Chapter 10 Chapter IX Laboratory Manufactures

The corridors of the research institute are spacious and bright, and there are many people coming and going. The beautiful blonde girl, Gina, whose title is an assistant researcher, looks around in the corridors. Everyone who saw her and greeted her stopped and asked her, "Gina, who are you looking for?" Gina asked back: "Did you see Dr. Du Liang? Or Dr. Rock? Dr. Gordon is looking for them, and he has called several times to my office." The people who were asked shook their heads, and Gina was still looking anxiously at the door until she saw Du Liang and Luo Ke walking in from the door together, she hurriedly walked towards them: "The two are finally here, you guys If I don't come, Dr. Gordon will kill me."

Rock and Du Liang looked at each other, and Du Liang laughed: "It must be that he thought he had discovered something new." Gina lowered her voice: "Maybe he really made a discovery. Today he arrived at the laboratory early in the morning. As soon as he entered, I heard him screaming, and then he asked me to call you. When he was talking to me , talking, and even dancing." Du Liang laughed: "Dancing, Gordon dancing? I really want to go and see it." While talking, the two walked towards the elevator. Their steps were so fast and big that Miss Gina in a narrow skirt had to move faster to catch up with them. Miss Gina's quick steps attracted many people. The weird eyes of passing men.

Into the elevator, to the third floor. The scale of the research institute is very large, and the entire 63-storey building belongs to this research institute.The topics of the research institute are also all-encompassing. Recently, some people have even studied why the direction of the vortex caused by the water flowing out of the bathtub after the water plug is pulled out is different in the eastern hemisphere and the western hemisphere. The vast majority of the subjects of these studies are, at first glance, of no practical value.But many, many inventions, many, many new scientific achievements are gathered from the successful results of small, seemingly insignificant research.

The third floor is the forbidden area of ​​Rock, Du Liang, and Gordon. In fact, the research rooms and laboratories on each floor are all private places of the owners of these laboratories. Anyone, even the person who presides over the research institute The chairman of the foundation, without the permission of the owner, can't enter it casually.Each researcher maintains his own "territory". As soon as he got out of the elevator, Gordon shouted straight up: "You are finally here, come, let me show you something, you are late." Rock and Du Liang laughed, seeing Gordon standing at the door of his own laboratory, half pushing the door, the way he couldn't wait for the two of them, and was afraid that others would bump into him, they both thought it was funny.At this time, Gina also stepped out of the lift.

Seeing Gina walking towards the laboratory, Gordon yelled again: "Miss Gina, please go back to your office." Gina is also used to it. Scientists always give people a mysterious feeling.So she didn't say anything, turned around and walked in another direction, and Rock and Du Liang walked into the laboratory, Gordon closed the door, pointed to an electron microscope, with a nervous and excited expression, and even opened his mouth wide, and then Also speechless. Seeing this situation, Du Liang and Luo Ke also began to quicken their pace and came to the microscope together. They even pushed each other, like children vying to see something novel.

Du Liang was relatively tall, so he pushed away the skinny Roque and closed his eyes. He only looked at it for a few seconds before he burst out laughing, turned around, and Roque hurried over Look, after looking at it, I couldn't help laughing out loud. While laughing, I pointed at Gordon, as if Gordon had done something stupid. Gordon immediately blushed and roared, "Look clearly!" Du Liang stopped laughing, shook his head, and said, "See it clearly, sophomores can see clearly what it is when they look at it." Gordon roared again, "Okay, what's that?"

Rock saw that Gordon's expression was extremely serious, so he also became serious and stopped laughing: "That is the earliest form of a vertebrate in the mother's womb. After the egg is fertilized, the cells have begun to divide and form. My answer right?" Gordon came over and waved his hands, as if he wanted to hit Rock, but his voice was still loud: "Okay, then, tell me, what kind of vertebrate is it?" Luo Ke and Du Liang were stunned for a while, and Du Liang said, "Aren't you making things difficult on purpose? Everyone knows that in the first few days, all vertebrates had the same shape. There is no difference between a camel and a frog. "

Rock said: "Of course it's a frog." He looked at Gordon: "It's been almost three years since your first asexually reproduced frog, which was lively for a while. How can you still enjoy it? How many times have you raised it?" Ten asexually reproduced frogs!" Gordon blushed: "Frog, your father is the frog." Both Rock and Du Liang frowned. Although Gordon had a bad temper, he would never hurt others. They knew that there must be something in what they said that made Gordon feel really sad. They were silent for a moment before saying: "Okay, we don't know what it is, please tell us."

