The last human in the universe

Chapter 97 Perfect Human
As expected by Zhao Changxing, after the announcement of this plan, there were no waves in the society.

Everyone knew in their hearts that this was the best plan that could be made under the current conditions.

So, under the personal attention of Zhao Changxing, artificial cultivation began with the first batch of 70 randomly selected sperm and eggs.

After they turned into embryos, the genetic modification project team began to intervene, through a set of genetic modification optimization schemes, to make improvements on the basis of the original human genetic system.

At the current stage, the genome that can be modified and optimized by the genetic modification project team is still only a small part compared to all human genes.And most of them are just "surface" and "application side" transformations, unable to involve deeper things.

It is completely impossible to transform a person so that it can breathe fire, or grow wings to fly.At most, it is to eliminate disease-causing genes, delay aging genes, and enhance self-healing ability.

After a year, all these temporarily "frozen" embryos were thawed out and put into the artificial uterus for development.Less than ten months later, the first batch of 70 genetically modified people were born successfully.

These infants exhibited superior traits compared to ordinary infants.Not only are they physically strong, they seldom get sick, and their vitality is also very vigorous. At the same time, they far exceed ordinary people in terms of perception, reaction, and self-awareness.

After continuous and close observation, when they were half a year old, the preliminary examination results were presented to Zhao Changxing.

"According to preliminary estimates, if there is no accident, the average life expectancy of this group of babies will be as high as 120 years old, and the average IQ is 10 to 20 times higher than that of ordinary people. They have stronger virus resistance, and ordinary flu will be completely unable to treat them. cause symptoms in the body. They have a greater ability to withstand extreme environments, they have..."

Zhao Changxing has been paying attention to the growth and living conditions of the first batch of genetically modified people in the history of human civilization.And these people, as people expected, showed amazing learning ability.

At the average age of 15, they have already learned the knowledge that ordinary people can only learn at the age of 18, and they have achieved better test scores.Afterwards, these people all chose to continue their studies, began to study for master's and doctoral courses, and completed all of them around the age of 19, with the ability to enter the research institute and actually carry out scientific research.

In the face of the first batch of genetically modified human scientists, many research institutions in civilization have shown great interest, and even started to compete.

Zhao Changxing did not set too many restrictions on the genetically modified people who chose biology, chemistry, medicine, humanities, etc., and let them choose their future work institutions according to their own wishes.As for those who specialize in materials, propulsion, engines, and spacecraft manufacturing, Zhao Changxing insisted on going his own way, ignoring any applications from scientific research institutions, and directly making decisions, arranging them all in the propulsion laboratory.

Zhao Changxing's arrangement made everyone a little puzzled, and they didn't understand why Zhao Changxing attached so much importance to advancing the laboratory.

In fact, it wasn't just this one incident.In other aspects, Zhao Changxing also showed a preference for more resources in the promotion laboratory.

Regardless of manpower or material resources, the promotion laboratory is always the one that is satisfied with the highest priority, and is even more valued than the genetic laboratory that undertakes the research and development task of the genetic modification instrument.

People couldn't understand it, but no one questioned it.Over the years, people have long been accustomed to Zhao Changxing's foresight and obeyed Zhao Changxing's arrangements.

In this regard, Zhao Changxing did not give too much explanation.Because Zhao Changxing knew in his heart that his arrangement would take at least 100 years to see the effect.

This time scale is too long, and it has no meaning for ordinary people.

Time passed slowly, and new lives continued to come to space cities or roller bases one after another, and people died continuously, and were finally buried in the cemetery of Star Sedna.

Generally speaking, life is peaceful and everything is developing step by step.

Of course, this is only for Zhao Changxing.For ordinary people, it is uninterrupted love and hatred, joys and sorrows, life may be ups and downs, or life counterattacks, or young and rich, old and miserable, or go through life peacefully, all kinds of things, and so on.

Under such circumstances, time slowly came to 458 years in the new calendar.

At this moment, 126 years have passed since the first batch of genetically modified humans were born.Among the first batch of 70 genetically modified people, 65 people have already completed their lives, and the remaining 5 people are also very old and have basically lost the ability to live independently.

Even the genetic modification instrument has no way to save them.

Of course, more genetically modified people were born in the follow-up, and they continued to enter the scientific research industry.

