Volume V, Chapter 12, The Ghost in the Mirror (III), October 2118

DR. SIGWOOD WAS DISCOVERED A WEEK AFTER THE FIGHTING OF RACCOOON, AND A CORPORAL DROVE A BATTERED JEEP TO THE NEAREST CAMP TO RACCOON. He found the Doctor in the wilderness. Soon, he was taken to a hospital in Washington, D.C., where he was found in rags and scrawny by the corporal, who he began to think was a scarecrow in a deserted yellow sand field. Not only the corporal and the soldiers in the camp, but even the doctors in the hospital did not know what he had survived during the week.

When he was taken to the hospital, Dr. Siegwood was in a state of confusion, unable to answer any questions properly, and when confronted with them, he had only two answers: nodding or shaking his head. The military originally wanted to get some information about the unknown creature from the doctor's mouth, but in his mental state, they had to give up. Moreover, the doctor also advised that the doctor should not bother him until he had recovered from his psychological trauma.

Although the military has given up questioning him, it has not given up monitoring him. It wasn't until Dr. Sigwood, back to the National Academy of Sciences, back to his work, that he was still being spied on - it was a special time, and the war on unknown creatures was still ongoing.

Congressman Gordon went through almost everything else, after going missing in the battle in Vegas, he was found by the military in the Gobi, brought back, mentally shocked, and sent to the hospital for rehabilitation. Then they were watched.

Unlike Dr. Siegewood, who seems to have no idea that someone is spying on him, Congressman Gordon found out that someone was spying on him and was upset, and wrote to the president's aides to protest to the president. Dr. Siegwood continued to work at the National Academy of Sciences after his recovery, and apart from saying that he would never go to war again, he was still the same low-talk senior researcher he had been, busy in the lab in obscurity. And Congressman Gordon is still the hot-tempered, strong-tempered old gun. Until 2118, the Councillor, like the Doctor, did not appear to be anything out of the ordinary.

2118 Country C, TJ City. Sima Aya

After questioning the person from Feiyun Company, Sima Aya's investigation has come to an end, and she immediately submitted an investigation report to her superiors, who after studying and discussing it, believe that the information provided by Sima Aya is very important. This information points directly to a new, criminal method associated with human cloning. If this criminal method succeeds in linking human cloning with the transmission of memories, it will create an undercurrent in society that will go unnoticed and have dire consequences. Even if there is no direct evidence now, preparations should be made in advance.

In fact, until 2116, clones had no human memory, the main reason being that the clone market was not profitable in this direction. The real profit and purpose has always been the organs of the human body. Regular cloning factories do not clone the entire human body, but only human organs, which are used for medical treatment and surgery. Illegal factories would clone the entire human body and then remove the organs. Of course, between the formal and the illegal, it is not necessarily a clear outline, after all, reality is not pure algebra, as long as there is profit, the world will not be so pure. But whether it is a formal or illegal factory, the purpose of using cloning technology is only one, that is, to obtain organs or genes, not to obtain the entire human body and then inject memories into the human body.

This was the case until the "brain swap" surgery. And after the "brain swap" operation - the NSA does not know anything about it at the moment.

However, the NSA is of course well aware of the illegal factory cloning of human bodies. It's just that some of those factories have a legal skin, not to mention a considerable amount of taxes, which, according to familiar words, do not affect the stable development of society and the economy, so the NSA does not want to have any grudges with the local authorities. Therefore, the NSA's hazard assessment of these clones has always been even lower than the hazard assessment of illegal cigarette factories...... And it is easy to see that in this society, what is not harmful will necessarily be banned. It depends on the profit.

The NSA has always believed that these illegal cloning factories only need to be thrown to the management of the industrial and commercial departments, and should not rise to the sight of the NSA at all, and should not rise to this level. However, when the clone is associated with memory transmission, the hazard level is suddenly raised to the so-called red hazard level, which is a high threat to national security, and the reason is naturally self-explanatory.

"I do have a personal interest in human memory and human cloning, and human memory and analysis and transmission are by no means something that one or two people can do, and it can be said that it almost requires the concentration of the strength of a country and the elite of various fields...... The difficulty is comparable to that of the nuclear bomb research in 1964......" Sima Aya remembers that this was the exact words of Dr. Tang Jingtao in the first questioning. In other words, it is easy to clone a human body, but it is very difficult to clone a memory. The former, in this era, can already be mass-produced, which is very similar to farmer farming, and in the eyes of the public, it is no longer the "high-precision" scientific and technological myth of 100 years ago. But cloning memories is on a different level entirely.

