From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 594 The Secret of Immortality

Salih's eyes widened when she heard Amber's words.

"Amber, you mean to say that they want to use the things in this research institute to extend the life of the dying emperor?"

Since spending a lot of time browsing the knowledge of this era, some of the ways Saleh speaks are becoming more and more like a human being, rather than a distant predecessor.

Amber: "Apart from this answer, I can't think of any other reason why the emperor's personal guard would be here."

"But what they took away was just an experimental product. Not to mention how many experiments have been done on carbon-based organisms, even if they have, how do they know that this research has really been successful?!"

As a Jeram person and even more as a think tank deacon, Saleh has a very rigorous attitude towards scientific research.

Therefore, for this behavior of ignoring scientific risks, it can be said that it is like pulling the butt with a small knife - it is a big eye opener.

Amber was not surprised by Saleh's reaction, but patiently replied: "There is an old saying in human history, 'When one is desperate, one will try any possible means.' When one is at a loss, people will try any possible means."

"Even so, the so-called research on 'immortality' does not necessarily mean that it can extend human life."

"So this is what we need to find out next," Amber said, with a meaningful light flashing in her eyes, "see what these imperial people are doing."

After returning to the A-Bava-Ku Asteroid Fortress, Amber suspended all other matters and immediately went back to the comprehensive laboratory built specifically for Salih with the storage module of the Forerunner Research Institute, and also let Lilith in.

Salih is the only person inside Atlas, besides the Immortals, who truly knows Lilith's identity.

It’s not that Amber didn’t hide it from her, but not long after this Jeram man used Lilith’s computing power to assist in research and development, he discovered that Lilith’s true identity was actually a strong artificial intelligence.

In this situation, Amber had nothing to hide. Saleh was under the control of the "mental shackles" anyway, so there was no need to worry about her being exposed.

Lilith was even happier because there was one less person who needed her to "act".

After all, she had to respond to Saleh's requests almost every day, and had a lot of contact with this pioneer, so she had always had to play the role of an ordinary artificial intelligence.
As the storage module of the institute was sent to the workbench in the laboratory, under the control of Saleh, a bunch of "pioneer-style" robotic arms that were customized and assembled by her personally surrounded it and attached a bunch of strange instruments to the outside of the storage module.

"Lilith, it's about to begin~"

Salih worked at the workbench intently, but her tone was a little excited because she was about to start cracking a storage module that she was very interested in.

"Understood, Ms. Saleh! The idle computing power of the fortress server array has been used! The "Forerunner Facility Decryption Program" is being activated."

Lilith's tone was also somewhat excited, because to her, all the secrets, big and small, of the human side were basically known to her, so the mysterious forerunners and the secrets, big and small, left behind by this force also became her new research objects.

Amber, who was sitting on the side, became a bystander. As a "war maniac", after entering the field of decryption and research, he really couldn't help these two people.

The storage module that was dragged back did not last long under the joint attack of Saleh, the "Special Attack on Forerunner Technology", and Lilith, the "Decryption Expert".

Amber was woken up by the two men after a nap on the sofa. She glanced at the time in a daze and found that the two men had completed the deciphering in just four hours.

When he rubbed his eyes and walked to the workbench, he saw Saleh holding the armrest of the workbench tightly with both hands, and his body was shaking slightly because of excitement. After noticing Amber coming over, the pioneer turned his head and stared at him, and slowly said:

"These crazy people succeeded."

When Amber heard this, she suddenly woke up.

"Successful?! Are you saying that this institute has really solved the problem of immortality???"

"To be precise, it solves the problem of immortality of carbon-based organisms."

Salih tried to calm down her excitement and continued:

"All the data in the storage module has been unlocked. Lilith has sorted them out. Take a look, Amber. I have to sit down and take a rest."

"Go ahead, I'll ask the service robot to bring some drinks and food." Amber nodded, then focused her attention on the virtual screen on the workbench.

"Master, the data has been sorted out. Please take a look. It took some effort to decipher it this time. More than ten sub-terminals in the server array have burned out. I will go and deal with them first~"

Lilith's virtual image stuck out her tongue in embarrassment in mid-air. Apparently, she hadn't expected that deciphering the code would be so difficult this time.

"Burned it directly? How extreme are you guys?"

Amber shook her head, then spoke as if she remembered something: "Oh, right, let's take this opportunity to try out the server made by the R&D center to see how much higher its performance is than other products on the market. If it works, I'll have the R&D center pass the inspection and then put it into production."

"Understood, Master! I promise to complete the task~"

Lilith saluted playfully, and her virtual image in the air quickly disappeared.

Amber looked back at the screen on the workbench, and her mouth began to open wider and wider.

He had thought about many ways that the pioneers had solved the "immortality problem" of carbon-based organisms, but he never thought that these pioneer researchers would eventually adopt the most "back to basics" method.

For almost all carbon-based organisms, the reasons that limit their life span are mainly root causes such as cell division restrictions, free radical damage, changes in gene expression levels, accumulated DNA damage, stem cell depletion, etc.

For these reasons, Amber also saw a passage left by a pioneer researcher when the large-scale bioengineering project called "Eternity" was launched in the cracked data.

"If we solve these problems, won't that be the end of it?"

You see, the Jerram people are essentially a race full of humor.
But at the same time, they are also a race that has reached a level unimaginable to humans in technologies such as gene editing, homologous recombination, DNA repair enhancement, antioxidant protection, signal transduction optimization, and bioreactors.

The final result of the 'Eternity' project is that the Jerram people created a perfect artificial cell series called 'Eternity Cells' in the laboratory like the creator.

(End of this chapter)