External means of coercion, such as not being allowed to become government employees, and internal education, such as the subtle influence of human history, morality, and values, and the like. With the combination of the two means, those who live in human civilization, Genetically modified people who are powerful enough to crush ordinary people in all directions have not caused any trouble.

Instead, they made more and greater contributions to civilization.And these contributions, under Zhao Changxing's arrangement, are finally given back to every ordinary person in a way similar to how the genetic modification instrument greatly increased the average life expectancy of human beings.

If Zhao Changxing were to evaluate them objectively, it would be that these genetically modified humans have basically completed their historical missions, and they are worthy of the evaluation of "excellent human beings".

Whether the ending is good or bad, whether they are deprived of some power in the process, whether it is fair to them, things are already like this after all.Moreover, Zhao Changxing intends to implement this policy until the genetic modification instrument can carry out genetic modification for the whole people.

This is the decision he must have as a civilized leader.Because fairness is the greatest basic right.For the sake of fairness, some concessions can be made as appropriate for the rest of the matter.

At this moment, the total population of human civilization has skyrocketed to 427 million, and the number of space cities has also increased to 75.

Some old space cities have been decommissioned and have been demolished for recycling, such as the original No. 1 space city, Star City.Some new space cities with more comprehensive facilities, larger and better environments have been put into operation, such as the new No. 1 space city, Human City.

Adding, adding, subtracting, and subtracting, finally reached the number of 75.

At this time, another report was placed in front of Zhao Changxing.

The resource crisis once again showed signs of breaking out.

The mining costs of various resources began to rise again, while the mining efficiency continued to decline slowly.At this moment, in addition to Sedna Star, there are a total of 12 dwarf planets, and the average number of standard resource box deliveries sent to Sedna Star every day has gradually decreased from 1.3 at the peak period to the current average. Only around 5500 per day.

And it is still in continuous decline.

In the past, an average of more than 1 standard resource boxes and nearly [-] million tons of various materials were transported every day, which obviously exceeded the resource consumption of human civilization.For this reason, Zhao Changxing built a huge warehouse that can be called a giant in space, and stored all the remaining materials.

At this moment, the total amount of various materials stored in the warehouse, such as gold, silver, copper and iron, chemical raw materials, mechanical spare parts, grain, oil, etc., is as high as about [-] billion tons.

There is no doubt that these materials are enough to support the operation of human civilization for a long time.

But... When the number of standard resource boxes is not enough to support the daily operation of human civilization and the construction of related projects, what should we do when human civilization has to use material reserves, resulting in a continuous decline in material reserves?
Sit and eat, and there will be a day when you finish eating.

But now, this hint of danger has appeared in front of Zhao Changxing.

"The outer solar system is really too empty." Zhao Changxing sighed silently: "It's too whimsical to rely on a dozen dwarf planets to fully support the development of a civilization."

Not to mention that all the dwarf planets that are closer to Sedna's star have been found at this moment, it is impossible to have new ones, even if there are, so what?

All the exploitable resources of a dwarf planet are nothing more than delaying the arrival of the crisis of resource depletion for more than ten years, which does not make much sense.

"So……"

Zhao Changxing stood up, looked at the star map in front of him, and focused his eyes on the direction of the inner solar system.

Only the inner solar system can support the full development of human civilization.

In the long time of more than 100 years, people have gradually forgotten the disputes caused by whether to distinguish between human and subhuman, and Zhao Changxing's ruthless methods at the beginning.

Or maybe it's because the use of genetic modification equipment has actually created quite a number of more perfect human beings-according to the calculation of 70 per year, there are more than 100 in more than 8000 years. There are almost half the amount.

After the signs of a resource crisis reappeared, Zhao Changxing noticed that someone was trying to promote this matter again.

The final outcome of the matter was that at a meeting of the Civilization Management Committee, a member appeared again and made this suggestion to Zhao Changxing.And Zhao Changxing was also unrelenting, and once again used fierce methods,

The hundreds of heads on the execution ground once again publicized Zhao Changxing's determination, making people clearly realize that even after more than 100 years, Zhao Changxing's determination has not changed at all.

When the execution was about to be executed, the person who was originally in a high position in the civilization stared at Zhao Changxing who came to see him off.

"You are destroying our civilization."

(End of this chapter)