"You know what that means."

Qin Guang raised his right hand and kneaded his temples, feeling a faint pain.

It was really a house leak that happened to rain overnight, and a trouble has not been solved, and there is a new thorny problem.

Emerson pulled out a chair and sat down, "Of course I do. We first have to determine whether this is inevitable or accidental. If it's inevitable, it's bad. This would be devastating to the Empire's excursions, meaning that human civilization could not leave the galaxy. If it's accidental, you have to find out what the probability of it happening. ”

Qin Guang put down his hand, "We are not currently the farthest fleet out of the solar system. There was also a part of the fleet that went in a direction completely perpendicular to the ecliptic plane, but no one else encountered this situation. ”

"That's because others don't have the good innate conditions like us, they don't have the high-level gene pool provided by so many of our top fighters, and the demand for top-level personal combat power is far less than ours."

Qin Guang nodded, "Yes." ”

Emerson: "Anyway, our experiment worked. It took hundreds of years and a lot of hard work for human beings to train a child instructor, and her existence raised the overall combat effectiveness of human beings to a higher level. It's only been a few decades, and we've got another new cutting-edge combat power. Isn't that what you soldiers dream of? General, you should be even more happy. When we share the experimental data with the Empire, the Empire will even have the opportunity to mass-produce such super soldiers. ”

Qin Guang shook his head, "The risk is too great. It is not the simple progress of science and technology, nor the improvement of genetic awakening, but the absolute unity that has supported mankind all the way to today. The fact that the baby is only reproductively isolated from humans does not mean that it is not capable of reproduction. The large number of the same kind that nurture this infant will give birth to a new race with higher potential than we have, but very different, that will divide humanity and ultimately bring destruction. The great enemy in front of us has not yet been solved, and if a new enemy is cultivated, it may inflict heavy damage on us like radium in the void of history. We cannot afford this potential risk. ”

Emerson: "But it's also 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, go to work and find out what is going on with this baby, and then decide what to do with it. ”

"Okay."

Emerson led a team that did a lot of analysis of the newborn baby.

The chance of this event was determined first, and the probability was extremely low.

Multiple extreme conditions were met at the same time, which eventually led to the occurrence of this irreversible mutation.

Extreme conditions include a new underlying quantum law in the extragalactic space environment, genetic associations between parents, and an accident during embryo culture (leaking radiation from the embryo), among a myriad of other conditions.

At first, the embryo had a fatal mutation and was about to die, but the staff of the culture team rushed to the mentality of a dead horse as a live horse doctor, put the embryo on the verge of death into the simulated nebula of Methuselah, and at the same time applied a new top-secret technology to it - virtual energy transformation, and then the embryo miraculously survived.

"Although this kind of accident has a certain degree of replicability in theory? But the difficulty of satisfying is too high. The main difficulty lies not in reproducing the external conditions, but in the embryo itself. It is impossible for the genetic combination composed of chromosomes provided by the same two people to be exactly the same? Just like identical twins will also have a difference. ”

"What about the clones?"

"It's not feasible either."

"Every fertilized egg embryo at the time of the first mitosis? The underlying information of the real energy level has already begun its first directional mutation. Even cloned embryos? It doesn't grow like a baby. This is the same as the difference between identical twins. ”

"Oh, I see."

Qin Guang and Emerson glanced at each other, and they breathed a long sigh of relief? I felt a little melancholy.

"I'm going to go ahead and analyze the embryos? At the moment we have only analyzed the combat potential of the embryo, but more in-depth research is needed. ”

"Go ahead, hard work."

About sixteen hours later? Qin Guang received a report.

Emerson noted in the report? He extracted the underlying information of the embryo? And simulating pairing with a large number of samples? The sample range includes data on everyone in the entire fleet? and a much larger number of on-board reserve gene pools.

In the previous first match results? The failure of the 10,000-match program led Emerson to the initial conclusion of reproductive isolation.

Now that the sample has been scaled up to the tens of billions, the pairing still fails, and the conclusion of reproductive isolation is basically completely true, but there is a glimmer of life.

No one can say for sure, if the sample continues to scale to hundreds of billions, trillions, or even infinity? Whether the seemingly impregnable wall of separation can be broken?

