Chapter 67 Gou Chong is still alive Source of inspiration
After Philemon left, Wan Xueying almost couldn't wait to ask, "Boss Ji, I'm sorry I don't have as high an IQ as you, I still don't understand. Cloning, isn't cloning using DNA to copy a clone? But the new clone only has the same DNA as the original, but 'he' cannot inherit the original's abilities."
Ji An nodded, his eyes far away, "'He' doesn't need to inherit the original body's abilities, as long as 'he' exists, that's enough."
Gu Jinsheng understood something instantly, his eyes were cold, Wan Xueying and Zhou Qin seemed to understand but not quite, while Kong Zhongcheng sat on the sofa, looking at this and that, feeling confused.
"The clones are infected with the zombie virus." Gu Jinsheng said.
"Yes." Ji An said: "There are few people with superpowers, but they have genes, and as long as they have genes, they can replicate countless clones.
Use clones to actively infect themselves with the zombie virus and turn them into superpowers, adding more strength to Country M.
It doesn't matter if it fails, you'll just become a zombie.
The zombies transformed from clones are not completely useless. As the zombies are raised, there is a certain probability that they will evolve into special powers.
This is the ready-made zombie crystal core!"
Kong Zhongcheng was horrified when he heard this. "If you want high-level zombie crystal cores, just raise all the zombies together like raising a Gu, and you will get a high-priced zombie crystal core in the end."
Wan Xueying said coldly: "When the time comes, we just need to dig out the zombie crystal cores and give them to the psychics to absorb. Then, with an unlimited supply of zombie crystal cores, the speed at which psychics advance can be greatly increased, far exceeding that of normal people."
Zhou Qin also said: "The sequelae are nothing more than energy accumulation. If it is not absorbed, the level of the psychic will be promoted, but the psychic power is floating and unstable, and the combat effectiveness is far weaker than that of a normal psychic who has been promoted step by step."
"That's right, but a high-level psychic is a high-level psychic. Even if they are weak, they are still high-level psychics." Ji An said: "This is the top-secret weapon used by Country M to quickly improve the abilities of psychics."
Ji An stood up and walked to the window, from where he could overlook the entire Jingshi base.
“Another benefit of this cloning method is that it can be used to cultivate special properties.
If you want a psychic, just find a psychic as the base.
The genes of the clone are exactly the same as the original. Since the original has awakened psychic powers, there is a high probability that the clone will also awaken psychic powers.
If one fails to awaken the psychic ability, then continue. The second, the third, there will always be one that succeeds!"
Gu Jinsheng drew inferences from one example, "Similarly, after the clones awaken their powers, they can also use the crystal cores of clones to absorb and upgrade, and finally obtain high-level crystal cores.
I think such crystal cores will eventually be exported to all parts of the world through special means.
Country M intends to completely destroy all superpowered people in other countries from the root."
Kong Zhongcheng felt goosebumps all over his body. He said in horror: "I remember that although clones are artificial people, they have their own independent thinking like humans. They do not inherit the thinking and memory of the original body. They are independent people with their own thinking, memory, and perception."
Ji An uttered a short, cold laugh, "So what? Talking about human rights with Country M?"
Wan Xueying said calmly: "Even before the end of the world, clones were artificial humans and were only prohibited from being created. They had no human rights."
"So Country M can do whatever it wants and trample on human rights at will?" Kong Zhongcheng was angry. "And we have no way to stop it?"
"Yes." Gu Jinsheng came to Ji An's side and looked down at the entire Jingshi base with him, "Kill Country M."
Kong Zhongcheng gasped, and Wan Xueying looked at Gu Jinsheng in shock, never expecting her boss to have such an idea. Zhou Qin was also stunned. If he hadn't been sitting on the sofa, the crutches in his hand might have fallen off, and he would have fallen down.
It seemed that Ji An was the only one who accepted it well and didn't think that Gu Jinsheng said anything earth-shattering.
Ji An turned around, looked at the shocked expressions of the crowd, and said with a smile: "Why are you all so shocked as if zombies have taken over the earth? I'm not asking you to fight with Country M tomorrow, right?
If we want to defeat Country M, we still have a long way to go.
At present, the primary and most realistic task for our base is to keep a low profile and grow."
Although Ji An acted very relaxed and Gu Jinsheng was expressionless as usual, the stormy waves stirred up in the hearts of the three deputy commanders could not calm down for a long time!
