Gene from the 13th Department of Bright City

As night approaches, the enthusiasm for the New Year begins to rise. Tonight is the official first night of the New Year. The theme activities in each district started as early as 7 o'clock.

Just after 8 o'clock, Huashen returned to his residence tiredly. He had just returned from a nearby hospital. The dark room was constantly changing colors due to the neon light coming from the street. Huashen stood quietly at the door. On the slightly bright light and shadow screen, there is data on blight patients from all over the hospital.

Hua Shen's tired expression looked extremely solemn. In just a few hours, 16 more people died due to ineffective treatment of multiple organ failure. The accurate physical data before death was transmitted back, but none of these data appeared before. A condition in which a cell stops killing itself.

Hua Shen was a little tired. He didn't know what to do. For the first time, he was helpless when facing the disease. No matter what method he used, there was still no way to cure the blight disease. The hope of finally finding it was slim. So The probability is too low, so low that it doesn't even allow Hua Shen time to know everything, and life flows by in a hurry.

The cause of blight in ordinary people has now been found. It is caused by the unexplained death genome carried in the human mutation and proliferation genome in the original lifespan vaccine. The current incidence rate is 1.78%. Later, the cloning of the future project was successfully carried out. This group of death genes that may cause blight has been removed from the official lifespan gene, but the death genes carried in the bodies of people in the previous era cannot be removed.

Nowadays, no one is willing to study blight disease anymore. It is like an insurmountable barrier in medicine. The life-span medical treatment developed by the cloning future plan is already a considerable problem. There are two types. One is for the previous era. The supplementary vaccine is for people under the age of 30.

The newly developed longevity vaccine is quite stable. So far, not a single blight has appeared. There are even comments in the society that there is no need to spend a lot of time and money on researching a cure for blight. The previous generation’s Most people are now in their fifties or sixties, and most are even in their seventies or eighties.

Many people will soon enter old age. Nowadays, the idea that the elderly are useless is prevalent in society. Many people who have nowhere to vent their anger because of their embarrassment point the finger at the remaining elderly people.

This phenomenon is abnormal. Most doctors who have studied the cure for blight have quit research because the time, energy and money required to treat this disease are bottomless.

Huashen temporarily turned off the light and shadow screen and walked to a room with only a sofa. There was no furniture around. This convertible sofa was where Huashen rested after being tired. Everything was kept simple. Huashen doesn't want to waste time on life problems.

Nowadays, Huashen is focused on the blight disease. It has been nearly a year. Huashen has been studying everything about the blight disease every day.

Many classmates have already advised Huashen to give up, because it is impossible to solve this problem in a short time. At least Huashen alone is powerless. Although Huashen has gotten rid of some classmates to help, they are also unable to solve the problem. Huashen can only help Huashen within the scope of his authority and ability, and Huashen can only complete the rest by himself.

All the problems nowadays are plaguing Huashen. He can't sleep at night or sleep. Every day, Huashen thinks about the death genomes that may induce blight syndrome. There are at least hundreds of such genomes, and there are so many of them. When the amount of the genome is combined with the original normal human genome, it will cause many problems.

Mutated people are one of the problems. In fact, if the abilities of mutant people are considered macroscopically, there may be more human mutated abilities, but the abilities born from these human mutated genes cannot violate the genetic conditions of humans themselves.

A series of complex and changeable things have been lingering in Huashen's mind. Finally, he was forced to use the alienated cells after the mutants became violent to test the cells that were failing and dying due to blight. The results of the test surprised Huashen. The cells of a large number of dying patients with blight syndrome stopped dying. Some of them avoided the fate of death. Instead, they merged with the alienated cells that violently engulfed themselves and became stable. .

Huashen's research has allowed many patients with blight disease to delay the onset of the disease to the greatest extent, but no matter what, there is still no way to prevent it. According to Huashen's research, there are no mutants among patients with blight disease, which is very special. Worth investigating.