Unfortunately, the experimental conditions are not available now.

Emerson: "Actually, I had a plan in mind. ”

"What?"

"The resurrection embryo of the sage? You know that, right? ”

"Of course I do."

"Can we simulate the idea of synthesizing the embryo of the Prophet in the Institute of Earth Life Sciences? Like programming? With the accuracy of the real energy level, write another set of chromosomes corresponding to the mutated baby little by little, maybe try to see if you can continue the baby's genes, and use time to eliminate the imagination of reproductive isolation. ”

"How many years will it take to see results?"

"Too much calculation? It is impossible to do it with the fleet's own computing power. We'll have to send the packets back to the Empire, and hand over the calculations to the Mastermind. It takes at least ten years for the data to come and go. Then we have to meet the quality and energy needs of the freezer, and we have to use our low-end computing power to slowly build bricks on the skyscraper of genetic information, which will take at least 40 years in total. And it's going to be at the heart of what I do. I'm going to have to spend more than 80 percent of my waking time on this. ”

Qin Guang: "Do you think it's worth it?" Do we have any other research directions that have the potential to break through? ”

"Yes, that's where I hesitated."

"Wait for the Empire's instructions, I have other troubles in my hands."

Qin Guang gave an order to evict the guests.

Three years later, it was time for the Nameless Fleet to exchange data with the Empire, and by this time the baby had turned three years old and turned into a small child.

Emerson integrated the situation into a fleet packet and sent it back.

Unexpectedly, just three hours later, another urgent data packet was sent from the Imperial side.

Something is wrong in the Imperial base camp.

Before Chen Feng "died", he had already made overall arrangements for the important deceased, the most important thing was the Tang Shuang's descendants related to Tang Tianxin, the purpose was to ensure that even if human beings spread out in a large area in the Orion Arm, Tang Tianxin still had to be born in the solar system.

Chen Feng's arrangements were strictly enforced by the Salvation Society and the upper echelons of the empire, 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 humans.

In September 2870, a serious experimental accident occurred on the space station in the solar system where Tang Shuang's descendants lived, and excessive radiation swept away a large residential area and embryo storage room.

The space station, with a total population of about 30 million people, lost nearly six million people, as well as a large number of artificial embryos and wombs that should have been born this year.

The loss was devastating.

The real problem is in these fetuses.

According to the timeline plan, Tang Tianxin's great-great-grandmother should be born in November of this year.

Not anymore.

No one can be sure whether the baby bred by activating the reserve embryo can still be Tang Tianxin's great-great-grandmother, because the time has been wrong by a year.

The elaborate plans are disrupted, and the future of human planning is torn apart here.

Some scholars believe that due to the constraints of the timeline and the fulcrum effect brought about by the fate of the philosopher Chen Feng and Tang Tianxin and others, Tang Tianxin can still be born on time in the solar system.

The process can be deduced from the results.

To understand it this way, let's assume that Tang Tianxin must be born, so since the embryo that died unexpectedly in 2870 has died, the deceased must not be Tang Tianxin's great-great-grandmother.

Now start cultivating spare embryos, it doesn't matter if they are born a year or two later, after all, the time to raise offspring can also be postponed in advance, and the next step is to ensure that Tang Tianxin's great-grandfather or great-grandmother surnamed Tang Tianxin is born on time.

However, some scholars believe that if the results are used to reverse the process, can it be considered that the bloodline selection has gone wrong in a certain link?

It should be thoroughly investigated from the beginning to see if the bloodline of Tang Shuang's vein has spread outside.

It seems difficult to sift out a line of people from the vast history, but with the help of the stars, it doesn't take much effort.

Under this investigation, the results that surfaced frightened the world.

One of Tang Shuang's side branch descendants once had a dewy affair with a female warrior who came to the rescue from another star region when the solar dome had just broken open.

The warrior had considered settling in the solar system and staying with her lover for the rest of her life, but after much deliberation, she decided to return to her homeland and go to war in the Viten system with her newly grown son decades later.

This descendant was not omitted in the population statistics of Fanxing, but considering that the distance was too far, and the descendant was no longer surnamed Tang, and the blood relationship with the lineage was very shallow, so he was not in a hurry to recall it at that time.

