Chapter 542 Is it a woman?
"You're saying that you're a team of adventurers from Grandal who stumbled upon a treasure map. Then this... uh, Miss Warlock, through divine revelation, received the ritual to open the secret realm and came here?"
Fang Yu looked at the five people with a strange expression.
"Yes, yes." Sora answered nervously.
What is the identity of the other party?!
How could he have snatched himself back from the clutches of death so easily?
And with just a wave of his hand, all of them returned to the ground from that dangerous treasure room!
Even among the legendary heroes, I have never heard of anyone having such ability!
Sora suddenly remembered the headless body of Maritz that he saw at the gate before entering the treasure room.
Could it be that he was the one who killed Maritz?
That's a level 7 monster!
Even the Knights of Zhuoshui City would have to send out at least a squadron to drive away the level 7 monster!
Moreover, it is only to drive them away, not to eliminate them.
If their team encountered a monster like Maritz, no matter how lucky they were, they could only hope to leave their bodies intact.
Such a powerful monster was killed by a single blow. It seemed that it didn't even have a chance to resist. How strong was it?
How could such a powerful being ask so many nonsensical questions?
Could it be that... he is the most powerful being in this secret realm? The Big Boss?
Sora was shocked by his own guess and couldn't help but look up at Fang Yu, only to see Fang Yu touching his chin, as if thinking about something.
Fang Yu never expected that these people were not from the main plane, but from some unknown secondary plane.
He also didn't expect that these people had no idea that they were in the abyss, and only knew that this was a secret place.
He had never expected that this secondary plane had actually developed a supernatural system that was not exactly the same as the main plane.
Although the various professions in this sub-plane essentially rely on sacrificing mental strength and faith in exchange for extraordinary abilities, they do not have any temples there, and they don't even know what a temple is!
“Faith is a private contract between an individual and God. Any third-party misinterpretation of God’s will is blasphemy against God.”
This is common knowledge to everyone in Grandal.
The temple is the third party.
Could it be that there are too few people in this sub-plane, so the legendary wizards changed the sales model from B2B to B2C here?
This is totally unreasonable.
Moreover, in this plane, a person can believe in multiple gods, but the more gods one believes in, the lower the possibility of advancing to a high level in a certain career direction.
What surprised him the most was the girl who called herself a "warlock" - Mildoran.
At first he thought that this girl had been seduced by some evil god and was setting up a trap for their team, deliberately leading them to their death.
After all, for low-level adventurers like them, even if there are no high-level demons in the abyss, it is not a place they can set foot in.
Here, even if they don't encounter any monsters, as long as they stay for three days, their vitality will be wiped out by the abundant death energy in the abyss, and they will die.
But unexpectedly, their entire team flatly denied this speculation.
Because the warlock's spellcasting ability is actually innate!
The number of warlocks is very small, and there may only be one in hundreds of thousands of people.
They do not need to believe in any gods. They are born with some abilities in their blood that ordinary people do not have. After awakening for some reasons, these abilities will become stronger and stronger as they grow older.
But at the same time, the stronger this ability is, the more it will erode their sanity and the easier it will be for them to lose control.
Once their bloodline awakens, they will be affected by it at all times, and can often "hear" a lot of information that comes from nowhere.
The voice did not belong to any known god, but rather a whisper leaking from the cracks of the universe.
These messages torture their spirits all the time. Over time, they will begin to become crazy and mentally ill, increasing the possibility of losing control of their magic power.
Therefore, few warlocks can live beyond the age of thirty, and most of them will be wiped out at the age of 25-28 due to the loss of control of their magic power.
Mil is already 23 years old, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is buried up to his neck in the loess.
As a warlock, one of Mil's abilities is precognition.
This kind of foresight, different from prophecy, is more like when Mil encounters a problem, someone tells her directly in her mind what to do.
Mil can not only foresee danger, but also predict the conditions for opening an unknown secret realm when he obtains a treasure map of the secret realm.
In the past few expeditions, it was thanks to Mil's predictive ability that their team was able to escape danger time and time again and make a name for themselves in Grandal.
The power from blood?
It's interesting that today, when the main plane is already in the Dharma-Ending Age, a certain secondary plane still retains the ability to cast spells on its own.
