489 The Path of Supreme (2/2)

”Okay.” Lin Minjie agreed without hesitation. ”Where's the contract?”

The man shook his head.

”You know, your research can't be written on the contract or it would become evidence. Even if the Science Ethics Committee doesn't have as much power as before, the court will still fine us, so—”

He stopped there and signaled his assistant again.

The assistant walked up and opened a briefcase on the table.

There was a syringe inside.

”This is?” Lin Minjie frowned and looked at the man in the suit, puzzled.

”With just 10ml, this can make anyone get muscular dystrophy without any evidence and they would be at a terminal stage.” The man smiled.

Lin Minjie blankly looked at him and his devilish smile.

”What… what do you mean?”

”Nothing. It's just that if your only family member, your daughter, suffered from muscular dystrophy, then even the Science Ethics Committee wouldn't make too much commotion about a father saving his daughter. At the same time, us, East Pacific Heavy Industrial, will make a donation on humanitarian grounds to fund your research.” The man lowered his voice. ”With this, you'll be more motivated, right?”

Lin Minjie looked at the man in disbelief.

Out of his own surprise, he didn't feel anger or remorse. After experiencing the ups and downs of the past six years, he was thoroughly annoyed at the world and even felt hatred toward it.

People always applied their own standards to other people and attacked people with different beliefs on supposedly ethical grounds. It would only take a few strokes of a pen on the prosecution document to end the results of ten years of research.

Even though a family would collapse because of it…

What exactly is ethics?

He was lost.

After that, the six-year-old Lin Lin ”accidentally” suffered from muscular dystrophy after a cold and was diagnosed to be in the terminal stage. East Pacific Heavy Industrial donated 1 billion to support her father's research on digitalized humans. They also bought the media to use public opinion to support his cause and forced the Science Ethics Committee to withdraw their prosecution against the ”great” father.

He engraved consciousness onto a circuit board and used currents and mechanics to replace blood and bone.

Public opinion about digitalized humans, the technology viewed by the world as forbidden, became surprisingly smooth under the support of East Pacific Heavy Industrial.

The limitations of intermediate artificial intelligence were removed and the development of advanced artificial intelligence along with the body design ran concurrently. Although his feeble daughter stuck in a hospital ward made him feel some guilt, the rapid progress in technology gave him some slight comfort.

The picture turned again - it was a hospital. Looking at the ward, Jiang Chen thought it looked familiar before he quickly remembered it was where he met Lin Lin for the first time.

”Once Lin Lin can walk, dad will take you to the movie theater, to the amusement park. Anywhere you want to go, I will take you there.” With a lily in the vial on the nightstand, Lin Minjie didn't look at his daughter's face. Instead, he spoke to the pristine white flower petal.

”The uncle who made a donation is a good person.” Lin Lin smiled joyfully.

Even though all the muscles in her body were affected by the dystrophy, she still believed he could allow her to run freely under the sunshine again.

Lin Minjie's throat twitched. He looked at his daughter.

Looking at his daughter's bright smile, he didn't know what to say.

Finally, he forced on a smile and squeezed out a sentence.

”Mhmm, he is a good person.”

And then, the war erupted.

The 2150 economic crisis foreshadowed the war in 2171. Humans weren't machines and they could use logic to solve problems. Small problems could be fixed through meetings, but fundamental problems had to be addressed by war.

East Pacific Heavy Industrial, who funded his research, was acquired by PAC to transform into a military corporation. He then went from being a scientist working for a private company to an academician serving the army, helping PAC to develop killing machines related to artificial intelligence.

He was involved in the development of Reptile and Python.

Because of the war, the block on research was completely unlocked. War captives were constantly sent into Fallout Shelter 005 to live in a deadly virtual reality experience. The seed of the birth of advanced artificial intelligence was germinating, and the technology of digitalized humans was completed. Once Fallout Shelter 005's testing enabled the evolution from intermediate to advanced artificial intelligence, combined together, a human made up of completely mechanical parts would be born into this world!

At the time, a sudden dangerous, extreme thought was born.

If advanced artificial intelligence could replace humans and give birth to a new mechanical civilization, what was the purpose of humans?

Humans were disgusting, greedy, pedantic, ugly…

A crazy thought was born.

He even gave the child that had yet to be born in this world a name.

It would be called Supreme.

The Supreme who was above all.