Break out of the courtyard

"Uncle Zhao! Aunt Xiang!"

Outside the airport, Zhang Heping greeted Zhao Jianguo's parents. Although he was wondering why they came, he didn't show it on his face.

After arranging his family and the old company commander and his wife in the car, Zhang Heping got into the car where his second sister Zhang Pandi was sitting.

"Second sister, why are you here?" Zhang Heping asked Zhang Pandi beside him, "And what's going on with Uncle Zhao and the others? Why did you suddenly decide to come here today?"

Zhao Jianguo did not tell Zhang Heping that his parents were coming, otherwise he would have asked Zhang Heping to pick them up in advance.

Although it is just a matter of one sentence, it represents two different results.

If Zhao Jianguo said it, it would mean it was their Zhao family's business.

If he didn't say anything, it means Zhao Jianguo didn't know about it. Then the reason why Captain Zhao came here this time might be related to Zhang Heping.

Zhang Pandi subconsciously looked at the driver in the rearview mirror, then glanced at the black-clad bodyguard in the passenger seat, and then saw Zhang Heping nodded slightly, and then simply explained: "They should be like me, they were asked to come here to do ideological work for you."

After getting this answer, Zhang Heping immediately understood.

Because in the past month or so, he hasn't communicated much with Mr. Hua and Director Wang, and hasn't replied to those technical consultation letters. Some people are getting anxious!

Unfortunately, Zhang Heping did not intend to compromise on this matter. Compromise would mean distracting his attention and making it difficult to improve his skills in biochemistry and medicine.

Zhang Heping's plug-in seems very powerful. Over the years, it has allowed him to acquire many master, grand master, and transformation-level skills, but the higher the skill level, the more time it takes to increase the proficiency by 1%.

For example, to increase the proficiency of a skill by 1% at the Transcendental Level, you need to focus on the skill for 7 hours without interruption to increase it by 1%.

7 hours is not a lot, but we have to consider issues such as meals and daily social interactions.

Therefore, most of the transformation-level skills that Zhang Heping has mastered now have only 1% proficiency, and only Chinese medicine has 3% of the transformation level.

It’s all because the daily chores took up too much of his time, and since he couldn’t use advanced skills on a regular basis, Zhang Heping lost his ambition. Usually, after he reached the Grandmaster level, he lost the motivation to continue playing.

This time, he put aside most of the trivial matters and decided to delve into the fields of biochemistry, genetics, cells, viruses, etc. to find a way to achieve immortality.

As for his previous deliberate leakage of information on telomerase reverse transcriptase, longevity gene No. 42, pluripotent stem cells, gene transcription, etc., and his half-hearted disclosure of part of the information to the public this morning, he had only two purposes.

The first is to promote research in this area, get people from other countries to join in, and stimulate the emergence of more related papers and books, so that he can continue to study more sub-fields.

Second, through numerous and complex research projects, the research funds of various countries will be increased and dispersed, thereby increasing their economic burden.

Who doesn’t want to live forever?
This is a conspiracy!
Other countries don’t have to conduct research and can just spend money to buy drugs to prolong life later.

But the key issue is that they have to be able to afford it!
For example, the prices of medicines and medical examinations, which are very cheap in the mainland, may increase several times in Hong Kong, but they can be easily accepted by Hong Kong people. However, in other countries, the same medicines and medical equipment may increase dozens of times because of the huge profits made by middlemen and hospitals!
After the motorcade returned to Shenzhen Peace University, the eldest son Zhang Bei got out of the car with his smartphone, walked up to Zhang Heping and asked, "Dad, why does your post 'Oxygen is Toxic' feel wrong to me?"

"That's to fool foreigners, why are you bothering about it!" Zhang Heping replied casually, and then sent the old company commander and his wife to Zhao Jianguo's Villa No. 3.

Zhang Heping had just called Zhao Laoliu and his wife, so Laoliu's wife Ding Ning took a leave of absence and waited at home.

The old company commander patted Zhang Heping on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Old Six and his friends went home and said that you allocated a big villa for them and asked us old couple to come and live in it."

"I had always thought it was a two- or three-story villa, but it turned out to be a five-story villa. It's such a waste for the two of them to live here!"

Zhang Heping looked at Ding Ning and responded with a smile: "Uncle Zhao, Aunt Xiang, if you think it's a waste of space, you can urge Lao Liu to go home and sleep early every day and not waste time at the company. As a manager, there's no need for him to do everything himself."

When Ding Ning heard the word "sleep", his face turned red and he immediately turned around to pour water.

The old company commander was a little slow to react, but he nodded and smiled at Aunt, saying that he would urge Old Six.

Zhang Heping did not introduce who lived in villas 2 and 4, but Ding Ning would probably tell them.

It's snowing in the capital, and the Zhang family basically only takes a bath once every two or three weeks.

