On the 17th of July, the german school began. Since 2025 the federal states have finally decided to dissolve. All federal states not only had full developed autonomous legislative, executive, and juridical bodies but also their own constitution. With the disintegration, Germany became more united, more efficient and the wealth was better dispersed.
The main reason for the unitary system was the COVID-19 pandemic, which showed how important it is to be fast-acting and united, the unitary system gives a clear division of power and allows swift responses to the following crisis.
The start of school was a happy day as every student saw again their friends. There was only one exception, It was Ben Lupus. Ben was planning the following months, he was betwixt and between.
´I just talked with Efron. He informed me that everything works fine, they will register their company in November. From the 60 million transactions, they still had 43. They used the investment to rent a building in Warstein (Nordrhein-Westfalen) as the rental fee was very low there. They are now equipped with better materials and machines to accelerate the development of their products.
But even though, everything works fine, the fast development means that till November I need to reinvest enough for the production and the marketing. Naturally, I have enough funds on shares, but buying and selling shares with my knowledge is just too profitable.
Should I limit their fonds for developing LifeUp? Maybe? On one hand, I can multiply my funds in the stock market. On the other hand, LifeUp has a high potential, but till I receive high profits it will take a long time as most of the earning will be reinvested in new products.
In contrast to this is my project of strengthening my body. I can see that my stats progress has begun to stagnate if I want to improve more efficiently, then I need more time, better equipment, and enhancing drugs. It is still too early to distance myself from my family, but I can't waste my limited time.´
„Guys, have you heard? China has announced that its doctors have now the authorization to cure genetic disorders of newborns." Tobi said excitedly.
„They really did it! Do you think this should be done by every country?" Amadeus asked with a bit of disgust in his voice.
´Now that I hear it. The modification of my genome would weaken my body for a few months. So should I begin with that?´
„Don't talk so disgusted about it! If you suffered from Cystic fibrosis, for example, you wouldn't talk like that. Being able to cure such a fatal genetic disease at this stage of life, is clearly a blessing for that person!" Tobi said slightly angered.
´Till I have provided all the necessary equipment and produced all formula I know a lot of time will have passed. After injecting it, my bodies will need some time to adapt to the new Genom I will possess. This afternoon, I will order the equipment...´
„We don't have something against curing diseases or genetic disorder, but we are skeptical that China doesn't already genetically improve their next generation."
`But how can I hide it? In Germany gen-modification on humans is illegal! Where can I store my equipment? I need a sterile place with a fridge. ....´
„Ben, do you think China's decision was correct?" Tobi and Amadeus looked at Ben sternly.
They jolted Ben out of his thoughts with their question.
Ben became angry, ´How can they talk about something so unimportant and ask my opinion. I just tried to find a life-changing solution!´
Ben tried to smile and answered: „Their decision is in my opinion progressive, other countries will follow the idea. Even the modification of humans is not something that can be forever postponed, they are already a lot of modified plants and animals. Now, it will be our turn."
Ben realized with the stupefied faces of his friends that he made a big mistake. He shouldn't have given his real opinion.
Ben tried to change the strange atmosphere: „But this is just my thinking. I also prefer the thinking of staying non-modified, but we never know what the future holds for us. Why don't we ask Alex about his opinion?"
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In the afternoon, Ben was downloading "Tor project" on his laptop. In his last life, he didn't have a lot of knowledge about the dark web.
Through the dark web, private commuter networks can communicate and conduct business anonymously without divulging identifying information, like location. The dark web forms a small part of the deep web, the part of the Web not indexed by web search engines, although sometimes the term deep web is mistakenly used to refer specifically to the dark web.
As Ben planned to hide his experiments from the government, he needed to buy the equipment through the dark web.
After school, he researched a lot of information through a school computer, using the code of the math teacher, which he saw during a lesson.
The Tor dark web or onionland uses the traffic anonymization technique of onion routing under the network's top-level domain suffix .onion.
After the download, Ben opened it, adjusted the security level to the safest, and then copied the link of Empire Market.
Before accessing the market, Ben needed to register an account. He made a random username and password, put in a bitcoin account, which he filled with roughly 5 thousand €.
After signing in, he looked for the following products: 3 advanced CRISPR-kit; a few mysterious substances; some self-picked genes, and a new drug named Adam. Ben entered his shipping information, specified the quantity, entered his PIN, and confirmed his purchase.
The total expense was less than two thousand and his order would arrive in 13 days. This didn't come as a surprise as the kits came from America and ADAM came from China, the import of these products was illegal so it took even longer to smuggle his order into Germany.
Ben planned to rent a one-room apartment next to his school at the price of 360€ per month, he wouldn't lose much time from traveling and he could just lie that he was studying at school.
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13 days later, Ben was waiting at a deserted street 500 m away from school. At 2 pm, a black van drove in the street, it stopped just next to Ben. The car window descended a man asked Ben: „Are you Kive901?"
Ben responded with excitement: „Yes, I am!"
The nasty-looking man gave him his order and drove away without saying goodbye.
Ben wanted to directly open the 4 boxes, but he knew that if somebody reported seeing him with suspicious substances or CRISPR-kits, he would most likely wander in the prison.
So Ben moved to his rented apartment, he had to climb up over 100 stairs and then unlocked the door to his apartment.