Alien Relic Hunter

"What's wrong, are you not interested in me?" Seeing Ke Lan moving his body as far back as possible, almost pressing 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 does 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... on drugs, Lei. Dr. Ni?"

"If you are questioning my mental state, then I can assure you that I am in a very sober state. I rarely drink alcoholic beverages and 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 and morality has been deepening." Dr. Renee said calmly, "A thousand years ago, human society generally believed that 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 applications, humans 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 morals 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 the 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 also 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, more than 60% of the funds of the biomedical department of the institute are currently 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. I just need your sample of Mi Qingxunye."

"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 actually 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, 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 cannot be cloned." Dr. Renee shook her head, "We have tried at least six thousand different human genes, and even 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 have no ability to differentiate themselves at all... It will only continue to divide and proliferate like a malignant tumor, and finally becomes An irregular lump of flesh...the researchers 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 his body absorbed too much radiation, causing his genes to mutate?

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 didn't even have the tissue proliferation that is common in radiation patients. In order to verify this, his body has been checked over by Ivan. In Maozi's original words, "For me, your body is more familiar than my girlfriend's body." , even the location of the mole on your butt, I can be precise to within millimeters..."

As for the internal examination, in order to keep it confidential, they even purchased a whole family of medical examination equipment, including CR, CT, MRI, etc., on the grounds of "for the health of the hunting group employees"... Ever since I was born, Ke Lan had never done such a detailed inspection, but despite this, he still found no abnormalities.

If there was anything abnormal, it would probably be that as long as the needle was pulled out when drawing blood, the needle hole in the arm would heal very quickly. After digging out the bloody scab, which was not much bigger than sand, not even a trace would 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 didn't look like she was looking at a person, but like she was looking at a very special and rare precious specimen...

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, the information they can collect may not be what Ivan has in hand. many.

Inside the institute, I'm afraid there are many people who want 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.

It's also thanks to the existence of this prohibition of the Undead 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 won't be able to escape their clutches.

Unless you become a formal member of the Undead Crew Club, this group of 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 banned 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 relate to 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 abolish him immediately. Instead, he sent himself to the research institute as a researcher.

Secular ethics cannot restrain the lunatics of the institute, and for the members of the Immortal Crew Club, 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, the actual controller of the Sick Village, and the "Pope" Chiron, was one of these experimental subjects.

Although the people of the Undead 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 run down his spine.

Why, why would they let themselves go?

Are you planning to squeeze out all your 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 shows that the Undead Crew has no intention of hiding it. Since everyone has made the matter clear, as long as Ke Lan is not a disabled person with a defective IQ, so 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 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 he go to the undead crew now and tell them "I can read the language of Alpha civilization", "I absorbed the crystal found in Leviathan", "I have the ability to freeze time and space", They will only show a calm expression and tell themselves: "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?

[P.S. Thanks to book friend 20190623011312684 for the 5,000 starting coins; thanks to kukocrazo for the 500 starting coins. 】