Chapter 613 - Eternal Life (1/2)
Jiang Fei started bringing the group of ladies to the location he had agreed with Zhao Ganming to meet at. At the same time, he started communicating with 0541 in his mind.
"What benefits does the Medical Ward give me?" Jiang Fei asked.
"Captain, this thing is very useful. In the circumstances where I have sufficient energy, I will be able to use the Medical Ward to rebuild your body as long as your brain is not completely destroyed." 0541 answered.
"Alright!" Jiang Fei nodded. Although the healing potions could help one to recover, it was useless for someone who had lost a limb or two. With the Medical Ward, Jiang Fei could repair broken limbs for himself and his loved ones.
"That's not the only thing it is capable of!" 0541 continued.
"Oh?" Jiang Fei asked curiously.
"This Medical Ward can allow someone to achieve eternal life to a certain extent!" 0541 said.
"Eternal life?!" Jiang Fei was surprised. Regardless of how strong a person was, he or she would eventually die of old age. Even a Level Five metahuman would die eventually no matter how long one tried to extend his or her lifespan. However, 0541 had actually mentioned eternal life.
Eternal life was something that people could only dream of. However, everyone knew it was impossible. Therefore, when Jiang Fei heard 0541's words, he was very surprised.
"Of course, it's not truly eternal life. It is only eternal life, figuratively." Thereafter, 0541 started explaining the concept of eternal life to Jiang Fei.
The cloning technique was rather well-developed on earth. But it was even more sophisticated in Planet Namek. Basically, any hospital in Planet Namek was capable of cloning. However, due to ethical reasons, Planet Namek disallowed human cloning with the use of strict laws. Nonetheless, in the age of galactic exploration, there was a single regulation which specially allowed crew members to obtain a new life through cloning.
Although Planet Namek had very advanced technologies, space travel was still an activity which required a significant amount of time. Most of the time, exploring an unknown galaxy could not be accomplished within a generation's lifespan. However, an exploration vessel could not contain a self-populating group due to the limited space. Therefore, Planet Namek enacted such a regulation during the age of galactic exploration.
Of course, a clone was akin to a piece of blank paper without any memory or knowledge. Although clones had the body of a full-grown human, it had the intelligence of a newborn. Another kind of special technique was needed–the Memory Storage and Transfer technique.
Crew members on the space vessel would periodically save their memories and thoughts into a designated device. Once they die of old age, other crew members would transfer their most recent record of memories and thoughts into the new clone's body. In that way, the clone would instantly have the memory and knowledge of the recently deceased crew member.
As such, although the old crew member had died, the new clone body would have perfect knowledge and memory of the deceased crew member. The clone would be able to continue the work of exploration on behalf of the deceased crew member. In other words, this meant the deceased crew member had achieved eternal life.
"Of course, this kind of behavior was somewhat unethical. Therefore, the law only allowed this kind of technique to be used in the space vessels on exploration missions. The use of such techniques was still strictly prohibited on Planet Namek.
"Tsk. The person would still be dead in the end." Jiang Fei rolled his eyes. He thought that there could be true eternal life. In the end, it only meant a clone would live on behalf of the deceased person. The person would still have to die.
"Forget it. Although it isn't very useful, I would at least not have to worry about losing a limb or anything like that." Jiang Fei shook his head. Although Jiang Fei was quite disappointed by 0541's alleged concept of eternal life, the Medical Ward was still useful to him.