Gene from the 13th Department of Bright City

April 1, 2244

At 10 o'clock in the morning, Le Wen and Su Xin were waiting for the results of their daughter's physical examination. Many couples with children were waiting because Le Xiao would officially enter school in September.

Today is also his daughter's 4th birthday. Le Wen invited people from the company and nearby neighbors. At this time, a person from the 4th Department came over and stopped Le Wen.

"Mr. Lewen, does your daughter have any underlying diseases that have not been reported?"

The couple was a little confused. Le Xiao was already asleep at this time. She came here early this morning to line up for inspection. She looked very tired.

"Any questions?"

Le Wen was very confused. Soon the couple saw Le Xiao's diagnosis report. The cells in her body were abnormally active. Le Wen, who was familiar with medical treatment, immediately understood that cells with such high activity could easily cause tumors. .

Su Xin immediately became worried after hearing what the doctor said.

"Miss, you don't need to worry too much. After we confirmed that the cells are abnormally active, we have already conducted a comprehensive examination on the child. She is in good health, but her cells are a little too active, more than five times that of normal people."

Le Wen was a little surprised. Abnormally active cells are often accompanied by body tissue proliferation, which consumes a large amount of human energy, causing malnutrition in the human body, and then slowly evolves into cancer.

After confirming that Lexiao had no underlying diseases and that she was not taking any drugs that would cause abnormal cell activity, the doctor gave her a plan for regular check-ups.

Le Wen also felt strange, but when he thought about it carefully, after his daughter was injured since she was a child, the wound recovered faster than the average person. Normally, cells will be abnormally active when the human body is injured, but Le Xiao was not injured, and the cells were in an active state, and The doctor also found it strange, because normally, such active cells would probably have adverse effects on Lexiao, or even cause problems in some organs, but nothing happened to Lexiao.

After leaving the hospital, Su Xin was still worried, but Le Wen said there was no need to worry at all, and Le Xiao would be fine. It wasn't until Su Xin understood her explanation that she felt a little relieved.

Le Wen felt that this might have something to do with the longevity vaccine. Lexiao had been injected with the longevity vaccine before. After a long time, Le Wen planned to test Lexiao at home.

The couple took their daughter back home directly, and the neighbors were already making preparations. After returning, Lewen put Lexiao in her room on the second floor and started working with the neighbors.

Research is finally back on track. Bincai Company has resumed research since February last year. Section 10 agreed to their request. They no longer need to participate in those dangerous research, but for the research on biochemical modification of humans, they Can only compromise.

But it is precisely because of the research on biochemical modification of humans that they have been able to achieve very important breakthroughs in the research of biological prostheses. Nowadays, prostheses have gained a lot of popularity. They only need to continue the research steadily for another year and a half. Their research is completely achievable, providing "new hands and feet" to disabled people in cities with zero risk and low price.

Although Su Xin said she wasn't worried, she still looked at the diagnosis report when she got home and searched for relevant information on the web. Although Le Wen also felt strange, he was not too worried.

This situation should have started after the injection of the longevity vaccine. Nowadays, humans need to receive the first dose of the vaccine at the age of 3. The vaccine may have produced some kind of rejection reaction in the daughter's body, causing her cells to become abnormally active. .

At the age of 12, a second injection is needed, and at the age of 18, a third injection is needed. In this way, human lifespan can be extended up to three times, but only mutants can truly extend it three times or more, while ordinary people The lifespan of 160 years is already the limit.

The injection of longevity vaccine will indeed cause various degrees of abnormalities in the body. There are currently more than 1,000 known abnormalities, and abnormal cell activation is one of them. However, the daughter's cell activation is higher than the abnormal value.

Le Wen knows these things very well. During the years of contact with Section 10, Le Wen has learned a lot, especially on the issue of life-span vaccines. Although Section 10 did not reveal too much to them, through Looking at some human body values ​​as the basis for their experiments, Lewen discovered a lot of things.

These things allowed Le Wen to gradually peek into the core of Brilliant City, the life-span vaccine.

