Life Copy Game

This report looks very important and is placed directly in the root directory.

He Ao clicked on the report and read it quietly.

The content analyzed in the report is very simple and is an extremely academic issue.

How much life can "organ transplantation" add to the life of an "elderly" who is about to end his life?

The report begins by mentioning the background to the research and the ultimate fate that individual humans will eventually face: ‘aging and death’.

Regarding the causes of human aging, federal scientists have put forward more than 300 hypotheses over the past hundreds of years, each with its own reasons.

But what no one can deny is that aging is the final result of many factors and is irreversible. All humans can do is to ‘slow down death’.

Currently, the Federation's most mature technology for delaying 'death' is full-body prosthetic transformation, which replaces all parts of a person except the brain with mechanical prosthetics.

It is now generally believed in the federal scientific community that the main cause of human death from old age is body organ failure, the most important of which is heart failure. Heart failure leads to insufficient oxygen supply throughout the body, eventually leading to the death of the entire body.

If we only look at the brain, it is generally believed that the life span of the brain is more than 120 years. In some special cases, it can even survive for more than 200 years and maintain its functions.

Therefore, in theory, full-body mechanical prosthetics can extend human life to more than 120 years.

But in fact, because the Federation is still unable to perfectly simulate the intracranial environment with mechanical devices, the life span of current full-body prosthetic users is mostly between 70 and 80 years old, which is the same as the average life span of the Federation.

And if the mechanical modifier does not use a sufficiently 'advanced' mechanical prosthesis, or cannot afford the expensive long-term maintenance costs of advanced mechanical prostheses, this life expectancy will even drop to 40-50 years.

Therefore, except for some people with high paraplegia or those who are near death, few people will consider mechanical prostheses as a "life extension" option.

These are the contents of the report. After discussing the advantages and disadvantages of various means of life extension, the report mentioned that they used a new 'life extension' method.

Through 'in vitro cloning' of organs, the cloned vital organs replace the owner's original aging organs, and the purpose of extending life is achieved.

The rest of the report introduces the benefits of this method. For example, there are many experimental data listed above, which show that after replacing the heart, the user's life can be extended by 2-5 years, and a full-body organ replacement can extend the user's life by 5-5 years. 10 years.

And this service is not a one-time service. After the new organs age, cloned organ transplants can still be performed.

In addition, in vitro cloning is not limited to important internal organs such as the heart. Skin is also a kind of organ. Through cloning, skin transplantation and a series of surgeries, elderly people in their 60s and 70s can still maintain their 20-year-old appearance. Young and tender.

Of course, some private organs can also be cloned, and an 80-year-old man can regain his former glory.

The report finally concluded that this kind of cloned organ transplantation can extend the life of ordinary people to 150 years or more at most.

After closing the report, He Ao took another look at the report title, 'Lifetime Replacement Efficiency Analysis Report'.

The replacement should be for both parties, but this report is only targeted at one party, which is more like some kind of advertisement.

He Ao thought for a moment and began to open the files in this storage one by one.

Part of the content of this report should have been deleted, and later changed to 'advertisement', but because it was not used directly, the file name was not changed.

By looking at other data files, you should be able to piece together what's missing from the report.

Although He Ao now had a rough guess about the deleted content of the report, he still needed to verify his guess.

These folders do not have specific names, but use abbreviations and numbers. He Ao does not understand the meaning of these abbreviations, but fortunately, the contents of the files inside are not encrypted and can be understood by He Ao. Word.

At this time, Roger also came over. These materials related to his major, and he was very interested.

There happened to be a lot of professional terms and experimental data that He Ao didn't understand, so He Ao directly copied a copy of the data to Roger and asked him to help analyze it.

And he himself went to look for other documents that he could understand.

Roger didn't expect that he could cause trouble just by sticking his head in to watch the excitement. He sighed and sat on the sofa with the bracelet with copied data.

After assigning those files with more data and more professionalism to Roger, He Ao began to deal with the text-oriented content.

These documents are extremely complicated, filled with various reports and experimental records, and even some internal documents of Qunxing Pharmaceutical. Even if He Ao can read at a glance, it takes him a lot of time to read these documents.

During this period, Aini came out of the shower, glanced at the two people who were reading the information carefully, and then walked back to the bedroom carefully.

The whole reading process lasted until five or six o'clock in the morning.

During this period, because the bracelet was out of battery, He Ao also dug out a tablet computer that had not been used for a long time.

After reading all the information and He Ao stretched, the sky was already turning white.

At this moment, the desktop is filled with various documents, most of which are manuscript papers written by Roger to check certain data.

He Ao put down his bracelet, stood up, made two cups of coffee with instant coffee powder, put one cup in front of Roger, then yawned and sat back on the sofa.

His hands rummaged through the pile of manuscript papers on the table to find the key points he had recorded throughout the night.

Roger raised his head and glanced at He Ao, pulled his manuscript paper to his side, and then continued to read the information.

He Ao held the coffee, took a sip of coffee, and looked at the key points recorded on his hand.

At this time, the door to Aini's room slowly opened. With sleepy eyes, she glanced at the two people who were concentrating on reading materials in front of the coffee table, and then walked to the kitchen carefully.

