Chapter 121 Genes Endless

When the artificial sunset in the sky gradually dyed the dusk of the bustling city red.

At the same time, the floating island above the core area of ​​the First Fortress also activated the night alert mode as the sky gradually darkened. The night lights used for patrolling in the forest lit up one by one, leaving no dark corner untouched.

However, for Leila Asay in her beastly state, whether there are lights in the forest has no effect on her.

Then the huge beast stopped, parted the grass, and ran towards the depths of the dark forest on its own.

I heard several shouts from behind: "Hey! Boss, Boss, Boss - wait for me -"

"Asa, 35% of your animal genes are avian genes. You are born night blind! Save it, save it, save it—Jin'er, stop chasing me!"

A rough voice sounded, and a bony hand grabbed the thin pirate information soldier Asa and took him back to the patrol airship returning to the guard dormitory area. A puzzled expression appeared on Pirelli's rough face: "Asa, I saw that you have undergone a genetic repair, and your appearance is completely like a human, but why didn't you cure this stutter!"

"You, you, you - didn't you replace the missing ear - completely?" Asa pointed at Pierre's metal prosthetic ear angrily and snorted back.

"I kept it on purpose, as a medal of honor as an alpha!" Pierre said in a low voice, "Besides, that master promised us that after this job is done and Asay is fully recovered, we will return to the Siren Galaxy to continue our old business! As a pirate who has been killed for generations, how can I be naked like a pretty boy! If I don't have scars, I'm not a pirate! Do you understand!"

"Alright!" Sasaki, the foxtail beside him, smiled and patted Asa's shoulder to stop him from stuttering: "Your boss was just rejected and needs to find a hillside to howl a few times, that's all!"

"After we finish our patrol, he will go back on his own."

After Foxtail finished speaking, he drove the patrol car to the rare species area on the floating island to carry out the routine night mission for more than a month. The job they got was more like a disguised shelter and shelter than a guard.

Because as far as the floating island's fully intelligent security is concerned, everything is clearly visible in the networked sky eye, and there is no need for manual night patrols. The real object of their work is the increasing number of rare species collected by Su Xi. Since the departure of the "Giant Whale", the originally purchased harmless ornamental species have gradually been joined by some ferocious creatures upstream of the food chain.

Even with intelligent computer monitoring, humans are still needed to provide treatment and protection after a fight between species.

"Hey!" Asa asked in a troubled tone, "Foxtail, what happened in the triple gravity training room just now?"

"Did he have a quarrel with Miss Susu Suxi?"

The always smiling Foxtail sighed and didn't directly answer Asa's question: "Asai's condition has stabilized. After the next treatment, he can fully control the switch between beast form and human form. We have to leave."

"Oh no! Of course it would be nice to go back to the Siren Galaxy! Here, every move is restricted, and the food and drink are so bland!"

Pierre laughed loudly, but then a few beeps of communication requests rang out.

Gary's voice rang out from the patrol car's communication channel: "Everyone, according to the patrol watch, you should have already gone to the beast area by now. Please abide by the rules and regulations of the Floating Island Guard, OK?"

"Fuck you—"

"Master Gary!" Foxtail covered Pierre's mouth and quickly replied in a very friendly manner: "We will do it immediately, immediately!"

"No need to address me as 'Sir,'" Gary's voice came lazily through the communicator. "I'm just a private guard on the island like the rest of you. I get paid to do my job. Go get to work."

"Five minutes later, the 'deadline' scan of this area will be activated. Even if you pass the identification, you will be judged as an intruder if you appear in an inappropriate place at an inappropriate time..."

Foxtail smiled awkwardly, knowing that this adult had been unhappy. He had kindly assisted them in cheating to enter the floating island, but after the incident, he was implicated in Asai's affairs and lost his position in the military.

However, his friend Chris was fined lightly because of his high position; his colleague Mary Rambo and others were also fined, and returned to their original positions after being locked up for a night and worked well. Mary even reported her merits and received a lucrative job to carry out a mission with the "Giant Whale".

As for him, a former top interrogator in the armed forces, a 3S-level alpha with a special officer title that could have allowed him to walk around freely in wartime, he was sent to a floating island with nothing to do. No wonder he was dissatisfied.

“Okay, okay!”

Foxtail replied in a very positive manner, started the patrol car and drove away from the area.

And in the dim shadows of the forest, a human figure gradually emerged, or to be more precise, a wriggling transparent object.

The ripples in the air spread out gently and then disappeared silently.

The direction it disappeared in was the Secluded Bamboo Residence not far away.

*

The night wind blew through the bamboo forest, making a rustling sound.

Youhuangju is located halfway up the mountain, hidden deep in a bamboo forest.

According to Su Xi's preferences, the building complex on this land is not large. It is made up of only three small white buildings with extremely simple exteriors, and the staggered heights are extremely elegant.

The three hidden ancient seal characters "幽证居" at the entrance were written by Su Xi, but in this era, no one knew the meaning of this strange font except her and Fitzgerald, with whom she deliberately shared relevant memory fragments.

