Overturned Tower

Dr. Leyuan sighed: "Ning Ming died, but he was born without silence. A man with integrity... not bad. As the new king of the lower city, he is much better than I imagined."

But immediately, Paradise changed the subject: "Of course, I think Mr. Detective's immortality technology should not be complete. Probably only a small part has been deciphered... Otherwise, he should be younger.

"The last time I saw him was more than ten years ago. At that time, he was so old that he looked like an old man in his 70s or [-]s.

"Mr. Detective now has a three-digit age, but he looks like he is only in his 40s or 100s... But if he can really reproduce the skills of the elves, he is just over [-] years old, and he should be as young as a boy."

"Indeed."

The detective nodded in agreement.

Yuan Yuan looked back at the detective, feeling a little bit sad: "I thought you were really dead at the time. Your daughter hasn't had a good life these years... After all, she was born from me, and I still pay attention."

"If I lived, she wouldn't even have such a life."

The detective shook his head: "Just treat me as dead... Besides, your research is not much better than mine."

Hearing this, the old man couldn't help showing a smug smile: "Then your news is too far behind. Human in vitro synthesis is my technology almost 20 years ago. How can I not improve in 20 years?" ?

"This is the 20 years of my peak. Without the constraints of the scientific ethics committee, the crystallization of all the wisdom in this life... The results of my research are enough to shock the Seven Islands."

"Specifically?"

The detective asked with great interest: "Can you tell me about it?"

And Yuanyuan also nodded happily: "I'm too lazy to talk to others, but I can trust your words. And there are not many people who can understand the significance of my research, and you should be one of them."

With that said, Dr. Paradise got up from his seat.

From the pile of debris behind him, he found a helmet with many electrodes that looked like a game helmet that was popular ten years ago, and handed it to the inferior first.

"With it on, you can at least talk. Communication will be easier."

He then opened the partition to reveal a compartment inside.

Just like the mad scientist in the movie, there are various petri dishes of different sizes.

And in the transparent container in the middle, a teenager with his eyes closed was sleeping.

He looked to be seventeen or eighteen years old, but what surprised the detective was that there were seventeen or eight different cloning tanks here, but this boy alone did not have any spiritual relative characteristics.

This is something detectives are very familiar with...

Those with round ears, who are exactly the same as "ordinary people" in another world... special individuals who don't have even a very mild spiritual disorder.

Besides him, everyone else has different spiritual relatives.Generally speaking, they are reptiles, only two are turtles, and one of them is a bird with wings.

The strangulation and the inferior saw this magnificent scenery that could be called taboo, although they couldn't understand it at all, they couldn't help but stood up and stood behind to watch.

"That's why I study synthetic humans and human cloning."

Paradise looked at it and sighed in a low voice: "If there is no accident, it is also the reason why the company prohibits research on this technology."

"Is this a clone of yourself?"

The detective also came over and guessed.

Dr. Paradise's own soul relative should be an animal of the order of turtles - he has a carapace attached to his crooked back, and there are also grooves and folds on his skin.

"Yes."

Yuan Yuan clapped his hands and praised: "It's you, detective! My old friend, I can recognize it at a glance... Heh, the vast majority of people in this world don't even know what cloning is. Only you who can survive will know this kind of knowledge."

"Why doesn't he have the characteristics of spiritual relatives?" the detective asked.

He vaguely realized that he might have touched one of the world's greatest secrets.

One of the three secrets pursued by the Tower of Babel includes the origin of spiritual relatives.

"There are a total of eighteen clones here, only he does not suffer from spirituality."

Paradise caressed the tank wall and sighed in a low voice: "I've thought about many possibilities. Maybe it's a problem with food, maybe it's a problem with the air, maybe it's the characteristics of 'spiritual relatives' hidden deep in our genes... But I really didn't expect that he succeeded in the end.

"I delayed the time to grant them the language at first, but after they woke up and started activities in the outside world, they gradually awakened their soul relatives one by one. It was just a little slower than ordinary people.

"Most people start to become spiritualized when they can say their names around seven or eight months old. But when I don't teach them words or any knowledge, this process is delayed to an average of four years old, the latest one. It was delayed until I was nine years old... that is, the me who awakened the bird spirit relative.

"The difference between him and others is that I suppressed his brain activity through drugs, reduced his thinking ability, and turned into a dementia. Therefore, the induction time of spirituality was effectively prolonged... and the only thing that did not belong to Spiritual relatives of reptiles."

"The difference between this 'standard human being' who did not have any spirituality in the end and those individuals next to him is that I cut off part of the nerves in his brain to make him unable to distinguish himself from the outside world. That is to say, he recognizes Not knowing what 'I' is... In this case, nostalgia does not strike.