Gordon took a deep breath, his expression became extremely serious, and he lowered his voice: "That's me." When Du Liang and Rock asked Gordon, they had already thought of many answers quickly, but even if they thought of 10,000 answers, they would never have thought that the answer would be like this. The two were stunned for a moment: "What do you mean by 'that's me'?" Gordon looked very angry, but there was also a kind of cunning that was almost mischievous: "That's me, that is to say, that's me, what you see is me!" Du Liang shook first, and took a step back.Rock's face turned pale, and the two opened their mouths at the same time, but they couldn't make any sound.

The mischievous expression on Gordon's face was even worse. He approached Du Liang and Rock, who were so shocked that their faces turned pale, and lowered his voice: "Understood? I, it's me." Du Liang and Roque backed away as if seeing a demon, Du Liang shouted: "No, you can't do this." Rock's voice trembled even more violently, and he shouted, "God, you... know what you're doing?" Gordon stretched out his hands and put them on the shoulders of the two of them: "I naturally know what I'm doing. It couldn't be simpler. It's like I took a frog's cells and used asexual reproduction to breed a frog. Same. I have bred many frogs by this method! Oh, why are you so surprised?"

Du Liang and Luo Ke were not only surprised, but they were also sweating, and the sweat was constantly oozing from their foreheads. Gordon He Qiao laughed: "Besides, I used the asexual reproduction method to cultivate an adult frog faster and faster. In the beginning, it took a few months, and later, a frog came out in just a few days." !" Du Liang cried out: "The frog is a frog, and you are you." Gordon's expression was extremely aggressive: "What am I?" Du Liang and Roque shouted: "You are human." Gordon cried out abruptly: "What is a human being?" Du Liang was stunned for a while, he was obviously a little discouraged, and his voice was not that loud, he said: "People are people." Gordon still refused to let him go, pointing his finger at the tip of his nose: "You are a biologist, tell me, tell me with your knowledge, what is a human being?" Du Liang took a deep breath, his face turned paler, but he had enough composure to speak out what he wanted to say slowly instead of shouting: "A human being is a kind of creature──" He wanted to continue, but Gordon waved his hand and roughly interrupted his words: "By the way, people are living things, frogs are living things, fish are living things, orchids are living things, as long as they are living things, they are all living things." It can be cultivated by asexual reproduction with our knowledge." Du Liang groaned: "But people are still people, different from frogs." Gordon said: "Of course it is different, so the cultivation process is much more difficult and complicated." Du Liang shook his hands repeatedly: "I don't mean that, I mean, people are different from frogs, people have thoughts and souls." Rock said: "Leave aside the soul, people have thoughts." Gordon smiled unscrupulously: "About human thoughts and souls, that is the business of philosophers and religious scientists. We are biologists, and that has nothing to do with us. In our opinion, human beings are just a kind of living things, and Other organisms differ only in their physical structure." Rock also groaned: "You can't use asexual reproduction to create a human being." Gordon said: "I can already be sure that it will definitely be able to. Its growth process is just like the growth process of a frog." After Gordon uttered these words, the intense conversation between the three stopped temporarily. Gordon looked at Du Liang and Rock, and they also stared at him. Perhaps because the conversation just now was so thrilling, the three of them couldn't help panting. After a while, Du Liangcai said: "If... the cultivation is successful, what is that... person like?" Gordon straightened his chest and stood in front of the two of them in a model posture. Both Du Liang and Rock pointed at him: "You mean, the same as...you?" Gordon's expression showed a kind of extreme satisfaction after success: "Yes, it's the same as me." Rock asked again: "Exactly the same?" Gordon said: "It's exactly the same. According to past successful examples, the individual bred by asexual reproduction is exactly the same as the mother from which the cells were taken." Du Liang seemed unable to hold it any longer. He took a few steps back and sat down on a sofa. Then, he gasped involuntarily: "Then, when this..." He pointed to the microscope, "After successful cultivation , we'll have two Gordons?" Gordon frowned. He seemed to be troubled to some extent by this question, so he didn't answer immediately. Du Liang called out, "Answer me." Gordon paused for another moment: "I just said exactly the same, which means that in terms of appearance and physical organization, it is exactly the same, but in terms of psychology, I mean knowledge and thinking, I don't know what will happen. Insects can inherit the way of life of the previous generation completely unchanged, but not vertebrates. What is the situation of man in this regard, because what I am doing now is the most important thing in human history. The first time, so how it