Chapter 124 Endless Reproduction
Repair the cabin.
The honey-brown short-haired omega was immersed in the repair fluid, closing his eyes and entering the "dream" of genetic memory recall. But now Su Xi has completely deviated from the main trunk of the "original genetic memory" and has been attracted by a special memory fragment, wandering on the wrong path of the side branch.
After passing through the pink gas vortex, the image in the mirror fragment became clearer. It was also an omega with red hair and blue eyes, and was about 70% similar to the current Marianna. But if you look closely at her appearance, it is exactly the same as the first queen of the current emperor Anthony, who has passed away, 'Laiya', but younger.
Su Xi's hand gently touched the fragments, and all the information about the origin and destination of this set of genetic fragments appeared in her mind at a glance.
It was exactly as expected. She was a replica of the first queen, Laya, a reproduction numbered LY368, and the first of the third batch of fertilized mothers. She was also——
Su Xi's expression became complicated for a moment.
'She' is the mother that gave birth to Fitzgerald.
In this interstellar age, it is no secret that the royal family relies on the integration of genetic engineering to continue the direct bloodline of Gerard. The natural reproduction method advocated by the royal family is nothing more than implanting embryos cultivated through genetic integration into the uterus of a natural person to complete the most important eight months of embryo development.
Therefore, after the gene fragments of these clones that are used for reproduction are removed and modified, their life span is only ten months. They die on the delivery table after completing their reproductive mission, which is their final outcome.
But the offspring numbered 'LY368' lived for sixteen years.
Su Xi extended her finger and immersed it in the mirror. The point she wanted to investigate was not LY368's experience, she only cared about one question.
So, is the reason for Fitz's current physical condition due to one-fifth of Queen Yuleya? Or is it the special experience of LY368 itself?
After all, under the 'LY368' gene chain node, there are more than a thousand identical successors, but all of them are failures.
This is what Su Xi wanted to find out.
*
In the mist of memory.
The life of the replica 'LY368' is like a mayfly, only a short sixteen years. This memory journey is not long, and the fragmented memories are scattered in space.
This is a journey from the end of life, going back to the beginning of life.
The first memory fragment is a flash of light before death.
In the hazy blood, the fragile omega wheelchair seemed to be eagerly waiting for something to come. But at this time, her vision was so weak that she could not see clearly except for distinguishing light and dark, and high-contrast color blocks, and could not see specific objects.
Su Xi relaxed her consciousness and entered a memory link with LY368, a state of deep empathy.
Then, she noticed a vague figure approaching her, and then stopped three steps away. Five or six steps behind the figure, there were twos or threes of other figures squatting or standing there, their postures seemed lazy, but they were absolutely alert.
In the state of 'empathy', Su Xi understood 'LY368's' extremely complex emotions, guilt, nostalgia... and unmistakable joy.
Boom, boom, boom—'LY368's heart was beating violently, and she reached out her hand tremblingly towards the blurry figure.
"Come here, kid..." 'LY368' said with trembling lips, but her voice was so low that it was almost inaudible. If it weren't for the extraordinary hearing of the people opposite, they probably wouldn't have heard anything.
The figure was not tall, only a head taller than her who was sitting in the wheelchair, but the long sword on his back was almost as long as his body.
He did not move. Only the pheromones of a young child, which had not yet differentiated, quietly spread. There was no superfluous emotion in the pheromones, just like him who was examining 'her' now.
"Hey, Hall! Now that you're here, go ahead!" Behind the figure there was a bete girl with a high ponytail, who pushed him!
"Yeah, boss! We got paid, haha! Uh--" The joking voice was suddenly covered by his companion, "Chris... Uh! Why don't you let me speak?"
"You're stupid." The bete girl with a high ponytail said as she walked away muttering.
In this small garden surrounded by the fragrance of roses, there are only this omega in the wheelchair and the boy opposite him called Hall.
The atmosphere was silent for a while.
Finally, a figure called Hall came forward. As if infected by LY368's intense and tense mood, Su Xi's heart immediately lifted!
