Ten thousand I am across the heavens

Chapter 1816 Another Strange World

  Cold and shaking!

"Where am I again?" Lan Nuo rubbed his forehead and woke up from the cold subway car.

He had just crossed over and had no idea what the other versions of himself were like. Every time he crossed over, the most dangerous time was right after landing, so he remained extremely alert and looked around.

I found that there were a lot of people around him, everyone was riding the subway quietly, and there were always kind people around to help him up.

Lan Nuo couldn't understand what these people were saying, but he could tell from their tone and expressions that they were asking him if he was injured.

"Eh? Normally I should be wearing a body. But now it looks like my soul has traveled through time. It's best that these people don't doubt my identity. It will be convenient for me to directly appear in civilized society and learn the language of this world."

Lan Nuo stood quietly in the subway, listening to their occasional conversations and quickly analyzing the language of this world. At the same time, the scrolling subtitles on the display next to the vehicle also allowed him to easily understand the text of this world.

After a few stops, the subway arrived at a transfer station with a large flow of people. Lan Nuo got off the train and sat in the transfer station waiting. The flow of people here was quite large. Lan Nuo could get the information he wanted through their conversations, and quickly learn the characters of this world through the subtitles on the various models of mobile terminals in their hands.

With the rehearsal started, Lan Nuo was able to communicate with people in this world very quickly, and also learned how to use the mobile terminal he carried with him. The operating logic of such mobile devices is often very similar. And the technology level of the device in his hand that can project holographic projections is obviously much higher than that of mobile phones on Earth in the 21st century.

After checking the equipment briefly and confirming that there was no sophisticated monitoring software on it, Lan Nuo began to efficiently use this mobile terminal that could connect to the Internet like a mobile phone to understand the general situation of the world he was in.

As he searched, the whole picture of his world appeared before his eyes. He lived on a planet with peaceful years. The world war 50 years ago unified the whole world. The economy developed rapidly in the post-war peace period. People quickly built prosperous cities on the ruins. The passage of time quickly healed the scars of the war. Although there was no technological explosion, technology was still slowly advancing and thriving.

The conflicts between nations are also gradually resolved over time. The theme of this era is peace and development. The parliamentary system on the planet also checks and balances the relationship between the rulers and the ordinary people. More importantly, the moral level of the residents on this planet is higher than expected, especially the moral level of the rulers. Whether it is a show or too strict control of public opinion, the evidence that Lan Nuo can search on the Internet proves that the rulers and officials of this world are as honest as saints. Of course, this may also be due to the powerful internal monitoring system assisted by artificial intelligence.

"Hmm... I feel like I don't need to do anything after traveling to such a world. I can just lie down and enjoy myself. Hmm... I can't lie down yet. Although the distribution of this society is reasonable, it is not a pure welfare society. It is quite different from the Nordic society in the 21st century. The government will use survival resources to force people to work to a certain extent. However, according to analysis, this society does not lack this part of the labor force, and the people's life pressure is not great. You only need to take out a small period of time every day to work hard to make the family live a more comfortable life.

This policy is more like trying to keep residents in the habit of working as much as possible, to ensure that they will not lose their ability to work in the hands of artificial intelligence. It feels like nothing will happen this time, even if technology is advanced and there is no war. The rulers have not been lazy because of the comfortable environment, and they still have the awareness of being prepared for danger in times of peace. It seems that I only need to develop a relatively stable industry to enjoy a peaceful life here, but... it seems that I have to consider the issue of life span. Although immortality technology exists in theory, it seems that this technology is still taboo at present. Then... I will find a way to open a biopharmaceutical company, or an Internet-type company is also fine. If I can't live forever in the form of a living body, mechanical ascension is also fine. "

Lan Nuo also has his own desire to live, and in his order of needs, survival ranks very high. In such a society that seems to not need transformation, his first priority is to survive and survive as long as possible, and this does not seem to be a difficult task for him.

Starting a business was easier than he had imagined. The market environment in this world was well supervised. Even though the initial capital he earned from working was not much, it was not swallowed up by his peers. Instead, after he developed several patents, his company flourished.

His biopharmaceutical company focuses on induced pluripotent stem cell technology and induced totipotent stem cell technology. This technology can treat many stubborn diseases and is also a relatively orthodox method of longevity.

Inducing somatic cells to become omnipotent stem cells can take over the task of cell division and ensure that the cells in the body are always alive.

As for where the blueprint of DNA comes from, how to complete the telomeres lost in the process of somatic cell division again and again? In fact, it is not difficult, because not all cells in the human body can divide. In fact, most cells will not divide themselves. Most of them are replaced by new cells differentiated from stem cells after death.

It just so happens that nerve cells cannot be replaced. From the moment they complete their development, they are almost never replaced. That is to say, the most original genes are retained in nerve cells. Lanno's idea is to extract the genes directly from them, stuff them into stem cells, and then induce them into omnipotent stem cells, let them divide by themselves, and then inject them into the human body, which can basically give aging people a new life.

The technical difficulty is not that great considering the technological level of this world, and it does not violate any moral taboos. It is much easier to be accepted by the public than the less technically difficult method of cloning for longevity.

The so-called cloning method of immortality is to use one's own somatic cell DNA to clone a person who is almost identical to oneself. After they grow up, remove their organs and tissues and transplant them into one's aging body to achieve immortality.