Since there was a guess, Gu Jinsheng asked Kong Zhongcheng to publish it on the public channel. Of course, for some well-known reasons, it was not easy to directly mention Country M, so he said that some countries were currently carrying out a plan to clone people and improve their abilities. Almost everyone with a brain knew that this was referring to Country M, so they were secretly on guard and stepped up inspections on the crystal cores they had acquired.
Just as Ji An was about to leave after meeting the psychic from Country M, he was stopped by Zhou Qin.
"Boss Ji, Boss, if you are not busy, could you accompany me to take care of some private matters later?" Zhou Qin asked.
Ji An nodded, "Okay."
Gu Jinsheng seemed to know what Zhou Qin was going to do. He didn't ask any more questions and just nodded.
When Ji An came out, he saw Yin Fang and Yu Xi standing at the door and asked, "I've been in there for so long, and you've been standing at the door waiting for so long?"
Yin Fang smiled and said, "Researcher Ji, don't worry about it. This is our job."
Yu Xi followed up, “Our job is to protect you.”
Ji An laughed, "I'm not that weak. Besides, this is the headquarters. The four commanders are all here. There will be no danger. In the future, if this happens, you should go to the lounge next door and wait. I will notify you before I come out."
"Okay." Yin Fang and Yu Xi replied.
Ji An then said, "You guys go to the lab and wait for me first. Jin Sheng, Zhou Qin and I have some things to do here. I will go directly to the lab after I'm done."
"good."
From the moment he put on the energy-killing machine helmet, Gou Chong never thought about waking up.
His head was splitting with pain, his whole body was weak, and his limbs were limp, but he still felt that he was moving. He seemed to be put in a sack and was being dragged by someone.
Gou Chong thought his idea was quite funny and whimsical.
How could the situation he imagined happen? The person he backstabbed was the deputy commander of the Jing City base. People like him would have their superpowers destroyed and be thrown directly into a pile of zombies. There is no more cruel punishment than this, but this is also his retribution.
Gou Chong thought drowsily that maybe he woke up too early and they were now on their way to send him to the pile of zombies.
As he was thinking this, the sack on his head was suddenly pulled away, and the sunlight shone through, blinding Gou Chong.
Gou Chong used his hands to block the direct light and slowly adapted to the light. Slowly, Gou Chong's eyes opened.
He blinked, slowly adjusted to the light in front of him, and saw the person in front of him clearly.
Then he was stunned. A person whom he thought he would never meet again appeared before him.
"Zhou Qin." Gou Chong's lips moved slightly, but he could only mumble the name silently in his throat and didn't dare to spit it out.
Zhou Qin stood up and looked down at Gou Song. His face was as cold as ice, and his whole body was as cold as iron. It was a coldness that he had never shown to Gou Chong before.
Even though Zhou Qin was not as cold as he was when he turned into a zombie, he was very enthusiastic towards Gou Chong after all. Every day he would pounce on Gou Chong in an emotional and violent manner, wanting to bite him.
"Are you here to see me off for the last time?" Gou Chong asked in a trembling voice.
Zhou Qin didn't say a word, just quietly looking down at Gou Song, like a stone sculpture. After a long while, Zhou Qin said coldly: "I said, if you had told me earlier, I could cooperate with you in any drama."
Gou Chong did not answer, said nothing, did not explain, did not beg for mercy, just remained silent.
"You are already dead."
Gou Chong's brain was groggy, as if he had just woken up after sleeping for hundreds of years, and he didn't react at all.
However, Zhou Qin did not intend to wait for Gou Chong's answer. He just said to himself, "The traitor who stabbed the deputy commander of the Jing City base has had his superpowers crippled and thrown into the zombie pile. He has now been eaten by the zombies and not even a bone is left."
Gou Chong stared at Zhou Qin blankly. Even though his mind was confused, he knew clearly what Zhou Qin meant.
It was precisely because he understood that he was even more incredulous. His eyes fell on Zhou Qin's broken leg, and he couldn't believe that he could escape this fatal disaster.
"Of course it was fake from the moment you were thrown into the zombie pile. I asked the boss to find someone to put on a show for everyone in the base." Zhou Qin looked down at Gou Chong condescendingly, "I said that as long as you tell me, I can act with you no matter what the plot is."
