Chapter 54: Cloning
The frightened cloning expert finally woke up under Lin Xuexi's careful care, and she was arranged in a separate room by Lin Xuexi, after all, apart from her, the only female scientist here, only this Chinese girl with a lot of power was left.
Lin Xuexi helped her up from the bed and fed her a glass of water, she seemed to be a little frightened.
"Even if you want to make an example of the monkey, you don't need to cut me, right?" Christina stabilized her emotions and said angrily, "I didn't object to you." ”
"Ahh I'm sorry! Lin Xuexi sincerely apologized, "I was too anxious at the time, they were my friends, I wanted to resurrect them, I didn't notice that you walked to the table." ”
"The devil believes you!" Christina sat up from the bed, "In that case, I have a couple of questions that I need your help with. "She immediately entered the state of working as an excellent scientific researcher.
"You can rest more, it's okay, don't worry." Lin Xuexi hurriedly persuaded that she was very guilty of scaring the other party just now, but she always thought that the psychological endurance of these scientific research workers was very strong.
"You're not in a hurry now?" Christina glanced at Lin Xuexi, "The donor has died, we must complete the grafting as soon as possible to ensure the activity of the donor cells, the earlier the grafting, the higher the survival rate." ”
"Grafting? Is this jargon? Is that how you describe it in the industry? Lin Xuexi was a little disgusted by the word grafting.
"Believe me, I don't mean to be disrespectful to your friend, just simply because the word is more graphic and appropriate." "First of all, the first problem, the experiment requires mature egg cells, then the nucleus containing the genetic information is removed, and the donor cells are grafted into it, and then ......"
"Use mine." Lin Xuexi interrupted directly.
Christina glanced at Lin Xuexi suspiciously, it seemed that she had done a lot of homework before and had enough knowledge of somatic cell cloning technology.
"Second, experiments and surgeries require a large amount of scientific research and medical supplies, medical microscopes, hotbed petri dishes, anthropomorphism*, and high-quality, fine-tuned radiation sources that provide stable output for maturation and rapid cell growth."
"There is no problem with this, Fermi has the most advanced medical equipment and scientific research equipment in the world, and I can provide you with everything you need."
"Third, I hope to sign a no-liability agreement, I believe you should also know why I participated in the crossing project, I don't want to live my life more than 150 years ago again."
"You don't have to worry about this, there is no country and law in this world now, you have also seen, this so-called provisional government is completely up to me, but if you must sign the agreement, I also agree."
"Also, I hope you can understand that even if your friends are cloned, they are two new beings, except for the same genes, they have nothing to do with your previous friends, they are not the 'resurrection' you demanded, no one can come back from the dead, your friends have disappeared from the world, whether you want to believe it or not, this is the case, I also deeply sympathize with their suffering, but, please be sympathetic."
"Then, the donor cells are physically frozen at low temperature, and the cell viability cannot be determined, I can only choose the somatic cells with higher activity for grafting, maybe the success rate will not be too high, so I need to increase the experimental base to ensure the survival of the embryo, but if the luck is too good, the survival rate becomes high, in line with the principle of respecting life, I will not kill the growing embryo, that is, what we end up with may not be two copies of your two friends, the result is completely random, it may be a boy, two girls, three boys and two girls, A men's basketball team or a women's choir. ”
"Finally, and most importantly, throw away the rapid growth of these children under the effect of embryonic maturation, after they are artificial*, they are no different from ordinary children, they will, they will spit up, they will cry all night and keep you awake, and then they will learn to walk, learn to talk, learn everything you teach them."
"The men out there can't count on this, and you have to remember: as the only woman in this damn base, I'm absolute, absolute...... I won't watch the kids for you! ”
Lin Xuexi was stunned and listened to Christina's words for a long time, she had never thought that these questions would have so much trouble.
"So, are the experiments still being done?" Christina saw Lin Xuexi stunned there, and thought that she was frightened by these troubles and regretted it.
However, this is understandable, after all, it is too difficult for a young unmarried girl to raise a child.