"Sir, thank you for lending a helping hand in our time of need. The Eternal Flame Embers will never forget your kindness. This is the spoils we obtained in the secret realm. Although it's not much, it's all we have."
Hefley took out the mucus she had collected from the Babu monster and the box of purple crystals from Sora's backpack, held them in her chubby hands, and handed them to Fang Yu.
Fang Yu only took a glance and recognized that this crystal was a specialty of the abyss, the hard currency of the abyss, and the actual currency for preserving value - the soul crystal.
This thing has a similar status to diamonds in the main plane, and both can be used as general spellcasting materials.
However, the spirits of intelligent creatures that use soul crystals to cast spells will be polluted and marked. After death, their spirits will not return to the astral realm, but will be pulled into the abyss.
"No need." Fang Yu said casually, "I don't need it. You can keep it. However, these things have serious side effects on ordinary people, so it's best not to touch them."
Hefley was stunned for a moment, feeling both relieved and a little worried.
Before she could even open her mouth to make any promises, Fang Yu continued, "However, I do have two small requests."
Hefli and Sora's worries, which had just been put at ease, became heavier again.
"I need a tube of blood from this warlock lady."
"Also, I'm going to go to Grandal, as you're calling it, to see where the secret gate you just mentioned is."
After hearing Fang Yu's request, the four of them looked at each other, and even Mil, who always looked with empty eyes and a dazed expression, showed a surprised expression.
Blood? In this world of various magical arts, handing over blood is no different from handing over one's life.
Still going to Grandal? What if you're a monster from this secret realm? Wouldn't that be inviting a wolf into your home?
But can you refuse?
Several people stared at each other.
——
Haixi, College of Life Sciences, National University of Haixi, State Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biotechnology.
The laboratory, which usually had someone watching the machines at two o'clock in the morning, was now empty except for Fang Yu. Only Youzi was in front of the computer, controlling the mage's hand to tap on the keyboard.
"Master! Master! The DNA sequencing results are out!"
Yuzu was glowing bright white, clearly in shock.
"What's the result?" Fang Yu's eyes flashed and he stared at Youzi closely.
After getting the blood and passing through the secret gate to Grandal, he set an anchor point and immediately switched back to Haixi. He asked Zhang Xinnian to borrow the National Synthetic Biotechnology Laboratory and asked the ship girl Han Xiao to help him do blood tests and DNA sequencing.
The blood test results came out very quickly, in half a day.
The results were nothing to worry about. Although most indicators were unhealthy, no unknown ingredients were detected.
DNA sequencing was slower, but the National University's latest high-throughput sequencing equipment had already been installed, and with no waiting in line, the entire set of WGS data output was completed in less than 20 hours.
All that remains is a comparison result.
And this is precisely the strength of the large grapefruit and orange models.
The whole genome alignment and molecular clock deduction, which originally took more than ten days to complete, took less than ten minutes in the hands of the Orange Large Model.
The entire human database, evolutionary tree backtracking, STR mutation trajectory... all together, it takes less than an hour. If parallel tasks are used, the time can even be shortened to less than eight minutes.
"Reporting to the master, the whole genome sequencing of Miss Warlock's sample has been completed, with a coverage depth of 31.2X and a Q30 pass rate of 93.7%. After genome alignment, the Orange model has completed population fitting analysis and molecular clock deduction."
There was a faint flash of white light on Yuzu's body, and she was obviously still in shock, and her voice was full of complex emotional fluctuations.
"Like the humans from the Prime Plane we've measured before, Miss Warlock's overall allele frequency differs significantly from that of modern humans."
"STR drift rates, SNP frequencies, and interchromosomal LD structures have all completely deviated from the main lineages of modern humans. But—"
Yuzu paused for a moment, and white light suddenly appeared on her body.
"However, in a low-recombination region of chromosome 9, we discovered a 2.3kb high-fidelity ancestral fragment containing a complex rare mutation structure at four sites."
"This complex rare mutation structure is highly consistent with the modern population in southwestern Gaul in the existing database, and belongs to a branch of the R1b haplogroup lineage of the European race!"
Fang Yu's face changed and he stood up with a whoosh.
"are you sure?"
A white light flashed on Yuzu's body: "Of course I'm sure!"
Fang Yu's expression changed constantly. "What about the molecular clock deduction? When did her ancestors diverge from the Gauls on Blue Star?"