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Gou Chong held his head and curled up on the ground, like a homeless dog. He cried, "But I really don't dare to gamble!"
Zhou Qin stood up, his eyes were cold, he said: "Go, and never come back. Also, Gou Chong is dead, from now on, there is no such person as Gou Chong in this world, you can be anyone you want, but not him!"
“No!” Gou Chong yelled. He suddenly knelt in front of Zhou Qin, humbly grasping the hem of Zhou Qin’s shirt with both hands. He roared loudly, “I am Gou Chong, I am Gou Chong!”
No! No one can deny the fact that he is Gou Chong, and no one can erase the past between him and Zhou Qin!
Those days of companionship, those days of dependence on each other, those days of fighting side by side, those days of life and death together, those days of sharing honor and disgrace, those days of having to eat coarse food, even if in the end there was only unbearable betrayal left, but that was the only trace of Gou Chong's existence in Zhou Qin's life.
If he is no longer Gou Chong, then the ups and downs he and Zhou Qin have experienced will no longer belong to him.
He would rather die than give up that past!
"Zhou Qin, please kill me, I would rather die!" Gou Chong begged, giving up his dignity and kneeling at Zhou Qin's feet, not to repent, but only to ask for death.
He would have been willing to die in exchange for the memory of the years he and the cycle had shared.
Zhou Qin's face was cold. He pointed with his crutch arm, "They are over there. Follow them and leave."
Gou Chong looked in the direction Zhou Qin pointed and saw four people standing there. He didn't know when they had been standing there or how long they had been looking.
But none of this matters, because the faces of these four people are familiar and unfamiliar. They seem to be the same as in memory, but also seem not to be.
However, Gou Chong knew clearly that these four people were his parents and younger brother, who should have been far away in the T base, suffering inhumane torture at the hands of the people from Country M and Country R.
"You, follow them and leave." Zhou Qin's voice was cold.
Gou Chong looked at Zhou Qin, who had an indifferent face, and then looked at his family members who had suffered many misfortunes because of him. His knees could no longer kneel down, and he could no longer pray to Zhou Qin in death.
Zhou Qin is his only hope in struggling to survive in the despair and loneliness of the end of the world, but his family is his unshirkable responsibility which is heavier than his life!
Gou Chong stood up slowly, the tears on his face had completely dried up, but his spine was bent, as if something too heavy to bear was pressing on him.
Gou Chong turned around, turned his back to Zhou Qin, and walked away from him step by step.
The warm sunlight shone on Gou Chong's body, but it seemed unable to melt the coldness around him.
Zhou Qin's voice sounded without a trace of warmth behind Gou Chong, "Leave West City, and go live in East City."
There are too many people in Xicheng who know Gou Chong. After all, he is a close friend of Zhou Qin, the famous deputy commander of the Jingshi base. There are still many people who know Gou Chong.
"Okay." It was just one word, but it seemed to weigh a thousand pounds. It made Gou Chong breathless several times and almost fell back into his heart.
Gou Chong's feet gradually moved away from Zhou Qin, leaving behind all the suffering, sweetness, despair and hope that the two had experienced. Slowly fading, slowly dissipating, from then on, there were no more memories belonging to Zhou Qin and Gou Chong in this world, whether it was sharing life and death, or unbearable betrayal.
Gou Chong also died, killed by the zombies, taking with him the memories of him and Zhou Qin.
But he is just an ordinary person, an ordinary person who has never had any intersection with Zhou Qin.
"Mom, Dad, little sister, and little brother." Gou Chong walked up to his family and looked at their weather-beaten faces. He suddenly realized that so much time had passed, so long that when he met his family again, they felt like strangers.
Gou's father and mother hugged their eldest son, and at the same time hugged their youngest daughter and son, "We thought we would never see you again, but we didn't expect that our family would be reunited one day."
Father Gou said, "That day, those guys from Country M showed us the video of your execution. We thought our family would meet in the underworld. I thought that was good, at least our family could be company on the road to the underworld. Unexpectedly, someone suddenly appeared and rescued us, and took us away from the T base and brought us to the Jing City base."
Gou Chong didn't know how he resisted the urge to look back at Zhou Qin. He was no longer qualified to look at that person. He chose his family between them, which meant that he gave up that person and lost the right to have those memories.
