Chapter 16 16(1)

"Just start with those people just now, what kind of cult are they?" Rose read the noun carefully to Jo: "Unbounded." "It's a spelled term," she said. "It's short for 'infinite interface.' They're not a cult, as you might think." "Then who are they?" Rose didn't answer his question right away. She adjusted the seat to make herself a little more comfortable. "Can you drive faster?" "That's not the way to go, actually, you'd better buckle up." "My left side feels different than usual," she said after adjusting the position. "Do you know the name Braun?"

"Software genius, known as 'Bill Gates down and out'." "That's what journalists sometimes call him, but I don't think someone who started from nothing and made seven billion at the age of 42 can be described as poor." "Probably not." Mengsi closed her eyes, leaned against the car door, and supported the weight of her whole body with the right half of her body.I saw beads of sweat dripping from the tip of her eyebrows, but her voice was still loud. "Two years ago, Braun provided one billion yuan to set up a charitable foundation. The name is 'Infinite Interface'. He believes that using the sky facilities of a new generation of ultra-high-speed computers, the true face of the Creator can be discovered."

"Doesn't that sound like a cult?" "Well, a lot of people think Lauren is a liar. But he's a single-handedly synthesizer of different sciences—and he has a vision. You know, there's a tendency in modern physics to look for evidence of the creation of the universe .” Joe frowned and said, "What the hell is the theory of the beginning of confusion? I think it's a big deal. " "The theory of incipient chaos does not mean that the universe was formed in a haphazard way. It has a wide range of implications. In seemingly chaotic systems, there are intricate correlations between things-like the weather, which seems to be Unpredictable, but you will find that it hides a regularity."

"Honestly," admitted Joe, "I have no idea of ​​the thing." "You know, most of the movies are ignorant, as are the politicians, so, if Braun were here, he'd tell you that eighty years ago science mocked religion's theory that the universe was created out of nothing Yes. Everyone knows that nothing can be created out of nothing - that's against the laws of physics. Now that we know more about the structure of molecules, quantum physicists create matter out of nothing all the time. "Gritting her teeth, she leaned forward to open the glove box and rummage through the contents." Wish there was an aspirin, I could swallow it dry. "

"Let's just find a place to park—" "No, keep driving. The big bear is still far away..." She closed the glove box, but still maintained her forward posture.This is the only way to ease her pain. "In any case, physics and biology are the two sciences that attract Lauren the most, especially molecular biology." "why?" "Because the more we learn about biology at the molecular level, the clearer it becomes that everything is designed. You, me, mammals. Fish, insects, everything. " "Wait a minute, do you deny evolution?" "Not quite, and Darwin's theory of evolution still has something to do no matter where molecular biology takes us—just in some form."

"You're not one of those absolute Christian fundamentalists who believe we were created in the Garden of Eden 5,000 years ago." "Probably not, but Darwin's theory was formulated in 1859, before we knew the structure of the atom. He believed that the smallest unit of living things was the cell - which he saw as a small, adaptive of protein." "Protein? You're confusing me." "He believed that the origin of this basic living substance was a chemical accident - and the origin of all species is explained by evolution. But now we know that cells are very complex structures with biological clocks inside design. You can’t believe it, it’s just a coincidence of nature.”

"Is that so? It's been a long time since I left school." "Even in species...well, the two main principles of Darwinian theory—coherence and adaptive design—never have a single proven case to be true in nearly a hundred and fifty years was discovered." "Now you're really confusing me." "Let me put it another way." She was still leaning forward. "Do you know this guy Corrick?" "have no idea." "He is a molecular biologist. In 1962 he and another person jointly won the Nobel Prize in Medicine. He, Wilkin and Watson discovered the three-dimensional molecular structure of DNA - the double helix structure. From All the great advances in genetic engineering since then, and the next two decades, the revolutionary treatments for a variety of diseases, are due to the work of Currick and his colleagues. Currick is a scientist's scientist Well, Joe, he's nothing like an occultist or a psychic. But you know what he said a few years ago? He thought life on Earth was the elaborate creation of extraterrestrial intelligence."

"Even such a learned person read the book 'National Investigation Report'?" "The point is—Crick cannot use the theory of natural selection to explain the complexity of molecular biology we currently know, and he is unwilling to accept the Creator's set..." "So... you fell into the trap of god-like aliens?" "But it still begs the question, you know? Even if all forms of life on this planet were created by aliens... then who created them?" "This is the old chicken-and-egg problem again." Rose smiled slightly, but it caused her to cough and couldn't stop for a long time.She leaned back against the door again, watching Joe.

