Chapter 254: Snowdon Biological Laboratory

At this moment, one of the white researchers, around thirty years old, spoke up thoughtfully:

"The boss wants a commercially viable result, but he didn't say it absolutely had to be a 'modifier'."

"As everyone has said, the modifiers we have researched cannot compare to the 'enhancers' of Tianqi Group; their appearance alone is enough to turn everyone away, making commercialization almost impossible."

"So, could we perhaps find another way?"

These words piqued everyone's interest.

Professor Gailun also turned his head to look at him.

Someone hurriedly pressed:

"Qiaozhi, what do you mean?"

The white researcher Qiaozhi paused for a moment, seemingly organizing his thoughts, before speaking solemnly:

"Given the boss's requirements, our previous research goals were primarily focused on human body enhancement, and secondarily on allowing the human body to possess survival capabilities in various complex environments."

"Since our green-scaled modifiers cannot compete with Su Xin's enhancers, we should simply avoid that direction; we can't compete with him anyway."

"The enhancers Su Xin researched significantly boost the various qualities the human body already possesses, with no changes to appearance or internal structure, which makes them easier for people to accept, but that is also the problem: he has no additional abilities."

"This is our opportunity to compete."

"We can focus on survival capabilities, discard the ability to enhance the body, discard the powerful defensive capabilities of the skin, and discard other various abilities that aid in survival, keeping only the gills and the internal Oxygen Storage Organ to allow the human body the ability to breathe normally in various environments."

"This is actually simpler, and the changes to human genes are much fewer."

"Coupled with our years of research results as a foundation, there is a high hope of developing such a respiratory system within three months."

"Although this respiratory system also causes changes to the human appearance, if it is only the gills, some groups of people should be able to accept it."

"For example, sailors and fishermen, as well as some deep-diving enthusiasts, could all use this additional respiratory system to survive underwater for long periods."

"Or those who have lost the ability to breathe normally due to special diseases could also find a second life through this additional respiratory system."

"Naval forces could also form a special team possessing the ability to survive in the sea."

"In short, adding such an extra respiratory system to the human body will definitely have a market; although the market scale won't be very large and will only target a portion of special groups, the good thing is there is no competition, and Su Xin cannot compete with us."

"And it can meet the boss's requirements."

Professor Gailun frowned and fell into thought.

Growing a pair of gills on the face is not just as simple as opening two holes on the cheeks, but a series of changes to the internal structure.

From the perspective of human aesthetics, it is still a monster-like existence, failing to solve the core problem of the green-scaled modifiers.

Or rather, it cannot solve people's prejudices.

In Professor Gailun's view, the green-scaled modifiers could actually be considered a successful product to a certain extent; after all, except for their appearance, the green-scaled modifiers are far stronger than humans in every aspect.

Especially their survival ability; they can live on land and also survive in the sea for long periods.

And the powerful defensive ability of their skin makes the green-scaled modifiers not as fragile as humans, and their close-quarters combat is even stronger than many wild beasts.

Setting aside their appearance, the comprehensive capabilities of the green-scaled modifiers are not inferior to Su Xin's enhancers.

Unfortunately, the appearance condition simply cannot be set aside.

Just like a girl who is super excellent in every aspect but looks ugly is often not as popular as a super beauty.

Or a boy who is super excellent in every aspect but looks ugly is likewise not as popular as a super handsome man.

Human prejudice is just that shallow.

Let alone the green-scaled modifiers, which are green all over and look like monsters.

Unless the effect is truly heaven-defying, no one is willing to undergo enhancement voluntarily.

Let alone launching it to the market for sale, people would be scared to death just by being grabbed to have the serum injected.

Professor Gailun sighed in his heart and said:

"I will make a suggestion to the boss."

"We have already researched to this point; wanting to change the research direction at the last minute is simply unrealistic, and furthermore, to produce results in three months, we can only adjust based on the existing research route."

"My thought is, either we continue as we are, follow one path to the end, continue researching the complete enhancement route, and find a way to fully unleash the potential of the alien genes; although the appearance will certainly become even uglier, the capabilities in all aspects will also be stronger, and it will certainly be able to completely crush the enhancers Su Xin researched."

"As long as our modifiers are powerful enough, there will definitely be many forces willing to place orders."

"As long as there are people willing to place orders, and the number of modifiers increases, slowly becoming a new ethnic group, they can gradually be accepted by the world."

"The other idea is..."

"Completely abandon all features that require changing the appearance, focus on optimizing the respiratory system, and launch it to the market as a medical treatment."

"Of course, I must ask the boss for instructions first, as the boss is the owner of the Laboratory after all."