Although Xingke now has a comprehensive method for training mutants, this method is not 100%. Breaking through the limits of human physical fitness, unlocking the alienated genome carried in the life-span vaccine, allowing it to begin to proliferate, and then transformed by humans For mutants, the success rate is less than 20%, which is already a very low number.

And even more people who have not exercised a lot can easily become mutants. Although the probability of this is even lower, less than 1%, it has actually happened.

In the end, Huashen found the common ground between the blight disease of ordinary people and the violent self-destruction of mutants. It was this common ground that allowed Huashen to find a way to solve the death caused by the death gene existing in the two.

It's a pity that all this is still in the theoretical stage, and it is very difficult to enter the experimental stage. Huashen is also annoyed, whether he should continue or not. The things on his shoulders are getting heavier and heavier, because Huashen cannot guarantee , if it is really done, what will happen to human beings.

The only thing Huashen can think of now is cell innovation technology. This technology is extremely secretive. In the past, there was a cell called HeLa in human society, which was extracted from a woman’s cervical cancer cells. The cell line of seed cells will not die and can continue to divide and proliferate indefinitely.

More than two hundred years ago, humans relied on these infinitely dividing cells to embark on the path of anti-aging, and also relied on these cells to solve many problems. This kind of cells still exists in the 10 departments of Bright City. The core cell specimen room is used for some medical research.

It is precisely because of the existence of such an incredible cell that Huashen has thought about this problem. If this kind of cell can be conquered and used to improve the number and speed of divisions of human cells, and ultimately achieve unlimited proliferation, then People will have eternal life.

Huashen suddenly stood up. He stared quietly at the neon lights in front of him. What emerged in his mind were the shadows of the seven gods. They were no longer human beings, or were another kind of life form. This secret Gene accidentally revealed it to Huashen before, and Huashen expressed his great desire to see Gene's cells, and finally Gene agreed.

Huashen was completely shocked that time. Gene's cells overturned all the inherent concepts that Huashen had held since he was studying medicine.

"This is a curse to us, and it is not something to be happy about. Remember not to explore it, because it is impossible to explore it with the limits of human beings."

Hua Shen still remembers what Gene said to him at that time. Hua Shen has not explored the secrets of God since then, but now if Hua Shen wants to continue to study blight and the violent self-destruction of mutants, he must come into contact with the field of cell innovation. , according to Huashen's idea, this kind of cell innovation can make it possible for the heart to be repaired within two or three seconds even if it is punctured, just like the gods.

Didi didi

Just as Huashen was thinking, a contact signal popped up on the light and shadow screen. It was from District 118 Hospital. The patient named Ding Manman died. Huashen was stunned for a moment.

Although today's medical facilities still accept patients with blight syndrome, they can only rely on medical equipment to maintain their remaining lives and cannot carry out any treatment. If it were not for the help of the students in Department 4, they would not be able to do so. Given all the data on these patients, basically blight patients are now being sent to the hospital to die.

The hospital will only let the family members take the patients home after leasing the medical equipment to them.

Hua Shen walked to the window and looked at the lights in the distance with a sad expression. He felt mixed emotions in his heart. He wanted to cure the blight disease. There are at least hundreds of thousands of people with potential blight outbreaks. These people will be in the future. You are bound to encounter such a nightmare.

"We can only continue to study."

Huashen turned around, walked to the sofa, turned on the light and shadow screen, called up the physical data of each patient, and continued to read carefully.

9:03 pm

Ran Yu took his son Moore and his brother Ran Qiu, and with the help of several Hillman family bodyguards, carefully moved his dying mother into the elevator. Now his mother Ding Manman will be sent to Hillman Pharmaceuticals. In the top medical institution, Eddie has promised that he will do everything possible to save Ding Manman.

It's just that the two children don't know where their father is at such an important time. Although Ran Yu knows that his father may be talking about something with Eddie, and the content of this conversation determines the mother's life or death, this is Ran Yu's current The younger brother Ranqiu next to him had the same idea, but it didn't matter now because his mother was already dead in the hospital records.

