October 7, 4573, Solar Calendar.
The in vitro development of human embryos was officially completed under Ding Yun's lead, with the final experiment achieving great success.
The fetus, now one year old, was in exceptionally good health.
Even healthier than a fetus nurtured in a normal maternal womb.
In fact, this was considered normal. When related technologies reach a certain level, capable of perfectly simulating the human maternal environment, in vitro embryonic development is indeed much safer than development within a mother's body.
This is because during in vitro development, relevant technologies and protective measures are sufficient to prevent the embryo from being affected by any external factors, allowing it to develop and grow perfectly.
However, when an embryo is inside its mother's belly.
There are simply too many potential influencing factors.
The mother's health, the balance of her nutrition, whether her daily routines are healthy, if her diet is natural and unpolluted. Whether she inhales secondhand smoke, or is exposed to other chemical pollutants, these are all difficult to ascertain.
Even the mother's mood.
Can have a certain impact on the fetus.
This is because human emotions affect the body's hormone balance, and changes in hormones will naturally affect the fetus. This is not about happiness or sadness mentally influencing the fetus, but rather the hormonal impact.
There is no one who can absolutely avoid these situations.
There will be some impact, more or less.
It's just that in most cases, the impact isn't too significant to cause fetal deformities, but if the fetus is grown and developed externally, and the process perfectly simulates the maternal environment, then the fetal development will naturally be unaffected by these factors.
The main reason Ding Yun researched this technology was that she had been getting along quite well with Zhang Dun, whom she had hired some years prior. He was very obedient, provided excellent and attentive service, and the Full-Awareness Spectacles' future simulations indicated that as long as she had a child,
He wouldn't have any other thoughts in the future. He would definitely live a stable life without causing trouble.
He would remain a dutiful, invisible husband.
Meanwhile, her parents were constantly urging her to get married and have children. Ding Yun herself wasn't particularly resistant to marriage, nor to having children.
What she was resistant to was carrying the child for ten months herself.
And the hassle of raising a child in the future.
Now that Zhang Dun could be a stay-at-home dad, and his parents and her parents could help with childcare, coupled with the fact that in vitro embryonic development technology wasn't difficult for Ding Yun, she specifically took the time.
To develop this technology.
And the experimental fetus, now one year old, was her child with Zhang Dun. Of course, this wasn't done stealthily by Ding Yun. She had informed Zhang Dun beforehand, and he had agreed. In fact, for the past year since the fetus's birth, he had been primarily responsible for its care, while Ding Yun's role was more about recording the fetus's changes and perfecting the data.
As for why Ding Yun dared to use her own child for experimentation, it was because she was very aware that the technology was already highly perfected. She wasn't using the most rudimentary version with many issues,
But rather a technology that had been in use in the Origin Universe for one hundred and seventy cosmic eras without problems.
However, due to resource and technological limitations.
Ding Yun could only replicate the most basic in vitro embryonic development technology. More advanced applications, such as directly cultivating a genius, a superhuman, or using the world's origin to nurture her offspring's embryo towards the direction of a celestial being, were beyond her capabilities.
But the current technology was sufficient.
Anything too outrageous would only bring trouble.
After this technology was fully successful, Ding Yun, as expected, announced it to the public and also stated that she had used this technology to have a daughter.
This not only made people feel that the technology was safe.
But also indirectly informed everyone that she had an heir.
Some petty troublemakers no longer needed to scheme.
The news, upon its release, caused a stir comparable to the launch of 4G network, or even greater. Countless people engaged in heated discussions about whether this was appropriate.
Some said it was liberation for women.
Others said it was stripping women of their innate abilities.
Some called it artificial and deserving of divine retribution.
Others argued that a father's love for his child was less profound than a mother's due to the absence of ten months of gestation; now that mothers no longer had to undergo this, the bond between children and parents would inevitably become more distant.
Even more absurdly, some claimed this was a destructive blow to the surrogacy industry and should not exist!
Ding Yun was utterly bewildered.
*Your* industry is the one that shouldn't exist!
But regardless, Ding Yun's actions were permitted. Many people who feared pregnancy, worried about it affecting their careers, or feared losing their figures and struggling to recover afterward, were largely interested in learning more. Many even made immediate decisions to book appointments, though this was for those who already had partners; those without would have to wait.
Additionally, some individuals with illnesses that prevented conception, or for whom pregnancy and childbirth would be life-threatening, also consulted and made appointments.
While the first wave of participants wasn't enormous, it wasn't small either. And since Ding Yun had no intention of making significant profits from this, it didn't matter. After this matter was concluded, she quickly moved on to other tasks, having no time to be delayed by such a small project.
Another nearly ten years passed.
Ding Yun finally accumulated nearly seven hundred billion in cash.
Only then did she officially commence the plan she had prepared over a decade prior. On the New Year's Day of Yangxia, which also marked the twentieth anniversary of her group's establishment, she utilized all the software under her group's umbrella to push a message to all users about a red envelope she would be giving away, specifically a password-protected red envelope.
She also announced that the total value of red envelopes reached seven hundred billion.
Not long after, the designated time arrived. Consequently, all phones purchased from Ding Yun's subsidiaries or running applications from Ding Yun's group received a password-protected red envelope with Ding Yun's avatar as the cover. The password was displayed directly on the red envelope: "金主爸爸" (Jinzhu Baba - Benefactor/Sugar Daddy), clearly visible.
The next second, countless people, without a second thought, entered the password and received a one-hundred-yuan red envelope.
In just one minute, Ding Yun felt her influence reach its peak. Considering that influence would undoubtedly decline significantly after everyone received their red envelopes, Ding Yun dared not delay. She immediately leveraged this immense influence.
And imprinted her own mark into the world's origin.
Completing the mission.
At the same time, she came to understand the wisdom of the ancient saying: money truly can move the gods.
If it couldn't, it just meant there wasn't enough money.
As long as there was enough money to send everyone in the world eighty to a hundred yuan as a red envelope, the influence would be sufficient. Although it was only a momentary influence, imprinting the mark only required a brief period and didn't need the influence to be sustained, only that the short-term influence was sufficient.
However, after completing the most crucial task.
Ding Yun did not rush to leave this time.
She wasn't particularly targeted by the world this time, nor was she as unburdened as in her previous world. Therefore, she naturally had to stay behind to complete the concluding tasks and wait until her daughter was capable of inheriting the family business before departing.
The most complex of these concluding tasks.
Was the matter of predicting natural disasters.
This plan, which Ding Yun had initially placed great hope in, ultimately brought her considerable trouble.
To prevent a situation where, after her departure, no one would be able to predict disasters, leading to scenarios of "rice for a favor, bushels for enmity," or where various natural disasters caused mass casualties, forcing the "Science Daily" and the authorities, unwilling to bear responsibility and be criticized by the public, to reveal the identity of the "popular science enthusiast," leading to nationwide suspicion.
And even anger directed at her daughter.
And at the group.
Ding Yun ultimately had to spend another dozen years painstakingly developing a prediction system that truly combined science and metaphysics. She then sold it directly to the government, allowing them to handle the operation and prediction themselves.
This effectively distanced herself and her family completely.
The prediction system created by Ding Yun had an accuracy comparable to her own predictions. The difference was that using the system to predict natural disasters was not as simple and convenient as Ding Yun's personal predictions; it required the collaboration of many people from various fields and the collection of substantial data.
Only then could the accuracy of the predictions be ensured.
But regardless, this matter was resolved.
Only then did Ding Yun confidently hand over the group, enjoy a comfortable decade of retirement, and depart.