It is planned to use the derivative technology from the abandoned project 'Directed Cellular Cultivation Cloning Project,' rapid cloning technology, to conduct rapid cloning and cultivation of exceptional individuals.
The goal is to achieve fully grown clone warriors within three months.
Plan outcome: Failure.
Rapid cloning technology cannot allow the excellent cells of the original host to fully develop. The warriors produced using this technology can only reach 50% of the original's attributes, with limited lifespan, genetic instability, and limited cell strength.
When testing with ordinary materials, their genes could not withstand the intensity of rapid cloning.
Comprehensive evaluation: Due to the excessive resource consumption of rapid cloning technology and the low quality of the products, the produced clone warriors still require combat training and brainwashing control.
The input-to-output ratio does not meet the company's requirements, and compared with direct recruitment and training of soldiers, it lacks investment value.
This plan is temporarily shelved.
However, considering the possibility of restarting after a technological breakthrough, its experimental data and related technology have been sealed at the European Headquarters.
Human rapid cloning technology...
Mercer pondered—this technology is a failure for biotechnology, but for him...
Could it be a safe insurance?
Could he use rapid cloning technology to prepare a safe body for himself? Even if the physical quality is slightly lower, it doesn't matter.
Because thinking carefully, Mercer's intellectual attribute shouldn't originally be as high as 21 points, so where did such a high intellectual attribute come from?
Between people, is the so-called brain difference entirely determined by the brain as hardware, or is it determined by consciousness data?
For ordinary people, it might be the former, but for Mercer, could it be different?
Mercer checked the information on cloning technology again, finding that there was little related technical data stored in Night City, with most being stored in the biotechnology headquarters in Europe, which left him a bit regretful.
Based on the pieced-together information, current human cloning technology in biotechnology is still immature.
Simply put, you can completely clone someone who looks exactly like you, but their physical qualities cannot match the original.
The more exceptional the prototype, the better the potential of the cloned adult might be, but achieving the same physical quality as the prototype is almost impossible.
Unless their technology breaks through to the point of directly cloning a perfect adult instead of developing from an embryo, this path has almost hit a bottleneck and is difficult to break through in the short term.
In other words, it is entirely impossible to take a V as a prototype and clone a thousand super soldiers identical to V.
The basic cloned organisms have significantly weakened physical strength, whether brain power or body potential.
Furthermore, the growth cycle of such slow-cloned individuals is almost the same as humans—a decade or more to clone an ordinary person? What's the point?
This is also why biotechnology is currently more focused on body modification, bioremodification, and virus development projects.
But Mercer had a bold idea.
In his hands, he now had a Relic Chip!
If cloning technology and the Relic Chip are combined... could it achieve true immortality?
Not like Ultraman, who can only live in the Cyber World, but using Relic as a tool for consciousness transfer, truly coming back to life from a cloned body!
Moreover, even if biotechnological rapid cloning technology is flawed... the improvements they couldn't make, Mercer might be able to!
If he could get a prototype, Mercer might be able to start from scratch to improve the machine, producing one that can perfectly match, or even just rapidly mature an ordinary body!
If it comes to the point of no return, Mercer could use the Soulkiller Program to peel off his consciousness and upload it, then use another body to complete Reincarnation in the Filthy Land!
If he could achieve this... while opening Pandora's Box, it would truly make human lifespan limitations a thing of the past!
"I need to find a way to try this."
Mercer couldn't resist the lure of this possibility—this could make him fearless of physical death!
[V: She's coming back!]
[Mercer: Restrain her, I'll help you lock down her body's alarm, just knock her out, I'll leave a program in her brain to have a chat with her.]
[V: Understood.]
V silently stood by the door.
And Mercer, with a single crouch, was completely hidden behind the desk, covered by the desk and screen.
When Dr. Kuno walked irritably into the office, she fleetingly sensed a shadow by the door. Before she could see what it was, the next moment, her neck was gripped by a huge force.
She could only emit a barely audible gasp of breath, while her throat produced a faint 'heh heh' sound, and after two or three seconds, her brain fell into unconsciousness due to lack of oxygen.
Simultaneously, when V took action, Mercer hacked into her cyber control system, gaining control over her entire prosthetic body.
"Done, how much longer do you need?"
After dragging Dr. Kuno into the office and discarding her, V turned to look at Mercer.
Mercer glanced at the progress bar displayed in his prosthetic eye: "Two more minutes, don't rush, I want to steal as much as possible."