i'm the villain

Chapter 199 Paradise Project - Part [-]
When Klaus was telling Harvey his thoughts.

On the other side of the world, Johnny also told Zach the same content.

As a human being who lives purely in the above-ground world and the underground world, Zac was stunned to hear it anyway.

At first, he just asked Johnny out of curiosity if he knew what the purpose of Klaus' arresting Luo was, and what the so-called important things meant.

God knows that Johnny said a lot of things in one breath that are completely unacceptable with Zach's current knowledge base.

"Wait, my mind is a little confused, you mean, Harvey and Klaus are not the heads of Phoenix Company?" Zach asked his first question after holding back for a long time.

"Huh? So you have always thought that these two guys are the top leaders of Phoenix? What the hell are you pretending to be in your mind? You look down on this organization too much, don't you?" Johnny almost spat out a mouthful of blood .

"How did I know?! I only learned about the existence of such a thing more than a month ago. Now you tell me that Harvey and the others are just a small branch of the Phoenix company. We are just a small branch of others. The company is chasing after him, but there is actually a more terrifying existence behind him?!" Zach rolled his eyes.

"Didn't my mother always say that Harvey only belongs to a branch of Phoenix? Do you usually only have a mouth and no ears when you talk?"

"Worthy..."

……

It was difficult for Zach to accept and understand what Johnny told him, including the size of the real Phoenix Company, including their decades-old "Paradise Project" and so on.

But this is not his fault. The education Zach received was no different from that of ordinary people. His vision was limited to the peaceful and peaceful world above the ground. Life has undergone a huge 180-degree change, and what he has encountered in the past few months has completely subverted his three views.

Most of his teammates died at the hands of the Phoenix Corporation, and the remaining two were brainwashed and controlled.

And it's all down to the symbiote.

But Klaus and Harvey, who are really plotting a symbiosis, are just two lifelong employees of Phoenix Company.

He thought that he had basically understood the existence of the phoenix, but in fact, what he had seen so far was only one or two wings of the phoenix, and the real phoenix hung over their heads.

As for the reason why Claus and Harvey are lifelong employees of the Phoenix Company, this issue has to return to the "Paradise Project".

According to Johnny's story.

"Project Paradise" is a control system for Phoenix Headquarters over the leaders of all its key divisions.

It is unknown when the plan was first implemented, but it may have begun on the day Phoenix was formed.

At the heart of the plan is cloning technology.

But this technology is not the same as the kind of cloning commonly known to the populace of the surface world.

Cloning in a broad sense refers to the asexual reproduction of organisms through somatic cells and the population of offspring individuals with the same genotype formed by asexual reproduction.In general, there is still a reproductive cycle.

But the cloning technology attached to the "Paradise Project" is a complete set of biological replication technology.

They found the most suitable individual and used this individual as the source of replication.

Similar to the digital virtual human technology, the phoenix completely converts every cell and organelle of the copying source individual into data. They have mature and reliable instruments that can copy a complete human being under the condition of sufficient resources .

Omit the breeding process entirely.

There is also no need for a nurturing process from baby to adult.

It is simply from cells to tissues to organs and systems, and finally to form a complete human being.

But when the replica is generated, it is in exactly the same state as the source of the replica, the same age, the same appearance, and even the operating state of the body functions are the same.

This has completely surpassed the unchanging law of reproduction of life since ancient times, and achieved the real "creation of man".

Even in the process of copying, they can make some slight changes to the copy, giving him some special properties different from the copy source.

……

This is the core technology of "Paradise Project".

But there are limits to any technology, even Phoenix.

The cloning of heaven cannot reproduce the "angels" they want at will. For some reason, the source of replication is specific. When the human body of the source of replication is determined to have no genes or physical injuries, it is still possible to There are restrictions with other conditions.

Johnny didn't know how many duplication sources there were in Heaven's Plan, but the number could definitely be counted on one hand.

But this is not the shortcoming of Heaven's cloning technology, or it is not its characteristic.

If it is just to clone an organism that is exactly the same as the source of replication, it will not be of much value to Phoenix, because they still need to spend time and energy to cultivate it.

But in fact, the clone obtained after duplication does not have self-awareness and thinking.

Simply understood, it is just a hard disk without any content, an empty shell.

The phoenix also needs to inject a "soul" into it.

……

When Zach heard this, he seriously suspected that Johnny was fooling him. He had seen plots like this many times in mythological movies.

But Johnny wasn't joking.

From a scientific point of view, there is no soul in human beings, only thinking.The reason why a person can be called alive is based on his self-awareness, he can think, and he has the ability to think.

The real basis of thinking is memory.

The soul they injected into the replica is, to put it bluntly, the instillation of memory.

Heaven's plan is to rely on the near-perfect cloning and replication technology to create a biological body without physiological defects, activate this living body with a set of memories, and construct a fresh living body from scratch.

……

As for those memories, it sounds even more unscientific.

They were not fabricated out of thin air. In fact, Phoenix may not be able to master the technology of creating a complete set of life memories out of thin air.

All the memories injected into the clone's brain are extracted from other living beings.

If it is more fantasy, it is to extract another person's soul and inject it into a cloned empty shell to create a living body.

From this point of view, although the owner of the memory has changed to a different biological body, he still has the same memory, self-awareness and thinking.

