"I have another question: why is the compatibility between people who possess the orchid pheromone and Yu Wei so high?"
Zhou Siyu pointed to the messy documents: "I've been searching for a long time, but I still haven't found the answer."
"Because the roots and stems of the orchid and the ligusticum are connected, they live together in a symbiotic relationship."
Lin Ling pulled up a model of the orchid from the microcomputer on her wrist and projected it holographically. Zhou Siyu was shocked again; the orchid actually bloomed on a tree instead of like an orchid.
On the tall, straight bluebell tree, countless sword-like leaves point straight to the sky, and at the tips of the leaves hang pale blue, almost transparent flowers like bells. The long, slender stamens sway in the wind, like tiny wind chimes playing beautiful music.
"The Orchid Bell Tree is named for its leaves that resemble orchids and its flowers that resemble wind chimes. It blooms in summer, is highly poisonous, and its fragrance is hallucinogenic. Within a five-meter radius, there is no other living thing except for a single tree that grows on the same tree."
"The only antidote is the stamen of the Flower King. However, among the thousands of flowers, only one flower from each tree can become the Flower King," Lin Ling continued. "The Lianmu grass can cure all poisons, but it cannot cure the poison of the Lanling flower. It has a strong self-healing ability, its roots and stems can live for a hundred years, and it can survive by receiving nutrients from the Lanling tree. At the same time, it will send some of its sap to the Lanling flower. The Lanling flower will then use its unique biological enzymes to convert the sap provided by the Lianmu grass into an antidote and store it in the stamen of the Flower King."
"For hundreds of years, the second emperor of the Aitolan Empire, in order to save his deceased lover, heard that Lianmu Grass had the power to bring the dead back to life, so he led a group of people to the twenty-seventh planet to search for Lianmu Grass." Lin Ling shook his head regretfully, "Unfortunately, Lianmu Grass itself can bring the dead back to life, but it cannot bring people back to life."
"The emperor was still not giving up. He had people extract the genes of the Lianmu grass and combine them with humans, hoping to cultivate people who could cure all poisons and then use their blood as medicine."
"However, he failed. The grass that had been separated from the orchid not only withered quickly, but also turned to ash as if it had been burned and scattered in the wind."
"However, the Lanling Tree will die quickly once it is removed from the ground, and it has extremely high requirements for its growing environment. It can only grow on the twenty-seventh planet. It will die if it is too cold, too hot, or too sunny. The emperor spent a lot of money to build the Aitolan Laboratory, but unfortunately he was killed by his own brother before it was completed."
"But the experiments did not stop, and they carried out even more inhumane experiments."
Zhou Siyu learned from books that the third emperor was even more brutal than the second, and he arrested many people and imprisoned them in laboratories to continue conducting experiments on the fusion of human and animal genes.
Lin Ling remained noncommittal. The Yu, Lin, and Zhou families were all products of experiments. The Yu family's ancestors received genes from various ferocious beasts, the Lin family were birds of prey, and the Zhou family was a mixed bag, with all sorts of animals and plants.
The Chu family was an aristocratic family that managed the Etolan Laboratory, while the Qin family's ancestor was one of the researchers.
One family wasn't enough for the experiment, so other captured people were also forced to accept different genes.
However, gene fusion is not easy. Many test subjects turned into half-human, half-beast monsters. Yu Zhen's grandfather was the first successful test subject. He fused with the genes of a cheetah in human form. After professional training, he not only became as fast as a cheetah in short distances, but his endurance also improved dramatically.
The rulers of Aetoran were overjoyed. Coincidentally, other empires were attacking Aetoran, so they sent Yu Zhen's grandfather to the military camp and appointed him as the captain of the Imperial Guard. Yu Zhen's grandfather led the guard to defeat the invaders, conquering two planets in one fell swoop, and the Yu family rose from slaves to nobles.
Lin Ling's ancestors were natives of Planet Twenty-Seven. After the Aitolan Empire occupied Planet Twenty-Seven, they sent everyone to the laboratory. After several generations of gene selection and fusion, Lin Ling was finally born, a person who could fuse with Lianmu Grass. The others were also cruelly killed after they lost their function.
Compared to the delicate nature of the Lianmu grass, the Lanling flower fusion experiment progressed rapidly, with many test subjects fusing with Lanling flowers to varying degrees. However, Zhou Siyu's father, Zhou Yu, had the highest fusion rate and the highest pheromone grade. In addition, his partner was the then captain of the Imperial Royal Guard—a high-ranking Alpha named Vince. Naturally, their offspring, Zhou Siyu, also had a very high pheromone level.
Because the Zhou family underwent a wide variety of fusion experiments, many successful subjects left the laboratory early and were sent to various industries by the imperial rulers. The Zhou brothers used their wages to jointly buy the mining rights to a cheap mine. After discovering gold there, they continued to buy more, becoming veritable mining tycoons.
Chu Yunmu's biological father, Wen Mian, was a distant relative of Vince, but he was not as lucky as Vince and became one of the test subjects. He was fused with the orchid flower, but unlike Zhou Yu, his pheromones had no smell, but they had hallucinogenic effects.
After the alliance was established, the world order gradually stabilized, and the five major families began to frequently intermarry, partly to maintain their rule and partly to perpetuate their genes.
After all, the test subjects' genes were too outstanding, especially those from the Yu family. Their physical strength, speed, and agility far surpassed those of ordinary people, and their combat power was even more astonishing. Putting aside the combat power of high-level Alphas, an A-level Omega like Yu Zhen, without pheromone suppression, could easily defeat an S-level Omega and fight to a draw with an Alpha of the same level.
"Uncle Lin, since the orchid and the wood-leaf grass are so special, how do they manifest in people?"
After hearing the introduction, Zhou Siyu couldn't help but feel hopeful. What if he suddenly gained a constitution that was immune to all poisons?
“Researchers at the Etolan Lab have conducted tests showing that once an Alpha carrying the Orchid Bellflower pheromone marks an Omega carrying the Limbe Tree pheromone, they can remotely locate the Omega’s position,” Lin Ling added. “The opposite is not true; however, they can sense the other person’s mood to some extent, and even if they are not in their fertile period, they can smell the other person’s pheromones.”
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