Xie Yunyu's words were cold, but also very truthful.
What does number two represent in the family?
Just a chess piece.
A sufficiently good chess piece.
If they lose one or two but gain more, it's a sure-fire way to make money for them, so why not?
Shen Bei'an's face turned pale again because of Xie Yunyu's words.
It wasn't just because of those families, but also because of the coldness in Xie Yunyu's words.
Gu Nanyan squeezed Shen Bei'an's fingertips and held a jasmine grape cheese mochi fry to his lips, his voice lazy and casual, "So, baby, do you understand why 'human cloning' is forcibly prohibited?"
With current technology, cloning humans is possible, although it is unknown how long they can survive, but it is achievable.
Embryo No. 2 is the best proof.
When human cloning becomes widespread, life will seem to be less respected.
Shen Bei'an was too preoccupied with the cold to eat; he felt utterly chilled.
They'd go to such lengths for profit.
Is this what human nature is?
“Baby,” Gu Nanyan put the mochi fritters aside, gently wiped his hands with a handkerchief, then took Shen Bei’an’s hand and carefully wiped it, the soft handkerchief brushing against each of his fingers, “That’s just human nature. Didn’t you read Marx’s Capital, baby?”
"Don't you remember the most classic line from it, baby?"
Shen Beian is also an avid reader, having read many famous works from both China and abroad. How could he not have read Marx's "Capital"?
He had read it in the First World, and he read it several more times after coming here.
The world empire has changed a lot, while the changes abroad are not so significant. It's just that the attitude towards empires is different from the attitude towards China in the First World.
So how could he not remember?
With a 20% profit, capital will become restless; with a 50% profit, capital will take risks; with a 100% profit, capital will dare to risk being hanged; with a 300% profit, capital will dare to trample on all human laws.
Moreover, this is Fuyun Island, a place without borders, beyond the jurisdiction of the United Nations.
"Don't think about it too much, let's watch the auction."
Gu Nanyan knew these things from a very young age. As the future heir of the Gu family, the elders in the family had told her about these things early on.
It's often said that children from poor families are better at managing the household, but in reality, they just learn to do housework earlier. Their experience and knowledge are far less extensive, and children from poor families mature later.
For heirs of top-tier families like Gu Nanyan, their mental education begins very early.
Gu Nanyan was able to speak fluently about the international situation even when he was very young.
Shen Bei'an knew that there were too many such things in his world, and he couldn't solve them all, but he could slowly change the empire.
He nodded, said nothing more, and looked down at the auction.
The auction price of the medicine is much higher than that of the medicine itself; each vial and each batch is an absolute high price.
The SG87 potion, which is extremely rare on both the black market and the dark web, was auctioned off for a high price of 50 million!
As for the GM144 potion, it went without saying that it was eventually sold for 74 million Imperial Coins.
The most expensive potion was called MG85. The auctioneer described it as Modified Gene 85, a potion that could modify a person's genes. Just one dose could turn a mentally challenged person into a normal one, or an ordinary person into a genius.
And there are no subsequent side effects.
It was sold for 148.7 million Imperial Coins.
This auction was only a warm-up, yet it was already more intense than any auction Shen Bei'an had ever seen.
Yes, Shen Bei'an used the word "fierce" to describe it.
"Is that a cell repair device?" Shen Beian saw a machine being pushed up, which looked a lot like the one at Biluo Xiaozhu, but this one seemed a bit low-end.
“Third-generation cell repair device.” Gu Nanyan recognized it at a glance. The Empire still had the first generation that could be bought and sold by families, and the sixth-generation cell repair device had not yet been successfully developed.
Fourth-generation cell repairers are already quite common in the major cities of the empire, and second- and third-generation cell repairers are also quite common in some smaller places.
"The third generation?!" Shen Bei'an's eyes widened. He couldn't believe it. The first generation cell repair device had fetched a high price of 9.9 billion in the Empire. So what about this third generation?!
"Yes, the fourth-generation cell repair device is widely used on Fuyun Island. There are only two fifth-generation devices at the Medical Alliance. However, the research and development technology of the third-generation cell repair device is already very sophisticated, no less than that of the He Shou Wu Research Institute."
Fuyun Island is a place with extremely advanced technology, so Gu Nanyan was not surprised at all that they could develop these things.
As for why the fifth generation has not been successfully developed, it is mainly because the people in the Medical Alliance have focused their attention on studying the human body and few have paid attention to the cell repair device.
Moreover, with enough resources, a cell repair device could be purchased from the Shouwu Research Institute. As for the Imperial military, the people of Fuyun Island would naturally not dare to make a move.
Even though the MicroLife family won the bidding for the fifth-generation cell repair device, each fifth-generation cell repair device is cared for by dedicated personnel from production to transportation to the determination of the location, and the whole process is monitored.
Even if Wei Shengsui and Qingran wanted to get one and send it to Fuyun Island, they would still have to get the approval of the Shouwu Research Institute.
In other words, from this perspective...
It is simply impossible to transport the goods to Fuyun Island without authorization.
"But for the aristocratic families outside Fuyun Island, it is almost impossible to obtain a third-generation cell repair device through legal channels."
Internationally, only the first generation of cell repair devices is currently available for widespread sale. Let alone the third generation, even the second generation hasn't been released yet.
Through illegal channels?
Cell repair devices require regular maintenance, and there are only a handful of research institutes in the world that can maintain them, almost all of which are government-run.
The only unofficial one is the medical alliance on Fuyun Island.
As is well known, the medical alliance on Fuyun Island is almost never seen.
Therefore, if you buy a cell repair device through illegal channels, it is essentially a disposable product, and it is more cost-effective to go directly to the hospital.
"Starting bid of 5 billion?!" Shen Bei'an's red lips parted as she saw the auctioneer announce an astonishing price.
Even Shen Wuye, whose extravagance rivaled that of Heshen, the powerful official of the Qing Dynasty, was speechless upon hearing the price.
This is just the starting price! Each bid must be at least ten million!
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