Chapter 409: Engineer
Humans fertilized, bred and delivered by machines are called engineered humans, and biologically speaking, they are neither robots nor clones, but authentic natural beings. Throughout the golden age of the Ming Dynasty, engineers accounted for the vast majority of the fleet.
The natural person who is distinguished from the engineered person is the pure born person, and the so-called pure born person is a human being who is fertilized by natural means, conceived by the mother, and born naturally. In the Golden Age, there was no shortage of innocent people, although they were far less numerous than the number of engineers, but they were also an important component of the fleet and an important factor in maintaining the happiness of the family.
From the time of conception, to birth, to the age of 18, all expenses are paid by the fleet, and they enjoy the same treatment as engineers.
The difference between the early pure birth and the engineering person is obvious, and later it becomes more and more blurred, because the following situation occurs: the natural pregnancy of the fetus in the middle of pregnancy due to various reasons, such as the pregnant woman's illness or the pregnant woman does not want to conceive, and the machine pregnancy, such a fetus will be surgically removed from the pregnant woman's womb and sent to the sea of life to continue the machine pregnancy, after the birth of such a child, it is difficult to distinguish whether it is a pure born or an engineer.
Later, the rules were re-established, and the terms "engineer" and "pure life" would only be used as the oral terms of the people, and the two nouns would be removed from the official language.
In the Daming fleet, everyone has a "genetic watch", and when two close relatives are together, the genetic watch will sound an alarm. The reason for this is to avoid close relatives from falling in love and getting married, as I said earlier. After all, all engineering people, their social relations are opaque.
Since engineers are also opaque to their natural parents, there may be people who borrow genetic watches to find relatives. For this reason, the Ming Dynasty has formulated a very impersonal law, that is, men and women with a biological age gap of more than 15 years are prohibited from intermarrying!
As a result, if a man or woman with a biological age gap of more than 15 years is together, the genetic watch will alert you, regardless of whether they are biologically consangued. This is done in order to put an end to the search for relatives.
So when a person who has donated sperm and eggs stands in a group of engineers, all the children's genetic watches will call him to the police, and he will not be able to find his relatives.
There is also a situation that people who want old cows to eat tender grass will completely break this idea, because all little girls (or little fresh meat) who are 15 years younger than him or her have genetic alarms. In this way, he will have some scruples, because the object of his love is most likely his biological child.
Many rules and regulations have a period of transition, from the initial lack of understanding and passive resistance, to the end of general acceptance.
The Sea of Life and the Childcare Center are both built in a small universe, which is highly secret from the outside world, and no one is allowed to enter except for a few high-rise buildings in the summer, in order to prevent the destruction of the population plan in the summer. I know that after the child is six years old, he will enter the universe and integrate into human society.
On the edge of the huge nutrient pool in the breeding workshop, I saw a floating midwifery robot, moving the fetuses to be delivered one by one, in the process of moving, the amniotic fluid has begun to spill, and after the placenta is cut, a large piece of amniotic fluid falls to the ground. The ground was watery.
Immediately after birth, the baby will be taken to the thermostatic nursery next door by the midwifery robot.
Watch the skilled "harvesting" process of the midwifery robot, the spilling of amniotic fluid, and the strange sound made by the machine during childbirth. The only woman among the inspectors, Lu Cheng, actually retched on to the railing.
Several people looked back at her curiously, and Xia frowned and said: "Lord Lu, you are also a woman, and the reproduction of human beings is all in this process, but we use machines to speed up the process and save human suffering." What's so hard for you to adapt to? ”
Lu Cheng lowered his head, waved his hand and said, "I'm sorry, Your Excellency, I just think this scene is too bloody, I really can't stand it." ”
"Bloody?" Summer said angrily, "This is the birth of life, not a slaughter, where is it bloody." If you really can't, go to the lounge and rest. ”
"No, no, Your Excellency, I am the chief of life, how can I be defeated at this time. I'll just bear with it, and I'll get used to it after a while. Lu Cheng said with a hard time.
The first donated sperm eggs (the reason why they are not said to be fertilized eggs is because they are donated separately. There were 50 pairs, a total of 106 fetuses (all but a few were twins), and 30 of them were delivered by machine this time, and the next machine birth will take place in 30 minutes.
After all 30 children were delivered by the machine, a cleaning robot came out and began to clean up the amniotic fluid, nutrient solution and other effusions on the ground, as well as discarded placenta and other debris.
Summer said, "Let's go, go to the nursery." ”
The nursery room is next to the production workshop, and before a group of five people entered the nursery room, they heard bursts of baby crying.
The nursery room is about the same size as the production workshop, and the area is also very large, which maintains a constant temperature of 34 °C, and the production workshop is a constant temperature of 36.5 °C, so everyone is very hot all the time, but there is no way, the workshop and the nursery room must have such a high temperature, no matter how hot it is, you have to endure it.
The nursery is a transitional room from the production workshop to the childcare center, where there are many trolleys, where newborn babies are put into the trolleys after various examinations and pushed by the childcare robot to the childcare center to begin their six years of early childhood.
Seeing these healthy newborns, their skin was ruddy but wrinkled, damp, and they cried vigorously with their eyes closed. Summer is very exciting, and I can't help but moisten my eyes. I think when Deng'er was born last year, he wasn't so excited.
Numerous childcare robots began bathing newborns, scrubbing them clean, putting on small clothes and diapers, and putting on genetic watches. Then push the trolley to the childcare center.
The first batch of 30 newborns will be sent to the first nursery of the childcare center, and three years later to the first kindergarten to begin their three-year kindergarten life, and finally leave the small universe.
In the summer, five people followed the team of childcare robots to the first nursery, which had already been cleaned and disinfected, and the small beds were neatly stacked, and the newborns were put into the small beds in turn.
There is a natural pasture ten kilometers away from the childcare center, where excellent cows are raised, and all the high-quality milk produced is given priority to the newborns here, and the excess milk will be transported out of the small universe for the use of other people of civilization.
(End of chapter)