Chapter 11 Chapter 10 Murder, or Save?

Babies grown asexually in the lab survived and developed at breakneck speed. When Luo Ke and Du Liang saw the child for the second time, the child could already walk and make sounds, and looked robust and lively, just like a normal child. That meeting was called by Gordon. Apart from Du Liang and Luo Ke, there were four more people. They knew those four people without Gordon's introduction.One of the four, also a researcher at the institute, was a highly qualified psychologist, and the other three, although they had never met before, were all excellent biologists, geneticists, and doctors.There were seven people in total, looking at the child.It was only three months since the last gathering, and the child seemed to be four or five years old.When the seven adults looked at the child with a very serious expression, the child opened his eyes wide and rolled his eyes, as if looking at the seven adults with great interest.These seven grown-ups, all scientific authorities, could talk for hours at any academic conference.But at this time, they didn't say a word.

The air seemed to be frozen, and it was surprisingly quiet, only the child made some hoarse voices from time to time. It took a long time before Rock broke the silence first: "A child at this age should... be able to talk." Someone broke the silence, and the atmosphere seemed to be a little more active. The psychologist said: "I have done some experiments just now, and I don't think this child's intelligence is commensurate with his age." Gordon added: "What he means is that the child's body is four years old, but his intelligence is still at three months. The rapid growth is only physical, not ideological."

Another scientist said: "This is very understandable. The maturity of the mind, the growth of the mind, and the formation of thoughts are all related to the contact with the outside world. The child actually lived in the world for only three months, and he could not have more High intelligence. Moreover, for the past three months, he has been in the laboratory and has no contact with others. His intelligence should be lower than that of ordinary three-month-old babies." Gordon pointed to the geneticist: "Isn't thought part of genetic factors?" The geneticist smiled wryly: "Whether the law of inheritance applies between you and this child is still a question. This child is not your son—I mean, he did not get your genetic inheritance according to the normal reproductive process." , he was cultivated and developed from one of your cells."

Gordon protested: "Anyone is developed from a single cell." The geneticist shook his head: "The situation is different. Any person is formed by the combination of two cells, one sperm and one egg. The combination of genetic factors is extremely complicated, and this person──" Gordon said: "This person was successfully bred by asexual reproduction. Everything about him should be the same as mine." Everyone didn't speak. Gordon's expression was a little irritable, and his face was flushed. He said, "This kid...is exactly the same as me. If you don't believe me, look at the photo of me when I was four years old."

As Gordon spoke, he took a folder and opened it.In the folder is an enlarged photo of a four-year-old child, a photo of Gordon when he was four years old. All the people sighed after looking at the photos and then at the child in front of them.I don't know whether they sighed because of surprise or wonder. A doctor sighed and said loudly: "Gordon, the matter has come to this point, it should be made public." Gordon said: "I invite you to come, because you are all scientists. Scientists should have a belief that we must constantly explore new things. Everyone, I can be sure that my achievements will be subject to secular concepts. , but I can also be sure that my achievements will change the development of the entire human race."

Rock murmured: "There is no doubt about it. Through asexual reproduction... people have duplicates, and they will never... never die." Gordon said: "Yes, it is my purpose to let people live forever through asexual reproduction. However, the most important part of a person's life is not the body, but the mind." When Gordon said this, he pointed hard at his forehead and repeated: "It's here! If it's just a body, what's the point?" The psychologist stood up and sat down, sat down and stood up: "But you can't... There is no way to pour your thoughts, knowledge, into another body."

Gordon said: "So, I want to continue my research. I think, I can't complete this research independently, I need your help, all of us, work together to create a new era for mankind." Gordon's words were actually not provocative, but they penetrated deeply into the hearts of everyone present, all of whom were extremely outstanding scientists.It is not scientists who have such ideas, but only with such ideas can they become real scientists. The idea is that it is an unavoidable responsibility to constantly innovate and use one's own work to change the history of mankind.

There was another moment of silence in the laboratory, and everyone agreed, before Gordon said: "You may wish to contact like-minded friends, and you must strictly keep the secret. I am ready to resign from my job here, because here, when this person As you get older, you can't keep secrets. I'm ready to move to Europe." Rock suddenly asked, "Where are you moving to? Austria?" Du Liang said, "Why Austria?" Rock spread his hands: "Isn't Frankenstein born there?" After he said that, he laughed aloud, but no one laughed along with him. Gordon glared at Rock: "It's not humorous at all."