"Blauren believes that the endeavor of the human intellect—the purpose of science—is to improve our understanding of the universe. It's not just about allowing us to control our environment more effectively, or satisfying our curiosity, it's about unlocking the The mystery of God before us." "After unraveling, we become gods ourselves." Rose smiled, with pain in her smile. "Now you agree with Brauren. Brauren thinks we're at the juncture of a scientific breakthrough that will prove a Creator. It's a... infinite interface. This will bring souls back to science The level of human beings will no longer fear and doubt, heal our divisions and hatreds, and finally seek the unity of our spirit and mind."

"Sounds like 'Star Trek.'" "Stop making me laugh, Jo. It hurts." Joe thought of Jane Fitz, the old car seller, and both he and Braun seemed to feel the end of the world was coming.But for the coming turbulent tide, what Fei Qu saw was darkness and icy destruction, but what Braun saw was pure and flawless light. "So Braun founded the 'Infinity Interface' to do some research in this area. He's tracking research programs around the world looking at...well, metaphysical points of view that even scientists themselves don't quite understand. Let pivotal discoveries be shared by the entire research community and encourage specific projects that will lead to breakthroughs in Braun's prophecy."

"Infinite interfaces are not a religion." "No, Brauron believes that the value of religion lies in making people aware of the created universe and the existence of the Creator. But they then fall into misinterpretation of what God expects of them. According to Brauron, what God really requires of them is It's about working together to learn, understand, and unravel the mysteries of the universe in order to find God...and to be on an equal footing with Him." At this moment, they had driven into the dark mountainous area to the villa area.Not far ahead is the entrance to the highway. "I don't believe in anything," Joe said as they pulled onto the interchange. "I know." "No loving God would allow such a catastrophe to happen." "Blauren would say that the fallacy of your thinking is due to human narrow-mindedness." "Maybe Braun is the one talking shit." Either because Rose started laughing again, or if she actually started coughing.It takes her longer to get herself under control. "You need to see a doctor," he insisted. Rose resolutely objected, "A little delay...Nina is hopeless." "Don't make me choose—" "There's no choice, it's my opinion. If it's me or Nina...then she should come first. Because she's the future, she's the hope." There was heavy traffic on the freeway on Sunday night.Joe raced as fast as he could, but he knew he couldn't risk being pulled over by the highway police.The car was registered in neither Rose's nor his name.If he can't prove it's borrowed, it's bound to waste a lot of time. "What's Project Ninety-Nine?" Joe asked Rose. "What the hell are they doing in the underground facility outside Malathas?" "Have you heard of the 'Human Chromosome Project'?" "Yes, it was on the cover of Newsweek. As far as I know, they figured out what each gene controls?" "The greatest scientific achievement of our time," said Rose, "is the mapping of the 100,000 human genes and the detailed alphabetization of the DNA, and they're making incredible progress on that." "Discover how to cure muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis—" "Cancer, as long as it takes time, all diseases can be cured." "Are you one of the members?" "No, not directly. In Project Ninety-Nine . . . we'll be given some exotic assignments. We look for genes that seem to have unusual gifts." "Like—like Mozart or something?" "No, not creative or athletic gifts, but extrasensory. Telepathy, telekinesis, etc. There's a long list of bizarre names." Joe's immediate reaction was that of a crime reporter rather than someone who has witnessed many incredible phenomena lately. "But in fact there is no such supernatural power, it's just science fiction." "There are many people who score higher than chance on tests designed to discover supernatural abilities. Such as predicting cards, flipping coins to guess heads and tails, teleportation of thought images, and so on." "They've done that stuff before at Duke." "When we found out that someone was doing these tests, there was a particularly good reaction. We'd take their blood sample and study his genetic makeup, or the child who could see the Rattlesnake. " "The noisemaker?" "The Rattlesnake is not a real ghost. There is always a child or two wherever this phenomenon occurs. We believe that the flying objects in the room and the ghosts that appear are all caused by this child, caused by a kind of ghost that even they themselves I don't know what the nonconscious forces that I have are working. As soon as we find such children, we take samples of them and build an archive library of these special genes, find out these people with various extrasensory experiences, their genes patterns in common.” "Did you find anything?" Rose said nothing, perhaps waiting for another pang of pain to pass.Her face showed mental anxiety, more than physical torture.Finally she said, "Too many." If there was enough light for Joe to see his own reflection in the rearview mirror, he would find that his suntan had faded and his face was as pale as moonlight. Because he suddenly knew basically what Project 99 was all about. "You didn't just study this, did you?" "no." "But