Half a day later.
Hannibal pushed the equipment containing the artificial endometrium and followed Chen Chen to an unlabeled laboratory on the sixth floor.
Unlike other laboratories, this laboratory was not labeled for any purpose. There was only a red sign.
The top of the sign was marked with "Restricted Area", and the bottom was marked with "Experimental Site, Unauthorized Persons Not Allowed".
"Boss."
“Boss。”
Beside the alloy door of the laboratory, there were already two young men in white lab coats waiting there.
Both of them were around twenty-four or twenty-five years old. One of them looked like a Jew and had specially decorated his lab coat with tassels. The other seemed to be Chinese or East China Sea.
Chen Chen nodded and said to the three of them, "You'll be partners for the time being."
"Hello." Hannibal immediately stepped forward and shook hands with the two of them.
"Hello, I'm Horowitz von Neumann, European, Biology Department of Cambridge."
"I'm Li Lei. I'm from China, a senior at Princeton."
"I'm Hannibal Caesar, North America's Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but I've dropped out..."
Among the three of them, one was an introverted Chinese and the other was a Jew with a strong sense of right and wrong. Hannibal seemed to be the most normal. The three of them briefly introduced themselves and went back to silence.
Chen Chen ignored them and looked at the camera above him. In just a few seconds, after the camera verified Chen Chen's iris identity, the alloy door immediately opened.
"Come in."
After entering the laboratory, Chen Chen looked back at Hannibal and the others who were standing at the door in a daze and immediately urged them.
"Oh, okay... Boss."
The three of them entered.
When they entered the laboratory, they noticed that it was unusually spacious. It was several times larger than the previous laboratory. More importantly, they had never noticed the existence of this laboratory before.
"It's just a very common application of spatial illusion."
Chen Chen said lightly, then directly pushed out several cylindrical devices from the side.
Hannibal looked up and saw that these cylindrical devices were about thirty centimeters in diameter and about a meter tall. The entire body was made of tempered glass. Only the base and top were made of metal and the inside was empty.
"These are..." The three of them looked at these devices and only felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
"Familiar, right?"
Chen Chen seemed to be testing them. "I think you've seen it in sci-fi movies."
"A culture chamber for clone growth!?" Upon hearing Chen Chen's explanation, Li Lei's heart skipped a beat and he exclaimed in surprise.
"That's right. These are all specially designed based on my inspiration from sci-fi movies. However, I prefer another name: Life Incubator."
Chen Chen patted the device, which produced a series of thumping sounds. Then, he took out another incubator. "There are five human embryos in here, which have entered the embryo sac state. I think with your wisdom, you should know what to do next."
The three of them were shocked. Without hesitation, they rushed forward and looked into the incubator.
"It's already been fourteen days?"
Hannibal muttered under his breath, "I need a micromanipulator to implant these human embryos into the artificial endometrium. At the same time, I also need minerals, urea, uric acid, creatinine, glucose, amylase and so on to synthesize amniotic fluid..."
"And these must be completed before the embryo consumes all the nutrients in the yolk. Otherwise, the embryo may die from lack of nutrients," John added.
"But what next? The blood supply in the artificial endometrium can't support the embryo's growth at all, right? "Li Lei asked with some uncertainty.
"Fourteen weeks."
Chen Chen raised a finger and answered, "Fourteen weeks is the estimated time because the fetus will have formed the umbilical cord and placenta by then. Once the umbilical cord is formed, there's no need for the intervention of the endometrium.
"At that time, we can use the artificial lung oxygenator to connect the blood vessels on the umbilical cord of the fetus and directly deliver oxygen. At the same time, inorganic salts, vitamins, fats, proteins, and other substances needed for growth will be delivered into the fetus."
"These operations are very difficult. I'm afraid it'll be difficult to complete." Hannibal pondered for a moment with a troubled expression.
The way he saw it, this method was too idealistic. The method of simulating an intrauterine environment was extremely difficult and complicated to begin with. The probability of success was extremely low.
"Don't worry about this. At this point, someone will be able to complete it."
Chen Chen said meaningfully.
It was true that simulating an intrauterine environment was still difficult with current technology, especially the supply of nutrients. It was not something that could be completed by human effort.
However, Chen Chen did not have this problem. Humans could not do it, but it did not mean that artificial intelligence could not do it.
As early as a few days ago, Chen Chen had carved out a piece of land inside the research center, built a factory, and purchased thousands of servers.
After that, Chen Chen moved Little X from the Mainland to this place.
Not only that, but to solve the communication problem, Chen Chen had built a macro base station out of his own pocket when he was building the research center to ensure the wireless network.
With Little X's ability to macro-control 24 hours a day, it was only a matter of time before the correct cultivation method was found after a few more experiments and enough data models were established.
Moreover, the equipment in the laboratory was custom-made in Switzerland. Every piece of equipment here could be connected to the network, allowing Little X to operate it freely.
Therefore, as long as these three did not make any mistakes, Chen Chen did not have to consider the possibility of failure.
"Oh right."
Chen Chen suddenly reminded them, "The purpose of cultivating the cloned embryos is not to give birth to them, nor do I want them to become real life, understand?"
"Then, what do you mean?" The three of them looked up when they heard this.
"A targeted inhibitor serotonin."
Chen Chen took out a piece of paper and wrote down the chemical's molecular formula. After that, he looked at the three of them solemnly. "The embryos injected with this inhibitor serotonin will have their brain development inhibited, but their physical development will not be inhibited."
The three of them immediately realized that Chen Chen had referred to these cloned embryos as "it".
"I understand, this is indeed the best choice."
Li Lei and John nodded. The embryonic brain did not develop, so naturally, it would not form consciousness.
Even if a brain was developed, it would not form self-awareness during the fetal period, but Chen Chen's method was undoubtedly more humane.
This was because to humans, they were just empty shells with flesh and blood but no brain.
Although Hannibal did not care about these things, Chen Chen was his boss after all, so he still had to listen to Chen Chen.
After giving all these instructions, Chen Chen delegated the authority of the laboratory to the three of them, then turned around and left the laboratory.
These three were all geniuses in the biology field, and they were also the candidates that Chen Chen planned to recruit into God's Forbidden Zone. Now that Chen Chen's company was growing in scale, there was not enough time for him to do experiments bit by bit, so it was important to train some successors.
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