Chapter 23: Thought of the Doomsday Defense Organization
Chapter 23: Thought of the Doomsday Defense Organization
With Qin Yu’s agreement,
The authorities arranged an exclusive interview for him with Huaxin News Agency, to respond to people’s hopes during this time for more and advanced information about the 2611 Longevity Injection,
And to answer some confusions people had in this period after the spread of the 2611 Longevity Injection.
The interview location was not at Huaxin News Agency, nor at Research Institute 011.
The department in charge of Qin Yu’s security chose a safe spot alone within Lingchuan City for Qin Yu to have this interview.
During the whole interview, besides the reporter from Huaxin News Agency and a few staff members, only the security workers for Qin Yu were left, so naturally, there was no audience.
“Professor Qin, I wasn’t sure how to call you in a good way. Do you think this way is okay?”
“Just call me that. It’s no problem.”
Qin Yu was also easygoing.
He agreed to the interview for a very simple reason.
The last time he showed up in public was when he did a live TV thing with that Senior Leader.
Actually, this was his first media interview ever.
It might be kind of fun, a fairly new experience for him, so he said yes.
But this kind of event didn’t make Qin Yu feel nervous or shy now,
He probably had a natural sense of being better than anyone in the whole world,
Letting him stay totally relaxed.
“Professor Qin, these are the questions we need to ask later in the interview. Could you check if they’re good? If any aren’t right, we can change them early or skip them.”
Before sitting down near Qin Yu, the reporter from Huaxin News Agency politely gave him a plan for the interview.
Qin Yu took it and read it quickly.
“Nothing is not okay.”
Truthfully, Qin Yu didn’t need to see it now.
Before the interview started, some people must have checked everything that would come up already,
Due to secrecy needs, after the interview ended, the security department would probably check what Huaxin News Agency filmed that day again,
And before the story went out, the written report would get checked once more, and Qin Yu would be asked about it to see if anything could leak secrets.
“So Professor Qin, our interview begins now.”
“First, thank you for agreeing to this special talk with Huaxin News Agency.”
“Before I ask you anything, I personally want to show my thanks and respect to you, Professor Qin. I used the 2611 Longevity Injection before too, so I’m one who gains from your work.”
“Like many people say, Professor Qin, you gave us another lifetime to live.”
Hearing this, Qin Yu smiled, thought for a second, and answered,
“The 2611 Longevity Injection is really my big find, but getting it out widely and to so many people wasn’t something I could do alone.”
“Professor Qin, you’re too modest.”
Saying that, the reporter started with real questions.
“…Professor Qin, looking at what we know about you and your past, before you worked in the Field of Life Sciences, you studied philosophy in college. That jump seems pretty big. Can we ask why you picked that at first?”
Online lately, there were many talks about Qin Yu himself.
People didn’t really question if the 2611 Longevity Injection was Qin Yu’s work,
With such an amazing leap in the Field of Life Sciences,
The more wild the story, the truer it felt.
To put it plainly, even if someone tried to lie and take credit for it, they wouldn’t pick a guy like Qin Yu to do it.
But most folks, like Professor Chen Anmin and Academician Shen Yaoguo back then,
Thought Qin Yu wasting four years on philosophy was too bad. If he’d jumped into life sciences sooner, what wonders could he have made by now?
People always wanted more once they got something.
“Maybe after learning about the world through philosophy, I got the idea to change it.”
“Of course, I wouldn’t tell others to copy me.”
Qin Yu gave a partly true answer.
He went into life sciences research only to make life longer.
But yes, it pushed the world toward how he dreamed it would be.
“Professor Qin Yu, there’s one question I and many others deeply care about.”
“Ask away.”
“We all know that from when you began research in the Field of Life Sciences, you kept working on Lifespan Mechanism and Human Life Extension Technology. Now, with the 2611 Longevity Injection born under you, people who use it can live up to 180 years, so you’ve nearly reached your goal. We want to know, will you still dig into this later, like trying to break past making lifetimes longer beyond 180 years?”
This was truly the biggest question for most folks now,
Touching every person’s own life facts.
Knowing Professor Qin Yu was only in his twenties now, people couldn’t stop thinking,
In the years ahead, Professor Qin Yu could research for a whole century.
With his work in his twenties lifting life to 180 years,
What could he do next at forty, fifty…?
Even if reason told them science wasn’t a straight climb, and one breakthrough didn’t promise another at each stage,
Still, people just kept hoping it would.
“I don’t have the answer to that. Maybe I’ll go deeper, or maybe switch fields.”
Qin Yu spoke only truth.
“Okay, Professor Qin Yu, another thing. Some people worry, above the 2611 Longevity Injection now, in your research, are there any fresh, raw life-extension ways being tested?” That got to the main part.
It was worded gently.
In reality, it was the hottest hidden-idea thing online then.
Was there some better serum or trick than the 2611 Longevity Injection, just not given to regular people?
Hearing this, Qin Yu smiled a little.
“I used to think that in folks’ eyes, making the 2611 Longevity Injection happen made me genius enough. But to others, it seems I should be even more super.”
The reporter, hearing Qin Yu’s line, couldn’t help but laugh too.
After his laugh faded, Qin Yu thought and replied,
“The making of the 2611 Longevity Injection had some luck to it. For a while, its life-boosting effect is likely the top that Life Extension Technology can do now. How humans are built deep down puts a cap on life tech. Keeping life growing ever longer on us humans should be very, very hard.”
