Chapter 855: The Wise Knight [Part 1]
2072, spring, rural Manitoba.
Lin Yu rode an electric bike on a muddy country road. The slightly fishy smell of soil surrounded her.
This made Lin Yu, who was exhausted physically and mentally, feel comfortable.
It was still comfortable here...
Lin Yu had just returned from the city center of Manitoba. There, she continued to give a speech on "Genetic modification and cyborgization of benchmark people may be controlled."
As the "representative of the last Homo sapiens in the world."
Naturally, she was ridiculed. In this era when humans have benefited widely from benchmarking and cyborgization, this kind of propaganda will be regarded by most people as "brain problems" - although twenty years ago, Lin Yu's ideas were the mainstream.
Of course, there are occasional reporters who pay attention to her. But this is not because of how many people believe her words, but because of the identity of her parents.
Lin Yu's parents are the earliest members of the Transhuman Enterprise.
Lin Yu took her mother's surname. Her parents decided from the beginning that if they had a daughter, she would take her mother's surname. Her father's surname is Chen, and he is even one of the core researchers of the human prosthetic movement. It is said that the standard process of benchmark surgery also involves her father.
In addition, Lin Yu has another identity.
"The daughter of the world's first failed benchmark surgery."
Chen Feng's wife Lin Xiaoxiao is the 84th volunteer for the benchmark transformation surgery in the world, and also the world's first failed benchmark transformation surgery.
Her father is the 83rd volunteer for the benchmark transformation surgery.
From the 80th to the 120th volunteers, they are all the core scientific researchers of Superman Enterprise. What they have in common is that they are older, and with the technical conditions at the time, they are at the age of "stepping on the risk line of surgery." For surgery, these people are the most confident and the most urgent.
Chen Feng and his wife were together when they were studying. They are the same age, and because they have lived together for a long time, their physical conditions are also similar. This is a very unfortunate event. The operation caused comprehensive exhaustion in Ms. Lin Xiaoxiao.
Chen Feng was unwilling to accept this fact for a long time. And Lin Yu felt that she had lost both parents at the same time.
She did not undergo the benchmark transformation surgery. When they came to their senses, Homo sapiens had become a minority in society.
Lin Yu now lives as a community leader of the "last Homo sapiens" collective farm. There are also some people around the world who are unwilling or unable to undergo standard transformation surgery for various reasons.
For example, those who have had cancer but have been cured later cannot survive the "immune destruction" stage because the proportion of cancerous cells in their bodies is higher than that of normal people, and the success rate of the surgery is low. In addition, people with some special genes are also refused surgery due to risk issues.
Some people are naturally afraid of things dominated by big companies, not to mention genetic modification surgery and prostheses.
Not only the elderly, but also many young people are like this.
They became the last Homo sapiens on this planet.
In this era, it is not that easy to be a Homo sapiens. Standard humans can inject electrical energy, and the organism only needs to supplement a small amount of nutrition. Many people choose to undergo surgery to reduce the size of the digestive organs to eliminate hunger, and supplement nutritional supplements and a small amount of food every day. Large-scale conversion of farmland to forest is happening all over the world.
There are almost no farmers growing food for Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens want to get food. You have to endure the high price brought by transportation costs.
But the physical functions of the standard people are indeed too good.
The remaining Homo sapiens had no choice but to live in groups. They began to grow crops and be self-sufficient.
This is the origin of this collective farm.
Many years ago, Lin Yu took a sum of money from her father and bought land here. That money might be just "pocket change" to her father. He spent much more money on his hobbies of gaming than that. In fact, Lin Yu went to find Uncle Xiang at first. Uncle Xiang seemed to be able to persuade any local government to set aside a piece of land as a private land for Homo sapiens. But her father still gave her a sum of money on the grounds of "How can I bother you, Uncle Xiang?".
At the beginning, Lin Yu did think that her father was just looking for a reason to compensate her. But after running the collective farm for many years, she realized that her idea of "If I go to Uncle Xiang, I don't need to ask for money and owe less" was too naive.
When choosing the site for the collective farm, Lin Yu's standard in his mind was "large land, sparse population, less management." Manitoba is a major agricultural province in North America, with a suitable climate and not many people. It is also close to developed areas, and can get a lot of agricultural machinery and fertilizers. Although many people on the farm have always been resistant to chemical fertilizers, there are also many people who welcome it.
When Lin Yu returned home, her husband should be in the farmland. Her daughter was about to go out. The little girl was at a rebellious age. She wrinkled her nose when she saw her mother.
"Mengying?" Lin Yu called out.
"Yeah." The little girl responded and jumped out.
Lin Yu had a headache.
But now...
She had more important things to do.
Lin Yu walked into the warehouse where she stored her farm tools. There were several humanoid robots and tractors lying together, which looked like some kind of agricultural machinery. People in the collective farm had indeed seen this thing plowing in Lin Yu's farmland.
It should be said that it is a blessing that there are no fanatical military enthusiasts here. Otherwise, people in the farm would be surprised to find that the hand and foot specifications of this agricultural machinery are actually quite close to those of military prosthetics.
Lin Yu said softly: "Uncle Xiang?"
"Well, I'm listening." Xiang Shan said.
This was a base for the early knights.
A few years ago, Xiang Shan rescued Chen Feng - or in other words, after Chen Feng escaped the attack of Superman Enterprise, the first thing he did was to find a way to get here to confirm the safety of his daughter.
After inspecting the environment here, Xiangshan decided that this was a good place that could be used as a base. Just like Lao Di, the country thieves ignored the wise people who had been abandoned by the times. They arrogantly believe that Homo sapiens is destined to be eliminated by the times.
But he completely forgot that he was once a homo sapiens.
Xiangshan didn't even understand what they were so proud of. The only differences between baseline humans and Homo sapiens should be physical ability and nerve reflex speed, and baseline humans have the potential for further development. But there is no essential difference in personality between the two.
But thanks to this arrogance, this place has become a blind spot for thieves to supervise.
No one here uses prosthetics with backdoors, and their genes have not been tampered with.
Lin Yu became the first Homo sapiens "knight" to develop in Xiangshan.