"What's wrong, are you not interested in me?" Seeing Ke Lan moving his body as far back as possible, almost leaning against the back of the chair, Dr. Renee's eyes showed a trace of doubt, "

Do you like younger women? Of course, for the purpose of research, I can also find other women to mate with you on my behalf. You can tell me your preferences and requirements, and I will try my best to find a partner that satisfies you...

…”

She paused and then said: "Of course, in order to ensure that the research process will not deviate from the expected track, I need to monitor the entire process when you are engaging in reproductive behavior with the selected experimental samples. In addition..."

"I refuse!" Dr. Renee was cut off by Ke Lan before she could finish her words. "Do you know what you are talking about? You must be drunk or... taking drugs, Lei.

Dr. Ni?"

"If you are questioning my mental state, then I can assure you that I am in a very sober state now. I rarely drink alcoholic beverages, and I have no symptoms of addiction to psychotropic drugs - of course.

If you feel you need some alcohol to spice things up, I can find you the best alcoholic beverages on the Ark."

"No, what I mean is...don't you know that this kind of experiment violates human ethics?"

"With the continuous development of science and technology, the contradiction between it and human ethics has been deepening." Dr. Renee said calmly, "A thousand years ago, human society generally believed in gene editing technology and artificial womb technology.

and 'deparenting' public breeding facilities are against human ethics and morals, but if we had not put these technologies into practical application, human beings might have become extinct in the interstellar drifting process."

"A hundred years ago," she continued, "human body modification technology and full-body cyborgization were not accepted by mainstream thinking. But without the modification technology, we would have provided the front line with a large number of modified warriors whose capabilities far exceeded those of ordinary soldiers.

, then during the process of Ark landing on Alpha Planet, the number of soldiers who died from indigenous creatures will be more than ten times as high as now."

Ke Lan and Dr. Renee looked at each other... He had to admit that the other party was right... When a race faces the fate of extinction, the so-called ethics and morality are just empty words.

In a sense, these rigid thinking have become shackles that restrict the development of science and technology.

However, if there were no such "shackles", he tried to imagine such a society - it might be a social structure close to a bee colony model, where the meaning of each individual's survival is only for the continuation of the race.

No one should have emotions, hobbies, entertainment or any other "meaningless" things. The lowest "worker bees" don't even need to have the ability to think.

The time of a day is accurately divided into eating, working, excreting and resting. Everyone performs their duties, and the whole society is orderly, just like a machine that operates precisely and almost never malfunctions.

But if that really happens, people may not be called people anymore. "They" are just gears that keep rotating inside this machine. When these gears are worn and rusty, they will be "just"

Replaced by new gears produced, as a "person" living in a hive society, his life will come to an end.

Just imagining it, Ke Lan felt indescribable depression, despair...and madness.

Living in such a world, does "living" still have any meaning for the individual himself?

Many social creatures on the earth adopt this social model, but when this social model is applied to intelligent humans, Ke Lan suddenly feels how terrible this thing is.

He forgot which book he had read such a sentence: "Death is actually not terrible. What is terrible is losing the meaning of living."

"Mr. Ke Lan, you have been to the sick village before... I believe you should already know what the real purpose of the sick village is." Dr. Renee continued, "To be honest, there is one more thing I can tell you.

You, the biomedical department of the institute currently has more than 60% of the funds invested in the human cloning project. If progress goes well, within fifty years, clone soldiers will replace all natural persons in the army."

"Okay, stop talking..." Ke Lan stood up and said, "Please get out."

"Can I understand that this means rejection?" Dr. Renee's tone still did not change much.

"Can."

"Okay, I can take a step back and just need your Mi Qinghui Ye sample."

"Absolutely impossible." Ke Lan flatly refused, "If you are really capable, you can use my blood samples to create clones."

"This is a good proposal, but unfortunately, I received news from the headquarters half an hour ago that this plan failed. Otherwise, I wouldn't come to you," Dr. Renee said.

"You really had this plan? Failed... why failed? Did the cloned 'me' not have those special features at all?" Ke Lan couldn't help but narrowed his eyes... If the institute really has the ability to clone humans at will

ability, then he should be more careful. Who knows when someone around him will be replaced by a clone...

He couldn't help but think of the strange pieces of meat he saw in the glacier ruins that could perfectly replicate the human form - but at least that thing would only appear in the ruins of Alpha civilization, and the headquarters of the institute is in this ark.

superior.

If there is any person or organization on the Ark that Ke Lan is not willing to be an enemy of, then the undead crew will definitely be ranked first, and the second in the list is this institute that has lunatics and psychopaths per capita.

"No, it's impossible to clone." Dr. Renee shook her head, "We have tried at least six thousand different human genes, and some even include some defective genes. But even these incomplete defective genes can at least be cloned.

A formed human embryo is produced, but the cells cultivated with genes extracted from your blood do not have the ability to differentiate themselves at all... It will only continue to divide and proliferate like a malignant tumor, and finally becomes

An irregular piece of meat... The researcher tried to interrupt the supply of nutrients, and the huge 'tumor' soon rotted and died."

As Dr. Renee narrated, Ke Lan's brows gradually furrowed - according to her description, the cells cloned from his own blood... aren't they cancer cells?

