Ling Cage: I come from Hisakawa

Chapter 141 You Don't Need a Chance
Bai Jingyu pulled his hand away and abruptly asked, "Jones, do you know what Helu's ambition is?"

Jones paused for a moment.

Hlu?

"Are you referring to His Majesty Helu of the Hela Empire?" Jones asked cautiously.

Bai Jingyu glanced at Jones.

Jones' heart raced. He cursed himself for being an idiot. Besides Helu, the emperor of the Hela Empire, which other Helu was worth Mayor White mentioning?
But why did Mayor Bai ask him that?

Jones's palms were sweating as he whispered, "I've heard that His Majesty Helu is eyeing ASH and wants to integrate it into SITA to help SITA cross the threshold of super artificial intelligence."

"Even you know about Helu's little scheme," Bai Jingyu said calmly.

"Haha." Jones chuckled dryly.

Bai Jingyu then asked, "Do you know why he wants SITA to become a super artificial intelligence?"

"Huh?" Jones was stunned.

This question stumped him.

Is making SITA a super artificial intelligence not enough? What else does His Majesty Khru want to do?
“Once SITA becomes a super artificial intelligence, it will be able to perfectly understand and simulate human emotions, helping the Hela Empire achieve a silicon-based ascension.” Bai Jingyu stared at Jones’s face.

Jones was taken aback at first, then his face paled in shock: "Silicon-based ascension?!"

His voice has become shrill.

As a scientist specializing in carbon-based immortality, he was certainly aware of his adversary's silicon-based ascension, and knew it in great detail.

He has always scoffed at the idea of ​​a silicon-based leap forward.

Silicon-based ascension involves uploading consciousness into a chip. In reality, it's cloning; once the new consciousness is born, the original consciousness still exists.

Then the original consciousness is destroyed, and the newly created consciousness replaces everything of the original owner.

This is worse than suicide!
Moreover, silicon-based ascension requires the guidance of super artificial intelligence. In the virtual world, super artificial intelligence is the only true god. If super artificial intelligence were to turn against humanity one day, all of humanity in silicon-based ascension would be doomed!
"Hulu's a fool!" Jones gritted his teeth. "Silicon-based ascension is mass suicide!"

Bai Jingyu remained expressionless.

This guy is really simple-minded. As soon as he learned that Helu supported silicon-based ascension, he immediately stopped calling himself Your Majesty.

Bai Jingyu slowly spoke: "Super artificial intelligence is the final piece of the puzzle for Hella's silicon-based ascension, and I believe their path is absolutely wrong, so I don't want to hand ASH over to Helu."

As Hlu said at the meeting, his conflict with Hlu was an ideological one.

It is the lightest yet heaviest struggle.

Silicon-based ascension would be tantamount to mass suicide, and the Hela Empire holds a pivotal position in the world. If they were to achieve silicon-based ascension, it would inevitably have an irreversible and enormous impact on the entire world.

In the long run, it could even lead to the extinction of the human race, and the newly born, whatever they may be called, could not be considered human.

"Mayor Bai is wise!" Jones said with complete agreement.

He said from the bottom of his heart: "Silicon-based leapfrog development is a dead end. Only the dumbest idiot would attempt to do it!"

Bai Jingyu nodded slightly.

“I’m not giving him ASH, preventing him from achieving silicon-based breakthroughs, and he’s trying to create obstacles for me as well.”

Bai Jingyu studied Jones's expression and said meaningfully, "What do you think your future will be like if Helu poachs you?"

Jones was stunned.

If he were to be poached, it would indeed have a significant impact on Hisakawa's carbon-based immortality plan.

However, the Hela Empire's national policy is silicon-based ascension. His past pursuit of carbon-based immortality probably has no future. Once he succeeds in silicon-based ascension, his situation will become even more difficult, and he may be sidelined until his death.

"I"

Jones said with difficulty, "Mayor Bai, you are joking. Not only can I not even get in touch with Helu, but even if Helu wanted me to go to Hela, I would never go. You have been very kind to me, and I am not the kind of treacherous person who would betray you!"

Bai Jingyu nodded.

He knew Jones.

They talk about gratitude and loyalty, but all they're really thinking about is business.

But you can actually feel more at ease using people like that.

"The development of Miracle K must be accelerated," Bai Jingyu asked. "Is everything ready?"

Jones became smug.

He straightened his back and smiled, "After the last experiment failed, I learned my lesson and readjusted the proportions of the ingredients in the medicine. This time, I'm absolutely confident of success!"

"You requested that Subject 19 be put on hold, then let Subject 20 experience the taste of immortality first!"

Bai Jingyu nodded slightly.

He said casually, "You've made another pledge. If you still fail this time, I'll have to deal with you."

Jones was stunned.

A pledge? I didn't make that!
I just said it offhand!
Looking at Bai Jingyu's serious expression, Jones wished he could slap himself.

Dead mouth!

How could you be so annoying!

"What's wrong?" Bai Jingyu frowned.

Jones wiped his sweat: "It's alright, please come with me."

