Chapter 207: Life
Under the light of lightning, alternating light and dark, the previously fierce snake lay on the ground, and the silver wolf king showed a fierce light, grinning at the corners of his mouth, revealing his white and terrifying fangs.
Blue snake blood smeared its face, slowly trickling down the corners of its mouth.
Even though he knew that it had been seriously injured in the previous fight with the snake, Professor Yan was still shocked with cold hands and feet.
At this time, the wolf was only five or six meters away from him, and the terrifying nature of the mutated creatures on the island had already left a deep impression on Professor Yan's heart.
The wolf attack on the stream and the camp came to his mind, and the chill drilled down his dilated pores, and the 'bubbling' blood seemed to freeze in an instant.
"Song ......" He leaned in the direction of Song Qingxiao with some difficulty, although Song Qingxiao's appearance has changed greatly now, in the previous battle with the snake, he crippled the snake with extremely strong strength.
But maybe it was because Song Qingxiao had saved his life after entering the island, or maybe it was the silver wolf's jealous attitude towards Song Qingxiao, which made Professor Yan instinctively feel that Song Qingxiao was much more reliable.
"Miss Song......" He called Song Qingxiao again, the lightning of 'Zizi' rushed through the sky, and the 'rumbling' thunder sounded in mid-air, Song Qingxiao sat on the stone pile, and the rain hit the ground and the water, 'popping'.
Occasionally, debris of different sizes fell into the rapidly rising seawater, making a 'ding-dong' sound as the water was splashed.
Under the lightning, Song Qingxiao's back was stretched very long, and her hair seemed to have skyrocketed in the previous mutation, originally shoulder-length, but at this time it had grown to the bottom of her ribs.
The hair was wet with rain and clinging firmly to her cheeks, black and blue, glowing with a ghostly glow.
The blood on her face was washed away by the rain, revealing her face as white as fine porcelain, her nose and lips were still the same as before, but her eyes were similar to those of the snake, the eyes turned golden, and the pupils were erected into a thin edge.
Beneath him, a terrifying tail swayed gently, swinging a wave of rising water.
'Woo', the giant wolf let out a threatening cry in its nostrils, and tried to stand up, Song Qing glanced at it, and the wolf's hair stood up in an instant, looking like a great enemy.
"Professor Yan." As soon as Song Qingxiao spoke, Professor Yan's eyes lit up.
The old professor didn't see his previous elegant appearance, and he looked embarrassed.
He was covered in wounds, and the rain-soaked clothes were wrapped in tatters, showing his emaciated appearance even more.
The glasses on his face had long since fallen to an unknown location, and the blood flowing from the large and small wounds on the top of his head was washed away by the rain, covering his face.
After confirming Song Qingxiao's identity, Professor Yan cried with joy and let out a long sigh of relief, he staggered to Song Qingxiao and crawled over: "Miss Song...... It's really your ......."
The mutant snake that could talk frightened everyone, and when Song Qingxiao didn't speak, Professor Yan was actually worried in his heart, "Really, it's really you." ”
He wiped his face, his eyes fell on Song Qing's little head and face, and saw her strange golden eyes, which finally slid down and landed on her long tail.
The terrifying power of this tail, which had been seen in her previous thrilling battle with the snake, contained an unusually powerful force.
Professor Yan's hands and feet trembled, and his eyes showed excitement, fear, pride, and some pride, and then slowly turned into an obsessive gaze.
"Now, you can see the changes in me, too."
Song Qingxiao let him look at it, and when Professor Yan's eyes fell on her tail, her heart moved, and the surging power surged in her body, and the tail rose from the water at the moment she moved, as natural as when she raised her hand and breathed, but Professor Yan's upper body was so frightened that she leaned back.
"Tell me about the changes in the Immortal Technology, the evolution potions you researched, and everything else."
Song Qingxiao looked at Professor Yan's somewhat embarrassed appearance, and saw that his hands were propped into the seawater, and the rain hit him so that his eyes could not be fully opened, and his expression seemed to cry and laugh.
She frowned, and her tail fell back to the ground with a 'bang', and the sea was splashed up, and the ground was slapped with a 'boom'.
Professor Yan trembled, came back to his senses, and muttered:
"What, what, what?"
"The change of Changsheng Technology, Mr. Zhou's medicine, the purpose of going to the island ......"
Before she finished speaking, she saw Professor Yan wipe her face, and her eyes fell on her long tail hanging down in the water, crying and laughing, as if she was crazy, I don't know if I heard what she said.
"Hmph." Song Qingxiao narrowed his eyes and let out a cold snort, this snort scared Professor Yan back to his senses, the old professor was stunned for a long time, and the silver giant wolf next to him grinned for a while, seeing Song Qingxiao ignore it, Professor Yan sat next to Song Qingxiao again, I don't know what happened, as if he was not staring at himself, and simply lowered his head and bit the flesh of the snake.