He Ao's eyes still fell on the manuscript paper he had written.

The things recorded in those report documents are very complicated, but the useful content can be roughly divided into three parts, 'Business of the Institute', 'Mars Project', and 'Some Miscellaneous Notes of Reid'.

The research institute's business needs to be combined with Roger's data analysis. He Ao only summarized two important points after looking at those documents.

First, everyone in the institute, including staff, doctors and patients, are contaminated by some unknown force. The longer they stay in the institute, the deeper the degree of contamination.

This information comes from a report submitted to Red alone by a researcher with extraordinary abilities. This report was locked in the supercomputer in the safe by Red. There was only one comment made by Red, "Resolved".

The solution is naturally not the pollution problem, but most likely the person who raised the problem.

When He Ao saw Coles' soul before, he also found that he was polluted to a certain extent, which is why he was so obsessed with the experimental project. These 'pollutions' most likely came from the Fountain of Youth.

Of course, it could also come from Rhett who was 'alienated' by the Fountain of Youth.

However, judging from the contents of the report, as long as the exposure time is not long, the contamination will not be too serious.

When he saw this, He Ao's fully charged bracelet vibrated. It was a message from Coles, "Did you succeed?"

Because Coles was anticipating the unexpected, he reacted very quickly when the fire broke out in the institute, and took advantage of the chaos to successfully escape from the institute.

He also sent a message to He Ao at two or three in the morning last night, but He Ao was focused on data analysis at that time, so he didn't see it.

He Ao also knew that Coles did not really care about his health when he sent him a message, but wanted the research data from the institute. This has become Coles' obsession.

The data was in Red's hands before and was a core secret. Red would definitely not give it to him. But now the data is in He Ao's hands. These data are not particularly precious to He Ao.

It is much easier to get data from He Ao than from Red, which is why he is willing to help He Ao.

Since the goal cannot be achieved no matter what, it is better to take the risk and choose one with a higher probability.

After a night of reading information, He Ao has roughly determined that the 'Mars Project' cannot be pushed forward without a consortium and the Fountain of Youth.

He thought for a moment and replied, "I still have some things to deal with, just in these two days. Someone will contact you in two days."

There was no immediate reply, and it took a while before a word came, "Okay."

After replying to Coles, He Ao turned off the bracelet.

He returned his gaze to the manuscript and continued reading.

In the research institute's business, the second more important point extracted by He Ao is that the research institute is the place where the "final preparation" of life potions is made.

The preparation method is related to the silver metal box placed in the bodies of those 'volunteers'.

It looks like those metal boxes aren't exactly meant for 'small organs'.

In addition to the research institute, those documents also contain a large amount of information on the Mars Project.

First of all, the leader of the Mars Project is a person codenamed 'Doctor'. This 'Doctor' is mentioned in the many reports and research materials on the Mars Project that Red has saved, and he emphasizes several times that there is no 'Doctor' The Doctor doesn't have the current Mars plan.

It can be inferred from this that the 'Doctor' seems to be the key person in promoting the Mars plan, and is very likely to have a deep connection with the Fountain of Youth.

Secondly, these materials vaguely mention the manufacturing method of ‘strengthening potion’:

By extracting and purifying the blood of a powerful alien beast through a special method, and then mixing it with some life potions, you can create a strengthening potion that can forcibly increase your strength.

The enhanced medicine can be injected or drank directly, but drinking it will cause strong burning to the esophagus and gastrointestinal tract.

However, this information only ends here, and there is no relevant technology and data to strengthen the production of potions.

In addition to the above two points, these materials also mention the manufacturing method of 'life potion'.

Mix a certain amount of 'Qi' and 'Fountain of Life' in a ratio of one to two, and then send it to the research institute for special preparation.

The 'fountain of life' mentioned here, He Ao guessed, should be the fountain of youth diluted through some kind of treatment.

And 'Qi' should be the 'Qi' of martial arts that He Ao guessed.

However, what is different from He Ao's original speculation is that these 'qi' do not come from any warrior. These research materials say that these 'qi' come from a certain 'giant machine' that can produce 'qi'.

He Ao once saw a book introducing martial arts in Iliaan's underground library. The author is one of the founders of Qunxing Pharmaceutical, so it is understandable that Qunxing Pharmaceutical can cultivate warriors He Ao.

But the 'machine' that produced 'qi' made him a little confused.

He vaguely felt that he needed to see this 'machine'.

In addition to this 'machine' for producing gas, the information also mentioned another thing that He Aozeng was interested in, the 'test tube' containing the life potion.

The information said that this was a 'customized test tube' mixed with Soul-Eating Pearl fragments.

There was no explanation of what the soul-eating beads were, but He Ao couldn't help but think of the marbles he found in the hospital.

He reached out and took out the marbles. The crystal beads were filled with a light purple mist.

This ‘marble’ seems to be used to collect souls.

"ah!"

At this time, Roger stretched out, picked up the coffee on the side, took a sip, and then burped, "This workload is too much. The last time I analyzed and studied so much data was the last time ."

"Listening to your words is like listening to your words."