"Although this is an isolated case, it is not rigorous enough. But I already have a conjecture—mysophilia may be related to the cognition of self and the outside world.

"When people separate themselves from the outside world from the point of view of thinking and cognition, spirituality occurs. It is an infectious disease based on the soul. Starting from this result, it is not their blood at all that the elves do not have spirituality. Noble...and this toddler without any spirituality, when he grows up, is not the pointed ears of elves, but a kind of hairless round ears.

"This shows that elves are not without kinship, but they have a special kind of kinship, a variant of kinship that doesn't use real animals as kinship. For example, a variation of kinship body, or..."

"—Or, after the spiritual disease is cured, humans will become elves."

The detective interrupted softly.

Hearing this, Dr. Paradise turned around silently.

In the silence, the hunched old man tried to open one of his cloudy eyes... His other eye was an old-fashioned prosthetic eye, which could only be used for research, not for seeing people.

Paradise showed a smile that looked even a little scary: "Sure enough, you have also touched this field."

Chapter 49 He is not dead

"As long as we study immortality, the birth of elves cannot be avoided."

The detective replied calmly: "I think you should know the answer too."

"Of course, who do you think I am?"

Paradise sneered.

With his cloudy big and small eyes, he glanced at the inferior and strangling: "The question is, do the two of them want to know.

"I'm not like those elves who are taboo about spreading the truth and pretending to be lies. If anyone asks, I will answer. Whatever I speak, it must be the truth."

"Just say it."

Hang Hang replied flatly: "I will never betray."

The bad guy just nodded, and the mechanically synthesized voice came out intermittently from the helmet behind him: "Please tell me, Dean... I can't... go back..."

"Well, since you ask. I'll be merciful enough to explain it to you."

Dr. Paradise laughed in a low voice: "Everyone says it's psychic disease... Then have you ever thought about why it's called psychic disease? When did this name come out?

"According to my research... the reason why soul relatives are called soul relatives is because it is related to psychic energy. I used hormones to control emotions, stimulated the brain with electricity, tried to induce their psychic responses, and discovered one thing... That is, children who are not infected with spiritual disease cannot awaken psionic powers, or even have psionic reactions.

"This shows one thing. Long before the Sky Island period... maybe even before the mage era, psykers had been born on the ground.

"The birth of the psyker was earlier than the formation of the word 'spiritual relative'. But then the psyker was wiped out because of something, leaving only the derivative word psychic. Only the elves still remember the psychic, Therefore, when psionic energy was born from the empty island again, it would be given this name.

"So, everyone... Since the elves, as witnesses of history, have seen the era when psykers still existed on the ground. And not all elves are mages... Assuming that mages and psykers do not coexist, there are still people who use Spirit of Holy Order power.

"It is now 1202, and many elves are older than this number. Why have no elves ever mastered psionic power?"

Dr. Paradise whispered to himself.

Rather than explaining and elaborating, it is better to say it is the old man's mumbling.He was just reading something to himself... which also makes sense, after all, he studied it alone for so long, but he couldn't tell anyone about it.

This is a kind of loneliness and pain immersed in the truth.

"I have a guess...although it's just a guess and cannot be verified...that is, the 'immortality' of the elves and the 'spiritual power' of the short-lived species are essentially a kind of power, a different manifestation of a thing... …

"And if this conjecture is correct, it can explain many problems. For example, why all elves do not have psychic powers, why psychics are 'destroyed', and why elves know 'psychics' ...For example, why elves forbid the study of history.

"So, based on this speculation, what can we get?"

Dr. Paradise suddenly became emotional.

He murmured in a low voice, his short body couldn't help trembling with his emotions, and he muttered incoherently: "That possibility is already in front of us. It's right in front of our eyes... It has never been hidden, just Beside us!

"Either... if you inherit the spiritual disease correctly, you can become an elf; or the spiritual disease can be 'cured', and the 'antibody' left behind is the immortality of the elf; or everyone in this world is originally an elf , but some of them degenerated into 'short-lived species'... In any case, it proved one thing."

"—Elves are not born noble."

The detective said softly: "We are of the same race.

"As long as the secret of eternal life is solved...everyone can be an elf. Everyone can live forever."

"Speaking of which," the old man let out a dry laugh and glanced at the inferior, "he is the best test subject.

"You don't think you know...he's the only half-elf in the world.

"His father is the director of Kamalse of Tianen Group. Heh... that is a cold, rational and selfish man. I still remember that he asked me to study strange things... but after I just researched When I was a prototype, he expelled me from the upper city, and sent assassins to kill me. Oh, fortunately, I have a better skill."

"... Director Kamalthor," Hang Hang said slowly, "according to my information, he may have been killed by the godfather."

