Chapter 199: Prelude to the Beginning

As soon as I stepped into the Tower, the City Tree began to report, "The statistics are out. There were 21 torpedoes in lock No. 1, which needed to be repaired. The outer walls were also torpedoed by 16 torpedoes, which also needed to be repaired. The city was hit by bombs, 34 buildings were damaged to varying degrees, and no houses collapsed. However, a temporary cargo dumping point at the port was ignited by a bomb, and some of the timber inside was burned! Personnel statistics have not been made for the time being, and the initial estimate is that the damage is slight. The overall assessment is a minor injury and does not affect the operation of the city. ”

"Got it. I opened the private chat: "Eagle, are you online?" After waiting for a long time without reply, I had to change my name to Red Moon. "Red Moon, are you there?"

"In. ”

"The damage in the city is not very serious, there are some places that need to be repaired, you take care of it. ”

"Okay, leave it to me. Ah, by the way, my brother said that he was looking for you for something, but he didn't contact you some time ago, and he forgot about it for a while!"

"Okay, I see, I'll go to him when I have time. ”

Damn little Japan, I'm already so busy, they still give me trouble, I want to tire me out! The demon pets who just cut off my private chat are all back, and the ones who went up to deal with the flying dragon just now are definitely back now. I summoned the phoenix dragon: "It's hard work, you all go back and rest." "They were just about to return to Fenglong's special space, and I shouted, "Ling and Ayana stay for a while." ”

When the other demon pets have entered, I said to Ayana: "Atlantis may be chaotic during this time, I think you are in charge of the liaison work on both sides, if you need to contact me directly with your mind." ”

"Thank you. ”

"Alright, let's go. ”

After Ayana left, I said to Ling, "Follow me to the temple." ”

"Is there something wrong with you?" Ling asked quietly.

"Yes, but I can't ask until you're all there. ”

Ling stopped talking, and I started a private chat to contact Ziyue and Lin Yue. "Are you there?"

"In. Both men replied at the same time.

"Come to the temple at once. ”

"Ah, I'm still in Steel City!" Lin Yue shouted.

"Whatever you're doing, just put it down and come over here. ”

"Okay!"

I arrived at the gate of the temple and waited for a minute, and Ziyue arrived, but Lin Yue made me wait for nearly ten minutes to arrive. Lin Yue ran up the long stairs and the system was wrong!-0x000000008, when the 112619180 ladder arrived at the door of the temple, Sun Yan was actually followed behind. I looked at Sun Yan and said, "I'm sorry, I'm going to talk about some private matters today, can you avoid it?"

"Why can't you let Sun Yan listen?" Lin Yue asked me.

"You don't want him to treat you like a monster, so you'd better not bring him in. ”

Lin Yue was a little surprised. "Xiao Linzi, what's wrong with you today? Have you taken gunpowder? I didn't mess with you!"

Ziyue said angrily: "Xiaoyue, don't top it, there must be something wrong with Ziyue." ”

I didn't explain anything, turned around and walked into the temple, Lin Yue actually snorted when she saw me entering, turned around and ran away. Ziyue wanted to chase Lin Yue, chased two steps and stopped, shouted a few words but Lin Yue didn't listen, she finally turned around and followed me into the temple.

Seeing Ziyue coming up with me, I said, "She ran away?"

"Yes. "Purple Moon trotted a few steps to catch up with me. "What did you do today? It's a little different from usual!"

"I saw something I shouldn't have seen today, and although I regret it now that I think about it, there is nothing I can do about it. ”

"What's so scary?"

"It's not scary, it's what makes me wonder. Forget it, it's not clear now, let's talk about it when all the parties are here. ”

We walked through the temple and happened to meet a handmaiden passing by. "Where's Vina?"

The maid replied respectfully, "Her Highness the Goddess is in the reading room." ”

"It's going in the wrong direction!" Ziyue turned around and walked back.

I grabbed Purple Moon. "Don't go over, let's go in her direction. Then he turned to the maid and said, "You go and tell Vina that I am waiting for her in her room, and that it is very important to tell her." ”

The maid bowed and ran briskly towards the reading room, while I dragged Ziyue directly to Vina's room. The two of us waited in the room for less than five minutes before Vina trotted in. "What's so urgent?"