Later, the female warrior and her son were killed in a battle, and the matter was closed.

But the young warrior had stored his genetic information in the frontline gene pool, and after many years, he traveled hundreds of millions of miles and became a reserve genetic data in a group of nameless fleets, and finally was cultivated during the journey, and then became an adult, becoming the father of the mutant baby, a male pinnacle warrior.

The time when the mutant baby officially took shape was exactly 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 fourteen thousand light-years away from the solar system? And we have made it reproductively isolated from ordinary humans? ”

Qin Guang hissed and gasped, shocked and shocked.

Emerson, who was also distressed, sighed, "I hope something is wrong, but it's possible. In addition, the main brain stars have carried out an empire-wide simulated matching, and the matching objects have been enlarged to more than 100 billion, but there is still no chromosome that can be successfully paired. ”

"Bastard!"

Qin Guang fell headlong on the chair, his eyes blank and his gaze glazed.

It has been one hundred and fifty-six years since it left the Empire, and in these one hundred and fifty-six years, the Nameless Fleet has had dozens of encounters, large and small, many times when its whereabouts have been completely exposed, and many times it has almost been discovered by the other side The motive of the expedition has been successful.

Along the way, there were difficulties and dangers, but Qin Guang, who was the backbone, never collapsed, always conscientious, calm and composed, with an iron will and perfect judgment.

But this bad news almost completely destroyed his will.

The blow was too heavy, and it was not much more difficult than the enemy's reconnaissance force to break directly into the core area of the fleet.

Familiar with the history of nothingness, he knows very well what Tang Tianxin means to mankind in the 31st century, and it is extremely important to the sages.

The Imperial Headquarters also knew it, otherwise it wouldn't have risked sending data packets twice in a row.

The second packet says only this one thing.

"General, our mission is destined to go and never return, we can't take Tang Tianxin's ancestors to death, right? Or send a fast ship to send the baby back now? ”

Emerson suggested.

Qin Guang shook his head, "Impossible, the distance is so far, we are still followed by a lot of pursuers, and it is impossible to return to the empire safely by sending only one ship alone." ”

"That'...... Do we have to go back with all of our staff? ”

Qin Guang continued to shake his head, "We have already completed more than half of the mileage, how can we return home." ”

Qin Guang continued to flip down the second packet, and after a long time, he slowly stood up.

"The Imperial Headquarters has made a decision."

"How?"

"We keep going. At the same time, the main brain has begun to mobilize a lot of resources according to your previous idea, just like the embryo of the sage was written, and rewrite a set of genetic chromosomes that can match the mutant baby. This is the second artificial creation of man in human history. The empire named this project the Nuwa Project. ”

Emerson: "Nuwa? ”

"The Myths and Legends of Chinese Civilization."

"Oh oh oh, okay. However, to compile the embryos of the sages, at least there is ready-made original genetic information available, and only rigorous reproduction is required. But this one, alas......"

"Don't give up. We will protect Tang Tianxin and make her the commander of the fleet at the right time. We have to believe in one thing. ”

Emerson: "What? ”

"Tang Tianxin, who can become a perfect general in many timelines in the past, will also become the best commander of the Nameless Fleet. Under her leadership, the fleet will not only be able to complete its mission, but even get out of the way! ”

"I hope so. Then I'm going to prepare. By the way, one more thing. ”

"Emerson, you say."

"The Nuwa project will certainly continue until the end of the 30th century, and the manual compilation of embryo time logs will be a lot of work, which will occupy a lot of computing power, and at the same time, it will also require the assistance of many professionals in the field of genetic science. I need more talent in biology, so I hope you'll empower you to increase the speed of raising the third generation of humans, or I'm worried I won't be able to get the job done. I know it's going to be a bit of a risk and cause you a lot of trouble, but it's not my business. My job is just to make sure the project is successful. ”

If it was before, Qin Guang would refuse.

But now things have changed.

Qin Guang smiled bitterly and nodded, "Okay, so be it." I'll provide you with more biologists, geneticists, and energy converter operators. ”

The dark tide of history is irreversibly becoming surging.

The essence of society is an organic, flowing, and changing whole.

Every major decision made by the top-level architecture will have a profound impact on the times.

This is especially true when this decision involves changes in the proportion of the population.