10. The so-called miracles
"Who are you, who are you, what do you want to do?" Jiang Shuiyuan was suddenly bluffed, his hands and feet were sore, and he sat down on the ground, his voice a little out of tune.
"Hey, didn't you ask me to come out and help? Why do you still ask me who I am?"
The woman's voice was in her ears, but Jiang Shuiyuan looked around and couldn't see any trace. Fox fairy, female ghost, or flower demon? Jiang Shuiyuan asked tentatively: "Are you really Shuibei Niangniang?"
"Hehe, you're really interesting! You asked me to come out, but you didn't know who I was, and you asked me what I was doing, could it be that you were playing with Ben Niangniang?
"Don't!" Jiang Shuiyuan hurriedly shouted to stop. Seeing that success was just around the corner, how could he let go of the opportunity to get it? Jiang Shuiyuan sat up straight and kowtowed three more times to the statue respectfully: "I implore Niangniang to come, because I hope that Niangniang will show mercy, show kindness, and turn me into a handsome guy! I will become the most handsome guy in the world!"
"Oh?" Shuibei Niangniang didn't really go, as if she was considering how much truth Jiang Shuiyuan said: "This Niangniang has been here for nearly a thousand years, and there are countless women who come to ask for a good look, especially when the incense was prosperous in the past few hundred years, there are countless women who come and go." As far as I know, as long as you men in this world have the talent, the right and the money to dump the world, what can't you get? Why do you care about your own beauty, ugliness, and beauty? Therefore, men worship the Holy Master Confucius, Zhao Gongming, the God of Wealth, Guan Yunchang, the Holy Emperor Guan Yunchang, and Fu Lushou Sanxing, and no one has ever come to worship Ben Niangniang! Can you tell me why you came to worship Ben Niangniang?
Jiang Shuiyuan said loudly: "Because I am ugly, I was ridiculed by the whole school, saying that I was a monkey, an ugly monster, and a toad. I wanted to study hard, but I was said to be abnormal and unstable. I don't want to be ridiculed by them, I don't want to be ridiculed by them, so I want to become a handsome guy, become the most handsome guy in the world, and make everyone ashamed of themselves and keep their mouths shut!"
"Just because of this?" Shuibei Niangniang originally thought that she could hear a twists and turns, and she didn't expect it to be a child's awkward trivial matter, and she was inevitably a little interested: "Ben Niangniang thinks you should go back to study seriously! This little thing is really not worth Ben Niangniang's waste of mana." Or you can go to worship Confucius, Zhao Gongming, Guan Yunchang and other gods in charge of fortune and fortune, as long as you can have talent, power and money in the future, you are guaranteed to make your classmates obediently shut their mouths. ”
"No!" Jiang Shuiyuan refused categorically.
Speaking of talent, it is no longer like dozens of hundreds of years ago, when a good poem can coax a girl's heart to bloom and make a promise. Now the most worthless is Cai, the vegetable market is five cents a pound, home delivery, large quantities can also be discounted.
As for Quan, Jiang Shuiyuan doesn't feel that he has any ability, what background he has, and he can be Cheng Dù who makes Pu Xiaoxiang look up to him before the age of forty, after all, Pu Xiaoxiang's grandfather is the deputy brigade commander, and Pu Xiaoxiang's father is already an official general!
As for money, at present, the country has been peaceful for nearly a hundred years, and all walks of life have long been monopolized by large and small families, and it is not easy for the grassroots to suddenly rise up and get a piece of the pie? Moreover, the huge wealth without power is like a gold ingot in the hands of a child, and the final outcome can be imagined!
Although Jiang Shuiyuan is not as complicated as he thought, he also knows that if he wants to overwhelm his classmates in terms of talent, power, and money, especially Pu Xiaoxiang, he is afraid that it will not be possible to achieve it in the short term. Young people like to be happy and revenge, and what they pay attention to is that they don't stay overnight if they have a grudge, how can they wait so long? Not to mention that the Shuibei Niangniang herself is right in front of her, and if she wants to be reborn and turn over to take revenge, the opportunity is at your fingertips?
Jiang Shuiyuan said sincerely: "Niangniang, do you know what my ideal is? I don't want to go into battle to kill the enemy, get off the horse and write poems, nor do I want to dominate the world and be rich and rival the country, because I know that I can't do it, and I don't want to do it. I just want to go to a mediocre university, get a mediocre job, and live an ordinary life. But because of my looks, I became the laughing stock of my classmates, and I couldn't even study well in school! So my dream now is to have a handsome appearance, to be able to walk on campus with my head held high, and to impress those who laugh at me!"
"Actually, your appearance is quite average!" Shuibei Niangniang admonished, but even the river source that has not been deeply involved in the world can hear the reluctance.
Jiang Shuiyuan complained with tears in his eyes: "Shuibei Niangniang, you only know the importance of appearance to women hundreds of years ago, but do you know the importance of appearance to men in this era? In the past, many women were hidden in the deep boudoir before they got married, so no matter what they looked like, there would always be people who came to the door to guess, and they couldn't regret it after marrying." And now? You need to look at your face when you go to school, you need to look at your face when you look for a job after graduation, you need to look at your face in an interview if you want to take the civil service exam, you need to look at your face when you want to go on a blind date to find a daughter-in-law, and you have to look at your face all the way from going to school to getting a job, and then to marrying a wife and having children. Therefore, the importance of physiognomy to men in this era is as important to men as it was to women hundreds of years ago!"