"Do! Of course you do! Lin Xuexi came back to her senses and hurriedly said, "Without further ado, let's start now!" ”
"Wait a minute!" Christina pulled Lin Xuexi, who was about to walk out, back, motioned for her to sit on the edge of the bed, and then put on the pair of gold-rimmed glasses.
"I'll look into your eyes." took off Lin Xuexi's blindfold, and the terrifying wound that had healed appeared in front of Christina's eyes.
She squatted in front of Lin Xuexi, her face almost pressed together, one hand opened Lin Xuexi's eyelids, and the other hand pressed a few times on the switch of the temple.
The glasses are not myopia, nor are they purely for good-looking decoration, but a high-tech medical device, which can be a magnifying glass, a microscope, a vital signs monitor, and a ray detector, and you only need to look at others to know the person's heartbeat, blood pressure, body temperature, glycemic index and even whether there is a tumor.
"The internal nerves and blood vessels are intact, and all you need to do is clone a new eyeball and a cornea transplant." Christina came to a conclusion, let go of Lin Xuexi's eyes and stood up, the latter shed a few tears because of the stimulation of the air, "A simple minor operation, as long as there is a surgical robot that is not too old, I will do it for you, and by the way, I will clone a few more eyeballs for you, so that the next time you are injured again, you don't have to wait for the growth of clone cells and replace them directly." ”
"Next time?" Lin Xuexi couldn't cry or laugh, "I thank you!" "I can't figure out if this is a blessing or a curse.
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In a restaurant somewhere on the base, people who have woken up are eating.
Prior to the "Crossing" program, all subjects were required to fast for at least two days, and after thawing, due to the nutrient solution injected into the blood by the life-support system, they did not feel too hungry for a short time after waking up.
The chef inside the base is a last-century cooking robot with a spherical head, four flexible mechanical arms, and five fist-sized spinner wheels to support the body and walk.
It can cut countless cucumbers into thin slices of the same thickness, or stretch ramen noodles to the same thickness every day, and it can precisely control the taste of each dish, and the temperature and heat can be controlled according to the degree Celsius, and the time can be mastered to the minute.
The ingredients in the restaurant are all stocked on the base, and some extremely rare and expensive ones were frozen in rigid containers for the "Crossing" project in order to protect biodiversity.
Of course, it also takes a lot of energy to thaw those rare ingredients, and it will definitely not be considered in the current situation of the base's energy emergency.
But even if there was enough energy, the biologists wouldn't let people do that.
Except for Lin Xuexi, an internal employee in the base, everyone else's food costs money, and it is obviously futile to talk to these AIs who only recognize authorization and orders about the life and death of human beings.
Fortunately, Lin Xuexi has enough money, so that she will not feel distressed for these dozens of elite scientists to eat for centuries.
A world-class energy tech giant like Fermi, whose original 14% of the original stock has become an astronomical figure after 557 years, can now be said to be as rich as a country and rival these superpowers.
The ten-member team next to her, who was working on the restoration of the main energy source, was discussing countermeasures while eating, and Christina simply took a few bites before going back to continue her experiment.
"What's wrong? Don't have an appetite? Zou Dufeng sat opposite Lin Xuexi, watching her turn the steak over and over without eating a bite.
It may be that as the chairman of Fermi, the food assigned to her by the robot is much higher than that of others.
It was a high-quality snowflake steak with an exceptionally even distribution of fat and muscle, and it was grilled just right.
But the moment Lin Xuexi cut the steak with a knife, she felt as if blood was oozing out of the broken fiber layer, she knew that it was her hallucination, but she couldn't restrain herself from thinking about it, she thought of Wen Xiu, thought of Horod, thought of their bodies being cut, blood gushing under the knife, and thought that they were like this steak, roasted and eaten by others.
"Vomit ......" She suddenly felt a wave of nausea and nausea, she brought the steak to the table of the group of ten, and then came back to the cooking robot and said, "Make me a bowl of polenta." ”
"The kind with the skin."