia can be mainly divided into three parts, namely uncontrollable memory, huge memory capacity, and inability to forget memories.

In this era, it is indeed a difficult and complicated disease that has no cure, but it will not be a problem in the future.

In the future, hyperamnesia, also known as "brain cell evolutionary defect syndrome", refers to a small group of humans who, due to genetic mutations, have evolved hypermemory gene keys in genes related to brain cells.

Originally this was a good thing, but human genes are a whole, and it can be said that a single move affects the whole body.

Due to the emergence of the super-memory gene key, brain cells have the ability to remember photographs, but the "supporting facilities" of the super-memory gene key have not kept up.

In the original gene sequence of the human body, related genes such as the memory erasure gene key and the memory regulation gene key are suppressed by the super memory gene key, making it difficult to check and balance this "super gene".

If the relevant genes can be perfected, the side effects of hyperamnesia can be fundamentally avoided and the supermemory ability can be perfectly preserved.

But Huang Xiuyuan knew very well that with the level of genetic engineering at this time, it was simply a whim to engage in genetic evolution, and a bad person would get involved in it.

Even in the future at the end of his memory, no practical genetic evolution technology has been developed.

Although there is no way to cure the root cause, there are many ways to treat the symptoms.

Resisting the messy memories, I walked to the computer desk nearby, opened my laptop, and let my fingers fly on the keyboard.

He searched for something on the Internet, and in his countless memories, there were first-generation treatment drugs, and they were readily available known drugs.

He found the drugs he needed on the official websites of some chemical reagent sales companies. These drugs were sold by many chemical reagent companies, three of which had sales outlets in Cambridge.

In fact, you can also make a reservation on the official website, and the other party will send it to Harvard University by mail.

Just thinking about the impressive speed of express delivery in the United States, he gave up the idea of ​​ordering online. It would be faster to go in person.

Huang Xiuyuan determined the locations of the sales points of the three companies, found the nearest one, and looked at the time. It was only 7:34.

When I came to the bathroom, I took off my sweaty clothes and took a hot shower. After brushing my teeth and washing my face, I felt a little better. I put on a set of clean clothes and put on a down jacket.

He stuffed the clothes he took off into a laundry bag, picked up a handful of laundry beads, and carried the bag to the public laundry room in the basement of the dormitory.

The washing machine in the public laundry room can be used directly by inserting a 25-cent coin. The dryer next to it is free.

After drying the clothes, Huang Xiuyuan took the clothes back to the dormitory, and took his mobile phone and wallet with him.

The area near the dormitory building for graduate students seems deserted due to the holidays. Occasionally, you can encounter solitary international students.

Huang Xiuyuan has a somewhat withdrawn personality, and most of his close friends have returned home.

I walked out of Harvard University, hailed a taxi, and headed straight to my destination.

When I arrived at the nearest sales point of the chemical reagent company, the time was already 9:22, the cold wind was howling, and the door of the store was still closed.

He was not surprised by this. Uncle Sam had its own national conditions. Some stores usually opened around 10 a.m., but there were also 24-hour convenience stores and fast food restaurants.

While there was still some time, I went to McDonald's and bought a hamburger and a cup of hot milk. I ate while waiting for the chemical reagent sales point to open.

After finishing the burger and strolling for about a kilometer, it was almost 10:30 in the morning. The employee at the chemical reagent sales point happened to yawn and lazily opened the rolling shutter.

A middle-aged white man with a beard saw the figure approaching and greeted him with a smile:

"Hello! Good morning, buddy."

After glancing at the other party, he spoke directly and handed over a note: "I need these things."

"Oh, this damn weather, the ground is like Andrew's toilet, it's really terrible." The bearded man took the note and said incoherently.

"Glucose, vitamin B3, sodium chloride, and purified water are all fine."

"Clonidine hydrochloride, what does this look like?" A somewhat confused bearded man turned to another young white man and asked, "Little Dodger, are there any restrictions on clonidine hydrochloride?"

Dodge, who was checking the storage status of each reagent, replied: "I need to check."

After saying that, he trotted to his work computer and entered the name of clonidine hydrochloride.

"Little Dodger, I was checking GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) by the way."

"OK."

After a while, Dodge raised his head, rubbed his hands, and said: "There is no sales restriction on GABA. Clonidine hydrochloride is a prescription drug. Where is it used?"

The last sentence was asked to Huang Xiuyuan.

He calmly took out his student ID card: "This is my student ID card. I plan to buy it for experiments."

The bearded man looked at his student ID: "Oh? From Harvard? OK."

Half an hour later, more than a dozen chemical reagents and chemical utensils were packaged. After paying directly, he immediately returned to the dormitory.

He did not choose the school's simple chemistry laboratory because it was inconvenient. At the same time, he only needed to prepare the ingredients of the medicine and did not need to perform complex chemical reactions. He could also do it in the dormitory.