"Your world has become so unbearable now?" Shui Bei Niangniang was a little skeptical.
Jiang Shuiyuan nodded again and again: "Do you know what everyone says on the Internet? They will say that there is a friend who looks average, and the impression given by the first meeting is absolutely ugly and miserable, after getting along with him, I found that he is very good in all aspects such as talking and dressing, dealing with people, etc., and slowly you will find that——"
"It's not important whether you look beautiful or ugly, the key is to have connotation?" added Shuibei Niangniang.
"No, you will find that people are ugly, and no matter how many advantages they have, it is useless!" Jiang Shuiyuan said the second half of the sentence with grief and indignation, "There are other jokes on the Internet, such as those who are good-looking and like to eat are foodies, and those who are not good-looking and like to eat are called rice buckets! People are ugly, and playing golf is like shoveling shit; people are handsome, and playing glass marbles are all international models!"
"Ah...... What a painful realization!" Shuibei Niangniang couldn't help but sigh along.
Jiang Shuiyuan immediately climbed up the pole and said, "Niangniang, you should know the pain of us ugly-looking people by now, right?"
"But do you know the pain of those who are outstanding?" asked Shuibei Niangniang rhetorically.
Jiang Shuiyuan said: "Do you mean that they are chased by wild bees and butterflies and can't stop for a moment? Or do you mean that they have become the objects of the powerful and become the golden silk birds in the cage? If these are troubles, I am willing to eat them!"
"In that case, it's not easy for Ben Niangniang to persuade me! But this is Ben Niangniang's last manifestation, and if you pray so sincerely, I can't refuse. It's just that before I turn you into a handsome guy, I must tell you about the huge risks involved!" Shui Bei Niangniang's tone suddenly changed: "Nearly a hundred years ago, a famous scientist named Sun Yuanqi was born in your world, and he has roughly drawn many famous statements in his paper entitled "Some Prospects or Conjectures on the Future Development of Genetics", such as the birth, growth, disease, old age, death and other life phenomena of organisms are closely related to genes; The intrinsic factors of beauty and ugliness, and so on. I wonder if you're exposed to this knowledge now?"
Just now, it was still the feudal superstition of apparition and blessing, why did you suddenly mention the genetic problem in biology? This turn has also turned a little bigger, right? Jiang Shuiyuan took a long time to react: "Are you talking about the genetic theory of Mr. Sun Baixi, the father of the nation? Now these have become the basic knowledge in middle school biology textbooks. Why did the mother suddenly mention this?"
Shuibei Niangniang sighed and explained: "You might as well tell you the truth, in fact, this Niangniang is an explorer from a certain advanced civilization galaxy in outer space, and she was forced to land here hundreds of years ago because the spaceship ran out of energy, and the pond in front of the door is the trace left by the impact that year." After that, Ben Niangniang tried every possible way to find alternative energy, until she finally managed to get together and fly away from this place a few decades ago. But in order to thank the people here for hundreds of years of love, I left one last chance to ask for communication, but I didn't expect you to meet it!"
Jiang Shuiyuan was dumbfounded: "What is the miracle that made a woman beautiful and beautiful in the neighborhood?"
"As you may have guessed, yes, the so-called miracle is to change the person's genes through a specific technology. Shui Bei Niangniang explained calmly, "But your founding father Sun Yuanqi also mentioned in his paper that aging is because cells cannot completely replicate their chromosomes due to DNA polymerase dysfunction during each division, and finally the replication DNA sequence may be lost, causing cell aging and death." If it can be replicated in its entirety every time, humans are likely to live forever.
"Although our galaxy has a much higher level of technological development than yours, it can only change genes through specific technologies, and cannot ensure that it can be replicated intact every time. It is common practice for us to extract the genes of citizens during adolescence and preserve them, and then adjust the existing genes of citizens with reference to this gene every ten or twenty years, so as to greatly extend the life span and meet the needs of long-distance space travel. However, this technology also has a drawback, that is, every time you forcibly change the existing gene sequence, it will greatly increase the risk of mutations in later DNA replication. Therefore, the time interval of adjustment will become shorter and shorter, until it cannot be adjusted and dies.
"In fact, the changes in genes that occur in the process of growth and aging are not very big in each person, and even so, every adjustment will create a huge risk. And if you want to be delicate, handsome, and handsome, you need to make huge changes to your genes, completely changing the details of height, skin, hair, physiognomy, etc., and the risks are conceivable! So the risk of forcibly changing your genes with our technology is too great for you to bear!"
"For example?" Jiang Shuiyuan felt his throat start to dry.
"The most common consequence is that in a short period of time, the DNA sequence will be mutated, causing the cells to age and die at an accelerated pace. In other words, if the normal life expectancy is eighty years old, it is estimated that after genetic adjustment, it will be about thirty years old!"