Chapter 32: In the Name of Love (5)
Dr. David began to limit the time that Nan Jianguo had contact with Jingyi, and the gradually shortening visiting time was nothing to Nan Jianguo, because he had the entire Nanmu Group to operate, and a very unconscious son to teach, all of which required a lot of energy, but for Jingyi, Nan Jianguo was all the sustenance of spirit and feelings, and the number and time of seeing Nan Jianguo became less and less, Jingyi's mental state became worse and worse, and soon, his body began to have problems.
Shizuichi gradually began to have symptoms of premature aging, but at the age of six or seven, he began to lose his hair, and the long hair that he had kept for many years began to fall out one by one, until it completely fell out and became bald, and Shizuichi Aimi put on a wig.
Although the wig can cover the baldness, the decreasing subcutaneous fat, the gradually wrinkled skin, and the age spots of various sizes, Shizuichi now looks like an old woman in her seventies and eighties.
In addition to the signs of gradual aging, what is worse is that Shizuichi's entire body functions begin to age rapidly, and cardiovascular diseases that can only occur in the elderly begin to appear one after another.
Dr. David began to have a headache, and the situation he was most worried about before appeared, because the cells used for cloning are not stem cells with infinite differentiation ability, but somatic cells in Guo Xiaojing's hair, this kind of cell has been seriously differentiated, although a complete baby can be cloned, but the cloned baby has a fairly high cell division age from birth, and after a certain age, the nucleus in the body will become unstable, and the DNA repair and replication and transport functions will become chaotic, which is manifested in the rapid aging of the body.
The cellular memory wake-up technology has not yet been implemented in Shizuichi, who died of Progeria before his seventh birthday.
Jingyi's death is a great loss to the experimental group, which means that the first phase of the experiment failed, and to continue the subsequent experiments, it is necessary to clone more "Jingyi", Dr. David extracted cells from Guo Xiaojing's surviving hair as needed, and re-cloned a batch of babies, at the same time, in order to study the cause of Jingyi's death, the experimental group also used Jingyi's cells to clone a batch of babies, and the experimental group called it the second generation of cloning.
For the experimental team, Jingyi's death was just an experimental failure, but for Nan Jianguo, it was another heavy blow, not only the grief of his wife's death again, but the disillusionment of hope for so many years, as well as the regret for the loss of Jingyi's independent life, and a trace of self-blame, if it weren't for his own persistence, Jingyi would not have been born, and he would not have experienced such a short and painful life......
Because of Jingyi's death, Nan Jianguo went to the laboratory less and less, but he still followed the progress of the experiment through Dr. David's report every day.
Dr. David numbered the newly cloned baby, starting from the second test subject, and the numbers gradually became larger, from single digits to ten, hundreds, thousands, and ten thousands, and the growth of numbers made Nan Jianguo begin to become numb, not only to numbness to numbers, but also to his heart.
Nan Jianguo had to go to the laboratory every day from the beginning, first once a week, and then it became once a month, and then he didn't go to the laboratory directly, just through Dr. David's video report to learn about the progress of the experiment, Nan Jianguo was afraid to walk into the laboratory, afraid to see those children who looked exactly like his wife, thinking that they were born to resurrect his wife, and died in the laboratory like experimental animals, Nan Jianguo felt that his heart was on the verge of collapse, so he could only not see it, nor did he think about it, he only hoped that one day Dr. David would rush to him and tell him that the experiment was successful, Xiaojing was resurrected, and many years passedThis hope has always been like a dream, it has always been strong, but it has never been realized.
All the things about the resurrection of his wife, Nan Jianguo hid it from his son Nan Zhiqiao, he didn't want his son to be involved in these rights and wrongs, he just wanted his son to see the final satisfactory result, if his wife couldn't be resurrected, then he hoped that his son Nan Zhiqiao never knew these things, all the hopes, all the pain, let himself bear it alone.
Nan Jianguo thought that after his wife's death, he put all his love and energy on his son, and his son Nan Zhiqiao would grow up happily like other children, but his son became more and more rebellious, and when he chose the college entrance examination, he chose the same major as his mother, Nan Jianguo blamed his wife's death on the Ebola epidemic, and later felt that if his wife had not studied preventive medicine, she would not have engaged in the work at that time, and would not have become a doctor to join Médecins Sans Frontières, she would not have gone to Africa, and she would not have encountered the Ebola epidemic, so as long as it is related to biology or medicine, his son cannot touch it。
It's a pity that it backfired, the more thoroughly Nan Jianguo objected, the more fierce his son Nan Zhiqiao's resistance became, and the son did not hesitate to sue his father, this stubborn character is really like a father and son.
Due to the intervention of his father Nan Lishan, his son chose a major to study abroad, Nan Jianguo made concessions, but what he didn't expect was that his son Nan Zhiqiao returned from school, and the work unit he entered was the same as the unit where his deceased wife once worked, Nan Jianguo naturally disagreed, and tried all kinds of ways to stop it, but it was useless, his son's wings were stiff, he already had his own opinions, and he had the ability to complete his ideals.
Nan Jianguo has always sent bodyguards to secretly protect his son, but he didn't expect these mysterious secret guards to be discovered by one of his son's female colleagues one day and found out.
Son Nan Zhiqiao has a very good relationship with the female colleague named Ye Zhenzhen, Nan Jianguo used various methods to get Ye Zhenzhen to help persuade his son Nan Zhiqiao to leave the disease control, but all kinds of methods did not work, this girl is the same as her son, loves their work, and has the same stubborn belief in ideals.
Nan Jianguo used some small means to test the relationship between the two, and found that although the two had a deep and sincere relationship, no one took a step first, Nan Jianguo sighed in his heart, this son of his own, everything is like a father, except for chasing girls, chasing Xiaojing back then, it only took him three months, looking at his son's character, he couldn't catch up after three years, and finally relied on his father to help.
Just when Nan Jianguo was worried about his son's emotional problems, Dr. David sent an exciting news that the perfect adult body had been cloned, and as long as the cell memory was awakened, his wife would be resurrected.
Nan Jianguo was happy for only two days, and he heard that his son went to West Africa to participate in the front line of the fight against the Ebola epidemic, and unfortunately contracted the disease, remembering the death of his wife before, Nan Jianguo used his relationship to take his son back to China, and at the same time, he used the stem cell technology of David's experimental group to cure his son's sequelae.
Although his son Nan Zhiqiao recovered, Ye Zhenzhen discovered the clues of the secret of the laboratory and told Nan Zhiqiao, and the two secretly tracked down.
Nan Jianguo wanted to complete the experiment of resurrecting his wife as soon as possible, but the experiment went wrong again, and the perfect adult clone could not be awakened, although the clones opened their eyes, they were all shells without memory, like the walking dead.
In the face of such experimental results, as well as countless experimental subjects that had been destroyed before, Nan Jianguo finally collapsed, and in the face of his son's doubts, Nan Jianguo chose to be buried in the fire with his beloved, and life and death were combined......