Homo sapiens.

Chapter 472 The Pangu Project

The first year of Xinghe, October 9th.

Li Qingye arrived at the loyal Atlon Oasis City.

Su Qixi, who was in charge of the secret project, brought Li Qingye to the design studio and introduced him to the designers and engineers present.

Li Qingye also encouraged them.

"Chairman, this is the design drawing of Pangu Project." Su Qixi said while manipulating the holographic projection equipment to project the design model.

The average altitude of the northern part of the Darfur Plateau is about 600-700 meters.

And this underground cavity area with a diameter of 500 kilometers requires an internal cavity height of 600 meters, plus various structural layers, protective layers, barrier layers, etc., the overall thickness should be about [-] meters.

"In order to ensure that the upper layer has more than 200 meters of stratum coverage, we plan to dig down, probably to an altitude of minus 150 meters, as the foundation of this base."

While listening, Li Qingye flipped through the details of each system designed by Su Qixi's team.

This project is called "Pangu Project".

As the name suggests, the reason why Li Qingye promotes this project is to create an independent ecological circle, and then put in various genetically modified organisms to conduct ecological simulation tests.

Why build such a huge base, dedicated to testing genetically modified organisms?

Can't ordinary biological laboratories test it?

The answer is no.

Ordinary biological laboratories are limited by space and safety, and there is no way to fully test the various conditions of genetically modified organisms in the natural environment.

But it is impossible for Li Qingye to throw genetically modified organisms into the natural environment casually.

The previous plastic fungus had a certain risk, and it was Li Qingye who made a special move and inserted various restriction genes, so it didn't really evolve into a devastating disaster.

Therefore, Li Qingye urgently needs a large-scale independent ecosphere laboratory for testing various genetically modified organisms.

He wants to use environmental pressure and a relatively complete ecological circle to see whether various organisms recombined with genes can break through the limitations of genes and evolve unique new life forms.

This is the origin of the Pangu project.

Li Qingye is advancing towards the realm of the Creator.

The evolution rate of human beings is too slow nowadays, and the body has become the biggest limitation for human beings to go to the stars.

Some time ago, in the pseudo-gravity experiment of the Homo sapiens space station, although the pseudo-gravity equivalent to 1G was successfully produced, the gradient force difference generated by the centrifugal force still made the astronauts uncomfortable.

In order to solve the centrifugal force gradient difference, the next step of the Homo sapiens space station is to increase the radius of the space station from 200 meters to 500 meters, or even 1000 meters, to test the influence of the centrifugal force gradient.

All this is because the human body is too poor.

Without ways to enhance the human body, the idea of ​​human civilization to open up living space in outer space is just a beautiful and fragile soap bubble.

To get out of the comfort zone of the mother star and move towards a harsher starry sky, human beings need a stronger and more comprehensive body.

What's more, the Pangu project is not only for the purpose of enabling human beings to adapt to outer space, but also for a deeper purpose. In fact, it also contains Li Qingye's selfishness - that is, to further extend the length of life.

If possible, he also wants to see the vast starry sky beyond the solar system.

The Pangu Project entrusted many of Li Qingye's thoughts and expectations.

Therefore, he has no hesitation in building such a huge artificial ecosystem, but intends to go all out to promote it.

He flipped through the content of the security system, Li Qingye attached great importance to the security system of this base, no matter whether it was external defense or internal defense, there was no room for sloppy.

Because in the future, the Pangu Project will inject a large number of genetically modified organisms into this artificial ecosystem, and there must be some extremely dangerous organisms among them.

Without a good security system, if the creatures in it leak out, it will be a huge ecological disaster.

This is why the Pangu Project will be built in the northern part of the Darfur Plateau.

Because the northern part of the Darfur Plateau is surrounded by deserts and Gobi Desert.

Only in this kind of place did Li Qingye dare to ask someone to add a hydrogen bomb to it as the last self-destruct device. Once the entire base is out of control, the self-destruct device can completely purify the entire base.

For this reason, Li Qingye also specially asked the nuclear factory to produce a batch of 1000-ton equivalent hydrogen bombs. These hydrogen bombs will be densely arranged in all directions of the Pangu Project, completely blocking the possibility of internal leakage of biological experiments.

