California.

Rocky Mountains to the east.

Inside an underground nuclear bunker built in the last century, the underground nuclear bunker underwent a comprehensive modernization two years ago.

The underground base is hidden under a rock formation hundreds of meters thick. Nuclear bunkers like this were built in the last century, and there were no less than dozens of them in the Rocky Mountains alone.

Many large companies have also launched doomsday shelters business and created a large number of doomsday shelters.

Even if major consortiums develop such defensive facilities, they still adhere to the greed of capitalists and take the opportunity to harvest the wealth of middle-class and small and medium-sized rich people.

However, this underground base number 157 has been modernized and is a private place for a large consortium. Since half a year ago, a large number of supplies, equipment and personnel have been stationed here.

The cool architectural style is very quiet inside the underground base. The person in charge of the base is a blonde middle-aged man.

He put on protective clothing, passed through layers of disinfection areas, and finally came to the minus 18th floor underground, which was filled with a slightly pungent smell, which was the smell of special disinfectant gas.

The assistant beside him whispered: "The head of the Hall base, Dr. Duke and Dr. Sofia are in the K5 area."

Hall, expressionlessly walked through several areas and came to K5 on the minus 18th floor.

After entering the K5 area, there are dense "big jars" inside. Large cylindrical jars stand up in the hall. The surfaces of these jars are silver-gray alloy material, with several transparent windows on them. The radius of the jar is 0.8 meters and the height is 1.6 meters.

Various unknown lines and pipes are connected to the large jar. Through the transparent window, you can see that it is filled with translucent light blue liquid.

From time to time, a string of bubbles emerged from the light blue liquid. In the liquid, there seemed to be a hazy figure, which was only the size of a football.

The person Hall was about to meet was right in front of a jar, a man and a woman. Both of them were wearing white protective suits, as if they were arguing about something in a low voice.

Hearing the footsteps, the middle-aged male researcher turned his head and found Hall and the other two.

"Doctor, what's going on?"

Dr. Duke is a slightly fat Mediterranean, with only indifference left in his eyes: "The first batch of embryos have different degrees of genetic defects, and I have all destroyed them."

"Where is the second batch?" Hall also had no emotional fluctuations.

Duke pointed to the hundreds of cans in front of him: "173 unqualified ones were eliminated, and only 127 were left. The specific situation needs to be observed for a while."

Hearing this data, Hall said with some dissatisfaction: "You can cultivate a batch of finished products as soon as possible, and perhaps our future will be in them."

Dr. Sofia, who seemed a little unbearable, opposed: "The Hall base is long, and we have not tested the accurate expression genes. We are too hastily cultivated and adjusted babies. There may be many genetic defects in these babies!"

"Doctor! Science is sacrificed!" Hall retorted coldly.

"NO! If so, I refuse..."

Before Sophia could refuse, Hall rudely interrupted the other party: "Doctor, don't forget the contract you signed, you have no choice."

"..." Sofia regrets it very much now. She said she had invited her to do a research project for artificial uterus. She has been working on related projects over the years, so she agreed to the invitation.

But after coming here, she discovered that the research project here is not just a simple artificial uterus, but a genetically adjusted baby cultivation.

Duke, the chief researcher in charge of the project, is notoriously unscrupulous in the industry. He was arrested by the FBI in 2008 for illegal research on test tube babies and sentenced to 57 years in prison at that time.

Sophia didn't expect to meet each other here.

But it was too late now, and she knew too much. If she refused to continue research, she would definitely not be able to leave here alive, and even her family would be implicated.

Sophia underestimated the evil of human nature. She hated her weakness and incompetence and turned embryos and babies into experimental products with her own hands.

Ignoring the regretful Sophia, Hall asked indifferently: "If you increase the scale, how long will it take for you to measure the specific purpose of the gene?"

Dr. Duke thought for a while: "It is still too few to cultivate 300 embryos at a time. It is best to increase it by 10 times. Previous generations of experimental products will definitely have a large number of genetic defects."

"I will report to the board of directors. You can come up with some results as soon as possible, so that everyone can get a job." Hall reminded at the end.

"Don't worry! As long as there are enough samples, we can quickly screen out the corresponding gene sequence." Duke nodded.

As the head of a scientific research project, Duke naturally understands some unspoken rules. If he cannot come up with some results and makes major consortiums feel hopeful, then the project will sooner or later be cool.

For the cultivation of gene-edited babies, the more experimental products, the better, so that the specific purpose of the gene sequence can be determined.

As for the consequences of those experimental subjects during the process, Duke didn't care at all. In his eyes, there was not much difference between people and pigs, cattle and sheep.

Since humans can obtain the customized version of the creatures they need through gene editing, cloning sheep, pigs and mice.

Humans themselves can do the same, but the scientific community is still somewhat concerned and dare not do gene editing experiments casually, fearing that they will pollute the human gene pool.

However, under the oppression of the New Cold War, major consortiums discovered that their advantages were quickly lost and tended to be completely surpassed by the East.

For these high-ranking people, being suppressed by the rusty buns they looked down upon before was absolutely something they could not tolerate.

In order to gain the advantage, major North American consortiums had to take the lead and formulated various plans, including seizing the moon and Mars, developing space weapons, super-directed viruses, gene editing people, etc.

Among them, although the gene editing human project cannot affect strategic advantages in a short period of time, it has a great impact on the future.

At the end of last year, the consortium and various major families, emerging capital, reorganized the Masonic, Skeleton and Bohemian Club and formed the Noah Club.

The strategic think tank of the Noah Society analyzed the current situation and believed that North America had lost the opportunity to fight to the death and was very likely to repeat the long-term confrontation situation in the last century.

Judging from the current situation, the analysis of the strategic think tank is in line with expectations.

If you cannot win in a short period of time, Noah will have to prepare for the future, so it becomes particularly important to develop into outer space and enhance his own strength.

If gene editing can be used to cultivate high IQ offspring, or gene editing can make the adjusters immune to a certain virus, they may be able to turn defeat into victory.

As for this process, those poor experimental samples, in the view of Noah, were just necessary sacrifices.

To win, they can do whatever it takes.

What's more, Noah has another concern, if they don't study gene editing and their opponents are secretly researching, they will be even more behind.

Noah, who has the idea of ​​being persecuted, has a very simple idea. I have done this, and my opponent must have done this too.

Therefore, they continue to increase their investment in this area. In this secret base, a large number of gene-edited embryos and babies are just the tip of the iceberg.
Chapter completed!