"……Oh?"

The old man opened one of his eyes slightly, and sighed: "If it's true, it's not so good. The elf director will be reborn... When he is resurrected again, the godfather will face the revenge of an elf director. "

"It's true."

While meditating in the heart of the inferior, the helmet he was wearing read the surface consciousness, and made a more precise mechanically synthesized voice like a synthetic throat: "I can feel that he is dead."

"No wonder you want to escape here, heh."

Yuanyuan sneered: "I thought you finally realized your own essence, and realized that your essence is to take the lives of others... It turned out that you were just driven away by your relatives after your father died."

"May I ask," said the detective suddenly, "what research did Director Camalthe . . . ask you to carry out?"

"Oh. It's a boring thing, an extension of the elf rebirth technology..."

Paradise said casually: "You know that the technology of elves can upload and save memories. Director Kamalthe wants to know, if there is a complete mechanical life form without wetware such as a brain, if it is equipped with a complete Whether the memory can survive normally.

"But to be honest, I didn't think it would work after I tried it. It is impossible for our technology to completely simulate the brain with machinery... An electronic brain limited to 0 and 1 cannot break through the walls of rationality and logic... If various memories are input And coping methods, completely using machinery to imitate the human brain, the final result is not a real human being, but a terrifying monster that 'looks a lot like a human being'."

"But after all, it was the director's request. I just made an interface for him, which can download and import the memory into the electronic brain... But as for how to do the electronic brain, it is not a technical field that I can understand. Perhaps the mind There is research at Heavy Industry."

When he said this, he looked at the detective with vigilance and curiosity: "What's the matter, old friend. What did you think of?"

The detective shook his head: "I was entrusted by someone to investigate something... about a very strange kidnapping seven years ago.

"According to my investigation, the memory of the hostage who died in the kidnapping case may have been stolen. After his death, the information he was originally investigating was stolen.

"And his son inherited his research. Some time ago, he was forced by the director of Kamalser to buy shares, and he also received money from Chairman Sai Lun's anonymous account. And halfway through my investigation, the director of Kamalser Died suddenly... After the clues were disconnected, I could only find out that the son of the hostage had escaped to Shenzhi Heavy Industry.

"The field of his research is similar to that of his father—and it happens to be the technology that Kamaltha is greedy for. So I wonder if they are researching the same thing as you."

"You really believed it."

Paradise sneered: "You old man from the Cyber ​​Church is really naive.

"You really don't understand the head office. I don't think you understand this kind of hint that you only understand among high-level researchers... The hostage's son probably doesn't have enough talent, so he didn't understand it at all. He's still running around Going to Shenzhi Heavy Industry really saved the other side a lot of money."

"what?"

"It's a kidnapping too, old friend."

Dr. Paradise sneered: "Isn't this very clear?

"The technology that can be worth stealing through kidnapping and killing means must not be low in completion.

"For things like technology, what is really needed is never an individual, but a certain force. Seven years have passed, so how can there be no movement at all?

"And you also said that Chairman Sai Lun is sending money to his son anonymously... According to my understanding of the company, if his son's technology is really valuable, the company should force him to buy shares, or directly poach him to the company There is no way to support anonymously like this. The company always wants to control everything.

"Then the situation is very simple - that person didn't die at all, he was just caught by the chairman to study something in secret. His son is just a hostage. What memory theft, that's an excuse... If you really plan to steal Memory, why not just grab it? Why bother to act in a farce like "failed kidnapping".

"And now, the hostage brother has run away... probably the bandits from Shenzhi Heavy Industry came to pick peaches. Now it's a war between the head office and the head office, and this matter will become a big deal."

Chapter 50 Two Cyber ​​Immortals

It has to be said that this is indeed a possibility that Russell did not think of.

As a "hero" and as the company's special executive department, Russell's perspective is completely in line with his own identity.

Especially when witnessing the death of Little Liuli with his own eyes... When Russell saw Bai Xue's death, he subconsciously wondered whether this was similar to the incident of Little Liuli.So I began to try to find the real culprit behind it, to find the conspiracy and tricks hidden in this incident.

It turned out that something seemed to be found later.

Tiansong, Hero Club, Bingshui, Emperor... These events have been connected into a thread.With a little reasoning, it seems that a good closed loop can be completed.

——That is, Bing Shui was promoted as the chief, and was attacked immediately after that. In fact, the murderer behind the scenes was targeting the emperor.

Just like Delphinium's investigation, the case that Miss Xue Bai came into contact with was just an introduction...it didn't involve any conspiracy at the board level.

But looking at it now, although this incident has nothing to do with the board of directors of Tianen Group, it has something to do with Shenzhi Heavy Industry...