"G-Good day, everyone," a thin male researcher said as he walked up to the podium. He wore black-rimmed glasses and a red-and-brown plaid shirt, and greeted the audience stiffly. "My name is Andrew Tuke. I'm a genetic technology engineer, and the paper I'll be presenting today is titled A Few Thoughts on the Path by Which Wizards Become Gods."
"As a genetic engineer, almost the very moment the director—meaning Murphy—mentioned the word 'evolution,' I realized that the word itself was a path toward immortality and omniscience and omnipotence."
"The evolution the director spoke of is different from evolution in the biological sense. It refers to what we commonly understand in the humanistic sense: the individual becoming better and stronger."
"Broken down into easier-to-understand terms, that means greater strength, greater speed, a longer lifespan, higher intelligence, and so on."
"Originally, some of these attributes contradicted one another. For example, for ordinary mammals, greater strength means more muscle, and more muscle means greater body weight, which in turn leads to a corresponding decrease in agility."
"In fact, the human body is an intricate structure that has undergone a considerable degree of optimization. The vast majority of redundant components have already been eliminated over the course of evolution."
"If we want to possess the strength of a bear, we will inevitably move slowly. If we want to fly like an eagle, we must shed more than half our weight. And if we want to continue increasing our intelligence, faster thinking requires greater energy metabolism, which may cause us to age more quickly."
"It is extremely difficult to comprehensively strengthen our bodies through purely biological means."
"Therefore, since the Industrial Age, countless people have believed that the best way to enhance ourselves is to abandon our frail flesh and embrace powerful machinery."
"However, now