It was in a morning Willie told me: "Qian, I said to take you for a visit to our cloning factory once. Norton sent me message on GIW saying he has a business trip to the cloning factory, and you can be with us this time. Let's go then?"

"OK I agree."

Willie pressed her ear and informed Norton through the GIW neural link. Not for long, Norton and Suldair teleported through GMW to the virtual sofa at Willie's home.

Norton asked: "We're going to the cloning factory. Can you go with us?"

I asked: "I'm good. Now?"

"We need to wait for a while. The manager of the cloning factory, whose name is Jarpen, hasn't been there yet. He'll give me message as soon as he arrives." Norton answered.

I asked curiously: "What is a cloning factory? Is that a factory for building manikins? What material do they use, say plastic?"

"Ho-ho, see what's in your brain!" Suldair laughed, "The Guoker Cloning Factory is the largest and most important factory on this planet. It replicates live human body."

Willie proudly added: "You Earth people always want to be immortal, and they search for medicine of immortality. Such medicine never exists in the Universe at all. Every time when our bodies turn old and sick, we can change to a younger body with our mind preserved. So are us Guoker People immortal and forever young!"

I didn't think Willie told the truth: "Then would you still be you after changing the body?"

Norton answered: "Of course yes! Consciousness is the main difference between people, the body is relatively not important. We Guoker people view ourselves consisted of two parts, the mind and the body. The consciousness mind is a form of movement in human brain, and it is essentially a kind of information. The body is like your Earth computer hardware, for instance screen, processor, keyboard, mouse, cassette tape recorder etc. Mind is like computer software, program and the sound recorded in cassette tapes.

"When somebody gets old or severely ill, we scan the brain with artificial field scanning and copy the mind consciousness into data stored in computer. Then we build a body without consciousness and install the mind data into the artificially made brain. Finally we neutralize the old body so the young body becomes functional and the entirety of the mind consciousness can be transferred. People feel like waking up from a sleep that the body becomes new. We can do this over again to make us immortal, and the cloning factory is exactly doing this job."

Willie asked: "Did you understand, Qian?"

"Oh I understand. It's like repairing bicycle tires on Earth. Normally we patch up the tire unless it's too damaged, then we change a new one. You're like if you're too old or too sick to be healed, you give up the old body and change a new one, but your consciousness will stay, right?"

"Ah yes." Willie answered.

This time, Norton pressed his ear maybe because he received GIW message, and he said: "Jarpen has arrived at the factory. Let's move."

We teleported to the cloning factory by GMW. It was an enormous building, I couldn't see its end. There were virtual texts above the gate.

"What a big one!" I was surprised.

Suldair disagreed: "Nothing particular, this is just one of the many gates."

The gate was just a passageway, there were many other huge buildings inside as well as virtual buildings. We got on a convertible car floating about two meters (6.6 feet) above ground and hovering soundlessly. It was a beautiful scenery here, I saw lots of strange plants and colorful flowers. There were lots of 3D holograms, all buildings have virtual Guoker texts at front.

Norton got off the car for a meeting with Jarpen at a building, we continued our excursion. We moved around for a long time, I exclaimed: "The cloning factory is so huge!"

Suldair disagreed: "You didn't see even one percent of the complex yet!"

"There's also the underground part." Willie said.

We've hanging around for quite a while before we entered a particular large structure. Some people were walking inside, but not much. Suldair said Norton was right inside, so we got off, and we meet Norton and Jarpen there.

Jarpen was also one meter tall (3.3 feet). He was strong, and he held my hand tight in a very friendly manner.

"Welcome, Qian from Earth! Whoa you're a big one, you should be very powerful. Let me see how heavy you are!" Jarpen tried to lift me up from behind, "That's indeed a heavy body."

Jarpen looked at me, then at Willie and said: "Qian is very big. So when you two have sex, how could you stand it? Who's stronger and more powerful, and more endurable?"

He might think I didn't understand, so he made his left hand a circle, poked his right hand finger into it, and pushed and pulled violently. This was quite an obscene metaphor to describe the sex between Willie and me.

"Nonsense! You talk shit!" Willie was quite annoyed by Jarpen, she swung her hands forcefully into the air in a V shape.

"Nonsense? No way!" Jarpen stepped back and looked at us in a strange way: "You paid such a long trip to get Qian from Earth, wasn't that for studying the sex between Earth and Guoker people? Norton, isn't that you who gather all the useful data by observing them?"

Norton was silent, and Willie turned her face around and walked away. Norton, Suldair and I followed her.

I thought Jarpen was trying to hint me. Norton must be planning another special experiment with me, I suppose. I'm about to be the guinea pig again!

Jarpen saw us all ignored him, so he could only follow up and said: "Let me introduce our cloning factory to you, Qian."

Jarpen enthusiastically introduced me all kinds of equipment and functions of the cloning factory. His body movements were diverse, making all kinds of gestures while he spoke. I wasn't in the mood of listening though, hoping to see the big naked full-figured woman body I last saw in the yellow liquid at the Guoker biology research institute.