Gou's mother asked cautiously, "Son, you betrayed the deputy commander of the Jing City base. Did they really let you go just like that?"
"Yeah." Gou Chong pretended to be relaxed. He had given up the right to feel sad. "I saved Deputy Commander Zhou's life. He said one life for one life, and he let me go from now on."
Father Zhou sighed, "He is a really nice person then."
"Yes." Gou Chong said softly; "He is a very good person."
"Son, what should we do next?" Gou's mother asked worriedly, "Although we have escaped from the T base, we are penniless. How are we going to live next?"
Gou Xiaomei, who had been silent, suddenly said: "My superpowers are still there. I have water-related superpowers. I can sell clean water to feed you."
Gou Chong rubbed Gou Xiaomei's head, and then subconsciously touched his chest, where the space storage item Zhou Qin gave him used to hang, which stored the common supplies between him and Zhou Qin.
Now……
Gou Chong's eyes suddenly widened because he felt the space necklace on his chest that should have been taken off.
Gou Chong used his ordinary mental power to scan inside and saw the supplies in the space, which were no different from before.
No, it’s not that there aren’t any. There are many more nutrients in the space than before.
Gou Chong wanted to cry and looked back at Zhou Qin for the last time, but he knew that he had lost the right to look back at him and the right to cry for him.
Gou Chong raised his head, trying to push back the tears.
"What's wrong with you, brother?" Gou Xiaomei looked at her brother's unusual behavior worriedly.
Gou Chong lowered his head, his tears no longer flowing, "Nothing, the wind and sand blinded my eyes."
Gou Chong smiled and said to his family, "You don't have to worry about supplies. You don't know how capable your son was in the past. He has saved a lot of money. Even if we do nothing from now on, it will be enough to support us for two lifetimes."
The Gou family seemed to not believe Gou Chong's words, so Gou Chong grabbed a handful of nutrients from the space and said, "Look, this is the legendary nutrient. One stick can keep you from feeling hungry for a day. This bigger one can last for three days, and the biggest one can last for a month..."
Gou's mother looked at the nutritional supplement in surprise, "This is a nutritional supplement? I only saw people from M and R countries eat this, so we have it in our country too?"
"Of course, the nutrients from Country M and Country R were purchased from our country, and they were developed by the researchers at our base. Other bases charge dozens of dollars for a nutrient, but here we only need a few credit points!"
"Really?" Father Gou seemed unable to believe it.
"Of course." Gou Chong said.
Gou's mother suddenly asked, "Is this heaven?"
Gou Chong said: "No, this place is better than heaven. I believe that under the leadership of Deputy Commander Zhou, our base will get better and better!"
"Yeah." Gou's father and mother sincerely felt so.
Gou Xiaomei tugged at Gou Chong's clothes and asked, "Brother, did you awaken the space power? Didn't they destroy your power? Just like being thrown into a pile of zombies, the video of your power being destroyed was also fake?"
"No." Gou Chong said: "My superpowers have indeed been abolished. How could I not be punished for doing such a terrible thing? This is not a spatial superpower, but a spatial storage tool, which is another great invention of our base."
Father Gou murmured, "T Base is known as one of the most developed bases in Xia Country supported by Country M, but when I came out of T Base, I found that I was like a bumpkin entering the city, looking like I had never seen the world before.
And the Jing City Base seems to have left the T Base behind by one dimension!"
"In the future, the Jingshi base will become more and more prosperous, and it may even enter the interstellar era. Let's go to Dongcheng. On the way, I will slowly tell you about the Jingshi base." Gou Chong said patiently to his family.
The figures of the Gou family walked farther and farther away, until they finally disappeared.
Zhou Qin, who finally lost sight of the Gou family, walked out from the corner. He didn't know when tears started streaming down his face. He cried loudly to Ji An and Gu Jinsheng, "I still can't be that cruel to him!"
It turned out that after Gou Chong’s superpowers were destroyed that day, he was replaced by Zhou Qin, and all the videos after that were fake.
The pain of having one's superpowers abolished is not something that most people can endure, so Zhou Qin injected Gou Chong with sleeping pills and kept him alive with a nutrient bag until Gou Chong's family was rescued by the spies that Gu Jinsheng had arranged to enter the T base.
In fact, after the superpowers are abolished, the most correct way of treatment is to use sleeping pills to make the person who has lost the superpowers sleep for a few days so that they can get through the most difficult days. It is abnormal for people like Gu Jinsheng and Ji An to just hold on.
