Qin Guang raised his right hand and rubbed his temples, feeling a dull pain.
It really happened that there was a leak in the house and it rained all night. Before one problem was solved, a new thorny problem arose.
Emerson pulled out a chair and sat down, "Of course I know. We first have to determine whether this is inevitable or accidental. If it is inevitable, it will be very bad. This will cause serious damage to the empire's excursions and mean that human civilization cannot leave the galaxy. If
If it is an accident, you still have to figure out the probability of it happening."
Qin Guang put down his hand, "We are not currently the fleet farthest from the solar system. There are still some fleets that are moving in a direction completely perpendicular to the ecliptic plane, but others have not encountered this situation."
"That's because others don't have as good innate conditions as we do. They don't have the high-end gene pool provided by so many of our top fighters, and their demand for top-level personal combat capabilities is far less than ours."
Qin Guang nodded, "Yes."
Emerson: "In any case, our experiment was successful. It took mankind hundreds of years and a lot of hard work to cultivate a child instructor. Her existence has raised the overall combat effectiveness of mankind to a higher level. Only a few decades have passed, and we
We have obtained another new cutting-edge combat power. Isn't this what you soldiers dream of? General, you should be more happy. When we share the experimental data with the empire, the empire may even have the opportunity to mass-produce such super soldiers.
"
Qin Guang shook his head, "The risk is too great. What has supported mankind to this day is not simply technological progress, nor the increase in genetic awakening, but absolute unity. This baby is just reproductively isolated from humans.
But it does not mean that there is no ability to reproduce. A large number of similar babies will be born
The emergence of a new race with higher potential than ours, but completely different from ours, will divide mankind and ultimately bring destruction. The enemy in front of us has not yet been solved. If a new enemy is cultivated, it may be like the void in history.
The radium will also cause us heavy damage. We cannot bear this potential risk."
Emerson: "But it's possible to make new races work for us, isn't it?"
Qin Guang did not deny it, "Yes, so this matter is difficult to deal with. Dr. Emerson, you should go to work first and find out what is going on with this baby, and then decide how to deal with it."
"OK."
Emerson led a team to conduct extensive analysis of the newborn baby.
First, it was determined that this incident was accidental and the probability was extremely low.
Multiple extreme conditions were met at the same time, ultimately leading to the occurrence of this irreversible mutation.
Extreme conditions include new underlying quantum laws in the extragalactic space environment, the genetic relationship between the parents, an accident during embryo cultivation (radiation leakage irradiating the embryo), and countless other conditions.
At first, the embryo had a fatal mutation and was about to die. The staff of the culture team put the dying embryo into the simulated nebula of the Methuselah star, and also used it in practical applications.
Using a top-secret new technology - virtual energy conversion, the embryo miraculously survived.
"Although this kind of accident is theoretically reproducible, it is too difficult to meet. The main difficulty lies not in replicating external conditions, but in the embryo itself. It is impossible to combine genes composed of chromosomes provided by the same two people.
Exactly the same? Just like identical twins can be different.”
"What about cloning?"
"That's not feasible either."
"When each fertilized egg embryo undergoes mitosis for the first time, the underlying information at the real energy level has already begun its first directional mutation. Even cloned embryos cannot grow into the same baby. This is different from identical twins.
The difference is the same."
"Oh, I see."
Qin Guang and Emerson looked at each other, sighing with relief and feeling a little melancholy.
"Should I continue to analyze the characteristics of the embryos? At present, we have only analyzed the combat potential of the embryos, but more in-depth research is needed."
"Go ahead, thank you for your hard work."
About sixteen hours later? Qin Guang received a report.
Emerson pointed out in the report that he extracted the underlying information of the embryos and conducted simulated matching with a large number of samples, including the data of everyone in the entire fleet, as well as a larger number of shipboard reserve gene banks.
In the previous first phase of matching results, the failure of 10,000 matching plans led Emerson to initially draw the conclusion of reproductive isolation.
Now when the sample is enlarged to tens of billions, matching still fails, and the conclusion of reproductive isolation is basically established, but there is still a glimmer of hope.
