Chapter 647
"Why?" When Jiang Chen heard that, he was eager to know .
"It's the nature of humans as creatures - the more interaction they have with other humans, the harder it is to accept loneliness . " Sun Baoyi sighed . "No matter how you decipher human nature, no matter how indifferent you are… it's not something you, as a twenty-year-old, can understand . "
Jiang Chen looked at him with questions still in his eyes while Jiang Chen waited for him to continue .
"In the story, I mentioned that I saved a merchant . "
"Yes . " Jiang Chen nodded .
"We later became friends, and he invested in this clinic . " Sun Baoyi paused for a moment and let out a sigh . "Not only him, but also the crippled hunter, the merchant from the Northern Alliance Area, the female gunslinger from the Black Street Bar… I remember their names, even if some of them may have already died or left for places afar . Regardless, my memories are still there . The more people you know, the more you can't let them go . I admit everything is terrible, but it's not despairing to the point where you don't have the will to live . "
"Is that just because of the relationships you have?"
"Don't describe it so simply . " Sun Baoyi shrugged . "If you had to lay in the hibernation chamber for 1000 years, would you be willing to let everything go here and head for a different future alone?"
When Jiang Chen thought about Sun Jiao, Yao Yao, and the people loyal to him, he shook his head .
"I kind of understand now . "
Sun Baoyi nodded .
"Although I decided to stay in this era, I didn't immediately leave the fallout shelter . Instead, I used the only quantum computer left and restarted the experiment again . "
"What about the samples? Since your experiment, the samples… those people were all killed . "
"I'm the sample . " Sun Baoyi looked at Jiang Chen, took out a small bottle from his pocket, and placed it on the table . "This is the secret to immortality . "
Jiang Chen's eyes locked onto the thumb-sized bottle .
A crimson liquid was inside .
"This is…?"
"You've heard about hidden genetic codes before, right?"
Jiang Chen nodded .
"This is a hidden DNA code expressed in a special manner after the injection of a genetic vaccine . A lot of mercenaries and soldiers take it to increase their combat abilities . Take a guess - if you unlock it to the third level, the last level, what would happen?"
Without giving Jiang Chen time to think, he tapped the small bottle with his finger gently .
"You will become a God . "
Because of his stern expression, Jiang Chen held his breath before letting the words out difficulty .
"That is… absurd . "
But then, Jiang Chen suddenly recalled the man who referred to himself as God .
"If you think that's absurd, it depends on your definition of God," Sun Baoyi said emotionlessly . "Although it's comical to define God through science, we still gave God a crude meaning . A being who can do things humans can't do is hence referred to as 'God' . "
"For example, the leader of the Dusk Church could use spiritual energy to explode a hundred blood crystals to trigger an explosion that could wipe out an entire province from the map . Absorbing energy from crystals is as easy as drinking water…"
Jiang Chen asked Sun Xiaorou before - with her second level genetic code ability, she couldn't even explode one blood crystal, let alone hundreds of them .
Of course, the definition of God wasn't only limited to destructive power .
"So you mean…" Jiang Chen looked into Doctor Sun's eyes . He had an idea of what Doctor Sun meant .
"Looks like you guessed it . Yes, we researched the 'side effects' of genetic vaccines before the war . Based on the genetic map, we concluded that once the genetic code 'resilience' evolved to level three, the 'immortality' ability could be unlocked . "
Sun Baoyi paused briefly, then continued .
"With current technological capabilities, the abilities in the genetic code can be transplanted . The only material required is 100mg of serum . "
From one perspective, immortality was something only reachable by a God . But more surprisingly, this ability only reachable by a God could be transplanted surgically .
Jiang Chen looked at the bottle on the table and fell into deep thought .
Therefore, the girl mentioned in the diary should be Sun Jiao - she should've been just half a year old . And the other "samples" in Fallout Shelter 071 should be normal people with the genetic code "resilience . "
Jiang Chen had an idea of the kind of experiment Doctor Sun performed that caused all the samples to die .
Sun Jiao told him before .
In order to increase the effect of the genetic vaccine and unlock the next level of genetic code, aside from going through high-intensity training, the fastest and least technical way would be to "seek your own death . "
It was only when you teetered between the edge of life and death that the hidden genetic code could be exposed .
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