Chapter 838 Silent Sniper
The generational change that occurred in the middle of the 21st century was an unprecedented process. It was the first time that humans completely changed the genes of their own race. Humans changed from "Homo sapiens" to "baseline humans" who were reproductively isolated from Homo sapiens.
This was the first time in history that there were truly "two kinds of humans". Although in history, when groups with large differences in appearance came into contact, there were many cases where "one side did not regard the other side as human" or "both sides regarded each other as 'non-human'". But in most cases, those ancient people knew that they could produce offspring with other groups and there was no "reproductive isolation". Even between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, there was a phenomenon of mixed blood.
But there was real reproductive isolation between the base people and Homo sapiens.
But the amazing thing is that the first generation of base people had an undeniable blood relationship with Homo sapiens. The chromosomes of this generation of base people contained information copied from their own generation in the Homo sapiens era. They had a blood relationship with their parents.
Humans have never encountered such a thing. After Europeans formally invented "nationalism", humans have been accustomed to describing everything in terms of "nation" for hundreds of years. However, Yawgmoth created a collection at a higher level.
This fact has a strong impact on the cognition of human society.
The entire middle of the 21st century is a magnificent era. Even the impact of the world war on mankind is far less than this event.
And in this wave, the original vested interests can no longer hold on to what they have in their hands. When the benchmark people occupy more than half of the total human population, the benchmark people urgently need a group to speak for the benchmark people. A benchmark politician will naturally be more supported by the benchmark people.
After the superior biological ability of the benchmark people gradually emerges, most of the remaining population who can become benchmark people will want to become benchmark people.
As time goes by, the proportion of Homo sapiens in the human population will continue to decline-the reason is that the growth cycle of the benchmark people is regulated by the genetic information of Homo sapiens. But the life span of the benchmark people is too long.
As the number of benchmark people expands, the scale of agriculture for Homo sapiens will continue to shrink, and the cost of living for Homo sapiens will further increase.
And as public services and intelligent prostheses are connected, the lives of Homo sapiens will become more convenient.
Xiangshan had anticipated this long ago. He did not intend to use laws and decrees to force humans to change their species. But he did not intend to stop this change caused by objective economic laws.
Most of the volunteers for benchmark transformation surgery are disabled people, and then there are technology upstarts who have made a lot of money at a young age. This small group of people has made a lot of money in the business field through research and development. They have great trust in technology and think that the picture described by Xiangshan is the future, so they try every means to squeeze themselves into the team of "healthy volunteers".
In addition, there are volunteers from academia and technology enthusiasts. They are optimistic about benchmark people, but they are worried that the cost of subsequent transformation surgery will not come down, so they are willing to be the last batch of volunteers for clinical trials.
The first batch of beneficiaries of the promotion are from African countries.
In fact, it was not Xiangshan who pushed for this, but several heads of African countries who took the initiative to come to him. And their reasons were surprisingly consistent, that is, these warriors who came to power by relying on the army suddenly felt that the Superman Enterprise represented the future of mankind, and planned to follow up at this moment.
And after a careful check, it seems that these countries have received a sum of aid from those big countries in recent years, and the amount is slightly ambiguous.
Xiangshan knew this very well, but he was "rarely confused".
And as the transformation of the benchmark people progressed, the Superman Enterprise also established localized institutions in those countries. These localized institutions of the Superman Enterprise brought technology and information from the outside world.
The people who were first cyborgized realized that the tyrant's gun seemed not so scary.
In the next ten years, the heads of these small countries basically changed, and they looked much more normal.
According to Xiangshan's estimation, this should be the "no problem" coverage of genetic surgery. In the several surgeries of the volunteers, biological samples were collected regularly for each case and sent to Yawgmoth's laboratory for testing.
For the first batch of benchmark human surgeries promoted in Africa, Yogmoth was also present in person to conduct random inspections on the patients.
At this stage, the thieves who stole the country had no chance to make any changes.
No, thinking about it afterwards, perhaps they made their moves at this stage.
For a long time, Xiangshan was regarded by all major countries as a guy who was "good at drawing cakes". "Good at telling stories" and "good at making PPTs" were labels on Xiangshan.
Xiangshan was indeed good at telling stories and making PPTs, but it was not until the 1940s that humans realized that this man had more ambitions than just this.
After Superman Enterprise achieved a series of successes in African countries, the military of the major countries took the lead in rolling out transformation surgeries and quickly promoted them to the public.
And personnel and funds from various countries were quickly injected into this already huge multinational enterprise.
At this moment, Xiangshan believed that the historical mission of Superman Enterprise had been completed for the most part. After the "cyborgization" was fully rolled out, it would be necessary to use antitrust rules to allow various countries to split Superman Enterprise. Therefore, he took all of these people who were suspected of having a background in a big country.
Xiangshan confirmed this through the news.
He used Zhu Xinyu's computer and backdoor to obtain news that he had never paid attention to.
For example, the accidental deaths of several wealthy people.
For example, military coups in several African countries.
These things are not too rare. But Xiangshan soon found the common ground among them.
In these events, the deceased were all volunteers or the first batch of surgical recipients.
To be precise, they were individuals in that group who had management skills, military skills or professional technical knowledge.
Xiangshan had seen these people more than ten years ago out of admiration. They were either surfers who surfed on the cusp of the times, or idealists who were determined to change the poor fate of their country. Xiangshan had a high opinion of them.
Then, they died.
This was a conscious sniper.
Xiangshan went to look for other volunteers' information. He found some names in the news and police station records.
Car accidents, drowning, fires...
And missing.