bookcurios Chapter 403 Time is Running Out
Chapter 403 Time is Running Out
Longcheng, Beijing.
Longxia Group Headquarters.
Somewhere on the 139th floor of the underground city...
"I never imagined there was a place like this?!"
"To be honest, besides you, me, and my adoptive mother Long Xia, no one else knows about this place."
Upon hearing this, Ye Kai immediately became alert.
There was already a hint of threat in his words!
[Don't be nervous. Since I brought you here, I won't lay a hand on you.]
"Many things are too slow to be explained in words, so take a look at these first."
As she spoke, Liu Jing tossed a stack of documents over.
Ye Kai took it and began to look through it.
φBuddha Love Project?
This is one of the many alphabet projects secretly carried out by the World Alliance.
It is highly related to "Bao Ren".
The initial plan was to use the power of the Treasure Man's progenitor, "Messiah," to benefit all mankind.
The plan ultimately failed.
Because the survival rate of the experimental subjects was too low.
The Messiah clones and the "immersion" technology we see today are all products of this project.
It has also benefited countless trainers.
Let a small number of people become "treasure people" first.
At that time, alliances of countries around the world and major financial groups were all studying this.
However, only a few major countries have made even slight progress.
Ye Kai continued reading, then frowned.
Internal documents from "Longxia Biopharmaceutical Company"?!
Longxia Group in its early years.
It was a small, unknown company on the verge of bankruptcy and restructuring.
But overnight.
The company announced a major breakthrough in immersion technology, and its stock price surged for more than two months!
This is news from more than 30 years ago.
In reality, Longxia Biotechnology's difference lies simply in the "raw materials" distributed by the alliance.
Long Xia is truly a woman with cunning.
No one knows how she got her hands on that precious sample.
The slice sample she obtained was precisely the "tail"!!
Ye Kai immediately recognized the long, narrow object.
He had just finished soaking.
My memories of Rebecca are still very clear.
It's like experiencing it firsthand... I would never be wrong!
Suppressing his shock, he continued flipping through the documents.
At that time, Longxia Biotechnology used three control groups in its experiments.
The first group consists of cells that were directly and mindlessly cloned to form the "tail".
The resulting object did not resemble a human.
Soon, these experimental subjects died in agonizing struggles.
The second method involves rewriting the cells of the tail using gene editing, in accordance with the human genes on Terra.
Through complex methods.
The final product...
This refers to the Messiah clones we see today.
This third one is just outrageous.
It involves editing the genes of the cytoprogenitor cells in the tail and then implanting them into human egg cells.
As for why it wasn't a developing embryo...
That's because they failed.
But it was precisely this desperate, "what's the use of trying anything" approach that led to this.
A miracle has occurred!!
And it was even using Long Xia's own eggs?!
Ye Kai looked at Liu Jing with a shocked expression.
Are you crazy?!
Scientists with no moral bottom line are truly terrifying!
In other words...
She was a baby girl born from the union of Long Xia's and that tail's cells, a "parthenogenetic" birth?!
[I have no memories before I was 17, now you understand.]
Liu Jing's expression remained unchanged.
They did not experience any psychological distress due to this privacy breach.
As she said, she is an extremely precious individual.
So Longxia kept her in a soaking jar for 17 years.
In other words.
Is she a man-made "monster"?!
The further Ye Kai flipped through the documents, the more shocked he became.
The Messiah himself is now equivalent to an "80-year-old person" in human terms.
Because it still used "cloning" technology.
No matter how powerful Liu Jing is as a treasure.
She is at a significant disadvantage in terms of lifespan!
A long list of clinical trials proves it.
The maximum lifespan of the experimental subjects will not exceed 16 years.
17 + 16, Liu Jing is already 31 years old...
In other words?!
[Yes, my days are numbered.]
[This powerful gene, from the day I received it, began its countdown.]
"No need to look anymore, let's save time."
"Just make it clear what you want, what we can gain from this cooperation, and what the risks are."
After Ye Kai learned of these things...
