Luo Yuan's order was carried out well. Everyone in the lab stopped what they were doing and moved all the documents from the archives to Luo Yuan's office.
Although many researchers reacted negatively and were full of dissatisfaction, no one dared to turn a deaf ear to his orders when he was in the limelight.
Moreover, he was the deputy director of the Firearms Bureau, the most powerful supernatural creature in the Reconstruction Area. As a biological lab that could easily attract the disgust of evolved humans, everyone was worried.
Researchers were precious to the Reconstruction Area, but it depended on who they were compared to. Perhaps ordinary evolved humans were just research subjects in their eyes, but that did not include the deputy director of the Firearms Bureau. Although they did not know much about it, the unusual administrative order that allowed an outsider to take over the key genetic lab of the country and allowed him to do whatever he wanted was enough to show how important it was.
Luo Yuan's office was not small, it was about 50 square meters. However, after all the documents were moved into the office, it was still so crowded that it was difficult to walk around.
Luo Yuan thanked them and closed the office door after everyone had left.
He did not care if they were secretly dissatisfied with him. The scientific research field had its own circle, which was closed and exclusive.
No matter how polite he was, no one would be satisfied with an outsider without any qualifications or achievements to take over the entire lab. If that was the case, it would be better to give him a high-handed order. As long as he did not cause any trouble, it would be fine.
After pouring himself a cup of tea, he began to read through the pile of documents.
His 15 points of Intelligence allowed him to read ten lines at a glance. He had a photographic memory, which made him extremely efficient.
However, most of the documents were useless to Luo Yuan. He threw them aside after a few glances. For example, there was a newly discovered gene splicing method in one of the papers, or a mutation of a certain virus that caused its infectivity to disappear.
Through these documents and papers, Luo Yuan realized that the genetic research in the Reconstruction Area did not have any breakthrough as compared to the apocalypse. The research direction was still like looking for a needle in a haystack. Everything depended on luck as there was no way to directly edit genes.
To Luo Yuan who could directly observe and perform subtle operations, this method of searching for a specific enzyme to cut the gene fragments and transfer them to the recipient cells through circular DNA was a waste of time and energy. It was so inefficient that it felt like he had just entered the Stone Age.
As long as he was willing, he could change any cell or virus gene in an instant to be unrecognizable.
Of course, not all the information was useless. The accumulated knowledge of human genetics and the judgment of some of the functions of the genome were relatively clear. There were a total of three billion bases in the human race and 98% of them were invalid DNA fragments. The remaining 2% was about 30,000 genomes. Among the 30,000 genomes, 50% of them had been confirmed by the reconstruction area. This saved Luo Yuan a lot of time to filter them.
Otherwise, it would be a huge project for Luo Yuan to figure out the function of these base pairs behind closed doors.
Of course, these genomes with clear functions were not completely accurate. The lagging observation and operation precision, as well as the lack of comparison experiments, made this kind of judgment rather vague and full of uncertainty. It was only approximate.
Through the information, Luo Yuan realized that the 98% of the invalid DNA fragments were not completely useless. Some of the evolved people's genes were mutated from these regions that were invalid to ordinary people. He had to verify these one by one.
However, human cloning was already very complete. Through the preparation of nutrient solution that was rich in active energy, an artificial embryo could grow into a baby within 10 days and a three-year-old within a month. After the nutrient solution was removed, the intelligence and physique of the cloned human would be no different from an ordinary human being. Due to being exposed to active energy since young, the quality of the cloned human was slightly better than that of a normal human being.
It was almost noon. Luo Yuan glanced at the last stack of documents, threw it aside and stood up.
He walked out of the door and knocked on the door of Professor Fei's office.
"Get everyone to the human cloning cultivation area."
Professor Fei dared not delay and immediately went to inform everyone. A few minutes later, more than 200 people from the laboratory arrived at the cultivation area. Luo Yuan did not expect there to be so many people in the laboratory. When he arrived at the cultivation area, Luo Yuan realized that it was indeed necessary to have so many people.
The entire cultivation area was huge and spacious. It covered an area of about 10,000 square meters. The entire area was densely packed with cultivation cabins. At a glance, there were more than 30,000 of them.
These cultivation cabins were not empty. Most of them had fetuses floating in them. Some of them were just embryos.
Looking at the floating fetuses twitching and wriggling, an ordinary person would have been scared out of their wits.
Seeing that Luo Yuan was stunned, Professor Fei was worried that he would misunderstand. He quickly explained, "Minister Luo, these are not experimental materials. We, the researchers, have a conscience. Even if we need to use them, there is no need to use so many of them, right?"
Someone coughed a few times.
Professor Fei quickly laughed and said, "Don't misunderstand, I was just saying. Biological research is like this. It is both a laboratory and a factory. The only difference is that this factory produces human beings. "
Professor Fei said humorously and continued to explain, "You know that the population of the reconstruction area is decreasing every month. The efficiency of natural reproduction is low. Cloning is the best way to replenish the population. Our laboratory has a monthly quota for the cultivation of human clones. So far, we have cultivated 250,000 clones. Don't worry, the cloned genes are from dead people. There will be no …"
"Alright, you don't have to explain!" Luo Yuan stopped him and said, "How many of the empty cultivation cabins are there now?"