you have been exposed to this research." "yes." "How many staff members are there in Project Ninety-Nine?" "Over two hundred." "Make monsters," he said dully. "People," she said, "make people in laboratories." "They may look human, but some are monsters." Rose was silent for a long while, then said, "That's right." There was another silence. "The real monsters are us who made them." It is surrounded by high walls, and guards can be seen patrolling, and it can be recognized as a research center from a long distance on the road.This Quater Mars institution covers eighteen hundred acres in Virginia Township.The entire hill is covered with grass, and reindeer roam the grasslands to graze.The birch and beech-like woods are rich in small game, which thrive because no one is hunting them, and there are mallards in the ponds. Although there are no security measures in sight, any animal that is slightly larger than a rabbit cannot escape the eyes of the monitor.The motion detectors, thermal sensors, microphones and cameras set up everywhere will inevitably send data to the computer for analysis.Any unauthorized trespassers will be arrested immediately. In the heart of the vast area, there is an orphanage, a three-story brick building combined with a hospital.Forty-eight houseboys lived here, all under the age of six—although some looked a little older.Their common feature is that no one is born by a mother who conceived well.They were born without parents, only with chemical instruments, and no one stayed in a woman's womb. They were fetuses conceived in the artificial amniotic fluid floating in the mechanical womb. Like lab rats, their skulls were cut open and their brains were exposed for several days for experimentation.None of these orphans had names, and calling them names would make their handlers bond with them.These manipulators — ranging from security guards to scientists — must remain morally aloof and emotionally detached in order to do their jobs well.As a result, these children used letters or numbers as special indexes of their genetic files in Project Ninety-Nine, and the experimenters selected their special functions according to this index. In a room on the third floor, sit ATX-12-23. A four-year-old girl has urinary incontinence due to nervousness.I saw her sitting in her own defecation in the crib, waiting for the nurse to change it for her, but she didn't cry or make a fuss. ATX-12-23 never uttered a word or made a sound of any kind, and she has not cried since infancy, nor has she been able to walk.Can only sit motionless, eyes can only see things in the middle distance, and sometimes drool.Even though she had rehab sessions three times a week, some of the muscles had atrophied. If her expression could be more lively, she should be a very beautiful little girl.But her relaxed facial features gave off a chilly feeling. The camera covers every corner of her room, and it is still a 24-hour video, which seems to be a waste of film—except for the things surrounding the ATX-12-23, which move from stillness to movement from time to time, colorful balloons in the air Levitate, flow from wall to wall, or circle the child's head for ten or twenty minutes.The blinds will open and close even if someone touches it.The lights flickered on and off. The digital clock has also been sped up.Even the teddy bear, which she had never touched, sometimes stood up on its stubby legs and walked around the room. In the third room next to the elevator on the second floor, lived a five-year-old boy, KSB-22-09, who had no physical and mental problems. In fact, he was a very lively red-haired boy with an IQ that reached the level of a genius.He loves to learn, receives tutoring from his tutor every day, and currently has a ninth grade education.He has many toys, books and videos. He is also supervised and takes part in the games of the other orphans, as the planners of the program thought it important.Sometimes when he tries very hard (sometimes without trying at all) KSB-22-09 can make things like pencils, small steel balls, paper clips, etc. invisible.He sent them to a place called "the dark place".He couldn't change those things back, and he couldn't explain what the "dark place" was.He had to be sedated to sleep because he would have nightmares.In the dream, he uncontrollably sent himself piece by piece into the "dark place"—first his thumb, then his toes, his left foot, a tooth, another tooth, and an eyeball that suddenly protruded from its socket Missing, followed by an ear. Recently, KSB-22-09 suffered from amnesia and paranoia, and the surrounding experts all believe that this must be related to long-term use of tranquilizers. Of the forty-eight children living in the institution, only seven displayed superpowers, and the remaining forty-one were not considered failures.Each of the seven children first showed their natural potential at different ages, from the youngest at eleven months to the oldest at five.So those forty-one kids are probably waiting for their time to open up, maybe not until puberty.Of course, those children who have reached the age and still do not see special talents will be removed from the plan.Because the resources of Project Ninety-Nine are not infinite. The planners, however, have yet to decide on a more optimistic termination age. Although the steering wheel was clear and heavy in Joe's sweaty hands, although the sound of the engine was still familiar, and although the highway surface under the wheels was still as hard