Row J human

Chapter 1 Wedges

At the beginning of the 23rd century, the world, which had just entered the new century, was in dire straits.The sky had lost its true color, it was gray, and the sun was blocked by thick smoke, so it couldn't shine in at all.Few people walk on the street, and the street looks very bleak.There is just a look of numbness on most people's faces.The main color of all cities is gray and black, lifeless and dead.

Spherical high-level conference room.

It was already late at night, but the lights on the highest floor were still flickering, and a few figures of dispute could be seen faintly.

"Atmospheric pollution is too serious now, and holes in the ozone layer have appeared, accounting for 42.5%. I am asking the chief to issue remedial measures." A senior official said.

"Didn't we already discuss the solution at the beginning of this century? Why didn't we implement it?!" Vassi slapped the table and roared angrily.He had already been tossed by complicated affairs, and he was very troubled by such small problems.

Only five years into the new century, the problems left over from the last century gradually emerged: air pollution, water pollution, environmental pollution... Each problem is a practical problem, which caught him off guard.But it's useless to roar now, they have no way to resist the power of nature.

The senior official was a little scared, but still said: "The solution is full of loopholes, and its side effects are even more deadly. If we implement it now, the problem will reappear in less than 50 years, even worse than it is now."

Vassi scratched his head a little irritably. In fact, his hair had already fallen out due to long-term and complicated business affairs. However, Vassi would still do this action unconsciously when he was blocked by something: "Call Fass Come here!"

As soon as the words came out, a man's figure appeared in an inconspicuous corner of the large meeting room, and he said, "Sir, please give me instructions."

"I asked you to come up with a solution, why are there so many problems?!"

"Sir, this is the best solution we can get along with now. For the current nature, we have lost the opportunity to make up for it."

At this time, a fat middle-aged man next to him said arrogantly: "The president hopes to solve all the natural problems of video memory immediately, Vassi, is this your work attitude?"

Vassi breathed a sigh of relief, and sat back on the chair again. He turned the chair with his legs crossed, and glared at the middle-aged man. Just to pass on a message.

"How could these problems be solved immediately?" Vassi asked.

The middle-aged man said: "The time given by the president is 50 years."

"50 years?" Vassi smiled contemptuously, "It's too harsh, we can't even complete a single project in such a short period of time."

"Vassie, don't just rely on yourself as the top executive to get ahead," the middle-aged man said angrily, "How can you not do this well in half a century, be careful of the president..."

"Hmph, you are just a messenger, don't always use the president to pressure me." Vasi said indifferently.

"you……"

"Report sir! Several civilians tried to break in, but we have already intercepted them." A young lieutenant interrupted the middle-aged man.

"Civilians?" Vasi smiled, "Are we here to come in whenever we want, watch them."

"Civilians—? You untouchables with no eyesight! We are from the Andre family!" At this moment, a man's voice came from not far from the corridor outside the door.

"Sir, please respect yourself." The two soldiers at the corner of the corridor said expressionlessly.

Hearing the voice, Vassi was a little interested, chuckled and said, "The Andre family..." Then he said to the lieutenant, "Let them in."

"Yes." The lieutenant went out.

The middle-aged man said angrily: "What kind of place is this, you let those civilians in casually?"

Vassi picked up a pen indifferently and turned it slowly: "Maybe these fallen nobles can give us some good advice."

It was only then that the middle-aged man came to his senses: "Andre..."

During the speech, a few people had already walked in, looking arrogant, as if they were trying to show their aristocratic temperament, but with their gray suit with several patches, they looked like clowns.

Although today's nobles have become commoners, relying on themselves for food, clothing, housing and transportation, they have long lost their handsome appearance, dark skin, and calluses on their palms, but Vasi recognized one of them with sharp eyes: "An Andre King who are you?"

The leading young man said arrogantly: "I am his great-great-grandson."

Vassi smiled knowingly: "Yes, I'm honored that my grandfather participated in your father's dismissal ceremony."

The young man immediately twisted his cheeks in anger.

"Tell me about your purpose of trespassing in the conference room." Vassi didn't want to waste time with such a brainless person, even if he won, he didn't have the slightest sense of accomplishment.

Speaking of this, the young man regained his arrogance and said: "It's time for you common people to look up to the nobles."

