Episode 148. Familiar Greetings (8)
In theory, there is no limit to human lifespan, but the "eternal life" technology at that time was just a simple injection of evolutionary substances and supplemented with regular drugs to consolidate the body.
This evolutionary substance is a derivative developed successively based on Morgana's research. In just a few years, derivatives quickly occupied the market, and the public around the world have heard of its effects and amazed it.
Evolving matter can increase the number of cell divisions in humans and reduce chromosomes. After several treatments, the average life expectancy of humans will reach 140-170% of the past, or even higher. But longevity is a price to pay.
The price is money.
Evolutionary substances are expensive, and subsequent regular drugs are even more expensive, which often costs half of the life savings of ordinary people, which is not something that everyone can have.
Only rich people can live longer, this is basically the final conclusion.
Even so, many people flock to it. The contradictions and poles of public opinion have been rigging, and the ability to obtain evolutionary matter seems to have become a symbol of status.
Under the desire of greed, rich people would rather live for a long time than see the natural lifespan of human beings limiting their lives.
After all, the carrying capacity of human society is limited. The nearly 20 billion population makes Blue Star’s resources scarce and almost exhausted. Once so many people are allowed to live forever, the earth’s resources will be consumed at a rapid speed, and eventually greater turmoil and even war will break out.
Therefore, the Planetary Council issued a decree to strictly limit the birth rate.
The decree has been enforced for nearly fifteen years and has been continuously improved and revised during this period. In order to obtain immortality, most people choose not to have children, and living their own lives well is everything. But some people cannot accept the decree. They secretly choose the traditional natural reproductive method, which aggravates the polarization contradictions of the entire society.
The idea of space immigration began to emerge, and it was forced to speed up decades later and was officially renamed "Star Plan".
In order to implement the space immigration program, the Planetary Council believes that human life span is essential. Therefore, in the following years, those in power issued a stricter decree - the "Birth Continuation Act".
Under the pressure of resource depletion, this decree further deprives ordinary people of their reproductive rights and prohibits newborns from being born - unless they can afford huge reproductive fees.
If someone violates the ban, he will be punished by being unable to inject evolutionary substances or even depriving the freedom of the second half of his life.
Those in power think very simple, but they are also very realistic. Since population limits resources and the development of science and technology is an inevitable trend, it is better to have a short pain than a long pain. First issue a decree to stabilize the situation. After the technology matures or immigrates other planets, a new decree will be issued, and then the policy of reproduction can be continued.
To many people, this is completely unfair.
After all, human laws and rules are formed under specific conditions, and the binding force on individuals in this period is limited. Most importantly, they forget that there is still something like human emotions.
Reproduction and maternal love are due to human nature. There are still people who violate the highest ban and would rather not inject evolutionary substances without scrutiny than give birth to newborns. Therefore, those who violate the "Birth Continuation Act" were taken away by the secret police of the Planetary Council and punished with chemical castration and lifelong imprisonment.
At that time, such things were frequently seen in headlines, and most people were already familiar with them.
After all, the majority of people hope to live forever. As for their descendants, they decisively chose to give up, pretend to be deaf and dumb, or simply turn a blind eye.
In order to pursue immortality technology, major consortiums invested crazily, and various projects emerged one after another in the following years. One of the research directions of one branch was to use plant cells to transform human cells. The most famous scholar in this branch was Morgana.
Just a few years ago, Morgana met the leader of the "Shadow Dancer Organization".
The reason is very simple. The organization secretly found Morgana, hoping to persuade her not to cooperate with the military to conduct research, but instead provide them with intelligence and expose a series of shameless intentions of the "Star Plan".
For Morgana at that time, it didn't matter whether the one who destroyed one bastard was another. She just wanted to keep her research results so that she could continue to research in the future.
It's only one step away. If she gives up research now, all her efforts and everything will be gone.
It is difficult to establish power if you want to prevent changes.
Morgana decided to take a gamble, and if they wanted a storm, then give them a storm.
And she herself is the embodiment of that storm!
Morgana has already figured out a way out. If the military continues to force her or use force, then she will use the "Shadow Dancer Organization" to launch her own revenge!
When the military sent someone to take over her research, Morgana did not hesitate at all. She immediately handed over her research results and signed a statement that she was willing to give up her research rights. All research results belonged to the military.
Although Morgana attached two small requests when signing the handover documents, including retaining her own laboratory equipment and the relevant rights of Ross Pharmaceuticals. This should have been rejected, but the military was afraid of an accident, so he agreed.
The unexpected calm and smooth handover made the Planet Council military a little confused about what she was selling.
In the military's opinion, although this handover was flawed, Morgana and Ross's attitudes were already exciting enough, so the military did not continue to get entangled.
Little did they know that their generousness this time laid a hidden danger for the subsequent incident.
It is also because of this that a few years later, the biggest turmoil in the research community was triggered.
Morgana left a hand when handing over the data. She left behind editing data on the original genes of the six mother plants, and at the same time,
38 The genes of specific plants were edited on the fungi virus, and a new virus that could transform organisms were successfully created.
This is the underlying design of the entire genetic research, and Morgana will never give up her own things easily. However, the military did not know that Morgana could change the original data of the research at will, and thought she had really given up completely.
Thanks to Morgana's additional conditions, after the military took over, Ross Pharmaceuticals and private investors suffered no losses and the companies went bankrupt, and they could continue to develop their own new projects.
The ending of this incident is a joyous one.
Soon, Morgana resigned from Roths Pharmaceuticals and started behind the project under the name of Rothschild family consultant, and rarely appeared in public ever since.
It is rumored that she was secretly dispatched by the military to other projects and faded out of people's sight.
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Will 38's research results be covered with dust?
Will the species of plants and mold become the soul of Morgana's ideal?
No one knows all this.
A year later, the death of Roger, the helm of Rose's medicine, was reported. The information revealed that he died of an accidental infection with the virus. Such shocking news will certainly attract doubts. At this time, someone thought of Morgana.
Chapter completed!