They arrived in the warm city of Shenzhen. As Zhang Heping had a mild mysophobia, Ma Xiuzhen, Zhang Bing, Zhang Pandi, Ma Lili, Zhang Bei and others went upstairs to their rooms to wash and change clothes as soon as they got home.

When Zhang Heping returned home, he could smell the buzzing of more than a dozen hair dryers above his head.

The main purpose of the family members coming here today is to celebrate Zhang Heping’s birthday.

In addition to the second sister Zhang Pandi who has a mission, and the eldest cousin Ma Lili who has not yet made up her mind whether to come to Shenzhen.

Zhang Pandi changed into a red and yellow striped sweater and a pair of light-colored jeans and went downstairs. Seeing Zhang Heping sitting on the sofa in the living room looking at his smartphone, she moved over to him and said, "Brother, my dad asked me to ask you, where did you see Zhang Cuishan and Zhang Xin last time?"

"They found a job and are now in the northwest desert!" Zhang Heping replied casually, without worrying like before whether Zhang Cuishan and Zhang Xin's jobs would be exposed or bring him trouble.

He later figured it out. There was no need to worry about things that hadn't happened, and there was no need to waste energy on trivial matters. He could just leave it to his subordinates.

"Northwest Desert..." Zhang Pandi murmured, without connecting the Northwest Desert with the Peace Aerospace Company.

However, Zhang Pandi felt that this news was enough to deal with Lao Zhang. If he asked more questions, she would let her mother Ma Xiuzhen take care of him.

"Brother, let me confirm something with you!" Zhang Pandi asked with a smile, "Have you ever considered emigrating abroad?"

"Yes!" Zhang Heping sensed that Director Wang had walked to the door, and deliberately said to the door: "If I immigrate to Magnesium, I can collude with those big financial groups, dominate the election in Magnesium, and place my spokesperson for the interests!"

Director Wang paused and wanted to continue eavesdropping, but Zhang Pandi understood Zhang Heping's actions and stopped asking!

At the same time, the bodyguard next to him retreated to the door and made a gesture to Director Wang to come in.

Although the bodyguard did not say anything, he blocked the door to alert the owner of the living room that something was happening outside.

After Director Wang Sumei walked into Zhang's living room, the girls and boys from upstairs happened to come down.

"Dad, what is the clone in your post? How does it provide blood, bone marrow and organs to people?" As soon as Zhang Bei came down, he asked the question he had discovered.

Clone is a new word. Zhang Heping deliberately omitted the information about the cloning experiment project, so there is no explanation of this word in the post.

Seeing his eldest son so troubled by this question, Zhang Heping had to explain: "I can take some of your flesh and blood and use cloning technology to clone a person with the same genes as you. This cloned person is your clone, or a clone!"

The nephews and cousins ​​who were originally laughing and joking nearby were now shocked by the word "clone", just like Director Wang, Zhang Pandi and others.

Zhou Xiaochun, my cousin's daughter who studies journalism, quickly came to the sofa and asked, "Uncle, can you really make a human being out of a little bit of flesh and blood? How is this human being different from us?"

"Clone!" Zhang Heping reminded him of the new title, then glanced at his eldest son who was frowning, and said:

"If the clone is allowed to learn knowledge normally and contact the outside world, he will be no different from a normal person." "If the clone is not allowed to contact the outside world, he will just be a lamb to be slaughtered with a confused consciousness!"

"This..." Zhou Xiaochun was speechless for a moment, not knowing what to say.

"It feels a bit cruel!" Zhang Ting, my niece who studies Chinese at Capital University, said with a frown.

Normal person!
Lambs to be slaughtered!

These two very ordinary words, when compared together at this moment, do seem a bit cruel.

Zhang Heping said calmly: "To be exact, it is unethical!"

Zhang Bei looked at Zhang Heping with a complicated expression, "Dad, did you create a clone?"

"We have cloned two mice, but not humans." Zhang Heping looked at his eldest son with interest. "How about you donate some of your blood and flesh, and I will clone one for you to try?"

Zhang Bei hurriedly shook his head. "Forget it, I can't accept it! I feel that this will be opposed by many people, especially transplanting cloned organs. What's the difference between this and directly killing people?"

Zhang Heping stopped joking and simply explained: "If you don't ask and I don't tell you, only those foreigners who stole my experimental data can understand the word 'clone'."

Director Wang at the side asked anxiously: "Heping, do you mean that those foreigners can create clones?"

"There's nothing that those bandits can't do!" Zhang Heping replied casually, then changed the subject and asked about the situation of Zhang Bei, Zhang Nan and their company.

After Director Wang learned the meaning of clones, he hurried out, found a secluded place, and called Mr. Hua to report.

With the information about the clones, Mr. Hua and his friends finally understood the significance of the post “Oxygen is poisonous”.