Rock smiled bitterly: "I'm sorry, I just felt this way all of a sudden." Gordon frowned for a while: "It takes a lot of money to set up such a laboratory, but because this work is so great, I am ready to give up everything to accomplish this goal." Du Liang agreed immediately, and the rest of them agreed one after another. The decision to buy a small nursing home near the Swiss town of Leman was decided a month after that meeting. The Lerman Sanitarium is small, no one will notice, and the relocation work begins. The person cultivated in the laboratory, Gordon has been working hard to make him catch up with the intelligence level of ordinary people, but Gordon failed. Until three years later, the body of that person seemed to be completely one A healthy young man, but his intelligence still seems to be at the stage where normal people are less than a year old. In other words, this person is an idiot, a hopeless idiot.

Gordon looked at me, and I was too stunned to speak by what I had heard.The wine glass in my hand was already dry and I refilled it. I refilled it and drank it dry several times. My throat was dry like a fire was burning. A person created in a laboratory, using only one cell, cultivated through asexual reproduction. Whether the man is an idiot or not, he is always alone. Moreover, I gradually understood the truth of all kinds of mysterious facts.The "General Zilo" that Chu Lun saw six years ago, and the current Chu Lun, are all similar products. But I still don't know exactly what happened, so I just stared blankly at Gordon.

