No one could resist the temptation of immortality.
It did not matter whether they were tycoons who squandered their money like water, or impoverished refugees, high-ranking officials who wielded power and influence, or ordinary people...
It did not matter whether they were kind, greedy, benevolent, or despicable...
No one could resist the temptation of immortality. This was an animal's instinct, not to mention this group of plutocrats who had endless wealth and could shake the world with a stomp of their feet.
This was the purpose of the existence of God's Forbidden Zone.
To constantly develop new life technology to extend the lifespan of this group of people. In return, these plutocrats who controlled the world would also bring great benefits to God's Forbidden Zone and develop more technology.
There was no need to worry about technology being monopolized by the upper echelons because capital was inhumane. As long as these technologies existed, they would not be permanently controlled by a few people.
Even if the price was high at first and ordinary people could not afford it, capital would still actively find ways to reduce the cost of production so that ordinary people could afford it.
This was not because capital was kind, but because of the pursuit of profit.
After all, capital could only make money when it was affordable for most people.
Many people believed that this would lead to class rigidity, where the rich would always be rich and the ordinary people would be completely cut off from the path of advancement. This concern was unnecessary.
Society was fluid. There was no such thing as a land that could not be maintained for thousands of years, and there was no such thing as eternal wealth. Even in ancient times, there would be changes in the dynasty, not to mention the modern high-tech society that was changing with each passing day.
The fact was, whether society was changing for the better or for the worse, as long as it was still changing, there would always be opportunities for advancement.
These thoughts flashed through Chen Chen's mind. At this time, he saw Musk sitting up on the fully-automated medical platform with a look of surprise and immediately congratulated him. "Congratulations, Mr. Musk. How does it feel to be thirty again?"
"It's amazing..."
Musk got up with a look of shock. He clenched his fists in disbelief, then jumped on the spot, experimenting with his body functions like there was no one else around, like a curious teenager.
The original Musk had taken good care of himself. At fifty-three years old, he looked like he was in his forties. This was due to his strict and self-disciplined work and rest schedule.
However, years of overwork had accumulated many hidden dangers in his body, among which were high blood pressure and diabetes.
Now, however, all of this no longer existed.
Musk walked to the full-body mirror on the wall. He suddenly discovered that his eye bags, wrinkles, and turbidity had all disappeared …
Even his body became taller, and a vitality that he hadn't felt in a long time appeared in his body.
"This repair has increased your lifespan by at least ten years."
Chen Chen stood beside Musk and explained, "The function of this instrument is to optimize and maintain the various functions of your body. This is a type of optimization at the cellular level that directly keeps your body in peak condition."
"Only ten years?"
Musk was taken aback. "Didn't they say that the age-reversal treatment could increase one's lifespan by at least thirty years?"
"This isn't an age-reversal treatment."
Chen Chen suddenly laughed. "The advantage of the age-reversal treatment lies in the replacement of old stem cells with new ones. It continuously optimizes the body, which is why it can increase lifespan by thirty years. Moreover, this increase is only in theory. I'm afraid it's not that significant in reality."
"However, the optimized technology of this fully-automated medical platform can repair the damage to your cells. It's just that this repair is a one-time use, so it's not as effective as the age-reversal treatment. Its real advantage lies in its superposition."
"Superposition?"
Musk immediately understood. "I get it. If I optimize it once a day, does that mean I can obtain a longer lifespan?"
"Yes."
Chen Chen nodded affirmatively. "Once a day is a bit of an exaggeration, but if you do it once a week, in theory, you can easily live past two hundred years, or even three hundred years. Moreover, you can still maintain the appearance and physical functions of a young person until the moment you die of old age."
Musk was immediately tempted. He was about to say something, but Chen Chen immediately shook his head. "Mr. Musk, I know what you want to ask, but I can only regretfully tell you that we won't be selling this machine. In fact, we don't even have the ability to mass-produce it. Would you believe me?"
"If it can't be mass-produced, how did the first fully-automated medical platform appear?"
Musk frowned.
Chen Chen did not answer, only smiled without saying anything.
Seeing this, Musk knew that Chen Chen would not answer, so he did not continue to harp on this issue. Instead, he began to handle the procedures to enter God's Forbidden Zone.