  Even more exaggerated, you can remove your brain and transplant it into the body of a younger person, and achieve immortality through reincarnation. This method of immortality is less technically difficult, but the problem is that it involves many ethical issues. Do clones have human rights? Do clones have self-awareness? Does this behavior count as murder?

In most civilizations, this kind of technology is taboo, unless the power is extremely centralized. In a centralized world where the rulers and the common people are almost two different species, this kind of technology can be developed and used openly.

However, this harmonious society is obviously not suitable for using this technology. Moreover, Lan Nuo himself is not particularly willing to accept this unethical and immoral method of longevity.

As time went by, the company's development was booming, and ultrasound technology was gradually accepted by the government. However, the government did not want him to dominate the market, so it supported several pharmaceutical companies and Internet companies to develop different methods of longevity to compete with him, ensuring that no one would monopolize the resource of longevity and become an uncontrollable force in society.

Other entrepreneurs would definitely be disgusted by this, but Lanno, who can jump out of the small circle of self-interest and look at the world from a macro perspective of civilization, doesn't care much about this, and even thinks that the official is quite rational. If this kind of power is in the hands of ordinary people, the first generation may be able to maintain their rationality and ensure that they don't abuse the power in their hands, but this kind of thing cannot be done. Put your hopes on the moral level of an individual. It is very necessary to take checks and balances.

Lan Nuo surrendered most of his power contrary to official expectations. All he wanted was to be able to live forever. He was not in a hurry to control the technology of immortality, nor did he want to become an oligarch or a big trust by monopolizing this technology.

After handing the company over to official management, he invested most of the industry's resources in remote area development and space programs.

This world is similar to the Earth, except that the prosperity in non-coastal areas is much lower than that in coastal areas, so there are still vast undeveloped lands in inland areas, and space exploration has not been very popular because it is not profitable in the short term.

But this seemingly thankless task in the short term is the ladder for civilization to move towards the future.

Lan Nuo feels very comfortable living in such a social environment. What he wants to do has also received official support. There are even many like-minded people willing to come to the remote mountainous area with him to discuss the construction that has already been done here and think with the local villagers about what local specialties in the village can help them get rich.

Over the past decades, high-speed railways and vacuum pipelines have spread across inland areas, and the advantage of sea transportation in terms of capacity has gradually been offset by the extremely developed inland transportation network and vacuum pipelines.

The coastal areas that prospered due to commerce are now not much more prosperous than the inland areas. The only regret is that the population has never increased, and the inland areas cannot be filled, so people lack the motivation to colonize space. Anyway, after the inland areas are developed, the whole world will be sparsely populated and there will be no shortage of living resources. Why bother developing alien planets?

This made Lan Nuo so anxious that he wanted to have a baby himself. But in this regard, Lan Nuo really couldn't ask anything of the world, because he himself couldn't serve as a role model. After running his business for nearly 100 years, he didn't have time to fall in love, so it was impossible for him to have children. As for using clones or individuals bred in artificial wombs as their own children, it is still rare at present, and the official does not seem to support this practice, believing that this will lead to a lack of fatherly or motherly love after the child is born.

Lan Nuo found out after several contacts with the officials of this world that this time the officials did not support him and believed that this low population growth rate was appropriate. Because humans have now achieved immortality, they have not had enough time to find ways to suppress the birth rate. It is impossible to open this loophole at this time. If the birth rate goes up and everyone is immortal, then the population will explode exponentially and no one can bear it. The officials dare not bet that the speed of alien development can exceed the speed of population explosion. If the speed of alien development cannot keep up, the pressure on resources is likely to cause another world war.

Lan Nuo was helpless about this. Although he had experience in this area and had various policies at hand, he knew when to use what policies to adjust the population and ensure a delicate balance between the increase in population and the development of aerospace technology. However, he could not convince the world officials with just his mouth. This just proved that the rulers were calm and rational.

Lan Nuo had no choice but to wait. Even if the growth rate was low, everyone was immortal and the medical conditions were quite good. There would be almost no accidental deaths. The population would always increase slowly and fill up the planet. Then there would be motivation to explore outer space.

According to his estimation, in another 100 years, even if the current population growth rate is worryingly low, the number of humans will be enough to fill the surface of the planet, and he will have to consider the issue of interstellar migration. Technology will eventually develop and progress, even if it's slow, so he is not in a hurry.

More than 50 years passed in peace, and when Lan Nuo woke up, he found himself lying in a quaint room. There were no floating intelligent robots around him, and the physical smart home appliances looked primitive and simple. It was as if he had gone back to 150 years ago and had just traveled through time.

And looking at his own hands and feet, as well as the furnishings in the room. Lan Nuo was shocked to find that he seemed to have turned into a thirteen or fourteen-year-old child, which made him confused for a moment. He wondered if he had traveled through time again? This time the travel was peaceful, he traveled through time after a nap, but after rubbing his face, he quickly calmed down and observed the furnishings around him, realizing that it was probably not as simple as traveling through time, because based on the furnishings and home appliances in the room, he could roughly judge that he was still in the civilization he was in last time, and the language played by the equipment on the TV could prove this. Lan Nuo carefully recalled the memories in his mind and found that this time the travel platform also came with a set of memory templates of the original owner. And he remembered that this body had parents.

[To be continued]

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