Gordon said: "If it wasn't for my sudden heart attack, I would have almost given up on this kind of experiment, because it is meaningless to breed an idiot." I don't understand: "You have a heart attack, how can it make the experimental work develop instead?" Everyone looked at each other without making a sound. After a while, Gordon said: "This is an accident. Really, at the beginning, no one thought about it. It was just an accident." I took a breath: "Accident? I still don't understand." Rock said in a deep voice: "The situation is like this──" The experiment continued in the Lerman Sanitarium, and it was not ideal at all, except that the man continued to grow, the man had no intelligence, and, besides, could not receive any education, he was a hopeless idiot. Gordon is exhausted physically and mentally. The fatigue caused by overwork is second, and the deadliest thing is extreme disappointment. What is it that he has cultivated?Undoubtedly it was a person.But what is a man without thought?That's just a body. Gordon once imagined that people bred by asexual reproduction could be the same as the original body not only in terms of physical appearance, but also in terms of thought and intelligence. Only in this way can the whole history of mankind be changed. Gordon often narrates to his like-minded friends who are engaged in joint research work, the vision after the success of his experiment. Taking himself as an example, he already has a wealth of knowledge, and also has bold and innovative ideas that transcend the times.However, no matter what, physical aging is inevitable. And if his experimental work is successful, then a cultivated person with a brand new body can bear all his wisdom, and can continue to absorb more knowledge and produce more wisdom. what kind of progress. But Gordon's experiment failed. What he cultivated was only a body. After moving to the sanatorium in Leman Town, the scope of the secret experimental work has been quite large, and more than one individual has been bred by asexual reproduction, but in the rapid growth process, all the bred individuals have no Thinking idiots. During a study, Gordon suffered a heart attack. In the midst of his excited speech, Gordon suddenly stopped, his eyes were staring straight, his face showed a color close to ashes, his body swayed, and he fell backwards. Behind him that day was Rock. Rock held him up and shouted, "God, Gordon, you can't leave us." Gordon's lips trembled violently, but he couldn't speak. In this situation, not to mention many famous doctors present, even ordinary people can see that the situation is not good. A doctor immediately stepped forward to take Gordon's pulse while making gestures. Rock and Du Liang supported Gordon, left the conference room and entered the ward.In the ward, a series of rescues were carried out on Gordon, and Gordon's life was temporarily preserved. In a small room outside the ward, there were a total of nine people, including Du Liang and Luo Ke, everyone, because they were facing an extremely serious problem, couldn't help themselves, and their breathing was a little short. Du Liang was the first to break the silence: "Gorden's condition is extremely serious, and he is leaving us." Everyone was shocked, and some people, involuntarily, stretched out their hands to wipe the sweat oozing from their foreheads. The reason why they came here, some of them incognito, some of them changed their appearance, was all for a common ideal, and this ideal was put forward by Gordon. Gordon is the soul of their organization, and everything starts with Gordon.If the whole job had been accomplished, Gordon's departure would not have been a problem.But now the work is just the beginning, the most important part has not been resolved yet. It was hard for everyone present to imagine whether their work could continue if Gordon died. Du Liang said again: "If we... can't save Gordon's life, no one in the world can save him anymore." Du Liang's words were not an exaggeration, because among the nine people present, four were the most authoritative people in the medical field. One of the doctors muttered something, and the sound he made was very low and incoherent, but because everyone's heart was heavy and the room was so strangely quiet, a few people heard him muttering something. Rock was by the doctor's side, and he heard the doctor most clearly, "Actually, we can keep Gordon alive." Rock turned around abruptly. Due to his nervousness, he couldn't help but reached out and grabbed the doctor's shirt: "What are you talking about? Can we keep Gordon alive? Please, tell me a way." The doctor's face was not very good-looking in the first place, but at this moment, it was even more terribly pale.He yelled as if he had committed a crime: "Pretend I didn't say it, pretend I didn't say such a thing." Hearing what the doctor said, Rock was not the only one.And when he was questioned by Rock, his reaction was so strong and strange, which was beyond everyone's expectation. Therefore, when he yelled, everyone's eyes were focused on him. The doctor clenched his fists tightly, almost as if he was begging everyone: "Forget I didn't say it, okay?" Another doctor said: "But in fact, you have already said, do you really have a way to save Gordon's life? This matter is too important to all of us." The doctor murmured, his body was trembling, and after repeated urging from everyone, he said, "I mean, a... simple heart transplant can save Gordon's life." As soon as these words were uttered, several people immediately groaned angrily: "Who doesn't know this, the question is, where can I find a suitable heart? Saying so means—" The man's words were only half spoken. He originally wanted to say that the doctor "said that he didn't say anything", but before the words "not to say" could be said, he stopped abruptly and didn't say any more. At that moment, he stopped talking, and an extremely strange expression appeared on his face. The weird look on that person's face seemed to be contagious. Obviously, everyone present thought of the same thing in a very short period of time, so the same thing happened. look. For a while, no one spoke, the small room was very quiet, only the heavy breathing from everyone. The silence lasted for at least ten minutes. It was a long and suffocating silence. Then, Du Liang broke the silence with a very low voice: "Can... can you?" His voice was extremely low, and a simple question made his voice tremble involuntarily.Everyone present knew why, two of them even moaned immediately, but no one answered at all. After Du Liang asked this question, he looked at everyone, and almost everyone avoided his gaze. Finally, Du Liang's gaze stayed on Roque. Rock also turned his head halfway. Du Liang called his name, and Rock turned back again. Du Liang said: "We are the first three people, what's your opinion, is it okay? Is it okay?" Du Liang asked twice, and the second "Is it okay?" sounded sharp and frightening. Rock took a deep breath and asked, "What about you? Do you think it's okay?" Du Liang said: "I... Lao Lao Lao Lao Lao..." When he said three "I" words one after another, his expression was extremely hesitant. Obviously, it was extremely difficult for him to decide whether