"Something very important. I tossed aside a picture album in my hand. "Locked. ”

Vina immediately turned around and locked the door, then pressed the switch next to the door. A stone slab fell from the outside of the door of the room, and a stone slab fell from the inside at the same time, and all the windows closed automatically, and several gates closed the windows, and now no one wanted to hear the sound here.

Purple Moon and Vina were confused by me, they didn't understand what I was going to do. Ling is similar, but she knows that I have something, but she doesn't know what it is. I asked the three of them to sit side by side on the couch and sit across from each other. "Now it's time to get started. First of all, I think the system is wrong!-0x000000008, 112619180 to say, what we are going to talk about today is only we know, and when we go out, we act as if nothing happened. Especially you, Purple Moon. If Lin Yue asks you, you let her ask me, you must not tell her. ”

Ziyue was surprised: "Didn't you want to take Xiaoyue to listen to it together?"

"Originally, yes, but looking at her performance today, I don't think it's better. She may seem a little younger than you, but I don't think she's as mentally capable as you. ”

"Alright then!" Ziyue nodded.

I looked at the three of them and said, "What I'm going to talk about today is not about this game world, but about another real world." ”

The three women showed surprised expressions at the same time, among which Ziyue was only a little strange, while Ling was very surprised, and as for Vena, she was completely lost in thought. I waited a moment for them to digest what I had just said before I spoke, "You may find it strange, and each of you has different reasons for being strange. Ziyue, you must be very strange, what am I talking to two NPCs about the real world, right?"

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Ziyue nodded, "They can't understand those things, can they?"

I shook my head, "Other NPCs may not work, but the two of them can." The last "yes" is addressed to the two NPCs.

Ling and Vena both nodded. Ziyue looked at them in surprise. "Has your intelligence evolved to this level?"

I said, "It's not about the intellect, it's about the body." The two of them used to have bodies in reality. ”

"You mean that Long Yuan is doing artificial humans?" Ziyue's comprehension was really extraordinary, which strengthened my suspicion.

I nodded. "Long Yuan is indeed researching androids, and it is a great honor to tell you that these two in front of you already have bodies. ”

Ziyue covered her mouth in surprise. This news is unacceptable to ordinary people, and Ziyue's reaction is already very good.

I waited and continued: "Ziyue, you know my identity, I know this news, it is not surprising. In addition, according to my guess, there is a very serious problem that directly affects the two of us, oh no, there should be Lin Yue. ”

"What did you say?"

"How much do you know about biology?" I wanted to see how much knowledge Ziyue had before deciding how to explain it to her.

"A little. I also know that there are courses in this area in universities. ”

"So do you know what's the easiest way to make a creature?"

"It should be to rewrite the DNA sequence of the embryonic cells and then culture them like IVF. ”

"Do you know what the highest technical goal is?"

"The teacher once said that it is directly made by biological adults. ”

It seems that Ziyue knows a lot. "You know that's easy to do. The technology of rewriting DNA is relatively simple, just remove the nucleus of a normal embryo and inject a new nucleus into the cell, which is how the world's first cloned organism was made. It's just that cloning is injected into the nucleus of a normal organism's somatic cell, while the DNA injected into a new species is completely synthetic. As for adult production, it is a more advanced and complex project, and there are still few countries that can carry out adult synthesis. ”

"Isn't the Dragon Rim already complete?" Ziyue pointed at Ling and Vena.

I nodded: "But science and technology are developed step by step, and it is impossible to develop by leaps and bounds, unless other countries give you technical support." Longyuan is already Taishan Beidou in this regard, and no one has that technology if they want to be supported by others, so our technology is explored step by step. ”

"I understand that. ”

"But don't you think it's strange?"

Ziyue hadn't reacted yet. "What's strange?

