143 Artificial Zombies

The old man's words made Liu Shuya and Weiwei very unnatural, they always felt that they were a person, and they didn't feel any difference between themselves and ordinary people, but the old man actually said that they were all blood clans, which made them a little apprehensive and a little irritable. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info. し>

But the old man did not feel any of their discomfort. When people get old, they are really verbose, and the old man actually continued to talk to himself.

"Rentu Company was founded by me, no matter who in this company has better technology, who has published better academic papers, who has completed what kind of project, who has developed a new drug or discovered a new theory, no matter who, even if he has the ability and achievements to turn the sky upside down, but as long as he is in Rentu Company, then he will work for me.

For example, your mother Jiang Yi, in your eyes, no matter how great she is, she is just a very good employee of me in Rentu Company. All in all, Rentu Company, it's mine.

I have personally watched this company grow from an ordinary biotechnology company, starting as a small business of DNA extraction, all the way to dominating the whole country in the field of biotechnology, and also occupying a place in the global industry. That's me, it's me, it's me, it's just me, and I'm the only one.

Did you know? When a person reaches that height step by step, he will be tired and numb. It doesn't matter how the company develops in the future, the company has its own track, which will be naturally driven by the people below, you just need to be like a driver and grasp the general direction.

Just like the old Bill who is engaged in computer operating systems and the old horse who is engaged in e-commerce, when their business empire develops to that extent, for them, the pursuit of business may not be so important, and they will begin to pursue a state of life. Me too.

But I'm different from them.

The difference is that I'm a biologist, and the goal or object of my work is ourselves.

What are we human beings constantly pursuing?

Full of warm thoughts****? No, that's low-level.

What is it to play with a woman? If you have money, there will naturally be a lot of women who will pounce on you.

However, one day, you find that you can't play with women with your own body alone. You also have to rely on drugs to help you regain your strength, which can make you feel a little sad.

And when one day, you find that taking medicine doesn't work, your physical strength, your heart, can't bear that kind of game, when a beautiful woman is naked, her wonderful body, is presented in front of you, and you can't do anything, at most you can only touch it twice, what a sad thing it will be.

Therefore, the farthest pursuit of human beings is to make life eternal.

To put it simply, it's two words: eternal life.

Whether it is the Buddha of Buddhism, the saints of Taoism, or the emperor of man, they are all seeking eternal life.

But alas, nothing can make them immortal.

The Buddha attained nirvana, leaving a bunch of relics. Is it eternal life? Spiritually, perhaps, the physical body is still like that.

The result of Lao Tzu Dan is that he is riding a bull and returning to the west, is it really immortal? Soaring, don't you have to leave a stinky skin?

As for the First Emperor, when he died, he was actually put together with a stinky fish to fool the world, even if he lay down in the magnificent Mausoleum of the First Emperor deep underground after his death, so what? It's not an end that can't escape death.

People may think that they are all saints, but in my eyes, they are all failures, self-deceptive losers in the face of the laws of nature and death.

And I, as the helmsman of a vast life industry empire that holds many mysteries of the living world in the era of modern technology explosion, I feel that I can make a difference in this regard, and perhaps, I can find a little clue about eternal life.

What is eternal life for a person, a living being? It is not to die. But it is said that death is a natural law, but how is this law enforced?

For example, we biographers all know about HeLa cells, which are cancer cells that come from a woman named Hela. This woman died of cervical cancer 100 years ago, but her cancer cells have been replicated from generation to generation in all laboratories around the world as the object of experimental research. So, can we think that Hela, a woman, has been joined by scientists all over the world to make her live in a special form until now?

From this incident, we seem to be able to conclude that eternal life does exist.

Then I organized a very strong scientific research force and invested a huge amount of money, starting with cancer cells, to study the secret of making cells immortal.

Even Morgan Sr., the founder of Morgan & Co., the world's largest financial group, was very interested in this project, and after a chat with me, he decided to sponsor my project in unlimited amounts. There is no doubt that the resources and capital available to projects of common concern to our two groups can be said to be unlimited.

But that's not enough. Sometimes scientific things don't mean that you can do it because you have money.

In the beginning, our project did not make much progress.

Under natural conditions, no matter how much cancer cells grow, they can only be cancer cells, and we even try to treat the cancer cells and let them revert to stem cells.