it was okay or not.But in an instant, he seemed to have made up his mind, straightened his body, and let out a long breath: "I don't see a reason why it's not possible, so I said, it's possible." Rock seemed to be relieved, and said: "If you say yes, then it will be fine." Du Liang's expression was extremely serious: "No, there is no agreement. Everyone here must express their opinions very clearly." Rock froze for a while: "Yes." Du Liang looked at the people beside Roque. The one beside Roque was the doctor who was the first to mumble that he could save Gordon's life. He said, "Yes." Du Liang looked at a geneticist again, and the geneticist screamed, "No, that... that's murder!" The two people beside the geneticist nodded immediately: "Yes, that... is simply murder." Others said "yes".Six said "yes", three said "that would be murder", and of course their opinion was "no". Du Liang sighed: "For the first time, there is a difference of opinion between us." The three who said "no", led by geneticists: "If the minority obeys the majority one by one" Du Liang immediately interrupted him: "No, as I said just now, everyone must express their opinions very clearly, and we cannot use the method of the minority to obey the majority! If we use the method of the minority to obey the majority, we will It’s okay to say no, things can still go on, it’s five against four, and those who can make up the majority, to my heart, I can forgive myself, because that’s not my opinion, no, we don’t use this kind of slippery, evasive method, We really need to create a new concept.” The geneticist said: "We are talking about taking a person's life." Du Liang said: "No, what we want to discuss is to save a person's life, to save the life of a great scientific genius." Their narration is very organized, and they are told exactly according to the situation that happened at that time. When I started to hear them disagreeing about "yes" and "no", for a while, I couldn't figure out what they were saying was okay and what wasn't. But when I heard the dialogue between the geneticist and Du Liang, I suddenly understood. In an instant, the shock in my heart was indescribable. I immediately looked at Gordon. Gordon's expression was very peaceful, and he definitely didn't look like a person with serious heart disease. It can be seen from this that the debate among the nine people at that time finally reached a unified opinion that it was "possible" and it was put into practice. That's why Gordon has lived until now, and he seems to be extremely healthy. I want to say something, but I can’t say it. I want to ask a question, but I don’t know how to ask it for a while, because there are too many issues involving morality, ethics, the value of life, and the law. Where to start. And more importantly, I know that there is no need to ask, they will naturally tell me how to reach a consensus at that time. I was just breathing rapidly, I really needed more oxygen not only mentally but physically. After Du Liang's words, there was another moment of silence.Rock said: "I assume that each of us has a solid understanding of what we are discussing?" The geneticist smiled wryly: "There is still a problem. Just now, I said half of what I said, and Du Liang also said half. What we are discussing is how to kill a person and save a person!" Rock said: "Yes, to be more specific, the topic of our discussion is to harvest the heart of the grown man, transplant it into Gordon's chest, and perform such an operation to save Gordon's life. " The doctor was a little annoyed when he spoke, and he said: "That person's... everything is the same as Gordon's. After the heart transplant, there will be no allogeneic rejection at all. The operation will definitely be successful, and that person's body is as strong as a cow. " The geneticist said, "But that man... what would happen to him? His heart was removed... what would happen?" Du Liang's voice sounded a little cold: "We all know the fact that no one can live after their heart is taken away." The geneticist said: "Then, we just killed this person." Du Liang said loudly: "But this is the only way to save Gordon." After Du Liang yelled loudly, everyone fell silent again. After a while, Rock said in a very heavy voice: "I think we have to discuss from the beginning. Is the person cultivated by Gordon the same person?" kind of life?" The geneticist looked at Roque with a rather angry expression: "You call 'that person', of course people are alive." Rock said: "I call it this just for the convenience of speaking. In fact, Gordon has a number for him, which is Experiment No. 1. Well, do we all think that Experiment No. 1 is a life?" The geneticist first said: "Yes." Not only did he immediately express his attitude, but he also repeatedly emphasized his tone: "Of course! We have lived with him for a long time, and everyone knows that he is not only a life, but also a person, a person just like you and me .” Du Liang said: "Experiment No. 1 has no thoughts at all." The geneticist said: "Idiots are also human beings, they have the right to live and cannot be killed casually." Du Liang obviously felt extremely impatient, and he blushed: "Okay, then let Gordon die and keep this idiot, will this make your conscience more at ease?" The geneticist also blushed and remained silent.A doctor said: "The work we are doing desperately needs Gordon, and the first experiment can be cultivated in a few years, ten, eight, whatever. I think there is no need to argue about this matter." The geneticist and the other two who said "no" just now sighed.One of them said: "It seems that the view on life is about to change completely." The geneticist said: "Yes, we must, on the basis of the most fundamental concept, believe that what is cultivated through asexual reproduction is not a kind of life at all, and can be destroyed at will, so that we can carry out this matter." Du Liang and Luo Ke said in unison: "Yes, this is our concept." Then, there was another period of silence, and Du Liang asked again: "Okay, please raise your hand if you agree." Six people quickly raised their hands, the geneticist hesitated for a moment, then raised their hands, and the other two followed suit. Du Liang stood up: "From this moment on, we have established a brand new concept for all mankind. This concept, with the progress of the times, will definitely be accepted by all mankind, but at this stage, this concept is not It contradicts the secular morality and the current laws of various countries, so instead of making it public, we must strictly keep it a secret. Everyone was silent, and after a while, Du Liang said again: "No one wants to quit? Okay, then we will start the heart transplant operation for Gordon." Everyone stood up, and from that moment on, almost no one said anything, and if anyone spoke, it was absolutely necessary, and it was all related to the operation. Thanks to the top talents in all aspects, the operation went very smoothly. No one in the world who underwent heart transplantation recovered faster than Gordon.In less than a week, Gordon was able to move almost like an ordinary person. And his newly transplanted heart is a strong new heart, young, and can afford to work for at least another fifty years.