What is the biggest difference between humans and animals?
In previous textbooks, the answer was clearly given - being able to make and use tools.
Knowing how to make and use tools allowed human ancestors to survive natural elimination, and it was humans' upgrading of tools that allowed humans to gradually secure their position at the top of the food chain.
Some people may say that language and writing are the foundation for the inheritance of human civilization, but don't forget that whether language or writing, their essence is also a 'tool'.
It can be said that the history of the development of human civilization is a history of the use and transformation of tools.
"The nature of a gentleman is not different; he is good and false in nature."
It was originally a speech to praise people for being good at using tools, but Ana Shen saw a strong disdain from the sentence in the diary.
Use external things to make up for your own shortcomings.
The fundamental reason is still its own 'insufficiency', so it is necessary to use tools to achieve some goals.
But if relying on external things has become a habit and you forget to improve your 'self' to make up for your shortcomings, is it considered as going astray?
Shen Yan is not a sociologist, let alone a biologist. It is difficult to judge from a professional perspective whether the development of human civilization has embarked on a deformed path.
But one fact is obvious: the tools we rely on are becoming more and more powerful, but the ontology is getting weaker and weaker.
So much so that humans can no longer afford the consequences of these tools getting out of control.
Not to mention the impact on human civilization once destructive weapons are used, the continuously evolving and mutating viruses alone have caused mankind to suffer a lot in the past few hundred years.
In a word, if human beings cannot evolve, sooner or later they will be counterattacked by the tools created.
"If the God-Creation Project of the Saint-Presse Biological Research Center was just to extend human lifespan, you wouldn't have such a big reaction," Shen Yan glanced at Bai Ye and Chen Yun and asked, "So, what about the God-Creation Project?" What is the real purpose?
Bai Ye reached out and pressed Chen Yun down to prevent her from moving any further. He turned to Ana Shen and said, "The plan to create a god...the core purpose is of course to create a god!"
Ana Shen frowned: "Creating a god?"
"Is it the kind of 'god' I understand?"
"Yes and no."
Seeing Ana Shen's confused look, Bai Ye explained: "At first, everyone thought that the so-called god-making plan of Saint-Plus was probably something secretly carried out by several countries in the last world before the Federation was established. Super Soldier Project.”
"More than three hundred years ago, when the earth was not a federal system, there were two superpowers that faced each other and engaged in a cold war that lasted for more than forty years."
"During this period, the two superpowers engaged in an arms race and secretly studied super soldier projects."
Ana Shen nodded slightly and signaled Bai Ye to continue.
Bai Ye glanced at Chen Yun and said, "Pull out the historical data and project it on a public screen so we can take a look together."
Chen Yun reluctantly took her hand off Bai Ye's leg and fiddled with her AP bracelet for a while, before an old video material was projected.
The video is black and white, and you can vaguely see several white men wearing antique-looking combat uniforms injecting injections into some soldiers.
"This is a previously saved research video. It shows footage of Country M's secret test base."
Soon, the screen turned and appeared on the edge of a beach
A few soldiers who were slender but whose skin was covered with bulging veins, under the command of an instructor, carried a thick tree trunk for training.
Each trunk is three meters long, nearly fifty centimeters in diameter, and weighs more than three hundred kilograms.
However, the warriors in these videos were walking with great speed while carrying these tree trunks. Some even used them as weapons, standing in the waist-high sea water to practice smashing them. Every time they waved the trunks, they could stir up a lot of water splashes.
It is obvious that the physical abilities of these people have exceeded the limits of human beings.
Bai Ye pointed at the soldiers in the video and said: "They used gene editing technology to change the RNA transcription protein, allowing these soldiers to synthesize high-strength muscle fibers, giving them strength beyond the limits of ordinary people."
"Don't look at how thin each of them is. Each of their muscle fibers is more than five times the strength of our ordinary muscle fibers."
Ana Shen looked at the soldiers in the video and found that each of their blood vessels bulged under the skin and turned blue and purple. This was a phenomenon caused by excessive blood flow and high blood pressure.
The strength of muscle fibers has increased, requiring a more powerful energy supply system, and this consumption method will undoubtedly cause a huge load on their hearts.
"I believe you can also see that the blood vessels on their bodies are different from those of ordinary people. This is a side effect of the super soldiers back then."
Bai Ye pointed to the bulging blood vessels on the soldiers in the video and said: "The powerful explosive force of muscles puts a huge load on their hearts. Although the heart muscles have also been strengthened due to gene editing, this strengthening is compared to other muscles. It’s not thorough.”
"The most fatal thing is that their other organs, especially the brain, do not become as 'strong' as muscles."
"Strengthened muscles and a strengthened heart bring a higher load of blood supply demand, and this blood supply intensity is completely beyond the standards for other organs."
As he spoke, the scene in the video changed again, this time arriving in a medical room.
Here, eight beds are filled with soldiers on ventilators, all of whom have fallen into coma.
"Most of these super soldiers died of cerebral cortical hemorrhage, and a few died of visceral hemorrhage."
Ana Shen: "Isn't there a way to strengthen their entire bodies?"
If a person's whole body is strengthened, with stronger internal organs, stronger muscles and bones, and a stronger brain, all of which are supported, naturally this problem will not occur.
At this point, Chen Yun took over and explained with his professional knowledge: "Everything else is easy to say, except for the brain. Even with current science and technology, there is no way to strengthen or change the synthesis of brain cells."
"Our brain cells are different from other cells in that after a person is born, brain cells continue to die. There is no process of regeneration, proliferation and division."
Ana Shen: "So... the direction of genetic warriors is completely unworkable?"
Chen Yun nodded: "Unless targeted DNA modifications are carried out during the embryonic stage, once born, genetic surgery similar to whole-body enhancement will ultimately end in failure."
"In this case, why is the Saint-President Institute of Biology still pursuing the doomed plan to create gods?"
To Ana Shen's expectation, Bai Ye shook his head at this moment: "No -"
"In fact, they succeeded."
