After a hot pot meal, the relationship between the vice-principal and his older-looking son seemed to have improved a lot.
The few of them were full of wine and food. Lu Li was a little full after eating. With the comfortable environment in the room, she was already a little sleepy, and her little head was getting drowsy little by little.
Nicholas and Manstein sat together and decided to have a family dinner next time. Instead of eating hot pot, they would have barbecue sausages and pork knuckles, served with sauerkraut pickled by Manstein's wife.
"I'll leave it to you, little one."
Fingel didn't know when he came back. He was holding a bowl and eating until his stomach was full next to Ander. Ander handed Luli to him and asked him to send Luli to bed.
But he stayed in the bell tower, collecting the remaining dishes and chopsticks with Nicholas.
Manstein wanted to stay and help, but his father stopped him.
"Good boy, it's time to go home and sleep."
Manstein couldn't laugh or cry at his father's coaxing tone. Nicholas looked even younger than him, but in his eyes, he was just a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy.
Seeing Manstein leave, Ender snapped his fingers, and the oil stains on the ground disappeared. The plates flew into the dishwasher one after another, and the round table was folded up by magic and put aside.
"No matter how many times I watch it, I still feel that magic is really wonderful."
Sitting on the sofa nearby, Nicholas sighed.
"It's a pity that you are unwilling to accept the transformation ceremony."
Ender was also slumped on a sofa, holding a can of Pepsi in his hand.
"I don't really want to turn into a lizard."
"You are already a lizard man."
Nicholas smiled mockingly to himself. He may be the hybrid with the highest bloodline. The high here does not refer to the concentration, but the quality. His dragon blood is comparable to a first-generation blood.
There is no problem in saying that he is a lizard man. To be more precise, he is a humanoid dragon.
But there was a real dragon in front of him, a very chatty one, so Nicholas decided not to gossip and get straight to the point.
"Over the years, we have been studying the meat balls that were isolated from the dragon's body."
Nicholas rummaged through the debris covered under the canvas for a long time, and finally pulled out a glass column.
A flesh ball floats in a yellow-green liquid, with pale skin covering its surface, and the blood vessels and muscles under the skin can be vaguely seen.
"We call this thing a brain nucleus because most of it is human nerve cells."
"You also know that Kassel College is relatively biased in biology."
The biology major of Kassel College mainly studies the body structure of dragons, with only one purpose, to kill dragons more conveniently and better.
In such an atmosphere, Kassel College actually conducts very little biological research on humans. After all, everyone comes here just to slay dragons.
"Originally, at the beginning, we simply analyzed the structure of the brain core, focusing more on the role of the brain core on the dragon."
"But in 1985, a teaching assistant in the biology department went to a meeting of the U.S. Department of Energy."
Nicholas pulled out a few pages of crumpled documents from the gaps in the sofa, flattened them on the armrest, and handed them to Ander.
"The Human Genome Project aims to determine the entire base pair arrangement of the 23 pairs of human chromosomes."
"This provides a new direction for our research."
After the teaching assistant learned about the Human Genome Project, he decided to sequence the cells that make up the brain nuclei. This move was originally just for the sake of writing a paper, but it resulted in a major breakthrough.
The teaching assistant worked with the internship student for a year and discovered an astonishing fact: there are very subtle differences between the genes of the brain nuclei and the genes of modern humans.
This discovery led those in the Department of Biology to sequence the genes of the mixed race and compare the three sets of genes together, and they discovered a fact.
"The chromosomes of hybrids and ordinary people have two more pairs of genes than the chromosomes of the brain nucleus."
Nicholas said with a painful look on his face. After that, the secret party began to trace the origin of the mixed race, and finally came to a conclusion:
"All humans in the world have dragon blood, it's just more or less."
"The cells in the brain nucleus are the purest human beings."
Ender was not surprised at all by the conclusion reached by the secret party. There is an old saying in China: one cannot be poor for more than three generations. After three generations, there will be no more poor people.
In the face of disaster, ordinary people without power are more likely to die, and those who survive in the end must be those hybrids with greater power.
Passed down from generation to generation, and with guys like Nicholas leaving seeds everywhere, there will inevitably be more and more mixed breeds.
"It was only through genetic tracing that I found my son, Manstein."
Well, it looks like the Secret Party did a good thing.
"Has this news been announced?"
Ender asked, and Nicholas shook his head. This incident was no less than a storm for the proud hybrid. In addition, the origin of the brain core was somewhat sensitive, so he could only hide the news temporarily.
"But that's okay, it means that no one can replace the brain core in the dragon's body, because no one is purely human."
Nicholas lamented that since Ender came, the majesty of dragons has declined a lot, whether in this world or in another world.
"Not necessarily. Just a slight difference. Do you know the function of the brain nucleus?"
Nicholas shook his head. Forty years is not a short time, but it is still too difficult to get a glimpse of the mysteries of the dragon clan.
"This may involve the deepest secrets of the Dragon Clan. We only have some conjectures, which are meaningless."
Nicholas sighed, then changed his tone and said:
"If you can break down a Dragon King, you may be able to understand it more deeply."
Ender thought of Zero imprisoned in the ice cellar and asked:
"Isn't there one in the ice cellar?"
"That one was taken away by Angers a few years ago, and I don't know where he went. I still want to refine two Philosopher's Stones."
Angers was probably aware of the danger of No. 0, so he handed over the time bomb first. As for who was so unlucky, we will have to wait until he wakes up to find out.
"Then I'll give you a new thing, you try it."
Ender took out a white gem from his pocket. This was the authority he had obtained from Zero back then, from the second-generation species that had been frozen for a long time.
Over the years, Ender has been afraid to swallow it. The consequences of eating randomly may be serious, so Ender decided to use this authority in another way.
"I was wondering if I could use this authority in another way."
Ender threw the white crystal to Nicholas. This must be the first time he was so generous and handed over the authority he had obtained.