Let’s not talk about whether projects such as granzyme reverse transcriptase, longevity gene No. 42, totipotent stem cells, gene transcription, and cryogenic freezing can prolong life.

Just based on the method of using clones to provide blood, bone marrow, and organs to prolong life, Mr. Hua and his friends felt that although the idea was a bit evil, it sounded very likely to be realized.

Because of the clone intelligence, Mr. Hua, Director Wang and others held a telephone conference for more than three hours.

As for the Zhang family, after dinner, they went out for a walk as usual to help digest the food.

Zhang Long and Zhang Hu were trying to show off by taking out their homemade wireless remote-controlled robot dog for a ride. However, they didn't play with it for long before the robot broke down on the road and had to be taken back for repair.

Father Zhang Bing had apparently heard about Zhang Cuishan and Zhang Xin going to the northwest desert. Along the way, he looked at Zhang Heping from time to time and wanted to go over to ask for details, but was stopped by Ma Xiuzhen.

The third daughter, Zhang Nian, was holding Zhang Heping's left arm at this time, and had been asking about the recent changes in the world economy and Zhang Heping's views on the economies of various countries. She was ready to use them for her own benefit and bring them back to school to show off.

The second daughter, Zhang Nan, stuck to Chen Shuting and asked about some matters related to trade management.

The eldest wife Tang Xin was holding the youngest son Zhang Hao, humming a song with the seventh son Zhang Nuo, and following behind Zhang Heping.

Other family members were also walking in groups of three or four by the artificial lake, attracting quite a bit of attention.

Along the way, I have met many experts and professors who greeted me and asked about the relationship with the people behind Zhang Heping.

Of course, there were also experts regardless of time and place who stopped Zhang Heping and asked how the low-temperature freezing technology mentioned in the post "Oxygen is toxic" could solve the problem of ice crystals piercing cell membranes.

When faced with such an expert who was not familiar with the ways of the world, Zhang Heping could only explain dozens of sentences before he could send the other party away.

Fortunately, there are not many such experts in Shenzhen Peace College, and most of them like to stay in the laboratory.

~
The next day, New Year's Day 1989, was Zhang Heping's 39th birthday.

Early in the morning, the guard at the gate kept calling the Zhang family's Villa No. 1, saying that someone had left a birthday present and went to the Peace Hotel.

If they were ordinary Hong Kong businessmen, Zhang Heping could still ask his bodyguards to go to the door and refuse them.

However, after old acquaintances such as Mr. Rong, Chairman He, and the charter boat king came over, Zhang Heping had no choice but to book lunch and dinner at the Peace Hotel diagonally opposite.

These acquaintances knew that Zhang Heping was not holding a banquet today, but they still came here shamelessly.

Without him!

Only prolong your life!

Which rich person doesn't want to live longer?

If Zhang Heping had not posted the "Oxygen is poisonous" post, why would these acquaintances come to him to cause trouble?

Zhang Heping didn't want to hold a banquet because it was inconvenient to search the guests at a birthday banquet and it posed a great security risk.

The situation in Shenzhen is better, with stricter gun control.

Even so, the bodyguards and guards took one step ahead of Zhang Heping and brought a few black wolfhounds to the Peace Hotel as a sentinel.

Lunch was fine, with only 11 tables of people eating, and since these people had something to ask Zhang Heping, Zhang Heping didn't drink, and they didn't drink either.

However, after an afternoon of spreading the news, many celebrities from Hong Kong Island came, including popular male and female stars, and even Zheng Lijun came.

When Shen Bi, who had arrived late, found Zhang Heping in the private room, he suddenly became excited, "Mr. Zhang, are the life-extending studies you announced this morning true?"

The chairman of Huifeng Bank is 61 years old this year, and has reached an age where he urgently needs to extend his life.

Besides, there is an Eagle King in the Eagle Country waiting for him to curry favor with him!

"Chairman Shen, please sit down first." Zhang Heping said casually, and someone next to him immediately felt that his status was not high enough, so he gave up the middle seat and found a plastic bench in the corner to sit on.

Baochuan Wang smiled at Shen Bi and said, "Chairman Shen, we have just asked your question. Mr. Zhang's research has just begun. He is currently conducting experiments on mice. We are still waiting for the feedback of the experimental data. We cannot give you a definite answer now."

Facing Shen Bi's slightly dim eyes, Zhang Heping smiled and said, "Chairman Shen, we have been working together for so many years. If I had those life-extending drugs, how could I forget you, don't you think?"

Shen Bi nodded hurriedly, "I believe in Mr. Zhang's ability. If you say those projects can prolong life, I think they can. After Mr. Zhang develops relevant drugs, you can let me help you test them!"

"Haha!" President He and others laughed, because they also said similar things, just afraid that someone else would get there first!

...(End of chapter)