No one can tell whether the seemingly unbreakable wall of isolation will break down on its own if the sample continues to be enlarged to hundreds of billions, trillions or even infinity.
It's a pity that we don't have the experimental conditions now.
Emerson: "Actually, I have conceived a plan."
"What?"
"The sage's resurrection embryo? You know that, right?"
"Of course I know."
"We can simulate the idea of synthesizing sage embryos by the Academy of Earth Life Sciences? Like programming? Write another set of chromosomes corresponding to the mutated baby bit by bit with real-level accuracy. Maybe we can try to see if we can continue the baby's genes.
Go down and use time to dispel the imagination of reproductive isolation.”
“How many years will it take at the earliest to see results?”
"Too much calculation?
It is impossible to complete it with the fleet's own computing power. We have to send the data packets back to the empire and hand over the calculation work to the main brain Fanxing. The data comes and goes, which takes at least ten years. And then we have to meet the quality of the cryogenic warehouse.
If we can meet the demand, we have to use our low-end computing power to slowly lay bricks on 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
More than 80 percent of waking hours are spent on this."
Qin Guang: "Do you think it's worth it? Do we have other research directions that have the potential to make breakthroughs?"
"Yes, this is where I hesitate."
"Wait for instructions from the empire, I have other troubles on my hands."
Qin Guang issued an order to expel guests.
Three years later, it was time for the unknown fleet to exchange data with the empire. At this time, the baby had turned three years old and turned into a child.
Emerson consolidated the situation into a fleet data package and sent it back.
Unexpectedly, just three hours later, the empire would send another urgent data packet.
There's something going on in the Empire's base camp.
Before Chen Feng's "death", he had already made comprehensive arrangements for important old friends, the most important of which were the Tang Shuang descendants related to Tang Tianxin. The purpose was to ensure as much as possible that even if humans spread over a large area within the Orion Arm
Sanye still has to let Tang Tianxin be born in the solar system.
These arrangements made by Chen Feng were strictly implemented by the Salvation Society and the empire's senior officials, and the relationship between the timeline and the characters was tightly controlled.
But accidents always come unexpectedly, and luck is not always on the side of mankind.
In September 2870, a serious experimental accident occurred at the space station in the solar system where Tang Shuang's descendants lived. Excessive radiation swept away a large area of residential areas and embryo storage rooms.
The space station, with a total population of approximately 30 million people, lost nearly 6 million people, as well as a large number of artificial embryos and unborn fetuses that were supposed to be born this year.
This loss can be described as extremely tragic.
The real serious problem lies within these fetuses.
According to the timeline plan, Tang Tianxin's great-great-grandmother should have been born in November of this year.
It's gone now.
No one can be sure whether the baby created by activating the reserve embryo can still be Tang Tianxin's great-great-grandmother, because the time has been wrong by one year.
The precise 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 fateful connection between the sage Chen Feng and Tang Tianxin and others, Tang Tianxin was still able to be born on time in the solar system.
The process can be inferred from the results.
To understand it this way, assuming that Tang Tianxin must have been born, then since the embryo that died unexpectedly in 2870 is already dead, the deceased must not be Tang Tianxin's great-great-grandmother.
It doesn't matter if we start cultivating the spare embryos now, and it doesn't matter if the baby is born a year or two later. After all, the time to raise the offspring can be postponed in advance. 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 the results are used to infer the process, can it be considered that there is a problem with bloodline selection in a certain link.
We should investigate thoroughly from the beginning to see if any of Tang Shuang's blood has spread outside.
It seems difficult to select a group of people from the vast history, but with the help of the stars, it doesn't take much effort.
After this investigation, the results that surfaced shocked the world.
One of Tang Shuang's descendants once had a consensual affair with a female warrior who came to the rescue from another star region when the sun dome had just broken.
The female warrior once considered settling in the solar system and staying with her lover for the rest of her life. However, after careful consideration, she decided to return to her hometown. Decades later, she and her newly grown son went to the Witten galaxy to participate in the war.