as ever, he felt as if he had stepped into an ethereal and hostile space.Reminiscent of Dali's famous surrealist paintings. "The place you describe is clearly hell. You...you can't be one of them, can you?" "I don't look like it?" "Not like." Rose's voice became weaker and weaker, as if the strength supporting her came from her strictly guarded secret.As she revealed one by one, her vitality gradually faded away.Rose seemed happy to embrace this weakness because it gave her a sense of relief from a confession and absolution—but still couldn't shake the depression. "If I'm not now... At that time, I must be the kind of person who was with them." "Why? Why are you involved in these... these evil deeds?" "For the sake of self-respect, to prove that I am as good as they think I am to take on this unprecedented challenge. For the thrill of being part of something bigger than the Manhattan Project. Why did those who invented the atomic bomb Hard work...don't they know what they're doing? Because if we don't do it, there are people in the world who will do it...so we have to do it and maybe save ourselves." "Sell your soul to save yourself?" he asked. "I can't absolve myself of the blame," Rose said, "but when the contract was signed, no one expected that the experiment would reach this point. We created a child step by step along the stairs, but we didn't expect to fall on the ground. On a slippery slope. We originally planned to only monitor the first child until the second period, which is the six-month fetal stage-after all, we don’t consider embryos to be real people, so we don’t use people as experiments. When Our first experiment was over...and we found a puzzling anomaly in his electroencephalogram. His brain wave patterns were very weird, which may indicate a previously unknown brain function. So we have to let him Live to keep watching...see what we get. See if we take another giant step forward in human evolution." "My God." Although Joe had only seen the woman for the first time thirty-six hours earlier, he had mixed feelings about her.From admiration in essence to fear to disgust, and now he has turned from disgust to sympathy.For the first time in her Jo saw human frailty. "A long time ago," she went on, "I was going to quit, so I spoke privately with the director of the program. He told me very clearly that it was too late. It's a tenure job, and trying to leave Project Ninety-Nine would be tantamount to suicide—and putting the lives of loved ones around you at risk as well. " "Can't you just go to a reporter and blow the whole thing out so they can shut down." "Maybe there isn't enough evidence, all I know is in my head. Also, I have two colleagues who think they can take all the material with them.One of them just happened to have a stroke, and the other was shot in the back three times in the head - the killer was never caught... I was very depressed and considered suicide, but then... came CCY-21-21... "In the beginning, SSW-89-58 was born a year earlier than CCY-21-21. He was a boy who showed amazing talents in all aspects. His story is very important to you. Because of the seppuku you have encountered recently Suicide, self-immolation, and what was lost in Colorado, all related to him. "SSW-89-58 already had the language ability of a first-year university student when he was three and a half years old. Depending on the complexity of the text, he could read a 300-page book in one to three hours. For him, advanced mathematics It's like eating ice cream. He can read every foreign language, from French to Japanese, with ease. His physical development is also accelerated. At the age of four, he is about the average height of a seven-year-old. His superpowers are as expected Yes. But what surprised the researchers the most is his talent in general things. He can play any piano piece after listening to it once, and his body is precocious. These are all selected genes, which have never been past situation. "When 89-58 began to display his superpowers, he proved that he was gifted with senses and perception. The first jaw-dropping performance was a 'compartment view'. Like playing a game, he described research. The situation in the staff's house, although he has never been there. He and the researchers went to a museum that he had never visited, when he saw a picture of a mountain in Wyoming, under the mountain is the top secret Strategic Air Command Defense Center, he was able to describe in great detail the situation of the missile status display board in the war room. He was once considered an invaluable tool for espionage, but fortunately, he gradually found that he could enter other people's minds, as if entering a distant room Easy. He controlled the mental state of his junior operator, made him strip naked, and ran into the hallway of the orphanage to crow like a cock. When SSW-89-58 released the operator's control, he was severely He retaliated with an eye and doubled the punishment he received. That night, he used his ability to observe things from a distance, entered the house of the controller forty-six miles away, and entered the brain of the controller .He used the operator's body to bloodily murder the man's wife and daughter, and then he let the operator finish it himself. After this tragedy, the staff used a tranquilizer gun to inject a large dose of sedative before SSW-89- 58. In the process, two members of Project Ninety-Nine were killed. "For the next eighteen days, he remained in a drug-induced coma while a team of