According to Eddie, certain medical technologies that can save Ding Manman are illegal and cannot be made public. The two of them know this well and do not intend to make it public.

At this time, the dean was standing at the entrance of the rooftop. Eddie looked at the dean with a smile. The dean nodded and bowed and held the light and shadow mobile phone. On it was an account with 1 million more in it.

"Dean, this is the matter."

"Don't worry, Mr. Eddie, no one will know. Besides, Mr. Eddie, I was also made by Hillman."

Eddie was a little surprised. After the dean said something nice again, Eddie nodded and turned to leave. He winked at several mutant bodyguards, and they quickly followed the dean down. They were responsible for handling the follow-up matters. , and monitor the dean.

"Only a dead man would tell a secret."

Eddie sneered and stepped into the lift. Prometheus had already set up a complete plan. This dean would definitely die in the next three months.

When he stepped into the lift, Eddie looked to the south. He showed a reassuring smile and left the matter to Ran Zhi. Eddie was very relieved.

In the past, many times when Ran Zhi helped Eddie transport some goods, Ran Zhi completed all the work and negotiations on the military side independently, without leaving any clues or even clues.

This was very shocking in Eddie's view. Ran Zhi had a talent for negotiation that even Prometheus could not calculate, and was able to get things done easily, which Eddie admired very much.

"He should have set foot on the land of the barrier area by now!"

9:32

Along with a burst of dust, Ran Zhi coughed. A large modified truck stopped in front of him, and several modified people behind him who helped him cross the ravine also turned and left.

There were more than 30 people in the truck. When one of the people in charge came down, he bowed respectfully and invited Ran Zhi to get on the truck. After entering the truck, Ran Zhi discovered that there was a small living room at the front, and a room for transporting items and goods at the back. For personnel.

Ran Zhi immediately understood. Sure enough, the Hillman family not only had the stronghold of Alatan Ula in the barrier area, but also had some small strongholds in other places.

The outside of the truck was relatively shabby, and as soon as he got on the truck, the person in charge gave Ran Zhi a set of shabby clothes that only people in the barrier area had, and the truck began to move slowly.

"Mr. Wise, please read the information first."

Ran Zhi nodded. On a light and shadow screen, there was the latest image data of the Alata Ula Mountains. You could see that the blasted gate was being repaired, and there were a large number of people with weapons patrolling the periphery. It seemed that these criminals were The combat effectiveness is relatively strong.

After watching it for a few minutes, Ran Zhi probably understood that this group of criminals had a clear division of labor and were extremely strict in their patrols. There were also secret sentries at many high points to observe. They did not destroy the natural bunkers near the entrance, but only the situation inside. can not see.

"Is there any other information?"

The person in charge quickly pulled out a piece of information. Ran Zhi looked at it carefully and found that they were some vicious criminal gangs that were rampant at the bottom of the city in the past. They fled the city before the crime was investigated and were very sensitive, so they avoided it. The arrest of the criminal department was launched.

Along the way, Ran Zhi also figured out how the Hillman family cooperated with them. Ran Zhi also knew it well. From the beginning when they were fighting, to the time when the Hillman family started to provide them with funds, let them It has grown stronger and formed a strength at the bottom that cannot be ignored. Many people in this group have some murder cases on their hands, and even past administrators and managers died in their hands.

After they grew to a certain extent, they did cause various problems in the city as Eddie thought. After finally escaping to the barrier area, the Hillman family continued to support them and allowed them to establish a business in Jizhigrad. They started a stable life, but it was razed to the ground during last year's military raids. Although the administrative department also paid a heavy price, a gathering place that took ten years to build was transformed overnight. They were razed to the ground, which was devastating to these criminals.

However, what Ran Zhi couldn't figure out was why these criminals were able to know the correct location of the base in the Alatan Ula Mountains and how they could easily breach the base.

"I advise you to investigate in detail. There is a traitor in the Hillman family."

