Gene editing and application are of great significance to human beings in the 21st century comparable to several industrial revolutions: the revolution in steam technology, the revolution in electric power technology, the revolution in computer and information technology, and the revolution in artificial intelligence.

Despite the rapid development of gene technology and the continuous expansion of application fields, one key problem after another has been solved, there are always several dark clouds floating in the sky of gene technology, among which the problem of gene fusion rejection is the biggest one......

Just like an organ transplant, the human body automatically produces a rejection reaction, so the normal operation of the transplanted organ becomes a big problem. The same is true for gene fusion, and genes play a key role in the early stage of development, or the information itself, and it is even more difficult for organisms to change genes after they grow up, so that the desired genes can exert the desired effect.

Gene fusion is a systematic project, and in order to integrate one or several biological characteristics, data reception and fusion need to be seamlessly connected.

It's like a USB flash drive plugged into a computer, and if the interface size doesn't match, the data can't be copied.

NASA, accidentally discovered key information in another galaxy, perfectly solves this problem.

This led to the later "genetic zoom converter"

However, this matter is very strange.

What is the key message? Writing? Formula? Graphics?

What is the carrier of the key message? Stone? Memorizer? Or even the sound? Ray?

The timing of the appearance of key information is too coincidental, the universe is trillions of years, and human beings are just a moment, why did human beings discover it just in the genetic age, or maybe even it summoned human beings.

The timing of the theft of critical information is also worth playing...... If the "gene hunting converter" is stolen, it is at best an application tool stolen, and key information is stolen, no matter who is behind it, it must be intended to be more basic research, or even have a more ambitious goal.

This matter was far beyond the scope of Duanmu or even the dean's control, Duanmu Tianqin looked at Dean Stephen's mouth in surprise and didn't know how to answer for a while......

Stephen sighed: "Duanmu, there is news that this is most likely the operation behind the "Scientific Freemasonry", and as far as I can speculate, they may want to establish scientific hegemony that transcends national and international organizations...... It's a brief quiet before the storm, and the world is going to be in chaos......"

Duanmu: "Dean...... I didn't expect our research to be so devastating. ”

Stephen: "Our research is just a tool, the evil has always been human nature, since ancient times, as the old saying goes, there is nothing new under the sun......"

Duanmu: "Yes, Dean...... The misuse of gene-editing technology is probably more threatening than a nuclear bomb......"

Stephen nodded, speechless for a long time.

Stephen suddenly remembered something, and said to Duanmu, "Let's go and see your teacher, Professor William, I heard that he has been in a bad state recently......"

Duanmu nodded, and was about to leave, when suddenly Stephen stopped him.

Duanmu suddenly looked back and looked at Stephen bathed in the sunset, his white hair was plated with a layer of gold, and the wrinkles on his face seemed to be deeper......

Stephen said word for word: "Never be a slave to technology, never succumb to the powerful." ”

Duanmu was speechless, nodded heavily, and left......

Duanmu, who returned home, collapsed on the sofa weakly...... A cat crept over......

Duanmu looked at Catwoman, her little clothes had long since disappeared, and her body was covered with scars......

Duanmu muttered, "It turned out to be you...... Thank you, leopard tiger, for protecting us......"

The kitten barked softly and snuggled up to Duanmu's side, but unexpectedly, at this moment, the two lost and lonely "people" became each other's dependence.

Inadvertently, Duanmu's afterglow glimpsed that there seemed to be a hard object protruding from his bag, and what happened during the day was so flustered that Duanmu didn't notice it at all.

Opening the bag, Duanmu and Catwoman fell into deep thought around a black tortoiseshell-like object......

What is this? Black and pasty, like a tortoise shell fossil, but there is no tortoise shell pattern on the fossil, but strange symbols, dense, it seems to be some kind of hieroglyphs...... Ancient Egypt? Maya? Hemudu? No, neither...... The tortoiseshell fossil is so black that it shines with an eerie glow.

Duanmu thought carefully about the events of the day, and suddenly remembered that Shirley had stuffed something for him in a panic, which should be this tortoiseshell stone. Duanmu made more than a dozen calls to Shirley, but none of them were answered, and it seemed that he could only keep it for the time being......

For some reason, Duanmu always had a strange feeling in his heart, there must be an internal connection between what happened recently, connected with a shocking conspiracy, and he was about to be swept into the center of the whirlpool.

The more Duanmu thought about it, the more uneasy he felt, he decided to go to Mr. William immediately, communicate about what had happened recently, and by the way, ask the teacher to interpret the graphic text on the tortoiseshell stone, Mr. William usually has to read literature and write articles after work until the second half of the night, so Duanmu doesn't have to worry about William having fallen asleep at all, and, as a proud protégé of Mr. William, Duanmu's sudden arrival often brings surprises to William.

When Duanmu arrived at Mr. William's house, it was already about ten o'clock in the evening.

The moonlight poured down like water.

Professor William's home is in the suburbs, and the three-story building is empty and looks a little lonely.

William embraced a minimalist lifestyle, not only in life, but also in a very simple home. The plain walls and longboard pitched roof make it look like a building block house.

The door was open, Duanmu knocked a few times, and called out a few times to Mr. William, but when he received no response, he gently pushed the door and entered.

Duanmu walked familiarly through the living room to the study......

William sat slumped in his chair with his back to the study door, his arms hanging down, motionless. When Duanmu saw it, he stepped to the teacher's side.

Professor William is dead!

Duanmu looked at the scene in front of him in shock:

William's head was tilted to the side, bullets passed through his head, blood and brains messed up his desk, and William's right hand was still clutching his pistol.

Duanmu closed his eyes in pain, but tears welled up in his eyes...... He couldn't believe what he was seeing, and he couldn't accept reality.

He remembered all the care and teachings of his teacher, but he never cared enough for him.

After a long time, Duanmu temporarily woke up from his grief, and he carefully observed the details of the study:

The layout of the study is very simple, it is William's usual minimalist style, there is only one bookshelf, a desk and a chair, the bookshelf is full of scientific research books, most of them are about genetic science, and several of them are William's own books, such as "Research on the Production of Gene Editing Technology", "Principles and Improvements of Gene Converters (10th Edition)", "Guide to Genetic Capability Enhancement", "Gene Ethics and Modification Rights", involving all aspects of genetic research.

After searching for a long time, Duanmu's gaze stayed on the notebook spread out in front of William, and on the latest page of the notebook was a line of words:

I opened Pandora's box!