As expected by Zhao Changxing, after the announcement of this plan, there was no wave of excitement in society.
Everyone knows that this is the best plan that can be made under the current conditions.
Therefore, under Zhao Changxing's personal attention, artificial cultivation began with the first batch of 70 randomly selected sperm and eggs.
After they turned into embryos, the genetic modification project team began to intervene, and through a set of genetic modification optimization plans, they made improvements based on the original human genetic system.
At the current stage, the genome that the genetic modification project team can modify and optimize is still only a small part compared to the entire human genome. And most of them are only "surface" and "application-side" transformations, unable to involve deeper things.
It is completely impossible to transform a person so that he can breathe fire or grow wings and fly. At most, they can eliminate disease-causing genes, delay aging genes, and enhance self-healing capabilities.
One year later, all these temporarily "frozen" embryos were thawed and began to be placed in the artificial womb for development. Less than ten months later, the first batch of 70 genetically modified humans were successfully born.
Compared with ordinary babies, these babies show more outstanding characteristics. Not only are they physically strong, they rarely get sick, and their vitality is also very strong. At the same time, their perception, reaction, self-awareness, etc. are far beyond ordinary people.
After continuous close observation, when they were half a year old, the preliminary examination results were presented to Zhao Changxing.
"According to preliminary estimates, if there are no accidents, the average life span of this group of babies will be around 120 years old, and their average IQ will be 10 to 20 higher than that of ordinary people. They have stronger virus resistance, and ordinary influenza will be completely unable to catch them. Cause symptoms in the body. They have a stronger ability to withstand extreme environments, they have..."
Zhao Changxing has always been paying attention to the growth and life of the first batch of genetically modified people in the history of human civilization. And these people, as people expected, showed amazing learning abilities.
On average, at around the age of 15, they have already learned the knowledge that ordinary people can only learn at the age of 18, and have achieved better assessment results. After that, all these people chose to continue their studies and began to study for master's and doctoral courses. They completed them all around the age of 19 and had the ability to enter a research institute and actually conduct scientific research.
Facing these first batch of genetically modified human scientists, many research institutions within civilization have shown great interest and even started competing for them.
Zhao Changxing did not impose many restrictions on genetically modified people who chose biology, chemistry, medicine, humanities, etc., allowing them to choose their future work institutions according to their own wishes. As for those who majored in materials, propulsion, engines, spacecraft manufacturing, etc., Zhao Changxing insisted on going his own way. He ignored any applications from scientific research institutions and directly made the decision and arranged them all into the propulsion laboratory.
Zhao Changxing's arrangement made everyone a little confused, and they didn't understand why Zhao Changxing attached so much importance to the advancement laboratory.
In fact, it's not just this one incident. In other aspects, Zhao Changxing also showed more resource inclination towards the propulsion laboratory.
Regardless of manpower or material resources, the advancement laboratory is always the one with the highest priority, even more important than the genetic laboratory responsible for the research and development of genetic modification instruments.
People couldn't understand it, but no one questioned it. Over the years, people have long been accustomed to Zhao Changxing's foresight and obeyed Zhao Changxing's arrangements.
In this regard, Zhao Changxing did not give too much explanation. Because Zhao Changxing knew in his heart that the effect of his arrangement would take at least a hundred years to see.
This time scale is too long and has no meaning to ordinary people.
Time passed slowly, and new lives continued to arrive in one space city or roller base one after another, and people continued to die, and were eventually buried in the cemetery of Sedna.
Generally speaking, life is peaceful and everything is developing step by step.
Of course, this is only for Zhao Changxing. For ordinary people, it is uninterrupted love and hatred, joys and sorrows, life may be full of ups and downs, or life may be counterattacked, it may be rich in youth and miserable in old age, or it may be peaceful to finish life, and so on.
Under this situation, time slowly came to the year 458 of the New Calendar.
At this moment, 126 years have passed since the first batch of genetically modified humans were born. Among the first batch of 70 genetically modified people, 65 have finished their lives, and the remaining 5 are already old and have basically lost the ability to live independently.
Not even the genetic modification device can save them.
Of course, more genetically modified people will be born in the future and continue to enter the scientific research industry.