After all, he is for scientific research, not for self-destruction.

Li Qingye raised his head: "The security measures are not enough. For example, the pipelines connecting the Pangu Realm have huge security risks. It is best to keep only one external channel from the Pangu Realm, and cancel the other channels first."

"Mr. Chairman, but doing so will cause problems with the internal water circulation and heat circulation." The safety engineering designer Kraft looked a little embarrassed.

Li Qingye waved his hand: "Then add an internal water circulation auxiliary system so that the heat circulation can be done in a non-contact way."

Seemingly aware of the firmness in Li Qingye's words, Kraft could only bite the bullet and nod: "Okay! I will adjust the design plan as soon as possible."

"In addition, the only channel must be specially designed to ensure that it is safe."

After more than half an hour of communication, Li Qingye and a group of designers and engineers revised the details several times before finalizing a preliminary plan.

Including the internal planning of the Pan Gu world that had not been determined before, the first draft was also completed.

The Pangu Realm will be divided into five regions, with Buzhou Mountain in the middle, Canghai in the east, Qingqiu in the west, rainforest in the south, and wasteland in the north.

These five regions represent five relatively independent small ecological circles, and at the same time, they will influence each other.

In this area of ​​nearly 1 square kilometers, a large number of genetically modified organisms will be put into the future, and these organisms will compete with the existing protists.

Natural selection, survival of the fittest.

He is very much looking forward to the birth of some brand new creatures in the Pan Gu world.

The real meaning of this experiment, which seems to be opening a blind box, lies in the infinite possibilities of life.

Human gene technology has been able to precisely customize some organisms, but at this stage there is still no way to "evolve human genes".

Whether it is genetically modified technology, gene editing technology, or gene recombination technology, they are all using the genes already in nature.

True evolution is by no means a patchwork of genes, but that genes can naturally mutate according to environmental pressure.

However, the difficulty of natural mutation is too great, but in the mutation process, 90% of the mutations are harmful.

This is the meaning of the Pangu project.

During this process, Li Qingye can use various environmental pressures and other creatures in the ecosystem to force some genetically recombined creatures to mutate wildly.

As long as there are enough mutations, some valuable new genes will always be mutated.

Perhaps the hope of human beings going to the starry sky, or immortality, is hidden in those base pairs.

Li Qingye even planned to use the building wood factor that had never been used to create some relatively powerful genetically recombined organisms, and put them into the Pan Gu world.

He believes that life has infinite possibilities, and the key to human evolution must be that there is no way to achieve earth-shaking changes through known genes.

Now he was going to find the key.

Chapter 473 Anthropomorphic Human Body

Atlon Oasis City.

The pillar industry here is biopharmaceuticals.

Five subsidiaries, including Aoba Medical, Luzon Bio, and Suez Medicine, have set up laboratories or production bases here.

Of course, there are many deceptive projects among them.

Anyway, Homo sapiens has invested a lot around the world, especially in regions where it has established full-fledged branches, and the related investments are countless.

Even if the outside world sees some of the bright investment projects announced on the official website, it is actually difficult to analyze any useful information.

Homo Sapien's information security system is too powerful, and it takes a lot of hard work and a little bit of luck for the outside world to detect a little bit of useful information.

Just like the biopharmaceutical industry in Atlon Oasis City, Homo sapiens has two other biopharmaceutical bases in Africa, one in the desert oasis of Numidia and the other on the west coast of Mada Island.

Moreover, many forces have discovered a rule, that is, the industries publicly announced by Sapiens Corporation generally do not involve confidentiality, but those industries hidden underground are the real secrets.

This time Homo sapiens went the other way and directly set up a biopharmaceutical base in Atlon Oasis City, but the outside world didn't pay much attention to it.

Atron branch of Aoba Medical.

As Li Qingye's subsidiary named after himself, this subsidiary is also where he often works.

Atron Primate Pathology Laboratory (Internal No. 8807).

Li Qingye is currently doing some scientific research here.