"Hello."
Su Xi heard his young and naive voice. Unlike the surprised and excited mentality of LY368 in the 'empathy' state, Su Xi felt a little surprised, but more of a desire to smile. It was really - I didn't expect Fitz to be so cute in his childhood.
"It's our first time meeting," Su Xi noticed that the omega in the memory link said very weakly, "I'm glad to finally... meet you."
In front of LY368's hazy vision, the boy called Hall took a step forward and spoke: "I'm not here for the reward from Holderman."
The boy said in a very serious tone: "It's to thank you in person."
"Thank me for what? Ahem..." The red-haired omega smiled half-heartedly before answering slowly.
"You took a risk to give birth to me."
"I—" The omega in the wheelchair seemed to want to say something, but was interrupted by a violent cough. She could only explain in a broken way why she wanted to see him one last time:
"Please, go back... go back to Yindu and take back... take back everything that belongs to you!"
"I have already... reported the coordinates... they will be here soon!"
Accompanied by the faint roar of propellers in the sky, accompanied by anxious shouts and curses from all around. Everything behind, within the range that Su Xi could perceive, those blurry and shaking images made it almost impossible to distinguish who was who and what happened specifically.
"Going back to Yindu?"
Su Xi only heard the young and naive voice, and finally replied: "No matter what your purpose is, I agree."
Then a hand reached out and slowly closed LY368's eyes. In her last perception, the palm of that young hand was filled with rough, thick silk.
In the last sight before closing her eyes, Su Xi saw the silver-haired, grey-eyed boy clearly. He pursed his lips slightly, with an expressionless look. What shocked Su Xi was that on that childish face, there was only indifference to life and death.
Immediately afterwards, Su Xi's eyes were plunged into darkness.
This fragment is over.
The moment Su Xi's consciousness withdrew from the memory fragments, the last picture of those indifferent gray eyes immediately collapsed into fine sand.
The pink smoke was getting thicker and thicker, and the countdown on my arm showed one minute and thirty seconds left.
Su Xi no longer hesitated and immediately ran to the next piece of debris.
*
The second memory fragment.
It was in a field of white roses on a barren planet. Wildfires were spreading, and mad tongues of flames were licking everything in sight. The snow-white petals were carried by the airflow brought by the scorching flames, floating in the sky mixed with black ash.
Su Xi, who briefly existed in the perspective of 'LY368', saw a silver-haired alpha with bronze skin rushing out of the sea of fire angrily, while feeling the burning pain on her back.
"Are you crazy?" he shouted angrily, and the water-based spiritual power instantly enveloped the omega whose back had been licked by the flames. A cool feeling came over him, and Su Xi sorted out his thoughts and entered a semi-connected state of observation.
"I'm not crazy," the red-haired omega's lips opened and closed slightly, and he said word by word, "Don't burn this damn thing! Why did you show up?!"
"I just want to escape from the lab and live a better and freer life after escaping!"
"Just like the three years we spent wandering, wouldn't it be better to find a planet with a moderate civilization and live a quiet life?" The red-haired, blue-eyed omega began to shed tears as he began to break down emotionally. "Instead of staying in such a harsh environment like we are now, improving our so-called abilities..."
The silver-haired alpha said nothing, but pulled her hand hard, leading her away from the sea of fire step by step. The alpha's strong mental force field perfectly shielded the damage caused by the flames.
"Holdman! You promised to take me away, and promised that I would be happy!"
"But what does this mean now?"
"Even if I get all the genes, I won't be with you until the end of your alpha life!"
The violent outburst of emotions in the memory video, the extreme repression of resentment and grievance, made Su Xi frown. She could only sigh and completely withdraw from the state of overlapping with this fragment of memory.
Standing outside the fragments of memory, Su Xi saw the tall alpha turned around in the wildfire of the sea of white roses. Although his appearance was slightly different, his temperament and expression were perfectly consistent with the silver-haired, blue-eyed 'Holdman' that Su Xi had met once.
