Chapter 495: Give Birth For Humanitys Future! (1/2)
Chapter 495: Give Birth For Humanity's Future!
Translator: EndlessFantasy TranslationEditor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Chen Xinjie entered the office gracefully with an enticing fragrance on her body. Placing the cup of tea on her hand before Luo Yuan, she whispered into his ear, ”Mayor, 10 more minutes to the meeting.” Within two years, technology was not the only thing that changed rapidly, there were some changes in the people in City Hall as well. Some of them were sacked for corruption and some just could not keep up with development while others were promoted.
His former secretary, Cheng Guanghui was assigned to a new location as the director of the Industrial Bureau. He was replaced by Chen Xinjie as Luo Yuan's secretary. To Cheng Guanghui, such a promotion was nothing to be happy about. Aside from having to work independently, it also meant that he would no longer be involved in the research on energy crystals any further.
In all honesty, Luo Yan was quite indifferent about Cheng Guanghui and it was merely an organizational transfer. Usually, secretaries for leaders would not hold their positions for more than three years before they were transferred. It was to prevent staff progress from stagnating and to avoid misuse of management rights.
After all, being his secretary meant that he was Luo Yuan's ambassador. Every move he made represented Luo Yuan's will or at least it did in the eyes of others. More so in an era where power was a priority, the power a secretary held was even more than the other committee members. It was without a doubt, an unusual phenomenon.
The reason why he chose Chen Xinjie as his secretary was because he knew her very well. She did not have a desire for power and she had a strong level of integrity. Besides, compared to others that Luo Yuan was not so familiar with, he would naturally trust people he had around him.
Luo Yuan looked at the time and said, ”It’s still early, let me finish looking at these documents.”
Chen Xinjie did not disturb him and left soon after he said that. After Luo Yuan finished looking at the documents, he stood up, tidied his clothes and walked out of his office. Chen Xinjie who was at the secretariat followed him with a pile of documents in hand.
While they were on the way, they started chatting, ”Is the birth rate that low nowadays?”
”It has been like this since the beginning of the apocalypse. Although the antidote virus did not mutate most of the human, slight changes had taken place. Humans were now vastly different than they were before the apocalypse, which heavily affected the birth rate.” Luo Yuan said in a serious tone.
To spread the word on how evil Glassians were, news of the antidote virus which caused the mutation epidemic on earth, as well as countless deaths in the general population, were made known to the public. Chen Xinjie already knew about the news so it was nothing new to her. Soon, they arrived at the meeting room. The guard who stood in front of the meeting room was stunned to see them both but he got a hold of himself and opened the door.
It was not a meeting with the management but rather, a policy seminar. Aside from the leaders from each management team, most of the people present were popular scientists and professors. Without wasting any more time, Luo Yuan started the meeting right away.
”This is the latest information on all the newborn babies in all the hospitals during the past two years. To date, there have only been 3,320 newborn children within the past two years. The birth rate is terrifyingly low and this cannot go on. If we do not do anything, we'd go extinct within 5,000 years! I have given each of you a copy of the information and all of you should have already read it. If anybody has any proposals, you're welcome to speak up and if you have anything to say about the cloned humans, you can voice your opinions too.” Luo Yuan said.
Chen Xinjie was doing her best to write down the minutes of the meetings as fast as she could in a corner, occasionally glancing at Luo Yuan. To her, that was the time he was the most attractive.
”Respectable mayor and leaders, I am against cloning humans. At our current level of technology, it's true that it wouldn't be difficult to clone humans but cloning alone will merely increase the population and will do nothing to increase the birth rate of humans. If humans would give up natural methods of conceiving a child and fully turn to cloning to continue the human race, this may just work. However, this would create a huge impact on human society, causing a collapse in the old social model of a family and cause an uproar in society as we know it. In my opinion, the best way forward in tackling the low birth rate would be to continue our research in medicine.” A social science professor covered with white hair stood up and said in all seriousness.
Luo Yuan frowned, not expecting the first person to speak up to speak against cloning.
”I think this old professor is too conservative. Every stage of progress in society will bring a certain level of impact. The matriarchal period, feudal period and the small family period before the apocalypse impacted society in various ways. The development of clones would naturally impact existing society, it is unavoidable. Now that there were few of us left and outer space was not somewhere safe, to even consider the impact cloning will bring society before we even solve the problem we're currently facing is ridiculous..” Said a scientist who stood up after the professor.