After the procedures were completed, Musk secretly heaved a sigh of relief. He was afraid that Chen Chen would suddenly make some very excessive demands. After all, he was now a fish on the chopping block. If Chen Chen made some excessive demands, it would be very difficult for him to resist.
Fortunately, Chen Chen kept his promise.
At this time, Musk flipped through the statement about God's Forbidden Zone in his hands and the various biotechnologies. He gradually became amazed. Many of these biotechnologies were technologies that had never been seen in the real world. If used on a person, it could easily pull a decrepit old man back from the brink of death and transform him into a middle-aged man full of vitality.
Fortunately, among these technologies, except for the age-reversal treatment technology, the rest had not been announced. Otherwise, Musk believed that the entire Federation would be in a state of turmoil.
"Aren't you afraid that other members of God's Forbidden Zone will leak these secrets?"
Musk asked.
"The God chip will stop them."
Chen Chen said indifferently, "As for the higher-ups who haven't been implanted with the chip, they don't know much. You're a special case."
"I'm a special case?"
Musk immediately understood the meaning of Chen Chen's words. His expression turned cold. "You want to absorb me?"
"No, I just hope that we can become close partners."
Chen Chen shook his head and did not hide anything. "If possible, Blacklight Biotechnology hopes to become a shareholder of SpaceX. Once we join forces, we have a chance to compete with the Earth Federation, even..."
Chen Chen suddenly lowered his voice and a gleam of ambition flashed in his eyes. "Even to seal the Earth Federation in Earth and monopolize this part of the universe!"
The moment he heard this, Musk's pupils instantly shrank. He stared at Chen Chen in disbelief. He was about to say that it was impossible, but when he opened his mouth, he felt his throat dry.
He could not say anything...
He had to admit that Chen Chen's words had moved him.
After that, the two of them did not discuss this issue anymore. Everything was understood without words.
"Alright, we can leave now."
After Musk had completely adapted, Chen Chen spoke again while at the same time, he revealed a mysterious look. "Before we leave, I'd like to invite you to visit our last project. I'm sure this project will interest you..."
With that, he took the lead and walked out.
This time, Chen Chen directly took the elevator of the Spire laboratory and brought Musk to the top of the Spire.
When the elevator door opened, Musk quickly squinted his eyes and subconsciously put his hand in front of his eyes.
This was because there was a sudden flash of white light in front of his eyes.
However, he immediately realized that this flash of white light was extremely gentle, not at all dazzling.
This was a pure white space.
Whether it was the walls, the ceiling, or even the floor, they were all white, a pure and flawless whiteness.
There seemed to be no light source in the entire room, but it was as if the walls and floor were the light source themselves.
In this room, space and distance had lost all meaning. It seemed to be very small, so small that it could be touched, but it also seemed to be very big, so big that it seemed to have no end.
After exiting the elevator, Musk saw this magical scene.
Musk subconsciously looked behind him, only to see that the elevator door was also made of the same wall. As the elevator door closed, the entire elevator seemed to disappear, merging with this magical room.
"What is this place?" Musk asked.
"You'll find out soon enough."
Chen Chen kept Musk in suspense and suddenly snapped his fingers. At once, there was a "squeak" sound on the ground not far away from them.
Musk quickly looked, only to see a pitch-black object rising from the ground.
It was a pitch-black sphere about one meter in diameter without the slightest gap.
In the pure white room, this black sphere was very eye-catching, just like a black hole.
"This is..."
Musk was even more puzzled. He was just about to ask more questions when he suddenly saw a flash of blue light in front of him.
This blue light was extremely abrupt. It only flickered slightly and then disappeared.
"What happened?"
Musk was taken aback and looked at Chen Chen next to him.
However, the moment he saw Chen Chen, his pupils suddenly shrank.
This was because there was a flash of blue light on top of Chen Chen's head. When this blue light flashed by, it happened to fill in half of Chen Chen's head!
Musk quickly rubbed his eyes as if he could not believe it. However, Chen Chen was still standing in the same place, perfectly fine. The scene of half of Chen Chen's head missing seemed to be an illusion.
"No need to make a fuss, Mr. Musk."
Chen Chen smiled faintly. He turned around and pressed against the pure white void behind him again. At once, the door of the elevator opened again.
"Let's go out."
Chen Chen greeted them and walked into the elevator first.
