"Yes, you and I are the same kind of people." The prophet took two steps forward and extended his arms to both sides. "We are all lucky and great evolutionists … but those who hide in the shadows regard us as mice in the experimental box."
He paused and continued, "you should also know how to deal with lucky mice in the experiment, right?" Even if the lucky ones finally survive, they will be injected with enough cyanide at the end of the experiment … I don’t want to be drained of my value and sent to the incinerator, but I was branded as a heretic. Don’t you think it’s funny? What is the difference between the crew’s practice and the ignorant and greedy Vatican in the Middle Ages? "
"With what you and your hands have done, I don’t think the name heresy is wrong for you," replied Koran with a face of contempt.
"What did I do? I just gave them strength … You should know that the most important thing is to give birth to strength in the wilderness of this planet, right? Ask those exiles who are dying of hunger, disease and serious injury. Will they choose to be crushed into the dust like an ant or give everything they have in exchange for greater power? The so-called human nature is just a fragile fig leaf of human language … Most people’s thinking has always stayed on that damn earth, but the only way to live in this vast universe is to become stronger. "
"What? You implant monster larvae into a living human body and make them your weapons … Don’t be so gullible to me about exiles dying of hunger and disease. The weak roots can’t be eroded. You didn’t save people. Don’t decorate yourself so nobly, "Ke Lan retorted.
"I have never said that I save people by myself. I want to be a better creature … I need to do a lot of experiments to get closer to the’ perfect’ goal, but I will not regard them as laboratory mice, but treat them as martyrs and sacrifice them."
"It seems that after being a so-called prophet for so many years, you have practiced your eloquence well, but I don’t want to talk to you at all," Kelan said. "For me, you are the enemy, which will never change … If I hadn’t been lucky, I would have been killed by you several times, right? I’m a man … but bear grudges. "
"Then you are willing to be an immortal sailor and can play chess?"
"At least they don’t want me dead now."
"Have you ever thought that when they give you the living armor, no one really knows whether you can fuse successfully … they are just experimenting on you, and if it fails, you should be able to guess?" The prophet suddenly gave a sneer. "You can’t really help you, can you?"
"But if it’s worse than it is, I’d rather be on the ark side," Kelan said. "Will the undead crew let the ark residents eat people?"
"It seems that you don’t know your life story, poor guy," the prophet said slowly. "From the moment you were born, your core experimental project has been transported, and everything you experienced was arranged by the drama …"
"What about the evidence?" Koran stare at each other’s figure-although he held a dismissive view of every word said by the prophet, he still had to admit that this statement coincided with a guess in his heart.
My life … maybe it’s really controlled … otherwise, so many coincidences can’t come together and many things can’t get a reasonable explanation.
"Not only the vast majority of people in your Ark, but also their dramas are carefully arranged by the crew … Except for the’ actors’ who improvise a little, everyone is holding a puppet by silk thread … For these poor puppets, they can already see the death day when they are born."
"Speak human words," Kelan said with a straight face. "I don’t like dealing with riddlers."
"Do you know what the ark population will keep this number of fifty million? Every year, so many people die and are’ consumed’. The population is much larger than the new population, but there has never been a population crisis in Ark? Even if the baby born in the public cultivation center can make up for part of the gap, have you really calculated the gap between the number of deaths and the number of new students every year? "
“……”
"Don’t talk about others, just talk about you-"The prophet turned "Koran, do you remember what you experienced when you were a child? Do you remember those classmates who studied in the educational institution with you? "
"Have you ever tried to enter the names in your memory into the archives of the Safety Bureau … Have you found out that those people are really the people in your memory according to their names?"
"Have you ever found that many of your memories before the age of 16 are vague, and there are some details that you can’t remember … have you ever doubted whether your memories are true or false …"
"Do you know something called beta clone?
It takes two days for their embryos to develop into human beings. At the age of sixteen, the state memory, emotion and life skills departments can be implanted into the brain through external devices …
It takes a month for a young man who has just graduated from a righteous educational institution to integrate into human society …
Like a’ legal citizen of the Ark’, his identity will not be compromised …
The only drawback is that most of them will not live beyond 40 years old. After all, cloned mitochondria are fatal defects, and this problem has not been solved by the crew today.
