Lu Yuan, who was standing next to the middle-aged man, was looking through some documents that had been lost in the hospital. When he heard the conversation between the two, his heart skipped a beat.
"You just mentioned human experiments?"
The middle-aged man seemed to realize he might have said something wrong and quickly tried to cover it up, while the driver next to him shook his head helplessly and nodded at the middle-aged man.
"Fine, I might as well tell you. This matter isn't really a secret anymore. Although it hasn't been publicly revealed, many people have already guessed what Sun Laosan is up to!"
Lu Yuan quickly turned around, straining his ears to hear what was going on.
The middle-aged man coughed softly and said, "Have you ever heard of clones before?"
Lu Yuan nodded slightly. He knew about this matter. However, it seemed that cloning technology had been developed a long time ago, but it was used for research on some animals to prevent some endangered species from becoming extinct.
Humans have preserved these endangered species through cloning technology. This technology involves extracting the skin, internal organs, and other parts of these animals, arranging their genes, and then re-examining the embryos to obtain an identical species.
This technology was primarily intended to target diseased cells in the human body, but because it is considered unethical and immoral, it has been banned worldwide.
After all, a child born can neither be a child nor teach his siblings; he is born as an object, an experimental subject, and people certainly cannot use a person for research.
However, due to the arrival of the apocalypse, the policies and laws of various countries have become less and less binding on people. Now, the continental plates have split into many parts, and the ionosphere has completely disappeared. People can only communicate through traditional letters and oral transmission.
This made it virtually impossible to monitor people anymore, which allowed Sun Laosan to conduct experiments on living people.
However, Lu Yuan couldn't understand why Sun Laosan would conduct such an experiment. After all, the conditions during this period were extremely harsh, and given the current state of the preserved laboratories, it was indeed quite difficult. However, this technology didn't seem to have much use for people's current living conditions. What exactly was Sun Laosan trying to do?
"I heard about this technology when I was in school. Are you saying that Sun Laosan is now looking for all sorts of equipment to do human cloning research?"
The middle-aged man nodded: "That's right, he wants to use human bodies for research. Clones are easier to control, and these people can be put into the laboratory for research as soon as they are born, and their physical indicators and various physical qualities and skills can be tested in all aspects."
"But using clones for experiments could be even more costly. After all, investing a lot of research doesn't guarantee success, and what exactly would he want to do?"
The middle-aged man smiled and continued, "Through genetic research, they can better remove some unfavorable factors from the human body. For example, they can insert the experiences of animals into the human gene pool, and then use embryonic cells to continuously reproduce and optimize to produce a stronger generation of new humans!"
When Lu Yuan heard this, he was immediately shocked. He did not expect that Sun Laosan was not only not an ignorant and incompetent person, but also had the idea of changing humanity. It has to be said that Sun Laosan is indeed an extremely dangerous person.
"New humans? What exactly do they say the new humans are going to do? We humans have developed to this point, and we're already considered quite strong. What are the characteristics of the new humans?"
The middle-aged man thought for a moment and said, "If we implant cheetah genes into a human, would he be able to have the speed of a cheetah? Or, for example, if we take genes from an ant, would he be able to have the strength of an ant?"
When Lu Yuan heard this, he immediately understood. He didn't want to simply replicate a person who was exactly the same as a human, but rather to use this technology to develop a new kind of human. Calling such a human a superhuman wouldn't be an exaggeration.
"I didn't expect that this old man Sun would have such big ambitions. What did he do before?"
Upon hearing this, Lu Yuan immediately became very interested in this Sun Laosan. After all, getting a plane wasn't an option yet; he had to go with them to get in. Since they were just chatting anyway, he might as well learn more about this Sun Laosan.
"He used to be a researcher at a research institute. Later, he was arrested and imprisoned for illegally developing drugs. But then the apocalypse happened, and the prison was powerless to control the people in the prison. So he was freed and escaped with others. Then he led a group of vicious thugs and set up a survivor base here. Originally, it was under the guise of other things to take in these people and secretly conduct experiments."
However, when people entered the camp, they discovered that these people were no good; they were all bloodthirsty individuals, and acts of bullying and harassment of men and women were commonplace. They wanted to leave but had nowhere to go, only because Sun Laosan and his men had somehow obtained a large amount of food, which allowed the camp to be teeming with people!
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