Jean stood at the door, looking at the busy neighbors, and his cousin Lechang came over.

"I have something on my mind, cousin."

Le Wen shook his head. He had asked many senior executives of the business department before, and also called Jean, but Jean never came back. I heard that he was busy with matters in the barrier area, and Le Wen wanted it very much. Have a good talk with Gene.

After everything he had experienced in the past two years, he wanted to talk to Jean while drinking, just like in the past. Le Wen didn't know if Jean would come over today.

"Come on, cousin, let's go buy something."

Le Wen hummed and followed Le Chang. Today was Le Xiao's fourth birthday. Le Wen planned to start the banquet at noon and last until the early morning. People from the company would come with their families.

1pm

The banquet officially started, and the street in front of Le Wen's house was full of people. Le Xiao was naughty and making trouble with the neighbor's children during the banquet.

Le Wen looked at his wife feeling a little depressed. He must have been frightened by the so-called explanations on the Internet after searching. It is true that abnormally active cells can lead to abnormal proliferation in the body, tumors, and even the most serious case of blight. This There is still no solution to the disease. People who get this disease basically don't live more than 2 years.

Although there are some containment measures, once the disease occurs, the body will die bit by bit.

"Okay, stop looking, it's okay, trust me."

Su Xin looked at the cheerful Le Xiao in the distance with some discomfort.

"Why don't you use your connections to find a better doctor?"

Le Wen nodded and said he would look for him tomorrow. Speaking of the leading doctor in Bright City, Hua Shen was the only one. Le Wen wanted to call Gu Yi, a member of Department 10 with whom he had a good relationship, hoping that he could help.

Su Xin was anxious almost the whole day. No matter what Lewen said, she was still uneasy. The banquet was over and many people were drunk. It was 2:13 in the morning.

Le Wen looked at the sky in the distance drunkenly. Sure enough, Gene did not come over. He talked a lot with his colleagues today about the next research issues, and everyone has basically unanimously determined the direction.

Near 3 o'clock, Le Wen returned home after cleaning up. Su Xin sat quietly in the living room, and Le Wen walked over to comfort her.

"I don't know why, but I always have bad thoughts in my head."

"I'll call Mr. Gu Yi tomorrow and ask Dr. Huashen to take a look."

As soon as she mentioned Huashen, Su Xin immediately felt more at ease.

Le Wen also felt a little uneasy, because Su Xin's premonition was very accurate. This may be a woman's sixth sense.

Early the next morning, Le Wen got up and called Gu Yi. Gu Yi said that they could just wait at the local hospital. He and Huashen were old friends.

The couple took Le Xiao to the local hospital again. When it was nearly 10 o'clock, Huashen appeared, followed by a large number of people from the 4th Department. Le Wen hurriedly got up.

"Thank you for coming, Dr. Huashen."

Huashen smiled slightly. He looked at the anxious couple. It was very common for cells to be abnormally active. He read the report of the child's physical examination yesterday. Although the abnormal values ​​were a bit high, it should only be at a certain point in time.

Accompanied by her husband and wife, Le Xiao was brought into the examination room again, and Huashen immediately began the examination.

"The number of abnormally active cells has steadily declined, about 40% lower than yesterday. This should be because after the injection of the life-span vaccine, the vaccine began to combine with the body and create the symptoms of the new gene. Some people reacted strongly, and some People’s reaction is not obvious, it’s okay.”

Although Huashen said so, he had a little doubt, and that was the constant value of cell activity. Few doctors would pay attention to this. Under normal circumstances, active cells are large and irregular, but in After Huashen tested Lexiao's active cell value, it found that both the increase and decrease were relatively stable.

This was the first time Huashen encountered such a phenomenon. Then Huashen told the couple to stay in the hospital for one day for observation. After Huashen explained to some people from the 4th department, he left directly.

night

A member of Section 4 quietly looked at the results of Le Xiao's several inspections today, sorted them out in detail, and planned to pass them on to the section chief later. She looked very tired and kept yawning.

