Chapter 109: Unexpected Discovery
20 years, January 11th.
A week had passed since Christine and Anthony were captured.
Li Qingye on Bandon Island looked at the report in his hand with some surprise. Although he was not clear about the situation of these two people, he still ordered:
"Philip, make some arrangements and have these two guys transferred over here."
"Yes, boss."
The report document contained some very important information, which made Li Qingye more aware of the internal situation in America.
Christine and Anthony are not subordinates of the Black Ship. They are not from the same organization, but are on the same level. They both belong to an organization called City on the Hill.
Judging from the intelligence obtained at this stage, the City on the Hill is inside America, or the two are one and the same, just with one bright side and one dark side.
Among the subsidiary organizations of the City on the Hill, three have been confirmed so far, namely the Black Ship, the Knights, and the Franklin Foundation.
The Black Ship's business is intelligence work around the world, and the CIA is part of it.
The Knights are the organization where Christine and Anthony are located. This organization is not just an intelligence organization, but a special support organization that specifically assists other organizations under the City on the Hill.
The Franklin Foundation is composed of core executives of companies such as ABCD. This organization is mainly used to attract some small and regional conglomerates, including Samsung, Fuji, Temasek and other conglomerates, which are secret members of this foundation.
Christine and Anthony , belonged to the Knight's intelligence support team. Although they didn't know much, it was obvious that the intelligence they were involved in was very crucial.
The previously captured Black Ship members, or Victor, the Governor of the Southeast Asian Black Ships who was under surveillance, did not obtain much intelligence about their parent organizations.
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the next day.
Christine and Anthony, who had already been retrained, sat in front of Li Qingye in a daze.
Li Qingye was looking at the genetic sequences of the two people.
"Interesting, the power of evolution really has infinite possibilities." Turning the chair, he seemed to see some delicious food.
On the screen of the biological computer, the genetic sequences of Anthony, Christine, and Li Qingye himself were all displayed.
After a comprehensive genetic modification, Li Qingye's genes are different from those of a natural person.
The Jianmu factor can make the gene lock gene sequence in human genes lose its restrictive effect. After years of in-depth research, he found that it was not because of the Neanderthal genes that allowed him to acquire those abilities.
If Neanderthal genes really concealed powerful forces, they would not have been eliminated by modern Homo sapiens.
To put it simply: the genetic sequence of modern Homo sapiens is like a maze that hides all kinds of things, and the Jianmu factor that Li Qingye obtained from the Neanderthals' genes is a kind of blasting device that can destroy the walls of the maze to obtain things hidden in the maze. But not all things are treasures, they may also be traps and monsters.
As for why something like the Jianmu factor could be born in the Neanderthals' genes.
Although Li Qingye still didn't figure out the root cause, he guessed some possibilities.
There are two most critical points.
First, Neandertals and Archaic Homo sapiens are both human beings. Although there is a certain degree of reproductive isolation between the two, there is still a certain probability of hybridization.
Second, the hybridization between the two destroyed the original genetic sequence of ancient Homo sapiens and introduced the variable of Neanderthal genes, causing problems in the genetic sequence of some Homo sapiens.
Many people know that the offspring of the hybridization between Neandertals and Archaic Homo sapiens are the white and yellow races among modern Homo sapiens.
Moreover, many studies have shown that the "pollution" of Neanderthal genes has led to many genetic diseases in white and yellow people, which is a bad side.
However, many people overlook another situation, that is, the Neanderthal genes also bring some benefits, that is, the improvement of IQ.
Why did the "pollution" of Neanderthal genes increase the intelligence level of Homo sapiens? And among them, the East Asian yellow people, who were the most polluted, have the highest intelligence level among modern Homo sapiens?
Li Qingye’s answer is: genetic stability.
If a race's genetic heritage is passed down for millions of years without interference from foreign genes, its genetic stability will be very high, forming a situation similar to a genetic lock.
This is vividly reflected in modern agriculture.
The development of human agricultural technology can be roughly divided into four stages: the stage of screening natural varieties, the stage of hybridization of the same species, the stage of genetic modification, and the stage of gene customization.
Why is hybridization technology beginning to fail in the face of genetic modification technology?
This is because hybridization technology can only use genes from the same species, and cannot use genes from other animals, plants, and microorganisms. In terms of available genetic diversity, the two are simply not on the same order of magnitude.
For example, some plants are naturally lacking in salt-alkali tolerance genes. Even if we can barely find one or two related genes, can they still be comparable to those plants that naturally grow in saline-alkali land?
The hybridization between Homo sapiens and Neandertals caused great damage to the genetic stability of Homo sapiens that had existed for millions of years.
This is both a crisis and an opportunity.
During the tens of thousands of years of hybridization, those bad individuals were eliminated by the natural environment, and the remaining individuals became increasingly enriched in good genes, and their intelligence levels naturally began to improve.
It was not until about 10,000 years ago that the intelligence level of Homo sapiens began to approach that of modern Homo sapiens, and this is when human civilization began to develop.
Otherwise, ancient Homo sapiens have existed for hundreds of thousands of years, so why did they have to wait nearly ten thousand years to enter the civilized stage?
It is obvious that it was that period of great hybridization with the Neanderthals that promoted the intellectual advancement of modern Homo sapiens.
Then why hasn’t the current global hybridization allowed humans to further improve?
First of all, many people simply understand the word "hybridization", thinking that as long as hybridization is carried out, excellent varieties can be produced.
But in fact, everyone who has worked in agricultural hybridization technology knows that hybridization requires selecting two varieties with different advantages, and the success rate is not high.
If a modern Homo sapiens, who has undergone multiple hybridizations and purifications, were to hybridize with a primitive Homo sapiens, the result would most likely be only an offspring with a better body and average or even low intelligence.
Are you the image of primitive Homo sapiens with strong body and low intelligence?
Obviously, the advantage of modern Homo sapiens lies in intelligence. If we really want to reflect the advantages of hybridization, we must find species with equally high intelligence. Only in this way can individuals with higher intelligence be born through generations of hybridization.
This is the fundamental reason why, in the so-called "era of global hybridization", no obvious hybrid advantages have emerged.
Because the mother plant for hybridization must have its own advantages. If the mother plant has no advantages or even has serious disadvantages, there is naturally no question of hybrid advantage.
Li Qingye used the Jianmu factor to destroy his own genetic stability and gained abilities that surpass those of modern Homo sapiens, which is similar to the first generation of genetic modification technology in the development of agriculture.
In other words, modern humans are still in the mixed era of natural selection of good varieties and hybrid breeding, while Li Qingye has entered the era of genetic modification.
This is version iteration, the two sides are not on the same level.
