Chapter 60: Cooperation?
"Boss." Alvas lowered his head.
"What to talk about? I don't feel like there's anything to talk about. Li Ji's gaze was sharp, like the cold before the tiger preyed.
"Talk about something you're interested in, for example, how to help Howard regain consciousness, you should be very interested." The old man's words made Li Ji calm down a little, since the ARDYH Group invited him to come here and let himself see these secret experiments, it means that they still have something to rely on.
Although few people know about Howard's situation, the high-level of S.H.I.E.L.D. knows about it, and in S.H.I.E.L.D., it is almost infiltrated by Hydra, and the ARDYH Group must have a deep connection with Hydra, and it is normal for them to know these insiders.
"To introduce myself, I am the founder and chief scientist of the ARDYH Group, Morando, a native of Germany. You may also call me Lord Thorns. Morando stretched out his hand to Li Ji, but Li Ji didn't hold it, which made Morando a little embarrassed.
"Wonder why we know about Howard? After all, most people now think Howard is dead. Morando asked, taking out a square towel and wiping his hands.
"There are a lot of people who know about this, and it's not a big secret, it's normal for you to have a little energy like a big group." Li Ji's words are seven points true and three points false, which makes Morando a little confused, and his information source clearly says that this is an A-level secret.
"Why don't I tell you about our plans first?" Morando waved his hand at Alvas, who retreated in amusement, leaving Li Ji alone with Morando.
Li Ji didn't speak, just quietly watched Morando perform, but fortunately, Morando was a good self-congratulatory player, so he introduced himself.
"ARDYH Group has been committed to the research of human genome and trait expression, and its main products include gene-targeted enzymes, nano-scale gene robots, polymer base-pair directed cleavage chains, and selective expression of multi-trait genes...... These are the most advanced genetic technologies that have earned the company countless fortunes since its inception. ”
Morando blows very hard, but Li Ji doesn't care too much, Lao Wang sells melons, sells himself and boasts, even if he is a street writer, doesn't he package himself as a national treasure-level writer? What Morando said seems lofty, but in fact it is not much ahead of mainstream genetic engineering technology, and it is not attractive at all.
"In order to maintain the ARDYH Group's leading position in gene technology for 20 years, the Group launched the Human Gene Completion Program five years ago, aiming to eliminate inferior genes, retain high-quality genes, and complete a new round of human self-evolution, and now these are all planned experiments!"
Morando opened his arms as if to show off, which made Li Ji feel a little disgusted: "Do you still feel proud of sacrificing so many innocent people for your so-called plan?" ”
"Sacrifice? Maybe you're thinking too much of them. They are people who are seriously ill and cannot afford the expensive medical bills. After we at ARDYH Group paid a sum of dollars to their families, they were entrusted to ARDYH Group. ”
"Strictly speaking, we are their benefactors, although their traits are a bit strange, but at the very least, we have cured them of their mortal diseases and saved their lives. Don't look at them as weird, but they're actually alive. ”
Morando walked to a cultivation chamber and pressed a red button, and the four-legged strange human in the cultivation chamber suddenly fluttered, looking very uncomfortable.
"Look, it's usually as quiet as death, and when the oxygen supply is interrupted, it's very noisy." Morando pressed the red button again, and the creepy humans became quiet again.
Li Ji's computer was running rapidly: "The Human Gene Completion Project, this is what Hydra has been doing, but so many strange humans here don't look like the finished product of the Human Gene Completion Project!" He must have been hiding something, and he didn't say anything about the demon god Kunos. This ARDYH group is probably also a thorny branch of Hydra. ”
"So what do you have to do with waking up Howard?" Li Ji asked coldly.
"Mr. Howard's problem, I think, is mainly the damage to the central nervous system of the brain caused by the violent impact, and the extensive damage to the brain and the brainstem under the brain. And he is relatively old, and the ability of stem cells to divide is insufficient, so that the brain and brain stem have not been able to repair themselves. "Morando is right, but it's just nonsense.
"If our ARDYH Group's Human Gene Completion Program is successful, we will be able to repair Mr. Howard's damaged brain and brain stem by actively guiding his stem cell differentiation. After completing this part of the work, Mr. Howard's chances of waking up are much higher than he is now, even if he hasn't woken up yet. ”
Li Ji bowed his head, a little pensive, what Morando said was indeed a solution. When he was in Kunlun, he also consulted Lei Gong on how to wake up a sleeping vegetative person, and Lei Gong told him that the method was almost the same, first of all, the most important place was to repair the brain and brain stem. But Howard was in his seventies, and Mary was nearly sixty. The ability of cell division and differentiation is difficult to compensate for this serious trauma, and Lei Gong does not have a very good method.
"So your purpose? Want money? Li Ji directly picked out the matter, and he didn't bother to talk to Morando anymore.
"yes, yes." Morando was silent for a few seconds and admitted that the ARDYH Group was in an economic crisis, "Last year, the company invested heavily in a project, and lost all its money, so now the company has some liquidity difficulties, and hopes to get financial assistance from Stark Industries." ”
"A huge amount of money, no return, I'm afraid this is the matter of summoning Kunos. But what exactly did they summon Kunos for? It's not quite like saying that he is a believer in Kunos, he doesn't have the aura of a demon god like Álvas, and those who have that aura are devout believers. Could it be ......" Li Ji suddenly thought of a crazy possibility.
"If that's the case, then it's crazy, and these strange human beings seem to have a more reasonable explanation."
"So I think $500 million is probably a reasonable figure that will help us with further research and not put too much financial pressure on Stark Industries." Morando quoted his own price.
"Do you need new living organisms for your experiments in the future?" Li Ji thought about it for a long time, but it was still difficult for him to accept this way of live experimentation.
"No need, the next experiments are recursive experiments, and new living organisms can't be carried out." Morando replied, and Li Ji could tell that he was not lying.
"I'll go back and talk to Tony."