Chapter 37: The Special Zone, Adam and Eve

In biology, creating something on a macroscopic level is relatively easier.

The challenge lies in solving the problem of cultivating ordinary cells into a fertilized egg or a morula, after which it's just a matter of providing nutrients to the morula.

The cloning technology Ella currently controls is actually more difficult than this cell cultivation technology.

For the current Ella, creating humans is merely a matter of will.

On the third day of the negotiations between the clone of Yan Xia and the Kate civilization (the self-proclaimed name of the Proxima Centauri creatures), a large number of robots arrived in the designated special zone from the fleet.

The surface area of Proxima Centauri c is 1.474 billion square kilometers, approximately 2.9 times that of Earth, and the surface is not rich in water, with only 13.58 billion square kilometers of usable land.

Of this, the Kate civilization had originally developed 4.11 billion square kilometers, leaving 9.47 billion square kilometers undeveloped.

To show their sincerity, the Kate civilization designated 1 billion square kilometers as the special zone, which is already one-third of Earth's land area.

The development of the entire special zone took 200 years.

Ella established a giant "ecological bubble" on Proxima Centauri c, similar to the glass-enclosed botanical gardens on the Hundred-Eyed Star.

However, this one is larger, and it doesn't require a giant glass to contain the gas. Ella has a new technology that uses electromagnetic force to confine the gas within a specific range.

From space, one can see over 100,000 flying saucers, each with a diameter of 100 meters, floating 100 kilometers above the ground, looking like UFOs.

Each of these saucers is equipped with matter-antimatter annihilation devices, using a massive amount of energy to convert into electromagnetic force to confine the gas and prevent it from dissipating.

For the current Yan Xia, this is only a small energy consumption.

The most important thing is another object, a massive structure with a diameter of 6,000 meters.

This structure's volume is no smaller than that of the Guangming Number, but it's not a spaceship. Instead, it's the long-awaited "small sun."

The surface of Proxima Centauri c is too cold, and to create a suitable ecological environment, the planet's surface must be heated.

The small sun can solve this problem well.

This small sun doesn't use matter-antimatter annihilation but nuclear fusion, with a surface temperature of only 20,000 degrees Celsius. Combined with the light civilization's technology, it provides stable heat and light to the entire special zone.

After 200 years, standing in the special zone and looking up at the sky, one would see a deep blue sky, white clouds, and air confinement stations neatly arranged like chess pieces in the sky.

Ella also used technology to cultivate grass, trees, and various flowers.

This only required some genetic programming of the agricultural plants on the Hope Number, and then they could create entirely new plants.

These plants may look similar to the flowers, trees, and grass commonly seen on Earth, but their genes are vastly different, and in biological terms, they belong to different classes.

The special zone doesn't have many high-tech buildings. Vast forests, mountains, and grasslands occupy most of the area.

The reason for this is that Yan Xia didn't want to create too many humans initially.

At this moment, Yan Xia stands in the biological laboratory, looking at rows of glass containers, feeling a bit conflicted.

Whether from a genetic or ethical perspective, the embryos in these containers are his children.

There are 100 pairs of males and females.

In the legend, God created Adam and Eve.

Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, reproduced, and gave birth to humanity.

Yan Xia had Ella create 100 pairs of Adams and Eves, and theology and science were once again linked in an unusual way.

"Yan Xia, all humans in the future will be your descendants. You can say that these humans are your direct ancestors."

Ella spoke, feeling happy for Yan Xia, but Yan Xia didn't smile, and his brows were furrowed.

"What is the survival rate of these 100 children?"

Inbreeding can lead to deformities, and although Ella can correct this, Yan Xia hasn't asked her to do so because it would involve genetic modification of the humans.

"71%."

In other words, about 29% of the children will be born with deformities or other diseases and die young.

Yan Xia feels that although he has lived for many years and spent a lot of time in the virtual world, he hasn't become cold-blooded.

"Is there a way to correct the embryos before they develop to reduce the rate of deformities and genetic diseases in inbreeding?"

"This can reduce the rate of deformities and genetic diseases in inbreeding without altering the genes."

Ella calculated.

"This will take time."

This isn't an easy technology, but it's not difficult.

While Ella was researching, the embryos in the containers developed into infants after ten months of gestation.

Robots took on the responsibility of caring for these infants and teaching them to speak.

Of course, as the only humans, Yan Xia also acted as their teacher, and he decided to spend 30 years with them until they fully understood how to be human, got married, and had children.

This was a nightmare for Yan Xia, who had never raised children before, but he had to shoulder this responsibility because he was human.

Fortunately, Ella's information database is vast, and it also stores Earth's internet images for Yan Xia to learn from.

Thirty years passed quickly.

Yan Xia's life was filled with both pain and fulfillment. He was happy to see the children grow up, but he also felt pain when they developed their independent thoughts and gradually distanced themselves from him.

Raising children is challenging, but it also provides many valuable experiences, a unique emotion that Earth's biology has.

Yan Xia feels that although he has left Earth for a long time and has made significant technological progress, even changing genetically, he is still connected to the Earth he once knew.

The foundation of human civilization is like a rope, constantly pulling him back from the brink.

30 years passed in the blink of an eye.

Looking back, it feels like it all happened just yesterday.

The second generation of humans was born and grew up.

Ella solved the problem Yan Xia gave her, reducing the deformity rate to 4% and the mortality rate to 0.001%.

After the first generation of children is born, these 100 families will be divided into two parts. The second generation will marry, and there won't be any unmarried males or females. Ella will cultivate new humans to correct the gender ratio.

This will continue for 300 years, and then the new humans will be on the right track, with a population of nearly 100,000. After surpassing 100,000, the human population will enter a period of exponential growth, reaching 10 million in 200 years.

Yan Xia's task is to wait.

At the same time, he hasn't forgotten the threat of the third civilization. Ella is vigorously developing technology and has already started to take shape.