With the combination of external coercive means, such as not being allowed to become government employees, and internal education, such as the subtle instillation of human history, morality, and values, those living in human civilization will Genetically modified humans capable of crushing ordinary people in all aspects have not caused any trouble.
Instead, they made more and greater contributions to civilization. And these contributions, under Zhao Changxing's arrangement, were eventually given back to every ordinary person in a way similar to how the original genetic modification device greatly increased the average human life span.
If Zhao Changxing were to evaluate it objectively, it would be that these genetically modified people had basically completed their historical mission and were worthy of the evaluation of "excellent human beings".
Regardless of whether the ending is good or bad, whether it deprives them of some of their rights in the process, whether it is fair to them, this is how things are after all. Moreover, Zhao Changxing plans to implement this policy until the genetic modification device can perform genetic modification for all people.
This is the decisiveness he must have as a leader of civilization. Because fairness is the greatest basic right. For the sake of fairness, some concessions can be made appropriately on some other matters.
At this moment, the total population of human civilization has exploded to 4.27 million, and the number of space cities has also increased to 75.
Some old space cities have been decommissioned and demolished for recycling, such as the original Space City No. 1, Star City. Some new space cities with more comprehensive facilities, larger size, and better environment have been put into operation, such as the new Space City No. 1 and Human City.
After adding and subtracting, the number finally reached 75.
At this time, another report was placed in front of Zhao Changxing.
The resource crisis is once again showing signs of erupting.
The cost of mining various resources has begun to rise again, while mining efficiency continues to slowly decline. At this moment, in addition to Sedna, there are a total of 12 dwarf planets. The average number of standard resource boxes delivered to Sedna every day has slowly dropped from the peak of 13,000 to the current average. There are only about 5,500 per day.
And it is still decreasing continuously.
In the past, an average of more than 10,000 standard resource boxes and nearly 10 million tons of various materials were delivered every day, which obviously exceeded the resource consumption of human civilization. To this end, Zhao Changxing built a giant warehouse that ran in space and stored all the remaining supplies.
At this moment, the total amount of various materials stored in the warehouse, including gold, silver, copper, iron, chemical raw materials, machinery spare parts, grain, oil, etc., reaches about 100 billion tons.
There is no doubt that these supplies are enough to support the operation of human civilization for a long time.
But... when the number of standard resource boxes is no longer enough to support the daily operation of human civilization and related engineering construction, and when human civilization has to use material reserves, causing material reserves to continue to decrease, what should we do?
Sit back and eat, and the mountain will be empty, and there will be a day when you finish eating.
But now, this sign of danger has appeared in front of Zhao Changxing.
"The outer solar system is too empty." Zhao Changxing sighed silently: "It is too fanciful to rely on a dozen dwarf planets to fully support the development of a civilization."
Not to mention that all the dwarf planets closer to Sedna Star have been found at this moment. It is impossible to find new ones. Even if there are, so what?
All the exploitable resources of a dwarf planet are nothing more than delaying the resource depletion crisis for more than ten years, which is of little significance.
"So……"
Zhao Changxing stood up, looked at the star map in front of him, and aimed his eyes towards the direction of the inner solar system.
Only the inner solar system can support the full development of human civilization.
During this long period of more than a hundred years, people gradually forgot the original dispute over whether to distinguish human beings from sub-human beings, and also forgot Zhao Changxing's ruthless methods.
Or maybe it's because the introduction of genetic modification equipment has actually created a number of more perfect human beings - based on 70 per year, that's more than 8,000 in more than a hundred years, excluding those who are already old and still young. Yes, there is still almost half the quantity.
After signs of a resource crisis appeared again, Zhao Changxing noticed that someone was once again trying to promote this matter.
The final outcome of the matter was that at a meeting of the Civilization Management Committee, a member appeared again and made this suggestion to Zhao Changxing. Zhao Changxing also showed no mercy and once again used harsh methods.
The hundreds of heads on the execution ground once again promoted Zhao Changxing's determination, making people clearly realize that even after more than a hundred years, Zhao Changxing's determination has not changed at all.
When the execution was about to take place, the man who originally held a high position in civilization stared intently at Zhao Changxing, who came to see him off.
"You are destroying our civilization."
