Three weeks later, the Republic of Stancheng Air Force Hospital.

Robin, covered in bandages, sat in front of the blinds of the hospital, his hands trembling as he looked at a death report and a retirement report in his hand.

At this moment, the door of the ward was suddenly opened, and the sound of messy footsteps broke in.

"Leona, get out of here! ～”

Cecilia's high-pitched voice sounded in extreme tension, and Robin slowly turned around to see Cecilia opening her arms to stop Leona from trying to enter the room.

"I was his attending doctor. Not long ago, you begged me to save him, didn't you? Leona stared at Cecilia with her red eyes and reminded in a cold voice.

"I ......," Cecilia couldn't help but be speechless when she said Leona.

Three weeks ago, when Robin and the others, covered in blood, were brought back by Angus from the rear of the Union Army, the commander of the air base, Colonel Achill, immediately ordered the hospital doctors to do their best to rescue Robin and the others. However, many doctors in the hospital at the time were helpless about Robin's condition, and Cecilia had no choice but to turn to Leona for help.

And Leona did save Robin as promised, but Cecilia couldn't trust her because of what she had done, so after Robin woke up, Cecilia stayed in Robin's hospital room, afraid that Leona would use the excuse of healing Robin again to do something terrible on him.

Seeing Cecilia's struggling face, Leona looked past Cecilia to Robin, who was staring at her, "I have something I want to talk to Robin privately right now. ”

"No, I'm not going to let you and Robin be alone in the same room! ~" As if remembering a previous experience, Cecilia immediately shouted to stop Leona when she heard what Leona wanted to talk to Robin alone.

"Are you sure?" Leona casually sat down on a chair next to her, "It's about his life." ”

"Then I'm going to ...... too"

"Cecilia." Robin suddenly interrupted Cecilia's words and said tiredly, "I'm sorry, let's go out first." ”

"Robin, she'......"

Cecilia anxiously tried to persuade her, but Robin shook her head: "It's okay, wait for me at the door for a while, okay?" ”

“……”

Seeing that Robin had already made a decision, Cecilia could only stomp her feet helplessly and turned around to go out.

After Cecilia left, Robin's indifferent demeanor suddenly turned cold, he looked at Leona, and said in a self-deprecating tone: "Say, what do you want from me?" ”

"Am I so despicable in your eyes?" Leona didn't answer Robin's words, but took out her silver bottle and drank it to herself.

"You killed Colin...... You made Evan lose both legs......" Robin suddenly stood up with bloodshot eyes, and slapped the death report in front of Leona: "If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have taken them on this mission at all, then Colin wouldn't have died, and Evan wouldn't have been forced to retire because of his disability, you ......"

"You're going to blame me for all this?" Seeing Robin's violent gasp due to emotion, Leona shook her head with a wry smile: "That's right, if it weren't for me, so many things wouldn't have happened at all." But what if that hadn't happened? I think you know better than anyone else what you've been through. ”

“……”

Leona's indifferent words made Robin stand in place as if struck by lightning.

yes, what would have happened if none of this had happened, if I hadn't led the team on this mission?

Robin, who had been through the battle, knew very well that if they hadn't suddenly appeared, the defeated 11th Army Division would have been annihilated. And without their operations in Area 94, Zhuo Luo's Airborne Unit would definitely not be able to conquer the most critical Area 94 so smoothly. And all the miracles that followed, so what would happen?

There is no doubt that the Republican Army will be defeated by the Federation Army on the frontal battlefield, and the Federation Army, which is overwhelmingly pressing, will rely on air supremacy to completely tear apart the Republic's defense line. If he hadn't led the team on this mission, perhaps the Federation would have already captured Stan City by now, and Cecilia's new TR-735, which had not yet completed the transformation, would have been reduced to ashes under the ferocious fire of the Federation before it even had a chance to take off.

Thinking of all this at this moment, Robin's face suddenly turned as pale as snow. He sat down on the hospital bed, staring at Leona with vacant eyes.

He found the answer, and the answer was that if he hadn't carried out this mission, everyone would have died...... Actually, he had long understood this, but the sadness in his heart made him desperate to find an outlet, and he found Leona, who wanted to put all the fault on Leona's head in order to make his heart feel better. But now, Leona threw everything back and sprinkled a handful of salt on the wound in his heart, which made his heart break through the pain.

Looking at the death report that fell to the ground, Robin closed his eyes in pain and roared hoarsely: "Yes, it's not your fault. If you hadn't dragged me through that experiment, I wouldn't have had nuclear power, and without it I wouldn't have been able to pull off those miracles, let alone defeat that Federalist knight. So, I shouldn't resent you, I should thank you? ”

Seeing that Robin still couldn't let go, Leona shook her head helplessly: "I don't think we should continue this topic, that's not what we're here for today." ”

"So what do you want to say?" Robin roared.

