"Of course there's a connection. In fact, this plan has been underway all along. Or rather, the technology has existed for some time. It just isn't mature yet, or the cost is far too high!
That's why only a tiny handful of people in this world know about it. They've undergone surgery and taken Medicine to alter their genes and extend their lives..."
Tang Changsheng understood at once. That tiny handful of people could only be the wealthy and powerful, the ones who controlled vast resources!
"Then why keep it secret?" Ling Xiaoyu asked, puzzled.
Arabella gave a bitter smile. "It's human nature to love life and fear death. Other things might be different, but if word of this got out, who knows how many desperate people would throw caution to the wind..."
She did not spell it out, but Ling Xiaoyu understood in an instant.
It was true. Before this technology existed, everyone had been equal in the face of death, rich or poor, wise or foolish, highborn or lowly...
But now only those with money and power could be exceptions. They had found a back door around death...
Who knew how much Qiang resentment that would provoke!
Ling Xiaoyu thought in silence, angry and heartsick.
Tang Changsheng, however, asked calmly, "So Alina must have undergone this surgery? What happened at the Glass Palace was a side effect?"
Arabella smiled bitterly. "It isn't that simple... But that's close enough!
The field of genetics is far too profound. It has already touched on the realm of God's creation of life. How could mortal minds unravel it so easily...
Scientists claim to have completely decoded the Genes responsible for longevity. But tug one strand and the whole body moves. Once those Genes have been altered by human intervention,
who can imagine