Chapter 34: Gene-Seed

"Super soldier… human limit…"

At this moment, Rebecca, whose mind was gradually clearing, was murmuring to herself, pondering Sui Bian's words.

"Hmm… actually… Mr. Sui, the company has had a super soldier program since acquiring the Original Virus, but the development has been extremely slow."

But when Sui Bian mentioned the term super soldier, BoKen, the company's top researcher, was not surprised; on the contrary, the genius doctor wore a worried expression.

Umbrella's super soldier project, bluntly speaking, is Si Bin Sai's euphemistically named research project to achieve immortality and evolve into a god.

Since its inception, the project has been around for at least thirty years, yet it has yielded no breakthrough progress.

There are, and only the "prodigies" selected from millions, and Albert Wiske is one of them.

If Sui Bian had not suddenly visited, then according to the game's original storyline, BoKen would have used Wiske's genes to create an Original Virus β variant, turning him into a "pseudo‑god" existence.

Moreover, the order to produce the Original Virus β strain was secretly given to BoKen by Si Bin Sai.

But people like Wiske, who are innately gifted, are ultimately extremely rare.

The T-virus, extracted from the Original Virus, has stable metrics, but the human compatibility rate is only one in ten million.

If one is not that one in ten million, the result of injecting the T-virus is a "zombie".

Fortunately, infection of human embryos and fertilized eggs by the T-virus is very stable, allowing B. O. W. development.

And the G-virus, formally called Golgotha Virus, is a completely different entity from the T-virus; BoKen also likes to call it the "God Virus".

After injection, the G-virus rewrites the host at the genetic level, ideally causing the host to evolve into a higher‑tier being.

But the G-virus is extremely picky; if the host fails to meet its minimum requirements, it collapses and dies.

If the host barely meets the minimum, infection by the G-virus will cause an uncontrolled "evolution", which could be good or bad.

One more point: the G-virus cannot spread as rapidly as the T-virus.

A G-virus‑infected host must find genetically similar targets for "propagation", which is why, in the game, BoKen, infected with the G-virus, constantly pursues his daughter Shirley BoKen.

As a biological weapon, the G-virus is indeed a failure.

But the G-virus in the game was only newly completed; BoKen hadn't had time to experiment and fine‑tune it before being attacked by Hank and Alpha.

Now BoKen knows that Sui Bian said he hoped to use the T-virus, G-virus, and serum to achieve the super soldier program, but in reality he is pinning his hopes on the G-virus.

He paused.

BoKen, still worried, said to Sui Bian: "Mr. Sui, the G-virus is currently the most likely way to surpass human limits, but its present state is completely uncontrollable.

Even if there are G-virus compatible hosts, mass production remains an issue, because the virus's continuation requires genetically close people—relatives…"

"Nevertheless, I will improve this as much as possible."

Seeing BoKen looking very worried, Sui Bian crossed his arms and opened: "Actually, Doctor, I can offer you a completely new line of thought."

"Oh? I wonder what suggestion Mr. Sui has?" BoKen said, clearly interested.

"Doctor, a while ago I studied the company's cloning technology; it seems cloned bodies have major deficits in intelligence and thought, but their genes and physical qualities are almost fully inherited from the original, right?" Sui Bian retorted.

"Yes, that's correct." BoKen nodded lightly without denying.

Umbrella's cloning technology was inherited from the Soviet Union, but among the many cloned test subjects, only Sergei's clone possessed the intelligence to obey orders.

The brain truly is humanity's most mysterious organ; even if a clone's brain is almost identical to the original, its thought and intelligence differ greatly.

"Then, Doctor, I would like you and Officer Chambos to use my blood to refine serum, and also have you create clones from my blood and use those clones for G-virus experiments. How does that sound?" Sui Bian suggested calmly.

"This… is absolutely fine! Very doable, extremely doable!" BoKen naturally would not refuse such a good thing.

Setting aside his role as company chairman, Sui Bian has always been an excellent experimental material in BoKen's eyes; BoKen simply refrained from proposing cloning Sui Bian due to concerns for his own and his family's safety.

"Cloning oneself for experiments… uh…" Rebecca shivered, seeming unable to accept it.

Sui Bian ignored Rebecca's reaction and asked BoKen: "One more thing, Doctor, have you ever heard of the 'Gene‑Seed' concept?"

"Gene… seed?" BoKen repeated, his brows furrowed.

"???" Rebecca hadn't even heard of the concept.

Seeing this, Sui Bian didn't pretend to be modest; he directly explained to BoKen, with the bewildered Rebecca in tow:

"Although the G-virus's compatibility criteria are stricter than the T-virus's, there should be many borderline candidates, and the company has hospitals worldwide with nearly 600 million blood samples.

Among them, males aged eleven to eighteen number about 67 million, so we can select borderline G-virus compatible candidates from these youths.

Meanwhile, you should already have conducted extensive G-virus experiments using my clones; I want you to find a certain 'gland' among them.

If such a gland truly exists, extracting it and implanting it into these adolescent candidates would allow the G-virus‑bearing gland to slowly and safely remodel them as they pass puberty.

After puberty, further comprehensive enhancement surgeries could make them far beyond ordinary humans.

That 'gland' is the Gene‑Seed.

Of course, everything I just described is merely my perfect speculation, and even the so‑called Gene‑Seed is a complete fabrication, hehe.

Sui Bian couldn't help but smile at the end.

Indeed, his proposal was overly idealistic.

The G-virus has limitless evolutionary potential, the possibility of turning humans into gods, and even uses relatives for "propagation".

This somehow made Sui Bian associate it with the Warhammer 40k theme of "Fatherly Mercy, Filial Piety".

The Emperor → OriginalBody → Astate.

If the Emperor is a 'god' (please firmly believe the Empire's truth, the Emperor is not a god), then the gene OriginalBody of the son generation is a 'demigod', and the grandson generation Astate becomes an 'angel'.

And Astate's ability to become an angel from an ordinary male youth relies on the Gene‑Seed passed down from the OriginalBody.

(End of chapter)