We've already realized this woman's determination to take this gamble!
Actually, there was a "small accident" in the process.
He accidentally killed the female trainer in the Rainy Realm.
It is also a similar "product".
Her public identity is Long Jian's younger sister.
This was also a kind of "insurance" that Aunt Longxia planned to use to smoothly replace Liu Jing after Liu Jing's death.
I just didn't expect it.
Ye Kai took care of it easily.
Upon learning the whole story, he couldn't help but sigh, "Fate is truly unpredictable."
No wonder that woman's strength, although superior to that of an ordinary trainer, was not strong.
The relationship is "very new".
[I want to wipe out the Alliance before my time runs out and turn this world into the world I want it to be.]
"What kind?"
Ye Kai began to develop a slight interest in Liu Jing.
It's not because of her appearance.
It wasn't because of her immense power.
Or perhaps, it's overwhelming power and immeasurable wealth...
It was because she was a dying person!
At most 3 years... and that's the ideal upper limit of the experimental data!
The short ones could kill them at any moment!
The mitochondria in her body are constantly consuming the telomeres at their ends...
This is the tragedy of cloning!
A person who has everything people want and stands at the top of the food chain.
But he couldn't jump around for more than a few days.
How will she face the rest of her days?
Do you know about Experiment 25?
Experiment No. 25?
Ye Kai had certainly heard of it; it was a famous experiment!
The great scientist who created the Poké Ball, Dr. Hawkins.
A pair of Ladas were kept at the "Paradise No. 25 Sanctuary".
These two rodent spirits live in the "paradise" of "Protected Area No. 25".
It has no natural enemies!
Furthermore, the researchers at the time provided them with ample food.
Not just food, but everything the elves need!!
Furthermore, factors such as illness were also taken into account.
The reserve contains supplies such as all-purpose medicines, wound sprays, and tree fruits.
It's practically unlimited!
The Radas soon began laying eggs.
Their numbers have exploded!
What happened next is probably known to everyone...
In March of the following year.
After the last baby Rattata is born, the Rattatas stop breeding...
In less than 6 years.
All the Radha went to the Western Paradise to report for duty.
This result shocked the entire world at the time!
After the results of the experiment came out.
The scientific community's evaluation of "Dr. Hawking" has become polarized, with both praise and criticism.
This immediately put him in the spotlight!
"You wouldn't be trying to equate the current global problem of declining birth rates with this experiment, would you?"
"Of course it's not as simple as you think... Dr. Huo Yin actually exists; he's not a fictional character."
"It's just that he didn't develop the Poké Ball."
Behind Experiment No. 25, there is also an experiment called "Paradise No. 26".
Number 26?!
For some reason, a strong sense of curiosity welled up in his heart.
What were the results of this experiment?!
What were the contents of the experiment?!
Seemingly noticing Ye Kai's curiosity, Liu Jing grabbed his hand.
His cold, strong hands were intertwined with his fingers.
Liu Jing is quite strong...
[I don't have data for this experiment, but it can be transmitted to you via waveguide; you can experience it for yourself.]
Ye Kai's vision began to distort, then blurred, and then... became clear again.
Is this the ability of waveguides to capture images?!
Only by cultivating the power of waveguides to a certain level can one achieve this.
Only then can we truly immerse ourselves in the sharing of "memories and knowledge"!
Experiment No. 26.
This was an experiment that existed even before the elves descended upon this world.
And it was the "ultimate human experiment" that lasted for "8-10 generations"!
The initiator of the experiment.
In a small town called "Happiness Town," several families were relocated.
These initial immigrants were carefully selected by the "observers," tracing back three generations to identify good people.
For these immigrants.
The town offered them generous terms to settle down.
Then the "observers" begin to observe their living conditions.
In the beginning, there was no distinction between high and low status in the town; everyone was equal.
Some people work in agriculture, some in commerce, and some choose to work in handicrafts...
No one forced them to do jobs they didn't like.
Salaries and social status are the same across different industries.
It can be described as a utopia in people's ideals.