In early September 2116, the National Security Service (NSA) led a joint ministry raid on several illegal cloning factories. Investigators entered the workshops of these factories, and Sima Aya operated a stand-in robot to accompany them.

Investigators saw clones that had been kept in captivity like pigs and sheep. They walked into these dark workshops, and at the same time, unconsciously, they also walked into the darkest corners of human civilization. Eventually, some people began to feel unwell and soon began to vomit.

The vomiting of the police officers made the people who worked in these factories feel incredible. Their numb nerves have long since changed their notion of "civility", just as they numb their belief that all uniformed people are police. They don't even have any idea of civilization per se, maybe money, work, overtime, the face of the boss, and the ubiquitous money money, and a set of places that can never be bought that can be called "home". There is no difference from 100 years ago, in this era, the price of "home" is still ridiculously high. All these money-related things and scenes make up all the memories of their childhood and even their grandparents. The word civilization does not have more meaning than the strokes and form of the text itself.

So, they feel normal, and even have some pride. Of course, at this moment, more, they are also anxiously waiting to be punished.

Sima Aya couldn't vomit either, so she quickly made a report, disconnected the stand-in, and went to the room to get water and antiemetic medicine. She saw the expressions of the "sheep herders" standing outside the "sheepfold", numb expressions, and they even had a hint of sarcasm in their eyes, as if to say, this can't stand it? And the thrilling ones. Didn't you say that you police officers all have big hearts?

Is this true? The people standing outside the "sheepfold" have become economic animals, and the people who are crowded into a pile inside the "sheepfold" are not even animals, but just commodities. But this does not affect the brilliance and splendor of human civilization, because these people are not part of human beings - Sima Aya suddenly remembered a friend's words, and felt that it was very beautiful, but there was no beauty - but she didn't have time to think more, she just wanted to get out of here quickly and forget this experience forever.

"I'm reminded of the 'wolf child.'" A colleague said this to Sima Aya, who knew that he was referring to children who were abandoned in the wild and then raised by wolves. If this is to be described, then the "goods" here can be called "sheep children" or "pig children". In terms of behavior, they don't understand that they are human, that they don't understand human language, and that it's a shame to be unclothed.

They may really be pure vessels, perfect vessels of the soul, waiting for the soul to be filled.

Long after the end of this investigation, the frightened faces and expressions of these "containers" still continued to appear in Sima Aya's dreams, making it impossible for Sima Aya to forget them.

One day in October 2118, Sima Aya was walking down the street and met a stranger. When she inexplicably felt that the stranger's appearance was very similar to one of them, so Sima Aya fell into a misplaced fantasy all day - the same face, but two completely different destinies, what kind of embarrassment would it be if he met it?

In October 2118, as the investigation deepened, Guoan evaluated the "Pacific Rim Stand-in Project" and concluded that the "mastermind" of the fully intelligent robotic system used in the project may have the computing power to transmit human memory. Feiyun, the designer of the project, is a major suspect.

Sima Aya has learned about the main brain: the stand-in robot part of the "Pacific Rim Stand-in Project" is manually controlled, while the fully intelligent robot part is controlled by a three-in-one "mastermind" - "mastermind", according to the data, it is a supercomputer.

In mid-October, the NSA conducted another comprehensive investigation into Feiyun, but nothing was found. As Dr. Tang Jingtao said, Feiyun is only a company engaged in artificial intelligence, even if artificial intelligence has a strong relationship with memory transmission, but the law is about evidence and legal principles, and it is impossible for someone to kill someone with a knife, and it is impossible for the person who made the knife to take the blame.

However, in any case, the criminal investigation related to human clones and related clues have been clearly pointed to the "mastermind" of the "Pacific Rim Stand-in Project".

The information obtained during the investigation is a state secret and is not allowed to be disseminated to anyone.

Late October 2118, Country A.

The CIA of country A received secret information from country C and obtained rough information about the crime of human cloning.

So, soon, the FBI decided to conduct a cloning test on Dr. Siegwood and Congressman Gordon! If they were clones, then it would be possible to trigger even greater panic and more unbridled speculation about unknown creatures. Who is behind them? How can you have such advanced intelligence?

On the day the FBI's decision was made, President Reagan personally called the Dr. and the congressman, hoping that they would be inclusive and considerate.

They walked into these dark workshops, and at the same time, unconsciously, they also walked into the darkest corners of human civilization

(End of chapter)