There was silence in the large, empty laboratory like a factory, and in the darkness countless pairs of colorful pupils stared at the only glass hut that emitted a light source, and something strange was unfolding there.

The two men who met for the first time did not greet each other, did not greet, did not argue or even talk, and directly began to have a conversation with a pen.

Even Yan Funing himself didn't expect that he would meet such a strange person and such a strange thing.

To be honest, what is happening right now is a bit beyond his imagination.

He looked at the handsome man in the glass room with empty eyes, and soon a large string of scribbled English words covered the entire white A4 paper, it was obvious that his answer was not what Yan Funing thought, "He doesn't know what God's gene is", but a more complicated answer, Yan Funing saw that Hugh Gerard Grosvenor's expression was very serious, and he seemed to be writing the answer very seriously, and soon he wrote several pages, as if there were countless words to confide in him.

This is a bit unexpected by Yan Funing, he looked at Hugh Gerard Grosvenor's immature face like a 16 or 7-year-old boy, it was hard to believe that the man in front of him was 28 years old this year, and even more unbelievable is that Hugh Gerard Grosvenor is not only the godfather of Prince George, the richest man in Britain and the third in line to the British royal family, but also a doctoral supervisor in the Department of Genomics at the University of Oxford, and has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Biology twice.

In fact, the University of Oxford, which has the largest number of Nobel laureates in biology in the world, is at the forefront of human biology and genetics, and is a place where major research breakthroughs can happen at any time.

This is not surprising in terms of Oxford's fame, but remembering Li Jiting's rather solemn expression when he introduced Hugh Gerald Grosvenor to him earlier today, Yan Funing felt indescribably weird.

Because the man in front of him is different from the vast majority of the rich second generation in the world, he doesn't like famous watches, sports cars, beautiful women, travel, or even talk, he doesn't have the slightest characteristics of a young man, but he is full of enthusiasm for biological research.

It's like a weekend night like this, when the young people are relaxing at the party, and he is alone in the laboratory, listening to the jazz of the 80s while doing boring and boring experiments.

Because of Hugh Gerrard Grosvenor's dedication, he must have published twenty or thirty papers a year in the most prestigious journals, and at the age of twenty-three he entered All Souls College, where he became the youngest head of the department in the history of Oxford.

Today, his discoveries and research on gene editing have become essential knowledge in biology and genetics textbooks.

At this moment, Yan Funing could see the tranquility and fullness of Hugh Gerard Grosvenor's heart, and Yan Funing felt that the scene in front of him was something he would never forget in his life, and it was exactly what happened.

Yan Funing saw Hugh Gerard Grosvenor put down his pen, held up the white A4 paper, and didn't know what he used, and fixed several sheets of A4 paper with scribbled handwriting in a row on the transparent glass, like a magnetic refrigerator magnet to fix a note.

Yan Funing looked at the pages that looked like papers, rows of black English filled all the blanks, and there were still traces of alteration, Yan Funing looked at the first page, Hugh Gerard Grosvenor wrote the first sentence at the beginning: "Let's talk about the next question first." ”

So Yan Funing didn't hesitate to hold up the second piece of paper, which read: "What is God's gene?"

Hugh Gerard Grosvenor turned his head and walked back to the table, bent down again, prostrate on the table and began to write, the shadowless lamp above his head casting a faint shadow on the ground, and Yan Funing carefully looked at the answer to the first question he asked, written by Hugh Gerard Grosvenor.

"The depth of research into that thing is beyond imagination..... After the publication of 'CRISPR-Cas9' in 2014, our research on genes has entered a new and ever-changing stage, but due to the obstruction of the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology, our research on ourselves and our ancient ancestors has entered a bottleneck. Caesar', it also exists in reality, and in 14 years when CRISPR-Cas9 was first released, I experimented with chimpanzees and completed the first chimpanzee man, and humans and chimpanzees (and bonobos) have about 99% of the same nuclear DNA. Even if there are some key dual genes in this 1% difference, I can use CRISPR-Cas9 to add or remove the gene of interest as needed. Therefore, it is very easy to create a 'chimpanzee man'. The resulting individual is neither human nor chimpanzee, nor is it a precisely equal combination of human and chimpanzee, but somewhere in between..... I suspect that the genetically edited genes of God into human embryos are the same result, and the resulting 'man' is a new species between humans and God...... I have no doubt that there are such people in this world, and in fact, the carrier is probably an incomplete version of the 'new human'..... Of course, I prefer to call it Humanity 2.0....."

"However, a powerful force is holding back our research...... This year marks the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's famous book, Frankenstein. Subtitled 'The modern Prometheus', Frankenstein is considered the first science fantasy in the history of Western literature. However, it is a pity that we have not yet realized that Promethean arrogance can only bring disaster to mankind, and that creation itself is not a sin, but arrogance is. Today's humans are so arrogant that they think they have to take responsibility for other lives, such as all kinds of unreasonable cruelty to non-human animals. The reason for this phenomenon is perhaps one of the most damaging myths that has been theologically driven for a long time: that human beings are discontinuous from the rest of the natural world because we are specially created and given souls, while 'they' – all other living beings – are not. ”

"I think it's a fatal mistake, we humans just won in the process of evolution, and if it wasn't our ancestors who won this race, then we humans are the poor creatures who are now locked in cages, used as experiments, and pitied..... We must let go of human arrogance, use genetic technology to create hybrids and chimeras, and truly become 'God', in order to fully understand the 'God gene'..."

"I believe that this day is not far off, and with the in-depth study of the 'God gene', we are about to enter the era of human 2.0....."

