Gene-Seed

"Super soldiers... the limits of humanity..."

Rebecca, having gradually regained her composure, was whispering to herself as she pondered Sui Bian's words.

"Hmm... actually... Mr. Sui, the company has had a Super Soldier Project ever since we acquired the Progenitor Virus, but the research progress has been extremely slow."

Yet, when Sui Bian brought up the term "super soldier," Birkin, as one of the company's top researchers, was not surprised. On the contrary, the genius doctor wore a troubled expression.

To put it bluntly, Umbrella's Super Soldier Project was merely a research endeavor that Spencer had euphemistically named to mask his desire for immortality and his ambition to evolve into a god.

This project had been running for at least thirty years, yet it had failed to make any breakthrough progress.

If there were any successes, they were limited to the "prodigies" selected from millions, and Albert Wesker was one of them.

Had it not been for Sui Bian's sudden visit, the original plot of the game would have seen Birkin use Wesker's genes to create a Progenitor Virus Beta variant, turning him into a "pseudo-god" of sorts.

Furthermore, the order to create the Progenitor Virus Beta strain had been issued to Birkin by Spencer in secret.

However, individuals like Wesker, who were gifted by nature, were ultimately a rare minority.

The T-Virus, refined from the Progenitor Virus, had stable data across the board, but the human compatibility rate was only one in ten million.

If one were not that one in ten million, the consequence of injecting the T-Virus was becoming a "zombie."

Fortunately, human embryos and fertilized eggs were quite stable when infected with the T-Virus, which allowed for the development of B.O.W.s.

The G-Virus, whose full name was the Golgotha Virus, was a completely different entity from the T-Virus; Birkin even liked to call it the "God Virus."

Once injected, the G-Virus would reconstruct the host at the genetic level, ideally evolving the host into a higher order of existence.

However, the G-Virus was extremely picky about its hosts; if the minimum requirements were not met, the host would simply collapse and die.

If the host barely met the minimum requirements, they would "evolve" in an uncontrollable direction after infection—for better or for worse.

There was another point: the G-Virus could not spread rapidly like the T-Virus.

A host infected with the G-Virus needed to find targets with similar genes to "reproduce," which was why Birkin, infected with the G-Virus in the game, had relentlessly pursued his daughter, Sherry Birkin.

In terms of biological weapon development, the G-Virus was indeed a failure.

But the G-Virus in the game was only in its initial state; Birkin had not yet had the chance to experiment or calibrate it before he was attacked by Hunk and Alpha.

Birkin now understood that while Sui Bian claimed to hope for a Super Soldier Project utilizing the T-Virus, G-Virus, and serum, he was actually pinning his hopes on the G-Virus.

After a pause, Birkin spoke to Sui Bian with concern: "Mr. Sui, the G-Virus is currently the most likely path to creating something that transcends human limits, but its current state is completely uncontrollable.

Even if we have a compatible host for the G-Virus, mass production remains an issue, because the continuation of the G-Virus requires people with similar genes—that is, relatives...

However, I will do my best to perfect this."

Seeing Birkin looking so distressed, Sui Bian crossed his arms and said, "Actually, Doctor, I can provide you with a brand-new line of thinking."

"Oh? I wonder what good advice Mr. Sui might have?" Birkin asked with great interest.

"Doctor, I studied the company's cloning technology some time ago. It seems that while the clones have significant defects in intelligence and cognition, their genes and physical qualities are almost entirely inherited from the original, correct?" Sui Bian countered.

"Yes, that is correct." Birkin nodded slightly without denial.

Umbrella's cloning technology was inherited from the Soviet Union, yet among the many clone test subjects, only Sergei's clone possessed the intelligence to follow orders.

The brain was indeed the most mysterious organ of the human body; even if a clone's brain was nearly identical to the original's, their thinking and intelligence were worlds apart.

"Then, Doctor, I would like you and Officer Chambers to use my blood to refine the serum, and at the same time, I want you to use my blood to create clones and use those clones for G-Virus experiments. How about that?" Sui Bian suggested calmly.

"This... that is absolutely no problem! It is very doable, very doable indeed!" Birkin naturally would not refuse such a golden opportunity.

Setting aside his status as the company's chairman and boss, Sui Bian had always been an excellent experimental subject in Birkin's eyes; it was only out of concern for his own safety and that of his family that Birkin had never proposed cloning him.

"Cloning yourself for experiments... uh..." Rebecca, on the other hand, shivered all over, as if she found it hard to accept.

Sui Bian ignored Rebecca's reaction and asked Birkin, "One more thing, Doctor. I wonder if you have ever heard of the concept of 'Gene-Seed'."

"Gene... Seed?" Birkin repeated, his brow furrowed.

"???" Rebecca had never even heard of such a concept.

Seeing this, Sui Bian did not intend to act mysterious and explained directly to Birkin, and by extension, the bewildered Rebecca:

"Although the requirements for a G-Virus compatible host are more stringent than those for the T-Virus, there should be quite a few who barely make the cut. The company has built hospitals all over the world and possesses blood samples from nearly six hundred million people.

Among them, the number of male adolescents between the ages of eleven and eighteen is approximately sixty-seven million. We could select those who are barely compatible with the G-Virus from these youths.

At the same time, you should have already conducted a large number of G-Virus experiments using my clones. I want you to search for a specific 'gland' within them.

If this gland truly exists, and we extract it and implant it into these adolescent compatible hosts, then as these youths go through puberty, the gland carrying the G-Virus could slowly and safely transform them.

After they pass through puberty, we could then perform various enhancement surgeries on them, and in this way, they could become beings far superior to humans.

And that 'gland' is the Gene-Seed.

Of course, everything I have just said is merely a perfect hypothesis of mine; even the so-called Gene-Seed might be a non-existent thing, haha."

Sui Bian couldn't help but laugh at the end.

Indeed, the plan he described was far too idealistic.

The G-Virus possessed the potential for infinite evolution and the possibility of making one a god, even utilizing relatives for "reproduction."

For some reason, this made Sui Bian associate it with the "fatherly love and filial piety" of Warhammer 40k.

The Emperor → Primarchs → Astartes.

If the Emperor was a "god" (please firmly believe in the Imperial Truth: the Emperor is not a god), then the Primarchs, as his sons, were "demigods," and the Astartes, as his grandsons, were "angels."

And the way an Astartes could become an angel from an ordinary male youth was by relying on the Gene-Seed passed down from the Primarchs.