Of course, the space carrier that escorted him earlier had already flown away, and Li Qingye's exclusive stand-in was also leaving with him. The stand-in would represent him and go back to the Southeast Asia headquarters to make several public appearances.

And he himself stayed in Atlon Oasis City.

The scientific director of Laboratory 8807 was a black scientist who had been studying infectious diseases in Africa for a long time.

"Dr. Gudan, tell me about the situation in the laboratory!"

"No problem, Mr. Chairman!" Gu Dan stared at the man in front of him with extremely reverent eyes, and then calmed down his excited mood a little:

"It took us about half a year to conduct a relatively comprehensive physical examination in the entire Meroy and Chad area, with a total of 8000 million physical examinations."

The more Gu Dan said, the calmer he became: "Through the full genetic testing and exclusive genetic analysis supercomputing analysis, we have obtained some very useful data."

"It's natural antibodies to AIDS, dengue fever, malaria, Ebola, right?" Li Qingye guessed something in an instant.

Gu Dan nodded: "Yes, Mr. Chairman, after decades of natural screening, the human population in Africa now generally has some natural antibodies to some diseases that are prevalent in the area."

Of course, Gu Dan still has some words to say, and Li Qingye is also very clear. As a top biologist, he is very clear about the essence of the so-called natural evolution.

It is nothing more than natural selection, survival of the fittest and elimination of the unfit.

Those local people who did not develop antibodies have long been ravaged by continuous diseases and have become typical examples of evolutionary failure.

The outside world only knows that Africans are extremely immune to malaria, but few people know that the price of this immunity is hundreds of millions of bones piled up.

Li Qingye put down the tablet in his hand, and sighed softly: "The path of evolution is a narrow escape, if you fail, you will succeed."

"..." Gu Dan also fell silent.

Behind these data is indeed a bloody reference reality.

"Go to the anthropomorphic experimental area to have a look!"

After waking up, Gu Dan hurriedly stood up: "Mr. Chairman, please follow me."

Deep underground in the laboratory.

Li Qingye and Gu Dan, who came down from the elevator, had already put on all-round biological protective clothing.

Although it is an underground base, it is not as eerie as in the movie scene, but very bright.

After all, this is reality. Scientists are human too. Who would like to work in an eerie environment except a psychopath?

Open a room.

There are rows of cultivation cabins displayed inside, through the transparent observation window, you can see the situation inside the cultivation cabin.

In the cultivation cabin, there is a piece of meat growing.

This is "anthropomorphic", a special creature through genetic recombination, cloning and biological transformation.

To be precise, this thing is similar to human cloning, because they are all cloned bodies using human genes as the mother.

However, there are several differences between the anthropomorphic body and the clone. The anthropomorphic human body does not have a brain, but uses an artificial brain composed of biochips to replace the human brain.

Another point is that the anthropomorphic human body is not human-shaped, but a cuboid "meat". This is mainly to avoid the uncanny valley effect and reduce the moral burden.

In other respects, the anthropomorphic human body has organs, bones, muscles, blood vessels and genes that are highly similar to human beings, while the artificial brain composed of biochips can sense various changes in the body.

Therefore, this kind of human body is usually used as a substitute for human experiments.

After all, the number of human scum that can be used as experimental subjects is limited. If we want to quickly develop drugs, medical technology, and evaluate the harm of substances to the human body, human experiments are definitely indispensable.

Although Homo sapiens does not have much psychological burden on outsiders, it still has a bottom line for its own employees.

Tianzhu, which used to be the largest human experiment area in the world, has now completely become a thing of the past.

It is naturally impossible for Homo sapiens company to use its own employees to test drugs.

Therefore, finding a suitable human body substitute has become an urgent task at present.

After all, European and American pharmaceutical companies really have no bottom line. After losing Tianzhu and Southeast Asia, which are convenient for drug testing, they are now turning to Aztec, Central America, and West Africa.

In order to ensure the absolute leadership of biotechnology, Homo sapiens must also conduct human experiments.

Li Qingye set up the project himself. After more than a year of secret research and development, the anthropomorphic human body project was finally successful. Currently, Qingye Medical can produce 50 to 100 million anthropomorphic human bodies every year.