Finally at the underground part of the cloning factory, I saw that kind of naked woman soaked in light-yellow liquid. They have a pipe connecting to the outside. There were rows after rows of them, similar in size of about one meter tall (3.3 feet), not like those strange body types of all varieties at the biology institute.

Jarpen said: "These are the backup bodies on our Guoker Planet. Once anybody needs a new one, we pick it out from here. You see that have pipes connecting to the outside, that's for nutrition supply and removing waste."

I asked: "Why don't you use GMW to do that, just like you did it to your living body?"

"We do use GMW to teleport nutrition and waste, but the pipes are also part of their circulation system. We still need to design a circulation system to keep the bodies alive, we must not entirely depend on GMW to do the job. Because this might wake up the consciousness of these backup bodies, as they acquire blank minds like plants." Jarpen explained.

I still had many questions: "Why you have similar size to the backup bodies instead of making larger and smaller ones? That may satisfy some people."

Jarpen answered: "First, it is more convenient for us to manufacture, just like you Earth. You build products in the same size to make them cheaper and more reliable; building different sizes will be more complicated. This is of course also a tradition of us Guoker people. You see this size, which has been studied and experimented for a long time, and we made the conclusion that such body size is the best suitable for the gravity and physical and chemical environment of the Guoker Planet. It's the best for living, sporting, sexing and immunity.

"There's another important reason: people with too big of a size could hurt those smaller people. On our Guoker Planet, we have no morality and law, so sex is sometimes violent and brutal. It's a wise choice to control from the source of the problem - body size, to regulate people instead of by morality and law. However, while we control the body size strictly on the main star of the Guoker System, on other planets however, people have a variety of choice of body sizes, so we see all kinds of weird bodies.

"You, Qian, so big, enter such a small body of Willie, should be strictly forbidden on Guoker Planet!" Jarpen didn't care about what Willie thinks, he pointed at Willie's groin.

Willie jumped away and ran next to me, hugged my arm and showed she was happy about my size. To divert the conversation from the sex topic, I asked Willie: "How many backup bodies do you have on Guoker Planet?"

"Some millions I suppose?" Willie answered.

"Then how many cloning factories do you have on Guoker Planet?"

"Only one." Jarpen said, "Body replicating is the most important task on Guoker Planet, It's impossible for us not to take it seriously."

"On our Earth, the age of 18 is our golden age. If you build a backup body, do you need 18 years?"

Norton answered: "We have the chrono fridge, we can do that quicker than you thought."

"You know what chrono fridge is?" Jarpen wanted to explain.

"I knew that by visiting that biological research institute." I replied.

As we walked, I came across another question: "Whenever an old person come to your cloning factory and change to a new one, if his old body wasn't dealt with, could he feel two 'himselves' and, where does his old body go?"

Jarpen answered: "Simple. We neutralize them. Otherwise there're indeed two 'myselves'."

I didn't quite get it: "What you mean by neutralize?"

Suldair laughed out violently: "It's killing you, then incinerate you, Ho-hoho!"

Willie condemned: "You need to have something charming in your brain. You have too many frightening words."

"So can I have my Earth body replicated here?"

Jarpen answered clearly: "You're Earth human, we don't have the computer program to do this. It will take a very long time to develop the program. Also, although we have no law regulating individuals, we have strong regulations towards organizations, AI and all algorithms. The cloning factory is not allowed to casually replicate all alien bodies. This is a factory, not a research facility. Research labs can do this under certain regulation and control."

I commented: "You cannot replicate me, so I doubt if I cannot have two 'myselves' in the Universe, and your replicas of human body might not be the original people. They come to your factory only to get themselves killed and incinerated, then you casually build another one and say, presto, the cloning is successful!"

"Your comments made me angry!" Jarpen rushed towards me and wanted to attack me. He stopped just as he was about to hit my body.

"I have a program allowing you to experience two myselves." he said.

Jarpen lead us to quite a small room. He turned on the GIW virtual screen and operated for a while, then something like a helmet appeared. Jarpen asked me to wear it.

I indeed felt something unbelievable. I felt myself in the room talking to Jarpen, Norton, Willie and Suldair, then suddenly I was outside the room watching myself talking to them.

I took of the helmet and said: "That was amazing. I really felt two of myselves, so I believe your cloning factory is sound and honest now. I have another question, how do you Guoker people choose your own backup body?"

"Our backup bodies at the cloning factory are mainly from pure artificial manufacturing, others are from natural reproduction. When they're mature, we post it on GIW instantly. The Guoker people search on GIW for their bodies, or they can design or customize their bodies in a restricted scale, even sometimes by the comments of their friends."

"Aha, it's like we Earth people buy clothes! I'm a man, can I choose a woman's body?"

Norton answered: "It is exceedingly painful for people who has their body and mind in mismatch. This is normally not allowed, the cloning factory cannot satisfy such kind of idea."

"Although you Guoker people have advanced body replicating technology, I find a serious question. If you ever come across any accidents, like falling down the hill, you should be over if you fail to clone yourself in time?"