The person in charge smiled and shook his head.

"Mr. Wise, you can rest assured of this."

Ran Zhi naturally knows that the root of Eddie's confidence is that he does control everyone with AI technology, but things will always go wrong. But Ran Zhi doesn't want to delve into other people's problems. The key lies in this negotiation. , how to open a breakthrough, Ran Zhi had already thought of something on the way here.

The most urgent thing that Eddie needs to do now is to gather the researchers and research data in the base. It is obvious that the other leaders also know this. Ran Zai looked at the information of each leader and thought about how to leverage them.

"Mr. Ran Zhi, I won't disturb your designated plan. Now we are going around from south to west. It will take at least 2 days to arrive."

Ran Zhi nodded. Ran Zhi was the only one left in the small living room, and he continued to read the information.

"We already have a plan, right?"

Ran Zhi smiled. He knew that the success rate of this negotiation was 100%, and he probably already knew the situation of these criminals. This seemingly strong relationship would actually turn into nothing with just the slightest disturbance. Nothing.

Ran Zhi knows the perpetrators better than anyone else. These guys got together because they wanted to survive, but once they settle down, the situation will be completely different.

"principal!"

Ran Zhi shouted, and soon the person in charge opened the door and stood respectfully at the door.

"After we get there, let's live a leisurely life for a month. Then we'll start negotiating, but I need to be able to keep in touch with Eddie."

"Of course Mr. Ran Zhi, Mr. Eddie has already said that everything will be at your command."

Ran Zhi nodded.

In less than 20 minutes, the person in charge brought over an old-fashioned black telephone with only touch buttons. After a few minutes, the call was connected.

"How's it going? Do you have any countermeasures?"

"One hundred percent success."

Eddie's hearty laughter came from the other side of the phone.

"My 100% does not mean your 100% Eddie, think about it clearly, consider it clearly! If I can't see my wife when I come back."

"Of course, we will do our best to ensure that Ms. Ding Manman recovers."

Ran Zhi nodded.

"A warning to you Eddie, there is a traitor in the Hillman family. You'd better pay attention. Although AI can help you solve many problems, it doesn't solve all of them."

Ran Zhi hung up the phone immediately after speaking.

On the other side of the line of sight, Eddie was holding the phone and standing on the top of the Hillman Pharmaceuticals building. More than 50 doctors were checking Ding Manman's physical data in the lift. All the doctors looked unhappy.

"Remember, save her, or you will die!"

The doctors were all busy. Eddie had already sent Ran Yu and his nephew Moore back first, and then sent Ran Qiu away. The two also expressed their understanding and did not follow.

But Ran Zhi's last words were like a boulder falling on calm water, making Eddie's heart extremely complicated at this time.

"Who is it?"

Eddie muttered, and thought of Erwin for the first time, but soon Eddie dismissed this idea. Erwin, a dedicated subordinate, would never betray him, but then he thought about it, in that base , only Erwin can collude with the outside world.

"Who is it?"

Eddie asked again. He looked at the brightly lit city. At this time, Eddie felt a trace of fear in his heart because he didn't know what was going on. This fear was not because of what the wise man said. The success was eliminated, but began to come to mind.

Eddie pressed his chest tightly and walked step by step to the edge of the rooftop. At this time, a flash of doubt flashed through Eddie's mind.

"Prometheus!"

However, the rationality in the heart once again gained the upper hand. It is just a string of programming language codes under its own control. It will only act according to its own instructions and give suggestions or reasonable judgments based on data.

Eddie looked at the constantly changing traffic lights on the street. The vehicles moved in an orderly manner under the command of these traffic lights. People were used to traffic lights and were controlled by AI.

Eddie has thought about this day coming, but he is the one controlling AI, and it is enough to know this.

9:58 pm

boom

There was a sound of shattering dishes, and screams suddenly broke out. In a tavern in District 79, Anna stood motionless with a knife in her hand. Her head had been smashed. The red blood was leaving, and a man in front of him was sobbing and covering his neck, but he soon stopped moving and his eyes widened. Someone had already reported the crime.

