"You know what this means."

Qin Guang raised his right hand and rubbed his temple, which was aching.

It was really like a house leaking in a rainy night. One problem has not been solved yet, and a new and thorny problem has come.

Emerson pulled out a chair and sat down, "Of course I know. We must first determine whether this is inevitable or accidental. If it is inevitable, it will be very bad. This will cause severe damage to the Empire's long-distance expeditions, which means that human civilization cannot leave the Milky Way. If it is accidental, we have to find out the probability of it happening."

Qin Guang put down his hand, "We are not the fleet that has left the solar system the farthest. Some fleets are moving in a direction that is completely perpendicular to the ecliptic plane, but others have not encountered this situation."

"That's because others don't have the same good innate conditions as us, and they don't have the high-level gene pool provided by so many top fighters like us. Their demand for top personal combat power is far less than ours."

Qin Guang nodded, "Yes."

Emerson: "Anyway, our experiment was successful. It took mankind hundreds of years and untold hardships to cultivate Instructor Tong. Her existence has improved the combat power of mankind. It has raised the overall level. Only a few decades have passed, and we have obtained another new cutting-edge combat force. Isn't this what you soldiers have been dreaming of? General, you should be happier. When we share the experimental data with the Empire, the Empire will even have the opportunity to mass-produce this kind of super warrior. "

Qin Guang shook his head, "The risk is too great. It is not just one thing that has supported mankind all the way to today. Pure technological progress is not about the improvement of genetic awakening, but absolute unity. This baby is only reproductively isolated from humans, but it does not mean that it has no ability to reproduce. If we cultivate a large number of similar babies, a new race with higher potential than us will be born, which will divide humanity and ultimately bring destruction. The enemy in front of us has not yet been resolved. If we cultivate more A new enemy may cause us heavy damage like the ray in the void history. We cannot bear this potential risk. "

Emerson: "But it is also possible that the new race can be used by us, isn't it?"

Qin Guang did not deny, "Yes, so this matter is very difficult to deal with. Dr. Emerson, you go to work first, find out what the situation of this baby is, and then decide how to deal with it."

"Okay."

Emerson led the team to conduct a lot of analysis on the newborn baby.

First, it was determined that this matter was accidental, and the probability was extremely low.

Multiple extreme conditions were met at the same time, which eventually led to the occurrence of this irreversible mutation.

The extreme conditions included the new underlying quantum laws in the outer space environment of the Milky Way, the genetic connection between the parents, an accident during the embryo culture process (leakage of radiation irradiating the embryo), and countless other conditions.

At first, the embryo had a fatal mutation and was about to die. The culture team staff tried their best to put the dying embryo into the simulated nebula of Mathuselah, and also used the top-secret new technology of virtual energy conversion on it. Then the embryo miraculously survived.

"Although this kind of coincidence is theoretically reproducible to a certain extent, it is too difficult to satisfy. The main difficulty lies not in replicating external conditions, but in the embryo itself. The gene combination composed of chromosomes provided by two different people cannot be exactly the same, just as there are differences between identical twins."

"What about cloning?"

"That's not feasible either."

"When each fertilized egg embryo undergoes mitosis for the first time, the underlying information of the real energy level has already begun the first directed mutation. Even cloned embryos cannot grow into identical babies. This is the same reason as the difference between identical twins."

"Oh? I see."

Qin Guang and Emerson looked at each other, breathing a sigh of relief, but also feeling a little melancholy.

"I will continue to analyze the characteristics of the embryos. At present, we have only analyzed the combat potential of the embryos, but we need to do more in-depth research."

"Go ahead, thank you for your hard work."

About sixteen hours later, Qin Guang received a report.

In the report, Emerson pointed out that he extracted the underlying information of the embryos and simulated matching with a large number of samples, including the data of everyone in the entire fleet, as well as the larger ship-borne reserve gene pool.

In the previous first-phase matching results, the failure of 10,000 matching schemes led Emerson to the preliminary conclusion of reproductive isolation.

Now that the samples have been enlarged to the tens of billions, the matching still fails. The conclusion of reproductive isolation is basically completely established, but there is still a glimmer of hope.

No one can tell whether the seemingly unbreakable isolation wall will collapse if the sample is continuously enlarged to hundreds of billions, trillions, or even infinity.