But it also hurts. Anyway, these people are born as consumption, and a clone has already finished recycling by the age of forty. "
Chapter six hundred and thirty-four History
"You talk to me so much just to prove that the residents of the Ark are all β-replicators?" Ke Lan’s face didn’t show surprise. "Then how do you explain those people who are over forty years old now living in the Ark?"
"Not everyone is cloned in batches," the prophet said. "Cloning is a means to fill the population gap. Most of the clones are regarded as consumption and put into high-risk jobs such as miners and off-board maintenance personnel. These workers are highly mobile, and few people have worked in the same position for more than three years. Because of this, it is difficult for others to realize the true identity of these clones, and they can also deal with the aftermath in great secrecy after the deadline expires."
"Do you know what immortal crew members would rather choose cloning and cloning as an ethical means than robots to fill those vacant positions?" The prophet asked again
"Cause?"
"No … if the answer is this, it would be too simple." The Prophet shook his head. "What they chose was simply self-deception … You may not know that Ark humans are irreversibly dying."
"What do you mean?"
"The beta-clone has been successfully developed in the new era of 75 years, but at that time, it was in the period of high incidence of ship riots, and the undead crew would be worried that the announcement of this technology would stimulate more people’s emotions and have an effect of adding fuel to the fire … So this technology was banned and the scientists who participated in this project signed the strictest password."
Of course, even if they signed the password, many people died in various accidents in the next few years until the new era in 762. The last biologist who participated in the beta clone, Mary Gerant, was stabbed to death by her husband with a fruit knife in a family conflict. After her death, those who knew about the project were left with the undead crew members.
"You just came here to tell me these stories?" Kelan could not help but ask 1.
He always feels that the other party is trying to delay, but he can’t do anything about it.
"I’m just telling you a story in the process of procrastination," the prophet said. "This can limit you for a while, but for me, this is enough."
“……”
"Let’s go back to the original topic-this technology was as silent as the number of waste cases in the research institute for more than 100 years after Mary Gerant’s death until the ark detected Alpha Star in the new era of 4 years."
The prophet paused for a moment and then said, "The ark in the 75-year-old new era has finally arrived at Alpha, and the sun will enter the low-earth orbit of Alpha the next year."
"In the same year, the Ark sent an advance team to explore Alpha Star; In the New Era, the top management of the Ark decided to land the Ark on Alpha Star. After 20 years of preparatory work, the Ark successfully broke through the atmosphere and landed on the equatorial plane of Alpha Star in January of the New Era-you said that these things are compulsory courses in history in the righteous education stage, and anyone can recite them by pulling them on the street, "said Ke Lan.
"Then you should also know that in the first few years when the Ark landed on Alpha Star, the field corps … oh, no, it should not be called by this name at that time … and suffered unbearable losses. It was also because of the shocking casualty figures that the original human body reform bill was passed."
"… what are you trying to say?"
"It was passed together with the human body reform bill and the case of restarting the beta-clone plan … but this case was not put out by the joint parliament, but voted by the undead crew department." The prophet said.
"How do you know these things? To tell the truth, I doubt the truth of everything you say. "
"It doesn’t matter how I know these things. It doesn’t matter whether you believe what I say or not. You just need to listen to me-a beta clone was just used to fill the gap in the number of cannon fodder troops … In the new era, in 1993, beta clones made up less than 100,000 people, accounting for 2% of the Ark population, but in 1991, the proportion has risen to 7% … Do you know what proportion of beta clones account for the Ark’s 50 million population now?"
"How much?"
"Thirty percent" The Prophet shrugged. "There are 15 million people in Ark who are secretly cloned. They will die of various diseases caused by mitochondrial collapse when they live to 40 years old. Of course, these data will not be released to the public … These clones have a low level of cell activity, even if they are combined with normal humans, it is difficult to give birth to a generation … You should also notice that there are more and more specialized hospitals and clinics for treating infertility in recent years?"
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