"Didn't we just come in?"
Musk was even more puzzled. He felt like a country bumpkin who had come to a metropolis. Although Chen Chen was always keeping him in suspense, he had to admit that the technology in front of him was beyond his understanding of science.
"You weren't hallucinating just now. In fact, when the blue light flashed, we had already left the Spire Experimental Base."
Chen Chen replied. There was a "ding" and the elevator door opened.
However, this time, outside the elevator, it was not the Spire Experimental Base but the lobby of an office building.
Outside the floor-to-ceiling windows of the lobby, there was a wide road and the bustling scene of cars and people on the road.
This was... Above ground!
Musk was in disbelief. He quickly rushed out of the lobby of the office building and stared blankly at everything outside the lobby. His ears were filled with the chatter of pedestrians and the sound of cars driving. It was a hustle and bustle. It was so familiar, yet so strange.
At this moment, Musk's worldview was completely turned upside down.
...
A day later, Musk returned to the airport and stood in front of his private plane.
"This experience is enough to make me remember it for the rest of my life."
Musk looked at Chen Chen with a complicated expression.
"It's my honor."
Chen Chen nodded and extended his hand. "Happy working with you?"
"Happy working with you!"
Musk shook Chen Chen's hand and immediately turned around. Under the escort of a group of bodyguards, he stepped into the plane without looking back.
Seeing this, Chen Chen did not linger and immediately got into the car.
The two of them did not appreciate each other as much as most people thought.
Still, this was normal behavior. In this position, no one would develop feelings of appreciation just because they had been in contact for a day or two.
Even if they did, it was just for show, for the media and the audience.
Blacklight Biotechnology had done a good job in keeping this matter under wraps. There were no media present, or rather, even if there were, the two of them could not be bothered to put on such a show.
By the time the car drove out of the airport, Musk's plane had also taken off and was flying toward the vast sky.
When they returned, Musk's SpaceX and Chen Chen's Blacklight Biotechnology would conduct a dream collaboration that would shock the world.
As for why Chen Chen was willing to let him go despite knowing so much, there was a reason for this.
After all, Medpod 3000 …
Chen Chen did not even tell the people in the Disciple Council about the existence of the Medpod 3000. Apart from Chen Chen and his parents, Musk was the fourth person to use this fully-automated medical platform.
The main reason for this was that Musk was talented enough to warrant Chen Chen's heavy investment in working with him.
Of course, Chen Chen would not really share the various high-tech technologies he extracted from the movies with others. He was not that noble. The cooperation was only temporary. Chen Chen needed to use SpaceX as a springboard to make up for the lack of aerospace foundation.
Moreover, with Chen Chen's capital injection, it would be like boiling a frog in warm water. This company would gradually become Chen Chen's tool.
Moreover, it was not that Chen Chen did not have a backup plan — there were a total of two teleportation rooms from before.
One was located at the top of the Spire laboratory while the other was located in the Leica office building in the Eco Science City on the surface.
Both teleportation rooms used the same design, consisting of pure white walls that glowed with fluorescent light. There was also a black sphere in each room. Therefore, without any reference, Musk was teleported from one teleportation room to the other by the black sphere.
At the same time as the teleportation, Chen Chen also left a gift in Musk's brain...
It was a modified God chip.
In the original plot of Gantz, the warriors selected by the black sphere would all have a chip installed in their brains, and once these people left the battlefield set up by the black sphere, the chip in their brains would emit an ear-piercing alarm.
When the warning was ineffective, there would be a loud bang and the brains of these people would be blown up as punishment...
This was the technology of the black sphere. While teleporting people, it could also send foreign objects into the teleporter's body without destroying the body's structure.
This was how Musk fell for it.
This modified God chip was installed in the occipital cortex of Musk's brain. The artificial AI of the chip would constantly collect Musk's thought signals. Once Musk had any ill intentions toward Blacklight Biotechnology or God's Forbidden Zone, Little X would immediately be notified.
If the situation became too serious, the God chip would also take over Musk's body or self-destruct directly to prevent the secret of God's Forbidden Zone from being leaked.
This was Chen Chen's trump card.
Of course, if the other party kept their promise, Chen Chen would not take the initiative to control them. After all, once the matter of the chip was exposed, Chen Chen and Musk would be at each other's throats.
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