He Ao put the manuscript paper in his hand on the table, "You can obviously use a computer to assist the calculation."

"For some data analysis, computers may not be as fast as me,"

Roger stood up and stretched, and there was a crackling sound all over his body.

"what's the result?"

He Ao took a sip of coffee and asked softly.

"I have figured out the best formula for these cultures, as well as the best mixing time and mixing method of life potion. These are things that the institute has not yet developed, but I know that your focus is not here,"

Roger sat back on the sofa and projected his bracelet onto the table.

"What the institute does can be summarized in a few points, the most important of which is," he raised a finger, "this institute is a 'large-scale organ culture factory.'"

"Um?"

He Ao raised his head.

"I know you should have almost inferred this conclusion. Let me go into more details next,"

Roger said slowly, "The organ cloning technology developed by Qunxing Pharmaceutical is very interesting. They borrow something called the 'Fountain of Life' to inject life into the cloned organs that cannot maintain their activity and make them 'alive'.

"However, this method cannot be used casually. It needs to inject the spring of life before the organ has grown into a normal form, and then implant the organ into a living person's body, so that the living person can support the organ."

This answer was not quite what He Ao expected. He asked softly, "Will this behavior have any impact on the people who donate the organs?"

"Short lifespan,"

Roger said calmly, "Excluding the damage caused by 'clone organs' to normal organs and the donor's increased risk of illness due to foreign matter in the body, the donor's lifespan will be greatly improved after donating the organ. Decline."

He Ao: "Is there a specific decline figure?"

"Take the heart, an organ that requires long-term strenuous activity, as an example. It takes about three months to support a cloned heart until it passes through the critical growth period." Roger leaned on the sofa and looked at the increasingly bright sunshine outside the window. ,

"According to the institute's data, the direct life loss caused by these three months is about 5-10 years. Most donors lose about 8 years of life. Of course, this does not include complications and their own organs. In the case of lost injuries, the average life expectancy is about 12 years."

And transplanting this cloned heart to the original clone owner can only increase the life span by 2-5 years.

At this moment, He Ao suddenly understood what the "lifetime replacement efficiency" in the report meant.

If calculated based on the maximum loss, twelve years is converted into two years, and the loss can exceed 80% at most.

In fact, this is a transaction. The institute requires the poor to cultivate "organs" for them, and the so-called "subsidy" given is actually a purchase price, a purchase price for the life of the poor.

They buy lives from the poor and sell them to the rich.

He Ao clicked on the report on 'Lifetime Replacement Efficiency' and showed it to Roger.

Roger stared at the report with some confusion. Gradually, his eyes narrowed, "This is..."

"Trade life."

He Ao said calmly.

He glanced at the Soul-Eating Bead in his hand. There was a high probability that there would be such Soul-Eating Beads in the research institute. After the volunteers' lives were exhausted, there was a high probability that their souls would be 'taken away'.

Roger fell into a brief silence. He didn't know how to describe his feelings now.

He intuitively felt that such things should be unreasonable, but he was shocked to find that these things were 'reasonable' in a certain sense.

He sighed and sat back on the sofa, "They can't find a job, they have no future, they can't support the burden of life, they can't repay the loan, and they can't raise their children, so they can only sell their lives in exchange for a meager income. Overcoming the current difficulties, as for the future, it is no longer something they can consider.”

During his years as an underground doctor, he has seen a large number of people who had no choice but to take risks and do dangerous things because they could not survive. In fact, what they did was no different from 'selling their lives'.

But none of those things made him feel as uncomfortable as "trading life".

He soon realized the source of his discomfort.

After all, there are only a few people who take risks from the fire, and this kind of 'buying and selling lives' can be scaled up and rapidly expanded to the entire federation like industrial products.

If this kind of thing really spreads, countless desperate people will inevitably step into this 'life store' and sell their lives at a cheap price.

The consortium will definitely be like a vampire, purchasing these 'lives' at the lowest price and then selling them at a higher price.

And those who have nothing but high loans have no other options.

Roger, who was used to this kind of operation, could almost expect that in order to purchase the 'lowest price' life, the consortium would push those who have not yet fallen into despair into despair.

The birth of this 'deal' can plunge countless desperate people into deeper despair.

Roger subconsciously felt that the world should not be like this, but he was suddenly aware of his powerlessness.

Now that the development of artificial cloned organs is limited, this kind of "commercial project" that can "trade lives" and obtain large profits from it will inevitably be vigorously promoted by consortiums.

The world shouldn't be like this, but he can't change it.

His power cannot fight against a behemoth like Qunxing Pharmaceutical, let alone the consortium alliance that may unite with Qunxing Pharmaceutical.

"Dad, Uncle Roger, we can call the FBI."

There was a soft voice behind him, and Roger turned around and found Aine standing behind the sofa holding a plate with an egg sandwich.

She didn't know how long she had been standing here, but she seemed to have heard the conversation between He Ao and Roger just now.

Roger rubbed his brows, not knowing how to reply to this newly recognized 'little niece'.

He knew exactly what the FBI would and wouldn't do.

And He Ao raised his head and stared into his daughter's eyes. Those beautiful light brown eyes were shining with a glimmer of light.

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