turned out, I don't know." Du Liang and Rock looked at each other, and then they both spoke together, calling Gordon's name.After yelling, the two stopped together again. Gordon said: "What? You two don't congratulate me? I have made the greatest breakthrough in the exploration of life in human history." Du Liang swallowed his saliva: "Congratulations, Gordon." Roque mumbled the same thing.Gordon said excitedly: "Look, how should I publish my achievements?" Du Liang and Roque sighed together, and Roque said, "Gorden, have you thought of a question?" Gordon's eyes widened, obviously not knowing what he meant by that. Rock went on to say: "Your success has brought a brand new person into this world." Gordon said, "What's wrong with that?" Rock's breathing was a little short: "What is the identity of this person? How does he live? How is his social relationship? What is the social concept of human beings today, what is the view on this matter? How does the appearance of this person impact religious concepts? ? Have you thought about these many questions?" Gordon paused for a while: "To be honest, I've thought about it all." Du Liang said: "Then your conclusion is—" Gordon said: "My conclusion is that I am not at fault for the existence of those problems." His expression became a little agitated, and his voice raised a lot, "When a person lives in society, there are all kinds of constraints. Pay attention to this person's origin, background, and even the government requires this person's information, and uses various records to fix a person's identity and status. This is wrong with that way of life, not mine." Du Liang said: "But, all of us live in this way!" Gordon waved his hand vigorously: "That requires a breakthrough. The way of life of human beings is constantly breaking through. After my experiment is successful, human beings will get used to accepting a sudden person. In the future, it can be expected that all new lives, If the plenum appears in this form, the existing breeding methods will be eliminated." Both Du Liang and Luo Ke remained silent. Gordon roared: "I don't believe that you two, as scientists, can't accept such a new concept." Du Liang glanced at Roque again, with a frown on his face, and said, "It is because we can accept it that we are worried." Gordon let out a "ha": "What are you worried about?" Du Liang took a deep breath: "Since then, we have been separated from modern humans. There are only three of us. Think about it, there are only three of us. On the one hand, it is all human beings." Gordon clenched his fists: "It's not enough, it must be more than the three of us, it must be more than that." I sat, the sofa was soft and comfortable, but my whole body was stiff.Listening to Gordon talking about the beginning of the matter, I already have a preliminary understanding of the whole thing. Gordon, in his lab, reproduces people asexually. The shock I felt in my heart is really indescribable. A person was born inexplicably.He is undoubtedly a human being, but where did he come from?How to survive in this society?What about his upbringing?All these questions are unanswered. I stayed for a long time before I said, "So, how many people have accepted this new concept up to now?" Gordon took a breath: "Not many, except for everyone here, there are also most of the staff in the hospital." I waved my hands, but without any purpose, I just wanted to calm my chaotic mood a little bit.I said, "That person... that person... was only a human in the early stages of embryonic formation when Mr. Du Liang and Mr. Roque saw it. Was it...created later?" Gordon said: "No, he died ten days later." When I heard this, I was greatly relieved, but Gordon immediately said: "I quickly found out the reason for the failure. I was too careful and did not dare to increase the speed of growth. In fact, in the special cultivation Under the method, the speed of growth can be increased very quickly." I swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said, "How fast is it?" Gordon said: "The speed of cell division and growth is thirty times that of the mother's womb." I bounced up, and then sat down on the sofa again: "So, the time for you to cultivate a... person...is..." Gordon said: "In the mother's womb, from the cell division of the fertilized egg to the time when a baby leaves the mother, it takes 270 to 290 days. In the laboratory, it only takes nine to ten days. That can be achieved.” My breathing was short, and I said, "In ten days, you can...have a baby?" Gordon said: "Ten days." My voice didn't sound like my own, so I asked again: "So... what about the future?" Gordon said: "In the future, every year, the growth rate will be reduced by half. You know. If any number is reduced by half, it will never end, but in the end, the difference between one and one point zero Feng five, You can’t notice it.” My mind was in turmoil: "I don't understand." Gordon said: "In the first year, this asexual reproducer can grow into a fifteen-year-old child. In the second year, he is twenty-two and a half years old, and he is already a full adult. In the third year, he is twenty-six years old. In the third year, he is twenty-six years old. In four years, he was twenty-seven years old, in the fifth year, he was less than twenty-eight years old, and after