Vassi didn't pay any attention to it, and a pen hovered over Vassi's fingers as lightly as a hummingbird, and the speed was getting faster and faster.

At this time, a woman walked out from behind the young man. She looked quite aristocratic. She nodded to Vasi and said, "Mr. Vasi, I want to talk to you."

"Talk?" Vassi was playing with a pen, looking at the woman, his eyes flashed.

The middle-aged woman nodded: "I'm Andre? Xiao Anna, the eldest daughter of the Andre family, I want to talk to you alone."

"Oh?" Vasi slowed down the speed of turning the pen, then stood up and said, "Okay."

"Let's talk alone?" the middle-aged man complained, "No, Vassi, you should know how important your position is, and all your actions must be exposed to the president."

Vassi gave the middle-aged man a dissatisfied look, put away the pen, and said lightly: "Here, I am the biggest."

After speaking, he led Xiao Anna into a small conference room.

After Vassi sat down again, he said, "Let's talk about it."

Xiao Anna didn't appear restrained because her dress was out of place in the clean and tidy conference room. On the contrary, she said generously: "We know what your problems are now, although you keep releasing good news to the public, but In fact, you are already strong on the outside.”

"Oh?" Vassi unconsciously took out the pen from his coat pocket and started to spin it again.

"When we were aristocrats, we knew the general direction of the next 100 years, and the natural environment couldn't be worse."

"Now is exactly the 23rd century. If this century passes, you will lose your bargaining chips." Vassi said a nonsensical remark.

Xiao Anna said: "Believe it or not. The current environmental situation makes you feel overwhelmed, you are at a loss, and the plan to save the natural environment has repeatedly failed, so do you want to listen to our solution?"

"Your solution?" There was a trace of disdain in Vasi's eyes.

The anger of being underestimated flashed in Xiao Anna's eyes, but then sank into the vast ocean, she said: "When we were nobles, we raised a group of scientists. At that time, my grandfather was very worried about the future natural environment, so He started a program called 'HDS'."

"HDS?" Vassi put away the pen, and no longer had that indifferent look. He crossed his hands, propped his chin, and carefully observed Xiao Anna's slightest demeanor.

"'HDS' = HiddenDangersSolutions (Potentially Dangerous Solutions). At that time, my grandfather knew that the future natural environment was beyond the control of human beings, so he proposed an idea: do not change nature, but change yourself."

"Do you want to change yourself?" Vassi vaguely felt that it was a huge plan.

"Yes, human beings have weak body resistance and low physical fitness, and they cannot be compared with nature at all. My grandfather wanted to invest a large amount of money to allow scientists to change the gene sequence to improve human quality, so that human beings can Survive in harsh natural environments."

"Change the gene sequence?!" Vassi opened his pupils wide, looking very incredible, "How is this possible? It is not an exaggeration to fill a room with a person's gene sequence, not to mention that the gene sequence between people is fundamentally different. If you want to change the sequence of genes, you must first understand them, which is really a huge project."

"Yes, but the identity of human genes is 99.9%. As early as the 21st century, some people have done experiments in this area. HGP (Human Genome Project), they want to use about 3×109 nucleotides of human genome DNA We can get a lot of useful information from it, and coupled with the rapid development of science in the next century, we can do it." Xiao Anna said.

"Then did you succeed?"

"We succeeded," Xiao Anna said. "We invested extraordinary manpower and material resources in this project, which took as long as a century."

"Is it?"

"We found someone to test it, and the result was the same as expected."

"Then how can you guarantee that people all over the world are the same? Do you think it's a cold medicine, common to the public?" Vassi said.

"If you take this potion, we guarantee that it will be effective for anyone." Xiao Anna said.

"You promise?" Vasi said with a look of disdain.

"Sir, are you disbelieving me?" Xiao Anna said, "But your time is running out now, you have nowhere to go."

"Threat me?" Vassi narrowed his eyes dangerously.

"I didn't threaten you," Xiao Anna said directly, "It's just that if you act according to your method, the final result will definitely be a wall."

"Are you so confident?" Vasi said, "But I am responsible to everyone."

"You can trust me."

"This kind of thing is not up to me alone." Vasi leaned on the back of the chair and said.

"Then what are you going to do?"