"I saw Ling and Vina's bodies today, and they were already adult bodies. The result of my investigation was that they were created in adult form, without going through the normal embryonic stage. Ling was fully developed in a petri dish to form an adult on her own, while Vina was an adult that was directly created within a few months. The kind that made Ling was already an intermediate technology, while Vena was directly produced by a high-level technology. ”

Ziyue shouted, "That's right, why isn't there a primary stage?"

I smiled and nodded, "It's impossible for Long Yuan to jump to the second and third stages without going through the first part, which means that there is still a first-stage experimental subject." ”

"But what does this have to do with us?" Ziyue was surprised. But she saw that I kept smiling at her, and after a moment she suddenly exclaimed, "I'm the first experiment?"

"And Lin Yue and me. ”

"No, it can't be. "Ziyue's spirit is on the verge of collapse. "Satsuki and I were conceived and born by our mother in October, and we are normal people. ”

"Yes, that's right, you were conceived by your mother in October, that's right. The first stage of the experiment was to create only embryos, which required a surrogate mother to conceive and give birth to the child in October. As long as the embryo infusion process is not known, no one knows whose child you are. Isn't there a lot of women abroad who can't have children because of heart disease and find surrogate mothers to artificially implant fertilized eggs to help them give birth? This is the same, except that the implantation is a synthetic fertilized egg, and there is no difference in technology. I doubt now that your parents knew about it. ”

"What do you mean?"

"With the current technology, the entire colonization process only takes a few minutes, and the hospital can operate without your father knowing, and no one can detect this small action. But I reckon your mother should know about this, after all, this is a project that requires a certain amount of sacrifice, and it is unlikely that we Longyuan will do this experiment without your parents knowing. ”

"And ...... you?"

System error!-0x000000008,112619180 I smiled wryly and said, "I may be your brother." It's just a brother and sister born to two different surrogate mothers, but I guess our DNA is pretty much the same. ”

Ziyue rubbed her head painfully and said, "Then why are you telling me this?"

"I'm not sure, so I'd like to ask you a favor. ”

"Want me to help?" Ziyue looked at me. "What do you want me to do?"

"The best way to confirm this suspicion is DNA testing. I'm the young master of Longyuan, and the DNA testing equipment is very good. But I can't collect the blood of our parents, because they will know what I'm going to do. So it's only you who will collect the blood of your parents, as well as Lin Yue and yourself. Just analyze everyone's DNA to see if my guess is true. ”

Ziyue slumped on the sofa like an unloaded ball, her eyes staring at the roof in a daze: "I think you're almost guessing!"

"Why do you say that?"

"Because Lin Yuechang and I don't look like our parents at all, none of the children in the family look like ours. In the past, people used to joke that we were raised, but now it seems to be true!"

"Then you take their blood samples as soon as possible, and I'll analyze the DNA. By the way, you can't mix in anything else when collecting. There are disposable syringes sold in pharmacies outside, you can buy a few, find an opportunity to put some sleeping pills to charm them, and then draw some blood. A few milliliters per person is fine, and there should be a scale on the syringe. ”

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"Okay, I'll do it as soon as possible. But you have to let me know as soon as the results come out. ”

"Of course. ”

After explaining to Ziyue, I turned to Ling and Vena, "Now you should know why I called you here, right?" both nodded.

Ling suddenly slipped down from his seat, knelt on the ground, and kowtowed to me: "I'm sorry master, I've been lying to you!"

I quickly pulled Ling up and let her sit on my lap and reached out to help her rub her forehead: "I don't blame you, what are you doing here?

A smile appeared on Ling's face, but tears came down her face. "Thank you, host. Ling won't hide anything from you anymore. ”

"You're just saying the opposite. You used to be an NPC as it should be, but you will be a person in the future, and you should have your own **. ”

Ling looked at me and suddenly threw herself into my arms and cried. "Master!555~......"

I stroked her long hair behind her back, "You're older than me!

"Are people moved!" Although Ling had already burst into tears and laughed, the tears flowed uncontrollably.