scientists was busy designing a building suitable for his habitation—one that would keep him alive and that would allow him to accept Place of control. A suggestion was made to terminate SSW-89-58 immediately, but this proposal was considered and dismissed. "Now, if you want to enter the security room on the southeast of the first floor of the orphanage, you must go through the inspection of three guards. Because of this, you must put your right hand on the scanner to identify you based on your fingerprints, day and night. You will also have a retinal scan, which will compare the pattern of the retina with the pattern that was scanned and stored when you were hired. "From here, take the elevator to the height of the five floors underground, where most of the work on Project Ninety-Nine takes place. Go to the lowest floor, the sixth floor underground, walk to the end of the corridor, and pass a gray Metal door, with a spacious room with simple furniture and three guards. No one will be interested in you, and the three of them will work every six hours. Except to ensure that they will not take care of what is going on in this room and next door. In addition to being vigilant about things, they also monitor each other's behavior. "On one wall of this room, there is a large window that looks into the adjoining room. You'll see Dr. Louie and Dr. Lanches working on the other side of the glass from time to time. They're from SSW-89-58 Designer, overseeing the discussion and use of 89-58's superpowers. When the two doctors are absent, three of their members will immediately take over. That is to say, SSW-89-58 will always be under supervision." As Joe turned from Interstate 210 to Interstate 10, Rose changed the subject. "Joe, can you find an exit with a gas station? I need the restroom." "Is there anything wrong?" "It's okay, I just want to... go to the bathroom, I hate wasting time, I want to get to Big Bear as soon as possible. But I don't want to wet my pants, okay?" "OK." Rose got to the point again, talking about Malathas's Project Ninety-Nine. Continue to go forward, through a connecting door, into the last room.There is a well-made airtight container, and SSW-89-58 is in it. Unless there is some unexpected natural disaster, he will spend his life in it, which is different from ordinary people.The container, similar to what was used decades ago to hold the remains of polio victims, is as completely closed as a walnut in its shell.He was embedded in a body mold made of cushions and greased with oil, which restricted all his movements, not even the movement of his fingers.All he could do was move his face, or twitch—but that was something no one could see.He was supplied with air directly from a cylinder outside the container, via a nose clip.He also had too many drips, one in each arm and one in his left thigh.Via these tubes you receive life-sustaining nutrients, fluids to balance your body's electrolytes, and various medications. He was put in a permanent catheter to drain his waste.If any of the IV lines, or other life-support systems, were to loosen or fail, emergency sirens would sound immediately, alerting his handlers.While there is still a backup life support system, repair work will never be delayed. Researchers and their assistants must talk to 89-58 via megaphone every day. He found his body embedded in a steel container, with earphones in his ears and a microphone next to his mouth.The clerks are free to adjust the words of 89-58 to a whisper.Another ingenious visual design sends images via glass fiber optics to lenses worn in 89-58's eye sockets, allowing him to see buildings or locations that require his compartmentalized vision. When using the ability to see things in a compartment, 89-58 will vividly describe all the details of the place he sees, no matter how far away it is.And will answer the questions the controller asks him.At the same time, by monitoring his heartbeat, blood pressure, breathing rate, brain waves, eye movement, and changes in skin current transmission, we can detect whether he is lying, even if he is 99% correct.They often ask him to spy on the reliable information they have collected, and compare his answers with the information in the file to test his reliability. He is the admittedly bad boy, not to be trusted. When 89-58 is instructed to enter the mind of a particular person, it either kills that person personally, or uses that person to get rid of another person.This kind of delivery work is called "wet task", which is named because of the blood that is often splattered when performing the task.Not so with 89-58, for he went not into a dry room, but into the darkest part of the human mind.Whenever he finished the "Wet Da Da Mission", he would always describe the situation to Dr. Bao or Dr. Lan.After countless missions like this, Boyi, Lan Kesi and their assistants were able to tell if he was lying before the instrument showed any abnormality. For his controller, the electrical activity generated by the visual display in 89-58's brain clearly shows the activities he is engaged in at each moment, one by one.The current pattern displayed when he was only engaged in compartment observation was fundamentally different from that when he was engaged in the "wet task".If he was given the task of simply observing a certain place, then while observing, he disobeyed orders and entered the mind of someone in that area, whether it was an actual rebellion or just for fun, his manipulator would can know immediately.