This descendant was not omitted from Fanxing's census, but considering that the distance was too far, and that this descendant no longer had the surname Tang, and his blood relationship with the direct line was very superficial, there was no rush to recall him at that time.
Later, the female soldier and her son were unfortunately killed in a battle, and the matter was left unresolved.
But that young soldier had stored genetic information in the frontline gene bank, and traveled hundreds of millions of miles over the years, turning it into a group of reserve genetic data in an unknown fleet. Finally, he was cultivated during the journey and grew up.
, became the father of the mutated baby, a top male warrior.
The time when the mutant baby was officially formed happened to be November 2870.
"In other words, the great-great-grandmother of Marshal Tang Tianxin in the history of nothingness was taken by us to a place more than 14,000 light-years away from the solar system? And was she also put in a state of reproductive isolation from ordinary humans?"
Qin Guang hissed and gasped, horrified.
Emerson, who was also troubled, sighed, "Although I hope there is something wrong, it is indeed possible. Moreover, the mastermind Fanxing has conducted simulation matching across the entire empire, and the number of matching objects has been enlarged to more than one billion, but
Still haven't found a chromosome that can be paired successfully."
"Asshole!"
Qin Guang fell down on the chair, his eyes dull and dull.
It has been one hundred and fifty-six years since they left the empire. During these one hundred and fifty-six years, the Unnamed Fleet has had dozens of encounters, large and small. Many times, its whereabouts were almost completely exposed. There were also many times when the opponent's motives for the expedition were almost discovered.
Success is a failure.
Along the way, there were difficulties 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 bad news almost completely destroyed his will.
This blow was too heavy, and the enemy's reconnaissance force rushed directly into the core area of the fleet without much panic.
He is familiar with the history of nothingness and knows well what Tang Tianxin means to mankind in the thirty-first century, and is extremely important to the sages.
The empire headquarters is well aware of this, otherwise it would not take the risk of sending data packets twice in a row.
The second data packet only talked about this one thing.
"General, our mission is destined to end without return. We can't take Tang Tianxin's ancestors to die, right? How about sending 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 behind us. It is impossible to return safely to the empire with just one ship."
"Then...we all have to return home?"
Qin Guang continued to shake his head, "We have completed more than half of the mileage, how can we possibly return."
Qin Guang continued to scroll down the second data packet. After a long time, he slowly stood up.
"The empire headquarters has made a decision."
"How to say?"
"We continue to move forward. At the same time, the main brain Fanxing has begun to mobilize a large amount of resources according to your previous idea, just like the embryos of the sages, to rewrite a set of genetic chromosomes that can match the mutant babies. This is the second time in human history
The second artificial creation of human beings. The empire named this plan the Nuwa Project."
Emerson: "Nuwa?"
"Myths and Legends of Chinese Civilization."
"Oh oh oh, okay. But for the embryos that programmed the sages, at least there is ready-made original genetic information available, and they only need to be copied rigorously. But this one, alas..."
"We can't give up. We will save Tang Tianxin and make her the fleet commander at the appropriate time. We have to believe in one thing."
Emerson: "What?"
"Tang Tianxin, who has become a perfect general in many timelines in the past, will also become the best commander of the unknown fleet. Under her leadership, the fleet can not only complete its mission, but even escape intact!"
"I hope so. Then I will make preparations. By the way, there is one more thing."
"Emerson, tell me."
"The Nuwa Project will definitely continue until the end of the 30th century. The workload of manually compiling embryonic recording data will take up a lot of computing power, and it will also require the assistance of many professionals in the field of related genetic science. I need more
I have a lot of biological talents, so I hope you can authorize us 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 that this will bring certain risks and cause trouble to you, but these are not my business. I
Our job is just to ensure the success of the project.”
If it were before, Qin Guang would have refused.
But now things have changed.
Qin Guang smiled bitterly and nodded, "Okay, that's it. I will provide you with more biologists, geneticists and operators of practical energy converters."
The undercurrent of history is irreversibly becoming turbulent.
The essence of society is an organic, flowing, and changing whole.
Every major decision made in the top-level architecture will have a profound impact on the times.
This is especially true when decisions involve changes in population proportions.