Yan Funing knows that 'CRISPR-Cas9', one of the greatest biological inventions, makes gene editing an extremely simple thing, maybe ordinary people don't know, but as a scientific research dog, Yan Funing knows that in 2015, Chinese scientists used CRISPR technology to successfully breed two MSTN gene knockout dogs, gene knockout refers to the functional inactivation of the target gene, this method makes a specific gene of the animal no longer play a role. In this study, the muscles of the obtained knockout dogs were more developed than the average dog at 4 months of age, and they also had greater athletic capacity in adulthood. ”

Not only that, but in fact, after the experiments of Taijisaurus scientists, knocking out the MSTN gene is also enough to cause the growth of human muscles, and the reason why Taijilong's scientists suspect that the 'Plague Shadow' of the Black Death is derived from the 'God Gene' is because the destructive power of humans who take the 'Plague Shadow' has skyrocketed, just like all the MSTN genes in the body are knocked out in an instant.

In fact, the experiments of scientists are not only that, in China, gene editing and cloning has become the most powerful technology that allows human beings to have infinite possibilities, in addition to breeding pigs that can grow human organs, so that organ transplantation is not a problem, the cells of the human brain have also been hammered into the genes of mice, and the average IQ of mice with human genes is four times higher than that of ordinary mice......

What this means, goes without saying.

Yan Funing had thought about various ways for him and Hugh Gerald Grosvenor to start with him, but he never thought that the two would start with "Caesar" and "Frankenstein", Hugh Gerrard Grosvenor's answer seemed to be a bit inappropriate, and asked him about the research progress of the "God gene", he did not answer positively, but said that human beings have become "God".

This made Yan Funing a little confused, but now he could only use his brain to remember everything Hugh Gerard Grosvenor said, and try to keep up with Hugh Gerrard Grosvenor's mind to figure out what this descendant of the Black Prince, the richest man in Britain, and the most bizarre Frankenstein wanted to say.

He even couldn't wait to see how Hugh Gerald Grosvenor answered his second question, Yan Funing took his eyes off the pages he had completely memorized, he saw that Hugh Gerrard Grosvenor was still quickly writing the answer on the white paper, Yan Funing turned his head to look at the animals around him in the incubator, and suddenly felt a little creepy, because many animals stood motionless in the transparent incubator and stared at him, that kind of "staring" It is not that the animal instinctively is looking for food or judging danger, but that it is "observing.......

Yan Funing took a deep breath, feeling that Hugh Gerard Grosvenor didn't know what kind of monsters had been bred using genetic technology, when footsteps came from the transparent glass room in the middle, and he turned around and saw Hugh Gerard Grosvenor having several pages of A4 paper written in English on the glass.

"To be honest, I don't know why you call that thing 'God Gene', I've always thought that only us humans are our own gods, for example, now we humans have the ability to give 'souls' to other animals, like the 'Chimpanzee Caesar' I made, who has reached the level of a twelve-year-old child except that he can't speak. You see, humans are so hypocritical, they will worry about giving other creatures super powers, or intelligence, but they never care that they become stronger by mixing with the genes of other species, and there is a long-term fear of genetic technology in the depths of the human soul, which starts with Dr. Morrow and ends with the cloning of humans - it seems that as long as genetic technology is abused, it can happen....."

"Mankind's fear of 'genes' is not unfounded, in fact, it has to start with the Sumerian civilization.....

Hugh Gerald Grosvenor's answer about what the "God gene" was made Yan Funing completely lost, he didn't expect that he actually saw such an incredible answer in Hugh Gerald Grosvenor, just like he was standing at the top of a desert pyramid at the moment, looking up at the starry sky and seeing the stars shining in the darkness shining with a silver totem, which has a bone-eating cold in the totem that has hovered for tens of thousands of years in human history.

The cold had nothing to do with the temperature, but was a pure sensation that made the soul shudder, like a huge shock bursting from his head like an electric current, hitting his whole body......

No, there is a current.

When Yan Funing reacted, it was too late, and the blue sterile suit on his body burst into countless small snake-like purple currents, making him paralyzed and unable to move. And I don't know what material the sterile suit is getting tighter and tighter, even with the powerful destructive power of the carrier, he can't break free, if he can use the skill, maybe there is still a chance to escape, but he uses the shielding ring, and he completely loses the ability to resist.....

Yan Funing felt that his consciousness was becoming more and more blurred, he felt that he could no longer stand, and was about to collapse to the ground, he forced his eyelids to watch Hugh Gerard Grosvenor walk out of the transparent glass room, the innocent and innocent man, holding a stack of A4 paper in one hand and an oily pen in the other, was smiling a little nervously at him......

Yan Funing saw Hugh Gerald Grosvenor quickly write on a piece of paper: "There are no superheroes in this world at all, some are just guinea pigs in the laboratory, you see those poor animals in that transparent incubator, day after day, year after year, they have no name but number, they dare not escape and cannot escape, the life of the whole family is in the hands of others." One day, whether you want it or not, the world will have to face the facts. They have to choose whether to understand it from a scientific point of view or to experience it from a religious point of view? When a person is faced with a life-and-death situation, religious belief is always the winning side. Where would you prefer eternal life, in heaven on earth, or in a desolate laboratory?"

Just when Yan Funing was about to become Hugh Grosvenor's test subject, the formal dinner of All Souls Academy had already come to an end, and William had already come over to urge Feng Zhenzhen to wake Yan Funing up.

However, Yan Funing still hasn't been able to wake up from his drunkenness......