246: Chapter 247 "Ordinal Warfare" [Clone City]: Mechanical Technology and Biotechnology

Inside the central control room on the top floor of the Clone Tower, the middle-aged man standing on the conference table closed his eyes, enjoying a moment of tranquility. The noisy sounds from the surveillance screens above did not affect him in the slightest. Before the "Ascension Plan" officially began, he had actually entered a mental Realm that spanned both science and philosophy. Although it only lasted for a fleeting moment, it allowed him to review his entire life at an extremely fast speed.

Fifty years ago, this middle-aged man had, with his own strength, conquered a technological Bastion that no one had been able to shake for a century, achieving a leap-style Breakthrough in cloning technology and biological modification technology.

As a recognized Genius biologist of the "Ultra-Era Tech Empire," besides receiving a huge bonus issued by the tech Empire's management System—the "Central Superbrain"—he was also allocated an exclusive laboratory in the "Ultra-Era Tech Research Institute," the most famous and proudest institution in the imperial capital, and obtained many special privileges.

The "Ultra-Era Research Institute" was a scientific Holy Land that only Geniuses who had made significant technological contributions to the "Tech Empire" were qualified to enter, and only the Genius among Geniuses could possibly obtain an exclusive laboratory.

With pure white anti-static floors, gleaming stainless steel laboratory benches, gene sequencers with nanometer-level precision, and holographic data screens surrounding the entire wall, countless genetic codes concerning "life" flowed uninterruptedly during the man's day-and-night immersive research.

The rapid Clone cultivation device in the man's exclusive laboratory never stopped running. New dark green nutrient solution was constantly injected into the device, and the viscous nutrient solution bubbled with fine bubbles as it catalyzed the growth of the Clones.

In order to create the "perfect creature" that only existed in theory, the man edited genetic fragments day after day. Every once in a while, a Clone approaching the "perfect creature" would be born from the cultivation device, yet the very next moment after its birth, it would be assimilated by the man controlling the device into a pool of dark green viscous nutrient solution.

In the day-after-day experiments, the man discovered that the existence of the "perfect creature" was just like Pi—an existence with no end and no answer. The light in the man's eyes began to dim as the experiments progressed, until...

The Empire's scientific expedition team excavated an ice-sealed ultra-ancient tech Empire at a depth of 1200 meters in a polar ice sheet. Unlike the current tech Empire, which was dominated by mechanical technology, the core technology of the ultra-ancient tech Empire was biotechnology. Everything, from small daily tools to large war weapons, was a product of gene editing. Strangely, for some unknown reason, this ultra-ancient Empire, which possessed incredible biotechnology, had been frozen here, and not a single citizen existed.

From the center of the frozen city of the ultra-ancient tech Empire, the expedition team brought back something that changed the man's life—that living tome titled "corruption aberration."

At first, no one knew what the mysterious patterns on the cover of this living book meant. The research team just brought the book back to the warehouse of the Ultra-Era Tech Research Institute in the imperial capital. By "coincidence," the man, who had never left his exclusive laboratory, happened to choose to enter the warehouse to find inspiration, and led by intuition, walked all the way to this living book.

Looking at the book cover, which resembled cracked human skin, and the book body, which seemed to be breathing, for some reason, the man knew with certainty that the answer to the "perfect creature" he was pursuing was inside this living book.

Because he possessed special privileges, the man did not encounter much obstruction. He only submitted an application and obtained ownership of the living book in the warehouse within 5 minutes.

Looking at the living book delivered to the door of his exclusive laboratory by the transport robot, the man suppressed his excitement and calmly accepted the living book on the surface.