"As time went by, I found that I seemed to regard the experimental subject who was not yet a complete human being as the only person with whom I could talk about my concerns, share my feelings, and gossip about life. Compared with those outside who like to chatter endlessly and condescendingly accuse me,
As a layman, he listens patiently and thinks carefully, and occasionally gives thoughtful answers and suggestions."
"Such a chat partner is actually quite good. It doesn't seem to matter whether he has a complete body or whether he is a clone." Zhang Keying said in agreement.
"Yes, just like that, chatting with him has almost become an indispensable activity in my daily life. The frequency of my entering the secret passage has become more and more frequent, from once a week to almost every day.
Adventure. But I could tell that he wanted me to go more often, because as I told more and more stories, his emotions and experiences became richer, and he even began to have a human touch when thinking.
A certain degree of joy, anger, sorrow and joy - of course, it is still much duller than ordinary people."
"More importantly, I believe that the stories I told him and the views I conveyed are all things that I think are correct, dazzling and valuable in the history of mankind, because I want him to at least become a tool for Guixu before he becomes one.
Being able to understand the beauty of this world. Although I may not be able to change the fact that he will eventually stain his hands with blood and plunge into darkness, I can at least keep a spark of hope in his heart."
Zhang Ke noticed that Sister Lan's eyes and emotions were gradually darkening at this time. He understood that that person could not stay in the life-support cabin forever. Sooner or later, this secret date would end, and the day when they parted ways would eventually come.
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"That day, when I entered the secret area again in accordance with the law, I found that he had left the life-support cabin and was walking around in the experimental area on his own. He was wearing a very thin white robe, and he could be found through the general outline of his body.
Having obtained a complete body, I was surprised and quickly asked him what was going on." Sister Lan continued:
"It turns out that at that time, I went on a business trip to other places for several days due to work. And in these few days, his growth and development progress ushered in a stage of improvement, and his body finally spliced together the final tissue and organ fragments.
I can now leave the life-support capsule and eat and sleep like a normal person."
"I actually managed to escape from the cabin... This can be said to be a biological miracle, right?" Zhang Ke said dumbfounded, but then he remembered something more important, "What about the other experimental subjects? Those with him
At the same time... most of the pieces of meat should have been combined and formed by now, right?"
"Indeed, I used a flashlight to shine around and found that the scattered tissue fragments now almost have a vague outline of his upper body, just like the first time I saw him. Now that he can
Now that he has survived independently, I asked him if he had been given a name, but he shook his head and said that he is still called by his experimental product number."
A trace of nostalgia appeared in Sister Lan's eyes: "So I suddenly had the idea to give him a name myself. He didn't refuse, but looked forward to it. I thought he looked like an East Asian.
, guessing that the genes used for cloning were probably from Chinese people, so we decided to give him a typical Chinese name.”
"At this moment, I remembered his experimental number [Lu-HC357025]. In this case, the last name was chosen to represent the batch, and the first letter was HC, after changing several pinyin combinations.
, it was finally decided to be 'Hongcheng', which sounds homophonic to the world of mortals, but is more like a male name, implying that he walked out of the laboratory and entered the real world of mortals."
"It's a good name...wait, Hongchen? Lu Hongchen?" The expression on Zhang Ke's face changed slightly, and he suddenly remembered the person he had met not long ago.
"Yes, what's wrong?" Sister Lan asked inexplicably.
"I would like to ask, are there women among these cloned experimental samples?" Zhang Ke naturally thought of Secretary Lu. The two of them happened to have the same name but different pronunciations. This was too much of a coincidence.
"No, they almost all look the same, probably because they come from the same gene donor, right? Gender is determined at the chromosomal level. Once growth and development begins, there is no fundamental change." Sister Lan.
Said, "So at least the batch I saw are all men, what's wrong?"
"It's nothing... just go ahead." Zhang Ke stopped asking and could only attribute the matter to coincidence. After all, the name "Hongchen" is also very common, and "Lu" is a very common surname, so there are duplicate names.
Probably not surprising...right?
"Well, he was very excited to have his own name, and I was also very happy. I said that after he can officially leave here, I will take him to see with his own eyes the outside world that I have mentioned. However, at this time, the look in his eyes
But she felt sad and a little depressed, so she just walked up to me and said she wanted to show me something." Sister Lan continued:
"I thought his expression was a little strange, but I trusted him very much, so I followed him deeper into the experimental area and came to a new room filled with life-saving capsules. However, I found...it was full of
the brain.”
"Full of brains? Does that mean you haven't started cloning the physical part yet?" Zhang Ke asked.
"No, I checked carefully at the time. What is stored here is pure brain, and no fragments of other organs and tissues are stuffed in. Moreover, these brains themselves are in a resting state, with no signs of continued growth, which shows that
, that’s because someone deliberately cultivated such a large number of brains in the life-support cabin.” Sister Lan’s eyes became sharp:
"If we are simply preparing to create clones, there is no need to cultivate so many brains separately. Considering that this is a certain distance away from the area where Lu Hongcheng is located, I immediately suspected that it was another type of research in a different direction."
"Sure enough, before I could say anything, Lu Hongcheng told me that during his daily routine inspection, he accidentally overheard private conversations among some scientific researchers: They had mentioned mass production of human clones, not repatriation.
The current focus of the market organization's research is just a auxiliary project, and the current focus project has just been launched, and the storage location is the area where Lu Hongcheng took me."
"So, the core goal of Guixu is research directly related to the brain?" Zhang Ke asked hurriedly, "Then have you observed those brains? Is there anything unusual happening?"
"Of course, I have the same idea as you. Since the experimental material is only the brain, it means that it must be based on the brain." Sister Lan said with a serious face, "I lay down in front of the culture tank and carefully checked the results.
My brain seemed to be nothing special, but I finally discovered that part of the cerebral cortex was full of pits, as if it had been gnawed by insects."
"Isn't the cerebral cortex originally full of wrinkles and ravines, not smooth at all?" Zhang Ke said strangely.