Unfortunately, the experimental conditions are not available now.

Emerson: "Actually, I have conceived a plan."

"What?"

"The resurrected embryos of the ancient philosophers? You know about them, right?"

"Of course I know."

"We can simulate the idea of ​​the Earth Life Science Academy to synthesize the embryos of the ancient philosophers? Like programming? Using the precision of the real energy level, write another set of chromosomes corresponding to the mutant baby bit by bit, maybe we can try to see if the baby's genes can be passed on, and use time to eliminate the imagination of reproductive isolation."

"How many years will it take to see the results?"

"The amount of calculation is too large? It is impossible to accomplish with the fleet's own computing power. We have to send the data packets back to the Empire and hand over the computing work to the main brain Fanxing. It will take at least ten years for the data to go back and forth. Then we have to meet the mass and energy requirements of the freezer, and use our low-end computing power to slowly lay the bricks of the skyscraper of genetic information. It will take at least forty years in total. Moreover, this matter will become my core work. I will have to spend more than 80% of my waking time on this. "

Qin Guang: "Do you think it's worth it? Do we have other research directions with the potential for breakthroughs?"

"Yes, this is where I hesitated."

"Wait for the Empire's instructions, I have other troubles on my hands."

Qin Guang ordered them to leave.

Three years later, it was time for the Nameless Fleet to exchange data with the Empire. By this time, the baby had turned three years old and had become a child.

Emerson integrated the situation into a fleet data package and sent it back.

Unexpectedly, only three hours later, the Empire sent another expedited data packet.

Something happened in the Empire's headquarters.

Before Chen Feng's "death", he had made comprehensive arrangements for important old friends, the most important of which was the descendants of Tang Shuang who were related to Tang Tianxin. The purpose was to ensure as much as possible that even if humans expanded widely in the Orion Arm, Tang Tianxin would still be born in the solar system.

These arrangements made by Chen Feng were strictly implemented by the Salvation Society and the Empire's top leaders, and the connection between the timeline and the characters was strictly controlled.

But accidents always come unexpectedly, and luck will not always be on the side of humans.

In September 2870, a serious experimental accident occurred in the space station in the solar system where Tang Shuang's descendants lived. Excessive radiation swept a large residential area and embryo storage room.

The space station with a total population of about 30 million people lost nearly 6 million people, as well as a large number of artificial embryos and fetuses that should have been born that year.

This loss can be said to be extremely tragic.

The real serious problem lies in these fetuses.

According to the timeline plan, Tang Tianxin's great-great-grandmother should have been born in November of this year.

Now she is gone.

No one can be sure whether the baby cultivated by activating the reserve embryo can still be Tang Tianxin's great-great-grandmother, because the time is already wrong for a year.

The elaborate plan was disrupted, and the future planned by mankind was torn apart here.

Some scholars believe that due to the convergence of the timeline and the fulcrum effect brought about by the fate connection between the ancient sage Chen Feng and Tang Tianxin and others, Tang Tianxin can still be born on time in the solar system.

The process can be deduced from the result.

To understand it this way, first assume that Tang Tianxin must be born, then since the embryo that died unexpectedly in 2870 is already dead, the deceased must not be Tang Tianxin's great-great-grandmother.

Now start to cultivate the backup embryo, it doesn't matter if it is born one or two years later, after all, the time for nurturing offspring can also be postponed in advance, and the next step is to ensure that Tang Tianxin's great-grandfather or maternal great-grandmother is born on time.

However, some scholars believe that if we use the results to infer the process, can we consider that there is a problem in the bloodline selection at some stage?

We should check from the beginning to see if there is any blood of Tang Shuang that has spread to the outside world.

It seems difficult to select a bloodline from the vast history, but with the help of the stars, it doesn't take much time.

After this investigation, the results that surfaced shocked the world.

One of the descendants of Tang Shuang's side branch had a consensual love affair with a female warrior who came to rescue from other star regions when the solar dome was just broken.

The female warrior once considered settling in the solar system and spending her life with her lover, but after repeated consideration, she decided to return to her hometown and decades later, she and her son, who had just grown up, went to the Vitten system to participate in the war.

This descendant was not omitted in the population statistics of the stars, but considering the distance was too far and that this descendant no longer had the surname Tang and had a very weak blood relationship with the direct lineage, there was no rush to recall him at the time.

