Klaus was telling Harvey what he thought.

On the other side of the globe, Johnny told Zach the same.

As a human who lives purely in the above-world and the underworld, Zach was stunned anyway.

At first, he only asked Johnny out of curiosity if he knew what Klaus's purpose was for capturing Law, and what he meant by something important.

God knows Johnny said a whole bunch of things in one breath that Zack's current knowledge base was completely unacceptable.

"Wait, I'm a little confused, you mean, Harvey and Klaus aren't the heads of the Immortal Bird Corporation?" Zach held back for a long time to ask his first question.

"Clams? So you always thought that these two guys were the supreme leaders of the immortal birds? Damn, what's in your head? You look down on this institution too much, don't you? Johnny almost spurted out a mouthful of blood.

"How do I know?! I only learned about the existence of such a thing more than a month ago, and now you tell me that Harvey is just a small branch of the Immortal Bird Company, and we are just being chased and beaten by a small company of the people, in fact, there is an even more terrifying existence behind him?! Zach rolled his eyes.

"Didn't I always say that Harvey was only part of a branch of the Undead? Do you talk with your mouth and no ears? ”

"Vozh ......"

……

Zach had a hard time accepting and understanding what Johnny had told him, including the size of the real Immortal Bird Company, including the "Project Paradise" they had been running for decades.

But this is not to blame him, Zack's education since childhood is no different from ordinary people, his vision is limited to the peaceful and peaceful above-earth world, and the original mistakenly breaking into the undercurrent underground world has already made his life change a hundred and eighty degrees, and what he has encountered in the last few months has completely subverted his three views.

Most of his teammates died at the hands of the Immortal Bird Company, and the only two remaining were brainwashed and controlled.

And all this is to blame - symbiotes.

But Klaus and Harvey, who are really trying to conspire with the symbiote, are just two lifelong employees of the Immortal Bird Company.

He thought he had basically understood the existence of the undead birds, but in fact, all he had seen so far was one or two wings of the undead birds, and the real undead birds hung over their heads.

And the reason why Klaus and Harvey are lifelong employees of the Immortal Bird Company is that this question has to return to the "Paradise Project".

Follow Johnny's telling.

"Project Paradise" is a control system for all the leaders of all its key divisions at Death Bird Headquarters.

The initial timing of the project's implementation is unknown, perhaps on the day the Immortal Bird was formed.

At the heart of the program is cloning technology.

But this technology is not the same thing as cloning that is commonly known to the people of the earthly world.

Clonening, in a broad sense, refers to the asexual reproduction of organisms through somatic cells, and the population of offspring individuals with identical genotypes formed by asexual reproduction. Roughly there is still a cycle of reproduction.

However, the cloning technology attached to the "Paradise Project" is a complete set of technologies for reproducing organisms.

They found the most suitable instance and used it as a source of replication.

Similar to digital virtual human technology, the immortal bird will copy every cell and every organelle of the whole person into data, and they have mature and reliable instruments that can replicate a complete human under the condition of sufficient resources.

The reproductive process is omitted entirely.

There is also no need for a nurturing process from baby to adult.

It is simply from cells to tissues to organs and systems, and finally to form a complete human being.

But when the clone is generated, it is in the same state as the source of the copy, the same age, the same appearance, and even the same state of bodily functions.

This has completely surpassed the immutable law of reproduction of life since ancient times, and has achieved the true meaning of "creating man".

Even in the process of replication, they can make some subtle changes to the replicator, giving it some special properties that are different from the source of the replication.

……

This is the core technology of Project Paradise.

But there are limitations to any technology, even for Immortal Bird.

The clones of heaven do not reproduce the "angels" they want at will, because for some reason, the source of replication is specific, and there are other restrictions in the case that the human body that determines the source of replication does not carry genes and has physical injuries.

Johnny didn't know how many replicas there were in Project Heaven, but the number of them could be counted on one hand.

But that's not the downside of Paradise cloning technology, or rather, its characteristics.

Just cloning an organism that is exactly the same as the source of the replication is of little value to the Immortal Birds, as they still need to spend time and effort cultivating it.

However, in reality, the replicator obtained after replication does not have self-awareness and thinking.

To put it simply, it's just a hard drive with no content, an empty shell.

The immortal bird also needs to inject a "soul" into it.

……

When he heard this, Zach seriously suspected that Johnny was fooling him, and he had seen scenes like this many times in mythological movies.

But Johnny wasn't kidding.

From a scientific point of view, there is no soul in human beings, only thoughts. The reason why a person can be called alive is based on his self-awareness, he can think, he has the ability to think.

And the real basis of thinking is memory.

The soul they inject into the clone is, to put it bluntly, the indoctrination of memory.

The Paradise Project is to rely on the near-perfect cloning and replication technology to create a biological body with no physical defects, and activate this life body with a set of memories, and construct a living life form from scratch.

……

As for those memories, they sound even more unscientific.

They weren't made up out of thin air, and in fact, the immortal bird might not have mastered the technology to create a complete set of life memories out of thin air.

All memories injected into the brain of the replicant are extracted from other living organisms.

To put it more mysteriously, it is to extract the soul of another person and inject it into a cloned empty shell to create a living body.