Qin Yu was about to say impossible, but as he spoke, he remembered himself.
He still looked like a person, yet he was absolutely immortal, so he changed the words.
“Thanks, Professor Qin. One more thing about the 2611 Longevity Injection makes everyone wonder, if I might ask?”
“We found that for people in middle years, especially older ones, the serum works worse as they get more aged. Why? Could you tell us a little?”
“Hmm… If you want greens to stay fresh longer, putting them in the fridge is a good idea. But if those greens are already bad, sticking them in won’t make them crisp and new again.”
“This vegetable’s shelf life is almost like our life span, and the fridge is similar to how the 2611 Longevity Injection works.”
“The 2611 Longevity Injection just stretches our entire lifespan—it doesn’t actually change how our body ages.”
“I see, Professor Qin. Our next question is… Some believe the creation of the 2611 Longevity Injection may not entirely benefit human society. What’s your view on that?”
“Of course, the birth of the Longevity Injection has both pros and cons. But life extension technology is an inevitable step as society develops, and it’s actually essential for society to move forward. Maybe its arrival just happened a bit earlier than many expected…”
These interviews rarely took unexpected turns.
Reporters from Huaxin News Agency never tossed sudden, weird, or harsh questions at Qin Yu.
The whole session just followed the planned script step by step.
After just over an hour,
Professor Qin finished his Huaxin News interview.
“That wraps up our interview, Professor Qin. You can review the recording from earlier—we’ll cut out anything you find uncomfortable sharing.”
“No need. If security approves it for broadcast, I’m fine too.”
Qin Yu stood up, shook the journalist’s hand one last time,
and it was over.
For Qin Yu himself,
this interview’s only meaning was as a mildly fun experience.
Even after the report aired later, he felt zero need to care.
Others might’ve worried about misspeaking during interviews.
Not Qin Yu. That never crossed his mind.
…
But a few days later,
when Huaxin News aired its story in a special feature,
it buzzed across the web.
Huaxin titled the piece: “Father of Human Life Extension Technology—Professor Qin Yu.”
As news tied to red-hot life-extension talk online,
it drew public eyes like magnets.
Aside from tons of comments below Huaxin’s article and posts,
clips from the interview blew up on social platforms in no time.
Above all else,
people showered Qin Yu, creator of the 2611 Longevity Injection, with endless praise.
Even when a few tried to disagree, the rest quickly shut them down.
That was fair—after all,
it felt like everyone truly owed Professor Qin their life.
To most folks then, no words of praise for him seemed big enough.
“…Haha! When asked about conspiracies, Professor Qin said he wasn’t a genius who could’ve made 2611 AND better tools all at once. I hate conspiracy theories too… but sir, don’t you see how unconvincing that sounds coming from you?”
“Agreed! Professor, you’ve got no clue about your own talent. To us in the life sciences field, you’re basically a god… nothing gods do surprises me.”
While such chatter spread,
the interview still met its core goal.
The online conspiracy stuff? Not gone entirely,
but mostly left the stage.
Still,
none of this mattered much to Qin Yu.
He paid little attention to the noise online.
…
“Professor Qin, earlier you mentioned a ‘Human Doomsday Organization.’ Could you share more details?”
Inside Research Institute 011,
in Qin Yu’s private office:
His assistant first poured tea, then, seeing Qin had a gap,
stepped closer and carefully asked her question.
Qin Yu raised his eyes to study her.
The assistant, Wei Muyun,
had earned a master’s in philosophy from Lingchuan University, plus a bachelor’s in linguistics too.
She was a year older than Qin, with sharp looks
and parents both university profs.
She was assigned directly to Qin as his live-in assistant,
organized daily routines and schedules mostly,
and sometimes played messenger between him and the higher-ups.
Like now.
Though Qin had casually dropped that line earlier,
Wei hadn’t brushed it off.
“You know about the Planet Defense Council?”
Qin Yu didn’t dodge, asking her instead.
“The one from sci-fi, sir? Or the real HCC conference?”
Wei seriously confirmed.
“The real one. If we started an organization just to protect human civilization from doomsday scenarios… would that be useful?”
That idea had suddenly struck Qin Yu while planning his next steps—beyond truly helping the world avoid collapse,
his main motive was actually this:
He knew well that unless he exposed his immortal identity to all humanity,
he’d eventually retire his famous biologist persona.
Couldn’t just keep breaking life extension records forever, letting this era’s people journey alongside him till time’s end, could he?
Besides tech limits ever tightening… Wouldn’t it get stale someday?
But starting fresh later meant
rebuilding every social tie.
Easy thing, for Qin—yet getting old after cycles of reliving ties.
Thus, creating an identity that spans ages seemed smarter.
An individual couldn’t exist that long,
But an organization could last, reshaped again and again by him.
Plus, something permanent could ground him—an anchor through eternity.
Of course, other thoughts brewed too:
As he keeps switching identities,
he’d still live on in people’s minds as a myth—a shadow watching the world unfold.
“But, Professor Qin, how would such a doomsday group run? What should its duties actually be?”
Wei pressed attentively.
“Observe. Record. Prevent. Do research? When human civilization stumbles… protect its spark.”
Qin offered a vague sketch of the plan.