However, although the Holdman in this fragment of memory looked irritable, he did not look half calm and half crazy as Su Xi had seen him before.
"Even if I am nourished by your mental power, I cannot form a second chakra!" The red-haired omega in the memory fragment slapped away Holdman's hand that was stretched out again, took two steps back, and shouted hoarsely, "Really, don't waste your energy, I can't stand it! You left me here alone for a whole year, training my mental power day after day! It's boring, painful, and despairing!"
"It's so hard for me to live! It would be better for me to die early like the other clones!"
"Do you want to die so badly?" The tall alpha turned around and stopped pulling her, letting her sit on the ground while crying.
In this memory fragment, Holderman said in an extremely cold tone, "No! When you used pheromones to seduce me to take you away, I decided that if I didn't die, you had to live too."
"When you break through to the third chakra, you have the opportunity to extend the activity of the telomeres and become able to withstand the repair of the 'complete genetic solution'."
Holderman looked down at her, patiently repeating the bright prospects he had described many times. Although he looked irritable, his words still carried an inexplicable expectation.
"I'm an omega, I just want to enjoy my limited life!"
The red-haired omega cried with a fragile look, like a four or five-year-old child. However, if we exclude the time spent as a clone in the culture dish, she has only lived for four or five years after being instilled with simple common sense.
"Are you sure?"
Holderman's face was gloomy. He spoke very slowly, word by word: "The removed embryos are still in the incubator. Are you sure you want to return to the role of 'breeder'?"
"Yes," the red-haired omega said with tears in her green eyes, pleading, "I don't want to live like this anymore. Please send me back."
"You can also return to the Empire—"
"Very good!" Holderman clenched his fists and squeezed out two words from between his teeth with a sullen face.
As the conversation between the two progressed to this point, the fragments of memory gradually became blurred until the entire picture became a still grayish white.
Su Xi took one last look back and saw the alpha who was standing and the omega who had fallen to the ground in the sea of fire, staring at each other with tears in their eyes.
Until the fragment crumbled into sand and scattered in the pink mist.
Su Xi sighed slightly, and continued to travel along the timeline, continuing to pursue other fragments.
*
The third memory fragment.
In the long memory corridor, the red-haired, blue-eyed omega was running in front of Su Xi in a panic, and the number 'LY368' on the gland at the back of his neck was glaringly clear.
It was as if a terrifying monster was chasing her.
This was a medium-ton cargo ship that crashed on a desert planet. It was now completely occupied by a group of cyborgs, and the cargo hold was on fire. However, it was not the robots that were chasing her, but the bloodthirsty beasts on the desert planet.
Not far behind her, the ferocious beasts pried open the boxes one by one and smashed countless petri dishes. In the petri dishes were clones of omegas of varying ages, some were about four or five years old, and some were even over forty years old.
But except for LY368 who escaped from the culture dish, her peers were almost completely eaten by the beasts. At the critical moment, LY368 awakened her weak mental power and staggered away.
But now she had no way to retreat. Behind her were the wild beasts slowly surrounding her, and in front of her was an abandoned porthole blocking her way. She could not move this piece of scrap iron, nor could she get out from the tiny gap.
With tears on his face, LY368 couldn't help but burst out with an extremely desperate mental strength, "Who can save me! "
Just as a wild beast was drooling and preparing to pounce, a flash of light flashed from behind.
The ferocious beast was exploded into a blur of blood mist.
'LY368' turned his head blankly and looked over. Against the light, a tall alpha walked towards him in a casual manner. But when he saw the omega in front of him clearly, he was obviously stunned.
"Laya?" he asked in disbelief, "Why are you here? Where's Anthony?"
LY368's eyes sparkled. She had just been out of the incubator for less than five hours and could not speak, but she found that the other party heard her call.
"Please," she begged with her mind, "save me."
For the alpha in front of him, it was not surprising to receive the mental call for help from 'Laya'. Although he was not clear about the cause and effect, after a slight hesitation, he immediately realized that the person in front of him was not the mistaken queen of the empire.
