Chapter 1137 Early Team

"Such a big thing, you never thought of coming to me?"

After hearing this, Zhu Xinyu showed a contemptuous expression on his face: "Hey - you, do you know what you are saying?"

"Ah?"

"In this matter, you are the most suspected and the most like Big Boss, right?" Zhu Xinyu said, "Who knows if those people are eliminating dissidents for you?"

"How can you slander someone's innocence out of thin air?" Xiangshan was angry, "I..."

But he was stuck on this sentence.

Indeed, he couldn't deny this possibility.

"Really..." Xiangshan sighed, "If I wasn't me, I would have to doubt me first."

"It's messy." Zhu Xinyu waved her hand, "Besides, let's talk about a practical problem. You usually stay in the Beiping headquarters. If you have nothing to do, you basically don't leave the company, right? Do you know where I intercepted Nia Guti?"

"...near here?"

"A savannah in an uninhabited area." Zhu Xinyu spread his hands: "Observing wild animals is her hobby. It is natural for her to go to an uninhabited area. I followed her like this and waited until the assassins appeared. It was not until those assassins opened fire that I confirmed that it was not a fake fight - I watched her being shot by seven or eight guns for several minutes."

"So, can you explain it from the beginning..." Xiangshan scratched his head.

"At first, I just realized that the company's system had been tampered with. You and I, neither of us, may have actually accessed the code running in the company's server. This made me very alert. So I stole a piece of information..."

"Explain this to me. What did you steal? From whom? How did you know that person had a problem?"

"As the company's chief security officer, I can legally insert the USB drive into any non-personal device in the company." Zhu Xinyu probably warmed up and took off the down jacket that covered his knees. "I'm not specifically targeting someone, just... whoever has the opportunity to insert their own device into the company's equipment may be infected. The virus will search for it, which is very similar to scientific research. The contents of the data are packaged and sent. After all this is done, the virus will delete itself. "

"Damn." Xiangshan showed a nostalgic expression, "It's been fifty years. Fifty years ago, you played this trick..."

"Don't interrupt. If you interrupt again, I will really cut you." Zhu Xinyu waved the chain saw sword, "But I can't understand the information stolen from Li Zheyuan. So, after thinking about it, I decided to trust Yawgmoth and Nia Guti... Strictly speaking, I actually trust Yawgmoth a little more. He doesn't look like the kind of person who can weave a huge conspiracy. But I can't just trust one person. What if this person is completely different from the surface?" When asking this question, Zhu Xinyu stared at Xiangshan completely, "So, I also sent the same content to Nia Guti at the same time. "

"Yawgmoth went to Eastern Europe with an old friend outside the company. More than 30 years ago, he injected himself with AIDS there. He also controlled several laboratories there. He planned to study the data I gave him there... and then a fire broke out in that laboratory."

"What about Yog? Is he still alive?"

Zhu Xinyu crossed his arms and said, "It's hard to say. I actually set up a camera nearby. The camera on an unmanned vehicle was pointed there a few weeks ago. I didn't expect that there would be an explosion there soon. Yawgmoth should have been inside at the time. But the amazing thing is that I got in touch with him again a few hours later. It's just ..."

Speaking of this, Zhu Xinyu paused: "I think the person who was talking to me might not be Yawgmoth himself, but another person."

Xiangshan was stunned: "How did you judge this?"

"The speaking style, judging from the overall situation, it is hard to say that it is based on some details... It's hard to explain to you. Ingrid or Florence might be better at this kind of thing." Zhu Xinyu was a little impatient, "At that time, I suspected that someone had obtained Yawgmoth's personal terminal or something."

"At that moment, I knew that I had to escape. If I didn't escape, I would die. But at that time, I was still hesitating-whether to try to kill the bastard who was the most suspected."

"Ah." Xiangshan felt a little scared.

At that time, Zhu Xinyu might really take action.

"Then I really have to thank you for not killing me."

Zhu Xinyu nodded: "Really... if there is no evidence."

"What's next?"

"I found a way to investigate the explosion in Yawgmoth's laboratory. Then I found that there was indeed one more body in the explosion than the permanent employees of the laboratory. Due to the fire, it was difficult to identify the bodies. Afterwards, the police confirmed that the extra body belonged to a former member of a security company of the United States - in human terms, a former mercenary."

Xiangshan was silent for a moment. He had always known that Yog had such a friend. When Yawgmoth was still participating in the radical animal protection group, the group had connections with some security companies.

When I thanked Luke Midom, it was also...

"The veteran's name is Siegfried. I guess Yawgmoth suspected that the company was unreliable, so he found a friend outside the company. Then, he seemed to have found the wrong person. Mr. Siegfried died. In that laboratory, but those people did not find the remains of Yawgmoth - Homo sapiens is more difficult to incinerate than Homo sapiens, and it is easier to leave biological samples. Thanks to this corpse, the mastermind failed. They immediately organized a hunt in that city. It took them a while to confirm the identity of the body. Maybe Yawgmoth is still alive somewhere in the world."

"And Niyaguti was more cautious. She used a non-networked car device to process the data. For a long time, she remained silent. Afterwards, she said that she could only tell from the data that the bastard Li Zheyuan had The signs of interference in the life process of cells must be verified through experiments. However, Yawgmoth and I disappeared one after another, which may have intensified the actions of the mastermind behind it. Attacked Niyaguti faster.”

Xiang Shan thought about it for a while and nodded: "Yeah. That's really... not easy."

