Only Shao Qingge and Ye Qi could pass the security checks at various countries' space stations, so Xiao Lou had to resort to the Peach Blossom Spring Teleportation method again.
As the new day began and the card skill refreshed its cooldown, Shao Qingge and Ye Qi openly bought tickets to return to the Empire's spaceship. After passing the space station, instead of boarding the passenger ship, they directly boarded the Chu Huaying, the Dark Night Starship that was there to pick up everyone, and then activated the Peach Blossom Spring Teleportation inside the cabin.
The group appeared on the Dark Night Starship. Seeing that everyone looked tired, Chu Huaying poured a glass of water for each of them and came over to ask, " How is everything going with Merfolk Clan?" She had spoken with Lu Jiuchuan about Merfolk Clan when he was impersonating Chu Huaying, so she knew the general situation.
Lu Jiuchuan smiled and said, "It went very smoothly. All the Hunters and clones were resolved, and Xiao Liu became the sole inheritor. Moreover, we also found detailed information about the Noahs Ark Project in Elder Karen's laboratory."
Tang Ci said, "This information, together with the medical records left by Ye Qi's father, will clearly show what exactly happened back then."
He turned on the optical computer and pulled up a video.
The video was filmed on July 15, 2975, the day the Noahs Ark Project was first launched.
In a spacious conference room sat several experts, ministers, military officials, Shao Qingge's father, and the then-young Emperor. The Emperor projected a proposal onto an LCD screen and said, "Regarding the Noahs Ark Project proposed by Professors Qin Rong, Zhu Xingchen, and Palmer, everyone is welcome to offer their opinions."
The three people His Majesty named were the three escapees whose remains were found on the sunken ship at the bottom of the sea.
A heated debate erupted in the meeting room, with someone saying, " Clone classes? Isn't that a bit too crazy?"
"I disagree with this plan. It makes no sense ethically. Once human gene cloning research begins, the resulting butterfly effect could be out of control for humanity!"
" Professor Palmer, why did you propose such an outlandish plan?" Ye Qi's father, Ye Bowen, asked.
Palmer smiled and explained, " Isn't it normal to back up important data in an optical computer using a chip? General Ye, I remember your father died of heart failure. If there had been a backup clone at the time, and his organs had been transplanted to him when his heart had problems, he could have lived for many more years. You don't deny that, do you?"
Ye Bowen was stunned: "This..."
Palmer's gaze swept across the room as he said, "What if your beloved wives or children contract a difficult-to-treat disease in the future? With a replica whose organs, tissues, skin, and blood can be harvested at any time, you won't be afraid of any disease then."
General Lin Zecheng frowned and said, "Birth, aging, sickness and death are things that humans have been experiencing for thousands of years. According to you, if we create a clone to back up the data of our own bodies, we can live forever?"
Palmer shook his head: "There's no such thing as immortality. It's just that having more health protection is like buying health insurance for yourself. Aren't you afraid of dying? Aren't you afraid of your loved ones dying from disease?"
The meeting room fell silent.
The young Zhang Shaohua calmly said, "The teacher is right. Animal cloning technology has long been mature, but human cloning has never been approved by the ethics association. The key is that ethicists believe that once cloned humans enter society, they will pollute the human gene pool, and when they have self-awareness, they are likely to conflict with their original selves."
Lin Zecheng looked at his wife with some surprise, seemingly unable to believe that she would actually support him.
Zhang Shaohua remained remarkably calm. She stood up, walked to the LCD screen, gently swiped through the pages, and opened the detailed plan. She said, "However, Professor Palmer's proposed cloning plan will not allow the successfully cloned experimental subjects to be integrated into human society. Instead, they will be kept in petri dishes for their entire lives. They will have no consciousness, no human behavior, and will simply be stored in the hospital as a data backup."
Zhang Shaohua paused, then looked at her husband and said, "It's like a 20-year-old woman freezing a few eggs at a hospital. When she gets older and the quality of her eggs declines, she can retrieve the frozen eggs from when she was young to get pregnant. You can think of a clone as an organ bank that is temporarily frozen and cultured from our own cells. If we get sick someday, we can take the organs, bone marrow, or other parts we need from the clone."
Arguments erupted again around them.
