The Ultimate War Of The Apocalypse
Chapter 537 - 530 Lifebuoy

Chapter 537: Chapter 530 Lifebuoy

It could be an event that affects the existence of an entire civilization, but when spoken by Ram, it seems like an insignificant trifle that could be easily resolved.

Gao Yuan was filled with a sense of unreality.

"Is it really that simple?"

"It’s that simple."

Ram smiled, then he said very calmly, "This is no conspiracy, this is an open strategy, a long-term strategy that takes a very long time to reveal its outcome. No civilization can resist the temptation of immortality, so all we need is to start it off with a seemingly reasonable process. You don’t even have to take any particularly complex or delicate steps."

After contemplating for a moment, Gao Yuan asked in a low voice, "The only problem is, is immortality very difficult to achieve?"

Xinghe looked at Gao Yuan, then she smiled and said, "Difficult, but not impossible. As long as technology develops to a certain extent, it can be relatively easily achieved. You can’t do it, but the Serpent People definitely can."

Even knowing that immortality was a poison for a civilization, Gao Yuan couldn’t suppress the immense desire for it that welled up inside him.

"How is it done?"

Ram, of course, did not know, nor did Big Ivan, but after a moment’s reflection, Xinghe smiled at Gao Yuan and said in a low voice, "You."

"Me?"

"Yes, because you have already met the necessary precondition for immortality."

Gao Yuan stood frozen, his mind a cacophony of noise, feeling a mix of fear and secret delight, anticipation and anxiety about the future.

After a long while, Gao Yuan asked, puzzled, "You say I’ve achieved it? What do you mean?"

Xinghe continued indifferently, "Your vaccine allowed you to counter and suppress the virus, that vaccine which is not only for the zombie virus. In fact, it’s a universal vaccine, but this kind of vaccine can only prevent in advance, not treat afterward, because the zombie virus causes irreversible damage to the brain. And you were infected by the zombie virus before injecting the vaccine, right before it was about to destroy your brain. The virus and vaccine struggled within your body and finally reached a balance, which is why you survived, making you a unique and fortunate individual."

"Unique and fortunate?"

"You didn’t die, which is fortunate. And the changes the zombie virus made to your body have given you endless strength and incredible speed, but the vaccine kept your brain intact, preventing you from being a walking source of the virus. So you are a unique and lucky exception, unreplicable and not to be used as a template, not evolvable, not heritable, unless we... we, as in the Celestial civilization, replicate your genes, only then might it be possible to create a brand-new concept of human physiology. But currently, your body traits are more detrimental than beneficial; there’s no need for replication and dissemination."

After saying this, Xinghe gently rearranged her hair with her hand and continued softly, "What’s curious is that immortality halted the development of our civilization, as we lost the driving force to move forward. Yet we never thought of using immortality as a poison to deliver to the Serpent People, thereby eliminating their threat from its roots. Perhaps immortality also took away our imagination; it’s understandable, when you have an infinite life, it’s hard to maintain interest in anything."

Gao Yuan asked softly, "So I’m the key to achieving immortality? But haven’t you said that my genes aren’t capable of being replicated?"

Xinghe smiled and pointed to herself, "You can’t, but I can. Otherwise, how do you think I have lived for so long?"

It was actually that simple.

Yu Shunzhou often said with envy that he wished he could inject Gao Yuan’s blood into his body, a thought that wasn’t unique to him alone. Anyone who had seen what Gao Yuan was capable of would invariably have the same idea.

But nobody ever thought of treating Xinghe’s blood as if it were chicken blood to be injected.

Gao Yuan still stared blankly at Xinghe.

Xinghe continued to smile, "All that’s needed is to draw my blood and separate it, a very simple technique, separating platelets, red blood cells, white blood cells, and all, and you’d obtain a portion of Biological Robots, what you call nanotechnology. The principle is similar, and these Nanobots are capable of self-replication, just like cells."

Ram and Big Ivan were hearing about the possibility of achieving immortality and the pathway to it for the first time from Xinghe, and they were utterly fascinated.

Of course, anyone who came into contact with this concept would be fascinated.

Ram couldn’t help but ask, "That’s it?"

Xinghe shook her head, "No, it’s not that simple. Cellular division and replication have a limit, and of course, so does this robot. Its limit..."

After converting time, Xinghe continued, "is about one thousand Earth years."

A thousand years!

Ram’s breath started to grow labored.

But Xinghe just smiled and said, "I have lived through long durations of space travel. The life-support system would automatically update the robots in my body, and besides, I also carried spare Nanobots. But my ship was destroyed, and the Nanobots I had prepared for myself were given to..."

Xinghe looked towards Gao Yuan and smiled, "You."

Gao Yuan’s breathing halted for a moment, then he said in a low voice, "Given to me? Those weren’t the vaccine, but the robots you use to maintain your life?"

Xinghe nodded and smiled, "That’s right. Why would I create a vaccine specially for humans, which would be utterly meaningless to me, before landing? If I didn’t say it this way at our first contact, wouldn’t I fear my blood being drained by you all for research?"

Gao Yuan asked softly, "My blood has been sampled, can they create the same Nanobots from it?"

Xinghe shook her head, "They can’t. The technology isn’t there. This isn’t something that can be achieved in the short term, but I think it can be done soon, maybe in a few decades, a hundred years? I don’t know, assuming human civilization continues to exist and maintains a basic population and level of technology."

With a sigh, Xinghe continued with a smile, "So, there’s an especially simple way to treat Big Ivan now. I will draw some blood, not much is needed, a small tube will suffice. Then Big Ivan also draws blood, mix them, and let the Nanobots replicate themselves. After some time, we’ll put the blood back in. After a while, once enough Nanobots have replicated in Big Ivan’s body, they will automatically repair and remodel all his pathologies, restore missing parts, and the excess parts will be transported out of the body by the robots through the intestines. Just like that, very simple, huh?"

Gao Yuan said softly, "You don’t have to tell me anymore, you..."

Gao Yuan was a bit anxious because it’s hard to predict human nature, and he feared Xinghe might be treated as a walking panacea, something most people of normal intelligence could figure out.

Now, Big Ivan was looking at Xinghe as if she were a life-saving medicine, like a drowning person seeing a lifeline before them.