Stem cells are the initial cells that are capable of developing into a new individual. Our cancer-derived stem cells have even been really made, and this cancer-derived stem cells have been cultivated into a new "Hela" individual through cloning and artificial IVF. However, it may be that because the individual is derived from cancer cells, the cells in the body are prone to cancer.

Many cells in the body became cancerous in the early stages of development, and eventually died at the age of seven due to an outbreak of cancer cells.

So this case illustrates that using cancer cells to study the path to immortality doesn't seem to be in the right direction.

At the same time, our other lesser-known group is studying the role of biological genomes and functional omes in cell death. Later, we made a breakthrough on this path.

Once, an archaeological team sent us a small piece of dried muscle from an ancient corpse and asked us to help extract its DNA and identify it in an attempt to analyze the identity of the ancient corpse. It was supposed to be a very simple matter.

However, during sequencing analysis, we found that there was a piece of DNA in the genome of the sample that should not belong to the human gene. Analysis revealed that the DNA was actually integrated into the genome of a human subject by a virus that had never been discovered before.

We cloned this viral DNA and conducted research, and found that the virus can infect human and even all primate cells and regulate cell metabolism and transformation, so that biological cells become stronger, more vigorous, and the cell life span is also extended.

And the effect is not just for a single cell or an organ, but for the whole thing.

All types of cells throughout the body are infected and then mutate, causing the individual to mutate in a stronger direction.

When we discovered this phenomenon, we were going crazy, thinking that our discovery might have upended the entire foundation of life sciences and even the basic understanding of life in the entire materialist world.

Such a discovery is tempting for people like me who want to live forever and for tech freaks in the life sciences. And then we reorient all of our resources in that direction and do research.

But as the research deepened, some very terrifying realities emerged before us. Because one of our feet has inadvertently stepped into a forbidden land in the long river of history, even the long river of civilization development and even the long river of life history.

Eternal life itself may be a forbidden place that cannot be tampered with. ”

At this, the old man paused, as if remembering something that made him uncomfortable and resistant.

"And then?" Liu Fatzi asked curiously. Originally, he wanted to rush up and kill this immortal old monster with one punch, and then stomp to death the unsuccessful son next to him.

But listening to the old fellow babbling so much about such things whetted his appetite to hear what else was interesting to come.

The old man's words were mediocre and not very tempting, but what he said was really a bit unbelievable.

If anyone else talks about this, no one will believe it. But everyone present knows that the old man in front of him is no matter how obscene, but the things he talks about the life science industry are all real, and they can't be more real. It won't be fake. The information revealed in the old man's words is also completely consistent with the information that Liu Shuya understands and masters.

The old man's words later may contain more information that is very useful for Liu Shuya and Weiwei's future life. So Liu Shuya and Weiwei didn't make a sound to interrupt, obviously they were also interested in the old man's words. As for Yue Lin, she was already scared stupid, she didn't dare to do anything, she didn't dare to say anything.

The old man looked at the people in front of him and smiled at them strangely, "I knew you would definitely be interested. After so many years, I finally had the opportunity to tell these words to others, and I held them in my heart for too long, and I felt uncomfortable. Since you are willing to hear it, I will tell you all of it.

Our team, in subsequent research, found that that this special kind of virus, after modifying cells, makes cells stronger and more vigorous, but also more dependent on energy and oxygen.

Cells produce a highly efficient enzyme protein that can help cells use various forms of energy faster, such as sugars, amino acids, fats, and so on.

But at the same time, there is a need for more oxygen supply. Therefore, in individuals with cell mutations, the amount of hemoglobin is unusually large, and these hemoglobins are also changed by special proteins carried by viruses in a pattern similar to the structural variation of prion proteins, so as to carry oxygen across the cell membrane and enter the cell to replenish oxygen for the cell.

In individuals infected by viruses and cell mutations, the consumption of hemoglobin is extremely large, and the demand is also huge, such an almost instinctive body demand also exists in the brain and nerve cells, but the amount of hemoglobin synthesized by individual hematopoietic stem cells is far less than the demand for hemoglobin, so such proteins can only be obtained directly from the outside world.

The easiest way to do this is to suck blood. Mutated people, infected people, are bloodthirsty. Moreover, after directly absorbing blood, mutants can directly remove hemoglobin from the red blood cells of the blood, and directly absorb this protein into the body without going through the digestion process.

After we experimented with that type of virus, the infected creatures, including two people, turned into vampire monsters, and they were so powerful that they lost their minds, like zombies.

No, to be precise, they're zombies!

The first zombie created by a human hand! (To be continued.) )