Chapter 729: Chaos Begins (Sixty-Nine) - Ji Xiang's Past (II)
When he was young, Ji Xiang had a handsome face, active thinking, and all kinds of whimsical ideas. Even in the darkest time of his life, he is still optimistic and loves to laugh, and his body is full of the breath of youth and sunshine.
Ji Xiang is no stranger to the Freedom Alliance as others. The Ji family has a special status in the Huajiu District, and the Huajiu District has a special status in the entire Chinese District. The reason why Hua Jiu was special was because Hua Jiu District once produced a Ye Zi. The Freedom Alliance was founded by Ye Zi, so there is always an indescribable relationship between the Freedom Alliance and the Ninth District of China. As a special family in Huajiu District, the Ji family naturally has an inexplicable relationship with the Freedom Alliance.
The reason why Ji Xiang and several other biological experts were captured in the Freedom Alliance was not because the people in the Freedom Alliance knew that he was caught by the dark laboratory in the first area of Hua and wanted to rescue him, but it was just a pure coincidence. They need professional biochemical experts to treat their clansman, Shui Ling'er.
When he first saw Shui Ling'er, Ji Xiang was attracted by Shui Ling'er's temperament. It was a man made of ice crystals, exquisite, intelligent, and beautiful, so delicate that it was almost impossible to believe that this was a real person. As the saying goes, this Shu should only exist in heaven, how many times can I see it in the world?
When Ji Xiang saw Shui Ling'er for the first time, he couldn't help but feel a heartbeat. At that time, although Ji Xiang had left Huajiu District for nearly three years, he was only a young man under the age of 30. Such a pure and transparent girl appeared in front of him, weak and slender, Chu Chu moving, like a flower to explain, with an innocent expression, completely different from any girl Ji Xiang had ever seen, which immediately attracted all his attention.
He heard the sound of a flower blooming, it was the flower of love! He admired her beautiful face, and he pitied her illness that was difficult to heal, so he knew that he couldn't save Shui Ling'er at all, but he still stayed without hesitation.
Shui Ling'er's disease is a congenital genetic defect, and it is impossible for her to come to the world smoothly. A fetus with a congenital genetic defect like this will be aborted automatically before it can be formed. But Shui Ling'er didn't know what the reason was, and it was also possible that the ancestral bird dragon had cast some secret method and was successfully born into the world.
But even if she was born successfully, it didn't change the problem of Shui Ling'er's congenital genetic defects, Shui Ling'er's life was destined to be only a moment, and she would eventually wither before the flowers bloomed.
Maybe Shui Ling'er also knew her predetermined fate a long time ago, and she had long been mentally prepared for everything that was about to happen. On the contrary, the one who was not mentally prepared was Ji Xiang, who had long been secretly devoted to Shui Ling'er. He was frantically trying to save her and tried everything.
At that time, gene editing technology was still just an idea for Ji Xiang, and all successful cases were limited to simple independent cells. However, Shui Ling'er's genetic defects required editing of the genetic tissues of the whole body, which was an impossible fantasy for Ji Xiang at that time.
Ji Xiang has never felt so remorseful for a moment. He hated himself for not having studied gene editing technology with peace of mind earlier. If he had studied this technique thoroughly, maybe Shui Ling'er would have had a glimmer of life.
Shui Ling'er naturally has feelings for Ji Xiang. Although Ji Xiang is an ordinary person, he does not have a strong force and does not have such a long life. But Ji Xiang was humorous, funny, and full of laughter, describing to her many new things that she had never heard of before. For a little girl who never leaves her sickbed, it's a magical world.
Ji Xiang's feelings were strong, like a glass of spirits, which made Shui Ling'er feel drunk. It is a kind of love that is different from other races, infinitely sweet but with a trace of desperate sadness.
Soon after the ancestral bird dragon took Ji Xiang back, he knew his identity. Regarding the relationship between Shui Ling'er and Ji Xiang, it also saw it in its eyes, but it couldn't bear to stop it.
Shui Ling'er's life is short, and even her current state is nothing more than the vitality shared to her by her companion beast. Her companion beast, Water Breath, is a life so ancient that no one can verify its history.
