The moon was shining brightly, and night fell over the heads of the Western Branch.

In the A-11 laboratory, the members of Greg's team, who were tired and half dead, after a short break, successively packed up the materials for today's work and prepared to leave work.

Greg's team suspended testing of the other subjects half a day ago, and devoted all of their manpower to testing No. 1's body.

Now No. 1 is in a culture chamber filled with emerald green culture liquid, his eyes closed, and he is in a deep sleep.

Half an hour later, only Greg and Zhang Huanling were left in the laboratory working overtime. Greg held the genetic analysis report and stared at the strings of cold numbers with inefficient thinking.

The previous euphoria was gone, and now Greg was tired. No matter how much he loves scientific research, he will not be dead. After a few days of continuous high-intensity work, Greg really felt that he was playing with his life.

Greg slapped the report paper on the table, making a loud noise. Zhang Huanling sat on the transfer and turned around, and took the initiative to say, "Doctor, why don't you go to rest earlier, and I'll help you sort out the work materials." ”

Greg glanced at Zhang Huanling, casually said "Okay", then stood up, moved his hands, shoulders, waist and legs, and walked straight out.

As soon as the electronic door opened and closed, Zhang Huanling was now the only one in the quiet laboratory. Zhang Huanling walked to Gregor's desk, and while sorting out the materials for Gregor, he looked through a few copies of the information paper that he had not read.

"Feasibility Scenario of Twelve Dragon Scales." Zhang Huanling suddenly saw the headline of a certain piece of information, and there was no one around, so he read it out directly.

"It turned out to be the first draft of the report to be submitted to the committee, and the branch president of Moses was really full of action."

Zhang Huanling understood it after reading it once. This is a report written by Greg Moses to give an account to the Committee. What is written in the report is a plan to incorporate the twelve experimental subjects of the second generation into the Fengya system as "special combat units".

Zhang Huanling once knew Greg specifically. Greg is a scientist with a very ambiguous position, he does not reject or advocate the militarization of scientific research results, and Zhang Huanling is a member of the scientific research camp that advocates the militarization of scientific research results.

In this precarious last age of mankind, scientific research is for survival, and strong military power is the barrier to the survival of all mankind. Under such a premise, the "efficiency" of scientific research is also very important. The "efficiency" here is not the speed at which the scientific research project is completed, but the conversion ratio of the scientist's return to military or human survival after the success of a scientific research project.

MacDonald is a striking example of this. Since the Supreme Pioneer Council has entrusted Greg Moses with this major scientific research project related to the future of humanity, it is only natural that Greg should choose the most efficient scientific research solution - to study the method of transplanting "Alien Devouring".

As a result, Greg handed over the research that the committee was most concerned about to the researchers at the A-21 laboratory, and only gave a small number of McDonald genetic samples; On the other hand, they have devoted all their best resources and talents to the "Artificial Pioneer Project", a project that they have devoted their lives to study.

Zhang Huanling's understanding is that this is completely contrary to yang and yin. No wonder Greg is a scientist with an ambiguous position, he doesn't care about "efficiency" at all!

The committee was furious that Gregor's immorality was punctured after MacDonald's loss, but they needed Gregor's top talent, so they could only give him some painless punishment, and sent him Zhang Huanling to supervise Gregor.

At the same time, MacDonald's genetic samples were all destroyed by the invaders, and the research on transplant "Alien Devouring" became a flash in the pan, and even though the committee had a thousand opinions, they could only urge Greg to continue to complete it. Artificial Pioneer Program.

This "Feasibility of the Twelve Dragon Scales" is an explanation for Greg in order to make up for his previous mistakes, obediently obeying the will of the committee.

Through the change of No. 1, Greg discovered the possibility of "atavism" of the McDonald gene fusion. Once the MacDonald gene fusion "atavistic ancestor" shows reptilian scales on their bodies, their physical functions and abilities will be multiplied at this time, reaching a special level that does not belong to the third-order life level, but its combat power crushes the second-order life.

In the report, Greg referred to the individuals who awakened this power as "pseudo-third-order beings", and gave the atavistic individuals the name "dragon scales" according to their "scales" appearance.

If they continue to research, there is a high probability that they will be able to find the common "gene gate" of the McDonald gene fusion, so that all twelve test subjects will become "dragon scales", and this set of feasible ideas is the "twelve dragon scales".

Although Zhang Huanling actually does not respect Greg as much as he pays lip service, he has to admit that this highly accomplished senior scientist is indeed a genius.

As soon as Zhang Huanling put down the report, the folding computer he carried with him suddenly vibrated when he received the email.

Zhang Huanling took out the computer and looked at it, and at this time, the upper authorities actually gave him instructions.

He sat back at his desk quietly and typed out a series of commands on his keyboard. This is a special instruction given to him by the dean's teacher, who can obtain the highest authority of the system network of the Western Branch through the computer of the research institute.

Zhang Huanling used the highest authority to retrieve the surveillance video of the main research institute, carefully inspected the corridors and laboratories, and repeatedly confirmed that Greg and all the people who had enough access to the A-11 laboratory were gone; Next, he went into the sample repository's filing system and searched for something.

Half an hour later, Zhang Huanling stood in the general warehouse of the general research institute and found an inconspicuous numbered cabinet in the warehouse containing a large number of samples.

He opened the cabinet with the code and retrieved its contents—a transparent refrigerated tube, which was held by a golden-copper, blood-stained arrow.

The blood stained on the arrow is Wu Qi's blood.

Zhang Huanling took the refrigerated tube and returned to the A-11 laboratory. He started a laboratory bench and carried out a series of biological tests such as sampling, observation, and analysis. After 15 minutes, the detector printed the analysis report into black and white and spit it out.

Zhang Huanling glanced at it, and his eyes instantly locked on the data displayed in the column of cell classification ratio - the proportion of pure human cells and the proportion of pioneer cells presented "50.0000%/50.0000%".

His expression instantly became grim, like a peak snow peak in winter.

Zhang Huanling used a sterilizer knife to cut the skin of his fingers, squeezed out a drop of blood, dripped it onto the petri dish containing Wu Qi's blood sample, and then observed the changes in the screen display of the detector.

As soon as the cell population in Wu Qi's blood sample came into contact with the pioneer cell population in his blood, Wu Qi's cell population immediately launched an offensive, and in just 3 minutes, his pioneer cell population was completely devoured by Wu Qi's mixed cell population, and became the nutrients for the expansion of Wu Qi's cell population.