Zhou Qin continued crying, "I used to think we could walk together until we were old, until we were both gray-haired and had many children and grandchildren, or until one of us died at the hands of zombies. I never expected that we would break up halfway, before we could even see the end."
Neither Gu Jinsheng nor Ji An spoke, because they knew that what Zhou Qin wanted now was not comfort, but just silent companionship.
Ji An and Gu Jinsheng just stayed with Zhou Qin quietly. They didn't know how long they stayed with him. Zhou Qin finally stopped crying. He wiped the tears from his face and said, "Boss Ji, thank you two for staying with me. Otherwise, I would be alone and I don't know how to face him."
Gu Jinsheng went forward and hugged Zhou Qin, patting his back. Zhou Qin said, "Boss, promise me that you and Boss Ji must be fine, and keep going on forever... until the end of time, until your hair is covered with white frost..."
Gu Jinsheng looked at Ji An, his tone more serious than ever before, "I will definitely do it."
Zhou Qin's emotions were very unstable. Gu Jinsheng and Ji An did not bring him back to the command center, but sent him directly home. Only then did they leave.
Gu Jinsheng had something to do at the command center and Ji An had something to do in the laboratory, so the two of them went their separate ways.
Wu Youyang glanced at the time on the wall. It was exactly 4:30 in the afternoon. "Boss Ji, you are always so serious. It's already this late. You can take a day off today and come back tomorrow."
Ji An then realized that the timing was a bit awkward. He came here right after he finished his work and didn't even check the time.
"Give me the data, and then take Yin Fang and Yu Xi to record the data, and then you can go home after get off work." Ji An said to Yu Xi and Yin Fang: "The lounge is over there, you can go directly to the lounge to sleep when you come back. I will not leave the laboratory when I am working, and no one else is allowed to enter my laboratory, so there is no need to stand guard at the door. If I leave the laboratory, I will definitely call you."
"OK."
Ji An took Wu Youyang's experimental data into the laboratory. After a quick look, he knew that Wu Youyang's record was similar to what he had imagined, just average and without any breakthroughs.
Ji An put the experimental data aside and was not in a hurry to continue the experiment. Instead, he took out the spiritual spring water from the space for experimental observation.
The awakening of Little Stone and Little Rose's spiritual abilities once again made Ji An realize the difference of the spiritual spring water. Ji An planned to re-analyze the spiritual spring water to see if there was anything missed in the past.
In addition, several mutant animals that can regenerate are fed with spiritual spring water. It turns out that spiritual spring water has a strong effect in promoting healing. The regeneration speed of those mutant animals that can regenerate has become much faster.
Moreover, the levels of these mutant animals are still upgrading rapidly, and the spiritual spring water also has a significant effect on improving their supernatural powers.
Ji An knew all these. This time, Ji An mainly observed whether the spiritual spring water could help the awakening of spiritual power. The answer was yes.
The regenerated creatures raised with spiritual spring water are obviously more mentally powerful than those not raised with spiritual spring water, and they show certain intelligent behaviors, as if they have developed spiritual intelligence.
The word "intelligence" is very scary. In many cultivation novels before the end of the world, animals developed intelligence and could eventually cultivate into human form.
Ji An didn’t know whether these animals could cultivate into human form. The energy system he had observed so far did not support this kind of cultivation. However, it was the end of the world, and no one could say what the world would look like if it continued to develop.
However, through observation of the spiritual spring water, Ji An can be 100% sure that if the spiritual spring water can be upgraded, one day it will be able to surpass the healing ability of the legendary maximum-level healing ability user.
Even Zhou Qin's leg is not unhealable. In fact, Ji An has some ideas about Zhou Qin's broken leg, and this idea is very feasible, with a success rate of 99.99%...
However, this technology may still require the help of a person with healing abilities. If the spiritual spring water can be upgraded to a certain level, it will be possible even without a person with healing abilities.
Speaking of this source of inspiration, we really have to thank Country M. If it weren’t for them, Ji An might not have remembered this technology for the time being - cloning!
Ji An is a man who dares to think and act. When he mentioned cloning, he just did it. At the same time, he also asked Gu Jinsheng for a 3D printer.
Of course, Ji An also had to make some changes to the 3D printer.
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