Just then, His Majesty suddenly said slowly, "I agree to this plan."
Everyone in the conference room turned to look at him. The young emperor lowered his voice and said, "If this plan had been implemented earlier, my eldest prince would not have died. He was poisoned and suffered acute liver and kidney failure. There was no way to find an organ for him to transplant. If a clone had provided him with an organ, he would be able to walk now and call me father."
Everyone: "..."
Seeing the grief on His Majesty's face, the meeting room fell silent.
His Majesty's gaze swept across the entire room, and he said, "Let's begin the vote now."
The people in the meeting room exchanged glances. Some raised their hands in agreement, while others remained silent. In the end, more than half of them agreed, and the plan was officially launched. The video ended there.
Tang Ci opened the second video.
In the same conference room, the record shows the meeting during the second phase of the project. The three professors who led this project, Palmer, Qin Rong, and Zhu Xingchen, did not say "add Zerg genes," but only said: "We have improved the culture medium. This time, we will ensure that the clone can survive."
Zhang Shaohua added, "Furthermore, after we successfully cultivate this specimen, we will destroy all the excess experimental subjects, keeping only one or two as data backups, which will be kept in a secret laboratory. When your children need them in the future, they can then remove the corresponding organs and tissues from the specimens in the laboratory."
She added, "If this research is successfully implemented, it will be a leap forward in human medical technology, and all children born in the future will automatically receive a copy as a lifelong health guarantee."
In the video, Shao Qingge's father showed a struggling expression. He must have been conflicted at the time, but in the end, when everyone around him raised their hands, he also tremblingly raised his hand to indicate his agreement.
Everyone signed the proposal in turn.
*
The data chip found by Merfolk Clan only contained the recordings of these two meetings, but that was enough to illustrate the point.
The Noahs Ark Project was originally a "human data backup" plan initiated by His Majesty and jointly proposed by Palmer, Qin Rong, and Zhu Xingchen, experts in genetics, reproductive medicine, and genetics from the Imperial Academy of Sciences.
Zhang Shaohua is Professor Palmer's direct student and is responsible for data collection and...
Experimental setup.
Their initial motivation was somewhat understandable; they simply wanted to use the clones as organ backups, keeping them in a lab without giving them human consciousness, and destroying any excess clones. The clones they wanted to create were more like "cryogenic organ banks" than humans.
Judging from Zhang Shaohua's behavior at both meetings, she was unaware of many things.
Xiao Lou speculated: " Zhang Shaohua was very young at the time and blindly worshipped her mentor, believing that her mentor's decision was correct. She certainly did not know that His Majesty's method of 'destroying' clones would be so cruel, directly putting 100 clones together for survival of the fittest?"
Yu Hanjiang said, " Palmer and the others probably didn't expect His Majesty to be so crazy. So, after learning all this, they realized the danger, chose to escape, and took away a clone of a prince and a large number of replicated specimens from the laboratory."
Xiao Lou said helplessly, "The plan has deviated from its original purpose and is completely out of control. His Majesty has violated the original agreement of 'not allowing clones to join human society' and has personally raised Xiao Lou No. 2 and No. 3 to adulthood. He wants to raise the most outstanding prince."
The chip contained two videos, a large amount of cloned genetic data and case data, as well as experimental protocols handwritten by Professor Palmer, Professor Qin Rong, and Professor Zhu Xingchen, and Zhang Shaohua's observation records in the laboratory...
There are even photos of the clones they took with them when they escaped from Capital Star.
The photos are all labeled with numbers, such as Xiao Lou No. 4, Shao Qingge No. 1, Ye Qi No. 7, etc.
The information found by Merfolk Clan is truly irrefutable evidence.
Yu Hanjiang said, "Now that we have all the physical evidence, if we put this evidence on the Empire's network, it will definitely arouse public anger. Then we can find a way to make this crazy emperor step down. The key now is to find a few witnesses that the public can trust. After all, with today's high-tech methods, videos can be completely faked."
Xiao Lou pondered for a moment: "As for witnesses, I can testify myself. My sister Xiao Rou might be able to help. The other one... Zhang Shaohua?"
Yu Hanjiang nodded: "We need to get back to Capital Star as soon as possible to find her. If she has also been silenced, then things will get complicated."