that, he was almost like an ordinary person, and it was not easy to notice it." I finally understand that it takes about five to six years to cultivate a clonal human. I stayed there for a long time before I asked again: "So, after five years, this person... can I call... this person... a person?" For my question, there was silence in the living room, and no one answered. Originally, I felt that it would be somewhat inappropriate to call such a person cultivated in a laboratory a "person", so I asked the question.And when I asked this question and got no answer, I began to feel the seriousness of the problem. I took a deep breath: "What's wrong with this... person?" After another period of silence, Rock said: "You have to listen to the development of the situation in the future." I smiled wryly: "Okay, I'm going to listen to the most unacceptable narrative, and I hope you can explain it in as much detail as possible." Rock said: "Of course, we have made up our minds to tell you all the results. Where did we just talk?" I said: "Gordon said that there must be more than three people who can accept new concepts, there will be many—" When I got to this point, I paused for a while: "Gordon said just now that he failed that time, so there is no need to say it again." Rock nodded, lit a cigarette, took a deep breath, and slowly puffed out the smoke. The embryo died after ten days, much to Gordon's dismay.But he was not discouraged at all, and continued to do his experiments in his laboratory.According to what he said, it is the easiest thing to do. Taking cells from his own body to grow them is the easiest thing to do. There are countless cells in any piece of epidermis. Experiment after experiment, Gordon rarely showed up on other occasions, and only Du Liang and Rock knew what he was doing.On one occasion, Gordon suggested that he take the cells of both of them for an experiment, and even the two of them refused for some unknown reason. In the experiment, Gordon used various cells from his own body. It was not until he took blood cells that he broke through the barrier of dying in the embryonic stage. Moreover, Gordon also found out that the culture speed is faster and the effect is better. Methods. A baby is born! That day, Gordon, Rock and Du Liang gathered in Gordon's laboratory.Gordon held the baby in both hands, and Du Liang and Rock looked at him without blinking. The baby's facial features resemble Gordon's outline.The three of them didn't speak. After a long time, Du Liang said, "God! When he grows up, he will be exactly like you." Gordon said: "Of course, he is basically a continuation of my life." Rock's voice was very dry: "What will happen to his growth? Just like ordinary people?" Gordon said: "It's different, it's much faster. I haven't found out the rule yet. His cell division speed is at least fifteen times that of ordinary people, and he also needs fifteen times the nutrition. However, no matter what, we will Take care of him and make him grow up!" Both Roque and Du Liang nodded: "No matter how he grows up, a baby has already proved your success, how are you going to publish it?" Gordon put the baby down gently, with a hesitant expression: "I don't want to publish it." Rock yelled, "Why?" Gordon smiled bitterly: "As you said, this is a new fact that is completely contrary to the current human concept, just like all human beings believe that the earth is the center of the universe, and someone suddenly proposed that the earth revolves around the sun. .” Du Liang said, "Are you... afraid of being burned to death?" Gordon smiled bitterly: "It's not enough to be burned to death, but what do you think, what will happen to me with a law based on today's human concepts?" Rock said: "You create life, not destroy life, the law will not do anything to you." Gordon pointed at the baby and said, "Is this... a life? Or is it just a manufactured product in the laboratory?" Neither Roque nor Du Liang made a sound. Gordon said again: "Do I have the right to use him for further experiments, and if necessary, kill him? He has the same right to live as we do, or is this right in my hands? If In the process of continuing the experiment, he died, am I guilty of murder? Friends, can you answer these questions in the affirmative?" Rock and Du Liang were startled. The baby looks healthy and cute, just like a baby born from the mother's womb. It was also because of this that Gordon's questions were completely unanswerable. Gordon sighed: "In history, there are too many examples of the development of science being restricted by various concepts. I don't want to be involved in this boring whirlpool, so—" When he spoke here, he paused for a moment before saying, "So, I decided to do it in secret and not to announce the results of my research." Both Du Liang and Rock were silent, and Gordon asked, "Do you think it's wrong for me to do this?" Du Liang frowned, and said slowly: "You are right, but how long can the secret be kept?" Gordon said: "As long as it can be maintained, it can be maintained for as long as possible. Perhaps, it does not need to be maintained at all." Rock was startled: "What do you mean?" Gordon pointed to the baby: "If the baby dies within a few days, then I can continue to experiment and explore as if this incident has never happened."