"It couldn't have been a coincidence." Peter looked at the data on the screen. "Some force affected gene expression, causing humans to undergo a special secondary evolution. I think it may have been a curse that only worked on specific genes."
"Like black skin?" Miles asked.
Peter shook his head. "Of course not. Targeting skin color would be meaningless, and everyone present at the time was Black. There would have been no reason for it to specifically be those two. This technology itself probably has limitations. It needs to select people carrying particular genetic markers in order to work."
"What do you know about the Aerial Factory Plan?" Stark turned and asked.
Neither Peter nor Miles knew exactly whom he was asking, but Peter spoke first. "That plan definitely won't work."
"Why not?"
"Otherwise, China would have done it." Peter said, "They have a larger population than us, while their per-capita living space and farmland are both relatively limited. If airspace could be utilized, it would greatly increase everyone's living space."
"If something this beneficial to people's livelihoods had no drawbacks, they would definitely do it. Even if it had some minor flaws, they would first implement it on a small scale. An undertaking like this couldn't be kept secret once it started. Since we haven't heard a thing, it must not exist."
"Where would the problem be?" Miles scratched his head. "The plan looks pretty feasible to me. There doesn't seem to be any major issue. Put all the factories high in the sky, and there won't be any ground pollution. Isn't that a good thing?"
"Factories will inevitably produce pollution." Peter said. "The question is where we discharge it. When factories are on the ground, pollution is either discharged underground, into water systems, or into the air.
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