Chapter 110 Superman
The reason why Li Qingye sighed just now.
This is because in the long process of evolution, there will always be some individuals that mutate, especially in the era of population explosion in the 21st century.
The increase in population naturally increases the probability of mutations.
According to Anthony and Christine, the Knights were first established after World War II in the last century and then achieved great development during the Cold War.
At that time, America obtained a lot of heritage and talents from the German Third Reich in Europe, including the superhuman plan.
After this superhuman project was acquired by America, it was reorganized and localized and turned into the Institute of Human Special Abilities. It was not until 1980 that it was renamed the current Knight.
Anthony has hearing impairment, and his hearing is about four times that of an average person.
Christine has abnormal vision. When she concentrates, her eyes can achieve a visual slowdown effect. Therefore, she was trained to become a micro-expression profiler.
According to the information provided by the two, there are about 3,000 official members in the Knights. In addition, some children and teenagers with potential are recruited into the Knights' training camp every year.
However, among these people, the proportion of those with useful abilities is not high, probably less than 20%.
In Anthony's training camp, only about 24% of the people persevered and overcame the genetic disease.
Li Qingye was not surprised by this. After all, gene mutants may not necessarily mutate for the better. They are more likely to mutate for the worse.
Even with so-called benign mutations, there are still some problems.
For example, Anthony's hearing is about four times that of an average person, which means that when he talks to ordinary people, he must work hard to overcome the thunder-like sound, and any slight movement around him will make him feel very disturbed.
Therefore, Anthony must sleep in a specially designed soundproof room, and if he goes out to work, he must wear sound-filtering headphones and noise-isolating earplugs.
Obviously, he couldn't control the volume of the sound he received by adjusting it himself like Li Qingye did.
The same is true for Christine. She often falls into a state of confusion of time and space because she cannot accurately switch her slow vision on and off. As a result, she sometimes feels that the time around her has slowed down , and sometimes feels that the time around her is speeding up.
Li Qingye looked through the genetic sequences of the two people and quickly found the abnormally expressed genes in their genetic sequences.
At this time, the internal genetic database of the Homo Sapiens company has collected the genetic sequences of hundreds of thousands of people. By comparing these genetic sequences, it is easy to find abnormal genes.
Li Qingye listed the abnormal genes of the two people separately and then started the search function.
[YC-72 gene...the matching results are 3...].
[YC-73 gene...the matching result is 1...].
[YC-74 gene...the matching results are 4...].
Anthony's abnormal gene is a small fragment of 4 genes, while Christine's is a small fragment of 7 genes.
During the matching process, no exactly identical small fragments were found, but an individual was found with a 75% overlap with Anthony's abnormal gene fragment.
Christine found two, but the overlap of one was three-sevenths and the overlap of the other was only two-sevenths.
Take a look at the resumes of these three individuals.
The person who overlaps with Anthony is a deaf man from Hongsavadi.
Of the two people who overlap with Christine, one has no problems, while the other has severe myopia.
"Genetic diseases are indeed everywhere." He sighed helplessly.
Li Qingye then looked through the confessions of Anthony and the other man, and learned from them that some laboratories from the superhuman project were still preserved within the Cavaliers, and these laboratories are still operating in secret.
Although Anthony and the others did not know the specific locations of these laboratories, or even what scientific research projects were being carried out inside, Li Qingye could guess some.
He is very clear about the evil nature of human beings.
Human scientific research in biology usually has only two purposes: to save or destroy humanity. It's that simple.
Based on the Knight's superhuman project, the scientific research projects of this organization will most likely focus on the development of technologies such as immortality, super brains, super powers, and genetically modified humans.
As for how far they have developed now, Li Qingye estimated that the Knights have already conducted experiments on genetically modified humans.
After all, more than 20 years have passed since the emergence of the first generation of genetically modified technology. Given the other party's unscrupulous style, it is basically impossible that they have not been conducting genetically modified human experiments in secret.
However, genetically modified humans need more than ten years to grow, and even if they can be matured through hormones, it is estimated to take about 10 years.
Due to the immaturity of the first generation of genetic modification technology, the experimental subjects may have off-target effects, genetic diseases, etc., and it is estimated that it is unlikely to create the expected super human.
However, after the emergence of the second-generation genetic recombination technology, it is no longer a problem to cultivate the expected genetically modified humans.
The second gene recombination technology matured around 2011, which is only about 9 years ago.
Taking into account the need for initial testing, the application of technology to human genetic modification is estimated to begin around 2015 at the earliest.
In other words, even if the Knights' super-human laboratory had created genetically modified babies, they would only be four or five years old at most.
It would be difficult to come up with mature application technology without twenty years of experimentation .
Li Qingye was not too worried about this. Now in the field of human genetic modification in the world, if he admitted to being second, no one dared to claim to be first.
After all, he had used his own body for genetic modification, plus he had the experience accumulated from so many soldiers and experimental subjects.
Now, even if Li Qingye were to transform some super humans, it would not be a difficult task.
The question is why did he do this?
In Li Qingye's view, the superness of a superhuman should be reflected in the brain and intelligence, while the body is secondary.
However, in order to transform super humans with super brains and control these experimental subjects, it is a very difficult problem.
After all, humans with super brains are unlikely to be willing to be Li Qingye's pawns, and will definitely find ways to remove the control over themselves.
The smarter a person is, the more likely he is to think too much.
Therefore, at this stage, Li Qingye has no need to create super humans, as doing so would instead increase internal uncertainty.
Now that the Sapiens company has him as its core brain, plus a large number of scientific research workers, it is enough for initial use.
After all, he doesn't need to worry too much about scientific research talents. There are a lot of science and engineering graduates in Southeast Asia who can't find jobs, not to mention the millions of science and engineering graduates from China's universities every year.
As long as the Intelligent Company is willing to spend money to recruit these high-quality talents, there is no need for them to spend a lot of effort to train them.
Up to now, among the scientific researchers recruited by Zhiren Company and Qingye Group, 3,225 are from Southeast Asia and 5,206 are from China.
What is the most valuable thing in the 21st century? Talent!
What is the least valuable thing in the 21st century? Talent!
With the support of two world-class talent training pools, Southeast Asia and China, how could Zhiren Company possibly lack scientific research workers?