But in less than 3 months.
"Happiness Town" has become no longer happy.
The observer discovered it.
Soon, some people climbed to high positions through various means.
After acquiring a large amount of resources.
They began trying to "rewrite" the town's rules and boss others around.
The hierarchy of status also began to emerge.
Therefore, the observer decisively intervened and offered better conditions.
Those restless fellows were quietly "invited out" of Happiness Town.
The purpose is to ensure that "Happiness Town" remains happy.
[Ye Kai, what do you think the result of this experiment will be?]
[...Human nature cannot withstand the test; I am pessimistic.]
Let's continue watching.
Just as Ye Kai had predicted.
Whenever those "restless fellows" appeared in town, the observer would intervene.
The "observer" constantly interferes.
They kept "asking" those "savage and cunning people to leave."
Then, one side of the story assumes that this might be due to genetic reasons?
But weren't their ancestors good people too?
Dishonest bastard.
Their offspring are likely to be dishonest as well.
They always want to climb over others and act like tyrants!
But it doesn't matter, as long as there is human intervention.
In the end, Happiness Town will surely select the "honest and kind" people.
But the result was...
This experiment lasted for more than 470 years.
The "purification" of Happiness Town is not yet complete!
Savage and uncivilized bastards are emerging one after another.
Even the "observers" have survived for several generations.
The observer in this memory is already the "eighth".
During the experiment, a rather baffling situation was discovered.
After all, the "positions" of those who were asked to leave need new successors.
Those guys who seem honest and kind.
A large number of them, once they sit in that "position," turn around and change their attitude completely.
The observers have gotten into a stalemate with these people!
One person comes, "Please leave," another person comes, "Please leave"...
Later, the observers simply designated those tempting, damned "positions".
They forcibly banned it under various pretexts!
But doing so is completely useless.
Within a few months.
New "positions" will then emerge.
Greed is like water; its nature is to flow downwards.
No matter how hard you try to block it, you can't stop it.
The town of Xingfu remains "happy".
At the end of the experiment, the observer shut it down...
Perhaps the idea of purifying human nature into "pure goodness" was a false proposition from the very beginning?
Until the next "observer" takes office.
He changed his usual behavior.
The experiment was restarted, and this time it was named "Experiment No. 27".
Experiment No. 27.
It's a small town called "The Villains".
The observers did the opposite, employing a "breeding poison" tactic.
He wants to purify the evil in human nature!
The original inhabitants here were mischievous kids from a young age.
They are evil to the core.
There isn't a single good person in "Rogue Town"!
And provide these children with the knowledge they learn and the works they read.
These are all highly specialized fields of knowledge, such as law and psychology.
Let them abandon their base desires and aspire to become the ultimate, purest evil seed!
It was a best-selling book in town at the time.
These are all novels such as "The Book of the Dead" and "The Mad Priest".
everyone.
Regardless of gender, age or status.
Everyone is familiar with various methods that can kill someone!
Including legal ones.
It is compliant.
There are also physical ones, fought without bloodshed...
Then something amazing happened.
"Rogue Town" was established in less than 200 years.
That would achieve "ultimate nuclear peace"!!
More than 20 gangs, large and small, in the town finally made a decision.
That is to disband Villain Town.
Everyone, leave this place.
Because none of them are easy to deal with!
If things get desperate, we might as well all die together!
Rather than that.
The world is so big!
Weaker, stupid guys than them.
There are plenty outside of town!
Why confine ourselves to this tiny place and raise poisonous insects here?!
The town of villains soon disappeared.
Liu Jing retrieved the waveguide.
Ye Kai's gaze returned to reality.
"So you keep introducing new policies to vigorously promote upward mobility for lower-level trainers, just to replicate the Villain Town of Experiment 27?"
"That's not entirely true."
She raised her hand and pulled her right hand out of her pocket.
A string of red crystal beads was revealed.
"You should know what this is."
Red chains!!
She has this too?!
"Even if it's just a slim hope, I'll give it a shot and try to find a way to survive."