The transparent object came to the entrance and seemed to be very familiar with using a pen-shaped scanner to open the identification code in the three ancient seal characters and inserted an extremely thin transparent chip.

The door opened silently and closed silently.

The slight abnormality seemed to be just an illusion in the night wind.

*

In contrast, the owner of Youhuangju was completely unaware of this.

Queen Marlena, who changed her clothes and secretly logged into her private ship, the Blue Mist Flower, was very satisfied with the smooth progress during the spiritual connection ceremony.

This chess piece that had been hidden for so long finally came in handy. She followed the opponent's moving gaze and saw that the omega drank the solution in one gulp and lay down in the gene repair cabin.

At this moment, whether it was the Queen's private ship anchored in the VIP port or the floating island above the core area of ​​the First Fortress, the last rays of sunset had long gone out, and now there was only starless darkness.

Suffocating darkness enveloped every corner of the First Fortress.

The beautiful woman with red hair and blue eyes curled her red lips slightly. She took off the headband of the spiritual connection instrument and gave a few instructions to the guards. Then she turned and came to the secret room at the side. The Yindu envoy Julie Will had been waiting there. "Your Majesty, I have brought what you need."

"As expected, you are a 5S-level expert, Lady Julie." Marianna smiled softly and praised him.

"Everything is thanks to your grace." Julie Will respectfully performed a noble salute of allegiance. Except for a slightly dull look in her eyes, her other actions were no different from usual.

"Then I'll trouble you again with the rest of the follow-up matters tonight."

"I dare not say it's hard work," Juliewell lowered her head, but her eyes were fixed on her: "It is my duty to serve the two majesties."

“Go ahead.” Marlaina smiled slightly, stretched out her hand, and looked at the alpha as if he was taking drugs and gave her a long kiss on the hand.

"Lady Julie?"

"yes."

Juliewell suddenly realized something, let go of Marlaina's hand, bowed and walked away.

Seeing the door of the secret room closed again, Maraina snorted coldly, took off her lace gloves in disgust and threw them away.

The light screen on the communicator in the secret room flickered slightly, and a hooded man in gray appeared in the video.

Manila stroked the chip that Julie brought and sighed, "I never thought that this UFO 2.0 version could break through the AM critical value and evolve into an AI life form. If I had known this, I shouldn't have given up on UFO so early."

"How could we have known this earlier?" the man in gray said sarcastically, "Do you want to emulate His Majesty Tyron? You should know that no omega has ever had the mental strength to sustain a human-machine binding that lasts forever, and the ordinary human-machine cloning method is just unconscious memory storage..."

"That's much better than the human-insect fusion you asked the Academy to perform!" The red-haired, blue-eyed omega complained unhappily, "Also, if you hadn't been so absurd over the past decade and ruined your reputation, why would you need such a troublesome method to control these ants?!"

"Stop complaining. I just learned that there seems to be something wrong with the latest genetic backup." The man in gray moved quickly. Although his voice was hoarse, it seemed much better than before when he was weak and coughing. "And the powerful recovery agent I took can only last for 24 hours-"

"First, we must make every effort to break through the defenses of the floating island and obtain the solution! Then we will make plans after returning to Yindu."

The man in gray said this in a crisp and clear tone, then hung up the call.

Marlaina snorted coldly, then inserted the chip into the card slot. She narrowed her emerald eyes and watched the activation of the AI ​​UFO with great nervousness, and... the remote coverage bit by bit. The AI ​​evolved body, which had once been a copy of the AI ​​UFO, was controlled by K21's command and then assisted a certain omega to escape.

Now the omega calls him "Xiguang".

Until the progress bar got stuck at 59 percent.

Marena frowned anxiously. According to the information she got from Daniel, only by breaking through the AI's defense can they successfully obtain the "gene enzyme reactor" on the floating island.

Since there is a problem with the latest gene backup, the 'gene enzyme reactor' on the floating island is the last stable solution sample.

If she doesn't want to become a disgusting fusion of a human and a worm in the next ten years, she must get it!

*

Floating island. Secluded bamboo residence.

To Su Xi, this night seemed no different from the previous ones. She lay in the repair cabin with a calm expression. The central intelligence computer was operating according to instructions as usual.

The humanoid Xiguang was waiting quietly outside the repair room.

After taking the gene-replenishing solution, the conscious 'Su Xi' is now standing at the place where she was interrupted in her last dream.

Surrounding her was an endless maze of mirrors.

She looked around in surprise. It was very different from the previous two times. Last time, the images in the mirror were very blurry. But now, the reflected figures all clearly reflected her own appearance.

To be exact, how she had looked on Earth.

In those mirror fragments, there is a teenage Su Xi with a childish and innocent look; there is also a twenties Su Xi gazing into the distance with a sad expression, her long black hair was neatly cut short and combed into a neat ponytail; there is also a thirties Su Xi, although her appearance is still young, but there is a sense of sternness in the corners of her eyes and eyebrows that has experienced the world...