"Professor Guan is in charge of the cultivation area. Let him explain to you!" Professor Fei was the main person in charge of the laboratory. He was in charge of the overall situation. He would not pay attention to such small details.
"About 5,000, but the next batch will be cultivated soon …" Professor Guan pushed his thick glasses and said.
"Cancel it!" Luo Yuan interrupted him and said, "The next batch of clones will not be cultivated anymore."
"But, the quota …" Professor Guan seemed to want to say something, but he was pulled back by Professor Fei. He quickly reacted and felt resentful. What was the point of mentioning the quota now? The entire laboratory had already been given away by the higher-ups. He could do whatever he wanted. Now, he could only hope that he would get bored of playing for a while and be kind enough to let this unlucky laboratory go.
Luo Yuan found it funny when he saw Professor Guan's face turn red, but he did not bother to explain.
"Are there any evolved humans among the clones?" Luo Yuan continued to ask after Professor Guan calmed down.
"Some of them. However, evolved humans have a strong physique. It takes a long time to cultivate them and they consume a lot of nutrients. There are less than 100 of them. Most of them are ordinary people." Although Professor Guan was still angry, he did not dare to offend Luo Yuan.
"How many human genes and egg cells have been collected in this laboratory?" Luo Yuan hinted at him. Egg cells were a necessary carrier for cloning. The number of egg cells determined the number of clones.
"There are about 100,000 of them. 5,000 of them are from evolved humans and only 30,000 are egg cells. However, if there is a shortage, we can get them from the hospital. Many people have donated them." Professor Guan, who was an ordinary person, could not resist the hint and answered honestly.
"Is there special information about the person from whom the cells were collected? For example, there are photos and such?"
"This project is too big. Ordinary people do not have them, but there are some evolved human cells!"
Luo Yuan was slightly disappointed. He was not in a hurry to study the evolved humans. His current goal was to study the genes of ordinary people. Cutting firewood was like sharpening a knife. As long as he thoroughly studied the genes of ordinary humans and compared them with the genes of the evolved humans, he would be able to figure out how to improve his physical fitness.
However, even if he did not have the information, it would only be a little troublesome and a waste of time.
He looked at the cultivation chamber that cost more than 30,000. He was afraid that he would have to work hard here.
...
These days, other than going back to Hope City at night, Luo Yuan spent most of his time in the laboratory. He did not even go to the Firearms Bureau often. As time passed, the clones that he had cultivated previously had been sent out. They were all replaced with the specific embryos that Luo Yuan had selected.
All the embryos came from the same recipient.
Only a few of them were used as controls. The rest of the embryos were slightly modified. There were 30,000 cultivation chambers that corresponded to about 30,000 human genomes.
The genes that were modified were from ordinary people. The corresponding genes could be found in the gene bank. There were 100,000 samples of ordinary human genes, covering almost all the common human gene variants. Through a large number of experiments, he gradually determined the function of each group of genes.
After confirming the function of the genome, he gradually changed the base pairs of the genome. As Luo Yuan changed the genome more and more, it was inevitable that a variety of deformed babies were born. These deformed babies were analyzed and studied. After collecting a large amount of data, they were destroyed before they could fully grow. Although it was a little cruel, it was a hurdle that science had to overcome.
During the experiment, there were a lot of results. At the same time, the attitude of the researchers towards Luo Yuan changed day by day. In the beginning, they were reluctant and had a negative attitude towards Luo Yuan. Now, they were excited and willing to work without complaint. Their attitude towards Luo Yuan had changed drastically.
Everyone had an indescribable excitement on their faces. As the clones were cultivated into babies, the functions of the genes were confirmed and the understanding of the genes was gradually accurate to the effect of the changes of each base pair.
The mystery of human genes was gradually revealed to them.
With the passage of time, the results of the experiment had spread and attracted the attention of the Reconstruction Area. With the involvement of the government, a large number of researchers had joined the project. At the same time, the cultivation area of the laboratory had been expanded. All the areas near the laboratory had been emptied and opened up. Many cultivation pods had been placed there, and the number of cultivation pods had reached 1.5 million.
However, Luo Yuan did not care about it. The more resources he used, the faster his progress was.
His research process began to accelerate abruptly.
In just two months, the analysis of the genes of ordinary people and evolved humans had been completed.
Luo Yuan began to clone himself. At this point, he had a thorough understanding of the genes. He knew the function of each genome and the effect of the base pair changes. In order to prevent countless humans who looked like Luo Yuan in the future, he made some minor adjustments to the genes of the cells used for cloning. For example, skin color, face shape, height and even gender.
Luo Yuan stood in the passage of the cultivation area and looked at the millions of cultivation pods in front of him. There were small embryos in them that were slowly dividing and growing.
Luo Yuan, who had been staying in the laboratory for a long time, was gradually getting excited. With the start of cloning himself, the human body modification project had officially started!
Besides Luo Yuan's own genes, these embryos were also transplanted with various superpower genes.
These superpowers were not limited to the original 5,000 in the laboratory. With the investment of resources in the Reconstruction Area, the number of superpowers had reached a staggering 200,000. Basically, most of the evolved humans in the Reconstruction Area were included. Luo Yuan found the genes of Xu Zhiqiang, Ling Zhong-an and even himself.
There were also more unknown evolved humans. Although they were not strong and were unknown, some of their abilities made Luo Yuan envious.
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