Gradually, after sorting it out, the clerk clicked submit and fell asleep on the table. She had to work the night shift tonight, so she planned to take a nap.

The air in the room was a little cool. At this time, along with a breeze blowing the curtains, a faint black air came in. At this time, the files being transferred on the light and shadow screen suddenly stopped, and the files started to be transferred again in an instant. .

Half an hour later, the clerk woke up. After reading the files that had been transferred, she got up and planned to go to the ward.

When the clerk was about to turn off the light and shadow screen, she felt something strange. The files she had just sorted seemed to have wrong values. She stopped. After hesitating for a few minutes, she found something was wrong. Then she opened Le Xiao's test results. , she checked it, but soon she discovered that the values ​​​​were exactly the same, and there was nothing wrong with them.

After turning off the light and shadow screen, the clerk left.

1am

Huashen looked at the transmitted report that Le Xiao checked every two hours throughout the day.

"Is it a coincidence?"

Hua Shen became a little confused. After his personal inspection today, he indeed found that those abnormally active cells had constant values. That's why he asked the Lewen couple to keep their daughter in the hospital for observation. However, the values ​​given now are different from ordinary ones. Patients with abnormally active cells are similar.

Huashen directly used his authority again and immediately entered Le Xiao's case database. After checking it in detail, he felt at ease.

Early the next morning, Le Wen and the others left the hospital with Le Xiao, whose body had returned to normal. Now the couple felt completely at ease. However, as soon as they walked out of the hospital, Su Xin caught a glimpse of black air in the corner of his eyes. , she just looked over and saw nothing, and the uneasy feeling in her heart came back again.

"Still worried?"

Le Wen asked, and Su Xin shook his head.

"It's okay, I seemed to have seen something just now."

A few seconds after the two left, a black air slowly flowed down the steps, as if there was life, but no one around could see it.

2:30pm

Located in Bincai Company, Chen Zhi is conducting an experiment with three other people. All the transformations of the biochemically modified man in front of him have been completed. A control chip just sent from Section 10 will be implanted into the modified man's body. In the brain, this is AI12, which can make this biochemically modified human move through remote control.

After everything was ready, Chen Zhi inserted the chip into the chip slot while the other three were debugging. The frozen biochemically modified man's body values ​​began to rise. In just half an hour, the biochemically modified man opened his eyes. He opened his eyes and then got up. A light pink light slowly flowed around his eyes.

"Hello."

A somewhat lazy and stiff voice spoke, and Chen Zhi was a little excited. The corpse could finally move and speak.

When it was close to 3 o'clock, the test ended. The biochemically modified man returned to the constant-temperature bed and began to enter the ALS state again. Chen Zhi immediately informed others of the news.

"Very successful, Lewen."

"Yeah!"

Lewen's voice didn't sound too happy.

"What's wrong? I thought you would be as excited as before."

"Hey, let's not talk about it for now. I will go back to the company the day after tomorrow."

After the call ended, Chen Zhi and several other people continued to discuss, but Chen Zhi always felt a little uncomfortable. Because of the test just now, he felt that this biochemically modified man was a little strange. Although it was controlled by AI, Chen Zhi always felt that Something feels wrong.

It's not that I feel uneasy because of the use of corpses for transformation. This feeling has long passed. Now it is more about the uncertainty about this kind of biochemical modification of people.

This person is indeed a means of replacing high-precision machinery in the future. It uses human corpses to carry out biochemical transformation and create biochemically modified people with quality no lower than high-precision robots. The cost is only one-fiftieth of that of similar high-precision robots. one.

Moreover, it does not require much maintenance. Even if it is injured, the injured part can be filled and replaced with biological matter, and it can still exert its ability to biochemically transform people.

Chen Zhi’s biggest question at this time is what Section 10 plans to use these things for. Section 10 has never revealed it once. Although Section 10 previously said that it was intended to be used to explore environments that humans cannot adapt to, now Chen Zhi But I don't think so, because Section 10 has already planned to equip this kind of biochemically modified human with light-killing weapons.