"So... your parents are like the protagonists in inspirational novels, crawling out of the slums?"
"It's a shame—I was actually hoping for something like that. But unfortunately, it turned out not to be the case—"
The Cheshire Cat, who was half-crouching and petting Doraemon, suddenly knelt on the ground, crossed his arms over his chest, and made a confession.
"What's going on? A suspicious ritual?"
Chu Shangli took a deep breath——
When I exhaled the air from my lungs, I didn't feel any allergic reaction.
Normally, if it really caused allergies, symptoms should have appeared by now - but she is breathing very smoothly now and her skin is not itchy.
"Suspicious ritual? No, no, no, this is clearly confession—confession for sins." The Cheshire Cat suddenly changed to a serious tone—
The serious tone that didn't sound like a joke at all—
"My parents aren't the kind of inspiring protagonists who climb from the bottom to the top. If you ask about their positioning, they're probably more like villains who must be defeated."
The Cheshire Cat lowered its head slightly.
Her laughter sounded quite sad—
"The connection between my parents and the slums is that they created the slums themselves. They created the slums and acted as watchdogs, gaining status and recognition. To prove that people in the slums could live well, they even threw their own daughter into the slums. They were kind of mentally unstable, weren't they? However, these mentally unstable people were able to establish a good relationship with Miss Chu Moyin. And considering Miss Chu Moyin herself is a normal person, isn't it ridiculous?"
“……?!”
The guy who founded the slums?
"What is the purpose of creating something like that?"
"No matter how ideal a society is, there are still those who can't function as cogs in the wheel of production, right? For example, those who weren't properly raised, those who carry harmful genes, those with physical defects and flaws, those who hold a pessimistic and hopeless attitude towards the world—if you, Miss Chu Shangli, also grew up in the Empire, you would realize that the people of this Empire are actually perfect, with almost no signs of people with physical disabilities walking around, right?"
“…”
Chu Shangli originally wanted to say, isn't that because of the higher level of medical care?
However, if medical standards are higher, how are babies with congenital diseases treated?
Detection is carried out through [genetic screening] technology.
Those who are qualified will stay, and those who are unqualified will not stay——
Chu Shangli certainly didn't want to discuss the human rights of a fertilized egg, nor did he care about whether an unborn baby should also have the right to be born.
Perhaps, for those children who already have illnesses, it would be luckier not to have to suffer at birth. Such ugly thoughts also lingered in her mind.
However, if someone holds the opposite worldview, would they think that this idea is too cruel?
Moreover, with the Empire's technological development to this point, [Gene Screening] technology no longer only includes factors related to physical condition, but also includes factors such as personality, which can be locked into a very small range.
Isn't it terrifying to think deeply about using personality as a screening factor?
If even the personality factors of a fertilized egg can be screened, wouldn't adults be more easily detected?
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