"I will tell other senior officials about this plan and vote for it at that time." Vassi said slowly.

In addition to the small conference room, Xiao Anna breathed a sigh of relief and wiped off the dense layer of sweat on her forehead.Vasi glanced at Xiao Anna, but said nothing.

The fat middle-aged man was walking towards him. He was obviously very dissatisfied with the secret conversation between the two of them: "Why did you come out now?"

"I thought you always wanted me to disappear." Vasi returned to the round table meeting.

A senior official said: "What are you talking about?"

Vasi said: "Ms. Xiao Anna just talked to me about a plan to change the status quo."

Hearing this, all the senior officials present did not believe it.

Xiao Anna and those people sat on the sofa beside them, bowed their heads and said nothing, but the young man was very annoyed at their distrust.

"What's the plan? Let's hear it, sir."

"Before the Andre family fell, their family researched a medicine that can make human beings more physically fit and able to survive in difficult environments."

"Oh—" There was a sigh below.

Several officials said contemptuously: "What are they doing? Their era has long passed, and they are still talking big here."

"Is this the arrogance that nobles can never get rid of?"

"Are you kidding, how could there be such a potion."

Vassi made a quiet gesture and said, "Ms. Andre Xiao Anna, please come up and talk about her theory."

The next hour was given to Xiao Anna. Xiao Anna received aristocratic education since she was a child, and she remained calm when faced with various difficulties from officials.After finishing speaking, the middle-aged man's face changed slightly: "Perhaps, I can ask the president for instructions."

"Today's meeting ends here. Please consider Miss Xiao Anna's suggestion."

In the past few days, the entire spherical building has been shrouded in an atmosphere of restlessness.Xiao Anna's suggestion was indeed unexpected, and this kind of empathy is also heart-warming, but if there are any problems left by such a bold act of modifying human genes, they naturally cannot escape the responsibility.

A fat middle-aged man appeared on the clean and shiny floor, and he took the elevator to the top floor of the spherical building.

"What's the matter, sir?" asked the secretary.

"I'm Lannock, I have something to see Vassi."

"Ok."

After getting permission, Rannock went in.Vassi sat on a chair with his back to him, looking at the scenery outside the floor-to-ceiling windows.

Lannock placed the box in his hand on Vassi's desk with a "clack" and said, "The president has approved it. This is a document, waiting for your signature."

Vassi turned to face Lannock and raised his eyebrows: "The president really approved it?"

"He didn't dare to joke about the lives of the people." Rannock looked a little upset.

"Oh? What makes him so confident?"

"The president drank the potion." Lannock whispered.

Vassi's heart skipped a beat: "Your President is really bold."

"Hurry up and sign, I'll go back to work after signing." Lannock urged impatiently.

"I won't sign it," Vassi said.

"What? How dare you refute what the President said?" Rannock's eyes widened.

"I want to vote on this matter." Vasi said.

"Voting? It will be delayed again and again. Now the situation is in dire straits, and you are not allowed to play any tricks. As long as you sign, we will get the prescription from their gang of nobles and manufacture this kind in large quantities. Give the people the potion to drink, and then all difficulties will be solved."

"Oh?"

"I'm just relaying what the president meant."

"Really? I always thought that you would only exaggerate the meaning of the president." Vassi stood up and said to the secretary, "Prepare for a voting meeting."

"Yes."

"Wait a minute, call Ms. Xiao Anna too."

After the meeting, Vasi gave a brief explanation and began to vote.

All the officials seemed to be in a dilemma, not knowing which one to choose. Afterwards, people in twos and threes moved their hands and pressed down on the voting device in front of them.

Xiao Anna has been very calm since she came in, and Vassi could not help but look at her more.

After everyone had made their choice, Vassi said with a smile: "This vote is a real-name vote, and you should be responsible for your own choices."

The officials were taken aback, and one of them said, "The real-name system? In the past, voting was done anonymously. How can it be like this?"

"I just want the people to know who to settle accounts with in the end, and don't splash ink on the glass of my house." Vasi said.

The computer sorted it out, and there was no ups and downs in the voice, and he read dryly: "17 invalid tickets, 108 valid tickets..."

Hearing the end, Vassi's face changed slightly, and with a final wave, the meeting ended.