However, in less than a minute, a large number of people from Section 5 rushed into the tavern, directly pressed Anna on the table, put on handcuffs, and hurriedly left with Anna. The whole process was very fast.

"They don't seem to be from Section 5."

Someone saw them taking Anna directly into an alley, and then someone chased them, only to find that they disappeared strangely. At this time, several management vehicles from Section 5 drove quickly, and a large number of Section 5 personnel rushed towards them. Entered the tavern.

"Where's the prisoner?"

"It has been taken away by your people from Section 5."

A bunch of people from Section 5 looked around in surprise.

However, in the alley at this time, Anna was holding a table knife in her hand, and the five people from Section 10 who had just brought her over were already lying in a pool of blood.

Ding

Anna threw down the knife, walked to the mechanical warehouse, brought up a light and shadow panel, entered a string of codes on the panel, turned around and ran, jumping to the top of a house very quickly and disappearing In the dark night.

"The mission begins!"

Eddie's expression looked extremely cold. It was no longer like a human expression, but a cold machine. Anna looked around, then closed her eyes. When she opened them again, her eyes had become dark and empty. She walked slowly on the roof, carefully jumping over the tops of the houses, avoiding a large number of surveillance cameras.

Soon Anna came to the window of a house. At this time, the family was drinking wine happily, and someone noticed the uninvited guest outside the window.

"Miss, you."

Suddenly Anna stretched out her hand, and pinched the man's throat with her iron-like hands. After squeezing hard, the man's eyes widened, blood spilled from his mouth, and he fell to the ground. Anna jumped directly in.

Soon, everything calmed down with small screams. Anna left the restaurant, randomly found some clothes belonging to the hostess of the house, quickly dressed them in front of the mirror, and after dressing up, Turning around and leaving the house, Anna had already arrived at Area 80. She was about to go down and continue her mission.

At this time, a large number of takeoffs and landings flew across the sky, and many people from Section 2 directly entered District 79 and began to conduct door-to-door inquiries.

Noah quietly looked at the five researchers lying in a pool of blood, feeling heartbroken. The key point was that the data had been destroyed by the virus and could not be restored. Noah didn't know what happened to Anna and why she would harm humans.

Although it is true that the man who made trouble in the tavern beat Anna because of her service attitude, Anna's AI12 program should not have the option of harming humans. If she is harmed, Anna has excellent With agency, you can run away, but you will never fight back.

The most important thing is where Anna has gone now. Noah has never been able to figure this out. The search is still going on and the search scope has been expanded, but Anna disappeared under the surveillance.

This incident can't help but remind Noah of the incident when they obtained a fully mechanical body. Who made this anthropomorphic mechanical body?

More and more things came to mind, and at this time, another piece of information came. A murder case occurred in District 80. The murderer only took away one piece of clothing belonging to the mistress of the family. What did Noah think of you? He quickly took people to the lift and arrived at the crime scene in less than 3 minutes. The people from Section 5 did not enter, but stayed outside.

Soon the identification result of the person in Section 4 came out. It was indeed Anna who did it. Anna was equipped with an anthropomorphic fingerprint skin system. The traces at the scene were indeed left by Anna. Noah immediately submitted the big picture to Jill, the secretary of Section 5. Gill quickly agreed to the document for the large-scale search and began to order people from the five nearby departments to conduct a blanket search.

However, Anna had already hid at this time. She hid in an old drainage pipe from the past. This place was not accessible to humans at all. Anna sat in the pipe filled with a large amount of toxic gas, looking at the slowly flowing sewage. , a flash of red light flashed in his eyes.

At this time, the light in Anna's eyes turned pink.

"Modification permission denied!"

"Unable to modify permissions. Rejected. Try to crack the backdoor."

"Still rejected!"

The pink light disappeared little by little, and Anna stood up again and began to walk deeper into the sewer.