No one knows whether he is still the same person in different bodies, but for him, he naturally thinks—"I am still me." Because he remembers everything in the past, he remembers how he grew up from a child Big, he even remembered being subjected to this experiment of Heaven's plan.

But if he, who has the same memory at this time, no longer has the same way of thinking as before, who can know?
Even he himself will not know.

The person whose memory was extracted dies and then comes back to life on the clone.

……

In fact, the Paradise Project is not used to create employees for free.

The executor of this plan bestowed a "curse" on all replicas that could not be removed.

That is, the lifespan of each replica is only limited to 20 years.

When the time is up, the cancerous gene in the replica body gene will be activated rapidly, and the entire replica body will die of illness in a short time.

Usually, before the cancerous gene is about to be activated, the headquarters will recall these replicas, and after review, a new memory transfer will be carried out for those who qualify.

They would die and come back to life in a new replica body.

Still have the previous memory, still the same body.

Then go back to work and continue working for the company.

"This is what the 'Paradise Project' calls eternal life."

……

With a lifespan of 20 years, they cannot defy the schedule of the head office, unless they are not afraid of dying of cancer after the time expires.

And as a member of the Paradise Project, these "angels" also need to accept regular assessment and inspection by the head office.

They can't have any action that violates the company's "action regulations", and they can't have free actions beyond the stipulated time.

If they want to enjoy the next "rebirth", they have to follow all the orders of the Phoenix Company conscientiously during the past 20 years.

……

...

Anyway, Zach couldn't accept and digest all that Johnny told him in a short time.

"My mother, this is too ridiculous."

The look on his face right now is the white version of the "black question mark."

"Don't worry, digest slowly, you will figure it out. I also had this expression when I first heard about this plan, and because I am engaged in scientific research, I am more aware of the technological level required for many links in it. Many are almost impossible to do, so when I first learned about this plan, I was 100% in disbelief." Johnny said calmly.

"Then how did you figure it out later? Did you understand all the technologies in this plan?" Zach asked.

"That's not true. I'm not qualified to get in touch with the operation of this project, but I have been in touch with the development team of this project, and I have seen those replicas in heaven countless times." Johnny shook his head , Then said: "Each of them has almost exactly the same face, there is no slight difference, but apart from the appearance, everyone has nothing in common. Harvey and Klaus are like this."

"Harvey and that Klaus are both clones?" Zach asked.

"Right." Johnny nodded.

"No wonder when I investigated Harvey for the first time, I found five Harveys who looked exactly the same from the global satellite retrieval system."

Zach suddenly remembered some strange things he found when Luo asked him to investigate Harvey in the first place.

"That's still a small number. If you don't count the 'empty shells' stored in the headquarters, there are at least a few dozen 'Harvey's" who are active outside." Johnny said lightly, "This is just one of them. No one knows exactly how many copy sources the Paradise Project has."

"This is fucking crazy, if all these things are exposed, the whole world will be messed up?" Zach tutted. "No wonder Harvey is so eager to kill you haha."

"Uh, that's really not the reason why they were eager to hunt me down. At least that's not the main reason." Johnny waved his hand.

"why?"

"Harvey and Klaus are the replicas of the angel plan. They want to get rid of the control of the phoenix, so they get rid of the 'resurrection' every 20 years, so they have to find a way to solve the problem hidden in their DNA. cancer gene." Johnny said.

"Can this thing be changed?" Zach asked.

"Symbionts can."

"That's why they took Luo?"

"Yes." Johnny nodded, "The two of them have been planning this matter for about ten years. When I entered their branch, Klaus had been doing it for at least ten years. In the symbiont experiment, they used the symbiont they had stored to find a human body with a high degree of fit, trying to create a fusion body like Luo's, and then obtain the required substances from the fusion body to change the cancerous genes in their bodies. "

"It's a pity that the two of them failed to create a real symbiote fusion after so many years. God knows how your teammate merged with the symbiosis." Johnny marveled, "I also did research on this project before. , after all, I am the chief researcher of the branch, but the difficulty is really very big."

"That's why they tried to hunt you down?" Zach asked.

"Speaking of it, it's just bad luck. I made a mistake in the experiment, and I became a posture that would go berserk and transform at any time. I couldn't control myself. Originally, Klaus was going to lock me in the base directly, but The headquarters noticed this matter, and wanted to bring me back to the headquarters to study. Klaus was afraid that the things I knew would be leaked, so he wanted to kill me without doing anything." Johnny said lightly.

"Besides you, does anyone know about the two of them wanting to jump out of the heavenly plan?"

"No, the whole base, only Klaus, Harvey and I know the whole content of the whole plan. The other researchers are only responsible for some small parts of the work, and don't know the specific situation at all." Johnny shook his head.

"..."

After listening to Johnny's series of introductions, Zach no longer knew what to say.

This fucking could be written as a science fiction novel.

Paradise Project?

Human clones?
So many wicked things.

It sounds like this so-called phoenix company is comparable to the legendary company in Terminator or the umbrella company in Resident Evil.

But after a long time, Zach and Luo were only involved in this brand new world because of an "employee job-hopping incident".

Cowboy and Joe died unjustly...

……

(End of this chapter)