It's her, but it's not her.

Su Xi did not let her intuition lead her into a mirror as she did the previous two times.

Instead, she closed her eyes slightly, and tried her best to drive her heart chakra, which had been mostly repaired, to operate slowly. Fine golden sand overflowed from her forehead, and then suddenly scattered around with the current position as the center.

Then, in the place where the golden sand spread, the information compressed and stored in this "genetic memory" appeared in her consciousness one by one like a sponge absorbing water and swelling.

The heart chakra, which had not yet been fully repaired, could not bear it. Lying in the hibernation cabin, Su Xi had to take a deep breath and deliberately block out the redundant information.

In the real world, the monitoring value of the repair cabin jumped up and down the red line for a few times, and the humanoid Xiguang waiting in the corner moved, and then the warning line quickly fell back to normal. Xiguang turned his sight back and re-entered the firewall to fight against the intrusion program.

In the 'dream', Su Xi opened her eyes again, and the surrounding environment had changed slightly. Countless broken mirrors were still suspended in the air, quietly surrounding her. However, the empty space under her feet before now showed its original appearance.

If we use a figurative metaphor, it is a tree that grows endlessly from the top of the misty cloud. The upside-down branches seem to be the roots of a plant that are deeply embedded in the fertile soil.

Su Xi suddenly understood.

This is the 'gene tree' that shows the entire process from 'origin' to evolution.

The spiral chain extends endlessly downwards, and each branch produces the same shrunken spiral fruit. But if you look closely, the spiral fruit produced by each branch is slightly different. That is a genetic variation.

And now, she is standing on the top of this "gene tree". This space composed of broken mirrors is the origin of this infinitely tiny and infinitely huge "gene tree".

Everything started with her.

Su Xi felt confused. She walked to a mirror that surrounded her, and reached out to touch the childish "Su Xi" in the mirror. A girl with a bun hairstyle, about seven or eight years old, also reached out curiously. When the two fingers, one big and one small, touched lightly at the intersection of the mirror, Su Xi completely read all the information of this fragment.

In reality, Su Xi, lying in the hibernation chamber, couldn't help but shed a tear from the corner of her eye, which then mixed into the cold hibernation fluid and disappeared without a trace.

In the dream, Su Xi withdrew her hand. She was silent for a while. In this memory, both her parents were alive. At least—

None of the experiences she remembered, such as losing her parents at the age of five and being taken in from an orphanage by her foster mother, happened.

Thinking of a possible explanation, Su Xi decided to verify her guess again...

She then chose a broken mirror that was similar to the age she died before traveling through time, touched it, and read the information in the fragment. It was the same life she had not experienced, but the difference was the obviously different details of the era...

Could this be the possibility she had thought of?

While Su Xi was thinking, Xiguang's voice came from the void: "The floating island's firewall has been invaded, and the breakthrough progress is 30%. Please choose to leave the repair cabin as soon as possible."

Su Xi replied: "Hold the 59% limit for at least ten minutes."

"Got it." Xiguang's voice was calm, and then there was a clear "bang". Su Xi looked up and saw a three-minute countdown on her arm.

Su Xi was silent, Xiguang...are you in a bad mood?

'At the same time, please note that the concentration of this gene repair solution is too high, and you took it at will without listening to the advice. This is obviously unreasonable.'

Xiguang coldly rejected the order from his "master" and set a forced awakening procedure for three minutes. Suxi, who was at 50% human-machine synchronization with Xiguang, obviously sensed it very clearly.

She was silent for a moment, trying to bargain: "Xiguang, I witnessed a fact from 'planetary assimilation', and now, I need to verify it..."

"Hey! How about eight minutes?"

"no."

"Six minutes?"

"no."

"Five minutes, just five minutes!" Su Xi couldn't help but put her hands together and made a gesture of begging for mercy, but in her heart she felt helpless as if she had raised an electronic pet that was having a bad temper.

"Whatever you want." Xiguang's cold mechanical voice rang out, and just as he finished speaking, Su Xi saw that the countdown on her arm had changed to five minutes.

She smiled and said thank you in her heart.

Xiguang, who was on the same frequency as her, certainly would not miss any of her psychological changes, but the tone of the AI ​​prompt was even more rigid: "The 'repair' effect caused by the excessive concentration of the O-type original gene will turn into 'gene pollution' in six minutes. You can handle it yourself!"

Look, I no longer call him 'Master', I just call him 'You'.

Su Xi shook her head, thinking that just as Fitz said, withdrawing the humanized interface does not mean that an AI life form that has broken through the boundaries of TM can completely return to AI form. After all, Xiguang's nature is different from before.

The countdown on my arm produced a burning sensation, and now showed that the outside time was 4 minutes and 50 seconds.

Su Xi put aside all distracting thoughts and glanced at the end of the extended 'gene tree' under her feet.

Just as Xiguang had suggested, some pink mist was slowly spreading from bottom to top, along the main trunk of the gene tree.

So, is it genetic pollution?