Shui Xi is not a foreign beast, except for the bloodline of Shui Ling'er, it will never be accompanied by others. It seems that the existence of the water breath is to protect the water clan. The origin of the Shui clan is also quite peculiar, according to the ancestral bird dragon's guess, it should not be the native life of the blue star, but from the extraterrestrial civilization.
It was a high-level life, and the genetic level should be higher than that of the Blue Star people. Therefore, when the earliest clansmen of the Shui clan were exiled to Blue Star, in order to inherit and mix with Blue Star's indigenous genes and leave offspring, they planted the seeds of genetic defects. There are fewer and fewer people in the Shui clan, and when it comes to Shui Ling'er's generation, only Shui Ling'er is left. And because the genetic defects are getting more and more serious, Shui Ling'er's development is seriously impaired, and there are no eggs left at all. Without eggs, it is impossible to give birth to the next generation, and it is seen that the inheritance of the Shui clan will be completely extinct in Shui Ling'er's generation.
But Ji Xiang was unwilling, and Shui Ling'er herself was unwilling. The love between the two is destined to fail to blossom and bear fruit, and Ji Xiang's love can only be an epiphany in the middle of the night, fleeting. The two quietly discussed, avoided the Ancestral Bird Dragon, and made a bold decision.
Shui Ling'er wanted a child, a child between her and Ji Xiang, so she was willing to overdraft her vitality and let Ji Xiang use special drugs to condition her body and prompt her body to produce eggs.
Ji Xiang endured the pain, racked his brains, and tried not to hurt Shui Ling'er's body as much as possible, carefully used the medicine, and finally got a mature egg of Shui Ling'er.
This egg was carefully put away by Ji Xiang, and he didn't tell the ancestral bird dragon.
Shui Ling'er's body inevitably weakened after the egg was born, and her face withered day by day. Shui Ling'er, whose vitality was declining, suddenly revealed a fishtail one day, and Ji Xiang knew that the person he admired turned out to be a mermaid.
Although Ji Xiang didn't care about what Shui Ling'er had become, Shui Ling'er didn't want her lover to see her ugly appearance, and she begged the ancestral bird dragon to send Ji Xiang away before her body deteriorated further.
Ji Xiang, who returned to Huajiu District, suddenly seemed to be a different person, without impetuousness, jumping out, and sharpness, he suddenly calmed down and plunged into the laboratory.
After Ji Xiang's life came back from the Freedom Alliance, he suddenly jumped from a teenager to a middle-aged man, and became a cold uncle who kept a straight face all day long and didn't smile.
Since then, all of his research has focused on gene editing.
Finally, the first baby to be genetically edited appeared.
Then, countless babies who had been genetically edited appeared.
Gene editing technology has become a sign of Ji Xiang's success. After Ji Xiang went through countless experiments to ensure the success rate of gene editing baby technology at more than 80%, Ji Zhi was born!
When Ji Zhi came out of the artificial womb in good health, Ji Xiang, who had already practiced a dull face, couldn't help crying, and hugged Ji Zhi tightly and cried all day.
No one knows who Ji Zhi's mother is, and no one has ever seen Ji Xiang get close to any woman.
Once the sea was difficult to water, except for Wushan, it is not a cloud.
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Ji Xiang's mind was in a trance, and he unconsciously fell into memories.
How many years had he not thought of these things? These memories had been locked in the depths of his memory, and he was reluctant to touch them. But for some reason, today I inexplicably remembered the past again!
He rubbed his forehead, could it be that today's experiment had taken too long? so long that his self-control was a little out of control!
Alas, I don't know how Ash is doing now?
In the transparent isolation laboratory, the bestial fish-man had been sitting quietly, its silver tail occasionally flapping and gently slapping the water. There is no manic roar, no convulsions, and he is completely a quiet beautiful man.
Ji Xiang shook his head, shook off all the emotions that shouldn't have sprung up, and his eyes suddenly returned to his usual calm and wise.
He looked at the bestial fish-man in the isolation lab again, and his eyes flashed sharply.
No one knew that the reason why this beast fishman behaved like a normal person was quiet and rational was because he injected this beast fish with a trace of genes extracted from the water polypsy. That ancient and magical species, if it really has a magical ability, can actually make this beast man who should have lost his mind and save the last trace of wisdom.
There are not many genes taken from Shuixi in Ji Xiang's hands, and the reason why he is willing to use them on his body is not for anything else, but for the body of this beastly man who resembles a fish man.