Gene-Seed

"Gene-Seed?"

Alexia froze, clearly hearing of this concept for the first time.

"That's right." Sui Yang nodded lightly and said, "The serum refined from my blood simply cannot be used on normal humans. To ordinary people, it is more like a lethal poison.

The most crucial reason Universal Soldiers can adapt to the serum is that they are already dead.

Although the human body retains a certain degree of activity after death, the immune system rapidly fails, thereby preventing rejection and other side effects.

But no matter how well Universal Soldiers are adjusted or perfected, they are ultimately living dead. They possess no independent intelligence, much less any convictions or beliefs. They are merely expendable tools used to deal with superhuman scum or carry out suicidal missions—a type of weapon."

"That is indeed the case..." Alexia did not deny Sui Yang's view and added, "As for Vought International's Compound V... Although we do not currently have a physical sample of Compound V, based on my speculation, it should be a hormone that disrupts genes and triggers the human body's potential.

It is simply too random and cannot be programmed. Otherwise, Vought International would already have thousands upon thousands of Soldier Boys. They would not have built research centers that claimed to be orphanages while actually conducting human experiments on children.

Tch, trash. This kind of research has already betrayed its original purpose. Even if it created a powerful individual like Soldier Boy, its uncontrollability, randomness, severe side effects, and other traits all prove that Compound V is a failure."

Listening to this twenty-three-year-old head of bioengineering, Sui Yang could tell she seemed to look down greatly on Vought and Compound V.

With his hands behind his back, Sui Yang neither commented on Alexia's opinion nor intended to speak in riddles. Instead, he explained to her:

"Compound V was never among my priorities from beginning to end. Previously, you only had my blood and genetic samples. Now, you also have Sanguinius and Roboute, who are directly related to me by blood. More materials and samples mean more possibilities.

So, I want you to use cloning technology to clone bodies of me and the two of them for experimentation, attempting to cultivate a gland carrying genetic information.

Then, select suitable Adaptants aged eight to eleven based on their physiques, genes, and other factors. Implant this gland into their bodies and modify them slowly and safely, allowing their bodies to gradually adapt and acquire self-healing, strength, speed, reflexes, and other abilities far beyond those of ordinary people.

Once these Adaptants pass through puberty and become adults, comprehensive modification surgery can be performed, greatly reducing the mortality rate.

However, according to my projections, by the time the first batch of super soldiers can officially enter the battlefield, the R&D Department led by Dr. Wang should already have developed dedicated powered armor and weapons. Only then can these Adaptants truly be considered super soldiers.

At the same time, the gland will mature twice within the Adaptants, once between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-five, and again between thirty-two and thirty-five. New glands can then be removed from their bodies to implant in and modify more Adaptants.

As more modified Adaptants are created, the number of super soldiers will also increase. That will complete the mass-production stage.

And this is the Gene-Seed I told you about."

Sui Yang paused here, giving Alexia some time to digest his words. After a moment, he continued, "Of course, this is all merely my projection—an assumption."

"No... Boss..." However, after listening to Sui Yang's explanation, Alexia's face went blank. Her left index finger rubbed fiercely at her temple.

!

Suddenly, as if jolted awake, Alexia hurried back to her desk.

She sat down, used the mouse to wake her sleeping computer, created a new document on the desktop, and then began rapidly typing as if inspiration had struck. Her tone was extremely excited as she said:

"Boss! I actually had a very vague idea like this long ago. I was younger then, and it always felt unrealistic, so I cast it aside. But after hearing your hypothesis, I've realized this path has an extremely high chance of success!"

"..."

Seeing Alexia fall into a somewhat frenzied state, Sui Yang, who had turned around, was at a loss for words. He had not expected her to have entertained an idea similar to the Gene-Seed.

However, based on the emotional feedback from his psychic perception, Sui Yang could determine that Alexia was excited for many reasons. The greatest among them was that she had finally encountered a new problem.

After all, for geniuses, completing challenges that the world deemed impossible was immensely tempting. Only then could they demonstrate how exceptional they were compared to ordinary people.

As for the cloning Sui Yang had mentioned, in the world before his transmigration, the first mammal had already been successfully cloned in 1996—the cloned sheep Dolly.

Most major pharmaceutical companies in the Main Universe possessed highly mature cloning technology. Atlas, for instance, had already applied it to the Universal Soldier Project.

Yet whether cloning sheep or humans, all of them faced the problem of "premature aging."

Taking Dolly as an example, sheep generally lived around twelve years, yet by the age of six, Dolly had already been diagnosed with severe lung disease, arthritis, and other symptoms associated with old age.

In the end, after an infection developed in her lungs, researchers euthanized Dolly to ease her suffering.

In contrast, because Atlas had received massive funding from Sui Yang, its Bioengineering Department had achieved breakthroughs in somatic cell nuclear transfer technology. However, the failure rate for cultivating synthetic egg cells remained steady at seventy-seven percent.

Even when embryos were cultivated and artificial wombs were used to successfully "birth" cloned organisms, more than seventy percent of the clones still suffered from severe defects or died prematurely.

Human clones had even more problems.

The difference between humans and animals lay in "intelligence." Cloned sheep could eat and reproduce through biological instinct, while a human clone's physical age matched that of the original donor of the somatic cells, but its "mind" remained at the newborn stage.

Even with education, human clones were still driven by instinct and unable to communicate normally.

After activating the relic and obtaining psychic abilities, Sui Yang discovered that human clones were more like Soulless ones without any self-awareness.

When the Universal Soldier Project was launched, Atlas's Bioengineering Department had used his cells in cloning attempts. Yet without exception, every result was a malformed body, or even a bloody mass of tumor-like flesh.

However, since they were cultivating Gene-Seeds, deformities and flesh tumors did not matter much.

"Waaah~!! Waaah!"

!

At that moment, a burst of loud crying made Sui Yang, who had been about to leave the office to inspect the complex, visibly flinch.

He immediately passed through the automatic sensor door and entered the isolation room.

Arriving between the two cribs, Sui Yang found that both children were awake, with Roboute still producing the most ear-piercing cries.

"Hehe~"

But the moment the two children saw Sui Yang, they immediately broke into delighted smiles and stretched out their chubby little hands, seemingly wanting their father to hold them.

Seeing this, Sui Yang raised his head and instructed Alexia outside the isolation room, "Begin the new Super Soldier Project only after the Universal Soldier Project has been fully completed. There is no need to rush. Also...

Do not attempt to clone the current Sanguinius and Roboute."

(End of Chapter)