Vina said, "Purple Sun." You're all from the real world, can you help me figure things out first? Last time I was resting in the temple, I was startled by a sudden change in the room. ”

I patted Ling on the back to soothe her as I said to Vina, "That time, people in the real world were trying to help you combine your consciousness and body, but you resisted too strongly, and you only lasted 30 seconds to send you back. ”

"I don't know if of course I'm going to resist. But in those 30 seconds, I received a lot of information, and I understood something I had never known before. It's amazing. ”

"Those are the information that is written directly into your **'s memory cells, and when your mind is combined with **, these things are also fused together, so you know a lot of things in an instant. ”

"It's amazing anyway. Vina seemed to be looking forward to that moment. "But it was a bit chaotic at the time, and I didn't understand a lot of things. I know that there is a real world, which is completely independent of our world, but I still don't understand it. According to the content of that knowledge, that is, the world is fake?"

I nodded, "So to speak." The world is fake, not real. In the real world, we call it a virtual world, which actually means a fake world. ”

"And how did this world come about?"

It can be said that there is a supercomputer in his mind that creates a dream-like fantasy, and this computer is called a mainframe. And you NPCs are imaginary beings that operate in a certain program on another computer, which is called a coprocessor. The co-processor feeds you into the host's dream so that you merge into it and become a part of the dream. In other words, you're just a set of thinking data. ”

"So what are you adventurers?"

"We are real beings in the real world, and we become adventurers when we use special devices to input our consciousness into this dream world. We generally call ourselves players because we come in to play. ”

"What's so fun about playing in such a dangerous place?"

"I don't know about this, everyone has their own purpose, and it's not exactly the same. The real world we live in is too monotonous and too sad, and everyone enters this just to relax. Although it is dangerous here, we adventurers cannot die, and we can be resurrected after death, and the outside body will not be injured anyway, and the danger is not a problem for us. The environment here is much more beautiful than the outside, there are so many monsters to play, and the communication between people here is relatively naked, because there is no responsibility. ”

"Who said that. Vina said: "I think you just see people talking about people and talking nonsense, and you don't have a word to rely on." ”

Dizzy! It turns out that I am like this in Vina's eyes!"Don't talk about me, now talk about you." The last time you combined with **, it seemed to send out some kind of strong wave, what were you doing at the time?"

"I was scared, so I wanted to protect myself, so I used detection magic to probe my surroundings. ”

"Is there a result?"

"Yes. I could feel a lot of cobweb-like threads in the walls, and there was some faint magical energy in those threads. There were also a few people in the next room, who were very worried. ”

Ziyue had almost recovered by this time, and she suddenly interjected, "Can she use magic in reality?"

I shook my head and said, "The magic system is wrong!-0x000000008, 112619180 This thing is not available in the real world, and Vena must have emitted some form of electromagnetic wave at that time." But it does work the same as magic. Researchers at our base say that something broke into the electrical system and took control of the computer, which I guess was caused by Vina's subconscious. And Vina, you just said that there are a lot of threads in the wall, and there is a faint magic on the surface. In fact, those are wires connected to instruments, some are data cables, and those so-called magical energy should be electromagnetic induction phenomena on the wires that you regard as magical energy. How about I take you to another fusion next time I have a chance?"

Vina said excitedly: "Okay, okay, okay! I have thought about it for a long time, but I didn't know what was going on at all, I was so nervous." I'd love to see your real world. ”

Today is really a big gain, Vina actually manipulated bioelectricity in reality to achieve a magical effect, but I don't know how strong it can be. She was using detection magic, but it only served as a detection effect, and it didn't consume much. If it can really directly constitute the actual attack effect, then it is developed. After all, my electromagnetic induction is limited, and I don't think it will be very powerful, in short, everything will not be known until Vina's body and consciousness are completely merged. I hope Vina can use magic-like effects, and I also want to try using magic effects in the real world, hehe, it must be cool.

As we talked, there was a sudden bang on the door of the room. I stood up too violently, and Ling, who was sitting on my lap, fell to the ground all at once. I quickly helped her up. "Talking about it here today, remember it's a secret. By the way, you don't have to hide it from Rose, she knows it's okay, but no one else can say it. ”

When they all nodded, I walked to the door and flipped the switch, but when the door opened, it was Vader outside. "City Lord, you are indeed here. ”

"Is there a rush to find me?"

"Yes. ”