Norton answered: "This... we have a different concept of death compared with you Earth people. Suppose a Guoker astronaut fly to your Earth to explore, then he will be storing his knowledge and memories into the computer before he left. If the astronaut pass away on Earth, we will install his mind onto the backup immediately to resurrect him.

"Then he talks to others and say, unfortunately my memory of the Earth trip was lost. So death is just losing a part of our memories for us Guoker people, as we preserve the most of them in backup. On this planet, GMW and GIW can track everybody and record their mind simultaneously, so everybody lose none of their memories should they have accidents."

"Can you alter people's mind when you replicate their body?"

Norton answered: "We have multiple large biological research institutes. The Guoker people have stronger, prettier, better designed, ever perfected bodies generations after generations. We often study body structures on other planets in order to build better backup bodies in service of our people. However in the cloning factory, we respect people's mind and consciousness and we never alter any of them.

"Unless in some special bio research labs, there are some special reasonable demands, so mind can be altered partially under regulated and supervised condition, for instance for people having mental suffering. In early times as we just invented artificial field scanning to copy people's minds and store them in computer, it was very easy to alter them, so we did that quite a lot, but it caused huge negative side effects. Later we invented a concept called Personal Source Code, so in some conditions people's mind and memory data can be restored to the original."

I asked: "How long does it take to scan and record a person's mind?"

"It's pretty quick, about six seven minutes to your Earth time." Norton replied.

"If I customized myself a new body, do I need to tell my relatives and friends beforehand so they can still recognize me afterwards? Is that possible?" I asked.

Jarpen explained: "It is possible, but you only need to tell your friends. We Guoker people have no relatives, no parents and siblings. We can always change our body one after the other, and our bodies are manufactured by ourselves, where the heck are our relatives coming from?"

"Do people pay for the new body? Or do they cost anything to build?"

Suldair teased: "It's for free. You Earth people always think about money."

Norton answered: "If this needs to be paid, how would those people think if they cannot afford it? That will cause chaos to the society. At least on Guoker Planet, body replicating is for free."

After the visit, my mind was overwhelmed: "We Earth people dreamed about immortality for countless generations. I don't know how many hundreds or thousands of years shall we wait for body replicating technology."

Jarpen answered: "You need to have confidence. If you Earth people have the confidence, and understand the core of a person is mind consciousness that mind consciousness is a form of movement of charged particles in the brain, which is a kind of information, plus if you have artificial field scanning technology, you can do that in mere decades.

"But the most crucial problem for you Earth people is to know the essence of field. Only by achieving this, you can use this kind of intangible element of the Universe to dig deep inside the brain and record human consciousness data. Aside from the field, all other things will damage the human brain as long as they enter it. For example, you Earth people can manage photons, electromagnetic field, ultrasonic waves and X-ray. But all of them will damage the brain if they enter deep into it, killing the person. Why would you record anything by killing people? Aside from recording, installing mind into body backup also needs artificial field, and nothing else can replace it.

"You need to first decipher the essence of field on Earth, then develop a technology for artificial field scanning. While controlled by computer program, it can be called artificial information field. It is the artificial information field which records consciousness deep in the brain and install it to the new brain. Designing the artificial field control software needs many genius mathematicians."

Norton added: "It is also important for you to know the direction of solving the problem. The core of a person is mind consciousness, a movement form of charged particles in the brain, essentially a kind of information. Mind consciousness activities can disrupt the surrounding space to make it into a wave form. This wave form of space moves at the speed of light, so it is crucial to record the space wave form and the brain charged particles' movement form.

"The body is a vehicle for mind consciousness, which is relatively not important. You Earth people always think the body is more important and mind is less important, so you always think of healing the body, like inventing medicines to keep the body young or freezing the body for preservation. These methods can never help you to reach immortality. If you go the wrong direction, you'll never succeed."

Suldair commented impolitely: "Qian, you Earth people spend the most money on drugs, tobacco and alcohol, and secondly on weapons to kill each other. You Earth people think others who dedicate themselves to science research are either stupid or crazy. My analysis is that you Earth people will not have scientific advancement in the future, and you'll lose your progress instead, because all your true scientists are already dead. You don't have scientists now, you only have simple minded technicians as scientists.

"Other than war, you only know suppressing, bullying and deceiving each other. Decades later, you will fall back to the primitive age like a bunch of monkeys. Human body replicating technology has nothing to do with you Earth people, not because you aren't capable of doing it, but because nobody thinks about it, forever.

"In conclusion, I have no expectation on how Qian would make any difference on Earth. People would think he's mentally ill when he returns to Earth. There's another feature of the Earth people: whenever some people do something, others always think of sabotaging it."

Norton said: "I have no expectation either. Immortality is not easy. Earth people have great inertia in their minds, they're conservative and always set up barriers to themselves. Should you Earth people ever believe in you, Qian, and put into action of all costs, you can be successful in decades of Earth time once you have artificial field scanning as a tool.

"Because immortality is realized just by recording mind consciousness through artificial field scanning. Once the consciousness is stored in computer, no matter how the body and brain die and perish, the computer can be easily maintained so the consciousness is never lost. Then people can wait, no matter how long it takes."