We can't just kneel down and beg for mercy before we've even started the experiment; we need to at least see the results.

But to be honest, he felt that this time it should really be a success.

Actually, it should have succeeded last time. All the ingredients in the medicine were fine, but the ratio was a bit too extreme, exceeding the human tolerance range.

Surrounded by a group of researchers, Bai Jingyu and Jones arrived at the laboratory.

On the operating table, subject number 20 was naked.

His aged skin drooped, covered in wrinkles, and exuded the decaying smell of old age.

"Mayor Bai?" Number 20 was overjoyed.

Bai Jingyu nodded slightly: "I'd like to congratulate you in advance, because you will become the first immortal in human history."

"Really?" Number 20 was overjoyed.

Jones's face darkened. "The surgery is about to begin. If you want to live, shut your mouth and calm down!"

An experimental material even managed to strike up a conversation with Mayor Bai?

Don't you have any self-awareness?
Here, only I, Dr. Jones, am worthy to speak to Mayor Bai!
"Oh."

Number 20 obediently lowered his head, closed his eyes, and took a deep breath with anticipation for the future.

The researchers spread out and started up the instruments in the room.

“Mayor Bai, you can watch closely this time.” Jones opened the refrigerator and took out a vial of bright red Miracle K. He took a deep breath and inserted Miracle K into the inlet valve.

"The operation begins!"

The bright red liquid level gradually decreased.

The robotic arms on the operating table were activated. More flexible and stable than a human doctor's arm, they rotated around the elderly man, continuously piercing his body and injecting various auxiliary drugs.

"Hah—" the old man gasped for breath.

An invisible hand turned the clock hands.

The wrinkles on the old man's face quietly disappeared, and his face became younger and younger, looking sixty, fifty, and forty years old.
"Abnormal cell division index!"

"DNA initiates damage repair!"

The researchers remained calm.

The same situation occurred when Miracle K was tested on number 18 last time, and this has been written into the surgical procedure.

The old man's body swelled up like a balloon, with irregular bumps rising under his skin, a sight that made one's scalp crawl.

Meanwhile, the robotic arm continued to pierce the old man's body.

"Ah!" the old man cried out in pain.

"help me!"

He screamed in terror.

The operating table's red light flashed, and the life monitoring system emitted a piercing alarm.

"warn!"

"The test subject's body temperature is too low!"

"Decrease in cardiac output!"

The old man's mouth was overflowing with foul-smelling blood.

Gradually, his wails stopped and turned into inaudible sobs.

"You liars killed me."

The bulges under his skin began to writhe as if alive, crawling toward his neck and stretching it out.

Jones smiled excitedly.

"It's done, it's almost done!"

He gritted his teeth, the dim light illuminating his profile, making him appear exceptionally grotesque.

Bai Jingyu paid no attention to Jones's expression.

he mused.

The modification of Miracle K is disgusting. Can the process be optimized? Does Moonbeam have to go through this process when injecting Miracle K?

"Secrete adrenaline and corticosteroids!"

"Secreting medullary hormones!"

The old man had by then transformed into a hideous and grotesque monster.

He suddenly sat up, vomited a huge, foul-smelling ball of flesh, and then collapsed back onto the operating table.

Miracle K's transformation of him is nearing completion.

His physical deformities disappeared at a visible speed; his skin became incredibly white, and the excess fat and age spots on his body vanished.

I feel so much younger!
Under everyone's watchful eyes, in less than half a minute, Number Twenty seemed to have returned to his youth.

Just like the name Miracle K, this is a miracle!
A man-made miracle!

"The experimental subject's functions have returned to normal," the researcher said with a sigh of relief.

Everyone looked at the monitor.

Any deviation in any indicator on the monitor could lead to a repeat of the tragedy from last time.

After a while, everyone showed strange expressions.

"I've really turned back the clock!"

Number 20 looked down at her body, then reached out to touch her face, and was instantly overjoyed.

"Mayor Bai didn't lie to me!"

"It really worked!"

"I look younger! Hahahaha!"

Bang!
Suddenly, a loud bang came from the side; Jones had slammed his fist on the table.

Number 20 shuddered in fright.

"Why is this happening!"

"Why is it that only my body has become younger, but my brain hasn't changed at all?" Jones stared at the monitor, his hands clenched into fists.

He was trembling all over.

It was both fear and anger.

Number Twenty asked fearfully, "Dr. Jones, what's wrong? Didn't I succeed?"

“Shut up!” Jones snapped.

"If your body becomes younger but your mind remains as old as before, what kind of immortality is that? You might as well prepare to become a vegetable!"

The lifespan of nerve cells remains unchanged.

This means that in a few decades, Number Twenty's consciousness will dissipate with the death of his brain, leaving only an empty shell.

Number 20 was stunned.

Jones turned around and met Bai Jingyu's cold gaze.

In an instant, Jones felt a chill run down his spine.

Spicy balls!

To the researchers' astonishment, he knelt down at Bai Jingyu's feet with a thud.

"Mayor Bai!"

"Please, please give me another chance!"

(End of this chapter)