After the discussion.

Professor Gailun returned to his office, directly called the boss to report on the work, and put forward some of his own suggestions.

"Boss, the target has been found, with ninety-three percent accuracy."

Tianqi Group headquarters campus, main office building.

In a spacious and bright office on the top floor, after working out and taking a shower, Su Xin sat in the boss's chair, feeling refreshed.

The gentle and mellow voice of the Tianwei Butler came from the computer in front of him.

Su Xin calmly instructed:

"Send the target's intelligence to me."

"Received!"

As the voice fell, a series of data and text, as well as some reposted news reports and pictures, automatically appeared on the computer screen in front of Su Xin.

Ever since he obtained detailed intelligence on the high-level members of the Yongji Society, Su Xin had instructed the Tianwei Butler to continuously search for more intelligence on the internet and keep an eye on their movements at all times.

Therefore, the Tianwei Butler had left a sub-program in the branches of Tianqi Group located in various countries, used to hack into the networks of various countries and monitor the movements of those high-level members on the internet at all times.

Because it was only network monitoring, given the security levels of those big shots, it was naturally impossible to monitor them in great detail, but their whereabouts could still be found.

Once the whereabouts are known, one can hack into the signal base station of the target's location, intercept all calls from this base station, and use voiceprint analysis to identify every call made by the target; no matter how secret the target's mobile number is, it cannot escape.

Of course, the daily call data for every base station is extremely massive, and a single location often corresponds to not just one, but several base stations that automatically distribute connections.

Therefore, while this method seems simple, the data that needs to be processed is truly too vast, and ordinary servers simply cannot handle it.

It also requires extremely strong voice analysis capabilities to accurately analyze the target's voiceprint in a very short time and determine which call belongs to the target.

Afterward, it must also automatically identify the content of the other party's conversation to judge whether the intelligence has any value.

All of this happens to be the strength of the Tianwei Butler; after all, it is an Artificial Intelligence program even more powerful than the Tiantian Assistant.

After it intercepted words related to "experiment" and "human body" from the phone of Chairman Mike, it immediately conducted an in-depth investigation, and subsequently, it happened to identify more detailed content related to the experiment from an incoming call from the other party.

This also allowed the Tianwei Butler to basically confirm that the entity contacted by this phone is exactly the Laboratory that Su Xin is looking for.

With a clear target.

The next steps are easy to handle.

Based on the target's mobile number, the Tianwei Butler looked up some information about the other party, such as the registered location, the location of the base stations frequently connected to, the other party's name, and other identity information.

Step by step, like peeling a cocoon, it found a large amount of intelligence on the target Laboratory from the massive and complex data.

"Eagle Sauce Country, Luoda State, Snowdon Biological Laboratory, established in March 1928."

"The first chief researcher, Hente Mogen, was a famous evolutionary biologist, geneticist, and embryologist in Yingjiang Country; he discovered the genetic mechanism of chromosomes, founded the chromosome inheritance theory, was a founder of modern experimental biology, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933, became the chief researcher of Snowdon Biological Laboratory in 1935, left office in 1944, and passed away naturally in 1945."

"The second chief researcher, Yuesipu Kaluomeng, was born in 1906, a world-famous biological scientist and geneticist, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1941 together with two others..."

"The third chief researcher, who is the current chief researcher, Gailun Jianaxi, is a tenured honorary professor at Harvard University, an academician of the Yingjiang Country Academy of Sciences, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2002, and has also won many international awards; he is one of the top biological experts in the world today..."

After quickly reading through the intelligence, Su Xin had a certain understanding of this Laboratory.

This Laboratory has a quite long history, and the researchers inside are basically all top biologists, yet in all the years since its establishment, it has only produced a few biomedical achievements of little value, having basically no popularity among the public and remaining obscure in the scientific community as well.

If not for this intelligence, Su Xin would never have believed that the Green-Scaled Modifier actually came from such a seemingly incompetent Laboratory.

Among the many pieces of intelligence collected by the Tianwei Butler, there were evaluations of this Laboratory by the media and some scientists over the years.

In the eyes of those in the know, with such a long history, the joining of so many top scientists, and hearing that the investors had put in quite a lot of money, the fact that this Laboratory only achieved such ordinary results is indeed quite incompetent.

Regarding this, decades ago, Snowdon Biological Laboratory once proactively revealed to the outside world that they were researching a human body enhancement technology and expected to have some achievements before long.

That caused quite a sensation at the time.

As it turned out, Snowdon Biological Laboratory still had no major achievements, from then on becoming a joke in the industry, and afterward, it has been researching in a low-profile manner, not receiving attention from outsiders.