Three months after the case was closed, a mysterious missing persons case broke out at the Chinatown Children's Hospital. When Tang Renju rushed into the forensic laboratory with a missing person notice, Su Chen was using a scalpel to cut open the simulated skin - the latest model of the incubator robot with a gene-edited embryo curled up in the abdominal cavity, and the umbilical cord was connected to the crystal.
"This... this is the black market for customized babies!" Qin Feng pulled up the dark web transaction records, "The missing... the missing children have all been transformed with CRISPR technology, and the Lin Group's 놅賳눑 code is embedded in their necks."
Su Chen's system suddenly made a shrill sound. He opened the scalp of the incubator robot, and cyan mucus oozed out of the brain-computer interface - it was a perfect match with the gene sequence of the Antarctic virus library sample. Tang Ren's AR glasses automatically played the live broadcast of the goods. In the screen, the "improved version of Angel Baby" was showing his photographic memory, and his pupils flashed with bronze data streams.
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When raiding the underground gene factory, Qin Feng ran into a "baby nurse" who was injecting nanorobots into babies. There were three test tubes lined up in the refrigerator, and the labels showed that each embryo was mixed with ancient virus genes in different proportions.
"This... This is Human Enhancement Project 2.0." Su Chen picked up the test tube with electromagnetic tweezers. "They... They used Antarctic viruses to activate latent genomes."
Tang Ren picked up the crying baby and suddenly found a bronze pacifier hidden in the swaddling clothes. When he held the pacifier to the light, the micro-carved scripture of "Nirvana Mantra" cast a blood-red shadow on the wall, which was consistent with the pattern of the luminous sticker in the missing child's bedroom.
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Su Chen's mother's box was mysteriously stolen from the evidence room. During the investigation, it was discovered that she had secretly used electromagnetic pulses to paralyze the security system, using the same method as the laboratory explosion three years ago. When Qin Feng scanned the nano-dust left in the box, the holographic projection showed Su Chen's genetic map as a baby - a certain mutation point was exactly the same as the Antarctic virus.
"You...you are the first subject of the experiment." The mentor's projection suddenly occupied all the screens, "When...when the dormant code was inserted into your gene chain, it was the key to open a new world."
Tang Ren used the copper money hexagram to calculate the whereabouts of the stolen goods, and the hexagram pointed to the Chinatown sewage treatment plant. When the safe was fished out from the bottom of the sedimentation tank, Su Chen's mother's notebook was floating in the communication fluid, and the ink reconstructed the new coordinates of the Lin Group.
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As the freighter broke through the thick fog and approached the nameless island, Qin Feng's thermal imaging device showed that the entire island was a huge biological crystal. The reefs on the coastline were actually piled up by nanorobots, and gene-edited fluorescent jellyfish were surging in the waves.
"Welcome... Welcome to Eden 2.0." The mentor's clone walked over from the beach, holding a test tube with Su Chen's genetic sample in it. "Every life here carries your improvement code."
Tang Ren's AR glasses suddenly went black, and the nanorobot implanted in his retina began to tamper with the visual signal. When he split the clone with a mahogany sword, the splashing body fluids actually grew fluorescent moss on the sand, and the spores were blown towards the freighter by the wind.
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Su Chen stabbed the scalpel into the island's control tower, and the system activated the self-destruction program. When the countdown started, all the gene-edited organisms began to glow, and the entire island turned into a huge display screen, scrolling and playing the human gene evolution tree - each node was marked with the Lin Group's interference record.
"Really...real progress doesn't need a director!" Qin Feng cut off the main power supply with an electromagnetic dagger, and the sea water suddenly boiled. The nanorobot melted the bronze ark in the high temperature. Tang Ren jumped into the sea holding the lifebuoy, but found that the door of the ark was printed with Su Chen's genetic barcode.
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Back in Chinatown on a rainy night, Su Chen stood in front of the laboratory window. The system popped up the last message: "Human Completion Plan Progress 97%". He held up the photo of his mother, and the code behind him had somehow turned into a baby crying waveform.
A new stall was set up at Tangren Night Market: "Gene fortune-telling! We guarantee to figure out the base sequence of your great-grandfather!" Qin Feng was debugging the latest electromagnetic armor, and the protective mirror shot out a giant bronze wheel that was looming in the dark clouds.
(The spiral never stops)