Could it be that my body has absorbed too much radiation, causing genetic mutations?

But if the gene has really mutated, then his body will definitely undergo extremely obvious changes now - no matter what, at least he still maintains his original appearance, instead of turning into a tumor that grows wildly.

Not to mention tumors, Ke Lan's body surface and body did not even show the tissue proliferation that is common in radiation patients. In order to verify this, his body had already been checked over by that guy Ivan. In Mao Zi's exact words

For example, that is "To me, your body is more familiar than my girlfriend's body. Even the location of the mole on your butt is accurate to within a millimeter..."

As for the internal examination, in order to keep it confidential, they even purchased a whole family of medical examination equipment on the grounds of "for the health of the hunting group employees", such as cr, ct, MRI, etc... Ever since I was born,

Ke Lan had never done such a detailed inspection, but despite this, he still found no abnormalities.

If there is any abnormality, it is probably just that when drawing blood, as long as the needle is pulled out, the needle hole in the arm will heal at an extremely fast speed. After digging out the blood scab, which is not much bigger than sand,

Not even a trace will be left.

"It is precisely for this reason that I am more interested in your body." Dr. Renee looked at Ke Lan and said.

Ke Lan always felt that the way she looked at him was not like looking at a person, but like looking at a very special and rare precious sample...

Wait a minute! Ke Lan suddenly became excited. He realized that he seemed to have missed some important things.

The reason why Dr. Renee and the institute did not take coercive measures against this "rare research subject" was not because she was the person in charge of the S-019 ruins, but because the undead crew had issued a ban on them——

Not to mention tying oneself to the dissecting table, even examinations and research beyond the scope of routine physical examinations are not allowed. From this point of view alone, the information they can collect may not be what Ivan has in hand.

many.

Within the institute, I'm afraid there are many people who would like to use a scalpel to cut off a piece of flesh from their bodies at the cost of several Taser shots.

He couldn't help but think of Tang Monk in the four famous novels "Journey to the West"... Although nine out of ten goblins who wanted to eat Tang Monk's flesh were killed by the golden hoop.

Thanks to the existence of this prohibition of the Immortal Crew Association, otherwise, with the style of the institute, let alone the person in charge of the ruins, even if he is a member of the United Parliamentary Group, he probably would not be able to escape their clutches.

Unless you have become a formal member of the Undead Crew Club, these lunatics are probably thinking of their own ideas all the time... This time they used seduction. It is unknown what method they will use next time.

.

But what makes Ke Lan extremely puzzled is why the undead crew members would prohibit the institute from using them as research subjects?

why is that?

The members of the Immortal Crew Club must have seen these reports from the institute... No matter from which point of view, it is difficult for them to be associated with the word "normal people". Why would they give up such an excellent opportunity?

What about "opportunity"? Is it just because he was chosen as the successor by "Pope" Chiron?

No, this is simply impossible!

Even Chiron himself will be expelled from the Undead Crew, let alone a "reservist" like himself. If he really has such great research value, Ke Lan has no doubt that they will immediately abolish him.

Instead of following the assessment process, he sent himself to the research institute - as a researcher.

Secular ethics cannot restrain the madmen in the institute, and for the members of the Immortal Crew Association, it is even more empty talk. This can be seen from their support for the "sick village" - those sick miners

, in fact, they are all specially selected experimental subjects. Not only are they unable to receive any treatment, they are also forced to endure greater pain...

Ke Lan even suspected that even the former member of the Undead Crew and the actual controller of the sick village, "Pope" Chiron, was one of these experimental subjects.

Although the people of the Immortal Crew are not as crazy as the Prophet, they are still willing to do anything for the survival of mankind.

Ke Lan couldn't help but feel chills starting to creep up his spine.

Why, why would they let themselves go?

Are you planning to drain yourself of your own use value first, and then attack yourself? That's not right... If this is the case, this information should be kept strictly confidential. Dr. Renee dares to tell herself these things, which means that the undead crew will not be able to survive at all.

I didn't want to hide it. Now that everyone has made the matter clear, as long as Ke Lan is not a disabled person with an IQ defect, he should be aware of the problem.

For some reason, Ke Lan suddenly had a bold hypothesis in his heart: Could it be that the reason why the immortal crew members would not allow people from the institute to include them in the list of research subjects is because they have already understood the secrets about themselves.

?

Because we knew those things from the beginning, the institute’s actions were completely unnecessary?

Will they now go to the undead crew to show off their cards and tell them "I can read the language of Alpha civilization", "I absorb the crystal found in Leviathan", "I have the ability to freeze time and space", they

He will only show a calm expression and tell himself: "We already know this."

Maybe not all the secrets, but at least part of it, they definitely knew.

In this way, everything seems to make sense...

There is only one point of contradiction left - the "prophet" of the heretical sect.

Judging from the "treatment" that Ke Lan himself enjoyed, the undead crew seemed to be quite kind to "special individuals" like them. They neither sliced ​​themselves up for study, nor forced 996 to interpret the documents of Alpha Civilization. Not only did they not

He took any coercive measures and even gave himself great freedom and power - if this is the case, then why did the "prophet" betray the Ark?

Is it because of his own reasons or something else?
Chapter completed!