Later, the female warrior and her son died in a battle, and the matter was left unresolved.

But the young warrior had stored the genetic information in the front-line gene bank, and after many years, it was transferred billions of miles and turned into a set of reserve genetic data in an unknown fleet. Finally, it was cultivated during the journey, and then grew up to become the father of the mutant baby, a male top warrior.

The mutant baby was officially formed on the moon.

"In other words, the great-great-grandmother of Marshal Tang Tianxin in the void history was taken by us to a place more than 14,000 light-years away from the solar system? And we made her reproductively isolated from ordinary humans?"

Qin Guang hissed and sucked in the cold air, horrified.

Emerson, who was also distressed, sighed, "Although I hope there is something wrong, it is indeed possible. Moreover, the main brain Stars has carried out simulated matching across the entire empire, and the matching objects have been magnified to more than one trillion, but still no chromosomes that can be successfully matched have been found."

"Asshole!"

Qin Guang fell headlong into the chair, his eyes were lifeless and his gaze was dull.

It has been 156 years since leaving the empire. During these 156 years, the Nameless Fleet has had dozens of large and small encounters. Many times, the whereabouts were almost completely exposed, and many times the motives of the expedition were almost discovered by the opponent, and the mission failed.

The journey was full of difficulties, dangers and dangers, but Qin Guang, as the backbone, never collapsed. He was always conscientious, calm and composed, with an iron will and perfect judgment.

But this time the bad news almost completely destroyed his will.

This blow was too heavy, no less than the enemy's reconnaissance troops directly advancing into the core area of ​​the fleet.

He was familiar with the history of the void and knew what Tang Tianxin meant to mankind in the 31st century, and was extremely important to the ancient sages.

The headquarters of the empire also knew it well, otherwise they would not have risked sending data packets twice in a row.

The second data packet only talked about this one thing.

"General, our mission is destined to be a one-way trip. We can't take Tang Tianxin's ancestors to die, right? Otherwise, why don't we send a fast ship to send the baby back now?"

Emerson suggested.

Qin Guang shook his head, "Impossible. The distance is so far, and there are many pursuers following us. It is impossible to return to the empire safely with only one ship."

"Then... we all have to return?"

Qin Guang continued to shake his head, "We have completed more than half of the mileage, how can we return."

Qin Guang continued to flip through the second data package, and after a long time, he slowly stood up.

"The Imperial Headquarters has made a decision."

"What do you mean?"

"We will continue to move forward. At the same time, Mastermind Stars has begun to mobilize a large amount of resources according to your previous idea. Just like the embryos of the ancient philosophers, they have rewritten a set of gene chromosomes that can match the mutant babies. This is the second artificial creation of humans in human history. The Empire named this plan the Nuwa Project."

Emerson: "Nu Wa?"

"The myth of Chinese civilization."

"Oh, okay. But for the embryos that wrote the ancient sages, at least there is ready-made original genetic information available, and only rigorous replication is needed. But this one, ah..."

"We can't give up. We will protect Tang Tianxin and let her become the fleet commander at the right time. We have to believe in one thing."

Emerson: "What?" "

Tang Tianxin, who can become a perfect general in multiple timelines in the past, will also become the best commander of the nameless fleet. Under her leadership, the fleet will not only complete the mission, but also escape unscathed!"

"I hope so. Then I'll go and make preparations. By the way, there's one more thing."

"Emerson, you tell me."

"The Nuwa Project will definitely continue until the end of the 30th century. The workload of artificially programming the data recorded when the embryo is recorded is huge, which will take up a lot of computing power and also require the assistance of many professionals in the field of genetic science. I need more biological talents, so I hope you can authorize me to increase the speed of cultivating the third generation of humans, otherwise I am worried that I will not be able to complete the work. I know this will bring certain risks and cause trouble to you, but these are not my business. My job is just to ensure the success of the project."

If it were in the past, Qin Guang would have refused outright.

But now the situation has changed.

Qin Guang smiled bitterly and nodded, "Okay, that's it. I will provide you with more biologists, geneticists and operators of practical transformers."

The undercurrent of history is becoming irreversibly surging.

The essence of society is an organic, flowing and changing whole.

Every major decision made by the top structure will have a profound impact on the times,

especially when the decision involves changes in population proportions.