"The only good thing is that the private armed forces belonging to the masterminds still retain the fighting thinking of the Homo sapiens era. The increased reaction ability of baseline humans and the powerful power brought by the prosthetics have made the tactics of the Homo sapiens era It’s not suitable now. We have narrowly escaped death just because of this.” Zhu Xinyu moved his body: “Should I say lucky, or are the people behind the scenes very... lacking in perseverance? . That kind of non-stop pursuit did not last long..."

"The private armed forces behind the scenes are probably not large in scale." Xiang Shan said: "The more people there are, the harder it is to keep secrets - I guess their close pursuit may be more to ensure that We cannot contact the company immediately and use the power in our hands. At this point in time, the power that originally belongs to you will be taken over and stolen. Now that we have the power, we need to prove that we are who we are.”

"That's it..." Zhu Xinyu sighed and shook her head, "It seems that when I was young, I had the right idea. Power is an anti-human thing. It is not a good thing."

"That's true." Xiang Shan nodded.

"Let's pack it up." Zhu Xinyu said, "Go and dismantle the host and take away the storage device. I'll look for movable insulation equipment... Forget it, I'll just carry it away with the freezer later..."

"What are you looking for?"

Zhu Xinyu pointed to the other side of the room: "In the yoga room, there is a thermostatic cabinet in the corner, which stores 100,000 effective units of enzyme at low temperature. I must take this with me."

"Huandan enzyme...oh, I remember this."

Danzyme, originally one of the products of the XHD project, is called "danzyme" and is used to reverse the life cycle of nerve cells. At the beginning, it was only allowed to be used for injuries to the peripheral nervous system - that is, Dr. Taun Haitau's injured hands and other injuries that left him unable to move.

The various shortcomings of the XHD project also made Xiangshan feel that "geeks use drugs to further enhance their abilities" is just an urban legend.

Several by-products of the "Xiaohuandan Project" are difficult to apply in the central nervous system due to lack of controllability. The 18:3 drug can accurately call the "initial state" of the immune system, but it is indeed specifically targeted at the complex immune system. This agent cannot activate proto-oncogenes in nerve cells.

Superman Enterprise has also launched drugs that activate proto-oncogenes in skeletal muscle cells and cardiomyocytes.

Theoretically speaking, when Yawgmoth completed the 18:3 potion, the door to turn on any permanent cell growth switch was already opened, and the growth potion that acted on the central nervous system was theoretically "completely feasible".

But as of 1969, Superman Enterprises did not have any projects using such drugs to enhance cognitive abilities.

The reason is ethical.

When such agents act on the central nervous system, they will inevitably cause permanent changes in cognitive ability and even personality. According to primate experiments, such changes are almost uncontrollable.

Can humans use such dangerous agents on their central nervous system for non-medical purposes?

Although "cognitive revolution" is Xiangshan's long-cherished wish, under this problem, Xiangshan can only temporarily succumb to reality, slow down research in this area, and instead think about the way to further combine "consciousness" and "machinery".

Just a "memory storage device" and a "human memory format file" can already constitute a huge change in cognition.

In a short period of time, there is no need to force the cognitive improvement brought by Danzyme.

"It's out of control - let me put it this way, this should be another mistake. Just like that guy Yog's overturned car."

The first time Yawgmoth performed genetic modification surgery on himself, he overturned. Because as a top geneticist, he ignored a physiological fact - the complexity of the human brain and its weight ratio to other parts of the body far exceed that of all other species on the earth. Therefore, "transformation of the central nervous system" is only a difficulty that can be "barely overcome" for other animals, but it is "almost impossible to overcome naturally" for humans.

At the same time, other primates are still less intelligent than humans, so defects in high-level functional areas are difficult to confirm and record by observers.

Zhu Xinyu said: "The same principle is true here, just in reverse. The reason why animals show uncontrollable changes in personality is because their cognitive abilities are limited. For humans, this is equivalent to carrying The memory returns to adolescence - although adolescence is indeed emotionally unstable, I think people with strong willpower can actually decide 'what kind of person I want to be.'

"In the past, we were just hindered by the ethics committee, so we said 'this may not work' - but in theory this is feasible, you know, right?"

Xiang Shan was stunned: "This..."

"You still care so much about laboratory ethics issues now? In fact, these two brothers have already done this, haven't they?" Zhu Xinyu said, "They are at the forefront of the times. It was just some weird talk in the hacker forum. But they accomplished it. By the way, the two brothers should have kept a note, something like...a spiritual diary. It records the process of how they used yoga and meditation to "subdue themselves." I think this kid's performance is worthy of mentioning. "

Xiang Shan looked at his body and shook his head: "It's true, it's true, 'transformation for non-medical purposes'... Haha, I have it all over my body now, and this one is no exception."

Zhu Xinyu and Xiangshan searched separately and soon found their targets. Xiangshan dismantled all the parts here. Zhu Xinyu also got the two brothers' notes as she wished.

The next thing to be disassembled is the electronic equipment in contact with the Vulcan brothers' brain-computer interface.

This step was completed by Xiangshan. Stripping this type of device is somewhat complicated. If a pure layman like Zhu Xinyu comes, it will easily cause damage to the equipment.

After doing all this, the two of them relaxed a little. Zhu Xinyu said: "In the corridor adjacent to this suite, there are five behind-the-scenes private soldiers armed with light weapons. What are you going to do?"

Xiang Shan thought for a moment and shook his head: "It's not good. Although the real identities of these guys are kept secret, most of them have legal identities on the surface. If we kill them, it will easily attract the original security force of this building. It’s better to avoid fighting.”