From this point of view, although the owner of the memory has changed to a different biological body, he still has the same memory, self-consciousness and thinking.

No one knows if he's still the same person in different bodies, but for himself, it's natural to think, "I'm still me." Because he remembered everything in the past, he remembered how he had grown up as a child, and he even remembered that he had accepted this experiment of the Heavenly Project.

But if he doesn't have the same way of thinking at this time, who knows?

Even he wouldn't know.

The person whose memories were extracted dies and then comes back to life on the clones.

……

In fact, Project Paradise is not designed to make employees for free.

The implementers of this project have given all replicas a "curse" that cannot be eliminated.

That is, the lifespan of each clone is only fixed at a finite twenty years.

When the time comes, the cancerous genes in the replicat genes will be activated rapidly, and the entire replicat will die of disease in a short period of time.

These replicas are usually recalled by headquarters before the cancerous gene is about to be activated, and after review, a new memory transfer is performed for the qualified person.

They will die and then come back to life on a completely new replica shell.

I still have the memories I had before, and I still have the same body.

Then return to work for the company.

"This is what the 'Plan of Heaven' calls eternal life."

……

With a life span of twenty years, they cannot defy the dispatch of the head office, unless they are not afraid of dying of cancer after the time expires.

And as a member of the Heavenly Project, these "angels" also need to undergo regular assessments and inspections by the head office.

They must not act in any way that violates the company's "Code of Conduct" and cannot have more freedom of movement than the stipulated time.

If they want to enjoy the next "rebirth", they will have to conscientiously obey all the orders of the Immortal Bird Company for the past twenty years.

……

…

Anyway, Zach couldn't accept and digest all that Johnny told him in a short period of time.

"I'm dripping mom, this is too."

The expression on his face now is the white version of the "black question mark."

"Don't rush, digest it slowly, you will figure it out, I also had this expression when I first heard this plan, and because I am engaged in scientific research, I know better the level of science and technology required in many links, many of which are almost impossible to do, so I didn't believe it when I first learned about this plan." Johnny said calmly.

"And how did you figure it out? Have you figured out all the techniques in this project? Zach asked.

"No, I don't have access to the operation of the project, but I have access to the development team of the project, and I've seen the clones in heaven countless times." Johnny shook his head and continued, "Each of them has almost exactly the same face, no difference, but apart from their appearance, they don't have anything in common, as is the case with Harvey and Klaus. ”

"Harvey and that Klaus are both clones?" Zach asked.

"That's right." Johnny nodded.

"It's no wonder that when I first investigated Harvey, I found five identical Harvey on the Global Satellite Retrieval System in one go."

Zach suddenly remembered some strange things that Rowe had found when he first asked him to investigate Harvey.

"That's not a lot, not counting the 'empty shells' stored in the headquarters, there are dozens of 'Harvey' who are now operating outside." Johnny said lightly, "This is only one of the replication sources, and no one knows how many replication sources the Heaven Project has." ”

"This is, it's really crazy, if all these things are exposed, won't the whole world be messed up?" Zach sighed. "No wonder Harvey is in such a hurry to kill you haha."

"Well, it's really not for that reason they're in a hurry to hunt me, at least that's not the main reason." Johnny waved his hand.

"Why is that?"

"Harvey and Klaus, as replicas of the Angel Project, want to get rid of the control of the immortal birds, and thus get rid of the 'resurrection' every twenty years, so they have to find a way to solve the cancerous genes hidden in their DNA." Johnny said.

"Can this thing be changed?" Zach asked.

"Symbiotes can."

"That's why they captured Luo?"

"Yes." Johnny nodded, "The two of them have been planning this for about ten years, and when I entered their branch, Klaus had been experimenting with symbiotes for at least ten years, and they used their reserves of symbiotes to find a human body with a high degree of compatibility, trying to create a fusion like Luo, and then obtain the required substances from the fusion to change the cancerous genes in their bodies." ”

"It's a pity that after all these years, neither of them has succeeded in creating a true symbiote fusion, and God knows how your teammate fused with the symbiote." Johnny was amazed, "I have also done research on this project before, after all, I am the principal investigator of the branch, but it is really very difficult. ”

"That's why they're trying to hunt you down?" Zach asked.

"It's also bad luck to say, I made a mistake in the experiment, and I became a posture that I would go berserk and transform at any time, and I couldn't control myself, originally Klaus was going to lock me up in the base directly, but the headquarters noticed this and wanted to get me back to the headquarters to study. Klaus was afraid that what I knew would leak out, so he wanted to kill me without doing anything. Johnny said lightly.

"Does anyone else but you know about the two of them trying to get out of the heavenly plan?"

"No, the entire base, only Klaus, Harvey, and I know the whole project, and the other researchers are only responsible for a small part of the work, and they don't know the specifics at all." Johnny shook his head.

“……”

After listening to Johnny's series of introductions, Zach no longer knew what to say.

It's almost sci-fi.

Project Paradise?

Clones?

So much wicked stuff.

It sounds like this so-called immortal bird company is comparable to the Legacy in Terminator or the umbrella company in Resident Evil.

And after a long time, Zach and Luo were just involved in this new world because of an "employee job-hopping incident".

Cowboy and Joe, they just died unjustly......

……

(End of chapter)