'LY368' had an intuition as sharp as an animal, and she trembled as she moved towards him. The omega's pheromones instinctively emitted a strong seductive feeling.
Of course the silver-haired alpha's sensitive alpha glands also received the omega's strong message. He raised his eyebrows slightly and grinned with deep interest.
"Whether you are Laya herself or not, this is indeed her pheromone, ha! Yindu's flaming rose, you know that you are releasing pheromones now--" Alpha paused, stretched out his hand, and quickly dealt with the wandering wild beasts, and then slowly and meaningfully said: "Are you trying to seduce me to mark you?"
The silver-haired alpha pried open her hands that were entangled with him, and with a deft move, he pinched her neck. When he lifted her hair, he saw the eye-catching logos of LY368.
"Is that so?" he murmured, "They took my genes, saying that they wanted to integrate the purer 'Gerald' bloodline - Tsk! It seems that the two majesties are getting more and more ambitious, which is really terrible..."
"It's... a seduction... mark..." 'LY368' didn't quite understand what the alpha in front of her, who exuded a strong sense of power, was saying, so she instinctively repeated his words.
"Oh! Since you've taken the initiative, I won't be polite," he grinded his teeth and said in a very casual manner, "Remember my name is Holderman."
Then he took a bite.
The next scene was a hazy gray. Su Xi completely withdrew from the perspective of a bystander. The third memory fragment continued to collapse into sand after being read.
Su Xi lowered her eyes and glanced at the countdown on her arm. There was still one minute and twenty seconds left.
Time is running out.
At this moment, the pink smoke surrounding her had already taken shape into a thick rope, tightly trying to lock Su Xi's movements and prevent her from moving forward to explore the truth.
Su Xi, who had removed the mental barrier, also clearly felt what it felt like to be "contaminated" through repeated memory explorations.
The biggest impact of "genetic pollution" on her at the moment is that she gradually loses her sensitivity to the outside world. Su Xi even keenly noticed that her frequency with Xiguang was getting lower and lower, gradually falling to 30%. The countdown on her arm was no longer clearly displayed from time to time.
Even so, while exploring the first three memory fragments, only a little over three minutes had passed in the real world. During this time, she saw all the images from the island's surveillance through Xiguang's 'Sky Eye' surveillance system.
Almost at the same time, she discovered the appearance of the long-lost blond boy, and the actions of Leila Asai, Foxtail and the other three on the floating island.
Of course, she also heard their conversation, and heard them discussing how to avoid the "deadline" opened on the island, and they were determined to find out her safety. A warm current surged in her heart.
So Su Xi stopped and chose to deal with things in the real world first.
With the help of the human-machine synchronization with Xiguang, Su Xi said to Asay and the others in the communicator: "Something has happened on the floating island, but don't worry... I will give you special identification tags..."
"Come to Youhuangju, we'll meet again..."
Before she finished the last word, the connection between Su Xi in the memory recall world and the real world was completely severed.
*
At this time, in this 'dream' of memory recall, the strange smoke became thicker and thicker, even forming a small vortex.
The gaseous smoke gradually thickened and formed a sticky semi-solid state. The color also gradually changed into a dark bloody red. In the center of the vortex, a long round column gradually materialized, and then four limbs emerged from the column... In this gradual change, it was barely possible to make out that this was a female body with exquisite curves.
"I sensed it..." A hole in the pink smoke-shaped humanoid's head opened and closed, making a sound: "Finally, I caught you."
A strange laugh echoed in this empty space, filled with a sharp madness. After it locked onto Su Xi's position, the sticky substance dripped and condensed and expanded like a spider web, and then suddenly pounced towards Su Xi!
A hoarse and unpleasant sound came out of its mouth intermittently: "A genetically contaminated omega... I want to see... if it can still... become a concubine..."
Seeing those sticky tentacles were about to touch Su Xi——
“Is it contaminated?”
"Is this how you control your copies?"
Su Xi sneered, "This is not a telepathic connection with the clone at all, but a parasitism and devouring of cells, that is--"
"It's an ability of the insect race."
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