In the chewing sound of the silver wolf, Professor Yan was silent for a while before he said weakly:
"So, where do you want to start?"
As he spoke, there was a faint knock in the distance, as if someone was trying to push away the smashed stone, and was making a sound calling for help.
But Song Qing ignored this voice, and his eyes fell on Professor Yan:
"Let's start with," she thought for a moment, "let's start with the genetic defects of the Zhou family." ”
As soon as her words fell, Professor Yan trembled obviously, raised his head, and looked at her in great surprise, with a look of shock in his cloudy eyes, as if he was very surprised that she would know about it.
"You ......" he stopped talking, and finally sighed, "For the people of the Zhou family, the genes of the Zhou family are like a legendary curse." ”
Professor Yan lowered his head, and the rain 'boomed' on top of his head, and the rain trickled down his gray hair, forming a natural curtain that blocked the expression on his face.
"In the Zhou lineage, there are several theories about the origin of the curse. or love killing, or grudges, or offending villains, or the means of making a fortune damage yin virtue, resulting in the lack of longevity of Zhou's descendants. Professor Yan paused for a moment when he said this: "When I was young, I heard four or five kinds of sayings. ”
'Click', the sound of someone pulling stones in the distance became louder and louder, but Professor Yan seemed to be immersed in his own memories, excluding everything from the outside.
"The bloodline inheritance of the Zhou family does not live to be thirty-five years old per generation." Professor Yan raised his hand with difficulty, trying to compare: "If ordinary people are born and grow, aging, and dying is a normal and sequential process, then Zhou's genetic inheritors will speed up such a process." ”
The business of the Zhou family is very large, and each generation has tried all kinds of ways to survive the hurdle of being thirty-five years old.
"More than 30 years ago, I was still by my mentor's side, and Mrs. Zhou, the ruler of the Zhou clan at that time, found me, hoping to recruit me into Changsheng Technology to study the secrets of genes."
That was the predecessor of Changsheng Technology, and it was also the prototype of the original team, and it was painstakingly determined that the reason for the short life of Zhou's people was that the genetic mutation in the body caused the instability of the cell nucleus, which induced extremely serious drastic changes in various body functions, so that Zhou's people began to age at a rate that exceeded the normal number of times after the genetic mutation.
After the age of twenty, people with the Zhou bloodline have a genetic mutation, and then go through the rest of the time in a very short time, without exception.
This kind of premature aging is not the same as ordinary progeria.
After identifying the cause, the people of the Zhou family recruited talents, "A project team has been set up to focus on overcoming this difficulty, we call it," Professor Yan paused for a while, and finally sighed: "Emperor Plan." ”
After the 'Emperor Plan' was determined, Mrs. Zhou found this small island in the depths of the ocean, bought it and set up a secret research laboratory.
"The year of its establishment is the year of Wuxu," Professor Yan's gaze fell on Song Qingxiao's tail, the sea water had risen higher and higher, and it had already flooded a small part of her tail.
The thunder in the air gradually faded, the thick clouds spread a little, and in the dim light, her tail flashed with a faint blue light.
The pouring rain also turned into a 'rustling' drizzle, accompanied by the chewing sound of the giant wolf tearing the snake's flesh, showing a bit of weirdness.
In the ruins after the war, Professor Yan's hoarse voice was a little melancholy:
"It may be that the year is unlucky, and in the end the experiment failed."
From what he said so far, Song Qingxiao drew several conclusions.
First, the situation of the Zhou family is generally similar to her previous speculation, the gene is defective, and the life is not long, which is also the reason why Zhou's research on gene technology is also the reason.
Second, the Zhou family originally set up the research project, and Professor Yan's words sounded like Mrs. Zhou, who may have been Mr. Zhou's grandparents or above in terms of age.
Third, the people of the Zhou family are superstitious, whether it is the curse or Professor Yan's special mention of the 'Wuxu year'.
Fourth, crossing the ocean, buying a small island, a laboratory to escape the world, and the people selected by Mr. Zhou at the beginning of his entry into the island, have the heart to extinguish their mouths, it is conceivable that the Zhou family is mad, and the experiments they have done are eight times out of ten. Nine is not an experiment of legitimate means.
As soon as the so-called 'Emperor Plan' came out of Professor Yan's mouth, Song Qingxiao understood why the unlock code of Changsheng Technology was 'Long live'.
Everyone who entered the password seemed to the rulers of the Zhou clan as if they were making a pilgrimage to him, like an ancient courtier meeting the emperor.
From the fact that the people of the Zhou family used their careful thinking in such a place, it can already be seen how crazy the people of the Zhou family were in their desire for life back then.
They have money, power, and status, but their lives are too short.
"Tell me about the Emperor's plan." Song Qingxiao's eyes fell on the snake that was already powerless to lift its tail, it was dying.
To her surprise, the silver wolf who was dying had not yet lost his breath, and it seemed that after eating the snake meat, he was a little more energetic than before.