Yuzu flashed like a cell phone LED flashlight: "There is no division! Master!"
No differentiation?
Fang Yu couldn't help but be stunned.
How can there be no differentiation?
Yuzu's voice almost broke. "This structure is essentially a mutation of the modern Gauls! It's not a precursor, not a variant, it's a continuation!"
"Based on the modeling of STR mutation accumulation, mutation density in non-recombinant regions, and mutation load in the third hypervariable region of mitochondrial DNA—"
"Her genome continued to evolve for 16,000 years after the timeline of modern humans!"
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fang Yu was shocked.
Yuzu's voice trembled. "Not only that, but among over 180 million human samples in the global database, only one sample shows 100% sequence identity with Miss Warlock in this 2.3kb non-recombinant region, with no missing complex mutation sites, and the degree of fit reaches the statistical limit."
"Matching number: HM-BF-990204, Adrian Arkani, Gallican National Biobank Collection 2010."
As expected!!!
"boom!"
Fang Yu's own aura burst out uncontrollably, and the powerful airflow even shattered the glass in the office. The various desks and chairs in the office were twisted and crooked, as if they had been bombed.
Fortunately, those experimental instruments are not here, otherwise, not only would it cost money, but it would also take at least a year and a half for the National University to rebuild such a laboratory.
The delivery time of the instrument is too long.
Adrian!!!
The legendary most talented intermediate wizard in history - Adrian Akani!
The one who feeds off the legendary Life School mage Lisia—Adrian Akani!
Adrian Akani, who created his own magic of wealth and hoped to escape the catastrophe by becoming a god before the arrival of the Dharma Ending Age!
This "warlock" named Mildoran is actually the descendant of Adrian Akani!
More importantly, Adrian Akani—is from the Blue Star!
And he is a modern blue star person!
At least he was still on Blue Star six years ago!
What's going on?
If this is the case, many of my previous speculations will be overturned!
"This is the information I found about Adrian. I'll send it to you... uh..." Yuzi looked at the office that was in a mess due to Fang Yu's breath, and could no longer find a complete computer to send the file.
Fang Yu picked up a notebook and used a repair technique.
After restarting the computer, Youzi sent the information over.
Fang Yu opened the PDF sent by Youzi and read it attentively.
Adrian Akani was born on July 28, 3034 in Rennes, Gaul.
In 3041, Adrian Akani and his parents immigrated to Montreal.
In 3052, he was admitted to the School of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
During this period, he never received a grade lower than A- in any of his major courses and held over 100 patents in progress or already granted, covering a variety of fields including mechanical design, software development, communications, and energy networks.
3053–3054: Selected for the CSAIL Young Scholars Program and the MIT IUR Future Project;
Fall 3055: Qualified for early graduation from MIT and directly admitted to Harvard University's interdisciplinary graduate program;
During his university years, he published a total of 17 papers, including 6 in Nature Computational Science, Science Advances, and ACM SIGARCH, and 3 were sealed by MIT ethical review due to "ethical uncertainty."
In 3057, Adrian disappeared at a classmate's party in Boston and no trace of him has been found to date.
Relationship experience: Veronique Le Verrier, studying at Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Major: Philosophy (Modern Language Philosophy)
Minor: Comparative Literature, History of Religions
The two met in early 3053, after Adrian presented a mathematical refutation of God's existence at the Harvard-MIT Joint Philosophy Workshop, sparking Veronica's strong opposition.
After that, they discussed and argued frequently, and gradually established a relationship;
They officially started dating in the summer of 3053 and the relationship lasted for about nine months. The reason for their breakup is unknown.
The PDF also lists a bunch of papers and patents that Adrian has published.
Finally, there are several close-up photos and daily photos of Adrian.
In the photo, a blonde woman in her early twenties is looking at the camera with a faint smile.
etc.
Blonde woman?
Is Adrian Akani a woman?
That’s not right. There is no mitochondrial DNA data for comparison in the DNA data just now.
How could it be a woman?
If it is a female, we can use mtDNA to determine whether Adrian is the ancestor of the warlock lady. Why do we need to do a whole genome comparison?
"Um, Master, I also compared the mtDNA (mitochondrial DNA) data. Miss Warlock's mitochondrial DNA is exactly the same as Adrien's."
Yuzu chuckled twice and floated back unconsciously.
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(End of this chapter)
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