"About you."

"Me?" Robin glanced at Leona and sneered, "What do you want me to do again?" ”

"As a doctor, I just wanted to tell you a little bit about your current condition. You don't have to be afraid that I'll continue to experiment with you, because I'll leave the TR-735 and I'll go back to my lab on Earth to finish my research. But before I leave, there are a few things I think I'd tell you better. ”

Hearing that Leona would leave, Robin was stunned for a moment, looked at Leona seriously for a while, and then asked, "What is it?" ”

"Your genes."

Leona tossed some genograms to Robin, "Do you know why other doctors are so helpless about your previous condition?" Because at that time, you were already on the verge of genetic collapse. ”

"Gene collapse......" Hearing the word, Robin hurriedly grabbed the genogram that Leona had thrown over.

In this space age of rapid human evolution, Robin knows all too well what it means to have a genetic breakdown. In this space age, genetic collapse is even the main cause of death for new humans besides war, and it is no less threatening to humanity than the terminal illness of the old era.

At this moment, looking at the incomplete gene chain in the gene map in his hand, Robin looked up blankly and asked, "Then why ......?"

"You want to ask why you're still standing here?" Leona smiled wryly, "It's not my medical skills, and to be honest, I'm just as helpless as any other doctor when your genes collapse." The truth is that almost all of the genetic strands in your body collapsed at that time. The energy rush is too violent and destroys your body structure and penetrates into your cells, so that the cells in your body die in a large area, and for a certain period of time, even your body functions have completely stopped. ”

"What saved me?"

"A set of gene strands." Leona placed a complete map of the genetic structure in front of Robin: "This is the only gene chain that has not collapsed, and through this solid set of genes, your body instinctively reactivates the ninety percent of the sleeping gene fragments in your gene pool and reorganizes your genetic structure. So, now you are equivalent to a rebirth. ”

"Like last time?"

"No, more thoroughly than last time." Leona stood up, stared into Robin's eyes, and said, "Human instinct is like a program, and this program causes the body to constantly change in response to changes in the environment, and this change is called evolution. This evolution is made up of fragments of genes that act like program code. However, no one has ever experienced more than 90 percent of the body's genetic recombination. ”

After a pause, Leona sighed and said, "During the time when life was just born on Earth, there were countless new life forms that appeared briefly, and their genes were different from all other creatures, so I have reason to believe that they have also experienced large-scale genetic recombination like yours. Some of them survived and officially bred a new species, while others quickly disappeared. But as the ancestors of species, their lives are quite short. ”

"You're trying to tell me that I'm the progenitor of a new species? And my lifespan will be short? Leona's words made Robin laugh.

"Analyzing your current genetic makeup, you are completely human, and you don't need to worry about that, although I wonder why this is the case. After all, 90% of the genetic recombination must be based on adapting to the current environment, so the modified body organs should not be the human body that exists to adapt to the earth's environment. Thinking of this question, Leona frowned in confusion.

"Is it a 'subtle' ......?"

Robin seemed to have an answer to this question, which even Leona couldn't guess.

He remembered the part of his consciousness that was swallowed up by the gene chain during the first genetic recombination. If the prediction is correct, the last remaining set of genes must be the group of genes mixed with his consciousness. And because that group of genes still retains his consciousness, in the subsequent genetic recombination, the gene instinct selects to match this group of genes that preserve his consciousness, so that the recombination result still retains the basic human instincts.

"That's what you're trying to tell me?"

“……”

Leona's indifference at the moment surprised Leona, she took a deep look at Robin, and replied, "Your body has basically recovered at present, and if you don't consider my previous guess, you are healthy now." However, the radioactive energy that remained in your body as a result of that test is no longer there. But through the analysis of your genes, I found that your cell nucleus began to derive radiation energy on its own, although it seems that the energy response is very weak, even weaker than ordinary people, but this means that nuclear energy is really starting to become a part of your body's instinct, and this may be the biggest change after your genetic recombination. ”

With that, Leona opened the door and smiled back at Robin, "Good luck, perhaps...... We will never see each other again in this life. ”

"Wait." As if he felt that Leona's words were a little strange, Robin subconsciously stopped her: "Why are you telling me this?" ”

"I don't know, maybe I want to repay you. In return for bringing me so close to my goal for the first time in my life, and because of you, I was able to obtain two samples of the cells of the Federation Army's special abilities. So, what I just said can be seen as a reward for these things......"

Leona smiled faintly and closed the door to leave......

(To be continued)